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

[Bloodporne]

Finished Midnight Mass sometime last week and didn't like it at all. 

 

The Great: Seasons 2 is out and ended up watching the first two episodes and...it's still great gladly! I really enjoy this show. The sets and costumes are fucking gorgeous and it's incredibly funny. 

[elbobo]

Cowboy Bebop - live action

 

They did slightly more right than they did wrong in attempting the almost impossible task of adapting what is often considered the GOAT anime. When they screwed up though it is really bad, looking at you Vicious.

 

6/10

[johnny]

candyman (2021) 3/5

[Jason]

How do we not have a For All Mankind thread? So damn good.

[elbobo]

Arcane on netflix

 

You need to watch this show, it has what I think is the best animation I have ever seen in a television series. The fight scenes are out of this world good and some of the mechanical designs would require 80-90s anime designers to find clean pants.

 

I never played a second of League of Legends so don't worry about that being a requirement to understand/enjoy the show.

 

This is a show that you need to watch without distraction to really appreciate everything that is going on on screen, the animators deserve your undivided attention.

 

If you are unsure on the show all I ask is that you at least finish the first 3 episodes before thinking that it might not be for you.

 

9.5/10

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Willy's Wonderland: 7/10 - One look at the movie poster and you could tell why I wanted to see this. Nicolas Cage starring in what appears to be a horror version of Chuck E Cheese, sign me up! I feel like unlike other Nic Cage movies that look silly but really aren't good this one actually delivers. This movie is what it appears to be. Nic Cage is some guy who finds himself in some backwater town. He gets a flat tire but for some reason isn't carrying $1000 on him so they cut him a deal to clean a restaurant for the car repairs. What they don't tell him is that the animatronic robots are murderous. But Nic Cage is a badass so of course he could easily take these things on. So if that's what you're looking for this movie is exactly what you want it to be. A strange decision is that Nic Cage has no lines in the movie, he's a silent protagonist, but his non verbal acting skills shine so it's a fair tradeoff. The supporting cast isn't too bad either. Beth Grant is in it and you've seen her in a million things and Emily Tosta relatively new, does good as well. In any case a pretty good time and a movie that surprisingly doesn't suck.

[Mercury33]

Sign me the fuck up. Also I feel like the majority of Nic Cage movies coming out in the last few years, he has very little dialogue. 

[silentbob]

COWBOY BEBOP (2021) 4/5

 

I’ve mentioned it in the actual thread that I’m a fan of the original series but not a diehard fan, and maybe that’s why I enjoyed it so much. Yeah we have the issue with Vicious but overall I enjoyed the cast. Cho was actually surprising and I think I owe him an apology for doubting him in this role. Some sets look cheap and cartoonish, and don’t know if that also worked/hurt my take on the show as well. Plus I was fucking stoned for my viewings but added that nice bit of colour to an overall drab looking work. Might be one of few but I hope we get a 2nd season

[elbobo]

Free Guy

 

More fun than I expected. Not spectacular or anything but a fine enough way to spend 2 hours.

 

7/10

[Bloodporne]

 

Had some friends over last night who also appreciate some shitty-ass 80s Horror and we watched this train wreck. Wow. Nothing in this movie even vaguely makes sense from the editing, the lighting the (almost complete lack of) "acting", the asinine use of the soundtrack. All of it. It's incredible how bad this movie, very entertaining and funny. 

[Bloodporne]

Maybe not the exact thread for it but since I take this as the general "Movie Nerd" thread, I really liked this little interview with Tarantino and Colbert discussing Carpenter's The Thing that I happened across earlier. I don't know much about Colbert so it was fun to see not only does he dig the original story but apparently loves Carpenter's movie. 

 

 

[elbobo]

Foundation

 

I have not read the books. Anytime Lee Pierce is on screen it is great, any other time it is ok at best.

