General Entertainment ~Rate The Last Movie/TV Show You Watched Thread~

[stepee]

I was a little disappointed by season 3 of Mythic Quest. It felt like it was really spinning its wheels without much happening and kind of ended where it started. I’m more excited to see how things move along in season 4, but I feel like we could have skipped right to that and Season 3 could have been like one episode.

 

And the Sarian episode was good but not as good as the one off episodes in S1 and S2.

[Bloodporne]

You People - ???/10 

 

Let me put it this way. This movie managed to make Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus depressing and aggressively unfunny to watch on screen. Eddie Murphy delivered his lines like he was stopping in on the way to the dentist and I don't blame him. The writing in this movie, the execution, all of it, was just fucking dismal. It's one of the most deflated, joyless and hamfisted movies I've seen in quite some time. It's so bad, it makes Guess Who with Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac look like Oscar bait. 

 

My girlfriend and I actually had a whole evening for this set up, got snacks and all that shit. Ended up turning it off somewhere at the 1h 20m mark I think? There could've been so much great material here, so many great comedic moments with actual impactful commentary but alas, the writing is like someone scrolling through Twitter for two hours and copy/pasting random shit. 

[5timechamp]

Wakanda Forever 6/10.. Everything and anything with T’Challa is wonderful.. but once the Queen is out of the story it becomes clear that Shuri and/or her actress doesnt have a strong enough presence to carry the story opposite a pretty well executed Namor…The Shuri arc in the second half is tedious and almost feels like a “Martha” redux… The staging of the final battle between the 2 groups is dull as is the “hey guys stop fighting” ending..

 

Outside all that, I really enjoyed the execution of the underwater city…. Who would have thunk DCs underwater civilization bright and colorful and Marvels version a bit more grounded..

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Titan A.E.: 8/10

 

Titan A.E. is a Don Bluth joint, a futuristic animated film that takes place 1000 years from now. For whatever reason some aliens known as the Drej want to eradicate the human race. But let's be honest, humans are trash you can't blame them for wanting humans to become extinct. So a scientist and his son Cale are go their separate ways moments before earth is destroyed. Fifteen years later Cale is a nineteen year old jaded dude working at some space station and then is approached by a former friend of Cale's dad to go on a quest to find the ship that his dad took off in so many years ago.

 

I did not see the movie when it came out so I have no nostalgia for it one way or the other but found it to be overall enjoyable but not without it's flaws. The movie is a mix of 3D CG and hand drawn animation and as we all know that is a style that is hard to pull off. Since it is Don Bluth the hand drawn animation is actually quite good. The computer graphics, however, leave a lot to be desired most of the time. Most of the CG is low detailed, texturless, bland. The sequence where they are flying through a nebula with wake angels, that maybe was meant to look good but looks rather ordinary. There is one part that stands out as looking quite good, however, and that is the part near the end with the ice particles, that was really something else. If you watch the credits (and maybe even read the wiki page) it becomes quite clear what went on. There are three or four separate studios that worked on different CG sequences so that could account with how inconstant it looked. Also, for each of those sequences there were maybe 6 animators that worked on the CG. There are double the amount of people who worked on the hand drawn animation which is probably why it stands out above everything else. I thought Matt Damon sounded a bit old (29 at the time) as a 19 year old Cale. One last nitpick the pace seemed to be a bit too quick as the Korso turn seemed a bit out of the blue, maybe give it a little more time to simmer.

 

But despite the flaws it is pretty enjoyable, I thought it was even better than Treasure Planet which I also watched recently. It's a hardish sci-fi, not fit for children in the slightest (a surprising amount of violence, blood and even nudity for a kid to appreciate) which probably ended up becoming more enjoyable in time. It's a shame this movie bombed because a remake of it these days would probably look outstanding.

[Mercury33]

Love Titan AE

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 8/10

 

I put off watching this for a while due to my Marvel burnout, but I have to say it’s a great movie overall and a fitting tribute to Chadwick Boseman. 

[johnny]

Wakanda Forever 3/5 

Marcel the Shell 3/5

Elvis 2/5 - fuck baz. this movie was so annoying 

[stepee]

I finally watched Only Murders In the Building S2, I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this here, I really enjoy these.

