Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
May I presume that you didn't click on the link?
I didn't realise there was a link, wish the damn things showed up in a different colour
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I didn't realise there was a link, wish the damn things showed up in a different colour
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Hey don't get me wrong, it was far better than anything else I've seen in a while bar solar opposites. I also managed the lot in two days without the slightest bit of pain. Certainly an eye opener for this liberal whitey. I assume it is written from a place of experience.Tough audience
Enjoyed The mix of comedy, drama and at times thrills. Nice episode lengths and some fun stand-alones especially in season two. Be interested to see what happens in three and four.
I imagine it would have been harder to get involved had I not been able to watch all 21 at once.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I watched Love and Monsters yesterday, which was entertaining silliness, I enjoyed it. Sometimes mindless nonsense is just what the doctor ordered.
That Dylan O'Brien also stars in American Assassin, which is also new to Netflix. Half decent action thriller, with formulaic maverick recruit who has trouble following orders who is tasked with chasing bad guys.
I've only subscribed to Netflix for a few months but have noticed they do that. It seems like they buy up the rights to broadcast a load of films starring actor X, because all of a sudden there will be several films new to the platform starring X.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Friday Night Dinners just came up in my suggested list (I have actually seen most of it already) but I noticed the scene on the Netflix trailer was the sons wanting to order takeaway off the Internet and the dad complaining that he didn't want "Internet food" - the sons trying to explain that the food wasn't from the internet.
But actually that is a good way of describing what is happening in the online food ordering landscape, where you order food and it isn't made in your local takeaway it is made in what is referred to as a dark kitchen on an industrial estate (that sounds worse than it is, it is just for example a large catering facility with stations for production of Indian, Chinese, Italian food etc and maybe a couple of stations rented out to franchises with their own staff working at that location, good hygiene standards and nothing to worry about in that regard etc) and then delivered to you, a lot of the places you think you are ordering from online for delivery via an umbrella delivery company don't technically exist as a real life food outlet that you could walk into on your local high street. That isn't to say there is anything wrong with the food, but it might not be from the sort of business that you think you are ordering from is all.
But actually that is a good way of describing what is happening in the online food ordering landscape, where you order food and it isn't made in your local takeaway it is made in what is referred to as a dark kitchen on an industrial estate (that sounds worse than it is, it is just for example a large catering facility with stations for production of Indian, Chinese, Italian food etc and maybe a couple of stations rented out to franchises with their own staff working at that location, good hygiene standards and nothing to worry about in that regard etc) and then delivered to you, a lot of the places you think you are ordering from online for delivery via an umbrella delivery company don't technically exist as a real life food outlet that you could walk into on your local high street. That isn't to say there is anything wrong with the food, but it might not be from the sort of business that you think you are ordering from is all.
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
If you can bear 2 Broke Girls, he's in season 3 (iirc)
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Ugh I hate 2 broke girls. No sympathy for either of the characters, also I think they were keeping a horse on a balcony/roof terrace in 1 episode which is just massively irresponsible.
(I can overlook the ridiculous if the rest of a thing that I am watching is engaging and funny, if i isn't then the ridiculous just becomes a massive negative).
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Watched the first episode of Shtisel and am thinking, is that it?
Is it just a gentle soap opera style, with Akiva wooing the merry widow?
Is it just a gentle soap opera style, with Akiva wooing the merry widow?
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Ugh I hate 2 broke girls. No sympathy for either of the characters, also I think they were keeping a horse on a balcony/roof terrace in 1 episode which is just massively irresponsible.
Yeah, it was pretty much Kat Denning and then André Eric that kept me watching for a while, but overall a show that was out of its time.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Bad Trip is an enjoyable gross out comedy, mind. If you like Sasha Baron Cohen/Farrelly Brothers/Jackass/Harold and Kumar kind of vibes.
Just watched it tonight after a few beers, and it did the trick. Just be prepared for the zoo scene
Just watched it tonight after a few beers, and it did the trick. Just be prepared for the zoo scene
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I saw that at the cinema back in the day (there was a period of time when I had a decent income compared to the cost of living and cinemas around Leicester Square/Soho did cheap tickets on Mondays or Tuesdays, I forget which - so I and my partner at the time used to go all the time and have a meal out before or after, or sometimes 2 films on one night and a takeaway on the way home - life is so much more expensive compared to average income these days).
