What movies are you watching? What do you plan to watch? What have you watched recently? - Film/Cinema/TV Show/Streaming Show General Discussion Thread #21
Discussion questions:
What TV shows or films have you watched recently?
What subscription services are you subscribed to, if any?
Also just finished Season 2 of Yellowjackets, a show about a high school girls' soccer team that (mostly) survives an airplane crash in the wilderness and has to resort to horrid things to survive. It also shows some of the girls in their 40s in the modern day (they crashed in 96) and displays how they're coping or not coping with the trauma of their shared experience. It's riveting, I love the inclusion of well-rounded LGB characters, and ah it's just great entertainment.
Getting hyped for the new seasons of the Eric Andre Show, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Alone. I also just watched "Do the Right Thing" for the first time. Interesting.
A Spike Lee joint, made in 1989, it's about racism in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, how conflict arises from desperate conditions. It's pretty good, but kind of difficult to watch as it gets... intense at times.
I recently watched Oliver Stone's JFK, very interesting. Very compelling narrative. Definitely something I'd recommend to anyone in the left as this was just a very high profile example of the type of shit the CIA gets up to all the time. Also rewatched it again with commentary track.
I am looking forward to in future the Venture Bro's wrap-up movie (Go Team Venture) and I'll probably, possibly, maybe watch Season 3 of Praise Geraldo just because I enjoy expensive fantasy universes I'm somewhat familiar with and because I watched the other 2.
I continue to be subscribed to MAX (what a shitty rebrand from Discovery).
I also continue to be "subscribed" to Plex. My collection of Linux distros grows larger by the week.
I don't know what movie I want to watch. I'm working on finishing my watchlist on IMDB/Netflix though, so probably a movie from there. The last one I watched was Gangs of Wasseypur, a Bollywood movie. I thought it was okay. But first I'm finishing Trailer Park Boys. Just finished season 10.
I’ve been watching plenty of movies, from great ones like Kill Bill vol 1 to shitty ones like Diary of a Wimpy Kid:Dog Days. I love comedies of all stripes and I think I may enjoy crappy comedies nearly as good as great ones. I don’t think DoaWK deserves a real movie review so I’ll give a short analysis. First off, the movie is a sequel but doesn’t really have anything to do w previous Doawk movies, you can watch it separately from the other 2 movies and not miss a thing. Our main character Greg is a typical American white kid who is sorta awkward and overreacts to anything that’s kinda gross, but whatever not a huge deal. He is a very average kid, average lookinh, average height, build, house isn’t humongous or tiny(by movie standards, IRL he would still be pretty rich to have the house he has) and he is practically lusting over this popular girl in his class that he likes. He tries to get this girl’s phone number on the last day of school before summer break. She isn’t able to write down her phone number because the bell rings and everyone runs off. So Greg, acting like an obsessive weirdo, tricks his friend Rowley into trying EVERY POSSIBLE NUMBER that she could have and they don’t figure out the number. Then Greg goes to Rowley’s country club as a guest and basically starts stalking the popular girl, and expecting that she’ll jump in his arms and love him for simply being around her for a long enough period. Eventually he realizes that his friend will be charged for all the bullshit he bought at the country club and it isn’t free. Greg also lies about having a job at the club to his family so he can continue stalking this girl and hanging out with his friend. Eventually he gets caught, apologizes and nobody cares. The only nice message is that the popular girl didn’t care if he was rich or not and they hang out together at the PUBLIC pool(Godforbid😱) which they portray as awful and overcrowded and shitty in every regard. But this positive message aside, they really make the main character a creepy incel that follows a girl around when she gives no signals that she likes him, but they flip it at the end, all I’m gonna say is, this movie gave a lot of fuel to the incels and creepy guys that think they are owed a woman by society, whether the film creators meant that or not. All in all, a shitty film, and yea it’s for kids, but there are millions of movies for kids that have been done so much better
My wife and I recently finished Love and Death. It was quite riveting. We also really enjoyed the BlackBerry movie. It was funny, but also interesting even though they obviously took some liberties with the story.
Also I highly suggest the Justwatch app, you tell them which subscription services you have and they tell you where the movie or tv show you want is. Or just use myflixer if you can’t find it anywhere
Just finished the entirety of Brooklyn 99 (after a yr+), Derry Girls and the released seasons of the Legends of Vox Machina the past few weeks, and currently watching The Boys.
As for films, tried watching Quantum mania but noped out of it like 10mins in. The MCU has really gone to the shitter the past like atleast 7 films except Guardians - that was enjoyable enough. Honestly though it’s possible I just never critically thought about the plots of the earlier phase and I am tempted to rewatch them, but who really has the time for that lol.
Was meaning to watch the new spiderman but a bit too busy right now and cant find time to watch it in the cinema.
Watched Skinamarink recently but was not disturbed by it and found it booring. I subscribe to alldebrid (media cache) and eweka (usenet) and stream with jellyfin.
I finished mandalorian season 3. It filled a nice for me; mainly something to watch at the end of a long day. Really the only star wars show/movie I've liked since the originals, which I watched as a child