I finally have high speed internet (7+ years without it, and no cable), so the first thing I did was catch up on the animated series that concluded in the interim. I watched all of The Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Time, and Steven Universe. Probably old news to most people, but I've been Rip Van Winkle to the world of television for a few years.
The Amazing World of Gumball ended abruptly, which was funny, and the series never intended to have an overarching plot.
Adventure Time scrambles to tie things up last season, as the series is mostly funny and episodic but has a few serial plot threads. It was obvious that it never meant to be serial, as they introduced final antagonists/conflicts in the last season.
Steven Universe moves at the same pace throughout the series as far as plot progression. The most important thing is that the main characters (especially Steven) stay true to character and never "break" despite overwhelming circumstances. It's such a feel-good, uplifting series, and I'm glad it managed to keep its mood, bouncing back from the intense parts, and that it wrapped everything up in the conclusion. (I haven't seen the movie. Might be a while before I can, since I always live a couple years in the past. It's cheaper that way.)
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BLACK '47 - Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Barry Keoghan, Freddie Fox, Jim Broadbent. The Irish famine seen in 1847, with Hugo as an Englishman trying to capture Irish murderer Frecheville (2 Australians) under air tight orders under Fox. Rea is the interpreter as most Irish speak Celtic and don't understand English. Much violence and not a nice time to be in the Emerald Isle. Quite a good watch getting 3 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
"Unearthed" …I have "DUST"on my faceache feed, and got to this indirectly from there : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVY1sAKSIzk&fbclid=IwAR1bsuV3LFwLvhjQnBBneMlG23TuliB76o0hcccT8Jyd6QGVHC6yBGbdA2I
a short S.F. piece with a good ending. 3 Goldilocks
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"Unearthed" …I have "DUST"on my faceache feed, and got to this indirectly from there : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVY1sAKSIzk&fbclid=IwAR1bsuV3LFwLvhjQnBBneMlG23TuliB76o0hcccT8Jyd6QGVHC6yBGbdA2I
a short S.F. piece with a good ending. 3 Goldilocks
Very good approach to an old sci-fi short story plot. Even I wrote a treatment of this one once upon a time. Very good effects, though the shuttle models bounce a bit upon landing.
Very good approach to an old sci-fi short story plot. Even I wrote a treatment of this one once upon a time. Very good effects, though the shuttle models bounce a bit upon landing.yeah, that alien technology was just not up to scratch, eh? B-)
….several ahorts later, I got side-tracked into watching a thing about reality, quantum gravity, quasicrystals and 'E8' . Now my brain needs a cold shower or something .
The Sherlock Holmes movie with Will Farrell. It wasn't bad, it had some good bits, it didn't really blow me away though. It did everything right pretty much but it wasn't really that fun.
I think it put too much stake in making fun of the current versions of Sherlock Holmes rather than paying homage to the century of pop-culture development that surrounds it… The new stuff with Benedict Cumberpatch, Martin Freeman, Robert Downey Jnr and whoever else re-invent the icon by going back to the source material, which is ok but it's not interesting enough to bother parodying.
It's like making a comedy vampire film and basing your vampires on Twilight- unless it's a direct spoof ON Twilight it would be a really crappy idea.
THE BOOK OF HENRY - Naomi Watts, Jacob Tremblay, Dean Norris, Jaeden Martell, Lee Pace, Maddie Ziegler. Jaeden is the 11 yr old genius son of single mom Naomi and Jacob is 8 yr old brother. Neighbour Maddie is abused by step-dad Dean and Jaeden devises plan to save her. But he suddenly dies of brain tumour but leaves behind a book of instructions for his mom. Will she carry them out? Thot solution to Dean was weak and the end corny but a 3 on the Moizmeter.
The new animated Spiderman movie.
From what people were saying I this by it must be pretty giooooood…
Not really :(
It was ok. Pretty average really. I liked the bit after the end credits, that was funny :)
Overall the movie was forgettable storywise, there weren't even any nice memorable scenes. But it looked pretty good. Loved the look of it!
