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

[SMOGZINN]

The Circle - 5/10 , the movie paints a bleak picture of our future. All I could think of is 'when this happens, I am so joining the resistance'. Emma Watson's character was a scary look at the modern millennial attitude towards life. I remember reading a web comic when Twitter came out where they were making fun of people posting their entire lives online (he was posting that he was taking a dump then again when done) and it wasn't far from the truth. As unrealistic as the story seems, I can imagine most people who post to Facebook wouldn't mind having cameras everywhere because it would give them the attention they crave.

I thought that The Circle was a pretty excellent look at the direction that technology is heading and does a decent job of talking about how the advantages of a more connected world with all the ease of access that makes everything quicker and simpler also comes with some inherent disadvantages.

Anyone remember about the fad a while back of people live streaming their entire lives? This show harkens back to that but forgets the lesson that we learned to make the plot work. Overall, most of the time people are boring. A real life 'Truman show' would bore you to death. That is the compromise we made with social media. Interesting people just post the interesting things (or dramatize things to make them more interesting) and leave out all the boring stuff. It lets us both have some privacy when we want it and keep our audience (which is effectively everyone) from being bored with us.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Dark Matter - 7/10. I'm not sure what network it plays on but I'm on season 2 on Netflix. Acting is pretty bad, story has so many wtfs but I'm into it. It's decent as a stop gap if you have nothing else to watch right now.

Travelers - 8/10 Finished 2nd season on NF and I dig it. Wished there was more to watch. Acting is pretty good for the most part and the story is interesting.

 

[RearAdmiral]

i'm halfway through Hitchock's The Birds and i'm so bored my brain refuses to go on any more.

snip
The second part is when the birds attack. I'm sorry but in no way can i find a flock of seagulls scary, and by extension, a flock perching is not ominous. If they really wanted you dead, and you knew that they did, put a bucket on your head; what are they gonna do ?

HAHAHAHA

 

[zinfamous]

Dunkirk was best experienced on 70MM IMAX as Nolan filmed it to be an immersive experience - I was fortunate to see this film in all its glory on 70MM IMAX and the visuals are stunning. At home viewing, not so much.

The Thin Red Line is fantastic, takes multiple watchings to really appreciate the nuances of Terrence Malick's skill. Looking back, it was clearly snubbed from the Best Picture Oscar.

I agree so, so much. That year made me angry, because SPR was utter shit in comparison (though I really liked SPR, The Thin Red Line was such a monumentally superior film in every possible way). I also really enjoyed Dunkirk--it did remind me of TTRL. Also managed to see it at The Smithsonian's 70mm IMAX.

 

[DigDog]

i had a stab at Father Brown (TV) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2215842/

i had to watch this, because my father was a distributor for the "original" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069582/
And "original" because Father Brown has had several incarnations, just like Poirot or Sherlock Holmes.

Father Brown is very similar in style to Miss Marple; he's a catholic priest in a 1930s~1950s (depending on which serial) quaint English village. There's the incompetent police inspector, nosy neighbors,casual-exposition-sidekick, and every episode Father Brown notices something which helps him solve the crime.

I got to say, for what this is, it was very well made. The dialogue is fairly entertaining (mostly due to the source, the writings of G.K.Chesterton), the production is excellent, acting is ok, and the story was entertaining for a just-over-half-hour of time wasting.

Would recommend: 7/10

it's easy to find. If you are willing to do some digging, and want better acting and better dialogue, you want Jeeves & Wooster instead: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098833/

 

[Mayne]

shape of water. it was fucking awesome.

 

[DigDog]

Three Billboards

My vote: 8/10
Your vote: 10/10

this was a really strong film. The writer (Martin McDonagh, of In Bruges) gets the most praise because each part (he wrote and directed) fits the corresponding actor like a glove. Looking at his page, he's mostly a theater writer, which reflects in his choices in production. The dialogue here is completely outside of the Hollywood norm, and again it fits perfectly each character. There are some slower and maybe a bit heavy-handed parts, but in the end it was not just well acted, but also a character story that was interesting to have told.
Production here tries successfully not to overshadow the acting, and the choice of no music for most of the film is .. difficult, but worth it in the end.

I'm sticking to a lower vote because of the rather limited scope of the film, but if you want drama, this is drama. I generally hate dramas, because mostly it's stupid characters making bad choices, but here they make all the right choices, and still fail.
Disregard the Wikipedia page that gives it as a "dark comedy/drama". There's nothing comedy about this film.

Just like Logan, with less adamantium blades and less kids screaming.

