What have you watched lately?

[Diabolical]

11 tries?
I really liked Shutter Island, but haven't seen it in ages.

[vynsane]

finally watched Blade Runner 2049. really, really, good. and the bleakness just totally mashes with what we're all collectively experiencing right now.

[Tom Foolery]

I figured out the Shutter Island twist from the trailer, so I can’t say how good I might’ve thought the movie was without anticipating the “twist” the entire movie.

I watched Grosse Pointe Blank again a couple days ago. Funny stuff. It’s a very underrated movie and has an exceptionally high ratio of quotable dialogue.

Jurassic Park. Holy shit, I’m amazed at how well this movie holds up almost thirty years later. I’m not even taking about the CGI, which still bangs, but the story, the beats, everything is just a solid film.

The X-Men movies are showing up on Disney+. Watched Apocalypse. I’m amazed Fox kept hiring Simon Kinberg to write so many of their X-Men movies because his dialogue is garbage. Did Magneto Fassbender win a Razzie for the scene where his family dies? Because he should have.

[jjreason]

11 tries to get through the whole thing, DB, and that's likely an exaggeration. I would stop it after 30 minutes & look at my phone one time or do 15 min & have to shit type of thing. It just took a while to finally get through - I am guessing I pushed play on it the first time over a month ago. I did enjoy the movie. Not quite typical Scorsese but I think if you didn't know & got asked who was directing part way through you'd likely be able to guess.

[Diabolical]

Jurassic Park. Holy shit, I’m amazed at how well this movie holds up almost thirty years later. I’m not even taking about the CGI, which still bangs, but the story, the beats, everything is just a solid film.

One word: Spielberg.


The T-Rex chasing the jeep still really holds up to today's CG.

[Ran]

I watched Grosse Pointe Blank again a couple days ago. Funny stuff. It’s a very underrated movie and has an exceptionally high ratio of quotable dialogue.

I saw this not that long ago. It had been a while since I'd seen it. It is definitely underrated.

[Tom Foolery]

Old Guard. Netflix movie with Charlize Theron. Basically Costco Highlander, but without Sean Connery or the Kurgan or any cool mythology about sword fighting, and instead you have Dudley Dursley as the bad guy.

[Ran]

Beverly Hills Cop 2. Couldn't tell you the last time I saw this, but it was probably on VHS. It was pretty good.

Robin Hood: Prince of thieves. The place I'm staying at has a bunch of DVDs. I was looking for a comedy and figured this was close enough. When I put the DVD in, it started in the middle of the movie. I realized that the disc was double sided, so I flipped the DVD over and started from the beginning. Watched until it got to the mid-way point. Didn't feel like flipping the dvd over again, plus it wasn't that good of a movie.

The movie didn't seem long enough where it would need 2 discs. Was this normal at some point?

[Tom Foolery]

The first generation of DVDs didn’t have the dual-layer technology so they could only fit about an hour onto a side.

Basically the digital info on a DVD is embedded in a spiral pattern (like a vinyl record). They eventually figured out how to use the negative space of the first spiral to make another spiral and therefore add twice as much space to a DVD. That’s why there’s always a very brief stutter halfway thru the movie. It’s the disc switching to the second spiral.

Now you know!

[Ran]

...And knowing is half the battle!

[anarky]

Who wants a body massage? Ooooooh, Mistah Body Massage machine, go! Body massage!

[Ran]

Ice Pirates. My wife sent me another group of DVDs. This is the first one I watched because it has been so long since I've seen it. I'm not sure how many people remember it, but It is underrated.

Kevin Smith: Evening Harder. Another DVD I bought out of the cheap bin and never watched. I'm through the Toronto disc, and I'm part way through the London disc. Somehow, watching him ramble on about random things is interesting.

Also watched the bonus disc that came with Monty Python Holy Grail. There was an interview with the entire cast from when they were filming it.
It was ok. There was another part where Michael Palin and Terry Jones went back to visit the castles and other locations where they filmed the movie. This was specifically for the anniversary version of the dvd. That part was both interesting and funny.

[Diabolical]

I love the Evening With Kevin Smith dvds.
Hey was so much more entertaining before he started smoking weed.

[Diabolical]

Double post.
I watched Bill & Ted Face the Music.
It was what I expected. Good, not great, with plotholes (or ignoring canon) galore, but it was fun to see the guys again all these years later.

[Ran]

I love the Evening With Kevin Smith dvds.
Hey was so much more entertaining before he started smoking weed.

He did tell a story about watching Dora the Explorer with his daughter while high. Something I didn't know was that his wife posed for Playboy. In the London show, he tells some crazy stories with his mother in the audience. There is no way I could say things half as bad as he said to my parents.