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I'm 2 eps in, I like it, but each episode is far too long.

Watched the first episode of Danny Boyle’s Pistol, his Sex Pistols series on Disney based on Steve Jones’s book. There’s a lot of inaccuracies that will infuriate a punk purist or even just someone with a passing acquaintance of the main elements of the Sex Pistols story. And both the McLaren and Westwood portrayals are appalling bad….But the Boyle montage style is quite effective and it is watchable - so will keep going.

Keep seeing bus shelter ads for that.

i feel like it will scratch a similar itch to The Offer, the kinda crappy Godfather series

ie i will watch it

I watched about 10 minutes of that and couldn't get any farther. I thought the straight-into-the-camera sermonizing of the We Own This City finale was the worst thing I'd watch all day but Pistol was stunningly bad.

Feel like Sid and Nancy already scratched that itch long ago.

Around the time I used to run into Susan Spungen at parties, but we weren’t supposed to mention her sister.

Pistols show reminds me to find out when the Rip It Up And Start Again doc is coming out

"Hacks" S2 has some funny moments, but the premise/narrative feels kind of forced to me this time around - as if it were a ltd. series that they're straining to find ways "keep going" in a second season. That said, things come together somewhat in Ep. 6 (the most recent one).

Pistols show reminds me to find out when the Rip It Up And Start Again doc is coming out

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, May 31, 2022

That is something I'm looking forward to

First episode of "The Bear" on FX/Hulu, about an over-qualified Chicago chef returning to run his brother's sandwich shop, was pretty good.

Killing It on Peacock is a lot of fun with some heart.

I had no idea Love, Nick existed. Cute, but from its sitcom beats to its characters' perfect hair it's everything Heartstopper.

First episode of "The Bear" on FX/Hulu, about an over-qualified Chicago chef returning to run his brother's sandwich shop, was pretty good.

I'm three episodes deep and yeah, it stays good. Lots of surprising cameos.

Also watching The Old Man on FX/Hulu — a seven episode series starring Jeff Bridges as the title character, a long-retired spy with Secrets (and two dogs who eat people he doesn't like) and John Lithgow as his former friend turned nemesis. Based on a very good book by Thomas Perry.

Three episodes in now, too, and "The Bear" is as good as anything else I'm watching these days. Acting, writing, casting, direction - all excellent.

Yeah, it's really, really good, and sticks the landing.

Just watched Last Night In Soho on HBO Max. It's much better than I expected; I didn't think it would be much deeper than the costumes and the camera angles, but it turns out to be a really good horror movie, almost Argento-esque.

Soho is a practical, technical marvel, and after hearing a bunch of mixed stuff I was surprised at how solid I found it as well. Kind of like a feminist response to giallo, while simultaneously working as homage to same.

Yup, it's a keeper. Surprised it didn't get as much traction as it should have.

I feel like it was one of those movies that got rolled out with a whole "Experience The Magic Of The Theater Again!!!" campaign and people were (quite sensibly) like "Yo, fuck that."

IIRC, it came out around the same time as Spiderman, and audiences made their choice loud and clear.

Not Spiderman, but one of those other tentpoles blew it away.

A combo of Dune, Halloween Kills, and No Time To Die apparently.

last night in soho sucked ass. laughable final thirty minutes

the mirror trickery in the beginning looked cool but the smoky ghost men who could only say “bitch” looked like garbage

beyond which i’m pretty sure the twist made the movie feel pointless to me

unwatchable lead too (i heard she’s good in leave no trace)

Yeah the "twist" was awful. The ghost men looked like a bad Goosebumps made-for-TV movie. Last 30-45 min truly killed the movie.
Some of the shots were really great, as you'd expect from Wright, but I found it such a disappointment.

also there’s absolutely no argento in it, not if you give a shit about style. it’s like wright made it after someone vaguely described what giallo is to him. i don’t think it’s very feminist either!

for a good modern-day giallo that gets playful with the genre conventions pls proceed to knife + heart

Horror academics have reclaimed giallos for feminism to such an extent now anyway that I doubt a response is necessary.

