Time for a new ‘watching’ thread!
What Are You Watching? New Season!
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First Cow by Kelly Reichardt is a wonderful movie. It’s about two guys, one Chinese, one Jewish, in the Oregon Territory just trying to scrape by. To get the funds necessary to move to San Francisco and open a hotel they start stealing milk from the first cow in the area, owned by the local chief factor (played by the always great Toby Jones), and use the milk to bake cakes to sell to trappers and travelers.
The movie begins with a quote from William Blake: “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” You’d be hard-pressed to find a better made or more powerful film about male friendship than this.
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Yeah, I’m still gutted that it’s over (The O/A – Netflix). You still get to watch season 2 for the first time.
Okay, so after Sense 8 I fell in love with another show I knew was cancelled.
Neither idiot ‘suit’ decision was my fault, yet I can only feel guilt as I watched after the fact.But search up OA. Was there an announcement? It’s like they’re still expecting you to fight back.
And fight back we should. It’s good, damn good.
Yes, I was unsure of those people we trust on the internet, season one a slow burn (don’t give up).____________________________
So I’ve been wondering about what to re-watch.
The Leftovers came to mind, and now that it did, it’s pushing me.
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MARVELS Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D finale part 1.
I meam, this show has usually been fun but its come along way from just a casual drop in drop put show. I have seen every episode and, barring an absolute shitshow, I am sure I will enjoy this. But it soes suffer from what a lot of long term tv shows suffer which is brute and blatant fan service.
10/10
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But search up OA. Was there an announcement?
Yeah, there was last year.
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Watched the opening episode of HBO’s new LOVECRAFT COUNTRY last night. Some minor changes from the novel, but the main themes are there of twin horrors — the standard Cthulhu-type horror you expect, and the true horror of living as a black person in Jim-Crow-era America, even as far north as New England. The story is set in the mid-1950s after the Korean War, but it might as well be modern-day Minneapolis. This is developed by Misha Green, with executive producers including Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams, so I’ll be sticking with this one for the duration.
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But search up OA. Was there an announcement?
Yeah, there was last year.
From August 5, 2019: ‘The OA’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Netflix
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Watched the first X-Men movie tonight (with the kids) and found it a really satisfying watch, better than I remembered.
I think it’s remembered a little unfairly, possibly because X2 topped it. It’s a great superhero movie and they just nail so many of the characters and ideas from the off. It’s a great example of what works about the comics being right there on the screen (possibly an early example of the Feige effect).
The teases for the future are a bit more overt than I remembered – the final scenes set up a sequel pretty blatantly – but it still rounds it all off nicely.
(Couldn’t resist watching the Nightcrawler opening scene of X2 as a tease for the next one too. What a way to kick off a movie.)
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Gambit was intended to be one of the main characters in the first X-Men movie according to a recent interview with Ralph Winter. Unlike Gar and Brit OA I’m totally resigned to
WHERE IS MY BLOODY GAMBIT MOVIE ALREADY???re-watching Gambit and his XTAS Guest stars on Disney+ All I need to do is gather up five people to do the movements in order to step into a parallel world where Season 5 of The OA has just ended to critical acclaim and a spin-off Octopus-winning trilogy plus Firefly alongside my beloved Farscape is still gorram flying Todddammit!3 users thanked author for this post.
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Oh man, I hope it’s not a normal anthology ’cause the cast in the 1st episode is great…
The book that it is based on is written in a similar style — each “chapter” is a self-contained story featuring one or more of the characters introduced in the first chapter, each having an adventure related to the main antagonist of the book, and with other members of the cast weaving in and out of each others spotlight. One story focuses on Letitia, another on Hippolyta (Uncle George’s wife, who we saw briefly in episode 1 of the show), and so on before veering back to the final showdown in the last chapter.
Not sure if the entire book will be covered in the first season of the show, but episode 1 covered only half (at most) of the first chapter. Then again, there are already subtle changes from the book, so who knows how faithful Misha Green will be to the source material. Either way, I’m enjoying the show.
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my beloved Farscape is still gorram flying
I believe the term you are looking for is Frelling .
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Just finished season 2 of Umbrella Academy, which I enjoyed much more than season 1. It felt more expansive than the first season, and the production values seemed higher – the cinematography was downright gorgeous on occasion. They totally nicked that cliffhanger ending from Avengers #85 though…
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I’m rewatching Brokeback Mountain tonight. Greatest love story I’ve ever seen. Script, acting, cinematography, direction, music – It’s all masterfully done. A rare diamond, and a punch in the heart at that.
