Amazon Prime streaming video recommendations thread
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Yes, a proper 70s corporate conspiracy/medical horror thriller
T & P
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I thought Joker was nothing less than very good indeed. The kind of arthouse film you really appreciate but have no particular desire to ever watch again, but certainly not bad because of it, anymore than plenty of other similar acclaimed films I liked but will never watch again.
I wouldn’t give it anything lower than 7/10 myself from a cinematography value standpoint. Extra points awarded due to it being a big budget superhero genre film that dared to be as different from the mainstream films of the genre as imaginable, in fact.
I can imagine a teenager hooked on Marvel
and DC fodder going to the cinema and finding this utterly disappointing, but then this is a superhero film only in name.
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Reno
The In Kraut
arthouse film ?
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Well, within the remit of superhero genre films anyway, if you get my drift.arthouse film ?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I think you are right about it being a good thing that it was daring to be different. I think it was well filmed and had good performances. I preferred it (by a long way) to ALL the DC films I have seen, and probably most marvel. It had an arthouse look, but it wasn't art house, it was just pretend.
One of the biggest problems was that the story wasn't actually all that good. All it's power still hung on you knowing what batman is and who the joker is, and that it was a joker origin story. The 'king of comedy' style flip didn't work well at all, and I didn't believe or feel involved in the 'clown' movement in the city.
Yes it was a daring take on the superhero genre (which should be encouraged/praised) with a great performance, but beyond that it's not a great film at all.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Ooh, that already looks good!
I saw some modern CGI battle one. Seemed like it had a interesting set up, but just became a battle quest film with a shite premise for the films 'magical world'.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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The Legend of Vox Machina. An adult animation action fantasy series. First episode is fucking brilliant and very funny.
(ETA there’s also drama and death and violence though)
Massive reviews so far as well. Recommended
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I’d that what this is based on? I don’t know the first thing about D&D so wouldn’t know.
The first two episodes probably have more ‘fucks’ than Pulp Fiction, so a kiddies or nerdy teenage show this ain’t…
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Sorry, I meant to add some words to that post .
"Reminds me of this" or somesuch.
I have to say that swearing in cartoons like this is a bugbear of mine. It looks and sounds really forced and out of place. Maybe it's an overhang of me being against the 80s/90s anime dubs being crammed full of swearing that doesn't appear in the original, just so they would get 18 ratings and appear to be 'adult animation'.
I flipped through a bit of the above and wasn't mad impressed, but I'll give it a proper go later when I'm washing up. I didn't like invincible.
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T & P
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Think a fucked up version of Guardians of the Galaxy set in a D&D fantasy world. This is a bunch of antiheroes never far from debauchery, drinking, sex, violence, and gallows humour- I’d say a lack of swearing would have been more objectionable, or at least against type. It doesn’t get in the way of the story anyway.
krtek a houby
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Sometimes it works, sometimes not. The swearing. Not Anime, obvs, but something likeTorchwood, for example. Supposedly adult content just meant shagging and lots of effing and blinding. It didn't offend, just came across as a bit silly.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I don't remember the guardians of the galaxy having to swear. It always sounds like a desperate attempt to 'adult up' a show. I understand it in things like solar opposites where it comes across as unessential but at least more natural and fitting. From the bits I've seen in this show it is forced, unnecessary, and cringeworthy.
I should probably watch a whole episode before taking a dump on it though.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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OK I watched a whole episode this morning instead of just flipping through.
As a kids show it's not 'terrible' but it's clearly not aimed at kids because of the violence and swearing. There is absolutely nothing in in the story that elevates it above a MOR children's hero quest show. The D&D I posted above is not far off a good example (except it's only the shield guy that ever makes the quips). Reminds me of early 90s anime aimed at a 12-14 audience but with forced swears and gore. All the swearing could be lost with zero detriment to the feel/plot, in fact i'd argue that it's inclusion is more childish. The more graphic violence serves a purpose, but could easily be curbed without too much effort to make this a PG affair.
