Feel sorry for you both when Grant sees this.
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Rate The Last Movie you Watched
I really liked it until the third act and it goes all 1960’s Star Trek 
At least everyone can agree Prometheus > Alien Covenant because it’s such a low bar.
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Along_the_Wire I liked the cinematography and geo-engineering of the movie. Fassbender I thought was good. Liked the prescient narrative about AI replacing us. Also liked the unpredictability with respect to the kills. Sort of like an alien version of Final Destination- you know it’s gonna end badly for them all but you don’t exactly know how. Few of the kills I thought were imaginative too:
Counted Deaths
Millburn - Hammerpede impeded airway - 1 hr 4 mins in (last seen alive) 
THIS
Dr. Charlie Holloway - Burned to death by vickers w/ flamethrower - 1 hr 16 mins in
Unnamed Mechanic - Helmet backhanded open by Mutant Fifield - 1 hr 25 mins in
Wallace - Face bashed in by Mutant Fifield - 1 hr 26 mins in
Taplow - Helmet broken open by Mutant Fifield - 1 hr 26 mins in
Sheppard - Thrown against transport by Mutant Fifield - 1 hr 26 mins in
Furdik - Axe in back, tossed aside by Mutant Fifield - 1 hr 26 mins in
Fifield - Mutated by goo, lit aflame, run over, shot - 1 hr 27 mins in THIS
Ford - Tossed aside by last engineer - 1 hr 39 mins in
Jackson - Tossed aside by last engineer - 1 hr 39 mins in
Peter Weyland - Beaten w/ decapitated David head by last engineer - 1 hr 40 mins in THIS
Captain Janek - Incinerated in crash between Prometheus & Juggernaut - 1 hr 45 mins in
Chance - Incinerated in crash between Prometheus & Juggernaut - 1 hr 45 mins in
Ravel - Incinerated in crash between Prometheus & Juggernaut - 1 hr 45 mins in
Meredith Vickers - Crushed by Juggernaut ship - 1 hr 47 mins in
I watched purely for entertainment and didn’t bother with trying to decipher the backstory about the ‘engineers’ and the creation of Man. For that reason I enjoyed it.
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Along_the_Wire When the highly intelligent scientist has been on the planet for an hour and takes his helmet off 
It’s so glossy and cinematic we’ll forgive Ridley.
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It’s actually a good time for a reappraisal of Ridley Scott’s later alien films, now that we know what a really bad film from him looks like (Gladiator 2).
mono-stereo I’d say Gladiator 2 > Napoleon.
mono-stereo the last actually good film he made was The Martian, but I enjoyed Napoleon. Both versions. It’s always funny to see an Englishman make France’s greatest hero look like an idiot.
We spent the Christmas eve with my wife’s parents, and her sister. After dinner and deserts we showed them The Holdovers. After I turned off the motion smoothing from their TV we enjoyed it all, even my father in law only fell asleep for 15 minutes in the middle. Just the perfect new Christmas-film. Hope you all have a merry Christmas, or whatever you celebrate this time of the year.
Homegrove After I turned off the motion smoothing from their TV
I did the same on brother’s new TV last Christmas, I spotted it was turned on as soon as I saw it. I just can’t watch TV like that
Enjoyed Love Lies Bleeding. Proper headfuck noir with a great lead performance from Kristen Stewart on Prime
TitianWarrior it’s such a cliche that old folks have it on that I had to laugh I had to change it. But maybe it’s because it’s always on out of the box, and old people do not go through the settings. In this model it was really buried in the options too.