Legion was great but also kind of emotionally exhausting too
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 13 September 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
i keep forgetting that i have two episodes left in this show
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 September 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
i posted almost the exact same thing five months ago, go figure
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 September 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
I kinda mentioned above but S3 and S4 are excellent. I enjoyed S2 but it was the weakest of the seasons
― Vinnie, Monday, 13 September 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
I really enjoyed the first season and bailed on the stodgy 2nd, went back a few yes later and watched it to finish, great show, Rami's casting was perfect as his performance is astonishing, at times, completely sold the nerdy ego vrs the complex vulnerability of his character
― Swanswans, Monday, 13 September 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
I want to watch Comet again but I don’t know if I’ll be able to replicate the exact way the edible hit me 30 minutes into my first viewing.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 September 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
seeing ramy on james bond posters now is kinda weird
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
Was thinking of starting Esmail's Leave the World Behind this weekend--anyone seen it?
― clemenza, Friday, 8 December 2023 22:25 (five months ago) link
Watched it last night. Mostly pretty decent but it falls apart in the last 15 minutes by over-explaining and being so on the nose. Hitchcock didn’t tell us why the birds were rebelling against Man…
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:51 (five months ago) link
I'm halfway through and it's really starting to feel like M. Night Shyamalan.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 December 2023 16:34 (five months ago) link
that was definitely a movie by Sam Esmail
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 18 December 2023 03:32 (five months ago) link
I liked the book, will watch the movie eventually.
― jaymc, Monday, 18 December 2023 04:27 (five months ago) link
By the end, I liked about half of it: the sinister massed deer, the Tesla pile-up, clunky dancing to "Too Close." In terms of sounding an alarm, I didn't think it was all that convincing.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 December 2023 04:28 (five months ago) link
imo the entire apocalyptic background and happenings were window dressing for the actual plot mechanic: the lack of trust and basic human connection necessary for survival when every person has their own preconceived notions and agendas that are ultimately irrelevant having the one seemingly paranoid character be not that much into conspiracy theories (he was just reacting to the factual information he had) was a choice
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:31 (five months ago) link
i still enjoy esmail's visual style but this was all a bit of silliness. good performances, but didn't really have anything to say.
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:35 (five months ago) link
This was a really good movie, sort of frustrated by the massive online chorus of "Why did it not end with rescue and hugzzzzz"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:36 (five months ago) link
it falls apart in the last 15 minutes by over-explaining and being so on the nose.
only if you think of the "explanation" presented by the character as having anything to do with what's actually happening
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:37 (five months ago) link
i will concede that the Julia Roberts / Ruth dialogue in the shed near the end is too on the nose
The very ending--what the strange daughter did--was one of my favourite parts. Kind of obvious, I know, but in a good way: felt like it had to end that way.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 December 2023 16:37 (five months ago) link
ps the involvement of Barack and Michelle in this movie has created an entire online ecosystem of people who think it's a leak of plans for the impending satanic NWO takeover
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:42 (five months ago) link
it’s funny that a bunch of people online think the 13 year old was weird when she just wants to finish the one thing that was interrupted. maybe the wide-eyed stare at all the weird shit was part of it?i’m sure each character maps on to some psychological archetype in some way
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:47 (five months ago) link
xp I can see where the Obamas as producers (they just have a Netflix production deal, who cares) is hatching some conspiracy theories but I doubt they’re that hands-onconversely, I was aware of the production credit and when Ali and Hawke’s characters are negotiating with Bacon’s, I thought “both of these guys are different parts of Obama’s internal dialogue”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:50 (five months ago) link
I actually love that there's just that one shot kind of hauntingly establishing there's a woman inside Danny's house, wife, daughter, doesn't matter
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:53 (five months ago) link
I don't think his speech has to be the 'real story' - it was an retelling of things we'd already seen (cars going haywire, transport isolating everyone, communication down, etc.) turned into a narrative. The viewers all got to make that narrative up as we watched, having the prepper lay it out at the very end was unnecessary. (If that conversation came halfway or two thirds in, maybe, but it acted as a summation.)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:55 (five months ago) link
it was F Society, obviously anyone else spot the E Corp logo on the meal kit buckets in the back of the pickup at the beginning?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:59 (five months ago) link
this was super entertaining. great cinema? probably not but a thoroughly enjoyable 2+ hours. I loved the ending. Also it's an interesting choice to put Hawke and Bacon in the same movie as they are morphing into the same guy as they age.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 7 January 2024 16:44 (four months ago) link
I think this is my third go-around with Mr. Robot--just starting S3--and honest to god, Tyrell and Joanna Wellick are the two most puzzling characters I've ever encountered in a TV show.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 May 2024 02:47 (three weeks ago) link
Perplexing, not puzzling--meant to use a stronger word.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 May 2024 02:48 (three weeks ago) link
they just have strong bdsm vibes, that's all
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 13 May 2024 14:25 (three weeks ago) link
That might be the only thing I understand about them. I was thinking more in terms of their relationship to fSociety and Elliot and everything that transpires. I spent the first season wondering which side Tyler was on and the second season wondering if he was Elliot himself. And she's even more confounding to me.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 May 2024 14:43 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi71x5hoaN8
― clemenza, Monday, 13 May 2024 16:08 (three weeks ago) link
Almost finished. Good use of Carly Rae Jepsen over Darlene and Dom at the airport.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 June 2024 01:47 (three days ago) link
Finished up last night. Remembered almost nothing specific from the last two or three episodes, except how nuts and convoluted it got (and that they would have been better to end with Darlene and Dom on the park bench as people start getting their money)--I still couldn't explain to you how much of the four seasons is real, how much dream/fantasy, and how much somewhere between. Such obvious homages to Lynch (twice) and 2001. "Heroes and Villains" was a nice surprise.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:24 (yesterday) link
Last thing I'll say on my deathbed: "I still don't fucking understand Tyrell Wellick."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:35 (yesterday) link
he is just a social striver looking for a cult with a dommy wife
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 June 2024 02:46 (three hours ago) link
I honestly think my first misreading of Wellick, that we'd find out at some point that he was another manifestation of Elliot's split personality, would have made more sense than what we got. Wellick would have been the corporate, buttoned-up side of Elliot--the social striver, yes--that Elliot recognized in himself (he was, after all, a technological genius with a job at All-Safe) and found loathsome. Obviously they would have needed to restructure the story to accomodate this, but that I would have understood.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 June 2024 05:21 (one hour ago) link
I think he was always the guy who sailed through the corporate talking head path but felt a sense of loss he wasn’t the disruptive hacker guy, with all the projected coolness. And he literally goes back to the woodshed with an axe in atonement for his corporate sins! His wife is content with making him feel pathetic
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 June 2024 05:26 (one hour ago) link