Netflix/Prime/Disney/Etc unrecomendations.

[ohmyliver]

Out of idle curiosity I started watching Atlas Shrugged: Part I. on Prime and it was worse than I expected.

Which I found surprising, because I thought it was going to be terrible, given the source material.

It's not even entertainly terrible. Earnestly sociopathic suited shits getting angry in an expensivly budgetted film with dialogue written by a person who has clearly mistaken a corporate training video for Steinbeck. I feel robbed of the time I wasted on it.

What other films are worth not even checking that they're entertianingly bad.

 

[fishfinger]

Atlas Shrugged part 2 and part 3?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I thought that Tales From The Loop on Prime would be right up my street, but it was just dull and uninspiring.

 

[Reno]

Atlas Shrugged part 2 and part 3?

They are fabulous of course !

They were actually made. The budgets got smaller with every installment because they all flopped and they had to get a new cast with every film. It was the vanity project of some libertarian nutcase with more money than sense.

 

[fishfinger]

They are fabulous of course !

They were actually made. The budgets got smaller with every installment because they all flopped and they had to get a new cast with every film. It was the vanity project of some libertarian nutcase with more money than sense.

Have you seen them? I'm not sure I have the stomach for all that hilarity

 

[metalguru]

Just started watching the Crowd series 4.

Some of the acting is irritatingly mannered. Prince Philip is managing to annoy me most of all. But the most irritating thing about it is the way the Royals sneak to each other as if every remark is h deeply significant - reverberating with tremendous insight and meaning.

Other the other hand, from my inner city lockdown perspective, the country side and properties seem unusually exotic and unattainable - so it's quite pleasant to watch as escapism.

 

[Reno]

Have you seen them? I'm not sure I have the stomach for all that hilarity

Fuck no !

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Just did Truthseekers on Prime.
Watchable but the episodes that lead up to the finale don't perhaps don't quite intrigue enough. Just finished the last episode and now it all seems a lot more interesting than it was when I actually watched it. It's OK though. A few Pegg / Frost films seemed a little bit bloated and could have instead been a series. I can't quite tell if this was too long and would have been better off as a film, or if that would have ended up being too bloated.

 

[Knotted]

Some bad horror films on Netflix

Girls With Balls looked fun from the trailer. It really, really isn't. Bad slapstick is just painful. It also has an offensively weird lesbian character.
Whereas The Babysitter was a bit of trashy fun, the sequel is just a load of lazy call backs to the original film. Fuck this cash grab.
I don't think it's on Netflix anymore, but Nazi Vengance was one of the worst films that I have watched from beginning to end. Stupid concept, poorly executed, ends as torture porn.
Peelers is a rubbish zombies versus strippers thing. Sleazy and not in a funny way.

There's loads of other low budget horror films that I can barely remember which are really poor but don't deserve any hate. If you're watching low budget horror films, you've got to take the rough with the smooth. But the above four also left a bad taste in my mouth. Fuck these films.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Some bad horror films on Netflix

Girls With Balls looked fun from the trailer. It really, really isn't. Bad slapstick is just painful. It also has an offensively weird lesbian character.
Whereas The Babysitter was a bit of trashy fun, the sequel is just a load of lazy call backs to the original film. Fuck this cash grab.
I don't think it's on Netflix anymore, but Nazi Vengance was one of the worst films that I have watched from beginning to end. Stupid concept, poorly executed, ends as torture porn.
Peelers is a rubbish zombies versus strippers thing. Sleazy and not in a funny way.

There's loads of other low budget horror films that I can barely remember which are really poor but don't deserve any hate. If you're watching low budget horror films, you've got to take the rough with the smooth. But the above four also left a bad taste in my mouth. Fuck these films.

I agree with this on all counts.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but I am increasingly underwhelmed by films of late. I am wondering if it is the ease of streaming and that I can watch what I want (to an extent) every night. On going through old favourites that I used to love - Roger Rabbit, Raiders, Star Wars, Matirx, Wes Anderson films and all sorts - I'm finding them pretty boring and full of annoying holes that I Never used to care about.
Not sure I have recently re-watched anything recently that I didn't think was shite. Really pretty much everything. I wonder if it is the 'on-demand' thing that has somehow ruined it all for me.

Who knows. Anyone else find this?

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s this pandemic too innit.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It’s this pandemic too innit.

Yeah but that's been around for a year. Suddenly all films and TV are shit.
Keep telling my daughter stuff like 'this ones a classic, you'll love it', then apologising half way through.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah but that's been around for a year. Suddenly all films and TV are shit.
Keep telling my daughter stuff like 'this ones a classic, you'll love it', then apologising half way through.

