What Did You Watch Today?

[Benji]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home...

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock was good. Not as good as Khan, but Christopher Lloyd makes for a great villain.

Christopher Lloyd is bizarrely wonderful as the least-Klingon Klingon ever. Stealing the Enterprise etc. was fun too, but basically everything involving Spock/the Genesis planet was kind of shit.

Star Trek IV (presuming that you'll be watching that soon) is great fun though. It's such a cliché 1980s family movie - right down to the environmental message - and is just overflowing with silliness.

You weren't kidding. I think I grew a mullet and got a Save The Whales t-shirt just from watching it.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Benji, you should watch Samurai Cop. Greatest movie ever. *cough*

[Benji]

Is it on Netflix?

[Skummy]

You could have probably trimmed it down to half an hour and not lost any meaningful content. What little bits of story there was were the most over-the-top hammered home melodrama imaginable

So like both the other Hobbit movies then.

Like the other Hobbit movies but more.

You could probably edit the trilogy down to a really quite good single film, and I hope somebody does one day.

[TKz]

Someone already has. It's called The Hobbit - Dwarved Version or something awful like that. (There and Back Again is RIGHT THERE)

I haven't seen it myself, but in theory all you'd need is the first 15 minutes of Battle of the Five Armies and maybe the last few minutes.

[brenchill]

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Lando was a real dick.

[Monkey D. Lars]

It's not on netflix.

[Benji]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is mildly amusing, but nowhere near the sum of its parts. It got a few chuckles, but I don't think I laughed out loud even once.

[Benji]

Mean Machine was a fun little romp. Think I prefer the 2005 Longest Yard, but at some point I need to watch the original that both of them are based on.

[TKz]

Oh yeah, I watched The Interview.

It's alright, it's about as standard as a James Franco/Seth Rogen film can be. I was getting really bored at the start, but it picks up enough once they actually get to Korea. It's a perfectly alright comedy, you'll probably get more out of it if you're into the Franco/Rogen combo, which I'm not. It definitely wasn't as good as This is the End.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Samurai Cop is a must watch for every movie lover. It really is. You'll anything that's bad about movie making but hey, it's still fun as dicks.

Trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OoZNdAQuA

There is even a scene where the sidekick goes under the fence instead of over it and this happens:

"Why did you go under?"

"Because I'm a undercover cop."

HELL YEAH.

Please someone watch this and share it's awesome awfulness with me!

[Benjamin]

I will watch that for you Larz. But I will damn you prematurely

Battle of Five Armies was pretty average. First two were a lot better for me, but perhaps a rewatch will change my mind like rewatches for the first two did.

[Benji]

Watched The Wolf of Wall Street yesterday. Good film with a solid cast. It starts off wishing it was Goodfellas but eventually comes into its own. The country club drug scene was brilliant.

[Draevyn]

Just watched The Equalizer which I swear was only made so that Denzel could kill people in some creative ways but I'll be damned if I didn't love every second of it. I'm a huge fan of Denzel and I'm not sure the movie would have been as fun had he not starred in it.

[Benji]

Goofy, predictable and presenting nothing fresh, but I still can't help but love films like The Game Plan.

[brenchill]

Watched The Wolf of Wall Street yesterday. Good film with a solid cast. It starts off wishing it was Goodfellas but eventually comes into its own. The country club drug scene was brilliant.

The cocaine/spinach thing is my favourite part.

[Hobo]

Samurai Cop is a must watch for every movie lover. It really is. You'll anything that's bad about movie making but hey, it's still fun as dicks.

Trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OoZNdAQuA

There is even a scene where the sidekick goes under the fence instead of over it and this happens:

"Why did you go under?"

"Because I'm a undercover cop."

HELL YEAH.

Please someone watch this and share it's awesome awfulness with me!

Samurai Cop is a joyful thing,

I watched Star Trek Into Darkness. It sure looks nice.

Was kinda hollow though. I never really got invested in it.

[Benji]

When Harry Met Sally was amusing, dialogue reminded me a lot of Aaron Sorkin, which can be both annoyingly unrealistic and amusingly fun depending on the scene. Billy Crystal totally steals it.

[Benji]

I'm 40 minutes into Amazing Spider-Man 2 and it is pretty bloody awful. Whoever did the casting for this series really needs to find another job.

EDIT: It got better, but Jamie Foxx really was among the worst casting choices.

[apsham]

Foxcatcher you guys.

Holy fuck.

Foxcatcher.