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Jumanji: The Next Level
This is pretty fun again. Letting the in-game cast mix up their characters helps keep it interesting and different. And it’s cool that Karen Gillan is effectively the star this time, with the Rock reduced largely to comic relief. That said, I think it’s explored the limits of the video game avatar concept now – which admittedly the film seems to acknowledge when the mid-credit string shows parts of the game leaking into the real world, ala the original film. I think it’d be a stretch to do another film, with the avatars at least.
Oh and I had the same thought I did with the last film, thinking “I wonder why they didn’t stunt cast this role” when Ming showed up, but it turns out, just like last time, they did and I’m too old and out of touch to realise it.
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Oh and I had the same thought I did with the last film, thinking “I wonder why they didn’t stunt cast this role” when Ming showed up, but it turns out, just like last time, they did and I’m too old and out of touch to realise it.
You should at least watch The Farewell, a fantastic Awkwafina movie from last year which made me cry. She’s funny in Crazy Rich Asians too.
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The first episode of Lovecraft Country is free, and not geo-blocked (at least in Ireland):
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Oh, didn’t i mention that?
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This thread is making me want one of these.
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North by Northwest was one of my favorite movies as a kid but I hadn’t watched it since then so last night I decided to finally rectify that. It’s said that this is the first James Bond movie and that couldn’t be more accurate, it really set the template for classic Bond. The cropduster scene is the film’s most iconic moment but for my money the best sequence is everything from Thornhill sneaking into Vandamm’s mansion to the fight on top of Mount Rushmore (hugely funny that the bad guy owns a house on top of Rushmore, btw). Just expert suspense filmmaking on every level, it’s just as anxiety-inducing as anything that’s come out since it was released in 1959 (okay, maybe not Safde brothers movies).
A couple weeks ago I also watched Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt and Rope, neither of which I’d seen before. Both are classics. Shadow of a Doubt is a bit like a proto-Blue Velvet (Hitchcock is one of Lynch’s key influences) with its idyllic suburban town being totally unprepared for and unable to comprehend Uncle Charlie’s evil. It’s all shot on location, largely within a single Californian town, so feels quite unlike any other Hitchcock movie I’ve seen, which tend to take place in cities and feature a lot of traveling–unless they’re set in a limited setting like Rope is (a single apartment).
Rope is immaculately choreographed so that it comes off as if filmed in one long take (there are cuts, hidden by the camera zooming into the back of a man’s shirt and things like that) but what makes it so gripping is the pompous, childish glee its Ivy League-educated killer (John Dall) takes in having pulled off what he thinks is the perfect crime. He’s simultaneously arch and utterly believable. I think of all of Hitchcock’s explorations of evil that I’ve seen, with the exception of Psycho, Rope feels the most real.
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I watched the Netflix docuseries High Score, about the history of video and computer games. Overall, it was pretty decent. It was sequential rather than a series of stand alone episodes. It was six episodes which is really not enough to do the subject justice. A lot of history was left out or just barely skimmed over and ended before the arrival of Playstation and Xbox. It did have interesting bits but really, this was just an overview.
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I read that the racist white people in Massachusetts, where the show takes place, all have Southern accents.
Upon viewing the Wiki page for the series this popped up.
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I’ve only seen the first episode, but Lovecraft Country is a show that features crazy CGI dog-monsters that turn humans into more CGI dog-monsters when they get bitten. I’m not sure realism is high on its agenda.
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collecting all 670-odd NES games in a month without the internet
With a good enough credit card balance, pretty sure you could do this in one afternoon in Akihabara. Possibly without leaving Mandarake.
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Watched The Day Shall Come, the Chris Morris movie about FBI and police machinations trying to entrap would-be terrorists in Miami.
I had high hopes but unfortunately it was a bit of a letdown. The cast is good and creates real sympathy and pathos for the manipulated family at the centre of the story, but the material feels like it lacks bite compared to the similarly themed Four Lions – it’s not as funny (it feels like some scenes could have been reworked to get more laughs) and the stakes don’t feel as high.
It’s also fairly short – the credits kick in at the 82-minute mark – with a sudden (albeit apt) ending.
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Watched The Day Shall Come, the Chris Morris movie about FBI and police machinations trying to entrap would-be terrorists in Miami.
