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[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Finally watch Der Untergang can't say I really cared for it that much.

I liked The Fall Guy. Not a cinematic masterpiece or anything but I thought it was a fun movie that you can just chill with. I'm going to give the tv show a look and see how I like it.

 

[Tick]

Hundreds of Beavers (Roku channel): It finally hit a streaming service I have... yup, it's bonkers. I liked it.

 

[The Gator]

Hundreds of Beavers (Roku channel): It finally hit a streaming service I have... yup, it's bonkers. I liked it.

just watched the trailer...wtheck

 

[El Floppo]

Hundreds of Beavers (Roku channel): It finally hit a streaming service I have... yup, it's bonkers. I liked it.

just watched the trailer...wtheck

I remember when somebody in here first posted about it. I love love love that somebody's making and getting that produced. Looks whackadoo incredible.

 

[Ilov80s]

Floppinha is a tennis player, so decided to watch Challengers with Zendaya on the plane home yesterday. Wow is that an unredeemably terrible movie.

Interesting- I wouldn’t go that far but I was disappointed by it. I actually thought it would be a little sexier but it was just kind of mean and gross.

 

[El Floppo]

Floppinha is a tennis player, so decided to watch Challengers with Zendaya on the plane home yesterday. Wow is that an unredeemably terrible movie.

Interesting- I wouldn’t go that far but I was disappointed by it. I actually thought it would be a little sexier but it was just kind of mean and gross.

Mean and gross, definitely. I thought ill cast, poorly paced and written. It wasn't about tennis, it was about control...and I guess an interesting story could have been there if it was focused on zendayas character. But it spread itself out to the two guys (who I found weakly written, casted and performed) way too much to make that happen. But other than those things, it was a movie I guess.

 

[Eephus]

Movies I watched in September

Black Tuesday (1954 - H. Fregonese)
Yojimbo (1961 - A. Kurosawa)
Rebel Ridge (2024 - J. Saulnier)
Arabesque (1965 - S. Donen)
Django (1966 - S. Corbucci)
Last Man Standing (1996 - W. Hill)
Beetlejuice (1988 - T. Burton)
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (2024 - T. Burton)
Harakiri (1962 - M. Kobayashi)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987 - G. Miller)
Kurosawa (2000 - A. Low)
Ran (1985 - A. Kurosawa)
A.K. (1985 - C. Marker)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965 - N. Jewison)
Duel in the Sun (1946 - K. Vidor)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967 - F. Zeffirelli)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935 - M. Reinhardt & W. Dieterle)
Kiss Me Kate (1951 - G. Sidney)
Lone Star (1996 - J. Sayles)
An Actor's Revenge (1962 - K. Ichikawa)

Right at the 20 film baseline this month. I've already written up the majority of them here or in the DotM threads.

Arabesque is a 60s spy romp with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The cinematography and fashions were as stylish as the story was silly. It's kind of like Charade except Peck and Loren don't have the same chemistry as Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

Sticking in the 60s is The Cincinnati Kid with a great cast headed by Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson. The story leading up to the big poker showdown was pretty good but the game itself was kind of a letdown for me. It might have been different if Sam Peckinpah had stayed with the project but he was a hard guy to work with.

Duel in the Sun is revered by Scorsese for mainly sentimental reasons. I hadn't seen it since college on a black and white TV so the wild technicolor was a revelation. The lurid melodrama hasn't aged as well.

We did a mini-Shakespeare excursion with a couple of comedies. The lavish 60s version of The Taming of the Shrew trimmed out a lot of the side characters to focus on Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. They were both great and the movie was entertaining enough. The 1935 Warners extravaganza A Midsummer Night's Dream is an extraordinary production that I hadn't seen in decades. Some of the performances are dated but some of surreal imagery is still astounding 90 years later. For good measure, I threw in Kiss Me Kate, a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. I don't think the play within a play worked and it's one of Cole Porter's more forgettable scores but the choreography made it worth the wait.

Finally, I watched Lone Star the day Kris Kristofferson died (RIP). There's nobody making movies like John Sayles anymore--stories with that many characters and complexity get stretched out as TV series nowadays, not always for the better.

 

[Ilov80s]

Floppinha is a tennis player, so decided to watch Challengers with Zendaya on the plane home yesterday. Wow is that an unredeemably terrible movie.

Interesting- I wouldn’t go that far but I was disappointed by it. I actually thought it would be a little sexier but it was just kind of mean and gross.

Mean and gross, definitely. I thought ill cast, poorly paced and written. It wasn't about tennis, it was about control...and I guess an interesting story could have been there if it was focused on zendayas character. But it spread itself out to the two guys (who I found weakly written, casted and performed) way too much to make that happen. But other than those things, it was a movie I guess.

The tennis was definitely just the context for which the “love” triangle was staged. I really didn’t like the sleazy never made it big lead actor. Didn’t like the actor or character and didn’t see at all what his appeal to Zendaya would be. Especially after his career washed out. It was fine, I was entertained but she definitely carried the movie. I was especially disappointed with Mike Faisal (Zendaya’s husband). He was so electric in West Side Story but just didn’t seem to work from his role or at least not anywhere near the way he did in WSS. I hope he finds the right role next next as he does have something.

I will say the tennis was exceptionally well filmed and the actors were believable at tennis players. The score was fun too. I liked the structure of it but overall a disappointment.

 

[El Floppo]

I will say the tennis was exceptionally well filmed and the actors were believable at tennis players

I found it really post produced and fake. I'm watching floppinha play 2-3x week, so I may be too hyper aware of what it actually looks like.

 

[snogger]

I've seen some bad movies in my time, luckily those had been at home where I could turn it off.
That was until Sunday..

What in the bloody hell was that crap fest Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
We kept waiting, and waiting AND WAITING for the humor..
And for two hours I might have chuckled twice, my wife didn't even chuckle once.

Complete waste of two hours and money.
The only person I'd recommend watching the would be to torture someone on their last day on death row.

 

[Joe Schmo]

Hundreds of Beavers (Roku channel): It finally hit a streaming service I have... yup, it's bonkers. I liked it.

This movie is outstanding! Absolutely hilarious and filmed like a live action looney tunes cartoon with all the facial expressions, gags and "ka-boing" stuff. Original, well paced, well acted, funny and different. Never thought I'd be this charged over a movie dominated by furries on camera.

 

[bonsai]

I've seen some bad movies in my time, luckily those had been at home where I could turn it off.
That was until Sunday..

Now watch Megalopolis. Or, better yet, Joker: Folie à Deux.

 

[snogger]

I've seen some bad movies in my time, luckily those had been at home where I could turn it off.
That was until Sunday..

Now watch Megalopolis. Or, better yet, Joker: Folie à Deux.

Not even when I'm on my death bed and am blind and deaf

 

[WVU Alum]

Caddo Lake - on Max. M. Knight produced. Starts as a missing persons thriller then turns into something else. It does the turn well, though I did call the “twist” but my wife had no idea. I’d give it a 7.