TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

The Predator (2018).

It is not the worst movie I have ever seen, that is the best thing I can say about this movie.
I still have 10 minutes 'itl the end of the movie. I'll make it.  Somehow.

I don't really get this movie, I don't get anything of the non sensical plot.  Nothing really makes sense, from the soldier's actions, to the US govt actions, to the Predators' actions.  And after playing with what he considers a toy, an 11 years Asperger boy now has a better understanding of the tech than the guys working on it for 3 decades.

Pass.

[HVC]

Little mermaid is gonna be played by a black actress. The backlash is gonna be fun.

[Admiral Yi]

Watching Solo.  So much better.  Light hearted romp, well paced.

[Admiral Yi]

[spoiler]Han shoots first.[/spoiler]  That's cute.

[Savonarola]

Spiderman: Far From Home (2019)

The world is still reeling from the events of the last two Avenger movies; new global threats emerge and earth's mightiest remaining hero is: Spiderman? 

This is another coming of age story, like Homecoming, but this time it's that the torch has been passed rather than a John Hughes type story.  It's not one of the better Marvel movies; the big plot twist isn't much of a surprise [spoiler]and is almost identical to the one in Captain Marvel[/spoiler] and the villains nefarious scheme doesn't make sense.  I did like Spiderman's character arc, and the movie set the transition to the new post-Avengers and post-Blip world; [spoiler]and the theme of fakery I thought was timely in a world of social media gone mad.[/spoiler]

[Savonarola]

[spoiler]Kind of strange that instead of just re-setting the world, they bring back everyone who went missing.  Am I wrong in thinking that after 5 years away, having the world population double is going to cause a lot of problems?  Like you no longer have a job to go back to, your spouse may have remarried, that kind of thing?  How much do you want to bet this never really gets discussed in any further Marvel movies.
[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Since it was all life forms that would create over-population for any species with a quick breeding cycle.  For instance rats would have reached their equilibrium in a five year period but now half the rats from 2019 have returned.  Initially that would cause problems with infestation, then rat starvation and consequently the spread of diseases.

That probably won't be discussed in further Marvel movies...[/spoiler]

They did briefly discuss the changes in society caused by the Blip at the beginning of the film.  Alas they didn't get into the mechanics of rat over-population.

[11B4V]

Cobra Kai S2: A-

Zabka is still the standout.

[Liep]

Stranger Things season 3: Uma Thurman's daughter is in it.

[Eddie Teach]

Yesterday. It was fun.

[Valmy]

Little mermaid is gonna be played by a black actress. The backlash is gonna be fun.

I guess. In a tiresome deja vu sort of way.

[The Brain]

The maid is black. Yay stereotypes. Let me guess: she's a corpulent sassy woman who dotes on the daughter of the family and doesn't take shit from anybody, and freely shares her down-to-earth wisdom.

[Syt]

A look at the flaws in the Tiger ambush in Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FcGinPl38

[Josephus]

Little mermaid is gonna be played by a black actress. The backlash is gonna be fun.

Reverse cultural appropriation

[Duque de Bragança]

Little mermaid is gonna be played by a black actress. The backlash is gonna be fun.

Reverse cultural appropriation

Actually it's so reactionary... A non race-fluid and non genderqueer little mermaid is clearly whitriarchal.

[FunkMonk]

Midsommar. Quite good, though I felt it was a tad too long. If you liked Hereditary, you'll like this, although they're completely different horror movies.

I'll add a caveat to this: Midsommar is not really a horror movie, but it totally is.

8 Swedish pagan cults out of 10