What was terrible about it? It’s fine. I just struggle with the subtitles.
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During my last term at university, everything was shut down as we were supposed to be preparing for our final exams. None of the usual extra-curricular clubs or dance nights were available. Me and my housemates (I was sharing a house with 8 girls and 4 pretty much permanent resident long-suffering boyfriends who did all our washing up) started watching the Buffy the Vampire series from the beginning (one housemate had a TV, a DVD player and the box set). We burned through the entire series in less than two months and every time we tried to discuss an exam topic we kept relating it back to Buffy. It's a miracle any of us actually got a degree.Originally posted by pebblethefish View Post
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Musical episode...that's all imma say...Comment
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Finished Picard last night. I'm not particularly a Star Trek fan but it passed the time. The quality of the acting was variable, Patrick Stewart was excellent as were some of the supporting cast (I liked Captain Rios, although some of the emergency hologram accents were laughably bad, and Raffi) but some of it was truly horrible and hammy (yes most of the pantomime villain Romulans, I'm looking at you).
Some of the cameos from various Star Trek characters were handled better than others and, to be honest, some were wasted on me.
The plot seemed massively convoluted and took ages to build up and then the finale was over in the blink of an eye with everything being wrapped up way too easily. Also the final "twist" could be seen about a million light years away.
Overall though it was fun and a pleasant enough way to while away a few hours of self-isolation.Comment
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We are sort of binge-watching Community season 2 on All 4. Also watched episode 3 of The Mandalorian. I really like that. Watched the live action Aladdin on Disney Plus. It was OK but the new song really jarred with the rest of the film just in terms of it being a Froze / Moana style female empowerment song that didn't fit with the [checks notes] 28 year old songs from the original cartoon. Also the guy who played Jafar was too young and didn't have evil enough eyes. Will Smith was good value though. It's been a long time since I've seen him in a movie.
Last night we watched a trashy sort of romcom called You Again, which we recorded off TV ages ago. I picked it because it had Kristen Bell in it. There were some funny moments, but it really couldn't decide if the main antagonist was an evil deceitful character or a person trying to make amends for their behaviour. It kept vacillating between the two and was much weaker for it.Comment
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Yeah, Picard wasn't bad but it wasn't great. All the callbacks seemed a bit indulgent and dear god I could do without a Romulan elf (even if his order seemed like an interesting idea). I was surprised to see that the showrunner was Michael Chabon. There were some decent ideas but I'd much prefer a series of stories rather than one story that takes 8 hours.
I watched Hunters and got tired of it. It's well performed and scripted and looks great but aren't Nazi's bad enough for what they have done without making stuff up and having them continue to plan world domination? I gave up before the end.
I didn't get halfway through the first episode of Comrade Detective. Some of the jokes were ok but if your concept is that this is a 1980's Romanian TV program, why have it look and have the production design of a current day big budget detective story? But then one of the minor things that bugged me about Garth Merenghi's Dark Place is that it's lit and filmed like an American TV series and not a British one.Comment
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You're missing out. It's probably my biggest hidden gem of the streaming era.Originally posted by Levin View PostComment
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Yeah, we gave up on Hunters too. I get what they were trying to do but the clash between the humorous pastiches of various 70s film styles and Tarantino-esque cartoon violence, sometimes bordering on torture porn and the Holocaust just seemed too much. I don't generally have a problem with black humour or jokes about any subject but this really jarred in a way that I couldn't feel comfortable with, which seems odd given that comical Nazis have been villains in lots of other things, although stuff like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" just paints them as the bad guys without showing graphic representations of concentration camps and ultra sadistic mass executions.Originally posted by Levin View Post
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We're up to episode 4 of Tiger King. The story is astonishing. The people are astonishing. The fact that the more peripheral characters have chosen the most ludicrous settings for footage and interviews of them is absolutely mind blowing. It's a jaw dropping piece. But it is really hard to watch because of the animals.Comment
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More about the big cat thing, if you care. It's upsetting. But maybe there's hope. There's bipartisan support for federal laws. Democrats care about the animals, hopefully, and Republicans care about cops that might get attacked by them. And maybe they care about the animals too. They don't care about humans with machine guns killing cops, or anyone else, for that matter, but that's a separate issue.
