THE OUTSIDER - Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Paddy Considine, Mare Winningham, Bill Camp….Netflix series based on Stephen King's book. Seems a horrible entity gets inside anyone and kills and kills. Jumps from one person to another without warning. Cop Ben goes by hard actual evidence while Cynthia has special talents for seeing the unknown. They finally find entity in cave and Ben thinks he killed it??? Not so sure about that. A generous 2 on the Moizmeter.
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“TIDELANDS” Series on Netflix. It’s as if the producers of “American horror story” had made a very low-budget adaptation of “The shadow over Innsmouth” by H.P. Lovecraft. It’s vaguely supernatural horror, acted out by gorgeous models, and by the end of the series, everyone has somehow managed to have had sex with everyone else.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Malcolm McDowell and a bunch of unknowns. I'm revising my list of worst movies ever and this one has been declared the winner. I've attempted to watch it several times but it's so stupid I'm lost for words. I have no idea what the story is trying to say and nary a one remotely likeable character. Hard to believe Stanley Kubrick had anything to do with this. Move over Citizen Kane and Kill Bill, you've been beaten!
fallopiancrusader wrote:
“TIDELANDS” Series on Netflix. It’s as if the producers of “American horror story” had made a very low-budget adaptation of “The shadow over Innsmouth” by H.P. Lovecraft. It’s vaguely supernatural horror, acted out by gorgeous models, and by the end of the series, everyone has somehow managed to have had sex with everyone else.
Sounds like my kind of show :p
I am finishing up The Rain, which is a Danish show, and is pretty good. Reminds me a bit of The Walking Dead, but without zombies.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Boring romantic comedy. Terrible role for Matthew McConnehy. He's too good an actor for that film. Michael Douglas was perfect as his lothario ghost uncle.
The film is a version of A Christmas Carol, but instead of finding the meaning of Christmas it's about finding the love. I watched it because of Banes' newspost. So it's his fault XD
Palm Springs
I really liked this romantic comedy! It's based on the Groundhog day thing: being stuck in a time-loop and repeating the same day over and over again. The difference here is that Any Samberg's character gets a couple of other people stuck there with him and they actually do a bit of thinking about their predicament, taking the scientific and moral aspects into account somewhat…
I mean, when you just repeat the same day over and over again with no consequences, what does that do to your mind? Can you happily keep that up forever and be effectively immortal? What are the limits of your time-bubble?
I really liked this movie.
bravo1102 wrote:Thank goodness things do advance though XD
And counting all the themes, plots and even dialogue that has been endlessly recycled ever since.
I watched Fred Astair's "Royal Wedding" the other day on Amazon Prime.
The story is boring as arse! Just so tedious…
A brother and sister who perform together in shows go to Britain to do some more shows and see the royal wedding. Along the way they both fall for people there…
Totally shot in a studio in Hollywood, probably in 5 weeks or so, with footage included of the wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Fillip I think…
Anyway, VERY dull in every respect, just made as a vehicle for Astair.
BUT, all his dancing and performance scenes were great and deserve to be cut out and enjoyed in their own right. Particularly the famous dance he does with a hat-stand and of course the excellent dancing on the ceiling scene (and the walls etc), which is a real stand out. His performance is so good you don't really think that the room is being spun to allow him to do that.
Ozoneocean wrote:bravo1102 wrote:Thank goodness things do advance though XD
And counting all the themes, plots and even dialogue that has been endlessly recycled ever since.
I watched Fred Astair's "Royal Wedding" the other day on Amazon Prime.
The story is boring as arse! Just so tedious…
The Fred Astaire/Ginger Rodgers are like that too. The Gene Kelly movies are much better. Personally I prefer Betty Grable and even Sonja Henie movies.
bravo1102 wrote:
YouTube has so many old movies of the 1930s-40s that I can usually spend whole weekends watching them.
And counting all the themes, plots and even dialogue that has been endlessly recycled ever since.
I rewatch the clip of "Can't Take That Away from Me" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers all the time on youtube. It is the friendliest parting of ways, ever.
I have been watching sappy, corny Christmas films made by Hallmark features. The cheezier and more predictable, the better. I really like the stories where the high powered business executive leaves her busy firm in the big city in order to move to a small town, suburban farm and harvest Maple syrup all day.