[Bloodporne]

 

The Golden Glove - 8/10

 

Once in a blue moon a movie will rattle me and this is the one. I'm not sure I can recommend this slab of bleak, repulsive depravity to anyone but as a German who grew up knowing this infamous serial killer's name, I had to watch it. It was highly controversial upon release and for good reason. This is the film that should be forced on people who watch Netflix serial killer documentaries. According to the director, his intent was to strip any fluff and any attempt at justification from his deeds. Honka doesn't get a sad back story or anything here. 

 

When the outbursts come, I think this might be one of the most terrifying and brutal films I've seen. Honka was driven by his insane levels of alcoholism and erectile dysfunction and this movie does not turn away despite not showing actual gore. My girlfriend and I ended up talking about this one a lot and we both agreed one segment in particular might be the scariest, most vicious murder scene put on film. The acting in this is fucking intense and as someone who understands all the regional dialects etc., it kind of blew my mind how good these people are. 

 

Fritz Honka was a vile monster and in that sense, this film sure does him justice I guess. 

 

 

 

 

[stepee]

On 1/31/2023 at 7:00 AM, Bloodporne said:

You People - ???/10 

 

Let me put it this way. This movie managed to make Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus depressing and aggressively unfunny to watch on screen. Eddie Murphy delivered his lines like he was stopping in on the way to the dentist and I don't blame him. The writing in this movie, the execution, all of it, was just fucking dismal. It's one of the most deflated, joyless and hamfisted movies I've seen in quite some time. It's so bad, it makes Guess Who with Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac look like Oscar bait. 

 

My girlfriend and I actually had a whole evening for this set up, got snacks and all that shit. Ended up turning it off somewhere at the 1h 20m mark I think? There could've been so much great material here, so many great comedic moments with actual impactful commentary but alas, the writing is like someone scrolling through Twitter for two hours and copy/pasting random shit. 

 

Yeah this was pretty miserable. Eddie Murphy can’t be in need of money right? I don’t see why he is doing something he is so obviously disinterested in. The whole movie feels kind of like someone called Jonah Hill a racist so he made this to prove them wrong.

 

I went into it figuring it might be bad but maybe it would be funny to laugh at but honestly when it was over I felt relieved to be free of these characters and this writing.

[Bloodporne]

1 hour ago, stepee said:

 

Yeah this was pretty miserable. Eddie Murphy can’t be in need of money right? I don’t see why he is doing something he is so obviously disinterested in. The whole movie feels kind of like someone called Jonah Hill a racist so he made this to prove them wrong.

 

I went into it figuring it might be bad but maybe it would be funny to laugh at but honestly when it was over I felt relieved to be free of these characters and this writing.

There is so much deeply wrong and stupid about this movie, it blows my mind that it actually released like this quite frankly. 

 

I could blame this all on Hill going overboard with his self-flagellation but he didn't write it singlehandedly and yet every part of the film is mindboggling.

[stepee]

12 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

There is so much deeply wrong and stupid about this movie, it blows my mind that it actually released like this quite frankly. 

 

I could blame this all on Hill going overboard with his self-flagellation but he didn't write it singlehandedly and yet every part of the film is mindboggling.

 

Only thing I can think of is that maybe Barris wrote the basic plot outline but the dialogue is all Hill.

[Bloodporne]

2 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

Only thing I can think of is that maybe Barris wrote the basic plot outline but the dialogue is all Hill.

I doubt that and I don't think there's a reason to put full blame for this idiocy on Hill. From what I read, Barris meant this to be his big break into feature films, I'm sure he was all hands on deck if that's how he viewed it. I mean you saw it, literally everyone in this film looks like an asshole lol. 

[stepee]

1 minute ago, Bloodporne said:

I doubt that and I don't think there's a reason to put full blame for this idiocy on Hill. From what I read, Barris meant this to be his big break into feature films, I'm sure he was all hands on deck if that's how he viewed it. I mean you saw it, literally everyone in this film looks like an asshole lol. 

 

It’s just Black-ish is pretty decent and way more nuanced and endearing than this and so much of the writing just *feels* so much like Hill. But you are correct that it’s likely not what happened and that it’s more the result of the worlds most miserable co-writing sessions. 

[Bloodporne]

4 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

It’s just Black-ish is pretty decent and way more nuanced and endearing than this and so much of the writing just *feels* so much like Hill. But you are correct that it’s likely not what happened and that it’s more the result of the worlds most miserable co-writing sessions. 

