What are you watching?

[Wayno]

Was she aware of how much was ad libbed? I feel knowing that enhances the movie. It used to be my favourite Will Ferrell film but I think Step Brothers is far better.

[st3ve]

Currently watching paradise. It's a decent show, my one major gripe with it is the absolutely awful music. About once an episode they'll have "cinematic" covers of old songs and it just kills the scene it's put in. There's a scene about 2-3 episodes in that is supposed to be really impactful and then they start playing a cover of we built this city by starship and I genuinely just started laughing. Hopefully this is toned down a little in season 2

[NateDog]

Was she aware of how much was ad libbed? I feel knowing that enhances the movie. It used to be my favourite Will Ferrell film but I think Step Brothers is far better.

Her and her brother love Step Brothers so I think I was always fighting a losing battle, she didn't know that though. I haven't actually seen Step Brothers for years, used to be on CC what felt like it was almost daily I remember.

[Dirty Duck]

Been watching the POTC films through with my girlfriend and her housemate. She fell asleep during the final 30 minutes of At World's End and insisted we reenact it for her before we're allowed to watch On Stranger Tides.

So far I'd say it was the defining moment of my acting career.

Eager to see what I think of POTC4. I was always quite fond of it but know it's not regarded very highly.

[NateDog]

Rewatched When Marnie Was There. First time seeing it again since we saw it in theatres on release, feels surreal thinking that was 10 years ago and not long after I met Leelee. Think it was the first Ghibli we ever watched in theatre, although I know we saw Totoro soon after we met so maybe not. But first new one definitely.

[NateDog]

Watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Quite a fascinating cinematographic and directorial style, not sure I felt the story concept was executed as well as it could have been by the end but still liked it a lot. Feel like a second watch will be beneficial.

[Dirty Duck]

Rewatched Pirates of the Caribbean 5 last night. I obviously knew it was the worst of the bunch (though I enjoyed it enough when I saw it in the cinema around release) but having watched all 5 in quick succession it really is so much worse. Johnny Depp is awful in it. The new characters are wooden. The writing lacks a lot of the wit the others had. Even the score feels off as it lacks any 'new' sounds and is just Zimmer's protege using leitmotifs Zimmer made for the previous films. It's also got a serious case of sequilitis, feeling the need to revisit or overexplain aspects of the other films. On Stranger Tides is so much better it's crazy, I respect it for doing a smaller scale story after the sheer scope of the previous sequels and it was all the better for it.

[NateDog]

Watched Sentimental Value again, cemented it as my favourite movie of all that I've seen from the last 3-6 months or so, probably the last year too.

[NateDog]

Just got out from Project Hail Mary, this is excellent. Visually it was a treat, and it had a great sense of humour while still touching on a more serious subject. A lot of touching scenes too. Gosling doesn't miss.

[starschwar]

I finally got around to the last two Mission: Impossible movies. Terrible writing and some other factors easily make them the weakest of what was otherwise a good-to-great series until this point. I wouldn't recommend *starting* with these for novices. Honestly, unless they make another, I would normally just recommend stopping after the excellent sixth film, Fallout.

However. For as bad as the two Reckoning movies are, I was surprised to find a number of plot points borrowed from Metal Gear! Most especially Sons of Liberty and Guns of the Patriots. They aren't handled nearly as artfully or meaningfully as Kojima did, but gave me an interesting sense of deja vu.