What I've Been Watching: The Catch-All Film Thread

Sea Fever (2019)

Sea Fever is billed as a Sci-Fi Horror film. I am not sure that I totally agree with that. Yes there are elements of horror but the main thrust is about how we react to making the least bad decision. I like to think that I would make the unselfish choice but I suspect I would not do so.

The actors play their parts well. The action takes part on a fishing trawler out on the Atlantic Ocean (?) with the crew of six (including two women) and a student who needs this field work to complete her course. It's a slow burn with the director exploring the relationship between the characters. There are some twists and turns in the plot but it's not the walking dead - it appears to be set in the present.

It is about 90+ minutes long. Worth a watch.
 
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Watching "The Undoing" with my wife on HBOMax's new streaming service; it's really quite good. Four episodes into it and we're both hooked.
 
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The Undoing

In the UK we are a little behind you with 3 episodes having been screened. I also watch it with my wife - she is a big Hugh Grant fan. He has been doing some amazing character acting now that he is too old for the Rom-com film stuff. Using NowTV (for 2 months), laptop and TV.

Love the story so far (watched 2 episodes) and I have no idea if he is guilty or not.
 
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Sea Fever is billed as a Sci-Fi Horror film. I am not sure that I totally agree with that. Yes there are elements of horror but the main thrust is about how we react to making the least bad decision. I like to think that I would make the unselfish choice but I suspect I would not do so.

The actors play their parts well. The action takes part on a fishing trawler out on the Atlantic Ocean (?) with the crew of six (including two women) and a student who needs this field work to complete her course. It's a slow burn with the director exploring the relationship between the characters. There are some twists and turns in the plot but it's not the walking dead - it appears to be set in the present.

It is about 90+ minutes long. Worth a watch.
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I saw "Sci-Fi Horror" and decided to check it out.

I thought it was pretty bad to be honest. A lot of what the characters did made little sense in their situation, and the acting left a lot to be desired. It's also not Sci-fi horror in the least. The only positive was looking at a cute redhead for 90 minutes.
 
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I watched a movie that's been on my list for a long time, but I knew would be very long and slow. And needed to get into the proper mindset to enjoy it. But I liked it in the end. Nothing extraordinary, but a nice historic piece about christian priests going to Japan to help with the spreading of Christianity. It's called Silence, by Martin Scorsese. You can easily see this was a passion project for him, as it's not the usual Scorsese film.

I very enjoyed the final 40 mins of the movie. They posed some significant philosophical issues and questions with regards to belief and faith. I recommend it.
 
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I watched a movie that's been on my list for a long time, but I knew would be very long and slow. And needed to get into the proper mindset to enjoy it. But I liked it in the end. Nothing extraordinary, but a nice historic piece about christian priests going to Japan to help with the spreading of Christianity. It's called Silence, by Martin Scorsese. You can easily see this was a passion project for him, as it's not the usual Scorsese film.

I very enjoyed the final 40 mins of the movie. They posed some significant philosophical issues and questions with regards to belief and faith. I recommend it.
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Did you not find yourself siding with the Japanese inquisitor rather than have any emotional connection to the rather annoying leads?
 
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Did you not find yourself siding with the Japanese inquisitor rather than have any emotional connection to the rather annoying leads?
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Yeah, I think that was part of the point. The portuguese priests just went there with no interest in understanding the culture before attempting to convert them. The japanese peasants were obviously abused by the class structure, but the way the priests went about trying to "save" them was pretty arogant and foolish.

The only lead that I found understandable was Liam Neeson's character. I very much liked the point he made to Rodriguez (Andrew Garfield) when the 5 peasants were hung upside down in the pits. That the same way Rodriguez is upset with god's silence, they are upset with his silence. But he has the choice to speak, and end their pain. I found that comparison quite powerful.
 
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Yes, it has its moments, I agree with you there & I suppose that might have been the point. I never know if I'm going to like a Scorsese film, I don't think there's any other director for whom I both understand their stature as a film maker, love so many of their movies, but at the same time find so many of their movies to be dramatically overrated.

Silence was one where, thankfully, I didn't have to feel too left out in thinking it was one that wasn't so hot. I think Scorsese really struggles with emotion in film. Which is weird considering he's of Italian heritage. And this film was one that you felt really would be an emotional experience all-round, but under his direction it's mostly the opposite, mostly frustration, and when it does go for the emotional chords, one of which you actually got, like with the peasants, its very easy to, as I did, just get a sense of excessive torture porn rather than the emotional tinge.

It's a very well made film, like all of his are.
 
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Watched X-Men Dark Phoenix at last. Started off quite well actually, but it soon progressed into utterly forgettable dreck. Sophie Turner was incredibly miscast in the role - I didn't like her 'acting' whatsoever. Furthermore, the movie should really have been a two-parter; there was just too much stuffed into it to yield anything but a mess of storytelling.
 
