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

[DigDog]

deloreans are meh cars. I like the gullwing doors, but the rest of the style hasn't held up well - chunky 80s spaceship-like look, a frontend that looks like a russian economy car, and a backend that looks like a imitation supercar.
i'm partial to movie replica deloreans, though.

Also, they' not really supercars, are they. 130hp out of a 2.7L engine. come on man.

 

[zinfamous]

deloreans are meh cars. I like the gullwing doors, but the rest of the style hasn't held up well - chunky 80s spaceship-like look, a frontend that looks like a russian economy car, and a backend that looks like a imitation supercar.
i'm partial to movie replica deloreans, though.

Also, they' not really supercars, are they. 130hp out of a 2.7L engine. come on man.

and super heavy (I wasn't joking about the 3 ton thing....OK, only 2.5 tons when you remove the cocaine bricks from your new delorean).

130hp in a 2.7L engine isn't all that horrible for its time, considering the Americans were making giant, inefficient, terrible engines in the day (not that it wasn't such an odd thing really--The Testarossa was a ~5L flat 12 that put out ~340hp, I think?)

 

[DigDog]

dude, we used to own a fifth gen Buick LeSabre with the 5.0 oldsmobile engine, 140hp out of 5 liters. leave my testarossas out of this.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Crank 2 High Voltage 11/10
Come on man. Slum Dog Millionaire some how stole best picture from this movie back in 2009. Has there ever been a more fun movie?

 

[sdifox]

Rubber - 3/10. It was nothing like what I expected, and broke the fourth wall way too much for my liking. Seemed pretentious to me.

The rubber broke on the fourth wall?

 

[bbhaag]

Started re watching The Expanse and damn I forgot how good season 1 is. It's an easy 10/10 if you're a sci-fi fan. Getting close to the end of season 1 and can't wait to start season2.

 

[purbeast0]

The Autopsy of Jane Doe - 8/10

Excellent horror movie with a solid premise and Brian Cox gives a solid performance that is unexpected. Pacing is solid, unexpected twists, smart writing!

House of 1000 Corpses - 9/10
I love a good horror/comedy flick and this one delivers. Chris Hardwick and Rainn Wilson give great campy performances. Twisted, so fuckin twisted and yeah - the opening 30-minutes is great film-making and the rest devolves into some fucked up weird shit with crazy mutants. Ending wraps up nothing!

Dr. SATAN!!!!!!!
🤘

I highly recommend Devil's Rejects if you liked House of 1000 Corpses. It's by far my favorite of the 3. It's one of my all time favorites in the f'd up/horror genre, although I wouldn't call it a horror flick.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Started re watching The Expanse and damn I forgot how good season 1 is. It's an easy 10/10 if you're a sci-fi fan. Getting close to the end of season 1 and can't wait to start season2.

I'm on my 3rd run through of seasons 1-3. Only watched s4 once but I'm going to re-watch it this time around. I love that show.

 

[MrSquished]

Finished The Boys Season 1 and it was pretty good. It's heavy handed and can lay it on thick but when you look around the world today, it kind of all makes sense really. Definitely has some good commentary on our societal ills, plenty of dumb parts as well, but overall entertaining. I would love to see this concept done better and overall more gritty - maybe Watchmen is better?

Anyways, Season 2 has a lower rating on Amazon but I browsed through some of the reviews, a lot of the 1 star reviews were because the episodes were being released one a week, vs the whole season at once, so people were dinging it for that vs the content.

 

[Exterous]

Infinity Chamber - 2017
I thought this was a great movie. There are only a few characters and a few locations involved which can be tough to do well the dialogue was on point and it kept my attention throughout the entire movie

 

[Exterous]

I also watched Terminator: Dark Fate on Hulu this weekend. I'll give it a 5/10. It's not as good as Terminator 2, even though it tries REALLY hard to be that same movie.

