NEW: List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[Perknose]

Continuation of Movie Thread 7/30/23.

Previous thread can be found here: http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=thread...ntly-theatre-rental-tv-and-give-a-10.2178406/

Enjoy! And host a cold one for Keith Talent while you do.

 

[DigDog]

I am currently watching Season 1 (of 2) of The Big O - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_O IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280240/reference/

and i am loving it.

This anime is from 1999 and you think i would hate it, being that i am an animephobe and i hate anything japanese that hasn't got Toshiro Mifune or Lupin The Third in it. But, it's reeally good.
The art style is fantastic, reject modernity, embrace neonoir & art deco mixtures.
The story is reasonably anime-trope-free, and it comes both dubbed and original, with soft subs. Subs are good, Dub is .. well, funny. The main character in English sounds like Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, but i think it still works with the video.

The action animation is superb. It's somewhere in the middle between Super Robot and Real Robot genre, the aesthetics are clearly Super Robot, but the action is Real Robot.

I know there is a Season 2 in existence but cannot find it anywhere.
I'm currently at E02 so a bit early to give a proper vote, but for the time i'm leaning towards 8/10.

 

[Captante]

Amazon carries both seasons of Big O on DVD. (too lazy to link sorry)

 

[DigDog]

Amazon carries both seasons of Big O on DVD. (too lazy to link sorry)

but .. that would mean i need a DVD player. With an actual physical disk. EEEUUUCH .

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Twisted Metal - Now streaming on Peacock!

So far its entertaining and all 10-episodes are up.

 

[DigDog]

i watched Jim Jaramusch's claim to fame, Down By Law, or - with it's original release title - Daunbailo' - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/reference/

I scream - you scream - we all scream for ice cream.

B&W 1986 film by JJ starring Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni. Essentially the plot is "what if you were locked up with an italian who can't into english?"
Pimp "Jack" (Lurie) is set up by a business partner and busted with an underage girl. Disgraced ex- disk jockey "Zack" (Waits) is convinced to drive a hot car and gets busted with a body in the trunk. They are jailed together and inmate "Roberto" (Beningi) is put in their cell, for allegedly knocking unconscious a cop with a pool ball.

The main part of the story is Roberto being horrible at speaking english, but at the same time being a very charismatic guy. Makes friends with the other two and convinces them to escape from jail. Cut the Louisiana bayou and walking through mud, and more of the same: Roberto trying to communicate in his horribly broken english, and the other two laughing at this. Obviously the viewer is meant to identify with the two.

And, somehow this works. Benigni is a .. difficult artist. He does this part well, but it's also true he can't do anything else, he can only play THIS part.
How in the world Jaramusch figured out that combining this one absurd italian actor with two straight-man characters would be funny, is beyond me, but he did it.
I can't really tell how much of Roberto's dialogue is improv and what is scripted, but i'm happy to not know.
(apparently there is a major line of dialogue that Benigni could not deliver as he genuinely does not speak english, and they went with it and fitted the script to match what they had on tape)

Camera is very straightforward but not boring or dull.
The film does have some pacing issues and a tiny bit of trimming would probably improve it, but it's nothing like, let's say, Dead Man. It's also less of a mindfuck than Dead Man, whether that's a positive or a negative to you, i cannot say.
Some vague parallels with Oh Brother, but obviously Daunbailo' is a much simpler film. However, i wouldn't be surprised if the Cohen brothers were familiar with this film.

I liked it. Maybe you won't .. but i am sure @zinfamous would love this.

My vote: 7/10 - it's an art film, judge it by its own merits.

 

[zinfamous]

Oh I loved it^

I love all Jim Jarmusch. Did you see his recent Vampire flick starring the Loki guy and Cate Blanchet, I think? It might be the greatest vampire flick ever (after Let the Right One In, in my very correct opinion. )

 

[DigDog]

Did you see his recent Vampire flick starring the Loki guy and Cate Blanchet, I think?

.. i wasn't terribly happy about that. No.

i put myself through Jim Jaramush's The Dead Don't Die - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8695030/reference/

it was bad.

Bill Murray and Adam Driver are two policemen in a rural country. Small community n' all that.
Zombies come out and eat them.
Tilda Swinton is a katana-wielding, scottish-speaking alien.

