NEW: List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[Muse]

Just finished Breaking Bad with the GF. It's my third time watching it and her first. It's really a top-tier show - up there with MASH, Firefly, and Columbo. There isn't a bad episode, not even a mediocre one. At worst there are slow spots. Going to watch El Camino next. I've been warned that Better Call Saul is way slower, so I'm not sure if I'm going to subject her to that.

You inspired me to get back to it. Was really into it, finished maybe 3 seasons and got distracted. Had seasons 1-4 in Blu-ray on shelf, just received Season 5 Parts 1 & 2 in Blu-ray, will start from the beginning.

 

[igor_kavinski]

You inspired me to get back to it. Was really into it, finished maybe 3 seasons and got distracted. Had seasons 1-4 in Blu-ray on shelf, just received Season 5 Parts 1 & 2 in Blu-ray, will start from the beginning.

You know what would be more fun? Watch that and Better Call Saul episodes alternately.

 

[Muse]

You know what would be more fun? Watch that and Better Call Saul episodes alternately.

I don't think so.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I don't think so.

It will engage and fascinate your brain twice as much. Honest.

 

[Kaido]

It will engage and fascinate your brain twice as much. Honest.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Been making my way through S2 of Andor.

On Episode 4.

Definite drop pace from S1, and the whole show seems to be waiting on the Deedra Meero plot to progress which is making Andor and Mon-Mothma's plot feel sort of padded and uneventful.

Almost all of Episode 2 with the two rebel groups was just filler.

Attempted rape in Star Wars felt both too real and too surreal given this is a Star Wars show.

Whoever that actress is that plays Meero as well as her creepy boy toy have careers ahead of them. Both do an incredible job being both interesting to watch but also unnerving and weird.

So far Andor S2 is a 7/10 from me. I hope it picks up and things start really happening cause the show is crawling as is. For comparison Andor S1 was a solid 9/10 all and all.

 

[Kaido]

So far Andor S2 is a 7/10 from me. I hope it picks up and things start really happening cause the show is crawling as is. For comparison Andor S1 was a solid 9/10 all and all.

Andor is a political series that explains the lead-up to the war in the original Star Wars. Hang in there, because S2 Episode 8 is the catalyst & Episodes 9 to 12 is imo the best writing in Star Wars thus far! The whole season picks up at the end & makes it all worth it!

Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the Force or the Skywalker family, which is, in some ways, refreshing! But also misses out on the magic of lightsabers etc.

Spoiler: Spoilers

In many ways, it parallels both current political events & historical ones, particularly the rise of Nazi Germany, misinformation campaigns, and how ordinary citizens can rise up against corrupt governments. It's VERY well-done towards the end & leads straight into Rogue One! I enjoyed Rogue One a LOT more given all of the context they laid the groundwork for in Andor.

 

[JujuFish]

Poker Face is back for season 2. I'm enjoying it so far. Natasha Lyonne is great.

 

[DigDog]

i watched

Calvarie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407621/reference/

French-language film about a entry-level entertainer, who plays the retirement homes circuit and lives out of a van, who winds up stranded in a mountain village, where the story takes a Misery-turn, he is held hostage and tortured by an elderly man who thinks he is his wife, returned after having left him years prior.

While the film has some interesting photography, and it's acted with intensity, i wouldn't recommend it because, well, it's torture. Everyone suffers. At one point the other villagers "rescue" the protagonist .. because they too think he is the "wife" .. and want to rape him. This mass insanity is never explained. Nothing is ever explained. You're supposed to take the film at face-value.

5/10

and

Torrente, El Brazo Tonto De La Ley (Torrente, The Dumb Arm Of The Law) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120868/reference/

Apparently this film has a cult following in Spain, which i have no problem believing, since Italy has its own trash cinema that is very popular.
Fat, bald, incompetent Torrente is a disgraced cop, drunk, on drugs, and completely full of shit.
In order to impress a hot girl, he befriends her cousin, who - despite being ugly, naive and timid - is vastly more capable than Torrente himself. And while doing this he uncovers a massive drug ring, bringing him back into the good graces of the police.

