I'd highly recommend the movie, "Spotlight". It's very telling of just how much power certain institutions hold.
Disgusting.
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I'd highly recommend the movie, "Spotlight". It's very telling of just how much power certain institutions hold.
Disgusting.
Sherlock Season 4 now on Netflix. :))
First they got Brad Pitt for a Netflix movie, now Will Smith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EZCBSsBxko
We have started watching Bloodlines. Pretty good two episodes.
Read that Netflix is piling up debt while creating new content. They did say subscribers were up 25% this year so it must be working.
Beware of Bloodline. Season 1 is terrific. Season 2 is passable. Season 3 (the final season), which is pretty new, is 10 hours of your life that could be better spent doing anything else. The last two episodes are just unwatchable and does not resolve anything related to a few of the main characters. The actual ending, well...
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I won't read the spoilers but that is disappointing that a series goes downhill.
3 episodes in with Ozark (Netflix original w Jason Bateman) and it is not bad. It is no Breaking Bad, which many reviewers were comparing it to but a nice stop-gap if you have one.
I watched 'What Happened to Monday' (trailer a page back, I think) and thought it was pretty good.
American Vandal is a pretty funny satire on the true-crime genre. Someone painted 27 dicks on the teachers cars and there is only one suspect. Is he the culprit or did someone frame him? You get the gist. Not something you want to watch in front of the kids. Only 2 episodes in but much better than I was expecting. Falls under the, "that is so stupid it is hilarious, because I get those references." The end of the second episode was brilliant. I think Funny or Die was behind it.
Netflix added an older (mid 2000) Canadian drama, "Intelligence" a few months ago. Lead Actress is the star of the show. Midway into the second season and I still can't tell if it is a mockumentary of Canadian crime mobs or at the American mobs and the love of violence to solve problems. I have enjoyed the show but why is the main bosses made to be such pussy? Even the rival boss, who deals in harder stuff than Marijuana is pretty sad. Not even a rival, they team up so many times I just laughed. Still a really good show and wished it went for more than two seasons. The "Intelligence" part is great, the rest...
Under Boss: We need to kill someone, to show power.
Boss: Negotiate.
Under Boss: They just took out three of our men.
Boss: Negotiate.
Under Boss: They are coming to kill you.
Boss: Negotiate.
Under Boos: They are outside the door with guns.
Boss: Ne-------go--------ti-------------ate.
Was able to watch Stranger Things 2 during Christmas travels.
No spoilers: I enjoyed it and was impressed how well it was seemingly a continuation of season one. It'll be interesting to see where they go with season three and also how they handle a cast of kids who are at a point where they can age relatively fast and differently from others.
I just finished watching season 2 and really liked it as well. The producers said they would build a year gap for the next season to account for the kids actually aging. They plan on 4-5 seasons.
Heard good things about Dark, Mind Hunter and Alias Grace. Will have to check them out too.
I watched the first episode and a half of Mind Hunter and want to get into it. The concept is great but I haven't been able to get back to it.
New Cloverfield movie debuts on Netflix immediately following Super Bowl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8brYvhEg5Aw
I knew Netflix had the rights to this film, but all speculation was that it would be released in March or April. This was a well-kept secret.
I just finished The Cloverfield Paradoz, but won't post anything about it for a few days to avoid spoilers since it just came out a few hours ago.
I will say that it was really nice to watch a film where my opinion going in wasn't influenced positively or negatively based on ad campaign overkill or misdirection, critics, user reviews, etc. (The only thing that created any pre-conceived notion was the Cloverfield name as I liked the original and 10 Cloverfield Lane.) I hope more studios put films straight to streaming services like this in the future.
Finally finished watching Dark. The show was good but not great. It’s been compared to stranger Things but it’s not really a good comparison. Both have sci-fi elements but that’s about it. This show is about a time rift and it is interesting. The world is dark and on the cruel side with how people treat each other. Most characters are a form of grey. Some are jerks.
I think my biggest beef with the show is that you never really care about any of the characters. They are interesting but the show is about the story and they take a backseat. In stranger things you love the kids. Not so here. Also, it is a larger cast and keeping track of who is who gets tricky unless you binge watch. It’s also a German original and so the voices are dubbed and they did a poor job of providing variety among the voices. Too many people sound too similar.
Overall it’s a solid show I would give an 8/10. No higher.
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Okay.... I wanted to like this movie as I actually loved the original Cloverfield. I've come to the conclusion that this movie isn't a sequel or a prequel.
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Did you watch Making of a Murderer or the one about the Nun that was killed whose title escapes me right now but was the better of the two docs?
Check out The Staircase. What was once a documentary about an American murder/accidental death that was documented by a French team and released in France. Got lucky after production when a bombshell is dropped and the documentary covers 2001 all the way to 2017. It is thirteen episodes and should have been about eight. It is severely one sideed, as with most documentaries but I think it chose the right side but like many of these True Crime Docs, do not go in expecting closure.