 

6.5/10

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Watcher: 9/10 - So I made a thread about this show, if you haven't seen it here it is:

 

Rather than recapping everything about the show I'll just give some follow up thoughts. I think at the time of posting that I would have given it around an 8 but I feel like some "things" happened since then. This show carries an intensity and it's carried right till the very end. It's not a show with in your face action either it's rather grounded, dare I compare it to a show like The Wire? 🤔 But overall a very compelling show. If they decided to create a second season I would certainly be down to watch as well.

One minor nitpick is the theme song, it sounds like they tried to compose it on a SEGA genesis, very strange but not a deal breaker.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

The Birds: 6/10 - I feel like everyone has seen the famous scene in this movie but has anyone seen the whole movie? Well I hadn't. The film has some buildup to the moment the birds attack. Mostly Melanie and Mitch meeting and then her somewhat creepily stalking him to his weekend home in Bodega Bay. Perhaps there was no issue of privacy in the '60s but it's weird that a random person could go to a store and say, "Where does so and so live?" and they tell you, then you ask, "What's the name of their kid?" and they say, "go ask a teacher" then you ask the teacher and the teacher tells you the name So then there is the whole thing with his weird mom and them going back and forth on if they like each other (after 10 mins in a pet shop). I think later at the diner after the school attack is another awkward scene, it felt kind of disjointed and then comical leading up to the gasoline thing.

 

I have no doubt these special effects were groundbreaking nearly 60 years ago but feel somewhat archaic now. I do think the movie is well acted and shot of course, but so much of it is silly by today's standards. But with all the remakes you see going on today I think this one is pretty worthy of one. Practical bird effects and sounds could be something terrifying if someone were to remake the movie.

[elbobo]

Venom Let there be Carnage

 

what an insane 85 minutes of film, it is not a good movie but I cannot help respect that they knew what they were trying to make and stuck with it.

 

5/10

[CayceG]

The Night of the Hunter (1955) - 10/10

 

This one has been on my list for some time and I finally got around to it today. It is an expressionist film noir that follows a boy and girl whose father stole and stashed $10,000 before being sent to prison. In prison, the father's cellmate is a psychopathic con man posing as a preacher that tries to uncover where the money was stashed. Upon getting out of jail after the father's execution, the preacher ingratiates himself to the widow and the boy and girl. The widow is smitten and the boy is skeptical and untrusting. 

 

It turns into a thriller, but one of just absolutely fantastic cinematography and music. When I said it's expressionist, I mean the lighting is ethereal and unrealistic, but stylistically perfect. Robert Mitchum plays the preacher and is terrifyingly good at it and the switches between a charming and down to earth man of God, and a bloodthirsty greedy killer. The best part of the movie for me, though, was the heavy use of protestant Christian stuff--namely, the hymn "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." I used to sing it all the time in church when I was younger. But now, after hearing Robert Mitchum's murderous preacher sing it, it's taken on an altogether different tone for me. 

 

Fun fact: this was actor Charles Laughton's only film he ever directed. It didn't do well when it came out, so Laughton decided not to do any more. Which is a tragedy because of how damn good it is.

 

I put it right up there with Citizen Kane and Dr. Strangelove for one of my top 3 movies of all time. 

[elbobo]

The Last Duel 

 

So spoilers here. The movie is broken into 3 parts showing more or less same story from different perspectives. The whole of crux of the movie though is that Adam Driver's character rapes Jodie Comer's character in all 3 tellings even in Driver's version he rapes her which leads to the titular duel which leaves you having a battle between a shit husband(at best) and a rapist. I guess if the whole point of the movie was to say the middle ages was super misogynistic it succeeded but if it was trying to have any other message I really missed it.

 

The actual duel was good.

 

6.5/10

[Greatoneshere]

50 minutes ago, elbobo said:

The Last Duel 

 

So spoilers here. The movie is broken into 3 parts showing the more or less same story from different perspectives. The whole of crux of the movie though is that Adam Driver's character rapes Jodie Comer's character in all 3 tellings even in Driver's version he rapes her which leads to the titular duel which leaves you having a battle between a shit husband(at best) and a rapist. I guess if the whole point of the movie was to say the middle ages was super misogynistic it succeeded but if it was trying to have any other message I really missed it.

