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  • Hot Pepsi
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    I’m watching Priscella. So far, it’s way better than Elvis.

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  • MsD
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    As I’m still into my Italiano phase, I’ve been rewatching Montalbano (had to pay) and a lot of films; just wanted to comment that the iconic fountain scene in La Dolce Vita is arguably one of the least interesting parts of what is a fairly deep film about shallow life. I don’t think I gave it full attention on first watch.

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  • hobbes
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    The animated series is a grower. It sort of creeps up on you. Or at least it did me.

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  • Hot Pepsi
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    Originally posted by hobbes View Post
    Been watching the live action Last Airbender. The netflix series, not the terrible film. It's been coping a load of flack from the usual suspects (wah! You're running my childhood, wah!)
    I've watched the cartoon version and this stands up pretty well to it. They need to allow Katara to do more than look amazed all the time, she's the best development story in the original, but that aside I'm really liking it.
    I got into that a bit. It looks good, but some of the exposition is a little clunky.

    I only watched a little of the animated series and wasn’t all that into it. Maybe I should watch that more.

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  • hobbes
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    Oh and Halo ep4 was fun. Nice big battles as they kick off


    *******************spoiler-ish*******************



    The Fall of Reach.

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  • hobbes
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    Been watching the live action Last Airbender. The netflix series, not the terrible film. It's been coping a load of flack from the usual suspects (wah! You're running my childhood, wah!)
    I've watched the cartoon version and this stands up pretty well to it. They need to allow Katara to do more than look amazed all the time, she's the best development story in the original, but that aside I'm really liking it.

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  • Sunderporinostesta
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    Blazing Saddles on bbc catch up. First time for what must be over 20yrs. Brilliant. Content warning before it started.
    Im still sure one of the dancers who actually has a line or two is the young naive cop from Beverley Hills Cop. Penrose or Pembleton or whatever.

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  • Ray de Galles
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    I watched the first episode of One Day having read and enjoyed the book when it came out. I also saw the movie adaptation (that most people seem to hate) on it's release but I can't recall very strong feelings about it either way. In fact I have little memory of it at all which is probably not a great sign.

    Anyway I found the TV version very slow, dull and a little annoying - especially the female lead character (not something I recall feeling about the book and film's version). I saw that it was a fourteen episode run and, without realising the others weren't the same hour plus running time of the opener, told my wife I wasn't sure I could hack any more.

    She then binged the remainder of the (much shorter) episodes over a couple of nights while I was out and loved it. I don't really feel like I've missed out though.

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  • Sean of the Shed
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    Just started on House Of Ninjas on Netflix, about a family of Ninjas who are trying to live a normal life but just don't seem to be able to. Two episodes in and it's been good so far.

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  • Ginger Yellow
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    Originally posted by Sam View Post
    We finished it recently (see my post from a while back about it growing on me after a slow start) and yeah, it's lovely. I saw a strange tweet a couple of weeks saying Michael Schur (the creator) was responsible for everything that's wrong with modern TV comedy, and thought 'Ah, yes. The guy who came up with The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine is to blame for whatever you think is wrong with comedy.'
    And Parks and Rec!

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  • Sits
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    We’re also watching One Day; Mrs. S has read the book and I haven’t. I now realise there’s a major twist and trying not to speculate.

    Ambika Mod is fantastic.

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  • Simon G
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    That is very interesting take.

    I've just started the final series and I've enjoyed it from the first moment. I put off watching it for ages, but I'm not really sure why. Every character is brilliant in it.

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  • Sam
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    Originally posted by Simon G View Post
    I started The Good Place yesterday. Series 1 is nearly done and it's fantastic.
    We finished it recently (see my post from a while back about it growing on me after a slow start) and yeah, it's lovely. I saw a strange tweet a couple of weeks saying Michael Schur (the creator) was responsible for everything that's wrong with modern TV comedy, and thought 'Ah, yes. The guy who came up with The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine is to blame for whatever you think is wrong with comedy.' What a strange conclusion to come to.

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  • colchestersid
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    Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post

    I've watched that too, after daughter recommended it - I had seen the movie and knew what to expect, while she hadn't seen it. I got annoyed by the "movie real estate" trope, which in this case had a man with no secure source of income owning a relatively expensive London property (with a pool table), although I know there were other financial factors at play, relating to a minor spoiler which I won't mention.
    Yeah that was part of the irritating half of the equation - lump in there as well the diversion to Paris

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  • Walt Flanagans Dog
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    Originally posted by colchestersid View Post
    "One Day" on Netflix

    Equally enjoyable and irritating but, not having read the book (or seen the movie), I genuinely didn't anticipate the reveal of the date's actual significance until the end. Having got that, the structure of the story made sense

    Massively in its favour were two lovely performances by the lead actors and a great supporting cast as well. Music was good too - lots of obvious choices they could have made and they avoided every singe one
    I've watched that too, after daughter recommended it - I had seen the movie and knew what to expect, while she hadn't seen it. I got annoyed by the "movie real estate" trope, which in this case had a man with no secure source of income owning a relatively expensive London property (with a pool table), although I know there were other financial factors at play, relating to a minor spoiler which I won't mention.

