TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2013

House of Cards Season 1 completed

Locky wrote:

Metal Misfit wrote:

Started season 3 of The Borgias last week. One episode left. Good show, sad it got cancelled.

For real? ahh bollocks, I have it recorded from the TV and need a couple of nights to watch it all together, didn't know it's finishing.

This the last season or is there another one to come and then they end it?

Season 3 is the end. The plan was to have four seasons but Showtime pulled the plug due to cost. Then they were going to do a 2 hour TV movie finale to give the show some closure but Showtime ended up saying no. The script for the 2 hour movie will be released as an eBook. That's all good as we're going to get.

Season 3 was really good too. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger but it ends as if they believed there was going to be a Season 4.

I just watched the Family Guy episode Road to Europe.

We're The Millers (2013)



Very funny, they got the ratio of raunchy/silly/sweet just about right. I was concerned going in that too many of the best jokes would have already been seen in the trailer but there were plenty to go around. I can see why this film is such a big hit.

Insidious 2 (cinema)

One of my favorite Stargate SG-1 episodes.  "Serpent's Song" where the SG team finds Apophis running from other Goa'uld and bring him back to earth.

Barney Miller

TNA Impact

Dark Star (1974)



Dark Star was a student film by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon which they started while attending UCLA film school.  A goofy, stoner satire on 2001 produced for $60,000 it's definitely shoestring but that adds to the charm of the whole thing.  The talking bomb is the highlight of the film; "Bomb, what is your mission in life?" "Why, to explode of course."

"Paintball" (2009)



A group of bickering twenty-somethings head off into the woods for a so-called "extreme paintball" experience... and soon they're being picked off one by one by an unseen sniper who's using live ammo, not paintballs. Lots of running, screaming and shaky-cam irritation ensues.

"Paintball" could have been a decent suspense/thriller but the amateur-night performances and sloppy direction kill this one virtually from the get-go. The characters are all cardboard cut outs with no depth to them, so you won't even care when they start getting killed off. None of the performers can act, either, so even if the script gave them more to do besides stumble around in the woods screaming at each other, they probably wouldn't have been able to pull it off anyway.

"Paintball" wants to be "The Most Dangerous Game," but it's more like a cheap mix of bits stolen from "Hostel" and "Blair Witch Project," with some action movie cliche's sprinkled on top. Avoid.

Sunset Strip - documentary on Showtime about the history of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Pretty cool stuff, though some of the people get a little too far up their own asses about how great it is and they are for being part of the scene. Worth watching though.

S.D. wrote:

Dark Star (1974)



Dark Star was a student film by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon which they started while attending UCLA film school.  A goofy, stoner satire on 2001 produced for $60,000 it's definitely shoestring but that adds to the charm of the whole thing.  The talking bomb is the highlight of the film; "Bomb, what is your mission in life?" "Why, to explode of course."

Love this movie.

Geez, I haven't seen "Dark Star" in dog years. Might have to revisit that one now that you've got me thinking about it.

Smackdown

Just finished watching Nighthawks with Sylvester Stallone and Rutger Hauer. I forgot how enjoyable this movie is!

Had heard good things about this, and yeah, I enjoyed it, it gripped me from the start (the captivatingly beautiful Brit Marling helps with that  )

chewie wrote:

Just finished watching Nighthawks with Sylvester Stallone and Rutger Hauer. I forgot how enjoyable this movie is!

Oh F*ck that movie scared me so bad as a kid!   

Boris2008 wrote:

Had heard good things about this, and yeah, I enjoyed it, it gripped me from the start (the captivatingly beautiful Brit Marling helps with that  )

That is the only Marling-written film I haven't seen yet. I recently watched both "After Earth" and "The East" which she co-wrote and she's quite impressive both as a writer and as an actress. She is very striking looking, almost odd in a way, but almost hypnotically beautiful at the same time.

More American Horror Story: Asylum. Twisted shit for TV, I gotta say.

corplhicks wrote:

More American Horror Story: Asylum. Twisted shit for TV, I gotta say.

Surely you mean awesome shit?  

This is the End (cheap comedy with full of well known actors)

Law and Order: Criminal Intent

Boris2008 wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

More American Horror Story: Asylum. Twisted shit for TV, I gotta say.

Surely you mean awesome shit?  

That too.

But not nearly as awesome as Breaking Bad. 

I liked the first season of American Horror Story a great deal, but I found Asylum to be a damn near unwatchable, I still haven't finished it, lost interest about halfway through.

I dig witches though so I'm looking forward to seeing what Coven is like.

It's the corny over the top 'kitchen sink' approach of Asylum that I loved. I too dig witches so I'm looking forward to the next one.