What movies and TV shows are you watching?
What’re you watching now?
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Christian, they had to leave something for the sequel.
Yesterday II: Today
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Christian, they had to leave something for the sequel.
Yesterday II: Today
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Finally watched Undone, an amazon prime show that we had the trailer for here ages ago. A psychedelic/sci-fi mini-series animated in that rotoscope technique that A Scanner Darkly and others have used, starring Bob Odenkirk (who also produced) and Rosa Salazar, who I had never seen before (still not having watched Alita BA) and who does an incredible, amazing job.
If you like trippy Philip K. Dick-ense stuff, this will be right up your alley. Or at least it was up mine. It is also just terrifically well-written – amongst the best TV dialoge I’ve heard in ages, with just meticulous characterisation work on all of the characters. (I should say that apart from being about, you know, time-travel and/or psychic illness, it is mainly about family and relationships and love and memory.)
You could say that I liked this.
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Monty Python’s Holy Grail
Yes, it is as funny as you remember, maybe more so.
Ni!
I’ve always been more of a Life of Brian guy.
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Life of Brian has solid story and great parodies of religion. The Meaning of Life has some truly excellent moments, even if the film is uneven.
But Holy Grail was groundbreaking in so many ways, from the early scene of Patsy clapping two coconut shells together in lieu of having actual horses, to the abrupt anachronistic final scene, which is the way I sometimes wish every movie would end.
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I was at C2E2 one year and there was a group of guys cosplaying down to the squires following behind them with clapping coconuts as they “galloped” through the show floor. Once again, it got a bit old though as they were more worried about their cosplay than anyone else on the con floor.
Then someone else cosplaying as 1970’s British cops should’ve turned up and arrested them!
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Watched “Ladybird” yesterday. Very good movie, but also very emotionally exhausting. If you need a reminder how much being a teenager sucked, this is it.
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So I watched Sonic… aaaand that might be the first kid’s movie I have thoroughly enjoyed… in fact, besides the super cringe couple of floss dance scenes, the only bad thing I could find with the movie is that it’s too short… I would’ve loved to spend more time with every single one of those characters.
Good thing they re-did all that CGI, because amazingly enough, the writing is quite solid. The characters are all endearing in their own way and at no point the movie made me roll my eyes with stupid clichés or corny dialogues or anthing like that. All of the actors really did an amazing job with what they got, and it was specially lovely to see Jim Carrey unhinged and on top of his game once more. People kept comparing his performace to his older roles, but honestly, I didn’t really see it, I thought he did it differently enough for this character to stand on its own.
Speaking of the CGI though, it IS still rough in some parts, but it’s more than serviceable, at least they REALLY fixed Sonic, which I suppose was the important part. A much better movie than Detective Picachu, overall.
So… yeah… it’s really weird, but I’m actually looking forward to a sequel. Let’s hope they keep the human cast around for the next one too. I’d totally watch an extended cut, too.
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Tiger King on Netflix. Two episodes left which we’re saving for tomorrow evening. Fucking nuts.
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Tiger King on Netflix. Two episodes left which we’re saving for tomorrow evening. Fucking nuts.
I’m at the same place, what a strange world we live in.
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Hasbro has been streaming full episodes of GI Joe: A Real American Hero on its YouTube channel (the first three miniseries, anyway). Just sat back and enjoyed how bananas that show could be.
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I finished Tiger King today in my lunch break.
I thought the very very hilarious use of Eye of the Tiger in the last episode was maybe the best part of an extremely strange, but also very satisfying true crime docuseries.
The crime element is the least intriguing, for reasons apparent to all who have seen this.
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The crime element is the least intriguing, for reasons apparent to all who have seen this.
I’m just watching the penultimate episode now and what’s standing out for me now is Joshua the ‘campaign manager’. He’s so incredibly normal, he dresses in standard t-shirt and jeans, has a sensible haircut and glasses and is the only one who doesn’t spout fluent lunacy but just calmly narrates what happened.
How did he end up in that madhouse? He should be an assistant store manager in Best Buy or something rational like that.
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How did he end up in that madhouse? He should be an assistant store manager in Best Buy or something rational like that.
Didn’t he say he hired him out from the ammo counter of Walmart? But I agree him and the former employee of Doc Antle seemed like the only normal, likeable people in the entire thing. Well, maybe Saff and the reality show producer at a push.
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Yeah you’re right, I remember the Walmart bit now. That’s the environment where he belongs, diligently working to get his assistant manager role. He probably wouldn’t have had to witness what we saw on the CCTV.
The reality producer was quite likeable, he was still quite a ‘character’ though. Like an embittered hard boiled detective. He falls short of any ‘normal’ tag.
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Yeah he hired him out of the guns and ammo section I think.
