It’s a show I really want to like but I’ve tried twice and haven’t been able to stick with it more than a few episodes
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Good for you. It drove me nuts and I turned off. Good ratings though.
That was a weird story. So people knew what happened to him all along.
I agree you have to watch it carefully, blink and you miss something. I was told to watch it by a mate years ago and I couldn't be bothered. When I paid attention I really enjoyed it. Would never do a rerun though. It is not that type of crime movie...
Sicario on the other hand I could watch again and again it is so good...Emily Blunt (another Pom) is absolutely impeccable in her role. She was so good they couldn't manage to write her into Sicario 2, and it really showed.
Absolutely yes, but be warned that the second half of the movie will be a head-scratcher where you'll ask what really happened at the mid-point (you'll know it when you see it).
Apparantly the film version of The Mist is regarded as one of the better adaptations. With a much grittier ending, too.
I actually found in the end King's short stories could be more freaky than his novels.
I wasn't a fan, but that's only because that kind of plot ain't my thing.
That aside it is a well made, compelling drama, and defo Sandlers best.
Horses for courses, many will love it.
And I've found his non horror genre novels are far superior to his horrors.
He can do weird without horror really well too, the Gunslinger series is very surreal.
oh man, i loved those gunslinger books, even if the ending is a cop out, like 4000 pages to get to that.
heard the movie they made of it was awful, didn't get past looking at the trailer.
been watching some of last years releases with the wife, so not just guns and drugs epics.
Knives Out is very entertaining, i didn't really get what Taiki Waititi was going for in JoJo Rabbit, yes the Nazis were bad, not every German was too, people are aware of that. Bombshell was good, but you'd get more out of it actually being an american familiar with the real life versions of the characters.
saving the irishman for a rainy day, should just bite the bullet and don't let the running time put me off.
i see the new(ish) mission impossible popped up on netflix today, looking forward to that.
It is a good watch, if for no other reason how Jimmy Hoffa disappeared has been a genuine mystery. It was a trifle slow though, I enjoyed it but wouldn't do a rerun.
The interesting thing for me is how those movies make those psychopaths look human, the Godfather started that. The reality is they are stone cold blooded killers, with nothing to like about at all.
I am really enjoying Escaping Escobar because they have got to that stage where they are really dishing Popeye and showing what a c$$t he really was (he died this year). At the same time his charming side is showing still and proving to be dangerously fake. A good watch.
A rare example of the movie being a lot better than the book too
I got 5 or 6 books deep into the Gunslinger before I got bored as shit. Love the premise and the world, but Steven King can get pretty lost in his own shit sometimes.
Some of his Later stuff like the Mr Mercedes trilogy and the outsider showed he could do the crime genre very well too,probably would have been even stronger if he left out some of the supernatural stuff that occur later too
Yep that’s my biggest complaint is the guy struggles with endings, his sons work is similar too
I think I read them at the right age, there is a fairly serious lurch from the first 1 which is so minimalist to the next 2 and the later ones where this shit has to get resolved and it just starts to unwind and fall apart.
Speaking of Stephen king the new(ISH) IT was good, not a fan of horror movies, but it's well done. The book is batshit insane, they left the crazier parts out of the movie
Someone mentioned DiCaprio
He’s been in loads of decent movies, Inception, Catch Me If You Can, Wolf of Wall Street etc....
Watched The Aviator again recently, he was excellent in that.
He’s been in loads of decent movies, Inception, Catch Me If You Can, Wolf of Wall Street etc....
Watched The Aviator again recently, he was excellent in that.
So, so many
The Departed, Blood Diamond, The Basketball Diaries, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island...
If you're interested in that whole story about how what was basically Mexican peasant farmers growing opium poppies for subsistence money in the 50's became what it is today, Don Winslow wrote a superb ( fictional ) trilogy based on an El Chapo-like villain/kingpin. The Power of the Dog ( 2005 ) The Cartel
( 2015 ) and The Border ( 2018 ). Highly recommended.
Shutter Island is a top class horror film.
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