Movie/TV thread once again!

[BeBMan]

No, I don't search for the last one, so here's it anew:

Watched finally Tenet, and was mightily disappointed.

IMO it does not live up to the hype.

It did have its moments, surely, but overall I found it a bit bland.

I was shorter than Dune but felt longer, and I hated the techno soundtrack.

/cents

[Bereta_Eder]

convoluted and complicated tenet was I agree

go see f this job (the itinerary of puin's crackdown on a fre indepdent news station), you'll like it

[BeBMan]

Watched a bit more of Picard, S2. But hmmm....could be better. IMO not totally bad, but feels a bit underwhelming now.

[Bereta_Eder]

i don't want to know about some frenchie vinyard

chateau picard with pointy ears

what's novel about that

[BeBMan]

Watched the 1st part of that "Reacher" series recommended in the old thread. Twas good indeed

[SuperSneak]

Reacher is great! If you like that, check out Bosch and Bosch: Legacy. More detectivey than actiony but if you like a slow boiling "lone wolf gets the job done" vibe, you can do a lot worse. Picard was good in S1. Haven't seen S2. I did like Discovery a lot. A mycelium spore drive?!? Awesome.
Tenet was madness inducing garbage IMO.

[BeBMan]

Yeah, have watched Bosch, and liked it a lot. Didn't watch the spin-off yet.

[Wezil]

The final 7 eps of Ozark were released today.

[-Jrabbit]

Just got around to watching Don't Look Up, which had weirdly mixed reviews. It's spot-on satire, which apparently has angered the oligarchs and climate change deniers while reportedly delighting actual scientists. I would describe it as hilariously depressing. Excellent original screenplay by producer/director Adam McKay.

Great stunt-casting - especially Meryl Streep as POTUS, plus Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, and juicy smaller roles for Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Tyler Perry, Chris Evans, and Ariana Grande.

[SuperSneak]

I'm going to have to try that one again. I swear I watched it but don't remember much beyond the first 25% or so. I probably fell asleep as usual.

[BeBMan]

There will be an Avatar 2. Not sureif it's better than Titanic 2 tho

(if it's like #1 I'd rather skip it)

[SuperSneak]

It was visually stunning but I like to call it "Dances with Smurfs" due to some rather ham handed White Man's Burden vibes. I think this one will probably be "Swims with Smurfs" by the looks of it. I'm sure I'll see it and wish they had hired actual writers.

[SuperSneak]

Guilty confession: Mrs. Sneak and I like "This is Us".

[Bereta_Eder]

I TRIED watching this because there was a poster outside a cinema.

It was impossible, I gave up half way

norwegian cinema is sh!t. kind like the country.

the only experience I have of it was holding the door for a norwegian girl and her getting angry because she thought that was a pphalocratic thing to do (patriarchical)


I don't wanna live in a country where holding the door for a lady is deemed phallocratic and patriarchical.

f norway and defintely f norwegian cinema

[SuperSneak]

I was milliseconds away from renting this today because it was only .99 . Good thing I didn't! I watched "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"...again. I love low key documentaries to have on in the background, so if anyone has any good suggestions like Jiro or Dwarvenauts or similar, hook me up!

[BeBMan]

Sooo....I'm not really in da mood for watching the new Tom Top Cruise Gun movie in the theatre. Otoh even the leftish Guardian sez in this case, it would be worth it, if only for the flight stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/29/top-gun-maverick-review-tom-cruise-joseph-kosinski

Anybody seenit? Maybe I do to annoy Serb

Naah, still probably skip it. Take that, Tom

[Bereta_Eder]

top gun was a craze when I was in high school. I had a friend that literally thought he was tom cruise. he was as short as him so it made sense

[Bereta_Eder]

I also "stole" the girl he liked. I think she liked me bcause I was tall. In my defense I asked, I will never do anything against my friend, and she said "I made that absolutely clear I have no feelings for him. You have nothing to feel bad about".

top gun had nothing for drama compared to us

[BeBMan]

Started to watch "The Terminal List" on Amazon.

That new show has Chris Pratt, initial military action, then some conspiracy/crime/action stuff, but it is long-winded and boring.

Watched ca. 30 mins of the one hour+ long opener. Most of the time was spent watching Chris looking sad because of many losses. Felt like spending 3 hours or something for those 30 mins. Next day I thought hey give it a chance, and spend another 30+ for the rest. The last 10 mins or so were actually getting interesting.

However, I'm not keen enough to go on with this borefest.