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I’m impressed they could find a way to do something original with the Predator concept… will check it out.

Yes Prey rules hard. Midthunder is dope AF, and also there is DOGGY.

Reservation Dogs bitches. So good.

Watching Arcane on Netflix. The character design is pretty great! Guess I just haven't seen a CGI based show in a few years, and it's clear that we're now firmly in a 'canny valley' phase of cgi: everyone is beautiful, but also looks like a real person. The stocky kid with googles in the group in the opening scenes is a good example, in that he is almost certainly based on someone real, and has the sort of subtle charisma that didn't used to appear on TV (because casting directors passed over people like that in the old days, i guess?) The clothes also are very nice in Arcane, except when they're toosteampunky. Two episodes in, i'm hoping for maybe a couple more unambigiously transfemme characters to appear.. as far as representation issues go.

I enjoyed watching Prey, but the Predator was just kind of an irritating guy.

I'm going to re-recommend The Resort on Peacock here, turning out to be way more interesting than the trailers would lead you to believe. Ben Sinclair (the guy from High Maintenance) directed a lot of it and also plays a significant role.

I want to watch the Resort but I'm waiting until all the episodes are out. Week to week streaming is bullshit.

Week to week streaming is awesome. It's great to have something regular to look forward to. Appointment TV, but also on my own schedule!

yeah i like it too, i only binge like the reaaaaallly good stuff that hooks me in hard

I watch one episode of two shows/night, rotating through four shows (the most recent lineup was Orville/Hanna & Evil/The Old Man) never really binging but I like series/seasons that are done so I can maintain the schedule. It's the only orderly part of my life somehow.

The Old Man tricked me because I thought it was done when I started.

The way The Orville run times were going I'm surprised you also had time to watch Hanna

I fast forwarded through the singer-songwriter interludes, that saved ten minutes from half this season.

Lol

The Old Man tricked me because I thought it was done when I started.

I tried watching a new South Korean action movie, Carter, on Netflix, but I only lasted a half hour (there were two hours to go). I respected the effort — it was meant to look like it was all done in one shot — but I haaaaated the execution. The whole thing looks like a game, or like it was shot with drones and head-mounted GoPro cameras, and the transition points where they blurred the edits between shots were almost nauseating. In fact, the constantly moving camera in general wasn’t exciting; it was annoying as fuck. 100% Not My Thing.

lol yeah I couldn’t make it through the whole thing either, it gave me a headache. The plot was structured like an RPG and it felt a bit like watching a gaming stream at 15x speed. But it definitely did a couple of cool things I’d never seen anywhere else before, and can see how it might inspire future action filmmaking.

A snippet for those who might be curious:

You know the faux one-take action sequences in THE VILLAINESS? That director made a 139-minute film that is just one fake long take-action scene called CARTER that's on Netflix now: an absurd fever dream of violence and impossible camera work that you'll hate or be fascinated by. pic.twitter.com/qoB2KzqFPw

— Justin Decloux (@DeclouxJ) August 5, 2022

I stuck with Carter and think you were wiser bailing early. Two hours, 14 minutes, and the movie still ends with everyone reunited on a train going over a bridge to an island, with the last shot being the bridge blowing up just ahead of the train. Given earlier invulnerability, wasn't concerned for the people, but not a fan of the "it ain't over" ending. Carter was like the anti-Drive My Car, all action vs all dialogue.

Kind of eye-rolling save for the gonzo ending, but maybe stands as an interesting counterpoint to Prey, which has a oner that I didn't even notice as such aside from it being awesome. Even rewatching it again and even with that in mind, I kept forgetting that it was a oner given how smooth it was.

wanna see Prey in the cinema!!

"Prey" was OK, but we were super bummed to learn that the Comanche version is *dubbed*. Watching with mismatched lips *and* subtitles was just too distracting for us so we watched the English version, even though we really wished we could be watching it in Comanche. For some reason I though they just did two versions of it.

Agree that the dog is awesome and the predator is just kind of a dick. Also, so many people missing their legs just sort of ambling about when they really should be, you know, dead.

It had an oddly low-stakes vibe around its (many) brutal killings... like, most characters didn't seem particularly hung up about whether they lived or died.