 

The actual duel was good.

 

6.5/10

 

I thought this movie was fantastic. The filmmaking, the acting, the music, everything fit perfectly. I'd have given it an 8/10 myself. It's not an easy watch, but it's a good one.

[Fizzzzle]

Gangs of New York - 6.5/10

 

For as iconic as Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of Bill the Butcher overshadows everything else about this movie, ALL of the performances are fucking fantastic. Jim Broadbent as Boss Tweed to even John C. Reilly. The only picks to nit about this movie are some really kitschy camera bullshit that screams "late 90's/early 2000's" like on-the-nose slow-mo shots for sYmBoLiSm, and also whoever scored this movie was on crack.

 

Looking it up, jesus christ, Howard Shore scored Gangs of New York. He scored the fucking Lord of the Rings. I don't know what kind of shit he was taking when he did Gangs of New York, but holy christ is the music jarring at times.

 

All that being said, there is a lot of brilliant storytelling in this movie that I missed the first time I saw it, but it does get a bit garish. and I LOVE the late 19th century as a setting in pretty much everything. It just makes me want season 2 of Warrior.

[Dre801]

Finished up Master of the Universe Revelations Part 2. - 7.5/10.  If there's a Part 3, I'll watch.

[Fizzzzle]

Glory - 8/10

 

Easily the best Civil War movie ever made, not that it's an incredibly high bar, Ron Maxwell can eat a dick. Glory is the only Civil War movie that is actually ABOUT the war that doesn't quibble with morally gray both-sidesing bullshittery, and also doesn't shy away from the blood and guts. You see a guy get brained in like the first 2 minutes, and that scene is followed by a casual discussion about the Emancipation Proclamation while a dude is getting his leg amputated and screaming in the background.

 

The music is obnoxious and I'm not sure why every civil war movie has to have basically the same score. Something about doing a Civil War movie apparently means you need to have a boner for timpanies and woodwinds.

 

That aside, it's a great movie. I don't know why we have a billion movies about Vietnam and WW2, but like 10 about the Civil War, and most of them are westerns or are directed by shithead Ron Maxwell.

 

I want a true blood-and-guts Civil War movie that isn't about bushwhackers. Glory came out 32 years ago and we haven't had one since.

 

Also I know Denzel got the Oscar for this movie, but Morgan Freeman and Andre Braugher are just as good.

[Fizzzzle]

Gettysburg - -2/10

 

GODDDD this movie is fucking boring. It's not as actively bad as Gods and Generals, but dear lord, you could take 2 hours out of this shit heap and still have lost nothing of value. Any time the narrative shifts away from the Chamberlains it just loses all narrative steam. And oh dear baby Jesus, the "both-sidesing" of this bullshit boils my piss. Then they'll fucking waffle on about "aLl mEn ArE eQuAl" before fucking going back to "gooooood ol' porch-sittin,' lemonade-sippin' noble southn' gentlemen by the grace o' God."

 

My anti-Confederate proselytizing aside (I actually like movies with a pro-confederate bent like Ride with the Devil or The Outlaw Josey Wales), "Give me the report, Colonel: The Movie" is not a compelling film, and that makes up about two thirds of the runtime of this fucking shit pit, and that doesn't even have anything to do with the "I'm fighting for my rights" confederate justification bullshit.

 

This movie makes me angry. Luckily I'm not going to bother with Gods and Generals, even speaking that name aloud makes me feel like I have a hemorrhoid. It's just been a long time since I've seen Gettysburg and I wanted to see if it held up as crappy as I remember. It was worse. I was thinking 4/10, not -2.

 

And HOW IN THE EVER LOVING SHIT PISS DO YOU MANAGE TO MAKE PICKETT'S CHARGE BORING?! It's the "climax" of the film, but it lasts like fucking 45 minutes, we don't even see Colonel Chamberlain, who is the closest thing this travesty of a film has to a protagonist during the whole fucking thing. God, this movie sucks and is bad.

