What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[patrick_b]

I watched The American. The plot sounds interesting but the movie is boring as ****. Only saving grace is that hot Italian woman that Clooney hooks up with.

I love that movie. Not sure why but it's one of those that I can rewatch again and again. I love the costume design, notably:

In terms of hitman apparel, you could do a lot worse than the full zip cardigan and chore jacket.

 

[edinatlanta]

In & Of Itself.

That was beyond excellent.

Literally no idea what i watched.

 

[King Calder]

Bunch of random stuff:

Classic!!!

Hysterical!!

Gorgeous!!!

Would recommend all three.

 

[Jmm722]

The new Netflix move “I Care A Lot” was enjoyable. It’s a black comedy that appears to be divisive with audiences. I enjoyed it despite how ludicrous the premise was.

 

[patrick_b]

The new Netflix move “I Care A Lot” was enjoyable. It’s a black comedy that appears to be divisive with audiences. I enjoyed it despite how ludicrous the premise was.

+1

I found the Imp's role surprisingly likeable. Required a lot of the viewer but an entertaining couple of hours.

 

[Journeyman]

The new Netflix move “I Care A Lot” was enjoyable. It’s a black comedy that appears to be divisive with audiences. I enjoyed it despite how ludicrous the premise was.

I haven't watched it yet, but the premise isn't actually that ludicrous (well, the bit involving revenge by a son who is a criminal might be...) as the basic idea of the story is, unfortunately, based on real life.

There's an absolutely excellent essay in the New Yorker about the situation - "How the Elderly Lose their Rights": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights

Here's a news article about just one of the people involved in these guardianship "scams": https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime...-to-serve-up-to-40-years-behind-bars-1565690/

 

[King Calder]

Bong Joon Ho is genuinely one of the most interesting and subversive filmmakers working today.

 

[noob in 89]

I tried to watch Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Whatever for the third time since it hit streaming — tried and failed. People say it’s great, but this just isn’t a movie that lets you check your email or even lean over to tell your dogs to knock it off. It demands your full attention. Worse, it obscures things — sometimes literally — with thick accents and also wigs.

I suppose I’ll try again in a bit.

 

[Adsky Luck]

recently rewatched 10 for the first time since the late 1980s.
10 is a good movie?


but mainly saw it again for this episode



too funny ahaha

 

[edinatlanta]

I tried to watch Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Whatever for the third time since it hit streaming — tried and failed. People say it’s great, but this just isn’t a movie that lets you check your email or even lean over to tell your dogs to knock it off. It demands your full attention. Worse, it obscures things — sometimes literally — with thick accents and also wigs.

I suppose I’ll try again in a bit.

I think it was The Guardian that said either this is a terrible movie or spycraft is too subtle for me to understand.

 

[javyn]

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Bong Joon Ho is genuinely one of the most interesting and subversive filmmakers working today.

I will have to check this one out I really liked The Host.

 

[King Calder]

@javyn It's on Hulu right now.

 

[double00]

I think it was The Guardian that said either this is a terrible movie or spycraft is too subtle for me to understand.

i'd read the book a couple of times before i watched it, le carre really insists on unfolding the plot through character internals in all of his stories that i've read

 

[otc]

Compare it to Margin Call. McKay spends so much time - celebrity cameos, Gosling voiceovers, diagram scribbling - showing us how the financial instruments work and how they led to destruction. Chandor spends almost no time explaining what the bank in Margin Call does - maybe a minute during the boardmeeting - but when Spacey and Irons are confronting each other on the eve of the firesale and Irons yells “THIS IS IT! I am telling you THIS IS IT” at a reluctant Spacey, we know that it’s life or death. It doesn’t matter that the movie hasn’t explained. The drama is in the air and all the characters feel it, and so the audience does too.

I mean...isn't that kind of the point? The Big Short is a Michael Lewis book. It is supposed to tell you *what* is happening in an approachable/entertaining way.

If you know little about the financial crisis, you come away with a rough intuition about what happened.

What the bank in Margin Call actually does is unimportant. It is just a vehicle for the drama and acting.

 

[zenosparadox]

i'd read the book a couple of times before i watched it, le carre really insists on unfolding the plot through character internals in all of his stories that i've read

Yeah, also the movie isn't so much interested in the spycraft as it is in using spycraft and international espionage as contexts to explore broken homosocial bonds. In that way, it's consistent with the director's previous (excellent) film, Let the Right One In, which is only nominally a horror film. I actually haven't read le Carré's novel, so am uncertain what is the author and what is the director, although A Most Wanted Man seemed interested in similar themes--I know many of the other viewers in the audience when I saw it were disappointed, because the story was actually more interested in disappointment than the payoff most spy films provide--so I'm assuming that a lot of it must be true to the text.