Again, interesting photography (*not* what you'd expect from A24 or any "modern" kind of high-definition photography, but rather grainy, "pulp"), convincingly acted comedy, but i struggled with the Spain-Spanish (i do ok with South American-Spanish), and if you're missing out on the lingo, you're missing out on the main aspect of the film.

Back in 1998 this was shot on $2M and made back six times that over, and still paying royalties.

5.5/10 for most viewers, probably 6.5/10 if you *get it*

 

[Kaido]

Torrente, El Brazo Tonto De La Ley (Torrente, The Dumb Arm Of The Law) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120868/reference/

Italian Jon Berntha?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Watched Bus Stop

Bus Stop (1956) ⭐ 6.3 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

1h 36m | 12

m.imdb.com

Interesting movie. Main male role did well making you dislike him. Monroe played her usual sweet and sultry self to a T.

Edit: i give it 6/10.

 

[DigDog]

i watched an extremely disappointing

Blackula - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068284/reference/

Where i was hoping for a jive-talking, trenchcoat-wearing black Dracula, i instead got a mediocre and very straight Dracula remix.
Some African prince goes to meet OG Dracula in Transylvania, to ask his help in fighting the slave trade, but instead gets bitten and locked in a coffin. He emerges in 1970s america, where he finds his Mina, some girl who is the spitting image of his long dead wife.

and that's it. It's horribly produced, but you'd expect that some corny badassery could help it to So Bad It's Good, but it never even makes an attempt. There is no badassery, there is no humor, the action sucks.

5/10 - more fun in the title than in the whole rest of the film.

 

[DigDog]

it's not been a great week.

Where The Buffalo Roam - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081748/reference/

Horribly miscast Bill Murray, here at the lowest of his career, presumably, as Hunter S Thompson. Long, incoherent speeches delivered with misplaced conviction, Murray *thinks* he's good, but he's atrocious. To be fair, this has always been true of Murray, you gotta fit the role to him, not the other way around.
There isn't really a plot to talk about, short of, "Thompson is being chased by his editors for work, but he just goes and does random shit instead". While the film does have a couple of decent scenes, they are diluted in the meaningless-ness of the rest.

5/10

 

[DigDog]

Mondays In The Sun - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319769/reference/

With Javier Bardem, back before he hit the big time.

A group of 4 old guys who have failed at life, and their close relations, who also have failed at life, sit and talk (pretty much every scene in this film is completely static) about how they think they haven't failed, while everyone else knows they have - except the ones doing the thinking.

The typical european film where you go and feel better when you leave the cinema, because you're not the protagonist. Why do we hate ourselves so much.

"a film that makes you think", or that sort of nonsense. If you want to watch a film that is also negative but at least has a streak of victory, watch the Marisa Tomei film She Came To Me instead.

5/10 if you can suffer through it. Calvarie was less boring.

 

[Indus]

Been making my way through S2 of Andor.

On Episode 4.

Definite drop pace from S1, and the whole show seems to be waiting on the Deedra Meero plot to progress which is making Andor and Mon-Mothma's plot feel sort of padded and uneventful.

Almost all of Episode 2 with the two rebel groups was just filler.

Attempted rape in Star Wars felt both too real and too surreal given this is a Star Wars show.

Whoever that actress is that plays Meero as well as her creepy boy toy have careers ahead of them. Both do an incredible job being both interesting to watch but also unnerving and weird.

So far Andor S2 is a 7/10 from me. I hope it picks up and things start really happening cause the show is crawling as is. For comparison Andor S1 was a solid 9/10 all and all.

It'll really pick up by E6 and keep on getting better.. not to say 1-5 were bad.

But if S1 is a 9.. you'll give S2 an 11.5/10 by the time you're done.

And as good as Meero's acting is.. Kleya's acting puts everyone else to shame by the time it's all done. She puts across something really special considering it's her first acting job straight out of drama school.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

'71 - 7/10 - (Now streaming everywhere)

Behind enemy lines type movie in the Irish/UK - Troubles conflict - with this one set in '71. It's a fine film, short at 90-minutes so the pacing is quick and character development is kept low.

Nice to see Barry Keoghan in one of his first roles. Accents are thick which makes it a bit of a tough watch.

 

[DigDog]

do you guys wanna do the Eminem 331 movies challenge?

