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Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I'm still watching the Ozarks and deep into S2 it still seems like the cartel would have just killed every character and burned their homes to the ground rather than be bothered letting this continue

# ¿ Jan 20, 2022 17:27

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 14:02

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Parakeet vs. Phone posted:

they'll be hiring 100 Saul Goodmen to buy nail salons across the country

This is the spinoff I crave

# ¿ Jan 20, 2022 23:08

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Even if HBO Max never released any new content and was just a way to rewatch the Sopranos and movies older than 2005 it would still be better than Netflix lol

Speaking of which Euphoria and Righteous Gemstones were both bangers again this week :holy:

Wolfsheim fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Jan 24, 2022

# ¿ Jan 24, 2022 07:08

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

precision posted:

its wild 2 me that people are like "wow netflix doesn't have anythign i havent watched before" and not realize maybe thats cause theyve watched everything & not because of an flaw with netflix

haha

Well it's not that I've already watched every Christmas Prince film so much as I have no desire to, and then they have films like Red Notice that are so incredibly bland that I would struggle to recall anything about it minutes after finishing it

Don't Look Up was better than I expected though, but still about 30 minutes too long

# ¿ Jan 24, 2022 21:10

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I watched Nobody on HBO Max and boy if you didn't know it was written by the John Wick guy you would figure it out very quickly, lol. Still a solid 6/10 comedy action film if you like that sort of thing. Bob Odenkirk is a lovely man.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2022 08:35

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

mcmagic posted:

it's basically just a really long music video that is very impressed with itself.

You just listed the reason it is good, the first season was basically the same (and Assassination Nation which is Euphoria as an intentional horror comedy film and also rocks)

# ¿ Jan 31, 2022 04:40

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

PeterCat posted:

The planet of the apes movies are free on YouTube this month.

My parents had all of these oh VHS when I was a kid and I binged all six movies over one amazing weekend

Looking back there's a real sharp drop in quality after the first one but there's something fascinating about each sequel after the second being a complete departure from the movie that came before

EDIT: unless you're talking about the new ones, I didn't actually check lol

Wolfsheim fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Feb 2, 2022

# ¿ Feb 2, 2022 08:00

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

The Suicide Squad is weird because if anything like it came out even 6-8 years ago it would've probably been heralded as an incredibly fresh take on the genre, but with such a big oversaturation of evil superheroes, funny superheroes, meta superheroes, and funny evil meta superheroes it just feels very perfunctory. Like, it fixed all the obvious glaring problems with the first film but also doesn't really stand out other than that, despite all the little James Gunn touches. Sucks!

# ¿ Feb 2, 2022 21:08

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Nihonniboku posted:

Bradley Cooper at 47 years old is playing a 22 year old

He looks better than most 20 year olds, so

Also it's a good movie but its weird that it was kind of advertised as a supernatural horror film instead of a slow burn character drama

# ¿ Feb 5, 2022 07:30

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

mcmagic posted:

Euphoria was just everything tonight lol

Cassie's spot getting blown up offhandedly after weeks of tense sneaking around made me legitimately laugh out loud

I expect this drug dealer situation to be resolved very abruptly by some contrivance though, it doesn't really seem like a show where the plot will get in the way of the vibes

# ¿ Feb 7, 2022 07:39

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Finished Ozarks, kinda realized with this half-season release that it's hard to be compelling when you wouldn't really mind if any character died at any point. Like, I don't really want Marty to get away?

Finished Boba Fett, baffling at how they made an enormous fight sequence in Tatooine featuring two jet packed bounty hunters laying waste to a crime syndicate boring. Thirteen year old me would be very disappointed.

Caught up on Peacemaker, incredibly good. Far and away better than every MCU show by a huge margin. Crazy how much better it is when the creator doesn't have to conform to strict templates in terms of style/etc.

Started watching Justified again because I never finished it back in the day, kinda forgot how case-of-the-week it starts out but I remember it getting great later on?

# ¿ Feb 12, 2022 19:51

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Sherlock is one of those shows thats pretty good in S1-2 and then becomes so bad that it retroactively makes you dislike everything about it to the point where you can't remember what was ever good about it. I've never seen it but I've heard Dexter is similar in that way?

