TV/Movies Megathread

[Gups]

Going through season 4 of Peaky Blinders.

This show is so much fun.

Yeah, big improvement on season 3 I thought. Adrien Brody, like Tom Hardy, just about manages not to be too hammy in reprising Marlon Brando.

[Gups]

Season 4 of Black Mirror is the weakest so far IMO. A couple of very good episodes but too dependent on implants/digital copies. Seems even Brooker can run out of ideas.

[Eddie Teach]

Going through season 4 of Peaky Blinders.

This show is so much fun.

Yeah, big improvement on season 3 I thought. Adrien Brody, like Tom Hardy, just about manages not to be too hammy in reprising Marlon Brando.

Season 3 was a big dark mess.

[Josquius]

I could just never get into Peaky Blinders. My mother loves it though. It picks up after the first few episodes?


Black Mirror S4E3

[spoiler]Very slow paced. But...it works. I like.
Unsure where it's meant to be set. Filmed in Iceland but everyone has British names.
I am a little concerned that this series Black Mirror isn't really doing much new but is instead each of the 3 episodes so far is relying on these mind reading devices in some way.
The ending is curious. So the guinea pig fingers her?[/spoiler]

[frunk]

Season 4 of Black Mirror is the weakest so far IMO. A couple of very good episodes but too dependent on implants/digital copies. Seems even Brooker can run out of ideas.

It seems like more of a theme of the season rather than running out of ideas.  The only two that are really handled similarly are [spoiler]episode 1 and episode 6 second story with issues of control between conscious copies and "real" humans.[/spoiler]

[celedhring]

Going through season 4 of Peaky Blinders.

This show is so much fun.

Yeah, big improvement on season 3 I thought. Adrien Brody, like Tom Hardy, just about manages not to be too hammy in reprising Marlon Brando.

Season 3 was a big dark mess.

Yeah, it was a bit over the place. That said, I enjoyed it.

Season 4 looks tighter so far. Hard to screw up the Blinders going against the New York mob.

[The Brain]

Season of the Witch is on the telly. They have encountered Debalzac.

[The Brain]

The Abyss is on the telly. This just in: Michael Biehn should be in all movies.

[Sophie Scholl]

Season of the Witch is on the telly. They have encountered Debalzac.

That movie was fun to rip apart MST3K when my friends and I saw it in the theater.  We were the only idiots to pay and watch it.  My friend picked it as the choice.  We revoked his picking privileges for a while for the decision.

[The Brain]

Jesus. Friends like these.

[Barrister]

I've started watching Netflix's Bright, starring Will Smith.  Only about half way through.

Honestly, if it wasn't for Will Smith I'd think this was the greatest pile of horseshit I'd ever seen, but somehow he makes it watchable.

[Eddie Teach]

It's just like Bad Boys, except Martin Lawrence was replaced by an orc.

[Berkut]

Almost done with Handmaids Tale.

Really, really excellent.

I like that it provides a compelling narrative both for people appalled by the plausible future it creates, and the spicies and beebs who are probably very excited by the possibilities if they can just get some more Pence's and Cruz's into power!

[mongers]

Watched a good documentary over Xmas:

'David Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants'

About the mega colony of wood ants in the Jura mountains, excellent photography and interesting topic, well worth a viewing.

[Josquius]

Revival  / Boku dake ga inai machi 

This is the first I've actually watched netflix's Japanese content and....it is actually really really good.
Its a strange show. Feels less like a typical Japanese series and more like a scandi-noir, the weird grim Hokkaido industrial town scenery (so un-Japanese...) helps a lot I guess.

It's very odd in its introduction. Seems like it'll be some sort of typical supernatural Japanese detective show. Set a few years in the past (2010 iirc?) for some reason, we are introduced to a struggling manga artist/pizza delivery man who has the power of 'revival' which allows him to travel a few moments into the past to stop bad things happening, like a truck hitting a kid.
Really weird that as part of the "This is the default situation, just accepted it" we have this supernatural element. But OK.

But shock horror his mother is murdered and he flees after the criminal only to find the police chasing him for the crime. 
He then time travels back to being an 11 year old...it seems the whole thing is related to some child killings from that time.
He sets out to save the victim before anything happens to her so he can stop his mother dying in the future.

It's really well done. Though again the ending gets a bit odd. Very bitter sweet.
[spoiler]A bit too late he realises the killer is his teacher. This...was kind of clear to me a few episodes earlier. It doesn't help that the teacher is one of only two adult men we are introduced to... the only two adult women being his mother and the mother of the murdered girl who was bad for sure but...pretty obviously not the killer herself.
Basically he manages to save all of the kids...but then ends up in a coma for 15 years himself, missing his teens and most of his 20s. Awaking in 2006 to try and finally see justice be served......And that's the timeline we stick with at the end. He doesn't get to fix his being in a coma. It's just so.
Oh sure, he gets his dream and becomes a more succesful manga artist at the end. But still, missing his childhood like that has to suck. Feels kind of unsatisfactory the way everything is resolved.

It's also a bit lame for the translation that they changed the title to erased rather than the original, the town where only I am missing, as when they mention this at the end its a big "Oh! So thats why its called that! Clever." moment. [/spoiler]