I started a thread about Michelle Keegan 9 years ago. So hot.
Michelle Keegan Hot Hot Hot
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I started a thread about Michelle Keegan 9 years ago. So hot.
Michelle Keegan Hot Hot Hot
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You lost me when you said Kim Kardashian has a hotter face.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
In any event, definitely watch the series. She is gorgeous. No revealing clothes or anything like that, but it doesn't matter.
I think I said Kim had a hotter face than Liz.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Debatable and was an important topic in the pre trump/covid world.
Ah, okay. That makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Just finished Tokyo Vice. I really like the way they rounded out all the characters at the end. Super satisfying. Fuck, I want a Nissan President.
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Moving onto Fallout on Prime. I'm not much of a gamer, but I love anything post nuclear apocalypse. The first episode is pretty compelling.
https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Season-1/dp/B0CN4HV16N
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Tokyo Vice absolutely killed it; the Japanese characters were stunning, especially in comparison to the Gaijin. Lots of talk about a season 3 - if it happens I hope Tozawa's (RIP) wife is a central character - she was really powerful in the l last few episodes of season 2.
Love when I find that Tokyo Vice isn't on Netflix
Has anyone watched Killing Eve? It’s really great, well cast. Dark, funny and it keeps surprising me
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I started it and got pulled away but have been meaning to go back. Def a quality show worth the effort
Baby Reindeer is bonkers.
Mesmerizing and also cringey.
Funny and heavy, too.
1st season is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
Gets a bit more ridiculous after the 1st season and lost me.
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Holy shit, strap in for a ride on the roller coaster.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times.
4 tragedies out of 5 comedies
Maybe 4.5
I went in pretty blind.
I Googled the lead and then expected it to be a tilted comedy, but it gets deeply dark with the quickness.
Pretty unnerving and uncomfortable, as well.
Got a kick out of Parasite: The Grey. I zigged several times when the plot zagged, but the whippy starfish heads were fun.
We just watched Tammy and the above could apply in some ways to it as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
Melissa McCarthy and produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay so you kind of expect a thing which it is definitely not. The movie seemed kind of lost trying to find the footing for which genre it should live in. I kind of had the feeling by the end that some editor had to clean up a huge train wreck of footage and this was the best salvage attempt available and in doing jettisoned the comedy idea in favor of something else
Yes, both wife and I were talking to screen- dude don't do thatQuote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
I came here to comment on B Reindeer
Only 1/2 way through , I guess there are disturbing flashbacks to come
Finished it . Very good though had a restless night sleep. So many damaged people.
That guys father was just a slightly dialed down Mike Myers middle aged Scotsman.
Its very weird to have the person who lived it play the part in the movie or series. It would be like the real Sully play Sully in the movie Sully and also write the screenplay.
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Originally Posted by PNWbrit
Watched the first season on Netflix, and now a few episodes through the Chinese version on Peacock. In the latter as the scientists wrestle with trying to understand the aliens there are two concepts proposed, Shooter and Farmer. (Summarized here.)
The Shooter hypothesis involves multiple dimensions, and it reminded me of something. Itched my brain for a couple days, then finally pulled it up - Flatland. I read it about a dozen years ago, and around that time came across a Science Friday discussion of the book and its themes.
https://www.npr.org/2012/09/21/16155...isits-flatland
Flatland is more of a social commentary, and I'm not sure if 3 Body was influenced to any degree (if at all) by it, but it is a thought provoking work. Time for another read.
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SHADOW IN THE CLOUD
Schmowzow!!!
This flick is F-U-N.
I'm talking about a fantastic example of what a quintessential popcorn film should be.
Brimming with Insane pacing, quick and tight editing, and solid performances, it was a pleasant surprise.
There is one extended scene that is claustrophobicly intense, so much so that it’s kind of unnerving.
This film was panned by critics, but I found it to be a lean and mean little action film.
Chloe's smile melts my heart; shame about The Peripheral.
Hack your Health: Secrets of your Gut is really informative. Watched with my 9 year old.
Highly recommend
Spoiler alert. There is a girl that literally eats shit.
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Hope they don't mess this up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT7h6sUeUhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W-hC2HC5Sk
Highly recommend The Gentleman on Netflix.
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Agree with al of these statements.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
I was annoyed, entertained, somewhat shocked and had to finish it.
Wife and I have watched the first four episodes. Definitely entertaining and captivating!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hott Butt Mud
Watched some of the Brady thing on Netflix last night. Raunchy/edgy, as a proper roast should be served up.
This segment did not disappoint...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93mlx6YtSgI
THE BOOK OF CLARENCE
Saw this in the theater back in January, but got inundated with ski season and forgot to review it (I didn’t even take notes, doh!).
Anyway, it’s written and directed by Jeymes Samuel, the multi-hyphenate behind The Harder They Fall.
Whereas he tweaked the Western genre with that film, here he goes after the biblical epic. Imagine The Life of Brian, but less absurd and way slicker.