I also didn't appreciate how they tried to make the US Border Patrol look evil. Hey Hollywood: Please don't inject politics into action films, I don't want to see it.

Hey, i watched Terminator: Dark Fate - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6450804/

and you know, as far as T films go, it wasn't totally trash. Some of the action was nice, some was too much. The sentimentalisms are out of place and can go. The settings were pretty decent, and the acting was all around ok.
I still can't understand why they need to make the T out of some sort of indestructible material though. You're the writer, just dont write scenes where the T could get destroyed. Sheesh, in 30 years of storyline time, they'll be killing Ts with guns. Have we developed some sort of antimatter cannon in 30 years of living in the rubble?
Anyway, decent VHS film. 6/10

Some of it seemed a bit heavy handed to me even for a Terminator movie. " Yeah, you're not the threat. It's your womb." Subtlety of a sledgehammer to the temple right there, gives away part of the movie and kinda cheapened the bad-assery of Sarah Connor

 

[DigDog]

looks good:

 

[Aikouka]

Watched the Made in Abyss movie this past weekend. All I can really say is... while the TV show had to be a bit more tame due to... well, being on TV, the movie definitely didn't have to worry about that. It had plenty of references to "papa pole" in it and how the robot's arms aren't the only thing that can extend. Although, the nice thing is that it's kind of rare to get a movie off-shoot that is actually canon. Of course, I say that and the Kimetsu no Yaiba movie is also canon and it's breaking tons of Japanese box office records... even during a pandemic.

ah, lol, I forgot about his girlfriend, lol. But can you blame me? they look the same!

It's worth keeping in mind that Shue didn't play Jennifer until Part 2.

Finished The Boys Season 1 and it was pretty good. It's heavy handed and can lay it on thick but when you look around the world today, it kind of all makes sense really. Definitely has some good commentary on our societal ills, plenty of dumb parts as well, but overall entertaining. I would love to see this concept done better and overall more gritty - maybe Watchmen is better?

Anyways, Season 2 has a lower rating on Amazon but I browsed through some of the reviews, a lot of the 1 star reviews were because the episodes were being released one a week, vs the whole season at once, so people were dinging it for that vs the content.

Frankly, I thought the second season was far more heavy-handed when it came to political themes relating to today's climate. I could go into more on it, but it would quickly lead to spoiler territory. Also, I kind of get people complaining about the weekly release. My biggest problem is that... I think it was the first two or three episodes of Season 2 were a bit weak. I wasn't until a few episodes in where it felt like things started ramping up to where Season 1 started.

 

[bbhaag]

I'm on my 3rd run through of seasons 1-3. Only watched s4 once but I'm going to re-watch it this time around. I love that show.

I can see why. The production value for a SyFy Channel show(I know Amazon has the rights now)is really good, the acting is top notch, and the story is engaging.
I just finished up season and 1 and can't wait to start season 2.

 

[MrSquished]

Watched the Made in Abyss movie this past weekend. All I can really say is... while the TV show had to be a bit more tame due to... well, being on TV, the movie definitely didn't have to worry about that. It had plenty of references to "papa pole" in it and how the robot's arms aren't the only thing that can extend. Although, the nice thing is that it's kind of rare to get a movie off-shoot that is actually canon. Of course, I say that and the Kimetsu no Yaiba movie is also canon and it's breaking tons of Japanese box office records... even during a pandemic.



It's worth keeping in mind that Shue didn't play Jennifer until Part 2.



Frankly, I thought the second season was far more heavy-handed when it came to political themes relating to today's climate. I could go into more on it, but it would quickly lead to spoiler territory. Also, I kind of get people complaining about the weekly release. My biggest problem is that... I think it was the first two or three episodes of Season 2 were a bit weak. I wasn't until a few episodes in where it felt like things started ramping up to where Season 1 started.

