What's a movie or show that you knew little or nothing of before walking in, and it still was nothing like you expected? I recently had this happen with The Cabin In The Woods. I knew it was this cool, little horror movie that everyone seemed to love, but I definitely wasn't expecting that.
What is/are some of your favorite little moments in a show or movie? What quiet and subtle but brilliant thing hits you just the right way that you smile a little bit thinking about it. I'll start:
In the last season of BB, Walt and Jesse are setting up the train heist. Walt comes home all dirty and dusty to which Skyler wryly asks, "Out burying bodies?" There's a beat and then Walt replies, truthfully, "Robbing A Train," and walks off. Knowing it's almost certainly not a joke, Skyler's face gives a little, "Huh. Well, I guess I didn't see that coming."
It's just a tiny scene, but for the point where all of the characters are in the show, it's just so perfectly done.
I'm start to get to the point where I think I'm going to switch up streaming services. I think Netflix is going to get the ax as there's really not much I want to watch on there anymore. All the shows I liked are gone and I'm not terribly interested in much of the original content.
D+ took over for the kids content, so I'm thinking I'm going to go for their bundled package instead. I hope E+ plays a bunch of random sports late at night.
I recently watched a whole bunch of things, which I'll note at some point in the future. But specifically I wanted to share this little fun clip advertisement I saw for the movie Red Notice. Red Notice was apparently a big Netflix movie, and, like a lot of theirs, felt like it was rushed a bit, maybe needed another rewrite to tighten stuff up, etc. Kind of made up for the lack of writing by just having fun people doing fun things. And in the end it was good enough, because of that.
Anyway, what have y'all thought of Netflix movies (and similar?).
Aaaaaaand... also apparently I can't get the clip in this post. Half baked. I'll try the comments.
I was wondering the other day about how the pandemic era will be used in future shows and movies. For example, I was wondering about actors wearing masks in scenes in such. Like, the director calls for the scene to get ready and all the extras put their masks on for an exterior scene.
Just a random thought. What have you been watching?
I'd heard several people talking about Hereditary recently. I'm not really much of a horror guy, but I decided to give it a shot for some reason. I didn't know anything about it except that was more psychological than slasher, which would be my strong preference between the two.