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

[dainthomas]

Red One 5/10 pretty average Christmas movie. WTFBBQ it cost Amazon 250M to make????

It's weird how jacked JK Simmons is.

 

[MrSquished]

It's weird how jacked JK Simmons is.

Whiplash.

 

[Muse]

The first two movies are honestly one of the best movies in cinematic history, I'm not even exaggerating, they felt real, grounded, and gritty.

I think the 1st two Jason Bourne movies are way better than any James Bond movie I've seen. They are among my favorites. And quite rewatchable.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Licorice Pizza - 7/10 - (Now streaming on Tubi)

Boogie Nights lite, a film by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman's son. Appearances by Sean Penn & Bradley Cooper, but the star was of course the SFV in the early 70's. Casting was fantastic and the acting by the guests was superb.

This is a film about nothing, a very weird romantic comedy, its kinda funny, and the characters are endearing. The cinematography, the set pieces, the wardrobe - its all early 70's California and it doesn't drag, although 2:13 in length.

The film reminds me of Tarantino's Once Upon a Time, PTA's Boogie Nights, and early Wes Anderson, Rushmore/Royal Tenebaums.

 

[Kaido]

Silo 7/9 maybe 8/10

AppleTV show. Just renewed for 2 more seasons!

Apple TV+ series Silo will run for two more seasons

Apple TV+ series Silo is getting two more seasons to wrap up the story of the Hugh Howey novels on which it's based.

www.engadget.com

Notes:

* Has a Portal dystopian vibe, which I love
* It's a slower show (not everyone likes that pacing)
* Feels like an old-school, decent-quality SyFy channel show

Fun concept (surface is wasted in the future, everyone lives in an underground silo), bit of a slow burn to Season 2, where it picks up more. Just got caught up & now I'm sad there's not more yet lol

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Silo 7/9 maybe 8/10

AppleTV show. Just renewed for 2 more seasons!

Apple TV+ series Silo will run for two more seasons

Apple TV+ series Silo is getting two more seasons to wrap up the story of the Hugh Howey novels on which it's based.

www.engadget.com

Notes:

* Has a Portal dystopian vibe, which I love
* It's a slower show (not everyone likes that pacing)
* Feels like an old-school, decent-quality SyFy channel show

Fun concept (surface is wasted in the future, everyone lives in an underground silo), bit of a slow burn to Season 2, where it picks up more. Just got caught up & now I'm sad there's not more yet lol

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I really liked this show and looking forward to S2. Just waiting for all the episodes to come out so I can watch it working out. Is the whole season available yet?

 

[Kaido]

I really liked this show and looking forward to S2. Just waiting for all the episodes to come out so I can watch it working out. Is the whole season available yet?

Not yet & I'd recommend waiting because I got caught up last night & now I'm sad because the season has really picked up & I HAVE TO WAIT lol.

 

[JujuFish]

Not yet & I'd recommend waiting because I got caught up last night & now I'm sad because the season has really picked up & I HAVE TO WAIT lol.

Read the books and you won't have to wait.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Rebel Ridge - 5.5/10 - (Now streaming on Netflix)

What was this low budget mash-up of Reacher, Walking Tall, and Steven Seagal?
No idea why this film has received such high praise as I thought the script was a mess, editing was a joke, and loose ends are everywhere with side plots that appear and then disappear.

Small town police force messes with the wrong guy. I think I've seen this one before...

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Superman teaser trailer just dropped:

I'm pretty excited to see Gunn's rendition.

 

[purbeast0]

How is it that CGI looks worse and worse as time goes on?

The CGI in that Superman trailer looks so bad.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

No Good Deed (Netflix) - 7.5/10. Thought the show was entertaining, kind of a whodunnit type of show. Homeowners trying to sell their house, but also hiding secrets of something terrible happening there a few years before. Great cast: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Luke Olsen, Lisa Kudrow and Linda Cardellini (got a small crush on her). Had some funny parts and was completely watchable for me and the wife.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Expendables 4 3/10
None of this series has been great but this one pulls one of the most annoying psych-outs you can do in a story and it is just a big FU to anybody that watches it.

 

[MrSquished]

The Penguin - 9/10

Finished this last night after waiting for it to finish airing so I could binge watch it. It was FANTASTIC and I really don't know why I am not giving it a 10/10 other than maybe some little decisions and things in the story were kinda very convenient, but they were very minor negatives in my opinion. The acting is top notch. I'm sad it's over.

I would rate it the same and dock the one point for the same reason as you - I think that's worth a one point deduction. But definitely one of the best comic book series made for TV.

I thought Jessica Jones was also one of the best.

 

[mikeymikec]

How is it that CGI looks worse and worse as time goes on?

The CGI in that Superman trailer looks so bad.

You think so? Maybe you should check out the CGI for 'The Flash', this looks A* by comparison.

 

[purbeast0]

You think so? Maybe you should check out the CGI for 'The Flash', this looks A* by comparison.

Just because this looks awful doesn't mean The Flash looks good.