I swear i wish there was more to tell. Once decent scene with Adam Driver holding the decapitated head of Selena Gomez, that's about it.

5/10 - slow, boring, without any interesting content.

i get the feeling this was a film i didn't get exactly the same way i don't get Twin Peaks. That there is some sarcasm there that just swoooshes over my head.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Watched the first two Harry Potter movies with the kids this weekend: The Philosopher's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets.

7/10.

Pros:
-Kid love the hell outa them, easy to pick up on their excitement.
-Good "campy" acting across the board. Alan Rickman as Snape was fun.

Cons:
-The whole plot is basically propelled by "lets not tell Dumbledore for some stupid ass reason" and "Hagrid is a lovable moran".
-If you try and think about the universe or lore at all it completely stops making sense.

 

[MrSquished]

Watched the first two Harry Potter movies with the kids this weekend: The Philosopher's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets.

7/10.

Pros:
-Kid love the hell outa them, easy to pick up on their excitement.
-Good "campy" acting across the board. Alan Rickman as Snape was fun.

Cons:
-The whole plot is basically propelled by "lets not tell Dumbledore for some stupid ass reason" and "Hagrid is a lovable moran".
-If you try and think about the universe or lore at all it completely stops making sense.

I just downloaded a bunch of stuff from Max, Netflix and prime to have on my flights to Montana and back, and for some downtime.

I included the first four Harry Potters. Also the first two seasons of the Witcher. American Hustle, and a Brad Pitt flick called Allied, plus some other movie.

Do you think I should give the potters a shot? I'm in my forties, childless but with nieces that love Harry. Plus a decent amount of dates I go on they've watched. Will I be entertained to learn the world and lore?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Do you think I should give the potters a shot? I'm in my forties, childless but with nieces that love Harry. Plus a decent amount of dates I go on they've watched. Will I be entertained to learn the world and lore?

- They're fun movies. I read the books as a teen/young adult and really enjoyed them for what they were. Bear in mind that the series is written to "age-up" as it goes along, the kids start out 11 in the first movie and end up 18 in the last one, and the acting/seriousness etc goes up proportionately.

If you are around people that enjoy "the wizarding world" then you'll find something to enjoy in HP, just bear in mind that the first two movies are very much "tweeny" movies (albeit fun ones) and the series/villians/stakes/etc get bigger from movie 3 onward.

 

[MrSquished]

- They're fun movies. I read the books as a teen/young adult and really enjoyed them for what they were. Bear in mind that the series is written to "age-up" as it goes along, the kids start out 11 in the first movie and end up 18 in the last one, and the acting/seriousness etc goes up proportionately.

If you are around people that enjoy "the wizarding world" then you'll find something to enjoy in HP, just bear in mind that the first two movies are very much "tweeny" movies (albeit fun ones) and the series/villians/stakes/etc get bigger from movie 3 onward.

Good info thanks. Sounds with it to watch and get to the more mature movies

 

[DigDog]

i watched Stranger Than Paradise - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088184/reference/

Yet another Jim Jaramusch film.

PART ONE
presumably, sometime during early 70s in New York.
Random small-time hustler receives a phone call - your cousing is coming to visit from Hungary.
Girl cousin arrives and, just kinda loafs about for 10 days. She leaves to go to Cleveland.

PART TWO
Cousin guy and his buddy win at a poker game (by cheating).
With the money they decide to go to Cleveland to see cousin girl.

PART THREE
Guy, girl and buddy are in a motel.
They split up, and the two guys first lose a good bunch of money at the races.
Girl goes on a walk and is casually handed a huge stack by a confused drug dealer who thinks she's someone else.
Two guys go again at the races but this time win big.

during the epilogue, the girl goes to the airport, determined to fly back to europe. But the only flight goes back to Hungary, where she just came from. She goes back to the motel to look for the guys.
The guys instead go to the airport thinking she's there, and get on the flight to Hungary.

THE END.

eh .. i kinda liked Down By Law better. It's sure is creative, but i'd give it 6.5/10 at best. And while "Daunbailo' " can probably be made better with some good cuts, i don't think there's much to trim here.
Loved seeing shops with food items at 59cents, tho.

