I watched this friday night. I made everyone leave the house ( except my wife) and told all my adult children to go away and not cal so I could watch it in peace. I thought it was pretty good even with a few plot holes. I'll probably watch it again sometime. 7 or 8 out of 10.
That was awesome! Remember when that one guy and that other girl had almost the same thing happen in that other movie?my favorite part was where the guy and that girl had that conversation and then that thing happened
That was awesome! Remember when that one guy and that other girl had almost the same thing happen in that other movie?
Glad you liked it. Technically though, the two male characters were best friends once, but Hart's character grew (irony here) and became a superjock, running with a different (more popular) crowd.ok, saw it just because of your post.
i would rate Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 8/10
i agree Karen Gillan never looked better.
so much hotter than when she was Dr Who's companion.
negatives:
stereotypical 4 strangers come together and become friends in the end.
stereotypical you know that even tho they are down to their last life, they're not going to die.
stupid way for The Rock to lose a life and his reaction (or lack there of) to the dumb way he lost that life.
altho i do like the creative way Karen Gillan got down to her last life
My wife watches that so I've seen quite a few, and I generally enjoy them. (Also, I find Nancy Carroll way more attractive than I should, which helps.) I've never made it through an episode of Jeeves and Wooster though. Go figure.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/
I've never made it through an episode of Jeeves and Wooster though.
Breaking Bad - 10/10 - I watched this as it aired initially after binge watching the first 2 seasons, and this was my first time revisiting it. My wife hadn't seen it so we watched it together. Damn this show is such a masterpiece. The first 2 seasons were a lot slower than I remembered, but once Gus came into play, it was like full steam ahead and it did not slow down until the very end.
There were 2 things that really stood out to me the second go around.
1. I disliked Walt a lot more than I did the first go around. The first go around I was cheering for him until the very end for the most part. This time I saw him as much more of an asshole and rooted against him.
2. Skylar was way less annoying than the first go around. This probably falls in hand with #1 because I liked Walt more the first time around and Skylar was just annoying as shit to him and getting in his way, but she was actually just being very logical and full of sense, and I felt a lot worse for her this time around than I remembered.
my favorite part was where the guy and that girl had that conversation and then that thing happened
My wife watches that so I've seen quite a few, and I generally enjoy them. (Also, I find Nancy Carroll way more attractive than I should, which helps.) I've never made it through an episode of Jeeves and Wooster though. Go figure.
Speaking of Brit stuff, I had a go at something called Raised by Wolves this weekend and found it quite excellent. Honestly I only made it through the first episode because I had taken a break from work to eat and thus was too lazy to keep searching further, but I watched the next at my next meal break (the wife is out of town) and got thoroughly hooked. It is deliciously odd in that uniquely British way. I'd say maybe 7/10, maybe 8/10. Very earthy. Supposedly ABC is doing an American remake but even setting aside the almost universally horrid quality of American remakes of British or Commonwealth comedies, I can't image most of the humor being allowed in the States. Both the proggie left and the religious right would be up in arms.
Breaking Bad - 10/10 - I watched this as it aired initially after binge watching the first 2 seasons, and this was my first time revisiting it. My wife hadn't seen it so we watched it together. Damn this show is such a masterpiece. The first 2 seasons were a lot slower than I remembered, but once Gus came into play, it was like full steam ahead and it did not slow down until the very end.
There were 2 things that really stood out to me the second go around.
1. I disliked Walt a lot more than I did the first go around. The first go around I was cheering for him until the very end for the most part. This time I saw him as much more of an asshole and rooted against him.
2. Skylar was way less annoying than the first go around. This probably falls in hand with #1 because I liked Walt more the first time around and Skylar was just annoying as shit to him and getting in his way, but she was actually just being very logical and full of sense, and I felt a lot worse for her this time around than I remembered.
OK, it started off kinda sorta original but now Burn Notice has turned EXTREMELY formulaic. Getting bored.
The Walt aspect was always a very difficult thing to get people to watch the show. "Yea it's this show about this science teacher with cancer that turns meth dealer, and he's great!"...doesn't really go over well. You do route for him the first season or so, and then you pass into disbelief at how manipulative he is. Such great scripting and acting on his part.
Phantom Thread -- 8/10 -- This is not a movie I would necessarily have chosen to see on my own, but a friend wanted to see it, and as it was the announced farewell acting role for Daniel Day Lewis, I went.
Not for everyone, but nevertheless an exquisite portrait of a weirdly difficult and obsessive upper class artist/aesthete and the broadly plebeian woman he chose as his mate, and how she withstood his prissy, narcissistic bullying and slowly but successfully adapted to the challenge of being married to him, and finally,made him her bitch.