Guess it depends how great the movie has to be to say you “enjoyed” it. Like I don’t need to watch a “film” to enjoy it. The Adam Project, for example, is an entertaining, fun flick on Netflix. It’s not something I’ll think about when I’m 80, but I certainly enjoyed watching it with my family.
Seems like the streaming services are going more for prestige TV shows than movies nowadays.
really enjoying welcome to wrexham, but concerned that since they’re releasing 2 episodes a week it might not get renewed
In the mood for a super shitty movie? Killer Elite on HBO Max. Statham…Owens…De Niro!
You could watch free porn clips online and then write some fan fiction to help to flesh out the characters.
Netflix did have that bad Ryan Reynolds movie “6 Underground” where they put so much over-the-top, gratuitous violence in the opening scene that I was belly laughing for like 5 minutes (full disclosure of cannabis consumption). I don’t remember laughing at violence like that since the Super Trooper guys made that tropical resort serial killer movie and at the end (SPOILER ALERT) they tie the killer to a pier piling with a rope connected to a boat and circle around him, progressively squeezing him to death while they cheer, whoop and holler in celebration from the boat
I just watched Wrath of Man (2021). Does Statham make one of these movies a month?
oh god, Club Dread is terrible but there are some funny parts.
Xiao, you should definitely watch the Andy Whitman Spartacus series if you haven’t seen it already.
I wanted an antidote to Killer Elite so I did a rewatch of Ex Machina. I can’t imagine there’s anyone here who hasn’t seen it, but in case there is…get on that.
I think I watched about 10 minutes of that Ryan Reynolds movie before I turned it off.
I cancelled Netflix a few months ago and I haven’t been tempted to resub at all. Even my parents who used my sub either haven’t noticed that I cancelled it or just don’t care that I cancelled the sub.
I did not make it all the way through the first episode of The Rehearsal.
i stopped and starter like 5 times to get through it. havent watched ep 2 yet.
The Sandman and The Witcher are the only two decent original Netflix shows left. Their reputation of making decent things then canceling them after one season has really hurt them, IMHO.
Shit, Sandman was #1 in like 90 countries for 3 straight weeks and Neil Gaiman said a season 2 was still in doubt. Why make a show that costs $15M an episode when you can make 5 seasons of shit like Emily in Paris for $15m total?
Finally got around to watching the Rings show and… it’s not bad? I don’t hate it yet, honestly. The prop department was working overtime, really great stuff if you pay close attention to the props and costumes.
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I have too much free time at work because I’m basically quiet quitting and so I went down a deep reddit rabbit hole over the curious debate of whether dwarf women in LOTR ought to have beards or not. I discovered that 1. LOTR reddit is a very angry place. and 2. JRR’s text is a bit ambiguous on this point. An appendix to ROTK says (my emphasis)
It was said by Gimli that there are few dwarf-women, probably no more than a third of the whole people. They seldom walk abroad except at great need. They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart.
imo the italicized possibly suggests that the dwarf women are deliberately disguising themselves with fake beards and costumes to look like men when traveling.
In the movie, Gimli says explicitly that dwarf women have beards, but it’s possible he’s either keeping up some kind of ruse or just fucking around with the humanfolk.
I read that as they sound and look like male dwarves, including beards. When they go on a journey, they dress the same as male dwarves, but at home they dress differently than males.
Depictions of female dwarves should include beards if you want to be faithful to what Tolkien wrote, but I don’t think this is a huge point where it is necessary to be faithful.
It’s possible there was a kind of Star Trek genetic anomaly situation where the women didn’t have beards back in the day when the Rings show took place but did in Gimli’s time.
Whatever the case may be, dudes on reddit seem to be unreasonably mad about it.
On the topic of amazing props, did any of you ever notice that Gandalf’s staff has a holder for his pipe? He keeps his weed pipe in a holster in his wizard staff. Unbelievable attention to detail in those movies. I just found out about this a few days ago.
oh you sweet summer child about lotr reddit. i dont even need to read it to know it’s angry, and i also dont know why. maybe it’s devoting a weird amount of time to a religious zealot’s fiction that was mostly born out of a weird obsession with linguistics that does it, idk.
This all seems pretty fake.