 

[purbeast0]

A Quiet Place Day One - 1/10 - This is one of those very few movies that was so bad that I could not sit through it all. I very rarely cut a movie off in the middle and just suck it up until the end, but this one was that bad that about the halfway point I was like "nope, I'm not wasting my time with this" and just flipped it off.

 

[mikeymikec]

Just because this looks awful doesn't mean The Flash looks good.

I didn't see anything wrong with the CGI per se, was there some bit in particular that looked awful to you? There were moments in the trailer that didn't look right like his impact into the snow and a puff of snow that made it look like a snowball (rather than a body) hit a patch of particularly powdery snow.

It was difficult to watch for bad CGI because like with any annoying teaser, the "change shot every 2-3 seconds" format has always irked me.

 

[mikeymikec]

Father-in-law wanted us to watch The Ultimate Gift (2006) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482629/

This is one of those heartwarming hallmark style may be christmassy movies, but there's very little acting talent present and a Mega Boss Precocious Child character that seems to do almost all the plot load-bearing work.

With a good bit more work on the plot and a really decent actor as the protagonist, it might have deserved the 7.3 rating on IMDB, but I suspect that those who gave it such an absurdly high rating are just massively into this kind of film.

Plot summary: Dead guy at start of film bequeaths douchebag grandson a personality transplant and it worked.

(my god, it appears to have two sequels!)

 

[purbeast0]

I didn't see anything wrong with the CGI per se, was there some bit in particular that looked awful to you? There were moments in the trailer that didn't look right like his impact into the snow and a puff of snow that made it look like a snowball (rather than a body) hit a patch of particularly powdery snow.

It was difficult to watch for bad CGI because like with any annoying teaser, the "change shot every 2-3 seconds" format has always irked me.

Most of what I saw looked bad. It just looks fake where the animation and lighting looks off. That scene where he is holding the girl in slow mo with the stuff flying around and then some of the scenes where the camera is far out just looked obviously fake.

I only watched the trailer once and don't care to watch it again, nor the movie, so sorry if I don't have more details about the specifics.

The whole point of CGI is to make computer generated graphics look like it's not computer generated graphics and is real life. It fails in that regards in many of the scenes.

 

[gorobei]

Most of what I saw looked bad. It just looks fake where the animation and lighting looks off. That scene where he is holding the girl in slow mo with the stuff flying around and then some of the scenes where the camera is far out just looked obviously fake.

I only watched the trailer once and don't care to watch it again, nor the movie, so sorry if I don't have more details about the specifics.

The whole point of CGI is to make computer generated graphics look like it's not computer generated graphics and is real life. It fails in that regards in many of the scenes.

very often teaser footage is not the final version but work in progress daily that got snatched up with a bunch of other shots.

the matrix 2 teaser had a 70% completed shot that was nowhere near ready for final and in fact was so poorly timed that it went thru ~5 different animators trying to solve a problem of bad plate camera angle, not enough frames to convey the character animation, and an inappropriate concept.

the protecting the girl shot has plenty of time for texture and lighting polish, the fact that the composite had tons of the debris not properly matted out means it is way early into the cycle.

 

[purbeast0]

very often teaser footage is not the final version but work in progress daily that got snatched up with a bunch of other shots.

the matrix 2 teaser had a 70% completed shot that was nowhere near ready for final and in fact was so poorly timed that it went thru ~5 different animators trying to solve a problem of bad plate camera angle, not enough frames to convey the character animation, and an inappropriate concept.

the protecting the girl shot has plenty of time for texture and lighting polish, the fact that the composite had tons of the debris not properly matted out means it is way early into the cycle.

Still doesn't change the fact it looks like shit lol.

And based off a lot of recent movies having shitty CGI, I'm fully expecting this one will too.

EDIT:

The Matrix 2 CGI is also pretty bad so I wouldn't really use that as an example of good CGI either lol. The scene with all the agents looks like crap.

 

[kn51]

Carry-On - 6/10 - (2024) - Now streaming on Netflix

A Netflix popcorn action thriller starring Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton in a Phone Booth like Holiday movie.

Plot holes, WTF moments galore, suspended reality and more than a few plot twists to try and keep the average Netflix viewer intrigued.

You are generous. Viewed it last night... 4/10. One of those I'm hitting the up arrow to see how much more of this 2 hour movie is left.

The plot holes are so enormous and stupid.

Spoiler

A dumb example...airport is the busiest of the year...yet every damn bathroom is empty and the entire baggage area is empty. And poor Dean Norris, no one asks "Hey, have you seen the boss lately?" Cripes, what a crap show.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The Matrix 2 CGI is also pretty bad so I wouldn't really use that as an example of good CGI either lol. The scene with all the agents looks like crap.

If you are paying attention to the CGI instead of the movie itself, maybe the movie isn't for you

 

[mikeymikec]

If you are paying attention to the CGI instead of the movie itself, maybe the movie isn't for you

I assume you mean Monica Bellucci.