OT TV and Movies (Please use spoiler tags)

[tedbrogen]

So I think 28 Years Later might be one of the best sequels of all time? I haven't been able to stop thinking it since leaving the theater.

Lengthy scenes where I was just watching slack-jawed. Real legit edge of your seat moments. Some of the most gnarly stuff I've ever seen in a movie. One scene in-particular I wish I could bleach clean from my memory forever. But it's also really sweet and hits you emotionally. I had no idea there was a third star in the movie and when they showed up I was absolutely delighted.

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And yet, it ends with a straight up absurd ode to A Clockwork Orange that made me literally go, "WHAT" in a silent theater when credits rolled. I knew there was going to be a sequel, and that this is a planned trilogy, but WHAT THE **** WAS THAT ENDING. Single biggest tone shift since another Garland/Boyle joint in Sunshine. I just couldn't believe it.

28 Days Later is my favorite "horror" flick of all time. 28 Weeks Later was just carnage, not for me. Might just go see 28 Years Later.

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As soon as I saw the trailer, I clocked the zombie as Cillian Murphy. I'm right, right?

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Nope. Cillian is not in this one. This is a planned trilogy with two of them already filmed. Cillian will be in the next one. Also knowing who Jimmy Savile was will help the character that shows up at the end make more sense.

Years is certainly different than Days but it has some great inventiveness.
Days was great because each act pays tribute to Romero’s Dead trilogy while also taking inspiration from Return of the Living Dead (fast zombies, freeze frame shot when they crash through the gate near the end).
Years is unique as they did some stuff completely new to the genre or even horror as a whole.

[tedbrogen]

I really gotta give Mad Men a try again at some point. I love the era it's set in, love the marketing bull kinda stuff, and I like a lot of the actors in it but I struggled to get into that first season for whatever reason.

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First season is very slow it picks up but its never going to be a fast paced show.

This. The pacing of the episodes is always slower than most shows. But the pacing of the plot really accelerates in season two. Season one has a lot of finding out who the characters are. After that it becomes more about how they handle the business/world changing around them.

[Ron Swanson]

Watched the newest John Oliver where he does a deep dive on "AI slop" and how much it's infiltrated social media, news, advertising, etc. Yeah, I think the human race is cooked, man. We're doomed....

[ReasonablySober]

I think how people talk about 2007 is how I talk about 2015

[FrieAaron]

Impossible to narrow down to 10 movies.

[ReasonablySober]

To be honest if I just went by movies I enjoyed the most it would look closer to this



Here was my initial lists I divided into two categories, loosely described as favorites vs favorites with some cred:

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Ocean's Eleven
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Josie and the Pussycats
Sunshine
Inside Man
Miami Vice
Serendipity
Donnie Darko
Big Fish
Super Troopers
The Ring
Old School
Identity
The Room
EuroTrip
Just Like Heaven
Step Up
Fracture
Definitely, Maybe
Star Trek
(500) Days of Summer
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Source Code
Footloose
The Cabin in the Woods
Magic Mike XXL
Savages
Edge of Tomorrow
John Wick
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Everybody Wants Some!!
Hush
The Nice Guys
Hell or High Water
The Accountant
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Logan Lucky
Avengers: Endgame
Palm Springs
Love and Monsters
The Kid Detective
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Annihilation
Greenland
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
Top Gun: Maverick
Confess, Fletch
The Day After Tomorrow
The Menu

and

Lost in Translation
Something the Lord Made
The Departed
There Will Be Blood
Atonement
The Dark Knight
WALL-E
The Social Network
Black Swan
Whiplash
Interstellar
The Martian
Spotlight
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
Oppenheimer

[emunney]

Just taking a look and what a wasteland the 2010s were for me. Not that there hasn't been anything good, but I really didn't consider anything from that decade over anything I picked. Anyway here's mine.

[emunney]

Some of the hardest to leave off were Michael Clayton, Oldboy, Perfect Days, Children of Men.

[Licensed to Il]

Some of the hardest to leave off were Michael Clayton, Oldboy, Perfect Days, Children of Men.

I did like Michael Clayton, but a group of friends raved it was exceptional… to me it was just a solid, well acted, slow burn.

I think Slumdog Millionaire had an inventive plot (at the time), great energy, fresh actors. Not an all timer, but certainly belongs on my “best of 00-20” lists.

[ReasonablySober]

Some of the hardest to leave off were Michael Clayton, Oldboy, Perfect Days, Children of Men.

I did like Michael Clayton, but a group of friends raved it was exceptional… to me it was just a solid, well acted, slow burn.

That's how I feel about it. It wasn't until the last couple years that I realized a lot of people think it's a masterpiece. I probably should have known that earlier, considering it was up for ton of awards.

[ReasonablySober]

Read on Twitter

Now that's interesting as hell.

[Matches Malone]

Read on Twitter

Now that's interesting as hell.

[Prez]

[Prez]

Oh wow, Villeneuve going to direct the next Bond movie

[blazza18]

Zodiac is a great shout.

[emunney]

He like-a de Gyllenhaal

[Matches Malone]

[MickeyDavis]

[FrieAaron]

"Gangs of New York" is great. I see it get a fair amount of hate compared to the rest of Scorsese's but I love how operatic it is.

[BUCKnation]

F1 isn't doing anything new story wise but the action and cinematography is awesome. Really fun movie, see it on the biggest screen possible.

In terms of similar films, I rate it below Ford v Ferrari and Top gun 2, but I hold those in high regard