I just started watching Red Oaks recently on Amazon Prime & its way more enjoyable than it has any right to be imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
Oh, I love Red Oaks. It has a weird feeling to it. Like instead of it just being 80s it feels more like cult 80s, last in nielsen ratings but should've seen better.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
Red Oaks is so great!Comes to such a nice end too, not corny but affectionate, I really love those characters
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
i could watch wheeler & misty hang out forever, they have such great chemistrymy only mini critique is that Paul Reiser’s character’s daughter ie the not-Molly-Ringwald love interest has all the charm of an ironing board so far. but everyone else is great.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the daughter sticks out to me. She kind of reminded me of the female scientist student from Real Genius but lacked any personality.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
It is not good.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:02 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
apparently it gets better (and is likely to improve over years like its predecessors) but i couldn't get through 10 minutes of the first episode.
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
https://news.avclub.com/netflix-is-breaking-it-off-with-michelle-wolfs-the-brea-1828430766
the break was terrible on the whole (utterly utterly obsessed with its own country on an international platform) but the joel mchale show was really well done. pretty disappointed about this.
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
Aw man, I was wondering if that was going to happen. Both shows seemed a bit sloppy/lackadaisical but I loved watching stuff on Sunday.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 August 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
I didn't finish most of the Joel McHale show, it didn't have the zing of The Soup. In the Youtube age I think that would work a lot better as a tight 5-10 minute clip show.
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 18 August 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
I watched all episodes of both. There was a lot of filler gathering near the end. On one of the last episodes of The Break she did two opening standups and I was like ouch...did they run our of material?
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 August 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link
We got through 2 episodes of disenchanted and it really suffers from not being a tight 20 minutes like the simpsons or Futurama. The pacing is terrible and there aren’t enough good gags to sustain it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 18 August 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
agreed
the character intros were kind of perfunctory and I have no idea why these people are together. the demon thing is a complete misfire, waste of Eric Andre and a whole lot of “this will make sense later” junk
― mh, Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before is delightfulGreat romcom with good storytelling & charming characters. makes me want to check out the book.Also the kid who plays Peter is cute af
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 August 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
it was so lovely - a perfect film! note also that the actor that plays peter is going to be in another teen romcom with shannon purser, which is out on netflix in about a month's time
― monotony, Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
i found out he was born in 1996 so i’m pretty sure i’m going to jaili am rewatching it today <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
I am very excited to watch the above. I thought Kissing Booth had a certain rewatchability almost on par with Teen Witch.
― Yerac, Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
Samurai Gourmet - elderly Japanese man eats in restaurants and reminisces about his life before retirement. Sometimes he imagines a samurai appearing to help him out of sticky social situations Tokyo Diner: Midnight Stories - little chamber dramas that mostly take place in a Diner. Like Jim Jarmusch. Casa de los Flores - glossy Mexican cross between rote telenovela, Six Feet Under, and Almodovar in the ‘90. Gorgeous cast, silly and melodramatic.
― rb (soda), Monday, 20 August 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
The first two are great, not seen the latter.