My biggest problem is the story, it's not set up in any grown up way, it's all there, all at once, like a saturday morning kids cartoon (or the opening of the D&D cartoon I posted). Development and mystery over three episodes might have been the more adult approach.
In short. I don't think I like it, but I don't think kids will like it either.
Anju
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Just finished My Heroic Husband. It's a Chinese comedy drama along the lines of A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court / Black Knight. Great for a hangover day binge or if you just fancy something nice to watch. A bit of comedy, light intrigue and A-Team level violence. Never seen so many people in a sword battle get knocked out rather than slashed and stabbed to death. Unfortunately subtitles are rubbish, though I think it's available on YouTube with better version of subtitles. Takes half the first episode to get going.
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Freaks
1932 classic about a power imbalance between circus performers. Apparently, irl, the actors who played the performers were segregated from other actors and film crew.
1932 classic about a power imbalance between circus performers. Apparently, irl, the actors who played the performers were segregated from other actors and film crew.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Watch this instead of the recent Nightmare Alley
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I have one more day of prime and started this today (had to stop for work). It is far far better than I imagined. It is a different beast and treated as such.
Did you watch the theatrical one or the directors cut (I'm doing the directors cut).
Yeh, it's well decent innit? I didn't watch the director's cut I'm afraid, just the 'normal' one.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I've not finished.
It's certainly a LOT better than anything else I've seen on prime recently.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Finished.
Just checked, the directors cut is 30 minutes longer. Didn't seem crazy long at all. I wonder what was different.
Steven king didn't like the original, and watching this (I've not read the book but) I think I can see why.
Not amazing but not at all terrible. I didn't like the baddies. Seemed like they were in a different film (near dark probably).
Reno
The In Kraut
That's because the film of Doctor Sleep brings events in-line with Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining, which changed the fates of characters and The Overlook
For me the silly villains are why the plot of Doctor Sleep doesn't really work, unlike the primal horror of a father turning against his family, I didn't care about "shining vampires". King may not have liked what Kubrick did with The Shining but Doctor Sleep felt to me like King reclaiming his intellectual property, while not having that interesting a continuation up his sleeve. The film Doctor Sleep is as good an adaptation as could have been made of an unnecessary novel and the most interesting moments of the film are where it lines up with Kubrick's The Shining.
Fun fact, in Germany they retitled this Doctor Sleeps, probably being under the impression that it's about a snoozing health care professional.
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Whereas I can understand King’s profound dislike of Kubrick’s film adaptation, I reckon he’s probably less hostile towards it today than four decades ago- or at least acknowledges what a great film it is regardless of the lack of faithfulness to some fundamental aspects of the book.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a well written and cast remake of The Shining that follows the book as King intended, though.
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There was a mini-series in the 90s, iirc
Reno
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It was pretty bad because it was directed by the spectacularly untalented Mick Garris, a chum of Stephen King's who made several terrible films and mini series based on his work. It sticks closer to the novel than the film but isn't as faithful as King claimed due to restrictions posed by 90s network television and it shies away from the most scary and violent elements.
I'd be up for a new and more faithful adaptation of the novel, which I still think is the best thing Stephen King has written. A new Salem's Lot is coming out this year, hopefully it will turn out better than recent remakes of Pet Sematary and The Stand.
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Yes well put.
Even though I knew it was an adaptation I for some reason blamed the film for the shine vamps. I wonder if anything else could have been done. Seeing them less? Knowing less about them? At the beginning they are a bit creepy when you only see them appealing in the distance "don't worry about them, they are with me". They look like normal people. They could be anyone anywhere, body snatchers scary. Then you see them on the road and the magic is lost. They are not untouchable mysterious evil.
Why does the 15 year old who seeks revenge on pedophiles so easily and eagerly switch to a hateful child murderer?
It was a good jaunt, and as usual, I'm only mad at it for missing the mark.
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