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NEW: List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

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The Blacklist, pilot episode

Who wants to play cliche bingo? If you've watched 'Silence of the Lambs', 'The Dark Knight', something '24'-ish (I've never watched 24 btw) or maybe the Bourne trilogy, mash it all up, dumb down the plot a bit partly so it fits into the 45-minute format and use actors of a lower calibre, you'll get the idea what to expect.

It's trying to be a tense non-stop cat-and-mouse thriller, but it's so fucking dumb.

Example: Notorious ex-FBI turned bad guy turns up at FBI HQ to get arrested (as you do), says he'll only speak to super-cute literally-brand-new FBI agent (as you do) who wants to be a mum but, you know, she's got a tough side too. She's a newly-qualified FBI profiler and yet when she's specifically requested by this very bad guy, alarm bells aren't immediately ringing inside her head that this guy must have been stalking the living shit out of her, then there's the dramatic scene where he tells her secret things about herself and she storms into a room with her senior officers in and demands what have they told him (as I'm also sure FBI agents often do).

There's also a bomb, a little girl getting kidnapped, and only hours to spare. Bad guy gives the FBI what they need to get to the girl first when what do you know, the kidnappers knew the route the FBI were taking and kidnap the girl from them! There's no talk of an inside man in the unit though, because maybe that would be a bit cliche?
 
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I watched Alien last night and had a good time with it, but holy hell why is everyone in a horror film so stupid? Everyone but Ripley was a moron.
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- I don't recall anyone in Alien being egregiously stupid, definitely one of the hallmarks of the film that set it apart from every other Alien movie (outside of Aliens).

There was definitely a bunch of space truckers dealing with something way out of their league while a corpo sleeper agent subverts their efforts.
 
Undertone, it's about 2 friends who run a podcast that dives into supernatural/scary shit. He's the believer, and she's the skeptic. Since the movie revolves around a podcast where they listen to bizarre recordings, the audio makes up 99% of the horror element of the movie. It starts out slow, and it has a few absolutely unsettling moments. I watched it in Dolby Cinema and I jumped in a few parts just from the positional audio. The effectiveness of the Dolby Atmos added so much to the tension. Horror movies don't tend to scare me, but this was so well done. Everything's about the audio so it was a whole different kind of horror. It worked extremely well, I think it would still have people on the edge of their seats in a regular theater. But this was definitely made with AMC Dolby and whatever the equivalent is at Regal and the other chains have in mind. There were a few scenes where it was just a black screen then some audio would hit. 1 of them had multiple people in the theater yelling out holy shit or fuck! as the Atmos flew around the speakers in the theater. This will be a killer flick to watch at home if you have a nice Atmos setup. When one of those scenes ended me and the person 2 seats away said "what the fuck!" outloud simultaneously lol.

This was a great fucking movie, the progression was slow but the build was worth it. And I would say it was actually scary and in a way that it felt almost realistic.
 
Watched Dolly, Jesus fucking christ this was a terrible excuse for a horror movie. It did have a few really well done gruesome shots. But it was fucking stupid, there really was no plot whatsoever. And you don't even have an idea why this psycho chick wears a porcelain doll head and has toy dolls everywhere. This was 1:24 and still felt too long. I've read online they're already working on a sequel. FUCK THAT, no no no hell fucking no.

And for some fucking reason, Stiffler from American Pie's in it. And they shot it in 16mm to give it some shitty hipster stylized look. I've seen worse movies, but this will end up in the running for shitbox movie of year 2026.

Okay, maybe I'm being too harsh there, but this was a boring ass movie with no damn plot, Also, per usual for these stupid slasher horror movies, the monster drags her feet and walks like a cripple, but somehow a completly capable human still can't manage to get away from her. Naturally, while running away the chick falls in the forest and knocks herself out cold on a rock or some shit. I've fallen plenty of times and never knocked myself out.

fuck this movie.
 
I watched the 1st 3 episodes of the TED series, I've obviously been asleep and had no idea Seth McFarlin had made a tv show based on the movie. It's funny and has lots of very inappropriate humor, and there's drug use. It's hilarious to see a talking teddy bear ripping from a bong. The whole family's unhinged especially the dad. I just watched an episode where the dad tells his darkest secret. While in Nam, he noticed the company dog had an erection that wouldn't go away, so he jacked him off to keep the squad safe.