Hbomberguy's video is super over the top about it (one of his main complaints is that mystery shows should be about you being capable of solving the mystery yourself which to me is less important than just being an entertaining drama/etc) so its not really a good indicator of what you may love or hate about it, it's more a video for people who suffered through all four seasons and just want some kind of catharsis

# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 14:20

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

regulargonzalez posted:

Dexter, Game of Thrones, Westworld, Sleater-Kinney's last album

I only really saw the first two and last two seasons of Game of Thrones, which was amazing because it was almost like two completely different genres that just happened to have the same actors and character names

But I don't think one tarnishes the other, the first couple seasons stand alone as this uniquely interesting thing, and the last two are basically what it would look like if they remade some trashy fantasy show like Xena with a 5000% bigger budget

# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 17:41

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

https://twitter.com/JakeyimDb/status/1494439065889955840?t=lHpo8WAF1VcM-6cgU91b7g&s=19

He's right and he should say it

# ¿ Feb 18, 2022 18:53

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I've seen every Texas Chainsaw Massacre and while the 2022 one isn't the worst its close

# ¿ Feb 19, 2022 18:27

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Oh I thought it was entertaining as hell, but it struck me as a bit of a Jurassic Part Lost World situation, where the entire movie is structured around one amazing sequence (in this case, a T-rex rampaging through San Diego would be Leatherface livestream millennial party bus kill cam) and everything else just kinda getting you to that point

# ¿ Feb 19, 2022 21:02

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

That's tricky because I like Equilibrium more but it is very much a dumb guy movie pretending to be smart, whereas the One just embraces being a dumb guy movie from the second you see that evil Jet Li has killed rastafarian Jet Li so I might respect it a little more

# ¿ Feb 23, 2022 03:15

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I watched Free Guy because outside of this thread the consensus seems to be its pretty good but I think the nicest thing I can say about it is its better than Ready Player One

# ¿ Feb 27, 2022 09:35

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I watched Westside Story in a mostly empty theater weeks before it was on streaming and it was definitely as good as it could ever be

The Jets leader looking and sounding exactly like the the boss weasel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was incredibly distracting though

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 06:00

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Hey poster above me...krup you!!!

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 06:43

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Since the pandemic started me and my SO have been bouncing from show to show, some we've seen, some one of us wants to show the other, etc etc. The last couple months we've been making our way through Sex and the City and wouldn't you know it...it sucks!

Well, not entirely. The first couple seasons actually hold up pretty well and, while I'm not sure if this is the intention, but almost act like this neat mirror image to Seinfeld, only from the perspective of the random women they date and also they're allowed to swear and gently caress on camera. The perspective of four single friends engaging with the dating scene and getting into mildly wacky sitcom situations is pretty solid.

But because it's a show about women it eventually has to become a series of monogamous relationship dramas and poignant life moments, and then it just...stays that way. Everyone just breaks up with then gets back together with their longtime boyfriend over and over. It's very rote but if you're following the characters and like them you do get to see them get happy endings which is pleasant.

The movies! They're both bad. The first feels like they wanted to do another season of the show but couldn't so they crammed a bunch of season-long arcs into a 2.5 hour movie so it feels both bloated and rushed at the same time. The second is interesting because it tries to do slapstick comedy for some reason, which the show never was, and fails so spectacularly you're kind of in awe of it. There's a scene where a bunch of Muslim women remove their burkas to reveal they also love NYC fashion and designer brands that's the worst scene in the entire series and so loving terrible I still can't believe it's real.

And then there's the return, which we just finished. One of the main actresses refused to return and her absence is felt because their entire dynamic is thrown off, so they treat her character like they do when the actor dies and just have awkward text exchanges. One of the other actors really did die halfway through the season and they write him out by making his character be an rear end in a top hat. There's several sequences about nonbinary and genderfluid sexuality that are painfully boomers-writing-millennials. Every character is written so poorly it feels like Rise of the Skywalker where you can't tell if its incompetence or malevolence.

So...Sex and the City. More bad than good! But if you're interested and haven't seen it (this applies to no one ITT) just watch the first three seasons or so and then call it good.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 18:54

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I refuse to learn what the Carrie diaries are :colbert:

I actually watched Entourage up through the Sasha Grey season and then bowed out, and...I can see it. There's no way the Entourage movie has anything as insane as the Abu Dhabi burka fashion reveal scene though.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 19:14

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Nihonniboku posted:

I rewatched it in its entirety during the pandemic, and it's not very good at all. Carrie in particular is a terrible person, and for all the grief she gets from a few of the guys she dates, she is an absolute nightmare to her more longterm relationships, and is an awful friend. She just takes and takes and takes from everybody in her life, and rarely actually gives anything back. I remember the episode when her building was going condo and she couldn't afford to buy her unit, so she harassed her friends until they gave her the money to buy it.

See, Carrie being a bad person was fine with me because of the whole 'Seinfeld but all women' motif, and the fact that she ends up with someone just as bad as her so they stop inflicting their awful behavior on innocent bystanders is actually pretty funny. I think my favorite episode of the final original season is the one-off with David Duchovny where he decides he'd rather stay in a mental institution than continue dating her, and its somehow her best breakup in the entire series.

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The new series, And Just Like That, is maybe even worse, but also better at the same time. They clearly recognized how whitewashed (racist) and homophobic the original series was, and went through concerted efforts to diversify the show. The characters handled the changes pretty terribly, and continued to make awful decisions at every step. But I actually quite liked the new characters, and I wouldn't mind at all if season 2 was focusing on the new ladies, and ditching Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte altogether the way they ditched Samantha.

This frustrated me because Carrie's new friend is actually an interesting character but so overtly a stand-in for Samantha that was awkwardly slotted into the scenes where Samantha would be that it just never clicked. The nonbinary comedian was terrible though, her standup made me involuntarily wince with how unfunny it was.

The biggest casualty of the return is Miranda though, binging the series means you see her ruin Steve's life over and over again to the point it starts to seem sociopathic.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 19:43

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

precision posted:

sex and the city was golden girls without any of the wit or talent

My SO is binging Golden Girls on her own so I've seen a few eps and from what I could tell this isn't really true because GG sticks to its premise of "these funny broads hanging out and cracking wise and banging randos" which SOTC abandons for relationship drama and never really looks back

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 21:00

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Field Mousepad posted:

The international women's day episode of Letterkenny is fuckin awesome

Letterkenny is very hit or miss for me but I enjoyed the UTI joke and the bit where Wayne has difficulty expressing his feelings

# ¿ Mar 9, 2022 16:18

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Streaming trip report:

Kimi is a very straightforward thriller that probably should have had slightly more going on but the fact that it's a tight 90 minutes bumps it up a point

Drive My Car has about forty amazing minutes tucked into three hours of a film that's otherwise mostly just pretty good

HBomberguy's 3 hour 33 min 33 sec Deus Ex Human Revolution review made me realize all the really cool moments I thought were in DXHR mostly happen in DXMD

Justified continues to own as I enter S4 of my rewatch

# ¿ Mar 10, 2022 08:36

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I was extremely charmed by Turning Red being a 2002 period piece and enjoyed Mei and her plucky little pals, probably the best Pixar movie in a minute

# ¿ Mar 16, 2022 07:13

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Whoever said The Adam Project is Ryan Reynolds downplaying his schtick fully lied lol, if anything the fact that there are two of them at roughly 80% Deadpool mode means you get 160% Deadpool mode

# ¿ Mar 17, 2022 05:57

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I was trying to remember the last genuinely great movie Ryan Reynolds was in while I was watching it and came to the realization that outside of the first Deadpool being way better than it should have been I had to go all the way back to Adventureland. Its almost like a psychological trick where he's super likable despite being in 90% bad-to-average films.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2022 20:05

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I don't even mean likable in films, I mean he just seems like a generally inoffensive nice guy without any weird baggage (Tom Cruise, Chris Pratt, etc) who gained the general love of nerd culture when he rallied to be Deadpool for years and then and they did it and it turned out as well as it possibly could, so I feel like I was subconsciously giving him way more credit than I should despite him being bad most of the time

# ¿ Mar 17, 2022 23:05

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

punk rebel ecks posted:

Just finished watching "Hail, Cesar" and man the film was kind of...bad.

The plot was dumb and non-sensical.

And for some reason Hollywood gives the dumbest portrayals of socialists/communists as they show they don't even understand very basic points of the philosophy.

