2017 TV/Movie/Book Thread with Spoilers

[Iheartfootball]

Anybody watch 'This Is Us'? My lady got me watching it. I think it's absolutely amazing. You have to watch it from episode 1, tho.

Haven't watched the new season yet but will soon. It's very very good. The acting and writing is top notch.

I have a love/hate relationship with that show. For me, every episode starts out saccharine sweet or just melodramatic and settles in by the end to something I can get behind. But I have a hard time keeping up. I'm only a few episodes into the second season.

[blazza18]

Funny that Mr Robot was brought up. Was only just thinking I might be finally out on it.

[Turk Nowitzki]

Stranger Things 2 this weekend!

[GB_Packers]

Interested to hear what your guys and gals favorite movies of this year are and how you rank them. These are my rankings to my knowledge the movies I've seen that were released in 2017. My criteria was both quality of the film and my personal enjoyment level. Obviously the year is not over so some films (Disaster Artist, Star Wars) have a good chance to sky rocket to the top but so far..

1) American Made
2) Logan
3) Get Out
4) Baby Driver
5) Chef
6) Girls Trip
7) War For the Planet of the Apes
8) Life
9) Blade Runner 2049
10) Atomic Blonde
12) Wonder Woman
13) The Foreigner
14) The Wall
15) Kingsmen: Golden Circle
16) Fist Fight
17) Dunkirk
18) Guardians of the Galaxy 2
19) Alien Covenant
20) Kong Skull Island
21) Spider-Man Homecoming
22) Lego Batman
23) POTC: Dead Men Tell No Tales
24) Baywatch

Baywatch is one of the worst I've ever seen.

You really enjoyed a planet of the apes movie more than Dunkirk? Im not judging, just curious.

This Apes trilogy got better with each movie. Two and three are fantastic. Three underperforming while some of these other big movies did so well genuinely pissed me off. But I’m a bit of a movie buff so I’m weird like that.

Can’t wait for Matt Reeves (director of the second and third Apes movies) Batman movie in these next few years.

[El Duderino]

Can we talk Walking Dead?

Spoiler:

1. Not sure if anyone else caught it, but the scene where Carl is off looking for gas at the beginning, it is an exact recreation of the opening scene of the series where Rick sees/shoots the little girl zombie. They parked at the same exact accident, went to the same gas station, looked in the same car window, and knelt/looked under the same car. I wouldn't have known it except I happened to catch the beginning of the 1st episode this morning. Not sure what it's intended to show. They've been through so much, but haven't gone anywhere? Passing of the torch from Rick to Carl? Kind of cool though.

2. There are what, 70? people with guns pointed at Negan and his lieutenants and they decide to hold a conversation rather than just shooting them? What? Also, Negan just walked out of the door into 70 guns pointed at him assuming no one would shoot? How stupid has this show gotten?

3. I can't stand how the zombies are just used as a convenience to further a plot agenda at this point. Attacking a compound? Wait an hour and you'll certainly come across a herd of thousands of them that you can guide to said compound.

IDK, I'm too invested to stop watching now but I think the show has kind of jumped the shark here a bit.

If they would have shot and killed Negan, i might have punted on the show.

Prior to last season i had started growing more and more bored/annoyed by the show, but Negan's arrival got me back in. He's by far my favorite character and mainly what's keeping me interested.

I get why AMC keeps Walking Dead going, it has a loyal following. That said, it's hard for any show to last 8 seasons and not start going off the rails. Breaking Bad was smart to end things while the show was still good vs dragging it out simply because it got good ratings.

[GB_Packers]

I read a list of 100 scariest movies of all time and it had the Texas Chainsaw Massacre at #1. I'd never seen it before and I got it into my head that I should give these movies a look. Biggest waste of two hours ever. What a piece of trash.

This should be a bannable offense. Or at least removal of mod status. Slanderous filth

One of my favorite horror movies ever. I can certainly see why someone wouldn’t like it though, hell I wasn’t even a big fan the very first time I watched it. Watched it again a few years later and wanted to slap my slightly younger self for ever doubting it in the first place.

[El Duderino]

Funny that Mr Robot was brought up. Was only just thinking I might be finally out on it.

I like how this season has started compared to last season.

[ReasonablySober]

Brawl in Cell Block 99 is shockingly good. Probably my favorite movie this year.

[GB_Packers]

The stuff with Negan walking out like he did on this past episode was a fairly accurate page to screen translation, from what I remember reading back at the beginning of the All Out War arc. Maybe not the smartest thing for him to do, especially considering show Negan has been a bit smarter than comic Negan up to this point but eh, was cool seeing a pretty faithful adaptation so I didn’t have a huge problem with it.