And I'm not stanning for Hill or nothing, I think he's painfully unfunny and annoying as fuck in this movie. It's just that this misfired on like every cylinder in a spectacular way. There's also new funny shit people are discovering every day like the only kiss the supposedly mega in-love couple share at the end being CGI. 

 

Also PS: I did like Black-ish but never saw anything else by him 

[stepee]

2 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

And I'm not stanning for Hill or nothing, I think he's painfully unfunny and annoying as fuck in this movie. It's just that this misfired on like every cylinder in a spectacular way. There's also new funny shit people are discovering every day like the only kiss the supposedly mega in-love couple share at the end being CGI. 

 

Lol also what is with David Duchovny’s character? Like why is he there? I mean I get for David that’s an easy check to cash but like is the character supposed to be mentally disabled or something or what?

[Bloodporne]

5 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

Lol also what is with David Duchovny’s character? Like why is he there? I mean I get for David that’s an easy check to cash but like is the character supposed to be mentally disabled or something or what?

I have no idea dude. It's one of those movies that gets worse the more you engage your brain. Like truly run that dinner scene through your head. You could write a thesis on how shit that one scene alone is. 

[stepee]

3 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I have no idea dude. It's one of those movies that gets worse the more you engage your brain. Like truly run that dinner scene through your head. You could write a thesis on how shit that one scene alone is. 

 

It’s just amazing how utterly joyless it is to the point you can’t even enjoy making fun of it.

 

The only good thing I can say is Eddie looks great at 60+

[Greatoneshere]

@Bloodporne @stepee

 

Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill deserve almost equal blame for You People. Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill co-wrote the screenplay together (with the "&" implying they co-wrote it together vs. using the "and" which means they worked on the screenplay separately, one first and then the other). They both produced it fully (not "executive produced", which is often just a title, but "produced"). Kenya Barris directed it and Jonah Hill is one of the stars in the film. These two couldn't possibly be more involved (and equivalently involved) in this film than they are. I think they were just trying to make something broad that would be funny/reach a lot of people but trying to hit all four quandrants of the market with comedy is hard, especially when you have late stage lazy Eddie Murphy as your co-star and it looks by all accounts they made a miserable movie (it does not look good to me from what I've seen at least).

 

What's a shame is Jonah Hill is clearly very talented. He wrote and directed the film Mid90s which was really good and his mental health documentary he made where he and his therapist discuss a lot of topics from last year on Netflix, "Stutz" was also really good so he clearly can do good work. Now, I haven't seen any of Kenya Barris's TV work (which is mostly Black-ish) but Kenya Barris wrote or co-wrote: Barbershop: The Next Cut, Girls Trip, Shaft (2019), The Witches (2020), and Cheaper by the Dozen (2022). All really bad films so I'm not really sure if Kenya Barris is even good at all.

[stepee]

4 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

@Bloodporne @stepee

 

Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill deserve almost equal blame for You People. Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill co-wrote the screenplay together (with the "&" implying they co-wrote it together vs. using the "and" which means they worked on the screenplay separately, one first and then the other). They both produced it fully (not "executive produced", which is often just a title, but "produced"). Kenya Barris directed it and Jonah Hill is one of the stars in the film. These two couldn't possibly be more involved (and equivalently involved) in this film than they are. I think they were just trying to make something broad that would be funny/reach a lot of people but trying to hit all four quandrants of the market with comedy is hard, especially when you have late stage lazy Eddie Murphy as your co-star and it looks by all accounts they made a miserable movie (it does not look good to me from what I've seen at least).

 

What's a shame is Jonah Hill is clearly very talented. He wrote and directed the film Mid90s which was really good and his mental health documentary he made where he and his therapist discuss a lot of topics from last year on Netflix, "Stutz" was also really good so he clearly can do good work. Now, I haven't seen any of Kenya Barris's TV work (which is mostly Black-ish) but Kenya Barris wrote or co-wrote: Barbershop: The Next Cut, Girls Trip, Shaft (2019), The Witches (2020), and Cheaper by the Dozen (2022). All really bad films so I'm not really sure if Kenya Barris is even good at all.

 

Yeah I did like Mid90s I will say.

[Bloodporne]

2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

What's a shame is Jonah Hill is clearly very talented. 

Yeah no, that is exactly why this movie was so baffling and depressing. Look at that fucking cast lol. 

 

Jonah Hill was fantastic in Wolf of Wall Street and Maniac especially. 