Finally, I realize that there was controversy over the film for lacking minority roles. I thought it was stupid when I first hear it because OF COURSE Hollywood circa 1950s would be insanely white.

But the fact that the film lacked a single person of color besides an arguably white passing character for a total of five minutes is...distracting.

Like even out and about in Los Angeles I didn't see a single non-Anglo person.

I noticed there is a big discrepancy between what critics rated this film and filmgoers, and this is a case where filmgoers had it correct.

I remember liking it a lot but when I really think about it I think I just enjoy the Channing Tatum choreography and 'would that it were so simple' scenes and that's about it

# ¿ Mar 19, 2022 06:24

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

mcmagic posted:

We're getting another season of the most cringe poo poo on TV, And Just Like That........

*me furiously googling how to somehow block all mentions of this on my SO's phone before she can see the news*

# ¿ Mar 22, 2022 19:29

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

GonSmithe posted:

I don't know what to tell you, man. Comedy's subjective but also Jackass is an extremely popular franchise, comparing it to prank youtubers is just straight up stupid. There's four Jackass movies, there are 0 PrankMasterAnthony movies.
Also if you hang around people who don't think Jackass is funny I would recommend finding better people to hang out with.

I like Jackass but 'random guys recording themselves loving around and getting hurt in parking lots' was basically the YouTube of the late 90s/early 2000s and now you can become a millionaire from just that without needing to get an MTV show first so :shrug:

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 15:18

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I'm less enthused about NC17 De Armas Monroe after seeing Deep Water this week, a sexy thriller starring two very attractive people that was incredibly unsexy and nonthrilling, made more frustrating by the fact that you can see the pieces for a good movie there that just...never happens.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2022 08:09

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I have an old Roku that I used for a long time but HBO's app is borderline unusable on it, and I have a PS4 but the Hulu app freezes completely randomly on it, and I have a PS5 but the AppleTV app won't let me login whatsoever, so it's really a question of what streaming service to do without (AppleTV obviously) and which room to put each in

I also have a PS3 I was using for a long time as a secondary streaming device but one day the HBO app updated to say it was no longer going to work on PS3s and to get a newer system :laffo:

# ¿ Mar 27, 2022 20:13

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Windfall is a cool low-key thriller and I liked it, if you would have told me that Landry would be the breakout star of Friday Night Lights I wouldn't have believed you

# ¿ Mar 29, 2022 05:18

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

It's kind of shocking how bad the sound mixing is in parts of Tenet. There were a couple scenes where dialogue was almost fully drowned out by the score (the dialogue mostly being someone rushing through convoluted exposition also didn't help)

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 05:55

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

smackfu posted:

We finished a rewatch of HIMYM. Had watched it when it was on but hadn’t seen the later seasons. Those are definitely a mixed bag. Barnie wasn’t great when it aired and the character has not aged well at all.

Finale still terrible but the other episodes of the last season better than expected. Could have just stopped an episode earlier and everyone would love that season.

I liked the finale because of what an incredible troll it was, essentially negating the last 2-3 seasons of the show (which were pretty rough all around anyway)

In other news I finally watched Mitchells vs. The Machines after everyone said it was robbed at the Oscars and it was extremely cute + heartfelt

Also watched annual Benedict Cumberbatch historical drama The Courier and it was better than I expected, though mostly because it ended up being a story about guys being bros

# ¿ Apr 6, 2022 17:39

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

MacheteZombie posted:

Its my favorite Refn film

I found it nearly unwatchable but the documentary his wife made (My Life With Nicolas Winding Refn) while he was making it and slowly losing it is so good that it makes up for it imo

# ¿ Apr 7, 2022 07:31

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 14:02

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Minxx finished its season and its fine. A perfectly watchable show about a women's magazine being financed by a pornographer in the 1970s and the wacky missteps they made along the way. Also: several large dicks

Now watching Mr. Robot after only seeing the first season forever ago and I like how overly cartoony it gets with stuff like the Knight Rider intro, I have no idea what the cultural impact of it was supposed to be and I'm suspecting it's not going to stick the landing (currently in S3) but it's a pretty good ride so far~

# ¿ Apr 15, 2022 16:29

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