Mrs Miggins
Eternal
danny la rouge have you seen Hail Satan? That's a good documentary.
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Nope. Cheers.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
And The Barkley Marathons if it's still there.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Did someone mention Overlord earlier in the thread? Sure I got the recommendation on here. Anyway, hated it, turned it off at the lab scenes after suffering through until then. I don't like horror generally, and I really don't like anything involving medical experiment horror, especially Nazi stuff, urgh.
Really enjoyed Operation Odessa though, the narco sub Netlfix documentary, what a brilliant story. Also made me want to watch Miami Vice again!
Anyone tried The Barrier?
Really enjoyed Operation Odessa though, the narco sub Netlfix documentary, what a brilliant story. Also made me want to watch Miami Vice again!
Anyone tried The Barrier?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its when he goes to meet Yester in SA I had to google to see, the bloke just seemed too out there, but he's real and currently looking at 40 yrs in the US for attempt to import cannabis in large amounts. Must have spent his 10 mill.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yeah, all of the main people were, err... interesting. Yester legging it with 10 million belonging to the Cali cartel didn't seem like a great plan, but maybe it's worked out OK for him until now...
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Which do you consider the best Scandi cop/mystery series?
(No supernatural nonsense or horror stuff please)
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I know someone who entered Barkley, managed one lap only!
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Reno
The In Kraut
I started watching the well received Russian pandemic drama/thriller To the Lake, but gave up before the first episode was over. Every character is a cliche, engineered for maximum conflict, antagonising those nearest and dearest at every point (this is why I could never watch EastEnders). Russian directors working in the mainstream all want to be Michael Bay, trying hard to dazzle with attention grabbing camera work. This show's party trick is to attach GoPro cameras to actors heads for POV shots. I threw in the towel when in a clumsy exposition dump, the mother of a teenage boy obviously meant to be read as autistic, laboriously explains to the guests at a dinner party what autism is. Friends of subtlety need not apply.
Then I moved on to Black Spot and I'm two episodes in. This is ok, it's just too reminiscent of other shows. Its a French-Belgian crime drama, with a supernatural twist. It takes place in a rural town, surrounded by a forest, which has a homicide rate six times that of the rest of the country. Every episode centres on a case, but it connects to a larger story of something sinister lurking in the woods, which moves it into folk-horror territory. Its nicely shot and features a female cop with a mystery, as these show always do. This is very reminiscent Jordskott, a Scandi-cop show, also set in a town next to a forest which may be the home to something supernatural and it has the look and feel of the French show The Returned.
Then I moved on to Black Spot and I'm two episodes in. This is ok, it's just too reminiscent of other shows. Its a French-Belgian crime drama, with a supernatural twist. It takes place in a rural town, surrounded by a forest, which has a homicide rate six times that of the rest of the country. Every episode centres on a case, but it connects to a larger story of something sinister lurking in the woods, which moves it into folk-horror territory. Its nicely shot and features a female cop with a mystery, as these show always do. This is very reminiscent Jordskott, a Scandi-cop show, also set in a town next to a forest which may be the home to something supernatural and it has the look and feel of the French show The Returned.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Watching this. It’s good, cheers.
bimble
floofy
People who enjoyed the Queens Gambit (I did too), read this. Cos it’s really good writing and makes you question whats going on when you’re rooting for the cruel sexy hero.
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I'm just on to the Balmoral episode of The Queen. I caught myself saying "good on ya Thatch" when she decided to leave because they are an anachronism and "boorish, snobbish and rude". Never thought I'd side with Thatcher but I bet that is just what they are like.
And I also like the subtle way they indicate Diana is one of them because she "only brought outside shoes". So many people forget that the "queen of hearts" was one of them through and through .
And I also like the subtle way they indicate Diana is one of them because she "only brought outside shoes". So many people forget that the "queen of hearts" was one of them through and through .
I think you can hate all of them at the same time...
(Outside shoes? What other kind of shoes are there. And does this mean I'm incredibly posh and just hadn't realised it?
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Thatcher didn't bring outdoor shoes....it was noted by the maid and then she was humiliated by having to go out where ordinary shoes and clothes were not appropriate.I think you can hate all of them at the same time...
(Outside shoes? What other kind of shoes are there. And does this mean I'm incredibly posh and just hadn't realised it?
Like I said...never thought I'd ever sympathise with Thatcher....
How did she get there then? By palanquin..?
Reno
The In Kraut
She didn't bring sturdy shoes for hiking and hunting and she got there in a car.
