What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)

[Ray McKigney]

The House I Live In. A documentary about the War on Drugs. Really interesting. The disparity between Black/White drugs convictions is crazy. Also, the racial profiling that still exists is alarming.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Black mass. Better than i expected. Wasnt "great", but it was well done. Johnny depp was kind of miscast though, IMO

[Mark68]

Watched Spotlight last night. Amazing how powerful the Catholic Church is, especially in Boston, to have the ability to cover up so many priests molesting so many children over so much time.

 

This hits home for my wife, who was raised Catholic in the Boston area.

 

Overall, great performances by Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, and Rachel McAdams. One of the better movies I've seen, but very very depressing subject matter.

[Lou]

5 episodes into "Making a Murderer".

 

 

This shit is insane. I thought corruption on this level only took place in movies.

 

 

nope.  it takes place in television,  too 

[mrwicked]

finally saw the coen brothers version of "true grit"

thought it was great

the dialogue was funky, in a way only they can pull off

Edited January 27, 2016 by mrwicked

[Lou]

Nothing.

 

My TV died.

 

Ordered my first 4K, and it will be here tomorrow. 

 

 

how did we miss this? allow me....

 

you only have 1 television???

[eaterfan]

Watched Shark v. Eagle last night. It was basically the New Zealand adult version of Napoleon Dynamite.

[Jay]

st. vincent

 

it was good

[Tank]

st. vincent

 

it was good

 

very underrated. i liked it.

[Hollyw00d]

finally saw the coen brothers version of "true grit"

thought it was great

the dialogue was funky, in a way only they can pull off

That's one of my favorite Jeff bridges roles and I'm a huge fan of his movies

[Hollyw00d]

Also they made the girl a straight up badass and I loved it

[ten ocho recon scout]

True grit was awesome. Need to rewatch, great dialog. Coming off the heels of no country for old men, the coens and josh brolin were on a roll.

Josh brolin has been pretty badass the last several years.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

The Gift - 3.75/5

 

Extremely impressive writing and directing debut from Joel Edgerton. Even though I found the film really predictable, its sill a trip and leaves you questioning what exactly happened. I enjoyed it a lot. Great performance from Edgerton, as well. I already enjoy him as an actor. I'll be looking for future films written and directed by him as well.

[Ray McKigney]

The Gift - 3.75/5

 

Extremely impressive writing and directing debut from Joel Edgerton. Even though I found the film really predictable, its sill a trip and leaves you questioning what exactly happened. I enjoyed it a lot. Great performance from Edgerton, as well. I already enjoy him as an actor. I'll be looking for future films written and directed by him as well.

 

I need to check this out. My brother said it was really good too.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Ducks, did you predict the ending?  I was surprised by it, but thought it was a great way to end the movie.

[Ray McKigney]

Ducks, did you predict the ending?  I was surprised by it, but thought it was a great way to end the movie.

 

No spoiler please.

[Lou]

The Gift - 3.75/5

 

Extremely impressive writing and directing debut from Joel Edgerton. Even though I found the film really predictable, its sill a trip and leaves you questioning what exactly happened. I enjoyed it a lot. Great performance from Edgerton, as well. I already enjoy him as an actor. I'll be looking for future films written and directed by him as well.

The film was predictable yet you were left questioning what happened at the end?

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

The film was predictable yet you were left questioning what happened at the end?

 

I was left questioning if the act was truly committed or not. But the set up and what you are left questioning was predictable.

[arch stanton]

Saw The Revenant today. I enjoyed it as much as anything I've seen in a long time but I really don't watch a lot of movies.

[mrwicked]

started watching bloodline.

three or four episodes in, pretty good so far.

[Homebrewer]

Bloodline.

Kept waiting for something to happen...finally gave up.

[OregonLAA]

I liked Bloodline. The brother should get an Emmy for his performance. He was terrific

[Redondo]

Saw The Revenant today.   Good movie, but not great.

 

Kind of felt like they dragged it out too long. There is a lot of the movie they expect us to accept that are not blatantly possible. Snow in one scene and when floating down the river no snow. Bears hibernate in the winter and it might be the beginning of winter so I could be wrong. How many times did actors get wet in the movie? No hypothermia at all. In fact when they go to the river to fill the canteen they stand in the water. No one would be able to do that in those conditions. He is in the river with a buffalo skin on him and that would drag him to the bottom with the weight. He barely makes it back to the compound and only sleeps one night and has most of his movement back and actually runs after the bad guy at one point. He crawls to the edge of a cliff and in the next scene he is filling the canteen. It's a sheer cliff, how does he get down? Hr gets stabbed through his left hand but manages to grab the other guy with it. I expect this stuff in Bruce Willis type movies, but not in the best picture of the year.

 

The director could have made it more realistic and got a better effect.

 

I realize it's a movie, but so many are calling it great and I don't see it as being that good. Just my 2 cents..

Edited January 31, 2016 by Redondo

[mrwicked]

I liked Bloodline. The brother should get an Emmy for his performance. He was terrific

 

yeah. we both agree the Danny guy is doing just fantastic.

I'm only 3-4 episodes in but i can't quite put a finger on if he's just straight up bad/evil, or kind of stupid, or just slow and makes poor decisions.

he's really an interesting character.

end of each episode is funny as the last 2 minutes are always super dramatic.

[Tank]

i'm watching Birdman right now. it's really slow. not sure if i'm going to finish it.