So far, while it is pretty raunchy, it's not quite at the level of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but it's definitely way too over the top for people who don't like extreme potty humor.

Only downside, Seth is a man who can do 1,000 voices, yet TED sounds just like Peter Griffin to me.
 
Scarpetta - TV series on Prime- 6/10

Based on the Kay Scarpetta novels from the nineties, this story has been a long time in the making, finally seeing the light of day in this new series. Talented chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta (played by Nicole Kidman) returns to her old post to help solve a crime. It turns out it is tied to an old case from her past that her whole career is built on.

It started out pretty good. Her sister Dorothy, played by Jamie Lee Curtis is a very different personality. They fight constantly. Kay ended up raising her sister's daughter, who chooses to grieve for her deceased wife by talking to an AI chat bot version. The chemistry between the sisters was pretty cool in the beginning. However, Jamie Lee tends to overact as the series drags on IMO.

Also, the show is constantly jumping back and forth to the earlier case in the nineties. The pacing is uneven, and becomes frustrating as it drags on. I like forensic crime stuff like this, so will keep watching but it seems like it could have been more focused without the parallel timelines.
 
Oh joy.

I watched Aftersun - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19770238/reference/

Aftersun received four nominations at the 76th BAFTA Awards, which should tell you exactly how shit this film is.

A human father with his human daughter go on holiday and do human stuff, like singing.

Now that we've covered this incredibly complex plot, i would like to take a minute to explain in detail how EVERYTHING is an extremely-closeup shot, probably due to the cameraman having being granted his degree through DEI reserved for the fucking blind.

My vote: 4.5/10 - an insult to cinema.
 
I watched The Imitation Game today, for Pi Day (probably should have picked a movie about an American mathematician since it's American Pi Day (like A Beautiful Mind, but I've seen that) and saved this one for European Pi Day (22/7)).

Even though they take quite a few liberties with the truth, it was still a very enjoyable film. For anyone who doesn't know, it's about Alan Turing, primarily about his and Britain's work on cracking the Nazis' Enigma cipher, as well as his sexuality.
 
Soul - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948372/reference/

A film that, graciously, did not suck.

Complete loser Joe is a failed jazz musician; he can't get a band, can't get a gig. He teaches part time middleschoolers and doesn't even realize what a complete loser he is.
On the very day he finally gets his first break to play piano in a jazz group, he dies. By falling into an open manhole.

Joe is now in limbo. He tries to escape the staircase that leads to Heaven, but can't do anything right. He meets Tina Fey, "22", a rebel soul that can't find a good reason to reincarnate.

Since Joe is a complete and utter fuckup, as he is trying a secret way to get back into his earthly body, he messes that up as well and 22 winds up in his body instead, and Joe (Jamie Foxx) instead winds up inside the body of a cat.

It was decent. It was well done. It had a decent amount of soul (not a pun), some of the jokes were solid, the story is ... well, Heaven Can Wait was already what, a third remake? but it's been fifty years, so it's not the same shit as always.

Foxx is not a great voice actor. And Richard Ayoade is not a voice actor at all. It's not a masterpiece, but it was competent enough, and not a blatant copy of something we've seen a million times, which is almost a miracle these days.

7/10
 
list is slowly getting smaller.

i decided i'll leave out the 1940s and earlier, for now.

