What Movie/Tv Show did you Watch today?

[Levon]

Saw this on netflix a couple weeks ago, was much better than I expected. I give it 7 and a half rotten tomatoes.



DISCLAIMER: I've always been a sucker for movies with immortals in them, or movies that fuck around with time travel.

Have you seen Arrival?

No. I understand it was well received, but I don't think it ticks enough boxes for me.

 

[Omnipotent]

ok... yellowstone next!~

 

[Seamajor]

5 Merican Football Games, after wave riding for 3 hours. Off shores all day.

 

[Blurt]

Have you seen Arrival?

No. I understand it was well received, but I don't think it ticks enough boxes for me.

That's too bad.

Great, "cerebral-with-a-heart" science fiction is so hard to come by in this age of whooshing-in-the-vacuum-of-space ships, Viking gods in cosmic combat, and other assorted baby Yodas.

Just like I did with Annihilation (another thinking person's sci-fi flick) and the original Jeff Vandermeer trilogy of novellas that were its source, I went and re-read the story by Ted Chiang upon which Arrival is based, just so I could better ground my appreciation for the extent to which Time itself is a language (and a protagonist) in the film, and then watched the movie again.

It ranks up there, as a science fiction gem, with (in no particular order):

- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Annihilation
- Primer
- Under the Skin (best sci-fi creepfest this side of Alien)
- Cloud Atlas
- Moon
- Donnie Darko
- Brazil
- The Fountain
- Sunshine
- Ex Machina
- Inception
- District 9

...and a handful of others.

As always, though, to each their own.

 

[Levon]

Have you seen Arrival?

No. I understand it was well received, but I don't think it ticks enough boxes for me.

That's too bad.

Great, "cerebral-with-a-heart" science fiction is so hard to come by in this age of whooshing-in-the-vacuum-of-space ships, Viking gods in cosmic combat, and other assorted baby Yodas.

Just like I did with Annihilation (another thinking person's sci-fi flick) and the original Jeff Vandermeer trilogy of novellas that were its source, I went and re-read the story by Ted Chiang upon which Arrival is based, just so I could better ground my appreciation for the extent to which Time itself is a language (and a protagonist) in the film, and then watched the movie again.

It ranks up there, as a science fiction gem, with (in no particular order):

- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Annihilation
- Primer
- Under the Skin (best sci-fi creepfest this side of Alien)
- Cloud Atlas
- Moon
- Donnie Darko
- Brazil
- The Fountain
- Sunshine
- Ex Machina
- Inception
- District 9

...and a handful of others.

As always, though, to each their own.

Holy shit mang, I've only seen maybe 3 of the films on yer list. I admit, I'm not much of a movie guy.

 

[Blurt]

Some of those are totally worth the time spent on watching them, Levon.

Like all good stories, be they in print or on film, they stay with you long after they end and your brain keeps bringing them up again, wanting to turn them over this way and that, like a mesmerizing bauble.

 

[LotusBud]

Have you seen Arrival?

No. I understand it was well received, but I don't think it ticks enough boxes for me.

That's too bad.

Great, "cerebral-with-a-heart" science fiction is so hard to come by in this age of whooshing-in-the-vacuum-of-space ships, Viking gods in cosmic combat, and other assorted baby Yodas.

Just like I did with Annihilation (another thinking person's sci-fi flick) and the original Jeff Vandermeer trilogy of novellas that were its source, I went and re-read the story by Ted Chiang upon which Arrival is based, just so I could better ground my appreciation for the extent to which Time itself is a language (and a protagonist) in the film, and then watched the movie again.

It ranks up there, as a science fiction gem, with (in no particular order):

- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Annihilation
- Primer
- Under the Skin (best sci-fi creepfest this side of Alien)
- Cloud Atlas
- Moon
- Donnie Darko
- Brazil
- The Fountain
- Sunshine
- Ex Machina
- Inception
- District 9

...and a handful of others.

As always, though, to each their own.

