What are we watching now?

Found our DVD stash from forever ago. Rewatched Reign of Fire for the first time in ages. It held up great. In fact, for how terrible the cgi could have been; it was pretty darn good. Great cast for the roles at hand.

Huge missed opportunity for an "All right, all right, all right!" chimney jump (in the worst cgi part of the movie, oddly enough) :rofl
 
We just rewatched Who'll Stop The Rain from 1978. It was a bizarre but interesting combination of The Deer Hunter, First Blood, Apocalypse Now, and some heroin movie. I just couldn't remember the film much at all, really, and watching it again didn't help, but I did like it. I love Michael Moriarty, which is why I ever saw it in the first place, but Nick Nolte really created a compelling character. It was almost a parable, but just really kind of hard to describe.

I realized halfway through it was a good idea to get the closed captions going because of the inconsistent dialog mixing, and that's something for me to remember when lower budget films are like that.

This had something to it, and I love that I can't put it in a box no matter how hard I try.
 
norminal said:
Just finished watching season one of Severance again. Hands down the best series I’ve watched since Breaking Bad. If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend subscribing to Apple TV+ for at least a month to watch it. It’s worth the subscription price. Fucking brilliant top to bottom.
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I'm just waiting for more episodes to come out so I can get another subscription, finish Silo season 2 and watch Severance S2.
 
laxu said:
I'm just waiting for more episodes to come out so I can get another subscription, finish Silo season 2 and watch Severance S2.
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I haven’t started season two of Severance yet. Season two of Silo has been pretty decent so far. It’s definitely a slow burn.
 
Watched a surprisingly good Liam Neeson flick over the weekend. In The Land Of Saints And Sinners. On Prime. Looked like a typical current period for Neeson paycheck movie where he exacts his revenge on bad guys who stole his daughter/horse/blahblahblah. And it was that; but had some unexpected charm and kind of a straightforward desire to be In Bruges light (sort of, in tone?) set back in the 70's in Ireland. Very surprised and quite enjoyable.
 
norminal said:
Did he play an ex-military or spy that has a family member kidnapped?
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Military adjacent :grin

IMDB tagline:
"A disillusioned hitman comes out of retirement for one last job when an IRA bomber on the run from the law arrives in his sleepy Irish village."
It is that in a nutshell. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
True Blood is one of my wife's favorite shows so we've been rewatching that. It's still good, stupid, overly dramatic fun.:satan
 
Just saw Bohemian Rhapsody. I think Remi Malek played Freddie Mercury with Malek's own creepiness. To me Freddie Mercury wasn't creepy at all. I like the accent he created for the role; it kind sounded like royalty or something; maybe aristocratic; it was interesting. And I liked the rest of the actors overall. To me the story was interesting too, and the directing was okay, but could've been way better.

I love that biopics pay so much attention to detail these days, but still they tend to be modern in the ways that bother me, like there's a glossy, processed sheen over every damn thing, in this case like it's a commercial for the 70s. It makes me want to watch an edgy film from the 70s, like The Conversation or something, to capture that feeling.

Like, The Rose was a great not-quite-biopic that was originally going to be about Janis Joplin, but they changed it to be very loosely based on her, but the film has feel and warmth. Bohemian Rhapsody was good in many ways, and the actors were trying, but maybe it was the director's perspective. It felt a little like a director who specializes in mediocre TV movies of the 90s.
 
Watched The Centurion over the weekend and then finished up last night. Neil Marshall (The Descent) directs Fassenbender as a Roman Centurion and his men being chased all over the country by a band of savages. I liked it when it came out; I like it now. Some of the costume work is cheesy and it's definitely a bit dated as far as how this kind of material is presented nowadays? I thought it was a great watch nonetheless. Kind of poverty, gory Gladiator rip with some excellent cinematography.

Watched Ghosts Of Mars for the first time in a long time as well. What a bad movie it was. Speaking of costumes/character design; this was just not good. On a number of levels. Despite this; you can tell Carpenter had fun with it. So I somehow still enjoyed it, even though I was re-reminded how it sucked? :LOL:
 
JiveTurkey said:
Watched Ghosts Of Mars for the first time in a long time as well. What a bad movie it was. Speaking of costumes/character design; this was just not good. On a number of levels. Despite this; you can tell Carpenter had fun with it. So I somehow still enjoyed it, even though I was re-reminded how it sucked? :LOL:
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Are you sure? I am just about convinced John thinks Carpenter is another word for Curmudgeon, and is well on his way to living up to what he supposed his name meant.

Ghosts of Mars was supposed to be Escape from Mars, but it is just as well. Snake should have nothing to do with that pile of horse feces. I love Escape from LA, but most of John's 90s output is dreadful.
 
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