I had high hopes but unfortunately it was a bit of a letdown. The cast is good and creates real sympathy and pathos for the manipulated family at the centre of the story, but the material feels like it lacks bite compared to the similarly themed Four Lions – it’s not as funny (it feels like some scenes could have been reworked to get more laughs) and the stakes don’t feel as high.
It’s also fairly short – the credits kick in at the 82-minute mark – with a sudden (albeit apt) ending.
I have it on my viewing list, and I won’t be dissuaded by your review but you have managed to lower my expectations somewhat. Which, arguably, is a good thing! :)
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Is anyone watching Lovecraft Country?
Haven’t yet, but I am definitely planning on watching it.
I’ve only seen the first episode, but Lovecraft Country is a show that features crazy CGI dog-monsters that turn humans into more CGI dog-monsters when they get bitten. I’m not sure realism is high on its agenda.
Well, to be fair, the juxtaposition of the crazy horror themes on the one hand and the realistic portrayal of the racism of the time is what makes the novel special, so it’d be good if they got that balance right in the series.
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Watched Project Power last night.
It was an interesting idea but it was pretty dull for all the action scenes. Feel like I’d like those 2 hours back.
Also, if I never see a film with another maverick cop who gets things done his way it will be far too soon.
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The trailer alone was enough to put me off Project Power. It ends with a scene where a waitress asks Jamie Foxx if he’d like anything else to eat, to which he replies “no, I’m fine.” The waitress smiles and tells him “yes you are!”
Why was that in the trailer?? Did they think that was a killer line? Did Jamie Foxx cut the trailer together himself??
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Project Power had an interesting concept and some nice sequences with super powers. But the actual story made very little sense. As often with science fiction movies I keep thinking that it would have been great if this lever of special effects and acting had been spent on a decent script instead of this.
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So, let’s see what I remember of various films:
My Spy – The most interesting aspect of this is Amazon’s subs have been expanded to cover description and I found it surprisingly helpful. The film itself? Suffers from being built around what the writers think is cute-and-sassy, but is actually 9-going-on-59-psychopath. Doesn’t work.
The Villainess – This starts off with a stunningly executed first person fight scene in a single shot that just keeps on going. But it never matches it afterwards. There are some excellent fight sequences here, but they can’t save a narrative that uses such fractured chronology, that I lost the thread of it entirely. Pity.
Priest – This was bonkers fun, would go for a sequel but probably won’t happen. Somehow, this film got Bettany, Urban, Maggie Q and Plummer – great cast.
Line of Duty – Good cast, but if you wanted a definition for the recently coined term “copaganda”, this is it. It’s OK, but no more than that.
The Report – This is a very good film but also a very hard watch as we see what it took to unearth the US torture regime, along with the extent to which officials went to evade and deny any and all responsibility. That, by the end of it, the entire political and legal system of the US is complicit and compromised, with no one held accountable, is chilling. But it’ll happen again, the whole MO of “if we don’t call it X, it isn’t X” is bound to happen again. Also, Driver shows again exactly how fucked over by Star Wars he was.
London Has Fallen / Angel Has Fallen – The films are pretty much identical. Shit happens, in response Gerard Butler kills loads of bad guys. Brain-off fun.
TV?
New Legends of Monkey – Eh, it’s OK. This is where I really noticed the Netflix structure on how the story played, could see the moves coming – clever villain, ineffective heroes, drawn-out tale.
Dragon Prince – Feels a bit too much of an Avatar cut-and-paste transfer.
Stargirl – What works as comic doesn’t work as a film, Courtney is a crappy stereotype.
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Rewatching the Disney Hercules movie.
This is just great. Animation and voice acting are really both en pointe to tell this story. And it’s realy crazy fun. Voice acting of the Hades guy (I forget his name) really elevates the movie from a good to a great one.
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James Woods is a huge Trump supporter, conspiracy theorist, bigot, and he crept on actresses like Amber Tamblyn when they were underage.
Good in movies like Hercules and Videodrome but a turd of a human being.
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Finished Netflix’s High Score videogame documentary series today after blazing through it all in a day (which is rare for me).
I enjoyed it a lot while at the same time wishing it could have been more.
There are some great stories about individual games here, and there’s also a great history to tell about the videogame industry as a whole, but the way it was put together makes different elements fight with each other and the constantly shifting focus means you don’t feel like you can concentrate on a single aspect of these stories at a time.
