I recently saw Rang Song (2021), The Worst Person in the World (2021), and Donnie Darko
Just watched Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. It’s 140% more Nick Cage per Nick Cage than any other film.
Oh, that movie was awesome. Nic Cage is a rollercoaster of an actor
In that vein, i just watched Dream Scenario.
Sounds interesting! Totally didn’t know about it
Im about to go watch Galaxy Quest with the movies community
Last night I watched an old DVD copy of Old School I found on a “free stuff” shelf. Some dated humor but also some really good moments.
By Grabthar’s hammer, what a savings.
Cool community! How do you watch together?
Just click the cytube link in the post!
My last few movies were:
- Furiosa: it was alright, but the music was really lacking for me which was a big part of why I like the first one. It was also slower which I think is a mistake for something so heavily focused on cars/speed 2.5/5
- Mad Max Fury Road: Now this shit rocks. Action packed, great music, immediately to the point. Much better than the Mel Gibson films, including Thunderdome 4/5
- Cloverfield: I was looking for some horror and heard good things about the other ones. This had cool parts, but even by horror movie standards these protagonists were so insanely stupid I couldn’t focus on the movie. Every decision made was the wrong one 2/5
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog: I was drunk and needed to kill an hour. I sang the whole thing and had a great time 4/5
- I saw the TV Glow: This was a rollercoaster. I liked it, then was irritated, then it explained what was happening and I really liked what was happening, then it got to the end and lost me again. I think different editing could have made this better. Still very cool 3.5/5
- Blackberry: I have no idea how close to reality this was but the story was compelling and people felt like a lot of the people I work with in tech. 4/5
Ah Dr Horribles. An underrated classic that all nerds should see, something that could only come out of the writers strikes back then. Such a unique and funny thing. Of course now the songs are stuck in my head
Creature Features are the best! I rewatch Cloverfield and The Thing almost annually
Big lebowski for the first time. Monkey man yesterday.
What did you think of both? I’m my town once a year we have a big Lebowski movie night where the theater serves White Russians and everyone says the lines. It’s super fun.
I enjoyed it. Didn’t laugh all that much but I was definitely entertained. Put it it on cause I couldn’t sleep so wanted something light to watch and it was perfect.
Godzilla Minus One. What an amazing treat! I went in expecting the big guy to stomp around Tokyo, but old timey, and instead got the best human story in a Godzilla film ever!
Also, Furiosa, which I liked too.
Also just saw Godzilla Minus One. It was good
Is it on Netflix now? I think I read that somewhere.
Sure is
Godzilla Minus One also is fantastic everywhere, effects that harken to the miniature cities but kick in 21st century cg destruction, a sound track that plays real homage to classic DUN-DUN-DUN gojira melodies homage to the og TOHO scores…
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
Basically a “silent” film in the vein of slapstick Loney Tunes-esque nonsense. Except it has a coherent, albeit quite silly, plot.
In independent film and the most madcap and creative I have seen in a long time.
I’ve seen the style compared to lofi music, a very simple aesthetic. It sets your expectations accordingly. Its well done in its own unique style.
Come for the story of Jean Kayak and his wilderness adventures.
We watched the big short for the 4th or so time and I wanted to see what other movies were directed by Adam McKay.
So we watched vice which is about dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and I knew how corrupt those fuckers we’re but damn that movie did a great job of breaking down some of the shady shot that went on with the bush presidency. Highly recommend but if you’re like me you are so repulsed by that time period that it’s hard to give it a shot.
If you liked the big short then you will like vice.
Dune part 2 because I couldn’t sleep and happened to check out Max like 30 minutes after it went up.
This is supposed to be a trilogy? What’s the 3rd movie gonna cover? The first 2 parts were just the first book. Are the rest of the books just gonna be condensed into a single 2-3 hour movie?
The third movie will cover the second book and Denis will conclude his trilogy there. I hope you watched it on a decent sized TV at least.
I watched it on a virtual movie screen in VR. Although maybe I should have used the floating in space environment for it. 🤔
As a book reader Messiah wraps up Paul’s story, which is what I assume Dennis is going for. There’s absolutely no reason to make Children unless you want to make God-Emperor and God-Emperor would be very difficult to make into a watchable movie. Plus going past that would be outside most regular viewers’ tastes. So I expect he’ll mostly do Messiah, sprinkle some bits from Children in there and leave it with a pretty solid ending that could be continued. Spoiler prediction:
spoiler
I’d guess he’ll end it with Leto II assuming control of Arrakis and the Empire while looking at a sandworm in the distance or sandworm larva, hinting at where God-Emperor is going
I recently watched LA Confidential for the first time. It’s like a noir film except in color. Russell Crowe looks super young, and the setting of LA/Hollywood in the 50s is exquisitely realized. The plot is pretty intricate, it often expects the viewer to be able to connect the dots. Great film.
Furiosa
I moved my projector and screen into the back garden and watched Gladiator once it had got dark enough. It’s really not quite good enough weather for it, but it was a neat experience nevertheless. I accidentally clicked the extended edition and the Blu-ray was too much of a ball-ache to go back: Ridley Scott introduces it with “this is not the Director’s Cut … you’ve probably already seen that at the theatre, this is just the film with some scenes we cut out that *maybe* you’ll like”. Way to sell it Riddles.
Projector screen in garden sounds excellent!
I think the latest movie I watched was the second installment of Dune, most times these days my attention span isn’t long enough to manage a feature-length film. Series of 45-60 min per episode are ideal (and ironically then I can watch 4 in a row, no problem).
The latest series I watched is called Unforgotten (UK crime series about bodies of long since deceased people recovered recently). Really well done with excellent character development throughout which almost requires starting from S01.
Just watched new kids turbo with my friend at 3 am. Going to bed now :D
Watched Greyhound not too long ago, very engaging the whole way through. If you’re in a mood for a war movie I can’t think of a better one in recent times. May have to sail the seas in another sense though because it’s an apple plus exclusive last I saw.
Nice, I like any movie as long it’s thought provoking or engaging
Superstar, Being John Malkovich, Pride and Prejudice (with Keira Knightley), Lisa Frankenstein.
Recently went on a sci-fi bender starting with both new Dune movies, then Rememory, High Life, Archive, and Tenet. Finished Tenet last night. Still don’t know what it was about!
That’s awesome! Last memorable sci fi movie I watched recently was Coherence (2013)
Good? I’ve since watched Vesper Chronicles, but not sure I’d recommend it.
Is it this one? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vesper_2022
I kinda want to watch it. I saw The Royal Hotel (2023) and Triangle of Sadness which also had similar reviews differences, but they both turned out to be a good watch per my estimation
That’s the one, yes. I’d be curious to learn what you thought of it, if you watch it. It reminded me of a mixture between The Shimmer and the dystopian books from that Swedish guy’s artistic stories. His last name starts with “S”.
Do you mean Simon Stålenhag?
Vesper seems interesting, I’m looking forward to watching it!
I think so. I have one of his books and really like it! Just couldn’t remember it and was not in a spot to look it up, unfortunately.
