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@Gabi Amaral Midsommar is one of my favorite movies, I just love anything A24 production puts out. They mainly do artistic, avant-garde type films but I love that.

 The writer/director also did Hereditary which is way scarier than Midsommar, so if you didn’t like Midsommar, definitely avoid Hereditary 

Whoa, loving this thread! Awesome idea @Gabi Amaral 

The last movie I watched was good old classic - Fargo. A couple of colleagues and I went to enjoy this masterpiece in an open air cinema in our city. It was bliss 

@Gabi Amaral Yeah they’re scary, I like that tho, not everyone does and that’s okay. The deeper meaning behind both films is what’s most interesting in my opinion 

Wow @Michaela that place looks incredible! I bet it was such a treat watching Fargo there! I’ve never seen it but heard good things, better put it on my watch list!

@Gabi Amaral it was Little Women I watched, having read the book and seen the 1994 movie I was a little sceptical but thought the new version was nicely done! 

@Gabi Amaral I’m almost always watching at least 2 things at a time, lol. So I recently finished both seasons of Hacks (on HBO), am still watching Silicon Valley.

I also recently watched Ms. Marvel which for as much as critics love it, it’s actually currently my least fav MCU series. It’s most certainly the most Disney-esque show from Marvel Studios but I do love its representation, themes, and a refreshing look at Muslim culture and blended families. It’s also very stylistically unique and unlike anything Marvel has put out. All of those elements are absolutely noteworthy. I just didn’t think the story it was telling was that compelling.

Anyway, I’m also watching the 4th season of Westworld which is airing now, along with Better Call Saul which is airing its final episodes of the series. I quite adore both of these shows which are in my all-time top 5.

I recently saw and quite enjoyed M. Night Shymalan’s Old and Last Night in Soho.

Any other fans of any of these shows or movies I mentioned above?

@Gabi Amaral hey there, yeah CODA is quite a beautiful flick. I watched it on a road trip back in June!

As for me, still watching the final season of Better Call Saul and the 4th season of Westworld along with some Prehistoric Planet  (on Apple TV+).

At the theaters, I most recently saw Nope twice (!) which is extraordinary imo. That’s a high recommend from me. Looking forward to seeing what the others have been watching lately.

@Grace SEE CODA ASAP! It’s kinda not the movie you think it is and if you have a soul, you will cry a few times throughout (and not always due to sadness!)

As for Nope this is also not quite the movie the trailers make it out to be. And one of the things I love about all 3 of Jordan Peele’s flicks thus far is that I would not classify any of them as “scary”. They’re much more (psychological) thrillers but not like with weird, hellish, nightmarish, ghost/ghouly spirit stuff. Also, not many jump scares. And they’re not based on true stories (whew!). IMO, they’re more akin to shows like Black Mirror, Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits. I think Get Out is basically a Black Mirror episode in movie length form.

Anyway, all that to say, on 1-10 scale of *what I define as* scariness, I say a 2-3. I think you’re totally safe to watch this one, imo.

@Grace yeah, let us know what you think about CODA whenever you get around to it. It’s an Apple Original so it’ll probably never leave that platform thus you have plenty of time.

Re: Nope - I feel you, and like you, I have very active imagination as well. It’s why I don’t watch scary movies - one of them scarred me for life over 20 years ago and I still think about that film (which shall remain unnamed, ha!).

Have you not seen any of those thriller shows I mentioned? I can’t imagine that Black Mirror would scare or mess with you the way that something like It might.

@Grace Oh wow, you are missing out, ha! Assuming you have Netflix, just check out any of these 3 episodes from that series: “Nosedive”, “San Junipero”, or “The Entire History of You” (none of these are remotely scary at all). They’re some of the best. And since it’s an anthology series, you’re not missing out if you jump around.

@Darnell @Grace @Gabi Amaral - all great choices and a number of them on my list for when the ladies of the house go on vacation.. if dad sits down to watch a movie, one or the other - depending on who is awake at the time lol - will come out and invariably not like to see the scary bits (of humanity) on the screen and we switch to something Disney… 

what i AM watching though is based on getting my wife ready to deal with the 6 yr old when she starts asking more about Harry Potter. My wife never read the books or saw the movies (not part of her cultural indoctrination when she moved to Canada from China), so she is being forced/coerced/bribed to sit through the first two, at least, so that she can be aware of what is coming at some point lol. 

it’s a good reason to have an IPA from the local microbrewery.. 

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@Grace - i agree with you.. my elder spawn spent countless hours detailing out for me what was missing in each movie as it came out… but we all agreed in the end that a 100 hour epic, to cover every single detail, would never get watched and then how long would the second movie, etc. have been?? lol jk.. 

another one that is similar in terms of book vs show is the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan… the first ‘season’ was pretty good but as they say, it is ‘based on’ the books.. not a visual page turning … am interested for season two when it arrives late in this year or early next. 

I have been watching season 4 of faudeh, its really cool.