[TheLeon]

I’ve been rewatching Battlestar Galactica (2000s). Finished season 1 a couple nights ago. It’s nice being back with all my good space friends. What’s really fun is that I haven’t watched it since binging it all roughly 11 years ago, so I remember some major story beats/reveals, but other are surprising me. 

[elbobo]

Smile

 

Definitely a case of all the good stuff is in the trailer, last act is not good at all.

 

5/10

 

 

 

M3GAN

 

More dark humor than I was expecting, very predictable at times but I had fun.

 

7.5/10

[Keyser_Soze]

Eh woops, posted this in the wrong thread originally

 

 

 

Ashura (Ashurajo no Hitomi): 7/10

 

From academy award winning director of Departures and the pink film series Molester's Train, Yojiro Takita, comes Ashura a film about demons. More specificially it's about a couple of demon hunters. One demon hunter stays on board while the second one, Izumo, decides to quit after killing a demon girl. Five years pass and he becomes an actor but meets a girl who can't remember who she is for five years. In any case the gist of the movie is that a demon nun is trying to resurrect Ashura, and when she's resurrected her invincible castle will float on the upside down sky and demons will dominate the earth!

The film is a mix of like a love story sort of and action. I think the parts that are not action are somewhat compelling but when the action starts things fall apart a bit. Mainly because the special effects are so bad they can really suck you out of it. The demon blood for instance looks like Nickelodeon slime and there are some other ugly CG effects. The acting isn't bad and the soundtrack is done by Yoko Kanno and the story is interesting for the most part. So if you can get past the first five minutes or so you might end up enjoying this.

[Derek]

Almost watched 'You People' last night, but...

 

The Gift - It was alright, but man, I get to watch 1 or 2 'grown-up' films a week, so I try and avoid ones that make me confused and depressed. This one did both.

 

Beast - I'm Idris Elba, Bitch. It was ok. Two good actors in an animal gone wild movie. Wasn't a terrible way to spend an hour and a half.

[Bloodporne]

Mad God

 

It's artistically incredible but I have to admit I kind of zoned out at one point when I realized what I assumed was the 1hr mark was approximately 28 minutes. It's like watching a much more hideous iteration of an early Tool video. It's truly impressive looking but yeah, I zoned out and just watched something else after about half an hour.

[silentbob]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA: S2 (Prime) 9/10

 

This is a real fun series to watch for a good few laughs and some awesome fight/action scenes. Like always for me, when I’m high, the colours and action become mesmerizing. (Cinderella 99 being my fav I tried) Love the cast and the character building that happened this year. Plus they be battling dragons and they look pretty cool for the various powers they possess. Look forward to season 3, which has already been confirmed. 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

When the Camellia Booms: 8/10

 

I watched this show because @thewhyteboar recommended it to me. You know how the saying goes, "Bros watch each others shows"

In any case it's like a romantic drama with a murder mystery thrown in about a single mother Dongbaek who moves to the small town of Ongsang. It's the kind of town where a lot of the women hold all the power and the guys are kind of dufuses, but even here Dongbaek is still an outcast mainly because she's a single mother, and opens up a bar instead of a crab place. In any case the show is a lot of dramatic bumps in the road to forming a relationship with a young cop, Yong-sik, and also this whole murder mystery of someone named Joker (not THE Joker) who's been on a mission to kill Dongbaek for years.

 

Yong-sik is played by Kang Ha-neul which I most recently saw him in Insider which has a much different feel than this show so this guy has some range. Another minor character from that show shows up too but I won't mention who, just be surprised if you watch both 🤫 Son Dam-bi who did that Amoled song is on this show as well which is probably why Thewhyteboar said to watch it, that and baseball is a plot point as well. It's an interesting show in that a lot of what goes on feels kind of inconsequential but all of it adds up to being something compelling. Most importantly it's a show about redemption. Every character pretty much has a redemption arc, maybe they seem sketchy at first but the show gives them a chance to right their wrongs so to speak. The show might be a bit over dramatic at times but I enjoyed my time with it.

 

Also the ending with what happens to Jessica is @Commissar SFLUFAN approved!

 

PS you can watch it on Netflix - so you have no excuse to not watch it like the other Korean shows I've reviewed!

[thewhyteboar]

Glad you liked it! It was quite the thing when it aired here; everyone was watching and excited for the finale. 
 

