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Wrapped up The Beast in Me

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I didn’t like how two dimensional Nile became at the end, and the way he was caught was soooo contrived. Really, he confessed to both murders aloud to his wife while she secretly recorded him? Kinda hackneyed. But aside from that Rhys was a great villain and Brittany Snow is going to make a great addition to the over 40 and still got it thread next year. I’d still recommend the show especially since it’s a one and done.

 

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Saw a movie tonight that’s ostensibly a Christmas movie, but the way the story was put together was pretty cool. It’s called Klaus and Norm McDonald voices one of the characters. I had never seen it before, but Regal was running it tonight. Everyone there seemed to enjoy it. 

 

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On 12/7/2025 at 5:01 PM, pyrohornIII said:

Two episodes into The Abandons.   It's a good time waster, but other than that, it doesn't have any real chops.  Decent acting, but the message is rather trite.    Train Dreams was better when it came to getting into your head and making you feel and think.  

I'll probably finish it, but if something else pops up in the meantime, it won't be hard to persuade me to watch something that looks more promising.

My wife picked this one over the weekend and I went in blind.  10 minutes in and was thinking to myself "this feels like some mid-level Kurt Sutter bullshit." Got to the end credits of EP 1 saw his name pop up and laughed.  I told my wife, "I'm surprised he didn't horn Katey Sagal into this show."  Opening scene of EP 2 and - boom - there's Katey Sagal.  Dude is a hack.

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A few years ago, someone posted a short clip from "Brockmire" on here. It looked like a great show, but I don't have cable, so I never saw it. Anyhoodle, the first four seasons are on Netflix, and I just started it. Really digging it.

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A few years ago, someone posted a short clip from "Brockmire" on here. It looked like a great show, but I don't have cable, so I never saw it. Anyhoodle, the first four seasons are on Netflix, and I just started it. Really digging it.

I watched the first episode tonight. This appears to be a story about Amanda Peet being hot as shit. I look forward to seeing where this story goes.
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The Puff Daddy show is a good watch.  I had forgotten how much shit he'd been involved with beyond the sex crimes.  Kind of mind blowing so many famous rich people had anything to do with him.

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On 12/9/2025 at 11:48 PM, Red Five said:


I watched the first episode tonight. This appears to be a story about Amanda Peet being hot as shit. I look forward to seeing where this story goes.

Wait wat? 

Nevermind, IN!

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I watched the first episode tonight. This appears to be a story about Amanda Peet being hot as shit. I look forward to seeing where this story goes.

Ok that does it. I’m watching The Whole Nine Yards tonight.
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The Puff Daddy show is a good watch.  I had forgotten how much shit he'd been involved with beyond the sex crimes.  Kind of mind blowing so many famous rich people had anything to do with him.
Puff Daddy is who everyone claimed Suge Knight was. Directly involved in both the deaths of Pac and Biggie.

The only thing I questioned during watching it was none of these people said anything when the money was rolling in and they were living it up. They only are speaking on him now once everyone piled on and I'm sure 50 Cent was paying them to get on this documentary and trash Puff. No one did anything to stop this maniac at his height of fame.
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3 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

Puff Daddy is who everyone claimed Suge Knight was. Directly involved in both the deaths of Pac and Biggie.

Except, and as pointed out in the doc, puff ain't a gangsta. 

3 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

The only thing I questioned during watching it was none of these people said anything when the money was rolling in and they were living it up. They only are speaking on him now once everyone piled on and I'm sure 50 Cent was paying them to get on this documentary and trash Puff. No one did anything to stop this maniac at his height of fame.

I think it had more to do with just how powerful puff was throughout the 90s and 00s. Shit, the argument can be made he still is very powerful, at least in some ways. 

Me personally, I always hated puff, and hope things get really interesting next year, when the one crip guy has his trial. 

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5 hours ago, BigHorn'13 said:

Except, and as pointed out in the doc, puff ain't a gangsta. 

I think it had more to do with just how powerful puff was throughout the 90s and 00s. Shit, the argument can be made he still is very powerful, at least in some ways. 

Me personally, I always hated puff, and hope things get really interesting next year, when the one crip guy has his trial. 

Puff wasn't a street gangsta, for sure. He didn't get down like that. But he was a different level of gangsta. He did his behind the scenes with money. He was the one pulling the strings as opposed to being out there doing the shit himself. As you mentioned, those are the powerful ones.

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22 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Jay Kelly. What a beautiful, grounded, movie about life and regret from the least likely sources you’d expect. Bravo. 

I thought it was a mixed bag -- a movie that couldn't really decide what it wanted to be.  There were times (esp. early in the film) that I wondered whether it was supposed to be a straight satire of Hollywood.  I thought Clooney was very good in his role, FWIW.

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22 hours ago, Scraps said:
On 12/13/2025 at 7:57 AM, aggie08 said:
The new Knives Out movie sucked. A mediocre--and largely unused--ensemble cast. Disappointing after the original and Glass Onion.

Agreed. Definitely the worst of the 3

I think glass onion is the worst, but neither holds a candle to the original. 

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On 12/13/2025 at 7:57 AM, aggie08 said:

The new Knives Out movie sucked. A mediocre--and largely unused--ensemble cast. Disappointing after the original and Glass Onion.

Yeah, I was pretty bored throughout. Maybe if they trimmed an hour off it would have been better. 

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On 12/13/2025 at 7:57 AM, aggie08 said:

The new Knives Out movie sucked. A mediocre--and largely unused--ensemble cast. Disappointing after the original and Glass Onion.

 

On 12/13/2025 at 12:34 PM, Scraps said:
On 12/13/2025 at 7:57 AM, aggie08 said:
The new Knives Out movie sucked. A mediocre--and largely unused--ensemble cast. Disappointing after the original and Glass Onion.

Agreed. Definitely the worst of the 3

 

21 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Yeah, I was pretty bored throughout. Maybe if they trimmed an hour off it would have been better. 

Are there multiple versions of this available on Netflix?  Because it feels like you all watched a different movie than I did.

Loved it from beginning to end.  That said... I am someone who enjoys engaging with questions of religion and wrestling with what Christianity should look like.  I can see how this movie could be boring or off-putting if you aren't into that.  It's a pretty big piece of this film.

It's coming in at 92/94 on RT, so take that for what it's worth.  A lot of people are connecting with it and enjoying another ride in this series.  I agree that the first installation is the best (they can't all have Ana de Armas), but I thought this was a worthy entry and miles better than Glass Onion (which was still pretty enjoyable for what it was). 

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I thought it was too long.  Still enjoyable.  The original all of the characters were epic.  Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, JLC, Plummer, and Collette all killed it.  The sequels the peripheral characters are pretty flat. 

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52 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Are there multiple versions of this available on Netflix?  Because it feels like you all watched a different movie than I did.

I guess so. I just don't get the point of an ensemble movie where the ensemble is barely used. They each had a forgettable line or two (if that) while Craig and the priest were running around in their own, separate buddy cop movie.

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35 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

I thought it was too long.  Still enjoyable.  The original all of the characters were epic.  Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, JLC, Plummer, and Collette all killed it.  The sequels the peripheral characters are pretty flat. 

Agree that the Glass Onion characters were pretty one dimensional, but they at least were involved in the story. A relatively shallow, dumb movie, but incredibly rewatchable since it inadvertently became the defacto Elon Musk biography.

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