I couldn't make it through Last Night in Soho, had to turn it off halfway through. the impressive visuals couldn't make up for how uncomfortable it was to watch, maybe I wasn't in the right mind for it. I did read a plot summary of the last half and I don't feel I missed out

Weird, I liked the ghost men. Reminded me of what Peter Jackson did in "The Frighteners," which I assume was some (now) quaint hybrid of practical makeup/FX and early CG. And the garish colors alone is what ties it to giallo/Argento, though of course there is a lot more. Anyway, the strong/negative reactions here just add to the head scratching for me, as this was one of the rare films the entire family really enjoyed. I mean, I didn't think it was scary or suspenseful, but then, I don't think anything by the usual Italian suspects is scary or suspenseful, either, and I don't even want to get started on the plots/twists of those things.

fwiw I've seen a few features on Wright where he is forthcoming on the film's influences. This one, curiously, doesn't include Argento, but it does mention Bava:

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/last-night-in-soho-edgar-wright-films-inspiration/small-world-of-sammy-lee/

btw, speaking of Hulu, I've noticed an interesting trend. Whenever a particularly intriguing "foreign"/genre film shows up, I almost compulsively torrent it the second it gets out there. More often than not they just hang out on my hard drive, unwatched in an infinite queue I never get to, but increasingly they eventually seem to land on Hulu. For example, Censor, Titane, Benedetta, Sputnik, In the Earth, Pleasure, Possessor, Hunter Hunter, Bad Luck Banging, The Beta Test, Saint Maud, Worst Person in the World ... I don't know who or what decides which movies end up where, but Hulu seems to be sucking in some good stuff, plus top-notch originals.

Yeah, agree. I keep forgetting that Benedetta's on there, but I'm gonna check it out soon, I swear.

for a good modern-day giallo that gets playful with the genre conventions pls proceed to knife + heart

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, July 4, 2022 3:43 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

xp josh there's definitely some deals Hulu made with notable distributors/indie studios in the past couple years (A24, Neon, etc). really started when some of them started breaking contracts and shipping movies directly to Hulu during Covid to make up for lost theater revenue and feels like it didn't really stop

wow everyone otm re The Bear on
Hulu

so good!! it’s like watching a novel, really well written & acted. also shows about cooking/chefing arent always that much, but this really has a heart to it

We’re watching “The Great” on Hulu (which I guess isn’t new, I hadn’t heard of it) – it’s kind of goofy, but fun and watchable.

"The Bear" is excellent indeed! 3 eps in.

The Bear feels a lot like Ted Lasso, and has some of the same problems with believeability. What kind of sandwich shop has like 5 people in the kitchen, all day? Every time I've gone to a shop like this, it's been like 2-3 people running the joint. No wonder they are having money problems. What kind of Chicago Beef sandwich shop would try to "elevate" what they are doing? Who is looking for an elevated Chicago Beef? What Chicago Beef shop serves mashed potatoes?

fuck, why even have television at all?

Who is looking for an elevated Chicago Beef?

I’d make this my ILX handle, but I have no business doing so

Also it's like Ted Lasso in that there's no laughs.

Seconding unperson's recommendation of The Old Man. Jeff Bridges is ok, a little unbelievably old to have won the fight at the end of E1, but Amy Brenneman and John Lithgow are especially good.

The script is definitely trying to make me think that Waters is Hamzad's son, raised to carry out Dad's Vengeance, but we'll see.

Why would anyone compare "The Bear" to "Ted Lasso"? It's nothing like "Obi-Wan," either (I assume).

Dude comes into ragtag failing franchise and turns it around with structure and positivity.

Also, both shows that everyone loves but for some reason leave me and my wife scratching our heads.

re Ted Lasso, it's the sadness underneath the positivity that makes the show meaningful to me

I didn't like the second season as much as the first

The Bear is dark as fuck … they are really not the same kind of show at all!

it’s ok if you dont like the show but that is a pretty flawed thesis you got there

No. I must convince you all to hate this show! :)

lol <3