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Post by Cop on Jun 17, 2019 11:49:40 GMT -5
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (Bluray): More of the same just a little sillier.
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 20, 2019 18:00:01 GMT -5
I started watching this show called Friday Night Dinner on Hulu, it is very funny and has the guy who played Dyatlov in Chernobyl (Paul Ritter). It's really strange to see him in a comedy role after seeing him in Chernobyl, that guy is a great actor.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jun 21, 2019 17:14:08 GMT -5
Euphoria (HBONOW): Ever see something that tries so hard to be offensive it makes you laugh? Thats this show. It takes a former Disney actor and makes her a 17 year old girl in a world about nothing but sex, drugs, and violence. Basically take the old 90s movie Kids and turn it into a comedy show with top tier production values and you have this. This girl gets out of rehab and continues to do drugs constantly. All of her friends are various levels of sleazy and unhinged.
In the first episode we see what looks like a 9 year old boy dealing drugs, about 30 dicks in the camera, then a 50 year old man commits what would be statutory rape in some places with a 16 year old transgender girl in graphic detail, then the trans girl gets in a fight and cuts herself with a knife. Yeah its so ridiculous I laughed at the whole thing. Apparently the show gets far more fucked up after that according to critics that have seen the whole season.
Worth a watch if you enjoy offensive shit. They clearly designed this show from the ground up to shock and offend people.
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Post by Cop on Jun 22, 2019 13:13:41 GMT -5
The Boy and the Beast (Download): Could be the title of a porno but it's actually an anime from the people that previously did Summer Wars and the Girl that Lept through Time. It's nothing like those apart from the fact it's both hilarious and emotional. Don't know how they keep doing that, but I've so many anime that tread this fine line. One moment you're laughing out loud, the next you're close to tears. So yeah, definately recommended.
Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon 3D (3D Bluray): The opening to this movie, with the ship leaving Cybertron, looks amazing in 3D. That's about the only time the movie still makes any sense as well. It's such a mess in every possible way. Characters disappear for long periods of time for no reason only to make a hero entrance when it suits them all too often. But hey, in 3D all the destruction at least is nice to experience, so there's that.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jun 22, 2019 14:38:06 GMT -5
Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon 3D (3D Bluray): The opening to this movie, with the ship leaving Cybertron, looks amazing in 3D. That's about the only time the movie still makes any sense as well. It's such a mess in every possible way. Characters disappear for long periods of time for no reason only to make a hero entrance when it suits them all too often. But hey, in 3D all the destruction at least is nice to experience, so there's that. I saw the first Transformers movie back in like 2007 or whenever in the theater, it was just ok. The second one was so boring and awful I never bothered with the others. I think they have what 5 movies now I never saw.
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Post by Cop on Jun 23, 2019 12:11:40 GMT -5
Nightmare Cinema (Download): Anthology horror with people like Joe Dante and Mick Garris. Best ones however were the ones by Ryuhei Kitamura, who made a giallo looking, pretty over-the-top, possession short that was all kinds of fun and David Slade, whose black-and-white entry was positively disturbing in a David Lynch-kind of way and the very best of the bunch.
Blood, Sweat & Terrors (Download): Another anthology, more focused on action than horror but mostly pretty good. A few weaker ones but enough good ones to even out the pack. Notable entry was the very last one, by the people that went on to make John Wick. You can see them practicing their stuff in their short called 'Fetch'. It's worth it for this one alone, but other ones I really liked were the first one 'Empire of Dirt' with a neat looking demon and a long single take action bit and 'Turncoat' with that guy from Kill List. Actually, most were OK, except from 'Flow', which really bad.
Captain Marvel 3D (Download): Surprisingly awesome in 3D. Much better than expected, lots of depth in most shots. Didn't see this in 3D in the theatre but I'm sure as hell going for the 3D bluray now. I actually liked all of it better than I did the first time, probably better without all the nonsense and the anti-male bias surrounding this flick when it was released. Now I just watched a fun superhero flick.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jun 25, 2019 22:55:53 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on Jun 29, 2019 9:50:28 GMT -5
Spartan (Download/DVD): Good movie. Hadn't seen it in a while but ran into a HD version by accident which I couldn't pass up.