 

Also, as an aside, fuck George Pickett. He gets hero-worshipped in this movie, the guy fucking sucked. He almost single-handedly caused a war between the US and Britain because he thought the country could rally behind a common enemy to save the Union (or something, who knows), then joined the Confederacy because he's an asshat.

[Greatoneshere]

@Fizzzzle, they aren't exactly Civil War "battle" movies per se, but Cold Mountain and Lincoln are both really good Civil War movies to me at least.

[Fizzzzle]

37 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

@Fizzzzle, they aren't exactly Civil War "battle" movies per se, but Cold Mountain and Lincoln are both really good Civil War movies to me at least.

Yeah, I watched Cold Mountain recently. It is really good. I think there are 2 reasons why big battle Civil War movies aren't made very often: 1) they would cost a lot of money and might not do very well outside of the United States, and 2) they would potentially alienate a significant(ly stupid) portion of the American population by portraying the Confederates as evil. That's why all Civil War movies are either completely about liberation (Glory, Lincoln) to the point where there isn't even a named Confederate character (they're pretty much all stormtroopers), or they hardly mention slavery at all (Gettysburg), or it's a story that doesn't have anything to do with it (Cold Mountain).

 

A movie like 12 Years a Slave can do well because it's portraying slavery as evil, and individual slave-owners as evil, but because it's such a smaller story, it doesn't necessarily make white people feel guilty while watching it. Gods and Generals is an awful movie, but a lot of people love it because it's pretty much Lost Cause propoganda all the way through (on RT it's 8% with critics but 64% with audience)

 

Edit: expanding on that in all modern movies about the war I can think of, 2 don't portray confederates at all (Lincoln and Glory), 2 "both sides" the shit out of the war (Gettysburg and Gods and Generals), and in the rest (Josey Wales, Ride with the Devil, Cold Mountain, and the Free State of Jones), the protagonists *are* confederate soldiers

 

Clearly, no one wants to fund a movie where the war could be construed as anything other than morally ambiguous.

[Greatoneshere]

45 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

Yeah, I watched Cold Mountain recently. It is really good. I think there are 2 reasons why big battle Civil War movies aren't made very often: 1) they would cost a lot of money and might not do very well outside of the United States, and 2) they would potentially alienate a significant(ly stupid) portion of the American population by portraying the Confederates as evil. That's why all Civil War movies are either completely about liberation (Glory, Lincoln) to the point where there isn't even a named Confederate character (they're pretty much all stormtroopers), or they hardly mention slavery at all (Gettysburg), or it's a story that doesn't have anything to do with it (Cold Mountain).

 

A movie like 12 Years a Slave can do well because it's portraying slavery as evil, and individual slave-owners as evil, but because it's such a smaller story, it doesn't necessarily make white people feel guilty while watching it. Gods and Generals is an awful movie, but a lot of people love it because it's pretty much Lost Cause propoganda all the way through (on RT it's 8% with critics but 64% with audience)

 

Edit: expanding on that in all modern movies about the war I can think of, 2 don't portray confederates at all (Lincoln and Glory), 2 "both sides" the shit out of the war (Gettysburg and Gods and Generals), and in the rest (Josey Wales, Ride with the Devil, Cold Mountain, and the Free State of Jones), the protagonists *are* confederate soldiers

 

Clearly, no one wants to fund a movie where the war could be construed as anything other than morally ambiguous.

 

Yeah it's something that is very true and problematic. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Just finished 11.22.63 on Hulu. I liked it, give it 8/10. 
 

Definitely nowhere near as good as the book, though. One big change they made I just wasn’t a fan of. 

[Mercury33]

I like Gettysburg 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Bloodporne]

On 12/12/2021 at 5:40 PM, Fizzzzle said:

some really kitschy camera bullshit that screams "late 90's/early 2000's" like on-the-nose slow-mo shots for sYmBoLiSm

Scorsese unfortunately had that going on for a bit. Bringing Out The Dead has some awful MTV Music Video moments like that as well. 

