What Did You Watch Today?

[TKz]

Yeah, like the first Rocky, Rambo is a lot less mindless action than you expect. It's the later entries that really solidified it as a ridiculous parody.

Still though, Rocky IV, he ends the cold war. So it's not all bad.

[stokeriño]

Yeah, like the first Rocky, Rambo is a lot less mindless action than you expect. It's the later entries that really solidified it as a ridiculous parody.

...I assume Benji saw the fourth Rambo film, not 'First Blood'?

[King Ellis]

I've seen some stuff from Rambo 4 out of context and I would be very surprised if it wasn't as bloody as it looks because...jesus.

[Benji]

Yeah, like the first Rocky, Rambo is a lot less mindless action than you expect. It's the later entries that really solidified it as a ridiculous parody.

...I assume Benji saw the fourth Rambo film, not 'First Blood'?

No, it was First Blood, I forgot that it wasn't actually called Rambo >_>

[stokeriño]

Oh, okay.

Because when I thought you were talking about the 2008 Rambo and saying it wasn't much of a bloodfest, I was like...fucking hell. >_>

[TKz]

He's so desensitized that anything short of genocide feels pretty tame.

[Benji]

I once drowned a colony of ants using boiling water. I AM A MONSTER.

[stokeriño]

I've seen it before but I can't resist turning over to North by Northwest when I spot it on BBC4. The first half of the film is particularly good fun, not to mention silly in places. The second half drifts into proto-Bond mediocrity but has some good set pieces to maintain interest.

[LittleDaniel]

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Wonderful documentary; I never thought I would feel sorry for John Travolta or Tom Cruise.

[GhostMachine]

Boyhood was a total waste of time. It was good in parts, but overall not that great.

We're getting either Exodus: Gods and Kings or Big Hero 6 next, I think.

[LittleDaniel]

Big Hero 6 is totally cute! I wanna cuddle Baymax

[LL!]

Caught a screening of True Story.

Man, people are fucked up.

[Benji]

Watched Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea last night. Decent film, not the best but one of the better ones they've made. My only issue was that I'm currenty watching the Advancr Generation cartoon, and it's pre-voice actor change, so the new character voices (particularly Brock) really threw me off. Significantly prefer the older voices even though I've heard the new ones before.

[Benji]

Simone was stupidly amusing, so long as you ignore the numerous huge plot holes.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Dragon Lord (1982), This Jackie Chan film is still a film of two sides, his later more adventures stunts films mixed with his old style kung fu films. It's a mixed bag but damn that end fight is brutal. The amount of punishment Jackie's body takes is unreal.

[Benji]

Her felt like it never quite peaked. Predictable, but fairly good.

[MalaCloudy Black]

I watched Unbroken over the weekend and it were okay. It came off as pretty bog standard inspirational film fare, and from what my friend told me it left out a lot of things like Zamperini's struggles with alcoholism and PTSD after the war. I think including that sort of thing would have possibly made it a better movie, or at the very least a more interesting one.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Silent Hill (2006), needed more Pyramid Head, Kim Coates and Sean Bean.

Detroit Rock City (1999), amazing soundtrack! And well, what's not fun about watching John Connor trying to make it to a KISS Concert?

[SlicedBread]

Finally got around to watching Foxcatcher. I really liked it, it's not movie of the year but it's a great story with really good performances by the main cast.

Mark Ruffalo's character looked a lot like Johnny Hendricks though and I couldn't get it out of my head.

[Benji]

Currently thoroughly enjoying Pom Poko and all the tanuki testicles it provides.