Recommend some good movies!

SideShowMob wrote:
Onbrand $5
one night only at the AFI

tHISiSNOTaFUGAZIdOCUMENTARY

The 8:00 p.m. screening is *sold out*, but we've just added a second screening at 9:00 p.m! Tickets are now on sale for the added show:

SideShowMob wrote:
been hearing good things about this…anyone seen it

Thought it was spectacular. Cate Blanchett should get best actress for it. Hopeful it wins a writing award too as I bet Fields gets overlooked for Directing and the film turns into an also-ran for Best Picture.

BrettnotBritt wrote:
Pearl - Mia Goth deserves an Oscar nod for her performance. It's a prequel to X (which is currently streaming on Showtime). While X is a great straight-up slasher film, Pearl is more psychological thriller but they're both great flicks.

Goth's 9-minute monologue alone makes her worthy of a nomination. While i love a good slasher flick and X delivers, Pearl is a superior technicolor nightmare. Can't wait for Maxxxine, which Goth just claimed has the best script of the trilogy.

Julian, wrote:

SideShowMob wrote:
been hearing good things about this…anyone seen it

Thought it was spectacular. Cate Blanchett should get best actress for it. Hopeful it wins a writing award too as I bet Fields gets overlooked for Directing and the film turns into an also-ran for Best Picture.

It's excellent and worthy of a watch for Blanchett alone. Imagine it's the front-runner for best picture, but we all know how that story has gone as of late.

It’s currently in fifth place odds wise, according the Vegas Insider.

Everything Everywhere All At Once -140
The Banshees of Inisherin +175
The Fabelmans +500
Top Gun Maverick +1000
Avatar: The Way of Water +2800
Tar +3500
She Said +3500
Babylon +3500
RRR +3500
Women Talking +4000
The Woman King +4000
Elvis +4000
Amsterdam +5000
Thirteen Lives +10000
Nope +10000

Amsterdam was horrible and I love the people associated with

although seeing Taylor Swift getting run over by a truck was worth the price of admission

this review nailed it
Great cast who all did the best they could with a lousy script, poor editing, and atrocious directing by David Russell

My Old School currently on Hulu

It's a documentary about 30 year old who goes back to his old primary school in Scotland and poses as a 17 year for two years there in 1995.  When it was discovered it got wide press coverage over there.  For whatever reason the subject while interview declined to have is face shown in the film, so Alan Cummings does the lip syncing for that.  So if you enjoy listening to Scottish accents as the students in his class and teach all do on camera interview, it's a interesting watch.  And yes the crude Beavis and Butthead animation used on occasion is a bit jarring it doesn't fully detract from this fascinating tale. 

Emily the Criminal (Netflix) is an underrated gem.

The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (HBO) is as good as they say.

I never thought I'd enjoy a film where Patton Oswalt was the lead, but I Love My Dad (Hulu) was a hoot.

anyone seen RRR
just hearing about that and sound interesting

Space wrote:
The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (HBO) is as good as they say.

I didn’t get this. It wasn’t bad but it seemed like it very much was dedicated to hamfisting an Irish Civil War metaphor into its plot, in which, honestly really nothing happens for 105 minutes.

I would never watch this film a second time. I just don’t get the raves.

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BrettnotBritt wrote:
Pearl - Mia Goth deserves an Oscar nod for her performance. It's a prequel to X (which is currently streaming on Showtime). While X is a great straight-up slasher film, Pearl is more psychological thriller but they're both great flicks.

Goth's 9-minute monologue alone makes her worthy of a nomination. While i love a good slasher flick and X delivers, Pearl is a superior technicolor nightmare. Can't wait for Maxxxine, which Goth just claimed has the best script of the trilogy.

Yep, I was glued to the screen the entire time she delivered that. Just a masterclass in acting. Between that and the final scene she really deserves some recognition!

BrettnotBritt wrote:

Schulzenstein wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:
Pearl - Mia Goth deserves an Oscar nod for her performance. It's a prequel to X (which is currently streaming on Showtime). While X is a great straight-up slasher film, Pearl is more psychological thriller but they're both great flicks.

Goth's 9-minute monologue alone makes her worthy of a nomination. While i love a good slasher flick and X delivers, Pearl is a superior technicolor nightmare. Can't wait for Maxxxine, which Goth just claimed has the best script of the trilogy.

Yep, I was glued to the screen the entire time she delivered that. Just a masterclass in acting. Between that and the final scene she really deserves some recognition!

Pearl was one of my favorite movies of the year. It may have been the only one I watched twice.

Space wrote:
Pearl was one of my favorite movies of the year. It may have been the only one I watched twice.

I just watched the trailer and am already having nightmares

SideShowMob wrote:

Space wrote:
Pearl was one of my favorite movies of the year. It may have been the only one I watched twice.

I just watched the trailer and am already having nightmares

I generally dislike slasher/horror films (didn't like X at all), but Pearl was genuinely great, imo (probably because it wasn't a slasher film.)

BrettnotBritt wrote:
Pearl - Mia Goth deserves an Oscar nod for her performance. It's a prequel to X (which is currently streaming on Showtime). While X is a great straight-up slasher film, Pearl is more psychological thriller but they're both great flicks.

Whoa.

Streaming on Netflix now, it's excellent.

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

Being cheap means you don't pay $15 a pop to see a movie in the theater, because your movie dollars are already going to five different streaming services and a two DVD at a time Netflix subscription (yes, it still exists, there are numerous (but dwindling) new releases that come out on DVD that don't come out on my five streaming services.)

Having a kid means never seeing Oscar nominated movies or any top notch foreign or indie films at the theater. Because why pay $45 for a movie when you're going to see it on a streaming service or Netflix DVD. Instead, it means paying $15 a pop to see Cocaine Bear on opening weekend. Sigh.

I've seen very few movies in the theaters in the last decade, but i will say it's a much different experience and sometimes well worth it

Comedy and horror are really great to see in theaters, as the crowd is a part of the experience

Scifi/nature docs also can be amazing in theaters

I've never done any of those 'live concert' experiences, but every time I've watched any concert on TV, it's been so lame and nothing like a live show.  But could see those one-day-only live ones could be cool


When my kids go to the theater, I also have to budget $25 for a snack and drink…that always stings
And now they sell beer at lots of theaters, so I'm like I'll get one or two.  Next thing you know it cost over $100 for the 4 of us to see a movie

Yeah ,I hear ya on the in person aspect.

I'd just rather buget my entertainment dollar toward live shows and crafy beer than the mall cineplex.

My wife and daughter sometimes sneak snacks into the movie, but sometimes buy the crap popcorn. Me, I feel no need to eat anything. And beer at the movie would just make me have to pee during the movie.

Wakanda Forever, was the biggest pile of Marvel shit I have ever seen. The worst. Wow. Were people just pretending to like it because of the death? Even the way they killed him off in the beginning was bullshit.

Boo, this movie.