The "I just saw" thread

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

A Most Violent Year 2014

Hell of a movie.
Can't get enough of Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac.

[Ishan]

Watched The Road for the first time last night. ing amazing movie, even if the ending felt a little bit unearned. Pretty much the high mark for post-apocalyptic films.

Viggo is a top notch actor. It's a shame Hollywood didn't make enough movies with this master actor.

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

The Power of Dog

This film is long like a Faulkner novel.
Good thing I don't like cowboys.
Great performance from Benedict Cumberbatch.

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

The Last Duel



Bit of a Rashomon vibe going on here.
Especially with them 3 different 'truths'.

Gotta say, I am not disappointed.
What I liked:

-Le Gris & Count Pierre's friendship: those guys were hilarious
Wish one day I will meet a rich debauchee as my friend & companion
-the duel scene

What I disliked:
-that idiotic half-helm (what the hell were they thinking?)

By the way, this wasn't the last historical duel.
Far from it.

Also,

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

are we all going to ignore the fact that Marguerite is carrying Le Gris' bastard child?
I found that detail interesting.

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

Silent Night


What a piece of postmodernist, nihilistic trash.
I've rate it a 1 on IMDb.
The plot is idiotic.
The characters are decent but their choices are not.

The twist at the end... you see it from a mile away.
From the middle of the movie, if you have half of a functioning brain.

Avoid, at all costs.
Man, did this made me angry!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You mean to tell me that the Government would more likely issue cyanide pills to the populace instead of gas masks and air purifier tablets?!
Are you freaking kidding me?!!

[Halie Satanus]

Superman and Lois.

Sentimental rubbish, isn't that always the problem with Superman. !
Never known Superman to get so many beat downs.
Okay for a rainy weekend binge watch.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

Superman and Lois is one of those crappy CW superhero shows. Why not watch Lois and Clark instead? It is basically just the classic Superman but in the 90's.

[Ishan]

I enjoyed Smallville a lot. Never finished all seasons but they kept me entertained many years back.
edit
that was 20 years ago. I was in school back then. Getting old.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

I enjoyed Smallville a lot. Never finished all seasons but they kept me entertained many years back.
edit
that was 20 years ago. I was in school back then. Getting old.

I didn't watch a lot of it as a kid. But Smallville seemed like one of the only truly decent CW shows. It wasn't great by any means but it was serviceable. I tried watching some of these other shows, and did watch Superman and Lois, it was average at best if not below average.

[Halie Satanus]

I did watch Lois and Clark, that was terrible too. Smallville was okay, but similar to Ish, just caught it now and then.

[Akar]

I enjoyed Smallville a lot. Never finished all seasons but they kept me entertained many years back.
edit
that was 20 years ago. I was in school back then. Getting old.

I remember enjoying it at the time, though I was a kid when I watched it. Not sure it would stand up if I watched it again. I remember Lois and Clark being very good though.

Watched "Power of the Dog" a day or two ago, thoroughly enjoyed it. Amazing acting out of every single person in the cast. Plimmons was amazing as always and it was nice to see him in a non-psycho role for once, and cool to see him act alongside his wife again (they were so ing good in Fargo). Smit-McPhee was surprisingly good too, pretty crazy to think he also played The Boy in The Road.

[Ishan]

That skinny Australian actor is brilliant. Watch Gallipoli. Some awesome stuff there.

[ggggtotalwarrior]

I think the one thing maybe helping Smallville stand the test of time a little bit even if a lot of the way it’s filmed is dated now, is that the CW has been on a constant path to being more “CW-ier” over time. It looks better in comparison even for all its faults because the teen drama cheese at the network has grown exponentially and lowered the bar greatly. It’s still probably not great by modern standards but at least watchable

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

Synchronic



Perfect movie.

Great writing, great acting, great characters, great camera work.
I don't know what to say about this.

Friendship, true friendship, is hard to capture.
This film accomplishes that.
Oh, perfect ending too.

[Araval]

I recommend this too!

[Flinn]

I recommend this too!

Thirdied, great movie

[Araval]

Omerta 6/12 (2021)

I missed about 10 minutes from the beginning because my car battery died because of cold and I had to cycle to the cinema.

Still, I enjoyed it. It had high-enough tempo and situation changes, so it didn't get boring.

[John Doe]

New order it's well made, raw and brutal.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

I did watch Lois and Clark, that was terrible too. Smallville was okay, but similar to Ish, just caught it now and then.

Lois and Clark was one of the better 90's shows. The whole point is that it is a callback to the old Superman. It isn't action heavy but if you want that much action on a TV budget you can watch... yeah I got nothing.

[Halie Satanus]

It isn't action heavy but if you want that much action on a TV budget you can watch... yeah I got nothing.

Took me a minute, didn't really watch a lot of TV in the 90s. But, Stargate, Buffy/Angel, X-Files, Quantum Leap. Farscape/Lexx if I could keep awake that late.

I did not watch Xena or Hercules.