What are You Watching? [2025] Please Rate 1-5

[ssjones]

This one looked promising, but missed the mark, particularly the ending. And a pipe is featured, but not a proper P-lip Peterson for an old Irishman - FAIL! Meaney and Reiser made it watchable. 3/5

 

[ssjones]

Two episodes in, I love this new Hulu show. 5/5
It starts out as a murder mystery, but there's a sci-fi element that takes over. I'm not sure they can pull off a win with the story line, but so far, it's great. (a lot of time changes)

 

[cosmicfolklore]

On reccomendation from our oldest boy, we started watching Fargo the series. I wasn't interested earlier in it because everyone told us that it had nothing to do with the movie, and I didn;t realize that Billy Bob Thorton was in it. But, 9 episodes in, and we are hooked. One of the Cohen Brothers is workng with Billy Bob Thorton on this (or past tense). The writing is superb and the acting and editing are fantastic. We already see so many ties to the original movie in the series, as a loose retelling of the story. And, with actors like Thorton, Martin Freeman (Bilbo), Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Chris Rock, and Jon Hamm (Mad Men). If you skipped this earlier, check it out on HULU. 5/5 stars

 

[ssjones]

On reccomendation from our oldest boy, we started watching Fargo the series. I wasn't interested earlier in it because everyone told us that it had nothing to do with the movie, and I didn;t realize that Billy Bob Thorton was in it. But, 9 episodes in, and we are hooked. One of the Cohen Brothers is workng with Billy Bob Thorton on this (or past tense). The writing is superb and the acting and editing are fantastic. We already see so many ties to the original movie in the series, as a loose retelling of the story. And, with actors like Thorton, Martin Freeman (Bilbo), Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Chris Rock, and Jon Hamm (Mad Men). If you skipped this earlier, check it out on HULU. 5/5 stars

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The series is far better than the movie, even the weak seasons.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

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

We enjoyed it but the interminable wait for the already made sequel as of last summer continues. I see he is now showing it at another festival (did in September overseas) - Santa Barbara in February where you can watch the first one and then the next one - that's a long time in a theater! I'm interested to see where No. 2 goes but I'll be less interested knowing it is supposed to set the stage for 3 (and 4?) if there is no guarantee at this point he'll even finish filming 3 (supposedly nine days of shooting is all) -- not quite the buzz of watching my kids wait for LOTR installments or Harry Potter. But I'm a sucker for big Western epics.

 

[sablebrush52]

We enjoyed it but the interminable wait for the already made sequel as of last summer continues. I see he is now showing it at another festival (did in September overseas) - Santa Barbara in February where you can watch the first one and then the next one - that's a long time in a theater! I'm interested to see where No. 2 goes but I'll be less interested knowing it is supposed to set the stage for 3 (and 4?) if there is no guarantee at this point he'll even finish filming 3 (supposedly nine days of shooting is all) -- not quite the buzz of watching my kids wait for LOTR installments or Harry Potter. But I'm a sucker for big Western epics.

4 Parts? Good gawd, is he trying to euthanize everyone? As vanity projects go, this is going to be a very expensive one, a sort of How The West Was Won without the Cinerama.

Well, please let me know how it ends, because 12 hours of this would be cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[ssjones]

4 Parts? Good gawd, is he trying to euthanize everyone? As vanity projects go, this is going to be a very expensive one, a sort of How The West Was Won without the Cinerama.

Well, please let me know how it ends, because 12 hours of this would be cruel and unusual punishment.

Costner has become a lunatic.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

4 Parts? Good gawd, is he trying to euthanize everyone? As vanity projects go, this is going to be a very expensive one, a sort of How The West Was Won without the Cinerama.

Well, please let me know how it ends, because 12 hours of this would be cruel and unusual punishment.

I actually enjoy “Heaven’s Gate” , lol, loved the Duke but not “The Alamo” - he’s dwarfing their efforts! Maybe not in a good way.

 

[dunnyboy]

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!

My wife and I binged the whole series. I agree it's a 5/5.

 

[dunnyboy]

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

Fantastic review! The premise reminds me of a picture book I read as a child, The Tree in the Trail, which shows the same tree as it grows and the various people who pass by it over its long lifetime. HERE is more sophisticated of course and something I will definitely watch when it's available to stream.

 

[Snook]

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

I love westerns and was really excited for this one. However, I found it way too disjointed to hold my attention and I ended up bailing on the movie 2/3 of the way through. A shame, because had it been good, I would have three more installments to look forward to. Good cinematography and music, but man the storylines were convoluted.

 

[Snook]

A few nights ago The Greyhound staring Tom Hanks

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and last night K-19 The Widowmaker staring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson

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This reminds me, I'm overdue for a rewatch of U-571.

 

[dunnyboy]

I join @Deano in giving a thumbs up for Landman. It's another Taylor Sheridan epic but set in contemporary West Texas. Billy Bob Thornton is fantastic in it as a landman in the oil patch. There are some subplots involving his son that my wife liked but I found dreary and melodramatic, and some of the scenes, especially involving a Mexican drug cartel, are preposterous. But Thornton and his TV wife and daughter are hilarious. It is also refreshingly unapologetic about the indispensability of the fossil fuels. Worth viewing but only a 4/5 because of the unevenness.

 

[dunnyboy]

Costner has become a lunatic.

I dunno. I've like almost everything Costner has done, except maybe The Bodyguard. Without him, Yellowstone just collapsed but it had run its course anyway. I must be a masochist but I'm looking forward to the next installments of Horizon: An American Saga.

 

[VDL_Piper]

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

This sounds right in my wheelhouse. If you're a reader, a book that might capture your imagination is Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth. Its about generations of stone masons who build cathedrals and it follows their lives, sometimes Grandfathers, fathers and sons work on the same project and a bit like this movie tracks generations and there comings and goings whilst all pursuing the same trade and the passing of knowledge, not all of which is about stone masonry.

 

[sablebrush52]

Good cinematography and music, but man the storylines were convoluted.

How else are you going to fill up 3 hours?

 

[VDL_Piper]

Watching The Old Man at the moment and I'm enjoying Bridges character very much. So far so good and its worth your time 4.5/5 and I'm viewing it on our local SBS network.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Back wants me to be horizontal so me and the dogs will be heading for the big TV in the bedroom for a TCM double feature. Picking our feet in Poughkeepsie while we watch “The French Connection” (5/5*) followed by “Night Moves” (5/5*).

 

[RPK]

Back wants me to be horizontal so me and the dogs will be heading for the big TV in the bedroom for a TCM double feature. Picking our feet in Poughkeepsie while we watch “The French Connection” (5/5*) followed by “Night Moves” (5/5*).

Watching the same here in NJ !

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Watching the same here in NJ !

It’s an hour later there, don’t tell me what happens!