1950s​

  • 39 All About Eve 1950
  • 129 Orpheus 1950
  • 217 In a Lonely Place 1950
  • 416 Winchester '73 1950
  • 242 Los Olvidados 1950
  • 75 Early Summer 1951
  • 182 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
  • 340 Diary of a Country Priest 1951
  • 15 Singin' in the Rain 1952
  • 99 Umberto D. 1952
  • 127 Forbidden Games 1952
  • 261 The Life of Oharu 1952
  • 267 Limelight 1952
  • 5 Tokyo Story 1953
  • 37 Ugetsu 1953
  • 162 The Wages of Fear 1953
  • 251 The Big Heat 1953
  • 296 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953
  • 410 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953
  • 43 Sansho the Bailiff 1954
  • 450 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954
  • 479 Journey to Italy 1954
  • 17 Ordet 1955
  • 32 Pather Panchali 1955
  • 117 Rififi 1955
  • 88 The Night of the Hunter 1955
  • 33 A Man Escaped 1956
  • 143 Aparajito 1956
  • 302 The Killing 1956
  • 481 Kanal 1957
  • 118 Sweet Smell of Success 1957
  • 69 Nights of Cabiria 1957
  • 164 The Cranes Are Flying 1957
  • 52 Witness for the Prosecution 1957
  • 177 Wild Strawberries 1957
  • 314 Elevator to the Gallows 1958
  • 339 The Music Room 1958
  • 348 Ashes and Diamonds 1958
  • 402 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958
  • 158 Anatomy of a Murder 1959
  • 63 The World of Apu 1959
  • 220 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
  • 197 Rio Bravo 1959
  • 345 Pickpocket 1959
  • 470 Ballad of a Soldier 1959
  • 73 Le Trou 1960
  • 78 The Apartment 1960
  • 209 Breathless 1960
  • 230 L'Avventura 1960
  • 432 Purple Noon 1960
  • 435 Late Autumn 1960
  • 471 Peeping Tom 1960
  • 150 Viridiana 1961
  • 168 Through a Glass Darkly 1961
  • 468 Last Year at Marienbad 1961
  • 101 Ivan's Childhood 1962
  • 152 Sanjuro 1962
  • 195 The Exterminating Angel 1962
  • 284 Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
  • 494 Vivre Sa Vie 1962
  • 181 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
  • 338 The Servant 1963
  • 483 Charade 1963
  • 110 High and Low 1963
  • 372 Red Desert 1964
  • 308 A Hard Day's Night 1964
  • 490 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
  • 394 Charulata 1964
  • 91 The Shop on Main Street 1965
  • 283 Chimes at Midnight 1965
  • 377 Repulsion 1965
  • 55 Andrei Rublev 1966
  • 104 Persona 1966
  • 113 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
  • 453 Masculin Feminin 1966
  • 141 PlayTime 1967
  • 147 Samurai Rebellion 1967
  • 207 Marketa Lazarová 1967
  • 425 Belle de Jour 1967
  • 131 The Mother and the Whore 1973
  • 70 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
  • 285 Le Cercle Rouge 1970
  • 97 The Conformist 1970
  • 146 The Last Picture Show 1971
  • 202 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
  • 241 Cries and Whispers 1972
  • 343 Sleuth 1972
  • 246 Badlands 1973
  • 255 Day for Night 1973
  • 288 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
  • 352 The Conversation 1974
  • 277 A Woman Under the Influence 1974
  • 278 Scenes from a Marriage 1974
  • 428 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
  • 178 Mirror 1975
  • 371 Nashville 1975
  • 382 Loe and Death 1975
  • 375 Cria Cuervos 1976
  • 464 Kings of the Road 1976
  • 206 A Special Day 1977
  • 329 The Ascent 1977
  • 434 Stroszek 1977
  • 250 Autumn Sonata 1978
  • 334 Days of Heaven 1978
  • 474 Being There 1979
  • 496 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979
  • 18 Fanny and Alexander 1982
  • 48 Come and See 1985
  • 304 Vagabond 1985
  • 216 Threads 1984
  • 356 El Sur 1983
  • 412 Nostalghia 1983
  • 484 L'Argent 1983
  • 29 Grave of the Fireflies 1988
  • 185 My Neighbor Totoro 1988
  • 258 Time of the Gypsies 1988
  • 279 A Short Film About Love 1988
  • 351 A Short Film About Killing 1988
  • 318 A City of Sadness 1989
  • 469 Kiki's Delivery Service 1989
  • 418 The Killer 1989
  • 294 Close-Up 1990
  • 467 Only Yesterday 1991
  • 135 Raise the Red Lantern 1991
  • 388 And Life Goes On 1992
  • 433 The Remains of the Day 1993
  • 299 To Live 1994
  • 179 The Lion King 1994
  • 60 Satantango 1994
  • 49 Three Colors: Red 1994
  • 245 Secrets & Lies 1996
  • 262 Fireworks 1997
  • 459 The Celebration 1998
  • 322 Toy Story 2 1999
  • 378 The Iron Giant 1999
  • 389 The Straight Story 1999
  • 134 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000
  • 165 Yi Yi 2000
  • 282 In the Mood for Love 2000
  • 16 Spirited Away 2001
  • 438 Talk to Her 2002
  • 215 Finding Nemo 2003
  • 123 The Best of Youth 2003
  • 460 The Triplets of Belleville 2003
  • 312 Nobody Knows 2004
  • 359 Before Sunset 2004
  • 319 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days 2007
  • 366 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
  • 266 Still Walking 2008
  • 133 Toy Story 3 2010
  • 328 Inception 2010
  • 478 Incendies 2010
  • 380 Poetry 2010
  • 83 A Separation 2011
  • 405 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011
  • 358 Ernest & Celestine 2012
  • 337 Amour 2012
  • 176 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012
  • 441 The Hunt 2012
  • 204 12 Years a Slave 2013
  • 223 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2013
  • 231 Boyhood 2014
  • 286 Song of the Sea 2014
  • 325 Room 2015
  • 224 Spotlight 2015
  • 166 Inside Out 2016
  • 313 Your Name 2016
  • 331 La La Land 2016
  • 406 The Handmaiden 2016
  • 228 Coco 2017
  • 306 Call Me by Your Name 2017
  • 415 Paddington 2 2017
  • 119 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
  • 477 Little Women 2019
  • 79 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
 
