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

[thewhyteboar]

The Friends of Eddie Coyle is so good. Robert Mitchum man.

[Greatoneshere]

1 hour ago, thewhyteboar said:

The Friends of Eddie Coyle is so good. Robert Mitchum man.

 

It's a great movie. But I also like Andrew Dominik's reinterpretation of the novel this movie is based on with Killing Them Softly. I think Brad Pitt kills it in that. Very different movies based on the same book ("Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins). 

[thewhyteboar]

2 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

It's a great movie. But I also like Andrew Dominik's reinterpretation of the novel this movie is based on with Killing Them Softly. I think Brad Pitt kills it in that. Very different movies based on the same book ("Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins). 

They're based on two different books! Killing Them Softy is based on Cogan's Trade by Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is based on a book of the same name, also by Higgins.

 

Killing them Softly is also very good.

[Greatoneshere]

33 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

They're based on two different books! Killing Them Softy is based on Cogan's Trade by Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is based on a book of the same name, also by Higgins.

 

Killing them Softly is also very good.

 

Man, all this time I thought they were based on the same Higgins book, but you're right, they are not. This makes far more sense.  

[Greatoneshere]

The weekend recap:

 

-Halo Legends (2010; dirs. various): 6.5/10

-Short Peace (2013; dirs. various): 6.5/10

-Deadpool & Wolverine (2024; dir.  Shawn Levy): 7/10

-Genius (2016; dir. Michael Grandage): 6.5/10

-Wolfs (2024; dir. Jon Watts): 6/10

[Keyser_Soze]

[Blu-Ray]

 

Calvaire: 8/10

 

I saw this a number of years ago but only on DVD. I regularly recommend it in horror movie threads. I recently bought it recently on blu-ray and the transfer looks really nice. I had forgotten how this film progressively gets crazier. Still a high recommendation, even better if you can get the blu-ray which has some nice extras on the disc and an interesting interpretation of the movie in the liner notes.

[Best]

I watched "IT" 2017 today.

 

I really enjoyed this one and they did a great job capturing the essence of being a kid in the summer time. 

 

7.5/10

[GeneticBlueprint]

The Apartment (1960) - 7/10

 

Alternate title: The Hopeless Incel and His Cuck House

 

The movie is so well acted that I overlooked a lot of plot inconsistency and the fact that the main character is actually a bad and unlikable person even though the movie doesn't treat him as such. Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray are legends.

[thewhyteboar]

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

The Apartment (1960) - 7/10

 

Alternate title: The Hopeless Incel and His Cuck House

 

The movie is so well acted that I overlooked a lot of plot inconsistency and the fact that the main character is actually a bad and unlikable person even though the movie doesn't treat him as such. Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray are legends.

Jack Lemmon has always been one of my favorites. He's so good in everything. 

[Moa]

Outlander 8/10:

 

I am admittedly only just starting season 4 of the 6 that are currently available, but I feel I've watched enough to talk about it a little. I started watching on a whim because I like Scottish stuff and the Skye Boat Song which serves as the main theme. For those not in the know, it's a Starz time-traveling romance for horny middle-aged women, based on a series of horny romance novels for middle-aged women, and when judged in that frame of reference it's fantastic.

 

I'm going to keep my focus mostly on the first season, since going through everything would be exhausting. The premise is that a woman who served as a nurse in WWII is going on a holiday to reacquaint herself with her husband, who served in British intelligence, after they were separated during the war. They travel to Scotland on a second honeymoon, and after a short while she finds herself magically transported back to just before the Jacobite uprising. She almost immediately runs into her husband's ancestor (both the ancestor and the husband played by Tobias Menzies) who almost immediately tries to assault her, she is then rescued by a ruggedly handsome Scotsman, and things go from there.

 

The show is fucking wild, being predictably unpredictable, and occasionally going much much further than you think it will. It kind of reminds me of an anime in its need to constantly introduce bananas subplots and generally being relentlessly horny. It's top tier end of the night browsing reddit TV, and I've had a lot of fun telling people what new ridiculous thing is happening in it.

 

Early S4 Spoiler:

Spoiler

The show is now wading into the fraught territory of inheriting an estate in Carolina including some 150 slaves and almost immediately intervening in a lynching.

 

[Fizzzzle]

I had a 14.5 hour flight yesterday, gonna try and remember every movie I watched.

 

Oppenheimer - 8/10. It actually never feels overlong, which is an incredible achievement for a movie that length. I do think some of the flipped timeline stuff could have been arranged better. I kind of feel like we needed more Oppenheimer/Straus stuff earlier on to better set up the payoff later. Though, to be honest, different time/perspective shifts should be done more often in biopics (watch everyone starts doing it because Nolan did it). Overall, any problems I had with it feel pretty nitpicky the more I think about it.