Last night, I watched "A Nun's Story", starring Audrey Hepburn, for the first time. The movie was intense and had me take a pause after it ended.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:Hahaha! Talk about Bravo's point about movies doing the same thing over and over again XD
I have been watching sappy, corny Christmas films made by Hallmark features. The cheezier and more predictable, the better. I really like the stories where the high powered business executive leaves her busy firm in the big city in order to move to a small town, suburban farm and harvest Maple syrup all day..
I think that's the rough plot of about 200 Hallmark films :D
And then she falls for the roughly handsome man with the stubble on his jaw, plaid jacket/shirt, beatup pickup trick, dog etc…
I have been watching sappy, corny Christmas films made by Hallmark features. The cheezier and more predictable, the better. I really like the stories where the high powered business executive leaves her busy firm in the big city in order to move to a small town, suburban farm and harvest Maple syrup all day.
My mother used to watch them with my sister. They are nice satisfying stories. Since mom's passing my sister has continued watching them as a way of remembering her.
I usually pick up on some old movie with a similar storyline and start talking about Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard or something.
After a break, I returned to my rewatch of the Walking Dead. Damn, when that show was good it was so damn good. Even with the decompressed season 4. That has great character stuff and it's a thrill when various characters and threads finally come together again.
Season 5 is where I thought it became a necessity to watch multiple episodes through the week. I would watch at least two in a row myself. Great stuff, but getting much more decompressed. Waiting a week between episodes I might have quit the show.
I'm in early season 6 now, where some infamous gimmicky-type storytelling began. Also, there are early signs of gratuitous gore. The stories are even more spread out, and the quality of writing has slipped. Just a little bit, but there's slippage. Still a really good show.
After this season was when I quit the show myself, though. I did binge those next two to catch up, a few years back, but have only vague memories of them. I will power through when I get there - but for now, since it's been quite a few years, I'm still enjoying it thoroughly.
Couple of Australian movies - THE DRESSMAKER - Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Liam Hemsworth. When Kate was a little girl she was accused of murdering a young boy. No proof and she was sent away. Years later she returns, reunites with her mom Judy and she goes back to her dressmaking career. Hugo is a cop who seems to like wearing a dress on occasion and eventually we see via flashback what actually happened with the murder? Judy Davis fab as usual and a so-so 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
THE RELIC - Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin. Emily's mother is losing her marbles and something even worse is growing on her skin. Bella is Emily's daughter and they live in this massive house with walls inside walls, don't go in closet! Some later scenes make your skin crawl, literally. A 1 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
Banes wrote:
After a break, I returned to my rewatch of the Walking Dead. Damn, when that show was good it was so damn good. Even with the decompressed season 4. That has great character stuff and it's a thrill when various characters and threads finally come together again.
Season 5 is where I thought it became a necessity to watch multiple episodes through the week. I would watch at least two in a row myself. Great stuff, but getting much more decompressed. Waiting a week between episodes I might have quit the show.
I'm in early season 6 now, where some infamous gimmicky-type storytelling began. Also, there are early signs of gratuitous gore. The stories are even more spread out, and the quality of writing has slipped. Just a little bit, but there's slippage. Still a really good show.
After this season was when I quit the show myself, though. I did binge those next two to catch up, a few years back, but have only vague memories of them. I will power through when I get there - but for now, since it's been quite a few years, I'm still enjoying it thoroughly.
Season 7-8 was when I started watching the show sporadically. It started getting to repetitive and I lost interest. There have been so many spoilers since there I am even more hesitant to power through watching more.
I'm thinking about taking the plunge into the Mandalorian…
I've avoided it because of the hype and the fan gushing and also all the images that sappy wankers are posting of that F****** yoda baby…
I don't know what it is but I can't stand images of manufactured cuteness, it really sickens me.
REAL cuteness of real baby animals is different, I love that. But fake cuteness has that uncanny valley effect on me I think. I find it horrible.
Even "real" cute animals or babies being cute in film: so it's basically essentially fake at that point because it's animated or cut in such a way as to give a movie-maker's idea of cuteness, which is disgusting to me.