Original Predator had charisma, this one was indeed an arsehole. A proper Comanche version without even subs would gave been cool. The French guys didn’t need subtitles.

I appreciated how the subs of the regular (English cc) version kept the trappers’ lines in actual French. We always watch TV with captions on, and it really bugs me when they just say: [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE].

I don’t expect dialogue in other languages to be translated, but I do want to see what they’re saying. Just like you might catch bits of the spoken dialogue if you know a little of the language, the same thing works when you’re reading it.

(I guess there’s a difference there between captioning done by a third-party service, where someone’s just listening and typing out the English dialogue they hear, and subtitles provided by the producers of a show or movie with access to the script.)

I hope you all stayed for the credits animation with potential sequel teaser at the end.

Yes!

lol so done with post credits nonsense.

I did also appreciate that the French were not dubbed, I just wished the movie was released in Comanche, full-stop. I know that was the way the filmmakers supposedly intended it, but that also seems disingenuous, because if it was intended to be in Comanche it would have been filmed in Comanche, and the dub would be in English.

(some time passes)

Actually, just read/learned that there are apparently less than 100 Comanche speakers left, maybe as few as 25, and none under 60, so they couldn't have an all Comanche cast if they wanted to. Also learned that the movie was allegedly filmed 100% outdoors with natural light in Calgary on Native lands. Also also learned about the dog breed, apparently the multi-nicknamed Carolina dog/American dingo/yella, etc., the only native American dog, which has a genetic lineage back to the Asians that originally crossed over the Bering Straight.

Anyone else think the lead looked a little like Aubrey Plaza?

nah, but after watching Legion on FX and seeing both of them in the same episodes I’ve been primed to recognize both

I watched an episode of Roswell, NM (a terrible SF series) last night; Amber Midthunder (the Prey lead) is in that, but I couldn't pick her out; there are three or four basically identical brunette actresses on that show.

huh, I hadn't connected the dots and realized her dad is also an actor. immediately recognized him from a half dozen things when I checked out imdb

lol so done with post credits nonsense.

The animation was at the beginning of the credits.

I've made it through 4 episodes of Paper Girls and am probably giving it up, as they've made a time travel story so plodding and tedious. And what is it with BKV adaptations that strip out so much of the humor?

i kinda liked paper girls. the second half of the season was much better in my estimation, but don't exactly blame you for throwing in the towel

I watched the whole season, it was decently entertaining, but very aggravating that it diverged so much from the comic. I can see it being more enjoyable if you are coming to it fresh.

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— bec hac (@doomkulthum) August 9, 2022

lol!

If this is half as good as Ramy I'm 100% on board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtohea4CFbE

yeah it looks really good!

Armando Iannucci is doing a HBO series about making a superhero movie... unfortunately Sam Mendes is also involved.

i have not really rated Iannucci for some time.

tbf it doesn't look as though Ianucci is especially involved

xpost!

i have not really rated Iannucci for some time.

Copperfield does an incredible job of translating Dickens' humour to a fast-paced movie, and the airlock scene in Ave5 dropping approx 90 minutes before half the planet adopted the exact same approach to a global pandemic would earn him a lifetime pass no matter how hard he fell off

never going to read a page of his poem book though

Really enjoyed "Cha Cha Real Smooth," which I guess is on Apple. I was a big fan of "Shithouse," too, and in some regards this is more of the same but a little ... more. Felt at times a bit like "Say Anything" in bittersweet sentiment. Dakota Johnson is pretty good in it.

This article, about the CW getting bought, doesn't totally belong in this thread, since it's about a TV network, but this one paragraph made me laugh really fucking hard:

The demographic focus of the CW will also change over time, Carter said. Historically, shows like Riverdale, All American, Arrow and Supernatural have focused on viewers in their teens through their 30s. The reality, though, is that the average CW viewer is 58 years old, and Carter said that schism explains why the CW is the lowest-rated broadcast network

(lack of period in original — hire an editor, Deadline!)

Invasion on Apple+ - first episode makes me think it would be better as a series about Sam Neill as a small town sheriff dealing with weird shit/aliens.

First episode is about as good as Invasion gets

truth

Man, every last detail of Reservation Dogs remains incredible. I feel so fortunate a show like this is on TV.

^this