This was insufferable. It’s not a movie. It’s an exposition of cinematography and actors reciting lines without anything to hold the audience’s attention. I hated this.
Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Whatcha watching?
- Thread starter Gorn
- Start date
This was insufferable. It’s not a movie. It’s an exposition of cinematography and actors reciting lines without anything to hold the audience’s attention. I hated this.
That’s how I feel about all of his films that I’ve seen. As formal exercises they hold a certain interest, but otherwise there is just nothing there. Not a fan.
The Gaffigan scene is just... chef's kiss perfect stupid. You're a phenomenal father. Seen that and Club Dread more times than I would admit if I could count them.
Into s02 of Detroiters and it is just the perfect amount of Tim Robinson for me. I always wondered why hotdogs make it into everything he does and it is literally just because they are the funniest food to him. Dude is a vegetarian. Effing hilarious. And silly. Great show to just shake off the world to.
Tires s02 is another solid B+ and I like a lot of the casting/cameos but Gilly And Keeves sketches are still their best work IMO.
Yellowjackets s03 is good but I think I watched it too quick and not in the mood for that kinda vibe. Not sure. I feel like I should've been more into it.
Earlier today? Trash Truck. Shizz is fire.
I had no idea what this was going into it. But then the opening credits sequence was a five minute overhead shot of Benicio Del Toro taking a bath and it dawned on me that this was a Wes Anderson movie. I stayed for what I thought had to be at least 80% of the movie, and then I went on wikipedia to see where I was in the plot summary and I was only halfway through. This movie is terrible.
Wes Anderson, ugh. 100% style, zero substance. But he keeps getting to make movie after movie. I truly don't get it.
I just remembered I was also bamboozled by Asteroid City. I didn't know it was a Wes Anderson movie at the time. I thought it was some kind of weird sci fi movie. It was just as terrible as this recent one. Every character can't be deadpan. It's an odd choice. Don't emote. Just recite the lines. I don't like it.
In this last one he has an estranged daughter who's a nun. Upon meeting him for the first time, finding out he's a nefarious trader baron of some sort, and learning that he probably killed her mother, she reacts as if being told the sky is blue and today is Thursday. If that's something that's amazing that I'm not understanding, maybe someone could explain it to me. Someone very important and influential in the movie business must have at one point told other important and influential people that Wes Anderson makes amazing movies, and actors and Hollywood people have no choice but to agree.
28 Years Later is great. It’s weird and suspenseful and oddly beautiful. I’m gonna see it again.
Jaws, and I'm already freaked out with my feet on the ottoman.
-Mike
-Mike
Moving on to First Blood.
David Caruso is in this movie, playing a role he is good at, police officer. He looks like a teenager.
-Mike
David Caruso is in this movie, playing a role he is good at, police officer. He looks like a teenager.
-Mike
Barry Lyndon.
This one was way too long for me, three hours, but it was good.
-Mike
This one was way too long for me, three hours, but it was good.
-Mike
Finishing up Better Call Saul. Great show.
I'll let you know (If I remember to, being an old fart) as I have not watched it since back in the late 1900s.
