The "I'm watching/just watched *movie title* thread....

[starrmtn001]

OMG!  Think I just found my long lost family! 

Wait a minute, Rekcuf is there!      Oh well, ya know what they say?  Incest is best!!!

"Shameless"
https://www.netflix.com/watch/70249326?tctx=0%2C0%2C7ad33c1d-023c-4432-bc71-fbd814616ad3-29166216

[starrmtn001]

OMG!  Think I just found my long lost family! 

Wait a minute, Rekcuf is there!      Oh well, ya know what they say?  Incest is best!!!

[starrmtn001]

[starrmtn001]

What am I thinking?  These all belong in the Falkie thread!

[albrecht]

I watched "The Wave" (the 2015 film) yesterday. I enjoyed it though, like many a disaster movie, unrealistic in certain parts and outcome. But the scenery alone is worth it. The synopsis is the very real threat of a massive landslide causing a tidal wave in the Geiranger fjord (extremely beautiful place, if you have a chance to visit- do it, despite the apparent potential danger) in Norway and the aftermath. Somewhat "Day After Tomorrow" etc esque. The CGI, when used, is pretty good. Some versions might have hard subtitles, if not you can download the .srt file and get the English (or whatever) language ones.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3616916/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[zeebo]

I caught SnakeEater (1989) with Lorenzo Lamas on El Rey the other day.  Truly awful.  One of those movies that's not good-bad but just bad-bad in every way.  What a horrible, pointless, badly-filmed, badly-acted, dumb dumb movie.  It actually left me feeling unwell after. 

Don't confuse this with the great PS2 game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.  The protaganist in that would kick Lamas's ass before he knew what hit him. 

As for El Rey, I think I'll just stick to their kung fu movies for awhile.

[21st Century Man]

     The Furies (1950) by Hal B. Wallis and Anthony Mann is a superb Western production that I watched the other day for the first time.  It marks a transition for director Mann from film noirs to Westerns.  It is photographed beautifully in the B & W noir style by Victor Milner.  The Furies stars Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston and Wendell Corey and it is basically a family saga reminiscent of such films as Gone With The Wind and in particular Duel In The Sun.
     Walter Huston as T. C. Jeffords is the patriarch of the Jeffords clan and Stanwyck is his daughter, Vance (?) Jeffords.  John Bromfield is her brother, Clay.  T. C. is a widower and Vance is the light of his life.  He has just come back from an extended vacation and Vance has been running the ranch,  The Furies, for him.  She is going to be given the ranch when T. C. dies and she means to have it at all costs.  Her best friend is Juan Herrera (Gilbert Roland), a squatter who resides on The Furies along with his mother and brothers.  Other squatter families also live on the land. He's in love with Vance but she just sees him as her best friend with no romantic feelings for him.
    A bank has loaned T. C. a $100,000 on the condition that the squatters have to be booted off the property.  Vance and T. C. agree to these conditions with the proviso that the Herreras can stay.  The bank agrees and Huston gets his loan. Meanwhile T.C. brings his girlfriend from San Francisco, Flo Burnett (Judith Anderson), to the ranch with hopes to marry her.  Flo has her sights set on the ranch and wants Vance taken out of the picture.  Vance is outraged that T. C. has brought this trollop onto the ranch and when she finds out Flo's plans, she loses her temper and throws scissors at Flo's face, scarring Flo for life.  T. C. disowns Vance and she has to leave.  Vance, not taking this well, vows revenge and when T. C. hangs her friend, Juan, for stealing a horse, her love for her father turns to hate.
    She is determined to take the ranch out from under him and with the help of banker/gambler Rip Darrow (Corey) who she happens to love, they succeed.  I won't give away the ending but it s tragic. 
     Definitely elements of Shakespeare reside in this story and Mann was very fond of Shakespeare.  He had hopes to make a western version of King Lear but it never got off the ground.  Nevertheless, most of Mann's films have Shakespearean elements.  What differentiates this movie from other Mann westerns is the fact that Stanwyck is undoubtedly a good person with some minor flaws.  Most of the main characters, usually men,  in other Mann westerns are anti-hero types.  I suppose Huston and Corey's characters have this trait as well but again they are basically good men.  Huston delivers what may be my favorite performance outside of The Treasure of The Sierra Madre and The Devil And Daniel Webster.  His performance is vivacious and full of life.  I think he should have been nominated for this role.  Stanwyck does a stellar job as well. There is an undercurrent of incest in the father/daughter relationship.  Her jealousy of Flo and Huston's need for Vance to massage his back routinely.
  While maybe not the best of the Mann westerns, it is a highly neglected masterpiece.  Available from the Criterion Collection on DVD and if you buy it, you get a copy of the book by Niven Busch that the film is based on.  4.25 stars out of 5.
   
  A postscript.   Walter Huston died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm about 2 months after the film wrapped and before its release.  A fine film to end his career with.
     

[akwilly]

I watched the first season of izombie. It was pretty funny and the girl playing the lead is smoking hot

[WildCard]

"Shameless"
https://www.netflix.com/watch/70249326?tctx=0%2C0%2C7ad33c1d-023c-4432-bc71-fbd814616ad3-29166216

Love Shameless.
Most critics say the British version is better but they may as well be aliens for all I can relate to them. 

OMG!  Think I just found my long lost family! 

