Not a title that inspires a great deal of enthusiasm, I must say.

reckon this is just prepping my patience for Gone with the Wind

tiresome.

#267, or #526, 2015's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."

All I remember ever thinking about this one at the time is "what, another spy movie?" but now I also think "I can't remember if that's the guy who's a cannibal."

I don't trust this Henry Cavill character, he says "Nazi" weird

Don't think I've seen a car chase that synchronised before. *ticks the something-I-haven't-seen-before box*

"His name is Napoleon Solo."

he used to be called just Napoleon but then he went through an Empire checkpoint and didn't have a surname to give them

"I think you should look out the window."
"You can't be serious."

a jogger? at this time of day? ludicrous.

boy these two men sure do love to measure

"I wonder what they do to people /without/ invitations."

heehee

"The thing is. I work better alone."
"I work better alone, too."

great y'all can work alone together

if one of these two goobers jumped off a bridge the other absolutely would, too

i said this before the bit where they both jumped out of the window

hate when a movie bad guy is just "a dude who fucking loves doin' torture"

it has only just now occurred to me that neither of these Man are from anything called U.N.C.L.E.

"Oh, and you have a new code name."

oh there you go

Classy, stylish, cool action bits, a neat car chase or two, what more could you want. The Twists do feel a bit silly, though.

#268, or #527, 2021 Netflix Original "Afterlife of the Party," which definitely feels like it exists only because the Algorithm stumbled onto the title.

the vibe here is, "American remake of a German movie adaptation of The Good Place."

No. American remake of a *French* adaptation.

the redemption offered here really isn't as genuine as it needs to be when it's happening under constant threat of her being sent to the basement afterlife

you better do your redemption arc, or else

Eh. It sure was a movie.

#269, or #528, from the director of those Batman movies people largely dislike, 1999 Cage picture "8MM," which I think is about Cage as a detective investigating the veracity of a snuff film?

"Do you want to tell me what you found [in your dead husband's private safe], Mrs Christian?"

a full, pristine copy of The Day the Clown Cried

and she wants it destroyed immediately

is Joaquin Phoenix famous enough at this point that I can assume he's not just a rando but is in fact a major part of the story and probably involved in the case

being extremely online for two decades sure has warped my perspective on what is and isn't extreme pornography

or maybe this movie's picture of the most hardcore extreme shit out there is just pretty boring

a bad time at the movies

like it's not a badly made the-thing-it-is, it's pretty good at doing that thing, which I can't say for all the dreck I've watched, but it starts pretty miserable (fine) and gets more miserable from there (a bad time)

#270, or #529, leaving now to go see, because you know, why not, apparently I'll go see pretty much anything if it's a classic rerelease, 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy."

Shallowly pleasant and charming, and Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy are obviously terrific, but below that shallow surface, what does it actually have to say about its world or its characters? Even my kindest take would involve the words "white saviour."

me: "I should reintroduce some randomness into what I watch, let's roll some dice."

the dice: "You're watching 2013 Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson Google comedy "The Internship.""

me: "Curses."

(#271, or #530 since I started counting.)

This doesn't look like it's a sequel to "The Intern" but on a boat, but I'm already wishing it was.

watch 2013's "The Internship" if you ever want to see Vince Vaughn dramatically type "google" into Google

has anybody noticed Mr Vaughn and Mr Wilson are slightly older than this mass of 18-year old extras because it sure seems to be the one joke this motion picture has

this did not need a long Quidditch sequence in it for me to want to throw it into the sea and yet here we are

this is not very good

#272, or #531 since I started counting, I'm about to get to a run of these where I've actually heard of a bunch of them, but not just yet, it's 1938 Best Picture nominee "Test Pilot," with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy.

Oh, I see, this one's here because it does impressive plane stuff, like how one year there were like three that were nominated for doing impressive boat stuff.

@Alexis Zack Snyder's 8mm? This is the weirdest Berenstain universe yet.

@kurt Zack Snyder's 8MM, this time you can really see the knife go into the girl on account of it's happening in slow motion.

@Alexis Weirdest Fast and the Furious prequel you'll ever see.

@kurt Between scenes, Morgan Freeman gets into car chases and illegal street races as he juggles his job as Miss Daisy's driver with his side hustle selling stolen radio sets.

@Alexis I mean to be fair, why was that film in the dice to begin with

@The_T The first roll was "Netflix, Disney+, or something I already have downloaded," the next roll was which of the top six rows on Netflix, and, uh, I /have/ watched, like, Kevin James movies, that kind of thing -- and "The Intern" -- on Netflix, so it's not /weird/ that it shows up in the fourth spot on the Netflix recommendation row.

@Alexis and to think, I don't even trust YouTube recommendations...

@The_T I mean, my top recs on Netflix right now are all movies I've seen, would probably like, or that I at least understand why they're there.

My top recs on YouTube are all LoadingReadyRun videos, travel videos, movie trailers, and, like, woodworking videos. And then when you scroll down there's a 15-minute lecture by a fascist, but that doesn't make the rest of the recs useless.

@Alexis I think the big problem with YouTube recs is it's all videos with thousands of views. I want to watch videos created by people like me.

@Alexis So he's to blame.