movies

[JoeMcKim]

Home Team the Netflix movie about Sean Payton starring Kevin James while not a great film for a Netflix movie was okay and killed some boredom.

[ghostrunner]

This was a fun review to read

[Michael]

Lately I've been revisiting movies that are considered classics, but didn't really resonate with me the first time I saw them. Blade Runner is an example of a movie I recently watched that I didn't care for in my 20's but I love now. I found another one - Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line on Amazon. I remember thinking it was a total bore, but now I think it's one of the best war movies ever made. It has all the hallmarks of a Malick film with great visuals and philosophical rumblings, but this time I found it more interesting and enlightening. And I gotta say - I think it has the best battle scene's I've ever seen. Not because they are epic like Saving Private Ryan, but because they're so small. It's one of the few war films where where the sheer terror of running in to a battlefield feels realistic. The pacific battles were true hell and TTRL does a great job depicting it.

[JoeMcKim]

I like certain aspects of Thin Red Line but other parts didn't really do it for me. Nick Nolte is easily the best part of that movie.

[heyzeus]

The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson's latest, is now streaming on HBO Max. If you're into that sort of thing. (and I am)

[Jocephus]

remember movies ?

[Michael]

Free guy dropped on HBO this week. I couldn't make it past the first 20 min. Dreadful.

[go birds]

i found Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Netflix to be entertaining

[mikechamp]

Watched a couple movies recently:

Brother Nature

Ugh. Not good. It is a quasi-SNL vehicle, in that Lorne Michaels produced it and there are some SNL alum in it. Bobby Moynihan plays a goofball but lovable brother to a woman who is about to be proposed to by a wannabe Congressman. Family hijinks ensue before the proposal can be delivered. Bill Pullman and Rita Wilson play the parents of said woman. Kumail Nanjiani and Kenan Thompson have small roles, but they're not enough to save this turkey. This is a waste of 90 minutes.

Artemis Fowl

There is a popular kids book series by the same name. According to my son, this movie tries to incorporate 3-4 of the books into 1 movie... and does it poorly. Having not read the books myself, I didn't have that context, so as a standalone movie, it was just ok. Colin Farrell and Josh Gad were the only actors I recognized. I consider this movie to be average at best. You can find something better to view.

[ghostrunner]

Got the "Dazed and Confused" Criterion Collection Blu-Ray. This thing is great. Nice sized booklet included with cast interview excerpts and a couple of essays about the movie, as well as production letters Linklater sent to the cast and crew about how he wanted to approach it.

Great design too. Criterion Collection packaging is always well done. Nice to still have some things like that in the streaming era.