The Movie Thread....what are you watching?

[juansolo]

Stranger Things 3 is was an improvement over season 2.

I've heard that too, but there's just so much out there to watch that when they completely run out of ideas for season 2 (Lost, Walking Dead, etc) and expect me to waste hours of my life muddling through it, I just abandon the show right there. I really enjoyed the first seasons of all the above, I have no interest whatsoever of revisiting them because their second seasons made me simply not care what comes after them.

I recently saw the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, love the books don't know why it took so long to see the movie. Overall it was pretty good. Not as much fun as the old BBC one.

The radio series is utterly brilliant and in a lot of respects, I prefer it to the books (indeed that was my first introduction to Douglas Adams). It's available on CD now (used to have the cassette boxed set of that...). The BBC TV series is easily the closest you'll get to HHGTTG with pictures. The no-budget nature of it just suit the subject matter for some reason. The film, that had a budget, I think it adds a layer of seriousness to it that detracts from the sheer ridiculousness of it all.

[alanp]

Just saw _Samsara_, by Ron Fricke. I much prefer his earlier work, _Baraka_ -- it feels less preachy than Samsara does, more meditative and all encompassing.

[EBK]

I really want to see this:

[madbean]

I really want to see this:

I wanna see a Stormtrooper movie directed by Kevin Smith!

[Freppo]

I've been getting back into old school kung fu movies lately...
Old 70's stuff, like Shaw Brothers ect. Anyone else here into that?

I used to collect them in the late 90's to late 2010'ish.

When I was super bored the other day I started an instagram account for my collection... 
Check it out at https://www.instagram.com/kungfumoviecollector/

[Aentons]

I've been getting back into old school kung fu movies lately...
Old 70's stuff, like Shaw Brothers ect. Anyone else here into that?

I used to collect them in the late 90's to late 2010'ish.

When I was super bored the other day I started an instagram account for my collection... 
Check it out at https://www.instagram.com/kungfumoviecollector/

Pluto TV has a great Kung Fu channel, and it's free
https://pluto.tv/live-tv/flicks-of-fury


I watched one the other day that was pretty good. I think it was called One Armed Swordsman against Nine Killers.

[EBK]

Drunken Master was the kung fu movie I've seen most recently.  Enjoyed it immensely.

[Freppo]

Pluto TV has a great Kung Fu channel, and it's free
https://pluto.tv/live-tv/flicks-of-fury

Ohh, thanks for the tip!

Drunken Master was the kung fu movie I've seen most recently.  Enjoyed it immensely.

It's one of my favourites!
Check out Snake in the Eagles Shadow.
Same cast, but Jackie is alittle more likable in the movie IMO. 

[Leevibe]

Kung Pow isn't bad

[thesmokingman]

the ken burns country music doc ... haters gonna hate but I'm digging it

[somnif]

Welp, just got home from Rise of Skywalker.

That... was a movie. Did some stuff better than Last Jedi, did some stuff dumber.

I enjoyed it, but it doesn't really feel like a concluding chapter in tone, a bunch of plot threads just sorta tossed in the air and hopefully lost in the shiny lights.

And seriously, the Cinematographer and Editor both need a friggin Xanax prescription, god damn

[juansolo]

Yeah, I'll be giving that one a miss. I made it through Last Jedi, which at best I can say that I'd rather watch that again rather than Alien Covenant or Alien vs Predator 2...

I'm quite happy that we got an original trilogy that's good, with a prequel I liked (Rogue One). The first three episodes of The Mandalorian I've merged into one to make a really good stand alone Star Wars film also (think it's been a bit lightweight since then, but watchable). I'm good. Just waiting for the rest of Empire to be completed by project 4K80. 4K77 and 4K83 are already done and quite simply the only way left to watch the original trilogy as they were without owning the Laserdiscs.

[somnif]

Yeah, I'll be giving that one a miss. I made it through Last Jedi, which at best I can say that I'd rather watch that again rather than Alien Covenant or Alien vs Predator 2...

I'm quite happy that we got an original trilogy that's good, with a prequel I liked (Rogue One). The first three episodes of The Mandalorian I've merged into one to make a really good stand alone Star Wars film also (think it's been a bit lightweight since then, but watchable). I'm good. Just waiting for the rest of Empire to be completed by project 4K80. 4K77 and 4K83 are already done and quite simply the only way left to watch the original trilogy as they were without owning the Laserdiscs.

I really liked PARTS of TLJ. Basically, the Kylo/Rey/Luke stuff, I'm on board. The Poe/Finn/Fleet stuff.... feels like a first rough draft. I get what they were going for but it needed a half dozen rewrites because as it stands it runs like an "idiot plot". I like most of the characters (other than the idiot admiral) but the whole Casino and Fleet chase thing just... no.

And Rise... is mixed. There wasn't any Huge Chunks of stupid like the last one, but I strongly disagree with several plot choices (in particular one that directly contradicts what I thought was the best damned thing TLJ did). Some amazing action scenes but some idiotic characterization. Massive set pieces but not a one feels anywhere near as Epic as even the forest clearing in Awakens. And it is a very dark film, literally, its hard to see what is happening on screen for large portions of the action

In the end the trilogy feels like most of JJ Abrahm's TV series, where there is an amazing opening, then it rapidly becomes apparent that he had no long term plan in mind and just writes on the fly hoping it will turn out. Oh this was cool (plot veers left) Oh that's neat (plot veers right) ooo the fans like that (spirals around it for a while) wait now where was I going again?

I don't feel like I wasted my 6$, but I am very underwhelmed. Still, John Williams has an on-screen role, so that was cool at least.

[alanp]

I really liked PARTS of TLJ. Basically, the Kylo/Rey/Luke stuff, I'm on board. The Poe/Finn/Fleet stuff.... feels like a first rough draft. I get what they were going for but it needed a half dozen rewrites because as it stands it runs like an "idiot plot". I like most of the characters (other than the idiot admiral) but the whole Casino and Fleet chase thing just... no.

Kylo I'm meh about, edgy edgelords are nothing new (going back to goths in the eighties, hell, going back to Lord freakin' Byron in the dawn of time...) but the whole Mary Sue/Rey thing, and Luke Skywalker, one of the most optimistic characters ever who even saw good in Darth Vader, turning into an embittered old man who tried to murder his own student... just no.

[Muadzin]

If Disney Star Wars were to go down in flames that would give me an immense happy, but to everyone who likes it, more power to ya. I'm cool with that too. You like it, good for you! Fans have been arguing Star Wars online ever since they got access to the internet. Debate was heated around the time of the prequels, but at the end we all agreed that pro or con, we were all Star Wars fans. What really pissed me off about the Disney trilogy was not the biggest Mary Sue in movie history, or Han Solo becoming a deadbeat dad going back on his entire story arc, Luke becoming a sniveling little embittered biatch, or Anakin's sacrifice in ROTJ now basically meaningless, no those are decisions taken by the director. That's his prerogative. Would have been fine if Disney had said: Sorry you didn't like it, but this is how we honestly felt the story should be going. You're welcome to remain part of the family. No hard feelings? But no, they had to pull the toxic manbaby card. You don't like strong women and diversity, you are a misogynistic racist troll. Extra bonus point for being called Russian trolls. Yeah, that's a good business model, yell angrily at your fans, you know, the ones who pay for the food on your table? And that is why I want the Disney trilogy to go down in flames. And make the Hindenburg look like it was just a fender bender.

As is often the case, Southpark was right when they did that episode where everybody was willing to ignore voter fraud in the 2012 election, just so Star Wars would not end up in the hands of Disney.