What are you watching now?...2024

[Gefn]

Gefn wrote:
"If you want a really good film on the nuclear bomb, watch "Threads" I saw it on You Tube and the ending gave me nightmares for a week."

Yes, I've seen that one. Very good.

For the past year (maybe closer to two), I've made a "project" for myself to collect and watch nearly the entire genre of disaster/apocalypse films, as many as I could find (most "zombie" films not included).

Here's the list of those I collected so far.
An * indicates that it was "better".
An - indicates... not so much.

The Road
Threads
No Blade of Grass
Deluge (1933)
I am Legend (2007 version with alternate ending)
World Without End (1956)
The Stand (1994)
Miracle Mile (1988)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
A Boy And His Dog (1974)
The Omega Man (1971)
Doomsday (2008)
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Children of Men (2006)*
Equilibrium (2002)
The Postman (1997)
Reign of Fire (2002)*
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Carriers (2009)
City of Ember (2008)*
Knowing (2009)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Diverge (2016)
Mad Max (1979)
The Road Warrior (1981)
Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The Book of Eli (2010)
The Last Survivors (2014)
Goodbye, World (2013)
Into the Forest (2015)
Songbird (2020)
Testament (1983)
Oblivion (2013)
The Maze Runner (2014)
Maze Runner II & III
Greenland (2020)*
Perfect Sense (2011)*
The Rover (2014)
Z for Zacharia (2015)
The Survivalist (2015)
Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
Bokeh (2017)
Logan's Run (1976)
Blindness (2008)*
Silent Running (1972)
Snowpiercer (2013)
What Still Remains (2018)
Right At Your Door (2006)
It Comes At Night (2017)
12 Monkeys
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
The Matrix (1999)
Waterworld (1995)
Five (1951)
This Is Not A Test (1962)
Terminator: Salvation (2009)*
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Take Shelter (2011)
These Final Hours (Australian, 2013)
How I Live Now (2013)
The Last Boy (2019)***
Legion (2010)
Seeking a Friend For The End of The World (2012)
Parts Per Billion (2014) -
The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)*
Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
Finch (2021)
Colossus The Forbin Project (1970)
Deep Impact (1998)
Damnation Alley (1977) --
Def-Con 4 (1985)
Gravity (2013)
Phase IV (1974)
Elysium (2013) *
The Rapture (1991)
2012 (2009)
Armageddon (1998)
The Impossible (2012)***
Glen and Randa (1971)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

One that I would HIGHLY recommend is "The Last Boy".
VERY interesting film.

@Fishrrman

I found a couple more in this genre on you tube last night

Countdown to Looking Glass


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQzgHBjQzf4


Without Warning


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td3EEyHa6cw

Special Bulletin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o4EyFLenpo

They are a little dated being from the 80s and 90s but it is always fun to see the old cars, look at actors and newscasters and congressmen  when they were younger  and laugh at the clothes and hairstyles.

[WhatWouldReaganDo]

BOSS on Tubi

Chicago Mayor Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer) struggles to keep his grip on power after being diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833285/?

[corbe]

   Great Suggestion @WhatWouldReaganDo

[240B]

Battlestar Galactica (2004 version) just popped up on Amazon Prime.
Both the pilot movie and the series.

[Timber Rattler]

BOSS on Tubi

Chicago Mayor Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer) struggles to keep his grip on power after being diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833285/?

That was a great show but it was canceled after only one season and without finishing the storyline.  We don't know what happened to Kane in the end, which was frustrating.

[WhatWouldReaganDo]

That was a great show but it was canceled after only one season and without finishing the storyline.  We don't know what happened to Kane in the end, which was frustrating.

Two seasons. I'm halfway through season two, so no spoilers please.

[DCPatriot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhYLfK8GSr0

[DCPatriot]

I am pissed at myself for watching "BONE TOMAHAWK" (Netflix - Kurt Russell).  Very graphic savagery.

Wish it never was downloaded on my mental hard drive.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6QhhCjEtzU

 

[deb]

Wish it never was downloaded on my mental hard drive.

That happens a LOT these days. TV ain’t what it used to be. 

[DCPatriot]

That happens a LOT these days. TV ain’t what it used to be. 

Just awful what passes for "entertainment" today.  Cannot imagine a child seeing that movie. 

[240B]

Re-watched BattleStar Galactica 04. Just finished. I did not notice before how much of the show is focused on politics and soap opera type 'relationship issues'. Tons of marriage issues and girlfriend/boyfriend stuff.

Also, I did not notice how much these guy drink. They are not drinking beer. The Galactica crew from the Commander down is swilling hard liquor from the time they wake up until bedtime everyday and they are not drinking shots. Not a good example for children.

As an alcoholic I can verify that a level of alcoholism that severe is not sustainable. Nobody, do not care how much of a badass you are, can drink (tumblers of whiskey) that much everyday and still function competently on a command level. Not to mention the inevitable health issues.