 

Annihilation - 6/10. Generally enjoyable, visually stunning, provocative... also a little far up its own ass sometimes.

 

The Beekeeper - 5/10. Yeah, the action is cool, but seriously STOP WITH THE JOHN WICK CLONES, good god. I swear every action movie needs a "baba yaga" scene now, stop it.

 

Abigail - 8/10. I LOVE this movie. For some reason it kind of makes me think of a mixture of Baby Driver, Knives Out, and something else I can't put my finger on. Only criticism is the ending kind of drags.

 

The Revenant - 7.5/10. One of those movies I've always meant to watch but just never have. The acting is incredible, the cinematography is incredible, it rides this incredibly fine line of alllllmost being too slow, but not quite. I know it's intentional, the shots are supposed to linger slightly too long to make you feel uncomfortable, but occasionally it kind of did just make me bored.

 

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - 6.5/10. Is it particularly deep? No. Is it particularly suspenseful? Not really (bold move for a spy movie), but it is a whole lot of fun. Henry Cavill was born to play that role, and I was pumped to see Alan Ritchson in it. It's a good time for the boys.

 

Sleeping Dogs - 4/10. It's not bad. It's a potboiler. The twist is pretty egregiously projected, the pacing is okay, it's entirely forgettable. The next time I have a long flight I'll probably see it on the screen, go "huh, maybe that's good," get 45 minutes into it before I remember I've already seen it before.

 

[Nokra]

9 hours ago, Moa said:

Outlander 8/10:

 

I am admittedly only just starting season 4 of the 6 that are currently available, but I feel I've watched enough to talk about it a little. I started watching on a whim because I like Scottish stuff and the Skye Boat Song which serves as the main theme. For those not in the know, it's a Starz time-traveling romance for horny middle-aged women, based on a series of horny romance novels for middle-aged women, and when judged in that frame of reference it's fantastic.

 

I'm going to keep my focus mostly on the first season, since going through everything would be exhausting. The premise is that a woman who served as a nurse in WWII is going on a holiday to reacquaint herself with her husband, who served in British intelligence, after they were separated during the war. They travel to Scotland on a second honeymoon, and after a short while she finds herself magically transported back to just before the Jacobite uprising. She almost immediately runs into her husband's ancestor (both the ancestor and the husband played by Tobias Menzies) who almost immediately tries to assault her, she is then rescued by a ruggedly handsome Scotsman, and things go from there.

 

The show is fucking wild, being predictably unpredictable, and occasionally going much much further than you think it will. It kind of reminds me of an anime in its need to constantly introduce bananas subplots and generally being relentlessly horny. It's top tier end of the night browsing reddit TV, and I've had a lot of fun telling people what new ridiculous thing is happening in it.

 

Early S4 Spoiler:

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The show is now wading into the fraught territory of inheriting an estate in Carolina including some 150 slaves and almost immediately intervening in a lynching.

 

I had an ex girlfriend (decidedly not a middle-aged woman ) introduce me to the show and I have to say that I also enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. Like you said, it's relentlessly entertaining, you do get attached to the characters, and they really push the boundaries.

 

This girlfriend and I ended up binging four or five seasons together before we broke up (she had the Starz sub) and I've been considering getting a sub myself just to finish it out but was waiting for the final season.  It might be time! 

[GeneticBlueprint]

Lolita (1962) - 5/10

 

This fucking guy, man

[GeneticBlueprint]

I feel like noting that the last several of my entries here--The Manchurian Candidate, Tokyo Drifter, Harakiri, The Apartment, Lolita--have been 1960s films because my friends and I do this movie discussion thing where we take turns picking a theme, and then everybody picks a movie within that theme and we watch and discuss them one at a time; usually giving the group a couple of weeks to watch the current movie. The current theme is "1960s". It's my turn to pick when we wrap up Lolita and I'm going to pick one that my dad made me watch when I was a kid because he loved it when he was a kid.

[thewhyteboar]

4 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I feel like noting that the last several of my entries here--The Manchurian Candidate, Tokyo Drifter, Harakiri, The Apartment, Lolita--have been 1960s films because my friends and I do this movie discussion thing where we take turns picking a theme, and then everybody picks a movie within that theme and we watch and discuss them one at a time; usually giving the group a couple of weeks to watch the current movie. The current theme is "1960s". It's my turn to pick when we wrap up Lolita and I'm going to pick one that my dad made me watch when I was a kid because he loved it when he was a kid.

If you're going with the 60s, you should pick The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

[thewhyteboar]

5 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Lolita (1962) - 5/10

 

This fucking guy, man

I've never seen any of the movies, but the book is incredible, one of the best written things in the English language. The movies all try to turn it into an icky romance, right? Which the book very much isn't.

