Movies you just saw

[zelezo vlk]

Was "The Lighthouse" actually good? I want to watch it because it looks so off that it has to be good.

It's very weird, but great.

 

[ACamp1900]

Top 5 comedy of all time.

You would... There was not a single funny moment in that entire film. At least dumb and dumber was funny.

 

[greyhammer90]

You would... There was not a single funny moment in that entire film. At least dumb and dumber was funny.

Lah-who-sa-her.

But for real, terrible take.

 

[Luckylucci]

Irishmen, two thumbs up. I found myself wanting to watch it again the next day just for some of the catchy vocabulary.

Joker, two thumbs up. However, I did find myself having a hard time reconciling the age difference between The Joker and a young Bruce Wayne.

 

[gkIrish]

I though Parasite was amazing and easily the best movie of the year. Just curious have you seen Snowpiercer? Maybe Bong Joon Ho movies just aren't your flavor.


I think this year was incredibly stacked. I think Uncut Gems deserved a nom for best picture. I would have put it in over FvF or Jojo, but both of those are great movies as well. Hard to be upset with any snubs this year considering how good the nominees were. The Lighthouse was good enough too, I loved it, but Eggars style is too strange for the Academy. I think if Once Upon a Time, 1917, The Irishman, or Parasite come out any other year they would all be fruntrunners for best picture. They all just happened to drop at the same time.

I agree with Greyhammer, I thought slumdog sucked.

I did like Snowpiercer a lot. Again, Parasite was a very good movie...probably an 8/10 for me. Just don't see it as a 9+/10 which is what I think a Best Picture should be. That being said it was better than Shape of Water and Green Book for sure. Haven't seen Moonlight. I thought Uncut Gems was a better movie and The Lighthouse was about the same.

Top 5 comedy of all time.

Um....no

 

[gkIrish]

By the way Parasite isn't even the best South Korean movie ever.

Oldboy FTW

 

[greyhammer90]

Oldboy FTW

I've not seen Parasite but I can confirm that Oldboy is legendarily good. Just make sure to watch with subs and not dubs.

 

[GATTACA!]

Was "The Lighthouse" actually good? I want to watch it because it looks so off that it has to be good.

It's very out there. Great performances and brilliant cinematography though. Idk if it's going to hold up not seeing it on the big screen.

 

[gkIrish]

I've not seen Parasite but I can confirm that Oldboy is legendarily good. Just make sure to watch with subs and not dubs.

I have never intentionally watched a dubbed film or TV show in my life (besides spaghetti westerns) and never plan to. Takes away so much.

 

[greyhammer90]

I have never intentionally watched a dubbed film or TV show in my life (besides spaghetti westerns) and never plan to. Takes away so much.

Agree 99% of the time. Some anime can be really painful. I don't know if you've ever tried to watch DBZ with subs but it is ear-splitting.

 

[Bishop2b5]

My wife made us all watch Ace Ventura this weekend... I've never sat and watched the whole thing and fully understand why now. It's awful in every way a comedy can be. I didn't so much as smile at a single 'joke' in the entire movie. That has to be the lamest 'hit' movie ever... how did it make so much money??!! I was kind of pissed offf for like an hour or so afterwards like, "1, never make me watch something so stupid again babe, and 2. how dafaq is that dude considered some comic genius!?"

I have to agree with you. It's just an annoyingly dumb movie.

Top 5 comedy of all time.

Well, as they say where I grew up, "Bless your heart."

 

[Irish YJ]

Finally saw Parasite. Was good, but not Oscar worthy IMO. Wasn't near as WTF as I thought it would be. Kinda felt like BJH took the same family (same lead actor by the way) from the Host and plopped them into Parasite.

I've been wanting to watch BJH's Mother. Has anyone seen it?

 

[Irish2155]

To the top 5 comedy note - Friday has to be in that mix somewhere. Not the Friday before next, or Friday the 13th... no, the original with Smokey. The only movie I saw multiple times at the theatre.

Hi Miss Parker.

Just a little for my cataract. lol

I think I could quote every line from that movie.

 

[Irish YJ]

To the top 5 comedy note - Friday has to be in that mix somewhere. Not the Friday before next, or Friday the 13th... no, the original with Smokey. The only movie I saw multiple times at the theatre.

Hi Miss Parker.

Just a little for my cataract. lol

I think I could quote every line from that movie.

Why you hook me up with that fat ass, bald head girl?

 

[Irish2155]

Big Perm, I mean Big Worm.

My grand mama gave that chain. He gonna cry in the car.

Lmao

 

[Irish YJ]

Big Perm, I mean Big Worm.

My grand mama gave that chain. He gonna cry in the car.

Lmao

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[ACamp1900]

Friday and Dazed are two of my kind of comedies,... funny, a bit hyperbolic but still grounded and based in reality. Loved both of those films and view them very similarly.

