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

[Captante]

i tried to watch Guns Akimbo. The Daniel Radcliiffe film where he wakes up with guns stuck to his hands.

i could not watch it. Too much ADHD-crowd stuff.
Just watch the trailer a dozen times and you should be good. Also, from what little i saw, it's just a collection of dumb tropes.

no vote

I made it about 10 minutes further into this "gem" then I did with cheez's last Youtube video. Just bad.

 

[JEDI]

sleepy hollow, with lower ratings and reboots that made no sense every 6months, lasts 4 seasons.
Lucifer only lasts 3.

lol.. Fox

just found out Lucifer wrapped up shooting it's 6th (and finale) season today.

apparently a month after Fox canceled the show, Netflix picked it up,
it has then received higher ratings and critical acclaim.

S5 (2nd half) starts May 28, 2021

edit:
interesting add from Netflix to the series.. in S4, they introduce Eve (as in that girl from the bible)

 

[deustroop]

Wanted to watch some non filling lite fare with a date so we chose Crazy Rich Asians since it was on HBOMax. Halfway decent for a mainstream romcom.

My expectations were really low so maybe that's why it was ok.

EDIT NA

 

[DigDog]

i watched a very interesting film :

Yo Soy Pepito - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4998008/

Please ignore the baffling 5.9/10 rating on IMDb. This is a good film.

YSP is a spanish-language (subs available) film about Pepito, a 10yo boy living in Districto Federal, Ciudad De Mexico. His mother is ill in hospital, and he lives on his own, going to school in the mornings, and selling gum and cigarettes by night.
Pepito is clever, witty, and very independent. People like him, but they are also exasperated by his rebellious attitude.

YSP is .. a comedy. A weird, weird comedy with some undertones of drama. It's funny, but you never know when it's going to turn all into a tragedy.

I liked this film. The dialogue is easy enough to understand even without the subs; it's well shot, reasonably well acted, with Pepito himself being excellent in his role. The story is interesting and doesn't rely on the usual BS tropes. It's a coherent script, well paced, properly framed, and even has a character arc. The "ethnic" tinge also helps make the film more interesting.
It's quirky, with weird characters, and similar, in a way, to Le Fabulous Destin de Amelie' Poulaine. Nothing revolutionary in regards to cinematography, but, puzzling at how a funny, well made feelgood film can have this low of a rating. Also, i cannot seem to find any info on it short of a barebones IMDb page. It could be that it didn't get a full release.
Anyway, it's absolutely worth your time.

My vote: 7/10 - afternoon feelgood film that's not your typical Hallmark garbage

 

[SKORPI0]

Godzilla vs. Kong (HBOMax) 8/10.

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) ⭐ 6.3 | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

1h 53m | 12

www.imdb.com

Monster movie where both Titans battle bringing destruction where ever they fight. Worth the almost 2 hours.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

El Candidato: 8/10 so far (finished ep 5 as of last night)

El Candidato (TV Series 2020– ) ⭐ 7.4 | Action, Thriller

1h | 16

www.imdb.com

Kind of a Narcos knock-off but still really good IMO. Takes place in Mexico. The acting is really well done and some of the scenes are pretty intense. I'm not sold on the actress (Erendira Ibarra) yet, but she's growing on me. I feel like regardless of the emotion she's trying to display, she's very monotone with her voice and it just becomes blah. But overall she does a pretty good job. Anyways, might be something you'd be interested in if you liked the Narcos series. Oh, I think it's a Prime original.

 

[DigDog]

El Candidato: 8/10 so far (finished ep 5 as of last night)

El Candidato (TV Series 2020– ) ⭐ 7.4 | Action, Thriller

1h | 16

www.imdb.com

Kind of a Narcos knock-off but still really good IMO. Takes place in Mexico. The acting is really well done and some of the scenes are pretty intense. I'm not sold on the actress (Erendira Ibarra) yet, but she's growing on me. I feel like regardless of the emotion she's trying to display, she's very monotone with her voice and it just becomes blah. But overall she does a pretty good job. Anyways, might be something you'd be interested in if you liked the Narcos series. Oh, I think it's a Prime original.

Ah yes, a film inspired by Yo Soy Pepito. But not as good.
Yo Soy Pepito also has a story that deals with dangerous narcos in Mexico.
You should watch Yo Soy Pepito.
Go watch Yo Soy Pepito.

 

[bejellio]

I recently watched Lord of the Rings: two Towers. I enjoy epic films very much and usually head in that area.

9/10 but I didn't read the books so some maybe a little more disappointed in the movies.

 

[DigDog]

I've watched the 2 last seasons (S13 and S14) of Il Commissario Montalbano - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0920489/

Not quite as good as the early series (you do run out of plausible mysteries when writing police procedurals) but still solid. 7/10

Despite this being in italian, you can still watch it. The first dozen or so episodes were all based on the best books of the series co-author, Andrea Camilleri, and they are quite brilliant. Kinda like our very own Agatha Christie.

