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Done with Evil s3. Pretty good but the weakest of the 3.
s3 got a lot more stupid weird with the "family" re: mother & husband. At this point, I think the mother & husband are distractions and should be written out and/or greatly reduced. The "entity" arc is just stupid with their stupid missions. Nun Andrea + shovel is great! The monsignor tangent was a nice, subtle touch. The "sexy" Kristin is fun. Looking forward to s4. |
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First couple of episodes are up now. Not bad at all, scene setters and obviously big budget and with the feel of the movies. I'm not much of a LotR fan though, I couldnt finish the books and I thought the movies were a bit same-y, so maybe I'm missing things that put the purists off. Disappointing lack of dwarfs in the first episode though. |
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I'll try to watch The Rings of Power sometime this weekend. A new episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieres tonight. Tomorrow is college football. So probably Sunday.
However I'm going to try to pretend that the show has no relation to Middle Earth or Tolkien. |
Do you need to watch the movies to understand The Rings of Power? I think I saw one of them when it came out but I remember next to nothing.
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I haven't watched it yet, but my understanding is that the timeline for the Rings of Power should be waaaaaaaaaaay before The Lord of the Rings. Like thousands of years.
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"Hustle" was an excellent sports film. Adam Sandler did an excellent job.
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Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 is a fantastic documentary. I remember watching footage ...and watching this doc I recall having the same disgusted sighs and eyerolls as I did watching the Jan 6 idiots committing treason. I wonder how many of those destructive fratboys at W99 later stormed the capitol
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I'll give the Rings of Power a "Decent enough" rating. My only real complaint is the Galadriel character. I always thought of her as wise and not as impulsive as seen in the first two episodes.
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Isn't she at least a 1000 years old at this point?
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So WTF was the swimming thing about. Did she really think she could make it back? Seems more like a death wish than youthful rebellion.
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Got back to watching more episodes. In addition to the 2 things above, other things I've learn 3) They can check & read message in your smartphone. From what I've read, you don't need to unlock your phone but apparently they can make life very hard if you don't 4) X-rays can highlight "organic matter" (Chinese and Vietnamese people, take note with your ridiculous food stuff) 5) When caught with a little amount of drugs, you get your visa cancelled and can't come back for a 3 year exclusion period. When caught with funky food, you get fined $400-$450 AUD and a warning. I think Australia has room to up the penalties Not good when you are taken to their special room. I was telling wife that I want to visit Melbourne, act suspicious, don't answer questions directly, and get interrogated in the special room. |
Just watched ROP. Loved it.
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My wife and I are currently watching "Five Days at Memorial", a docudrama series on Apple TV+. It's a gut-wrenching tale of a hospital staff and their patients who were left to fend for themselves by the local, state and federal government (and their corporate office) for five days after Hurricane Katrina hit. Then conditions they had to endure and choices they had to make are almost incomprehensible. It's a well written and well acted series, and I highly recommend it.
Here's a link to the trailer: Trailer for "Five Days at Memorial" |
Although I don't necessarily agree everyone/majority criticizing the Ring of Power casting is racist, I do agree with the overall sentiment below.
If you are interested, here's where you can buy it https://www.donmarshall72sstore.com/...men-s-t-shirts BTW, it's been over 20+ years since the first one came out. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/enter...cec/index.html Quote:
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That's a cool sentiment. Not really loving the new series so far, but the skin colour of the cast has nothing to do with that. |
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Take it with a grain of salt but Rings of Power casting could be somewhat bigoted/prejudicial. Is there a reason why a series that obviously wants to be diverse have left off Asian performers? Lord of the Rings: Rings Of Power Sparks Racist Backlash – The Hollywood Reporter Quote:
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Finally got Band of Brothers and The Pacific off the list after all these years. Band of Brothers was really good, and the realism of it all was engaging, but I've never really watched anything as visceral, brutal and intense, episode over episode in a way that seems almost impossible, as the Pacific is.
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Reservation Dogs on Hulu is the best show I've watched this year. The first season was great, this second season has been even better.
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I meant to circle back to second this recommendation. It was really well done. It is sill on Showtime for those that are interested. |
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I see that the streaming services are trending to releasing a weekly episode for their projects as opposed to dropping the entire series at once. That is why I stopped watching these series in real time. For all the price increases they have been rolling out, I would pay for the subscription option to get the whole season of my favorite shows at one time.
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I finally watched this today with all of the context from you and whomario. First, this might as well had happened in 1888 the way I felt I watching it. It felt very neutral to watch. I kept waiting for the verbal shots to be fired from the political left or the political right to come with each interview given. For the most part, everyone was the stereotypical German. Very matter of fact. There was definite incompetence by not only law enforcement but the press as well. But that all it was,incompetence. That felt oddly refreshing. |
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Dan Carlisle has a great Pacific theatre podcast, Supernova in the East. Highly recommend. |
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I found Band of Brothers more enjoyable (I didn't say better - I said more enjoyable), but both are excellent. Pacific is fucking HARSH. And it's not like Band of Brothers pulled punches. |
For Rings of Power ep 3, we have the Arondir storyline, the Galadriel storyline, and the Harfoot storyline.
I can appreciate the first 2, but the Harfoots are boring me so far. Beautiful sets. The "new" city is gorgeous. Nice special effects with the "puppy". |
They really should've gotten the rights to The Silmarillion before making this thing.
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Agreed. It’s really good. As his series on the eastern Front of WWII. And, well, pretty much all of his series. Hardcore History is where it’s at. |
Rings of Power is such a bad show so far. Structurally, they went about the completely wrong decision in deciding to whiplash from POV to POV and the scenes are either leaden pacing or so short they jump to another POV just when a scene is getting interesting.
As poorly done as its own Episode 2 was (Episode 3 was better), House of the Dragon is absolutely crushing RoP on pretty much every level other than visuals (RoP is fucking gorgeous visually and it's really the only thing it has going for it) Cobra Kai S5 I binged in a day. It actually took about 4 episodes to really find its groove IMO, but once it did, it was back to the fantastic fun and delight the previous seasons were known for, and the season finale was amazing. I do think Season 6 should be the last season from a writer's standpoint - they've set it up perfectly to close out the series then |
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I just watched s5.1 tonight and realized it's just not fun for me anymore. First couple seasons was entertaining as they brought back the old characters but its now pretty much a "teenager" angst series with rinse and repeat karate fights. I think I'll watch the last episode to prepare me for s6. Hopefully, they'll change the formula some for s6. |
Stifflers Mom just won an emmy. lol.
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Congrats to Squid Games' Emmy wins. s2 sometime in 2023.
I have to say that I'm not sure s2 will be near as successful. s1 was new & different. s2 will probably be more of the same. |
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New german-angle content alert: "Skandal!" is a documentary on the Wirecard (a company hyped up as "the german paypal" and the big young tech company here) fraud scandal and the clusterfuck that was the response of regulatory agency and politicians to the evidence that was presented time and time again. Well done, very classic-style documentary overall. Kind of missing some of the more outlandish stuff in Germany that other (german) productions covered but for a 90 minute doc you can't really expect everything to be in. What is in is bonkers enough though, from fake Scheiks to foreign agents.
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Skandal is on my watchlist.
I just finished Sins of our Mother, a 3-episode documentary about the story a few years ago where 2 kids went missing and their mother and stepfather refused to tell anyone where they were or what happened to them. Absolutely bonkers. I also watched Cyberpunk: Netrunners, which was...okay. They were clearly trying to save some money on the animation. |
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Know it’s like 5 years old but American Vandal was funny AF and is an easy watch. I knew people like this in HS. One of the most realistic portraits of teenagers I’ve seen. The friend groups made sense and so did the character motivations |
I saw Hired Guns a few years ago. Good stuff.
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I know right???? AWESOME that the main character won! Should have won Best Drama for sure! The old guy and the girl should have won as well. Surprised and delighted that girl that was in one episode won for Guest. During the marbles pairings I think it won 3 didn't it? Yeah it won directing for the first ep! |
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I know it's network so shouldn't really count, but I'm watching it on Paramount+ so it's a steaming loophole.
Quite liked Quantum Leap 2022 first episode. Sure some of the acting is poor even by network TV standards, but it's got a healthy chunk of the original cheesiness so it's a winner for me. |
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Loved the original when I was young, so I watched. I thought it was just kind of meh. They spent a lot of time in the control room, making the leap itself underdeveloped, and it didn't have the same fun/humor the Sam/Al relationship had. That said, I'll watch some more and see if they find their stride. |
New Quantum Leap is well written but holy shit they got some bad actors in it.
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Srsly? My wall has been filled with absolute hate for every single aspect of it. "I give up, the franchise has been murdered" level of hate. Giant {shrug} to me, I was merely surprised to see someone say anything good about it after seeing a reliable flow of vitriol otherwise. |
You live in a backward world though, where up is down and losing is winning and massively positive reviews are bad.
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It's not really something I care about one way or another, only reason I know it even exists because I was seeing it savaged by every person on my socials who commented on it (half dozen, give or take). And they're actually a pretty diverse group literally covering both coasts and about a four decade age range. |
It's the best Star Wars show outside of The Mandalorian if it continues the level from Episodes 1-3.
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I don't even remember this story. I spent all three episodes just saying "How?" and "What?". I will never understand our legal system. |
I'm pretty sure there's people who watch all the Star Wars stuff but hate everything since Empire Strikes Back.
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That’s my brother-in-law. He especially seems to resent having strong female characters.
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I just watched the first three episodes of Andor. I thought it was great.
Already the show has easily the best dialogue of any Star Wars movie or show, with the potential exception of Empire. The action scenes were good. The characters are great. The concept is cool. They never once went to Tatooine. Could eventually be on par with The Mandalorian, already much better than Fett or Obi Wan. Very much looking forward to more! |
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That was a huge, national story for weeks and then popped up again months later when they found the bodies. |
Andor's first 2 episodes = yawn, wake me up when something is happening
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Rings of Power ep 5.
Durin & Elrond continue to be the best story line so far. Never knew that about the special ore. All the others, not so much. |
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IIRC, Amazon paid either 125M or 250M just for the rights, which, OK, they're swimming in money.
But I have to feel they could have used a fraction of that money to commission spec scripts from a variety of fantasy and/or scifi writers that could have been more easily turned into compelling TV than attempting to create compelling out of pre-existing IP with the significant restrictions on usage that we know about. |
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Yes, Mithril. I was referring to the other thing it was used for besides armor. |
Haven't watched Rings of Power yet (waiting for all episodes to be out, not ready to go back to non-binge habits yet ;) ) but one of my favourite things surrounding it is Neil Gaiman responding to poor idiots telling him on Twitter how terrible his (!) version of the LOTR universe is in their eyes. It's been less frequent recently but amazingly still happens.
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Has anyone dared to watch the new Dahmer show? Seen some real mixed reviews on it.
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Are they big Star Wars fans? I think one of the problems with the shows is they just don't have the budget the movies do. It's the same issue with a lot of the Marvel TV shows that require special effects. You're making 10 hours of TV on a $50 million budget while the movies are 2 hours on $300 million or whatever. I'm not a big Star Wars fan so I don't have big expectations. The shows are perfectly mediocre to me. |
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The Star Wars fan base, more so than many, is pretty toxic and terrible. While I take your point in terms of the quality of effects in Marvel shows vs movies - though the effects in the last few movies, especially the latest two (Thor & Dr. Strange) leave much to be desired. I haven’t felt the same in terms of Star Wars TV vs. Movies. They all seem to share the same look and feel. Largely, the Star Wars movie franchise is dead. The prequels were terrible. This last batch - especially the last one (which is awful) - weren’t great. The Mandalorian and now Andor are the best Star Wars live action content - TV or movies - in a long while. I really loved Rogue One, so I’d put that in there as well. Andor is great. It’s smart, complicated, and dark, which could be why some Star Wars fans are turned off by it? The look, production and set designs are fantastic and feel lived in and real. The writing is top notch and the acting fantastic. The action sequences make sense and are great. Can’t wait for more! |
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I think the issue may have been dragging the story out over 10 episodes. I started it, but it was more than I could chew. |
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This is me, too. I didn't even bother to finish Fett or Obi Wan. But I also thought Rogue One was the best of the new wave Star Wars movies, so it would make sense that I'd like something of similar tone. |
The Reboot on Hulu is funny, the cast is deep, and it works.
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The Girl in the Picture documentary on Netflix. What a fucked up story. It's horrifying what that girl went through but somewhat inspiring what she had made of her life through high school until her unfortunate death. Most interesting to me is that she was in high school in GA about 30 minutes from me and hung out at the same mall I did in the mid-80s, and then when they finally discover her true identity, it turns out she was born 2 years before me at the same hospital in my home town. And she was part-Greek, like me.
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Yeah, these are pretty much hardcore of hardcore (as full grown adults go anyway). Action figures, memorabilia, etc. |
Which school and mall Ksyrup?
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She went to Forest Park and they didn't mention a specific mall but we used to go to Shannon Mall in Union City all the time, which was pretty close (I was in Peachtree City). Southlake in Morrow was a little further for us.
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Five episodes in and Andor remains awesome. The writing is fantastic.
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I used to go to Southlake all the time. Northlake for the midnight movies, but Southlake was closer for computer games.
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Well this just sold me on checking it out. Do I need to know all the Star Wars lore to like the show? I mean I know the gist of it and have seen the movies at some point in time. |
Mike Flanagan's new series "The Midnight Club" dropped all 10 episodes today. I can't wait. Hopes are high after the amazing thing Midnight Mass was (just rewatched that too, still amazing).
They set an official world record for most jump scares in a single episode, but it's not about jump scares. Early reviews are very good. I hope so. I can't wait. |
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I do hate jump scares but Midnight Mass was so good that I'm in on anything that guy makes again. Has anyone seen House on Haunted Hill? Wondering if it's worth a watch on Netflix. Had it queued up forever. |
House on Haunted Hill is a movie that ok.
The Haunting of Hill House is a Flanagan series that is very, very good. Not as good a MM, but still fantastic. As is The Haunting at Bly Manor. |
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I like the Rifftrax version of House on Haunted Hill. |
The final season of Derry Girls is now on Netflix (awesome because it's one of the funniest shows ever, sad because it's the last season)
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Got the names mixed up. The Haunting of Hill House is what I'm thinking of. I'll definitely watch. |
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I’ve watched the first six. Haven’t seen the latest. I think it’s pretty great. It’s very much in the same vein as the first three Lord of the Rings movies. It looks beautiful, too. |
This week's Ring of Power was pretty boring other than Durin/Elrond. I love the backstory between the 2 and mithril ... and is that thing what I think it was e.g. from LOTR?
Rest of the other stuff, eh. Next week is the season finale. Overall, not that impressed with the story telling. |
Oh, never knew Elrond was half-elven.
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Finished The Midnight Club over the weekend. I'm a pretty huge fan of Mike Flanagan. His Haunting Series (Bly Manor and Hill House) and Midnight Mass explore lots of different parts of the human psyche. The characters are really fleshed out, the storytelling is fantastic.
As with his other works his work here is based off of a series of books. In spite of what you've heard about the jump scare, episode 1, record, it's all a bit tongue in cheek. It's a nice, long, 10 episode series, and while to me anyway, it doesn't quite hit the mark that the other series did, it still is well worth the watch. The ending is a bit anti-climatic for my taste, but then I heard that it's designed to be an ongoing series, and it's up to Netflix whether or not they want to pick it up. The source material is quite extensive. All in all, it deals with some real conversation on death, especially for young adults. It's got some 'magical thinking', it's got plenty of "Twilight Zone" or "Are You Afraid Of the Dark" feels. I will likely watch it again, because there were parts that I just didn't vibe with the first go around. Can not wait for "Fall Of the House Of Usher". |
Quite a bit behind the times with this since it's been on Netflix for about a year but started the South Korean series Hellbound and it's surprisingly good. People get a vision that they're going to go to hell, and the time when it'll happen. When the time comes three demon type chaps turn up and beat them to death and then zap their body off to hell.
I was put off by it looking like a silly horror thing about devils, but it's really more about how people would react if it did happen. Panic, exploitation, etc. Season one is only six episodes, but Season two is on the way. |
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