Also, I felt like some of the human-interest personal stuff came at the expense of more time being spent on more important aspects.
A format along the lines of The Toys That Made Us (and its movie counterpart) focusing on a single major game at a time could have worked better here, as there are so many games (and behind-the-scenes personalities) that didn’t get so much as a mention here when they deserved to.
But still, good to have a serious in-depth documentary on gaming, and hopefully this is a series that can do what Hip-Hop Evolution did and return with future episodes that go back and fill in some of the gaps, expanding on the history within the timeline that it’s already covered while also pushing forward slightly into the late 90s and early 2000s.
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Finished Netflix’s High Score videogame documentary series today after blazing through it all in a day (which is rare for me).
I enjoyed it a lot while at the same time wishing it could have been more.
There are some great stories about individual games here, and there’s also a great history to tell about the videogame industry as a whole, but the way it was put together makes different elements fight with each other and the constantly shifting focus means you don’t feel like you can concentrate on a single aspect of these stories at a time.
Also, I felt like some of the human-interest personal stuff came at the expense of more time being spent on more important aspects.
A format along the lines of The Toys That Made Us (and its movie counterpart) focusing on a single major game at a time could have worked better here, as there are so many games (and behind-the-scenes personalities) that didn’t get so much as a mention here when they deserved to.
But still, good to have a serious in-depth documentary on gaming, and hopefully this is a series that can do what Hip-Hop Evolution did and return with future episodes that go back and fill in some of the gaps, expanding on the history within the timeline that it’s already covered while also pushing forward slightly into the late 90s and early 2000s.
And like I said above, six episodes really didn’t do the subject justice. They crammed a lot in those episodes but but there is so much more.
When I first saw the series announced, I thought it was going to be like The Toys That Made with each episode focusing on a different game or system. I think that format would have served the subject matter better.
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I am slightly, but only slightly, disappointed with Bill and Ted Face The Music. I only expected to be entertained, and I was. That doesn’t make it a good movie, though. And it isn’t. 5/10.
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That’s a very heinous review
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I am slightly, but only slightly, disappointed with Bill and Ted Face The Music. I only expected to be entertained, and I was. That doesn’t make it a good movie, though. And it isn’t. 5/10.
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I’ve been on a Sam Raimi kick lately:
Spider-Man – The first half is brilliant, but, as much as I love Willem Dafoe, the Green Goblin is just too goofy here for me. A lot of it is the helmet. And Tobey Maguire is a really odd choice for Peter Parker.
Spider-Man 2 – I’ve always liked this but never saw it as the masterpiece others like Robert B and Chris S do. But now I get it. It just nails everything great about superheroes, and Spider-Man in particular. It’s as much a romance as an action film. The tone veers into horror in the origin of its villain. Doc Ock is a father figure with good intentions done in by his ego, but he gets to redeem himself in the end. The film is an actually meaningful meditation on heroism and the personal cost of doing the right thing; Peter doesn’t just talk about the weight of being a hero, we see how over and over again it jeopardizes his friendships, romantic life, and the financial situation of not just himself but his Aunt May.
Most importantly, and best articulated in the train scene (which one-ups the excellent bridge scene from the first movie), Spider-Man is not an ubermensch like Superman and Batman but a symbol of the common people. The city he protects is not abstract and faceless, it’s filled with ordinary people who at times have to step up and save him. The train sequence may be the great sequence of superhero cinema.
Also, I have to say, Maguire really steps up here. He does the material justice.
The Evil Dead – A lot of fun, and as ingenious a horror debut as Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The fierce, roving camera meant to represent the demon’s point of view is a great device and genuinely frightening, even 40 years later.
Evil Dead II – At first, while Ash was alone at the cabin facing off against his possessed hand, I didn’t think this would surpass the original as people say it does, but after the other characters show up and the shit hits the fan the true genius of Raimi and his collaborators, especially when it comes to stop-motion and blending horror and humor, shows itself. And that genius can’t be denied.
Army of Darkness – Although Bruce Campbell gives his best performance as Ash yet, I can’t say I liked this much. It just got too silly for me and barely explored any of the interesting ideas it introduced. It was funny seeing Mr. Pitt from Seinfeld as a Gandalf type, though.
Darkman – Solid movie but the idea behind it–blending superhero and Universal horror tropes–is better than the execution. I think the main problem is the villains just aren’t that interesting. Still, a fun way to pass 90 minutes and there are some great moments, particularly in the first half.