 

[stargazr]

The Fall - 7/10 I am several episodes into it, pretty good. Tracking a serial killer in Ireland. The detective is just as interesting as the killer.

 

[Ackmed]

The Crew on Netflix, 8/10. Almost exactly the same as The Ranch to me, with a different setting. A "dad", a dumb guy, a smart ass, few good looking females, and lots of laughs. It is easy to watch a few, then not for a few weeks and come back to it. There are some very funny moments, just really enjoyable. We don't want it to end.

The Edge on HBO, 7.5/10. Suspense thriller about a crew in the South Pole, and a death that happens. Nothing overly great about it. Decent acting, and plot. I guessed the end at episode 4, there are 6 episodes. It is still a good watch.

HBO has the best shows other than Netflix to me. Apple has a few, Disney has a few, Amazon has more. Starz and Showtime only have a few too.

 

[zinfamous]

I recently watched Lord of the Rings: two Towers. I enjoy epic films very much and usually head in that area.

9/10 but I didn't read the books so some maybe a little more disappointed in the movies.

no, the books are truly disappointing. Just stick to the movies.

 

[ultimatebob]

Today I watched the Wework documentary on Hulu. It was meh... I'd give it a 6/10.

If you want to listen to something that really covers what went wrong at Wework in more detail, I'd recommend the Foundering podcast from Bloomberg. Honestly, I probably would have given the movie a better rating if I hadn't listened to this podcast series first and noticed all the good stories that got left out of the movie.

 

[ultimatebob]

no, the books are truly disappointing. Just stick to the movies.

I read the books when I was a teenager. I remember them being LONG. VERY LONG

 

[zinfamous]

I read the books when I was a teenager. I remember them being LONG. VERY LONG

I wish I had read them at that age, or even younger. I read them after I had seen the movies, at the jaded, snobbish age of 22. I was deep into reading Joyce and Beckett for fun, again and again in those days....and so approaching Tolkien then, after experiencing dynamic characters in the film versions and then these stale, flat and boring cutouts that he writes about in his novels, I was quite shocked at how boring they were.

 

[UsandThem]

Unhinged 7/10

A little over the top as far as plot, but I was entertained by it.

With people in general becoming more confrontational about little things in life, it does make you think about not being an absolute dick to others all the time, because you never know when it will happen with the wrong person.

 

[DigDog]

I wish I had read them at that age, or even younger. I read them after I had seen the movies, at the jaded, snobbish age of 22. I was deep into reading Joyce and Beckett for fun, again and again in those days....and so approaching Tolkien then, after experiencing dynamic characters in the film versions and then these stale, flat and boring cutouts that he writes about in his novels, I was quite shocked at how boring they were.

sadly i have to side with Zin here. While the story of LOTR is really good, Tolkien's language is flat and boring. He goes as far as repeating whole phrases through the books as well, and not just stuff like "and he was happy". Compare this to, for example, Heinlein. The plotlines of Heinlein are garbage - one of my fav stories writes the hero into a corner, and then he just INVENTS TIME TRAVEL and wins. Jesus. Worse than Stephen King.
But his language is superb. It doesn't matter anymore what you write on, if the pages just flow when you read.

I guess the whole "repeating phrases" is ok if you are writing a viking saga, or the Odyssey, but not so much for modern English literature.

However ... Zin .. i have to ask, what exactly of Joyce did you read. Because sure as hell it wasn't Ulysses. I dedicated a year of my life trying to read that piece of shit and i managed to get to chapter 2.

 

[deustroop]

Just as an aside , if you are still interested to find a work by Joyce that you can appreciate and thus not fail in this lifetime to have loved at least some of his prose, which critics find to be the best examples of English literature ( a position I was in ), read The Dead, the final story in the collection of short stories titled The Dubliners.
I too found his novels unapproachable but with this exception.The final several paragraphs in The Dead have stuck in my mind all these years which so little I have read has done .His prose describes a melancholy evocation of our ephemeral existence, as a life approaches its end, in all of us.
" One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."And on and on.
Brilliant.

 

[DigDog]

I swear if i had a platform, i would argue my critics to death on Joyce.

Is a food that cannot be eaten really a food? What about one which requires particular dentures.

I would say that i am not inclined to aggrandizing myself, but lying does not befit me. On the English language i can claim both mastery and unbridled pride, yet, i cannot endeavour to explore the fathoms of the Ulysses. I am really so overshadowed by the 1918's readers of The Little Review journal, that i am not to comprehend what they would describe as a veritable masterpiece of modern literature?

Or perhaps the critics do as a chamber pot does?


