Movies

[kvetcha]

I watched National Treasure for the first time since 2004, in a Netflix Party with maybe 12 people in a group chat. Bad movie, good riffing experience.

 

[zombie.modernist]

I watched National Treasure for the first time since 2004, in a Netflix Party with maybe 12 people in a group chat. Bad movie, good riffing experience.

Take that back, it’s a masterpiece!! I did really enjoy it when it came out, and I was in 4th grade lol. Even as an adult I’ll sill give it props as a decent light Indy Jones rip-off, even if totally ridiculous.

I’ve also taken the route of sillier movies. Last night was Drunken Master II from Jackie Chan.

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

It's on my list above, but I re-watched A Place Beyond the Pines last night. Holds up. Such gorgeous, ambitious film.

 

[kvetcha]

Take that back, it’s a masterpiece!! I did really enjoy it when it came out, and I was in 4th grade lol. Even as an adult I’ll sill give it props as a decent light Indy Jones rip-off, even if totally ridiculous.

I’ve also taken the route of sillier movies. Last night was Drunken Master II from Jackie Chan.

Drunken Master II is incredible.

The thing that really struck me about National Treasure was the weirdly casual misogyny.

 

[duke86fan]

Blade runner


Good movie

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

Just watched The Standoff at Sparrow Creek via Hulu. Very solid debut feature if you like who dunits and you’d never guess it was made for only 450k

 

[kvetcha]

I’m not sure whether I have a type, but if I do, it’s Thora Birch in Ghost World.

 

[Gavaxeman]

Blade runner


Good movie

Slight understatement

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

I’m not sure whether I have a type, but if I do, it’s Thora Birch in Ghost World.

That‘s the film I wrote about in order to get into Chapman’s graduate film program roughly a decade ago.

So underrated.

 

[zombie.modernist]

weirdly casual misogyny

Yeah, I haven't seen it in maybe 6 years, but IIRC, the female researcher is pretty constantly dismissed or even sexualized? Those kind of popular shit films are usually ripe for academic essays on gender politics, wonder if anyone has taken it on haha.

 

[kvetcha]

Yeah, I haven't seen it in maybe 6 years, but IIRC, the female researcher is pretty constantly dismissed or even sexualized? Those kind of popular shit films are usually ripe for academic essays on gender politics, wonder if anyone has taken it on haha.

Dismissed, yeah. Regarding the latter, it’s Diane Kruger, so...

 

[THEEDADROCK.BLOG]

quarantine boredom is really getting to me

 

[Gavaxeman]

Platform on Netflix

That was sick...and not in a good way

 

[LeeVing]

Watched this the other night, but wanted the blu ray...



This is an extra that is on it...

 

[Clint Howard]

Platform on Netflix

That was sick...and not in a good way

Reminded me a lot of Cube, which is fantastic. Minus all the cannibalism.

 

[Gavaxeman]

Reminded me a lot of Cube, which is fantastic. Minus all the cannibalism.

Poor old sausage dog

 

[mdmost]

A couple of nice Disney+ offerings we watched with the kids that I'd highly recommend are Stargirl and Timmy Failure. If you have kids in the 4th to junior high range, both are pretty fun family watches.

 

[Jmcg85]

Just watched a great copy on movies hd app on my minix android box of Bad Boys For Life, it genuinely might be the best one yet, Martin Lawrence was hilarious in it. Turned the brain off, put the mobile phone away, few bottles of peroni and for a couple hours all I did was laugh

 

[kvetcha]

Fly Away Home is such a strange movie. It’s 70% lusciously shot family drama and 30% treacly 90s kid movie, in kind of a bad way. I liked it on the balance, but it’s weird how discordant those two facets feel.

 

[siremobunny]

A couple of nice Disney+ offerings we watched with the kids that I'd highly recommend are Stargirl and Timmy Failure. If you have kids in the 4th to junior high range, both are pretty fun family watches.

Stargirl was Disney+'s Manic Pixie Girl film. It was fun, but, good lawd, there were some serious plot issues.