I'm on epsiode 5 of Season 2 of The Boys right now and I am liking this Season better. While the themes are becoming a bit more political and less about corporate bullshit and religious hypocrisy (although that kinda goes hand in hand with politics these days), I actually think the pacing is much better. I think what was heavy handed about Season 1 is they tried to jam pack so much shit so quickly that it just felt clumsy at times. We are an instant gratification society and it's negatively affecting our entertainment. We can handle some lengthier character and plot development if it's entertaining enough and makes that payoff just feel that much more solid and fleshed out better.

 

[DigDog]

i think i am watching the worst 20-minute tv show ever brought to the screen which is Kal Penn Approves This Message - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13108044/

which is the indian guy from House and Harold And Kumar doing a comedy/political show but while keeping up the stoner jokes, college lingo, all while being fat and old.
I mean, i respect this guy both as a person - a politically involved democrat who quit House to go work for Obama - and i like his comedies, but this show is atrocious. really bad.

4.5/10 - socially sensitive issues and fart jokes do not mix

 

[sportage]

Here are some free, full movies you can get off Youtube. Some are pretty good. Search the titles on Youtube.

Like, FINAL JEOPARDY from 1985 with John Boy himself Richard Thomas. "A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of murderous criminals." It's kind of like THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS but without the comedy and with switchblades and physical assault. John Boy and wife running the dark dangerous streets of New York.

Or, CARNIVAL OF SOULS 1962. A good old creepy Halloween flick. A cult film indeed, a deceases woman such between two worlds, the worlds of life and death. Colorized version also on Youtube.

MONDAY'S CHILD 1967 also known as "La chica del lunes" with Geraldine Page. "A married couple uproot their entire family and move to Puerto Rico where the familial tree promptly dies in the face of relentless poverty and depression."

THE INNOCENTS 1961 Another Halloween goodie. "A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted."

And if you haven't seen "PATTERNS 1956" you should. Also full and free on Youtube. Written by Rod Serling. "The story of the fierce and corrosive competition that exists in the executive branch of Ramsey & Co., a New York industrial colossus headed by Walter Ramsey, it's cold, designing and ruthless chief." Great cast: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley. I loved this film.

You can find a lot of full free films on Youtube, especially the older classics which is right up my alley.

 

[DigDog]

i watched for the second time What We Do In The Shadows (the film) and .. well, i know that the general consensus around here is how great this film is, but i thought it was just passable.
To be *totally* sincere, i thought Spinal Tap was also just "ok". Back before the interwebs, if you caught something really weird that nobody else had, you wanted to share your experience, ergo you'd talk all day about this weird film where the drummer explodes on stage.
And WWDITS is kinda the same thing: mockumentary about something that a whole bunch of people take too seriously. Back when this was made, we were just coming out of the Twilight craze (and let's not forget all the previous years, with Interview With The Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Daybreakers ..) so i can understand why someone would be fed up with that stuff.
And, given that i know how popular the Vamipre: The Masquerade pnp RPG is down under, i also find it amusing that they are going through all the various vampire tropes and smashing them up.

But it's too long. It hasn't got enough of a budget, and the "actual story" is not really great (the Unholy Masquerade and the following fight, which briefly completes the character arcs of .. yawn ..). And, it's the same kind of joke, over and over. When they try to get into an actual plot, the film falls apart, due to unbelievable characters, bad acting, poor direction, and no budget.

it's cute, but it's no great film. I would say .. 6.5/10. Sorry.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Finished The Boys Season 1 and it was pretty good. It's heavy handed and can lay it on thick but when you look around the world today, it kind of all makes sense really. Definitely has some good commentary on our societal ills, plenty of dumb parts as well, but overall entertaining. I would love to see this concept done better and overall more gritty - maybe Watchmen is better?

Anyways, Season 2 has a lower rating on Amazon but I browsed through some of the reviews, a lot of the 1 star reviews were because the episodes were being released one a week, vs the whole season at once, so people were dinging it for that vs the content.

