What are you watching?

[Frag Maniac]

And yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie, I don't care what anybody says.

Of course it is, I thought that was obvious since it's always about that time of the year both in the movies and the theatre release dates. BTW, Alan Rickman who played Hans Gruber in the first film was always my favorite Die Hard villain. God I miss that guy, he was a great actor. I also miss the days when people in general rallied around a good cop movie. Now you have haters that call them all bad and want to defund them, until something happens to THEM, damn hypocrites!

 

[Frag Maniac]

Just want to say I've been checking out The Last of Us TV series on HBO, and the first two episodes were pretty good. Was wondering if anyone else is watching it?

 

[Rain611]

I LOVE The Last of Us TV show.

 

[bSTAR_182]

I have mixed feelings about The Last of Us series. Generally speaking, it is the best video adaptation around and stays the most faithful to its source material, though that's not saying too much seeing as the bar is set low for video game adaptations. And as hyped as I was after episode 5, I feel like the remaining 4 episodes lacked a lot of good tense story buildup.... and concepts.
Had I known they were limiting the first game's story to one season and only 9 episodes, I would have preferred them to put more focus on Joel and Ellie's journey together and who they met along the way, rather than having episodes centered around their past.


Recently rewatched Evil Dead 2013 in preparation for Evil Dead Rise. I absolutely love this movie. Jane Levy does a great job as Mia and the practical effects are much appreciated.

 

[Frag Maniac]

More of a documentary really, but I've been checking out Down to Earth lately, hosted by Zac Efron. He's got a vegan friend along that sort of co hosts, so it got a bit interesting in season 2 when they visited the Jonai farm in Australia. Some really good sustainable farming practices are shown with both agriculture and livestock, and the gal that runs Jonai intends to keep it small and teach other farmers how to farm sustainably rather than expanding like the corporate farms do.

The main focus of this episode was to find a way to keep Australia's soil organic, because it keeps drying out due to big farms putting too many chemicals into it. Coincidentally, one of the best things to keep the soil moist and organic is to grow mushrooms. It also makes the soil actually absorb carbon in the air, vs leeching carbon into the air, plus it increases and keeps healthy the water table, making it good overall for soil, air, and water.

BTW, they also showed Cordyceps, the so called "zombie" fungi talked about in The Last of Us (the coincidental part), which is known to attack primarily insects. Most fungi are not parasitic like Cordyceps though, instead they pop up near trees and such and when their fibers join with the tree roots, they actually help provide them nutrients and make the trees and the soil healthier.

The show also highlights some products like Fable meatless protein dishes made with mushrooms, which taste like chicken, beef, etc. Fable is owned and operated by a former meat eater from Texas whom loves BBQ btw. The guy is considered a mushroom scientist and has made his own equipment where he grows shrooms in a sterile environment to develop highly specified extracts to make the taste just right. They say his meatless products even have realistic fibers like meat does that can get stuck in your teeth like meat. When you get my age and the doc keeps telling you your creatinine levels are slowly rising, mostly caused by eating beef, these kind of products start looking pretty interesting.

 

[bSTAR_182]

Moon Knight
Finished this series recently and I enjoyed it way more than I had anticipated. Really wasn't expecting a psychologically fueled Marvel superhero story and I love it for that. He's one of my favorites now.

Servant
Finished off this series recently as well. It's a bit of a rollercoaster and was dragged out between seasons 3 and 4 but I do like the ending that they ultimately went with.

Spoiler

Dorothy coming to terms with everything and forgiving but also thanking Leanne was an ending I didn't know I wanted or needed to appreciate the series more.

A "good" ending was a bit unexpected and it all happens so quickly that I half expected Leanne to be imagining it all before being blindsided by Dorothy.
I'm glad that was not the case though, but I do think the events of the final 2 episodes are what needed to be expanded on more seeing as the cult stuff and "hook man" went nowhere. Yet we were led to believe Leanne's followers would do more.

 

[Magnolia Grandiflora]

I'm not watching it yet, but I'm really excited to binge The Glory next weekend. (Waiting because both my husband and I will be off so we can binge together.)

The wait is excruciating; the things we do for love.

We are currently watching Dear Liar though and that's a crazy ride. I hate that we caught it and it wasn't finished yet because waiting for new episodes to drop, especially since they're only 10 minutes each, is rough. They sure do pack a lot into 10 minutes though.

 

[KManX89]

I just watched the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey movie out of morbid curiosity (online, you didn't think I'd pay to watch that sh!t, did you?) and let me just say: for everyone hoping it'd be one of those "so bad it's good" movies, I'm here to tell you... it's not, it's just bad, really, really, reeeeeeeeeally bad (to the shock of nobody). It's awful across the board. Everything about it is bad, and not in a "good" way. The characters are all flat, useless and stupid with no depth whatsoever (except for one via a stalker subplot that goes nowhere and that’s literally it for character development) with horrendous shaky cam and lighting that makes it impossible to see WTF is happening (it was so dark, I couldn’t see sh!t and the few kills that were visible had really bad CGI blood) and really bad editing that splices shots from other sets together at certain points (I wish I was making this up). And to top it all off, scenes dragged on longer than needed to get it to the required minimum runtime.

Way to go, you make an exploitation horror flick out of a beloved childhood character purely for shock value and you can't even get that right. Or maybe it was to hide the skin underneath those cheap Dollar Store Pooh and Piglet masks, unclear. And BTW: it's so clearly guys in masks who just happen to be plastic-faced anthropomorphic animals per the movie's story.

But then again, the director flat out admitted he was never interested in making a good or even entertaining-bad/so-bad-it's-good movie out of this in his

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that they're strangely censoring hateful comments on, so there you go.

Otherwise, I've been rewatching the John Wick series the past couple of days and will be watching John Wick 3 tonight before seeing John Wick: Chapter Four tomorrow. Seriously, go watch Keanu's meltdown scene from Knock Knock if you want something that's legitimately "so bad it's good". "IT WAS FREE PIZZA!" gets me every time.

I also saw Scream VI, which was a marked improvement on V. Loved the characters and horror trope humor a lot more in this and the kills were brutal, though it was borderline ridiculous how much some of the cast were able to take being gutted I must admit.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Otherwise, I've been rewatching the John Wick series the past couple of days and will be watching John Wick 3 tonight before seeing John Wick: Chapter Four tomorrow. Seriously, go watch Keanu's meltdown scene from Knock Knock if you want something that's legitimately "so bad it's good". "IT WAS FREE PIZZA!" gets me every time.

Unlike many whom hated the sequels, I liked ALL 3 of the original Matrix movies, and the first 3 John Wick movies were exceptional, but I'm not sure anything in Knock Knock qualifies as "so bad it's good".

I just started watching season 4 of The Mandalorian last night. Pretty good so far.