for sure.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
i love force majeure so much. i think i watched it three times.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 November 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
My Own Swordsman is great by the way. so entertaining and cool. if you are looking for a really funny Chinese movie to watch.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 November 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
Gonna throw my hat in on American Vandal too after finishing it up tonight. Really smart and well done. Funny too of course, but that didn’t seem like the driving force. Not at all what you’d expect from a mockumentary about a dopey teen accused of spray painting dicks on cars.
― circa1916, Monday, 13 November 2017 05:22 (six years ago) link
i finished it today too because of the talk here and i kinda feel like i didn't need to watch the whole thing. i have a lot of movies to watch. but it's okay.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 November 2017 05:40 (six years ago) link
it should have been shorter. but it was glorious.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 November 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
it was never really about who did the dicks
― mh, Monday, 13 November 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
it was about ethics in dicks journalism
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 November 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
no movie I've ever watched with my folks has ever made them angrier than Force Majeure
― Simon H., Monday, 13 November 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
score one for force majeure!
― scott seward, Monday, 13 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
you should have seen how disgusted my mother-in-law got when i was drunk one christmas and decided that dario argento's inferno was going to be our annual holiday movie to watch together as a family.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 November 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
watched grizzly man with my parents one christmas night - they were kind of into it tho annoyed/bemused by poor timmy.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 13 November 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
this sounds like my shit but 3 seasons my god
Dark Matter starts off slowly, but the plotting gets lean and fast within a few episodes and is humming from there on out.
― Entree 3000 (Leee), Monday, 13 November 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
It's also been cancelled so there won't be a 4th season which means it basically ends mid-story.
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 November 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
finally started Halt and Catch Fire and am about 3/4ths of the way through the first season
all of these people are relatively insane, I have to remind myself it's just a show so I don't get anxious!
― mh, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
anybody mentioned the Judah Friedlander special? 12 minutes in and I'm all about this guy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
I've been bingeing H&CF all week and loving it, just made it to the start of season 3. Everyone's right, it does massively improve in the 2nd season, although the last few of the first season are pretty good too.
Anyway I love all the cast (even Lee Pace!). I've binged a lot of very watchable shows, but nothing for a while that's invested me so much in the characters.
Also I wasn't aware of Toby Huss's previous work, so his sudden outing as the comic relief in season 2 was a nice surprise.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
I dunno if he still does it but he used to a live cabaret-style show in LA as a Sinatra-inspired character called Rudi Casonihttps://laughingsquid.com/actor-toby-huss-croons-california-uber-alles-as-rudi-casoni-frank-sinatras-bastard-son/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
only other thing I've seen him in is a bit part in the movie The Invitation. He's amazing throughout this show in any case.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
oh hey i remember huss from his mtv commercials in the '90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3veAHvjRpFk
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
"we live in an oligarchy. but with the humidity it feels like a dictatorship"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 November 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
To me he'll always be...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1AAEtH4Rzo
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 16 November 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
The Coltrane documentary is on Netflix now. Dubious about it, but will have to give it a watch.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 November 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
With Halt and Catch Fire, what is the best strategy: Make it through the first season but let my wife know that apparently it gets better, risking that she might not want to see the second season if she doesn't like the first? Or skip right to the second?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 November 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
tbh it’s a ten episode season, I’d recommend she just pay half attention and you can fill her in on any gaps
― mh, Thursday, 16 November 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
Watch the first few episodes of season 1 by yourself. When you reach a scene where Lee Pace gets his shirt ripped off - congratulations, you have reached the worst scene! From thereon it gets better and better. At the very least I'd get her to join from episode 7 or 8. The second season will still make sense, but a lot of the fun comes from seeing how the dynamic between the characters has changed since S1.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 November 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
This is the kind of quality entertainment assistance you only get on ILE (no sarcasm).
