NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[dasherHampton]

Mike Tysons Punch Out.

lol yeah, Munch Out.

After mediating for a while I think it might have been one of the Neverwinter Nights games.

 

[JEDI]

Sigh. Pretty please don't mess it up...again.

when was there ever a good one?

 

[mopardude87]

Well i watched the pilot then one more episode but so far....

Sabrina 8/10

This show is pretty good and i almost think the people who wrote it certainly are possibly pagan/wiccan, the show uses some pretty accurate depictions of witchcraft and some proper terms. Most shows like this use general ideas of witchcraft but this one is like in another realm.

 

[Zanovar]

Titus was a pretty good show, but it didnt score with the critics and only got 3 seasons.

Never heard of this.Will check it out

 

[snoopy7548]

Boyz n the Hood: 9/10

I forgot just how good that movie was. A classic.

Now you have to go watch Juice.

 

[dasherHampton]

Now you have to go watch Juice.

Or Menace II Society.

That's a must watch imo.

 

[snoopy7548]

Or Menace II Society.

That's a must watch imo.

Also, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

 

[UsandThem]

Also, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

Or 'I'm Gonna Get You Sucka'.

 

[CZroe]

Or 'I'm Gonna Get You Sucka'.

...wrong hole, fool.

 

[pmv]

Ocean's Eleven. Not very good, really weak script. Picked up slightly in the second half when they actually started doing things, I nearly gave up watching in the first half. Can forgive the preposterous implausibility of it, as I guess that's standard for the genre, but disappointingly flat and unmemorable dialogue, given the all-star cast. I can't stand Julia Roberts. She's so bland and robotic.

 

[shortylickens]

Never heard of this.Will check it out

Hopefully whats-his-face was right and its on Youtube.
Last time I checked Amazon the DVD set was like a hundred bucks (rare and kind of has cult status).
But Chris Titus is a funny guy and his show was pretty good. Stacy Keach was an excellent asshole dad, even better than Red Forman.

 

[DigDog]

Or 'I'm Gonna Get You Sucka'.

(Black) Dynamite! Dynamite!!

 

[Zanovar]

Hopefully whats-his-face was right and its on Youtube.
Last time I checked Amazon the DVD set was like a hundred bucks (rare and kind of has cult status).
But Chris Titus is a funny guy and his show was pretty good. Stacy Keach was an excellent asshole dad, even better than Red Forman.

Hey keach where has my joint gone? "erm"

 

[soulcougher73]

My Disney+ free trial expires tomorrow or the day after that.

I don't see any reason to keep it. I don't need to rewatch Star Wars over and over, and I don't like the new ones anyway. Is there anything I should binge before I cancel?

The only thing I've watched so far is A New Hope.

For All Mankind was good I thought

 

[DigDog]

i have some spare time now so i decided to clean up my bookmarks, including well over 300 porn bookmarks and therefore now my penis hurts.

I re-watched all of S1 of Rick & Morty
but i guess everyone in the world is watching this already.
9/10

now on to S2

 

[thestrangebrew1]

23 Blast - 7/10. Story about a high school football star who gets an infection that ruins his ability to play the sport. Feel good story about his struggles and friendship/family. B-list actors and unknowns, but got some good laughs throughout. Had the Hallmark/Lifetime vibe to it but it was decent.

 

[JEDI]

[original Jumanji]
It is quite of a bit different. [than the sequels]

you were right.

Jumanji (1995) 7.5/10
(Starring Robin Williams)

fun, light hearted movie.
it's nothing like the sequels.
for starters, things happen in the real world and not in the game world. (although in the upcoming 3rd sequel, it looks like things will be happening in the real world.)

the cgi effects were awful by today's standards but it was 1995 so i gave that a pass.
it was more of a kid comedy in that you knew by the 1/2 way point that noone was going to die, not even innocent bystanders.

i liked the sequel Welcome to the Jungle (2017) better but i found it more enjoyable than the 2nd sequel The Next Level (2019).

i was shocked to see that Kirsten Dunst's face looks almost the same now as when she starred in this movie.
also, i had to do a double take on who the aunt was... young Bebe Neuwirth!

this film came out 25yrs ago... god, i feel so old...