MOBILE HOMES - Imogen Poots, Frank Oulton, Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie. Imogen is a young mother with her son Frank and a crazy boyfriend Turner, always on the move and going nowhere. Supposed to be in States but filmed around Niagra Falls, Ontario. Miss Poots is gorgeous and gets it a 3 on the Moizmeter.
ozoneocean wrote:.
The Sherlock Holmes movie with Will Farrell. It wasn't bad, it had some good bits, it didn't really blow me away though. It did everything right pretty much but it wasn't really that fun.
I think it put too much stake in making fun of the current versions of Sherlock Holmes rather than paying homage to the century of pop-culture development that surrounds it… The new stuff with Benedict Cumberpatch, Martin Freeman, Robert Downey Jnr and whoever else re-invent the icon by going back to the source material, which is ok but it's not interesting enough to bother parodying.
It's like making a comedy vampire film and basing your vampires on Twilight- unless it's a direct spoof ON Twilight it would be a really crappy idea.
I saw that a while back and it's not as bad as critics suggest, it's silly and moderately funny. Although a lot of the jokes do fall flat.
THE WIDOWS - Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Robert Duvall, Brian Tyree Henry, Carrie Coon, Lukas Haas, Garret Dillahunt. Had to watch it twice as many things happen fast and very important to making sense of all connections to who, what, and why. Poor Viola, her husband was a crook who stole millions from bad guys but she knew nothing of his business. After he is killed, the bad guys come looking to her for their money and she hasn't a clue. The husbands of 3 other women, Elizabeth, Michelle and Carrie, also were killed and they are in same boat as Viola. Slowly Viola pieces together her husband's activities via a notebook she discovers and the widows set forth their own plan to get the money and maybe not get killed doing it. Very good despite some very confusing scenes, and a 3 3/4 on the Moizmeter.
ozoneocean wrote:Yeah, I have no idea what the hype is all about. I thought it was good-ish.
The new animated Spiderman movie.
From what people were saying I this by it must be pretty giooooood…
Not really :(
It was ok. Pretty average really. I liked the bit after the end credits, that was funny :)
Overall the movie was forgettable storywise, there weren't even any nice memorable scenes. But it looked pretty good. Loved the look of it!
fallopiancrusader wrote:
"The Dark Crystal" re-make on Netflix. Maybe it's a 5 episode mini-series, or will there be another season? My personal take-away was the same as when I saw the 1982 original: The designs are gorgeous, the writing is crap.
Hmmm, not sure I'd call the writing crap, but it does have a very distinct flavour and I think they did a good job of capturing the feel of the original in writing as well as look.
Abt_Nihil wrote:Exactly! From what people were saying I thought it would be something special and amazing. :/
Yeah, I have no idea what the hype is all about. I thought it was good-ish.
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I saw McMafia, Crazy Rich Asians, and Suicide Squad among other things.
McMafia
Realistic thriller drama series about Russian Mafia and its global reach. A wealthy British Banker looks to his family for money to support his failing brokerage firm and gets embroiled deeper and deeper into the world of international organised crime as he takes on the legacy of his family's Russian Mafia history.
It's very well written, well acted, the locations and filming are excellent. It's compelling and scary. You could say that it's a high class version of Breaking bad.
Crazy Rich Asians
Interesting comedy movie about super rich Chinese Singaporeans. The cast is almost entirely English speaking Chinese. The story is typical: man takes his girlfriend home to go to his friend's wedding, she discovers that he's the scion of a wealthy family. She's a fish out of water in the wealthy world and his family disapproves of her… only to approve of her in the end.
The story was nothing special but the view of the super rich in Singapore, the quirks of Chinese families, and the all Chinese cast was novel.
Suicide Squad
A movie version of the comic series of the same name: Imprisoned comic villains get formed into a "dirty dozen" expendable supergroup to go after possible super threats, only to find themselves going after one of their own turned renegade. It wasn't bad as a slightly comical superhero action film but there were flaws. It was fun, it looked good and there were some great effects!
It was flawed by not giving proper representation to established comic characters or really explaining or expanding them very much and only one of them turned out to be expendable.
In the shadow of the moon. A Netflix exclusive movie, and I'd say slightly better than most of their exclusives. It's a sci fi type thing tied in with a serial killer and doesn't play out like you might initially expect, but the twist is a little obvious but that doesn't detract from it. Worth a look.
The mockumentary The Great Martian War 1913-1917
Remember a few years back there was a great YouTube preview of World War One footage mixed with Martian machines? There was an entire 90 minute History Channel International "mockumentary" to go with it that puts forth a great alternate history of 1913-17 with an alien attack on Earth.
Very well done mixing of CGI with old footage and interviews of "witnesses" and a good science fiction story and premise with an twist ending?
Well worth a watch.
I sought it out to whet my appetite upon discovering that BBC is producing a War of the Worlds miniseries based in the Edwardian setting of the original novel. About damn time.
And you realize that the low budget War of the Worlds movie from 2005 with C. Thomas Howell actually had a sequel? In many ways it was better than the big budget Tom Cruise one. And the 1953 film had a whole TV series sequel that ran 1988-1990.
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In the shadow of the moon. A Netflix exclusive movie, and I'd say slightly better than most of their exclusives. It's a sci fi type thing tied in with a serial killer and doesn't play out like you might initially expect, but the twist is a little obvious but that doesn't detract from it. Worth a look.
Why didn't she just go back and kill that guy that was starting the whole mess, why did she have to kill all those other people?
I like Brooklyn Nine Nine, too. I'm a couple seasons behind; once in awhile I revisit it and binge for awhile.
This past few months I rewatched The Walking Dead. Nice to revisit the whole series, after the excellent season 9 with Rick leaving, and the shocking season ending (on a stick!)
I admit, I got bored during the season 8 rewatch. I had to skip most of that season. Not sure if I'll rewatch the rest of 9, since season 10 starts up tomorrow! Excited!
Not exactly "now", but I forgot to mention it when I was….watching Comic Book Men S5, Ep6, with Stan Lee spending the day in the 'Stash' shop. He was such an iconic old bugger for so long, sometimes it's hard to think he's actually gone. He did SO many cameos, he ended upon in the Top Ten highest-paid actors….as did Warwick Davies. Neither are exactly what you think of as "Hollywood types", eh ? B-)
A large %age of my viewing at the mo'is taken up with World Cup Rugby - there re little gems amongst the non-playing stuff, like interviewing the Russian captain, who has the mist amazing IRISH accent ! B-)
Metropolis remix Fans took the 1927 classic and colorized it. Now it was originally tinted and that has been restored but in remix it's true colorization. But still washed out and stark compared to the bw cinematography so it really only looks like improved tinting. But the close ups are so much better now with that exaggerated piercing eye color.
This has nearly all the restored scenes. Some are pretty grainy compared to the other super clear footage but it does serve to fill in so many spaces in the narrative.
They added sound. Mostly foley (sound effects) with spoken dialogue with nearly all only from the inter-titles. So the dialogue isn't too obtrusive but at times the dubbing is awful especially for Bridget Helm. And in color you really get to appreciate the analogies including her as the whore of Babylon. I had forgotten just how much she tears at the lacing of her dress. If she'd actually had cleavage you would have seen a lot.
It's also remarkable how much so many other films owe to the ideas and design of this one. And how many images some have actually just used outright.
It doesn't replace the original but it does compliment it as opposed to ruin it like the Ted Turner colorized movies often did. The thing about Ted Turner, every movie he colorized had to be completely restored first which often included restored footage.
Here the restoration came first and then the color and sound. I
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