What are you watching?

[tr0nic]

I don't know what compelled me to do so, but I watched The Matrix: Resurrections (Matrix 4) last night. Not entirely sure what to expect, except badness. But you know what? Wasn't bad. It was actually pretty fun, and at this point Lana Wachowski seemed to be focused on having fun with it rather than entirely making some social commentary. It's in there, for sure, and it's just a bit heavy-handed with it right at the beginning, but then it's just about doing cool Matrix shit. I could really tell that she's had a bunch of unfinished ideas from the original trilogy that she wanted to flesh out. She didn't fully succeed, there's like a dozen concepts introduced that went nowhere and were barely explained despite having a runtime of 2 Hours 30 Minutes, but that's all very par for the course with Matrix movies.

They jump the shark a little around the halfway mark though (they actually jump like 3 sharks at once), make no mistake, and as the second hour of the film passed I was like "come on, wrap it the fuck up, Lana" but it was fun to see Keanu do his thing. The man does not age, I swear. Keanu Reeves is a great example of a human being that has visibly done very few drugs.

[NateDog]

Watched the War Of The Worlds (2025 Ice Cube version). If you watch it as an adaptation of HG Wells' novel, it is awful. If you watch it as a comedy, however, it is brilliant. An entire movie that takes place on a laptop or phone screen with some of the worst CG I've seen this century in spite of a budget of $65m, bizarre plot turns, egregious product/brand placement, Ice Cube constantly looking at the screen with his mouth hanging open, some of the funniest death/fake death scenes you'll ever see, some utterly wild editing and camera zooms. I am not joking one bit when I say I honestly haven't laughed at a movie like I did with this in a long time. I implore everyone to watch it.

[black king]

Saw the Naked Gun movie with Liam Neeson. I'm a fan of this kind of comedy since I first saw Airplane! so it got some laughs from me.

[BULUPTAX]

Watched the War Of The Worlds (2025 Ice Cube version). If you watch it as an adaptation of HG Wells' novel, it is awful. If you watch it as a comedy, however, it is brilliant. An entire movie that takes place on a laptop or phone screen with some of the worst CG I've seen this century in spite of a budget of $65m, bizarre plot turns, egregious product/brand placement, Ice Cube constantly looking at the screen with his mouth hanging open, some of the funniest death/fake death scenes you'll ever see, some utterly wild editing and camera zooms. I am not joking one bit when I say I honestly haven't laughed at a movie like I did with this in a long time. I implore everyone to watch it.

I watched it too just now and it was glorious in it's awfulness

[Dirty Duck]

I don't know what compelled me to do so, but I watched The Matrix: Resurrections (Matrix 4) last night. Not entirely sure what to expect, except badness. But you know what? Wasn't bad. It was actually pretty fun, and at this point Lana Wachowski seemed to be focused on having fun with it rather than entirely making some social commentary. It's in there, for sure, and it's just a bit heavy-handed with it right at the beginning, but then it's just about doing cool Matrix shit. I could really tell that she's had a bunch of unfinished ideas from the original trilogy that she wanted to flesh out. She didn't fully succeed, there's like a dozen concepts introduced that went nowhere and were barely explained despite having a runtime of 2 Hours 30 Minutes, but that's all very par for the course with Matrix movies.

They jump the shark a little around the halfway mark though (they actually jump like 3 sharks at once), make no mistake, and as the second hour of the film passed I was like "come on, wrap it the fuck up, Lana" but it was fun to see Keanu do his thing. The man does not age, I swear. Keanu Reeves is a great example of a human being that has visibly done very few drugs.

I've been desperate to see this since watching all of the original Matrix films and the Animatrix last year. I'd only seen the first before then due to blindly buying into the "the Matrix sequels are bad" hype as a kid but I actually think both of the sequels had a lot to love and the Animatrix is a super cool project with some great shorts in it. I kind of want to try and catch it in a cinema, even though thats very unlikely unless its part of a marathon. My girlfriend says it sucks but idk, something in me just tells me it's gonna be a secret banger...

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Watched the first episode of Alien Earth yesterday with my girlfriend and her housemate. I didn't love Romulus so didn't really go into this expecting to love it either. I really don't know what to think of it yet. Their depiction of earth feels very shortsighted. Their use of pop culture in universe feels somewhat trite and farfetched-more for the viewer than to enrich the world. David's consumption of cinema in Prometheus did a lot for the opening scene and for his character, and it was believable but in Earth it feels...dumber? idk, it's a nitpick. It just felt very run-of-the-mill and I don't care about any of the characters yet. I'm still going to give it a chance, TV can take a while to get going but I don't feel like this leant into being a TV show as far as form goes so far. It's been relegated to 'tv show I watch with my girlfriend and her housemate' which range from slop to good.

