The Gentlemen. 

Thought it was a good film with a great cast. 

ilovemusic:

 

Meanwhile I watched the Netflix film Code-8.

 

Total crap - dumb story, poor acting by that block of wood Arrow guy (and his bro ?).

 

It didn't even look or sound good.

 

I thought it started with real promise...then it just completely let me down. 

I just watched the movie Casino from 1995 with Robert De Niro. Wow! So brutal and realistic. I have tried to watch that movie a few time before, but i have never succeded till the end. The movie is really great and i highly recommend it to watch for all those who didn't.

So trying to watch a movie a night

• 6 underground - loved it.  Mindless, plot sucked but so much fun
• Captain Marvel - enjoyable date movie
• Ad Astra - just didn't make sense and boring
• Terminator Dark fate - enjoyable not as good as T1 T2
• Joker - entertaining wasn't bored
• Jumanji- Next Level was not as bad as I was expecting stayed awake

Terminator Dark Fate.

Had it's moments but the obvious feminist leanings in the film rather spoiled it for me. I dislike being lectured to or "educated" when I am expecting to be entertained.

Spectral

Apparently was supposed to be a big budget cinema release (cost USD$70m) but ended up being released on Netflix.

Would have been meh if I saw it on the big screen but as a netflix release it wasn't too bad. Better than your b grade sci fi movie and some big screen releases (Battle: Los Angelos, The Darkest Hour). Weta did the SFX and they looked good.

Geektastic:

Terminator Dark Fate.

 

Had it's moments but the obvious feminist leanings in the film rather spoiled it for me. I dislike being lectured to or "educated" when I am expecting to be entertained.

The Gentlemen - typical Guy Ritchie movie, with some twists but not as outrageous as previous ones. And definitely a surprise seeing Hugh Grant change voice and accent completely. 

Geektastic:

 

I dislike being lectured to or "educated" when I am expecting to be entertained.

 

Sounds like you've missed the point of every piece of art ever created then, given it all is trying to tell a story or send a message from the artist's perspective.  I watched that movie and didn't pick up on it as being preachy or educational about a particular ideology, at least not in a heavy handed way.  Maybe you brought some of your own baggage to the viewing.

Knives Out  -- great whodunnit with twists aplenty. Daniel Craig with an Alabama accent haha. Really good family movie too. One of those movies where you are thinking wow what just happened. 

The Gentlemen -- As many others already stated.  

IP Man 4 -- Entertaining martial arts movie.  Seen the original, now I need to watch 2 & 3. 

Enter the Dragon -- Fairly good, wanted to watch this classic forever but never seen it until now.  Evil Kiwi guy gets tricked by Bruce Lee in one scene. 

"The Night Manager" - TV show, but, just 1 season and only a few episodes so a bit like a movie.  Great watching which just gets better and better towards the end.Hugh Laurie as an evil child murdering psychopath -- still cannot believe he was George from blackadder. 

surfisup1000:

 

"The Night Manager" - TV show, but, just 1 season and only a few episodes so a bit like a movie.  Great watching which just gets better and better towards the end.Hugh Laurie as an evil child murdering psychopath -- still cannot believe he was George from blackadder. 

 

 

 

Hugh Laurie is an exceptionally gifted actor, musician, and probably many other things I don't know about.

gehenna:

 

Geektastic:

 

I dislike being lectured to or "educated" when I am expecting to be entertained.

 

 

Sounds like you've missed the point of every piece of art ever created then, given it all is trying to tell a story or send a message from the artist's perspective.  I watched that movie and didn't pick up on it as being preachy or educational about a particular ideology, at least not in a heavy handed way.  Maybe you brought some of your own baggage to the viewing.

 

I kind of liked that bit in the motel where Sarah Conner was expecting Dani to simply be the mother of the hero rather than the hero herself.  Dani being more than a womb to protect didn't take anything away from the story.

gehenna:

 

Geektastic:

 

I dislike being lectured to or "educated" when I am expecting to be entertained.

 

 

Sounds like you've missed the point of every piece of art ever created then, given it all is trying to tell a story or send a message from the artist's perspective.  I watched that movie and didn't pick up on it as being preachy or educational about a particular ideology, at least not in a heavy handed way.  Maybe you brought some of your own baggage to the viewing.

 

There is a difference between 'education' and storytelling though. Even you allude to that by classifying movies as "tell a story or send a message". Sometimes people don't want a message. 

There is storytelling for entertainment and storytelling under the guise of entertaining but are actually propaganda or pushing someone's personal agenda. 

One such movie is Tomorrowland.   I was expecting an entertaining sci-fi movie, but it ended up being a moralistic whinge about global warming. I didn't want a lecture!

surfisup1000:

 

Sometimes people don't want a message. 

 

You don't have a choice when it comes to art.  Everything has a perspective, it's up to you as the consumer of the art as to whether you are switched on or off about receiving the perspective or message.