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mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
20,181
14,743
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Andor S2 - I really enjoyed it, it's a solid addition to the series. I find it odd how people are talking up the final episode though, if anything I thought it was anticlimatic in comparison to what preceded it.

There was also some content about Mon Mothma making some final speech when she reached gold team which just didn't seem to happen at all. I understand that Andor was meant to be 5 seasons, the concluding episodes of S2 felt like a rush to tie off only the most necessary ends. There didn't seem to be an end to the Luthen storyline at Yavin either, it seemed like there was internal conflict then there wasn't, it seemed like there was an intention to flesh that out over a few episodes then it had to be cut short when it should have just got cut completely.
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,399
2,845
126
Dept. Q - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995114/reference/

Sco'ish police drama about a policeman that sucks, but then they give him a dead-end job working cold cases, and through a bit of luck, a bit of self-determination, and 90% of the work being done by his much smarter colleague, he actually gets some results.

Sort-of well acted, but with a not-particularly-charismatic actor, a fairly bland protagonist, and far, far too long for the amount of content it has.

5.5/10
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,399
2,845
126
After Life - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0838247/reference/

Lazy "horror" that i watched because, according to someone on the internet, "Cristina Ricci is totally naked in it". Which turned out to be not true, she shows maybe a little boob.

Ricci dies because she's driving drunk. She wakes up in the mortuary and Liam Neeson is preparing her for the funeral, and Neeson says "i can speak to the dead" and Ricci is like "nuhu, you're full of shit, im actually alive". This is the "psychological horror" of the film, it wants to leave you with the doubt whether Ricci actually is dead and only Neeson can hear her, or if she is alive and he is some kind of monster. But there never really is any doubt that she is dead.
The film even shoots itself in the foot later by confirming that yep, she totally was dead, because the same thing happens to her boyfriend. And Neeson's character doesn't even have any mysterious reasons that may cause you to distrust him.

It's a very lazy script, just a line or two stretched out to an hour and a half, directed by a nobody, and with Justin Long's stupid face to put the last nail in the coffin.

5.5/10
 
Jul 27, 2020
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Lazy "horror" that i watched because, according to someone on the internet, "Cristina Ricci is totally naked in it". Which turned out to be not true, she shows maybe a little boob.
She is totally naked even in the IMDB gallery of the movie. Just her back side. So you were not told a complete lie.
 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
15,072
10,560
136
Netflix documentary:

Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster

8/10

Answers most of the questions.. quite a nice bit of coast guard video regarding what they found on the ocean floor and oceangate video recordings from before the incident.

Recommended

 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,399
2,845
126
The Bondsman - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28256288/reference/

Really mediocre Amazon show with Kevin Bacon that *wants* to be Preacher, or Constantine, but just doesnt have the material. Or the acting. Or anything else.

Kevin Bacon is a *yawn* bounty hunter in the good ol' south, and then when he dies (and is sent to hell), he is then resurrected with the agreement that he gets to stay on earth, alive, as long as he keeps bounty-hunting demons.

It's really got nothing going for it. No decent characters, or dialogue, or acting, or CGI, or direction, or anything.

5/10
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
50,441
6,579
136
Andor S2 - I really enjoyed it, it's a solid addition to the series. I find it odd how people are talking up the final episode though, if anything I thought it was anticlimatic in comparison to what preceded it.

There was also some content about Mon Mothma making some final speech when she reached gold team which just didn't seem to happen at all. I understand that Andor was meant to be 5 seasons, the concluding episodes of S2 felt like a rush to tie off only the most necessary ends. There didn't seem to be an end to the Luthen storyline at Yavin either, it seemed like there was internal conflict then there wasn't, it seemed like there was an intention to flesh that out over a few episodes then it had to be cut short when it should have just got cut completely.

Yeah, you could see that the tensions with Yavin, Saw Gerrera , etc. never got fleshed out. I think they made the ending feel that way so they could lead directly into Rogue One, as well as to provide closure (ex. Kleya seeing the fruits of her life's work in action). I enjoyed Rogue One 10x more watching it post-Andor S2.