https://longreads.com/2020/03/16/tig...=pocket-newtabComment
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I wish that had been even more musical and longer.Comment
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Finished The Hunters last night. Worth watching the final episode even if you don't bother with the rest, just to see the most blatant hour-long plea for a second series. "Look, we've pretty much sorted out the plot form the first nine episodes, now here's a load of teasers and cliffhangers. You've got to renew on this boss - You Gotta!! PLEASE!"Comment
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Hooah!Comment
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I remember loving the musical episode of the Brave and the Bold cartoon from a few years ago. And I also remember a good musical episode from the current CW Flash series. I think it was Buffy that started it all though, unless others know of programmes that were doing it prior to that.Originally posted by WOM View PostComment
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Blazing through the third season of the Twilight Zone - at 23 minutes or so per episode they are easy to fit in. The quality level is still decent and there are some pre-fame big stars popping up in places. I've got the last two classic seasons to get through but I'll save them for later in the lockdown (I have several seasons of the aforementioned Buffy still to get through).
The cuts include not only Rod Sterling's endorsements of Chesterfield cigarettes, with their "blend of 21 tobaccos" (the rating guidance on the DVD box says "contains mild threat, scary scenes and historic cigarette advertising") but also closing bumper ads which are basically barked instructions ("this Sunday, why not go to CHURCH!", "fight the spread of Communism, donate to Radio Free Europe!") and short spoken trailers for Gunsmoke ("it's not far from the Twilight Zone to Dodge City - Gunsmoke! On most of these same stations"). More DVD boxsets should include such ephemera.Comment
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Zack Braff and Donald Faison are doing a podcast where they discuss episodes of Scrubs. So I’m listening to that while rewatching the pilot on Hulu.Comment
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The Test is really good. And the team pre-Smith and Warner seem lovely, which feels very wrong.Comment
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'Unorthodox' (Netflix) is unreservedly recommended. Best of all, it's a four-parter - economy works best for series. Also worth watching is the 20-minute 'Making of' documentary.
After that we watched 'I, Tonya', which I've been meaning to catch for the past two years - it didn't disappoint either.Comment
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Hoping for some undemanding escapism, I watched 2017 action extravaganza XXX: Return of Xander Cage last night. It was spectacularly dislikeable. The most charitable interpretation that I can come up with is that the film is a loose remake of American Psycho with the setting changed from the inside of Patrick Bateman's head to that of the guy who looted the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund to make Wolf Of Wall Street and spent $100 million on a party to impress Paris Hilton. Vin Diesel is very off putting, channelling the smug charmlessness of Sean Connery's later Bond performances while dressed like a fringe PSG squad member. As if to emphasise the latter point, Neymar Jr. makes a cameo appearance but barely scrapes the film's top 10 of annoying wankers. Toni Collette manages to be watchable amidst the unfolding horror, further proof of her general excellence.
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Yes, that was excellent. The only [admittedly odd] quibble I had was that, instead of using a really generic arena for all the skating scenes, they used one of the most architecturally distinctive arenas around and kept hanging cheap banners like "Japan Arena" and "Kuwait Arena" in the background to try to disguise it. It kept pulling me out of the moment. What a collection of creeps, too.Originally posted by imp View PostComment
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Ha, I didn't notice that, but if I lived in Canada and was an ice hockey fan I'm sure it would have caught my eye. Allison Janney as Tonya's mum was brilliant. It's funny, though - if that was fiction people would say she was at best a two-dimensional character. Same with Jeff and Shaun. But in real life there really are people who are irredeemable pricks and/or idiots. Assuming that these people were accurately portrayed, which is never a given in a bio-pic.Comment
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The rink is in Macon, Georgia and once hosted these guys
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I enjoyed El Che - "Spanish-Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II hits the road to trace the footsteps of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and sheds new light on the revolutionary."
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond: great footage of, and interview with, Jim Carrey immersing himself in Andy Kaufman's character and life.Comment
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