He is probably the most normal. He give a his politics away a bit but he’s certainly the most level headed of the cast by a long shot.
I think the reality show producer was the most transparent. He just missed his opportunity to get rich and is totally frank about wanting that while giving his commentary on the others.
The guy in the car with the skeleton is quite likeable too, to be honest.
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Saff seems very down to earth and no bullshit but anyone who can go back to work so soon after what happened to her isn’t “normal”, but she’s exceptional rather than crazy.
The reality producer is a lot like every reality producer I’ve ever met. They’re not all hard boiled detective characters, but they’re all quite cheerfully cold blooded about their jobs.
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Yeah theres a real Special Forces mentality about Saff- like this was her job
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Yesterday is on HBO these days but I can’t bring myself to watch it as I am a Beatles fan… Sorry.
I’m also a Beatles fan – it’s a loving ode to the group’s music, really.
It’s weird how people feel differently about this. I refuse to watch Mamma Mia because I’m an ABBA fan, but my sisters both love Mamma Mia because they are ABBA fans.
I watch BvS because I’m such a Beatles fan.
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Obviously not talking about Mamma Mia Yesterday unless it has tigers.
#ReleaseTheTigerCut
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There are some notable questions raised (particularly in the last episode if you haven’t seen that yet, Gar).
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Yeah and one slightly distressing (I found anyway) shot of them taking a newborn cub away from its mother while she’s still giving birth to another.
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The main “characters” in the show are all alleging that their enemies are treating their animals badly. You’ll make your own minds up by the end which of those allegations sound the most credible?
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Almost 13 years after it came out, I finally watched the Simpsons movie.
It was ok. The slicker animation style has never suited the Simpsons for me, so it took a bit of getting used to. And the story felt a bit baggy compared to the tightness of the episodes in the show’s prime. But it had its moments and gave us some laughs.
After South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) and Team America: World Police, The Simpsons Movie was pretty anticlimactic. It also didn’t help that the TV series was past its prime and had been surpassed by South Park and Adult Swim. It was about 10 years too late.
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Spidey-Pig Spidey-Pig…
I’ve been watching Tiger King.
I’ve just rewatched the Pixar short Kitbull. Now I’m fretting the wee elephant is a Toy Story character who got left behind.
I started reading your whole post to the Spidey-Pig tune and it almost works, if you rush the last line.
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I almost work too.
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‘Tales from the Loop’ on Amazon.
It looks great, it has a score that partly composed by Philip Glass and despite moving the setting from Sweden to Canada it’s got that melancholic Scandinavian thing going on.
What it doesn’t have is any sense of urgency or much of a story.
I can see what they’re going for, this wants to be serious indie film stuff. It wants to SAY things… just not a lot of them.
And IMO you can’t fake this sort of approach. You can’t try to be an indie filmmaker, any more than an indie filmmaker can try to be a popcorn Hollywood filmmaker. It’s all very professional, but it lacks sincerity.
It’ll find an audience, but I wish it was four episodes, not eight.
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. I refuse to watch Mamma Mia because I’m an ABBA fan, but my sisters both love Mamma Mia because they are ABBA fans.
I watched Mamma Mia for the cast. It had James Bond, Galahad from ‘Kingsman” and Dr Selvig from “the Avengers”
Not to mention Iron Man’s dad.
Meryl Streep played them all.
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No. That’s yr man with the boofy hair from Preacher.
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Watched the French movie Diva last night, which is a must-see if you’re into ultra-stylish 80s & 90s neo-noirs like Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Blood Simple, True Romance, or anything Tarantino.
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Watched the French movie Diva last night, which is a must-see if you’re into ultra-stylish 80s & 90s neo-noirs like Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Blood Simple, True Romance, or anything Tarantino.
Are there really people like that? Can you visit them at a zoo or a museum or something?
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I’m quite serious. I’ve never seen a trailer like it – it gives away the entire movie
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer basically summarises the entire film except for the last two minutes.
You can watch the entire thing just to find if they get across the Golden Gate bridge.
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Watched Captain Marvel again, with the kid. Still holds up for me.
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Two from yesterday. Been spending much time watching music from peoples homes, and reaction videos. So a whole movie is a treat. One called simply Zombie . Pretty much the plot of Night of the Living Dead but starts looking like a disappearance / murder mystery. Sort of a view of the world from another POV. Cheaply made, but has some good sequences.
The other was a newly released HBO After Truth: The Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News. Bunch of stuff new to me, even though this Orwellian time has increased my knowledge. First half hour and some stuff in the last ten minutes concern shenanigans in Bastrop County, Texas. For years, my fiend Mike has lived in the city of Bastrop, and he’s a fairly canny observer. There seems to have always been a right-wing faction that is fairly to very nuts (one group strongly suspected of lighting a huge fire a couple of years ago). All of it covered up in Texas charm and drawling. Well-told documentary! Worth a watch.1 user thanked author for this post.
