What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[venessian]

I never saw this in the theater, etc but finally watched last night as it is now on Netflix (USA).

Excellent.

 

[venessian]

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Enjoyed this a lot. Has its flaws but was kind of a relief and refreshing to watch something that had lots and lots and lots of words

I enjoyed "Mank" very much as well. I predict some heavy awards tomorrow night. Fincher's directing was excellent and Oldman is super.

 

[double00]

finally caught Girl With a Pearl Earring whoa production design

 

[The Ernesto]

I enjoyed "Mank" very much as well. I predict some heavy awards tomorrow night. Fincher's directing was excellent and Oldman is super.

Yes, Oldman slipped into the role like a warm bath. Good observation about the direction, some effort to hold it all together and keep it (relatively) taut.

 

[imatlas]

I approve of F&F, they’re dumb and fun, despite becoming action movies. DC movies suck donkey dick. The only OK ones were Wonder Woman (not that 1984 trash) and Shazam.

We started Tokyo Drift tonight and I am pleasantly surprised so far. It's not going to crack the BFI 100 or anything but it's not awful.

 

[beargonefishing]

but it's not awful.

What is wrong with you?

 

[SixOhNine]

Tokyo Drift

Underrated classic.

 

[beargonefishing]

Underrated classic.

You should reconsider your entire life, and all the awful decisions you made, and feel very bad.

 

[Texasmade]

You should reconsider your entire life, and all the awful decisions you made, and feel very bad.

This coming from the guy who likes the sleep inducing Blade Runner 2049.

 

[beargonefishing]

I'm coming around to the idea of forced sterilization.

One of the flaws of Tokyo Drift is that it has too much plot for its own good, and not a scintilla of that plot is original, interesting, or surprising. The longer the period between races, the more impatient the viewer is likely to become, and that's even considering that the races aren't well staged. So we get the generic rebellious teenager, Sean (Lucas Black), sent to Tokyo to live with his estranged dad (Brian Goodman) rather than go to prison back home. In short order, he acquires a sidekick, Twinkie (Bow Wow); locates a potential girlfriend, Neela (Nathalie Kelly); makes an enemy of the wrong person, DK (Brian Tee); and is paired up with a mentor, Han (Sung Kan). Various unpleasant things happen, not the least of which is some of these performers trying to act, until we come to the race to end all races between Sean and DK. The prize is double barreled: the trophy girlfriend and the chance to race the guy making the super-secret, hush hush cameo appearance in the final 60 seconds.

 

[mhip]

I watched the 1st one...
That's all they are ever getting from me.

 

[javyn]

Revisited a classic this weekend.

"This ain't your arm! Where'd you get this arm? This is one of my *****'s arms! Who the **** are you?" -Zorro the pimp

 

[javyn]

It was uh pretty bad. Besides a couple of moments of decent hand to hand choreography it was surprisingly drawn out and boring. Way too much plot. Should have been a tight 90, minimal plot, just tons of fights. Watching the YouTube super clips of all the fatalities from the games is more interesting tbh

 

[venessian]

Yes, Oldman slipped into the role like a warm bath. Good observation about the direction, some effort to hold it all together and keep it (relatively) taut.

I guess I really should not have made any Oscar predictions having seen only 2 of the 10 films this year. That said I am even more terrible at Oscar predictions when I have seen 5 of 5 or 10 of 10.

Still, I was somewhat "validated" in that "Mank" did win more awards than "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", which I found beautiful to look at but somehow not that interesting beyond the visuals (and not an Oscar performance from Boseman despite the obvious predictable sentiment...and subsequent outrage last night). I really thought Oldman would win Best Actor, but have not seen Hopkins.

I do look forward to seeing "Nomadland", "The Father", "Judas", "Minari", etc. Have you seen them?

I did watch and would have voted for the documentary winner, "My Octopus Teacher". It is truly astonishing, very beautiful and moving.

 

[Texasmade]

I haven't see any of the movies you named.

I guess I really should not have made any Oscar predictions having seen only 2 of the 10 films this year. That said I am terrible at Oscar predictions when I have seen 10 of 10.

Still, I was somewhat "validated" in that "Mank" did win more awards than "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", which I found beautiful to look at but somehow not that interesting beyond the vuisuals (and not an Oscar performance from Boseman despite the obvious predictable sentiment...and subsequent outrage last night). I really thought Oldman would win Best Actor, but have not seen Hopkins.

I do look forward to seeing "Nomadland", "The Father", "Judas", "Minari", etc. Have you seen them?

I did watch and would have voted for the documentary winner, "My Octopus Teacher". It is truly astonishing, very beautiful and moving.