[BULUPTAX]

I watched Alien; Earth too

Something about it feels really off and I can't quite put my finger on it. Idk I think the Alien movies worked for me because they were always so far from Earth and civilisation that things felt even more hopeless, but now that this show is ON Earth, it just doesn't feel right? Also the androids with the minds of children are really annoying. I also usually like Timothy Olyphant but his performance is falling a little flat for me in this

EDIT: I also saw Weapons and thought it was terrific, might just be my favourite movie of the year so far. I don't want to say anything because it's such a wild ride thatI want people to go in knowing nothing

[tr0nic]

I don't know what compelled me to do so, but I watched The Matrix: Resurrections (Matrix 4) last night. Not entirely sure what to expect, except badness. But you know what? Wasn't bad. It was actually pretty fun, and at this point Lana Wachowski seemed to be focused on having fun with it rather than entirely making some social commentary. It's in there, for sure, and it's just a bit heavy-handed with it right at the beginning, but then it's just about doing cool Matrix shit. I could really tell that she's had a bunch of unfinished ideas from the original trilogy that she wanted to flesh out. She didn't fully succeed, there's like a dozen concepts introduced that went nowhere and were barely explained despite having a runtime of 2 Hours 30 Minutes, but that's all very par for the course with Matrix movies.

They jump the shark a little around the halfway mark though (they actually jump like 3 sharks at once), make no mistake, and as the second hour of the film passed I was like "come on, wrap it the fuck up, Lana" but it was fun to see Keanu do his thing. The man does not age, I swear. Keanu Reeves is a great example of a human being that has visibly done very few drugs.

I've been desperate to see this since watching all of the original Matrix films and the Animatrix last year. I'd only seen the first before then due to blindly buying into the "the Matrix sequels are bad" hype as a kid but I actually think both of the sequels had a lot to love and the Animatrix is a super cool project with some great shorts in it. I kind of want to try and catch it in a cinema, even though thats very unlikely unless its part of a marathon. My girlfriend says it sucks but idk, something in me just tells me it's gonna be a secret banger...

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Watched the first episode of Alien Earth yesterday with my girlfriend and her housemate. I didn't love Romulus so didn't really go into this expecting to love it either. I really don't know what to think of it yet. Their depiction of earth feels very shortsighted. Their use of pop culture in universe feels somewhat trite and farfetched-more for the viewer than to enrich the world. David's consumption of cinema in Prometheus did a lot for the opening scene and for his character, and it was believable but in Earth it feels...dumber? idk, it's a nitpick. It just felt very run-of-the-mill and I don't care about any of the characters yet. I'm still going to give it a chance, TV can take a while to get going but I don't feel like this leant into being a TV show as far as form goes so far. It's been relegated to 'tv show I watch with my girlfriend and her housemate' which range from slop to good.

Animatrix is such an underrated gem, truly. The Second Renaissance is something I think about constantly, it's kind of a pinnacle of modern sci fi that doesn't get talked about enough. See I was like 3 months old when the first Matrix came out so obviously I missed experiencing the Matrix as a cultural moment. But as I understand it, audiences considered that first movie philosophically profound upon first viewing, and as the sequels came out that feeling very rapidly devolved into surface level edginess that goes nowhere, which is the lens they criticized the rest of the trilogy with. And it does get kind of messy, to be fair, especially when it doesn't have to be. By the end of the third Matrix movie, it was clear that some section of Machine Society is becoming more than mindless drones and programs within the Matrix want to live actual lives, more than a new civilization controlling humans as a form of self defense. What we witness as the audience in Matrix 2 and Matrix 3 is Machine Society evolving to live alongside Humanity, but the Wachowskis are so--Fucking--VAGUE about that being the case, and it becomes this odd 6 hour cheesy bong session-level philosophical conversation with some groundbreaking CGI shootouts in between. The big thing that I don't enjoy about them is that the sequels just do not deserve 2 and a half hour runtimes, they just do not have enough ideas to fill the space. BUT I have fun with them every time I watch them, and one of those unfinished concepts (The Merovingian, the previous iteration of The Matrix, and his proto-Agents still living inside the current Matrix) I absolutely adore as a piece of sci fi media, it's something that is so alive in this bipolar universe the Wachowskis have created.

Gotta say though, there was no green tinting in the new one. The green tint was a criticism of the original trilogy, but now without it, it just feels wrong. At this point it's kind of necessary, the film overall was too colorful for a Matrix movie.

[BULUPTAX]

I saw Twelve Monkyes in 35mm the other night. I hadn't seen it in almost 10 years but I really loved it. I've really slept on Terry Gilliam's movies. Outside or the Monty Python stuff, I'd only seen this and Brazil

[Webbie2689]

Idk how big this image is so I apologize ahead of time if it’s massive. Also don’t know if large images are automatically resized or anything here.

About an hour into this. Enjoying it. Turns out I’m like a Stan lite myself. Definitely a big Eminem fan growing up, and still enjoy a lot of his music today. This is the realest/most genuine I’ve ever really seen him on camera. Cool watch.

[NateDog]

Rewatched LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring for the first time in a while last night. So damn good. It's a bit of a weird one because it is so good and so tense at so many points, yet after watching it I had a bit of an "ahhh, how soothing" feeling. I guess I just missed them given nobody around me wanted to watch them initially. Looking back I was so unbelievably privileged to get to see The Two Towers and Return Of The King in a theatre when I was a young teen.