Recent Viewings, Part 2

[lester1/2jr]

Four Boxes (2009) - This is one of those misfit toys that was bound to end up on Tubi, yet is a better and more interesting than most of the stuff coming from Netflix or Hollywood for that matter. Also, there was as egregious a screw up as I think I've ever seen in a movie, where someone just blatantly walks on and off screen at one point.

Two weirdos who go to dead peoples houses and sell their belongings on ebay or something hole up in a new house. For entertainment, they watch Four Boxes, a early internet / dark web style "show" where someone has cameras in their house and doesn't know it. Amidst all this, there is a love triangle between the two guys and the one guy's girlfriend, who used to be the other guy's girlfriend. As annoying as the girl is, she makes the whole thing work.

The ending ... put me down as not a fan. Too clever. After I watched this, I went to bed and had a dream that was sort of like the movie!

4.45 /5 just lop off the last 5 minutes. very engaging otherwise

[indianasmith]

I think I rented that one at Hastings when it first came out.  Trippy flick!

[Trevor]

SOLARIS

Very haunting.

[lester1/2jr]

Indiana - Jack gave it a good review in the old thread, which I was reading. "Time Lapse" (2014) is a similar one.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Steve Ditko: Beyond The Myth" (2026)
Cheap but intriguing documentary about Steve Ditko, the legendary comics artist and co-creator of Spider-Man and Dt. Strange, who walked away from mainstream comics in the late 60s to follow his own peculiar path. Cool stuff for comic book nerds.

[M.10rda]

I think I either have that on my hard drive or in a queue somewhere and have meant to watch it. Artistically I admire Ditko a great deal - even or especially his later work! Philosophically et al he had some issues, and they appear (based on my knowledge of him) to have made him a rather isolated and unhappy guy. I've never heard or read a story about him post-Marvel that doesn't in some way suggest he struggled to maintain his strict Objectivist beliefs while co-existing happily among others. But I should watch the doc!