Son Dam-bi is awesome. 

[EternallDarkness]

On 2/12/2023 at 12:34 PM, Derek said:

 

 

Beast - I'm Idris Elba, Bitch. It was ok. Two good actors in an animal gone wild movie. Wasn't a terrible way to spend an hour and a half.

 

he was good in it, but the child actors sucked 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

The Batman: 8/10

 

Many of you have seen this already but I just got around to it. This is an interesting movie. I personally have not seen anything from Matt Reeves but there was a lot of hype swirling around him being the director and he certainly made a striking film. While it is well made I'm not sure this makes for a great comic book movie. This version of Batman feels like they wanted to do a comic book movie if it was grounded in reality so the costumes are fairly ordinary, the technology (such as the batmobile) feels like it's out of a Mad Max movie and the whole tone of the movie feels fairly subdued. They even had a sad dad soundtrack featuring Nirvana. That being said even nearing three hours long I did find it mostly compelling. However, by the end I though, wasn't this just kind of The Dark Knight / TDKR? Overall a pretty good version of Batman, it's got a likable cast and they took it in an interesting direction even if it wasn't a bombastic action-fest.

[Greatoneshere]

5 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

However, by the end I though, wasn't this just kind of The Dark Knight / TDKR? Overall a pretty good version of Batman, it's got a likable cast and they took it in an interesting direction even if it wasn't a bombastic action-fest.

 

The movie is great but that's its biggest problem, the third act is kind of lame and the movie ultimately feels like a retread of TDK/TDKR. Still, as you said, very compelling. 

[elbobo]

House of the Dragon

 

This show did something difficult, they made an interesting show that I want to watch while having zero likable characters. Everyone is either a piece of shit or they want to have sex with their family members or both.

 

8/10

 

 

Gunther's Millions

 

If you only watch one docuseries this year about a dog with a $400,000,000 tax evading sex cult trust make it this one.

 

7.5/10

[silentbob]

On 2/18/2023 at 6:29 AM, Keyser_Soze said:

 

The Batman: 8/10

 

Many of you have seen this already but I just got around to it. This is an interesting movie. I personally have not seen anything from Matt Reeves but there was a lot of hype swirling around him being the director and he certainly made a striking film. While it is well made I'm not sure this makes for a great comic book movie. This version of Batman feels like they wanted to do a comic book movie if it was grounded in reality so the costumes are fairly ordinary, the technology (such as the batmobile) feels like it's out of a Mad Max movie and the whole tone of the movie feels fairly subdued. They even had a sad dad soundtrack featuring Nirvana. That being said even nearing three hours long I did find it mostly compelling. However, by the end I though, wasn't this just kind of The Dark Knight / TDKR? Overall a pretty good version of Batman, it's got a likable cast and they took it in an interesting direction even if it wasn't a bombastic action-fest.

THE BATMAN 4/5 (4K/ATMOS)
 

Like you, I too have just finished seeing it for the first time. Overall I really liked it because it was a different type of Batman movie. It was just oozing and dripping with atmosphere and I loved it. Patterson I think was a great Batman but I wanna see his Bruce Wayne start looking a little stronger/business man like. Emo worked here because of the timing of events but I wanna see a stronger “disguise” in part two. I think the ending was a little bloated and could have cut most of that element out, but I got the metaphor. I had to Jack up the volume on my receiver but the Atmos track was great went I found my sweet spot. Liked that the new Batmobile (prototype?) sounds just like The Tumbler and fuck did my subs come alive when it fired up. The 4K looked pretty awesome on my projector but would love to dial in my blacks/shadow detail for future outing. Bring on Part II

[Keyser_Soze]

 

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord: 7/10

 

This is an interesting take on an isekai. Basically a top tier MMO player (Diablo) is summoned into a different world by a summoner, Rem, but this world is like a real fantasy world not an MMO world, but it's a real world where player levels apply to how strong an individual is in the world. So since Diablo is a very high level he's more powerful than anyone else in the world he's summoned to. I think the show really tried to sell people on how lewd it is or something and while there is a fair amount of fan service I think the actual story and message of the show is actually pretty good. Basically Diablo is a loner in real life, socially awkward and being in this world teaches him the importance of friendship and how to get along with people and shit like that. The anime wraps up fairly well with one issue unresolved but I didn't know they made a season 2 so I would be down to watch more I guess.