I wish Netflix would spring for the other three series and 3 movies of Midnight Diner, I’d hapiliy buy the DVDs but I’d also have the buy a DVD player.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 20 August 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
I watched about half of The Red Pill, a “documentary” by a “feminist” about the MRA movement. Figured out pretty quickly it was a setup but still sort of enjoyed analyzing it as propaganda before finally giving up.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 20 August 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Trailer for the second season of American Vandal is out. I'm sure it's going to be good, but the trailer is so gross and gut-churning (you've been warned) I bet it could go either way. You've been warned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwrr6aIWeus
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
new one from Jeremy Saulnier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFAwDO6b5KI
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
Halfway through "To all the Boys I've Loved Before" and wondering why I'm watching this banal underwritten nonsense. What's good about it?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link
the guy who's hot (and he is) looks the same as the other guy who's supposed to be naff. I can barely tell them apart.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
WHY MUST YOU VEX ME?!?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
*painting my nails emoji*
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
I wanted to like it and i watched all of it, and I’ve only watched probably 5 movies in their entirety this year, so i was tryingBut ya, it’s pretty shallow entertainment Everyone is a stereotype/one-dimensional and archetype except for how peter reacts to a couple things about lana jeanAlso the beginning reminded me too much of can’t buy me love
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
I haven't even watched it yet. I love shallow movies. Watch The Kissing Booth.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
earlier on one of the guys is referred to as being "gay, right?" then later on there's a heart-to-heart with said gay but he hasn't even been a character until that heart-to-heart so I'm not sure whether that character was edited out from a larger part or that it's just not very well constructed overall.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
I mean I’ll watch shallow entertainment for sureI still gave it a thumbs up on netflix
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
on a scale of 1-10: Vapid.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
the book is pretty chirpy too. i miss judy blume
― maura, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
oh, it's chirpy, it just doesn't make any sense.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
I didn't realise that Peter was the hot one, I thought the one with the sad eyes, called Josh, was who was being referred to as the hot one. Actually, I'm not sure I understood this at all.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
you’re shallow entertainment >:(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 05:26 (five years ago) link
Kavinsky and Josh do NOT even look the same wtf are your eyes broken
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 05:27 (five years ago) link
I watched both "The Kissing Booth" and "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" on Monday because I was sick like dog and netflixing from my sickbed. I preferred TATBILB by a distance FWIW, and not just because I enjoyed the characterisation of Scotland as mostly about haggis and pubs.
The best thing about TKB was the main character, and her broadly DGAF attitude, I enjoyed how she did embarrassing stuff and wasn't OMG MY LIFE IS OVER, she just sort of got on with it. But I really hated the hulking, violent main love interest in TKB, I couldn't work out what was good about him, he just seemed to be a ridiculous giant 27-year-old who liked hitting people much younger than himself. And then he's all "duhhhh... I'm going to Harvud... but I don't know if I'm going yet... duhhhh". Also Hollywood sign = bleurrgh.
TATTILB was more charming overall, I thought. Slight, sure, but it was fairly upfront in its John Hughes-lite aims. It's obviously not setting up Bon Iver dude next door to be a total naff no hoper because he's going out with her totally cool and capable big sister who's so cool she's off to SCOTLAND. And the gay fellow was a recipient of one of the five letters, IIRC. Anyway I wasn't bored, I thought it was good. Could have done with a meaner other-girl lead.
― Tim, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
To the PUB in Scotland, no less.
― Tim, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
Maybe another thing that's interesting about both of these films in comparison to the 80s films they knowingly reference is the lack of even a nod at issues of class, which I think is a shame.
― Tim, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
Iliza Shlesinger's standup is funnier than I expected.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 24 August 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
She's funny. I don't like her excessive physicalizations though.
― Yerac, Friday, 24 August 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl)Posted: August 21, 2018 at 10:26:03 PMyou’re shallow entertainment >:(This is the nicest thing anyone has said to me on ilx btwAnd that’s counting when mooks asked about one of my socks years ago
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 25 August 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
xp - she definitely could have dialed back the crone voice and physical stuff, it was funny to start with but wore out toward the end
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 25 August 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
Ok, I just started watching To All the Boys... and yeah, the 2 guys look really similar. I kept waiting for the hot one to show up.
― Yerac, Monday, 27 August 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
And lol that that the actor that plays Josh turned out to be a dipshit who doesn't know how to delete old tweets.
― Yerac, Monday, 27 August 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
none of you deserve this movie
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:32 (five years ago) link
AND IT WAS THE ACTOR WHO PLAYED PETER THAT HAD THE OLD TWEETS
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
Wait, the article i just doublechecked says Josh!?! Don't play me like that.
― Yerac, Monday, 27 August 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
He got hotter as the movie is progressing. They both a weird Ralph Macchio vibe.
― Yerac, Monday, 27 August 2018 04:44 (five years ago) link
Oh, I see now. Supposedly there is a sex video or something with the Peter. And I just realized I saw the weird housesitter for Keanu Reeves movie he was in too.
― Yerac, Monday, 27 August 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
i just googled — apparently BOTH of them have controversies about old racist tweets? which is fun
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 August 2018 05:13 (five years ago) link