What Have You Watched Recently?

[Ternaugh]

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Nicholas Meyer returns to directing Star Trek, in this fitting cap to the movies of the actors of the original series. (Hulu)

 

X-Men: Days of Future Past: Interesting soft reboot of the X-Men franchise. (Disney+)

[Warric01]

I recently start watching the first season of Cursed. And it is much interesting

[L. Marcus]

Hey, you guys! I've been to the movie theater!

 

We saw Christopher Nolan's Tenet. It was really good, almost as good as Inception. Mind-*bleep*ery of the finest brand.

[Dr. MID-Nite]

Currently watching Neo Ultra Q...basically a Japanese take on Twillight Zone.

[Matt the Bruins]

I went to the theater to see New Mutants, because I figure if it finally hitting theaters causes the end of the world, might as well have good seats.

 

It was actually pretty darn good, though I regret the changes to the nature/origin of a couple of the characters, especially now that the X-Men franchise is owned by Disney and supernatural explanations are back on the table. And I am casting SERIOUS side-eye at the director for making Roberto white because he wanted someone believable as a rich Brazillian, though I have no complaints about Henry Zaga's performance. Most of the characters were true to their comics personalities if not origins, and well acted. It falls in the upper half of the X-Men movies for me.

[slikmar]

I would consider local theater but can't stand the thought of trying to wear my mask (a little to heavy and hot) for 2+ hours sitting there. Would like to see New Mutants and Tenet.

[Matt the Bruins]

My theater allowed mask removal once you were in your (stadium) seat, though if I hadn't had a partitioned row to myself I'd probably have worn mine anyway. I've found the KN95 disposable masks to be much more comfortable than the blue surgical masks or homemade options—wore one through a 3-hour live theatre performance last month with very little discomfort.

[Dr. MID-Nite]

1 hour ago, Matt the Bruins said:

I went to the theater to see New Mutants, because I figure if it finally hitting theaters causes the end of the world, might as well have good seats.

 

It was actually pretty darn good, though I regret the changes to the nature/origin of a couple of the characters, especially now that the X-Men franchise is owned by Disney and supernatural explanations are back on the table. And I am casting SERIOUS side-eye at the director for making Roberto white because he wanted someone believable as a rich Brazillian, though I have no complaints about Henry Zaga's performance. Most of the characters were true to their comics personalities if not origins, and well acted. It falls in the upper half of the X-Men movies for me.

 

Ugh...I'm guessing magic for.....Magik...is out?

[Matt the Bruins]

It's inconclusive, but I think the various things she's able to do are treated as a very versatile set of mutant powers rather than actual magic (though it seems she may keep the codename). I do give them props for coming up with a workable substitute for the Belasco backstory that hits many of the same personal trauma beats without needing the X-Men's involvement.

[Dr. MID-Nite]

Currently doing my annual Halloween marathon....so I've watched:

 

The Night Stalker

Chopping Mall

Frogs

Kingdom of the Spiders

[Starlord]

 

[mattingly]

I predict that the child's first word will be "Way."

[Dr. MID-Nite]

Beast from 20000 Fathoms

[aylwin13]

Yesterday was the kidlet's 24th natal day anniversary. To celebrate we watched Howl's Moving Castle.

[Michael Hopcroft]

1 hour ago, aylwin13 said:

Yesterday was the kidlet's 24th natal day anniversary. To celebrate we watched Howl's Moving Castle.

Excellent choice! There is so much I could say about that film given the opportunity.

[dmjalund]

On 9/14/2020 at 9:29 AM, Dr. MID-Nite said:

 

Ugh...I'm guessing magic for.....Magik...is out?

Actually Dani And Illyana have magical elemeNts to their powers, just the origins of their powers differ a bit

[csyphrett]

On 9/13/2020 at 5:46 PM, Matt the Bruins said:

I went to the theater to see New Mutants, because I figure if it finally hitting theaters causes the end of the world, might as well have good seats.

 

It was actually pretty darn good, though I regret the changes to the nature/origin of a couple of the characters, especially now that the X-Men franchise is owned by Disney and supernatural explanations are back on the table. And I am casting SERIOUS side-eye at the director for making Roberto white because he wanted someone believable as a rich Brazillian, though I have no complaints about Henry Zaga's performance. Most of the characters were true to their comics personalities if not origins, and well acted. It falls in the upper half of the X-Men movies for me.

This was a finished movie before Disney bought it. They put no money in it, and asked nothing from the director. Anything they get from this will be kickback on the money they gave to buy fox's entertainment division.

CES  

[Bazza]

The Social Dilemma. Basically this film is about a group of mad scientists who used Shelley’s novel as their playbook and are now having their “Oppenheimer moment”.

[csyphrett]

Watched a bunch of pirated anime on Youtube

CES

[Michael Hopcroft]

I tried to watch Disney's attempt to get into the sci-fi market in 1979, The Black Hole. I tried to have an open mind about it, but about half an hour I had to give up.

 

So much stupid...

 

In between an "adorable" little robot companion who looked just silly, an enormous spaceship that looked equally stupid, all the signs of a Forbidden Planet outright remake, and completely uninterested performances from every actor on screen playing characters thin as cardboard (it's like everyone, including such distinguished actors as Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins, and Ernest Borgnine, knew this was crap but needed to collect the paycheck anyway), itwas such a perfect storm of **** that it was utterly unwatchable. Even MST3K couldn't make this entertaining.

[Dr. MID-Nite]

Trilogy of Terror

Tales from the Crypt (the 1972 movie)

THEM!

Re-Animator

The Void

The Abominable Dr. Phibes 

[Lord Liaden]

On 9/16/2020 at 12:08 PM, Dr. MID-Nite said:

Beast from 20000 Fathoms

 

4 hours ago, Dr. MID-Nite said:

THEM!

 

Two of my favorite sci-fi monster movies from the 1950s, and inspiration for many subsequent imitators, mostly inferior. Both notable for intelligent scripts and a strong, smart, female main character. I also have always thought Dr. Thurgood Elsen and Dr. Harold Medford would have gotten along splendidly.

[Bazza]

32 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

 

Two of my favorite sci-fi monster movies from the 1950s, and inspiration for many subsequent imitators, mostly inferior. Both notable for intelligent scripts and a strong, smart, female main character. I also have always thought Dr. Thurgood Elsen and Dr. Harold Medford would have gotten along splendidly.

We have super drafts that will allow Dr. Thurgood Elsen and Dr. Harold Medford to be on the same team. You'd just have to pick the draft. And we are nearly finished our Monsters vs Aliens super draft that can made that happen. 

[Duke Bushido]

This.

 

This is what I've watched recently.

 

I've been watching it for three hours.

 

I can't stop watching it.....

 

https://i.imgur.com/gbScYXA.mp4

 

 

[Matt the Bruins]

I watched the first season of Titans on a loaner DVD from the library. I have to eat crow, based on the promos when it first came out I thought it would be an overly-edgy shitshow like an R-rated version of most of the CW superhero shows, but it was actually quite good. All of the principal actors and most of the major guest ones except the guy who played Niles Caulder and maybe Alan Ritchson are really good, and I got pulled into the story very quickly.