The Last Movie You Saw On DVD or VHS or TV.

OK....now I'm watching 'Peppermint'.,........it's not "Kill Bill".

Peppermint is Death Wish with a female lead.

No, it plain sucks.

But so does all iterations of Death Wish.

It's not anything close to Death Wish.

How do you think it differs from Death Wish?

It threatens your 2nd Amendment rights. I'm surprised you didn't notice.

Let me share this one that's now on YouTube. It's about a blind swordsman in Japan named Zatoichi. My wife told me he's famous, but it's the first time I learned about him. I'm hooked, so it may be of some interest to some of you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz-PFnb_m6E. Let me know what you think?

I'll check it out. I never paid much attention to that genre until about 15 years ago. Turner Classic Movies did an entire day on old asian fight movies, and since I was recovering from surgery I didn't have the energy to change the channel....but the more I watched, the more fascinated I became. I gained an appreciation for them especially the foreign films, and also the women who were amazingly skilled. I have no idea if they were trained fighters, but it was fascinating for me.

Finally. True Detective 3 is streaming on HBOGO. I don’t even know how to process my feelings.

I wanted the second season to at least approach the first, but sometimes a story, an assemblage of actors, and a director just synthesize in a way that makes magic—and you just might not see its like again.

The cast, imo, for the second season was fabulous. Of course, the same director was there. I can’t really put my finger on what made it fall for me, but I remember thinking Pizzolatto was trying to be much cooler way too hard. Some of the scenes of Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell, sitting across the table from each other were almost laughable—unless you hated seeing two pretty damn good actors crash and burn when they’d expected a McConneghey boon to their careers.


Pizzolatto’s response to the critical failure of season 2 was to clone season three embarrassingly closely to that first earthquaking debut. The opening is identical. The plot so far is also almost identical: two cops are being interviewed about a cold case over varying spans of time...

So, I have a bit of disappointment that he cobbled himself back to safety, but I’m a bit mesmerized by the story and the characterization portrayed by Mahershaka Ali.

Episode 2: tonight.

Watched The Bird Box last week.

Honestly wasn't that impressed.

I much preferred the movie Blindness from 2008.

Blindness was from José Saramago, GColSE, a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. Though the movie, not bad... lost a great deal in the adaptation from the novel.

And I couldn't stand The Bird Box. Too many missed opportunities. I regret I wasted the two hours watching it and giving Netflix a view (they already got an insane amount of views... all they need to consider it a success) which will give them an idea to ... maybe make a sequel.

Ugg. A sequel? No thanks.


Huh re the book. It must be good because I was really affected by the movie.

To me BB was very predictable, built on a totally unbelievable premise. I'm with you. I don't know why so many people liked it.

I didn't.

How does it threaten my Second Amendment rights?

Wow. I’m more than a little bowled over by This is Us. A few episodes are some of the best TV I’ve seen.

So many good actors and it was such a mediocre movie..(BirdBox)

Me too. It's not that interesting. I remembered "The Happening" while watching it. And they both have a not satisfying ending.
..I also want to share the last movie I remember that I watched in VHS with the usual family movie nights was "TITANIC" the 1st original movie of it. I don't find it cool way back then since I'm young. It's just nowadays I appreciated it.

How about 'Birth of a Nation'?

I resisted watching the movie Molly’s Game for so long, in part because I had some preconceived ideas about it that ended up being wrong. I didn’t want to sit through a story about how some entitled white b-word gets over on the establishment using her all-American wit and grit. Yee-hah. I also didn’t want to get a migraine trying to keep up with more Aaron Sorkin stream-of-consciousness-fast-yet-oh-so-deep-and-witty dialogue.

By the time I got through watching it, I had laughed out loud, teared up, and resolved myself to reading The Crucible (you’d understand if you see the movie). Jessica Chastain is great. Idris Elba is great. Even Kevin Costner.
Sorkin’s writing is great (especially impressed by Idris Elba’s impassioned monologue defending Chastain).

Good movie!

I've seen the movie and had the opposite reaction to you. Plus The Crucible reference went over my head because if it's a character reference? I already forgot it.

I do agree with you regarding Idris Elba and Kevin Costner but was pretty disappointed in the flat delivery of Jessica Chastain, whom I really love in Zero Dark Thirty where she should have one that year.

I was really disappointed in the Sorkin script and how stupid Chastain's character was in her very simple decisions that placed her in the very obviously dangerous of situations.