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Watched The Irishman the other night. We thought it was a pretty good movie, with good performances by De Niro, Pacino and Pesci. Interesting subject matter too. Plenty of mob-style cussin’ and violence, but no over-the-top gore.

You need to budget some time for it. Run time comes in at just a few minutes less than Gone With the Wind.
 
If you are a fan of Christmas Story and have Amazon, watch Ralphie. It's three short episodes showing a grown up Ralphie who only wants a girlfriend for Christmas.
 
tiger roach said:
Watched The Irishman the other night. We thought it was a pretty good movie, with good performances by De Niro, Pacino and Pesci. Interesting subject matter too. Plenty of mob-style cussin’ and violence, but no over-the-top gore.

You need to budget some time for it. Run time comes in at just a few minutes less than Gone With the Wind.
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I thought Pesci was great. De Niro gave a nice subtle performance and Pacino chewed up the scenery but Pesci was utterly believable. Never scary, never violent, like a kindly uncle, but then just casually ordering hits like he's ordering soup.
 
Jbird said:
Started watching True Detective season 3 last night, I've watched the first two episodes so far.

Excellent so far, it reminds me much more of season 1 with McConaughey & Harrelson, than the lacklustre season 2 with Farrell & McAdams.

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Lackluster is kind, season 2 was a flaming pile of doo. I forgot I had started season 3. Thanks for the reminder!
 
BlockInlay said:
Lackluster is kind, season 2 was a flaming pile of doo. I forgot I had started season 3. Thanks for the reminder!
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I liked season 2 personally, but it wasn't nearly as good as season 1, or 3 for that matter. I just finished season 3 last night. The ending surprised me for sure.
 
Daybreak is pretty funny and a fun watch. It's basically Ferris Bueller meets the Apocalypse. Which makes sense for it starring Mathew Broderick.
 
GomezAddams said:
If you are a fan of Christmas Story and have Amazon, watch Ralphie. It's three short episodes showing a grown up Ralphie who only wants a girlfriend for Christmas.
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Is it teenager appropriate? A Christmas Story is one of our every year xmas movies, and I'm sure the kids would dig it.
 
Chad said:
Is it teenager appropriate? A Christmas Story is one of our every year xmas movies, and I'm sure the kids would dig it.
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Probably. There's one scene where Ralphie is daydreaming about a girl and gets an erection, but I don't recall it being overly graphic.

You could pre-screen it. All three episodes are maybe 20 minutes total.
 
GomezAddams said:
Probably. There's one scene where Ralphie is daydreaming about a girl and gets an erection, but I don't recall it being overly graphic.

You could pre-screen it. All three episodes are maybe 20 minutes total.
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That's not bad. We have never really sheltered our kids. They are both pretty aware of the world and dick jokes. My oldest just finished the Office and constantly does the "that's what she said" :grin:
 
We have been watching 'Father Brown' the past few weeks. Just about done with season 2, and it is very good. Excellent writing and stays relatively true to GK Chesterton's priest/sleuth. The stories are not taken from Chesterton's Father Brown stories directly, but there are places they collide. Excellent acting by Mark Williams as Brown (aka Dad Weasley in the Potter movies...) and a crap load of very, very nice late 40s/early 50s cars.
 
pmc100 said:
I thought Pesci was great. De Niro gave a nice subtle performance and Pacino chewed up the scenery but Pesci was utterly believable. Never scary, never violent, like a kindly uncle, but then just casually ordering hits like he's ordering soup.
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If you’re not chewing up the scenery, then you’re not playing Hoffa. As much as it sucked, I kinda wanna revisit Oliver Stone’s starring Jack Nicholson. You’d definitely get extremes.

Anyway. I do think that Pacino did very well with the written material. Lots of nuance and vulnerability underneath the larger-than-life egomania.

And yes. Lovely to see Pesci come out of retirement, but especially in a major role playing a character with no apparent temper issues, for a change.
 
Nightflyers hit Netflix and is really good.

Sci Fi/Horror adapted from George R.R. Martin novella. Very good acting/script/effects which is rare for shows that come from Syfy channel.

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Watched 10 Cloverfield Lane the other night. Confirmed Mary Elizabeth Winstead as my current celebrity crush, I'll never see John Goodman the same again though. My God does he do creepy guy well.
 
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