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Yeah it's a pity Fox and now Disney have ruined XMen. There is no continuity based on all the movies and spinoffs. Now Disney wants to reboot and recast the whole team again.

It's the same problem with the D.C. Universe movies.:(
 
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Anyway I finally watched or better yet streamed some new movies.:)

The War with Grandpa - After watching another R-rated comedy of Robert De Niro I expected more of the same. Well it wasn't due to being rated PG this time.

Still it was a nice kid friendly comedy for the whole family.

Hubie Halloween - Lets just say if your not a fan of Adam Sandler movies stay the hell away. For fans of his it's the usual slapstick humor with his friends again.

Love and Monsters- Think of the Zombieland movies but with everything on Earth being mutated. It's the usual young teen becomes a hero for future generations.

Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite - If you watched the last two movies it's more of the same,but I'm fine with that. Basically talking cat and dogs as spies like the first two.

The Wrong Missy -Another Adam Sandler movie with David spade as the lead actor again. It's R rated raunchy and dare I say funny as hell. Not recommended for kids.

So are they worth watching yes. Some more then others.
 
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Heads up guys/girls Warner Bros is releasing Every movie digitally this year and next year as well. The catch is it will only be for one month for each movie on HBOMax.

If you prefer to watch in a theater with the pandemic you can still do that as well.
 

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My only worries about online releases are that they can vanish at any time, and they can be edited for content. Both are those are no bueno for me, which is why I will do my very best to stick with physical copies when possible. I don't even have the words for how annoying I find it when someone edits a film after the fact, and yes, Solo did in fact fire first.
 
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My only worries about online releases are that they can vanish at any time, and they can be edited for content. Both are those are no bueno for me, which is why I will do my very best to stick with physical copies when possible. I don't even have the words for how annoying I find it when someone edits a film after the fact, and yes, Solo did in fact fire first.
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I stopped caring about physical copies of movies a long time ago. While I agree that the concerns you mention are legit, I just don't want to be bothered with having tons of discs to store. I still have an entire bookshelf of DVDs I no longer use that I'd like to get rid of.
 
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Tenet was so incredibly cringeworthy! It's as if a 14 year old wrote a script for a $200M movie.
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I was able to somewhat enjoy it until the final 30 minutes, even though the whole time rewind was getting old. It was extremely gimmicky. Also, unless I'm mistaken they didn't exactly explain how they would avoid the issue that changing the past would cause paradoxes.

The final 30 minutes was just boring as hell. It was hard to follow who was doing what, or maybe I just got tired of it. And again, I felt there were some plotholes with the whole rewind plot device.

The one thing I did enjoy was the technical elements. Those were pretty nice, as you'd expect from a Nolan movie.

But yeah, overall, I'd agree it was disapointing. I liked Inception a lot more. At least the main character had more of a personal motivation to do what he did.

Seems Nolan just keeps striking out. I was also disapointed in Interstellar, aside from the technical aspects.

Not wanting to end the night with a disapointment, I rewatched Predestination. An indie movie from 2014 that handled time travel a lot smarter, and was a real mind-fuck when I first saw it.
 
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I haven't been impressed by Nolan's work since Memento. I continually hope to be surprised but I instead come away underwhelmed and wondering what people see in this guy's movies. The scripts generally fall into the category of one notch above a Michael Bay movie, pretending to be intellectual with their underdeveloped gimmicks.

The final 30 minutes of Tenet was indeed boring, but I had found so much of the entire movie all so predictable by then that the boredom had become par for the course. Every time there was actual choreographed conflict or an extended camera shot on screen, it was just a waiting game until the lead characters were again retracing their steps. Was this supposed to be some kind of revelatory exposition on the part of Nolan? I certainly didn't think so - it really did feel like something a 14 year old would write after watching a series of scifi B-movies).

Also, Denzel Washington's son is a bad actor... but that's besides the point for this pretentious schlock movie.
 
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Tenet is a masterpiece.
It is not really a timetravel movie as noone suddenly appears in some other time spot but a fresh concept of timeloop.

Predestination is another masterpiece, also timeloop, that ingeniously described and pulled through the grandfather paradox.

Memento, another masterpiece, is neither time travel nor timeloop, but a psychological thriller.

What people see in these movies is the unique imagination that doesn't clone over and over the same old things seen hundreds of times.
Never watch them if sleepy, if with a mustchatty during a movie company or if you lack of concentration.
 
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To each their own. Personally, I think there's far more original and better executed ideas out there - with one percent of a Nolan budget. For example, I am a fan of Youtube's Dust series.
 
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