Movies are second to fiction novels when I want a break from reality, but the right amount of commitment for when I'm suffering from an energy lobotomy. I've watched five movies in the last three days.
My favorite of the bunch was In the Grey. I normally don't enjoy Guy Richie's ensemble casting, time/location jumping, narration needing, music on top of dialoging, wizbanging movies, so I was happy that In the Grey lost some of those elements. It retained Richie's larger cast, action, and twisty plan that's only revealed at the end, but wasn't immediately identifiable as a Guy Richie movie. It had bank-heist-like suspense and action, but without the bore of another physical bank heist.
Nobody 2 was half as satisfying as the first, but Odenkirk plays a inexhaustible exhausted criminal better than anyone, and was worth watching for that alone. Mortal Combat 2 was simple and fun; all the fantasy of super hero movies but lacking the seen-it-before, stopped-caring-a-decade-ago, candy-covered characters and story. Fuze was weaker than I was hoping after thoroughly enjoying the new-to-me director's Relay. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was the kind of Guy Richie movie I had learned to avoid.
I was more invested in the movie about an creepy furniture store/ office building than one about the UFO/alien coverup, that's how bad Disclosure Day was...
That's all I needed to hear about it 🫡 thank you, sire.
I'd write a review, but I would just be shitting on a movie that I wasn't really the target audience off.
It's like a Boomer fairytale of what Disclosure will be like, wrapped in a movie that feels like it should be set in the 80s/90s with all their ridiculous set pieces and action scenes.
I don't watch movies often, I prefer docus / non-fiction.
I was an extra in this one! In August of 2024, as a police officer. Might just watch it for that reason.
Please tell me which scene, let me guess you out.
Eddington.
I liked it overall, but the 2nd act was a bit of a disappointment. I felt the drama it set up in the first was put to wastein the second.
I'm a bit of a film geek. Here are some recent films I've watched over the last month or two:
Blade (1998)Blade (1998)
I could not help myself. Pairs well with Demolition Man for a Wesley 'Tax is theft' Snipes double feature night. Something about this kind of 90s action film just puts me at ease, maybe it's nostalgia? I am curious if younger people even get it. Maybe you just had to 'be there' to find comfort in the over-the-top violence and vampires being taken down with samurai swords?
Eraser (1996)Eraser (1996)
Same as above, classic Arnold Schwarzenegger. I come for those one-liners, corrupt government cronies being thrown through windows, shoot-em-outs, and of course rail guns.
American Graffiti (1973)American Graffiti (1973)
Is this what America was once like? Or is this just George Lucas' own nostalgia seeping through. I have a soft spot for coming-of-age high school films, whether it be The Breakfast Club, or Fast Times at Ridgemont High. They don't make them like that anymore (even if they tried to).
Swallowtail ButterflySwallowtail Butterfly
Now this is something special, Shunji Iwai's 1996 classic Japanese alternative reality film about a group of immigrants and outcasts on the edges of Japanese society. It is dripping with imagery and colours and scenes that have a specific kind of get-up - a base coat of Wong Kar-Wai with a few layers of Shibuya-kei and Shanghai underworld. If you get it, you get it.
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Drifting through the filthy streets of Taipei in a Honda NSR 150cc, young love intertwined with East Asian family dynamics, petty theft, and cigarette smoke. Pairs well with the above. Shot on a shoe string budget, but more than makes up for it with pure talent.
When it comes to Arnold,
TRUE LIESis it for me.A timely reminder to watch these two recommendations
Contact with Jodie Foster for the sci fi fans
A Bronx tale with DeNiro for the traditionalist
Watched both back to back recently on a long flight and made the time wizz by, highly recommend
Only jodie foster movie i've seen afair is silence of the lambs. Maybe I should give this one a go
Tend to gravitate towards older or foreign movies as an escape from clown world
Something gave me the itch to rewatch Swordfish recently, fits the heist theme and then some
Godzilla Minus One, excited now for minus zero. Feels like a classic movie, I assume because Japanese have longer attention spans?
Iron Sky for the lulz and because there was some headline about mining helium 3 on the moon recently... Need to investigate the sequel
Watched war games with the kids recently, now got the itch to rewatch Hackers... Throwbacks to the Internet being mysterious and fun... Kinda applies to Swordfish too.
From now on will be harder and harder to find a good new movie.
Years ago I started to save on my NAS a large colkection of old good movies. Never know what will happen with these old movies and is a good way to watvh them even when there's no internet.
They will be up to petabytes with the sizes most movies carry
Disagree. In AV1 or x265 with <5 audio/language tracks like 6GB for 1080p or 20GB for 4k are completely fine. Doesn't need petabytes, even for large collections
I have plenty of old TB drives. Mounting a bunch them into a normal case and fireup a FreeNAS or whatever NAS OS is not complicated. A box that just stay behind the big TV and accessed anytime you want.
But yeah you do not need super extra shit tons of GB per movie. Even 6GB is too much for an old movie from 80s...
idk if freenas does that automatically but make sure to use RAID and/or backup. Old drives like to fail.
Are you kidding? Movies from the 80s shot on 35mm film have INCREDIBLE quality. They are much more worth it to have in 4k and good bitrate than movies shot on shitty early digital from the 2000s 🗿🗿
I cannot imagine DarthCoin being a Jellyfin or Olex person. Right?
I just watched Princess Bride with my kids. I have a love for that movie and watching it again after a decade, it didn't disappoint.
Not a movie, but I watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and that was enjoyable. Lots of fun George R R Martin storytelling tricks.
Isn't Dread Pirate Roberts where Ross took his silk road nym from?
I assume so, but haven't looked in to it. I would say that Princess Bride based nyms do offer a certain level of instant credibility.
Back rooms was good
Psychological horror is off the menu for me right now, but I've heard good things!
I want to see the one @Car posted about recently - Obsession maybe?
one of the best of the year! just saw backrooms this past weekend review incoming for that too
oh good. I want to see it, haven’t yet though
There's a just one problem there: I spend more time choosing a movie than I'm watching it. Do you strangle with it?
Lately, I decided to rewatch the movies I've already seen.
First one: What happens in Vegas
Second one: Hall pass
p.s. the older I get the more I understand that most of comedy movies isn't comedy at all, they have huge drama inside
I watched that new movie on Netflix with Charlize Theron recently, it was pretty good, and very unsettling. The one featuring free climbing
Edit: Apex
I watched that one too when it was released. I was not expecting the movie to go the way it did.
me neither! definitely glad I didn’t know much about it going in
I went back to watch some oldies
Sabrina - oh how I love Audrey!
Her performance in any role is timeless
Another somewhat recent one - Crime 101. I saw this one in theaters. It was pretty good. A little corny here and there, but I liked the vibe of it. I then listened to the audiobook upon which it was based, which was also decent, but a little corny. Or maybe just the guy speaking was corny
Lately, I've been watching old movies with my kids.
The most recent one was Galaxy Quest. One of my favorite comedy films. We also saw The Matrix and Men In Black a short while back.
I saw exit 8 recently, liked it :)
Found these all for free on youtube. I enjoyed them all.
„Project Hail Mary“ and “good luck, have fun , don’t die “ really liked both
With Mortal’s journey to Immortality season 5 out this past weekend, I had to key into the donghua.
Not a movie but I thought Teach You A Lesson was enjoyable and worth the hype (and controversy)