The pacing is terrible and most of the people they interview continue to be kind of terrible. It gets better but I barely made it through. They left so many questions unanswered, granted I did fall asleep for a good half hour somewhere in the middle.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
Finally watching Money Heist aka La Casa de Papel after having it on my queue for ages. It's good and totally bingeworthy. Too bad we started it on Sunday evening.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
lots of great footage in wild wild country but only worth sticking with if you’re gonna use it as a jumping off point to read the Oregonian investigative series and hunt down other sources imo, maybe take Allen (etaeoe) or Aimless out for a drink
― sciatica, Monday, 9 April 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
I found WWC to be endlessly compelling and not at all slow but think I'm in the minority here.
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 April 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
I’m on episode 5 and totally loving it.
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
Yeah Wild Wild Country is great. These complaints about it being boring are bananas.
― Darin, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
man that Seth Rogen charity special is peak circle jerk. bless Justin Roiland for that animation though which felt like a burn on Rogen
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 06:27 (six years ago) link
John Mulaney was the only bit we liked.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
not netflix but free on the BBC america website, but "Killing Eve" is Phoebe Waller-Bridges' ("Fleabag" and "Crashing") new thing, and is a super fun spy thriller. I love Sandra Oh.― just1n3, Friday, April 6, 2018 5:51 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkthis is excellent btw. very very good writing and characters. recognisably the same writer as fleabag while also being completely different.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
oooh
― maura, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
i don’t think wild wild country is “boring” or “brutally slow” but it is biased and incomplete, to an extent I think it should be taught in media classes as an example of editorial decisions being determined by access to interviewees, including the perceived need to build your documentary around interview content. I’d love to read the Oregonian investigator’s response to the series, if it exists.
Having grown up on the fringes of the Ramtha cult right around the time Rajneeshpuram was at its height I have all kinds of conspiracy theories about the series that may or not be factually correct but are likely correct in spirit. It feels like a lot of evasion around soft power manipulation to me, like the filmmakers found their subject while spending time at the Osho complex in India or something, tracked down the principles, compiled the footage, but never felt an imperative to go any further, due to their own experience and prejudices.
― sciatica, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
sciatica, post that on the thread for the doc!
― alvin noto (mh), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
^^^please do this!!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
just finished season 2 of 'a series of unfortunate events' with mk2.absolutely loved it.proper panto excess.they really have nailed the whole insane vibe of the books.i guess season 3 will finish it, or they will do a handmaids tale.i hope not, as the books finished at the right time.
― mark e, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
xp iirc the idea for this documentary actually sprung from their discovery of the archives while researching their baseball documentary. They hadn't heard abt Rajneesh until looking into minor league Portland baseball team....
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
cyrus and i enjoyed Fastest Car. 3 homemade sleeper cars going up against one supercar in a quarter mile drag race each episode. and the last episode is the 7 finalists racing in the desert. they could definitely show this in college psych classes. the stories behind why these - mostly - dudes want to feel power/speed/control. lots of dad stories. they stacked the deck against the supercars by having most of the supercar owners fit the cliche of rich/obnoxious. with the exception of the woman with the ferrari. she was nice and her car was superfine. fun if you like tricked out turbo pintos and mazdas. i'd definitely watch a second season and i'm not even a car guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHy7FegT39A
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
fun if you like tricked out turbo pintos and mazdas. thats exactly what i like tbh.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
i watched the trailer & immediately added it to my watchlist. totally in my wheelhouse
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
yeah that is my shit
― gbx, Friday, 13 April 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
totally gonna watch parker posey in space. finally, a dr. smith for me! though i don't know why they have to drag out old franchises forever and ever. why bother at this late date? though i guess these things are just owned by people who want to continue to drag them out for one more payday.
― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Just finished the second season of Money Heist /La Casa de Papel. SOooooo good. A lot of plot holes but whatever. Loads of fun.
― Yerac, Saturday, 14 April 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
Chef's Table pastry edition is up. just 4 episodes.
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 April 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
just 4 episodes.paltry edition
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 14 April 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
Milk Bar episode was so good <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 April 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
Fastest Car is okay but they have a very different definition of sleeper car than what I grew up with. If you've got a visible blower or drag radials you're not exactly fooling anyone. Would have been cool to see more variety than a quarter mile drag - put a supercar and a Mazda LS swap on a road track and see what happens.
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 15 April 2018 05:47 (six years ago) link
Miata LS swap
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 15 April 2018 05:48 (six years ago) link
The John Mcafee documentary is really good.
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 16 April 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
"Gringo"
it's really fucking dark
SPOILER ALERT:
Features a woman who worked for him talking about being drugged and raped by him, covers the homicide of a man who poisoned McAfees dogs and who McAfee likely had killed in retribution
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
Yeah it rivals that Errol Morris doc Tabloid in successive, escalating WAIT, REALLY? moments
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
yes, i will leave a certain revelation about his proclivities out of this thread because that reveal is wtf in the extreme and deserves not to be spoiled
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
@YeracI'm abt to finish Money Heist part 2, I'm also loving it despite its absurdity. When I'm done I hope we can talk about it!!!!
― ian, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
Are you watching it dubbed? The translations are so off from what they are saying dubbed. The whole thing is ridiculous but we loved it.
― Yerac, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
monty python is available now (maybe not in all countries)
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 16 April 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
It's Amazon Prime, but "What We Do in the Shadows" is recommended for "Flight of the Conchords" fans who don't mind their humor a bit dark.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
two things about FASTEST CAR:
1) can't believe they went with FASTEST CAR as a title instead of VROOM VROOM CAR GO FAST
2) https://imgur.com/kH5W2BT
― del griffith, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kH5W2BT.png
― del griffith, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Started to get into ugly delicious, which is affable and informative.
I loved loved loved A Series of Unfortunate Events
― stormzy daniels (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
xp - Samurai sword dude hasn't got shit on the peacocking divorce lawyer in the next episode.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
From Taika Waititi of Ragnorak and Hunt For The Wilderpeople fame
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 07:44 (six years ago) link
Prime again (in the UK anyway) but has anyone watched The Looming Tower?
Seems to be getting quite good reviews
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 07:45 (six years ago) link
It is absolute piffle + isn't really a good representation of the book imo. It's very jingoistic and has too many shots of Jeff Daniels saggy old arse pumping away. Although I think the book was also guilty of trying to canonise John O'Neil, but at least it tried to be broad minded.
― calzino, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 08:00 (six years ago) link
I've had Prime for a 6-month cheaparse deal, and the only thing on it worth watching, in Australia at least, was Fleabag. Just as I'm about to bin it, The Terror pops up. Any good?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 08:28 (six years ago) link
Loved the book. Three episodes or so into the series and very good so far.
AMC's The Terror
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
Season 2 of Sneaky Pete was fun and forgettable in the best way
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 09:46 (six years ago) link
too many shots of Jeff Daniels saggy old arse pumping away
truly the worst consequence of 9/11
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 09:50 (six years ago) link
new board description imo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
how did they work the arse pumping into a pre-9-11 procedural show, exactly?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
His character is a lothario with catholic guilt issues. There is one unintentionally hilarious saggy arse pumping scene where he breaks down into tears after the climax, like to show what a deep thinking man of substance he is. Well I lolled loud at it, but ymmv as they say!
― calzino, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:38 (six years ago) link
i gave up on looming tower. it was strangely tedious. and also hammy in an old time t.v. movie kinda way.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link