fwiw The Kelly Gang film is only viewable for about a $7 fee on Prime and the other usual VOD providers.
― punning display, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
seberg had terrible reviews when it premiered but people seem to like it more now that it's on streaming services. probably not going to watch it. kristin stewart is a depressing actress or at least she plays depressed people very well (like in Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper).
― akm, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
I really enjoyed the new film Frances Ferguson on Prime. Dry no-budget absurdist comedy about a bored young substitute teacher in Nebraska who gets caught hooking up with a student. The actress playing Fran is fabulous. Nick Offerman narrates. A Schubert scherzo on synth is the soundtrack.
― punning display, Thursday, 4 June 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Anyone catch The Vast Of Space yet? Super enjoyable movie about weeeeird goings-on in smalltown America in the late 50s, framed like an episode of The Outer Limits, great actors, dialogue, and lovely roaming steadicam shots from a dog's eye view.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
So good I got the name wrong, 'The Vast Of Night' lol
Yes, watched it last week and thought it was excellent. Filmed on a micro budget too but with some amazing cinematography (and that one incredible tracking shot)
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
20 mins in, I was already wishing it was a TV series I was watching.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
I mentioned it on the movies thread, possibly another thread as well. It's really well done, like a great student film prequel to "Close Encounters."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
The Vast of Night is remarkably good
― Brad C., Wednesday, 10 June 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
So talky! I understand they were going for a radio play feel, but it was exhausting. For people who feel like Mrs Maisel doesn't have enough dialogue.
― DJI, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
I turned the subtitles on after a few minutes thinking I was in for a bit of a Sorkin-esque time but the dialogue slowed down and the snappiness ceased as the uncertainty ramped upwards.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Hm, ok. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
― DJI, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
I mean, it's not exactly His Girl Friday speed. If anything I imagine many people will find too slow.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah it was only the first 10 minutes or so doing the Sorkin walk and talk thing xp
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
some of the dialogue was hard to hear, I had to crank the volume
― Brad C., Wednesday, 10 June 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
Knives Out and Knife + Heart just added to Prime. I really liked both movies..
Could be a theme? Next up Knife in the Water and Knife in the Head? Sling Blade?
Or not.
But did I mention Cutter's Way is on Prime?
― punning display, Monday, 15 June 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
I had a terrible time hearing a lot of the dialog in Midsommar on prime, and it sounds like I'm not the only one. Not sure if there's any kind of settings change I can make to help.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
I've noticed poor syncing of sound with picture on some older movies on Prime that otherwise seemed to be good quality transfers. Just off by a split second, not enough to make them unwatchable for me.
I didn't have any sound problems watching Midsommar.
― punning display, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
Oh hell yeah, I love Knife + Heart. Just in time for Pride, lol.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
i have problems with dialogue in almost everything, I think it's because things don't downmix to stereo very well (all of these things are default surround now).
― akm, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
3 episodes in, and Prime's Utopia seems utterly banal and unnecessary compared to the Channel 4 original. I miss the quirky Tapia de Veer soundtrack, the beautiful cinematography, the feral Fiona O'Shaughnessy, the sociopathy of the original Arby and Lee. Really wish Prime licensed the original and financed a 3rd season (many threads to tie up there). Avoid.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Friday, 25 September 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
Bad movie fans should check out Love on a Leash. Also on Tubi which is free with a few ads.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu5Pi82-G8c
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 25 September 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
Upload, the transhumanist romance satire series, was a lot better than I expected.
What looked like Altered Carbon meets The Good Place has enough of its own ideas to keep one engaged through a long binging session. The jabs at marketing, corporate life, and class divides are welcome, but its carried by fine acting.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 2 October 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
Only just caught up with The Boys, wow is it bingeable. I can imagine it being a GoT level hit in two or three seasons time.
― chap, Friday, 2 October 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
Homelander is instantly an all time great TV villain.
― chap, Friday, 2 October 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
And Stormfront for that matter!
I need to watch this, I loved the first series. Glad to hear it’s still good though!
― seumas milm (gyac), Friday, 2 October 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
Yeah they haven't really put a foot wrong yet. I've even become quite fond of Karl Urban's accent!
― chap, Friday, 2 October 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
They already announced a spin off to The Boys in addition to a season 3, it must be doing really well.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 October 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
Only thing wrong with it is the dumb 1 episode per week dripfeed
― badg, Friday, 2 October 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
Drip feed creates lasting buzz and free publicity. It'll be the way of most marquee/prestige streaming series going forward.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 2 October 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
Amazon innovating its way back to....conventional television.
― the typo doer (Simon H.), Friday, 2 October 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
And yes, The Boys taught me I can enjoy superhero stories created by people who hate superheroes.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 2 October 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
The comic's first spin-off was a parody of "crossover events" and Bohemian Grove called Herogasm. Amazon should lean into this and have The Boys gangbang Bosch, Sneaky Pete, Jim From The Office, and Mrs Maisel on Jeffrey Epstein's island.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
I think the spinoff is a prequel, "the college days."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 October 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
Pffft, weak.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
It's gonna be that silly arc about the G-Men. I haven't watched this show yet, but all signs seem to point that it's an improvement on the book?
― Nhex, Friday, 2 October 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
I'm mostly caught up on the second season and it's really picked up. Still darkly funny and satirical but much more intense and disturbing than the first season, plus the violence and other stuff still finds ways to be pretty shocking. Not often you see a character casually rip someone's face off.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link
I plowed through Upload bc the actual mountainside resort it's set at is nearby, and they made it appropriately fall-y and gorgeous in most of the scenes. Liked seeing that, liked the jabs at late-stage capitalism and the Koch brother, etc.
DO NOT LIKE: Underlying premise of "girlfriends are SO CONTROLLING amirite?" and the sexist, rapey friend character that attaches to the main guy and routinely says fucked up shit, and the AI bell hop who's "obsessed" with Nathan and it's supposed to be gross because it's obsessive but also because it's GAY, and probably 100 other stupid things the writers obviously didn't think were worth thinking about.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
Just got the Boys finale, enjoyed the satisfying (if perhaps fan servicey) scene of the ladies kicking ten shades of shit out of Stormfront shouting "nazi bitch" at her.
Did NOT see the twist/ending coming, even though apparently it was a bit telegraphed last season?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 19 October 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
The denouement, with the perpetrators exonerated and restored, is the biggest plot hole to date. To end on Homelander spraying the poor people of fake Manhattan reminded me of Larry Niven's Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.
― Zoom dick judge (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
spoilers! (but lol)
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
Ha apparently that scene was meant to be in S1, but Amazon said "oh god no thats too much". Good to know by S2 they were fiiiiine with it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
BTW thats not what I meant by the twist, though I guess he was twisting his...er.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
I just watched the Booksellers doc and really liked it
― akm, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 05:27 (three years ago) link
i just started watching The Boys, only a few eps in but i like it!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 06:25 (three years ago) link
Hang in there!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 09:41 (three years ago) link
Yep Boys S2 was all around as good as the first season. I rmde at a lot of edgy, shock value shows, but I dunno, this hits the right notes for me
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
Also feel they wrote themselves into a corner with the AOC supe reveal.
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
We could watch a film on twitch some time if anyone's interested.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link