What movie are you watching

GOT while playing NHL 19.
I'm so bad at tanking for draft picks.

 

"Cardinal" a Canadian police mini-series on HULU.
Very Scandinavian Noir.

 

It’s a very good film.

 

In the spirit of Halloween:

Favorite Horror/Thriller Movie- GO!

Mine is a tie between the 1982 version of the Thing with Kurt Russell and The Shining. Although the one that scared me the most was probably The Descent as I now know I definitely have some claustrophobia.

 

3 way tie for me.

Screamers, Event Horizon, and Visitor Q

 

I do love Event Horizon, also. Sam Neill makes a great villain.

 

Alien, Event Horizon for movies. Leaking over from video games Alien Isolation (seriously they absolutely nailed the atmosphere and look of the Alien universe here) and Dead Space, some of the best creepy sound production ever to grace a game.

 

The OG Halloween is hard to beat, and Psycho is probably still one of the best. I really dug It Follows, but after watching it a couple more times, it's like ... 'eh'. Get Out is a good one, although I'm not sure of it's rewatchability (which for me is crucial in the genre as I want something I can return to every few years with some pumpkin beer on a cool fall evening) just yet.

Any of you fools ever seen Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer? Watched it a few years ago, one of the few of these films that kind of messed with me. Like, been watching this type of movies since forever, and no matter what the genre does to reinvent itself or make it more scary and what not, I mostly shrug. That one was made in 1986, I only watched it once, and it's still pretty disturbing thinking about it. If you can find it streaming or whatever, check it out.

 

I used to love Hell Night. Classic, terrible 80’s horror. Havent seen it in a while though. It may still be “good”.

 

Probably a combination of my age at the time, and that these films broke ground that has since been repeatedly walked (trampled) over.

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The Exorcist - read the novel first...at age 11. Late night reading in the living room would have me sprinting through the house to dive under the covers. Movie more for its "shock" value

Jaws (age 12) - When the head pops out in the bitten hull on the night dive, I jumped so hard in my theatre seat that I got cramps in both hamstrings. Film doesn't age well in that regard (go figgur), but until I learned to scuba dive, I still felt uncomfortable when floating in open, opaque water.

Alien (16) - Had me in a fetal position in my seat. Next morning, my mom tapped me on the shoulder to wake me for an early morning soccer tourney...nearly decapitated the poor woman when I awoke swinging (good reflexes, her).

Event Horizon also scores high.

 

First Man exceeded my very...very high expectations. Felt like a combo of time travel back to my childhood, a natural continuation of "The Right Stuff", and a wake-up to just how jaw-droppingly dangerous, duct-taped "Star Wars" filthy, and improbable it was to pull of the greatest long-term high-wire engineering stunt of all time without greater loss of life.

Neil Armstrong was never the appealing, smiling hero type...that wasn't what the mission called for. What it DID require he had in abundance, and was the perfect man for the job...frankly, at no small cost to himself and those closest to him.

Grissom, I expect, might have been able to pull off the harrowing first landing...it's anybody's guess whether another pilot could have done so, and we may have either bailed or now have a couple of corpses on the Sea of Tranquility.

...and Claire Foy is amazing in the role of evoking the real-life schizophrenia of maintaining suburban hearth and home while all hell is breaking loose at "the office".

I pity those too young to have experienced those days first-hand.

 

Watching "Bodyguard," BBC's newest miniseries.

Half way through episode 3 and have no idea who is playing who.

 

Bend it Like Beckham

 

why would you do that to yourself?

 

Best part of the movie is the really awkward and random W-USA League commercial right in the middle of it.