[OFF TOPIC] Movies & TV Series Thread

[heywoodu 13,552]

18 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Thoughts anyone?

 

 

I’m a huge fan of satire and I use it quite often. However, I know that even in satire lines can be crossed. I’m excited to see this movie, but I really hope the satire is more obvious than normal so people don’t get a picture of Nazis as good guys. All that said, it looks freaking hilarious.

Not a big fan of comedy movies generally, and not a big fan of movies where everyone speaks English even when that's incredibly illogical  But who knows, a few parts of the trailer made me smile a little bit and my highlight was seeing the awesome butler from Modern Family   (one episode)

 

[Olympian1010 7,477]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Not a big fan of comedy movies generally, and not a big fan of movies where everyone speaks English even when that's incredibly illogical  But who knows, a few parts of the trailer made me smile a little bit and my highlight was seeing the awesome butler from Modern Family   (one episode)

 

I’m quite looking forward to this movie. I’m very much both a cinephile and comedy craver. In all honesty there isn’t much I don’t like. Critics seem to think this movie will be huge, so only time will tell. It might even be an early Oscar contender is what some circles are saying (the same goes for “Joker” as well). 

 

I’m surprised you don’t like comedy being how often you like to make jokes. I would have thought you were big into comedy. 

 

I totally get your point about them using English by the way. I’ve been watching numerous European films lately and I’ve been able to keep out with the plot using the subtitles, so honestly they should have just used German. I actually quite enjoyed the Dutch, German, Macedonian, Lebanese, and Slovakian films I watched.

[heywoodu 13,552]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

I’m quite looking forward to this movie. I’m very much both a cinephile and comedy craver. In all honesty there isn’t much I don’t like. Critics seem to think this movie will be huge, so only time will tell. It might even be an early Oscar contender is what some circles are saying (the same goes for “Joker” as well). 

 

I’m surprised you don’t like comedy being how often you like to make jokes. I would have thought you were big into comedy. 

 

I totally get your point about them using English by the way. I’ve been watching numerous European films lately and I’ve been able to keep out with the plot using the subtitles, so honestly they should have just used German. I actually quite enjoyed the Dutch, German, Macedonian, Lebanese, and Slovakian films I watched.

Because most comedies have too soft jokes for me. The darker the humour, the better I like it, generally  

 

Although it just really depends on my mood. I definitely like Big Bang Theory as well (I'm at season 7, I'd really appreciate not having a spoiler in a post quoting me  ), I sort of like Modern Family at times, also South Park and Family Guy. Maybe not being a fan of comedy movies is mostly because I am just not a fan of movies generally speaking. I very much prefer series/shows/whatever the right term in English is. With movies I usually end up annoyed that it's over by the time I really got into it.

Edited September 4, 2019 by heywoodu

[Agger 1,591]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Not a big fan of comedy movies generally, and not a big fan of movies where everyone speaks English even when that's incredibly illogical  But who knows, a few parts of the trailer made me smile a little bit and my highlight was seeing the awesome butler from Modern Family   (one episode)

 

 

I'm rather sad that you're recognizing Stephen Merchant as "the butler", but well...

 

Have to agree about the english speaking part, though in a movie like this I don't really mind.

[heywoodu 13,552]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

I totally get your point about them using English by the way. I’ve been watching numerous European films lately and I’ve been able to keep out with the plot using the subtitles, so honestly they should have just used German. I actually quite enjoyed the Dutch, German, Macedonian, Lebanese, and Slovakian films I watched.

The best examples in terms of my own experience are Kingdom (Korean zombie series ) and 3% (Brazilian, also serving as a major training ground for me  ). There's also a movie about some people moving to another country by trucks and boats and smugglers and so on, but I have no clue which movie that was. There were people from several nationalities in it, I believe for example Iraq and Iran and I'd recognize it if I see it...but no idea about the name  

[hckošice 13,246]

9 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I actually quite enjoyed the Dutch, German, Macedonian, Lebanese, and Slovakian films I watched.

 

wait ! WHAT !?!

[Olympian1010 7,477]

Just now, hckosice said:

 

wait ! WHAT !?!

Yeah some film about a kid living in the time of the Prague Spring or something like that. It sounded good from the description, but turned out to be a kids movie kind of. I hadn’t seen Slovakian film before so I watched it through. It was just as good as about any American film. I was actually surprised by the image quality. It was a good cultural lesson too. Don’t remover the name of the movie, the premise was a kid was living in communist Czechoslovakia and his parents lived in Austria. 

[Olympian1010 7,477]

14 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

wait ! WHAT !?!

Hostage. That’s the name of the film. Nothing about the way it was marketed said kids movie, but I think it was meant to be.

[heywoodu 13,552]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Hostage.

That's surprisingly close to that other awesome movie taking place in Slovakia  

[Olympian1010 7,477]

10 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I actually quite enjoyed the Dutch, German, Macedonian, Lebanese, and Slovakian films I watched.

I watched a really good interesting Icelandic film too that I forgot about. It was definitely a movie for teens called Heartstone. Probably in my top 5 foreign films, very well done.