What are we watching now?

[DrewJD82]

Watched 3 Body Problem over the weekend, first time I’ve binge watched something in quite a while! I dug it overall, though some points felt shoehorned in without needing to be. What little humor there was didn’t land too well and there were a couple lines/scenes that I just thought “Did someone show up on set and demand this gets in there with no real reason?”

The fact there will be a 2nd season definitely made me enjoy it a bit more, knowing they could expand on things and allowed for a rather mundane ending to season 1.

 

[DrewJD82]

I wish he could bring himself back around to doing another Waiting or Just Friends. I know he's kind of aged out of that but that was my favorite use of his sense of humor imo.

I can’t believe Waiting is as old as it is. This must be how my dad felt about Porky’s when I was a kid.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I can’t believe Waiting is as old as it is. This must be how my dad felt about Porky’s when I was a kid.

It's absolutely hilarious

 

[Orvillain]

fyuck a dyuck.

 

[Rock Chalk]

Watched first ep of the latest section of Yellowstone. I really wish Beth would jump off a roof. I have never seen such a ridiculously over dramatic character in my life. Good lord shutup already She could do a 2for1 and take Wes Bentley's character with her and just wrap up the whole show

Haha I give Beth a pass cuz she's kinda hot, but agree on Wes Bentley.....and yes, without them there's not much of a show......

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

Last episode of Yellowstone. Better than expected but I do miss him. He seem to be the spirit of the show.

And some rewatching like Deadpool Wolverine, modern family, new girl with the misses

 

[State of Epicicity]

We just watched Revenge Of The Nerds. Donald Gibb left it all on the field. I really liked it.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Haha I give Beth a pass cuz she's kinda hot, but agree on Wes Bentley.....and yes, without them there's not much of a show......View attachment 33263

I get why. It's just so darn exhausting after a certain point Wes is weird af It worked in American Beauty but that's about it

 

[la szum]

Watched first ep of the latest section of Yellowstone. I really wish Beth would jump off a roof. I have never seen such a ridiculously over dramatic character in my life. Good lord shutup already She could do a 2for1 and take Wes Bentley's character with her and just wrap up the whole show

She's a pretty decent British actress who has been great in others things. YS is not it,
bit then melodramatic, Soap Opera victimhood is kind of the nature of the enterprise.

Did you see her in Britannia? Now that show is an acid trip.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

Couple of things

Finished up Tulsa King. Fairly hokey and definitely from the same guy who brought you four other adult soap operas on Paramount+ in various settings but good nonetheless.

Watched first ep of the latest section of Yellowstone. I really wish Beth would jump off a roof. I have never seen such a ridiculously over dramatic character in my life. Good lord shutup already She could do a 2for1 and take Wes Bentley's character with her and just wrap up the whole show

The really good thing I very much enjoyed the other day was The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Guy Ritchie flick that kinda reads like a boiled down love letter to Inglorious Basterds. And I am here for it 100%. Great cast, great script and excellent tone throughout the film. Interested to see if he expands the storyline.

Beth is hot. When she is not manic.

 

[Jynx]

I saw Gladiator 2 earlier. It was certainly... something.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Got caught up with The Day of the Jackal on Peacock. Excellent espionage/thriller starring Eddie Redmayne who has actually done a great job making me forget for the most part he was Stephen Hawkings If you dig UK police procedural style shows; give it a go \m/

 

[dcburn]

Just finished up the first season of Penguin.
Pretty damn cool, great writing.
Colin Farrel does an outstanding job, he's got some great monologues in this...

Cool thing, its not comic booky.
Nobody is wearing tights.
Or a cape.

 

[State of Epicicity]

We watched New York Stories from 1989. That's an unusual film, in that it's three different stories, each by a different director, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Woody Allen, in that order. The first and last are fantastic, but the Coppola one is the worst.

The Scorsese one, Life Lessons, stars Nick Nolte and Rosanna Arquette, and it's so good. The acting is just what I always look for in a film, to see actors working hard at each scene. I loved seeing the interplay between the two characters. Plus the editing by Thelma Schoonmaker is The Best. She's the editor who worked with him for his best and most iconic stuff, and it feels like they're one person when you combine his directing with her editing. This is how they made Taxi Driver and The Last Temptation of Christ.

And Oedipus Wrecks is the Woody Allen section, which is so damn funny. It's easy for me to forget what a great actor he is. The best performance of his that I've seen is from a film he didn't direct, called The Front, and he's awesome in every way in that film. It has Mae Questel and Julie Kavner, who are just completely perfect.

I think Mia Farrow is actually a great actor when she wants to be, but here I felt like I was just watching her in her posh living room drinking tea, and just too damn comfortable to be able to try; I felt like she did that for a while. I know she felt pigeonholed, but I feel like, if dumb producers or directors will only type cast you, and you're already wealthy, go to the theater, for Christ's sake! Even if you accept the type cast roles, you can work to vary them more than that.

Anyway, I highly recommend this if you skip the Coppola part in the middle.

 

[mbenigni]

Just finished up the first season of Penguin.
Pretty damn cool, great writing.
Colin Farrel does an outstanding job, he's got some great monologues in this...

Cool thing, its not comic booky.
Nobody is wearing tights.
Or a cape.

We finally finished The Penguin a few days ago. I was sad to see it end (for now). I had a good feeling about the show from the first time I caught a trailer, and it didn't disappoint. Loved pretty much everything about it.

Re: no tights, capes: the very end suggests that Batman will play a role in S2 and beyond, which will inevitably change the tone and shift the focus.

 

[dcburn]

We finally finished The Penguin a few days ago. I was sad to see it end (for now). I had a good feeling about the show from the first time I caught a trailer, and it didn't disappoint. Loved pretty much everything about it.

Re: no tights, capes: the very end suggests that Batman will play a role in S2 and beyond, which will inevitably change the tone and shift the focus.

Wife and I were bummed when it ended.
Honestly I was bummed out about Vic in the end...

Cool in the first episode how they mention "a bat man"
Then the last episode, youre so right!

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

Second episode Yellowstone

After this we are cancelling our Sky networks account. Already cancelled HBO. The quantity is just too slow and with Prime so cheap you can often buy what later will be on HBO and Sky

 

[JiveTurkey]

Got tix to see Gladiator II this evening. OG holds big place on a number of levels for me. KILLER flick. I have read good things about this so I hope the Electric Boogaloo part turns out to be real!

 

[Jynx]

I'm saying nothing. Lol.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I'm saying nothing. Lol.

Have you seen it? You did! Let's plan on comisserating once I pop in tomorrow