I was watching it on a Showtime Select channel on Pluto Tv. So there is no On Demand for binge watching. So will just check out when I can.
Did you finish The Wire yet?
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I was watching it on a Showtime Select channel on Pluto Tv. So there is no On Demand for binge watching. So will just check out when I can.
Did you finish The Wire yet?
I'm still in the middle of Season 2, I need to get back to it.
I watched some Danish movie called A Fortunate Man and I liked it.
I hate dubbed movies so I prefer the original language and subtitles. The dubbing kills it.
Agreed dubbing is lame.
In France (where everything is dubbed) they use the same voice actor for the same original actor, one on one. Imagine being called Francois Le Bleu and your work week consisting of dubbing every Clint Eastwood line ever. SUICIDE PENDING.
Yea the voices all sounded the same. And listening to it in an American English accent fucks it up too. If they dubbed it with some Danish guy speaking English with his natural accent I might entertain the dub.Quote:
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But it’s still not natural.
desert punk.
this has to be my fav anime and anime character yet
Hal I watched a Dutch movie today called A Noble Intention. It was pretty good.
Looked it up as I was unfamiliar with it. Looks like a movie I'd enjoy, I'm always in for some costume drama
It was an interesting movie and a true story.Quote:
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'Timeless'. They're showing this 2017 time travel show down here weekly now. Recommended by our scifi club. Solid pilot about The Hindenburg zeppelin in 1937. I hope I get to see the scifi guys and gals again this summer. I miss our bimonthly meetups at the other end of the country. Same for the monthly Jean Ray book club in my hometown.
Scorsese complaining about streaming services' mainstream output in a fancy essay when he had Netflix bankroll 'The Irishman'. Nice going Martin. Of course he's partly right about big streaming services but I don't know if he should be tge one complaining.
'The Irishman' is still in my top ten new movies I saw in the last five years.
The Crime Boss
entertaining movie about "organized" crime in the South. Good combo of humor and crime, but not an 'action comedy'.
The Hunt
Earlier on we were talking on here about how played out tgat script is. I thought I'd give a chance anyway and 15 minutes into the movie I'm pleasantly surprised. It's action combined with some humor (the opening scene lol) and some gore. This movie is smart about not taking itself seriously but still being entertaining.
^^lol finished it. WuCorp is gonna love that movie. Very Gen Chat'ish.
Aerial America
Checking out Takeshi Kitano's 90s output. 'Sonatine' is a great little crime drama. Checking out 'Boiling Point' next.
Spectral (Netflix). Good hybrid of war movie and scifi. The scifi part is explained away with an interesting real life theory that is above my paygrade lol.
Underwater. Good movie in the vein of 'The Abyss'. Action packed scifi.
About to watcg Annihilation (Netflix) now. Looks like it could be another good scifi flick.
Yeah that's a classic.Quote:
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I watched Coming To America again. I think I'll skip the sequel, the reviews are in and they're not good.
Fish Tank - British coming of age drama that's on Netflix. Banger of a film.
Also rewatching True Detective Season 1, which is absolutely fantastic, I'm surprised I hadn't rewatched it before now.
Fish Tank is great. I saw it in a movie theater when it dropped in 2009. IIRC that movie had a Nas song off Illmatic in it? I seem to remember not expecting a Nas song to turn up in a British drama. wonderful performance by the female teen lead. the mom and the creepy guy roles were well played too
^ Life's a Bitch. Nas is pretty typical shit for british hoodrats to be listening to. Probably less so these days.
Fassbender is great in it, he's a great actor but he's been in a lot of shit films recently.
this guy has been reviewing a movie a day for eleven years straight
http://dansator.blogspot.com/?m=1
The fun thing about it is he reviews movies in simple honest terms and doesn't aim for professional Robert Ebert like reviews. What is also interesting is that he reviews wildly different stuff, from Japanese arthouse movies over American blockbusters to softcore and hardcore adult movies. Currently he is in the process of getting his young grandson to watch his first (Universal rated) movies.
He uses a lot of stills when reviewing movies.
I check in every now and again.
If CharlesJones were a normal guy I think this is what the reviews would come out like.
Travelers
^^Netflix scifi show, 2 season. Good plot and acting
the Katee Sackhoff starring Another Life is really bad. Lackluster story and she's the only one who plays her character convincingly. Everybody else is part of the shitshow
21 Bridges. Good film!
this show was awesome. 3 seasons equally strong with a breathtaking finaleQuote:
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'Hostiles'. Contemplative western with Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike. Great movie.
^ Great actors for sure.
Life On Mars & the sequel Ashes To Ashes. UK Time Travelling Cop shows. The latter show drags on a bit, but I'm 2/3 through so I'm gonna finish it now.
In Fabric. British horror comedy about a killer dress. It aims for a seventies horror vibe but throws in great British humor and some nice story telling. Halfway through the movie it switches protagonists, which is a good point to pause the movie and 7watch the rest later, since it's quite long (just over 2 hours) for a horror flick. I did just that and I enjoyed the second part even more that way. The second protagonist is hilarious, the comedy is upped even more in the fitting grand finale.
I loved every minute of it. Extra points for the soundtrack and the seventies setting.
Ah I like some of the actors in that. I'm sure I saw it was available to download on TV before, if it's still there I'll watch it later.Quote:
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Caddyshack - Never gets old.
Stalker - Classic philosophical Sci-fi. Takes a while to get going, but wow what a movie.
Lockdown nr 3 starts Monday down here, for at least a month. Got my Prime subscription just in time. 'The Boys'. It's like 'Watchmen''s second cousin. Good pilot.
City on the Hill. 2nd season starts soon. 1st season is a entertaining watch.
Are Westworld seasons 2 & 3 any good? It's been 4 years or so since I saw season 1, I'd have to watch it again to be able to catch up with season 2
I just tried watching The Man In The High Castle season 2 four years after I saw season 1 and I did not get episode one at all lol. So I had to start back in on season 1. Btw if you like the show the book (Philip K Dick) is better, they're really only tangentially related, it's the same universe but mostly with different plotlines and vastly superior characters in the book
that show was great. they dared to be dark(ish). kind of un-disney. I wonder if Disney+ has it in their package
I wish that they would have kept it going after Goliath Chronicles.
I just read on Wikipeedia that Jordan Peele pitched his movie version at Disney back in 2018. How sick that movie would have been!
Dolor y gloria. (Almodovar) The childhood scenes got under my skin.
The people supporting the show at the upper level left Disney when Katzenberg started Dreamworks. A fourth season would have been greatQuote:
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The people supporting the show at the upper level left Disney when Katzenberg started Dreamworks. A fourth season would have been greatQuote:
Originally Posted by David Daniel Davis
The Professor and the Madman. Got absolutely shredded by the critics down here but I thought it was very good. Great performances by Mel Gibson, Sean Penn (doesn't indulge in going all out in his part and if he does just a little it fits the character because he portrays a man who's gone crazy) and Natalie Dormer.
I like the themes of the movie : a dictionary that is decades in the making, a man suffering from paranoia and schizophrenia, crime and forgiveness
Started watching Your Honor with Bryan Cranston. The reviews aren't great, I'm not sure I'll keep going.
The sitcom Superstore, which is only okay but it's easy to watch late at night.
Dust, YT channel that has some decent short scifi films.