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Just started S3 of the Boys. It seems even more crazy, and I didn't think they could amp it up any more.

That is one I need to watch. I loved Season 1, liked Season 2, so it will be interesting to see how Season 3 goes.

finished The Boys season 3. It was much stronger than S2 and had some of the best fights I've seen in superhero moving-pictures, but the story didn't progress much.

To be honest superhero fights often bore me. There's only so many "throwing people through walls for them to get back up again" that I can take.

The bad: Dinklage can't sing very well

He sang I'm Still Standing really well in the Game of Thrones Musical.
 
To be honest superhero fights often bore me. There's only so many "throwing people through walls for them to get back up again" that I can take.
The fights in S3 of the boys are less "MCU fight" and more "what would happen if brutal streetfighters suddenly got superpowers and went up against superhumans who relied mainly on their powers". Superpowered dirty fighting was quite refreshing after years of the consequence-free ragdolling you make reference to.
 
I forgot to mention we also watched Snowflake Mountain, honoring our tradition of watching tacky reality shows over coffee or diner. We prefer them a bit more quirky or Japanese, but it was the best we could find at the time. It was... pretty ridiculous.

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I have just finished Stranger Things Series 4.

It starts with a load of teenage angst, but soon gets over that and turns into a rollicking adventure.
My favorite season of the series by a long stretch!
 
Saw Thor: Love and Thunder today. Overall, I thought it was okay -- it had its moments, and kept me reasonably entertained for a couple hours, but I don't consider it one of the better Marvel films.

I don't know; it feels like this phase of the MCU has been a real mixed bag compared to earlier. Some of them have always been stronger films than others, but it feels like they used to be more consistent.
 
Late to the party but watched Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness yesterday and my God, could the Evil Dead references be any more on the nose? I mean, it’s essentially a couple of scenes away from a full-fledged Evil Dead remake in MCU garb.

I mean that as a compliment, BTW. I loved the movie and the bald-faced Raiminess of it all. Seeing Benedict Cumberbatch in a role that could have been Bruce Campbell’s is an absolute riot.

The one weak spot of the movie was the Illuminati sequence. Crazy powerful epic iconic heroes acting like first timers.

MoM is probably my favorite MCU movie since Thor: Ragnarok, just because it's so crazy in such a good way thanks to Raimi.
 
I enjoyed Thor Love and Thunder and laughed a lot but don’t think it is a good MCU movie. I feel the same about Iron Man 3, it’s a fun Shane Black movie that I enjoy but I don’t feel it is a good fit with the rest of the MCU. On the other hand I do think Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is both a fun movie to watch and a good fit with the MCU.
 
I'll be making Teresa watch Wargames this evening and then the original Robocop tonight. She's never seen either before!

She enjoyed both!

Although she said Robocop was a bit too gory (no it isn't!) she still thought it was a lot of fun. She really liked Wargames, even though it was quite scary and it surprised her that it was an 80s 'teen' film - saying something like that would get done now or would be very different in its approach. She's my age, or thereabouts, but watched things like The Breakfast Club (which I fucking hate; turning the indie kid into a prom queen. Conform Conform!) when she was younger so never watched these before. It was a nice bit of 'time travelling' sitting down and watching two of my favourite 80s movies.
 
I've been watching a Documentary/Docu-Drama series called The American West on Prime. It's from 2016, and Robert Redford was an Executive producer. It's been really interesting. What I like is how it covers concurrent events in the time period (like Jesse James and his gang being active while Custer was in command of the 7th Cavalry. They also cover Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at that time). One thing I learned that I never knew was that Jesse James tried to recruit Billy the Kid for his gang, and met him in Las Vegas of all places. Sadly, it only last 1 season, but it's been enjoyable for sure
 
My current video wave is watching every available ultraman series (mostly youtube, preferably with Eng Sub, but some Dub). The first series was firmly set in my childhood subconscious. The rest I am picking up as I can. I am currently watching four different series from different eras. I am slowly catching up to now. (I am current to the most recent, I am behind on the first sequence, and I am doing middling well catching up.)
 
My current video wave is watching every available ultraman series (mostly youtube, preferably with Eng Sub, but some Dub). The first series was firmly set in my childhood subconscious. The rest I am picking up as I can. I am currently watching four different series from different eras. I am slowly catching up to now. (I am current to the most recent, I am behind on the first sequence, and I am doing middling well catching up.)
I've seen many of them (including the animated version) are available on Tubi currently
 
I've seen many of them (including the animated version) are available on Tubi currently
Tubi is the bomb, you can watch on your computer or something like a Roku. They have a great selection of older genre movies as well, it is the first place I look these days for Italian films like Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi, Italian police and crime films of the 70’s.
 
Tubi is the bomb, you can watch on your computer or something like a Roku. They have a great selection of older genre movies as well, it is the first place I look these days for Italian films like Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi, Italian police and crime films of the 70’s.
My watchlist is mostly older foreign films, with some of their better horror movies, and some tv shows. I watch it on my tv via my Roku, but will use my laptop or phone when I'm on breaks at work.

I watched Cristina Alonzo's new Netflix special, Middle Classy yesterday. Her previous one was six years ago. It was really funny, as she discusses being middle aged now.

