i loved it tbh.if “the British Baking Show, but hip-hop” sounds good to you then yeah, it’s fantastic. no “I didn’t come here to make friends” fake drama, some genuinely exhilarating moments, great hosts, and great guests.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 14 December 2019 06:22 (four years ago) link
The episode of The Movies That Made Us I saw kind of sucked.
Same format as The Toys That Made Us, which is also corny as hell (and also has a recent third series).
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 December 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
I’ve watched a lot of those over family gatherings. I admit to be interested in the content but damn are they obnoxiously put together. Least favorite quirk is replaying a snippet from an interview like 13 times an episode.Key Grip: “We had no idea what we were doing!”*re-run that clip twice every time in the story the production seemed dicey*
― circa1916, Saturday, 14 December 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
i don’t imagine I’ll ever watch any ____ That Made Us. Just seems like “those terrible VH1 talking head shows, but with better production values”...
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 15 December 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
but with better production values
That's generous.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 December 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Toys That Made Us is really quite good!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
I only watched the GI Joe one but it wasn't bad. Definitely felt like it was made for cable with all the repeating clips (to catch people up between commercial breaks)
― Nhex, Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
i thought the he-man one was really revealing! same for barbie and TMNT. I appreciate how annoying the editing can be but the intelligence behind it is real.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
The toys series makes more sense. Haven’t really heard those stories before. The movies series seemed somewhat redundant. Like surely there are DVD extras that tell the same story? Didn’t feel like there was a lot I didn’t already know.
― circa1916, Monday, 16 December 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
yeah, i'm not bothering with it; none of those are movies i need to know anything more about.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
6 Underground is better than I would have expected.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
Very Tony Scott circa Domino
I watched 6 Underground and have no clue what it was about. The best thing about it is that a Franco character gets violently killed at the start. I also think I may not like Ryan Reynolds.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
but his teeth are so white
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
someone needs to count the shots in that thing
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
i made it through 20 min before turning it off. that chase was a coke-fuelled nightmare to watchidk how michael bay manages to make me hate car chases, explosions & ryan reynolds (all things i normally love unconditionally) but he succeeded
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
finished "Black Spot" yesterday.bloody loved it.definitely something to watch during the dark autumnal season.
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
Veg, if you like Tony Martin & Ed Kavalee chatting, there’s an absolutely gold Michael Bay anecdote on last week’s Little Dum Dum Club
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
ooooh thx sic!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
Tried to cure a small bout of insomnia last night with "Don't Fuck With Cats"... man, that is some fucked up shit. Do not recommend.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
Why? What's it like?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
It's a 3ep true crime series about internet obsessed types trying to track down a guy who posts videos of him killing cats(++) online.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah I watched the preview thinking it was something lighter and yeah, no thanks.
― circa1916, Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
i saw the splash and assumed that was what it was about and so didn't watch it. i would watch a video of that man being killed tho
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
ugh, nope, not what I was hoping for
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I watched the preview and then had to look up who it was about. I don't know how I missed the news about that guy.
― Yerac, Friday, 20 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Couple of "Witcher" reviews I've read have been "Cats"-level negative.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
There is a Top Boy thread on its own but Top Boy (everyone compares to The Wire) is really good. I didn't know it was a netflix reboot from a Channel 4 show so I ended up starting with season 3 and then 1, 2. Just finished it.
― Yerac, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
xp
weirdly pleased about this because i'm sick of the eternal internet gamer circle jerk to The Witcher
― circa1916, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
I think it's a dumb game so am likewise heartened.
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Friday, 20 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
it is sorta weird to be pleased that a tv adaptation of a video game is bad bc you didn't like the [critically acclaimed] game it was based on, but i liked witcher 3 so what do i need
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
know
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Watched the first episode and not sure why it would get Cats level reviews. Bit of a Vikings/Last Kingdom vibe but with added monsters & magic - big, gory hand to hand battles and court politics & intrigue (and a few cheesy/bad monologues)Maybe it goes tits up in subsequent episodes
― groovypanda, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
a tv adaptation of a video game is bad bc you didn't like the [critically acclaimed] game it was based on
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
I've actually since seen a few more balanced reviews. One big complaint is how, at least at the start, it goes full GoT in the boobs and blood department.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
i am aware but the ppl i was responding to were talking about the game
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
2020: in which people on the internet complain about a streaming episodic series based on a game based on a book being too derivative
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Another game adaptation which shows how terrible game writing is.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
My calculus isn't hard:
1. Ressentiment over game loved by other people.2. Henry Cavill is IIRC kind of a garbage human (not that I followed every twist and turn of his utterances so I may be missing context).
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Friday, 20 December 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
does this have more or fewer boobs than his previous pulp tv show, The Tudors?presumably more blood, although they got up to beheadings on that one
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
wait is the witcher series specifically based on the game's interpretation of the books and not just the books?
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
I think just the books, but absolutely influenced by games because it’s the pre-existing visual narrative adaptation
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Two episodes in and no boobs in sight but more beheadings than you could shake a stick at xps
― groovypanda, Saturday, 21 December 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Wait, I could have sworn one review I read said the boobs were front loaded in the first episode, and that there were seven (!) naked ladies! Yeah, the catty EW review (F) is where I read that:
Anyhow, the pilot also features two rough-and-tumble princesses (Freya Allan, Emma Appleton), a wizard (Lars Mikkelsen), and totally gratuitous full-frontal female nudity. There are seven naked women in the first episode alone, Darren. Seven! I… think I’ve seen enough?
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2019/12/20/netflix-the-witcher-review
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 December 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Im not sure how groovypanda missed it but yes, that scene was very "we can be hbo too!" To its credit it was more backgrounded than in similar scenes on GoT, but still completely gratuitous
I'm two eps in and liking it ok, but it seems they're trying to get through a lot of plot in a short amount of time. I would want it to move slower, thus far
― Vinnie, Saturday, 21 December 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Actually yeah I remember now. That was early on in the first episode and I was half watching as finishing off some work stuff. There's also a very bad sex scene in the first episode but both actors are fully clothed.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 21 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
so it IS based on the game then
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 21 December 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Finished Don't Fuck With Cats last night despite it being utterly worthless
Hated it not because I was squeamish or "triggered" but as a piece of journalism or as a documentary with ostensible artistic merit, either way a failure
All the nuance, sensitivity, and sense of context of a CBS News special but since it's on Netflix, it's getting way more attention than it deserves
I don't do a lot of true crime but is a lot of it as glib as this was? Jesus fuck
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 22 December 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
TIL there is a remake of Jacob's Lader
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 22 December 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
so apparently if you have a modern TV and install Netflix as an app, it stops 17 seconds into the credits of a movie and shows literally ten minutes of ads for Netflix-made TV shows, and doesn't go back to the credits afterwards? is there some kind of hidden setting you can change to make it finish the film?
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link