TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Willow. Just as good as I remembered. 

[Josephus]

Lost Daughter

I do not understand the critical acclaim, though it did interest me in the book.

Have you read any of Elana Ferrante's other stuff? I really enjoyed the My Brilliant Friend series.

[Josephus]

So just after Christmas, and a week before theatres were shut down again in Ontario, I watched my first movie in a while Guillermo Del Toro's Nightmare Alley. Set just after WW2 in America, it's about the travelling carnival world and mentalism and grifters etc. I saw, later, that it was originally made in 1947, so I tracked that movie down and watched it. It's interesting how over 70 years the same story can be told but in such a different way. It was good to compare.

[garbon]

Lost Daughter

I do not understand the critical acclaim, though it did interest me in the book.

Have you read any of Elana Ferrante's other stuff? I really enjoyed the My Brilliant Friend series.

No, I'm aware of her but have never read any of her works. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Josephus]

Lost Daughter

I do not understand the critical acclaim, though it did interest me in the book.

Have you read any of Elana Ferrante's other stuff? I really enjoyed the My Brilliant Friend series.

No, I'm aware of her but have never read any of her works. Thanks for the suggestion.

If you have access to HBO, two of the four books in the series have been made into a TV series, My Brilliant Friend. It's very good. Set in small suburb of Naples, post war, two girls, best friends, growing up.

[Syt]

Watching season 12 of Archer which finally made it to Netflix, 7 out of 8 episodes in. It's ... fine. It's not reaching previous heights but I don't think it's the worst. And actually, I thought Episode 6 (Dingo, Baby, et Cetera) was very, very good and showed that the writers can still crank out a good story. It blended present day and flashback extremely well, mixed humor with a poignant story and character development, and it had Bruce Campbell.



I see there's a season 13 listed on IMDB, but not sure how it would work without Jessica Walter.

[Zoupa]

Series finale of the Expanse.

The episode itself is ok. The series as a whole though is one of the best shows I've ever seen, and certainly the best sci-fi show ever made.

[Syt]

Last episode of Archer Season 12. It was a fine episode. The send off for Jessica Walter (and her husband, actually) was very sweet.

[Savonarola]

I watched the new Dune movie at an iMAX; and that was well done.  I then re-watched the 1984 David Lynch version of the film.  There are some brilliant scenes in it; but even with the extensive voice over narration (and having read the book) the story is still an incoherent mess.  The voice over and incoherent plot reminded me of "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."  I think Russ Meyer might have been able to get that film to work (admittedly the Bene Gesserit would have had a very different role in Russ Meyer's Dune).

[Josquius]

I finished cowboy bebop.
And... Yeah it's good. GF who didn't see the original liked it.
Amazing they cancelled it within a week of release though. Who knows. Maybe something will come of the renewal. Doubtful however.
Sucks also to see the amount of hate Faye got. Seems typical for female characters these days. I thought she was pretty good, welcome to the ouch excepted.

[crazy canuck]

Series finale of the Expanse.

The episode itself is ok. The series as a whole though is one of the best shows I've ever seen, and certainly the best sci-fi show ever made.

Really very unsatisfactory and rushed.  But I guess they had to do it that way once Amazon pulled the plug on another season.  Too bad, the rest of it was superior sci fi.

[Josephus]

Watching a Brit show, I think set in Wales, called The Pact. A group of women who may have accidently killed their boss. Two eps. in. Pretty good.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Watching a Brit show, I think set in Wales, called The Pact. A group of women who may have accidently killed their boss. Two eps. in. Pretty good.

Sounds like 9-5.

[Gaijin de Moscu]

Watching a Brit show, I think set in Wales, called The Pact. A group of women who may have accidently killed their boss. Two eps. in. Pretty good.

Oh, sounds fun. Will look it up.

Just watched another British show — Stay Close. Enjoyed it quite a bit.

Before that, watched Le Chalet (a French crime series a-la "And Then there were None"). What's that with so many French shows being set in remote forests, mountains and so on? Le Chalet, La Forêt, Zone Blanche...

[Gaijin de Moscu]

I finished cowboy bebop.
And... Yeah it's good. GF who didn't see the original liked it.
Amazing they cancelled it within a week of release though. Who knows. Maybe something will come of the renewal. Doubtful however.
Sucks also to see the amount of hate Faye got. Seems typical for female characters these days. I thought she was pretty good, welcome to the ouch excepted.

Oh, was it good? It keeps popping up in my Netflix recommendations (as I like Korean shows), but the name has been putting me off watching it.

Will add to my watch list