Recently Watched Movies 2026

[Jay-Bone]

In his drunken stupor he was attempting to say satire, which is like duh.

No, what I said a few times, is there is no point to the movie for Deepster and no point in me trying to explain it.. I thought my satire was painfully obvious conveying that, clearly it wasn't. My intended audience was not Deepster.

Sorry for being mean in my drunken stupor. I'm trying to be better and typically don't engage, just watch from a distance, but it gets really hard sometimes. I'm not here, do carry on.

 

[Jay-Bone]

Yeah. That’s great.

You still haven’t answered the original question. What was the point of the movie?

Now run off and ChatGPT it to try and sound intelligent.

I have my wife using AI, I haven't had the time for it yet. No intelligence from me.

 

[ZooCougar]

The Brutalist

I finally got around to watching this. And I did not like it. This is A24 smelling its own farts at this point.

Adrian Brody is Laszlo Toth, a genius architect from Hungary who escapes Europe after WWII. He survived the Holocaust somehow. But as soon as he gets to America it just starts a long chain of allowing himself to be exploited. He gets exploited by his fellow self hating cousin and then he gets discovered by a wealthy Pennsylvania Industrialist named Van Buren (Guy Pierce) who also exploits him. At some point they bring Toth's wife (A miscast Felicity Jones) and niece over. Everyone is clearly mentally and physically traumatized by the war.

Toth is addicted to heroine for pain relief due to his damaged schnoz. Early in the movie another character asks him what is wrong with his nose. Toth answers "Nothing, but in real life I'm Adrian Brody". He didn't say that but it would have been better if he did.

Europe during the war was a bad place, but what's important to the Director here is that you know that the good old USA isn't any better. It's not Toth's fault that he doesn't take his talents at first to a legitimate Archicture Firm but instead works for his crooked cousin. Then when he gets fired he's forced to wait in breadlines.... hold on. Are they in Moscow in the '80s? Nope this is Philly folks.

Later on the project Toth and Van Buren are building together gets canceled because Van Buren is cheap. Toth finally does the smart thing and gets a real job. But Van Buren years later comes back into the picture and talks him back into this quagmire. Toth meets Van Buren in Italy to pick out marble together. Toth gets high and Van Buren r apes him. Really great movie! Toth later confesses all this to his wife after she almost overdoses on heroine. She proclaims that America is rotten! Well, what do you expect when you are entangled with literally some of the worst people you could find?

What's BS about this whole movie is that it's fiction posited as fact and history. In reality like dozens and dozens of talented people fled Europe before during and after the war and they lived rewarding and full lives and none of them had to wait in breadlines and were r@ped by other dudes.

The movie is shot in Vistavision so that nerds could spend $50 a ticket at 70MM Imax theaters. It's over 3 hours long. Watch something else...

 

[HuskyHawk]

Nuremberg. Stars Rami Malek as Doug Kelly, American army psychiatrist. Russell Crowe as Hermann Goring. Michael Shannon as justice Robert Jackson. Several very good supporting cast members. It tells the story of the Nuremberg trials, starting with the capture of Goring and Jackson’s subsequent push to hold the trials. Popular opinion was to just shoot the remaining Nazi high command. Dr. Kelly has a key role interviewing and getting the psych profile on these guys, especially Goring. There’s fear of making them martyrs or of repeating the mistakes after WWI. It’s all quite well done and worth a watch.

 

[ZooCougar]

Nuremberg. Stars Rami Malek as Doug Kelly, American army psychiatrist. Russell Crowe as Hermann Goring. Michael Shannon as justice Robert Jackson. Several very good supporting cast members. It tells the story of the Nuremberg trials, starting with the capture of Goring and Jackson’s subsequent push to hold the trials. Popular opinion was to just shoot the remaining Nazi high command. Dr. Kelly has a key role interviewing and getting the psych profile on these guys, especially Goring. There’s fear of making them martyrs or of repeating the mistakes after WWI. It’s all quite well done and worth a watch.

Crowe should get a nomination for his work in that one.

 

[ZooCougar]

No, what I said a few times, is there is no point to the movie for Deepster and no point in me trying to explain it.. I thought my satire was painfully obvious conveying that, clearly it wasn't. My intended audience was not Deepster.

Sorry for being mean in my drunken stupor. I'm trying to be better and typically don't engage, just watch from a distance, but it gets really hard sometimes. I'm not here, do carry on.

If you like movies then you should engage. We’re here because we really like movies.

 

[Palatine]

The Brutalist

I finally got around to watching this. And I did not like it. This is A24 smelling its own farts at this point.

