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

[SKORPI0]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23022276/

4-part Netflix documentary series. 7/10/

When a 20-year-old attempts to win a fighter jet in a Pepsi sweepstakes, he sets the stage for a David versus Goliath court battle for the history books.

 

[DigDog]

^ok that's cool, but it's just easier to read 30 seconds of the wikipedia page rather than watch a 4-part miniseries.
What is it with American shows, they really love to waste people's time.

also .. disgraceful missed opportunity to call it Dude Where's My Jet

 

[DigDog]

My Cousin Vinny - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/reference/

8.5/10

does it really need a review?

 

[igor_kavinski]

8.5/10

Agree with you there. It was brilliant!

 

[Muadib]

Agree with you there. It was brilliant!

Heck yeah it was!!!

 

[DigDog]

you know, something funny happened today - and you perverts made it happen.

I watched MCV and .. this is like the 4th time i watched it. I never thought Marisa Tomei was hot.
If anything, she's meant to be a bit trashy, New Jersey italo-american style. Her character is *meant* to be unattractive, because she's from the streets.

And then ..

I guess all those incessant memes about her being hot got in my brain, and i started noticing how she is dressed in each scene (that GHASTLY fashion sense), her lipstick .. her hips ..

So yeah you did it, you fucking perverts. You made me like Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny.

 

[nisryus]

I have never watched MCV... now I have a reason to!

Thanks guys!

 

[SteveGrabowski]

When the Wind Blows (1986) - IMDb

Wenn der Wind weht (1986) Reference View

www.imdb.com

Just realized something I missed in that movie at first. Right before the bombs hit Jim told Hilda they have to put themselves into paper bags to shield from the radiation, which Hilda thought was the stupidest idea ever. Days later when they both have bleeding gums and clearly visible radiation dermatitis (eg the spots on the skin) that show up right when you're about to die Hilda finally suggests crawling back in their bags (that they hadn't used since the strike) and going to bed and you knew that was it, they'd never wake up again. I was puzzled why Jim demanded they get in paper bags for the strike but now it makes perfect sense why Hilda suggested it right before death. Because she knew and she remembered the reason that Jim had gotten incorrect. Here is the Protect and Survive video about wrapping up in paper:

 

[sdifox]

My Demon 8/10 ongoing Netflix Korean Rom Com. Very engaging. 11/16 episodes with weekly release on Sat.

 

[DigDog]

wrapping up in paper:

holy shit that is terrifying

 

[igor_kavinski]

You made me like Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny.

I got a crush on her as a teenager when I saw her first in Oscar. Damn, I really need to get around to watching all the rest of her movies.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Heathers - 7.5/10

Land of the Lost (2010 version) - 8.5/10

Muppets from Space - 9/10

Dune (2021) - 9/10

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I got a crush on her as a teenager when I saw her first in Oscar. Damn, I really need to get around to watching all the rest of her movies.

She plays a stripper in The Wrestler, and even at 43 or so she's still spectacularly hot in it. She's topless or in see through shit all the time too since she has a bunch of scenes in the strip club. Aside from that it's still an awesome movie.

 

[DigDog]

here you go you pervs

https://imgur.com/a/PrUjmK9

 

[MrSquished]

Those weren't new story arcs. The gay couple one was just a back story of an actual character in the game, it just showed what happened before Joel and Ellie met him. The kiss episode was the DLC for the game.

The "gameplay" portions of the game wouldn't really make much sense in the story though, like other than showing one or two random scenes, which they did. And it makes sense they didn't do a lot of that though because the game experience is different for everyone in how you play things out. But the story and cutscenes, as well as some other iconic scenes (giraffes) were pretty much intact.

EDIT:

These game/show comparison videos are pretty damn awesome too. Major spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the show just FYI.

Check out around the 25 minute mark for the DLC episode I was talking about.

Neil Offerman won the award for best Guest actor role last night for that episode. He was brilliant.

glad to know i wasn't the only one to feel this way

I can't believe Downey won the best supporting actor role. Give me a break. He only really turned it on for his last few scenes.

.. i couldnt take the gay stuff. I'm sure there's a great film there but it's not for me.

If i'm being 100% honest, i couldn't take Mr Ripley either. I hated the protagonist, and while i understand that this is how the film is structured - the the audience is voyeurs to the depravity of Damon's character - i just had a horribly feeling trying to watch it, the same horrible feeling i had when trying to watch Joker.

The talented Mr. Ripley was super dark but man, what a great flick, and Damon at his best.

 

[MrSquished]

Severance - talk about a paced slow burn meticulously presented series. Visually striking. Great acting. What a cliffhanger. Give me season 2!

 

[DigDog]

Severance - talk about a paced slow burn meticulously presented series. Visually striking. Great acting. What a cliffhanger. Give me season 2!

ah shit, i have it but still have not watched it. this was Jay @ RLM top recommendation last year.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Heathers - 7.5/10

Land of the Lost (2010 version) - 8.5/10

Muppets from Space - 9/10

Dune (2021) - 9/10

Funniest scene in the movie -

Being a Marvel nerd I sat through Morbius. 3/10. IMO Matt Smith gave a good/creepy performance. The rest was -

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Reacher series 8/10

Never read the books but I like the movies and show. It's basically Swole-lock Holmes. Fight choreography gets too Krav Maga/ "reality" based martial arts for me sometimes. And stuff like shihonage is straight up cringe.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Night Swim 1.5/10 - I went to see Night Swim so you don't have to. It is about a malevolent swimming pool. There is some kind of back story about it being a ancient wishing well or something that trades lives for wellness, or perhaps the bath tub of Chucky or something, but you know, in the middle of a nice California neighborhood. I don't know, by the time they got around to that I was not paying much attention any more. The characters are generic and one dimensional, even for horror movie tropes. The action slow and predictable. It is a monster that you could avoid by simply not getting in the pool at night alone, making it basically impossible to build any real suspense.