I read Ted Chiang's story for the first time after seeing the movie. I thought that story was fucking brilliant.

 

[LotusBud]

Did anyone see the French series, "The Revenants"? Or, The Returned. I heard they tried to do a US version, but it bombed. The French series was really good.

 

[Blurt]

Nope.

I'll admit I'm all zombied out at this point. Last zombie vehicles for me were Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, AMC's The Walking Dead season 3, and the Tell Tale Games The Walking Dead.

I'm done with the whole hoodoo voodoo juju schtick.

 

[Lily]

I enjoyed the first episode of this series. Very good. Worth your time.

 

[Murdy]

I just finished 4 hours at the Capitol on HBO…

OMG these people are animals.

 

[Lily]

I just finished 4 hours at the Capitol on HBO…

OMG these people are animals.

I watched it too. What kind of fuckhead do you have to be to deny what we can see?

 

[Murdy]

I just finished 4 hours at the Capitol on HBO…

OMG these people are animals.

I watched it too. What kind of fuckhead do you have to be to deny what we can see?

I didn’t realize how violent this attack was and how traumatized the capital police and people who worked in the building were by this. 4 police officers committed suicide following this insurrection.

Who in the fuck do they think they are? Seriously?

They should have been killed for treason.

 

[Lily]

I just finished 4 hours at the Capitol on HBO…

OMG these people are animals.

I watched it too. What kind of fuckhead do you have to be to deny what we can see?

I didn’t realize how violent this attack was and how traumatized the capital police and people who worked in the building were by this. 4 police officers committed suicide following this insurrection.

Who in the fuck do they think they are? Seriously?

They should have been killed for treason.

They were vile. Absolute monsters and deserve to be executed for treason indeed.

 

[Admin.]

Currently viewing Gaslight (1944)

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Yeah that's right, Gaslight.

 

[Blurt]

Is that the sequel to Sixteen Candles?

 

[Murdy]

I watched Tom Hanks’ News of the World last night. The girl in the movie is the daughter of German immigrants who were slaughtered by Indians. She was taken by that tribe and raised by them until the Army killed her Indian family and sent her to be returned to her aunt and uncle.

Just in time too… Mariah Carrey was thawed and ready at midnight… It’s officially Christmas season!

I’m watching Elf next. Santa!!!

 

[Holliday1881]

Wild Castles - several episodes.
A nice European history/wildlife series.

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[Breakfall]

The Power Of The Dog…



I don’t know what to really say about this flick, other than a bit of “broke back” twist and mud baths! It’s not your conventional cowboy rodeo show- put it that way. It’s won a few awards…but you’ll have to make up your own mind on this one.

 

[Lily]

The Power Of The Dog…



I don’t know what to really say about this flick, other than a bit of “broke back” twist and mud baths! It’s not your conventional cowboy rodeo show- put it that way. It’s won a few awards…but you’ll have to make up your own mind on this one.

I think the tension in the movie results in an unsurprising surprise though. I was expecting something to happen between those two "broke back" characters, but wasn't sure which way it was going to go. I was satisfied that it took the twist it did.

 

[Lily]

+

 

[Jeannie]

i tried watching the handmaids tale but it was just too woke, plodding and absurd

 

[Levon]

Just watched The Unforgivable on Netflix. Sandra Bullock is always amazing. Movie was grim and kinda painful but pretty well done.

 

[Omnipotent]

We binged watched Yellowstone so we have caught up. It's very good indeed. I LOVE binge watching stuff.

 

[Omnipotent]

season 4 ep 6 was good when he told that activist that her vegan diet killed lizards, snakes, frogs and moles ( plus many more animals) so that really nailed her arse.

lovely place indeed. I'll talk about it when I talk to you next.

 

[Omnipotent]

Did anyone see the French series, "The Revenants"? Or, The Returned. I heard they tried to do a US version, but it bombed. The French series was really good.

The Revenant....10/10. Great movie. The Bear sceen was horrific.