 

[zerocool84]

It 2017

5/10

I found the first hour extremely boring. Very very boring. The basic characters just didn't do it for me at all. I watched the Tim Curry mini series in the late 90's so don't remember everything about it compared to this one but I was mostly bored until the last half hour. It seems like you would like this if you like Stranger Things since the characters in this are similar in that, very basic and stick to their standards. I'm surprised this got such good reviews but hey, you have people calling Last Jedi a masterpiece.

 

[slayer202]

can we start reviewing digdog's reviews

Three Billboards

My vote: 8/10
Your vote: 10/10

this was a really strong film. The writer (Martin McDonagh, of In Bruges) gets the most praise because each part (he wrote and directed) fits the corresponding actor like a glove. Looking at his page, he's mostly a theater writer, which reflects in his choices in production. The dialogue here is completely outside of the Hollywood norm, and again it fits perfectly each character. There are some slower and maybe a bit heavy-handed parts, but in the end it was not just well acted, but also a character story that was interesting to have told.
Production here tries successfully not to overshadow the acting, and the choice of no music for most of the film is .. difficult, but worth it in the end.

I'm sticking to a lower vote because of the rather limited scope of the film, but if you want drama, this is drama. I generally hate dramas, because mostly it's stupid characters making bad choices, but here they make all the right choices, and still fail.
Disregard the Wikipedia page that gives it as a "dark comedy/drama". There's nothing comedy about this film.

Just like Logan, with less adamantium blades and less kids screaming.

In this review digdog reviews the recent release three billboards outside ebbing missouri. He correctly praises McDonagh for his writing but then bewilderingly states that there is no comedy in the film. This oversight cannot be overlooked.

Digdog's three billboards review: 2 stars

 

[KMFJD]

Dirk Gently Season 2 8/10
Great so far

 

[DigDog]

pray, explain to me what the comedy is. Peter Dinklage playing the dwarf that cannot get laid?

 

[Thebobo]

Dark Matter - 7/10. I'm not sure what network it plays on but I'm on season 2 on Netflix. Acting is pretty bad, story has so many wtfs but I'm into it. It's decent as a stop gap if you have nothing else to watch right now.

Travelers - 8/10 Finished 2nd season on NF and I dig it. Wished there was more to watch. Acting is pretty good for the most part and the story is interesting.

Dark Matter was on Sci Fi but was canceled I liked it was on after Killjoys on Sci-fi

 

[slayer202]

pray, explain to me what the comedy is. Peter Dinklage playing the dwarf that cannot get laid?

did you really not find any of the movie funny?

 

[clamum]

Travelers - 8/10 Finished 2nd season on NF and I dig it. Wished there was more to watch. Acting is pretty good for the most part and the story is interesting.

Hells yeah, another Travelers viewer haha. I enjoyed the first season but now I'm finding I'm kinda hooked on it and liking it more (second season). Although the episode I watched last night I didn't understand at all.

Spoiler

It was the one where the traveler kept being inserted into the parachutist and they had to warn the main characters that they were in danger and stop the attack. I just didn't get why it kept inserting a different traveler in when the mission failed... like... that means that our main characters are in a simulation, right? I mean, how is time resetting for them? Not sure if I explained it well enough, but I didn't get it. Hmmm. Well maybe they just used a "repeat" device like that to fill out the story/time and that the repeats of the attempt were just what could possibly have happened and the final instance, where they succesfully thwarted the attack, was what "actually" happened in "real life." I dunno, I probably was thinking too much about it. But it didn't make frickin sense to me at first, lol.

 

[DigDog]

did you really not find any of the movie funny?

yeah well that's not what a comedy is. normal people can have a quip or a quick laugh even in desperate situations, but that doesn't make it a comedy. we got a desperate mother of a raped and murdered child that everyone through legal and illegal means is trying to ostracize, a chief inspector that is dying AND dies of cancer, a second in command that is first damned by his own ignorance and arrogance, and finally redeems himself through his own blood, and when he does he set out to become a murderer.

yeah, that is SO FUNNY. Peter Dinklage who is the town midget and has to go through life without getting any sex because he's a midget and that's southern america, that's not funny man. Not getting laid is not funny, it's tragic.

ok im done.

good film.

 

[slayer202]

the Wikipedia page that gives it as a "dark comedy/drama"

the movie is hilarious

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Hells yeah, another Travelers viewer haha. I enjoyed the first season but now I'm finding I'm kinda hooked on it and liking it more (second season). Although the episode I watched last night I didn't understand at all.