[Fizzzzle]

14 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

I like Gettysburg 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm not sure if we can be friends anymore

 

Joking and politics aside, the fact that they don't even show Col. Chamberlain for almost the last hour of the movie infuriates me. I might have given the movie a positive score if they did that.

[Mercury33]

1 hour ago, Fizzzzle said:

I'm not sure if we can be friends anymore

 

Joking and politics aside, the fact that they don't even show Col. Chamberlain for almost the last hour of the movie infuriates me. I might have given the movie a positive score if they did that.

To be fair I haven’t seen it in probably over 20 years haha

[johnny]

venom let there be carnage 2/5 

 

i think the movie has an identity (not one that i like) at the least which is why i didnt give it a 1 

[Fizzzzle]

The Last Samurai - 7/10

 

This movie is historically preposterous for a whole host of reasons, and the whole "white savior/noble savage" trope makes my woke libcuck feathers ruffle very much, but... it's a good movie.

 

See? If Gettysburg didn't suck absolute ass, I wouldn't mind that it's Lost Cause bullshittery.

[Greatoneshere]

8 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

The Last Samurai - 7/10

 

This movie is historically preposterous for a whole host of reasons, and the whole "white savior/noble savage" trope makes my woke libcuck feathers ruffle very much, but... it's a good movie.

 

See? If Gettysburg didn't suck absolute ass, I wouldn't mind that it's Lost Cause bullshittery.

 

I don't really see the "white savior" narrative as much in The Last Samurai, but rather a white man from America with deep scars from the massacre of the Native Americans from war finding solace in samurai culture and trying to honor it. Ken Watanabe's character is the last samurai, Tom Cruise is just a part of it.

 

I dunno, I love that movie so I'm probably biased. The Hans Zimmer score alone is masterful. 

[Bloodporne]

6 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I don't really see the "white savior" narrative as much in The Last Samurai, but rather a white man from America with deep scars from the massacre of the Native Americans from war finding solace in samurai culture and trying to honor it. Ken Watanabe's character is the last samurai, Tom Cruise is just a part of it.

 

I dunno, I love that movie so I'm probably biased. The Hans Zimmer score alone is masterful. 

The title is actually plural and refers to the samurai in general. I looked this up after the, still hilarious, Mooney bit on the Chappelle Show. I had seen the movie and was like yeah that's a great joke with a better punchline BUT...that ain't what the movie is about at all. Cruise obviously isn't the Last Samurai, the title and cover are just an unfortunate combo that way. I would've been the first one to shit on that movie if so, I love Japanese cinema.

[Fizzzzle]

1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

The title is actually plural and refers to the samurai in general. I looked this up after the, still hilarious, Mooney bit on the Chappelle Show. I had seen the movie and was like yeah that's a great joke with a better punchline BUT...that ain't what the movie is about at all. Cruise obviously isn't the Last Samurai, the title and cover are just an unfortunate combo that way. I would've been the first one to shit on that movie if so, I love Japanese cinema.

That's not why it's preposterous from a historical perspective. I can get behind a white outsider to ease us into the struggle as an audience and therefore have no problem with Tom Cruise being the main character of the movie. The "last samurai" were not fucking shooting arrows on horseback while riding into machine gun fire. The samurai were a privileged class that lost their privilege in the Meiji era and fought to protect it. It wasn't a noble cause and they certainly never brought a sword to a machine gun fight. Not to mention the impractical armor used in the movie. It basically paints a romantic portrait of bushido culture that never existed, let alone in the late 19th century when they definitely were using guns.

 

I could go into a whole thing about the depiction of the "noble savage" in films and why it's patronizing colonial apologism, but I'm a WASP so even me saying it is also patronizing in its own way.

 

... still, it's a good movie. I can appreciate a good story regardless of context.