 

[dasherHampton]

I was trying to do some work I've been putting off and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is playing in the background.

I can't give this movie a rating; that's a job for teenage boys. I do remember it was a fun movie to get stoned to when I was young.

But damn times have changed. You're never going to see subject matter like this again. An evil transsexual? Forget about it. And it's not just that, it's smaller things as well. There's a scene when Courtney Cox takes Ace with her to investigate a mental hospital. He's dressed in a tutu and performs an exaggerated caricature of a mental patient.

Something like that would get pilloried in today's social climate. I don't think you could even get funding for such things.

To be clear - I'm not saying that's a bad thing.It's simply the way things are. I'm actually kind of surprised that AV: PD hasn't gone the way of Uncle Remus.

 

[Kaido]

Devs 7/10

I have a super hard time rating stuff. 8/10 might be a better rating, I dunno.

Spoiler: Review

They were really going for an artsy, mysterious type of show. Sometimes they nailed it, but most of the time it felt like they were trying really really really hard to nail it, especially with the music & the visuals & the disconnectedness & detachment of the characters. I appreciated the effort to make the aesthetic tho.

I think the ending is what got me to sour a bit on it. They had an opportunity to take it 2 directions:

1. Make a really meaningful ending
2. Open it up for a second season

Movies are kind of simple things once you understand the mechanics of them. If you take the meaning of life & morals out of the equation, you're left with debate. In a debate, either side can be argued for well enough to win. In a movie, you can take a point & debate it & imprint a certain attitude or theme or thought into the audience's mind. In Devs, it was the question of determinism vs. free will. I think I was disappointed that there wasn't any real substance at the end to grab onto.

You can effectively argue any side of anything that you want to & make it as awesome & as great & as fulfilling as you'd like, just like how a Chips Ahoy cookie is fine but a homemade cookie can be amazing - I felt like they could have really amped up the meaning of the ending if they wanted to. That's the magic power of storytelling! If you've never seen John Mulaney's bit on the Back to the Future movie pitch, he explains it pretty well - the way you tell the story supersedes the mechanics of the plot: (when done well, at least)

Discussion point 1: I think they needed to do more with foreshadowing Lily's ability to make agency-based choices. It should have come as a shock at the end, but you knew they had to do a twist somehow, so you were kind of expecting it. But then when she met up with Forest at the empty Devs field at the end, there was no payoff...it was just "you're special, for some reason" without any explanation as to why, or supporting evidence, or any kind of feel-good moral to the story type of deal. It was just...information.

On that note, she was basically left with PTSD from the trauma of all of the awfulness that had happened, while Forest got to go off & be happy, despite allowing people to be murdered in the real world just to get what he wanted, despite being dead & it all being a fake Matrix-style reality, despite knowing that if the system ever lost power & got switched off, it would all be gone.

Discussion point 2: They could have had a LOT of fun with a second season. Make the politician lady at the end power-hungry & use the machine's future-vision to win elections, cure cancer, make money, stop wars, etc. Or have Lily get with Jamie to hack themselves back into the real world somehow. Or have Lyndon hack himself/herself back into this reality from an alternate reality or from a simulation of reality. Or have Stewart take revenge by bringing Lyndon back to life somehow using the machine. Or something cool like that!

Discussion point #3: I think they missed out exploring a lot of the relationships. Like, they never really explained why Lily left Jamie. They could have done more with Lyndon & Stewart. Even Katie & Forest. Or Forest & his wife. Like, I liked Lily's somewhat detached & disaffected character, but I think some explanation would have been better, like maybe Jamie had some terrible deep dark secret that caused her to leave & become depressed or something triggered a memory from her childhood that sent her into shock or anything, really. They kept the movie going kind of on that modern-detached-artsy aesthetic, but because I didn't feel like it had a really good, solid payoff at the end, all of that kind of fell flat for me.

Two related shows that come to mind are the Matrix & Star Trek. Cypher sells them out in the Matrix, even though he knows the steak isn't steak - he's just happy to have it feel like reality & be living better. That's what Forest's compromise felt like to me...he knew better, he just didn't care. Which was odd because of Lyndon's mutli-verse theory - he would rather have a fake reality than an alternate reality Amaya. The other is that episode of Star Trek where the ship gets taken over, but they trick the attackers into the holodeck & then shoot that out into space so the attackers still think they're in reality.

Anyway, I appreciated what they were going for. I think it just lacked some "oomph" in the making-it-meaningful department. What was the moral of the story here? That Lily's free agency led to change, but it doesn't really matter because they're in a fake simulation & who cares because you got what you wanted? Meh.

It was a fun concept. Wish they had pushed it a bit more to make it a great execution. The story itself was pretty decent. Pacing was a bit slow, but I don't mind slower movies fi they're good, especially if they're a slow burn (which this one wasn't). It was fun to see a more serious tech show that dealt with bigger, more abstract issues other than just "winning Silicone Valley".

I would like to see a second season.

 

[UsandThem]

I See You 7/10

A few pacing issues, but some decent twists in it.

On a side note, I hadn't seen Helen Hunt in anything for quite awhile, so I was a little shocked when she first appeared. She kinda looks weird now (likely plastic surgery that didn't go too well), so anytime she was on screen, I kept getting distracted by it.

 

[shortylickens]

I was trying to do some work I've been putting off and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is playing in the background.

I can't give this movie a rating; that's a job for teenage boys. I do remember it was a fun movie to get stoned to when I was young.

But damn times have changed. You're never going to see subject matter like this again. An evil transsexual? Forget about it. And it's not just that, it's smaller things as well. There's a scene when Courtney Cox takes Ace with her to investigate a mental hospital. He's dressed in a tutu and performs an exaggerated caricature of a mental patient.

Something like that would get pilloried in today's social climate. I don't think you could even get funding for such things.

To be clear - I'm not saying that's a bad thing.It's simply the way things are. I'm actually kind of surprised that AV: PD hasn't gone the way of Uncle Remus.

I finally saw it last year and was not impressed.
If thats what it took to make Jim Carrey a superstar then Americans must be easily impressed.
(I didnt think The Mask was funny either.)

 

[DigDog]

just a FYI, i'm watching right now as we type, that masterpiece which is UHF. - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/

that's right, before he was a cool guy, Weird Al had a fucking film to his name. A proper, 90-minute, in theaters distribution film

What can i say; a perfect film by any standard, it may not be culturally important (for now), but, it has Fran Drescher(not nude, unfortunately), Michael Richards in his all-time best role as Stanley Spadowsky, Kevin McCarthy as Kevin McCarthy (he's only got one role), Dire Straits, and an assortment of unforgettable jokes and puns, such as Wheel Of Fish, Spatula City, Ghandi 2, and .. well, just watch the f* film already.

7.5/10 - because life is like a mop

 

[mopardude87]

Bright 10/10

I honestly think when Magik returns for anyone who believes in such things or can fathom it at the very least, the world presented in that movie i think will be dang close. The Elves being evil sorta confused me but i learned the elves usually in the woods are quite nasty. I guess watching their pureness in the nerds bible that is "Lord of the Rings" kinda messed with my perception of them.

 

[dasherHampton]

Devs 7/10

I have a super hard time rating stuff. 8/10 might be a better rating, I dunno.

Spoiler: Review

They were really going for an artsy, mysterious type of show. Sometimes they nailed it, but most of the time it felt like they were trying really really really hard to nail it, especially with the music & the visuals & the disconnectedness & detachment of the characters. I appreciated the effort to make the aesthetic tho.

I think the ending is what got me to sour a bit on it. They had an opportunity to take it 2 directions:

1. Make a really meaningful ending
2. Open it up for a second season

Movies are kind of simple things once you understand the mechanics of them. If you take the meaning of life & morals out of the equation, you're left with debate. In a debate, either side can be argued for well enough to win. In a movie, you can take a point & debate it & imprint a certain attitude or theme or thought into the audience's mind. In Devs, it was the question of determinism vs. free will. I think I was disappointed that there wasn't any real substance at the end to grab onto.

You can effectively argue any side of anything that you want to & make it as awesome & as great & as fulfilling as you'd like, just like how a Chips Ahoy cookie is fine but a homemade cookie can be amazing - I felt like they could have really amped up the meaning of the ending if they wanted to. That's the magic power of storytelling! If you've never seen John Mulaney's bit on the Back to the Future movie pitch, he explains it pretty well - the way you tell the story supersedes the mechanics of the plot: (when done well, at least)

Discussion point 1: I think they needed to do more with foreshadowing Lily's ability to make agency-based choices. It should have come as a shock at the end, but you knew they had to do a twist somehow, so you were kind of expecting it. But then when she met up with Forest at the empty Devs field at the end, there was no payoff...it was just "you're special, for some reason" without any explanation as to why, or supporting evidence, or any kind of feel-good moral to the story type of deal. It was just...information.

On that note, she was basically left with PTSD from the trauma of all of the awfulness that had happened, while Forest got to go off & be happy, despite allowing people to be murdered in the real world just to get what he wanted, despite being dead & it all being a fake Matrix-style reality, despite knowing that if the system ever lost power & got switched off, it would all be gone.

Discussion point 2: They could have had a LOT of fun with a second season. Make the politician lady at the end power-hungry & use the machine's future-vision to win elections, cure cancer, make money, stop wars, etc. Or have Lily get with Jamie to hack themselves back into the real world somehow. Or have Lyndon hack himself/herself back into this reality from an alternate reality or from a simulation of reality. Or have Stewart take revenge by bringing Lyndon back to life somehow using the machine. Or something cool like that!

Discussion point #3: I think they missed out exploring a lot of the relationships. Like, they never really explained why Lily left Jamie. They could have done more with Lyndon & Stewart. Even Katie & Forest. Or Forest & his wife. Like, I liked Lily's somewhat detached & disaffected character, but I think some explanation would have been better, like maybe Jamie had some terrible deep dark secret that caused her to leave & become depressed or something triggered a memory from her childhood that sent her into shock or anything, really. They kept the movie going kind of on that modern-detached-artsy aesthetic, but because I didn't feel like it had a really good, solid payoff at the end, all of that kind of fell flat for me.

Two related shows that come to mind are the Matrix & Star Trek. Cypher sells them out in the Matrix, even though he knows the steak isn't steak - he's just happy to have it feel like reality & be living better. That's what Forest's compromise felt like to me...he knew better, he just didn't care. Which was odd because of Lyndon's mutli-verse theory - he would rather have a fake reality than an alternate reality Amaya. The other is that episode of Star Trek where the ship gets taken over, but they trick the attackers into the holodeck & then shoot that out into space so the attackers still think they're in reality.

Anyway, I appreciated what they were going for. I think it just lacked some "oomph" in the making-it-meaningful department. What was the moral of the story here? That Lily's free agency led to change, but it doesn't really matter because they're in a fake simulation & who cares because you got what you wanted? Meh.

It was a fun concept. Wish they had pushed it a bit more to make it a great execution. The story itself was pretty decent. Pacing was a bit slow, but I don't mind slower movies fi they're good, especially if they're a slow burn (which this one wasn't). It was fun to see a more serious tech show that dealt with bigger, more abstract issues other than just "winning Silicone Valley".

I would like to see a second season.

I watched the first 7 episodes in a binge one night when I couldn't sleep. Oddly similar to the original Narcos: I watched the entire first season of that show in one binge, and some of the second in the same sitting iirc. I was engrossed.

Devs isn't on the same level as Narcos but I found it hypnotically watchable. I also had trouble rating it.

I didn't click on your spoiler because I'm letting some episodes pile up for another mini-binge.

 

[dasherHampton]

If you need a little light hearted break in your day some of these are pretty funny.