Topic: The Movie Thread

I was tempted to see E.T. when it returned to the theaters a few weeks back. Ultimately opted against it, though.

Watched Everything, Everywhere, All At Once the other day. Quite an odd film, but still rather marvellous, with some extremely intricate editing. Michelle Yeoh is absolutely wonderful, and Jamie Lee Curtis is quite the comic actress.

@mookysam
Enjoyed the film.
Didnt enjoy the hot-dog fingers.

Watched Copland, a decent-ish movie with an incredible cast. Basically a mafia movie except with police.

@LN78 I remember see one of the Jaws films in 3D at the cinema. Can't remember which one as it was probably about 20 years ago. Might have been the third one as I do remember the film not being that great.

@LN78 I can see that. Definitely elements of westerns, noir movies and the like. It was more the setup of the corrupt police officers and their connections across the mayor’s office and other departments that made me think of the mob. Plus De Niro and Harvey Keitel help!

@RogerRoger, yeah, I wasn't even planning on watching it but my father queued it up and although he usually watches movies by the time I'm starting to get ready for bed I didn't have to work the next day so I stayed up & watched it with him.

Between 1917, Swamp Thing, Lupin the 3rd: Goemon's Bloodspray, the Return of Swamp Thing, Ghost in the Shell Arise 3 & 4, National Lampoon's Movie Madness, Deadpool 2, Big Bad Mama, & Samaritan I made my way through quite a few movies over the long Labor Day weekend.

I watched Clueless tonight. I really miss teen movies that were actually witty. The ones made on Netflix these days are just rubbish. There was a weird phase in the 90s to early 00s where they reimagined classic texts as high school dramas but there were some bloody good movies in there.

@nessisonett "I know you can be underwhelmed and you can be overwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?"...!

I have a soft spot for that genre also. We recently watched "10 Things I Hate About You".... equally classic IMO.

BTW - great recommend on Justified, now well into Season 2 which is perhaps one of my favorite seasons of TV ever (up there with Season 4 of the Wire, and Season 2 of Leftovers). The introduction of the Bennett Clan has been fantastic, and the plot threads are pretty gripping!

@CJD87 I’d say season 2 of Justified was up there with my favourite seasons of TV as well! You’ve still got some great seasons to come as well, it’s one of the few shows that I’d say finishes in a perfect place.

watched Mr Mom on Tubi last night. Still a classic funny movie. Sure its a little dumb but its better than Gung Ho

Oh dear Thor 4… what went wrong? I do quite enjoy Ragnarok but this felt like Taika Waititi has sniffed one too many of his own farts. Just a very odd movie with total shifts in tone, humour that doesn’t land and they somehow managed to bungle Natalie Portman for a 3rd movie. Waititi is clearly still talented, Our Flag Means Death proves this, but I wonder if it’s all gone a bit to his head with the whole ‘secretly marrying Rita Ora’ and phoning in very expensive movies while slagging off the VFX in interviews. Not good at all.

@LN78 Haha, I was hoping we would differ on this one!

@nessisonett And sometimes it is better to found out for yourself whether you like something or not.

@LN78 I quite liked Multiverse of Madness on second viewing but I can recognise that it’s definitely a flawed movie. Marvel have just hit a rough patch at least according to my tastes recently but I have been really enjoying She-Hulk so maybe they’ll grab me again in the future.

@LN78 People have different tastes though, and what you may think is crap others may like.

@LN78 No not really and I did not say thay, but I know what I like and couldn't care less what stuffy critics think of films, plus I like to be as open minded as possible before watching a film.

Yeah I think everyone has a few turds which they find highly enjoyable! 😂

@LN78 I would hold the view that objectivity does exist when it comes to art, but that those standards of objectivity are subjective. Yes, that sounds like nonsense but I reckon it’s similar to how different critics have different criteria. Like if I played a game then I would put graphics and gameplay fairly balanced in my criteria but others would maybe pay much more attention to gameplay. Some aspects are executed either well or not, it’s just up to us to decide how much that affects our view of the art.

@LN78 Yeah like take that new portrait of Obama for the White House.

It’s undoubtedly an incredibly well executed painting but that level of hyper realism lacks artistic flair for me. There’s something off about it being so perfect that it looks like a photograph. I’d take one of Monet’s paintings he did while half blind over that, despite the painting undoubtedly looking nothing like the subject. Like this is supposed to be a bridge.