What I REALLY want them to do is have K-2SO upload himself along with the Death Star plans & then they create a series of his (mis)adventurous throughout the Star Wars timeline (as he's a robot, can live forever, and pretend to be a regular robot to disguise himself because nobody would ever suspect). He'd be great opposite of Mr. Serious Mandalorian lol. And running into C-3PO & poking fun of him, being snarky friends with R2-D2, etc. would be EPIC lol.

 

cytg111

Lifer
Mar 17, 2008
25,458
14,971
136
Was going to pass on this one

Deep Cover


It got Orlando Bloom, Bryce Dallas, Nick Mohammed in the leads and .. Well read the IMDB.

Even the setup the first 10-15 minutes of the flick I am like, shit should I just drop it? At 30 minutes I've had two hysterical laughs, this is some of the funniest shit I've ever seen.
And only 30 mins in. Will watch the rest now. Bye.
 

kn51

Senior member
Aug 16, 2012
708
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Dept. Q - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995114/reference/

Sco'ish police drama about a policeman that sucks, but then they give him a dead-end job working cold cases, and through a bit of luck, a bit of self-determination, and 90% of the work being done by his much smarter colleague, he actually gets some results.

Sort-of well acted, but with a not-particularly-charismatic actor, a fairly bland protagonist, and far, far too long for the amount of content it has.

5.5/10

Three episodes in...I dunno, somewhat like it but god can't stand the protagonist. And that is a hell of a pressure chamber.

And you knew his partner Akrim was some super bad-ass torturer cop like Sayid from Lost about 30 minutes in.
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,399
2,845
126
Three episodes in...I dunno, somewhat like it but god can't stand the protagonist. And that is a hell of a pressure chamber.

And you knew his partner Akrim was some super bad-ass torturer cop like Sayid from Lost about 30 minutes in.
it does not get better.
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,399
2,845
126
The Penguin Lessons - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26677014/reference/

Steve Coogan plays a english teacher in Argentina, during the 1976 coup. He's a pretty miserable human, until by chance he is forced to adopt a penguin that he finds caught in an oil spill.
The penguin slowly causes him to come alive once more.

yep, that's it. of course there's the backdrop of the argentinian coup and of the desaparecidos (a page that suspiciously lacks from the English version of Wikipedia), where around thirty-thousand people were abducted by the government and, well, killed. the word means "those who have been made to disappear".
The protagonist, a man who - following the accidental death of his teenage daughter - wants nothing but to wait for life to end, experiences a character arc when faced with these situations to which he cannot remain indifferent. The penguin is the catalyst that allows him to come to his senses and start living life again.
Jonathan Pryce, still alive and well, is the headmaster.

It was .. slow. And the direction is lacking. And yes, it does get better, but well past the first half. It's not bad, but i'd rather have you watch The Hippopotamus (2017) rather than this.

6/10
 

nisryus

Senior member
Sep 11, 2007
889
247
116
Cells at Work 2024


Watched it while getting sick on the flight home. It was a decent movie.

plot was simple.. You have all kinds of cells in your body and the story focus on two main cells - red and white. Of course, it added how virus or other things might caused damage to our body and when that happened what the cells would react.

Hmm.. many Japanese movies always put the female leads as clueless. This might be the biggest beef i have with this movie.
 

gorobei

Diamond Member
Jan 7, 2007
3,948
1,430
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i watched

The Amateur - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0899043/reference/

which i gather was a book first, then a film in 1981 - which i didnt watch - and now a Rami Malek "same shit as every other show" feature.

Rami Malek's stupid face is a CIA employee. One day he's told that his wife has been, by pure accident, killed by a terrorist group. Being a CIA staff person he wants to go all james bond on the criminals, but his superiors tell him look buddy, you're an analyst - you can't go shooting people, and besides there's political considerations to take into account, so just go on your bereavement leave and stfu.

