I like some. It’s basically a few dudes sitting around bs’ing about movies. If I really like a particular movie I’ll listen.

My favorites have been Inglorious Basterds, rounders and The Town

No. Just no. It's a nice movie, but even I realize that it doesn't stack up to Pulp Fiction or The Shawshank Redemption. And those are just the nominees.

I don't have children, but this post is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

I'm kind of hot and cold on Simon Pegg, but Shaun of the Dead was fantastically funny.

I enjoyed it. The books are very good too. The movie is pretty weird and doesn't seem to make a huge amount of sense but looks really great and is good fun.

For me, they are too long. There aren't that many movies out there that I love enough to sit through a 1-2 hour podcast about. Rounders was my favorite.

Yeah he's always promoting them on his regular pod and when I heard his rule is they try to keep the pod shorter than movie if possible I was like wtf... Tempted to do it but worried I'll enjoy it

Yeah there were some major wtf moments and you couldn't tell if it was bad filmmaking or that it would make sense with time

Story had some issues with pacing and could have introduced s few things better

Like there were times I couldn't tell if "well there most be a reason for them doing it like this instead of that but the film doesn't have time to show all that" to "well maybe they are losing their minds and not just dumb"

Like "hey we have this really important info left for us, let's stop watching and not revisit it"

Still loved it but I hate watching movies where I stupidity is the easiest answer to most questions.

I’m not sure if it’s about Earth getting cancer, mental illness, or nothing at all really, but I was into it. Can’t help but feel like it could have been better though, especially after hearing about some of the awesome stuff they left out from the books.

Some of that imagery has really stuck with me and the shimmer is a badass idea.

Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, 2019)

Good movie, great cast.

Guncrazy (Tamra Davis, 1992)

Mediocre movie.

You guys are making me want to read the books annihilation is based upon now

My wife and I finished the Mandalorian, which we both really liked. So she said to me - why don't we watch all the star wars movies. Fine with me.

I decided to start with them in time order (not movie order) so we started with Phantom Menace. She really liked it and she really liked Jar Jar. Heresy! you say?

Anyways, she knows almost nothing about star wars but she heard the name "Anakin Skywalker" and she asked if that was Luke's father (she seems to a slight bit of knowledge). So, I said "yes, and that makes him?????". She has absolutely no clue. I had to chuckle a bit.

Rewatched 21 Grams (2003) for the first time since shortly after it came out. I remember really liking it originally, enough to buy the DVD, which is what I used to rewatch it many years later. I don't know what all factors have led to me viewing it so differently seventeen years later, but this time I found it to be a subpar movie, even borderline bad. It ultimately doesn't have much to say, to the extent it does have something to say it seems overly cynical and pessimistic, the non-linear structure doesn't really add much and seems misplaced or not fully realized in potential, and a lot of the characters' actions throughout the movie really strain credibility and/or don't make any sense. Also, I can't recall thinking anything negative about Naomi Watts' acting before, but it was strikingly bad in this movie. Just hardcore overacting. On the other hand, Benicio del Toro was solid as usual and everything involving him basically hard carried the movie. Still kind of shocked I had such a different experience with the movie this time. I guess prior familiarity with the movie didn't help, as the non-linear structure is supposed to keep you intrigued as to how events shown early in the movie can ever transpire.

I also watched Abre los Ojos (1997) for the first time after having seen Vanilla Sky multiple times albeit it's been quite a while since the last time. It was pretty good, but it definitely was suboptimal to know exactly what was going on from the first moment due to my familiarity with Vanilla Sky. I felt like I didn't have the experience I was supposed to have. Nevertheless, it was still worth watching. Great original concept, cool cinematography, a strong dreamlike vibe, and all the performances were solid.

er it has 88% on RT and 79% on metacritic

Freeway (Matthew Bright, 1996)

Rewatch. Holds up actually. Witherspoon (especially) and Sutherland are great and the dark humor still works.

Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby (Matthew Bright, 1999)

Holy ****. This might be even better tbh. While the first one is still kind of a 'normal' movie, here he dials all the trashy elements wayyy up into complete unhinged craziness. It's like Natural Born Killers as directed by John Waters and Gregg Araki's love child. Cast is great too with Natasha Lyonne in the lead, Maria Celedonia (who I don't think I've seen in anything else, but is really good here) as her partner in crime and Vincent Gallo as a transvestite pedo cannibal witch. Hope this gets a wider rediscovery/appraisal, cult movie written all over it.

Both are on Amazon Prime.

Freeway was great. I never imagined there existed such a thing as Freeway 2.

Watched "Le Cercle Rouge" on the Criterion streaming channel today.

I had watched Jean-Pierre Melville's other most famous movie "Le Samourai" about a year or so ago on the "Filmstruck" streaming channel (that streaming channel was fantastic, but it shut down about a year ago, and the Criterion channel has essentially filled into its place and seems to be about as good of a channel for the most part). I liked Le Samourai, well, mostly the first half of it, and especially the first few scenes quite a bit, so, decided to give his other famous movie, "Le Cercle Rouge" a try.

I think I liked this one even better than Le Samourai, overall. Although stylistically, the early portions of Le Samourai we a little better from a pure film-making standpoint.

Been experiencing the same. I'm finding a new appreciation for some stuff like classical music but for every new delight there's a thousand things I see now and can't for the life of me understand why I used to love it so.

It's particularly evident when I was dating someone much younger and for her hearing that music or seeing those movies was a first. A bunch of times it was even an "zomg you've never seen this? We're watching it right now! And then while watching/listening for the first time in a while I would begin asking myself why I even liked it in the first place.

Aging is the rake of life and I'm not even 40 yet. Beginning to identify more and more with those cynical old men who hate everything

Didn't know that but did know it was a box office bomb and has a very low IMDb rating.

The only reason I heard of the film is because i saw it on so many lists of bad movies/sci-fi but possibly got a bad sample size. I'm not quite tuned into pop culture, don't even own a tv, don't have Netflix/etc.

I only heard of the movie recently and from those lists.

"Aging is the rake of life and I'm not even 40 yet. Beginning to identify more and more with those cynical old men who hate everything"

You can always aim for optimistic old man.

Not everyone can be you John

Exhibit A: Videopro

Yeah, Freeway was ****ing awesome. Not sure at this point, in my latest incarnation as one of those cynical old guys who hate everything, that I'm looking to savor an even crazier sequel though hahaha!

And there's no way in hell I'm watching 21 Grams again, **** that noise. Hated that one with a fierce passion.

It's like finding ice cream in the freezer that everybody has overlooked.

Just watched back to back Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street and My Dinner With Andre, two beautiful films starring Wally Shawn and Andre Gregory.

I've seen both a few times since I first saw them in theaters in 1981 and 1994, and they remain among my favorites of all time, especially My Dinner With Andre. I thought of a dinner with a friend a few weeks ago, and like in the movie, we noticed after hours of conversation that everyone else had left, and only the bar remained open. While my friend certainly isn't Andre, I am definitely Wally, grounded in the everyday, one who believes in science and disdains signs and omens, any talk of the supernatural, and, instead, insists upon mere coincidence to explain what some take as signs. I felt this way when I first saw it 40 years ago with a friend who is very much like Andre.

But what is so appealing about the film is despite the differences between Wally and Andre, their conversation transforms the day for Wally who rides home in a taxi, noting his memories of places in NYC. It seems even the city itself had been transformed by their dinner, their conversation, as if NYC has taken on a luster. And as the film ends, we realize that conversation will continue when Wally says he will tell his girlfriend Debbie all about his dinner with Andre.

Knives Out


Won't go into a long review. Went with my family (wife, 11-year old, 13-year old) and we all enjoyed it very much. The 13-year old, in particular, loved it, and she's at that age where she doesn't want to see movies with the family and what-not.