Which movie did you watch lastֻ

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Movie night tonight!

First up, “Host”. Woohoo, that was a good one! :smiley:

Feeling bored, getting stir-crazy, itchin’ to do something different during the corovirus lockdown? Wellp, do not host a seance over Zoom. You. Will. Be. Sorry.

Unique premise, nice hotties, damned good execution. Of course, you got the necessary jump-scares a la “Paranormal Activity” (despite some elements like the flour bit being lifted right from there), but this was put together so well, they weren’t done in a cheap way.

Highly recommended (similar to “Death Of A Vlogger”.)

Next up, “The Last Igloo”. Okay, not quite sure why it was called that, as it was way more than just how to build an igloo. It’s a glimpse into the life of an Inuit hunter in modern-day Greenland. He’s out for the hunt, using traditional methods and quasi-traditional tools. A wooden dog-sled, pulled by real dogs, spear for digging holes in the ice, knife to cut and shape blocks for the igloo (and prep fish for the eatin’), with some modern tools like a rifle (polar-bear country, after all).

Damn, it’s a tough life.

But yeah, he’s one of the few who’s trying to keep tradition alive. Gotta admire his connection with nature, even (or especially) in the inhospitable climes way up north in the arctic.

Another doc from the Beeb, well worth watching.

Last up, the classic, “10 To Midnight”. What a great movie! Classic ’80s Cannon flick. Plus, it’s a nod to the recently deceased Wilford Brimley.

Despite the rather high body-count, and copious quantities of red corn-syrup, there’s only implied violence a la Hitchcock, except at the very end. So yeah, I’d say it’s a kid-friendly flick. While Brinson, Eilbacher, and Stevens were all top-shelf in this flick, props to Gene Davis for playing the badguy to perfection.

Classic cat’n’mouse game, switching off who’s the cat and who’s the mouse several times in the course of the movie. Be sure to hit the can before sitting down to watch, because you don’t want to break the momentum the movie develops, not even for a second.

And who doesn’t love Davis’s little speech at the very end? :laughing:

One of my faves…

1007

An oldie but fun
The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

All The Best,
Jeff

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First up, “Around The Sun”, which was surprisingly good. I tuned in out of curiosity, but actually enjoyed it.

There are only 2 actors in the entire film (excluding a 5-sec walk-through), set on a French manse. It’s very talky, and just like the phenomenal “Mindwalk”, it’s one of those movies where you have to pay rapt attention and not miss a word, else go back and rewind/replay.

It’s symbolic, almost poetic, and once you figure out the premise (there are clues early on, actually, and the girl explicitly spells it out later if you miss it), it starts making a lot of sense.

I get the feeling that it’s also best to give it a second viewing later on to catch what you missed the first time around, but now knowing “the secret”.

It’s definitely different, but I quite liked it.

Next up was “Bad Eggs”, an Aussie flick about 2 coppers from the Zero Tolerance Unit who screw up and are bounced back to being unis, even suffering the indignity of getting pelted with water-balloons by little kids on bikes. :laughing:

Screwup after screwup haunt them, but they end up right in the middle of a vast corruption conspiracy, and have to comedically fight for their lives as well as their continued freedom.

If the first 5min or so doesn’t have you hooked, there’s something wrong with you. Just that part was a hoot, and some quips and gags in the movie actually had me laffing out loud, which doesn’t happen very often at all.

A few times I had a bit of a hard time with the accents coupled with Aussie slang, but I got the gist of it.

That said, it was a hoot. The flick’s 17yo oldie, but is still a goodie.

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I just watched “Remember The Tight Ones”. Very stimulating!

1010

Is that an "adult" version of Remember the Titans?

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Caught “The Complex: Lockdown”. Pretty good. Checked the imdb page, only rated 3.1 but it was better than that. It had a videogame vibe to it, and yeh, apparently the movie was based off a videogame “The Complex”.

Pretty good premise: nanites being used to help healing in situ vs having to lug a hospital to Mars for exploration. A gril gets infected with them, starts blowing chunks on the London tube, gets rushed to The Complex, which is where the buggers came from. So how did she get infected with them? And who are the baddies trying to bust their way into the locked-down area? Lots of deceit and treachery going around, no one knows whom to trust, so how do you make it out of a locked-down complex and not trip the biocontainment measures or run into the baddies on the way out?

All in all, it was pretty good, it was paced pretty well, it had decent character development and backstory to put the pieces together, and it Just Worked. Deserved well above the 3.1 hit-ratings.

I would’ve gone with what the infected gril suggested, though, as their ticket out, and not the one they ultimately took. It wasn’t a Stupid Character Decision, though, but an “ethical” one (that didn’t work).

And it showed an important lesson: never ever trust anyone with a man-bun. :laughing:

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Caught “<a href’https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667156/’\>Zomblies” (yeah, with a ‘l’ in there). Ugh. It started out pretty good, nice and actiony, and with fast (and smart) zombies. And it was good ’til just before the end, and then… nothing! No ending.

