What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2025)

[steven100]

A couple of nights ago I watched a movie called  '  Restless  '  ...  story about a crooked cop on the take. 

 

 

[giddyup]

33 minutes ago, steven100 said:

A couple of nights ago I watched a movie called  '  Restless  '  ...  story about a crooked cop on the take. 

 

 

I just watched "Hyena" (2014) a British police corruption movie, low budget but quite good, stars Stephen Graham.

[giddyup]

Never watched the acclaimed 2007 TV series, (8.7 IMDB) "Mad Men" before, so thought I'd give it a go. Got as far as episode 3, series 1 before wondering if I wanted to persevere with the full seven series. It has it's moments but it's starting to come across as a bit of a soapie.

[brewsterbudgen]

31 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Never watched the acclaimed 2007 TV series, (8.7 IMDB) "Mad Men" before, so thought I'd give it a go. Got as far as episode 3, series 1 before wondering if I wanted to persevere with the full seven series. It has it's moments but it's starting to come across as a bit of a soapie.

Persevere. It's one of the best series ever series, along with 'Better Call Saul', 'The Sopranos' and "Six Feet Under'.

[newnative]

2 hours ago, giddyup said:

Never watched the acclaimed 2007 TV series, (8.7 IMDB) "Mad Men" before, so thought I'd give it a go. Got as far as episode 3, series 1 before wondering if I wanted to persevere with the full seven series. It has it's moments but it's starting to come across as a bit of a soapie.

      Persevere.   I watched it when it first came out but missed some of the episodes.  I am re-watching it and enjoying it immensely.  Variety named it the second best series of all time--and I agree.  

[jaywalker2]

On 4/12/2025 at 3:56 PM, recom273 said:

Yes, those who think it’s a soap or a drama kind of miss the point. I was sitting there at the end watching the two in the pond (trying to not spoil it) .. it’s a dark comedy. I kind of forgot what happens in S02, S01 was awesome, especially the last episode, the hotel manager character taking a dump in a suitcase, that character was great, I was thinking to revisit. 

I have to admit I was disappointed in the ending. I was hoping they'd be able to pull all the separate strands together but the ending felt rushed and too contrived. Plus, I felt Rick needed more of a back story in order to make sense of what he was doing. He complained that his life had been ruined but he was staying at the White Lotus so he couldn't have been doing that bad. The Russians just dropped out of the picture and Gaitock, the world's worst guard, suddenly acts completely out of character? Oh, well.

[jaywalker2]

G20. This got a lot of bad reviews and it's true that it's just a remake of Die Hard at a G20 meeting and with  Viola Davis playing the Bruce Willis part. This ended up being another in the continuing series of middle-aged women playing action heros if you consider 60 middle-aged.

 

Still, for all of that, she is a great actor, the movies was well made, and even if the action scenes with 60-year-old Davis overcoming special forces mercenaries in hand-to-hand combat strained believability, I thought it was all in all a good action flick and she's a great actor so she was fun to watch.