What have you watched this week? (05/07-05/13)

Night Moves (2013) - not a bad indy movie. strange ending 7/10

House of Good and Evil (2013) - another low budget indy. 6/10

When it came out, I thought "About A Boy" was great. Funny and with a point, that always rates high for me.

Nothing Cheech and Chong has appealed to me since high school when I thought they were comedy geniuses, at least when I was stoned. Yeah, I'm an old geezer.

Did not like "Don Juan DeMarco". Saw it and promptly forgot it.

Always wanted to see "Windtalkers" but never wanted to pay money for it, so I have not yet.

This last week I watched:

Episode 5, I think, of "The Leftovers", which is following in LOST's footsteps of just getting crazier and more senseless as it goes. At this point I can take it or leave it and only watch it when there is nothing else to do - I subscribe to HBO Online so it is essentially free, or it doesn't cost me extra.

Watched "Catastrophe" which I think is an amazing, and excellent series. A few too many weird jokes, a lot about jerking off, but all in all a very honest look at relationships and how they affect people for good and for bad. The plots and acting is top notch. The sad part is that Carrie Fischer who played Rob's, the husband's, mother passed away so there are only 6 episodes in this season. I never much noted Carrie Fischer before, but she is really cute in this series and it is a shame she can't finish up her role. It appeared like she was about to start playing a larger part in the story.

In preparation for next week's premier of "Prometheus: Convenant" I watched "Prometheus" with my girlfriend so she would know what it was about, since I introduced her to "Alien" and "Aliens". She, like I, thought it was stupid, but I, who had originally rated it a 1/10 upped it to a 3/10 for some reason. I hear the new one is about the same ... i.e. the characters act stupid.

The last really great thing I saw was the latest season of "Homeland" which was amazing, but ended a while back.

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Just watched Scorned with Billy Zane.. One of the worst movies ever. Terrible acting, totally not credible, and the only word I can say is its LAME.

Densha Otoko (Train Man) (2005, Japan)
A young social outcast and self-proclaimed otaku who's never had a girlfriend finally meets a girl as a result of helping her during an incident involving a drunken man on a train. She gets in touch with him afterward, and as he has no idea how to talk to women, he goes online to ask his friends in a chat room to help him through it. Unbeknownst to him, they have the same problems and take as much inspiration from him as he does from them. I really enjoyed this one, really funny and sweet movie and you really root for the protagonist.

The Woman in Black (1989, UK)
After an old widow dies in rural England, a London lawyer is dispatched to her house to sort out her estate. When he gets there, he finds that most of the locals avoid her house like the plague and the area seems to be cursed by a ghostly woman dressed in black, whose appearances precipitate dark incidents. Despite the increasingly terrifying ordeal he's put through, he pushes on with his job and begins trying to solve the mystery of the woman in black and the screams he hears every night in the marsh outside the house.
I actually checked out The Woman in Black as a direct result of seeing it discussed on last week's thread here (thanks to Catbookss!). I saw the 2012 remake a few years ago, but I never got around to seeing the original because it didn't seem to be on DVD. But last week I found it on Youtube. Loved it, I think it was better than the 2012 version (which was also good).

To be continued; I seem to have reached the size limit for this post, which I think is ridiculously short.

The Pelican Brief (1993, US)
After two Supreme Court justices are assassinated, a young law student comes up with a theory as to who could be behind it, implicating people close to the US president. After sharing her theory with her law professor, who then shares it with a friend in the FBI, her law professor is assassinated and it's apparent that she herself was the target. She goes into hiding and makes contact with an investigative journalist who helps her gather evidence for her theory while staying a step ahead of the people hunting her down. Excellent political/legal thriller.

I'm not sure why that seemingly exceeded some post size limit when other posts on this thread appear to be much longer than mine was. It really wasn't that long of a post.