The Quick and the Dead – This was panned on release but I really liked it. Sharon Stone’s decent enough as a female take on Eastwood’s Man with No Name but the supporting cast is full of heavyweights: Gene Hackman (clearly having a blast as the scumbag villain), Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Keith David, and Lance Henriksen. The plot and visuals borrow liberally from Sergio Leone’s Westerns, especially Once Upon a Time in the West, but does them justice. This was one of DiCaprio’s first movies and is also the first of his 90s films I’ve seen (not counting bits and pieces of Titanic and Romeo + Juliet) so it was kind of funny to see the mannerisms and swagger I associate with his roles as a middle-aged man coming out of a scrawny 20-year-old kid.
My current Raimi rankings: Spider-Man 2, Evil Dead II, The Gift, The Evil Dead, A Simple Plan, The Quick and the Dead, Drag Me to Hell, Spider-Man, Darkman, Army of Darkness, Spider-Man 3. Still gotta watch Crimewave, probably gonna skip For the Love of the Game and Oz the Great and Powerful.
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I forgot to mention it but all of those were first watches for me except the Spider-Man movies and Darkman. How I went this long as a horror fan without ever watching Evil Dead 1 & 2 is beyond me.
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I forgot to mention it but all of those were first watches for me except the Spider-Man movies and Darkman. How I went this long as a horror fan without ever watching Evil Dead 1 & 2 is beyond me.
I remember watching the first Evil Dead movie on VHS back in high school back in the 1980s.
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That sounds like the ideal way to watch the movie tbh
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(which one-ups the excellent bridge scene from the first movie),
There’s an excellent bridge scene in the first Spider-Man? I just remember the cringe-worthy post-9/11 kneejerk one. ;)
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Ha, I didn’t even think of 9/11 when I rewatched it. It’s heavy-handed, yeah, but pretty understandable.* And a bunch of New Yorkers throwing bricks and beer cans at the Green Goblin as he tries to stop Spidey from saving a bunch of kids is a pretty great image.
*The funniest example of post-9/11 “you don’t mess with NY” pop culture is probably when Ghostface Killah demanded GWB let him take over the war against al Qaeda in the song “Rules” off Iron Flag.
Who the fuck knocked our buildings down?
Who the man behind the World Trade massacres, step up now
Where the four planes at huh is you insane bitch?
Fly that shit over my hood and get blown to bits!
No disrespect, that’s where I rest my head
I understand you gotta rest yours true, n**** my people’s dead
America, together we stand, divided we fall
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The Quick and the Dead – This was panned on release but I really liked it.
Yeah, this one is worth watching thanks to the cast, the direction, and the Sergio Leone homage (flashback scenes in particular feel as though they are lifted from one of his Spaghetti Westerns)
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I liked Return of The Bill and Ted more than Anders, but yeah, it’s no modern masterpiece. It gets in, tells some jokes, a bunch which are specifically for fans of Bill and Ted, and gets out. The ending is blatantly obvious to anyone who’s seen the trailers for the movie, but really, it doesn’t matter. My favourite bits were the various weird jumps in the future Bill and Ted’s lives, especially everything that happens at Dave Grohl’s house, and Billie and Thea are just wonderful all the time
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*The funniest example of post-9/11 “you don’t mess with NY” pop culture is probably when Ghostface Killah demanded GWB let him take over the war against al Qaeda in the song “Rules” off Iron Flag.
Lindsay Ellis did a good video on the lameness of most Bush-era protest songs recently, and came to the somewhat sad conclusion that American Idiot is probably as good as it got:
I enjoyed Bill and Ted 3, though I liked the Bill and Ted parts far more than the rest. I rewatched the first two yesterday, and it stacks up nicely with those.
Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine are good as the daughters, and I wish they had more to do than just a rehash of the first film’s “collect famous figures from throughout time” gimmick. I knew Weaving from Ready or Not and stuff, but I’ve never watched Atypical, so this was the first thing I’ve seen Lundy-Paine in, and they do a very good Keanu impression.
I wasn’t that keen on Kristen Schaal as the Rufus stand-in. She’s funny, but I don’t buy her as Rufus’s daughter in any way.
All of the Keanu/Winters stuff was great though, especially the Grohl house part.