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i watched S01 of

1923 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18335752/reference/

which, despite the name, is not based in 1923, but sometime earlier, as there is a character reading out loud a letter about the "german offensive" which would put this show somewhere between 1915 and 1918.

2 primary storylines, one in 'murica, on a ranch, where a filthy Irishman (liars and traitors the lot of them) unjustly, and cowardly, murders the family of brave 'murican rancher Han Solo Harrison Ford. Other storyline is another 'murican in Africa, hunting lions, but bagging primarily a hot blonde Bri'ish lady. There's also the obligatory subplot of a Native girl, a cast two pages long, Helen Mirren, and a decent production, but lacks a solid lead and an interesting plot, with the African story being substantially better than the American one.

It's basically a clone of 1883, not terrible, but 1883 is just better AND it's got Isabel May who is both hotter and a better character.

6/10
6.5/10 for 1883
 
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Was watching Tetris (2023) which centered on trying to navigate Soviet politics to get Nintendo publishing rights for the game on the then top secret Game Boy. Pretty good movie but then when I looked it up the crooked businessman stealing fighting the protagonist and who was trying to bribe Soviet officials for the license it was fucking Ghislaine Maxwell's father Robert Maxwell.
 
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Hope Gap - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7587876/reference/

Annette Bening is Grace, absolutely horrendous wife of Bill Nighy, Edward. She treats her marriage as a business relationship, constantly aggravating and frustrating her husband to the point where he abandons all hope of reaching out to her and leaves. And of course, being that she is a complete piece of shit, takes this as his fault, instead of realizing that maybe she was wrong. The personification of "the beatings will continue until morale improves".

Absolutely useless human drama that could have been important in the 60s, but treats themes that today are common knowledge, and maybe even a little tame.

5.5/10 - don't subject yourself to this just for the acting.
 
I watched Aliens tonight. Wow, that was a great movie. I was expecting to like it more than Alien, since horror doesn't do that much for me generally speaking. Having said that, I think Aliens might be one of my all time favorite action movies.

It's a shame the rest of the franchise (if I can believe RT/IMDb) is anywhere from somewhat to a steep decline in quality, because that left me wanting more.
 
JujuFish said:
I watched Aliens tonight. Wow, that was a great movie. I was expecting to like it more than Alien, since horror doesn't do that much for me generally speaking. Having said that, I think Aliens might be one of my all time favorite action movies.

It's a shame the rest of the franchise (if I can believe RT/IMDb) is anywhere from somewhat to a steep decline in quality, because that left me wanting more.
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