I've tried to explain the British upper class to my German parents. They think British posh people only socialise in expensive evening wear, when shabby clothes are a sign of the elite. One marker is the lowest button undone in a waistcoat or cardigan, it gives the impression of "I don't care because I have the privilege not to care". Lower middle class people like my parents also think upper class people and the aristocracy are refined, when actually they are crude and boorish a lot of the time. The middle classes were traditionally obsessed with keeping up appearances, posh people don't have to. That's something Thatcher doesn't understand in the episode.
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Well I am crude and boorish with shabby clothes so...Oh you so don't get it
What would you say to the slur "well he bought his own drawing room furniture"
Ah, I know that one. Alan Clarke...?
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
There's a great Billy Connolly sketch about that. Short version is he was invited to a Lord's castle when he got famous and was terrified he'd make loads of faux pas etc. Then he realised that the aristocracy and upper class are just like his poor and rough background; get up late, don't work, wear scruffy clothes or bedwear all day, start drinking alcohol early, rude and loud, etc. He says they'd all get on well, it's the v-neck sweater wearing, Volvo driving uptight middle class that are the worst.
T & P
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Much as Brenda and her family would have approved of Thatcher’s right wing politics and unquestionable support for the monarchy, she was still a grocer’s daughter. How ghastly it must have been for them to have to entertain such commoner...
I don’t think things have changed much. Apparently William and/or Harry’s inner circle of friends used to refer to Kate Middleton’s mother as ‘Doors to Manual’, because when she was young she used to be a flight attendant. Can you imagine the horror!
T & P
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Yes, yes, I know I should watch films in their original version instead of dubbed. So let’s get the fact that I’m a philistine out of the way first.
Having established this, can I have a rant about how fucking crap the dubbing on Netflix wares is? Apart from not trying in the slightest to remotely match the English dubbing to the on-screen lip movements of the actors, they have a habit of employing voice actors with foreign accents that don’t match the country of origin of the film or series in question.
What’s the point of dubbing a, say, Spanish film using Eastern European actors? Either use neutral English speakers or Spanish-accented actors ffs.
And aside from the accent the general tone and enunciation just comes across as weird and amateurish across the board.
I know Netflix probably outsources the dubbing of their programmes to some agency or other, but I’m pretty sure they could afford one that does a better job of it.
Having established this, can I have a rant about how fucking crap the dubbing on Netflix wares is? Apart from not trying in the slightest to remotely match the English dubbing to the on-screen lip movements of the actors, they have a habit of employing voice actors with foreign accents that don’t match the country of origin of the film or series in question.
What’s the point of dubbing a, say, Spanish film using Eastern European actors? Either use neutral English speakers or Spanish-accented actors ffs.
And aside from the accent the general tone and enunciation just comes across as weird and amateurish across the board.
I know Netflix probably outsources the dubbing of their programmes to some agency or other, but I’m pretty sure they could afford one that does a better job of it.
Reno
The In Kraut
No sympathy here, you've only only got yourself to blame.
Netflix content gets dubbed by a country of where the language of the dub gets spoken. You really would need to give an example of where actors with Eastern European accents dub content into English for no good reason, because from the brief snippets of dubbed Netflix I've experienced, I haven't come across that. Dubbing always is crap, that's why people who genuinely care about films avoid watching dubbed versions of foreign language films like the plague. I live in a country where dubbing is the norm and I'm unable to get into a film or tv series if it's dubbed because even when done well, it's never convincing.
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Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Ta for that Hail Satan recommendation Mrs Miggins - great stuff!
T & P
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Oh I’m with you all the way on principle. But sometimes the other half is tired, particularly if it’s late evening, and prefers the dubbed version because she’s too tired to read.No sympathy here, you've only only got yourself to blame.
Netflix content gets dubbed by a country of where the language of the dub gets spoken. You really would need to give an example of where Eastern European actors dub content into English for no good reason, because from the brief snippets of dubbed Netflix I've experienced, I haven't come across that. Dubbing always is crap, that's why people who genuinely care about films avoid watching foreign language dubbed films like the plague. I live in a country where dubbed films and tv is the norm and I'm unable to get into a film or tv series if it's dubbed because even when done well, it's never convincing.
I hate dubbing myself. In my native Spain absolutely everything would be dubbed when I was a kid- the chief reason imo why young Spaniards are worse at foreign languages than people from Central and Northern Europe. But at least the the lip syncing was pretty good.
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