What movies are you watching?

[BurtReynolds]

Richard Jewell

Clint Eastwood shows no sign of old age affecting his craft. This isn't as good as The Mule, but it's still pretty good. Paul Walter Hauser and Kathy Bates should get Oscar nods. Rockwell is good as usual.

I generally agree with the criticism of Wilde's character though. Her and Hamm's characters are cartoonishly evil villains, particularly Wilde's journalist (I despise both the government and media and even I thought it was over the top). I think it would have been better to portray the story as Jewell vs. the nameless, faceless machinery. Their parts are small, so it was easy enough to ignore them.

[Rangi Guy]

Take Home Pay. This was a fun watch

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

Honey Boy....best movie I've seen in a while

Go on...

Jonathan Franzen sometimes talks about how he likes fiction where he can tell that the author really has something at stake. I don't know that I've ever seen anything where a filmmaker puts more on the line than Shia does here. It's explicitly autobiographical and about events that have played out at least partially in the public eye. But the movie doesn't try to gloss over the ugly stuff or explain it away with a "if you only knew the full story, you would understand why". It just feels honest in a way I don't think I've ever seen before. Shia plays his own father, which is a ballsy move, without ever making the man fully bad or fully good or fully to blame or fully anything other than fascinating to watch. We see the heartbreaking stuff and we see the hearts break and stay broken and maybe start to heal

[Anders]

Watching Dark Phoenix now. Perfect opening 15 minutes. Heard about lots of bad reviews, so let’s see how it goes.

The story drifts a bit, and Sophie Turner can’t carry the movie. The aliens were really bad, and the movie would have been better without them. Despite this the movie was better than I was lead to believe. The basic story from the comics is rock solid, and helps steer the movie along.

Maybe Marvel will make an even better Dark Phoenix one day.

[VinylGuy]

Misery.

A much needed rewatch. What a classic. The set design is marvelous. Caan and Bates are so fucking good. And Richard Farnsworth!

What a delight.

[VinylGuy]

Knives Out.

Wonderful cast. Jamie Lee Curtis is a godess. Don Johnson! Daniel Craig...but we are forced to follow..Ana de Armas. Gosh.
An ok comedy, maybe even a spoof about detective movies. It was alright.

[Kaius]

6 Underground was so much fucking fun. What a blast. My only complaint is I wish it was an hour longer.

To any who have seen it and likely watch more movies than I do; any recommendations for similarly good action flicks?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

Misery.

A much needed rewatch. What a classic. The set design is marvelous. Caan and Bates are so fucking good. And Richard Farnsworth!

What a delight.

[epilogue]

Hustlers. Meh.

trag I swear to god

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

Hustlers. Meh.

trag I swear to god

I didn’t hate it or anything. But for a movies about tits, ass, drugs, and extortion, it was all just sort of...there. The two leads were terrific though.

Is... is that what the movie is about? Hmm.

[bune]

6 Underground was so much fucking fun. What a blast. My only complaint is I wish it was an hour longer.

To any who have seen it and likely watch more movies than I do; any recommendations for similarly good action flicks?

it looks like it'd been better in a real theater with gigantic speakers, how was it on Netflix?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

fair enough

[Anders]

The Place Beyond The Pines - decent first half hour. Still watching.

[VinylGuy]

Hustlers. Meh.

trag I swear to god

I didn’t hate it or anything. But for a movies about tits, ass, drugs, and extortion, it was all just sort of...there. The two leads were terrific though.

Is... is that what the movie is about? Hmm.

Oh I'm sure the argument could be made that it's about women empowering themselves against the corporate white men who had objectified them for so long. But even that narrative thread felt a little shallow.

The whole thing just felt shallow, like I got everything I needed from the trailer.

I loved the performances. Loved the framing and Photography. The story was...not interesting at all.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, its not an interesting story at all. Even their convictions are so light, i just dont care about it. I was surprised on how light the whole thing was.