TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Anyone watch yellowjackets? Interesting cross between Lord of the Flies...and Mean Girls.

A girls' soccer team crashes and they are stranded in the Canadian wilderness 

The narrative flips between the girls then, and the surviving women now, 25 years later. Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis are among the adult women.

Has its moments, thought I was expecting a limited series and was surprised to see a sort of cliffhanger ending.

[Syt]

Looking at what's coming on Netflix. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Oooh, original, remake, or ... sees Netflix logo - another remake? TV show?

"In this sequel, influencers ...." - ok, read enough, I want them all to die. Is it wrong I'd be rooting for Leatherface on this one?

[Gaijin de Moscu]

Anyone watch yellowjackets? Interesting cross between Lord of the Flies...and Mean Girls.

A girls' soccer team crashes and they are stranded in the Canadian wilderness 

The narrative flips between the girls then, and the surviving women now, 25 years later. Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis are among the adult women.

Has its moments, thought I was expecting a limited series and was surprised to see a sort of cliffhanger ending.

Thanks for the reco, sounds like something I may want to watch.

[Malthus]

Anyone watch yellowjackets? Interesting cross between Lord of the Flies...and Mean Girls.

A girls' soccer team crashes and they are stranded in the Canadian wilderness 

The narrative flips between the girls then, and the surviving women now, 25 years later. Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis are among the adult women.

Has its moments, thought I was expecting a limited series and was surprised to see a sort of cliffhanger ending.

Heh I heard they were supposedly lost for months in the wilds of Ontario. Seems hard to imagine, even in the most remote northern places there are thinly scattered loggers, trappers, fire rangers etc. Build a smoky fire, eventually someone will come and investigate. Have to suspend disbelief hard.

[Oexmelin]

Even alongside the Northern Manitoba border? I don't find that especially hard to imagine. Compared to that place, even Témiscamingue is a bustling metropolis...

[Darth Wagtaros]

Wasn't Mean Girls basically a chick flick adaptation of Lord of the Flies to begin with?

[Malthus]

Even alongside the Northern Manitoba border? I don't find that especially hard to imagine. Compared to that place, even Témiscamingue is a bustling metropolis...

Well, there are certainly places that are very remote. However, the terrain isn't the sort that really lends itself to being lost for months in - it lacks the high mountains and deep valleys in which to be invisibly lost. The terrain is often very difficult to walk across it is true, anyone who has tried to get anywhere in the Canadian Shield or Hudson Bay Lowlands can testify to that, but you can see fires from a long way away (there used to be a whole network of wilderness fire towers for that reason across Ontario, now mostly abandoned and torn down in favour of arial surveillance). If a plane went down, and there were survivors capable of lighting a fire, it is pretty likely they would be spotted reasonably quickly.

Apparently, Yellowjackets features giant snow-capped mountain ranges in which the girls are lost. While this is more realistic in a sense (it is easier to be lost and not found in mountainous terrain), it isn't in another - Northern Ontario lacks mountains.

[Josephus]

Anyone watch yellowjackets? Interesting cross between Lord of the Flies...and Mean Girls.

A girls' soccer team crashes and they are stranded in the Canadian wilderness 

The narrative flips between the girls then, and the surviving women now, 25 years later. Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis are among the adult women.

Has its moments, thought I was expecting a limited series and was surprised to see a sort of cliffhanger ending.

Heh I heard they were supposedly lost for months in the wilds of Ontario. Seems hard to imagine, even in the most remote northern places there are thinly scattered loggers, trappers, fire rangers etc. Build a smoky fire, eventually someone will come and investigate. Have to suspend disbelief hard.

For some reason I thought it was in Alberta...but either way, I agree. They should have made it crash in South America instead.

[11B4V]

Archive81, not bad.

[crazy canuck]

Anyone watch yellowjackets? Interesting cross between Lord of the Flies...and Mean Girls.

A girls' soccer team crashes and they are stranded in the Canadian wilderness 

The narrative flips between the girls then, and the surviving women now, 25 years later. Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis are among the adult women.

Has its moments, thought I was expecting a limited series and was surprised to see a sort of cliffhanger ending.

Heh I heard they were supposedly lost for months in the wilds of Ontario. Seems hard to imagine, even in the most remote northern places there are thinly scattered loggers, trappers, fire rangers etc. Build a smoky fire, eventually someone will come and investigate. Have to suspend disbelief hard.

For some reason I thought it was in Alberta...but either way, I agree. They should have made it crash in South America instead.

It is going to be pretty hard for anyone to crash anywhere on land, and not be located fairly quickly.

[Tamas]

Not sure if serious:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/25/fight-club-gets-a-new-ending-in-china-and-the-authorities-win

[The Brain]

Not sure if serious:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/25/fight-club-gets-a-new-ending-in-china-and-the-authorities-win

Poochie nooo!

[celedhring]

Not sure if serious:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/25/fight-club-gets-a-new-ending-in-china-and-the-authorities-win

I have mentioned it some time ago, but I worked in a TV show and we had to change the ending for the Chinese version, pretty much in the same way. Cut to black and a caption saying "The authorities finally figured it out and arrested the protagonist"

[Valmy]

I like how the imaginary character got psychological treatment.

[The Larch]

I like how the imaginary character got psychological treatment.

And was eventually discharged!