They are drinking in almost every scene (tumblers full). Where were they getting all that liquor in space? Anyone can build a still (clear ethanol), but these guys are drinking brown aged whiskey while short on supplies and while stranded in the middle of nowhere. Nevermind. Just a personal issue with me.

Overall I enjoyed it. Plot twists and turns. It was worth watching.

[goatprairie]

Re-watched BattleStar Galactica 04. Just finished. I did not notice before how much of the show is focused on politics and soap opera type 'relationship issues'. Tons of marriage issues and girlfriend/boyfriend stuff.

Also, I did not notice how much these guy drink. They are not drinking beer. The Galactica crew from the Commander down is swilling hard liquor from the time they wake up until bedtime everyday and they are not drinking shots. Not a good example for children.

As an alcoholic I can verify that a level of alcoholism that severe is not sustainable. Nobody, do not care how much of a badass you are, can drink (tumblers of whiskey) that much everyday and still function competently on a command level. Not to mention the inevitable health issues.

They are drinking in almost every scene (tumblers full). Where were they getting all that liquor in space? Anyone can build a still (clear ethanol), but these guys are drinking brown aged whiskey while short on supplies and while stranded in the middle of nowhere. Nevermind. Just a personal issue with me.

Overall I enjoyed it. Plot twists and turns. It was worth watching.

Well, good luck with your problem
If you like to watch fifties-sixties tv series like I do (yeah, I'm weird that way), you would notice that a great many of these series feature homes where people walk in and almost the first thing they do is head for the liquor table or cabinet. It seems that virtually all houses and offices had liquor tables in them. Combined with constant smoking. The characters seem to be drinking and smoking constantly.
I visited the homes of many friends when I was younger, and none of them had liquor tables ostentatiously displayed in the house. Probably, like my parents, they had one small liquor bottle secured in a kitchen cabinet and brought out only for the once a month card parties my parents had with neighbors.
I guess tv and movie scriptwriters from that era thought everybody had a liquor table in their living rooms.

[roamer_1]

Well, good luck with your problem
If you like to watch fifties-sixties tv series like I do (yeah, I'm weird that way), you would notice that a great many of these series feature homes where people walk in and almost the first thing they do is head for the liquor table or cabinet. It seems that virtually all houses and offices had liquor tables in them. Combined with constant smoking. The characters seem to be drinking and smoking constantly.
I visited the homes of many friends when I was younger, and none of them had liquor tables ostentatiously displayed in the house. Probably, like my parents, they had one small liquor bottle secured in a kitchen cabinet and brought out only for the once a month card parties my parents had with neighbors.
I guess tv and movie scriptwriters from that era thought everybody had a liquor table in their living rooms.

That is still a noticeable trend in movies and TV... Everybody drinks and goes to clubs. I can understand it, due to my erstwhile self - My previous lifestyle would think nothing of it.

But most folks - In fact, everyone I know - Ain't built that way.

[Timber Rattler]

I guess tv and movie scriptwriters from that era thought everybody had a liquor table in their living rooms.

I think that it was a LA and NYC thing among the upper classes and the artsy people.

[Fishrrman]

This weekend:
"David" (1997) another film from "the Bible Collection":
https://archive.org/details/abraham.-1993.1080p.-bluray.-x-264.-aac-5.1-yts.-mx
(all available in 1080p)

[goatprairie]

That is still a noticeable trend in movies and TV... Everybody drinks and goes to clubs. I can understand it, due to my erstwhile self - My previous lifestyle would think nothing of it.

But most folks - In fact, everyone I know - Ain't built that way.

I noticed in a number of modern tv and movie and productions many of the characters smoke weed. Not only do they smoke weed, when they bump into strangers, they offer them maryjane and, of course, the person offered the weed says thanks and starts toking with the person who made the offer.
Maybe I'm too old (I AM!! too old) and too Midwestern, but I simply can't believe that's a common occurrence in real life.

[goatprairie]

That is still a noticeable trend in movies and TV... Everybody drinks and goes to clubs. I can understand it, due to my erstwhile self - My previous lifestyle would think nothing of it.

But most folks - In fact, everyone I know - Ain't built that way.

"Everybody drinks and goes to clubs"

I remember a friend of mine from work who went on a golf trip to Florida with some people during a cold Midwestern winter.
He said every night the guys wanted to eat out and go to strip clubs. Every single night. And these were all married guys. I guess when you're on vacation far from your home, eating out is what you do.
My friend didn't object to the strip clubs so much, but he ate so much rich food he contracted gout.

