Calibandar Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Watched 4 films in the last few weeks that I'd like to share: A Man called Ove: 8 stars out of 10. At least. Excellent film after the bestselling book. Swedish language. About an old man who seems to be in a continiously foul mood , and in some way he is, but there is a great backstory to why this is the case, and his life is reinvigorated by new neighbours. Very much worth seeing for anyone. Me before you: Very charming role from Emilia Clarke. In terms of romantic movies, this almost vaults into my top 3, and is certainly top 5. She just makes this film, and the guy's lead role is very good as well. A film that is quite memorable, same as Man Called Ove. Also 8 stars. Suburra: Netflix is releasing it's own 10 episode series of this in 2017, it will be a prequel to this excellent Italian film. Superb characters, superb soundtrack. Great stuff, I've even watched it twice in the space of a week. 8.5 stars out of 10. A reminder to watch the two seasons of Gomorrah, the Italian maffia drama from the makers of this film. Mc Farland: Kevin Costner stars as the white coach who stars a running team in a city of Mexicans who live hard lives as field pickers. Costner is excellent, as he can be. It's a charming film, good story. It's partly about running but far more about the characters and how running changes their lives. 7.5 stars out of 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martini Sigil Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Just finished S2 of the Path.... this show is really good... we've replaced it with another Hulu show called Harlots, which is really, really weird.... we've added Better Call Saul to our mix, and on Sunday we'll add the Leftovers, Guerrilla, and the White Princess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetyrPunkinhead Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 5 hours ago, Calibandar said: Watched 4 films in the last few weeks that I'd like to share: A Man called Ove: 8 stars out of 10. At least. Excellent film after the bestselling book. Swedish language. About an old man who seems to be in a continiously foul mood , and in some way he is, but there is a great backstory to why this is the case, and his life is reinvigorated by new neighbours. Very much worth seeing for anyone. I just noticed today that this was added to Amazon Prime and I thought it looked interesting. I'll definitely give it a look. I re-watched the film FURY on bluray and I liked it even more than when I saw it in the theater. The special features are also pretty damn great. I also tried to re-watch the Thomas Jane PUNISHER film. I got about 50 minutes into it and had to stop. I remember it being disappointing, but wow. It's Razzie level horrible. Just...horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DunderMifflin Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Mystery Science Theater 3000 the Return. Same hilarious format, old fans will have an adjustment period to the new voices of crow and tom servo but it's funny as ever with the new cast. Best thing so far is Patton Oswalt as TV's Son of TV's Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt b Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 13 minutes ago, DunderMifflin said: Mystery Science Theater 3000 the Return. Same hilarious format, old fans will have an adjustment period to the new voices of crow and tom servo but it's funny as ever with the new cast. Best thing so far is Patton Oswalt as TV's Son of TV's Frank. I'm so stoked to dive into that later. I've been watching through the "season" of old episodes Netflix has up, I genuinely forgot how much I used to watch MST3K when I was a kid. But a couple minutes after turning it on suddenly I'm singing along to the theme song I completely forgot I knew! Looking forward to returning to the Satellite of Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I just watched Arrival...wowwwwwwwww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Just started watching Gomorrah. And I thought Narcos was was brutal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay B. Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 12 minutes ago, Nictarion said: Just started watching Gomorrah. And I thought Narcos was was brutal... Strap in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Fate of the Furious. So stupid. So brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 1 hour ago, polishgenius said: Fate of the Furious. So stupid. So brilliant. I see this tomorrow. Pumped for the stupidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 10 hours ago, Ramsay B. said: Strap in. Question: What was the phone number Ciro kept struggling over calling? I feel like I missed something big. I'm through episode 5 at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Antony Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 @Nictarion it's never out right stated but i'm pretty sure that the card was the anti mob police unit and Ciro was a rat. He had an opportunity to move up in the business with the boss going to prison and decided to not use it. This could be completely wrong lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay B. Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Spoiler That's more or less how I saw it too. He was revealed to be the informant Pietro was going nuts about, but decided not to go full rat after the arrest. Also, if you want to watch season 2 in HD then check reddit out. My cable company doesn't have Sundance in HD so I had to look for other means of watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 ^That makes sense. Poor Bookie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGalley Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 I watched Cold in July with Michael C. Hall. Decent movie. Has a A Walk Among the Tombstones and Prisoners vibe (although not nearly as good as the latter). The trailers for this movie were very misleading because the movie had a couple of plot turns that came out of nowhere and changed the overall dynamic and theme of the entire story. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I was definitely caught off guard expecting something entirely different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mladen Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 5 hours ago, polishgenius said: Fate of the Furious. So stupid. So brilliant. I swear to God I will never understand how people pass all that stupidity I want to watch some cooking shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetyrPunkinhead Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 On 4/15/2017 at 3:13 PM, Risto said: I swear to God I will never understand how people pass all that stupidity I want to watch some cooking shows I have a mostly hate relationship with this franchise. I love fun, dumb action movies but with the MCU era there are just so many fun, smart action films that I don't have as much patience or forgiveness for the dumb action films. I saw the original film and thought it okay but forgettable. I skipped the next three films and saw Fast Five in the theater. I thought F5 was a really entertaining film. Fast6 I also caught in the theater and thought it was much weaker, but okay. I saw F7 mainly out of morbid curiosity to see what they'd do with the Pual Walker character. And that film I actively disliked. I was mad at myself in the theater for actually having paid money to see it. It wasn't even dumb and fun, it was just dumb. Horrible. So unless F8 gets some good reviews, I'll be skipping it completely. I've already gone through all the Great British Bake Off episodes on Netflix. I think it's the first four or five seasons we didn't get in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mladen Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 2 hours ago, PetyrPunkinhead said: I've already gone through all the Great British Bake Off episodes on Netflix. I think it's the first four or five seasons we didn't get in the US. I watched Seasons 1-7 of TGBBO last year... It was amazing. Season 4's episode with gingerbread houses and young James Morton making his spooky barn is my all-time favorite. The faces of the judges, his reaction, it was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 2 hours ago, PetyrPunkinhead said: I have a mostly hate relationship with this franchise. I love fun, dumb action movies but with the MCU era there are just so many fun, smart action films that I don't have as much patience or forgiveness for the dumb action films. I saw the original film and thought it okay but forgettable. I skipped the next three films and saw Fast Five in the theater. I thought F5 was a really entertaining film. Fast6 I also caught in the theater and thought it was much weaker, but okay. I saw F7 mainly out of morbid curiosity to see what they'd do with the Pual Walker character. And that film I actively disliked. I was mad at myself in the theater for actually having paid money to see it. It wasn't even dumb and fun, it was just dumb. Horrible. So unless F8 gets some good reviews, I'll be skipping it completely. I've already gone through all the Great British Bake Off episodes on Netflix. I think it's the first four or five seasons we didn't get in the US. Tbh I think that often the only difference between the MCU and FF in terms of smartness is that the MCU has superpowers to explain its superpowers. The writing's often but not alway sharper in the MCU, of course, but the Fast and Furious films never devolve into total incoherency even when totally departing the plane of physics reason and they have a surprising dedication to maintaining the consistency of the canon. But really, the dumbness is the joy. Anyway, once you take out the emotional factor and the moving tribute to Walker this one is a better film than the last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Watched 10 Cloverfield Lane this weekend. Very enjoyable. Also watched Suicide Squad. Very bad, just as everyone claimed it was. Watched The Discovery on Netflix. No idea what to think about that at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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