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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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11B4V

#44385
March 02, 2020, 08:36:21 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 02, 2020, 05:04:16 AM
Binged Altered Carbon season 2. It's way less trashy than season 1, which is both good and bad. Meaning that the show is entertaining and with less downright awful moments, but it seems to consciously take a few steps back every time it seems that it could get weird/interesting.

Didn't know there was a season 2. Thanks.
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celedhring

#44387
March 03, 2020, 10:07:34 AM
Yeah, the release has been kinda sneaky, doesn't seem Netflix has promoted it much.

As said, the show plays it safe this season compared to the first, but I still hope we get a third one. Never have enough sci-fi on the telly.

garbon

#44388
March 03, 2020, 10:33:44 AM
I think I can't remember the 1st season so much, but this season seemed overly high on melodramatic moments.
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Sheilbh

#44389
March 03, 2020, 02:13:16 PM
The Two Popes.

A nice, artfully made film about two old men talking about God, meaning etc. It works when the two old men are played by Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Price.

On a sort-of, factual basis though it's strange as it manages to be reasonably unfair to both Benedict and Francis :lol:
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Berkut

#44390
March 03, 2020, 04:18:25 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on March 02, 2020, 08:36:21 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 02, 2020, 05:04:16 AM
Binged Altered Carbon season 2. It's way less trashy than season 1, which is both good and bad. Meaning that the show is entertaining and with less downright awful moments, but it seems to consciously take a few steps back every time it seems that it could get weird/interesting.

Didn't know there was a season 2. Thanks.

I have yet to see anyone say anything about this show that didn't make it sound, overall, pretty bad.

But people seem to be watching it.
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Habbaku

#44391
March 03, 2020, 04:23:53 PM
It's trashy, but fun. Fun trash. Watch a couple of episodes and try it out.
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Josquius

#44392
March 03, 2020, 04:54:51 PM
Series 1 at least I really liked. It's not exactly deep, but I wouldn't necessarily class it as trashy either. It's world has had some thought put into it and makes sense.
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The Brain

#44394
March 03, 2020, 04:59:17 PM
Isn't there a Swede in there?
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Josquius

#44395
March 04, 2020, 03:17:33 AM
I watched the end of Silicon Valley.
Bad end. 😔
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Savonarola

#44396
March 04, 2020, 02:22:19 PM
Germany Year Zerzo (1948)

Bleakest of Roberto Rossellini's "War Trilogy" (and, unsurprisingly, the only one that doesn't have Fredrico Fellini as a writer or assistant director).  This was mostly shot on a sound screen in Rome, with only exterior shots done in Berlin; though, more typical of neo-realism, it does use a mixture of professional and non-professional actors.  This deals with a young boy as he tries to navigate Berlin in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.  It's mostly a story of privation, starvation, the black market and police raids.  I don't think the story holds together very well; both the resolution and the final shocking scene felt forced.  It's worth seeing because it was an influence on "The 400 Blows," but otherwise it's one of the weaker neo-realist films.

In his movies Rossellini associates moral evil with sexual deviancy; in this case the unrepentant Nazi is also a pedophile.
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Admiral Yi

#44397
March 04, 2020, 02:29:12 PM
Caught a big dose of redcoat sausage in Outlander.  Thanks viper.

Valmy

#44398
March 04, 2020, 02:54:28 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 04, 2020, 02:29:12 PM
Caught a big dose of redcoat sausage in Outlander.  Thanks viper.

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#44399
March 04, 2020, 03:17:41 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 04, 2020, 02:29:12 PM
Caught a big dose of redcoat sausage in Outlander.  Thanks viper.
I don't think I went that far into the series  :lol:

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