Chip 'n Dale won the "Creative Arts Emmy" for best TV movie. Apparently these are awarded in recognition of technical achievements in American television programming.
OK, yeah I can see why it won now. Technically speaking it was pretty impressive for a direct-to-streaming movie.
Samaritan (Prime Video) - Sylvester Stallone plays a washed up retired superhero (believed to be dead by the public after the climactic battle with his arch nemesis/brother) who winds up becoming a mentor figure of sorts to a neighborhood kid & has to come out of hiding after the kid falls in with the wrong crowd.
I saw the big twist coming a mile away, but I thought it was a pretty good watch.
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I'm surprised that's the comment you focused on as I thought Yesterday would pique your interest since you're Beatles fan, it's about a guy who wakes up in a world where The Beatles never existed so he starts singing their songs as if he wrote them. A good flick but I don't like it avoids one of the things I wanted to see from it of is The Beatles' music cool enough for today kids as I imagine John Lennon would have to be wearing a crystal grill, twerk and have an oversized clock like Flavor Flav to get over nowadays.
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ah well, yeah, multiverse is a setting? Not a trope? But anyway, tropes are fine for me too, as long as they're executed well enough to make an overall good story....
After all, there's (rarely) nothing new under the sun. 😁
also speaking of tropes, I tend to browse TVtropes a lot, it's very interesting to pick apart stories and piece them into tropes. 😁
Watched The Villainess, twice. It's subbed on Tubi.
After finishing it the first time (yesterday), I knew I needed to watch it again (today). Part of my fascination in my first watch was trying to unravel the story. Even after finishing it, I didn't fully understand what had happened. I had thought the story was intentionally complex, to be positive, but now having seen it twice, I think that the movie was laid out fairly logically and the confusion was my own mistake. But maybe not. Because the story is unveiled out of order, perhaps there is legitimate cause to be confused throughout. You know only what you know, until you know more. And perhaps the scenes play out in such a sequence that you can't possibly understand what's happening until it's too late. Or maybe I just had trouble keeping everything straight. One key to understanding the plot is knowing that her rhinoplasty at the beginning trims her nose. Every time her nose is more bulbous, it's the past.
Anyway, I understood the movie much better this time around. But I'm not sure it was a better experience. The mystery from my first viewing, I think, was actually conducive to my enjoyment. I'm glad I understand the story now, but I'm not sure understanding it made for a better experience. Do you know what I mean? And I don't mean to say the story isn't good, because it is. Watching The Villainess was an excellent decision, And it is a reminder that reviews on letterboxd don't always predict whether or not I will like a movie. I hope I am the only person to have initially looked away because of its average score because this movie is excellent and everybody should see it.
I have 1000s of dvd's.but last couple of years ( maybe 7 or 8 ) iv not seen many good releases. But I have been looking at movies on FTA satelite. There's some new movie chanels-great movies-great classic-great action showing old and recent films, also useing sky movies to look at films maybe I missed lately
The wife and I started to watch films which are connected through actors, so for instance I started with Django Unchained, and used Leonardo Di Caprio to watch Catch me if you can, then used Tom Hanks to go to The Terminal, then used Catherine Zeta Jones to watch Legend of Zorro.
I started it a few years back and have not crossed the streams (either using the same film or same actor more than once) I have found quite a few obscure (for good reason) films just for a connection to a film I wanted to watch, for instance watched V for Vendenta used Stephen Fry to get to a film called The Brits are Coming (AWFUL) to use Crispin Glover to get to Back to the Future
Just watched the new Pinocchio on Disney+, as someone who loved the Disney original, I liked it. Call it an unpopular opinion, it didn't disappoint me.
Firstly, I loved how Geppetto's clocks, which all were easter eggs to other Disney movies, even chuckled at the Woody one. I also liked the new addition of Sabina and her puppeteer, Fabiana, giving Pinocchio a friend outside Jiminy. The pleasure island scene felt darker, not in a "oh this is dark" kind of way, in a "this has bright lights, but something ominous is happening" as Pinocchio didn't go along with Lampwick, but rather, was aware that the island was bad. Most of the pleasure island scene, you can see the concern Pinocchio has about the island.
I actually geeked out at the ending. I remember from the DVD extras, an alternate ending where Pinocchio lives and Geppetto is the one that dies, that ending is actually done in this adaptation. I was really surprised by the movie having this ending. Will admit, Geppetto saying "you did all that in one day," was pretty funny.
I lol'd when Stromboli got arrested, something satisfying about it happening being a fan of the original.
I have a feeling people will probably hate this movie, personally I loved it.
@Kermit1 Yeah, they added a bunch of stuff today to Disney+. Watched it during lunch, had Italian sandwiches too, lol. Later going to watch Thor Love and Thunder, last time I saw it was in the theater.
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@Sunsy I have not seen the new Thor (Mainly because I feel really bad for the all the animators working 8 day weeks) I'll give it a watch tomorrow maybe if they have not added any new legacy content or I might let my Dad watch MASH on the TV again like he does every night.
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