TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

It's strange. They've turned the film into a period piece clearly made after it was originally made.

Part of me wonders whether the shittiness of this is intentional to work as a "wink wink. There's something we can't show you here. Get yourself to a dodgy stream to watch the ending"

[celedhring]

What I always find interesting is how the "authorities are always right" Chinese obsession trumps the "the West is chaos" obsession.

[Josquius]

What I always find interesting is how the "authorities are always right" Chinese obsession trumps the "the West is chaos" obsession.

The west is a horrible corrupt mess* but the authorities are still the authorities and not to be questioned

*completely and totally unlike China. Heh. Obviously. Heh....

[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.

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

Probably. It is fiction though.[spoiler]And they made a point of showing one of the girls destroy the black box, transponder, GPs, whatever else there is. Also there is this mystical understory that perhaps the location doesn't want them to leave. [/spoiler]

[Sheilbh]

I've really enjoyed Yellowjackets. So many of my favourite things in one show - high school drama, little bit of horror-ish stuff and Christina Ricci.

This is probably just my Britishness showing - but I do think they should have just told the story in one series and am a little annoyed it's not that model

[Duque de Bragança]

Titanic. Rich white woman unironically compares first class on the Titanic to being transported on a slave ship. As a final insult she [spoiler]tosses a multi-million dollar diamond into the sea instead of letting Christie's sell it and give the money to Save the Children[/spoiler]. They don't make movies like this anymore.

The 1942 version is the best one anyways; 

[mongers]

Archive81, not bad.

I started watching this, maybe I should give it another go.

[viper37]

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.

Well, Whistler just moved a few km east, that is all.

[Josephus]

This is probably just my Britishness showing - but I do think they should have just told the story in one series and am a little annoyed it's not that model

Yeah, if you looked at my original post on this, I said the same thing. I was hoping it would end, and didn't expect a cliffhanger to a new season.

[Jacob]

What I always find interesting is how the "authorities are always right" Chinese obsession trumps the "the West is chaos" obsession.

Basically because "American authorities" can very easily be taken as a metaphor for "Chinese authorities".

[The Brain]

The Sex Lives of College Girls, S1. I really enjoyed it. There's the odd silly thing but overall good dialogue and some genuinely funny jokes, and decent drama.

[Syt]

The Sex Lives of College Girls, S1. I really enjoyed it. There's the odd silly thing but overall good dialogue and some genuinely funny jokes, and decent drama.

I didn't know that was an HBO show and thought you were starting to leave reviews of porn movies here now. 

[The Brain]

The Sex Lives of College Girls, S1. I really enjoyed it. There's the odd silly thing but overall good dialogue and some genuinely funny jokes, and decent drama.

I didn't know that was an HBO show and thought you were starting to leave reviews of porn movies here now. 

I would never do that. Unless...?

[Sheilbh]

New BBC drama The Responder starring Martin Freeman is really good - and he is terrific (also he really nails the scouse accent).

I read a piece in the Guardian over the weekend that mentioned this is a first script by an ex-cop and that is extraordinary.

Trailer here:
https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1462782928266665998?s=20

[Eddie Teach]

The Sex Lives of College Girls, S1. I really enjoyed it. There's the odd silly thing but overall good dialogue and some genuinely funny jokes, and decent drama.

I didn't know that was an HBO show and thought you were starting to leave reviews of porn movies here now. 

Potato, potato.