TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

Rewatched The Boys From Brazil.  Joseph Mengele, played oddly by Gregory Peck (spoiler?)

It was originally a vehicle to celebrate the 1970 World Cup winning team, but it went badly off the rails.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I only know that movie from a throw away line in The Venture Bros.  I had to look the reference up, and thought it wasn't too far off.

[mongers]

The new Wallace & Gromit full length film 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' is now available on BBC Iplayer and Neflix.  It's brilliant. 

[Josephus]

Saw Gladiator II. Wasn't expecting much....but literally jumping the shark?

[Josephus]

Anybody watching that Dune prequel thing? (asking for a friend)

Yeah, it's very good.  Well written, acted and the production value is top notch.

You're quite right. I watched it. Quite well done. I liked that there was one main plot and no diversions and other story lines like, say, GoT. Short, to the point.

[crazy canuck]

Glad you liked it

[Darth Wagtaros]

Saw the MegaMan, WH40K and D&D episodes of Secret Level. I enjoyed them.

[Admiral Yi]

Rewatched Mad Max Thunder Road and it's not a movie you rewatch.

[celedhring]

To celebrate the new year, a friend of mine came up with the idea of listing our 25 favorite movies since 2000. Thought of sharing the list here.

The idea is not listing the best 25 movies of the century or anything, just the ones that have stayed with me the most.

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)
Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook, 2003)
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
Master & Commander (Peter Weir, 2003)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-Wook, 2005)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2011)
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2012)
Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-Wook, 2016)
Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2017)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
Parasite (Bong Jon-Hoo, 2019)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022)

[garbon]

To celebrate the new year, a friend of mine came up with the idea of listing our 25 favorite movies since 2000. Thought of sharing the list here.

The idea is not listing the best 25 movies of the century or anything, just the ones that have stayed with me the most.

Okay in the same spirit here's mine that I've cobbled together. And I'll admit I'm not sure of all the directors so I've skipped.

Amélie (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2003)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Love Actually (2003)
2046 (2004)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Casino Royale (2006)
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Weekend (2011)
About Time (2013)
Carol (2015)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Get Out (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Annihilation (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)
Parasite (2019)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
All of Us Strangers (2023)

[Barrister]

A: I haven't watched enough movies, and B: I don't want to dedicate the time, but I did want to say that "movies that stayed with me the most" is an interesting way to list movies.

[Sheilbh]

To celebrate the new year, a friend of mine came up with the idea of listing our 25 favorite movies since 2000. Thought of sharing the list here.

The idea is not listing the best 25 movies of the century or anything, just the ones that have stayed with me the most.

Interesting idea. Same spirit some probably missing. Some of this probably just reflects when I was watching lots of films v not Relatedly I've never realised before how big 2000 was or I might just have been a teenager watching lots of movies particularly with stoner friends (Requiem for a Dream, Memento especially...)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Memento (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Spirited Away (2001)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Irreversible (2002)
Hidden/Cache (2005)
Control (2007)
Zodiac (2007)
Hunger (2008)
Il Divo (2008)
In Bruges (2008)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Under the Skin (2013)
Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Whiplash (2014)
Moonlight (2016)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Hereditary (2018)
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)
Booksmart (2019)
The Green Knight (2021)
RRR (2022)

[Josquius]

I watched Wolf Hall. Finished the first series. It's pretty slow and plodding at times and takes some liberties with history albeit nothing crazy but is basically a pretty good historic drama looking at a well known story from the POV of someone who would normally be a supporting character. Pretty good.

Series 2 was weirdly made nearly a decade later (source material took so long to complete) and it shows. Scenes meant to have taken place a few hours apart show a clearly aged cast - Cromwells voice has particularly changed.

Also they've switched to colour blind casting with a fair few black actors to be seen.
 As expected this has enraged the usual crowd who can't comprehend when a show does this the creators are not claiming someone actually was black.
IMO... It is a bit off putting that the same show has made this switch between series. Where previously it was going for a realistic look now it's going more dramatic. I guess there are more dream sequences so maybe the whole air of things is a lot less literal?
When they do colour blind casting within families it's particularly iffy.
But still, a nit picking moan I have whilst at the same time disagreeing with the rage.
Interested to see how it goes as Anne Boleyn always gets tonnes of attention, subsequent wives less so.

[Maladict]

IMO... It is a bit off putting that the same show has made this switch between series.

To be fair, there's a ten year gap in-between the two seasons. Things change.

[garbon]

I think Carry-On was easily one of the worst films I've seen in some time.