So what are you watching?

[TheRejectionist]

THIS

Monstrum (2018)

Ancient Korea, 1506. The tyrannical King Yeonsan-gun of Joseon is overthrown by his half-brother Jung-jong, whose reign begins with a blood bath. Over the years, traitors plot against him, sinking the kingdom into chaos. In 1528, frightened rumors come to royal palace, regarding a mysterious...

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AND

THIS.

Prey (2022)

On the Great Plains in 1719, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior, sets out to protect her people when an unknown danger threatens them. But the prey she’s stalking turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

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Except from that obnoxious phrase that you saw in the trailer likely to pander the SJWs and alphabet people, the movie seems actually enjoyable.

Note : Letterboxd seems to be less clunky and mainstream than IMDB, and without political correctness or censorship.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Watching the Miniseries 'Santa Evita' on Hulu.

 

[TheRejectionist]

THIS

Monstrum (2018)

Ancient Korea, 1506. The tyrannical King Yeonsan-gun of Joseon is overthrown by his half-brother Jung-jong, whose reign begins with a blood bath. Over the years, traitors plot against him, sinking the kingdom into chaos. In 1528, frightened rumors come to royal palace, regarding a mysterious...

letterboxd.com

AND

THIS.

Prey (2022)

On the Great Plains in 1719, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior, sets out to protect her people when an unknown danger threatens them. But the prey she’s stalking turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

letterboxd.com

Except from that obnoxious phrase that you saw in the trailer likely to pander the SJWs and alphabet people, the movie seems actually enjoyable.

Note : Letterboxd seems to be less clunky and mainstream than IMDB, and without political correctness or censorship.

So update to PREY :

There are few more eyerolling scenes that were probably directed at the audience I mentioned earlier, although this doesn't look like a Mary Sue, Mulan (2020) or Rey like character. Said character / protagonist fails then trains.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I saw The Gray Man on Netflix.

It's an action movie starring Ryan Gosling, Billy Bob Thornton, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick and Chris Evans... as the affably sociopathic bad guy. It is directed by the Russo Brothers of MCU fame.

I went into this film expecting some sort of nuanced and tension filled slick spy thriller occasionally sprinkled with thrilling and well constructed action scenes like Casino Royale or The Bourne Identity or Ronin.

Instead what I got was only the last thing. Well constructed action scenes. This film had a more shallow plot and less nuance then even Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And this isn't knocking that movie... or this one. As soon as I realized what was going on, I just sat back, accepted the film for what is was and enjoyed the ride.

And enjoyed this film immensely I did. It was a great action movie, with excellent well crafted action scenes spanning half a globe. People get thrown out of windows and their throats slashed open in Bangkok and there's a fight on a Fireworks barge. People get killed on an airplane over Central Asia. People get killed in Monaco, and Vienna, and Hong Kong and then there's one of the most entertaining action sequences I've seen that takes place in Prague.

And the way the scene was built up had me shaking my head in disbelief, then laughing at the ridiculousness of it, and then laughing because I was loving how ridiculous it actually was and no fucks being given about shit like "groundedness" or "realism" or "suspension of disbelief." At the beginning of this amazing action scene I was like "You can't just shoot off guns in broad daylight in the middle of Prague. The police would show up."

Then the police showed up.

And I was like "You can't just have a firefight with the police in the middle of Prague. Czech SWAT teams are more heavily militarized then even in America I bet."

Then Czech SWAT police in military fatigues, armored vehicles and with belt fed machine guns showed up.

And then I was like "How-"

And then one of the characters in the movie was watching this unfold in an Operations Room and was basically saying the same thing I was. And it was amazing how self aware this movie was. There was a full fledged Battle going on in the middle of Prague and I just stopped questioning this movie and accepted it and how it constantly escalated and got progressively more and more action packed beyond my expectations.

I thought Ryan Gosling was too high brow for films like this.

Honestly, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Jessica Fenwick, Billy Bob Thornton and especially Chris Evans... they were all amazing in their roles. It was fun watching them interact with each other and making smart ass quips and retorts and just their general existing and being their characters. This was an action and character driven film that was very well done as a purely entertaining action movie and done with enough care that the characters were fun and interesting and you were invested in what was happening despite how ridiculous the narrative storyline was rapidly escalating into. It didn't make sense as the Action Spy Thriller I was expecting, but it was made well enough that I enjoyed it anyways.

The movie wasn't a "perfect action" movie though. Even though it becoming nonsensical worked for the most part, it did detract from the film in some ways, especially with weak characters I really didn't care about or who didn't make sense to me. And they threw in some sequel bait in the end and I wasn't really feeling it because... this movie feels like a proper standalone thing that should've just tied itself off as a full experience.

Still would recommend.

