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

[snoopy7548]

SHIT!

My favorite show started up again and I didnt even notice!

Honey Boo Boo?

 

[ultimatebob]

Recently, I've been watching this guy's drink reviews on YouTube:

Comedic Gold right here. 8.5 out of 10!

 

[MrSquished]

Pretend it's a City - Netflix - Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorcese production on basically her musings and New York City as well. 3 episodes in and this is comedy gold. I heard her interview on Terry Gross's Fresh Air on NPR the other day and it was interesting, though a bit more thoughtful than funny, but this show is more comedy with some good introspection as well. 'They don't clap when the Picasso comes out, but when the final price is announced. They aren't celebrating art but the act of buying.' - Brilliant observations for the most part with just such a sharp wit.

 

[zinfamous]

The Last OG - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363912/

i watched 3 episodes of this and that's where to count stops.
It's the story of a guy who goes to prison for 15 years, which destroys his life. Once released, he's gonna need to build back his life.
it's supposed to be a comedy; joke include such gems as:
1. he gets a mobile phone and has to explain to everyone how cool it is
2. he's confused by starbucks orders
3. he's having a bad day and then a car splashes him with dirty water

oh, SO MUCH FUN.
But in reality, it's not even a comedy. It's a "life is tough" drama that tries to masquerade itself as a comedy, and not only it's not funny, but the drama is all due to the unrelatable fact that the protagonist is a complete idiot that fails at everything.

5/10 - only if there's really, really nothing else on.

This show is actually a 10/10. You need to keep watching it. I can't help but disagree with literally everything you have said. Morgan is definitely not the "wow, things are really different!" idiot that can't do anything. That's...the complete opposite of his character, lol.

 

[DigDog]

This show is actually a 10/10.

is it a comedy, or is a drama?

 

[zinfamous]

is it a comedy, or is a drama?

It's both? Why can't it be?

Also maybe familiarize yourself a bit with Tiffany Haddish--a lot of this stuff might as well be biographical; some of the stories in this show are. Also, especially if you ever get to the end of season 2, it becomes very serious...and remember, this season was 2019, before all the crazy shit that went down in the summer of 2020.

It's quite shocking, actually.

 

[DigDog]

It's both? Why can't it be?

i'm trying to find a way to say this without sounding like a complete dick: i don't like that mix. Because if i sit down for a comedy, i am not in a mood to watch a show about a family disintegrating, with a jealous wife crying, a kid that has to witness her mother go crazy with jealusy, and feel embarassed because of it .. and, you know, you *can* frame these things as a comedy, but OG is just not a comedy, the drama is harsh and it's the kind of family drama that i dont like, not even to watch.




... and frankly, i don't find it funny. Not "amy schumer" but not funny enough that i want to watch it.
it doesn't help the fact that when the scene is on the guy, it's a character comedy, because then when you have the "REAL" scenes, you got a drama with a guy with a clown nose stuck on stage while everyone else is pretending to be in a serious film.


I think that Rick & Morty is a show that is extremely dark and tragic at times, but that absolutely works with the comedy, if anything, it makes it even better. I mean, you got that "nobody mattters, come watch TV" scene where Morty shows Summer THEIR OWN DEAD BODIES, that's pretty fucking tragic right there, but of a completely different nature than OG. R&M is surreal, OG is mundane. R&M does not expect me to find it relatable, it expects me to find it shocking (and it is). OG wants me to relate to the family issues they are having, and .. that's a hard pass from me.

[Suits does the same drama/not drama thing, but without the clown nose, and i'm still not watching it]

 

[IronWing]

If I recall, there's the single episode when he doesn't fall over it? I vaguely remember it as my mom loves the older TV shows.

 

[DigDog]

i occasionally like to watch Minty's Comic Arts on YT and today i found out a shocking movie fact;

Q: what is the relation between these two characters?

think about it before you click the

Spoiler

A: they are the same character.
Following the commercial success of Commando, the studio started working on Commando 2, which they were going to base on Nothing Lasts Forever.
Eventually Schwartzy got bored and dropped out, but the script remained, a few changes were made and ... voila', John McClane.

 

[DigDog]

i'm watching News Of The World - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6878306/

no, not the Queen album, but rather the latest Tom Hanks film.
Veeeery cookie-cutter film, essentially they did the prequel to Dances With Wolves' "Stands With Fist" story.
Captain Kidd (Hanks) is a travelling newsreader (he gets a bunch of people in a barn and reads the newspapers to them), circa secession war (no, not the 2020 secession war), 1864. One day he runs into an overturned carriage, and finds a young blonde girl who speaks Kiowas. She was captured, has now been freed, it's on to him to escort her to whatever is left of her family, and along the way they bond. Yawn.
It reminds me of Hanks' performance in Captain Phillips, and it's a reminder that even really good actors like Hanks can be bad if not given proper direction and handed a lousy script.
The girl is good for however limited her role is (she doesn't speak english ...), not "True Grit" good, but good. Hanks for some reason sticks out from the setting. Or maybe i've just watched too many Tom Hanks movies.

currently at 6.9/10 on IMDb, i'm gonna go a bit lower, 6/10 - it's poorly constructed.

 

[DigDog]

WE ARE ALL WATCHING THIS

If you dont want to watch this RIGHT NOW, you are not my friend

 

[zinfamous]

WE ARE ALL WATCHING THIS

If you dont want to watch this RIGHT NOW, you are not my friend

hah, it's the Five Nights at Freddie's movie, or whatever that game is called.

 

[CZroe]

LUCY
THE CORE
GRAVITY
NOW YOU SEE ME

ESL?

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Currently slogging through S5 of Vikings. Completely turned off of the series by this season and IDK if I'm going to continue. Just seems like a circle jerk of fighting and betrayal that you can see from a mile away. Which is a bummer because I've enjoyed the first 4 seasons. The locations are gorgeous though.