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Watched In Bruges yesterday for the first time in 10+ years. I remember loving it the first time I saw it, but I’m happy to report it still holds up well. So many well-written characters, from the two stars all the way down to the ticket seller at the bell tower. Worth watching again if I see it on cable.
Also rewatched Big Top PeeWee on Saturday. I recall not liking it during its initial release, thinking it paled in comparison to the first PeeWee feature film. Either I’ve mellowed, or the film has aged really well, because I had quite a number of laugh-out-loud moments watching it again. I also enjoyed Benicio Del Toro’s performance as Duke the Dog-Face Boy; I want to think this role is what landed him the lead in The Wolfman decades later.
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I finally watched Joker, I had to know what the hubbub was all about. I disliked it intensely the first time I tried to watch it because I thought the depiction of mental illness was bad and cliched. I thought it was OK though as a movie, just acceptable as entertainment. I guess there is that element of stereotypical depiction that many dumb horrormovies have, of fascination with the Adam Lanza kind of psychopathic killers.
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I just caught up with the latest Better Call Saul. Now there’s a pretty great hour of TV. And very much in the Breaking Bad mould, which isn’t usual for this show despite the connection.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
It’s funny and entertaining but Ferris is a selfish little sociopath.
Great music choices.
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Ferris Bueller was my hero growing up.
Also Indiana Jones, but he didn’t have much sex frankly.
Yes he did.
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There’s also the whole thing that IJ may have had sex with Marion when she was a minor.
Wait, what?
It’s easily missed but their relationship likely began when she was underage.
How old exactly is up for debate, but apparently Lucas thought she could have been as young as 11 or 12 when the relationship began.
More details here: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/problematic-faves-indiana-jones
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Also Indiana Jones, but he didn’t have much sex frankly
There’s also the whole thing that IJ may have had sex with Marion when she was a minor.
Yeah, hearing that really kind of ruined Indiana Jones for me. George Lucas is some piece of work.
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Also Indiana Jones, but he didn’t have much sex frankly
There’s also the whole thing that IJ may have had sex with Marion when she was a minor.
Yeah, hearing that really kind of ruined Indiana Jones for me. George Lucas is some piece of work.
But it’s right there on screen in Raiders in their first scene together. Marion punches him right on the jaw and rightly so. Marion says something like,
“I was a child in love. It was wrong and you knew it.”
And then Indy tries to blame her by saying she knew what she was at.
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Also Indiana Jones, but he didn’t have much sex frankly
There’s also the whole thing that IJ may have had sex with Marion when she was a minor.
Yeah, hearing that really kind of ruined Indiana Jones for me. George Lucas is some piece of work.
But it’s right there on screen in Raiders in their first scene together. Marion punches him right on the jaw and rightly so. Marion says something like,
“I was a child in love. It was wrong and you knew it.”
And then Indy tries to blame her by saying she knew what she was at.
Yeah it’s weird. I think I never realized it was literally a child, more like you can sometimes call a 20 yo a child.
The seventies were strange. There was an unusual amount of acceptance for this kind of stuff. Many rock stars are also guilty. Bowie, a few Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop.
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Ponyo
What the hell was that?
I know things get lost in translation but I got very lost here. Randomly transforming fish-girl with a weird sea wizard dad, a lot of shoggoth-like wave-fish-monsters, a giant sea-goddess, some dysfunctional marriage comedy, a (somehow) candle-powered boat and some old folks who feel like they should be in ‘Cocoon”?
Well… it was different….
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Yeah it’s weird. I think I never realized it was literally a child, more like you can sometimes call a 20 yo a child.
In the context of the film you can definitely get away with that. People will often say they were ‘just a child’ referring to when they were adult but a lot younger and more naive. Karen Allen is also not crazily younger than Harrison Ford (9 years) compared to many Hollywood couplings.
The problem comes from comments Lucas and Spielberg made afterwards.
George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
Kasdan: And he was forty-two.
Lucas: He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s a real strange relationship.
Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.
Lucas: He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.
Lucas: It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.
Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.
Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he…
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I rewatched Shaun Of The Dead last night for the first time in many years, and it holds up.
As much as you remember the zombies and the laughs, it’s easy to forget that it’s also a really tightly-written film with lots of moments of directorial flair from Wright that make it more than just a big-screen outing for a successful TV ensemble. (Although there are definitely still touches of Spaced about it.)
I enjoyed it a lot anyway – it had been long enough since the last watch that I’d forgotten a lot of the jokes, so they felt fresh again – and it’s made me want to revisit the other Cornetto movies at some point soon.
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