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

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Lighthouse is great. Fight me
I’m glad you enjoyed it. In many ways it was well made. Great look and feel for a period piece. It did a good job conveying the paranoia and isolation. It did not hold up well for me in terms of the mythical elements and as I’ve explained somebody floated the term “Lovecraftian” about the movie. I imagine it wa someone not familiar with Lovecraft’s work who was just referring to the isolation and paranoia which isn’t a good use of the term. That coupled with the facile ending turned me off. Eggers has redeemed himself with Nosferatu. If the Lighthouse was a necessary stepping stone to give us Nosferatu then so be it. At least Eggers has progressed instead of being a disgrace.
 
Watched the first season of The Morning Show.

Absolutely fantastic.

I have a feeling the rest of the show won’t be as good as season 1. Hard to replicate that

I’m glad you enjoyed it. In many ways it was well made. Great look and feel for a period piece. It did a good job conveying the paranoia and isolation. It did not hold up well for me in terms of the mythical elements and as I’ve explained somebody floated the term “Lovecraftian” about the movie. I imagine it wa someone not familiar with Lovecraft’s work who was just referring to the isolation and paranoia which isn’t a good use of the term. That coupled with the facile ending turned me off. Eggers has redeemed himself with Nosferatu. If the Lighthouse was a necessary stepping stone to give us Nosferatu then so be it. At least Eggers has progressed instead of being a disgrace.
For me, I knew nothing about Greek Methology and never knew anything about Noseferatu.

So going in with a clean slate on both of those movies was an incredible experience and is probably why I love them so so so much more than others.

I just read Dafoe agreed to two more movies with Eggers. Love it.
 
Lighthouse is great. Fight me
I liked Lighthouse but I understand why people wouldn't like it. Funniest part was how Robert Pattinson couldn't settle on an accent and Willem Dafoe went all in on an old timey sea captain.

My brother-in-law shared Lighthouse memes for a solid two months after watching it. If nothing else, it's incredibly memeable.
 
I liked Lighthouse but I understand why people wouldn't like it. Funniest part was how Robert Pattinson couldn't settle on an accent and Willem Dafoe went all in on an old timey sea captain.

My brother-in-law shared Lighthouse memes for a solid two months after watching it. If nothing else, it's incredibly memeable.
Isn’t the two accents by Pattinson the point? Dafoe and Pattinsons characters were the same person. The entire movie was Thomas dealing with his own past history that he couldn’t accept and Ephraim was his conscious making him accept his faults. The whole movie was basically his own hell replaying over and over. Thats why the movie ends with the first scene. Overlooking the ocean with the boat coming to the island. It’s his eternal hell. Reliving his past transgressions. Accepting it and then paying the price by getting eaten alive.
 
Isn’t the two accents by Pattinson the point? Dafoe and Pattinsons characters were the same person. The entire movie was Thomas dealing with his own past history that he couldn’t accept and Ephraim was his conscious making him accept his faults. The whole movie was basically his own hell replaying over and over. Thats why the movie ends with the first scene. Overlooking the ocean with the boat coming to the island. It’s his eternal hell. Reliving his past transgressions. Accepting it and then paying the price by getting eaten alive.
Probably. I think I was under the influence of an edible while watching.
 
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Isn’t the two accents by Pattinson the point? Dafoe and Pattinsons characters were the same person. The entire movie was Thomas dealing with his own past history that he couldn’t accept and Ephraim was his conscious making him accept his faults. The whole movie was basically his own hell replaying over and over. Thats why the movie ends with the first scene. Overlooking the ocean with the boat coming to the island. It’s his eternal hell. Reliving his past transgressions. Accepting it and then paying the price by getting eaten alive.

I forgot his name was Thomas and that's the main guy being named Thomas in Lighthouse and Nosferatu now too
 
It’s actually the Skyrim mod where the Dragons are all Thomas the Tank Engine characters so he’s playing Alduin.
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I didn't think I'd say this but I'm going to miss Skeleton Crew after the finale next week. It's kind of funny how two of the shows I was least interested in going in, this and Andor, have been two of the best series they've done. Which honestly makes it even more frustrating how poorly they handled the ones I was interested in.
 
I didn't think I'd say this but I'm going to miss Skeleton Crew after the finale next week. It's kind of funny how two of the shows I was least interested in going in, this and Andor, have been two of the best series they've done. Which honestly makes it even more frustrating how poorly they handled the ones I was interested in.
I gotta check this one out
 
Good finale for Skeleton Crew. Overall it was just a fun show. The "Goonies in space" description a lot of people are using is very accurate. It felt every bit like the kind of show I would have been obsessed with as a kid. I think if you go in with those expectations you'll have a fun time. Also, there was a point in the finale where a ship did something that Rebels fans will appreciate.

Unfortunately I don't think it did very well viewership wise so I think it'll probably be one and done. But the ending was a good spot to end it if that's it.
 

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Eggers probably saw Wolf Man and was like f*** that shit lmao I saw that movie the other day. Awful
It was a bit predctable to say the least. Part of it is of course the difference in a vampire and a werewolf. The vampire says more about us than the werewolf does. There are a whole host of elements I could go into. I will say that the Wolf Man movie had a number of horror heavy hitters attached (notably Leigh Whannel) so it should have been better. The setting made sense but some of the backstory was weakly handled and ham fisted. I liked some elements of the approach (the modern biology based concept was new) but the acting was meh and I did not like some of the artificial conflict built into the family dynamic. It's like they had the skeleton of a good idea and added a paint by numbers overlay.
 
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It was a bit predctable to say the least. Part of it is of course the difference in a vampire and a werewolf. The vampire says more about us than the werewolf does. There are a whole host of elements I could go into. I will say that the Wolf Man movie had a number of horror heavy hitters attached (notably Leigh Whannel) so it should have been better. The setting made sense but some of the backstory was weakly handled and ham fisted. I liked some elements of the approach (the modern biology based concept was new) but the acting was meh and I did not like some of the artificial conflict built into the family dynamic. It's like they had the skeleton of a good idea and added a paint by numbers overlay.
I enjoyed the Dad and Son aspect and chemistry more in the first scene than the rest. Wish they stayed with them as the main story
 
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I enjoyed the Dad and Son aspect and chemistry more in the first scene than the rest. Wish they stayed with them as the main story
As a long time supporter of horror movies I feel compelled to see all the mainstream ones in theatres so hopefully they keep making them. Most are duds but if I have to sit through a wolf man to get a Nosferatu I’m going to do it. I can’t wait for Eggers’ version to hit a streaming service where I can do a comparison with the original and thr Herzog version. It might be a while because I’d want to force my middle and youngest son to watch with me since they are movie buffs.
 
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As a long time supporter of horror movies I feel compelled to see all the mainstream ones in theatres so hopefully they keep making them. Most are duds but if I have to sit through a wolf man to get a Nosferatu I’m going to do it. I can’t wait for Eggers’ version to hit a streaming service where I can do a comparison with the original and thr Herzog version. It might be a while because I’d want to force my middle and youngest son to watch with me since they are movie buffs.
Next up for me is The Monkey and Companion. Both in theaters soon.

Did you see Heretic yet? A must watch
 
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I like all of Ari Aster's movie. First two are classics. But Beau is Afraid is kind of like the inverse of Fellini's classic stuff (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita), where, instead of a cool guy having a fun romp through his dreams and social circle, it's a loser's constant anxiety and rejection blown into epic proportions. An achievement of some kind, though it's not exactly a good time.

After watching Hereditary,
kept thinking Toni Collette was in the upper corner of my room for like a month.
 

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