Bonus, the guy looks like and somewhat behave like John C. McGinley when he was the head doctor on Scrubs. Just eerie similar.
Seriously, almost 10 hours of staring at this mug.
https://i.imgur.com/hx6XLfZ.jpg
Another crime doc that was really good, Evil Genius. It is about the pizza delivery guy that was blown up by a bomb attached to his body after robbing a bank back in 2003 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Coming July 20th
http://youtu.be/S5GijgZTx5E
I see the trainwreck coming and I am the Train. So... Move. :D :up:
Anyone else check out season 3 of Last Chance U? I had no idea there was a current football coach that could be a bigger asshole and egomaniac than Buddy Stephens. They found him. Nothing special as it is pretty much the same show with replacement coaches, players and teachers and more F bombs than you shake a stick at. The QB was the one I felt bad for. Probably would have been a better coach than the actual coach. Just suffered from, "Dad is living his life through me syndrome" and it led to numerous breakdowns at FSU and on the show. There was also a update on many of the players from season one and two. Of course a majority of the hour was spent on Brittany Wagner (shocker) and Isaiah Wright facing murder charges.
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If you are looking for a horror/drama show for Halloween, check out The Haunting of Hill House. It's less Horror than I expected but 5 episodes in I can see it being scary enough for most. Again this is my least favorite genre for Horror but I kept hearing good things. The story and family dynamics are what sells it. Family living in a Ghost house that runs two timeliness throughout for the main characters. As children and then 30 somethings. Normally child actors tend to grate on my nerves, especially when you consider how much time is devoted to them growing up and it being a 10 hour season. So far their acting has been top notch on all fronts.
Also the second season of Ozark great. I noticed some really bad reviews for it but to me it surpassed season one.
I'm not a real fan of horror movies. Too spooky lol. Viewed the first Saw movie and that was enough.
Looks like a Black Mirror film releases on Netflix tomorrow (12/28):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0xWpBYlNM
Bird Box was really good. Some people were calling this a super scary movie. It’s not. It’s a suspense. What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford was scarier. It’s a suspense, apocalyptic type of movie. I would have liked more explanations of what really happened. But there were good actors and a solid story. You could probably poke holes in things if you want but my wife and I enjoyed it.
So Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is an interactive movie with multiple endings. My daughter played through it earlier today and I'm about to do so myself.
Let us know what you think of it, SF. I'm excited to play through it soon.
Rudy - I liked Bird Box as well. I've read some complaints on it, but I think most who don't like it have never watched a Netflix movie before. IMO, the ones I have watched all spent most of their money on the actors and not so much on the script. I think some expect them to look like a $300M epic, but these films don't even have a fraction of that budget.
Netflix spending $90M on Will Smith and Bright makes little sense to me. Spending $20M with a good Sandra Bullock film makes a lot more sense. It sent a Netflix record with 45M views in the first 7 days.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/30/...atistics-views
Yeah, if they spend like that on films it's no wonder there were reports Netflix was majorly in the red a while back. They probably need to tone back on spending for stars & directors and work more on getting better scripts. There's no way they are getting a $90M return on Bright.
I saw an article this weekend that said Sony offered to sell the new Holmes & Watson to Netflix after poor audience testing, but they declined. That's saying something considering it has some stars and a lot of the Netflix movies are B-level. Even they didn't want associated with that debacle.
I think Holmes and Watson was getting 5% on RT. And my local movie reviews had 8 of 13 with a 1/10 lol. Should have made a Step Brothers 2!
I did play through Black Mirror: Bandersnatch the other night. It was good but it felt a little hollow and shallow to me. I can't really explain it but it felt like an incomplete story with no real payoff at the end (I did go through multiple endings).
I do like the concept though and I hope that more interactive titles are put out. There is certainly potential with the idea.
I haven't watched Bird Box and I'm not feeling particularly motivated to do so. Maybe I should...
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I finally watched Bird Box a few days ago. I'm not sure what all the hype was about. It was meh. Not bad, just meh. The ending was very unsatisfying to me.Quote:
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What happened to Jesse Pinkman?
— Netflix (@netflix) August 24, 2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
October 11 pic.twitter.com/PuoWBgfDJ0
Between Two Ferns was hilarious. The best parts were the interviews between Zack and celebrities like Matt McCaughney, Paul Rudd and Keanu. I was dying at times. He's just a douschebag to them. I won't spoil anything other than this one line in an interview with Keanu, "On a scale from 1 to 100, how many words do you know?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjljgkCQv5c
Watched El Camino today.
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Haven't watched it but you are the 2nd person to say this. I will need to check it out one of these days.Quote:
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