I loved s1 when it first came out. I re-watched it within the last 2 weeks in preparation of starting 2 just to remind myself what all went down. I just finished episode 4 of s2 and so far it's just been kinda meh for me. Some parts are good and the guy who plays homelander is awesome, but other than that I feel like I'm just watching it just to watch it and finish. I'm not excited for the next episode(s) the way I was for the first season.

 

[HomerJS]

Original Borat movie is on Amazon Prime. Watched it again in anticipation of the new Borat film that launches in a day or two. Laughed way more than I should have at one of the scripted jokes that was added in post (not one where he genuinely confronts unsuspecting people in-character). Listen carefully when he dejectedly throws his bag down after the fight with Azamat.

I remember watching Borat at movies with GF at the time. We were close to the screen and I was ungodly uncomfortable during the wrestling scene. Laughed hard about it afterwards.

 

[DigDog]

do you guys reckon this film is real?

 

[CZroe]

I remember watching Borat at movies with GF at the time. We were close to the screen and I was ungodly uncomfortable during the wrestling scene. Laughed hard about it afterwards.

...but it WAS censored.

I know, I know... somehow, the flopping penis-tracking sensor bars with scaling and rotation are way more disturbing than your typical censor bars.

One of the funniest parts of the film was how deliberately generous SBC was with his personal censor bar in those scenes. Again, some of the best jokes come from editing as opposed to his schtick (pranks).

 

[MrSquished]

I loved s1 when it first came out. I re-watched it within the last 2 weeks in preparation of starting 2 just to remind myself what all went down. I just finished episode 4 of s2 and so far it's just been kinda meh for me. Some parts are good and the guy who plays homelander is awesome, but other than that I feel like I'm just watching it just to watch it and finish. I'm not excited for the next episode(s) the way I was for the first season.

Season 1 was very fast paced and action packed. It was great but I think plot points and character transitions could have been fleshed out more as they seemed hurried at times.

I kinda liked the beginning of season 2. Gave the shows pace a bit of a breath. The pace picks up more on season 2 as it progresses. I think it's great though. I'm on episode 7. Will finish the last two episodes tonight.

 

[Aikouka]

We are an instant gratification society and it's negatively affecting our entertainment. We can handle some lengthier character and plot development if it's entertaining enough and makes that payoff just feel that much more solid and fleshed out better.

While I don't disagree that some tend to shy away from the slower and more methodical plot/character development, I think it's also worth noting that people sometimes have a bad habit of thinking that just because things are happening to a character means it's character development. For example, can you tell me what character had a notable change in the first three episodes of season two? Frankly, I'd argue that most characters have very little development outside of Billy Butcher and Homelander throughout the entire season. Most other characters didn't actually change, but rather, their character quirks from season one were simply intensified. For example, Starlight was rebellious in the first season, and she's just simply even more so in the second.

 

[MrSquished]

While I don't disagree that some tend to shy away from the slower and more methodical plot/character development, I think it's also worth noting that people sometimes have a bad habit of thinking that just because things are happening to a character means it's character development. For example, can you tell me what character had a notable change in the first three episodes of season two? Frankly, I'd argue that most characters have very little development outside of Billy Butcher and Homelander throughout the entire season. Most other characters didn't actually change, but rather, their character quirks from season one were simply intensified. For example, Starlight was rebellious in the first season, and she's just simply even more so in the second.

Starlight is a good example, I felt that her transition from being this midwestern spiritual girl to this cynical hero who snapped and then gave that off the cuff speech at Ezekiel's event was just too hurried without enough development to show her getting to that point

Season 2 started slower but there are other characters being developed like the Deep storyline, he may not be really evolving much but his situation is. Maeve seems to be going through some stuff/having a lot of regrets, Butcher is having some moments, etc...

Overall I really liked Season 1, and went threw the first 6 episodes of Season 2 in two days. I'm happy with the show overall.