Solid pacing, a tight cast, and some brilliant music video chicanery all combine for an enjoyable cinematic time that also has some interesting socio-political and religious insights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntNS-ANoMyM
The nanofibers cut a ship in half but they couldn't be bothered to a) strengthen up the "sail" lines or b) run them through a slippy anchor point in the middle with the ends 180 degrees apart on the sail so it would stay balanced if one broke? And no discussion of either steering or radiation shielding with that bomb ladder?Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
I didn't read the books, but the only way those things make sense to me is if the aliens were lying about not lying. They never wanted to meet him. Or they changed his course to one they liked better.
Sorry ..... we've moved on.
You know, I guess I had, too. I've learned the Chinese forte is not sci-fi, though, so that's something.
UPGRADE
Imagine a William Gibson cyber-thriller jacked up on crystal meth.
Or, if you prefer, Ex Machina dumbed down and augmented with brutal bone-crushing action.
Whatever your take, Upgrade is a surprisingly good, fuel-injected spin on ‘80s action films touched with a slight, malevolently humorous nod to Kubrick/Clarke's 2001 for good measure.
Brought to you by Leigh Whannell, who is best known for writing the first Saw, this flick is sufficiently stuffed with adreneline-soaked pacing and a plethora of red herrings to keep your mind just enough off-kilter for the twist ending.
The story, while following a pretty basic revenge motif, is coated in enough glossy sheen as to feel almost new. And there are a few welcome surprises, too.
Bottom line: Upgrade is a solid B-movie with bristling action sequences and cool production design swathed in a slick blitz of industrial cyber-glaze.
RIYL:
The Guest; The Termimator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjwlPsqm3Sc
Just re-watched Upgrade - it's holding up well.
So, unless we've already discussed it previously, "B movie category"? What differentiates B from A? Is there a C category?
The first Terminator was a B-movie.
The second Terminator was an A-movie.
:D
Wiki elaboration on the term “B-movie”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie
Generally speaking, a B-movie is a low-budget genre film.
Roger Corman was the undisputed king of B-movies.
Sam Raimi’s early—and arguably best—films were all B-movies.
Upgrade fits the B-movie moniker to a T: moderate budget, no big name recognizable stars, streamline production, etc.
Upgrade was made for 3M in 2018…that’s peanuts in Hollywood $.
I have never heard/seen the term “C-movie” in any reviews, but I have seen/heard the term “Z-movie” for films that are just horrible and lower than low budget…
Got it - thanks. I like that it's mostly a budget thing - low budget can obviously still mean quality film.
And conversely an A movie can stink to high heaven.
Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
I have also found that many directors make great low-budget films as the lack of money requires them to be more creative (see early Raimi, for example).
Also, quite a lot of B-movies have great stories, scripts, and snappy dialogue (imho, I feel this is the case as the filmmakers realize they need a good story, creative script, and solid acting to make up for lack of money for production and FX).
I think one can easily argue that a lot of film franchises started out as B-movies.
The first Pitch Black, the first Fast and Furious, the first A Nightmare on Elm Street, imho are all B-movies (modest budgets, non-A-list actors, etc.).
Heck I would even postulate that both Star Wars: A Mew Hope and Jaws were B-movies, at the very least they were heavily inspired by classic B-movies. Granted both had pretty sizable budgets for their time (and both went on to be among the high grossing films of all-time, plus Jaws is credited with starting the summer blockbuster blueprint, but they are B-movies at heart (both feature largely unknown casts and Spielberg had to get creative with his filming because all of the expensive FX kept glitching). :D
John Carpenter is a classic B-movie director.
I think David Cronenberg is the thinking man’s B-movie director (though I am sure he would balk at that tag).
George Miller was a B-movie director, but after Mad Max 2, not anymore.
Honestly some of the greatest and also most popular directors of the past 40-odd years all started out making B-movies:
Spielberg
Coppola
Miller
Cameron
Howard
Jackson
Scorsese
Sayles
Woo
Tarantino
Some of them managed to keep the energy and creativity of their early B-movies in their bigger budget films and, sadly some haven’t.
But now I am just rambling.
Bottomline:
I’d take a movie like Upgrade over almost any major big budget action film made in the past 20 years. Sure, there are some exceptions, but films like Upgrade prove that you don’t need to spend $300M to make a great action film.
The downside, sadly, is because Upgrade didn’t have an A-list cast or A-list director, very few people actually saw it when it was in theaters. That’s the real shame about the movie (and music) industries: there’s quite a lot of real excellent stuff out there that just doesn’t have the backing of some of the big budget crap, so it gets lost. That or suits misinterpret what made the B-stuff so great and exploit it (comic book movies, grunge music, hip-hop culture are just a few prime examples of really cool artistic movements that got co-opted by folks who had no clue about art, but knew how to make money).
End rant.
WATCH UPGRADE DAMMIT!!!
:D
Have you seen Atlantic Rim? Where does that one land? It has to be a Z-movie, right?... RIGHT? Saw it on the last season of MST3K and MAN it was horrendously bad. Like actually painful to get through. I love a schlocky cheese-fest as much as the next guy, but wow this one was a new low. 1.6/10 on IMDB! Haha. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2740710/Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
Well said. :yourock:Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
Loved Upgrade
The Tourist was a bizarre wild ride