What are we watching now?

[Spaced Out Ace]

Tenebre is Did you watch that giallo parody that was on Shudder a ways back? "The Editor"? Hilarious giallo parody. Lots of blood gore and the most niche of niche humor you'll find. I need to give it another go.

I've seen it. It was decent to pass the time, but doesn't really push the meter for me much.

 

[MTB1973]

Watched a bunch of stuff over the holidays.

Couple of John Carpenter things. "Someone's Watching Me" and a re-watch of "The Fog". "Someone's Watching Me" was solid. Basically Lauren Hutton plays an oddly irritating character in what felt like a Columbo-less episode of Columbo if it were reimagined as a made for tv, bloodless, sexless giallo? Despite that terrible description ; it was actually pretty enjoyable.

"The Fog" is awesome in my book. Hugely underrated. Sci-fi slasher with the best qualities that 1980 could deliver in every direction. Love the visuals and the vibe and definitely noticed the upgrade in score between "Someone" and Carpenter's soundtrack/score of "The Fog". MASSIVE improvement. Dude's music is I re-remember how much I love this flick everytime I give it a go \m/


Watched new Hugh Grant A24 thing last night ("Heretic"). I tend to get bored with a lot of A24 stuff because I'm too dumb for a lot of it This flick was great. Hugh Grant's performance as well as the 2 mormon girls were excellent. Creepy vibe and the subject matter (basically let's debate religion) was right up my alley. Little verbose and in different actors hands; it might have flat. Grant and the actresses really delivered so it was very enjoyable. I can see why it made some best of lists this past year.

Watched Heretic recently as well. I enjoyed it.

 

[DrewJD82]

I actually sat down with the intent of watching a movie and made it all the way through it!

Carry-On. Batemen does Batemen and it’s always pretty great for me, but everything else in the movie….eh. There’s only so many “Ok, that wouldn’t happen in real life…” I can take before a movie becomes a wash. Obviously fantasy stuff gets a pass here, but when a movie is supposed to be on the realistic side, it should stay within those bounds.

The ending really drove it home, it was the movie equivalent of “and everyone clapped”

 

[MTB1973]

I actually sat down with the intent of watching a movie and made it all the way through it!

Carry-On. Batemen does Batemen and it’s always pretty great for me, but everything else in the movie….eh. There’s only so many “Ok, that wouldn’t happen in real life…” I can take before a movie becomes a wash. Obviously fantasy stuff gets a pass here, but when a movie is supposed to be on the realistic side, it should stay within those bounds.

The ending really drove it home, it was the movie equivalent of “and everyone clapped”

I have that movie on my list, maybe I will pass.

 

[MTB1973]

Oh, I recently watched Smile 2. I liked that a lot as well.

 

[Jynx]

Malcolm in the Middle.

I didn't watch this with any regularity in its time because I had a life in my early 20s and was rarely home to watch TV (I also skipped over the whole PS2 era as a result. Lol.)

Quite funny. Bryan Cranston is a legend.

 

[DrewJD82]

I have that movie on my list, maybe I will pass.

If ya got time to kill and aren’t looking for a jaw dropping flick, do it up. It’s not terrible. My assumption with movies like this is the original writer had one movie in mind, but once it got funding you get dipshits footing the bill throwing their own ideas into the pot whether they make sense or not.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Very different movie, but very similar vibe at times: check out "Kung Fu Hustle" if you haven't already. (Best in the original Mandarin/ Cantonese with English subtitles.)

I haven't seen that one. Thanks for the recommendation!

 

[laxu]

We watched Cunk On Life last night. It is just so stupid and clever at the same time.

 

[Holden Afart]

Keep it SFW

She-it... nevermind.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Last night we finished watching The Boston Strangler from 1968. This was one of the best films I've ever seen; it's immediately in my top ten, and it completely blew me away. This was the same year 2001: A Space Odyssey was released, so maybe I shouldn't be so shocked.

I love Tony Curtis. I saw The Sweet Smell of Success within the past couple of years, and that guy just had something about him in his style; it not only felt viscerally real, but intelligent and thoughtful in his approach. Intense and spookily able to change the air in a room without saying anything. I thought "If I were an actor, this is what I'd want to be."

