What are You Watching? [2025] Please Rate 1-5
- Thread starter ssjones
- Start date
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
I've started watching American Primeval. It's a new western limited series on Netfix. So far, I've enjoyed the first two episodes. At this point I'll go ahead and give it a 5/5. This could change as I'm only two episodes. Some pipe spotting in in this one too!
Been watching "Midsomer murders" on Youtube :
It's pretty good . It is a British show that I can actually make out 99% of the dialogue !
I'd give it 4-4.5 ......
It's pretty good . It is a British show that I can actually make out 99% of the dialogue !
I'd give it 4-4.5 ......
Finished watching it 2 nights ago and I did enjoy it. Last night was In the Heart of the Sea, and others that I liked were A Pale Blue Eye and The Highwaymen... searching for something for tonite
Just finished Season 2 of Silo. (solid 5) Wow, great ending, sets the stage for Season 3 and 4 (the finale). Diverts from the book, but very intriguing cliffhanger, just like the books.
Just rewatched Hanger 18... UFO movie from 1980. 4/5. @sablebrush52 curious if it says something to have such a full cast of notable actors in a flick like this, at that time. Some kind of commentary for a hot topic of the day?
Possibly. At that time I was working on too many films to have time to watch many.
There were a few big films about alien invasions.
There were a few big films about alien invasions.
Landman. I like it. Since season 1 is over im rewatching NCIS, at least until Tony and Abby leave.
If you like WWII movies, Netflix Number 24 Norwegian resisting Nazi Occupation a true story.
I've been watching Longmire. It is an older show, but I just started watching it not long ago. I'd give it a 4/5.
I watched it about a year or so ago. Like all series some episodes are better than others but I would rate it 4/5 also.
One I had not seen wh it aired was Northern Exposure and I enjoyed most episodes of it.
Glad someone started the thread but haven’t seen @jpmcwjr about for some time - hope things are well.
We just watched “Nosferatu” (2024) - I’ll spare any in depth commentary and just say I’d never consider watching it again. Not well done, IMO.
2.5/5 *
We just watched “Nosferatu” (2024) - I’ll spare any in depth commentary and just say I’d never consider watching it again. Not well done, IMO.
2.5/5 *
Last edited:
Re-watching Peaky Blinders. There's a movie coming out and I want a refresher.
I currently watching Kevin Costner's epic Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1. It's a truly epic telling of the battle to settle The West. It's over 3 hours long and would have driven me nuts in a theater. But on TV, where I can watch it in chunks, it's quite enjoyable in places. There's not a trope that gets neglected, but they are delivered in a very polished manner. Still, I can't help but think that it could have used a trim.
Production values are excellent, the score follows in the grand tradition of American Westerns, borrowing a bit from Aaron Copeland. You could borrow from far worse.
Performances are overall fine, though not memorable for me.
3.5 out of 5
Production values are excellent, the score follows in the grand tradition of American Westerns, borrowing a bit from Aaron Copeland. You could borrow from far worse.
Performances are overall fine, though not memorable for me.
3.5 out of 5
Watched a screener of HERE, a singularly different and for me, surprisingly enjoyable telling, of the events in the lives of various succeeding families living in a house, spread out over about a century. Their stories are told through overlapping vignettes, with transitions taking place through framed openings in the shot that spread to reveal the next vignette.
All of these events are told from the same framing. The camera never changes position until the very ending.
It begins long before the building of the house, millions of years before, as the Meteorite crashes into the earth killing the dinosaurs, through the ice age that followed, through the period before Europeans arrived and the inhabitants were Native Americans, to the colonial era as a grand house is built using slave labor and which belongs to one of Benjamin Franklin's sons.
This is followed by the building of THE house, which is across the street from the mansion, so kind of a fake out, and continues inside its living room for the rest of the film. Decor changes, furniture changes, seasons change, times of day change, as the house's inhabitants live out their lives, their stories told in a non linear fashion as the film moves backwards and forward in time to connect themes.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on a graphic novel by Richard McGuire, HERE was a total box office bomb. I'd never even heard of it until I got a screening link. I don't know how I would have felt watching it in a theater, but I really enjoyed watching it at home.
The VFX are outstanding, especially the invisible ones that I know are there but don't call attention to themselves. The performances by Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly, are top notch.
It is at its heart a very humane film, touched with wry and gentle humor, and that's a virtue for me this this age of splashy action, endless superhero flix, and shallow set pieces.
Critics generally hated it for being "cloying and ham fisted" but that's not what I experienced. Maybe they needed a caped superhero to find it acceptable.
5 out of 5
All of these events are told from the same framing. The camera never changes position until the very ending.
It begins long before the building of the house, millions of years before, as the Meteorite crashes into the earth killing the dinosaurs, through the ice age that followed, through the period before Europeans arrived and the inhabitants were Native Americans, to the colonial era as a grand house is built using slave labor and which belongs to one of Benjamin Franklin's sons.
This is followed by the building of THE house, which is across the street from the mansion, so kind of a fake out, and continues inside its living room for the rest of the film. Decor changes, furniture changes, seasons change, times of day change, as the house's inhabitants live out their lives, their stories told in a non linear fashion as the film moves backwards and forward in time to connect themes.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on a graphic novel by Richard McGuire, HERE was a total box office bomb. I'd never even heard of it until I got a screening link. I don't know how I would have felt watching it in a theater, but I really enjoyed watching it at home.
The VFX are outstanding, especially the invisible ones that I know are there but don't call attention to themselves. The performances by Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly, are top notch.
It is at its heart a very humane film, touched with wry and gentle humor, and that's a virtue for me this this age of splashy action, endless superhero flix, and shallow set pieces.
Critics generally hated it for being "cloying and ham fisted" but that's not what I experienced. Maybe they needed a caped superhero to find it acceptable.
5 out of 5
Last edited:
The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1960) Been on a Vincent Price kick lately. Watched him in both Dr. Phibes movies recently also.
I grew up going to kiddie matinees, watching Hammer horror pictures and other such stuff. Nothing like traumatizing your 8 year old with The Pit and The Pendulum.
A few nights ago The Greyhound staring Tom Hanks
and last night K-19 The Widowmaker staring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson
and last night K-19 The Widowmaker staring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson