What are we watching now?

Speaking about zombie dramas; I forgot we watched The Dead Don't Die the other night. Been wtnting to watch it for a bit but just hadn't because I heard it sucked. Slow movie with 4th wall recurring breakage. I'd say it's an engaging decent 4.5/10 flick? Great cast but not action packed but I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I expected :bag
 
Wife and I tried Studio and Friends and neighbors on Apple TV and found both unwatchable.

Studio is Seth Rogan playing an annoying asshat non-stop. It is the type of thing I would pay money NOT to have to watch.

Friends and Neighbors was both annoying and cliche. Not quite as bad as Studio but I have no interest in going back.
 
Chocol8 said:
Wife and I tried Studio and Friends and neighbors on Apple TV and found both unwatchable.

Studio is Seth Rogan playing an annoying asshat non-stop. It is the type of thing I would pay money NOT to have to watch.

Friends and Neighbors was both annoying and cliche. Not quite as bad as Studio but I have no interest in going back.
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I like both :LOL:
 
We watched Little Murders from 1971. This comedy is fucking incredible; I loved everything about it. Totally nuts, just out of control satire with the best comedic directing. Alan Arkin is dead! Long live Alan Arkin!
 
Very “soapy” and “cringe” but I’m quite excited about the new season of “You”

Saving for a lazy ganja weekend :love
 


After the Oppenheimer film put the topic back into the limelight, I watched this old MGM film from 1947. I think it was the first US film made entirely after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. IIRC, there were a couple of earlier films that were modified before a general release in order to work in an atomic bomb theme, but this one tells the story of the making and use of the bomb.



For a different viewpoint on the same event I next watched this Japanese film, the first drama after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that was released in 1952, the same year that the American occupation of Japan ended:



The US film is, in some ways, a view from above, while the Japan film is from below.
 
Last night we saw Dheepan from 2015. This was Jacques Audiard's nod to Straw Dogs from 1971, but it's about one million times better than Straw Dogs, in that Dheepan is truly powerful, and it has a depth a texture to it that only a great director and great actors can create. I can't believe none of the three main characters were actors, because the two adult actors absolutely came off like they had trained in acting their whole lives. This was the holy combination of a nuanced and interesting director with his own cool style combined with actors of natural intensity. Jesuthasan Antonythasan and Kalieaswari Srinivasan were incredible, and now I want to see everything they've done individually. Now that I've read a little about Jesuthasan I see he's kind of like Jason Miller, in that Jesuthasan was a writer before he got a single role that made him known, and he parlayed that to an acting career. Not having seen his other work yet, I hope his career has not gone the way of Jason Miller's. One other important distinction: Jesuthasan was actually a Tamil Tiger, a soldier at the age of sixteen, and I can't imagine the horror he went through.

Edit: IMDB wasn’t entirely accurate: the lead actress is an actor; she was from a theater troupe in Mumbai.
 
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Watched a couple of things over the weekend. Until Dawn. Video game adaption that was sort of a prequel? Kind of a Resident Evil meets Silent Hill meets Happy Death Day if you liked all those. Which I generally do. Getting some bad reviews from some of the sites I frequent because it's big dumb scares but that's what I wanted out of it.

Havoc on Netflix. Tom Hardy is a cop who is hunting down a perp that did his overlords dirty. Directed by Raid: Redemption director and if you dug that; you will dig this. Has a kind of Running Scared (Paul Walker early/mid-2000s flick) vibe to it that works quite well if you are in the mood for it.
 
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Watched a couple of things over the weekend. Until Dawn. Video game adaption that was sort of a prequel? Kind of a Resident Evil meets Silent Hill meets Happy Death Day if you liked all those. Which I generally do? Getting some bad reviews from some of the sites I frequent because it's big dumb scars but that's what I wanted out of it.

Havoc on Netflix. Tom Hardy is a cop who is hunting down a perp that did his overlords dirty. Directed by Raid: Redemption director and if you dug that; you will dig this. Has a kind of Running Scared (Paul Walker early/mid-2000s flick) vibe to it that works quite well if you are in the mood for it.
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I'll watch almost anything with Tom Hardy, so Havoc is on my list. I say almost anything, because I know he's in those Venom movies, and I just don't know if I can deal with anything involving a cape anymore. I think the last superhero movie of any kind I even tried to watch was Black Panther, which I only watched because it had broken so many records, but I thought it had boring TV level writing, directing, and acting. I had been done with superhero movies before that, and that just cemented my decision. It's tough when they have good actors, as so many do, but I don't know if Hardy could overcome everything else.
 
State of Epicicity said:
I'll watch almost anything with Tom Hardy, so Havoc is on my list. I say almost anything, because I know he's in those Venom movies, and I just don't know if I can deal with anything involving a cape anymore. I think the last superhero movie of any kind I even tried to watch was Black Panther, which I only watched because it had broken so many records, but I thought it had boring TV level writing, directing, and acting. I had been done with superhero movies before that, and that just cemented my decision. It's tough when they have good actors, as so many do, but I don't know if Hardy could overcome everything else.
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Hardy is awesome. Venom is not. Watch Sinners if you want Ryan Coogler doing good work in a popcorn genre vs. Black Panther imo.
 
Binged the last season of You, kind of all right, still wish it wasn’t the “end end” I’ve always had a weird “two wolves inside you” view on this show with it being constantly cringe and soapy but still loving every second :rofl
 
spawnofthesith said:
Binged the last season of You, kind of all right, still wish it wasn’t the “end end” I’ve always had a weird “two wolves inside you” view on this show with it being constantly cringe and soapy but still loving every second :rofl
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About 4 episodes into this? It's solid. Exactly what I expect, really at every turn. I've never seen someone consistently fall for their own traps every single time :bonk :rofl
 
The Last of Us Season whatever, Episode 2. So grim I actually felt bad for making fun of "Ellie" last week.

I guess it's been longer than I thought since I played the video games, because I can remember precisely these sets and these characters and some of these events... but whenever there's a key plot beat (e.g. a main character getting offed), I can't remember whether I've seen it happen before. :idk The intersection of deja vu and senile dementia LOL.
 
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