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Author Topic: What did you watch in 2016?  (Read 11109 times)

tower912

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What did you watch in 2016?
« on: December 20, 2016, 11:25:11 AM »
Movies?    TV?   Hulu?   Netflix?       What did you watch when you weren't watching MU?

Favorite movies, though they are probably 2015 releases, are Deadpool and Kingsmen.     Enjoyed Rogue 1 and Fantastic Beasts, but honestly, with a 10 year old, going to see a really interesting, non-blockbuster/animated movie in a theater is a far too rare treat.   GoT is appointment TV.   Beyond that, meh. 
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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2016, 11:30:08 AM »
iZombie is a great show if you havent seen it yet. Im a fan of The Crown and Stranger Things as well.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2016, 11:43:03 AM »
Just started watching The Crown.

Bad year for movies. Haven't seen Silence, Moonlight or Manchester By The Sea yet, but a few I liked were Hell or High Water, Sing Street and Deadpool.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2016, 11:59:05 AM »
Just started watching The Crown.

Bad year for movies. Haven't seen Silence, Moonlight or Manchester By The Sea yet, but a few I liked were Hell or High Water, Sing Street and Deadpool.

Liked Deadpool at the theater, saw it again recently on HBO and didn't stand up to re-watching.

One annoying thing.  I saw Allied, the WW2 story with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard over Thanksgiving break.  All the commercials and previews make a big deal of the fact that Marion Cotillard is a suspected Nazi spy, but the reveal of that fact in the movie is more than halfway in and was designed to be the big plot twist of the movie.  It is an entirely different (and probably better) movie if you didn't know that twist was coming going in, but I doubt there was anybody watching that movie that didn't know it was coming.  Why would they do that?

Don't watch much regular television other than sports, but I liked two new shows on NBC of all places.  The Good Place and Timeless were fun, easy watches.  I am watching People of Earth and that is pretty good.
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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2016, 12:04:38 PM »
Game 7 of the World Series....and I'm a Yankee Fan.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2016, 12:16:28 PM »
Fantastic Beasts was much funner that I thought it might be.  I enjoyed very much, but like tower said seeing it with my kids probably enhanced that.
I say the same for Dr. Strange.  Thought I just had to see since I'm hooked on Marvel, but I enjoyed way more than anticipated.  Captain America III, too.
Stranger Things was definitely a treat. 
Timeless I'm enjoying.  My 13 year old insisted we DVR the show and glad I did and it's been a very fun family watch so far.  How to not change history and the consequence's if you do.
I keep thinking this is the year they find the treasure on The Curse of Oak Island.

The Crown and Rogue 1 are on the will watch list.
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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2016, 12:21:25 PM »
Deadpool is a 2016 release.  It's up for a couple Golden Globes next month.

Went through my iTunes history... purchased 35 movies this year (though 10 were part of a 10-year anniversary bundle), excluding the kids' movies, the only 2016 releases I bought for myself were Deadpool, The Nice Guys, X-Men, and Star Trek.  Only movies I saw in the theater (again, excluding the kids' genre), were the latter two and Suicide Squad.

Agree that 2016 sucked for (non-kids) movies.  Deadpool and Mascots were better than expected, but everything else seemed like a disappointment.  Granted, Lobster, Sausage Party, Birth of a Nation, F.F. Jenkins and Rogue One are still on my list... but it seems at least one of those would need to be on par with Godfather II to bring 2016 up to a decent standard overall.

As far as TV, I started watching (and caught up to present on) Archer, Rick and Morty, and Last Man on Earth.  Stayed current with South Park and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.  Watched most of the OITNB in pieces over my wife's shoulder as she started and caught up to present.
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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2016, 12:23:22 PM »
Game 7 of the World Series....and I'm a Yankee Fan.

Ditto for me.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2016, 02:49:26 PM »
I would say these were my favorite 2016 movies I have seen so far, in no particular order:
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Deadpool
Race
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
10 Cloverfield Lane
Free State of Jones
The Infiltrator
War Dogs
Don't Breathe
The Bronze
The Green Room
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Purge: Election Year
Anthropoid
Hell or High Water

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2016, 03:21:20 PM »
I would say these were my favorite 2016 movies I have seen so far, in no particular order:
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Deadpool
Race
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
10 Cloverfield Lane
Free State of Jones
The Infiltrator
War Dogs
Don't Breathe
The Bronze
The Green Room
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Purge: Election Year
Anthropoid
Hell or High Water


Anthropoid, thought this was a great movie.


Also recently saw Nerve, which was entertaining as well.
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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2016, 04:58:00 PM »
OJ Doc on ESPN was incredible. I'm not a binge watch guy, but I did on that one.

As I get older, I'm finding I want to watch tv far less than ever.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2016, 05:25:21 PM »
OJ Doc on ESPN was incredible. I'm not a binge watch guy, but I did on that one.

As I get older, I'm finding I want to watch tv far less than ever.

I'm the opposite. I watch fewer movies than I ever have. The best writing is on TV now - mostly cable networks and British stuff.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2016, 05:46:02 PM »
I'm the opposite. I watch fewer movies than I ever have. The best writing is on TV now - mostly cable networks and British stuff.

BBC is great. They love their TV over here.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2016, 06:20:43 PM »
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2016, 07:05:58 PM »
Binge watched Game of Thrones and the Sopranos from beginning to end.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2016, 08:35:19 PM »
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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2016, 09:26:40 PM »
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2016, 09:31:58 PM »
Two things not mentioned, props to Benny on Rick and Morty especially.

Finally watched True Detective Season 2. Why did this get crapped on so bad? It was really good, not Rust Cohle good, but it's GOOD. Some of the best noir ever.

Sicario, is that 2015 too?

I'm behind a year, nevermind

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2016, 09:53:20 PM »


Finally watched True Detective Season 2. Why did this get crapped on so bad? It was really good, not Rust Cohle good, but it's GOOD. Some of the best noir ever.



I agree. I was definitely in the minority when it was discussed on Scoop.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2016, 09:55:36 PM »
I agree. I was definitely in the minority when it was discussed on Scoop.

If it was called anything but TD2, they've killed the Golden Globes.

Vince Vaughn was incredible.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #20 on: December 21, 2016, 05:59:50 AM »
Hacksaw Ridge
World Series
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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #21 on: December 21, 2016, 07:48:44 AM »
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)

I've been thinking about getting Amazon Prime just to watch this show.  I'm leaning more towards yes now.

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #22 on: December 21, 2016, 07:51:08 AM »
I've been thinking about getting Amazon Prime just to watch this show.  I'm leaning more towards yes now.

Season one was very well done -- i am looking forward to taking some of season 2 in over the holidays.

Truthfully with the free shipping, prime is a real great benefit - has greatly cut down my trips to the big box stores (which I hate)

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #23 on: December 21, 2016, 08:04:19 AM »
I've been thinking about getting Amazon Prime just to watch this show.  I'm leaning more towards yes now.

Use your free trial to binge watch the show

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Re: What did you watch in 2016?
« Reply #24 on: December 21, 2016, 08:30:02 AM »
Use your free trial to binge watch the show

Now that's a plan!