Spoiler

It was the one where the traveler kept being inserted into the parachutist and they had to warn the main characters that they were in danger and stop the attack. I just didn't get why it kept inserting a different traveler in when the mission failed... like... that means that our main characters are in a simulation, right? I mean, how is time resetting for them? Not sure if I explained it well enough, but I didn't get it. Hmmm. Well maybe they just used a "repeat" device like that to fill out the story/time and that the repeats of the attempt were just what could possibly have happened and the final instance, where they succesfully thwarted the attack, was what "actually" happened in "real life." I dunno, I probably was thinking too much about it. But it didn't make frickin sense to me at first, lol.

Yea that episode made no sense to me either and it really bugged me as I was watching. Plus, at then end, it just ended, like no big deal, and no real explanation of how/why. IDK didn't make sense to me. Probably the worst episode, but I agree, 2nd season had me hooked. I binged the show so fast and now I'm looking for something else to watch (aside from Dark Matter which I just found out has been cancelled).

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Dark Matter was on Sci Fi but was canceled I liked it was on after Killjoys on Sci-fi

Well &*^%. I'm on the 4th episode of S2 right now.

 

[shortylickens]

Mortal Engines looks different.
https://www.albawaba.com/entertainm...-peter-jackson-mortal-engines-trailer-1072242

I may go see it.

 

[Perknose]

The Shape of Water 9/10 -- What a beautiful movie! The sets and cinematography are evocative of the times (early 60s, which is really still the 50s) and themes (the forbidding facility) and moods (the fading and somewhat dark and claustrophobic but still gorgeous, nostalgic 30s art deco and 40s art moderne adjoining apartments of the mute "herioine" and her equally lonely artist friend as contrasted with the flat-topped 50s rancher home of the bad guy, with his color saturated kids and wife with the black and white TV blaring in the living room, all playing their Dad Knows Best roles to perfection.) Seldom have cars, toasters, half moon windows and even alarm clocks played such finely congruent supporting roles.

Loneliness runs through it.

The amoral cynical equivalency of both the Russians and the Americans hits home.

This movie is a "modern day" fairy tale, exquisitely done. I loved it.

 

[shortylickens]

It only took me 24 years, but I finally watched Serial Mom.

It wasnt nearly as crazy as people claimed. Or funny. In fact its pretty lame by John Waters standards.

4/10

 

[SMOGZINN]

Dirk Gently Season 2 8/10
Great so far

Overtall I

The Shape of Water 9/10 -- What a beautiful movie! The sets and cinematography are evocative of the times (early 60s, which is really still the 50s) and themes (the forbidding facility) and moods (the fading and somewhat dark and claustrophobic but still gorgeous, nostalgic 30s art deco and 40s art moderne adjoining apartments of the mute "herioine" and her equally lonely artist friend as contrasted with the flat-topped 50s rancher home of the bad guy, with his color saturated kids and wife with the black and white TV blaring in the living room, all playing their Dad Knows Best roles to perfection.) Seldom have cars, toasters, half moon windows and even alarm clocks played such finely congruent supporting roles.

Loneliness runs through it.

The amoral cynical equivalency of both the Russians and the Americans hits home.

This movie is a "modern day" fairy tale, exquisitely done. I loved it.

I would give The Shape of Water 8/10 myself. I agree with all of your statement, but give it one less point because the story itself is absolutely forgettable. It is a love poem to cinematography, costuming, and set design, that has some brilliant acting but never really gets around to using it to tell a story. I would be tempted to give it an extra half point for the excellent use of subtitles over the characters that are speaking, but it kind of lost that in the last quarter of the movie. Maybe a quarter point for how well it managed to portray the characters with minimum dialog.

 

[shortylickens]

Pro Tip: Always UNPLUG your garbage disposal before tinkering.

Also, Wish Upon is fucking stupid. 2 / 10.

 

[DietDrThunder]

Dark Matter - 7/10. I'm not sure what network it plays on but I'm on season 2 on Netflix. Acting is pretty bad, story has so many wtfs but I'm into it. It's decent as a stop gap if you have nothing else to watch right now.

Travelers - 8/10 Finished 2nd season on NF and I dig it. Wished there was more to watch. Acting is pretty good for the most part and the story is interesting.

DarkMatter

Spoiler

Dark matter was cancelled after the end of Season 2 by SYFI, leaving use hanging out to dry with no conclusion to the series.

 

[soulcougher73]

I agree so, so much. That year made me angry, because SPR was utter shit in comparison (though I really liked SPR, The Thin Red Line was such a monumentally superior film in every possible way). I also really enjoyed Dunkirk--it did remind me of TTRL. Also managed to see it at The Smithsonian's 70mm IMAX.

Two overrated movies. Dunkirk and TTRL Their, I said it lol