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my 18 year old did not dig the first episode of scavengers reign. i thought we could watch it together. he didn't think the creature stuff was that amazing. i'm gonna go back to it though. i liked it.

it gets way crazier than you think it’s gonna

i can imagine! it starts out pretty crazy.

i loved the imagination of it. i think he was just thinking it was going to be cliche earthers stuck on a planet stuff.

there's this really terrible ridley scott series of crashed robots raising a human messiah that's simultaneously cliched and awful but also off-the-wall bonkers that it goes places imagination couldn't even imagine.

there's this really terrible ridley scott series of crashed robots raising a human messiah that's simultaneously cliched and awful but also off-the-wall bonkers that it goes places imagination couldn't even imagine.

I thought Scavengers Reign was mostly boring, since it's pretty plot-light. The last two episodes were great, though.

it's so funny to me that there are two Raised by Wolves shows and one's a Ridley Scott sci fi thing and the other's a Caitlin Moran thing

i watched some episodes of Tandem. good-looking divorced french cops at the seaside solving crimes. its breezy. its good to have go-to breezy murder shows.

There's something about the art style that turned me off at first.. it felt kind of idk flat, indie comic-like. i can't stand all that adventure time shit. but i'm glad i stuck with it, the art is actually amazing. there's still a very subtle clunkiness to it compared with say, ghibli stuff, but it would be frankly churlish to complain.

Yeah the flat drawings and blocky colors reminded me of old cartoons - Johnny Quest, maybe some classic anime. like those old cartoons, the characters don't always look consistent at every angle, it's kinda awkward. it took an episode for me to get into the aesthetic but it really makes the show stand apart from other animated shows

the show is apparently based on a short film they did (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TRzemJbUsw) and the characters look really inconsistent in that first iteration, though the style of the show is there from the beginning. I can't always tell how much of the aesthetic is the animators' limitations and how much is planned

It reminded me most of Fantastic Planet, though looking back on it the art styles couldn't be more different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

Is there a name for this kind of flat-o-scoped style?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQbm8Wk2vU

didn't watch it but the flatness and style seems to have a fair amount of Moebius influence.

Haha, an aside I guess, but I love Joel Haver's clips. Especially the gaming ones.

The Moebius influence seemed huge to me, enjoyed the series but it was maybe a couple of episodes too long.

I was ignorant of the existence of Moebius until you all mentioned him (despite having seen several films he worked on). I spent the last hour enjoying some of his comics - yeah seems like a big influence on the style of this show

many xps.

I really loved Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up, it was an interesting view of a small arts community in Portland. I like that nothing much happened, it was just a week in the life of a frustrated artist dealing with family and a job and with an artist/frenemy/landlord friend.

It seemed like all of the events in the film gently lead to her greater understanding of her family and to an opening up of her relationship with her friend. What's not to like about that?

And fwiw I also liked the sculptures shown in the film! They are works from Cynthia Lahti

an artist trying to put on a show through those difficulties is something I can empathize with

There is a diversion where you’re led to believe it’s maybe about her slightly more successful graduate school enemy/friend showing her up with their competing shows opening in the same week

But it’s ultimately more about just showing up yourself in life, anchoring yourself and being honorable - for your work, your family, your friends, and even for a pigeon injured by your cat.

I thought Michelle Williams was mesmerizing in the role

I've seen every Kelly Reichardt film since River of Grass and have loved them all especially Meek's Cutoff, Certain Women, First Cow but this film

...I think is my favorite

we can agree to disagree and live together in peace despite our differences and that is what makes us advanced democratic human neighbors. god bless.

Any talk of Blue Eye Samurai (hard one to search for here!)?

So impressed by the first half of the season. As beautifully written and researched as it is animated... The last five minutes of episode four just had me gipped, moved, devastated and thrilled. Really great.

xp we can also agree to disagree about discussing theatrically released movies on this thread. <3

BES is fantastic - it’s come up a few times itt. Every couple of months a new person sees it and we get to say yes we agree it’s great :)

sorry jaymc, I was thinking I should have posted that stuff on a different thread

maybe I'll try Showing Up again. I lasted about 20 minutes but I'd also watched three previous movies that day including Past Lives and it wasn't measuring up.

i don't have to talk about movies on here. sorry! everything i talk about on here is something i watched on a streaming channel though. i never talk about DVDs or movies i see on the big screen. mostly because i don't go to big screens anymore. i enjoy watching Captain Marleau! she is one of my fave crimefighters. she's so funny. all her episodes are movie length! but they are fun. i watch her on MHz Choice. which, as i think i mentioned above, is merging with Topic. which is cool. twice as much stuff.

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It's OK, Scott! I am just being a curmudgeon. I guess I always thought of this thread as dealing mostly with stuff produced for and unique to streaming channels -- "Netflix Originals" and the like -- rather than anything that might happen to be available on streaming, which is literally thousands of movies and TV shows, many of which have their own threads. But I will drop it!

Ugh. Tried the first episode of the Noel Fielding Dick Turpin thing on Apple. I think they're trying for an "our flag means death" thing? But geez, it was not good. And I like Noel usually!

