Watch any good movies lately?
3I’m still sick and getting over pneumonia (from aspirating on the fucking red tide in Florida). I’ve pretty much exhausted everything on the boob tube so now I’m on to movie. Last night I watched hit man and the family plan. I really liked hit man, thought it funny and enjoyed reading the true story behind it. The family plan was mildly entertaining, I’m a mark Wahlberg fan so that’s why I liked it. I’m planning on flight risk today. Anybody got any others that they’ve seen recently that I should plan on? I have access to everything, so doesn’t matter where they come from. Thanks.
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Sorry, I’ve been binging mystery TV series I’ve still got on DVD (though they are likely also in Netflix or Hulu)
Elementary with Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu has a lot of writers from the Deep Space Nine series to create an ensemble of complex characters for 150 episodes. Very engaging. And also the procedural mystery solving.
@pakopako
Don’t really want to start a series bc I’m so bored of being stuck on the couch being sick that when I’m over this I don’t want to have NEED to finish a series. I tried doing a word search the other day but it took me 4 hours for something that should have taken 15 mins bc I’m so out of it. So things like reading are out that’s why movies are perfect to zone in and out to right now.
@pakopako @Star2236 It is good when you decide that is what you want to do.
Movies - I end up getting up in the middle and forgetting about it. Attention span seriously suffers with age.
@Cerridwyn @pakopako @Star2236 I really liked elementary and rewatched and/or finished it when it was on streaming. It’s a traditional tv series though so it’s a lot of procedural episodes
I’m so far behind the curve on the subject of movies that the mountainous terrain of it is entirely below the horizon. The last movie I saw in a theater was SpiderMan: Across the Spider-Verse. Prior to that, Barbie. (I have yet to see the prequel, Oppenheimer.) Oh, and we went to the anniversary screening of The Princess Bride. Missing that would have been… you know.
At home, I finally got around to the first Doctor Strange last week.
@werehatrack
Unimaginable?
@macromeh @werehatrack Unthinkable.
@macromeh @werehatrack @zhicks1987
Unfathomable.
@Kyeh @macromeh @werehatrack @zhicks1987
/giphy inconceivable
@macromeh @werehatrack @zhicks1987
@pakopako
@Kyeh @macromeh @pakopako @werehatrack @zhicks1987
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
A couple days ago I saw The Place Behind the Pines on Netflix. I was expecting something light but it got very serious and I thought it was excellent.
Someone else here posted new ep of Black Mirror also on Netflix. Had never heard of it so… Every ep is a different story and from what I saw usually about 45 min. I was impressed with the two stories I saw.
@fjp999 Sorry, it was The Place Beyond the Pines
@fjp999 @star2236
black mirror is Netflix take on the black and white twilight zone from the 60s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone
Basically some weird future maybe dystopian… Senario. That presents a topic in a weird way? But yea they are all completely seperate short stories around 50 minutes. Nothing to get committed too. If that scratches your itch
@Star2236 @unksol Thanks. I am very aware of the B&W Twilight Zone having grown up with all the amazing repeats. I can kind of see Black Mirror as a very modern TZ.
If you’re looking for a fun, entertaining action flick, I highly recommend Boss Level. This was actually a big budget summer blockbuster that had the misfortune of being scheduled to drop during summer 2020. Covid ate it, and apparently Hulu bought the rights for cheap. That’s the only place you can stream it.
I randomly watched it on a Delta flight long ago, and then ended up buying a Canadian Blu-ray (I think it was never released on disc in the US). Unfortunately, the disc has a different ending… Anyway, everyone I have convinced to watch this movie has enjoyed it (even my wife, who is not into action movies, per se)…
@shahnm
That’s definitely going on my list. I’ve seen a few good, Groundhog Day type movies in the past few years. Palm Springs was good as a comedy with the kid that’s getting married from that’s my boy (another hilarious movie).
If anyone here has a really serious thing for B-minus (or worse) horror flicks, I know where an estate’s collection with several thousand DVDs (heavy on the zombies) can be had for little or nothing more than the cost of shipping. If you’re interested, reply and I’ll toss the contact phone number in a Whisper. The heir wants nothing to do with them, and doubts that even the local thrift stores will want them. (The location is near Texas A&M, the one in College Station.)
If you’ve got Prime there’re a couple decent BBC treatments of M.R. James stories that they used to have, anyway: A View From A Hill, The Mezzotint, The Tractate Middoth, Martin’s Close, etc.
Tastes differ so much that it is hard to know what to recommend. The only memorable movie I have watched lately was Flow. It is on Max.
@rockblossom That looks amazing. I hope the film’s score is as good as what they used for the trailer, though I know that the music for trailers is often not from the film. (“Trailer music” has become a genre all its own, and much of it is even better than what gets used in the movies.)
Just last night, I watched an action adventure, high budget flick.
If you’re looking for a good popcorn flick to mindlessly pass some time, this is one for you. I enjoyed it and wondered how I missed it when it came out, but I wasn’t the only one, since it lost money. However people with money must have enjoyed it, as a sequel is coming out soon.
@lonocat I liked red notice. Gap gadot is also in heart of stone.
Some like action/heist stuff.
@lonocat lmao Gal
@lonocat
I watched that as soon as it came to Netflix and it was so entertaining. I’m so glad they’re making another one. I might actually watch that again.
/giphy ghostbusters
@sillyheathen I saw that recently. Never got to the end
@sillyheathen Afterlife (and to a less entertaining degree Frozen Empire) are similarly paced to the original. There’s also a lot of nostalgic bits (I swear Frozen Empire started out as a remake of the original, with Kumail Nanjiani in place of Rick Morranis) but enough to keep things fresh.
Also Ryan Reynolds tends to make very digestible movies that are over rather quick. Deadpool, Free Guy, Detective Pikachu, Bullet Train all move rather quickly (Bullet Train is especially compressed in packing a lot of jokes per minute while still injecting cool down periods to process).
@pakopako @sillyheathen
I’m not a comic book movie person (I watch way to much avengers at home, it’s on tv ALL the time and Bfriend watches it). I do love Brad Pitt, good to look at and good actor. I totally forgot about bullet train. I’m adding that to my list right now. I watched wolfs not to long ago, it was okay/good. I’ve seen better movies from both but still good.
I love ghostbusters movies (my era/time as a kid). I’ve seen afterlife a bunch, frozen empire is on my list too. Bfriend says we’ve seen it but I know he’s wrong.
@capnjb Same! I kind of fell asleep watching it last night right at the end!
It really is one of my all time favorites though. It absolutely holds up.
I like watching stand up comedy, which Netflix has put money into specials. But some are on YouTube too. Just an hour. Get a laugh. Forget about the world for a bit.
Hard to know what you consider a good movie with no context.
Josh Johnson from the daily show has been posting weekly sets.
https://www.youtube.com/@JoshJohnsonComedy
Just full sets. And he’s good
@unksol
I like him a lot. I think your the one that got me into him in the first place from posting stuff here.
I did like the night agent. 10 episodes I think. Haven’t bothered with the second season yet
https://www.netflix.com/title/81450827
A really great movie that I never see anyone talk about is Big Night. Stanley Tucci and his brother Tony Shaloub run an Italian restaurant. It’s on Pluto. The movie, not the restaurant.