[goatprairie]

The wife and I started watching the touted "Those About To Die"  about gladiators during the Roman Empire after Nero croaked. It has Anthony Hopkins in it so we thought we'd give it a chance.
First off, they don't even get the dates correct. It's supposedly the Year Of The Four Emperors which was 69 AD when Nero croaked, but the graphics put it at 79 AD. They're off by ten years.
Then the cinematography is the typical modern dark as can be so you can barely make out what's going on. Then, of course, to be politically correct it seems a great many of the actors are black when there was only a tiny percentage of black people in Rome in those days.
The filming jumped around so much concerning different characters that it was difficult to get a line on what was going on. The CGI is laughably pathetic.
After a half hour we junked it as being irredeemably boring and irritating.

[jafo2010]

Saw Keri Russell in something and looked up her bio on IMDB.com
 
In there, it mentions what was considered her best work being The American.  I never heard of it before.  I believe it was on for five seasons.  I have found it very interesting.  About Russian spies in the USA. 

[Timber Rattler]

Saw Keri Russell in something and looked up her bio on IMDB.com
 
In there, it mentions what was considered her best work being The American.  I never heard of it before.  I believe it was on for five seasons.  I have found it very interesting.  About Russian spies in the USA.

Yeah, The Americans is a very hard core Cold War series about two KGB agents operating in America as a married couple.  Russell's character is the worst of the two, who are deeply embedded in American and DC society, being a fanatical Communist with no qualms about committing murder and blackmail in the service of the Soviet State.  Russell is actually married to her co-star in the series,  Matthew Rhys, who also played Perry Mason in the HBO series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans

[goatprairie]

Yeah, The Americans is a very hard core Cold War series about two KGB agents operating in America as a married couple.  Russell's character is the worst of the two, who are deeply embedded in American and DC society, being a fanatical Communist with no qualms about committing murder and blackmail in the service of the Soviet State.  Russell is actually married to her co-star in the series,  Matthew Rhys, who also played Perry Mason in the HBO series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans

While overall the series was fairly decent, there was still some off-putting things the creators had to put in the show.
For instance, they made Russell's character a superwoman who could easily whip grown men twice her size in fights. There was one scene where Russell got in a fight with a much bigger man (federal agent ?) who was much bigger than her.  During the fight he actually picked her up and threw her against a wall. She got up like nothing happened and then beat him up.
They weren't satisfied with that, so they made her daughter super tough as well beating up much bigger men than her.
I'm at the stage where I can't overlook stuff like that and enjoy a series. It almost ruins it for me.

[Timber Rattler]

While overall the series was fairly decent, there was still some off-putting things the creators had to put in the show.
For instance, they made Russell's character a superwoman who could easily whip grown men twice her size in fights. There was one scene where Russell got in a fight with a much bigger man (federal agent ?) who was much bigger than her.  During the fight he actually picked her up and threw her against a wall. She got up like nothing happened and then beat him up.
They weren't satisfied with that, so they made her daughter super tough as well beating up much bigger men than her.
I'm at the stage where I can't overlook stuff like that and enjoy a series. It almost ruins it for me.

Point taken.  The "girl boss" trope got old a long time ago.

[Sighlass]

This weekend:
"David" (1997) another film from "the Bible Collection":
https://archive.org/details/abraham.-1993.1080p.-bluray.-x-264.-aac-5.1-yts.-mx
(all available in 1080p)

@Fishrrman

Thanks You for the link ! I will give them a go too ! 

[Sighlass]

"Everybody drinks and goes to clubs"

I remember a friend of mine from work who went on a golf trip to Florida with some people during a cold Midwestern winter.
He said every night the guys wanted to eat out and go to strip clubs. Every single night. And these were all married guys. I guess when you're on vacation far from your home, eating out is what you do.
My friend didn't object to the strip clubs so much, but he ate so much rich food he contracted gout.

I went once to a "strip club" during an excursion to New Orleans... w/ a good buddy (probable more clean cut than myself) from college... Neither of us were impressed, far as I know neither of us ever went back. Dark sleezy overpriced drinks and guilt is about all I remember (and a few pounds of well positioned fat on a lady that probable didn't like her situation in life). Depressing memory that I am not proud of.

[goatprairie]

I went once to a "strip club" during an excursion to New Orleans... w/ a good buddy (probable more clean cut than myself) from college... Neither of us were impressed, far as I know neither of us ever went back. Dark sleezy overpriced drinks and guilt is about all I remember (and a few pounds of well positioned fat on a lady that probable didn't like her situation in life). Depressing memory that I am not proud of.

The last one I went to was about twenty years ago or more when I was still working. I was still unmarried at the time. A friend at work had a birthday party gathering at one of the last topless joints in town.
I remember watching these young women come out and do their thing, and what I remember most was how tedious the whole thing was. While my friends, some about my age, were eying the ladies intently, I kept looking at my watch and wondering how I got so old that I didn't care to watch attractive young ladies taking their clothes off.