Supernova (Download/DVD): Same here, except it's not that good a movie, but it's certainly OK. It's from that time in the late 90s/early 2000s when I started with DVD and there weren't many space based movies I didn't end up buying. Turns out Dr Hugh from Star Trek Discovery was in this as well. The rest of the cast was kinda known but he was someone I didn't know back in the day. Good to see he's still around, and still in space too apparently.
I also started watching Jessica Jones season 3. 4 episodes in and so far I really like it. Season 2 was weaker (seems like I didn't even keep it).
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Post by Cop on Jul 1, 2019 9:38:58 GMT -5
Jessica Jones - Season 3 (Download): Season 1 is still the benchmark for these Netflix Marvel series but I'm happy to say season 3 is pretty good again, much better than the second season. Interesting bad guy is always a good start. Shame they aren't going to be able to make anymore of these because Disney is being a money grubbing bitch with its IP.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jul 4, 2019 13:15:28 GMT -5
Midsommar(theater): I didn't even check how long this is. I thought it was a typical 90 minutes. Nope, this movie is looooooooong. Over 2 hours. Luckily I went early so it didn't mess with my July 4th plans.
Anyway from the trailer you can guess what happens. People go to Sweden and run into a crazy cult. People were laughing in the theater at the end. At the end people were like "uh ok what did you think of that?". Similar to the original Wicker Man it is more of a slow burn up to the climax. Decent fun.
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Post by Cop on Jul 4, 2019 16:25:07 GMT -5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Bluray): Silly fun. Can't not like it.
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Post by Cop on Jul 5, 2019 15:48:37 GMT -5
Spider-Man: Far From Home (Theatre): Good though not great, like the last one (or the other movies Spidey has been in recently). It's fun though but seems a bit long with not that much good Spidey action to fill it out. And if you know anything about the comics, it's also a bit predictable what the villain is concerned. 2 of the best things are right at the end though, with the mid-credits sequence that sees the return of a familiar character that I always felt was already perfectly cast and it seems I'm not the only one and the bit following the credits was also pretty good.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jul 6, 2019 15:49:24 GMT -5
Stranger Things Season 3: ugh. Stranger Things has become boring formulaic crap, its run its course. Season 1 was ace, the 2nd season was ok. This one this is meandering and tedious. Very difficult to pay attention too. Its like the Matrix sequels at this point. When stuff gets bad 11 uses her powers. Rinse repeat. Bleh. I'm not going to watch season 4.
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Post by Cop on Jul 7, 2019 3:48:45 GMT -5
I haven't downloaded it yet but it's sitting in the queue. Figured I'd watch it eventually. Now I'm even less in a hurry than I already was. Guess it was too popular to just stick with the one season. I seem to remember still liking the second though. That being said, I didn't keep either...
Attack on Titan - Season 1 (Bluray): This one finally became cheap enough to buy and it was taking up far too much space on the HDD, especially since I never got around to rewatching it anyway. Now I had a reason to do so (and maybe follow it up with the second season). It's good but in the first couple of episodes there's a lot of money saving going on not animating stuff. Guess they felt they'd spend that where it matters more because the second half of the season it much more action packed. Having rewatched the live-action movies recently as well, this animated series certainly takes its time. These 25 episodes at 20-minutes a piece (not counting intros and outros) are just about the first (2-hour) movie. There's pros and cons to both, the biggest con being they take a lot more time for the typical anime pathos. Lots of yelling and screaming, throwing their emotional states in each others faces. On the other hand, the female titan gets a lot more time to shine.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jul 7, 2019 19:09:53 GMT -5
Hereditary (Amazon Prime): I never actually saw this but since I saw Midsummar I figured I would go back and see the directors first movie. I've read its very polarizing but I liked it a lot. It kept me interested till the end and I liked the ending. Unlike Get Out I didn't feel like it was completely overhyped.
