What have you been watching?

[featherfish]

@Tooky: oh, thanks for clearing that up. i don't think i ever knew the difference. and i'll probably look into some alfred hitchcock, then.

[elanorelle]

@Feather: also Gaslight falls under that same category. I like the 1944 version with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

[featherfish]

@ela: :reads about it: oh, i might have to watch that one.

[hobbit_of_narnia]

So I just saw Inside Out (on Monday, if I remember correctly). I liked it, and I aaaaaaalmost enjoyed it a lot. The problem was that it was a little close to home and I couldn't help but growl (silently), "Oh, you think you've got it hard?? You have a HOUSE. But that broccoli pizza? Aww, I'm so sorry for you. I know it's rough to be able to order your food in YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE."
But...
...otherwise I thought it was pretty good. I probably would have loved it if I hadn't just moved, myself.

[Ariel.of.Narnia]

Aw. *hugs Hobbit* I have another friend who took it kind of hard too because it brought up difficult childhood memories for him.

[Lil]

I saw Inside Out when I was still trying to deal with moving to my grandmother's elder community and just missing my church and friends and everything. So I sat there in the theater and sobbed at the end.

*hugs Hobbit*

I just got back from Hidden Figures. Loved it! And I'd recommend it to anyone really, but for mild swearing if one takes issue with that.

Oh really? How was it? (you can PM me.) I've been really curious about it and not sure if I wanted to see it or not.

[anunknownpevensie]

seriously thinking about suicide squad.
anybody got anything to say about it?

[elanorelle]

@Pev: My siblings watched it and thought it wasn't a very good movie. Weak plot, little character development. They both love superhero stuff, but thought this one was lacking.

[anunknownpevensie]

@Ela: Thanks for the info.

What about X-men?

[Ariel.of.Narnia]

I saw a stream of comments on Suicide Squad on a YouTube video yesterday, a number of them from DC fans, I'm sure. Most of what I saw was negative, even down to, "I NEVER leave a movie, but I left Suicide Squad about an hour in!" Plus, between PluggedIn, a secular reviewer I follow, and that video I watched... it's pretty much in no way worth it, from what I gather.

Personally, stay away from X-Men. They're a slightly less extreme waste of time (as individual films, but considering there are... 9 now, if you include the upcoming Logan... anyway). I watched the first one because one of my college profs bashed it several times, I had to see if it was as bad as he said. It was. And then I watched the second one and most of the third one to see if it got any better. Nope, not at all. I tried First Class and it's the only one I sorta enjoyed, but it's got parts I really didn't like (and still wasn't a great movie). Days of Future Past looked sooooo promising, but failed spectacularly. And even die-hard, nostalgia-driven fans are largely negative on Apocalypse. Everyone hates Origins: Wolverine. What I saw of The Wolverine (separate film) bored and annoyed me. The stories, no matter how interesting they may sound, are poorly executed (though I'll grant that some plots are better than others). The characters are largely... eh.... And don't get me started on the fact that the first film tried to give equal character arcs to no less than three characters. Ugh. That's what I hated most about that one.... I'm of the belief that the hype is from nostalgic comic book fans who are willing to overlook a good deal (with some exceptions) just so they can see these characters onscreen. X-Men is a good chunk of the reason why I had extremely little hope for any superhero movie to be really, actually good until Captain America: Winter Soldier proved that superhero movies can actually have depth and mean something (note that I've not seen all superhero movies; I'm told the Dark Knight trilogy is more along the lines of what I'm looking for).

*gets off her soapbox*