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

Page 150 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
mikeymikec

mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
20,557
15,400
136
DigDog said:
watch just 3 minutes of this video, between 23 minutes and 26 minutes.
Click to expand...
I'm not sure I want to know what led "Critical Drinker" down the path of wearing aviator sunglasses in a video podcast while talking about father figures, but I am kind of morbidly curious.
 
Last edited:
  • Haha
Reactions: GodisanAtheist
Dr. Detroit

Dr. Detroit

Diamond Member
Sep 25, 2004
8,500
896
126
Range 15 - 0/10 - (now streaming on Prime)

A Zombie comedy film produced by Military veterans.

This was unwatchable, made it about 15-minutes in before calling it.
 
I

igor_kavinski

Lifer
Jul 27, 2020
26,829
18,472
146
James Gunn's Superman

Most of it seemed like one of DC's animated superhero movies turned to live action movie.

And it's slightly funny. Or they tried.

6/10

Nothing earth shattering (no pun intended).
 
DigDog

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,517
2,911
136
Dr. Detroit said:
Link 2 works - but again, I watched 15-minutes and found it ridiculously unfunny and I'm a Veteran... so understood many of the low brow comments.
Click to expand...
it's a film they made themselves, with little money, and it's the same kind of humor that you get from Dodgeball, or Lady Ballers. They stole the "ripped-off-dick" scene from Street Trash. They got a dude who has a zombie girlfriend. There's Zombie Trejo (Danny Trejo, duh) as the final boss. The cure for zombie-ism is whisky, mixed with viper sperm and red bull.

it's not too different from Kung Fury, or any Zombie-Nazi-On-Moon film we've seen recently.
 
Dr. Detroit

Dr. Detroit

Diamond Member
Sep 25, 2004
8,500
896
126
DigDog said:
it's a film they made themselves, with little money, and it's the same kind of humor that you get from Dodgeball, or Lady Ballers. They stole the "ripped-off-dick" scene from Street Trash. They got a dude who has a zombie girlfriend. There's Zombie Trejo (Danny Trejo, duh) as the final boss. The cure for zombie-ism is whisky, mixed with viper sperm and red bull.

it's not too different from Kung Fury, or any Zombie-Nazi-On-Moon film we've seen recently.
Click to expand...

I've seen none of those except Dodgeball - which was a solid 6/10.
 
I

igor_kavinski

Lifer
Jul 27, 2020
26,829
18,472
146
DigDog said:
it's not too different from Kung Fury
Click to expand...
Beg to disagree. Kung Fury has tons of retro cheesy visual effects which really adds to the charm of the movie. This one doesn't seem to have that but it's got William Shatner so maybe worth giving it a go with a bit of healthy skipping of uninteresting scenes?

Kung Pao: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240468/reference/

That used to be the most ridiculous movie I had seen before Kung Fury came out.

@Dr. Detroit Full Kung Fury movie here:

 
Dr. Detroit

Dr. Detroit

Diamond Member
Sep 25, 2004
8,500
896
126
The Arctic Convoy - 5/10 - (now streaming on Hulu)

A true WWII story surrounding the Norwegian civilian fleet carrying supplies from Iceland to Murmansk. This was the only mission where the fleet broke formation and may ships did not survive.

I watched English dub version and perhaps that was big mistake. Overall this was not very interesting, rather mundane, and just not very engaging.

Greyhound which tells a similar story about WWII supply ships was soooooo much better!
 
DigDog

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,517
2,911
136
igor_kavinski said:
so maybe worth giving it a go with a bit of healthy skipping of uninteresting scenes?
Click to expand...
i recommend you do this for ALL FILMS IN EXISTENCE. Your life is too short to suffer because some guy was frat-drinking the day they explained pacing at Emerson college Film 101.

If you find you've skipped something relevant, go back.

The idea that today you will find a film that uses slow scenes to pace fast scenes, is about as likely as a filmmaker using a typewriter to type the script.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: igor_kavinski
I

igor_kavinski

Lifer
Jul 27, 2020
26,829
18,472
146
DigDog said:
i recommend you do this for ALL FILMS IN EXISTENCE.
Click to expand...
A good filmmaker knows what he's doing so most of the time, I'm OK with a movie pacing at a snail's pace as long as the script or acting or plot or even the location and ideas being shown are new to me. There has to be something to keep my interest.

James Gunn's Superman was almost not interesting because he brought in the Justice Gang or whatever. It only served to dilute the experience, not enhance it. Aquaman was good because the whole movie focused on the Aquaman character and every scene helped to make us learn more about him and his world.

I just skipped through Range 15. It's directed really bad. Doesn't even feel like a B-movie. Something much, much worse than that. Like something that zero resources should've been wasted on. If anyone's trying to find some good scenes in a movie like this, they really need to seek help on how to utilize their time better.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Dr. Detroit
DigDog

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,517
2,911
136
Eddington - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31176520/reference/

featuring two of the actors i least like to see, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Fucking Pascal.

I'll get right to it - it seems as if someone has gone to great lengths to do a really well-made version of an extremely uninteresting script.

Phoenix is a sceriff in a New Mexico town. He is a complete idiot, anti-masker, covid-denier, and generally a crazy, unlikable person.
Pascal is the major, a slightly less idiot, but still completely unlikable person.
The sceriff's wife and daughter and both conspiracy-theorist idiots.
The town kids are all BLM/SJW morons.
Everyone is a moron.

.. i can understand that maybe as an american you have demons that you need to exorcise, but as a not-an-american i really do not understand why tf i should be watching this group of idiots idioting around.

Phoenix at some point goes completely insane and murders Pascal (the character, sadly, not the actor) and tries to frame another person for the crime, but i'm way past any kind of connection to these characters. Why would i relate to a character that, is terrible at communicating, is emotionally stunted, incompetent at his job, poorly educated and incapable of any complex insight, physically weak, the guy can't even fucking shoot!, his life sucks, and yeah, is also a murderer because he doesn't like the other guy being slightly less shit than he is.

in the immortal words of Mr Plinkett,


The plot eventually turns into an action film, where "mysterious attackers" (i kid you not) show up and start very efficiently blowing up the place - drone bomb included.

And by that time i was just hoping the guy gets killed.

5.5/10 - i would have more fun watching Range 15, because i watched the whole thing, not just the first 15 minutes.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: igor_kavinski
DigDog

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,517
2,911
136
The Bikeriders - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21454134/reference/

Somewhat better, but nowhere near the level of quality of Legend. Our guy Tom Hardy is the leader of the motorcycle gang The Vandals (loosely inspired by the Outlaws), and shares the protagonist role with Austin Butler.
There's young girl Jodie Comer who discovers that gorgeous-looking biker dudes can be gorgeous, so in the early 60s she falls for this kid and winds up embroiled in the life of the gang, from rowdy timewasters in the 60s, to violent criminals in the 70s.

.. but not much else happens. Who would have thought that biker gangs are bad people !!

eh, another non-film. Another 5.5/10. Like, there is no reason ever to choose this over Legend. If you were a original member of the bike gang portrayed in this film, you'd still prefer Legend.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom