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Ford vs Ferrari is awesome.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Just seeing the title, I always mix that one up with Nightshift. Not that they're the same kind of movie or anything, it's just been so long since I've seen either one, I forget which somewhat similar title goes with which movie. Nightshift is the one where Richie directs Fonzie and Shelly Long is a prostitute.After Hours
I watched it.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Watching now and I am definitely not happy this thing is 3 hours long. SMH.Alright, I can do this - I am going to try to get through the next 30mins of Beau is Afraid.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah it was really disappointing. I really liked PYW as well and the cast for Saltburn is fantastic. It's just bad though.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
It only gets weirder.Watching now and I am definitely not happy this thing is 3 hours long. SMH.Alright, I can do this - I am going to try to get through the next 30mins of Beau is Afraid.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
It’s my own fault, I knew what I was getting myself into.It only gets weirder.Watching now and I am definitely not happy this thing is 3 hours long. SMH.Alright, I can do this - I am going to try to get through the next 30mins of Beau is Afraid.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I was down for about 3/4ths of it, but it lost me at the end and left a bad aftertaste. I will probably rewatch at some point though, like most everything else.It’s my own fault, I knew what I was getting myself into.It only gets weirder.Watching now and I am definitely not happy this thing is 3 hours long. SMH.Alright, I can do this - I am going to try to get through the next 30mins of Beau is Afraid.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
It’s insane and makes me wonder what exactly anyone saw in it. It obviously got a big budget and there’s some great actors in it but maybe Ari Aster should stick to horror.I was down for about 3/4ths of it, but it lost me at the end and left a bad aftertaste. I will probably rewatch at some point though, like most everything else.It’s my own fault, I knew what I was getting myself into.It only gets weirder.Watching now and I am definitely not happy this thing is 3 hours long. SMH.Alright, I can do this - I am going to try to get through the next 30mins of Beau is Afraid.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I think it does a great job of putting on film what it's like to be debilitatingly anxious and how things spiral out in your head. My wife deals with a good bit of anxiety, and agrees. Maybe I found it more "interesting" than good for the most part because of that. 95% of the time I will be entertained enough if the acting and directing is great. That said, I think in my post about the movie I felt like I was missing the punchline to the joke that Aster was telling.It’s insane and makes me wonder what exactly anyone saw in it. It obviously got a big budget and there’s some great actors in it but maybe Ari Aster should stick to horror.I was down for about 3/4ths of it, but it lost me at the end and left a bad aftertaste. I will probably rewatch at some point though, like most everything else.It’s my own fault, I knew what I was getting myself into.It only gets weirder.Watching now and I am definitely not happy this thing is 3 hours long. SMH.Alright, I can do this - I am going to try to get through the next 30mins of Beau is Afraid.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah the first 1/3 or so of Beau is Afriad did give a great sense of what it felt like to be someone who was incredibly anxious and losing grip on reality. That said, once he got stabbed and was staying in that home with Nathan Lane and then the whole play, I just wasn't really sure what was going on any more. Though at this point I am only paying like 80% attention. I've got about 40 mins left so I am curious to see how this wraps up considering your biggest gripe (and others I've read) is with the conclusion. I do love seeing Parker Posey showing up and she ummm looks fanstastic.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
So…yeah, Saltburn. It’s definitely got some scenes I’ve never seen before and not any I need to see again
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
That Jacob Elordi would make a great Superman though
El Floppo
Footballguy
King of Comedy >>>>>> After HoursThat has become the cool new "it's actually one of Scorsese's best movies" but I don't know. I liked it well enough but it wouldn't make my top 15 of his films.After Hours
I watched it.
After hours is a fun romp, but not a great film.
It was really cheesy but I've seen worse movies
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Top 25 new watches of 2023 continued...
25. The Goodbye Girl (1977)- I only ever knew this as the movie Dreyfuss won the Oscar for. It looked and sounded cheesy. I didn't realize it was Neil Simon until the opening credits rolled. Not even sure why I put it on. I was kind of bored and expected to just half pay attention. It hooked me in quickly though. Apparently, the grumpy guy develops a caring relationship with a kid always works on me. Standouts: Obviously Dreyfuss. I often find him very annoying but he manages to be likable here while still maintaining his usual Dreyfussness.
24. Streets of Fire (1984)- I loved that this was basically a big music video 50s/80s mash-up. A little West Side Story, a whole lot MTV. Just a ton of fun and young Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe and Rick Moranis yet somehow Michael Pare steals all the scenes. The camera just loves him in this movie. Standouts: The opening and closing "music videos" with the Jim Steinman songs being performed are awesome, the Dan Hartman song is awesome, the Ry Cooder score is awesome. So yeah this is a fantastic 80s soundtrack.
23. Blackberry (2023)- One of the real trends in movies recently is the corporate bio. Tetris, Air, a Hot Cheetos movie, etc. It's something that tends to make for an entertaining movie but perhaps not one that I really like the idea of. Aren't we commercial enough without having to make movies into commercials? That said, Blackberry is different. Maybe it's because the company is already gone so this never feels like it's trying to sell me something. Instead, we just get good old fashioned entertainment as we track the rise and fall. Standouts: Glenn Howerton (Always Sunny in Philadelphia) deserves an Oscar nom, it's without a doubt one of the best and funniest performances of the year.
22. Fellini's Roma (1972)- There isn't a plot. It's just a tour of Rome and it's cast of characters. Some movies get weird, Fellini movies stay weird. If you trust Fellini and like this kind of formless movie making than perhaps this is for you. Standouts: the Eternal City of course.
21.Cooley High (1975)- A Black American Graffiti and a classic teen coming of age film. Also comes with it something we typically didn't see more until the 90s with a "making it out" theme for urban kids trying to escape the harsh realities of the city. Standouts: What is a great teen movie without a great soundtrack? We've the Supremes, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, etc.
25. The Goodbye Girl (1977)- I only ever knew this as the movie Dreyfuss won the Oscar for. It looked and sounded cheesy. I didn't realize it was Neil Simon until the opening credits rolled. Not even sure why I put it on. I was kind of bored and expected to just half pay attention. It hooked me in quickly though. Apparently, the grumpy guy develops a caring relationship with a kid always works on me. Standouts: Obviously Dreyfuss. I often find him very annoying but he manages to be likable here while still maintaining his usual Dreyfussness.
24. Streets of Fire (1984)- I loved that this was basically a big music video 50s/80s mash-up. A little West Side Story, a whole lot MTV. Just a ton of fun and young Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe and Rick Moranis yet somehow Michael Pare steals all the scenes. The camera just loves him in this movie. Standouts: The opening and closing "music videos" with the Jim Steinman songs being performed are awesome, the Dan Hartman song is awesome, the Ry Cooder score is awesome. So yeah this is a fantastic 80s soundtrack.
23. Blackberry (2023)- One of the real trends in movies recently is the corporate bio. Tetris, Air, a Hot Cheetos movie, etc. It's something that tends to make for an entertaining movie but perhaps not one that I really like the idea of. Aren't we commercial enough without having to make movies into commercials? That said, Blackberry is different. Maybe it's because the company is already gone so this never feels like it's trying to sell me something. Instead, we just get good old fashioned entertainment as we track the rise and fall. Standouts: Glenn Howerton (Always Sunny in Philadelphia) deserves an Oscar nom, it's without a doubt one of the best and funniest performances of the year.
22. Fellini's Roma (1972)- There isn't a plot. It's just a tour of Rome and it's cast of characters. Some movies get weird, Fellini movies stay weird. If you trust Fellini and like this kind of formless movie making than perhaps this is for you. Standouts: the Eternal City of course.
21.Cooley High (1975)- A Black American Graffiti and a classic teen coming of age film. Also comes with it something we typically didn't see more until the 90s with a "making it out" theme for urban kids trying to escape the harsh realities of the city. Standouts: What is a great teen movie without a great soundtrack? We've the Supremes, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, etc.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
20. Hangover Square (1945)- This under the radar noir from 20th Century Fox starring Linda Darnell, George Saunders and Laird Cregar delivers a big punch for it's 77 minute run time. A classical composer with an obsession over a singer wakes up with a bloody knife and no memory of the night before... Stand outs: this movie is good but the knockout blow is the incredible ending.
19. Mass (2021)- I won't give anything away as this is the kind of movie that it's best to just go in blind. It's a slow movie, there's only a couple characters and it pretty much all takes place in a Church where these people talk. It's dark, difficult and tragic. Not an easy watch at all. Stand outs: The whole cast is good but Martha Plimpton is especially strong, Writer/director Fran Kranz's debut here has me very interested when he gets a follow-up.
18. Repo Man (1984)- A chaotic punk mess of a cult film. It basically makes no sense at all but in a way that does make sense? Love some of the lines in this.
Look at those ********, ordinary ****ing people. I hate 'em.
My old lady? Oh, ****, I forgot all about her. Well, she'll take the bus. She's a rock
Don't care how long it takes, dildos! Repo Man's got all night, every night.
Standouts: Iggy Pop, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies. Another movie where the soundtrack is doing a lot of the heavy lifting but what can I say, I love music.
17. The Fabelmans (2022)- Spielberg is back. I really lost interest in his career but with West Side Story and this I feel like he's fully back. If you haven't seen this, it's the story of his childhood, his parents and how he fell in love with moviemaking. Stand outs: It's a perfect cast with Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, a restrained Seth Rogan, a totally unrestrained Judd Hirsch even a great David Lynch cameo. I guess when you are Steven Spielberg, it's pretty easy casting stars but what's most impressive is the relative unknown lead Gabrielle LaBelle playing Spielberg himself. Talk about the pressure of playing him and being directed by him but he is perfect.
16. Infernal Affairs (2002)- The Departed is a remake of this Hong Kong crime thriller. So if you know about The Departed than you know almost every beat here. It certainly would have been higher for me if I had seen this before seeing The Departed but the small differences and the quality with how this is done still made it one of my favorite watches of the year and a film I'll definitely come back to again. Standouts: Andy Lau and Tony Leung are two of my favorites but for me Eric Tsang is the guy here. He's so much better in this role than Jack was.
19. Mass (2021)- I won't give anything away as this is the kind of movie that it's best to just go in blind. It's a slow movie, there's only a couple characters and it pretty much all takes place in a Church where these people talk. It's dark, difficult and tragic. Not an easy watch at all. Stand outs: The whole cast is good but Martha Plimpton is especially strong, Writer/director Fran Kranz's debut here has me very interested when he gets a follow-up.
18. Repo Man (1984)- A chaotic punk mess of a cult film. It basically makes no sense at all but in a way that does make sense? Love some of the lines in this.
Look at those ********, ordinary ****ing people. I hate 'em.
My old lady? Oh, ****, I forgot all about her. Well, she'll take the bus. She's a rock
Don't care how long it takes, dildos! Repo Man's got all night, every night.
Standouts: Iggy Pop, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies. Another movie where the soundtrack is doing a lot of the heavy lifting but what can I say, I love music.
17. The Fabelmans (2022)- Spielberg is back. I really lost interest in his career but with West Side Story and this I feel like he's fully back. If you haven't seen this, it's the story of his childhood, his parents and how he fell in love with moviemaking. Stand outs: It's a perfect cast with Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, a restrained Seth Rogan, a totally unrestrained Judd Hirsch even a great David Lynch cameo. I guess when you are Steven Spielberg, it's pretty easy casting stars but what's most impressive is the relative unknown lead Gabrielle LaBelle playing Spielberg himself. Talk about the pressure of playing him and being directed by him but he is perfect.
16. Infernal Affairs (2002)- The Departed is a remake of this Hong Kong crime thriller. So if you know about The Departed than you know almost every beat here. It certainly would have been higher for me if I had seen this before seeing The Departed but the small differences and the quality with how this is done still made it one of my favorite watches of the year and a film I'll definitely come back to again. Standouts: Andy Lau and Tony Leung are two of my favorites but for me Eric Tsang is the guy here. He's so much better in this role than Jack was.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Messiah of Evil better show up, or the list Is nul and void. 
snogger
Footballguy
I watch Family Man each Christmas season.
