What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Ingrid]

That’s one I’ve never seen. I wasn’t the right age when it came out and then it just wasn’t a high priority to seek it out. Might have to give it a whirl this year.

[Abraham Smashington]

It's the second best thing that Denis Leary has ever done behind ripping off Bill Hicks wholesale, and showing up in Demolition Man. It is really fucking funny though.

[Matt]

The Ref. The one time a year it gets watched. It works everytime. Still funny after decades.

It's one of the best scripts ever. Line after line of great dialog that benefits from pitch perfect delivery from the stars.

[Ingrid]

I watched Leo on Netflix the other day while I was wrapping presents. Fairly standard Sandler fare in regards to jokes, timing, whatnot. But it was pretty cute and had a couple of moments that I genuinely cackled and snorted. It ended poignantly but not super sappy. Would recommend if you’re looking for something to watch on a lazy day off.

[Captain Russ]

The Holdovers.

Strange what a simple yet fully realized set of characters and what refraining from typical melodramatics can do. Entertaining, bittersweet, and a welcome return to form for Alexander Payne, whose last two films just didn't have a similar confidence or focus in their results. Surprising this came from a sitcom writer in David Hemington--until you see his credit list also includes Pete and Pete, then it makes sense.

[Abraham Smashington]

Rebel Moon. I know I'm in the minority but I liked it. It felt like he took any number of pulpy sci-fi tropes and did some speed ramping. The alien designs were dope as were the ship designs. Was this mostly setup? Yes. Do I care? No. Gimme part two. And gimme more of those tentacle things Mr. Not Nicholas Hoult was all about that we all know will come back to do something...right?

[Timothy225]

Godzilla Minus One - believe the hype, as it's the goods. First Godzilla movie in a good long while where I actually care about the lead human's story; there's a bunch of themes to unpack, each of which would make for a great indy film as long as the director of Minus One was doing it.

Also Godzilla was terrifying in this, the complete opposite of the Legendary series, which I like quite a bit. This is old school 1954 style Godzilla, with all the fear of the Atomic Age intact. See this ASAP.

[Abraham Smashington]

Leave the World Behind. Finally checked this out. Dug it and got the ending I wanted.

[Abraham Smashington]

The Creator. Nothing groundbreaking from a story point of view. Basically a 2.5 hour version of that 10-minute animated short from the Animatrix. Could have 30 mins cut imo but even with that, I still enjoyed it for what it is and it's one of the first movies that had that District 9 feeling. The FX were in service of the movie and weren't showy for the most part. I love me some chunky future and this felt like Death Stranding at points with the designs and whatnot. Dug it, free on Hulu I believe.

[Abraham Smashington]

The Stanford Prison Experiment was fun to watch. I've been fascinated by this since I was a high schooler and this one just sort of was always on my radar, but it just came up on Showtime and Lesley had never heard of it. So many fucking people in this movie before they were "stars". It truly sucks that Ezra Miller has mental issues, because he was fantastic in this. So was Young Neil from Scott Pilgrim. I dunno, thought it was done well, Lesley was shocked about what the whole thing was all about, and even more shocked about the "Here's what happened" bit at the end.

Truly a fucked "experiment" that never should have happened the way it did in my opinion (shocking) but holy shit either I don't remember the full story/book I read or they sped this shit up but when so much happens and then it goes "End of Day 1" it's like "uhhhhhh, that felt like a fucking eternity." but yeah, it's "crazy" how people with power abuse it, everyone says they won't but end up doing it at some point, and I call shenanigans that no mental trauma ever stayed with any of those participants.

[Abraham Smashington]

Dune - Have the second one on deck for this weekend as the 4k disc just showed up. Still one of the best looking and (dialogue issues not withstanding) sounding discs. Such a great film that just flies by. Really looking forward to the second one.

[Abraham Smashington]

Dune 2. Dug it but when is part 3 going to hit?

[Matt]

Dune 2. Dug it but when is part 3 going to hit?

unclear. I think DV wants to let some time pass first. If I understand things correctly, a decade passes in real time between the ending of the DUNE book and the beginning of the next book, DUNE: MESSIAH. I think he wanted the actors to age up a bit. I also think that he wants to tackle another IP first before doing another DUNE film. That said, I think WB is pushing to get the film going asap in order to keep the money spigot flowing. The cash must flow.

[Timothy225]

WB already has a Dune prequel with the Bene Gesserit, and can mine the histories of House Atredies and House Harkonnen, along with the history of the Empire. It'd be just like Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon was for HBO/Max.

[Abraham Smashington]

unclear. I think DV wants to let some time pass first. If I understand things correctly, a decade passes in real time between the ending of the DUNE book and the beginning of the next book, DUNE: MESSIAH. I think he wanted the actors to age up a bit. I also think that he wants to tackle another IP first before doing another DUNE film. That said, I think WB is pushing to get the film going asap in order to keep the money spigot flowing. The cash must flow.

It's been awhile since I read the book (2-3 years or so) but I swear there was way more left in the book OR maybe they just skipped it. Either way, I dug it and the prequel thing looks neat, I just felt like it just ended and I seem to remember more things with the innerworkings and shit going on between Chiani and Jessica and shit. Maybe it did and I was just to enthralled at how good it looked.