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moizmad wrote:
Netflix mini-series The Watcher with Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow, and a cast of many….watched all 7 epi's and still no idea who the watcher was…anyone know?
moizmad wrote:
Netflix mini-series The Watcher with Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow, and a cast of many….watched all 7 epi's and still no idea who the watcher was…anyone know?
Watching a new series on Amazon Prime: Peripheral
It supposedly based on a William Gibson story.
I'm only a few minutes in so far but I'm a bit disappointed (hopefully this will change!). It says it's set in 2099 but all the clothing, hair, cars, architecture and technology are just the stuff we have now. Zero effort has been put in. Nothing.
Their only idea of futurisim is to make VR games more sophisticated (like they've been doing in movies since the 1950s). It seems they think giving people Bluetooth headphones, a Roomba and a print shop that does 3D prints is enough to make it futurisic :(
Imagine… It's set 80 year in the future, that's the same space of time between us and 1940! And just look how culture, technology and fashion have changed since then!
I may be judging it too harsh from the beginning. There could be a good reason for this. Or it could just be lazy and terrible prop people like in Firefly, where they used old unmodified 20th century machineguns and pretended they were laser blasters.
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Giving it the benifit of the doubt;
My theory is that the show actually takes place in only the near future (hence the low effort with props and costumes), but the scene at the very beginning was a flash forward to 2099, in the virtual world.
The scenario of the show is that people interact in a virtual world. And it's better than the real world, which is drab… So nothing original there.
Hopefully it expands on the premise.
Ozoneocean wrote:Started watching it myself. Yes, all that's awful with the the RPG community. Even down to everyone using "fuck " every other word because isn't that what adults do?
I'm watching Vox Machina on Amazon Prime.
It's a fantasy comedy based on Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, with D&D type characters.
I'm only watching it because I played the game for the first time with Banes, Em, Pit, Tantz, and Gunwallace. The show itself sets my teeth on edge, for a number of reasons, chief of which is the mixed tone: silly childish 5 year old level humour about people liking sandwiches and being a bid dumb doofus (for example) mixed with anal sex jokes.
It's so jarring and awkward it's like fingernails on a blackboard.
That's bad writing.
bravo1102 wrote:It's happened.
Started watching it myself. Yes, all that's awful with the the RPG community. Even down to everyone using "fuck " every other word because isn't that what adults do?
It's the same D&D group every fantasy RPG show has. Hit all the character races and their only difference is pointed ears and height.
OK, I finished watching the first episode of Peripheral-
It IS all set in 2099 so the fact they're using 2022 technology, fashion, hairstyles, slang etc IS indeed shit.
Maybe their idea is that because the action starts off in a Hillbillyville in the Appalachian mountains that new tech and culture hasn't really disseminated their yet…? But only a moron would think that. At most, isolated communities in a world that very connected are only a 0ne or two years behind, not 80.
Seriously, go back in time 100 years and look at photos and things of the furthest places in the world and tiny little towns- the people there were up to date with the same tech and fashion as everyone else. (unless they were culturally separated like Amish or people stuck in an Indonesian fishing village).
-This is something I've actively done. I've looked at heaps of old photos checking to see if fashions and hairstyles were consistent across regions. What I EXPECTED to see was that they wouldn't be. I expected more isolated areas to be quite behind and older people to be in older styles- I didn't find that at all, I was amazed to see instead that people tended to be up with the latest styles and older people just as much as the younger ones, plus the latest tech spread just as much.
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Apart from the LAZY prop and costume work (there may yet be an explanation for it…), the story is good as is the acting, casting, and writing.
I watched Halloween Ends (13). I am a fan of the original movie, and that is pretty much it. Without giving too much away, it is not a bad film by any means, but is a complete failure as a franchise "ending".
(spoiler)
It is a tragic romance of all things. Laurie Strode's granddaughter gets involved with a young man who is being ruthlessly bullied by the high school marching band. Michael Myers is in the movie for about 15 minutes, and part of that is him getting jumped and mugged.
(/spoiler)
Forces of Nature
Forgettable romance film starting Ben Afleck and Sandra Bullock. The title refers to a couple of storms that show up and bother everyone and also Bullock's character, who is pretty wilful and commanding in a lot of ways…
She's basically a more realistic version of the "manic pixie dreamgirl"- This is thought of as a male fantasy of a young woman with no real responsibilities, who comes into a man's life and forces him to try new things, often going on a bunch of whimsical adventures…
It's not a fantasy really, rather it's just a matter of perspective: The world is a huge place with a lot of personality types and there are plenty of people who fit into all sorts of tropes, either by accident or choice.
Bullock's character is a less whimsical version of this trope. I've known plenty of people like this.
who comes into a man's life and forces him to try new things, often going on a bunch of whimsical adventures…I think I saw 2/3 of that film like 18 years ago. I remember sort of liking it. Like she had worse romantic comedies. But now that I think about it, what you're describing is very much my favorite type of personality when it comes to women (with occasional differences here and there) so who knows, that might be a factor.
InkyMoondrop wrote:who comes into a man's life and forces him to try new things, often going on a bunch of whimsical adventures…I think I saw 2/3 of that film like 18 years ago. I remember sort of liking it. Like she had worse romantic comedies. But now that I think about it, what you're describing is very much my favorite type of personality when it comes to women (with occasional differences here and there) so who knows, that might be a factor.
Guillermo del toros cabinet of curiosities.
It's a horror anthology and in many ways reminds me of others I've seen before, hell I've even seen another version of one of the stories in a horror anthology. Even so this was vastly superior to that version of dreams in the witches house.
Overall I really enjoyed it, great production values and all of them are decent, but some are definitely stronger than others. There's a definite a love of Lovecraft on show.
Ozoneocean wrote:
I saw Blade the other day for the first time. After all these years I finally saw it!
I powered through Andor. I have been done with Star Wars since the prequels 20 years ago. The Mandalorian was pretty good.
This, however, is a boring slog that suffers from Battlestar Galactica syndrome. We have no story, so we'll have everyone talk in intense whispers so what they are saying sounds important. If anybody notices we will tell them they don't like it because our show is too smart for them.
Seriously, NOTHING happens for the first 5 hours. I would just skip to the heist episode, you won't miss anything. Who greenlights this boring trash?
THE WEEKEND AWAY - Leighton Meester, Christina Wolfe, Ziad Bakri,Luke Norris, and many more unknowns. Leighton and Christina travel from their home in London to Croatia for a weekend getaway but Christina suddenly disappears after a night out clubbing. She is found dead from drowning and Leighton is #1 suspect. Husband Luke isn't much help and she finds out he was having an affair with Christina. First looks like police man killed Christina but we will discover who the actual killer was. Not a bad watch getting 2 3/4 on the Moizmeter.
moizmad wrote:I wonder if that was loosely based on the female tourist who was found drowned and floating in the sea in Dubrovnik?
THE WEEKEND AWAY
Top Gun: Maverick
I have to say I didn't remember the first movie at all, but I never really loved it anyway. Still, the hype was great for this second one, I gave it a shot. It's pretty much what I expected, just a little over two hours of Tom Cruise schooling everyone one how to be the ultimate macho (the whole acting tough thing by the way just feels out of touch with how people tease each other these days, it faintly reminded me of gang members from West Side Story), where getting shot down brings long-standing and dramatic consequences, so the enemy is almost never shown dying and their deaths are always justified, where most characters are sidelined and only exist in the context of this mission so the movie can just focus on the main conflict… and even the angry-looking superiors have to come around eventually and admit that they're wrong and man, what a macho Tom Cruise is.
Yeah, it looks good, yeah, it has its tense scenes (even though it's extremely predictable), sure, people who loved the first one or just the whole flying / air force theme are all over it, but it's the simple, family-friendly entertainment that makes sure you'll take your son to watch it because it reminds you of your dreams when you were his age. I think I'm gonna watch The Mighty Ducks films, those are similar, they just don't take themselves as seriously.
Re: Maverick:
Turn off brain and watch it for the airplanes. F-18 Super Hornets just aren't Tomcats though. Oh, and join the Navy 'cause like you could do this too!
Did we mention join the Navy?
And Oz, plenty of horny stupid teenagers turn into geeky, uptight adults. It's called responsibility. I used to be like what? Well that was before marriage, mortgage and kids. It's a trope in the "rediscover the fun you had as a kid" and "eek, I grew up and turned into my parents" movies.
InkyMoondrop wrote:
Top Gun: Maverick
Watching the Mario Movie trailer on repeat. But only the Bowser scenes.
Because… it's Bowser… and he's allowed to talk.
Bowser wasn't allowed to talk since Sunshine. Even Wreck-It-Ralph muted him, which is utter BS. You'd think the one Disney movie about videogame characters would have loosened Nintendo's tightness with its IP cashcows. Nah, they'd rather throw them to the wolves that spawed the Minions plague. Life is weird.
Oh and i guess Mario talks too but who cares, Mario never had a personality. Bowser used to be hilarious and utterly steal the show in every Mario RPG. I want the age of funny Bowser back.
fallopiancrusader wrote:InkyMoondrop wrote:
Top Gun: Maverick
I saw the first one when it came out, and I despised it. I think I'll be giving the second one a skip.
bravo1102 wrote:
…Though I served with some ex-carrier crew and jet jockeys really can be such self-absorbed arrogant pricks. Fact inspiring fiction and then rubbing back off on reality. This is true even going back to the days of Phantoms and Scooters in the 1960s. Supposedly the culture was different when flight groups all had fans up front. (Propeller planes) It's a culture all to its own and really hard for outsiders to see anything but those jet jockey strutting bastions of machismo like in Top Gun…
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