[GeneticBlueprint]

6 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

If you're going with the 60s, you should pick The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

I’m actually going to be going for a different prestige/action star pair, but I’ll check out your suggestion for sure at some point in the near future. 
 

1 minute ago, thewhyteboar said:

I've never seen any of the movies, but the book is incredible, one of the best written things in the English language. The movies all try to turn it into an icky romance, right? Which the book very much isn't.

 

It’s not as icky as the book (which I read the synopsis of after finishing the movie) but I don’t know if the movie plays it as a straight romance as you have to do some reading between the lines to suss out that no he’s not an overbearing father figure, they’re lovers. 

[thewhyteboar]

The 60s is such an insanely good decade. Leone, Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Godard. Incredible decade. 

[Keyser_Soze]

[Prime Video]

 

From Beyond: 6/10

 

Based on a short story by HP Lovecraft and produced by Brian Yuzna so you know the gore effects will be off the charts, From Beyond is a good idea that perhaps runs out of steam a bit too soon. It's about a couple of scientists that build a "resonator" that stimulates the pineal gland in order to see beings from another world. However, once you see these things they can physically harm you, and so a creature kills one of the scientists, Dr. Edward Pretorius, and the other scientist, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast, is blamed for the murder. But to prove his innocence or solve the crime he is put under the custody of another Doctor, Dr. Katherine McMichaels, to repeat the experiment. So they do and crazy stuff happens of course and things get out of hand when the resonator has a mind of it's own. I think it's an interesting idea but once you see a goopy man standing around, there isn't much left to the movie.

The film has some b-movie all stars such as Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton (both from Re-Animator), and Ken Foree, who are all very good. One thing I appreciate about these people is they all have character in terms of their looks. They stand out by looking different, something that is missing in today's movies where everyone looks the same. In any case From Beyond is a fun weird little film.

[thewhyteboar]

48 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

[Prime Video]

 

From Beyond: 6/10

 

Based on a short story by HP Lovecraft and produced by Brian Yuzna so you know the gore effects will be off the charts, From Beyond is a good idea that perhaps runs out of steam a bit too soon. It's about a couple of scientists that build a "resonator" that stimulates the pineal gland in order to see beings from another world. However, once you see these things they can physically harm you, and so a creature kills one of the scientists, Dr. Edward Pretorius, and the other scientist, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast, is blamed for the murder. But to prove his innocence or solve the crime he is put under the custody of another Doctor, Dr. Katherine McMichaels, to repeat the experiment. So they do and crazy stuff happens of course and things get out of hand when the resonator has a mind of it's own. I think it's an interesting idea but once you see a goopy man standing around, there isn't much left to the movie.

The film has some b-movie all stars such as Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton (both from Re-Animator), and Ken Foree, who are all very good. One thing I appreciate about these people is they all have character in terms of their looks. They stand out by looking different, something that is missing in today's movies where everyone looks the same. In any case From Beyond is a fun weird little film.

Those character names are wonderful.

[Keyser_Soze]

21 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

Those character names are wonderful.

 

I guess I should have put Bubba Brownlee in there too.

[Best]

Scream and Scream 2 

 

Both are like a 6/10 with just God awful acting. I get I shouldn't expect great acting in a teen horror movie but Jesus Christ it was cringe worthy. 

[Greatoneshere]

The weekend recap: 

 

-Air (2023; dir. Ben Affleck): 7/10

-The Instigators (2024; dir. Doug Liman): 6/10

-Slingshot (2024; dir. Mikael Hafstrom): 6.5/10

-Lupin the III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979; dir. Hayao Miyazaki): 7/10

[Dre801]

Jailbreak: Love on the Run - that Netflix documentary about the prison employee that ran off with an inmate a couple of years ago.  That woman was genuinely in love, not sure if he was or not though.

[Best]

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

 

Loved it. I didn't realize Zack Snyder directed this. 

[Moa]

Outlander mid S4 Spoiler

 

Spoiler

Holy fuck Murtagh is back! Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

[SoberChef]

On 10/18/2024 at 6:28 PM, Best said:

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

 

Loved it. I didn't realize Zack Snyder directed this. 

Written by James Gunn no less!

[Keyser_Soze]

[Prime Video]

 

Stigmata: 7/10

 

Stigmata is a late '90s supernatural thriller starring Gabriel Byrne and Patricia Arquette. Byrne plays Andrew Kiernan, a scientist and a priest working for the Vatican. He investigates religious phenomena and determine if they are real. Following the death of a priest he travels to Brazil to investigate a statue of Mary that is crying blood. His investigation reveals the tears are human blood and the statue may be the real deal. However, it becomes apparent that the Cardinal Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) is only there to cover up an such matter in the name of protecting the church. So when a hairdresser in Pittsburgh (Patricia Arquette) suddenly get some stigmata, the cardinal hopes for a swift investigation and cover up. So the film is a big mystery of why this woman is getting stigmata and the truth that needs to be covered up.

