"A ghost that makes a creepy oldie play on the radio every time he appears? Sure, we can add one of those."
Just to nitpick (since the movie doesn't really deserve it): why Tommy James's "Crimson and Clover?" It would have been more time appropriate to play the Joan Jett version, since he's a 1982 ghost, right? Lotta other stuff didn't make sense, either. Reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1x_BLhreRs
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
(I mean, it wasn't that bad, but it just wasn't surprising or scary or anything, and then it's padded out with the usual horror cliches. Yet it's well acted and directed!)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Well the original is better for one thing xp
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
Don't disagree there! But they make a point of setting the ghost origin story in 1982, which happens to be the exact year the Joan Jett version came out. Maybe they couldn't get the rights? It would have been super easy to change a line or two and make the ghost origin the '60s, didn't have to be 1982. Better yet if the creepy old music the ghost played was "Super Freak." People would be all "do you hear that? Super Freak?! Spoooky!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
I had to bail on Episodes... I got to the 3rd episode with all the stuff about Leblanc’s huge hog & i just couldn’t. it’s funny in places but it’s just not for me.
My wife and I are in the exact same place, literally and figuratively. We just finished the third episode, and we both agree it's hovering precipitously between B-/C+, with the occasional joke maybe a B+/A- and a bunch of others maybe C-/D+ (like the non-stop lazy dick jokes of this third episode). It doesn't help that we don't particularly like the leads, or even know if we're supposed to like the leads. The minor character/executive who constantly looks like she smells something funny makes us laugh on sight, but that's like 5 seconds of each episode so far. We'll probably give it one more then move on.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
it is pretty crotch-centric. i grew to enjoy all of the characters a lot. even Merc. Carol is kinda my fave. if i think about the character she was at the start and everything that happens by the end, it's pretty darn insane.
and the brits definitely grew on me. i wasn't sure if i wanted to keep watching after the FIRST episode.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
Carol is kinda my fave. definitly is so much more of a likable character when the show ends
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
got 2 eps left of Halt & Catch Fire and I've really enjoyed the whole trip and I'm going to be sad when there's none left.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
alt theme
Hey @PFTompkins, I was inspired by your acapella. Here’s your “Halt and Catch Fire” theme with the music it deserves. pic.twitter.com/ZRLc8g8VHk— D/A/D (@zachrobinson) January 28, 2018
― andrew m., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
excellent!
I was kind of enthused by the fact the soundtrack has the theme song, because I thought it'd be an extended version
but it's the exact length of the opening credits!
― mh, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
personally i throw an Ozzy "AY AY AY" ala crazy train in there. i'm probably not the only one.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
That final stretch of H&CF is so good. Glad it got to end strong, but I grew to love those characters so much I would have happily taken another three seasons of it spinning its wheels
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I can't believe we're only six episodes from the end. I want to stop watching now, so that it's just perfectly preserved forever for me.
(I also can't believe I didn't realise until the middle of season three that Scoot McNairy is the bloke from Monsters. Very poor. Knowing what people were in is normally my forte.)
― trishyb, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
I don't think we've talked about Dirty Money yet? I'm only two episodes in but it's great. I am somewhat apprehensive about the dramatized scenes, especially with the monkeys in the first episode.
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
Just caught up with EOTFW, it's a good as everyone says, some amazing performances too - the girl, the Irish dad, the sweet idiot at the garage.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 3 February 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
i was allergic to the first 5 minutes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
I knew Altered Carbon had the potential to be a guilty pleasure if they didn’t botch it too badly, and I gotta say, enjoying it so far
― mh, Saturday, 3 February 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
yeah, same
― gbx, Saturday, 3 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
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Same! It has a lot of "edgy" signifiers. I thought it would be another one of those heartless shows that bullies you into feeling like a square because you can't appreciate its cheap, humourless nihilism. But then it gets better, pretty quickly.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 3 February 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
It looked good, but I started to find it difficult to follow half way through (not having read the book and watching whilst smartphone browsing).
