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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 3, 2020 14:59:20 GMT
That's too bad. The first few minutes of the first episode were really promising. I'll still finish watching the first episode and then make up my mind about whether or not to continue with the rest of the series.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Jun 3, 2020 15:22:24 GMT
We finished the first season of Ray Donovan last night. Meh. The brothers are both annoying wastes of space and they clearly had no idea what to do with the wife - every episode consists of her asking Ray constantly what's going on, getting pissed at him for not telling her, defending him to people who question his behavior, and ultimately just forgetting about it. I dunno, the whole thing was very passable, nothing really stands out, the plotting is kinda silly, the performances are OK, the writing is terrible. There's no real concept of stakes, of the world they're in, etc.
If my wife wants to solider on, I'll give it a go but if she's out, I have zero interest in continuing it.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 3, 2020 15:56:03 GMT
Film is better than the show imo. Certainly the film is well worth a watch. I watched Hunt for the Wilderpeople recently and loved it too. I see our hero has been getting it in the neck over a tweet about the George Floyd protests. I may have "obtained" the film at some point in the past, so could watch it, and may do so. Have you seen Boy? I wasn't keen on it, but it struck me while watching Jo Jo Rabbit that he succeeded in doing some of the things that he'd tried and failed to do in the earlier film. I have seen "Boy". Must admit I did enjoy it, though not as much as HftW. Haven't seen JJR yet.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 4, 2020 17:54:11 GMT
Watched last Oscar Best Picture winner, Parasite, last night. I enjoyed it but expected a wee bit more. Maybe that’s unfair as it’s certainly a lot better than many previous BP winners. Definitely worth a watch. Saw “cult” movie “Love Witch” too. Pastiche of 70s erotic horror movies. Bit shit to be honest. At least 40 minutes too long. The make up was good! BBC2 started screening the most recent series of Canadian police drama “Cardinal”. It’s set in a small city in northern Ontario. I’ve enjoyed the previous seasons and am binging this one as all six episodes are already available on iPlayer. Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse are a good double act. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(TV_series)
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 4, 2020 18:33:21 GMT
BBC2 started screening the most recent series of Canadian police drama “Cardinal”. It’s set in a small city in northern Ontario. I’ve enjoyed the previous seasons and am binging this one as all six episodes are already available on iPlayer. Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse are a good double act. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(TV_series)Cardinal is pretty good. For a city of its size, Algonquin Bay has a LOT of murderers! In per capita terms it must be the murder capital of Canada!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 4, 2020 20:12:02 GMT
BBC2 started screening the most recent series of Canadian police drama “Cardinal”. It’s set in a small city in northern Ontario. I’ve enjoyed the previous seasons and am binging this one as all six episodes are already available on iPlayer. Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse are a good double act. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(TV_series)Cardinal is pretty good. For a city of its size, Algonquin Bay has a LOT of murderers! In per capita terms it must be the murder capital of Canada! Can’t compare to the village of Midsomer in England though!
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 5, 2020 3:56:18 GMT
I watched “Bullet Train” (Japan, 1975). Tell me if the premise seems familiar: bad guys put a bomb in a train triggered to explode when the speed goes below 80 km/h. In a race against time, the police has to track the bad guys and find and disarm the bomb before the train reaches the end of the line. It was worth 2 and a half hours of my evening as a curiosity, but it’s not a great movie. The screenplay has some serious flaws, foremost among them the most contrived plot contrivance in recent memory: After getting the money, the bad guy calls the police to tell them that they can find the instructions for locating and disarming the bomb in an envelope that he left at a certain café. They immediately go there to retrieve the envelope, but by the time they get there a fire has destroyed the café and the envelope with it. What are the odds that a fire would break out precisely at that moment? Having a dog eat the envelope would have been more plausible!
I did find it very interesting that the bad guys are presented almost sympathetically, even though they put a bomb in a train carrying 1500 passengers. But they really didn’t want to hurt anybody, it’s just that they needed the money because society had screwed them over.
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Post by WullieFort on Jun 5, 2020 8:24:29 GMT
Cardinal is pretty good. For a city of its size, Algonquin Bay has a LOT of murderers! In per capita terms it must be the murder capital of Canada! Can’t compare to the village of Midsomer in England though! Whenever a show is identified as being a CANADIAN production, I switch off. Never knowingly seen one that I liked. It started with an incomprehensible spy series called "The Romeo Section" and then another of a similar type called "Intelligence" and "Cardinal". They are full of very dull characters I suppose that all the real talent has moved south of the border
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 5, 2020 11:30:01 GMT
Can’t compare to the village of Midsomer in England though! Whenever a show is identified as being a CANADIAN production, I switch off. Never knowingly seen one that I liked. It started with an incomprehensible spy series called "The Romeo Section" and then another of a similar type called "Intelligence" and "Cardinal". They are full of very dull characters I suppose that all the real talent has moved south of the border I remember “The Romeo Section” and I agree, it wasn’t very good. I disagree about “Intelligence” and “Cardinal” though. In any case, there are many excellent Canadian TV shows that are not widely seen outside of Canada since they are in French.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 6, 2020 0:17:02 GMT
What We Do in the Shadows was really enjoyable as well. I haven't seen that, I've heard it's good though. The tv show's been on here recently, but I didn't bother watching it as I haven't seen the film. Perhaps that was a mistake. nogbad , the film WWDITS is on BBC 2 at 12.20am on Sunday i.e. just after midnight on Saturday night. Well worth a watch.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 6, 2020 0:19:34 GMT
Whenever a show is identified as being a CANADIAN production, I switch off. Never knowingly seen one that I liked. It started with an incomprehensible spy series called "The Romeo Section" and then another of a similar type called "Intelligence" and "Cardinal". They are full of very dull characters I suppose that all the real talent has moved south of the border I remember “The Romeo Section” and I agree, it wasn’t very good. I disagree about “Intelligence” and “Cardinal” though. In any case, there are many excellent Canadian TV shows that are not widely seen outside of Canada since they are in French. Did you ever watch Republic of Doyle? It’s available on Amazon Prime just now. Is Trailer Park Boys worth a look?