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Post by Cop on Jul 9, 2019 5:30:46 GMT -5
Attack on Titan - Season 2 (Download): Being only half as long but twice as action packed made this very easy to sit through in a short amount of time. Did 8 episodes the first night and the remaining 4 the next. There were some reveals but so far still nothing about the overarcing plot has really been set in motion. I hope they don't run it in the ground before it can get a satisfying conclusion. I mean, I saw the live-action movies so I have some idea already, but the series (and I imagine the manga) is very different. In any case, this was a good 12-episode run and I could follow it up with the next season but it looks like there's only dubbed episodes available so far and I'm no fan of that. It's either in Japanese or it's a no-go.
edit: maybe not, looks like there's already a Japanese version around as well.
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Post by Cop on Jul 11, 2019 3:01:49 GMT -5
Hellboy (Download): I didn't particulary like the trailer and hence I didn't make it to the theatre but I have to say I certainly didn't think it was bad. Sure, it's a bit all over the place and it may have too many creatures in it so none of them get proper screentime but at least it isn't boring. I still like Perlman's Hellboy better but by the end this new one had also grown on me. I'm buying this for the right price.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jul 11, 2019 21:42:38 GMT -5
The Wailing: I have heard this is a really good horror movie. Finally forced myself to sit down and watch it after reading the director of Midsommar said its his favorite horror flick of the last 10 years. Not knowing anything about Korea doesn't really take anything away from it. They have Shamanism in a bunch of cultures. It keeps you guessing who the good guy and bad guy are and has an ambiguous ending. I liked it. If you want it spoiled you can google an explanation.
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Post by Cop on Jul 13, 2019 4:12:19 GMT -5
Attack on Titan - Season 3 (Download): After a shorter second season it's back to 20+ episodes in the 3rd. Animation quality does seem all over the place and it certainly isn't the same level of quality of the first season. They cheated a lot in that first season with unanimated screens but the overall designs were much better than they are in the 3rd season. As far as the story goes, at first I felt they jumped the shark with a lot of farfetched exposition in the early episodes but eventually they came around and the entire middle part was pretty great and then they started explaining things... ...wow... ...now I see why the live-action movies went the way they went. This explanation would've been impossible to fit into those. I mean, it makes kinda sense in their own version of reality but why not just link it with our own world (like the live-action movies kinda did), it would've been so much easier to swallow. Still, if it ends here, it would be satisfactory, I'm afraid they won't though...
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Post by Cop on Jul 14, 2019 12:29:23 GMT -5
Stranger Things - Season 3 (Download): Pretty good season with some neat little touches, the best being the Russian Terminator.
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Post by Cop on Jul 16, 2019 4:47:57 GMT -5
Fast & Furious 8 (Bluray): Quite possibly the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen. Anyone remember when this series was about (drag)racing cars? It's become this totally classless and completely unbelievable James Bond/Mission Impossible clone where earth physics don't seem to exist at all and people talk in bad one-liners. It was silly, extremely silly. I have to admit I enjoyed the part with Jason Statham and the baby, that was really funny.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Narrative (Download): This is one of those movies where you need several decades of backstory to really be able to follow. I don't have that so the first, let's say 30 minutes, was extremely confusing. The animation was pretty good but unlike that other Gundam movie I watched recently, that wasn't enough this time around. It settles down on a story the uninitiated can follow way too late and there isn't enough of it to really be all that compelling so what you're left with is goodlooking mecha action, but even that was done better in that other flick, so sadly, no, I can't say I thought this was very good.
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Post by Cop on Jul 16, 2019 12:39:40 GMT -5
Garm Wars - The Last Druid (Bluray): Yeah, I bought it straight away after having seen the downloaded version. Weird and by Mamoru Oshii, basically live-action anime, what's not to like?
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Post by Cop on Jul 17, 2019 2:55:21 GMT -5
Genmu Senki Leda (Download): Mid-80s anime of which I'd never heard before but it was actually pretty good, with classic high-contrast Japanese animation so while it did all look dated, it looked also really cool if you're a fan of that style, which I am. On the title screen, the title translated as: "Leda: The Fantastic Adventure Of Yohko" and it's about a girl that gets transported to another world, where she becomes a kind of warrior princess so it's a bit like that segment in Heavy Metal: Den, just not as sexy. It also has a talking dog and all kinds of wonderful '80s animated explosions. Surprisingly good.
