- Joined
- May 13, 2017
- Messages
- 10,641
- Reaction score
- 33,688
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
While I am optimistic that Falcon and the Winter Soldier and other Marvel Disney shows will be enjoyable... damn, WandaVision is setting the bar *really* fuckin' high for anything that follows.
I also like it better than the Umbrella Academy. There is more character development in Doom Patrol and the plot and pacing are actually good. The Umbrella Academy is not bad, but the characters are a bit flat. The Doom Patrol characters really have the blues.I also started watching Doom Patrol which... what the fuck this show is really good. It's like the people at DC went:
"Hey let's make a show about a bunch of flawed, damaged people who have to step up and be heroes..."
"We already did that, that is what Titans is?"
"... except we make it good."
"MY GOD MAN GIVE THIS MAN A RAISE!"
I watched Vivarium the other night. That was great. It had the strength of being being deeply weird and uncanny, but anchored by believable human drama between the main characters.
I have Netflix and Prime, yet I watched Tubi last night
I know that nothing good comes from watching Tubi late at night
I came across this...still not sure what the hell I just watched, or if I will ever be the same...
La Grande Bouffe
Plot Summary: "The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death"
What tha?
This is not a recommendation, it's just something I survived...
Yes I had since read that this is a cult favouriteLa Grande Bouffe is a classic! Ferreri is a madman. Didn't know it was on Tubi. Ferreri's Dillinger is Dead got a Criterion release a few years ago.
Yes I had since read that this is a cult favourite
If you are not ready for it, it still throws you after all these years heh heh
Tubi is definately the home for stuff like this lol
Finished season 3 of The Expanse today. That might be the best written show out there right now. It's just refreshing having a large cast of characters where everybody has believable motivations and acts according to what they believe is best, instead of having Good Guys vs Dumb Guys. It's a little slow at times, but then big stuff happens and everything changes and it feels like they aren't afraid to completely wreck their world. I'm enjoying it.
I've tried t get into Expanse twice now, but it seems to be the sort of show that will require me to sit down and just watch it with no distractions, which isn't my usual MO, and will likely have to wait until I have substanially more free time.
Last night I did a double feature of Inception & Tenet. I'm a heretic in that I've never seen Inception before. I liked that one alot. Tenet was good, but not as easy to follow at times. I'm now on to the Expanse season 4, while still plugging away at NCIS
I realized I can't really fault it, because Star Trek: Beyond is the kind of Star Trek plot I'd dream up when I was 12.
I also like it better than the Umbrella Academy. There is more character development in Doom Patrol and the plot and pacing are actually good. The Umbrella Academy is not bad, but the characters are a bit flat. The Doom Patrol characters really have the blues.
Inception is really good. Tenet works best if you give up on trying to follow the (hideously unscientific) plot and just sit back and enjoy the surrealistic action scenes..
That's the one. It really is a hard movie to talk about without spoiling, which is why my post was so vague. I was fortunate in that an old girlfriend recommended it to me, so I went in blind. I've been recommending it heavily over the last couple of days, telling people not to watch the trailer and to just trust me.Is that the one where the couple go to look at that house in the planned neighborhood and (everything else is spoilers)?
If so, I saw that a long time ago and really loved it but could never remember the name afterwards
Coincidentally, I started season 4 last night. I watched the first two episodes, and easily could have kept going if I my grown-up urge to go to bed because it was after midnight hadn't prevailed.I really like what they did with minor characters from the books, like Drummer and Ashford. TV Ashford is orders of magnitude cooler than book Ashford. I’d watch a series on Ashford’s past as a pirate!
I’ve seen it with a ton of distractions but I have had the privilege of reading the books beforehand.
Haven’t even started S04 yet, though.
I really like what they did with minor characters from the books, like Drummer and Ashford. TV Ashford is orders of magnitude cooler than book Ashford. I’d watch a series on Ashford’s past as a pirate!
Totally agree on this point. It's always amazing to me when someone takes a character that wasn't fleshed out in a novel, and in another medium makes them so much more interesting than the author ever did.
That is also due to the actors. Often writers on series also are taken by the actors performance and start to write more for them. Both actors for Drummer and Ashford are terrific, charisma overload, I would have watched a series that was just the two of them.
Under Fire starring Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy (the sexy snake dancer replicant in Blade Runner), Jean-Louis Trinigant in a rare English language performance and an insanely young Ed Harris. One of those movies that you saw on the VHS shelves and playing on afternoon or late night TV in the 80s but somehow I never caught it.
A romantic but unsentimental triangle among journalists and spies during the Nicaraguan revolution it is the kind of morally amibgious and adult movie Hollywood was already rapidly moving away from in the 80s. Many years later Tarantino used the Jerry Goldsmith theme in Django Unchained.
I've started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation on Netflix. I've never been really interested in Star Trek before now, having only watched a couple of episodes of the original series when I was a kid. I think for the longest time it was the Teleportation and rampant Time Travel that turned me off, but now I've grown to not care and just enjoy what I enjoy.
Comfort food is a good description for me. I only saw the first couple of seasons back in the day. I graduated high school after that, and my TV viewing mostly stopped for years. I found it largely disappointing, but my friends and I all watched it anyway even if it was mostly to mock it, while occasionally being impressed. It was on a game night, so we'd often put on before the game started.Though it definitely shows it's age now, TNG is still like "comfort food" watching for me, and there's some legitimately reallyreally good episodes - The Drumhead and Measure of a Man both hold up today as both relevant and some of the best scifi stories, independent of franchise, ever put to the small screen. I think it's a shame that in entertainment weve pretty much lost this optimistic view of the future as well, where humanity is presented as an enlightened, post-scarcity global society where people handle most of their issues with maturity, compassion, and philosophy.
That said, I always skip the first season and there is some just damn goofy stuff that goes on. The obsession with light jazz and the 20th century always confused me as well.
I've started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation on Netflix. I've never been really interested in Star Trek before now, having only watched a couple of episodes of the original series when I was a kid. I think for the longest time it was the Teleportation and rampant Time Travel that turned me off, but now I've grown to not care and just enjoy what I enjoy.
Though it definitely shows it's age now, TNG is still like "comfort food" watching for me, and there's some legitimately reallyreally good episodes...
That said, I always skip the first season and there is some just damn goofy stuff that goes on. The obsession with light jazz and the 20th century always confused me as well.
Basically, the same reason The Doctor, someone who travels through all of time and space, mostly travels with 20th Century Earthers.It's not just TNG in which characters have a fascination with the 20th century, of course. Kirk travels back to that era twice; when Sisko has his dreams? visions? he is an SF writer in the 1950s, and Quark et al. are responsible for the Roswell incident in 1947. Tom Paris also is fascinated with 20th-century culture and the Voyager crew end up back in San Francisco c. 2000, IIRC. Presumably all this is to make things more accessible to the audience; there is no reason that characters might not be equally taken with, say, Hammurabi's Babylon or the early dynastic period on Andor (assuming there was one).
also, see FuturamaBasically, the same reason The Doctor, someone who travels through all of time and space, mostly travels with 20th Century Earthers.
I liked Under Fire when I saw it back in the late Jurassic. See also Let's Get Harry (much pulpier but interesting performances from Gary Busey and Robert Duvall) and Proof of Life, which had a very good cast including Russell Crowe, David Caruso and David Morse. Gottfried John's character Kessler is also an interesting one.