 

[sdifox]

I just downloaded a bunch of stuff from Max, Netflix and prime to have on my flights to Montana and back, and for some downtime.

I included the first four Harry Potters. Also the first two seasons of the Witcher. American Hustle, and a Brad Pitt flick called Allied, plus some other movie.

Do you think I should give the potters a shot? I'm in my forties, childless but with nieces that love Harry. Plus a decent amount of dates I go on they've watched. Will I be entertained to learn the world and lore?

Grab Good Omens as well if you like brit comedy

Potter movies are for younger people.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Superpowered: The DC Story (TV Mini Series 2023) - IMDb

Superpowered: The DC Story (TV Mini Series 2023) Reference View

www.imdb.com

Finished the first episode. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

7/10

 

[DigDog]

Grab Good Omens as well if you like brit comedy

Potter movies are for younger people.

..is it brit?

 

[igor_kavinski]

..is it brit?

Michael Sheen and David Tenant and Mr. Penguin Face.

 

[sdifox]

..is it brit?

Good Omens (TV series) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Yes, it's British.

 

[Charmonium]

Weeeee, a new thread.

Dark Marvels on History Channel.

This is some seriously twisted shit. Tonight it was torture devices thru the centuries.

Luv the Brazen Bull - It cooks you to death and makes your screams sound a bit like music. Isn't that nice? A torture device with an aesthetic sense.

 

[zinfamous]

.. i wasn't terribly happy about that. No.


i get the feeling this was a film i didn't get exactly the same way i don't get Twin Peaks. That there is some sarcasm there that just swoooshes over my head.

well, that's a shame. doubly so about Twin Peaks.

 

[MrSquished]

Grab Good Omens as well if you like brit comedy

Potter movies are for younger people.

Thanks. I'll download that too and have more options. I like British humour.

 

[DigDog]

Thanks. I'll download that too and have more options. I like British humour.

I will grant that the show is in fact .. made in britain. By brits.
But it's not "british comedy".
I mean, technically now yes, it is - but it's not like anything you would normally call that.

Good Omens, imho was okay but nothing great. Vaguely reminiscent of the TV version of hitchiker's guide to the galaxy (which is not a good thing) crossed with Lucifer.
Had a few good ideas here and there but even Tennant couldn't carry it.

I would strongly encourage you to first go through the cornerstones of actual british comedy, with Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, Monty Python (of course) Flying Circus,
and it's worth giving a go to Fry & Laurie and Mitchell & Webb.

 

[MrSquished]

I will grant that the show is in fact .. made in britain. By brits.
But it's not "british comedy".
I mean, technically now yes, it is - but it's not like anything you would normally call that.

Good Omens, imho was okay but nothing great. Vaguely reminiscent of the TV version of hitchiker's guide to the galaxy (which is not a good thing) crossed with Lucifer.
Had a few good ideas here and there but even Tennant couldn't carry it.

I would strongly encourage you to first go through the cornerstones of actual british comedy, with Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, Monty Python (of course) Flying Circus,
and it's worth giving a go to Fry & Laurie and Mitchell & Webb.

I definitely remember watching lots of Fawlty Towers when I was younger. My parents would watch it on BBC.

I'll give it a go to kill time on the flight. I do love sci-fi so it would be nice to get a little mindless fun with that integrative.

 

[sdifox]

I will grant that the show is in fact .. made in britain. By brits.
But it's not "british comedy".
I mean, technically now yes, it is - but it's not like anything you would normally call that.

Good Omens, imho was okay but nothing great. Vaguely reminiscent of the TV version of hitchiker's guide to the galaxy (which is not a good thing) crossed with Lucifer.
Had a few good ideas here and there but even Tennant couldn't carry it.

I would strongly encourage you to first go through the cornerstones of actual british comedy, with Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, Monty Python (of course) Flying Circus,
and it's worth giving a go to Fry & Laurie and Mitchell & Webb.

It was written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, you don't get more British than that. Also the ones you mentioned are ancient.

Little Britain is 20 year old for crying out loud and it is modern compared to your list.

I have Blackadder, Fawlty Towers and Flying Circus on DVD.

 

[igor_kavinski]

It was written by Neil Gaiman

Hmm..might give the Good Omens a serious try then. Loved The Sandman.