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Post by Cop on Jul 17, 2019 14:24:09 GMT -5
Patema Inverted (Download): How do the Japanese keep coming up with this stuff, and not only that, how do they always manage to make their crazy ideas into compelling movies? This anime is about 2 societies that literally live upside down from one another, unaware of each other's presence until a young girl accidentally falls into the other world where she's rescued by a boy. Together they try and figure out what's going on. This could be a game, the girl and the boy fall in different directions, what's up for the one is down for the other, only when they're holding on to one another do they cancel eachother's gravity out and they can basically float or jump really high and far. It makes for neat little physics shenanigans.
Band of Brothers - Entire Series (Bluray): Seen this plenty of times but now I watched it with the kids (and the wife). Took a while but it kept their attention. It is one of the best series out there for a reason after all.
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Post by Cop on Jul 17, 2019 17:08:03 GMT -5
Battle Angel Alita 3D (Download): Here's hoping I can actually get this in 3D when I buy the bluray because so far I haven't seen a version to pre-order, only the 4K version, that for some reason came with a 3D version. Would be silly if I'd have to shell out for that seeing how I can't even play that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 17:39:29 GMT -5
Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon 3D (3D Bluray): The opening to this movie, with the ship leaving Cybertron, looks amazing in 3D. That's about the only time the movie still makes any sense as well. It's such a mess in every possible way. Characters disappear for long periods of time for no reason only to make a hero entrance when it suits them all too often. But hey, in 3D all the destruction at least is nice to experience, so there's that. I saw the first Transformers movie back in like 2007 or whenever in the theater, it was just ok. The second one was so boring and awful I never bothered with the others. I think they have what 5 movies now I never saw. FYI. The second one was written during the Hollywood writers strike. I don't know the reason/s for the other sequels sucking also, other than "Bayformers" (Michael Bay being the director), as the audience critics often refer to it online. "Bumblebee" (a Transformers spin-off/prequel) was a nice improvement over the Transformers sequels. Bay was a producer on this one, but not the director. Also, it featured a (human) female lead fairly effectively. imo, the actress was a cut above (in acting skills) compared to the actors in the other Transformers films. It was good to see a Scifi film with a properly written and well acted heroine, which is quite an accomplishment given how far-fetched the overall story is.
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Post by Coolverine on Jul 26, 2019 11:51:37 GMT -5
I remember really enjoying Bumblebee the first time I saw it, I think I even watched it 2-3 times. However, I haven't been able to get through it again for some reason. My thoughts on it haven't changed, but it's just one of those movies (for me) that doesn't do well for repeated viewings.
I'm watching T2 Trainspotting, I had seen it before but didn't remember much. I think it's a very worthy sequel to Trainspotting, my favorite part might be when Renton and Begbie have an unfortunate reunion.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2019 12:28:10 GMT -5
It only came out last year. I'd be bored with any movie if I watched it several times in a span of less than a year. I watched Bumblebee once. Sure, I wouldn't say it's ever going to be a classic. It's worth a watch tho and at least as good as the first one, imo.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jul 26, 2019 15:20:50 GMT -5
I'm watching T2 Trainspotting, I had seen it before but didn't remember much. I think it's a very worthy sequel to Trainspotting, my favorite part might be when Renton and Begbie have an unfortunate reunion. I had a friend in Scotland who never watched this flick til I said "I'm more Scottish than you at least I've seen train spotting" and she was like "FINE ILL WATCH IT JESUS CHRIST" lol
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Post by Coolverine on Jul 27, 2019 15:48:19 GMT -5
I'm watching T2 Trainspotting, I had seen it before but didn't remember much. I think it's a very worthy sequel to Trainspotting, my favorite part might be when Renton and Begbie have an unfortunate reunion. I had a friend in Scotland who never watched this flick til I said "I'm more Scottish than you at least I've seen train spotting" and she was like "FINE ILL WATCH IT JESUS CHRIST" lol Yeah I think it's good. lol that part where Sickboy is watching that weird music video and Renton goes, "What is this?" I found that music video:
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