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[Aikouka]

The Umbrella Academy (Season One): I finally got around to watching this show after hearing enough praise about season two. (I'm most of the way through the second season so far.) Overall, it wasn't too bad. I do think the show suffers a bit from meandering too much, but I wonder if that's due to the Netflix bloat that we've seen in other originals like the Marvel shows. There are some aspects of the characters that kind of bug me though. I originally wrote up a bit of a rant that could be summed up as "characters r dum", but I think there's a better way to put it... the characters are CW stupid. If you've ever seen a season of Supernatural, you know that they almost always play out where something happens to either Dean or Sam, and that brother chooses to hide it from the other, which causes problems. If they'd ever learn to talk to each other, it would be a much shorter season.

As a bit of a side note for season two, the second season has made me wonder if the original comic has all these music references in it, or if the showrunners just really enjoy injecting music and random dance scenes into the show.

6.5/10 - not Sucker Punch.

Not enough Bjork, right?

I find Sucker Punch to be an awkward movie to discuss. I can be rather upfront and admit that I did not like the movie. On the flip side, I was going to joke that it felt more like a very long music video, but that might actually be an apt way of looking at it. I mean... it has a ton of pretty looking action scenes that are often set to music. (I actually own the Sucker Punch soundtrack.) The problem with the movie is that the action scenes have no real purpose as they don't really amount to any sort of change among the characters. You get the idea that these women are trying to mentally escape from this asylum, but outside of looking cool, how much do the action scenes accomplish?

 

[DigDog]

the action scenes have no real purpose as they don't really amount to any sort of change among the characters.

..change?? ..characters?
woha there mr Hitchcock, who do you think the target audience is, for this film.

No, Sucker Punch is not a good film, but it is relevant as the film when film stopped trying to follow "all these hard rules, man". I am not praising it, i am saying that SP already had TOO MUCH mindfuckery, too much random, unexplained shit to be watchable as a traditional film, and i don't think anything needs to go above that.

LEGO Batman was just as bad. I *did* like the meta-humour they put in it, but they put soooooooomuch content in it that it's just impossible to follow it.

 

[Spacehead]

Foyle's War TV Series (2002–2015) - 8/10

Another well done British series i first saw on PBS.
Set during WW2, Foyle is a detective that wants to do more(he's a WW1 vet) but his superiors think he's best left fighting day-to-day crime. Seems there's always a murder or 2 to solve & he (almost) always gets his man, no matter who he pisses off in the process.
There's a few extras on the DVD & i did not realize how much they referred to real events both during & after the war.

 

[JEDI]

10 years with Hayao Miyazaki: 8/10



Hayao Miyazaki is the legendary anime film maker and co-founder of Studio Ghibli.
He allowed a filmmaker (Kaku Arakawa) to follow him for 10 years.

This is Kaku's 4-part documentary chronicling Miyazaki's creative process.
Ep. 1 Ponyo is Here
Ep. 2 Drawing What's Real
Ep. 3 Go Ahead - Threaten Me
Ep. 4 No Cheap Excuses

 

[UsandThem]

The Hunt 7/10

I usually am bored with the "people hunting people for sport" type movies, but my wife and I rented this since there was nothing else we really wanted to watch, and mainly because the rental was on sale on Prime Video.

It turned out to be pretty original, and not at all what I was expecting. It had us laughing pretty much the whole time with the various portrayals of how so many people seem to be anymore. Betty Gilpin was pretty awesome in movie.

 

[shortylickens]

Welcome To The Dollhouse is fucked up but kinda funny. its also a fairly good showcase of junior high life in the 90's.

 

[Aikouka]

..change?? ..characters?

woha there mr Hitchcock, who do you think the target audience is, for this film.

I think that was mentioned earlier in this thread.

No, Sucker Punch is not a good film, but it is relevant as the film when film stopped trying to follow "all these hard rules, man". I am not praising it, i am saying that SP already had TOO MUCH mindfuckery, too much random, unexplained shit to be watchable as a traditional film, and i don't think anything needs to go above that.

I always figured that the weirdness in the movie was just Zack Snyder's attempt at "being deep". He usually does pretty decent popcorn flicks, but on the flip side, I don't get a ton of substance from his work. If I remember correctly, Sucker Punch was his only original work?

 

[DigDog]

Sucker Punch is in fact original material, but, it's basically stuff stolen from the internet. "Original" as in, not a propietray IP, but otherwise, nothing not seen before.

i watched An American Pickle - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9059704/

i thought i was going to be positive about this film, because the first 5 minute intro scene is actually very funny; the absolutely awful Seth Rogen is 19th century Hersher Greenbaum, a russian jew who works as a ditch digger. Life is not great.
He falls in love with beautiful woman, has child (you gotta pretend im talking in a really bad pseudo-russian accent), but Hershel get job at pickle factory, and fall into pickle juice vat.

Wakes up 100 years later *yawn* and his only living relative is Ben Greenbaum, ALSO played by Seth Rogen. And here the fun ends. Because Ben is a loser, and Hersher is going use his wisdom of old to show him how to grab life by the bawls. At which he fails.

While the plot is not bad in itself ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FishoutofTemporalwater ), the development - how the lead adapts to the new surroundings, and how his uniqueness (due to the trope) helps him become The Hero(tm) - is, to put it bluntly, really lame. And boring.

The big big problem is that Seth Rogen thinks he is a comedic genius, while he absolutely is not. And it's painful to watch scenes that you *know* they thought were supposed to be really funny, over and over again. They don't spare us the sentimental scenes too, which also fall very much short of being profund.