We all have those "What if" thoughts about things in our past so I enjoy it for that reason.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Really liked that one, you will have to wait and see if it made the cut. The list is on a brief hiatus while help out in Cancun. They said there was simply too much sun and too many margaritas. I’ve volunteered to pitch in with soaking them both up.Messiah of Evil better show up, or the list Is nul and void.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Ok, I will fire up a thread soon and see what interest we get. Let's try a movie club type thing again. Feel free to give input as we go. The goal is to provide a mild focus for people to watch a couple flicks during the month. It will be wide open though, instead of specific movies, it will just be 3 categories of movies on the topic of a specific director. I know I mentioned Marty and that would be an easy jumping point, but I think he would be better in Feb, as I assume he will be nominated for a ton and Killers of the Flower Moon might be more availalbe as an option. So first we start off even easier and go with Mr. Spielberg. I will form my thoughts and start the thread tonight or tomorrow.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Watched Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carrel the other night it was actually entertaining
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Oh and Dumb Money was ok. I followed the story pretty closely but too late to make any money
krista4
Footballguy
In! Very little interest in Spielberg, but I'll do it, and I'm sure others might not be interested in my directors.
Eephus
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Movie Club thread started.
Doug B
Footballguy
This was Robert Townsend’s debut, correct?
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Rebel Moon - eh it was OK
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
That new Mission Impossible was fun. Might have to go back and watch a few that I missed
foxco
Footballguy
Liked it a lot as well, as did the wife. Alexander Payne is pretty, pretty good.
Eephus
Footballguy
The script by David Hemingson is terrific. I love how it sets the audience up for a prep school version of The Breakfast Club before zooming i on the main characters and raising the stakes for them.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I just watched it based on your rec... Very good. The writing and acting is fantastic.
beer 30
Footballguy
Did we win?
Eephus
Footballguy
2024 is gonna be my year as a film influencer
unlike 2023 where I couldn't get anyone to bite on Shin Kamen Rider
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Beau is Afraid 
Oh watched Killer Joe the other day too, that was mildly entertaining
Oh watched Killer Joe the other day too, that was mildly entertaining
Eephus
Footballguy
Movies I watched in December
Paddington 2 (2017 - P. King)
Peter & the Wolf - short (2023 - E. Dear & S. McNally)
In Bed with Victoria (2016 - J. Triet)
The Odessa File (1974 - R. Neame)
Slither (1973 - H. Zieff)
Body Heat (1981 - L. Kasdan)
The Silent Partner (1978 - D. Duke)
My Big Night (2015 - A de la Iglesia)
Gran Turismo (2023 - N. Blomkamp)
The Florida Project (2017 - S. Baker)
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988 - J. Cherry III)
Marlowe (2022 - N. Jordan)
John Wick (2014 - C. Stahelski)
Genie (2023 - S. Boyd)
Maestro (2023 - B. Cooper)
Remember the Night (1939 - M. Leisen)
Mixed Nuts (1994 - N. Ephron)
Bottoms (2023 - E. Seligman)
What's Up Doc (1972 - P. Bogdanovich)
Hard-Boiled (1992 - J. Woo)
Mission: Impossible II (2000 - J. Woo)
The Holdovers (2023 - A. Payne)
Finished off the year with 22 movies to bring the yearly total to 257 (including series and shorts). This was an almost identical total to 2022 where I watched 263 films. That's entirely too many; maybe this year I get a life.
Seven of the 22 from December were holiday themed. The Silent Partner is a 70s heist movie that began with a mall Santa robbing a bank and ended as a dark game of cate and mouse between Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer. My Big Night is a Spanish farce set during the taping of a New Year's Eve television special. It had some of the outrageous style and humor of an Almodovar film. I think I wrote them up in the Christmas movie thread but Ernest Saves Christmas was funnier and better than Genie. Remember the Night is a classic 1939 rom com written by Preston Sturges. The dialog holds up well but the story really had to twist the ending in knots to comply with the Production Code. Mixed Nuts is another farce set in the offices of a suicide prevention hotline on Christmas Eve. It had a few laughs but mostly wasted a great cast. The Holdovers is one of my favorite films of the year. If you have Peacock, watch it soon.
Non-Christmasy stuff included Paddington 2 which was just as lovely as the first. Peter & the Wolf is an animated short based on drawings by Bono. I'm a fan of Gavin Friday who did the music. In Bed with Victoria was an early film by Justine Triet who has received a lot of acclaim for directing Anatomy of a Fall this year. It's another courtroom drama but with some comedic situations. It was extremely verbal though which is tough with subtitled films.
The Odessa File was dreadfully slow, the least thrilling thriller you could imagine but I appreciated the irony of Jon Voight masquerading as a Nazi. Slither is a prototypical New Hollywood road movie from the 70s with a totally 70s cast including James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser. The flimsy plot was an excuse for the offbeat characters to interact. Body Heat wasn't as good as I remembered but is definitely still watchable. The central plot gimmick is very implausible in retrospect.
It's too long and is largely a commercial for Sony and Nissan but Gran Turismo wasn't bad. I'm a sucker for racing movies and this one was above average for the genre. The Florida Project is an extraordinary, unforgettable film with some great performances from its child actors. It's a tough call between it and The Holdovers for the best movie I saw this month (maybe Paddington 2 is in the running too).
I thought Marlowe stayed relatively true to Chandler's literary Philip Marlowe even though the story played out more like Chinatown. It's not a great film by any means but it's better than a lot of Neo-Noirs. I've never seen any of the John Wick movies and probably won't see another after watching the first. It's a solid enough action movie but the plot connecting the setpieces was pretty dumb. I've kind of lost my taste for over-the-top gun battles in recent years.
There was a lot to like about Maestro but I couldn't bring myself to love the picture. I'm glad it got made but I didn't find it very illuminating about the artist. I thought the comedy in Bottoms was simultaneously understated and exaggerated but usually hilarious. Some people will probably hate it though. I watched What's Up Doc with my daughter who only knew Ryan O'Neal from Malibu's Most Wanted. The ridiculous setup and slapstick is timeless--my daughter liked it a lot. It's strange to think while watching a 70s homage to 30s screwball comedies that it was sending up a genre from three decades earlier but we've now gone a half century past that.
I know I just said I lost my taste for shootouts but John Wick sent me back to John Woo. His action movies were a revelation 30 years ago but I was surprised how corny and dated Hard-Boiled seems today. Maybe it's because his style has been so widely copied since he came to the US or maybe it's just that Woo's mixture of action and sentimentality don't play as well today. Mission: Impossible II was unmistakably a Woo film, much more so than a MI story. It usually always gets ranked as the worst film but I found it to still be entertaining. It does feel more like a current Chinese or Bollywood action movie than what the Mission Impossible series has become.
Paddington 2 (2017 - P. King)
Peter & the Wolf - short (2023 - E. Dear & S. McNally)
In Bed with Victoria (2016 - J. Triet)
The Odessa File (1974 - R. Neame)
Slither (1973 - H. Zieff)
Body Heat (1981 - L. Kasdan)
The Silent Partner (1978 - D. Duke)
My Big Night (2015 - A de la Iglesia)
Gran Turismo (2023 - N. Blomkamp)
The Florida Project (2017 - S. Baker)
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988 - J. Cherry III)
Marlowe (2022 - N. Jordan)
John Wick (2014 - C. Stahelski)
Genie (2023 - S. Boyd)
Maestro (2023 - B. Cooper)
Remember the Night (1939 - M. Leisen)
Mixed Nuts (1994 - N. Ephron)
Bottoms (2023 - E. Seligman)
What's Up Doc (1972 - P. Bogdanovich)
Hard-Boiled (1992 - J. Woo)
Mission: Impossible II (2000 - J. Woo)
The Holdovers (2023 - A. Payne)
Finished off the year with 22 movies to bring the yearly total to 257 (including series and shorts). This was an almost identical total to 2022 where I watched 263 films. That's entirely too many; maybe this year I get a life.
Seven of the 22 from December were holiday themed. The Silent Partner is a 70s heist movie that began with a mall Santa robbing a bank and ended as a dark game of cate and mouse between Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer. My Big Night is a Spanish farce set during the taping of a New Year's Eve television special. It had some of the outrageous style and humor of an Almodovar film. I think I wrote them up in the Christmas movie thread but Ernest Saves Christmas was funnier and better than Genie. Remember the Night is a classic 1939 rom com written by Preston Sturges. The dialog holds up well but the story really had to twist the ending in knots to comply with the Production Code. Mixed Nuts is another farce set in the offices of a suicide prevention hotline on Christmas Eve. It had a few laughs but mostly wasted a great cast. The Holdovers is one of my favorite films of the year. If you have Peacock, watch it soon.
Non-Christmasy stuff included Paddington 2 which was just as lovely as the first. Peter & the Wolf is an animated short based on drawings by Bono. I'm a fan of Gavin Friday who did the music. In Bed with Victoria was an early film by Justine Triet who has received a lot of acclaim for directing Anatomy of a Fall this year. It's another courtroom drama but with some comedic situations. It was extremely verbal though which is tough with subtitled films.
The Odessa File was dreadfully slow, the least thrilling thriller you could imagine but I appreciated the irony of Jon Voight masquerading as a Nazi. Slither is a prototypical New Hollywood road movie from the 70s with a totally 70s cast including James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser. The flimsy plot was an excuse for the offbeat characters to interact. Body Heat wasn't as good as I remembered but is definitely still watchable. The central plot gimmick is very implausible in retrospect.
It's too long and is largely a commercial for Sony and Nissan but Gran Turismo wasn't bad. I'm a sucker for racing movies and this one was above average for the genre. The Florida Project is an extraordinary, unforgettable film with some great performances from its child actors. It's a tough call between it and The Holdovers for the best movie I saw this month (maybe Paddington 2 is in the running too).
I thought Marlowe stayed relatively true to Chandler's literary Philip Marlowe even though the story played out more like Chinatown. It's not a great film by any means but it's better than a lot of Neo-Noirs. I've never seen any of the John Wick movies and probably won't see another after watching the first. It's a solid enough action movie but the plot connecting the setpieces was pretty dumb. I've kind of lost my taste for over-the-top gun battles in recent years.
There was a lot to like about Maestro but I couldn't bring myself to love the picture. I'm glad it got made but I didn't find it very illuminating about the artist. I thought the comedy in Bottoms was simultaneously understated and exaggerated but usually hilarious. Some people will probably hate it though. I watched What's Up Doc with my daughter who only knew Ryan O'Neal from Malibu's Most Wanted. The ridiculous setup and slapstick is timeless--my daughter liked it a lot. It's strange to think while watching a 70s homage to 30s screwball comedies that it was sending up a genre from three decades earlier but we've now gone a half century past that.
I know I just said I lost my taste for shootouts but John Wick sent me back to John Woo. His action movies were a revelation 30 years ago but I was surprised how corny and dated Hard-Boiled seems today. Maybe it's because his style has been so widely copied since he came to the US or maybe it's just that Woo's mixture of action and sentimentality don't play as well today. Mission: Impossible II was unmistakably a Woo film, much more so than a MI story. It usually always gets ranked as the worst film but I found it to still be entertaining. It does feel more like a current Chinese or Bollywood action movie than what the Mission Impossible series has become.
krista4
Footballguy
When I saw The Florida Project on his list, I was shocked to see it was 6-7 years ago. So memorable that I could picture all of it immediately. What an under-discussed gem.
Hoping to watch The Holdovers soon.
Eephus
Footballguy
I'm pretty sure I watched more movies last year than Steven Soderbergh did. On the other hand, he directed one feature film and two television series with another in post-production so as always 
He does watch a surprising amount of Dateline and Below Deck though.
He does watch a surprising amount of Dateline and Below Deck though.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Nice- The Holdovers is on Peacock. I think that is what tonight's movie will be.
krista4
Footballguy
I'm pretty sure I watched more movies last year than Steven Soderbergh did. On the other hand, he directed one feature film and two television series with another in post-production so as always
He does watch a surprising amount of Dateline and Below Deck though.
What would you consider "a surprising amount" of Below Deck?
Eephus
Footballguy
What would you consider "a surprising amount" of Below Deck?
I counted sixteen episodes on Soderbergh's list.
That's about fifteen more than I watched but doesn't hold a candle to the women in my family. I don't understand the fascination with the shows but it frees me up to watch sports on Monday nights.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Killers of the Flower Moon - Marty might need to change his game to Borecese
General Malaise
Footballguy
Whelp, just got done watching Saltburn with my oldest son (naked jump party one) and his boyfriend this evening and wow, that was a new movie going experience for me.
Made some tasty popcorn and sucked down a bottle of Rosé and I'll be never the same again.
Made some tasty popcorn and sucked down a bottle of Rosé and I'll be never the same again.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
15. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)- A movie that I am still thinking about and grappling with what exactly it's saying about fascism, power, authority, etc. I am not sure it all came totally together for me in the end but it's fascinating. The general plot is a Roman police detective murders his mistress and is then assigned to investigate it. Standout: The twist this movie puts on what seems like a simple set-up. Most movies would use this as a chance for the detective to hide the evidence, hinder the investigation, cover his tracks, etc. Not here. He's very diligently investigating the crime even though he knows exactly where that will point his fellow police.
14. Rye Lane (2023)- A really cute funny British rom-com. Two people coming off bad break-ups have a chance meeting and begin a whirlwind day of adventure, love, laughs and tears. Genuinely funny and sweet while also being very stylishly filmed. Standouts: This might seem like a weird choice but the 82 minute run time. So many movies- especially comedies overstay their welcome and we have to sludge through an unfunny final 30 mins that tries to wrap up the serious elements of the story or they get stuck doing the same jokes over and over. Not Rye Lane. It gets in and out, making every moment count. It's on Hulu, check it out
13. Spider-man Across the Spiderverse (2023)- It's rare that I even watch animated movies or superhero movies but this series is incredible. The animation is mind blowing and the storytelling is really smart. Absolute sensory overload in the best way possible. Standouts: The trio of 1st time directors Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin Thompson who managed to somehow surpass even the original. Heck of an accomplishment for a first film, setting the new standard for all animation.
12. Bound (1996)- I am not really sure how I never realized the makers of The Matrix had a cool mid 90s crime noir. This came recommended on a podcast and it sounded interesting but I saw the Wachowskis as 1 hit wonders due to my deep distaste for The Matrix sequels. But as so often happens, just a couple days after hearing the podcast I noticed it was streaming and gave it a whirl. What can I say, I was wrong about the Wachowskis. This is a perfect 90s noir crime film.
Standouts: Gina Gershon had me biting my knuckles, my word is she sexy in this. Jennifer Tilley's babydoll routine is a perfect complement to Gershon's (sort of) butch. And was there a better sleazeball in the 90s/00s than Joey Pants?
11. Oppenheimer (2023)- Not much needs to be said for this, there is plenty of discourse out there. I really liked it, thought it was very well done. I learned a bit but I did feel it's run time. Standouts: The trinity of Cillian anchoring the movie, Damon giving it some life and the Trinity Test itself delivering the movie moment of 2023.
14. Rye Lane (2023)- A really cute funny British rom-com. Two people coming off bad break-ups have a chance meeting and begin a whirlwind day of adventure, love, laughs and tears. Genuinely funny and sweet while also being very stylishly filmed. Standouts: This might seem like a weird choice but the 82 minute run time. So many movies- especially comedies overstay their welcome and we have to sludge through an unfunny final 30 mins that tries to wrap up the serious elements of the story or they get stuck doing the same jokes over and over. Not Rye Lane. It gets in and out, making every moment count. It's on Hulu, check it out
13. Spider-man Across the Spiderverse (2023)- It's rare that I even watch animated movies or superhero movies but this series is incredible. The animation is mind blowing and the storytelling is really smart. Absolute sensory overload in the best way possible. Standouts: The trio of 1st time directors Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin Thompson who managed to somehow surpass even the original. Heck of an accomplishment for a first film, setting the new standard for all animation.
12. Bound (1996)- I am not really sure how I never realized the makers of The Matrix had a cool mid 90s crime noir. This came recommended on a podcast and it sounded interesting but I saw the Wachowskis as 1 hit wonders due to my deep distaste for The Matrix sequels. But as so often happens, just a couple days after hearing the podcast I noticed it was streaming and gave it a whirl. What can I say, I was wrong about the Wachowskis. This is a perfect 90s noir crime film.
Standouts: Gina Gershon had me biting my knuckles, my word is she sexy in this. Jennifer Tilley's babydoll routine is a perfect complement to Gershon's (sort of) butch. And was there a better sleazeball in the 90s/00s than Joey Pants?
11. Oppenheimer (2023)- Not much needs to be said for this, there is plenty of discourse out there. I really liked it, thought it was very well done. I learned a bit but I did feel it's run time. Standouts: The trinity of Cillian anchoring the movie, Damon giving it some life and the Trinity Test itself delivering the movie moment of 2023.
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General Malaise
Footballguy
Bound is greatness.
