What are we watching now?

[mbenigni]

As a polar opposite to The Conversation; we watched Kraven the Hunter last night. Lots of mental gymnastics on this one for me but I will just say it was one of those that we've "already paid for it"; so it's like it was "free". As it should be.

I would not be caught dead going to the theater for it and it was truly a bad film; but I kind of enjoyed it for what it was? Some super bad performances and the Rhino character's implementation was terrible but taken for the turd it was; not so bad. Something we watched a ways back in thread was the best 5/10 (iirc) you could get and I would say this sits in that zone as well. Maybe a 4/10 of the most enjoyable kind.

Glowing review indeed

Walk, don't run?

 

[SillyOctpuss]

As a polar opposite to The Conversation; we watched Kraven the Hunter last night. Lots of mental gymnastics on this one for me but I will just say it was one of those that we've "already paid for it"; so it's like it was "free". As it should be.

I would not be caught dead going to the theater for it and it was truly a bad film; but I kind of enjoyed it for what it was? Some super bad performances and the Rhino character's implementation was terrible but taken for the turd it was; not so bad. Something we watched a ways back in thread was the best 5/10 (iirc) you could get and I would say this sits in that zone as well. Maybe a 4/10 of the most enjoyable kind.

Glowing review indeed

Kraven the hunter is the kind of film I like watching on the plane when we visit my in-laws in california. No real thought required and if I fall asleep during it all the better. It also shouldn't be bad enough to keep me awake and annoy my wife while I rant about how shit it is.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Walk, don't run?

I've generally hated superhero crap for a decade plus by now. While still watching 75% of the stuff that falls into that genre I have a weird enjoyment of these one offs that no one in their right mind would believe would make any sort of box office money yet somehow still get greenlit because you can only reboot Spiderman and Batman so many times.

Or so one would think

 

[DrewJD82]

I felt like watching a movie on Sunday so I opened Netflix and Prime for the first time in a month or so, expecting to see something new that’d interest me.

Nope!

Watched Glass Onion again, well, for 10 minutes until I fell asleep then woke up and went to my studio.

I might pick From back up, I still have a few new episodes to get through, it was just moving a bit slow the last time I was watching.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I rewatched Chronicle last night. I absolutely love this film. It's lowish budget but the cast is pretty wonderful in it. It's also different from other super hero movies because this is the birth of a supervillian.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I felt like watching a movie on Sunday so I opened Netflix and Prime for the first time in a month or so, expecting to see something new that’d interest me.

Nope!

Watched Glass Onion again, well, for 10 minutes until I fell asleep then woke up and went to my studio.

I might pick From back up, I still have a few new episodes to get through, it was just moving a bit slow the last time I was watching.

I know I just admitted to watching Kraven the Hunter but Daniel Craig's Foghorn Leghorn impersonation is up there with Keanu's English accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula

 

[JiveTurkey]

I rewatched Chronicle last night. I absolutely love this film. It's lowish budget but the cast is pretty wonderful in it. It's also different from other super hero movies because this is the birth of a supervillian.

If you dig this sort of thing; check out Brightburn. Same kind of vibe.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

If you dig this sort of thing; check out Brightburn. Same kind of vibe.

I've seen Brightburn, definitely a similar vibe.

 

[laxu]

Kraven the hunter is the kind of film I like watching on the plane when we visit my in-laws in california. No real thought required and if I fall asleep during it all the better. It also shouldn't be bad enough to keep me awake and annoy my wife while I rant about how shit it is.

That sounds about right. A "Well, there's nothing better on" type deal.

 

[newpedals]

I've generally hated superhero crap for a decade plus by now. While still watching 75% of the stuff that falls into that genre I have a weird enjoyment of these one offs that no one in their right mind would believe would make any sort of box office money yet somehow still get greenlit because you can only reboot Spiderman and Batman so many times.

Or so one would think

Try watching the movie Watchmen. I will confess that I didn't understand it completely. Watched it with a nerdy friend and her boyfriend at their place. It's amazing. I asked them to skip through the violent stuff though.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Watchmen was great.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Watchmen is one of the last superhero movies I gave a shit about, and I would've liked it a lot more with someone other than
Malin Akerman. Overall though, I have to quote Birdman:

• Riggan: Just find me an actor. A good actor. Give me Woody Harrelson.
• Jake: He's doing the next Hunger Games.
• Riggan: Michael Fassbender?
• Jake: He's doing the prequel to the X-Men prequel.
• Riggan: How about Jeremy Renner?
• Jake: Who?
• Riggan: Jeremy Renner. He was nominated. He was the Hurt Locker guy.
• Jake: Oh, okay. He's an Avenger.
• Riggan: Fuck, they put him in a cape too?

I think Batman Begins showed what a superhero movie can be, but I still think they're trying too hard to make something meant for kids now meant to be for adults. It's ultimate marketing, because studios create everything from Pixar to every superhero movie to be accessible to every age and every country. It's like the Ford Taurus of movie making strategies.

That said, I like so much about Watchmen.

 

[norminal]

I enjoyed Batman Begins. It was dark, edgy, and I felt Bale did a decent job, save for his masked voice.

I thought Watchman was a snooze fest.

 

[MTB1973]

I think I went to the theater to see Watchmen and felt bamboozled.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I enjoyed most of the Marvel movies up until Avengers Endgame. I'm done now unless they give me a Tom Holland Spiderman vs Tom Hardy Venom movie.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I enjoyed Batman Begins. It was dark, edgy, and I felt Bale did a decent job, save for his masked voice.

I met my wife at a Batman Begins screening so I'll always love it for that. Luckily it was also a decent movie, easily the best of that particular trilogy IMO.

I thought Watchman was a snooze fest.

Apart from the scenes with Rorschach in prison I wasn't particularly interested either.

 

[Fool]

Watch the 9 episode Watchmen series with Regina King. It is so much better than the movie.

 

[mbenigni]

That said, I like so much about Watchmen.

Check out The Boys if you're interested in themes concerning the perils of (super)power. I.e. "Exactly how fucked up would you have to be, to be a classic 'superhero'?"

 

[laxu]

Check out The Boys if you're interested in themes concerning the perils of (super)power. I.e. "Exactly how fucked up would you have to be, to be a classic 'superhero'?"

With the warning that The Boys is extremely edgelordy, and in later seasons gets way too on-the-nose. It would be so, so much better if it was played a lot more subtle because it has some great performance. Antony Starr is so good as Homelander in the first season.

 

[Dave Lewis]

I watched two episodes of Adolescence on Netflix on Monday.
Not sure if I’m going to watch the two remaining episodes ?
It’s very good but thought provoking and harrowing to watch.