Outbreak
The Happening
Why would you want to watch a movie about a pandemic? Don’t you get enough of that from the news?
Better to get something cheerful. We watched Farmageddon last night. Pick any Aardman Animations film: Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, or Arthur Christmas.
I also have a stash of Busby Berkeley musicals. If it got people through the Great Depression, it’s get you through hard times now.
On Netflix, there’s Derry Girls, Sex Education, Miss Fisher, etc.
Pluto TV lets you binge* MST3K*, classic Doctor Who, Midsomer Murders and old sitcoms.
How about movies about the irony-deficient, RealityChuck?
Do you have any suggestions?
Because familiarity tends to diminish how scary something is which allows people to simply deal with it instead of being frightened out of their wits and panicking, maybe.
First day at a new school or job, etc.? Terrifying.
150th day at that school or job? Just another day.
Etc., etc.
A word of warning: don’t watch Contagion before Outbreak or it will be extra difficult to forgive how dumb Outbreak is.
Me…because i have attention problems, I’m watching two at once over a span of days.
Day of Anger and Django Unchained
I love both but, man Django Unchained makes me nervous so its hard to watch too much at once.
Little story, when Day of Anger started, I thought “Man that theme is so kicking it should be in a Tarantino movie.” Well of course not only is it in Django Unchained…I had already seen the scene. I’m an idiot.
So far the only other movie I’ve watched was Django (1966) Another great theme song. It was great. That one kept my attention.
Up until now I had only ever seen part of Zero Hour!, when I stumbled across it on MeTV or similar. Today I watched that, immediately followed by Airplane!.
I’ve watched the following the last week:
Bliss - OK, but nothing amazing
Good Time - had high hopes, but was kind of disappointing
Resident Evil - what a hilarious mess
Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Almost better than the first one, but a mess
Resident Evil: Extinction - Zombies + Mad Max 2 - George Miller = this movie(it was kind of bad)
Just about to watch Limitless.
I am tempted to watch Cats. I may need convincing.
I’ve been working my way thru Doc Martin. I’d seen the first few seasons some time back, but I started again.
I haven’t been in the mood for any movies, tho. We’ll see what happens in the coming days.
Watched the first Harry Potter movie last night. Might watch the second one tonight, or next weekend. We’re working from home, and we have a number of series on the DVR as well, so we don’t have as much time for movies.
Also considering Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, plus the Marvel Cinematic Series movies.
Sabato, domenica e lunedì (1990, Lina Wertmüller), if you can find it.
I saw it five or six years ago and, although I thought it was great fun, I’d like to see it again to confirm that impression. Not everyone’s going to like the plot, as it’s about a weekend that coincides with a crisis in a 30-year marriage and the making of Neapolitan ragù. Director Lina Wertmüller is strongly influenced by Fellini, so there’s intelligent humor along with the whining, yelling and screaming that you’d expect in an Italian film about the specter of jealousy. Check out her IMDB “full bio” entry and comments on modern directors (bottom of page). I remember this film as being much more than just another of the “women+love+food” films that abounded in the 90s. I think it’s very hard to find, though. Looks like Amazon doesn’t carry it and I think it hasn’t even been reissued on DVD. I came across it in the wee hours as part of a very small local broadcaster’s cinema offering, and I haven’t seen even a mention of it anywhere since then.
On the Beach
You posted this seven days ago. Changed your mind about staying home yet?
I don’t think any of the later ones measure up to the first one, but maybe that’s just me. After a while I got lost in all the characters. It’s fun to watch the principals grow up.
I’ve got a stack of DVDs I’ve been pulling out and watching
–Several episodes of Mystery Science Theater I either haven’t seen, or haven’t seen in a long time, like I Was a Teenage Werewolf
– Ray Harryhausen films, like Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts
– Science Fiction – John Carter of Mars, Ender’s Game
– We’re almost finished watching the boxed set of All Avengers episodes with Diana Rigg that friends gave us as a Christmas present over a year ago.
– My wife and daughter, Pepper Mill and MilliCal, have been bingeing on Netflix. I’ve generally avoided this, but we did watch the three part BBC Dracula, which was interesting. Like the last time the BBC “adapted” Dracula (the one with David Suchet as Van Helsing), they’re trying to see how far they can push the envelope. This one was written by Doctor Who alumnus Steven Moffat. It’s interesting, but weird, with excellent dialogue. He clearly saw the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing/Hammer version before he wrote this.
– I’ve been doing a lot of reading, going through my stack of saved-up books. I’ve been writing, as well – an apparently endless stream of editing chores for my Wonderland book (I once told someone that you had better really LOVE what you’ve written, because you’re going to be reading it over and over and over again until you HATE it) – another optics article, a paper for my sometime work, a mathemnatical method I’ve been thinking about for years, and I hope to finally finish up a fantasy story I started last summer for my writing group.
Our family has been having some movie nights. We just saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (a terrific Steve Martin/Michael Caine comedy we all love) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (a childhood favorite that holds up pretty well).
Another, older thread on the same topic: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=891735