What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[shoewarma]

All of Quentin Tarantino's movies. Started watching them from his very first movie (Reservoir Dogs) to his very last (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) and I liked every one of those movies.I really recommend any of these movies since they are all very unique.

Reservoir Dogs was a waste of time for me.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Saw this tonight while on my usual "never heard of this movie before" trip. Good movie but yikes there may be 2-3 genuine smiles the whole movie. Joel Kinneman smirks a few times but not the way that makes you feel warm and fuzzy. 7/10.

Good film also part of a series of novels. Not sure if there have been other films made.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

It's probably been mentioned pages back but I finally caught The Outfit and I found it to be highly enjoyable and just what I was looking for this weekend. Also interesting that Huntsman did the outfits in it. I definitely recommend it.

Currently on Netflix..Sunday night at movie’s material.

 

[The Ernesto]

Have seen a bunch recently:

Saint Omer - French legal docudrama based on a 2013 case of infanticide. Most of the scenes take place in a courtroom. The exchanges are natural and mundane but captured in a way that's trance inducing. Very strong film overall. The director and lead gave an insightful Q&A after.

Return to Seoul - Adopted French Korean woman flies to Seoul to find her birth parents. This was interesting for about a third to half of the runtime, then it descends into a very tropey and sometimes confusing portrayal of an unhinged ABG (asian baby girl) looking for family and love. I found it cringy. The reviews I read after were not dissimilar to the reviews for Lulu Wang's The Farewell, where critics that probably shouldn't be talking about the authenticity of such films are too dumb and scared to not like it.

One Fine Morning - The director, Mia Hansen-Løve, is so adamant about keeping the film slice-of-life that almost nothing in the story changes. The characters and their situations remain constant from beginning to end. There is only drama in that the characters keep doing the same thing with mostly the same results. Unfortunately, in this instance, everyone in the movie is boring. The whole is not more than the sum of its parts, which are hundreds of short scenes of incessant dialogue about quotidian details.

Emily - A fairly entertaining but wildly inaccurate biopic of Emily Bronte. The lead was good, there is some clumsy/YA-ish writing that's difficult to get past but it was mostly fun and enjoyable.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - The specific device of having Nan Goldin narrate her life over slideshows of her photographs, and with no background music, works magnificently.

Novelist's Film - Meh, just another Hong Sang-soo

Keen to see the Nan Goldin, thanks.

 

[TheSuitBurnsBetter]

It's probably been mentioned pages back but I finally caught The Outfit and I found it to be highly enjoyable and just what I was looking for this weekend. Also interesting that Huntsman did the outfits in it. I definitely recommend it.

I also thought this was great fun to watch, and not just for the clothes. But also the clothes!

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Reasonable Doubt, a drama-thriller starring Dominic Cooper as a young DA involved in a hit-and-run accident after a night of drinking and Samuel L. Jackson as the man wrongfully accused and tried by the Cooper character for the crime. You think the movie is going one way, then it takes an unexpected turn. It clocks in at a brisk 80 minutes and is well worth your time.

 

[ter1413]

Reasonable Doubt, a drama-thriller starring Dominic Cooper as a young DA involved in a hit-and-run accident after a night of drinking and Samuel L. Jackson as the man wrongfully accused and tried by the Cooper character for the crime. You think the movie is going one way, then it takes an unexpected turn. It clocks in at a brisk 80 minutes and is well worth your time.

I believe I saw this....but can't remember anything about it.

 

[ter1413]

Currently on Netflix..Sunday night at movie’s material.

I also thought this was great fun to watch, and not just for the clothes. But also the clothes!

Where you guys live? I don't see it on Netflix USA.....

 

[TheSuitBurnsBetter]

Where you guys live? I don't see it on Netflix USA.....

I saw it in the theater last year.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Where you guys live? I don't see it on Netflix USA.....

Ozstralia.

 

[Oswald Cornelius]

Luther on NetFlix. I'm sure it could be worse, but I'm not sure how. After 15 minutes I tried to look at it as an Austin-Powers-type farce, but after an hour threw in the towel. If I'd paid on AMZ I'd be threatening to cancel Prime, it was that bad.

 

[patrick_b]

Luther on NetFlix. I'm sure it could be worse, but I'm not sure how. After 15 minutes I tried to look at it as an Austin-Powers-type farce, but after an hour threw in the towel. If I'd paid on AMZ I'd be threatening to cancel Prime, it was that bad.

I just watched that over the weekend. I didn't hate it that much but it took me two tries to get through it. Lost interest after an hour then finished it a day later. Never watched the series though I'm willing to give it a shot as I like the genre.

 

[shoewarma]

Watched Road to Perdition yesterday night. Very tastefully shot scenes, score, costume design, and performances from Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, and a neat storyline that adds some character to what could have been a run-of-the-mill gangster movie. It was particularly interesting seeing Tom Hanks in such a violence-driven role, but I thought he pulled it off quite well.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Luther on NetFlix. I'm sure it could be worse, but I'm not sure how. After 15 minutes I tried to look at it as an Austin-Powers-type farce, but after an hour threw in the towel. If I'd paid on AMZ I'd be threatening to cancel Prime, it was that bad.

I’m at 15 minutes and about to turn it off. The series was never a Holmes v Moriarity sure it had plenty of psychos but this is FUBAR.

 

[ter1413]

Also caught this last night.

What can I say except that it was 2 hours of nonsense!

Middle aged villain and some cohorts are killing some people. Why? Who knows. Luther is in jail and decides that he needs to help. How? Easy...break out!

The coppers are working on finding the villain and feel that they don't need Luther's help.....at first.

Villian must be a billionaire as he has the resources of a small country! Luther, a wanted man, ends up working with his old boss to find and stop the killings.

You really need to play make believe with this one. I stuck with it as I knew I will never come back to watch it again.

1/5!