OT: The Movie/TV/Streaming Thread

[Chicken N Raffls]

Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy. Had some corny moments, but overall probably had the most reasons to get emotionally pulled in since Empire. There were real stakes involved. I wish HBO/Max had picked up those rights instead of Disney. The results have been so sadly predictable.

Andor was good too, though.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy. Had some corny moments, but overall probably had the most reasons to get emotionally pulled in since Empire. There were real stakes involved. I wish HBO/Max had picked up those rights instead of Disney. The results have been so sadly predictable.

Andor was good too, though.

I need to watch Andor again. That was some good shit. I was wayyyy too invested in them building the whatever it was during the prison episode.

 

[Magua]

Star Wars simply has worked better in video games than live action television/film for a few decades, with rare exception. I don't think it has to work that way.....but it has. Disney isn't exactly making me believe that will change.

 

[trostol]

both look entertaining to me

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Please note that I said “good”, not great or amazing or anything like that. Watchable and enjoyable, even if flawed.

Obi-wan was a movie that they stretched into a TV show, which explains a lot of the “downs”. But I really liked the “ups”. The Mandalorian has been mostly good, although the most recent season definitely wasn’t as good as the previous two.

Meanwhile, I haven’t enjoyed a single one of the movies, even Rogue One. It was probably the least shit of the movies but I’m not praising it much more than that when there wasn’t a single memorable or likable character in the bunch.

You and I are going to have to sit down and have a long, long talk. "Obi Wan" was f***ing execrable. Probably the worst of all the series.

 

[Striiker]

You and I are going to have to sit down and have a long, long talk. "Obi Wan" was f***ing execrable. Probably the worst of all the series.

Lightsaber go brrrr

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Anyone who watched 1883. Is it worth watching?

 

[mja]

You and I are going to have to sit down and have a long, long talk. "Obi Wan" was f***ing execrable. Probably the worst of all the series.

I understand why you have forgotten it, but don’t forget the Book of Fett was a thing.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I understand why you have forgotten it, but don’t forget the Book of Fett was a thing.

"We are the Mods of space! Watch us twirl and shoot! Derp!"

 

[Striiker]

I understand why you have forgotten it, but don’t forget the Book of Fett was a thing.

I literally did forget.

Holy shit.

The only non-shit parts of that show were the ones that were literally Mandalorian episodes.

 

[Danko]

Anyone who watched 1883. Is it worth watching?

Yeah, that was awesome.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

We watched The Beekeeper last night. Not a bad action movie

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

We watched The Beekeeper last night. Not a bad action movie

It's pure 90s-like schlock and it's fun for that reason.

 

[Danko]

Weekends like this that my WHYY membership is paying off. Ken Burns Docs on rotation

 

[gertbfrobe16]

Watched Dune 2 ending was kinda weird thinking there has got to be a Dune 3 maybe.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Watched Dune 2 ending was kinda weird thinking there has got to be a Dune 3 maybe.

There will indeed be Dune 3, and hopefully a Dune 4, 5, and 6.

 

[Embiid]

Sounds like a Dune deal...

 

[BigToe]

Civil War was mid

 

[ajgoal]

Godzilla Minus One is on Netflix for you heathens who missed it in theaters.

 

[Magua]

Civil War was mid

Hardest of disagrees, cuh. I saw it in Dolby at the theater, and I’m glad I did. ‘Twas an intense watch.

Godzilla Minus One is on Netflix for you heathens who missed it in theaters.

 

[BigToe]

Hardest of disagrees, cuh. I saw it in Dolby at the theater, and I’m glad I did. ‘Twas an intense watch.

Whole thing was corny, bbgurl. I'm sorry.

 

[Magua]

Whole thing was corny, bbgurl. I'm sorry.

Corny! Ideologically evasive is a criticism. Which I don’t necessarily agree with because it wouldn’t have worked otherwise. But corny is an out of left field word for an intelligent thriller. It would be like calling Fast X “esoteric.”

 

[BigToe]

Corny! Ideologically evasive is a criticism. Which I don’t necessarily agree with because it wouldn’t have worked otherwise. But corny is an out of left field word for an intelligent thriller. It would be like calling Fast X “esoteric.”

What was so good about it?

 

[Magua]

What was so good about it?

I think Alex Garland is one of the better genre writer/directors out there. Kirsten Dunst killed it. The sound design, soundtrack, and set pieces hit hard (some of the loudest gunshots I've ever heard in a theater). It was almost like a journalistic Apocalypse Now; the point being to leave you drained and unmoored as it got darker and darker. Who is fighting who in most of the scenes? Who knows? That unsettled ambiguity worked to create an atmosphere of constant dread. I enjoyed how apolitical and non-preachy it was, depriving you of easy answers and making many questions irrelevant. The violence without a moral high ground is sort of its central point. And I thought the ending stuck the landing big time.