What have I been watching #34
Sooooo...I've watched quite a bit of movies and shows over the holidays (the perk of not sleeping much), so I just thought I'd share them here. There are three categories:
1) The best ones 2) The meh and 3) Waste of time
Buckle up!!!
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The best ones
Crimes of the Future
Very gory at some parts (very David Cronenberg). but such a great story and great cast.
Loved everything about this movie, especially Thomasin McKenzie. Great plot.
Morbius
I'm probably the only person on earth who loved this movie. I thought Jared Leto did an ok job, and Matt Smith was super awesome as always. (He was also great in Last Night in Soho!)
Midnight Club
A slow-burn but oh so worth it. Even though this was described as horror, this is really not that scary, which was ok. Just a great series.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Glass Onion
Love love love. Funny and entertaining for sure, although Knives Out is still my fave out of the two.
My middle child was actually the one who said I should watch this, and oh...em...gee...It is seriously one of the best films I've seen in a long time. My hubby ended up loving this, too.
If you haven't seen this, GO SEE IT NOW!!!
American Horror Story Season 8 (Apocalypse)
My daughter got me obsessed over this show. (I do watch this with her coz it's soooooo gratuitous, so I have to pretty much censor a lot of the scenes.) This season with Cody Fern is my fave to date.
Alice in Borderland Season 2
Just finished watching this, and it's just as awesome as Season 1. Had my crying in some scenes.
The Mehs
The Pale Blue Eye
I'm such a big Christian Bale fan, but this one was a bit of a dud. Great cinematography, but oh so slow, and only really got interesting in the last 30 minutes IMO.
Black Adam
School of Good and Evil
Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington were great in it....that's about it. The plot was super predictable.
The waste of time
Don't Worry Darling
I really wanted to love this film, coz I like Harry Styles, but gaaaaaaah!!! WTF is that ending?!?!?
This could've been a good movie, but the pacing...ugh! Pierce Brosnan was legitimately the best part of this movie.
What have you been watching lately?
Comments
Black Adam was exactly what I expected it to be.. mindless.
I agree with School of Good as well.. too basic
Don't Worry Darling - if nothing Florence Pough was good.
Haven't seen any of the others.
I'm really going to have to look into the Alice series now!
Of course, I'm still high kicking my way through all 3. They are funny, but they touch on very sad things too..as in the second one of the teenage girl who comes to their how to be the housemaid and the one she's so in love with tells her, "Well, you'll always be the housemaid." Although, he looks at her as a little sister he never had. On the bad side, this was totally more funny in 2009 than now with the fart jokes and the terrible bulling in the family. I don't know if it could be made now days..even in Korea. Especially, from finding out how controversial it is for even a child star of the series to have crossed fans. But..well, I will leave that alone.
The Asian movie you mentioned I really hope I get to see that one!
I did start Who Rules The World (Chinese) on Netflix. It really is filmed beautifully. Of course, in the first episode, they killed off one of my favorite up-and-coming Chinese actor. He tends to only do guest roles, but I hope he will be the main character soon. And finally, I found a quaint Chinese drama (2023) Meet Yourself. Oh, Janice Wu does an amazing performance in the first episode. I really loved how it showed two working women and their friendship alone in the big city. Of course, it's the friend who inspires the other to go off and enjoy life in her travels and to really fall in love with life. So it was a great one to start this month.
Thanks so much for your suggestions in this post! Have an amazing January and delightful winter!
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