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Post by klawrencio79 on Dec 30, 2020 20:02:15 GMT
Has anyone seen District 9 (2009)? Is it good? It's decent. Nothing special really, but it's got some good ideas. I found it a little ironic at the time that this movie seemed so well received by the cool critics that derided Avatar in the same year for the tired story, when in essence these movies have pretty much the same story... but it's not bad. I personally love it, but haven't liked anything Blomkamp has done since. Chappie was bad and I remember affirmatively hating Elysium when I saw it in theaters, particularly Jodie Foster who felt like she was in a different movie. It seems like he's been attached to a bunch of different other projects (namely an Alien sequel at some point a few years ago, if memory serves) but has been relegated to doing shorts of late.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 30, 2020 20:03:53 GMT
Class of 1999 was breathtaking
Next free movie rolled over to -
Chopping Mall -
Sticking with the killer robot plot
Teens trapped in mall vs. Killer Robot Security Guards
Sounds like great 80s Cheese and a fun ride- lets give it a whirl
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 30, 2020 20:20:04 GMT
Class of 1999 was breathtaking Next free movie rolled over to - Chopping Mall - Sticking with the killer robot plot Teens trapped in mall vs. Killer Robot Security Guards Sounds like great 80s Cheese and a fun ride- lets give it a whirl I'm not sure if it's a recent thing, or it's been throughout lockdown, or you've just been on vacation for a while, but I'm really jealous that you seem to be able to just watch movies all day lately.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 30, 2020 20:23:22 GMT
Class of 1999 was breathtaking Next free movie rolled over to - Chopping Mall - Sticking with the killer robot plot Teens trapped in mall vs. Killer Robot Security Guards Sounds like great 80s Cheese and a fun ride- lets give it a whirl I'm not sure if it's a recent thing, or it's been throughout lockdown, or you've just been on vacation for a while, but I'm really jealous that you seem to be able to just watch movies all day lately. Work from home 5 days a week
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 30, 2020 20:29:37 GMT
It's decent. Nothing special really, but it's got some good ideas. I found it a little ironic at the time that this movie seemed so well received by the cool critics that derided Avatar in the same year for the tired story, when in essence these movies have pretty much the same story... but it's not bad. I personally love it, but haven't liked anything Blomkamp has done since. Chappie was bad and I remember affirmatively hating Elysium when I saw it in theaters, particularly Jodie Foster who felt like she was in a different movie. It seems like he's been attached to a bunch of different other projects (namely an Alien sequel at some point a few years ago, if memory serves) but has been relegated to doing shorts of late. I haven't seen any of the other features he's done actually. Chappie sounded interesting to me but I remember it getting laughed at pretty mercilessly by critics and audiences. I thought District 9 was fine. It bothered me that it adhered to the mockumentary thing but then just abandoned that half way through and still was shot in that style but was presented as a typical narrative film, and like I said, I didn't think doing this type of alien story as an apartheid parallel was all that much more inventive and clever than the Cowboys and Indians parallel that Avatar did in the same year. The effects were a little more interesting though.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 30, 2020 20:29:45 GMT
Just watched The Contender (2000) on Amazon Prime.
Decent movie about the political confirmation of a Vice Presidential candidate (brilliantly played by Joan Allen).
Gary Oldman as the Republican chair of the appointment committee determined to reject her is great too.
Jeff Bridges is the President.
A rare movie featuring Sam Elliott sans tache.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 31, 2020 1:24:29 GMT
I'm not sure if it's a recent thing, or it's been throughout lockdown, or you've just been on vacation for a while, but I'm really jealous that you seem to be able to just watch movies all day lately. Work from home 5 days a week I was working entirely from home for a while too, but they insisted on giving me work to do which entirely messed with me being able to watch movies all day. Pricks.
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Post by bluerisk on Dec 31, 2020 13:13:41 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 31, 2020 13:45:55 GMT
Rabid (2019) Free on my cable package - infection movie. Youtube clip below labels it a 'Zombie/Horror' movie Looks sensational 55% Rotten Tomatoes Score Let's give it a whirl
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 31, 2020 13:52:54 GMT
My wife randomly picked a show we had never heard of, a British mystery series called Broadchurch. The first season was one of the best seasons of a show I’ve ever seen. Without trying to spoil anything, I suspected literally everyone of being the killer except the person who actually did it. Great writing, great acting all around.