I love Henry Fonda. As he got older, he was just himself in every movie, but what a self to be. He plays a sense of deep decency that comes across as rare to me. The character he created for so many films is just the best kind of person to me: always introspective, highly intelligent, always focused on morality first, and you can just feel that in his performances.

The first thing that roped me in with this film was a complete lack of music. I just know if some composer had been hired for this in 1967 it whenever they were doing the hiring that the music would've been wrong and would've aged the film badly.

But the biggest surprise was the director, Richard Fleischer. This guy I've actually seen direct several films, including the piece of shit Red Sonja, the interesting Conan The Barbarian, the incredible The Vikings, and the very cool and well crafted Compulsion. This dude's career is all over the fucking place.

Here Fleischer is experimental in his approach, and it starts out jarring but turns powerful and utterly magnetic. He uses weird techniques that transform the film from something that could've been dry to something devastating. When it was done it felt kind of the same way it did the first time I saw The Deer Hunter, where I couldn't speak for a few hours.

If I taught film school, I'd teach this film, because there's so much going on, I could just go back to it again and again to see what mastery looks like in so many different ways.

 

[Los-D]

Just watched No Good Deed. Similar humor and style to Dead To Me (but not as good IMO). It’s alright though.

 

[mbenigni]

There’s only so many “Ok, that wouldn’t happen in real life…” I can take before a movie becomes a wash.

Even the preview had my "oh, come on!" reflexes twitching.

 

[la szum]

I actually sat down with the intent of watching a movie and made it all the way through it!

Carry-On. Batemen does Batemen and it’s always pretty great for me, but everything else in the movie….eh. There’s only so many “Ok, that wouldn’t happen in real life…” I can take before a movie becomes a wash. Obviously fantasy stuff gets a pass here, but when a movie is supposed to be on the realistic side, it should stay within those bounds.

The ending really drove it home, it was the movie equivalent of “and everyone clapped”

I tried earlier this week. I can never sit still long enough to make
it through an entire movie, though. Been under the weather, though,
so I thought I could get through Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Nope. 33 minutes in and I had to tap out.

I don't even watch movies and the stench of cliches and stereotypes wore me the F out.

 

[Stone]

Man Stew is hilarious and so cool, funny and so full of energy at his age, what a great interview/discussion

 

[TSJMajesty]

Landman's latest episode. This show has some fantastic dialog. To wit:

"I'd like to point out to you that you don't need a license to carry concealed in this state. That's why we all wave at each other when we're driving. Because everybody's fucking armed."

Uhg. But I could really do without the soap-opera parts. I'm thinking they wrote those in so couples would sit down and watch this show together...?

 

[norminal]

Uhg. But I could really do without the soap-opera parts. I'm thinking they wrote those in so couples would sit down and watch this show together...?

I’ve quickly lost interest in that show. The plot is literally all overt the place. I found myself saying “what the fuck does this have to do with the story” every episode. If it weren’t for Ali Larter’s tits and ass, I wouldn’t probably stopped watching.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I’ve quickly lost interest in that show. The plot is literally all overt the place. I found myself saying “what the fuck does this have to do with the story” every episode. If it weren’t for Ali Larter’s tits and ass, I wouldn’t probably stopped watching.

Just me thinking out loud here..., They're going in several directions at once because their plan is for this series to last for years. So rather than starting to build dumb, extraneous plot lines into a show after a few successful seasons (that are obviously fluff just for the sake of adding episodes), they're doing it early on, to avoid that.

I'm still digging it quite a bit. I look forward to watching the next episode, and I really like the main story. But yes, there's a lot going on.

 

[dbagchee]

Uhg. But I could really do without the soap-opera parts. I'm thinking they wrote those in so couples would sit down and watch this show together...?

Yeah eliminate the ex-wife and daughter characters and there is no impact to the more compelling storylines. I think season one is done right?

 

[norminal]

They're going in several directions at once because their plan is for this series to last for years. So rather than starting to build dumb, extraneous plot lines into a show after a few successful seasons (that are obviously fluff just for the sake of adding episodes), they're doing it early on, to avoid that.

So I guess season one is basically character development season?