2025 Movies and TV Shows

[HecticArt]

Most of em I'll wait till they are free on one of our streamers. People suck, so I've been avoiding the theater a lot lately.

We started watching a series called Laid on (I think) Peacock. It's about a girl who finds out that her ex lovers are all mysteriously dying. It's a pretty good, goofy, and off the wall show. Its got just the right amount of stupid mixed in.

 

[JHDK]

Not sure if I'm repeating this story to you guys or other IRL people but...

There's the show called teacup... It's some scary drama on peacock about a farm town that gets a line drawn around it and if you cross over the line you die so they all have to figure out what to do.

After watching a bit of it I decided to get peacock for the month to finish out the season. So I signed up and I hit the button and that was that....

Turns out I'm a big dummy and I bought the $138 year subscription to peacock instead of the $12 one month subscription.

So if any of you have peacock streaming suggestions send them my way. Cuz I got 11 more months of this shit to take advantage of.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

That plot sounds very similar to the Steven King series (and I think book) called "Under the Dome". A dome drops on a town and isolates them. There are plots about how people adapt and interact as well as some SF stuff. The first season was pretty good, the second went from ok to bad and I couldn't even watch the third season. I am not even sure they aired them all. It was aired as a summer replacement series and did quite well at least the first year.

 

[JHDK]

That plot sounds very similar to the Steven King series (and I think book) called "Under the Dome". A dome drops on a town and isolates them.

You're totally right. I've never been into Stephen King books, but under the dome was made into at least a two-season series on CBS that I watched.

This is similar this teacup show... But there are far fewer characters involved. It's one main family of about five people and then the ancillary characters of about 6 others and that's like basically all you're dealing with the whole time. It's not a whole like small town like under the dome was with a city council and everything. It's just one farm with like two neighbors.

Also, because I searched for it at one point I get news updates about it in my feed and apparently it was canceled. So hopefully season one doesn't end on the cliffhanger cuz I'm like three episodes away from the ending.

 

[sadchild]

A dome drops on a town and isolates them.

 

[HecticArt]

You're totally right. I've never been into Stephen King books,

Man, I read em all back in the 80’s. They were great.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Man, I read em all back in the 80’s. They were great.

He's still pumping them out. I challenge your statement you read them all in the 80s. Please show your proof of time travel and maybe I will believe you.

 

[sadchild]

So it ain't 2025, in fact it's from the 90s. But after learning it exists, I started watching the short-lived Something Wilder (starring Gene Wilder). The first two episodes were okay, but I thought the third one was quite good. I think I'll keep going.

 

[HecticArt]

I don't remember that show at all.

We watched season one of Rogue Heroes on MGM+ last year. Season 2 started a couple of weeks ago.
It's very slightly a sort of a telling of the story (a story) of the original British SAS.
It's got a Guy Ritchie kind of an over-the-top vibe.

It's been a great show.

 

[sadchild]

My wife watches a lot more TV than me (which isn't hard to do). Sometimes she'll ask if I'm interested in trying a show, after watching the trailer I usually say no. Once in a while I say I'll try a couple episodes, then say "nah" (which she takes personally, but that's a whole nuther story). With Prime Target, we watched the first two and I said I'll stick with it. Not great, but ok.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Tonight my son and I went to see a movie in Columbus with my mother-in-law. The movie we saw was "Flight Risk". Before I get into the movie, let me review the differences between seeing a movie in Canada (in a Cineplex Odeon Cinema) vs the AMC Cinema in Columbus.

One thing that is not different is the price. Both are equally pricey for admissions and for snacks.

In Canada, before the show starts we get a pre-show. It has some advertising but also lots of interviews with stars of upcoming movies. They all say how you have to see it in the theatre as that is where the magic is. This usually runs about 30 minutes before showtime. In AMC, we got a 10 minute block of advertising. All repeated at least twice. Some of it was national others were local (a pub across from the theatre).

In Canada every movie starts with a block of commercials. Usually about 15-20 minutes worth. AMC had only 1. They had a big promo for their theatre and reminders to not be an asshole during the movie and then it morfed into an intro for to Coming Attractions. In Canada the Coming Attractions is combined with a commercial for a bank.

In AMC every trailer contained a rating card before it. We don't get that in Canada. In AMC we only got previews. In Canada they slip in at least one more ad in the middle of the previews.

The AMC had another big promo and another reminder to not be an asshole. The Canadian Feature Presentation is simpler but they do have a short advert to ask you to not be an asshole as well.

The seats in the AMC were full recliners and much more comfortable than the Canadian theatre.


Now for the movie. My mother-in-law was not too impressed and my son was neutral. I liked it but not enough to see it again. After we saw the reviews and the most typical was "Flawed but watchable". 5.5/10 on iMDB.

ETA: the movie had about 12 Executive Producers. We were laughing about the many screens listing then in the closing credits. One of them, and also director, was Mel Gibson.

 

[Aaron]

15 to 20 minutes of commercials before a movie? At this point the theaters get the dwindling audience that they deserve.

 

[HecticArt]

I'll start going more than once or twice a year again when they convince people to shut the fuck up when the movie is playing.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I'll start going more than once or twice a year again when they convince people to shut the fuck up when the movie is playing.

We had no interruptions but the theatre was only 25% full.

 

[JHDK]

I'll start going more than once or twice a year

Once or twice a year? Slow down movie theater addict.

The last two movies I saw in the theater were Tenet and Oppenheimer.

The next movie I will see in the theater is The Odyssey.

The only dude who gets me off my ass these days to fucking schlep over the goddamn theater and deal with all that bullshit is Christopher Nolan.

Also, I fear he's getting a little too big for his britches. Fucking Homer's Odyssey?

So what's your next movie going to be after that? The entire Torah and Bible and Quran weaved together with Tom Hardy and Zendaya in a 3-hour narrative?

Anyway, I don't care. Chris Nolan is awesome. He's the fucking closest thing we have to a living version of Kubrick.

Denis Villeneuve and Paul Thomas Anderson are in the conversation but nowhere near Nolan.

I bet Nolan watches their movies and thinks like hey I'm fucking Michelangelo and these two are Thomas Kinkade on a good day.

I hope he's never seen a Michael Bay movie. I really don't want Chris to kill himself.

 

[HecticArt]

Once or twice a year? Slow down movie theater addict.

I think I’m being generous.
I don’t remember what the last movie was that I saw at the theater.

 

[scotchandcigar]

We go to a theater once or twice a year. There's usually about a half-dozen people in the theater with us.

 

[Wolf]

I'll start going more than once or twice a year again when they convince people to shut the fuck up when the movie is playing.

Ssssshhhhhh!!!!!

 

[Wolf]

I usually go to the theaters a few times a year. I enjoy the comfy Harkins theaters seats.

 

[Wolf]

In couple weeks, I plan on see the latest Captain America: Brave New World film.

The official teaser trailer of The Fantastic Four: First Steps is out now.