What Did You Watch Today?

[Benji]

Currently watching Godzilla [2014]...

Cranston is already dead and we're not even halfway, and the "MUTO" looks like a Cloverfield rip-off. Hope this gets better soon.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Death at a Funeral (the original one)

There was no death. Am disappoint.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt makes for a fun, easy watch.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Currently watching Godzilla [2014]...

Cranston is already dead and we're not even halfway, and the "MUTO" looks like a Cloverfield rip-off. Hope this gets better soon.

Don't ever badmouth Godzilla here Benji!

[GhostMachine]

Godzilla (2014)

is one movie I'm glad I ended up not seeing in the theater, or I'd have been pissed. The movie should have been called Lt. Brody, Godzilla isn't even in it nearly enough to justify naming the movie after him, and the MUTO designs were fairly lame. Plus I believe the way he defeats one of the other monsters is fairly similar to how he defeated Orga in Godzilla 2000.

Watching The Hunger Games Mockingjay Pt 1 last night. Booooring compared to the two previous movies. And I wish

Peeta had been found dead

.

[Benji]

Mysterious Skin is disturbing, but a very good film if you can deal with its very touchy subject matter.

[Jimmy]

I remember thinking Mysterious Skin was a bit long, but it's certainly a film that stays with you. It's a shame the director hasn't managed to do nearly as much as he should have after that film.

[Benji]

Currently watching Twelve Monkeys and it just isn't doing it for me. That weird French harpsichord sound effect is annoying the crap out of me too.

[stokeriño]

I liked Twelve Monkeys, but then I'm generally quite open to Terry Gilliam's oddness provided there's a decent plot (this is where The Zero Theorem falls down) and Bruce Willis pushes it over the top.

What I also really liked was The Godfather: Part II. It seemed a lot more focused than the first one, and the Vito flashbacks were particularly excellent.

[Your Mom]

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt makes for a fun, easy watch.

I love that show so much!!

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I only intended on watching a couple of episodes today because I knew the entire season had been put up at once and I wanted to space it out a little. I've already watched eight episodes

[Berober]

Oh man, just finished the last episode. I'm so glad it's got another season already guaranteed, that last episode is incredible.

[Benji]

Twelve Monkeys got a lot better. That first third was a slog though.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Carried on to Ep10 of UKS.

OH MY GOD, DEAN NORRIS!

[King Ellis]

The Losers

I only have this because it turned up on some Amazon marketplace seller for like a quid one day, never really knew anything about it or it's apparent graphic novel background. Pretty generic action movie, Chris Evans is pretty fun in it though and it has Idris Elba so that's a plus. Villain is a bit weird though, on the one hand seeming really casual about the whole thing and yet they feel the need to show how totally crazy he is as he guns down some hired help that has to carry an umbrella around to shade him, making the mistake of stumbling and allowing the sun to hit him for a brief second. Movie also joins the fold of modern pop culture that is adding to the over saturation of 'Don't Stop Believing'.

17 Again

I am far from the target audience for this, a movie that features a topless, sweaty Zac Efron within the first moments of the film. Indeed, even the front of the box proudly proclaims that it's 'Packed with Zac!' with over 30 more minutes of him. But, with that said, I do love me some time travel related stuff and this is like a strange version of Back to the Future, only it's the parent hanging out and trying to help the kids rather than the other way around. It's sweet at times but also kinda creepy. The guy goes off on this whole abstinence talk that would be more fitting of one of the religious kids in Easy A. Perhaps these girls need this kinda talk though, there's this bit where he tells them that they need to respect themselves or else how will any man ever respect them? "You don't have to respect me!" "You don't even have to remember my name!" Woooooow.

The True Story of Wrestlemania

This one is kinda bad, it's really cool seeing all the behind the scenes stuff from these old shows but there's just not enough of it. If they'd really focused on maybe telling key stories from just the early days or maybe just a few pivotal Mania's throughout it's history it might have worked better. They just try to breeze through everything within their running time though, leading to the occasional really brief summarization of an event like "This show had X vs Y, it was really cool" and then onto the next show. But it's also like they got self concious about doing this predictable, chronological look back at all the shows in order so they'll start jumping around at points like "Wrestlemania X was at MSG and had this really cool ladder match. You know what else was at MSG? Wrestlemania XX, let's talk about that now!"

Dead Space Downfall

Maybe because I'm not super into Dead Space it didn't help but I wasn't totally into the story for this one. Not entirely sold on the animation in general either, the look and movement of the characters. Looks really good when things turn gory though and man, does this ever. Maybe caus this is pretty much a zombie story it feels pretty stock, and like any good zombie story it has chainsaws. Not just any ordinary chainsaw though, light-saws. Jim Cummings voices the Captain of the ship so that's pretty great, he does a great job when the guy starts going nuts. Too bad they had to go and have him stabbed in the eye with a needle. *Shudders* Still can't deal with that stuff.

Fight Club

Perhaps the one time where watching via BR over Netflix or whatever is better because you get to enjoy the massive troll of the menu. I was so confused the first time starting it up.

Scarface

I feel like my eyes have finally been opened to a whole bunch of references across popular culture now that I've finally seen this movie, namely about half of that South Park episode where Cartman is dealing KFC. Even as that twigged and I started to realise what was coming, it didn't make that helicopter hanging any less gruesome. The whole chainsaw bit too, even if you really don't see much of it, it's really intense. Feel like I got pretty tired of that whole 'slowly pan away, slowly pan back' trick though.

The Toxic Avenger

Forget all that DC and Marvel nonsense, what we need is a Troma movie to really shake up this superhero malarky. As you might expect, really cheesy and gory. Loses it's steam in the second half, I feel, but fun as it goes into the origin of Toxie with the bullied janitor and eventually the taco store robbery he foils. Who robs a taco restaurant? Something enjoyable about the guy in there with half his face painted, intensely cruel as he goes so far as to shoot a guide dog but he has the biggest maniacal smile as he does it.

[Benji]

How Kathy Bates won an Oscar for Misery is beyond me. I'm a third through and her acting is over the top with absolutely no benefits so far.

The sheriff or whatever he is though is brilliant.

EDIT: Film was good, but yeah, Annie was just hammy (and not the good kind).

[Azazel]

Saw Chappie and really enjoyed it, but one thing REALLY stuck out to me...

the entire story arc of Ninja, Yolandi and Amerika is basically The Wild Bunch, which I have no problem with because that movie is amazing.

[ZJ Penn]

Oh man if you're a fan of Vic and Bob's surreal, chaotic humour, tonight's House of Fools is possibly the funniest one they've done yet.

"Aw no I've spilt my tea!"

[DFF]

It Follows - perfectly good horror film.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Just finished off The Raid 2, holy fuck are those fight scenes brutal.