 

[Robovski]

The Orville is coming to Disney+ today for those of you who have Disney+ but not Hulu and want to watch this pretty good show, Season 3 came out on Hulu over the last 10 weeks.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Saw the first 5 episodes of Pacific Rim: The Black

First two episodes weren't good, but were passable. Then episode three happened and the show outted itself as The Walking Dead but with Kaiju, where everyone is unlikeable and the real moral is about how humans are the real monsters and blah blah blah. Then I reached the end of episode 5 where a little boy was able to physically restrain a million ton bizzare kaiju-jaeger. Tuned out right there.

I guess I'm also not into the continuity of this show. I loved the first Pacific Rim, but hated how the sequel was set years after and undid the ending of 1. Any further Pacific Rim stories should have been set before 1. Furthermore, the show retains dumb stuff from the cash grab movie sequel, like Kaiju-Jaeger monsters. Also has the same animation issues: in Pacific Rim 1 the robots and Kaiju were animated to feel like they were really weighty, but then in 2 and this show, they feel like weightless plastic toys zipping all over the place.

The characters and vehicles are also 3D CGI, but with 2D backgrounds. Listen honey, either go full 3D CGI, or go full 2D. Don't do this cheap looking mishmash.

 

[Terthna]

everyone is unlikeable and the real moral is about how humans are the real monsters and blah blah blah.

To be fair, writers tend to write what they know; and pretty much everyone in the entertainment industry are terrible people.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

To be fair, writers tend to write what they know; and pretty much everyone in the entertainment industry are terrible people.

... that answers a couple questions I've had about stories.

 

[Agent23]

Saw the first 5 episodes of Pacific Rim: The Black

First two episodes weren't good, but were passable. Then episode three happened and the show outted itself as The Walking Dead but with Kaiju, where everyone is unlikeable and the real moral is about how humans are the real monsters and blah blah blah. Then I reached the end of episode 5 where a little boy was able to physically restrain a million ton bizzare kaiju-jaeger. Tuned out right there.

I guess I'm also not into the continuity of this show. I loved the first Pacific Rim, but hated how the sequel was set years after and undid the ending of 1. Any further Pacific Rim stories should have been set before 1. Furthermore, the show retains dumb stuff from the cash grab movie sequel, like Kaiju-Jaeger monsters. Also has the same animation issues: in Pacific Rim 1 the robots and Kaiju were animated to feel like they were really weighty, but then in 2 and this show, they feel like weightless plastic toys zipping all over the place.

The characters and vehicles are also 3D CGI, but with 2D backgrounds. Listen honey, either go full 3D CGI, or go full 2D. Don't do this cheap looking mishmash.

Sounds like should have thrown some money at Sunrise or Bones and told them to make something that doesn't divert from canon too much instead.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Watching local morning news on ABC 24 KVUE-TV Austin

 

[posh-goofiness]

To be fair, writers tend to write what they know; and pretty much everyone in the entertainment industry are terrible people.

It really explains a lot, doesn't it...

 

[Argent]

So I watched Late Night. Overall it had some humor but woke subplot really ruined it for me.

The genral plot of an aging talk show host with a fading career is do e fairly well. Even having the relationship with a new writer was somewhat interesting.

The problem came from the non stop comments about nepotism and privileged white males making up the writing team is bad wrong. There is also comments about the new writer played by Mindy Kaling being diversity hire. It is played as being comments made by angry men having a women intrude into there place. But it falls flat when talk show host played by Emma Thompson only cared that they hired a women. Nothing else mattered. In the interview scene we learn that Mindy's character has no experience or anything similar and was only hired because Emma Thompson calls durning and yells at the interviewer to hire a women no matter what.

The other stuff is mainly standard fair. New writer saves the day by being different with the old timers being stubborn. But while done before can be an interesting movie still. Decent acting and not a lot of unneeded stuff.

So overall a decent movie that got tanked by tryi g to badly make a point about "white privilege"

 

[Husky_Khan]

So I watched Late Night. Overall it had some humor but woke subplot really ruined it for me.

The genral plot of an aging talk show host with a fading career is do e fairly well.

Wow I can't tell if your talking about an actual show called 'Late Night' or just watched a typical Late Night Comedy show.

 

[Argent]

Wow I can't tell if your talking about an actual show called 'Late Night' or just watched a typical Late Night Comedy show.

If you are going for realism of what has happened to all the late night talk shows snice 2010 this movie is pretty accurate. I couldn't help but think of Jay Leno while wat hing this movie.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

If you are going for realism of what has happened to all the late night talk shows snice 2010 this movie is pretty accurate. I couldn't help but think of Jay Leno while wat hing this movie.

I think the best part of Jay Leno leaving late night was that he got to star in Last Man Standing.

 

[Argent]

So just watched Uncharted the other day.

I have never played the games but the movie was fairly decent. Overall it had some decent action scene even with the plane scene being a bit SOD breaking. But they made the fighting somewhat realistic for a movie.

