Seen any good movies lately?

[Rob S.]

Playing here in a few hours is 1934's Babes in Toyland, this year they're calling it March of the Wooden Soldiers, Laurel and Hardy. Good for toddlers.

[Baatfam]

We just finished watching, "Don' Look Up," new on Netflix. Gotta say, pretty darn good.
Very dark, and very funny, and absolutely not, a Christmas movie.

Forgot the preview....

[GSXR7ED]

Just watched "Home Alone". Laughed quite a bit!

Ed

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[GS1150Pilot]

Saw Spider-Man: No Way Home. It is the best Spider-Man movie made to date, and there have been some great ones.

Also saw the new Matrix, which I really liked. Both a send-up and an homage, it has heart that so suits Reeves (who has to be the best human in Hollywood).

[RustyTank]

Recently watched 8-Bit Christmas with the family. It was a lotta fun.

[GS1150Pilot]

Recently watched 8-Bit Christmas with the family. It was a lotta fun.

That was a fun little movie. It certainly contains nods to A Christmas Story and Princess Bride, with a good dollop of the 80's love that makes Stranger Things so heartfilled.

[storm 64]

I was on a movie watching binge. First was Farris Bueller's Day Off. Then "Top Gun", "Sideways" (I love that movie). Yesterday, was "Hang them High" with Clint Eastwood, then "Blood in Blood out" a movie about prison gangs in San Quinton... It was nice to stay in my Pajamas all day.

[Vmass]

I have never been a TV/Movie watcher......until the pandemic. Kind of funny, when people reference popular movies and have no idea what they are talking about.

Not a movie, but I am watching Money Heist on Netflix......decent. I have always considered TV too much of a commitment, I guess I am changing a bit.

[Burque73]

I was on a movie watching binge. First was Farris Bueller's Day Off. Then "Top Gun", "Sideways" (I love that movie). Yesterday, was "Hang them High" with Clint Eastwood, then "Blood in Blood out" a movie about prison gangs in San Quinton... It was nice to stay in my Pajamas all day.

I haven't seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off in years. One of my all time favorites. I remember watching it multiple times in a day at the theater just hanging around till the next showing. Even had the Carlton Brother's Mortuary recording as my outgoing message on the answering machine at home.

[Buffalo Bill]

I watched my favorite Christmass movie: The Lion in Winter. (restored)
Such a dysfunctional family, humanity takes millions of years to evolve. This takes place in 1183 Anno Domini. It was filmed in 1968 Common Era

[Brendan W]

Can't let this thread get away....Merry Christmas...

We just finished watching, "Don' Look Up," new on Netflix. Gotta say, pretty darn good.
Very dark, and very funny, and absolutely not, a Christmas movie.

Don't know what the point was. First, it's impossible not to see the protagonists as Leonard and Penny.
Second, the movie seems to fall victim to it's own premise.
Perhaps in time it will be seen by academe as Beckettesque as the layers are unravelled and it sums to more than the maker ever intended?

[alke46]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation does it for my adult children and me. Cousin Ed is a real piece of work. "Merry Christmas, sh!tter's full".

[Baatfam]

Don't know what the point was. First, it's impossible not to see the protagonists as Leonard and Penny.
Second, the movie seems to fall victim to it's own premise.
Perhaps in time it will be seen by academe as Beckettesque as the layers are unravelled and it sums to more than the maker ever intended?

I really don't understand much of what you are saying....? My fault, I am sure.

To me, it was a decent Netflix black comedy, with a couple of good performances from veteran actors. I laughed, I cringed.
Clearly a satire on modern times, but mostly taken from the 2012, Ben H. Winters classic trilogy, "The Last Policeman," especially the ending, which goes against normal movie solutions. (In a way I like)

[Brendan W]

I really don't understand much of what you are saying....? My fault, I am sure.

To me, it was a decent Netflix black comedy, with a couple of good performances from veteran actors. I laughed, I cringed.
Clearly a satire on modern times, but mostly taken from the 2012, Ben H. Winters classic trilogy, "The Last Policeman," especially the ending, which goes against normal movie solutions. (In a way I like)

Communication is mostly the sender's fault
I couldn't get the energy to expand more fully on all aspects of it although I'll use spoiler alert as my excuse pro tem.
Reasonable comedy satire yes. Was the message diluted by the constant drive for laughs, yes. I feel the movie gave up on a punchier delivery or realised halfway through the project that nobody really cared so why should they. In a sense the movie mimics the RIP presenters drive for light content.
Leonard and Penney.... Big Bang?

[Baatfam]

Communication is mostly the sender's fault
I couldn't get the energy to expand more fully on all aspects of it although I'll use spoiler alert as my excuse pro tem.
Reasonable comedy satire yes. Was the message diluted by the constant drive for laughs, yes. I feel the movie gave up on a punchier delivery or realised halfway through the project that nobody really cared so why should they. In a sense the movie mimics the RIP presenters drive for light content.

Well they can't all be Armageddon, can they?

Leonard and Penney.... Big Bang?

Another reference I don't get....

Although there were a few familiar faces, Streep and DiCaprio are the only two we knew...