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  • slackster
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    The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime) is an Aussie series - 7 episodes - that used Sigourney Weaver as its star attraction. She plays a gruff matriarch that runs a flower farm which also doubles as a women’s refuge for victims of male domestic violence. The titular character is her grand-daughter who suffers various extreme traumas both in childhood and as a young adult.

    It’s rather heavy handed on the meaning-of-flowers symbolism, but has a decent - if melodramatic - take on the secrets, lies and violence that plague some families. Nice locations, too. My MiL, who loves a soap and formulaic historical romance novel, thought it was marvellous. I’d give it 3 out of 5.

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  • Hot Pepsi
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    Originally posted by WOM View Post

    You've already got a lot on the go, what with Tonka and church and whatnot. Maybe just skip to attending the meetings and being the new guy who doesn't share very often.
    I suspect that I wouldn't be the first person to do that.

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  • colchestersid
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    "One Day" on Netflix

    Equally enjoyable and irritating but, not having read the book (or seen the movie), I genuinely didn't anticipate the reveal of the date's actual significance until the end. Having got that, the structure of the story made sense

    Massively in its favour were two lovely performances by the lead actors and a great supporting cast as well. Music was good too - lots of obvious choices they could have made and they avoided every singe one

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  • WOM
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    Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
    Sometimes I think I might benefit from being an addict. I think the meetings would help me. Or maybe not. Most of what I know about it comes from TV and films.
    You've already got a lot on the go, what with Tonka and church and whatnot. Maybe just skip to attending the meetings and being the new guy who doesn't share very often.

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  • hobbes
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    I quite like Outsiders. It's had 3 seasons on Dave.

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    It was on Dave first, just like Taskmaster was so it might be a case of ripping yourself off.

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  • Gangster Octopus
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    Originally posted by diggedy derek View Post
    This BBC David Mitchell's Outsiders thing is transparently Taskmaster in a campsite setting. But.... it's
    ...not funny.

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  • Hot Pepsi
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    Loudermilk is fantastic. Except the actress playing his ex is not good at acting.

    Sometimes I think I might benefit from being an addict. I think the meetings would help me. Or maybe not. Most of what I know about it comes from TV and films.

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  • diggedy derek
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    This BBC David Mitchell's Outsiders thing is transparently Taskmaster in a campsite setting. But.... it's pretty amusing, because camping has comedy baked-in

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  • Hot Pepsi
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    Originally posted by slackster View Post
    I’m with Hot Pepsi on the rather meh attitude to True Detective S4 ending. It started out well, but flagged from e3 onwards. I guess they tidied up the 2 main investigations ok at the end though, and the baddies got their just deserts.
    That seems to be the consensus. Six episodes was not enough to tell all the story it had set up in the first three.

    A lot of character relationships were, as is usually the case with stories like this, more interesting than the whodunit stuff.

    But then, with three episodes to go, it decided that it needed to get all into the ghost story part - which nobody really asked for - and then it realized that the murder mystery part needed to be wrapped up, which left no time to adequately finish the character/relationship stuff and a lot of the ghost story stuff just got left up to "the audience's interpretation" which, I find, is actually just a lazy way to tell the story.

    Like, what happens to Navarro is not clear as she walks into the sunset/sunrise? Is she killing herself? Is she just going for a walk? Is that symbolic somehow? Who the fuck knows? But it looks like she's doing suicide by cold. That's not a good way to end her story, especially shortly before switching to a nice scene of Jodie Foster's character in her somehow-idyllic LL Bean Catalog beach-front house with the doors open and her relationship with her daughter magically repaired.

    It also plays into a stereotype about the people of the far north which is largely untrue.


    BTW, the closest real world comp to Ennis is Utqiagvik (fka Barrow). The high temperature in July is 47 F. Maybe it's getting a bit warmer now. But that still isn't "just leave the doors open" weather.

    The show was inconsistent about showing just how unbelievably cold it was. Like there was that scene in the last episode where they have a long conversation through and open front door. Nobody would do that when its -20 F.

    Jodie Foster would have been dead in minutes if she fell through the ice like that. Maybe seconds. Also, after the generator went out, they built a fire in the garage. That would have asphyxiated them pretty quickly unless they opened some windows, but then it would have been well below zero in there. To get the smoke out would require mechanical ventilation that ran on power.
    Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 20-02-2024, 18:30.

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