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 3 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
the jungle episode of planet earth II has to be seen just for the capybara reaction shot after another animal does a thing (no spoilers)
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
is altered carbon worth its own thread with spoilers?
it was a decent watch, although the flattening of some of the plot elements from the character backgrounds made flashbacks a little tedious
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
my coworker attempted to watch it but walked away after "too many f-bombs" which is an interesting take I'm interested in, as far as Netflix being able to do whatever they want with content standards.
he asked if that was a constant throughout the series and I'm thinking, hmm, they don't swear much while they're having sex or killing people soooo
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
Funny, we quit WestWorld after a couple of episodes, but the non-stop profanity took us out of that one, too. At first we thought it was some sort of satire on ... something, but then we realized, no, it was just bad writing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
i think i am interested in Altered Carbon
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
do you like recycled cyberpunk tropes, over the top pulp writing, and lots of fight scenes? then it's for you
(with the exception of the flashback bits of the character's past which go on too long)
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
i’ve enjoyed the first couple of episodes of altered carbon, was thinking about starting a thread for it myself
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
I'm wondering if I'm desensitized from not being around kids and generally modulating my own language but not really caring about what I hear?
I rewatched some WW recently and outside of Thandie Newton's character (and boy, she can really put some spice on it when she swears) nothing really stood out
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
here you go, bg:
ALTERED CARBON: a takeshi kovacs netflix series adapting richard k. morgan's cyberpunk pulp novels
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
It wasn't the robot potty mouth that bugged me, it was the scientists, who sounded as stupid as they were acting.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
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Has Big Mouth been discussed yet? Watched the first two episodes last night and got a kick out of it.
― Darin, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
So funny! I think it's been mentioned above, but I never miss a chance to point out how much Jason Mantzoukas rules. He rules.
― DJI, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
I liked it, especially Maya Rudolph as the female sex demon, her accent is all-time.
― Moodles, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
Maya Rudolph is crazy good in this. The sleepover episode was amazing.
― Darin, Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
i watched Marcella last week. if u thought Happy Valley was a bummer, holy shit
Happy Valley was much tougher than this is. Nothing with Anna Friel and Jamie Bamber can be that bleak imho.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
you guys HAVE to see Meru. if you are anything like me the whole movie will have you saying: "AHHHHHH WTF holy shit dude OMG no!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZ1GzXPEO8
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
climbers are odd
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
started LA CASA DE PAPEL which for some reason has been re-titled, in english, MONEY HEIST.Pretty good so far. Series about a group of ppl who take hostages in the Spanish mint. I have a soft spot for eurocrime tho.
― ian, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
MONEY HEISTCASH STEALINGWEALTH THEFTCURRENCY-TAKING CRIME
― mick signals, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
It really starts to drag out towards the end, but otherwise entertaining.
― Chard Michaels (Leee), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
There is a mini-series of the Lawrence 9/11 book The Looming Tower starting in a fortnight. Some of the interesting stuff I recall in the book was about the terrifying sounding al-Jafr prison that acted as a radicalisation incubator for dangerous street thugs like al-Zarqawi and the stuff about Bin Laden's maverick older brother. He liked doing daredevil stunts in light aircraft and he once sent medical video footage of an an anal procedure he had to King Fahd as a joke. Of course there much more to the book, I would bet the tv version will concentrate more on the CIA/FBI pissing each other off.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Meru is indeed awesome
― Milking the Soft Power Dividend (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
I started Glitch last night & I kinda dig it.I guess it’s kind of an Aussie take on Les Revenants but i never saw that so idk for sure
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 February 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
posted about this one in the top 5 canadian tv shows thread but back in the 90s we had our version of "COPS" and it was called "to serve and protect"
anyway it's on netflix (us and canada, not sure about the uk and ireland) but they renamed it to "under arrest"
the episodes are condensed but still have some quality stuff from vancouver, calgary and i believe toronto
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
edmonton too but they might've removed those scenes from this version of the show
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
chris rock stand up was pretty decent
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:46 (six years ago) link
anybody watched Shot in the Dark? It's about the dudes who make a living filming crime/disaster/death/etc and selling it to news stations. none of them reach the level of jake g's character from Night Crawler but they're all kinda douchey - there's an amazing scene in one of the first eps where one of the dudes actually saves someone's life. NB one of the show's executive producers is one of the cameramen, so it's def not objective at all.
― just1n3, Saturday, 17 February 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
Doc or fiction?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 February 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
to anyone who's gonna watch the Chris Rock special, good luck paying attention to anything but the saggy fold of t-shirt chest fabric that hangs underneath his crew neck the ENTIRE TIME
if you can afford it, why not buy a properly fitting t-shirt? I don't get it
― del griffith, Saturday, 17 February 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link