Just finished season 2 of it, which had two separate story lines going. While I liked it very much, I thought season 1 was better.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 31, 2020 14:55:15 GMT
My wife randomly picked a show we had never heard of, a British mystery series called Broadchurch. The first season was one of the best seasons of a show I’ve ever seen. Without trying to spoil anything, I suspected literally everyone of being the killer except the person who actually did it. Great writing, great acting all around. Just finished season 2 of it, which had two separate story lines going. While I liked it very much, I thought season 1 was better. I've heard good things about it and I have been meaning to watch it. That is the one with former Doctor Who David Tennant, right?
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 31, 2020 14:59:55 GMT
My wife randomly picked a show we had never heard of, a British mystery series called Broadchurch. The first season was one of the best seasons of a show I’ve ever seen. Without trying to spoil anything, I suspected literally everyone of being the killer except the person who actually did it. Great writing, great acting all around. Just finished season 2 of it, which had two separate story lines going. While I liked it very much, I thought season 1 was better. I've heard good things about it and I have been meaning to watch it. That is the one with former Doctor Who David Tennant, right? Yes, David Tennant is one of the stars. The woman who plays the mother of the murdered child is the actress that is the female Doctor Who as well.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 31, 2020 15:12:29 GMT
I've heard good things about it and I have been meaning to watch it. That is the one with former Doctor Who David Tennant, right? Yes, David Tennant is one of the stars. The woman who plays the mother of the murdered child is the actress that is the female Doctor Who as well. I always heard that was great. It was remade as Gracepoint on Fox also with David Tennant. I don't think it was as well liked, but I thought it was interesting that he was in both shows.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 31, 2020 15:19:21 GMT
Yes, David Tennant is one of the stars. The woman who plays the mother of the murdered child is the actress that is the female Doctor Who as well. I always heard that was great. It was remade as Gracepoint on Fox also with David Tennant. I don't think it was as well liked, but I thought it was interesting that he was in both shows. I had never heard of Gracepoint so I looked it up on IMDb. Skyler from Breaking Bad plays the main female detective so that’s enough to kill it for me right there. They’ve changed / added some characters so I can’t tell who all corresponds to the British version but I can’t imagine it being as good. Every performance in Broadchurch was great.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 31, 2020 15:21:27 GMT
I always heard that was great. It was remade as Gracepoint on Fox also with David Tennant. I don't think it was as well liked, but I thought it was interesting that he was in both shows. I had never heard of Gracepoint so I looked it up on IMDb. Skyler from Breaking Bad plays the main female detective so that’s enough to kill it for me right there. They’ve changed / added some characters so I can’t tell who all corresponds to the British version but I can’t imagine it being as good. Every performance in Broadchurch was great. She's fine by me. I know people hated her character, but I never thought she was bad at playing her. But I see Olivia Coleman is in Broadchurch, and you can't really do better than her.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 31, 2020 16:08:59 GMT
Twilight Zone New Years Eve/Day Marathon Fun time on the old IMDB Board
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 31, 2020 16:38:24 GMT
The other day we were cleaning out our DVR and one of the oldest things we had recorded was the movie God's Not Dead from 2014. We had watched Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas around then because we'd heard it was one of the most hilariously lame and terrible things ever made, and that was absolutely true so I guess I thought it would be funny to watch some of these other shitty Christian movies (also watched Christian Mingle The Movie, around then).
Unlike the Kirk Cameron nonsense, this movie actually made a lot of money. It was made on a tiny budget, which certainly shows, but some how made like 60 million at the box office. If you know how to pander to your audience then it doesn't matter how shitty your product is. It's the whole Tyler Perry theory.