I have gone as far as obtaining a version where the various lines are explained in meaning. The Ulysses is a compilation of external references in an hermetic fashion, so unless one is privy to them, the text will make no effort to explain. And frankly i find this fucking irritating.
Now, more power to you Mr Joyce but i can easily say i am not your target audience. And i fail to see who that would be today if not those who wish to adopt the pose of the intellectual.

Come on. I can spell "endeavour" better than the guy who coded the language pack for this forum, but i'm too dumb for the Ulysses?
No, Joyce wrote it on purpose so that it could not be read. The guy had problems with his editors because they kept correcting the mistakes that he put there on purpose.
ANYONE can do that. I can write a text stuffed to the brim with nonsensical phrases as long as i draw them from the most obscure references i can come up with, and then blame for you not having been there the day that i first saw that reference.
That's just dumb. It's not clever, it's autistic.

 

[zinfamous]

sadly i have to side with Zin here. While the story of LOTR is really good, Tolkien's language is flat and boring. He goes as far as repeating whole phrases through the books as well, and not just stuff like "and he was happy". Compare this to, for example, Heinlein. The plotlines of Heinlein are garbage - one of my fav stories writes the hero into a corner, and then he just INVENTS TIME TRAVEL and wins. Jesus. Worse than Stephen King.
But his language is superb. It doesn't matter anymore what you write on, if the pages just flow when you read.

I guess the whole "repeating phrases" is ok if you are writing a viking saga, or the Odyssey, but not so much for modern English literature.

However ... Zin .. i have to ask, what exactly of Joyce did you read. Because sure as hell it wasn't Ulysses. I dedicated a year of my life trying to read that piece of shit and i managed to get to chapter 2.

I fucking love Ulysses! I've read it twice! And some chapters multiple times. Dubliners is great, too, of course. The only thing I haven't read, I think, is Finnegan's Wake. You're not really supposed to read that, anyway. (Unless you dedicate the 30 years to read it, as Joyce claimed readers must do...because that's how long it took him to finish it).

I think I like Becket more, though. Anyway, those were just examples. There are many others.

I get what Tolkien was doing--creating the "British myth" that he believed that they never had (I mean, did he forget Beowulf? I never understood that about his claim...I know it doesn't really involve "the British," but it is purely created by Britlanders for Britland, so I always found his claim of Britain lacking a unifying myth to be dubious); but he wrote the LOTR stories in some past language of a long past era. Which...is odd. Even the monk(s) that wrote Beowulf, some 1.5k+ or whatever years before, didn't do that. They wrote in their language about a long ago past.

I really liked the Silmarilion though. That was written in that "academic language" that you'd expect him to write in, and to me, is more in line with proper myth creating with the type of writing that is familiar to that genre. Obviously, two very different genres. One is popular fiction, meant to be read by the masses, and there's no denying that he didn't succeed there. I do recall that the work sort of alienated him from his peers, because they saw that stuff as "Well below his station," or something smarmy like that, that the British would think.

 

[zinfamous]

Just as an aside , if you are still interested to find a work by Joyce that you can appreciate and thus not fail in this lifetime to have loved at least some of his prose, which critics find to be the best examples of English literature ( a position I was in ), read The Dead, the final story in the collection of short stories titled The Dubliners.
I too found his novels unapproachable but with this exception.The final several paragraphs in The Dead have stuck in my mind all these years which so little I have read has done .His prose describes a melancholy evocation of our ephemeral existence, as a life approaches its end, in all of us.
" One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."And on and on.
Brilliant.

The Dead is the greatest. I worship it.

Did you see John Huston's film version of it? It's quite good

 

[DigDog]

good god, you're more of a nerd than i had ever imagined !

i could never stomach the silmarillion. I was young and i was not interested in LOTR - i was, in fact, a fan of the much simpler Hobbit - at least not as in the sense of the work involved.
I'll probably get around reading it when i'm 80, and even then it's not a given. I have gone off anything that's not factual, at least partially, it's been over 20 years since i read anything that's fiction, but, i exclude from this the "classics" (pretty much everything Penguin publishes). I got a hold of a Dickens collection 15 years ago, and read Nicholas Nickelby.

 

[MrSquished]

Started watching Justice League Snyder's Cut last night. Didn't realize it was 4 hours long so have to finish it later. Anyways, did y'all watch it in the 4:3 format or did y'all stretch/zoom it for your tv? I couldn't take the 4/3 aspect ratio too long and kept switching between those three until I settled into one that used the whole screen.

 

[sdifox]

Started watching Justice League Snyder's Cut last night. Didn't realize it was 4 hours long so have to finish it later. Anyways, did y'all watch it in the 4:3 format or did y'all stretch/zoom it for your tv? I couldn't take the 4/3 aspect ratio too long and kept switching between those three until I settled into one that used the whole screen.

4:3 is fine.

 

[Muadib]

4:3 is fine.

No it isn’t, but that’s how I watched it.