What Did You Watch Today?

[MalaCloudy Black]

Yesterday is an alright movie. A world without Coca-Cola!

[Rocky]

The Girl on the Third Floor is about as good as you’d expect it to be.

[Benjamin]

15 hours ago, Rey Cloudy said:

Yesterday is an alright movie. A world without Coca-Cola!

It's a great movie 

[Tyrone]

I might have liked Midsommar even more than Hereditary, which I adored. I'm hoping the director's cut will be out on blu ray at some point!

Horror's in a really good place right now, IMO, with Ari Aster, Mike Flanagan and Jordan Peele.

Edited October 26, 2019 by Tyrone

[IDOL]

Pet Sematary (2019) was such a waste of time compared to the book (and I’m only 1/3 of the way through the book)

[Arjen Robben]

On 27/10/2019 at 00:36, Tyrone said:

I might have liked Midsommar even more than Hereditary, which I adored. I'm hoping the director's cut will be out on blu ray at some point!

Horror's in a really good place right now, IMO, with Ari Aster, Mike Flanagan and Jordan Peele.

Directors cut came out on blu-ray literally yesterday over here. Is it not out everywhere?

[Jimmy]

On 29/10/2019 at 09:55, Arjen Robben said:

Directors cut came out on blu-ray literally yesterday over here. Is it not out everywhere?

Very keen to see the director's cut. I loved Hereditary and thought Midsommar was excellent; grew on me more and more after I'd left the cinema. I'm super excited for whatever he's gonna do next, I hope he continues to change it up, I was particularly pleased with how different the two films were despite the strong DNA that runs through both. 

[Arjen Robben]

I dunno if you’ve checked it out already (or are interested) but A24 do a semi-regular podcast and one of the most recent ones had one that was a conversation between Ari Aster and Robert Eggers, ostensibly about Midsommar and The Lighthouse but more generally just a conversation about filmmaking, it’s a good listen.

[Jimmy]

4 hours ago, Arjen Robben said:

I dunno if you’ve checked it out already (or are interested) but A24 do a semi-regular podcast and one of the most recent ones had one that was a conversation between Ari Aster and Robert Eggers, ostensibly about Midsommar and The Lighthouse but more generally just a conversation about filmmaking, it’s a good listen.

I've had it downloaded and ready to go for a while now, thanks for the suggestion man, I'll make sure to actually get to it! 

[Owen]

I've been on a bit of a movie kick recently, watched The Other Guys, Stranger than Fiction, Four Psychopaths, The Big Short, Snatch and Limitless in the last 5 days.

The Other Guys was a lot of fun. Really stupid, but it's a satire and has Will Ferrell in it so I'm not shocked. Good stuff.

Stranger than Fiction is a complete departure from Will Ferrell's usual stuff but I really, really enjoyed it. I didn't go in with particularly high expectations and maaaaaaybe at times it is a bit ridiculous but it's nice. It's heartfelt. Emma Thompson is in it, as well, and she's great.

Four Psychopaths was good too! I expected it to be, as it had the same director as In Bruges and the same main star too, of course. I think I'd probably prefer In Bruges to it, but I haven't seen that in a while so I'd have to rewatch it, and I mean... they're different films so there's not really any need to compare.

Snatch was alright, yeah. I dunno. I expected to enjoy it more but I guess at times it didn't grab my attention too much. I can't really place it why but maybe it was just that my expectations were higher. It wasn't bad or anything, and I can't even place what I didn't really like about it, which is annoying!

Limitless was fun. I liked it a lot. The ending was alright but also miles and miles better than the ending of Lucy (of course no spoilers but URGH), which shares the same basic plot in that there's a powerful drug which enables 100% capability of your brain (even if everyone already has use of 100% of their brain in real life anyway) but it explains a lot more? Things happen for a reason and... there are side effects to the drug? and everything seems a lot more fleshed out... and things make more sense in general, I suppose, in a science fiction kind of way. Also, oh, I didn't realise Limitless actually came out before Lucy. That's some pointless information I have now.

[Kaney]

2 hours ago, Owen said:

Four Psychopaths was good too! I expected it to be, as it had the same director as In Bruges and the same main star too, of course. I think I'd probably prefer In Bruges to it, but I haven't seen that in a while so I'd have to rewatch it, and I mean... they're different films so there's not really any need to compare.

What happened to the other 3?

[Josh]

Parasite was incredible. Learn nothing about it in advance. Just look up where it’s playing and go see it.

[Benjamin]

9 hours ago, Josh Marenghi said:

Parasite was incredible. Learn nothing about it in advance. Just look up where it’s playing and go see it.

YES. Do this 100%.

[Arjen Robben]

The Lighthouse is amazing. Robert Eggers is special.

[Maxx]

Terminator Dark Fate is pretty good.  Easily the best one since Terminator 2 3D: Battle Across Time.

But it totally bombed, I think too many bad movies have ruined the franchise’s viability.  And T2 remains this completely unapproachable target for them to hit.  

Probably needs to go on ice for a decade and then be completely rebooted from the ground up.  As in try to make a film like the original Terminator, not T2

[GhostMachine]

Genisys should have been the final Terminator movie, period. It was a great way to wrap things up.

[GA!]

Doctor Sleep was great when it did its own thing, and fucking awful when it borrowed heavily from The Shining for 'lol REFERENCE' reasons. I mean,

Spoiler

you don't get in someone else to play Jack Nicholson for fuck sake.

 

[Oakesy]

I watched the last six episodes of Atypical season 3 on Netflix, absolutely loved it. Tugs at the heartstrings a bit ❤️

[Josh]

Minus a couple of bad-kind-of-creepy scenes with the lead actress, Motel Hell is a delightfully absurd 1980 horror movie. Think Reanimator, but cornpone and starring Rory Calhoun (who does indeed walk on his hind legs.)

[Benjamin]

Yeesh, the King was really not good.