rsmurphy wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 4:31 pm Fargo

Took me long enough. Made me think of FM Isaac.

The Shawshank Redemption

Good stuff

Yah, you betcha!

Wait until you see A Serious Man. Saw that while going through some significant issues in my personal life, waiting to get tenure from a dean who was probably a sociopath, and loved crawling on top of roofs. Weird experience for me!

Attempted a viewing of Irreversible with the bf and it did not go well. Like, at all. He let loose with a litany of insults which I could understand, but "homophobic" triggered me. Life is homophobic. Lesson learned!

Tried watching Supercell afterwards. Y'know, something hollywood and explosive but it bored us both to bed.

Conclave is good, but yeah the twist was a let-down.

The Apprentice. A movie about our scumbag prez and his scumbag mentor. I felt like I needed a shower after I watched it.

Gladiator II. Like the first one, but with a really good Denzel performance.

Good Will Hunting is like a small miracle. I dislike/loathe pretty much everyone associated with it individually, but it manages to be a thoroughly decent movie about male fragility. I hate-watched the first time, and couldn't believe they turned me. Saw it again with family and it holds up well.

The Substance is fucking nuts, and good.

enframed wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:35 am Conclave is good, but yeah the twist was a let-down.

I've heard people talk about this like it is a classic Oscar-bait serious drama (and it even reenforced the faith of one Catholic commentator I read), but honestly this is Angels & Demons written by somebody who isn't a drooling imbecile. Just a great time, with superb climax involving a nun curtseying and an old Italian stereotype taking a drag on a vape. Plenty for Father Ted fans to relish.

The twist was far better than the silly one I thought was coming, and on reflection pretty smart (note to Dan Brown: please study this carefully as an example of everything your plots aren't).

28 days later

- pretty good, even tho I got to it 23 years later after release.

Good combination of zombie horror flick w thriller twists, dystopian gloom AND a few Godspeed songs to boot! (Which I wasn’t expecting) - worth yr time

Apparently there’s a sequel

Iancee wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 5:28 am 28 days later

Apparently there’s a sequel

2 of them - 28 Years Later is due to be released this year. Danny Boyle is directing this one too, and Cillian Murphy will be back, could be good.