 

[Irish2155]

Friday and Dazed are two of my kind of comedies,... funny, a bit hyperbolic but still grounded and based in reality. Loved both of those films and view them very similarly.

McCaughhey in Dazed is absolutely classic. I keep getting older, and they stay the same age

Great cast too. There’s all kinds of stars before they were stars in that movie. Ben Affleck I didn’t even recognize at first.

 

[wizards8507]

People who don't like Remember the Titans are joyless hags.

 

[NorthDakota]

People who don't like Remember the Titans are joyless hags.

It's pretty good. I enjoyed it a lot. Probably saw it too many times though.

I preferred Friday Night Lights as a football movie though.

 

[wizards8507]

It's pretty good. I enjoyed it a lot. Probably saw it too many times though.



I preferred Friday Night Lights as a football movie though.

I watched the Friday Night Lights show before the movie and the movie never did it for me. Same with M*A*S*H.

 

[zelezo vlk]

I am the opposite of a joyless hag and I never cared much for Remember the Titans lol. Seemed way too cliche. Though perhaps my heart only had room for 1 feel-good football movie and that was Rudy.

 

[ACamp1900]

RtT is good but I get why some don't feel it. It's super cliched... Glory Road is like that for me. A good movie that everyone else seems to love but by time I saw it I was just like, "Okay, this story line again....."

 

[gkIrish]

Yeah so I cleaned up a few posts with a word that shouldn't be posted here.

For future reference, when you say "I'd call you a ____ but that's not PC" you are literally calling that person a _____.

 

[Irish2155]

Watched I See You tonight. A little hard to follow at times but was alright. The twist was predictable I think and the ending left more to be desired.

 

[vuirish]

Not a movie but just watched season one and two of Yellowstone on Paramount. Damn good show.

 

[Bishop2b5]

Not a movie but just watched season one and two of Yellowstone on Paramount. Damn good show.

Yep, it's very good across the board.

 

[NorthDakota]

Yeah so I cleaned up a few posts with a word that shouldn't be posted here.

For future reference, when you say "I'd call you a ____ but that's not PC" you are literally calling that person a _____.

As a rule this is lazy.

You might be be worse at legal writing than me.

 

[Bishop2b5]

In my ongoing quest to watch all of the greatest movies ever, I'm now about half way through 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. It's a great story, but the dialogue and some of the acting are a bit much.

Vivien Leigh does a good job (she won her 2nd Best Actress Oscar for the role), but Brando overacts in most of his scenes. I was just never a Brando fan. I liked him in The Godfather, but thought he was a ham actor in pretty much everything else he ever did.

I read up on Leigh yesterday when I started watching the movie. Sheesh! She was some sorta seriously beautiful and talented, but what a screwed up life. Laurence Olivier, her husband for 20 years, said she was diagnosed by pretty much all the doctors she saw as a bi-polar schizophrenic nymphomaniac and he agreed with the diagnosis. She and Olivier fought to such an extent that Olivier later said he thought he'd killed her once when he hit her and knocked her into the fireplace where she hit her head on the log irons, and said he was sure he would've killed her eventually if they hadn't divorced.

By multiple accounts from Olivier, her friends, and many others, she screwed everything but the doorknobs in Hollywood, including taxi drivers, delivery boys, a clerk at a gas station, and countless costars and complete strangers. She supposedly liked "rough trade" as one friend put it... rough sex with strangers that bordered on rape. She had multiple nervous breakdowns and alcohol issues, finally dying rather young from TB. So much talent and beauty and success, but what a sad life. Mental illness can be devastating.

 

[Irish YJ]

In my ongoing quest to watch all of the greatest movies ever, I'm now about half way through 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. It's a great story, but the dialogue and some of the acting are a bit much.

Vivien Leigh does a good job (she won her 2nd Best Actress Oscar for the role), but Brando overacts in most of his scenes. I was just never a Brando fan. I liked him in The Godfather, but thought he was a ham actor in pretty much everything else he ever did.

I read up on Leigh yesterday when I started watching the movie. Sheesh! She was some sorta seriously beautiful and talented, but what a screwed up life. Laurence Olivier, her husband for 20 years, said she was diagnosed by pretty much all the doctors she saw as a bi-polar schizophrenic nymphomaniac and he agreed with the diagnosis. She and Olivier fought to such an extent that Olivier later said he thought he'd killed her once when he hit her and knocked her into the fireplace where she hit her head on the log irons, and said he was sure he would've killed her eventually if they hadn't divorced.

By multiple accounts from Olivier, her friends, and many others, she screwed everything but the doorknobs in Hollywood, including taxi drivers, delivery boys, a clerk at a gas station, and countless costars and complete strangers. She supposedly liked "rough trade" as one friend put it... rough sex with strangers that bordered on rape. She had multiple nervous breakdowns and alcohol issues, finally dying rather young from TB. So much talent and beauty and success, but what a sad life. Mental illness can be devastating.

Did you know what LO's nickname for here was?