Akin to the "Musical Picks" topic, I want to hear what your all time favourite movies/television shows are. It can be anything from action to drama to sports to romance (who watches that anyway though?). Don't be shy and don't be mean to other members, even if they really did enjoy Superbaby-Geniuses or whatever that piece of crap was called

 

I'll start off with a couple of my favs; I find most of the ones I put down are great films all together, but have shining endings.

 

Blood Diamond (Thriller/Drama): Leo DiCaprio picks up a sick south african accent in this eye-opening thriller/drama. Great music but if you're a Leo fan, you can probably already guess how it ends lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPX2kXhu7I

 

Friday Night Lights (Sports): I'm not a football guy, but the cinematography and story made this a refreshing change to the typical, predictable, sports movie. Plus, the instrumental music by Explosions in the Sky fits perfect (note: the trailer is crap, watch the film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzyp4qOW0F0

 

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Fantasy): If you are on a Lego forum where Lego LOTR products are frequently discussed, you probably already know how awesome the films are. If you don't, I'll leave it up to the mods to immediately revoke your membership to BrickPicker (jk).

 

And last I'll just end with my favourite TV show, which is probably going into its final season this year, The Mentalist (crime procedeural): this murder-a-episode series focuses on a former psychic who is now tracking the serial killer who murdered his family. The show can be light and funny, but when the serial killer ("red john") gets involved, it can get pretty unnerving. The series has spent 5 years tracking down murderers so feels a bit tired, but it is still my favourite. And, I'll post a trailer for the 3rd season finally:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzejrms4YLk

 

Phew, if you got through all that... you don't get bored easily, do you? Now tell me your picks!

 

13 hours ago, minicoopers11 said:

I've watched a few K-Dramas before Squid Game on Netflix and the prevalence of slapping others in the face has always stuck out to me. I just don't get to see that on other shows near as much.

Fun fact: the lead actor for Squid Game was the lead actor for Chief of Staff. A pretty good political thriller K-Drama. But my favorite K-Drama so far is definitely Memories of the Alhambra, it was chills-down-the-spine good for me.

My wife have watched K-Drama long before Netflix thought they were popular.  According to her, the Netflix (co-)produced series had better special effects but tend to cut the story short by not having more than 1 season or 2.

One of the most epic K-drama series is Arthdal Chronicles.  Think Dune meets LotR meets Conan.

But they have all kinds of shows for all kinds of viewers.  One of their game shows pit high IQ people against each other.  The challenges / tasks were so sophisticated we had to re-watch a couple of time to get what they tried to accomplish.  

 

On 10/11/2021 at 1:56 PM, $20 on joe vs dan said:

I'm starting to worry that the world is going to have a warped view of Korean people w/ the prevalence of K-Drama

The popularity of BTS (K boy band) should straighten up any warped view people might have   

7 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

My wife have watched K-Drama long before Netflix thought they were popular. 

 

The popularity of BTS (K boy band) should straighten up any warped view people might have   

K-dramas have been around since the early 90s; over the decades the basic plot of over-romanticized relationships with class-mixing with unbelievable tragedy has only grew in terms of genre (historical, sci fi, casinos, restaurants, big business, horror, coming of age, etc)

Kdramas have a crazy way of getting a viewer to get vested in individual characters...it's mind boggling why after a few minute a viewer suddenly cares what happens to a character...

25 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

One of the most epic K-drama series is Arthdal Chronicles.  Think Dune meets LotR meets Conan.

Now that sounds like my kind of show! Added to my netflix list.

 

25 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

One of their game shows pit high IQ people against each other.  The challenges / tasks were so sophisticated we had to re-watch a couple of time to get what they tried to accomplish.  

But not this. Lol.

58 minutes ago, $20 on joe vs dan said:

K-dramas have been around since the early 90s; over the decades the basic plot of over-romanticized relationships with class-mixing with unbelievable tragedy has only grew in terms of genre (historical, sci fi, casinos, restaurants, big business, horror, coming of age, etc)

Kdramas have a crazy way of getting a viewer to get vested in individual characters...it's mind boggling why after a few minute a viewer suddenly cares what happens to a character...

The internet plays important role in increasing popularity of KPop and K-drama.  The US music and entertainment industry tried to ignore this worldwide phenomena for the longest time.  Now the network TVs just straight up copying / basing their shows on Korean TV shows.  For example, "The Masked Singer" and "I Can See Your Voice" were originally from S Korea. 

 

 

We watched Promising Young Woman over the weekend. Haven't heard much about it, but we really enjoyed it. Drama thriller. 

1 hour ago, oneknightr said:

We watched Promising Young Woman over the weekend. Haven't heard much about it, but we really enjoyed it. Drama thriller. 

I liked it too, I thought it was pretty good. Did you watch "I Care A Lot"?  I thought it was also pretty good as a thriller.  It has Rosamund Pike in it from "Gone Girl".

