OT: Consolidated Entertainment Thread (TV, movies, books, games) part VI - use spoiler tags!

I stopped drinking during the week for the last year or so. To be honest, it feels pretty darn good.
I've cut back big time on the bourbon intake thanks to finding thc/cdb drinks and gummies that have no hangover aside from a dry mouth first thing in the morning and wrinkles from sleeping so damn good I don't move. I am as far as you can get from a stoner/hippie type but damn there's very little downside to a little bit to replace the alcohol buzz you come to count on.
 
Perfect, Bezos does look a Bond villain...

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Watched Gladiator 2 on my flight back. Enjoyed it a lot which surprised me since many people didn’t like it. It kept me guessing and left me shocked many times
 
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Started book 4 of the Bobiverse. It's entertaining but getting a bit repetitive. Hoping it freshens up a bit to keep me going into book 5 in a bit.
Agreed. I’ve finished through 4 and I enjoyed the go through but I was ready for a break at the end.
 
ok so hear me out... Dinner for Schmucks.

I remember the previews when it came out. It looked so dumb. Watched it tonight. And it is dumb.

It's dumb, but also so well-written to be that way. Very clever. Carell is so awkward, but a bit different from his other roles. It's extremely cringe. Basically Dumb and Dumber meets Curb Your Enthusiasm (where you see the crash coming... and you know its going to happen).
 
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All episodes but the finale are streaming now. Highly recommend but don’t want to give too much away.

 
A Real Pain with Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, who wrote and directed, was great. I was talking about how Zone of Interest was a redundant and borderline insulting Holocaust / WWII movie. This is the opposite, but it's about so much more than that.
 
Normally I don’t give a damn about the Oscars because they’re a stupid vanity exercise for the industry. However, i might have to tune in for Conan O’Brien. He’s certainly the most interesting choice for host since Jon Stewart.
A Real Pain with Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, who wrote and directed, was great. I was talking about how Zone of Interest was a redundant and borderline insulting Holocaust / WWII movie. This is the opposite, but it's about so much more than that.
Gonna be a must-watch for my wife and I. The trauma descendants of Holocaust survivors is an angle that is very prevalent in real life but somehow has never really made the jump to movies.
 
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Well, Emilia Perez certainly shot its Oscar sweep chances in the foot. Not the first time that's happened this decade either- Power of the Dog was on track for the same thing a few years back until the director got cocky and said things that, looking back, are quaint compared to what happened this time around. Come to think of it, that was also a Netflix-distributed movie. I hope that service never gets a Best Picture.

Unlike the year that Coda benefited from Oscar politics going wrong, Anora seems like it's actually worth the hype. I've heard lots of good things about it.
 
Well, Emilia Perez certainly shot its Oscar sweep chances in the foot. Not the first time that's happened this decade either- Power of the Dog was on track for the same thing a few years back until the director got cocky and said things that, looking back, are quaint compared to what happened this time around. Come to think of it, that was also a Netflix-distributed movie. I hope that service never gets a Best Picture.

Unlike the year that Coda benefited from Oscar politics going wrong, Anora seems like it's actually worth the hype. I've heard lots of good things about it.
I thought Anora was great and deserving of all the accolades. I think sometimes it's tough for the masses to rate character dramas on the level of more obvious, epic awards-bait but I felt it lived up to the hype. I still think about it, especially living in Brooklyn for 15+ years. And the end of it, the exhaustion of it, is very appropriate to the time we live in.

Also saw Heretic last night. Really fun, Hugh Grant is great - I love seeing him in these kind of roles.
The ending doesn't quite stick the landing philosophically, kind of chickens out but I guess it would feel cheap if it was definitive as well.
 

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