What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5

[warren99]

That was particularly painful for me, since I H A T E SF, but needed them to win to pad the Seahawks standings... lol

I’m not a fan of the Seahawks but I gather you are a Dostoevsky afficionado, so we at least have that in common.
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[ssjones]

Mentioned before, but this is a solid 5, I loved it. A very satisfying ending (and unlike the book). Music was also done well. Jackie Wilson's "Whats Done In The Dark" for the closing credits.

 

[wyfbane]

My 5th or 6th time cherrypicking episodes of Shoresy. I really liked Letterkenny (3.75/5), but the spinoff, Shoresy is one of my favorite shows ever. 7/5.

 

[Searock Fan]

Just watched the latest episode of LANDMAN and it just keeps getting better and better.

 

[ziv]

Rewatching River, a British police drama with a healthy dose of psychosis. Stellan Skarsgård is terrific as the main character, and Nicola Walker is amazing as usual.

 

[karam]

Watching the Harry Pothead films with the family these days. 3/5.

Good world building but really not credible villains and incompetent heroes. Everything solved by Deux Ex Machina. Very predictable and can be summed in "Harry Pothead is the Special One". No plot twists.

 

[RAGallup]

Watching our annual Christmas movie "We're No Angels" from 1955 with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Leo G. Carroll, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, and "Adolph".

We're No Angels on Pluto TV

We're No Angels on Pluto TV | Comedy | 1hr 46 min | Humphrey Bogart plays one of his rare comedy roles in this jaunty excursion about three convicts - Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island.

pluto.tv

It's stagey but a fun romp. 5/5 for me; YMMV

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Movie classic, Foul Play, Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn’s debut in movies, with Barry Manilow doing the sound track, Duddley Moore with an appearance. 1978 encapsulated tome warp. 5/5 stars.
I love everything about it.
Amazon Prime.

 

[Choatecav]

Now watching one of my favorite pictures, one of the greatest ever made, The Wizard Of Oz on HBO. Still enchanting after all these years.

One of my favorite memories connected to this film was being invited to a special world premiere screening of the digital restoration of the film, which was held at the old Warner Pacific Theater in Hollywood, an elegant old movie palace with sumptuous grand interiors.

The theater was closed to the public at that time, due to not having had a seismic retrofit, so there were only a few of us invited to watch the film, as the event was also a demonstration of one of the first systems capable of digitally projecting a full length feature picture at speed.

The amount of detail those old Bausch and Lomb lenses had captured revealed far more detail than any of us had ever seen before, nor suspected existed, and all of it was on display, as this was a projection taken from the original three strip B&W negatives, so we were seeing a clearer image than was available back in 1939. Who knew there was a rivet on the tin man's forehead between his eyebrows?

1,000,000 out of 5

You got this right.

When I was a kid and Wizard of Oz came on, I would plan for days to watch it. Back then it came on one time per year (as I remember it) and I would plan and prepare for watching it. Then..... when it was over, I was bummed out and sad for days cause I knew it would be a year before I it again.

Yeah, I was a bit of a weird kid.....

 

[sablebrush52]

Just watched Juror #2 on Max, Clint Eastwood's brilliantly directed film about a murder trial, with a juror who, for personal reasons, finds himself involved in swaying the deliberations. Like many of Eastwood's later films it is a thoughtful, painful, and intimate essay on personal character and the conflicting forces that shape one's actions, along the way questioning the nature of "justice".

If you never heard of it, it's because Warner released it only in a handful of theaters for a few weeks before pulling it, rather than spending the money to put it into release. Why? Probably because Eastwood's films are not generally mega dollar hits, though they are profitable. It certainly isn't because Juror #2 isn't a masterfully told story.

Juror #2 got rapturous reviews, which meant nothing to the bean counters who need to find ways to pay down the enormous debt caused by the "merger" of Warner Bros with Discovery.

A beautiful film, well worth your time.

5 out of 5.

 

[Searock Fan]

PEOPLE OF EARTH. A two season comedy from 2016-17 about a group of people who have been abducted by aliens. Good characters and a lot of laughs. Featuring a little "gray" with an attitude named Jeff. 4/5