Adrian Brody is Laszlo Toth, a genius architect from Hungary who escapes Europe after WWII. He survived the Holocaust somehow. But as soon as he gets to America it just starts a long chain of allowing himself to be exploited. He gets exploited by his fellow self hating cousin and then he gets discovered by a wealthy Pennsylvania Industrialist named Van Buren (Guy Pierce) who also exploits him. At some point they bring Toth's wife (A miscast Felicity Jones) and niece over. Everyone is clearly mentally and physically traumatized by the war.

Toth is addicted to heroine for pain relief due to his damaged schnoz. Early in the movie another character asks him what is wrong with his nose. Toth answers "Nothing, but in real life I'm Adrian Brody". He didn't say that but it would have been better if he did.

Europe during the war was a bad place, but what's important to the Director here is that you know that the good old USA isn't any better. It's not Toth's fault that he doesn't take his talents at first to a legitimate Archicture Firm but instead works for his crooked cousin. Then when he gets fired he's forced to wait in breadlines.... hold on. Are they in Moscow in the '80s? Nope this is Philly folks.

Later on the project Toth and Van Buren are building together gets canceled because Van Buren is cheap. Toth finally does the smart thing and gets a real job. But Van Buren years later comes back into the picture and talks him back into this quagmire. Toth meets Van Buren in Italy to pick out marble together. Toth gets high and Van Buren r apes him. Really great movie! Toth later confesses all this to his wife after she almost overdoses on heroine. She proclaims that America is rotten! Well, what do you expect when you are entangled with literally some of the worst people you could find?

What's BS about this whole movie is that it's fiction posited as fact and history. In reality like dozens and dozens of talented people fled Europe before during and after the war and they lived rewarding and full lives and none of them had to wait in breadlines and were r@ped by other dudes.

The movie is shot in Vistavision so that nerds could spend $50 a ticket at 70MM Imax theaters. It's over 3 hours long. Watch something else...

This is pretty on the nose for me (get it?). No one is likeable. No one is truly good. It makes no meaningful point. It's slow and long. It is a self loathing movie about self loathing people in what is presented as a self loathing time. The critics loved it because it paints America in a terrible light. No surprise there.

In reality, the 1950s were an economic boom. There were jobs a plenty cause we just fought a war. Opportunity was around every corner.

 

[storrsroars]

Loved this movie.

I wasn't planning on watching Bugonia until seeing the positive reviews here. Didn't realize it was directed by the same guy who did Poor Things, an objectionable premise with amazing cinematography. I loved the visuals in both, and while not a direct comparison, it reminded me of Peter Greenaway in how the grotesque can be beautiful. Enjoyed it much more than I was expecting as I haven't been much of a Plemons fan, but he was great here.

 

[ZooCougar]

I wasn't planning on watching Bugonia until seeing the positive reviews here. Didn't realize it was directed by the same guy who did Poor Things, an objectionable premise with amazing cinematography. I loved the visuals in both, and while not a direct comparison, it reminded me of Peter Greenaway in how the grotesque can be beautiful. Enjoyed it much more than I was expecting as I haven't been much of a Plemons fan, but he was great here.

If I had know it was the same director I might not have gone to the movie. It was pretty bonkers.

 

[ZooCougar]

Tomiris (2019)

This is a foreign film from the land of Borat (Kazakhstan) from 2019. I am really interested in Ancient History so I came across this hidden gem somewhere and it's free on Youtube and Youtube TV. Even though it's epic in scope, Tomiris was made on a shoestring budget of like $7M. The movie wasn't really profitable but it's doing well in the word of mouth department.

Tomiris was the Queen of Scythian tribe known as the Masegetai who is a national hero of Kazakhstan. According to legend she was betrayed, won her throne back and then defended her land from the Persian Empire. Notably, she defeated Cyrus the Great in battle, cut his head off and kept it as a trophy. That's the same Cyrus the Great from The Old Testament if you are wondering. The movie doesn't quite go like that but it's close. Most people tend to see Cyrus as a benevolent ruler, but this movie does not. The first part of the movie is spent on her struggle against the Kwarezem. I'm pretty sure that's the same Kwarezem that get absolutely steam rolled by Chingis Khan about 1200 years later. The second part is about the dealings with the Persians.

Overall this was a refreshing watch because it isn't Hollywood. The pacing is different. The acting is great. The locations were good, much of filming is around real Scythian burial mounds (Kurgans) which are kind of immense. The battle scenes are also pretty novel in my opinon. The Scythians were the first people to fight on horseback with bow and arrow. The action in an entertaining way shows the contrast between their way fighting and the way the non nomadic way of fighting.

Anyways, it's a free watch so give it a try if you're interested.

