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I thought Maniac was pretty great, beautifully shot and fantastic actors and characters. The plot itself was a bit flimsy, but it was so well executed. Especially liked the Loc Jonah Hill episode, had me dying (unintentional or not). Thought the set design (smartly) took a lot of cues from Legion.

Hold The Dark

Can't say that it was bad; can't say that it was good. Interesting, bizarre, at least I felt that way, film that could have been a lot tighter in the end.

Big Mouth was a lot of fun.

Ozark is bananas... really has that classic tense breaking bad feel to it and i'm only 20 minutes into episode 3

Blockhead wrote:Big Mouth was a lot of fun.

a few eps in and this season might even be better than the last one. so funny and weird right off the bat

dick on swole

Whoa.

Spartan wrote:

Cysed.

out today!

20 minutes into apostle, don't think i'm shutting this off

50 mins in Apostle is an incredible film, excellent tone and pace.

Apostle is great but not GOAT. Felt like a miniseries crammed in to a feature with a few too many standard cult plotpoints and some hammy dialogue. That being said it's beautiful and very atmospheric - maybe it's just me who would have preferred a lean 100 min revenge film. The name Gareth Evans comes with unreasonable expectations too.

Comedy Quaddafi wrote:Apostle is great but not GOAT. Felt like a miniseries crammed in to a feature with a few too many standard cult plotpoints and some hammy dialogue. That being said it's beautiful and very atmospheric - maybe it's just me who would have preferred a lean 100 min revenge film. The name Gareth Evans comes with unreasonable expectations too.

just finished it and couldn’t agree more. 2nd half was all over the place,imo. If you liked Stevens performance Check out Legion

Apostle was really good. I enjoyed the packed in second half.

As a fan of both the book and the original movie, The Haunting of Hill House is fucking great. 6 episodes in.

haunting of hill house sounds great

30 mins left in apostle it took some twists for sure. can't wait to finish this thing tonight after the fights and baseball game.

Do you normally watch movies in 20 minute incriments my guy?

depends, 2 hour plus flick watched in three parts. lol not the worst viewing experience. there are too many live events on that I often have to pause and go to something else

anyway starting part 3 now (last 30 mins)

blastmaster wrote:Do you normally watch movies in 20 minute incriments my guy?

Thinking the same

I don't normally review them in twenty minute sequences...

Movie in the end was okay, absolute ending saved it I suppose.

It's unnecessarily convoluted and runs way too long, but I liked Apostle quite a lot. It check marks a bunch of elements too numerous to list that appeal to me immensely. Had the film been a bit leaner and tighter in the editing suite, this would have probably wound up my fave of the year.

Also checked out Netflix's 22 July which was way better than I initially expected it to be.

Landed about in the same place as the rest of your guys on Apostle. A little too long and slow in the first half, although there isn't much in there that felt like overtly dead weight. Loved most of the second half, even though it could've used a little more streamlining and I would've liked to see a little more violent confrontation.
BUT with that said, considering how much of this movie works, even in ways that aren't specifically pinned to genre, it feels backwards to come at this with expectations based on The Raid. It's the opposite, what Evans does here proves he has more to offer than just movies about awesome brawls. Dude is shaping up to be a good director who knows how to create a world, give it the right look and texture, build and hold tension, get good performances out of actors that aren't just fighting, etc...

unclebengi wrote:I thought Maniac was pretty great, beautifully shot and fantastic actors and characters. The plot itself was a bit flimsy, but it was so well executed. Especially liked the Loc Jonah Hill episode, had me dying (unintentional or not). Thought the set design (smartly) took a lot of cues from Legion.

yeah plot didn't have any crazy twists/mindblowing moments like similar shows westworld, black mirror. what it does better than westworld though is actually wrap up the story and make use of its actors. jonah hill + emma stone interacting >>>>>>>>> ed harris/ tony hopkins solo masturbation vids. also much better aesthetics. the lab looked to me like bladerunner (haven't seen legion) and all the dream sequences were unique settings.

i also appreciated the humour. beyond the dream setting the fucking dude with his mechanical dick sucker... good lord.

Did anybody see the wolf flick yet??

drizzle wrote:

dick on swole

This turned out even more violent and gory than the director's previous effort, Headshot and that's saying something.

Triple chick fight>>>

Daredevil season 3 was good. Like all the Marvel stuff it wasn’t perfect but this was on par with season 1 for quality.

^ apparently there's an 11 minute single-shot fight scene (in ep4 i think). i haven't watched the show but gonna check this out.

It’s really fucking good.

Spartan wrote:

drizzle wrote:

dick on swole

This turned out even more violent and gory than the director's previous effort, Headshot and that's saying something.

yea this was better than Headshot, best fight-oriented action I've seen since Raid 2. Might be some of the best action choreography done this century. I gasped repeatedly at both the savagery of the gore and the kind of stunts and effects they were able to pull off to facilitate it

luke cage officially cancelled

Great article on the Ringer today by Tom Breihan about Apostle and The Night Comes For Us and the strange promo they have/haven't received-

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/1 ... s-berendal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It was this info at the end though that really caught my eye-

Right now, (Gareth) Evans is working on Gangs of London, a contemporary crime series that’s set to air on Cinemax next year. And as for Iko Uwais, he’s getting his own show, too. He’ll star in Wu Assassins, a martial arts show set in the San Francisco underworld, and he’ll also produce and choreograph the fights. Look for it sometime soon on Netflix.