 

[Muadib]

i watched an extremely disappointing

Blackula - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068284/reference/

Where i was hoping for a jive-talking, trenchcoat-wearing black Dracula, i instead got a mediocre and very straight Dracula remix.
Some African prince goes to meet OG Dracula in Transylvania, to ask his help in fighting the slave trade, but instead gets bitten and locked in a coffin. He emerges in 1970s america, where he finds his Mina, some girl who is the spitting image of his long dead wife.

and that's it. It's horribly produced, but you'd expect that some corny badassery could help it to So Bad It's Good, but it never even makes an attempt. There is no badassery, there is no humor, the action sucks.

5/10 - more fun in the title than in the whole rest of the film.

Let me know what you think when you watch Scream Blackula Scream.

 

[balloonshark]

Mickey 17 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mickey_17

I kept interested throughout this movie despite it being a bit repetitive. The antagonist (Mark Ruffalo) seems to be a cross between musk and trump. I would say this movie is worth watching at least once. I may buy it if it goes on sale.

 

[DigDog]

Let me know what you think when you watch Scream Blackula Scream.

i wasn't planning to. Are you recommending it?
(it's the sequel)

I've been watching Love Death & Robots, the new season is out, and it's excellent as always.

well ..

after having watched all 10, it's not as good as S03.

First off, you need to know that this is a collection of short works by various independent studios. They are told to just do whatever tf they want, and Netflix bundles them together.
They are all *interesting*, but they do vary a lot in quality as finished products.

S04 is good; but S03 was absolutely superb. And, S03 had one very long work as the finale, that was absolutely incredible - it's worth watching the show just for that one episode.

 

[Muadib]

i wasn't planning to. Are you recommending it?
(it's the sequel)

I've been watching Love Death & Robots, the new season is out, and it's excellent as always.

LOL! No I'm not recommending it. The series was a guilty pleasure of mine decades ago. I was just shocked to see someone here watched it.

 

[zinfamous]

@stargazr there was a thread where a family of "plant-based diet enjoyers" were writing threatening letters to the neighbor because they wanted him to close his windows when he was cooking, with one of the letters being "LAST WARNING".
Of course Reddit being still a reasonable platform, people were siding with the barbecuer, rather than the letter-writer, and my comment was "see, vegans are totally not skitzoid, but rather peaceful, reasonable people who have simply made a choice."

i mean, you do what you need to do mr moderator, but in another circumstance if a neighbor sent me a letter that said "i am the law, obey or be punished" i would call that skitzoid behaviour. If not skitzophrenia, then at least exceptional ignorance, but even then worthy of some strong words.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1kq977q/vegan_family_issue_last_warning_to_neighbours

oh and, nothing to do with the current UK policing of racial hate. Just some - very likely - vegan-friendly mod who took it too personally.

I have undending problems with vegans. Vegetarians make logical sense to me for all of their reasons, but the only reason that anyone goes Vegan is to both make themselves miserable, and literally everyone else around them due to having force the rest of the group, neighbors, innocent random humans on the street to endorse their fucking choice-only lifestyle. No group of humans can have a pleasant meal if a single Vegan is in the group. It's impossible.

There is absolutely no rational biological or nutritional reason to be Vegan. It's a fucking cult of assholes that hate general pleasure and the rest of all things that are humanity.

Fuck them. (until they realize their stupidity and give up on it, as most of them do)

 

[zinfamous]

I was happy with it:

"I'm Not Missing Anything": Andor Showrunner Addresses Original Five-Season Plan, Insists Show Is Better For Major Changes

Did we miss out on more seasons of Andor?

screenrant.com

But yeah, the one-year gaps were surprising. Although S2 cost over $600 million lol (edit: S1 + S2 total)

I started Rogue One last night too after finishing & it makes soooo much more sense now lol

Best graphics in the whole genre imo. Can't believe it was a TV show!

"graphics" are for video games.

 

[Chaotic42]

Poker Face is back for season 2. I'm enjoying it so far. Natasha Lyonne is great.

I need to watch that. I love Columbo and have a thing for her, so it sounds right up my alley.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Never could have imagined that there would be an alternate cut and that it was released officially!

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org