What have you been watching lately? 2024 Edition

Not About Food
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I forgot to include that, yes, it should def be considered a xmas movie.

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I’ve seen Trick ‘R Treat (the anthology that contained the original “Art the clown” short, and I’ve seen the first Terrifier feature.

I really appreciate their commitment to seriously gory practical effects, but something about the film just turned me off. The first movie is, more or less, plotless. Art captures girls. Tortures and kills them. One gets away.

I know it’s meant as a sort of exercise is extremity but it felt pointlessly cruel enough that never got around to the second or third movie.

I may need to revisit them at some point.

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I just caught a few minutes of an old SNL Weekend Update with Maya Rudolph channeling Whitney Houston. Cocaine brownies.:laughing:

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It’s over-the-top and therefore pretty hard to be taken seriously. The effects are purposely retro and not particularly realistic.

I mean… it’s no Hostel, which I haven’t seen and likely never will.

As for lacking a plot, well, that could be said about lesser horror movies — in the end, as it always does, it comes down to one’s personal preferences.

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We just started Bad Sisters last night, and had I known it was created by and stars Sharon Horgan, I would’ve gotten to it a lot sooner.

We also finished No Good Deed, which was fun. But now it feels like everything we watch (Bad Monkey, also, too) is “someone is dead, and everyone else has SECRETS.” Which is starting to wear thin for me.

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We enjoyed Black Doves on Netflix.

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You’re in for a treat. Claes Bang is amazing as one of the most deliciously loathsome fictional characters on TV this year. The second season was just ok for me, and given your second paragraph, you may well tire of it before it’s done.

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I usually stick it out, even if my affection has cooled. And I loved Catastrophe so much.

But guess who has two thumbs and probably won’t bother with Squid Game season II?

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I’m not super-excited about it, either.

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Have a full house of grandkids and watched Paddington and Paddington 2. Loved them both!

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The bad guy was the best character on season 1. I enjoyed season 1 but haven’t felt compelled to watch season 2.

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We started the second season of Squid Games bc it was there, basically. The first two episodes didn’t suck, but we’ll have to see how things continue.

We also rewatched Burn After Reading, an often overlooked Coen Bros flick that has some hysterically funny moments. Never mind the brilliant cast — Malkovich, Swinton, McDormand, Clooney, and Brad Pitt as the most vacuous, most-hydrated gym coach ever.

“The Russians???” :laughing:

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I just finished watching “Didi弟弟”, a truly wonderful semi-autobiographical thank coming-of-age story about a Taiwanese-American boy (“Didi弟弟” means “little brother” in Mandarin) in 2008 in the Silicon Valley area. I couldn’t find a bad performance by anyone! The main character of Chris played by Izaac Wang and the mother, played by Joan Chen are the true stars of the film.

I wanted to see it in the theater, but it wasn’t playing anywhere this summer here in Vegas that I could find. But it’s streaming for free on Peacock and is available for a fee on other platforms.

I chose NOT to post a trailer here because IMHO, it gives away far too much of the story.

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Watching Landman on Prime.

Cool to see Colm Feore in the show. He lives an hour away from me.

I took cooking classes with him 3 years in a row, from 2010-2013.

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For anyone that doesn’t have access to Apple TV, and would like to try it out (to catch shows like Severance, Shrinking, Slow Horses, etc.), Apple is offering free access to Apple TV this Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 4th and 5th).

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I cannot waitttt for the new season of Severance!

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Permian Basin:

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Yes! January 17th can’t come soon enough! It has been almost 3 years since the first season.

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New 2025 thread!!

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I LOVE Burn After Reading. The last lines are an absurdist masterpiece:

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