OT: TV and Movies

[Iheartfootball]

I’m on the third episode, and I can genuinely say I love Joe Pera. At the end there’s a waterfall and I said “that looks like root beer.” I **** you not two seconds later Joe Pera says, “doesn’t that water look like root beer? I wish it was too.” He gets it.

[machu46]

Doing a run through the movies of my childhood with my kids. Giving Terminator a go today and holy **** does Kyle Reece look like Pat.

I kinda did something similar except it wasn’t my childhood. But I did go back and watch a lot of the movies from that era that I never got around to before. Terminator and Terminator 2 were really good.


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[machu46]

Went to see Nope today. Thought it was really good up until the final act, which just dragged on too long unfortunately. Pretty fun theater experience though. Certainly not as great as Get Out was but I do think it was better than Us.


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[AussieBuck]

Doing a run through the movies of my childhood with my kids. Giving Terminator a go today and holy **** does Kyle Reece look like Pat.

I kinda did something similar except it wasn’t my childhood. But I did go back and watch a lot of the movies from that era that I never got around to before. Terminator and Terminator 2 were really good.


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I had to explain to the kids the limitations of 80s special effects! Excited to move onto T2 next

[buckboy]

T2 is a top 5 movie ever for me. Time-and-a-place thing probably, but I can never get enough of it. I actually saw it 3 times in 3 different theaters the day it came out. Silly, but I have no regrets. Plus I was 19 and had nothing better to do.

[Ron Swanson]

First two Terminator movies are up there with some of the best sci-fi action movies of all-time. Everything since then has been absolute ****. It's pretty amazing actually how they seem incapable of making a decent Terminator movie even with the aid of modern VFX.

FWIW, the stop-motion sequence at the end of the first movie is still pure nightmare fuel (maybe a bad idea that my dad let me first watch that movie at 7 years old....).

[4xBuck]

Yep on T1 & T2. T1 is excellent and T2 is great. Probably the greatest sequel of all time... Damn shame they couldn't figure anything out after T2. They sure have tried, though. They went right to Rocky V after T2 and have stayed there.

For a great 80's movie with 80's special effects, Poltergeist is fantastic. It's a nerve racking movie with a lot of great lines- "They're here"- "This house is clean"- "YOU NEVER MOVED THE BODIES. YOU MOVED THE HEADSTONES BUT NOT THE BODIES!!!!".

For the special effects. I'll spoiler it:

Spoiler:

When that dude ripped his face off it freaked me out. It looked so real at the time.

Fast forward to a couple years ago when I saw it on TV. I waited to watch that scene. Afterwards I was like what?!? That was the special effects! It was crap, lol... Oh well, I choose to remember how great it was in 1982 when I was kid.

[machu46]

Doing a run through the movies of my childhood with my kids. Giving Terminator a go today and holy **** does Kyle Reece look like Pat.

I kinda did something similar except it wasn’t my childhood. But I did go back and watch a lot of the movies from that era that I never got around to before. Terminator and Terminator 2 were really good.


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I had to explain to the kids the limitations of 80s special effects! Excited to move onto T2 next

The effects in T1 have not aged well lol. T2 is actually pretty impressive though.


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[MoreTrife]

Decided to do the umpeenth run through of rewatching Star Wars, after chatting with my son we decided to include everything. Kicked off with The Phantom Menance and I'm hear to tell you it's perfectly fine and, perhaps more controversially, Jar Jar Binks is fine and doesn't ruin my childhood by existing.

I watched the Disney+ documentary of Industrial Lights and Magic (very good BTW) and watching it made me want to go back and watch a lot of the Star Wars movies.

[Ron Swanson]

The two best parts about the Star Wars prequels were both in the Phantom Menace (pod-racers & Maul vs. Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan lightsaber duel). So that kinda makes it the best one by default. But Clones and Revenge of the Sith? Truly awful, terrible movies with special effects that don't even hold up to this day. Like sorry, I'm not gonna stand for this weird nostalgia-fest over Hayden Christensen and ret-conning those movies as anything other than terrible.

100% convinced the last two movies (The Last Jedi & Rise of Skywalker) were so bad that it simply caused a "well, I guess these aren't that bad" effect on the prequels. Which while fair, isn't really that high of a bar to clear.

[buckboy]

Decided to do the umpeenth run through of rewatching Star Wars, after chatting with my son we decided to include everything. Kicked off with The Phantom Menance and I'm hear to tell you it's perfectly fine and, perhaps more controversially, Jar Jar Binks is fine and doesn't ruin my childhood by existing.

Woof. Disagree, but to each their own. I will say that they had enough sense to make JarJar basically disappear after the first one.

I just watched the first three and they are painfully badly-written.

[WeekapaugGroove]

Rewatching all 6 Lord of the Rings movies before the Amazon show drops. I think I watched the Hobbit trilogy when it came out but didn't remember any of it. Jackson should have chilled out with the CGI and focused a little more on story/character development. Also while it's a fantasy show so I'm not going to get too worked up about realism some of the scenes where they are running from smaug are so ridiculous I could only laugh.

Actually kind of stoked for the new series. It's set so far back they shouldn't be contrainded by following any existing cannon too closely. If they hired some decent writers it could be a fun show.