But instead Rami's stupid face decides to go rogue and, up to this point i would be on board with the script - this is what you're shown in the trailers, and then some 'splosions - but the lead-up to this point is really slow, and does not set up an interesting character for Malek. Then there is the supposed action part, but there is no ... action. In the action part. it's actionless. The trailer .. it lied.

So; if you wanna watch it, be my guest. I found it poorly made under every perspective, from the color, to the sound, to Rami Malek's stupid stupid face, Laurence Fishburn's lack of onscreen presence playing yet another Morpheus rehash, and an exceptionally mundane plot.

5.5/10
i read the book for high school english and came across the movie on cable years later. havent seen the remake.

from what i remember the main part of the first act was he was expecting the agency to naturally go after the pseudo carlos the jackal terrorist and they demurred so then he goes rogue because they wont act. so the jump from office nerd to wannabe bond was reasonable.

like all things it worked better during its time. carlos captured the minds of all the media writers and lived rent free for a while. setting most of the action in the eastern block countries had an allure, as it was behind the berlin wall which played well in the 70's and 80's. at the time people in the west had very little concept of what it was like in communist eastern europe. so a smaller civilian level view of crossing over the wall worked ok, showing all the issues and risks associated with secret police and constant checkpoints. it was an early version of fan self-insert fiction where the main character wasnt super well trained, top of the 99 percentile achiever, natural charmer get out of any situation spy.

so the book worked but mostly because you had the insight of the character's thought process. the movie was super budget and couldnt convey the inner thoughts. one would hope the remake would have been able to translate it better with all the improvements in visual storytelling over the last 30+ years.
 
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gorobei

Diamond Member
Jan 7, 2007
3,948
1,430
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anna (2019)
NOC russian female spy/assassin attempts to find way out of the job.
8/10

given that this is realistically a genre on its own starting with La Femme Nikita movie through to Long Kiss Goodnight, Salt, Lucy, Atomic Blonde, Red Sparrow; it seems like there is always someone who is willing to take a shot at the brass ring. i watched this and didnt look at the credits until after; so color me surprised when i saw it was luc besson trying to get it right 30 years later.

LFN was ok but very french and not for mainstream audiences. so after his more hollywood projects he has a tighter pace and sensibility. still not amazing but better than LFN.

it starts out ok, flirting with almost being a real world gritty non-hollywood take. but somewhere around the 2nd act he cant help but go ridiculous Transporter style action hero. the lead actress(a real life model) does ok but doesnt have the acting chops yet. she does ok in some of the emotional scenes and can show you enough insight with her facial expressions, but she doesnt know what to do with her body/arms/hands/etc in all the other non focused non closeup scenes.

there is the requisite amount of schemes and twists, but besson gets way too convoluted with the edit jumping all over the place temporally with flashbacks and past scene reveals. also he seems to be in his hitchcock phase as there is a good bit of male gaze and objectification.

the fight scenes are good, amazing that they found a stuntwoman who was tall and skinny enough to match the lead actress.

in the context of all the attempts to do this genre, this is an ok version in a field where none have ever nailed it.
 
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Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
40,259
9,867
136
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) 6/10

4th time seeing this, watched the Criterion BR, took 6 months to get from local library following Lynch's death in January. I still don't care for David Lynch. I've seen his major works. Last time I saw this was 15 years ago.

Always rubs me the wrong way. Did he ever have a plot that made sense? This one certainly doesn't. Even the cast aren't sure what the plot is. Lynch himself never explained. Each time I see it I try to figure out what's going on and reach a point where I just give up.

The film was originally conceived as a television pilot for ABC, with footage shot and edited in 1999 as an open-ended mystery. After viewing Lynch's cut, however, television executives cancelled the proposed TV series. Lynch then secured funding from French production company StudioCanal to make the material into a feature film, writing an ending to the project and filming new material. The resulting surrealist narrative has left the film's events open to interpretation. Lynch declined to offer an explanation, leaving audiences, critics, and even the film's own cast to speculate on its meaning.
 
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