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urbwar said:
Have you seen In From the Cold yet? It might be to your liking
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Yes, just watched that a few weeks ago, I enjoyed it.

I have just watched the final season of The Last Kingdom.

Currently watching Frontier, which looks pretty good, reminds me of Black Sails, especially the theme tune.
 
While we have HBO Max for SEARCH PARTY, we decided to check out some other shows. MINX is fun, not too deep, but in a good way. EUPHORIA is also good, but very dark at times; I wonder how realistic a portrayal of contemporary teen life it actually is ...
 
We just finished binge-watching Book of Boba Fett. Apart from the silly mod gang on hover scooters I must say I quite enjoyed it.

We discovered the German version of Queer Eye on Netflix. They ported over the US format practically unaltered, with even the German hosts acting "American", but the candidates being, overall more reserved, Germans makes it kind of awkward to watch.

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I tried to start watching He-Man Revelations and hit the wrong one so got Origins(?), the issues of using your phone in bed. Still really early into that, 3 episodes I think, and want to go back to it.

I'm digging the the mix of sci-fi and fantasy, although using the names of MotU characters for completely different people was off putting at start.
 
soltakss said:
Currently watching Frontier, which looks pretty good, reminds me of Black Sails, especially the theme tune.
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Is Frontier the one with Jason Momoa?

After coming home from seeing Journey/Toto last night, I tried to watch Spine of Night on Shudder. I love the animation, but honestly, I wasn't getting into the movie itself.

I then went and located a site to watch the documentary about Arnel Pineda and how he ended up as the lead singer for Journey called Don't Stop Believin: Everyman's Journey. It was actually quite good. I had no idea he is only 2 years younger than me, because he looks much younger than he was when he joined the band back in 2009.
 
Watched Siege on Shudder, released by Severin. A 80s low budget exploitation thriller from Halifax of all places.

Great sense of place, very well constructed and tense on such a low budget. Assault on Precinct 13 is an obvious inspiration in this story of a group of murderous far-right terrorists laying siege to a tiny apartment block during a police strike. I was impressed.

 
Finished Supergirl. Didn't feel that last season was that great. It had its moments, but didn't really grab me like previous seasons.

I'm back to Black Sails and season 3. So far, liking it
 
urbwar said:
Didn't feel that last season was that great.
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You're not alone. Haven't been that disappointed since the end of the whole Manchester Black arc. They had a great actor and a great setup, and fumbled it. That same thing could be a summary of Supergirl in general.
 
Spine of Night is up on Shudder. I liked it, more than Fire & Ice and Heavy Metal actually. I heard on a podcast the creators are hopeful that SoN will help them secure funding for another feature.

 
We started watching Hellbound on Netflix. This is unexpectedly good so far. Check it out.
 
Started watching Moon Knight on Disney+. Really enjoyed first episode.
 
I watched a fascinating WWII training film from 1943. The actor is drinking beer and using old timey slang like a trusted buddy giving advice. There are some great one-liners in there. "When he gets within throwing distance, buy 'im a drink." i.e. throw a Molotov cocktail at the tank.

 
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Brock Savage said:
I watched a fascinating WWII training film from 1943. The actor is drinking beer and using old timey slang like a trusted buddy giving advice. There are some great one-liners in there. "When he gets within throwing distance, buy 'im a drink." i.e. throw a Molotov cocktail at the tank.

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I love those old war training films, they had a very unique sense of humor.
Cheerfully telling you the best way to kill a bunch of men in a mobile tin can and such.
 
urbwar said:
Is Frontier the one with Jason Momoa?
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Yes, I have one episode to go, and found it really good. Like Black Sails without the nudity, except in Season 2 where they obviously tried to compete, then dropped it in Season 3. Lots of intrigue and a period that I knew little about.

I might watch the Middle Earth Series on Amazon, next, if I can find it.
 
Rewatched Lumet's Serpico. Pacino is of course amazing, he is now viewed by some as a ham but his best performances in the 70s were very controlled like this one.

Much more a character study and docudrama than an action film, the RL story depressing and inspiring in equal measure.

That such a relatively low key, serious film could be as big of a hit as it was suggests just how different 'box office' was in the 70s compared to now, where this would be widely viewed as an artfilm not a mainstream crowdpleaser.

 
Netflix made available S1 of Old Enough! (actually titled Hajimete no Otsukai, which translates to My First Errand) an unscripted reality-style series that’s been a top show in Japan for over 30 years. The premise of the show is watching kids go on everyday adventures, running errands for their parents, all on their own. Hilarious feel-good show during afternoon coffee.
 
I sorta half-assedly watched Star Trek: Into Darkness last night. My opinion hasn't changed. My opinion can be summarized as "what an incompetent piece of shit."

If the movie explains how Starfleet found Khan, I missed it, but my attempts to explain it to myself created a much more interesting movie than what actually got made.

First off, my version of the movie would have had Spock Prime decide to hell with non-interference in the timeline. I think there's the basic unexplained issue of why Spock Prime hasn't figured out some way to undo this whole timeline, but admittedly he may have decided that he just isn't up to it. Plus, the movie isn't about him. But for whatever reason, Spock Prime has decided to interfere, so he tells Starfleet where Khan is, thereby hoping to avert a bad future.

The thing is that Alt-Khan gets abused by Robocop/Murphy. His people are mistreated. One of Khan's character traits even back in Space Seed was concern for his people. Just like in Into Darkness, this new version of the plot would have Khan engaging in terrorist acts to save his people. Of course, this brings Khan and Kirk into conflict. We still have Spock Prime contacted to tell us that Khan is bad and dangerous. We as the audience still know who Khan is and go into this with the pre-existing idea that this is a recycling of the original timeline's conflict.

But in my version, it's not.

Khan in my version was revived from his damaged cryo pod earlier than in the Prime timeline. I suggest that perhaps the cryo-sleep contributed to Khan's hostile actions. I submit that this alternate timeline version has spent hundreds of years dreaming and reflecting on how he had gone wrong on Earth in 1996. This Khan is not the same. That butterfly's wing of just a few years difference in his cryo sleep gives us a different Khan. He is not a man out to conquer the universe. He is a man desperately trying to save his people, his family.

Once Kirk finally figures it out and Spock Prime has been proven wrong in his assumption, we have Kirk and Khan teaming up against Robocop/Murphy and the stupid big black ship of evil.

We end with a Khan who is an ally of the Federation, and a friend to Kirk. We end with a coda to relate to the Prime Directive stuff the movie began with. We end with the Federation being about making friends, not assuming everyone is an enemy. And most importantly, the new Kelvin timeline crew are shown making their own destiny, maybe even a better destiny, instead of replaying out events of the Prime timeline crew.

I did and still like the Kirk "death" scene. I thought it was one of the only things in the movie where there was an interesting alternate view of a Prime timeline event. Even still, the "KHAN!" scream completely trivializes and makes a mockery of it. They couldn't leave well enough alone. They had to sneak the meme in via the cheapest and most idiotic way.

But I realize I'm approaching this from the direction of interesting characterization and story, and that's not what the people responsible for Into Darkness were going for or even capable of understanding.
 
Endless Flight said:
The original. I’ve never seen the remake. Maybe silly is the wrong word and ridiculous the right one. Or both!
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Oh, no.... silly is pretty perfect. But silly can still be enjoyable, which the original is in that sense.

The remake seemed to have nothing redeeming going for it. Though, to be fair I didn't see the whole thing.
 
Watched the first four episodes of the Western show That Dirty Black Bag, and the first two episodes of the Australian vampire-hunting show Firebite. Enjoyed both.

Watched a couple minutes of the NCAA men's basketball final, then realized I didn't care about either of the involved teams and turned it off.
 
Finished Frontier and it had a pretty good ending.

Watched Season 2 of Below Decks, which was enjoyable, light and quick.

Currently watching The Wheel of Time, on Amazon. I didn't read the books when I was younger, as they seemed over-long and generic, so am enjoying the series so far.
 
We binge-watched Love is Blind: Japan on Netflix. :hmmm:
 
Finished Season 1 of Wheel of Time, found it very enjoyable.

Not sure what to watch next.
 
I just watched the first episode of Hit Monkey on Disney Plus (Star). I'm perhaps a year late to this party, but it looks ridiculous and a bit of a laugh :grin:

 
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Mankcam said:
I just watched the first episode of Hit Monkey on Disney Plus (Star). I'm perhaps a year late to this party, but it looks ridiculous and a bit of a laugh :grin:

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Been intending to check this out as it is one of the few Marvel series I've heard good things about. I quite like the Modok animated show as well!
 
Finished Vox Machina, an enjoyable animated romp of what seems to be a D&D party's adventurers., from Critical Role, which is interesting.

Currently watching Invincible, an animated Super Hero series, based on a comic. It's pretty good so far, a bit of teenage angst, a bit of betrayal, a murder mystery where you know who the murderer is.
 
On the last season of Justified- such a good show. Not sure what I'm going to follow it up with. Has anyone watched Longmire? Is it worth the time?
 
According to my best friend, Longmire is initially great, but the last couple seasons suck rhino balls.

Having not seen it myself, I've no idea if that's a fair assessment.
 
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