Yeah, it's very meh and def trying to bite OFMD.

Watched the first episode a couple of weeks ago after seeing it get some quite good reviews but haven't gone back since.

Think I may have chuckled once but the majority of the episode was spent grimacing at how terrible most of the jokes were.

I posted about Blue Eye Samurai a month ago before I had finished watching it. Yeah it was excellent - great characters, great voice acting, gorgeous visuals, really not a note wrong. Very happy it's getting another season (the creators have planned for four)

"I am just being a curmudgeon."

no you are right and it makes sense. i just try to stay away from the movie threads because they make ME feel like a curmudgeon. like i'm trolling everyone. or they are trolling me. one or the other. my opinions about movies can be a little hyperbolic or something...

FINE, i'll watch every episode of Tracker. You people make me do everything around here. I can take some Jack Reacher-lite while I clean and price modern classical records in my easy chair. Plus, Tracker's buddies are Montana lesbians and my mother-in-law is a Montana lesbian too! I better tell her about this show in case she's missed it.

man, that show is lame. its like the 90s. but i watched 6 episodes of it for science.

The Julian Leclercq-directed remake of The Wages of Fear should have been called The Wages of Fear: Fury Road except that might have implied excitement, and this movie is dull as fuck. Deeply disappointing; I've seen Leclercq's last four movies (and the Ganglands TV series, also on Netflix) and they've all been good to great. But even Alban Lenoir, the guy from the Lost Bullet movies, can't save this.

Finally starting Res Dogs S3 because I didn’t want it to end.

i stopped before the end of season 2 for the same reason! i'm waiting for the perfect moment to continue again.

First and third episodes have made me tear up a lil bit. I really can’t think of another show that’s had the emotional impact of the Dogs on me.

Jackie from the other gang is in Dark Winds (first season excellent, second season less good) as a minor character.

s3 of rez dogs is so good <3

want hard copies of rez dogs so bad

i would watch something written by sally wainwright before anything else and renegade nell doesn’t disappoint. it might have been done very badly but it’s been done well. fresh, well written, acting excellent, done all together will relish.

Watching it with the kids and we've really enjoyed the first few episodes.

I see it's getting review bombed on the web as WOKE NONSENSE! because it has strong female characters and also, how dare they, black people in it.

black people just won’t let me enjoy things these days, it’s gotten out of hand

i know its a movie and i shouldn't talk about it here but i did watch it on paramount+ and just wanted to say that i did enjoy the first 75% of Beau Is Afraid when it was dark Wes Anderson but the last 25% in the house was more like dark Charlie Kaufman and I didn't like it at all. But that sex scene was pretty funny. and the house was really cool. it took me like a week to watch the whole thing. it was kinda fun in a fairy tale/dream way. i can't imagine having to have that expression on my face for an entire movie. multiple takes! that is some commitment. and i liked how he used his body. i'm not usually a big fan of his. it might not have been entirely successful but it does make you realize that that director could really do a lot of interesting things in the future. they are talented. that movie only cost 35 million which isn't much these days! they really put a lot into it. i can't even imagine. its the big budget Frownland i didn't know i needed.

i suspect, reading this irritating interview with the director – which contains the idea the marvellous idea that sally wainwright doesn't know how to write a successful series - that wainwright originally was going to have a series with only women left standing (nell, queen anne, sofia wilmot), trouncing and defeating men all about them. feels like maybe director (who does a good job) plus disney weren't really up for that. shame really.

He said: “I think there was some, with a show of this size, course correction. So you’re shooting in blocks. So I did episodes one and two. And you put those together and you edit them, and you sort of take stock of what's working and what's not, and what dials to turn up or down.

"I think in terms of changes, Sally was overly ready and willing to sort of incapacitate people, especially the male characters."

Taylor continued: "So [character a] is essentially sort of lobotomised after episode 1, [character b] after episode 3 is sort of incapacitated. We reconsidered that and sort of brought them back to life, [character a] less so but [character b] we needed to be a physical threat. I think he was originally written by Sally, or imagined to be bed-bound for five episodes.

"And we knew that wouldn't work for our big baddie. So yeah, we changed our mind on that.”

Recommendation: Why Women Kill (Paramount +, I think).

No, not another true documentation. A very stylish piece of fiction. Very pretty to look at and the plot is pretty smart too.

watched The Wrath of Becky on Paramount+. top notch! i can't help it. watching Proud Boys get murdered in hideous ways is just fun. hoping for a steady stream of nazi-killing Becky movies.

final post on renegade nell. it was… good, but some promise was squandered i thought. in the first two episodes there was a strong sense that nell’s ability to do stuff was getting her into situations that created more violence, taking her to a dark place. her “Puck” (billy blind) explicitly ruled out being an on demand violence enabler. that all got lost by ep 3 and it was basically a case of being able to switch it on wherever, which broke a good deal of dramatic and plot tension. nell is up against people who will explicitly use power for whatever they want. the mere desire is enough. feels like something got a bit broken along the way. still a lot of fun and the performances are great. (disney+ for anyone still interested, also showing poor things and all of us strangers for those interested)