S1-4 - 8
S5 (a) and (b) or whatever weird label it has on Amazon - 5

 

[MrSquished]

Pretend it's a City - Netflix - Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorcese production on basically her musings and New York City as well. 3 episodes in and this is comedy gold. I heard her interview on Terry Gross's Fresh Air on NPR the other day and it was interesting, though a bit more thoughtful than funny, but this show is more comedy with some good introspection as well. 'They don't clap when the Picasso comes out, but when the final price is announced. They aren't celebrating art but the act of buying.' - Brilliant observations for the most part with just such a sharp wit.

Finished the series. Not every episode is as rapid fire humor as the first few but they are all excellent conversations. Everyone should watch this.

 

[aigomorla]

Anyone watching the new The Stand 2020 on CBS access?

Im just curious on how many seasons they will end up dragging this.

 

[zinfamous]

Currently slogging through S5 of Vikings. Completely turned off of the series by this season and IDK if I'm going to continue. Just seems like a circle jerk of fighting and betrayal that you can see from a mile away. Which is a bummer because I've enjoyed the first 4 seasons. The locations are gorgeous though.

S1-4 - 8
S5 (a) and (b) or whatever weird label it has on Amazon - 5

yeah, it definitely takes a hit after season 4(for obvious, obvious...yeah obvious reasons), where season 1-3 were just....brilliant. It's one of those surprisingly well-produced TV productions. Lots of money, lots of pros, really great writing and casting, and nothing looks cheap.

There are still some good bits through the end of it, and I am glad that I finished (only last month or so, actually. I kept delaying things for a year, but then saw that the final 12 episodes were just suddenly available on Amazon)

Spoiler

I mean, come on: final season, episode 3 or whatever...who DOESN'T want to see Torvi with an infant in one hand and suddenly swinging an axe from the other, at some barbarous Trump sociopath that just decided to kill half an island of friends because some rotten whale washed up on his sand-scraped "property." ...it all leads to bloody insurrection and mad TRUMP defending his bloated carcass for his kin of 15, in the process killing off half the other settlers, which flee by boat, blindly into the Atlantic, and of course his family will never make use of that whale anyway and will obviously all perish because they backed Trump the Viking--seriously....that all happened exactly like that, and it was amazing. One of the best sequences on TV in forever

 

[DownTheSky]

Psycho Goreman. 1/10 It's bad, real bad. Not so bad it's good, just bad. After you watch this whatever movie you'll watch next will seem a masterpiece. If you have someone you really hate and asks you what movie to watch, recommend him this movie. Hopefully with all the fake reviews he won't even notice until it's too late.

 

[MetalMat]

Love Actually - 2/10

Oh boy. My girlfriend pretty much forced me to watch this as this is one of her favorite holiday movies. I can usually give the chick flick movies some slack but.... I can't on this one. I'm surprised she likes the movie so much because I think it is straight up garbage. It's far too long with stupid plots. It's based off of separate plot lines and some of them have no reason to be in the movie, they don't add anything! Like the dude trying to get a #1 holiday hit song, it literally adds nothing to the movie by the end and could've been totally cut out! Same goes with the dude moving to American to get laid..... what was the fucking point of adding that to the movie. Ugh, I hate this movie and it is lucky it got a 2.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

yeah, it definitely takes a hit after season 4(for obvious, obvious...yeah obvious reasons), where season 1-3 were just....brilliant. It's one of those surprisingly well-produced TV productions. Lots of money, lots of pros, really great writing and casting, and nothing looks cheap.

There are still some good bits through the end of it, and I am glad that I finished (only last month or so, actually. I kept delaying things for a year, but then saw that the final 12 episodes were just suddenly available on Amazon)

Well maybe I'll just keep watching it then. I typically only watch it during my lunch breaks, so at least I'll have something to watch during my lunch breaks for awhile.

 

[DigDog]

i have watched The White Tiger - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6571548/

7.2 on IMDb, 90% fresh on RT, but keep in mind that this is a Hindi film, and as such the votes are gonna be waaaaay exaggerated.

TWT is the story of a young kid from the slums of *somewhere in India* that doesnt like his rich masters, so he takes a job with his rich masters, hopeful for a chance of revenge.
He then gets the revenge. Not an awesome revenge, but a decent revenge nonetheless.

The film is mostly in English, although it veers off to Hindi depending on who is speaking to whom (i understand that this is in fact common in India), and my version came without English subs; it's still fairly easy to understand, but it would have been better properly subbed. It's on Netflix.

.. i mean . yeh, but meh. It's well done. It's reasonably entertaining. The story is not really great.

6.8/10 - you gotta try harder that this

 

[ultimatebob]

Lately, I've been watching the new season of Monster Garage on Discovery+.

It really hasn't changed much from the older episodes, except that they no longer bleep out the swear words in most of the episodes. The stuff that they build is cool, but Jesse James is still as much of an asshole as he was before

7/10 on this one.

 

[Aikouka]

I watched episode 3 of WandaVision this past weekend, and I can say that it was definitely a lot better than we had before. Maybe it's because I'm more tolerant of the goofiness of 70's sitcoms over 60's. Although, I think one bigger aspect is at the end where it showed a lot more of the real world, and the idea that people can "infect" Wanda's pretend world. With this, I think the better solution would've been to release the first three episodes at once instead of just two.

 

[JujuFish]

the better solution would've been to release the first three episodes at once instead of just two.

Reviewers got the first 3 episodes all at once, for what it's worth.

 

[snoopy7548]

Been watching Oz. I'm on season 3 and I love the show. 8/10 so far. If it's anything like real jail, I probably wouldn't like it very much.