So high points are the villains. You have the old money master mind but Jo Bradrrock played by Tati Gabrielle is great as a rival ruthless treasure hunter.

It also takes a few tropes and does some fun twists. While going though an ancient maze to get to the teasure a part of it is now a night club. Which was a nice twist on a standard adventure movie scene. Also very realistic snice any part of an old city will be redone over 400 years even in historcal districts.

The second was the main love interest Chloe Fraser played by Sophia Talyor Ali. They follow the same route of betrayal and misunderstanding till they have their moment and love scene towards the end. But the high point comes that after the scene it is not all happily ever after. Instead Tom Holland's character is smart enough to know betrayal is coming again and plans for it.

The main characters played by Tom Holland and Mark Wahllberg are fun to watch and do a decent job of keeping you interested in the movie.

There are some downsides. The plot is fairly predictable and some of the humor falls a bit flat.

But overall any fan of adventure or teasure hunt movies will like Uncharted and should give it a watch.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Watched the first Fullmetal Alchemist live action movie.

It was... well it started off okay. Then it was getting decent in the middle. Then the last hour of the movie was a literal snooze. fell asleep during the climax. It was that boring.

The costumes are okay. Ed's outfit sorta looks like a cosplay but the Amestris uniforms look believable enough. Alphonse is really convincing. The CGI for the visual effects for the alchemy, and for the rock dogs at the beginning, though, looked really fake.

Biggest problem I think is the pacing and the acting. Hughes was pretty good. Winry, Shou Tucker, and the general were okay. Everyone else though feels really dry. Not sure how much that is on the actors or the direction. Pacing wise, the movie stops taking moments to breathe about half way in, so the last hour is just lots of shot after shot of people standing around expositing with grim faces. It also feels like the movie relies on the viewer already knowing the FMA story, and importing their pre-established investment into the characters and projecting them onto the actors.

Some crucial parts of the plot aren't explained. The movie throws around the term "The Ishvalan War" around a lot and it becomes critical to when Hughes figures out the big bad's plan, but the movie never actually explains this so I'd imagine a person who has never read the manga or seen either anime would be confused as to the significance of the war or how on earth Hughes could have possibly figured out the plan. Perhaps it would have been a good idea if the movie had adapted the first episode of the Brotherhood anime, the one about the Hiromu Arakawa created character Isaac McDougal. It is a way better intro to FMA than the fake priest arc that the original show and this movie opened up with, quickly establishing the main plot points (Ishvalan War, government conspiracy, the main characters, etc). Likewise, Mustang seemingly pulls the term "homunculi" out of thin air with the movie having laid zero ground work for him to be able to deduce the true nature of Envy and Lust. Also, the zombies were always one of the least interesting parts of FMA and shouldn't have been adapted at all. Too much shaky cam, and the movie looks rather brown.

I enjoyed the first half of the movie but I am obligated to give it a 4/10 bad, because if I fell asleep during your movie then there has been a fundamental failure somewhere. Will watch movie 2 tomorrow.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Morbius is on Netflix. Currently #2 in Movies.

According to Netflixs Rating System it's a 99% match for me. Which makes sense, I've upvoted a great deal of terrible B movies I've found entertaining.

Twenty minutes in and I can comfortably say it is a film.

I have no idea about Jared Letos performance. It feels very... Detached. Surreal. Wispy.

Very odd.

 

[Robovski]

Stopped watching Green Acres after running through all the episodes on Tubi, the Roku channel has more but they aren't very sensitive with the adverts and my wife wasn't feeling it anymore so we switched to 1977's SOAP which is still good silly fun. And all four seasons are on Tubi so I expect we'll watch it all as our bedtime show.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Yeah. Morbius wasn't a very good movie. It wasn't terrible. It's perfectly watchable. But it's just not good. Even the acting wasn't that great? Or the script wasn't. I guess Jared Leto's performance isn't all that bad. None of the other characters really stand out all that much. I saw some people praised Matt Smith's performance. I don't get it. I don't think he was really that good. Usually even in bad superhero films the acting tends to be pretty spot on but it was lower quality here.

The special effects and fight choreography was basically a CGI fest with no real impact or gravity to the situation. I was actually getting feelings of like the Agent Smith-Neo fight from Matrix Revolutions. You just basically have two unkillable people fighting each other and it's really boring. And they have those slow-motion moments in the fight which are supposed to be cool but are just there.

Also none of the emotional beats or moments really struck home. I didn't care about any of the characters so any loss they had or felt was completely... uhhh... lost on me so to speak.

Some of the concepts were interesting and I kept watching the movie thinking of how it could've been made better and so the potential of making a good Morbius movie was there. But not in this case.

The post-credits scene with Vulture was pretty cringe too. Like... really tryhard.

Overall... I mean... I didn't feel like I wasted time watching it semi on background. Check it out if there's nothing else you wanna see or if you're really curious why this film made three hundred morbillion dollars at the box office.