 

[MrSquished]

ah shit, i have it but still have not watched it. this was Jay @ RLM top recommendation last year.

definitely put it on the top of your list. curious to hear your thoughts. It's excellent.

 

[JujuFish]

Severance - talk about a paced slow burn meticulously presented series. Visually striking. Great acting. What a cliffhanger. Give me season 2!

Yes, please. This was a show I actually watched weekly. It feels like it's been forever since the finale.

 

[DigDog]

Night Swim 1.5/10 - I went to see Night Swim so you don't have to. It is about a malevolent swimming pool.

The what what now?
did it maybe have some, idk hidden meaning, like Rubber did ?

Anyway, i watched Equalizer 3 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17024450/

i found it at first revolting, then on a more accurate viewing i found it just mediocre .. so .. improvement?

Denzel is in Sicilia, for whatever mission is typical of these films, where Denzy is supposedly some retired Black Ops agent who can basically kill everyone using anything at hand, so he spends his time helping random people is "small" ways.
He casually stumbles upon a drug cartel and first (i mean, in the FIRST SCENE) he kills a bunch of mafiosi, and then has to wait until the end of the film to recover from a wound, so he can kill the other half-dozen bad dudes left.
Obviously the filmmakers use this gap of time to show how very very very very bad these mafiosi are, and which is why they deserve to die, but the ones already killed, yeah just assume we knew they were bad. It's not like this character kill on impulse and needs no excuses.

Which is what sucks of the Equalizer as a character and a franchise. Supposedly he always gives bad guy "one chance to repent", by showing up, acting dumb, and checking if the guy who's been a career criminal for all his life will have a sudden and unexplained change of heart.
See .. when the same happens, let's say, with JOHN WICK, the film goes at lengths to tell you that all the bad guys know, he's John Wick. That he's unstoppable. And that they are willingly and knowingly refusing the chance to get away with their lives.


And that's my problem with the design of the film's content.

Now, i was never a fan of any of the Eq films, mostly because they all fall into this formula, that just does not work. They all felt bland and flat, and while this film is ... louder, it's not really better.

First off, a large portion of the dialogue is in Italian, including a fair bit from Denzel himself. Now, you know that i hate when a film has extended dialogues in a foreign language, because there is a constant in&out of subtitles, and i already don't like having to read subtitles, but i am even less happy if those subs contain plot information throughout the film - because now you're watching an ENG-speaking film .. on subtitles!
And also another problem with multi-lingual film is that, sometimes you have dialogues that does *not* contain information, and now i'm watching two italian dudes squabble in a foreign language and the subtitles are completely irrelevant.
If you're gonna do this, just assume that the dialogue is "two men arguing in a language not understood". That's sufficient.

.. a decent way to use subtitles and foreign language would be, let's say .. the Detective has snuck into the Yakuza meeting room. He leans against the door and the two main villains are having a conversation in Japanese. Cue one scene of subtitles, where the scene dressing and camera focus the attention on the subtitles, with very little else happening onscreen as to not distract the audience from the necessity of reading the text.
Well apparently me who is a nobody understands this, but director Antoine Fuqua, who is paid millions, doesn't.

On top of what above, the italian dialogue is also atrocious. Fortunately you don't speak italian so you won't have to see this, but it's clearly been written in English and then morphed into its italian equivalent, but nobody in italy actually talks like that. Denzel's italian dialogue is also atrocious, he can barely order a coffee in one scene, but then throws in some complicated words or verbs that italians themselves have probably never used.


Then there's the action. It's not BAD, but it's just a fraction of a second here and there. There's a section where the bad guys interrogate him, and it lasts like 5 minutes, and then he wipes them out in 3 seconds of screen time.

Overall, a very very disappointing film with one of the greatest actors of our times. We deserve better than this.

5/10 - very little shooty bang-bang, lots of talking.

Oh yeah i forgot - also starring the INCREDIBLY WOODEN AND FLAT Dakota Fanning in her most forgettable role.

 

[DigDog]

After watching the disappointing Asteroid City, i am happy to report that Wes Anderson has made a good movie,

The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16968450/

starring the usual guys - Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cucumberpatch, Ben Kingsley, and also Richard Ayoade from The IT Squad in a role that didn't suck balls, and Dev Patel in another role that didn't suck balls - SUCCESS !

TWS etc is .. well calling it a Movie is a bit of a stretch. It's 38 minutes of runtime, plus credits. Apparently this is one of 4 adaptation of some short stories by Roald Dahl, so now i'm gonna have to go digging to see if any other others are available as well.
Obviously this being Anderson the film is *very* surreal, but i have to say i was very impressed. Even Cumberbatch managed to not be completely lifeless.

The story, i won't spoil. It's 40 minutes, you got time. And it's typical Anderson style, but i would say that the 40min format really fits the strange filming techniques he is using here. It's a combination of reading a book and being at a marionette theatre - it's weird, but you'll like it.

7.5/10 - absolutely nothing like Asteroid City

 

[IronWing]

Michael Collins - Overall, a good film. The movie sticks decently well to actual historical events. It skips some key events in Collins’ life that might have driven the plot, but slowed the pace, such as the negotiations with the British. The movie definitely favored action over drama. I think the only reason Julia Roberts’ character was in the movie was that the writers realized they had no women in the movie. 8.5/10