A good analogy would be little girls in a beauty parade with makeup and stuff: the mums and parade organisers think they look cute and beautiful but in reality it a horrific spectacle of stomach churning weirdness.
Anyway, Banes gave the first good review of The Mandalorian I've heard so that nudged me in the direction of it
Half way watching Young Wallander, it's coming from Sweden, ya for sure. Kinda OK but jumps around alot and as usual, some dialogue hard to make out, can't these people speak the King's English?
Finished and it went nowhere. He quit, his boss got killed, his gf left and the bad guy got away. A 1 on the Moizmeter.
Just starting in on Love, Death, and Robots. If each episode of Black Mirror were conceived of as a novella, then each episode of LDR would be like a haiku. It’s interesting how the creators embrace the uncanny valley in their CG animations, rather than shy away from it, as most 3D animators do.
Watched “Splice” a few days ago. The sci-fi concept had some promise, but boy, they really blew it. The production quality was very good, but the story really irked me. If I were to say why disliked the story so much, I would have to give away lots of spoilers, so I’ll have to leave it at that.
@Moizmad: trust me, you didn’t miss anything when you bailed on Ava. This movie felt like somebody took every tired, hackneyed Hollywood action-movie cliche ever written, put them through a blender, and then took a good crap on top for good measure.
I started Love, Death, and Robots a while back but never finished it. It reminded me a lot of The Animatrix, Hubs and I are also fans of Black Mirror, I think we spent about 3 hours one night doing the "Choose your own adventure" version they put out last year. 2020 should be some good fodder for that show…
Saw "Greed" staring Steve Coogan and a bunch of other famous British Comedians like David Mitchell, Tim Keyes, Will Smith etc. This is them trying themselves in a comedy drama
The movie was about the rise and fall of a dodgy billionaire who made his fortune conning his way to the top in the "Highstreet rag trade" - British for fashionable clothing shops in London XD
It would have worked better as a radio play. Out of them all only Coogan has the chops to do drama onscreen.
It was entertaining and there were smart points made about the financial skeeving that these rich people undertake to BECOME rich. It fell down in terms of characterisation and pathos. It was very superficial in that regard, we don't really feel for the characters and their plights, even when things are serious, it was just too shallow.
This is a typical fault of a lot of British Comedy writers in my experience: they write mainly in terms of tropes, not real individual humans. i.e. "This man is a journalist or a nerd, or a teenager or a refugee" not writing about Bob, who happens to me one of those things but rather those things define who he is and how he thinks.
Anyway, decent film and a good critique of people like Trump etc, but not a great film.
THE HUNT - Betty Gilpin, Hillary Swank and a cast of…never mind. If you want to watch a movie where the "heroine" is a mass murderer and most of story? makes no sense, this ones for you. All to set up big fight scene finale with Betty and Hillary. A 1 on the Moizmeter.
Banes wrote:HAHAHA! I hope you used protection XD
But that finale did stuff I didn't dare hope for. Very very satisfying (at long, long last!)
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I saw a couple of movies…
Wagons East…
It's a stupid 90s comedy western. A Richard Lewis vehicle, for when his horrible mullet was still black. I've never liked his humour, it's so derivitive of Rodney Dangerfield and a million other better Jewish comedians.
It's notable for havng John Candy in it plus two of the best actors from Star Trck Voyager: the guy who plays the Doctor and the guy who plays Nelix.
It had real native Americans in it too which was good.
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Also I saw Battle Beyond the Stars again.
CLASIC Roger Corman SciFi.
I love that Robet Vaugh is in it playing the same antihero character he did in The Magnificent Seven, which this film was based on. That's lovely how they did that.
Does the film hold up?
Sort of.
The models are top notch, mostly better or as good as the best CGI available, even today. The drawn animation for explosions and lasers does not hold up that well. The practical effects for the explosions are better than the best CGI though.
The story holds up, it's solid. The acting is mostly really great too. The plotting is great, it just works well. the writers were good.
The film is let down in the same place it was always let down though: just bad scene setting. The action onscreen, the scenes as theyre filmed etc don't match up with what the film needs to tell the story properly. It's like a comic artist without the skill or imaginiation to properly draw the scenes they need to tell their story.
So it's let down on budget, cinemotography, and editing.
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