Would not really recommend, although, as i said, the intro scene is cute. Maybe cut it and paste it to youtube.

5.5/10 or 7/10 for the intro.

 

[shortylickens]

The Mighty Ducks is coming back

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (TV Series 2021–2022) - IMDb

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With Emilio Estevez and Lauren Graham.

 

[Muse]

Barton Fink (Coen brothers, 1991) 7/10

It's a stretch from the opening credits (literally). They chose a different cinematographer for this one because their usual was busy producing their first solo feature. However, that aspect is excellent, as is their scene compositions and camera motion. Acting is great. The story, well, weird. It's very open to interpretation and more than most movies I've seen lately it made me think afterward. The Coens said it was meant to be difficult to categorize. It's fantastical, impossible, sort of a combination of comedy and horror if that makes sense and throw in some sensitivity to the issues of artists and film makers in particular. Set in 1941 at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, although that's pretty incidental. It's kind of madcap, surreal, but is also intentionally dreary. Sort of a high class mixed bag.

 

[JEDI]

Watchmen (2019 TV series): 9/10

Sequel to the Watchmen movie set 30years later.

first 7 episodes: 10/10
last 2: 7/10

took off a few points off for the last 2 episodes because of plot holes:
1) WTF Elephant??
2) What was the object that fell from the sky on the farm that Lady Trieu bought?
3) How did Bian (original, not clone) know about Ozymandias's password, and the stuff in his hiding place?
4) And biggest of all: Why did he let himself be killed???

 

[shortylickens]

I watched Moneyball and forgot to talk about it.
Moneyball is pretty good but not great. I recommend it more for nerds and less for ball lovers.

 

[DigDog]

Moneyball is pretty good but not great.

i do not know whether to be very angry at you or to silently nod and agree.

Moneyball is a great film and there is no doubt; Jonah Hill plays his best role by far. I'm not saying i hated WOWS but everyting else he's been in can be burned without regrets. Brad Pitt is excellent. The story is excellent AND gets bonus points for being based on a true story. The mcguffin of sabrmetrics is excellent AND also gets bonus points for actually being real.
The ending sucks.

The problem with many "true story" films is that the true story might not be as epic as the film, and at that point the film either re-invents it "in the spirit of", as Last Samurai (8.5/10) did, or sticks to the true story regardless of whether the story is great or not (like Kagemusha - good film, but too much mundane, if true to life, things like marching, keeping post, waiting, etc).

I really like everything about Moneyball, except that it leads nowhere. There is no satisfying conclusion, just a crawl about other teams adopting sabrmetrics.

ima go watch it again nau.

 

[shortylickens]

Zach Snyder has a zombie flick on the horizon.

Army of the Dead (2021) - IMDb

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Looks stupid. But whatever.

 

[UsandThem]

Perfect Sense 7/10

Released in 2011, I just came across it on Showtime and recorded it because it had Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in it.

It was about a global pandemic, and while much more serious than what we are going through, it definitely shared in some of the issues we have. It was pretty slow for the first half, but the 2nd half of the movie was really well done.

 

[shortylickens]

I forgot to mention Mulholland Dr.
Saw it during my vacation.
Its OK but not as good as most other things from David Lynch.
6/10, mostly for the nude women.

 

[JEDI]

Umbrella Academy (Season 2): 6.5/10

What utter garbage.

couldnt find a good image for season 2, so here's what Season 1 was based on (NSFW):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/The_Apocalypse_Suite_TPB.jpg

 

[DigDog]

so, yep, i watched Moneyball again, and it does have that particular fault, that it doesn't .... end. It just kinda fades away.

But, it has a few scenes that really struck me: 1. "is losing fun", and 2. "who are you"
Philip Seymour Hoffman is in this film too - he is the club' coach.

 

[shortylickens]

I started watching Franklyn & Bash.
It sucks balls but I'm bored.

(if anyone cares, its basically a ripoff of the Boston Legal formula but with worse actors and writers.)

 

[DigDog]

with a slight delay, i watched A Night At The Roxbury - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120770/

ghghghgh

this film was a rollercoaster of emotions; on one side, it's really a trash film. On the other, i see myself in so many things. The 90s club mentality, the vapid, superficial personalities and garbage values, but also the fun, the dream.

Crap acting, but fairly typical for thsi kind of film. BOMB soundtrack, and a fairly decent plot-to-happy-ending story. Not a complete waste of time and good with some popcorn and some friends.

6.5/10

 

[shortylickens]

Its really difficult to make a whole movie out of a freakin Saturday Night Live sketch.
Only two have been worthwhile: The Blues Brothers, and Waynes World 1.
All the rest are crap.
Its Pat still has a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

[MrSquished]

I started watching Project Power on Netflix got about 30 minutes in and couldn't take the mediocrity anymore.

 

[Ken g6]

Pilot episode of Fringe didnt really grab me.
I know everyone else thinks its good stuff. Oh well.

I saw that Fringe was available too. I watched it when it was on, and liked it, but I got started somewhere in Season 2. I was very surprised by the first few episodes of Season 1; I probably would have stopped watching too if I started there. The point is, it gets much, much better, but I'm not sure if there's a good point to skip to or not.

 

[shortylickens]

theres an entry for season 6 of The Kids In The Hall.

"The Kids in the Hall" Episode #6.1 (TV Episode 2022) - IMDb

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I am hopeful, but not excited.

 

[Mayne]

Watched The Gentlemen last night. It was nice seeing a real Guy Ritchie movie again. Not sure if i put it up there with Snatch and Lock stock and 2 smoking barrels. but It certainly was entertaining.