It's not really worth picking this one apart. It's bad in all of the ways you'd expect it to be, but it's not really crazy enough to be fun until the very end. The plot is that Hercules is a college philosophy professor who forces his students to be atheists, but one kid won't stand for it and is forced to teach the class for him and prove scientifically and philosophically that Christianity is true. It's really, really dumb. There are a bunch of side plots which all seek to convince you that there is no such thing as an atheist or a Muslim. They are all secretly Christians that just won't admit it. Clark Kent is an atheist that doesn't care that his girlfriend has cancer, a priest has his faith tested because he can't get a working rental car, a Chinese student fights with his dad because he's told being a Christian will hurt his academics, a liberal blogger gets bested by the fucking Duck Dynasty guy, a Muslim girl gets beaten to shit and thrown out of the house by her father for secretly listening to Christian sermons on her iPod, Hercules' girlfriend is a Christian who gets treated like shit by a dinner party of evil and smug college professors.
It's all very, very stupid. But the ending is insane... after the kid makes some nothing arguments the professor admits in front of the class that he believes in God but he's just mad because his mom died, and therefore this kid converts every single student in his class to Christianity. To celebrate, he heads heads to a Christian rock concert. The liberal blogger has an emotional breakdown because she's dying of cancer so to deal with it she goes to confront the Christian rock band who's playing a sold out arena show. She just walks backstage and yells at them and then but they immediately realize that she's in need of being converted so they postpone the show until they can turn her into a Christian. Meanwhile, the mopey priest and his foreign exchange priest buddy finally get rental car that works and see Hercules crossing the street after his altercation with the student who proved the existence of God. Hercules is mad about this so doesn't look where he's going and gets hit by a fucking car, launched in the air, and lands broken on the pavement. At this point the priest realizes that God tampered with all of the rental cars so he could be here when Hercules got fucking killed by a hit and run driver, who I think might have been Superman, but it was unclear. Somehow, he and his African missionary buddy immediately notice that he's dying, so instead of calling an ambulance or police they focus their efforts on forcing him to convert to Christianity and just letting him die in the rain on the street. Naturally he accepts this and fucking dies. Once he's dead the two preisrs congratulate each other and everyone agrees that a man being killed by a hit-and-run driver was all the grand plan and that this guy being murdered is cause for celebration.
The movie ends with the fucking duck dynasty guy speaking to all of these characters at the rockin' Christian band concert and calling on everyone there to send a text message to every single person in their contact list that says 'God's Not Dead' ... then the credits come up and demand that the audience of the movie does the same.
Fucking insane.
There's a version of a movie like this that's something more like Inherit the Wind in reverse or something, where two sides debate these issues and maybe neither is fully convinced by maybe they learn to respect one another's intellect or something. That movie sidesteps some things, but it's a good film. This is not only a bad film in pretty much every conceivable way, but it's not even good propaganda. It's dumber than I was expecting, and I was very much expecting it to be dumb.
This did sort start a trend of these kinds of movies being successful financially (this one has 2 fucking sequels), to the point that I think Sony and/or Lionsgate has it's own division of 'faith-based' distribution. One of the problems there however, is that those movies get real actors, actual writers, and professional filmmakers to lead those projects so the result is something that's just kind of bland. They're aren't anything special, but likewise they aren't shockingly, hilariously awful. This kinda thing, on the other hand, is. It was sorta dull for a while, but once you see what they're actually doing and what it all culminates in, it's wild.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Dec 31, 2020 17:03:14 GMT
The other day we were cleaning out our DVR and one of the oldest things we had recorded was the movie God's Not Dead from 2014. We had watched Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas around then because we'd heard it was one of the most hilariously lame and terrible things ever made, and that was absolutely true so I guess I thought it would be funny to watch some of these other shitty Christian movies (also watched Christian Mingle The Movie, around then). Unlike the Kirk Cameron nonsense, this movie actually made a lot of money. It was made on a tiny budget, which certainly shows, but some how made like 60 million at the box office. If you know how to pander to your audience then it doesn't matter how shitty your product is. It's the whole Tyler Perry theory. It's not really worth picking this one apart. It's bad in all of the ways you'd expect it to be, but it's not really crazy enough to be fun until the very end. The plot is that Hercules is a college philosophy professor who forces his students to be atheists, but one kid won't stand for it and is forced to teach the class for him and prove scientifically