Wait a minute, Rekcuf is there!      Oh well, ya know what they say?  Incest is best!!!

[trostol]

so it has been a dull night for tv and i decided to ..branch out and do a genre not in my wheelhouse..went with murder mystery and chose MidSomer Murders...and have dabbled in the past in a lil Miss Marple..but looking for some suggestions for others..prefer british ones...and even more so..some with a touch humor...

[I_Speculate]

so it has been a dull night for tv and i decided to ..branch out and do a genre not in my wheelhouse..went with murder mystery and chose MidSomer Murders...and have dabbled in the past in a lil Miss Marple..but looking for some suggestions for others..prefer british ones...and even more so..some with a touch humor...

Hmmmm try Mad Dogs UK TV series episode 1 here -> http://vidzi.tv/n82i5zg3zss8.html

Storyline

When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder
also once done with that you can watch the same story again condensed down from 4 seasons to 1 season ( Mad Dogs U.S remake. )

Mad Dogs US trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841XDVYqWxw


Mad Dogs UK trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qae7R6ct80Q

[TigerLily]

Just finished a week of binge watching this season's Game of Thrones.  Is it the best series ever?

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Just finished a week of binge watching this season's Game of Thrones.  Is it the best series ever?

Who is your favorite character?

[trostol]

Just finished a week of binge watching this season's Game of Thrones.  Is it the best series ever?

nope..but it is good..should give Penny Dreadful a go if ya havent

[zeebo]

Who is your favorite character?

Butting in with my own answer ....  When I was reading the books, I always liked keeping up w/ Tyrion, Arya, and Jon.  I also thought Jaime was interesting as his character devdeloped.  I don't know how they did it in the series, but the scene where Catelyn visits Jaime in the dungeon cell was really good. 

Anyway got frustrated with all of the side-characters and subplots etc. so I stalled out after the third book, and I'm way behind the series by now..  Man maybe I should just binge-watch the whole friggin series and catch up.

[trostol]

Who is your favorite character?

Ser Davos

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Ser Davos

The Skilled Man, who rises into power by his skills. You probably also like the other Skilled Men (the Hound and Bronn).

[TigerLily]

Who is your favorite character?

Got to go with the obvious first choice. Daenerys Stormborn. The Unburnt; Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and of the First Men; Queen of Meereen; Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea; Breaker of Chains; Mother of Dragons .

But so many great characters all who have grown and changed with their experiences.  While reading the books, Tyrion was my favorite. Jaime Lannister. Sansa has really come into her own. And of course, Jon Snow 

[TigerLily]

nope..but it is good..should give Penny Dreadful a go if ya havent

It's good but doesn't hold a candle to GoT

[TigerLily]

Butting in with my own answer ....  When I was reading the books, I always liked keeping up w/ Tyrion, Arya, and Jon.  I also thought Jaime was interesting as his character devdeloped.  I don't know how they did it in the series, but the scene where Catelyn visits Jaime in the dungeon cell was really good. 

Anyway got frustrated with all of the side-characters and subplots etc. so I stalled out after the third book, and I'm way behind the series by now..  Man maybe I should just binge-watch the whole friggin series and catch up.

I've read all the books so far.  The first three were good. After that the series is far superior

[zeebo]

I've read all the books so far.  The first three were good. After that the series is far superior

Aha, thanks for the tip.  So yep gonna just skip books 4-5 and continue on with the series then. 

[trostol]

The Skilled Man, who rises into power by his skills. You probably also like the other Skilled Men (the Hound and Bronn).

The Hound got better when he was on his own..Bronn seemed at times a bit too much like comedy relief

[TigerLily]

Aha, thanks for the tip.  So yep gonna just skip books 4-5 and continue on with the series then.

Don't blame me if you're not happy with your decision. Actually, it's ok. You can

[zeebo]

Ser Davos

The Onion Knight?  Yeah he kinda grew on me.

[zeebo]

The Skilled Man, who rises into power by his skills. You probably also like the other Skilled Men (the Hound and Bronn).

No love for Shagga son of Dolf?

[zeebo]

Don't blame me if you're not happy with your decision. Actually, it's ok. You can

No worries, I pretty much made that call after I threw book 3 at the wall. (out of frustration from all the loose ends mainly)

[trostol]

The Onion Knight?  Yeah he kinda grew on me.

yup..he ..through it all..held his honor

like lil Lady Mormont too..she should be the true ruler

and probably the last one i like is Tormund

from the books it was the Martell's as a whole

[trostol]

so as i said..i went ahead and watched some murder mysteries...2 in fact..Midsomer Murders..felt a little long winded..found each one is more or less a movie in length and very..dry

Poirot was the second one..less than an hour..a bit more humor to it so i enjoyed it a bit more

[21st Century Man]

My wife and I are watching an Irish cop/p. i. drama series called Jack Taylor on Netflix. Basically 6 tv movies.  We've watched 5 and they are good.  Basically PG-13 material with some male ass nudity.  The man playing Taylor also played the foreign secretary in the drama, Eye In The Sky with Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren.  A superb film that delves into the decision-making process behind military drone strikes.  4 stars for both.  Also, unfortunately Rickman's last film.  At least he went out with a good one.  Just like Warren Oates did in Blue Thunder.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

Meanwhile.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBq1-TGgfNo