 

[HuskyHawk]

This is pretty on the nose for me (get it?). No one is likeable. No one is truly good. It makes no meaningful point. It's slow and long. It is a self loathing movie about self loathing people in what is presented as a self loathing time. The critics loved it because it paints America in a terrible light. No surprise there.

In reality, the 1950s were an economic boom. There were jobs a plenty cause we just fought a war. Opportunity was around every corner.

As I learned about this, it was an instant "not even on streaming" choice for me.

 

[Palatine]

Nuremberg. Stars Rami Malek as Doug Kelly, American army psychiatrist. Russell Crowe as Hermann Goring. Michael Shannon as justice Robert Jackson. Several very good supporting cast members. It tells the story of the Nuremberg trials, starting with the capture of Goring and Jackson’s subsequent push to hold the trials. Popular opinion was to just shoot the remaining Nazi high command. Dr. Kelly has a key role interviewing and getting the psych profile on these guys, especially Goring. There’s fear of making them martyrs or of repeating the mistakes after WWI. It’s all quite well done and worth a watch.

Watched this the other night. It is a very well made film. They spent the money on the actors and it was a good choice. Crowe was excellent as were most of the performances. It is very good but not great film. This perspective on Nuremberg is on the depressing side. How could it not be. It is worth watching.

 

[dbmill]

Nuremberg. Stars Rami Malek as Doug Kelly, American army psychiatrist. Russell Crowe as Hermann Goring. Michael Shannon as justice Robert Jackson. Several very good supporting cast members. It tells the story of the Nuremberg trials, starting with the capture of Goring and Jackson’s subsequent push to hold the trials. Popular opinion was to just shoot the remaining Nazi high command. Dr. Kelly has a key role interviewing and getting the psych profile on these guys, especially Goring. There’s fear of making them martyrs or of repeating the mistakes after WWI. It’s all quite well done and worth a watch.

My wife saw this film, she liked it quite a bit.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Beast of War. Based on real events. WW II movie featuring Australians. It's a little bit like Jaws, with a bit of the USS Indianapolis story thrown in. We see young soldiers in training at the start. Then they board an Aussie war ship, which is sunk by the Japanese. Don't want to say more. Thought this was well done, if venturing into the absurd at times regarding shark behavior (like Jaws does). Not long, obviously low budget but they make that work and create some solid tension and relationships.

 

[storrsroars]

I watched Spotlight for the first time in a decade. I think I was a bit critical of it when I first saw it. It had just come out on DVD after winning best picture Oscar. So I was holding it up against its competition, which included The Revenant, The Big Short, The Martian, and others. I sort of credited its win to anti-Catholic sentiment among Oscar voters and not for the actual movie itself.

On this second watch, I found it phenomenal storytelling and ensemble acting. IMHO, it makes All The President's Men look Hollywoodish in an uncomplimentary way. I'd go so far as to say it's also probably the most compelling case for real journalism ever filmed. So yeah, it totally deserved its Oscar.

If you haven't watched it before, or haven't seen it in years, I highly recommend another watch.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The Rip (Netflix) - Great movie for about 90 minutes, then the wheels start to wobble. Surprisingly, Afleck was the strongest of the three big stars. Damon and Chandler kind of mailed it in. I liked Steve Yuen. The actresses didn't have much to do.

OK ending, so I guess it was a great movie by Netflix standards. This movie would have been much better if Apple did it.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Just signed up for a free 1 week trial of Paramount+. Got to watch something I put on a list a while ago--"Winter Spring Summer or Fall." Rom/com/dram with Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White. Fairly talky, maybe a bit like an updated version of those movies w/ Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, for a younger set. Anyway, it worked for me because the leads are charming and likable. I thought it was sweet. Also introduced me to a band I'm gonna have to check into now called Evangeline (have to edit this, I guess this is a solo artist, Evangeline Barrose, not to be confused w/ an earlier band named Evangeline).

 

[Palatine]

I watched Spotlight for the first time in a decade. I think I was a bit critical of it when I first saw it. It had just come out on DVD after winning best picture Oscar. So I was holding it up against its competition, which included The Revenant, The Big Short, The Martian, and others. I sort of credited its win to anti-Catholic sentiment among Oscar voters and not for the actual movie itself.

On this second watch, I found it phenomenal storytelling and ensemble acting. IMHO, it makes All The President's Men look Hollywoodish in an uncomplimentary way. I'd go so far as to say it's also probably the most compelling case for real journalism ever filmed. So yeah, it totally deserved its Oscar.

If you haven't watched it before, or haven't seen it in years, I highly recommend another watch.

Spotlight is an excellent movie. The story telling is clean and compelling while weaving together multiple story lines. It is filled with strong, believable performances. Almost every performer has a chance to take a turn in the -sorry- spotlight. And we care about them. I echo the last sentence by storrsroars.