and philosophically that Christianity is true. It's really, really dumb. There are a bunch of side plots which all seek to convince you that there is no such thing as an atheist or a Muslim. They are all secretly Christians that just won't admit it. Clark Kent is an atheist that doesn't care that his girlfriend has cancer, a priest has his faith tested because he can't get a working rental car, a Chinese student fights with his dad because he's told being a Christian will hurt his academics, a liberal blogger gets bested by the fucking Duck Dynasty guy, a Muslim girl gets beaten to shit and thrown out of the house by her father for secretly listening to Christian sermons on her iPod, Hercules' girlfriend is a Christian who gets treated like shit by a dinner party of evil and smug college professors. It's all very, very stupid. But the ending is insane... after the kid makes some nothing arguments the professor admits in front of the class that he believes in God but he's just mad because his mom died, and therefore this kid converts every single student in his class to Christianity. To celebrate, he heads heads to a Christian rock concert. The liberal blogger has an emotional breakdown because she's dying of cancer so to deal with it she goes to confront the Christian rock band who's playing a sold out arena show. She just walks backstage and yells at them and then but they immediately realize that she's in need of being converted so they postpone the show until they can turn her into a Christian. Meanwhile, the mopey priest and his foreign exchange priest buddy finally get rental car that works and see Hercules crossing the street after his altercation with the student who proved the existence of God. Hercules is mad about this so doesn't look where he's going and gets hit by a fucking car, launched in the air, and lands broken on the pavement. At this point the priest realizes that God tampered with all of the rental cars so he could be here when Hercules got fucking killed by a hit and run driver, who I think might have been Superman, but it was unclear. Somehow, he and his African missionary buddy immediately notice that he's dying, so instead of calling an ambulance or police they focus their efforts on forcing him to convert to Christianity and just letting him die in the rain on the street. Naturally he accepts this and fucking dies. Once he's dead the two preisrs congratulate each other and everyone agrees that a man being killed by a hit-and-run driver was all the grand plan and that this guy being murdered is cause for celebration. The movie ends with the fucking duck dynasty guy speaking to all of these characters at the rockin' Christian band concert and calling on everyone there to send a text message to every single person in their contact list that says 'God's Not Dead' ... then the credits come up and demand that the audience of the movie does the same. Fucking insane. There's a version of a movie like this that's something more like Inherit the Wind in reverse or something, where two sides debate these issues and maybe neither is fully convinced by maybe they learn to respect one another's intellect or something. That movie sidesteps some things, but it's a good film. This is not only a bad film in pretty much every conceivable way, but it's not even good propaganda. It's dumber than I was expecting, and I was very much expecting it to be dumb. This did sort start a trend of these kinds of movies being successful financially (this one has 2 fucking sequels), to the point that I think Sony and/or Lionsgate has it's own division of 'faith-based' distribution. One of the problems there however, is that those movies get real actors, actual writers, and professional filmmakers to lead those projects so the result is something that's just kind of bland. They're aren't anything special, but likewise they aren't shockingly, hilariously awful. This kinda thing, on the other hand, is. It was sorta dull for a while, but once you see what they're actually doing and what it all culminates in, it's wild. I've seen this movie. It might be the scariest movie I've ever seen and shit like this has a built-in audience of people who get teared up by this stuff, and hail it as not only great cinema, but a great message. I knew there was a sequel, I didn't know there was another one.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 31, 2020 17:22:51 GMT
The other day we were cleaning out our DVR and one of the oldest things we had recorded was the movie God's Not Dead from 2014. We had watched Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas around then because we'd heard it was one of the most hilariously lame and terrible things ever made, and that was absolutely true so I guess I thought it would be funny to watch some of these other shitty Christian movies (also watched Christian Mingle The Movie, around then). Unlike the Kirk Cameron nonsense, this movie actually made a lot of money. It was made on a tiny budget, which certainly shows, but some how made like 60 million at the box office. If you know how to pander to your audience then it doesn't matter how shitty your product is. It's the whole Tyler Perry theory. It's not really worth picking this one apart. It's bad in all of the ways you'd expect it to be, but it's not really crazy enough to be fun until the very end. The plot is that Hercules is a college philosophy professor who forces his students to be atheists, but one kid won't stand for it and is forced to teach the class for him and prove scientifically and philosophically that Christianity is true. It's really, really dumb. There are