Movies and TV

[Blitty]

Season 2 of Glow.

Legit.

 

[reno cool]

I remember Gary shandling show. It was on that big fox line up with Tracy ullman and married with children etc.. ..a prelude to the good stuff. It had a strange charm I felt.

 

[Mudcat]

 

[Mudcat]

The Larry Sanders Show though ---> it's good but not as good as I was thinking. Maybe I'll eventually watch all 89 episodes - they're only like 23 minutes each - and it's pretty good - but it's not compelling like my recent start-to-finish rewatch of Arrested Development.

 

[Mudcat]

Okay time to give Birdman an all-important second viewing.

I guess I am supposed to say the whole thing. i.e. - with the pretentious second title. i.e. - Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).

But no, just Birdman for me.

I'm curious as to my original rating.

6.8 out of 10

 

[Mudcat]

Yeah 6.8 is too high. More like 5.4.

While it's sometimes thoughtful and sometimes interesting to look at, it's really just a bunch of contrivances thrown together. Pieces don't fit.

It seems like it should be a metaphor with the guy who thinks/wishes he can move stuff with his mind and fly, but it falls apart. You got all the stuff about social media. You got the ridiculous theatre critic.

Artsy-fartsy. Pretentious. Reminded me of the Steely Dan song Show Biz Kids.


Show business kids making movies bout themselves
You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else

 

[Blitty]

I watch a lot of the Vice channel.

Anyone else watch the Vice channel?

 

[Mudcat]

I had to look up what it is. I haven't seen it but it sounds like something I would like.

A guy at work was telling me the other day about some show on Netflix which is a series of documentaries too. It sounded very interesting.

Damn there are a lot of TV shows these days.

 

[Mudcat]

Unrelated, here is a list of the 35 movies that have made over a billion dollars worldwide. The dollar figures are in millions of dollars.

1 Avatar Fox $2,788.0
2 Titanic Par. $2,187.5
3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens BV $2,068.2
4 Avengers: Infinity War BV $2,043.9
5 Jurassic World Uni. $1,671.7
6 Marvel's The Avengers BV $1,518.8
Furious 7 Uni. $1,516.0
8 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $1,405.4
9 Black Panther BV $1,346.6
10 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 WB $1,341.5
11 Star Wars: The Last Jedi BV $1,332.5
12 Frozen BV $1,276.5
13 Beauty and the Beast (2017) BV $1,263.5
14 The Fate of the Furious Uni. $1,236.0
15 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Uni. $1,216.2
16 Iron Man 3 BV $1,214.8
17 Minions Uni. $1,159.4
18 Captain America: Civil War BV $1,153.3
19 Transformers: Dark of the Moon P/DW $1,123.8
20 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NL $1,119.9
21 Skyfall Sony $1,108.6
22 Transformers: Age of Extinction Par. $1,104.1
23 The Dark Knight Rises WB $1,084.9
24 Toy Story 3 BV $1,067.0
25 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest BV $1,066.2
26 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story BV $1,056.1
27 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides BV $1,045.7
28 Despicable Me 3 Uni. $1,034.8
29 Jurassic Park Uni. $1,029.2
30 Finding Dory BV $1,028.6
31 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Fox $1,027.0
32 Alice in Wonderland (2010) BV $1,025.5
33 Zootopia BV $1,023.8
34 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey WB (NL) $1,021.1
35 The Dark Knight WB $1,004.6

 

[Mudcat]

I have seen 13 of those.

Meanwhile there have been 90 Best Picture Oscar winners. Of those I have seen: 90

So I guess that's the kind of movie fan I am.

 

[Matty]

I’ve seen 14 of the billionaire movies, about half because I’m a dad.

 

[roguejuror]

Only 6 for me

3 Avengers in the top 10 and I haven't seen any

 

[MrX]

11

 

[Blitty]

Never seen avanegers either

 

[Tron]

12

I haven’t seen Avengers either. Or Avatar.

 

[Archie]

never seen Avengers


who da fok IS watching that?

 

[vagabond]

Only two for me: Titanic and Jurassic Park.

 

[Matty]

never seen Avengers


who da fok IS watching that?

Lotsa people feel the need to be up-to-date on mainstream pop culture and will not watch any “old” (over 2-3 years old) or non-blockbuster movie.

#simpletons