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jun 6, 2020 11:19:26 GMT
In a werewolf mood - Going to go with 'Ginger Snaps'
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 6, 2020 12:23:18 GMT
Six episodes in (out of a total of 10 if I am not mistaken) and I must say I disagree with The Guardian. I am enjoying it and having some good laughs - and that is even though I have never been much of a fan of Steve Carell’s comedy.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 6, 2020 12:39:30 GMT
I remember “The Romeo Section” and I agree, it wasn’t very good. I disagree about “Intelligence” and “Cardinal” though. In any case, there are many excellent Canadian TV shows that are not widely seen outside of Canada since they are in French. Did you ever watch Republic of Doyle? It’s available on Amazon Prime just now. Is Trailer Park Boys worth a look? For some reason which I really cannot pinpoint, without ever having watched a single minute of “Trailer Park Boys” I have made up my mind that it’s not my kind of humour and therefore never watched a single minute of it. I enjoyed Republic of Doyle in the beginning enough to keep watching for the first three or four seasons. I remember dropping it from my viewing schedule before the end. A large portion of my interest in it was due to the novelty of a TV show set in Newfoundland (which I had visited on holidays for the first time not long before the show aired). The characters were likable enough but I don’t remember the storylines being particularly strong.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 6, 2020 14:15:42 GMT
Did you ever watch Republic of Doyle? It’s available on Amazon Prime just now. Is Trailer Park Boys worth a look? For some reason which I really cannot pinpoint, without ever having watched a single minute of “Trailer Park Boys” I have made up my mind that it’s not my kind of humour and therefore never watched a single minute of it. I enjoyed Republic of Doyle in the beginning enough to keep watching for the first three or four seasons. I remember dropping it from my viewing schedule before the end. A large portion of my interest in it was due to the novelty of a TV show set in Newfoundland (which I had visited on holidays for the first time not long before the show aired). The characters were likable enough but I don’t remember the storylines being particularly strong. I've changed Trailer park Boys from a possible watch to a must watch based on that!
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 7, 2020 0:13:33 GMT
For some reason which I really cannot pinpoint, without ever having watched a single minute of “Trailer Park Boys” I have made up my mind that it’s not my kind of humour and therefore never watched a single minute of it. I enjoyed Republic of Doyle in the beginning enough to keep watching for the first three or four seasons. I remember dropping it from my viewing schedule before the end. A large portion of my interest in it was due to the novelty of a TV show set in Newfoundland (which I had visited on holidays for the first time not long before the show aired). The characters were likable enough but I don’t remember the storylines being particularly strong. I've changed Trailer park Boys from a possible watch to a must watch based on that! Carl, A while back you were probably watching some Henri-Georges Clouzot movie. Was it The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)? How was it? Or was it something else?
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 7, 2020 0:19:04 GMT
I've changed Trailer park Boys from a possible watch to a must watch based on that! Carl, A while back you were probably watching some Henri-Georges Clouzot movie. Was it The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)? How was it? Or was it something else? No, I haven’t even heard of that one. It was Le Corbeau. My second viewing. Very good. I also saw his Woman In Chains too. It was OK.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 7, 2020 0:22:37 GMT
Carl, A while back you were probably watching some Henri-Georges Clouzot movie. No, I haven’t even heard of that one. It was Le Corbeau. My second viewing. Very good. I also saw his Woman In Chains too. It was OK. oh.....Le Corbeau is the one i guess in which letters are sent to villagers. I have seen that one. Quite good. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) seems to be a mystery-comedy and I would see it soon.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 7, 2020 0:28:39 GMT
No, I haven’t even heard of that one. It was Le Corbeau. My second viewing. Very good. I also saw his Woman In Chains too. It was OK. oh.....Le Corbeau is the one i guess in which letters are sent to villagers. I have seen that one. Quite good. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) seems to be a mystery-comedy and I would see it soon. Yes, Le Corbeau is the one about the poison pen letters. That other one sounds quite interesting. Not available to stream on MUBI or Amazon Prime for me though.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 7, 2020 2:20:03 GMT
Since it’s June 6th I figured I’d watch the D-Day epic “The Longest Day” (1962). First-time watch for me, even though it’s a classic with an all-star cast. Pretty good. Of course the Normandy landing scenes don’t come close to what Spielberg was able to do in “Saving Private Ryan”, but they are still impressive. One thing though: I know John Wayne is an icon and everything, but God is his delivery annoying!
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