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#ReleaseTheSpiderCut
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The Spider-Man scene is a bunch of regular people rallying to help the hero, who until then we assume they hate. One guy yells out something about not messing with New York in what’s clearly a meta-response to 9/11 but the gist of the scene is thematically what Raimi’s Spider-Man is all about, the movie would be much less memorable without it. Plus it’s one of the few superhero movies where ordinary people get to be more than victims. I’m struggling to see see what’s so cringe about it.
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I wasn’t that keen on Kristen Schaal as the Rufus stand-in. She’s funny, but I don’t buy her as Rufus’s daughter in any way.
Yeah, it really felt like they wanted to shoehorn a link in there, and it would have made no difference if she was just the daughter of the Great Leader (largely because her phone calls to her mum were hilarious)
Oh, and Jillian Bell was great as the couple’s therapist.
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Ha, I didn’t even think of 9/11 when I rewatched it. It’s heavy-handed, yeah, but pretty understandable.* And a bunch of New Yorkers throwing bricks and beer cans at the Green Goblin as he tries to stop Spidey from saving a bunch of kids is a pretty great image.
The part of that scene that always makes me laugh: when the dude with the locs yells, “Oh, yeah, I got somethin’ for your ass!” before throwing something.
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Has anyone watched John Hodgman and David Rees’s Dicktown on FX/Hulu? It’s part of the animation anthology show Cake but you can watch the Dicktown segments individually on Hulu which is what I did. The plot is basically a grown-up Encyclopedia Brown pastiche runs a detective agency with his former bully (a kind of stoner Bugs Meaney) who acts as his driver and muscle. Only they’re kind of emotionally and professionally stunted and still just solve crimes for local high schoolers.
It’s pretty funny, I could see it becoming an Archer replacement given time, although it’s not there yet. The episodes are only 11 minutes too so it’s a quick watch.
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Dicktown has been the best part of this season of Cake.
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The Spider-Man scene is a bunch of regular people rallying to help the hero, who until then we assume they hate. One guy yells out something about not messing with New York in what’s clearly a meta-response to 9/11 but the gist of the scene is thematically what Raimi’s Spider-Man is all about, the movie would be much less memorable without it. Plus it’s one of the few superhero movies where ordinary people get to be more than victims. I’m struggling to see see what’s so cringe about it.
Well I’m not american so I don’t absorb those type of scenes the same way… It always made me cringe while watching it though, also for people who know the context it’s impossible to not think about how it is a 9/11 reactionary thing, so yeah, maybe a younger person might not see it that way
The scene in the second movie was a bit better (when they’re carrying him through the train), but the whole “don’t mess with new yorkers”… nah…
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Earlier this evening, I finished watching the Netflix animated series Hoops.
It’s about a foul-mouthed, substance abusing high school basketball coach and his team of misfit players in rural Kentucky.
I would give it a B-. Nothing new or innovative but amusing and entertaining. I would laugh out loud a few times per episode. What makes this series is Jake Johnson as the coach. He just nails the character perfectly.
While I’m no prude, the level of profanity in this series is astonishing. I think it would be difficult to find a single minute without a swear word (or ten). It works for the show.
If it gets a second season, I’ll watch it.
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Started watching that Eurovision film on Netflix last night. Feels like a classic example of a breezy 90-minute comedy that’s padded to two hours and feels bloated and has long unfunny stretches as a result.
We switched it off after an hour. Maybe we’ll get back to it at some point.
(Also, Will Ferrell looks old now. Not that it matters a huge amount for a silly movie like this but I’m not sure he’s got much longer playing these characters. He’s turning into Al Pacino.)
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Feels like a classic example of a breezy 90-minute comedy that’s padded to two hours and feels bloated and has long unfunny stretches as a result.
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For those who watched the Netflix docuseries High Score: The Legend of GayBlade
And if you want to play it: Gayblade
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Thought I’d give “I Hate Suzie” a try, having liked Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble’s work in the past, but this show really tries your patience. Suzie is the star of a TV show, whose phone gets hacked and photos of her having sex with someone are released on the internet – except the person she’s having sex with isn’t her husband, and now she’s attempting to deal with all the career and family-related fallout from the hack.
It tries way too hard to be groundbreaking and clever, and just ends up being tedious for the most part. For some reason it reminds me a little of Patrick Melrose, but at least the titular character of that show was made interesting by Benedict Cumberbatch. Suzie just seems to be an unsympathetic narcissist, someone whose life was a mess long before her phone was hacked, and entirely due to her own terrible decisions, so it’s hard to be sympathetic.
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