 

Personally, for me, I enjoy these types of tales. Religion is seemingly filled with tales of unquestionable faith. The idea of this movie is more that perhaps religious miracles are a bit on the darker side. Director Rupert Wainwright doesn't have much of a filmography but does seem to have a lot of music video credits, something that fits well with the look of the movie. A lot of striking imagery and interesting camera tricks. I think the film has an interesting reverse exorcist thing going to it. Perhaps time has been kind to Stigmata, and I had never seen it back in the day and feel it wasn't that well received, but I feel like it was an enjoyable movie.

[thewhyteboar]

3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

[Prime Video]

 

Stigmata: 7/10

 

Stigmata is a late '90s supernatural thriller starring Gabriel Byrne and Patricia Arquette. Byrne plays Andrew Kiernan, a scientist and a priest working for the Vatican. He investigates religious phenomena and determine if they are real. Following the death of a priest he travels to Brazil to investigate a statue of Mary that is crying blood. His investigation reveals the tears are human blood and the statue may be the real deal. However, it becomes apparent that the Cardinal Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) is only there to cover up an such matter in the name of protecting the church. So when a hairdresser in Pittsburgh (Patricia Arquette) suddenly get some stigmata, the cardinal hopes for a swift investigation and cover up. So the film is a big mystery of why this woman is getting stigmata and the truth that needs to be covered up.

 

Personally, for me, I enjoy these types of tales. Religion is seemingly filled with tales of unquestionable faith. The idea of this movie is more that perhaps religious miracles are a bit on the darker side. Director Rupert Wainwright doesn't have much of a filmography but does seem to have a lot of music video credits, something that fits well with the look of the movie. A lot of striking imagery and interesting camera tricks. I think the film has an interesting reverse exorcist thing going to it. Perhaps time has been kind to Stigmata, and I had never seen it back in the day and feel it wasn't that well received, but I feel like it was an enjoyable movie.

I'm positive I saw this in high school, but I can't remember much about it.

 

I’ve always been a sucker for church conspiracy kinda stuff. 

[Best]

I saw Stigmata in theaters at it's release. I'm old 😪 

[Keyser_Soze]

[Netflix]

 

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft: 7/10

 

Tomb Raider as a game series comes from a time where you had to love the character for themselves because there was very little story to go off of. Then the 2013 reboot came around added a story and made it a game largely about escaping an island rather than exploring ruins. Basically Lara is basically barely a character with barely a story to go on. Which is why I find the negative discourse surrounding this show perplexing. There is very little you could do to ruin the character and her old version is a bit problematic today (stealing ancient artifacts for no reason). But I think this series actually improves Lara as a character.

 

The show starts in a slightly confusing manner (which was one of my bigger problems). Lara is on her own raiding a tomb, when a guy shows up out of nowhere. Turns out he's a guy from the reboot. So then soon after it is established the show is post reboot, or somewhere near. The biggest issue (for me anyway) is that the show assumes you know who these characters are, they get no introduction. On top of that the extreme action scenes Lara goes through is very reminiscent of XXX (the Vin Diesel movies). However, the games are known for being a bit on the silly side anyway. Heck in the original Tomb Raider game you fight a T-Rex.

 

Once you get past the initial episode or two things settle down and we are treated to a globetrotting adventure to stop a bad guy. The show is written and directed by several women, Tasha Huo a fan of the series herself, so it has Lara confronting her past demons and also serving up some wisecracks. The animation is alright, but the colors are really nice. The action scenes are very good as well, a lot of foreground to background action and whatnot. By the end I enjoyed my time. I think if there was going to be a second season I would like to see something a little more grounded. It's kind of hard to say that after this show seemingly went all out but yeah we don't have to go to the end of the earth every season in my opinion.

[Best]

I'm about 25 minutes into Miller's Girl and I didn't realize this was a story about an inappropriate student/teacher relationship starring Bilbo Baggins and Wednesday. 

 

Netflix recommended it to me. So far it's been really awkward watching this unfold. 

[Greatoneshere]

The weekend recap:

 

-Caddo Lake (2024; dirs. Logan George and Celine Held): 6.5/10

-Violet (2021; dir. Justine Bateman): 7.5/10

[Best]

19 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

Justine Bateman

 

I had absolutely no idea she was a director. I litteraly only know her from growing up watching Family Ties. 

 

And of course Jason is her brother. 

[Greatoneshere]

6 minutes ago, Best said:

 

I had absolutely no idea she was a director. I literally only know her from growing up watching Family Ties. 

 

And of course Jason is her brother. 

 

She did an absolutely fantastic job with this movie, this was the first time she's directed a film and she did a great job. I also only really knew her the same as you, from Family Ties and being Jason Bateman's sister.