We watched Promising Young Woman over the weekend. Haven't heard much about it, but we really enjoyed it. Drama thriller. 

I liked it up until the final act and then it lost me. A lot of buzz around award season with this film and then it got snubbed by nearly every award.

I like a film that subverts expectations and challenges audiences, but I think that ending was a rough one.


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55 minutes ago, Mark Twain said:

I liked it up until the final act and then it lost me. A lot of buzz around award season with this film and then it got snubbed by nearly every award.

I like a film that subverts expectations and challenges audiences, but I think that ending was a rough one.


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We liked the ending. It took us by surprise. 

Started watching squid game yesterday with the wife. We're through the first 6 episodes.
I honestly don't know what all the fuss is about? It's pretty awkward and cringy.
Most of the characters are unlikeable. The dialogue is... mostly laughable.
The actions of the characters make little sense. Is everyone in Korea broke?

I don't think it's a cultural thing as movies like Oldboy & Train to Busan were amazing.
This feels like Parasite all over again. I didn't understand why anyone liked that either.

2 hours ago, KvHulk said:

The dialogue is... mostly laughable

Try changing from the default of English dubbed, to Korean with English subtitles. It makes it a little less cringy. 

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19 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

Try changing from the default of English dubbed, to Korean with English subtitles. It makes it a little less cringy. 

We've been watching English dubbed with English subtitles at the same time (first checking for accuracy and then just leaving it that way).
I agree, reading the subs with Korean spoken makes it less cringy, but the dialog is still very awkward and weird.

That being said the show is eye candy. Aesthetically speaking, The sets are vibrant and beautiful.
I've also enjoyed the episodes 6,7 & 8 way more than the previous 5. We'll watch the finale tonight.

The show is just "okay". That's a hard okay, at that. I just don't see the big fuss.

PS - Am I the only one that gets Power Rangers 'feels' whenever the red masked guys are wandering the island? Lol.

On 10/8/2021 at 9:56 AM, odysea11 said:

Looking for recommendations...our family tradition is to watch a horror flick every night through October. Well, now that we have been doing this for a few of years, we are running out of movies! Does anyone have any good recommendations for a good scary flick? I feel like we've seen most, but I'm sure there are some other more obscure flicks out there that are worthy of a watch...

Best horror flick....ready,,,go!!!

House of Wax surprised me way back in 2005. I haven't watched it since though so.. 

 

I'm pretty fired up for the next season of Ozark! Good stuff!

Watched Dave Chapelle The Closer special.

A lot of emotion towards the end and rather touching, which is kind of weird for comedy special

 

On 10/16/2021 at 9:39 AM, KvHulk said:

Started watching squid game yesterday with the wife. We're through the first 6 episodes.
I honestly don't know what all the fuss is about? It's pretty awkward and cringy.
Most of the characters are unlikeable. The dialogue is... mostly laughable.
The actions of the characters make little sense. Is everyone in Korea broke?

My kids (17 & 18) peer pressured me into watching the first episode. It's tough....I'm not a big fan of dubbing or sub-titles. The dubbing is never accurate enough and too distracting. And the sub-titles are tough for me because I'm a slower reader, so I can't read and watch at the same time. However, I am slightly intrigued with the concept, so I will fight through another episode or two and see if I can adjust.

Finally watched "Ong Bak" (I know, 17 years too late).  Nice old school fight choreography and tons of creative stun works. It reminded me a lot of late 80s kung fu movies, but with better budget.

It has probably the best tuk-tuk chase scenes I have ever seen

 

On 10/16/2021 at 8:39 AM, KvHulk said:

Started watching squid game yesterday with the wife. We're through the first 6 episodes.
I honestly don't know what all the fuss is about? It's pretty awkward and cringy.
Most of the characters are unlikeable. The dialogue is... mostly laughable.
The actions of the characters make little sense. Is everyone in Korea broke?

I don't think it's a cultural thing as movies like Oldboy & Train to Busan were amazing.
This feels like Parasite all over again. I didn't understand why anyone liked that either.

the hype makes the show under-whelming for the late comers.

When I started it I had no preconceptions...just saw it trending top 3 on Netflix and gave it a whirl.  I think the cringe-worthy element is part of the appeal.

Kdrama and other Korean shows (e.g., Kim's Convenience) have a different vibe than mainstream hollywood...almost like food from different countries have different spices and ingredients from western dishes. May match individual tastes...sometimes I hate it (cilantro and chinese 5 spice); other times it grows on me. 

 

All I saw was a manbear (and an actual bear) with a minigun and that's it. How come I only came across this now?!

 

Also an English dubbed trailer to boot. The lip sync is just 'great'. Haha.

 

It's available to watch on YouTube (buy or rent). Just search "guardians".

 

 

Finished Maid on Netflix. I'm Chinese but my wife is white, and we both grew up poor. This show hit home for the both of us.