At the time I think I felt it was a bit silly, and indeed it is - but having re-watched it on Netflix the other night, I am happy to report that I find it a good silly sort of film if that makes sense, if you don't mind a bit of daft dark humour it is a decent watch. I wouldn't give it any awards, but as a fairly pleasant way to waste 1 to 2 hours it works.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
At the other end of the scale, I noticed that Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing is on Netflix now. Another film I saw at the cinema back in the day - this one definitely deserves awards and is not necessarily an easy watch - but it is a beautiful masterpiece of a film and if anyone hasn't seen it they should probably do so.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Also a few Coen Brother's films on there at the moment -watched Oh Brother Where Art Thou which I'd seen before but is still enjoyable, also The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which I hadn't seen before and was also enjoyable. Still in the queue to be watched is Burn After Reading, which I don't think I have seen before, but hope will be enjoyable.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Oh I really hope you like Burn After Reading, I thought it was fucking brilliant.
I did this a long time back. A friend gave me a login so I still have it but guess I watch two/three hours a month.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Thanks, it is next on the list of stuff to watch. Would rather watch it with OH though (we both like Coen brothers stuff) so will probably be a few days, OH has work from now through the weekend (which is great, but means not much time to sit and watch films - he had yesterday off though which was fucking magnificent
)
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Did you try any other streaming service? I got a free month of Amazon Prime recently and it looked much better.
I found Amazon worse than Netflix for quality of content. Also annoying to search for something then being told to pay for it. Not that things should not be paid for of course.
With Netflix at least you know all their content is included in the subscription.
Not knocking Netflix, guess I don't watch that much telly and have a lot of stuff online. Not enough hours in the day
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Quite enjoying the Korean historical zombie series Kingdom at the moment. Is it common for Korean dramas to have exaggerated comic characters in dramas?
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Not knocking Netflix, guess I don't watch that much telly and have a lot of stuff online. Not enough hours in the day
I hear amazon and netflix are going to launch a European Super Day. Premium subscribers will get days of 30 hours so they can watch more content
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Is that the one with the fabulous hats?
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Yes indeed
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I have this as part of my A level film studies wider screening programme. It’s a powerful, incisive, almost timeless film, but at the same time, has some really amateurish bits of filmmaking that you rarely see in a professionally-made feature (as an example - there’s one shot where characters who are supposed to have just left a building, start from a silent standstill on the step outside the closed door. It’s hard to explain but it looks like the unedited rushes - if one of the kids had done it in their coursework I’d tell them to re-edit it.)
The use of extreme cinematography (Dutch tilt, extreme low angle shots for Radio Rakeem, the repeated whip-pans during the argument...) is creative and cohesive... but it feels heavy-handed. I don’t think any of that matters, btw. It’s just unusual in an Oscar-nominated film by an auteur filmmaker.
What I do think is a problem, though, is the film’s attitude to women. There are only three female “named characters” - Mookie’s sister - who exists only to be a madonna-like symbol of in a pink, ultra feminine and flouncy outfit. Her attractiveness to Sal, and whether or not her brother approves of him being attracted to her is literally her only function. Mother-Sister is our crone. Denied even a name in favour of a title that describes her purely in terms of her family role. She’s painted as heartless for resisting the amorous advances of a chaotic, tenuously housed, chronic alcoholic. By the end she has inexplicably changed her mind, without once having been given the screen time to explore her own will in the matter.
Finally there’s Rosie Perez’s character. She also only exists in terms of her relationship to men: lover and mother. She’s a nag, and then she’s a literal sex object in one of the most gratuitous and unpleasant sex scenes I’ve seen. Her body is literally parcelled up and objectified into its constituent parts with no focus on the face, emotions, reactions of this woman. It’s revolting.
Btw, I read later that Perez, who was a local woman that Spike Lee picked up in a club, was really unprofessionally treated in the shooting of that scene. Dodgy stuff.
The totality of that, then, is a film that feels more disrespectful of women than anything Hitchcock ever made, and he was a blatant misogynist! At least Hitch’s women are involved in driving the narrative. They have their own detail, I suppose.
I know I'm a bad feminist (only sometimes) but retrospectively judging a film in comparison with societal mores seems to me unfair. Anyway might watch this tonight.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
But that’s my point. Hitch makes Vertigo in 1958(?), and for all that the narrative deals unpleasantly with all its women (murder/psychological abuse/undesirable spinster career-woman), they all have agency, their own personalities and lives, just as the male characters do. Do the Right Thing is 1989, I think. Thirty years later and in the mean time there’s been the sexual revolution, equal rights legislation, “women’s Lib”, etc, etc - and this film is straight don’t the line 2D madonna/whore/crone.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
It's good.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
What did you think of Charite at War LynnDoyleCooper ?
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