― trishyb, Thursday, 16 November 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
it can be daunting. no, really, you have to watch the first 11 episodes of Bojack and then it gets REALLY good. but with H&CF it is totally true. though i didn't hate the first season or anything. american psycho is kinda the hardest to take in season 1. but he definitely just gets more weird and interesting as times passes.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
true! I kept thinking, this guy is a sociopath, get him out of the room
― mh, Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
ha, we tried the first episode last night and thought it was totally fine! will keep an eye out for shirt-ripping nadir.
as someone who lived through the era (my dad was a Kaypro dealer for a while) I appreciated the well-done references, Byte magazine, Compaq, CP/M, etc.
― sleeve, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
Oh shit, Byte magazine! I remember that!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
^yes H&CF shows a level of research in the details that is quietly impressive. They also do a great job of coming up with business models that are realistic for the era but aren't straight copies of actual historic companies (afaik). That said, I have never totally loved it (watched through season 3; will def watch 4)--imo it remains somewhat flawed but increasingly worthwhile, and I especially like that each character gets a little turn at being the most interesting out of the bunch. Lee Pace, for ex, is much better when he's not the ostensible lead.
― rob, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
the convention stuff is some of my favorite stuff in the show. Windows dis is so funny.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
I've had an old paperback of Soul of a New Machine on my shelf for 15 years, think I'll finally read it once I'm through with season 4.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
Season 1 of H&CF isn't as bad as people say it is, and you're probably not gonna enjoy it anymore if you treat it like homework. It's just a show that takes a few episodes to find its voice, but that first season tells a very, very satisfying standalone story, one probably worth watching even if the show never got renewed for several more much better seasons.
― Evan R, Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
The point of H&CF is the journey of the characters becoming better/sane people, it's not as satisfying if you don't see where they start from.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
that’s a good point
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
I've heard from so many people (as well as the ones in this thread) that H&CF gets really good, but jesus christ I just could not get along with the (first half of) the first season at all
Lee Pace, in particular, made my skin crawl
― Number None, Friday, 17 November 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
it's not THAT good
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 17 November 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
anyone watch 1922? another king adaptation. it was p schlocky but i enjoyed it. good performance by the main actor. i think there's good scope for netflix to make more interesting short story type movies, almost like freedom from massive budget and the associated pressure and compromise.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 November 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
it’s not one of the greatest series, but I love trash and middlebrow stuff (although H&CF never aims at the middle, quite) and I support all viewers to move on to that series’ thread because it’s short, relatively spoiler free, and now a viewing club
― mh, Friday, 17 November 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
i'd never seen nirvanna the band the show until the shout out in this thread. funniest show i've seen in a good while
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:01 (six years ago) link
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, November 17, 2017 8:38 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I liked this but it was on the meh side. I agree that Netflix is particularly good for these kind of small-scale adaptations.
Gerald's Game, the other King adaptation though! My god, that was an intense watch. It does kinda fall apart a bit in the last five minutes or so, but I mostly blame the book for that. Carla Gugino is awesome in it too.
― Roz, Friday, 17 November 2017 07:41 (six years ago) link
Godless is really good. Jeff Daniels is a proper villain. Plus, Scoot McNairy for you Halt & Catch Fire fans. It's 7+ hours long and incredibly bingeable.
― scott seward, Monday, 27 November 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
i am getting good at spotting Brits now in American period t.v. I could tell that Alice, Roy, and Whitey were Brits even though i didn't know who they were.
― scott seward, Monday, 27 November 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
also, i love Denise from the Walking Dead in this and i hated her on the Walking Dead. it's nice to know that she is just a really good actor who made me hate her on the Walking Dead. she should definitely get bigger/better roles just for her part in this.
― scott seward, Monday, 27 November 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
Friday theyre putting out a doc on that nyer gay talese voyeur motel thing
― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 November 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7588790/?ref_=nv_sr_5
I watched a trailer for the new Black Mirror thing, and was amused to see a comment under it saying "This is the dumbest show on earth." I thought, this person must not have seen Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme.
― trishyb, Monday, 27 November 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
Is anyone watching USA's Damnation? I'm intrigued by the premise.
― Simon H., Monday, 27 November 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link