We had to delay seeing Weapons today, and are targeting Thursday. That movie might need a thread of its own.
You call it unscary horror, I call it “Urban Fantasy”.
Cool. Hopefully Hollywood will use that description for movies like this so I can save my time and $20 for something entertaining.
I thought Wes Anderson was already a thing! 
Yes, but his movies have symmetrical and centered framing and vibrant color palettes, which apparently are hilarious to people that know movies. 
Well, aren’t you just a ray of sunshine in this thread.
Love the cast but never found a clean version without a lot of grain.
Enemy at the Gate
Still great movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O-sMh_DO6I &1
Weitz has a very cute ass
I have a parttime job where there is a flurry of activity followed by long periods with nothing to do. Sometimes I get to work by myself, all alone, and that’s when I fire-up the iPad and watch a movie on Netflix. I usually watch an older film that I might not watch at home. And I can start and stop it as I please.
Today, I watched “The Jerk,” the 1979 movie that made Steve Martin a movie star, written by Martin and a couple of other people, and directed by Carl Reiner. I haven’t seen this in decades. It’s leaving Netflix at the end of the month.
Yes, it’s kinda stupid, and some of the comedic segments take way too long to play out, but I gotta say, it’s still pretty funny. I laughed out loud several times. You couldn’t remake “The Jerk” today. Nobody else could carry it off the way Martin did. It totally works on Martin’s dumb charm and Reiner’s sense of comic timing. Watch it, if only for the sake of nostalgia for a time in which a comedy could be funny without four-letter words being thrown in every 10 seconds.
Unless he’s talking to his dog. 
I finally watched When The Wind Blows. It’s as sad and poignant and unrelentingly depressing as I had read, but what the summations I have read failed to convey is how utterly stupid the couple is. It kinds of takes away from the film.
Now there wasn’t much they could do, no matter how smart they were, but still! (Upon smelling burning flesh from fires nearby) “I guess they are starting their Sunday barbeques early.” And upon contemplating radiation “Well if you can’t see it and can’t feel it, it can’t be doing you any harm, can it?”
I don’t think they are coping, or lying to each other because they know how bad it is. I think they are that ignorant.
We finally saw it today spoiler-free, and we were both in the somewhat unusual camp of ‘it was entertaining enough’ without thinking it was great. One thought:
The chronology took a lot of tension out of the movie, because you learn a lot about who will still be alive when the timelines do converge.
I did think the acting was excellent, particularly Julia Garner. Also, I’m not on TikTok, but I have zero doubt there are trends of kids running with their arms out like that.
I think Malignant, Barbarian and Longlegs had quite a bit of that.
Apparently it was inspired by this famous photo. (Warning: Famous but still disturbing)
Ah. If it’s the Vietnam one, I didn’t make the connection before, but it popped into my head when you said that.
F1
Not recommended.
Not terrible, but I mainly found myself bored with this movie. Few good moments, maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood.
Not my cup of tea.
Eenie Meanie (2025) on Hulu.
It promised to be a lighthearted heist caper film. But except for about ten minutes of decent car chases, it’s a melodramatic mess.
I watched Thunderbolts* last night. It was okay, I guess. It was quite small scale, which is not the usual for these kinds of team-up movies. And I didn’t feel like the villain was built up or explained very effectively. But it was fun, and funny, and I guess that’s something.
Yes, that is entirely the point. They are a nice little couple living a nice little life in their nice little cottage in their nice little town, completely unaware of what is happening in the wider world around them - as is true of a lot of older couples even these days.
That’s not the part that bothers me.
It’s the “gee there’s no water/electricity/gas/TV/phone/newspaper and mail delivery, I wonder why? and the milk went bad.” They don’t even know why, they just complain.
These are people that lived through the blitz. They should have a concept of a clue, at least.
But after thinking about it more, I’m even more annoyed at their lack of empathy, or even curiosity. Not once do they even bother to wonder about how their neighbors are doing, or bother to go check. 10, 20 million people dead and they can’t even shed a tear, or even care. Including their own son! They think it is like the Blitz and those natzees (!) will be be defeated again even though they had 50 years living with the bomb and the Soviet threat and should well know it isn’t the same.
I like depressing pre- and post-apocalyptic films. On the Beach, Miracle Mile, Children of Men. WTWB suffered from the main characters, IMO
Monty Python’s Life of Brian. (Amazon Prime, included with subscription).
As mentioned in another thread, my wife had never heard of [url=You'd think everyone would know about - #422 by JohnT]Monty Python[/url] before, so after a few YouTube clips, she agreed to watch LoB last night. Was funny at parts, silly at other parts (completely forgot about the space aliens), all in all she enjoyed it… but it didn’t prevent her from yawning at times. We will watch Holy Grail soon, I started with LoB because she knows the Jesus story and could possibly be lost in a story full of Arthurian tropes.
I told her that, to me, MP isn’t necessarily LOL-funny in the viewing, but they are fantastic in the retelling, and she may be proving that to herself as she made a couple of MP references this morning.
My landlady recently lost her husband and has been relying on her family and friends for comfort and company.
When she comes over to our trailer, we watch movies.
Miss Congeniality on Paramount Plus:
She laughed a few times, which was good to hear. And I liked it too. It has been a few years since I’d seen it, and I think I’d only seen it once or twice all the way through.
Sister Act on Disney Plus:
A very funny movie with great music and character development. We watched it last night after the service for Cherie’s husband, and I think she found it comforting.
After Hours (1985). One of the more obscure films from Martin Scorsese. It promised to be a hilarious, well-done comedy, but in the end, it wasn’t.
An office worker meets a woman on the way home from work, gets her number, and later decides to call her, and she invites him over. From there things just get weirder and weirder, and turn into a dystopian nightmare on a rainy night in New York, a night in which almost anything bad can happen, and does. Unfortunately very little of it is actually funny (except maybe to those who enjoy very dark comedy) and I mostly just found it depressing.