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[buckboy]

Rewatching all 6 Lord of the Rings movies before the Amazon show drops. I think I watched the Hobbit trilogy when it came out but didn't remember any of it. Jackson should have chilled out with the CGI and focused a little more on story/character development. Also while it's a fantasy show so I'm not going to get too worked up about realism some of the scenes where they are running from smaug are so ridiculous I could only laugh.

Actually kind of stoked for the new series. It's set so far back they shouldn't be contrainded by following any existing cannon too closely. If they hired some decent writers it could be a fun show.

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Funny, I just started watching the LOTR movies with my 2 youngest daughters. We're just starting ROTK, the 11 year old is waaaay into it, 9 year old not so much. Looking forward to watching the series with the 11 y.o.

Not even going to bother with the Hobbit movies probably. They're just not in the same league as LOTR.

[EastSideBucksFan]

The two best parts about the Star Wars prequels were both in the Phantom Menace (pod-racers & Maul vs. Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan lightsaber duel). So that kinda makes it the best one by default. But Clones and Revenge of the Sith? Truly awful, terrible movies with special effects that don't even hold up to this day. Like sorry, I'm not gonna stand for this weird nostalgia-fest over Hayden Christensen and ret-conning those movies as anything other than terrible.

100% convinced the last two movies (The Last Jedi & Rise of Skywalker) were so bad that it simply caused a "well, I guess these aren't that bad" effect on the prequels. Which while fair, isn't really that high of a bar to clear.

Besides Jar Jar Binks, I honestly liked all the prequels

Last Jedi was really good and so was Rise of Skywalker, besides a few critiques.

[KidA24]

There are some really good fan edits of the Hobbit Trilogy out there, which cut it down to ~4 hours (or even less).

Remove a lot of the crap that they threw at the wall to turn it into a trilogy.

[Iheartfootball]

Did we talk about the Woodstock 99 Netflix/HBO docs? I remembered following that weekend on MTV and on the news but not like that. Property destruction, looting, hyperthermia (one death from it), sickness from bathing and drinking contaminated water, rape, and assault. By Monday morning it looked like a war zone.

I think the HBO doc pointed out how we idealized the 69 Woodstock because of the documentary. In reality, it was not all peace and love. There were similar issues with it and the 99 Woodstock.

Also, it was fascinating that the 99 Woodstock chose gun violence as its social cause and tried to carry the same 69 ethos of peace and love but was held at the former Griffiss Air Force Base.

If you haven't watched them I recommend both.

[WeekapaugGroove]

Did we talk about the Woodstock 99 Netflix/HBO docs? I remembered following that weekend on MTV and on the news but not like that. Property destruction, looting, hyperthermia (one death from it), sickness from bathing and drinking contaminated water, rape, and assault. By Monday morning it looked like a war zone.

I think the HBO doc pointed out how we idealized the 69 Woodstock because of the documentary. In reality, it was not all peace and love. There were similar issues with it and the 99 Woodstock.

Also, it was fascinating that the 99 Woodstock chose gun violence as its social cause and tried to carry the same 69 ethos of peace and love but was held at the former Griffiss Air Force Base.

If you haven't watched them I recommend both.

I was in college at the time and a total hippie and remember thinking it was ridiculous they were headlining a 'woodstock' with metal bands. Absolutely ridiculous that they thought it was going to be peace and love with that lineup. Also the promotors cut a **** ton of corners and were negligent.

The real 90s Woodstock was Phish 99 new years festival down on the Seminole reservation. Other than the traffic jam getting in that was an epic festival. The first ever Bonnaroo in 2002 was also awesome, now tye lineups suck.

Speaking of festivals anyone here attend any of the Big Wu family reunion in Black River Falls in the late 90s/early 2000's? Those were small but awesome.

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[ReasonablySober]

I really didn't like the first season of Industry. Everyone sucked.

[Ron Swanson]

I really didn't like the first season of Industry. Everyone sucked.

Haven't watched it but every time I see the ads I think "Gen Z Succession". Maybe I'll give it a shot, but is there really this much appetite for more shows that ask you to root for rich, corporate douchebags? It's such a weird phenomenon to me.

[wapith]

The two best parts about the Star Wars prequels were both in the Phantom Menace (pod-racers & Maul vs. Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan lightsaber duel). So that kinda makes it the best one by default. But Clones and Revenge of the Sith? Truly awful, terrible movies with special effects that don't even hold up to this day. Like sorry, I'm not gonna stand for this weird nostalgia-fest over Hayden Christensen and ret-conning those movies as anything other than terrible.

100% convinced the last two movies (The Last Jedi & Rise of Skywalker) were so bad that it simply caused a "well, I guess these aren't that bad" effect on the prequels. Which while fair, isn't really that high of a bar to clear.

Besides Jar Jar Binks, I honestly liked all the prequels

Last Jedi was really good and so was Rise of Skywalker, besides a few critiques.

I'll stand for Phantom Menace a bit. The other two prequels I enjoy because they are Star Wars, but it is hard to get past the cringey dialogue.

The new sequel... I did not like. 1st one was OK. Last Jedi and Rise I have no desire to watch again.