ya i felt like a bit of a dummy not realizing before that revenant just means comer-backer
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
or like, comer-againer
The spookiest thing to me is that I'm understanding some words of French. If I don't post again inside 12 hours, someone call the authorities, okay?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
im sure you'll be back
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
lol yeah it's the 4400 vibes that have me not wanting to touch it. and i watched the whole run of that damn show
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
still a stan for the scando-fun of ANNIKE BENGTZON: CRIME REPORTER.
Yes! I will watch pretty much any Scandinavian crime stuff but this was really fun.
The Returned is genuinely great. Easily the best programme aired in the UK last year.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
not watching the Returned because it shares a plot element with the 4400 is like not watching Deadwood because you didn't like Wild Wild West.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
thanks, now imagining Deadwood with giant spider robots
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
might have been an improvement
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
I wanted to watch the Returned but now ILX tells me it has a cryptic ending because there was supposed to be another season. Is this going to be endlessly frustrating?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to return to the returned.
so few shows have satisfying closers, I try not to use that as a factor in watching
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
This is a "village" where everyone knows each other but there are multi-story apartment buildings and a bus system? France, man.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Series 2 airs this year, iirc. It's not like it was cancelled before they had a chance to resolve things.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
i think they pushed back filming ssn 2 to 2015. the French and their vacations.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
i started watching Lonesome Dove last night.I love Tommy Lee Jones, fyi.
― ian, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
lonesome dove is incredible. kind of a pioneer (lol?) in kinda grim and violent tv as well
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
oh man I love lonesome dove
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
I thought the implication was that it was cancelled before it's time. Good to know it'll have a second season, which will no doubt end with satisfying closure.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Whatever, this show is THE CREEPSIEST.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
i do like it, im saying i thought it was unsatisfying because i assumed it was the end of the series—didnt realize there was more to come
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
maybe. there were two episodes more than their should have been. i'm worried about the sustainability of the creepy; feel like the mystery's getting explained away and stretched too thing.
― r. bean (soda), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
I would actually be completely satisified if the eight current episodes were the series total, but I'll watch more if they make it, that's for damn sure.
I like the Returned so much it actually kind of made me want to watch the 4400! But I shouldn't, right?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 08:15 (ten years ago) link
The first season or two of the 4400 isn't bad for basic cable sci-fi, then it went off the rails.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 08:17 (ten years ago) link
Things on my list expiring 4/1:
NellAmerican GigoloThe DeadMommie DearestEverything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007Farewell to the KingThe Van
I haven't seen any of these.
― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
So The Returned is the French TV show version of the movie They Came Back?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
Yes, they carry the same title in France. The TV show is meant to be much better (i haven't seen the film).
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
I watched the first episode last night. Thought it was pretty great.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
The Punk Singer (Kathleen Hanna doc) is up
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
Oh nice.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
All the adult women on The Returned have really small breasts and never wear bras. It's weirdly specific.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 28 March 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
sold!j/k
― Nhex, Friday, 28 March 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
haha
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 28 March 2014 02:33 (ten years ago) link
I've been watching a lot of Oddities lately. US shows that last twenty minutes when the adverts are taken out are dangerously easy to keep watching back to back. It's a Science Channel programme about Obscura, a weird antiques shop in NYC.
Highlights so far include a guy from New Jersey who'd accidentally ended up buying an Nganga as part of a storage lot auction.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 28 March 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
most/all of the situations on that show are setup/scripted but you still see some neat stuff; i deploy the fast-forward button liberally
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 28 March 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
the steve jobs movie with ashton kutcher in it is on this apparently
― markers, Friday, 28 March 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
so there's your friday night plans
A high school friend was on Oddities (steampunk goggles). He came off like a dick (not inaccurate iirc) and I loled at his Jimmy Cagney accent - dude lived in suburban Texas for his first 19 years.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 28 March 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Chaki was on the San Francisco spin-off.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 28 March 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
^season 2 (not yet on netflix)
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 28 March 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
aah. Couldn't remember which season. I find the SF one a chore, so I haven't paid particular attention.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 28 March 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, March 28, 2014 6:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ i wonder if i know this guy -- does he work in a cigar store now?
― ian, Friday, 28 March 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
It's obviously occasional ILMer speculator. Steampunk a dead giveaway ;)
― andrew m., Friday, 28 March 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 28 March 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
He's that breed of American soccer fan who cosplays British soccer nut, down to an Arsenal tattoo on his neck.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 28 March 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
Does Thomas die horribly? Can it please be soon?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
"All the adult women on The Returned have really small breasts and never wear bras. It's weirdly specific."
they are french
― akm, Sunday, 30 March 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Just finished watching The Returned. Thought it was really, truly great for the first six episodes but I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by the direction of the last couple. I definitely want to know where they go from here, though. I also wish Mogwai had written a few more music cues - I really liked their score, but it got a bit repetitive by the end.
Also, I can think of at least four or five scenes where bras are in evidence!
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 31 March 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
This is great.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Sunday, 6 April 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
'masters of sex' is like this too, you see some eventually but for a while you're like, what up 50s, underwear shortage from the war or what
― j., Sunday, 6 April 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link