Then again, I’m enjoying the **** out of Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan so I’m likely far more forgiving of this type of stuff than others.

[bizarro]

Holy s#$% 'Halt and Catch Fire' is amazing. Hit me on so many levels. Legitimately sad to see those characters leave. A job extremely well done. Thanks, RS/DB for bringing this show to my attention.

[bizarro]

Holy s#$% 'Halt and Catch Fire' is amazing. Hit me on so many levels. Legitimately sad to see those characters leave. A job extremely well done. Thanks, RS/DB for bringing this show to my attention.

I hate to quote my own post but, man, the character and story development over a mere 4 seasons and 40 episodes was astoundingly good. We traveled.

[ReasonablySober]

Holy s#$% 'Halt and Catch Fire' is amazing. Hit me on so many levels. Legitimately sad to see those characters leave. A job extremely well done. Thanks, RS/DB for bringing this show to my attention.

I hate to quote my own post but, man, the character and story development over a mere 4 seasons and 40 episodes was astoundingly good. We traveled.

I'm really gonna love re-watching the whole thing again.

[bizarro]

Holy s#$% 'Halt and Catch Fire' is amazing. Hit me on so many levels. Legitimately sad to see those characters leave. A job extremely well done. Thanks, RS/DB for bringing this show to my attention.

I hate to quote my own post but, man, the character and story development over a mere 4 seasons and 40 episodes was astoundingly good. We traveled.

I'm really gonna love re-watching the whole thing again.

Hear ye. Hear ye. I mean, i went from having early favorites. To hating most of the characters (though still completely enthralling). To loving all of them. It was just so damn human. So rewarding.

[blazza18]

Enjoyed Stranger Things season two. Thought season one was more "fun", but they definitely backed it up with a really solid sequel.

[Turk Nowitzki]

Enjoyed Stranger Things season two. Thought season one was more "fun", but they definitely backed it up with a really solid sequel.

I thought it was pretty great. There's some nitpicks I can make (Episode 7) but I think there was a high degree of difficulty with all the characters and story arcs to juggle and it easily could've gone downhill really fast. I enjoyed it every bit as much as the first season.

[blazza18]

Enjoyed Stranger Things season two. Thought season one was more "fun", but they definitely backed it up with a really solid sequel.

I thought it was pretty great. There's some nitpicks I can make (Episode 7) but I think there was a high degree of difficulty with all the characters and story arcs to juggle and it easily could've gone downhill really fast. I enjoyed it every bit as much as the first season.

Episode 7 was so out of place and made even worse with the climax of the previous episode.

Spoiler:

I'd have loved the season even more if it didn't take until the end of episode 8 before Eleven joined back up with the other kids.

[Turk Nowitzki]

Enjoyed Stranger Things season two. Thought season one was more "fun", but they definitely backed it up with a really solid sequel.

I thought it was pretty great. There's some nitpicks I can make (Episode 7) but I think there was a high degree of difficulty with all the characters and story arcs to juggle and it easily could've gone downhill really fast. I enjoyed it every bit as much as the first season.

Episode 7 was so out of place and made even worse with the climax of the previous episode.

Spoiler:

I'd have loved the season even more if it didn't take until the end of episode 8 before Eleven joined back up with the other kids.

Spoiler:

Yeah, it was so strange and so out of place that it felt like a backdoor pilot for a new spinoff show or something. I guess they were trying to expand the world a bit but it did not work at all.

I get what they were trying to do with Eleven's arc this season but I agree, she probably should've rejoined the main story slightly earlier on.

[BMatt07]

Just finished the new season of Stranger Things, I thought it was good overall. It was a little bit slower to me in the middle, but the last two episodes were awesome. I liked the ending more this season for sure. Really the only episode I didn't like this season was episode 7.

[ReasonablySober]

I didn't expect to like it, but Shooter is great. Five episodes in and I'm bummed to find out the series didn't end properly.


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[Fresh_Prince12]

I loved the new season of stranger things.

Spoiler:

Bob was so intriguing to me. It seemed like the show wanted you to think there was something going on with him. He seemed too good of a person, but would smile at inappropriate times. He also gave advice to Will that kicked off the whole thing. Then there was the time the mom pointed out that he was really cold holding the coffee mug, implying like he might be possessed too. When he volunteered to hack in the computer, which he was way to gun ho about, I was convinced he was gonna expose himself as a bad guy. Then he died a heroes death and became motivation for the group. I was so confused. I liked him a lot though