a bunch of side plots which all seek to convince you that there is no such thing as an atheist or a Muslim. They are all secretly Christians that just won't admit it. Clark Kent is an atheist that doesn't care that his girlfriend has cancer, a priest has his faith tested because he can't get a working rental car, a Chinese student fights with his dad because he's told being a Christian will hurt his academics, a liberal blogger gets bested by the fucking Duck Dynasty guy, a Muslim girl gets beaten to shit and thrown out of the house by her father for secretly listening to Christian sermons on her iPod, Hercules' girlfriend is a Christian who gets treated like shit by a dinner party of evil and smug college professors. It's all very, very stupid. But the ending is insane... after the kid makes some nothing arguments the professor admits in front of the class that he believes in God but he's just mad because his mom died, and therefore this kid converts every single student in his class to Christianity. To celebrate, he heads heads to a Christian rock concert. The liberal blogger has an emotional breakdown because she's dying of cancer so to deal with it she goes to confront the Christian rock band who's playing a sold out arena show. She just walks backstage and yells at them and then but they immediately realize that she's in need of being converted so they postpone the show until they can turn her into a Christian. Meanwhile, the mopey priest and his foreign exchange priest buddy finally get rental car that works and see Hercules crossing the street after his altercation with the student who proved the existence of God. Hercules is mad about this so doesn't look where he's going and gets hit by a fucking car, launched in the air, and lands broken on the pavement. At this point the priest realizes that God tampered with all of the rental cars so he could be here when Hercules got fucking killed by a hit and run driver, who I think might have been Superman, but it was unclear. Somehow, he and his African missionary buddy immediately notice that he's dying, so instead of calling an ambulance or police they focus their efforts on forcing him to convert to Christianity and just letting him die in the rain on the street. Naturally he accepts this and fucking dies. Once he's dead the two preisrs congratulate each other and everyone agrees that a man being killed by a hit-and-run driver was all the grand plan and that this guy being murdered is cause for celebration. The movie ends with the fucking duck dynasty guy speaking to all of these characters at the rockin' Christian band concert and calling on everyone there to send a text message to every single person in their contact list that says 'God's Not Dead' ... then the credits come up and demand that the audience of the movie does the same. Fucking insane. There's a version of a movie like this that's something more like Inherit the Wind in reverse or something, where two sides debate these issues and maybe neither is fully convinced by maybe they learn to respect one another's intellect or something. That movie sidesteps some things, but it's a good film. This is not only a bad film in pretty much every conceivable way, but it's not even good propaganda. It's dumber than I was expecting, and I was very much expecting it to be dumb. This did sort start a trend of these kinds of movies being successful financially (this one has 2 fucking sequels), to the point that I think Sony and/or Lionsgate has it's own division of 'faith-based' distribution. One of the problems there however, is that those movies get real actors, actual writers, and professional filmmakers to lead those projects so the result is something that's just kind of bland. They're aren't anything special, but likewise they aren't shockingly, hilariously awful. This kinda thing, on the other hand, is. It was sorta dull for a while, but once you see what they're actually doing and what it all culminates in, it's wild. I've seen this movie. It might be the scariest movie I've ever seen and shit like this has a built-in audience of people who get teared up by this stuff, and hail it as not only great cinema, but a great message. I knew there was a sequel, I didn't know there was another one. It's kind of like watching those anti masker videos that Frogs posts. You laugh at them and how stupid it all is, but it's also frightening that some people think there's truth to it. Like the aforementioned Tyler Perry movies as well. Some of the other Christian movies are outright dismissed, like Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, and others are lame but basically harmless. This one was laughably bad, but also dark, sinister, and hateful to it's core.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 31, 2020 18:54:44 GMT
Last movie of the year: Wong Kar-Wai's 2046, a follow-up to his In the Mood for Love. It's been on my list for ages but I've been reluctant to watch it because I was afraid of being disappointed, since "In the Mood for Love" has a secure place in my Top 5 favourite films ever.
Frankly I am not sure how I feel about 2046. It does have some of the striking carefully planned visuals that played a major part in how I felt about the earlier film, but there is something missing. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood. I kept pausing it to check my phone and reply to messages. I thought about stopping and starting again at some later date, but I really wanted to close 2020 on a high note (at least from a movie-watching point of view), so I pressed on. Oh well.
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