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I'm catching up on some movies I've had on my watch list.

The Big Short (2015)

In 2006-7 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.

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.... and Margin Call (2011)

Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Really interesting and I appreciate events of that time a little better having viewed these movies. Margin Call easier to understand having seen The Big Short.

Like I said they were on my 'to watch list' so a score seems pointless so I will say if you have the time, watch them.

The big short is awesome.

Antman and The Wasp
7/10 - entertaining enough...then the midcredits scene hit. ZOMG.

Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 trailers out this week too

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (8/10)
Enjoyable, uncomplicated feel-good flick. Wasn't too sure what to expect. Had read that people said it was underrated, but I was still skeptical. It's a Ben Stiller movie after all.
I guess my skepticism was unfounded. The movie is good, with an enjoyable storyline, decent acting and the right amount of humour. It's not a comedy, mind.
The cinematography is excellent. Very well shot and edited. Musical score is quite powerful in the way it's used in the movie. All in all I can recommend it without a shred of doubt.

Yeah that's a surprisingly good one. I watched He Never Died yesterday. I'm a big Henry Rollins fan.

He Never Died was surprisingly good, yep. The story took just the right turns at those junctions when it could have fallen apart. Seemed a bit like an Abel Ferrara movie to me.
Rollins was perfect for the role.

Not seen as it is in production but something I am really looking forward to:
The Henson Company doing a prequel-series of The Dark Crystal for Netflix.
I loved their movies, both the original and Labyrinth.
Here's a Crystal-clip:
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Now look at some photos from the new series:

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AWESOME!

Akira. I'm sure I have posted this once or twice before but I watch it every year, just sick with surround sound.

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2 hours of bliss >:D

Akira is an Excellent film indeed

Antman and Wasp

I’m all caught up on Marvel. Ready for Captain Marvel...

xer0s wrote:Ready for Captain Marvel...

Genuinely excited about this one

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 8/10 Enjoyed it. Sam and Woody are two of my favorites and I’ve thought Frances was great since Fargo.

Bird Box - 5/10 Believe it or not this was my first Netflix original. I thought it was meh. Entertaining enough, but some of the characters did stupid shit for no reason and there were some significant loop holes and loose ends. :down:

Ferrao10 wrote:Now look at some photos from the new series:

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The lighting looks impeccable!

Isle of Dogs 8/10

Big fan of both Wes Anderson and dogs, so this was great...

obsidian wrote: The lighting looks impeccable!

Doesn't it?
I guess the puppets aren't taller than a meter. Yet the light hits them very well.

"impeccable"
I had to look that up in my 1000-pages dictionary. "flawless; second to none; nothing but perfect"

As a non-native speaker excuse my question but why did you choose that word?
And is there an opposite; peccable?

Are you whiskey's son?

whiskey is australian, so he probably has no problem understanding that word.

I am german. The word is genuinely new to me. Asking to learn about it.

impeccable , like a perfectly manufactured good.

in this case, and as with many, this word is simply thrown around to "color up"
a person with poor language skills' communications .

plained wrote: in this case, and as with many, this word is simply thrown around to "color up"
a person with poor language skills' communications .

Oh, the irony. :olo:

Leave it to plained to explain the meaning of a word by using other saying requiring “quotes”...

I watched bandersnatch the other day, I liked it but I'm kind of a sucker for anything black mirror releases. Also watched Beetlejuice, fucking great.

I watched The Lion King with my kids. You know, the 1994 Disney movie. I was kind of disappointed with it to be honest. In my memory the movie was much more impressive. Then again, it's been over 20 years since I'd last seen it.

Are you excited for the shot-for-shot CG remake that they even recycled the music for? Lollywood

No not at all. Creativity is dead at Disney. My brother mentioned this remake and this got me thinking about my kids never having seen The Lion King, so I thought I'd have a cinema moment with them and grabbed some soda, some popcorn and the movie. My kids liked it even though my daughter was really sad when Mufasa died.

The story just wasn't really entertaining for me, the artwork just wasn't as impressive as I remembered it and having to see it in Dutch wasn't good either because the Dutch voice over is really bad.

Yeah that would make it suck for sure, the voice acting is one of its best aspects.

Eraser wrote:No not at all. Creativity is dead at Disney. My brother mentioned this remake and this got me thinking about my kids never having seen The Lion King, so I thought I'd have a cinema moment with them and grabbed some soda, some popcorn and the movie. My kids liked it even though my daughter was really sad when Mufasa died.

The story just wasn't really entertaining for me, the artwork just wasn't as impressive as I remembered it and having to see it in Dutch wasn't good either because the Dutch voice over is really bad.

It's easy to dismiss how bad it looks in today's 3D animation world. That scene when there's this huge stampede of wildebeest running down a hill was breathtaking and quite the animation feat back in its day though as were a lot of other scenes.