You learn so much of Tobin Bell’s career after the fact when you become a saw fan.
His turn in The Quick and the Dead is one of my favorites.
On that note, I think it’s possible that that is Raimi’s best movie
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Let me get the UP collective take on something: the David Fincher remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is now on Netflix. Is it worth watching?
As a point of reference, I watched and enjoyed all the Swedish originals, and have also read and enjoyed the books. Is this remake up to snuff, or will it sully my remembered enjoyment of the originals?
ETA: While I’m asking for opinions, how did ya’ll enjoy The Midnight Sky watch party? Worth watching this one solo?
Watch both.
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It’s okay but I feel like you’re better off spending your time exploring other Scandinavian Noir books/movies.
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Such as…?
The Martin Beck mysteries are considered the birth of the genre.
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Nice, thanks. I’ve bookmarked the first one in my library app.
While we’re chatting, I’ve been meaning to give you a hat tip for mentioning the Sean Duffy series. I quite enjoyed them!
To go along with that, it seemed like you were interested in “the Troubles” and I recently watched a movie set in that time & place.
I found it on my library’s Kanopy site. Maybe you have access to something similar?
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Eyyyyyyyyyyy me and ggoreo were just discussing the author Adrian McKinty. ggoreo is not a fan of the Duffy series, so I had to assure him Adrian’s latest book The Chain is really that good. I devoured it from first to last page.
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Now that you mention it I do remember Mr. Oreo saying that he didn’t like Duffy as a character. Not sure what to say about that–I like Duffy, but different strokes I guess. I don’t usually bother trying to persuade people to like stuff they don’t like. It’s not as if them not liking it harms my enjoyment or something.
But I’ll put The Chain on my library list, so thanks for that!
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Finally watched Marriage Story.
Fuckin hated it. The acting was obviously great, and the structure of the movie was beautiful, the letters being read at the beginning and then the end. But at the end you realize that the reason that Scarlett didn’t want to read her letter wasn’t because she didn’t like what she wrote, but that she realized that if she had read the letter then they wouldn’t have gotten divorced. So it’s just about two impossibly prideful people who should never have gotten divorced in the first place and then the damn kid who is the victim of these morons is reading the letter at the end of the story. Fuckin emotional pornography you ask me.
Ray Liotta was great, put him in more stuff please, and Laura Dern’s character should diagf.
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I probably shouldn’t do this but part of me wants to post while I’m still mad…
The Midnight Sky. Unbelievably terrible movie. Hated every minute of it. Facile pabulum, completely predictable, totally fake all rolled into a big blob of incoherent nonsense. Everyone associated with the movie should be ashamed. Anyone who liked it should feel bad about themselves.
That is all.
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Agree. I expect less than a good movie when starting Netflix things though so I wasn’t too worried about it being really good. It killed 2 hours of accounting bookwork.
I do, I do. Not about this movie, of course, which was fantastic. But about other things.
Well, shoot, now I feel bad. That last line really was unnecessary, sorry!
It’s okay. These peas and carrots fixed me up.
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Glad to hear it. (I’ll pass on the carrots though–that’s what put me in the hospital in the story I told in the “close encounters with death” thread.)
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I forgot about that! Glad you did not die.
So if this sci-fi movie is at the bottom of your pile, what’s at the top? Something not quite so obvious as 2001 or any other yeah yeah, IMDB top 100 etc etc?
“Facile pabulum” is a great phrase 
When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In a stunning, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the Crazy Samurai Musashi.
Word on the street is that this is T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E
Adding it to the watch party schedule 
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