Sounds like you might be a little depressed mate? You’ve had a radical lifestyle change recently, right?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Sounds like you might be a little depressed mate? You’ve had a radical lifestyle change recently, right?

Not as such, other than the pandemic, and perhaps giving up booze a couple of months ago.
I'm a bit down for sure, but I don't feel that my (un)enjoyment of previously enjoyed films can be put down to that. Can it?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Detective Pikachu on prime

Really disappointing. Pikachu is PG Deadpool. Boring detective story with obvious badguy switcharoo twist. Disappointing end reveal as to why Pikachu sounds like Ryan Reynolds that takes away any previous fun you may have thought you had earlier in the film.

 

[marty21]

Watched the Joan Didion documentary on Netflix - didn't know much about her before - but want to read her stuff now - it was made about 5 years ago by her nephew , lots of interviews of her and historical stuff - recommend.

 

[MrCurry]

recommend.

You’re in the wrong thread then!

 

[marty21]

You’re in the wrong thread then!

done this twice now I give up

 

[marty21]

Although, I did see a later period Bruce Willis film - Apex - which is a classic later period dial it in performance from Bruce - the story is basically a rip off of a JCVD film Hard Target - rich folk hunt people - Bruce is the star but isn't in it that much - doesn't speak much - doesn't kill many people - it was spectacularly bad.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Although, I did see a later period Bruce Willis film - Apex - which is a classic later period dial it in performance from Bruce - the story is basically a rip off of a JCVD film Hard Target - rich folk hunt people - Bruce is the star but isn't in it that much - doesn't speak much - doesn't kill many people - it was spectacularly bad.

That reminds me I saw a Bruce Willis film on Netflix or Prime, some time in the last year or so, and it was bad, like in the old days of 'straight to video' with no cinematic release kind of bad. Low budget. Dire sfx.

Just looked it up: Hard Kill.

 

[Reno]

Bruce Willis made gazillions of crappy low budget action films in recent years because he suffers from aphasia and he has been saving money for when he can't work anymore. They aren't entertainment, they are a retirement fund.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Bruce Willis made gazillions of crappy low budget action films in recent years because he suffers from aphasia and he has been saving money for when he can't work anymore. They aren't entertainment, they are a retirement fund.

I found them very curious (before the aphasia was announced) and wondered what the hell was up.
If you watch Glass (not one of the gazillion the crazy low budget shite that you were talking about I know) with this in mind, it is fairly clear they are working around Willis rather than with him. It is the only recent film of his that effort is made to include Willis without it looking like he is not even actually taking part in the same film as everyone else. . . and that he can actually be legitimately counted as a joint lead.
It actually makes watching the film a lot more interesting. He says most lines out of shot, most action is a double, most shots of his face are him just standing /sitting motionless.

 

[Orang Utan]

I found them very curious (before the aphasia was announced) and wondered what the hell was up.
If you watch Glass (not one of the gazillion the crazy low budget shite that you were talking about I know) with this in mind, it is fairly clear they are working around Willis rather than with him. It is the only recent film of his that effort is made to include Willis without it looking like he is not even actually taking part in the same film as everyone else. . . and that he can actually be legitimately counted as a joint lead.
It actually makes watching the film a lot more interesting. He says most lines out of shot, most action is a double, most shots of his face are him just standing /sitting motionless.

Reminds me a little of the plot of Bowfinger

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Reminds me a little of the plot of Bowfinger

It sort of is in a way. There is little to no acting. Go in this room a look confused. Sit in this chair and say nothing, just stare blankly, let these men grab you and lead you along this way.
It's sad, as there was almost certainly a better film possible (and possibly planned), but considering Willis' other low budget cash grabs they made a darn good effort.

 

[platinumsage]

1899 is wank

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

1899

Tedious “simulation” romp in which the throwaway characters are all part of some evil genius’s silly game..

Fuck you. Spoilers arsehole!! Jesus Christ. You absolute nob.

 

[Epona]

done this twice now I give up

The Didion doc. is superb though

 

[Epona]

Fuck you. Spoilers arsehole!! Jesus Christ. You absolute nob.

This, I haven't finished it yet, fucker's ruined it now.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This, I haven't finished it yet, fucker's ruined it now.

I'm only just about to start episode 3. My wife and daughter quite like it. Could have just said it was tedious, obvious, or put anything that gives the reveal of a 'mystery series' in spoilers.
I've spoilered mine in the hopes that they come back and edit/ispoiler their post. FUCK.

I'm flipping furious. I can't sit watching it speculating with my daughter now. Bloody arse.