I mean, there’s “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid” where you know what the ending is without even having to see it, and the why, but this was more like, “Uhhh, we kinda boxed ourselves into a corner, storywise, so let’s abruptly end it so you have to ‘use your imagination’ as to how it ends. Yeah, that’s the ticket!”.

No, no, no, that kind of ending just sucks!

Thankfully, it was only 45min or so, soldier-dewds trying to outrun the zombies, umm, zomblies, mostly escaping back to The Wall™, and back to safety once they hop over it, and then the non-ending.

Skip it, it’s just a bad case of movius interruptus.

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First up was “Seduction Theory”, only 20something minutes of it.

Meh.

Picked it because I haven’t seen Michael Cumpsty in a while, and the flick was short, and it threatened to have some nice scenery in it. Wellp, I didn’t waste too much time.

Basically, a kid’s a bedwetter with “issues” (duh, really?), has a shrink for a father, a hamster-murdering little sister, perhaps overcoddling mother, and, well, no wonder the kid’s f’ed up.

It used some kind of symbolism where the same kid was playing himself in his 20s and 30s and maybe older, “dating” this little chickie who left him in his older years after a brief tryst, etc. And I’m, like, “wtf??”.

Like I said, I only wasted 20something minutes of my time. I’m not sure what was the point of the movie. It wasn’t bad, just confusing.

Next up was “Human Nature”, an awesome doc about gene-splicing, CRISPR, curing genetic diseases, and ethical issues about “tweaking” the genome.

It’s technical, but describes things pretty well for the layman. Good graphics illustrating the concepts, too.

And then there’s the human side: the kid with sickle-cell anæmia, the mother whose kid died from a genetic disease, etc., and issues such as whether/not we should “play God” to cure these diseases or even wipe those diseases permanently from the gene-pool, were all explored.

Hey, if you want to get a head start creating minions of Replicants, Übers, and/or Augments, this is the way to go!

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I don’t know how you do it LB. Most movies put me to sleep unless they really grab me early. Everything has been PGed to death to appeal to the largest audience. Takes me two tries to get through most.

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Wellp, when I watch a movie, I intentionally shift my brain to neutral and coast. So I’m easily entertained.

Those movies which grab me early are a special treat… unless they have a sucky ending.

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Of interest for anyone fishing for a definition?

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welp:

nonstandard spelling of well, representing a pronunciation (typically used to convey resignation or disappointment).

Also, if Lightbringer says something regarding hundreds or thousands of lemons, he's (probably) talking about lumens.

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It’s his Irish brogue.

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I know people who actually add the ‘p’ sound when “well” starts the sentence like that.

Just like some people say “Warshington” or “sherbert”, when there aren’t any (extra) ’r’s to be found.

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just finished

“The Tax Collector”

not the best crime movie, acceptable if you are a fan of the genre. Lots of violence, shootings and blood.

1021

kind of “snakebit” recently.
the movies i’ve seen this week
are not very good or just plain awful.
here are three examples:

1. In The Blood.
2. Across 110th Street.
3. My Beautiful Laundrette.
(and i like Daniel Day-Lewis)

maybe my luck will change next week.
well, it should since i get to remove my sling.

1022

Two good’uns tonight!

First was a nice little doc, “Amazing Africe”, a just-under-an-hour documentary about wildlife in Africa. The importance of watering-holes for, well, everyone, and the interplay between zebras trying to get a drink and crocs trying to get a meal, etc. Predator, prey, scavengers, bystanders, everyone has their place. Some circle-of-life clips, if you know what I mean, but that’s what life is like in the Dark Continent.

Quite good. Definitely worth the watch.

Next up, a shocker I hadn’t heard anything about before, at all: “The Phoenix Incident”. Holy Crap! Talk about grabbing you by the collar and not letting you go ’til after the end credits finish!

I know/remember the Phoenix Lights incident, but not a thing about the 4 missing hikers. I didn’t even look at the imdb entry under “trivia” or anything yet, so who knows. Either way, the “based on real incidents” flick was just f’n amazing. Documentary, interviews, found-footage, all stitched together seamlessly to tell a rather fantastic story. Of course, you have to suspend disbelief for a good part of the story, but you get so immersed in it that it’s really easy to do, even to consider it real found-footage.

And speaking of found-footage, the interplay between the soon-to-be-missing hikers as a group, and with one’s gf, etc., was so realistic. The goofball crap they pull on each other, the personal tension (one’s career choice and others being drifters through life, etc.) was something I could imagine real people doing. No “acting” sense at all, no forced dialogue, etc. Gotta give lots of credit where it’s due.

First impressions, I’d seriously give it a 10.

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I saw Wolf Creek (2005).

This is a pretty boring horror film.

Most of the time, not much happens in the movie.

When things actually happens, it's not that interesting or entertaining.

The acting is okay, as is the music.

I didn't really care about any of the characters in the film.

I say skip this one.

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I’ll try the Phoenix Incident and see if it grabs me. Sounds like something I can get into.

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Project Power

Interesting one. watchable.

When a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation.