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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 11, 2020 12:52:19 GMT
I just watched Dead Set last week. I had never heard of it but since Charlie Brooker was attached, I checked it out. Not bad, mostly fun. Ozark season 3 was definitely better than season 2 (vastly better) but still not up to par with the first season, at least not for me. I don't have cable and Better Call Saul isn't on Hulu, where can one watch it elsewhere? Dead set does the super quick edits when the zombies attack so you can't see anything, every cut is a split second so you can't tell what's going on, I absolutely hate it. Not sure if I can stick with it. It was like taht on Taken. I just watched all three movies and I like the concept but anytime there was an actual fight, the cuts are so quick you literally can't tell what's going on (same with the Bourne movies which I hate). Better Call Saul season 5 is the worst in my opinion, I know I'm in the minority but I'm finding it incredibly boring. Ozark is just keeping my interest enough to go to the next episode but if they ended it, I wouldn't care. No great TV series out now to binge watch, that's for sure. Looking forwad to the next season of Barry which I recommend. Does Better Call Saul get better?
I'm on Season 1 Episode 7 - it's nice to see the ol' Breaking Bad cast back together in a sense - Saul, Mike, Tuco - but have to be honest I'm bored out of my mind.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 11, 2020 13:20:51 GMT
Family movie night last night, we watched Jurassic Park. My son was imitating the T-Rex afterwards, it was pretty great. It was a fun rewatch but all these years later there are so many problems with the screenplay. Of course the science (everything from the tech jargon which was nonsense to begin with to the dinosaur biology theories) is completely outdated at this point, but it still felt like it had more to say than the hollow Jurassic World franchise entries today.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 11, 2020 13:35:35 GMT
Family movie night last night, we watched Jurassic Park. My son was imitating the T-Rex afterwards, it was pretty great. It was a fun rewatch but all these years later there are so many problems with the screenplay. Of course the science (everything from the tech jargon which was nonsense to begin with to the dinosaur biology theories) is completely outdated at this point, but it still felt like it had more to say than the hollow Jurassic World franchise entries today. Brings up an interesting question of what movies did you previously love but as you got older they didn't age well and lost their re-watch value because you matured into an adult.
I'm scouring Netflix right now looking for a new horror to watch.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 11, 2020 13:38:39 GMT
Ok - found one I've never seen - this goes back to the Top 10 Found Footage Horror Movies clip I found on Youtube -
'The Taking of Deborah Logan' - anybody of see/hear of it?
Watched Grave Encounters and The Last Broadcast yesterday - I'm pretty much a sucker for hand held cam/found footage movies.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 11, 2020 14:16:24 GMT
Family movie night last night, we watched Jurassic Park. My son was imitating the T-Rex afterwards, it was pretty great. It was a fun rewatch but all these years later there are so many problems with the screenplay. Of course the science (everything from the tech jargon which was nonsense to begin with to the dinosaur biology theories) is completely outdated at this point, but it still felt like it had more to say than the hollow Jurassic World franchise entries today. Brings up an interesting question of what movies did you previously love but as you got older they didn't age well and lost their re-watch value because you matured into an adult.
Clint’s “Firefox” comes to mind. I loved it as a teenager during its original theatrical run, so when it was released on DVD I bought it right away, and couldn’t believe how crappy it seemed now that my taste is movies had evolved.
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Apr 11, 2020 14:17:22 GMT
Ok - found one I've never seen - this goes back to the Top 10 Found Footage Horror Movies clip I found on Youtube - 'The Taking of Deborah Logan' - anybody of see/hear of it? Watched Grave Encounters and The Last Broadcast yesterday - I'm pretty much a sucker for hand held cam/found footage movies.
Have you watched the zombie show Black Summer? I really liked it. Should be on Netflix. Hopefully another season is coming.
If you don't mind subtitles there's a pretty good French Canadian zombie film from a couple years back called Les Affames. It might be listed under it's English title of Ravenous.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Apr 11, 2020 14:22:15 GMT
Ok - found one I've never seen - this goes back to the Top 10 Found Footage Horror Movies clip I found on Youtube - 'The Taking of Deborah Logan' - anybody of see/hear of it?Watched Grave Encounters and The Last Broadcast yesterday - I'm pretty much a sucker for hand held cam/found footage movies. I watched that a way's back, in one of those 'it's-Friday-night-I'm-going-to-watch-whatever-random-shit-I-can-find' type of nights. It wasn't bad, not particularly memorable, but not memorably bad either.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 11, 2020 14:23:59 GMT
I watched John Ford’s “Fort Apache” last night (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple). I am not sure if I had seen it before or not. The conflict between the Henry Fonda and the John Wayne characters felt familiar, but large parts of the movie rang no bells at all.
Anyway, I didn’t like it very much. For such a classic Western, it spends (I feel tempted to use the verb “waste” instead) a lot of screentime on the romance between the young officer and the commander’s daughter, and on silly comic relief scenes of recruits and drunk sargents.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 11, 2020 14:26:05 GMT
Ok - found one I've never seen - this goes back to the Top 10 Found Footage Horror Movies clip I found on Youtube - 'The Taking of Deborah Logan' - anybody of see/hear of it? Watched Grave Encounters and The Last Broadcast yesterday - I'm pretty much a sucker for hand held cam/found footage movies.
Have you watched the zombie show Black Summer? I really liked it. Should be on Netflix. Hopefully another season is coming.
If you don't mind subtitles there's a pretty good French Canadian zombie film from a couple years back called Les Affames. It might be listed under it's English title of Ravenous.
Thanks for the recs - I'll give em a look
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Post by klawrencio79 on Apr 11, 2020 15:02:48 GMT
My wife wanted to watch this limited series on Netflix called Unorthodox about a hassidic woman from Brooklyn who escapes her completely insular community of Jews in search of a better life abroad. It was pretty good, although while it was based on a true story, I find some of the facts concerning the ultimate resolution a bit questionable. The way it depicts life within the community, however, is completely accurate.
Being Jewish, I find this shit fascinating. I'm Jewish insofar as I was raised Jewish, my parents and I would celebrate Passover, Hannukah and the high holidays in September but that's really it. I had a bar mitzvah, I can read Hebrew but have no idea what it means, and had a non-demoninational wedding to my equally non-religious "Catholic" wife. For me personally, it means basically nothing as I'm completely atheist and not remotely religious (although visiting Dachua in Munich was one of the most moving experiences of my life, but largely just because I'm a human being).
I know a lot of hassids as I work with them often, but for a lot of people, watching something like this show could be their first exposure to that type of religious practice and lifestyle. I'd be curious to see people's reactions to it.
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Post by bluerisk on Apr 11, 2020 15:14:59 GMT
I'm dreading with Better Call Saul and Fargo...but so far I ditched it and played some rounds of Civilization V, build a XingBao set (Chinese Lego so to speak), I was even cleaning the dishes...on one hand it seems to be a good show (watched a lot of Gus and Hector clips on youtube) and the other hand I was never a fan of Saul Goodman's character in Breaking Bad.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 11, 2020 23:02:00 GMT
Carlo Ancelotti the Everton manager is stuck at home on Merseyside. Here is what he is watching on TV: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8210667/Carlo-Ancelotti-reveals-obsession-Netflix-Everton-boss-opens-lockdown.html'I'm watching television series in the evening. One on Netflix, Money Heist, that is fantastic. It is now on season four,' Ancelotti told Everton's official website. 'I enjoyed watching Ray Donovan, a series on Apple TV. There is another good series, When They See Us [also on Netflix]. It is a story of five guys who were arrested in New York and is really interesting. 'And there is a new programme on Netflix, Unorthodox, it is a short series but nice.' The 60-year-old former AC Milan, Real Madrid, Chelsea, PSG and Bayern Munich boss is also looking after himself physically during the enforced break. 'If I walk, I go to Crosby, to the beach and sometimes I go biking to Formby,' he added. 'It is a beautiful area, the beach is really fantastic. It is a long beach, you can keep your distance when you walk. I enjoy this a lot. The weather is good and, honestly, it is beautiful here. 'I like to exercise. When I am working I have no time to do this, so I have problems with my knees. I try to use this time to improve the condition of my knees.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 11, 2020 23:02:56 GMT
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Post by bluerisk on Apr 11, 2020 23:52:54 GMT
What is the harm? He put the police officer's life in danger...the physical stress could have resulted in a heart attack. Untrained and physical unfit people should not be put in such a situation. Like Churchill once said: sport is murder. (Although it is more a modern myth that he said it - I will check it out) Hm...seem to be a special German thing again: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_SportsAbout (autotranslate only - I'm too lazy now...and since Westworld I know our time is running up anyway): In fact, there is no serious evidence that Churchill's "No Sports" quote was made. According to Christoph Drösser , the saying “is apparently only known in German-speaking countries, at least you won't find it on any English website, but on hundreds of German websites - of course without proof. In the renowned Oxford Dictionary of Quotations you will also find the quote in vain. " [3]
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 12, 2020 1:02:33 GMT
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 12, 2020 1:36:02 GMT
I'm watching Dak & Zeke flame out on a social media long wkend.
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Post by tristramshandy on Apr 12, 2020 2:30:31 GMT
Last movie I watched was Magnolia. For whatever reason right now, I've been drawn to movies that I've seen once and only once rather than new movies to me or ones that I've seen lots of times. Just watched Inside Lleywn Davis and Jackie Brown recently for the second times too. With Jackie Brown and Magnolia, I originally watched both of them in the theater, so it was 20 to 25 years since I had last seen them. I forgot a lot - - particularly how long the frog scene goes in Magnolia. Found out afterwards that Philip Baker Hall is still alive!
I'm two episodes into How to Fix a Drug Scandal. It's dry in some places, but the magnitude of the implications of what was done are pretty mind blowing. I don't remember that story in the news at all.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 12, 2020 12:59:07 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 12, 2020 13:48:36 GMT
Time for another hand held camera horror movie I learned about on Youtube and just searched and it's free on Prime Video Afflicted (2014) - anybody ever see/hear about it? 83% Rotten Tomato Score - and it's only 85 minutes long - perfect for my attention span. Turns out one of these guys turns into a vampire - I'll keep you posted on whether it's worth a watch or not
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Post by WullieFort on Apr 12, 2020 14:38:08 GMT
The Untouchables.
Kevin Costner giving another cardboard cutout performance, hopelessly failing to scare the crap out of Capone. Apart from Di Nero's monstrous cameo and Connery's oscar-winning Irish cop, this movie was saved from the garbage collector by an unforgettable finale at the train station
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