The Hollywood theater in Portland gets all kinds of strange films to show (outside of the film festivals I've been to). Next week is this Afrofuturist sci-fi musical called Neptune's Frost. It looks out there enough that I think I'm going to check it out (especially since it now falls on my days off).

 
She enjoyed both!

Although she said Robocop was a bit too gory (no it isn't!) she still thought it was a lot of fun.

I love Robocop but I would say it is pretty gory for the kind of film it is (the main character not only dies, but is essentially crucified by bullets at the beginning), the whole ED-209 malfunction was quite gory (gory to make a point and with an edge of humor to it, but still gory), a guy takes a direct shot to the crotch, and a character is disfigured by toxic waste before exploding when he gets hit by a car. That is just the stuff that I can remember off the top of my head.
 
I love Robocop but I would say it is pretty gory for the kind of film it is (the main character not only dies, but is essentially crucified by bullets at the beginning), the whole ED-209 malfunction was quite gory (gory to make a point and with an edge of humor to it, but still gory), a guy takes a direct shot to the crotch, and a character is disfigured by toxic waste before exploding when he gets hit by a car. That is just the stuff that I can remember off the top of my head.

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(Another great film, by the way)
 
I've been watching my way through the old Mr. Moto movies starring Peter Lorre. I'm really enjoying them too!
I was expecting parlor room mysteries but they're actually pre-WWII international intrigue ... and Mr. Moto is something of a proto-James Bond... minus the womanizing and gadgets. He's got wide variety of skills/tricks, always dresses sharply (when not in disguise) and can be very deadly/menacing when he needs to be. They're lots of fun and it's nice to see Peter Lorre getting to be the ultra-capable 'good guy'.

They're not politically correct of course (is anything from the 1930s seen through modern eyes?) but not nearly as egregious as some 'yellowface' depictions (I think Mickey Rooney wins that category). Mr. Lorre's makeup seems pretty minimal... mostly a set of round glasses and I'm not sure what else. He only puts on a stereotyped accent when in disguise and dealing with gullible villains.

I've never read the books they're based on, but from what I've read they deviate a bit to make Mr. Moto more palatable in the face of that era's Japanese aggression against China (Mr. Moto of the books is an agent of the Emperor of Japan... in the movies he usually is working for Interpol, or so he claims... he's a bit mysterious).
They're a good parallel for the Louis L'Amour adventures I've been reading about 'Ponga Jim' Mayo, which take place in the same era and in some similar locations/situations.
 
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I love Robocop but I would say it is pretty gory for the kind of film it is (the main character not only dies, but is essentially crucified by bullets at the beginning), the whole ED-209 malfunction was quite gory (gory to make a point and with an edge of humor to it, but still gory), a guy takes a direct shot to the crotch, and a character is disfigured by toxic waste before exploding when he gets hit by a car. That is just the stuff that I can remember off the top of my head.

The murder of the Weller character at the beginning was graphic and sadistic enough that it disturbed me as a kid and I grew up watching American Werewolf in London and The Shining.
 
The murder of the Weller character at the beginning was graphic and sadistic enough that it disturbed me as a kid and I grew up watching American Werewolf in London and The Shining.
It didn't disturb me but I remember 12 year old me being really fucking invested in the character and happy he got revenge. I had never seen anything like it and movie blew my mind, initiating a life long interest in cyberpunk.
 
The murder of the Weller character at the beginning was graphic and sadistic enough that it disturbed me as a kid and I grew up watching American Werewolf in London and The Shining.

I saw in the theater so I must have been 11, and I recall being pretty disturbed by it as well. I enjoyed the movie a lot but I think that was the first time I saw a character presented as the protagonist die. It is an important scene, and there is a good reason for the character to presented suffering so much (my understanding is that Verhoeven was trying to do an 'American Jesus' thing with Robocop), but not an easy watch your first time. I also remember really feeling the suspense and tension because I don't think I'd ever scene bad guys so thoroughly in control and free from consequences that early in a movie either (so it just gave everything this sense of danger). Not a criticism of the movie at all though. I think these elements are some of the things that make it so effective.
 
Saw Nope in the theater, I enjoyed it but I think this will be considered the weakest of Peele’s movies by many because it doesn’t lean as far into the horror aspects and the social commentary is more subdued, although both are still there, and due to the ending. It is beautifully filmed and if you enjoyed his other films or like UFO films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Communion, & Fire in the Sky come to mind, you may enjoy this take on the genre.
 
On a whim I would up watching the 1929 version of The Mysterious Island on TCM last night. It's a bit of an odd film in that it's a talkie/silent movie hybrid, with some parts of the movie having spoken dialogue, while other parts just have background music and the occasional dialogue card. It's only very loosely based on the Verne book, but it does still function pretty well as an alternate universe prequel to Twenty Thousand League Under The Sea. Overall, I enjoyed i (having Lionel Barrymore in it as the lead didn't hurt).
 
We watched more tacky reality/competition TV: Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend S1 and Instant Hotel S1.

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Finally caught up to the HBO series Barry and it is a funny but dark comedy about a hitman discovering himself in a Hollywood acting class. First season is expertly constructed, the second starts to push into some surreal areas, third season is next.

 
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