This thread is for discussing what you are watching/watched recently. Let us know what you've seen recently whether it's old or new, good or bad, or anything in between. Obviously, movies are preferred, but feel free to post whatever you've been watching. Expect spoilers.
Watched The Truman Show for the first time. It was a pleasant surprise to see Jim Carrey without all the antics.
Watched From Beyond and Ready or Not, I liked both. Ready or Not is a lot of fun and gave me the feelings of a Cabin in the Woods side story. Bonus points for portraying the rich people as stupid and useless.
From Beyond was exactly what I wanted it to be, weird body horror top notch 80’s B movie. A classic everyone should see if you even have a passing interest in the horror genre. It’s so gross, the grossest part isn’t even a special effect, I love it. Happy Halloween Everyone.
Yes! I’m so glad you enjoyed them. From Beyond is such an 80s treasure. If you like those weird body horror films from that era, I’d recommend a couple lesser known films: Society as one in a similar vein of weirdness and Possession as a fantastic film that will sit with you for a while.
Oh, I just realized that Society was directed by Brian Yuzna, who wrote the screenplay for From Beyond, ha.
I will definitely put them on the long list, we come together every other week and watch 2 movies, one is picked by a different person and one by me. My buddy’s next turn I think he’s doing Get Out so maybe another horror night, that’s in a couple months though. We’re watching Little Miss Sunshine and Grave of the Fireflies next.
OMG, Grave of the Fireflies is my favorite movie I never want to watch again. It’s incredibly heartbreaking. But it’s so good!
Watched Barbie a couple of days ago. It was fun and I like how they subverted expectations on the roles of the characters (i.e. who the “villain” was). Ryan Gosling is great as always in comedic roles. He falls under the “character actor trapped in a leading man’s body” category just like Colin Farrell and Brad Pitt.
On the series side, just finished Moving (kdrama). One of the best of the year IMO. Great writing, acting, and execution of the characters. Pacing was also good and it didn’t drag like a lot of other kdramas.
This is gonna be a good month! Very much looking forward to “Killers of the Flower Moon”. Also “Foe” and “Fingernails” are on my watchlist and should release this month (October).
Watched Renfield (2023) last night. Found it to be a bit of fun, but felt like it under delivered.
I love the premise of a disillusioned Renfield trying to take his life back from Dracula. Unfortunately, that core struggle gets lost amid a world domination plot, an absurdly well armed criminal empire, corrupt cops, a dead dad sibling justice vengeance tale, and a romance that is basically microwaved Warm Bodies (which was lukewarm on arrival to begin with!).
Idk. The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am. Some of the action set pieces are fun, and occasionally there’s a bit of effects work that grabs your attention. 2/4 stars.
Yep, agreed completely. The premise is interesting and Cage is actually pretty good without being too over the top but the rest is tonally all over the place. It tries to be serious and then Jean Ralphio comes in and is a cartoon. I left pretty disappointed at the potential.
Lmao, okay I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who kept seeing evil timeline Jean Ralphio. Made it very difficult to view the gang as a threat.
I love Ben Schwartz. I even saw him and Thomas Middleditch do their improv show a couple years ago. But I always see Jean Ralphio when I see him. It’s just such a good character, lol.
