Netflix recommendations

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ah, lots of actors are tossers apparently, it's probably easier to list the nice ones than the fuckwits Sorry to hear that, but never that surprised by it.

Having worked a lot in TV (not film) it may be a little to do with people just being busy? The list of celebs I've met and worked with that are 'lovely' is very very short, but only about as along as the utter shit list. Most are just people, and you can't expect them all to be a delight all the time to everyone. Hard to say without being there, but maybe there is some extra set stress that ruffles them up a bit.
Aren't most people wankers anyway?

 

[Epona]

Having worked a lot in TV (not film) it may be a little to do with people just being busy? The list of celebs I've met and worked with that are 'lovely' is very very short, but only about as along as the utter shit list. Most are just people, and you can't expect them all to be a delight all the time to everyone. Hard to say without being there, but maybe there is some extra set stress that ruffles them up a bit.
Aren't most people wankers anyway?

Oh aye, I can't disagree with that, I am not an actor but I am a miserable old cunt especially when people I don't know are trying to talk to me, I'm certainly not all sunshine and smiles. I don't expect it from anyone else. But also it wasn't me who posted anything negative about anyone, I just replied to it with a comment.

 

[Badgers]

Watched Rocketman yesterday. Didn't think much of Elton John before we watched it, think a bit less of him now tbh.

I did not finish it.

 

[Sprocket.]

I did not finish it.

I wonder if Elton has?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Watching the Stowaway.
Stowaway (by mistake) on board a three man mars mission (how the hell??). Only enough oxygen for three (this later drops to two). Fab moral dilemma/drama/'what would you do?' time . . . . except no. Writer cop out time. The dodging of the moral element and the lack of investment in any of the characters utterly undermines the intended gut punch of the ending (which ends up just flatlining).
Obviously a low budget, no set affair, they waste their money on the shit spacewalk when they should have spent it on better writers.

Such a brilliant set up for what could have been an amazing film. I'm so pissed off.

 

[spanglechick]

I wonder if Elton has?

I imagine so. His husband co-produced it and he exec produced.
My main thing with Egerton is that he did all the vocals. Which is quite a feat. Must’ve been galling that Rami Malek got best actor for his Freddie Mercury teeth, and he was empty handed the following year.

 

[Sprocket.]

I imagine so. His husband co-produced it and he exec produced.
My main thing with Egerton is that he did all the vocals. Which is quite a feat. Must’ve been galling that Rami Malek got best actor for his Freddie Mercury teeth, and he was empty handed the following year.

Please excuse my poor attempt at humour.

 

[Epona]

This morning I watched Shirley, a fictionalised film (based on a novel of the same name) based around a period of gothic/horror author Shirley Jackson's life. Elisabeth Moss is in the title role.

Quite enjoyed it, worth a go.

 

[sojourner]

I nearly quit it early on because I found the cutaway gags using real world imagery, and in particular the emojis, cat filters etc they saw fit to add on extremely annoying and shit.

I am glad I didn’t because it is actually a great film. I went from ‘I’ll sit it through because the OH is watching it’ to ‘Wow, that was very enjoyable’ by the end.

I really do hope the fucking emojis don’t catch on in kiddies animation fins though- fucking awful and shit.

I liked all that

 

[Epona]

Oh the other thing I watched recently is Things Heard & Seen which is a fairly bog standard ghostie haunted house thing but done quite well I thought. Certainly if you like that sort of film (and I do) then go for it.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Watching the Stowaway.
Stowaway (by mistake) on board a three man mars mission (how the hell??). Only enough oxygen for three (this later drops to two). Fab moral dilemma/drama/'what would you do?' time . . . . except no. Writer cop out time. The dodging of the moral element and the lack of investment in any of the characters utterly undermines the intended gut punch of the ending (which ends up just flatlining).
Obviously a low budget, no set affair, they waste their money on the shit spacewalk when they should have spent it on better writers.

Such a brilliant set up for what could have been an amazing film. I'm so pissed off.

I fell asleep about halfway through. Toni Colette is great. I was very bothered from the start that Anna Kendrick seemed to be wearing lipstick on a rocket launch.

The actual launch scene seemed very good from real life accounts I've read but then as I said...I fell asleep.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I fell asleep about halfway through. Toni Colette is great. I was very bothered from the start that Anna Kendrick seemed to be wearing lipstick on a rocket launch.

The actual launch scene seemed very good from real life accounts I've read but then as I said...I fell asleep.

You missed nothing, that was probably the best bit. It really wasn't executed very well at all. The small set could have been used to set a unique visual style/feel/mood, and along with the interesting moral aspect it could have been a really interesting flick. . . but it was filmed ultra vanilla, as boring as it gets, no character development, and no emotional investment.

Incredibly frustrating because it really was a neat idea that could have had a touch of 'Moon' about it.

 

[Epona]

I fell asleep about halfway through. Toni Colette is great. I was very bothered from the start that Anna Kendrick seemed to be wearing lipstick on a rocket launch.

The actual launch scene seemed very good from real life accounts I've read but then as I said...I fell asleep.

Anna Kendrick may well be a lovely person, but I don't think she is a great choice for every role, I personally find her a bit annoying, and I didn't particularly like her in Stowaway. Toni Colette can do no wrong however, I love her in most things. (This is just my personal opinion).

I found the film problematic on many levels - I thought the fact that even most of the way through the film when the botanist's (David) experiments had been wrecked to turn the algae into oxygen production/CO2 removal and he literally had nothing else to do at that point, that it was still the accidental stowaway engineer's life (Michael) that was on the line right up until the last part of the film - that seemed very class oriented to me (not necessarily traditional class divisions, but people who have trained for it vs the newcomer - but even when the trained people had no more role on the ship, some of them still wanted Michael to be the one to give up his life.) David was particularly obnoxious I felt, but none of the characters came across as really likeable. I liked the ending.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Anna Kendrick may well be a lovely person, but I don't think she is a great choice for every role, I personally find her a bit annoying, and I didn't particularly like her in Stowaway. Toni Colette can do no wrong however, I love her in most things. (This is just my personal opinion).

I found the film problematic on many levels - I thought the fact that even most of the way through the film when the botanist's (David) experiments had been wrecked to turn the algae into oxygen production/CO2 removal and he literally had nothing else to do at that point, that it was still the accidental stowaway engineer's life (Michael) that was on the line right up until the last part of the film - that seemed very class oriented to me (not necessarily traditional class divisions, but people who have trained for it vs the newcomer - but even when the trained people had no more role on the ship, some of them still wanted Michael to be the one to give up his life.) David was particularly obnoxious I felt, but none of the characters came across as really likeable. I liked the ending.

Agree about Toni Colette. She's just great.
I haven't seen much with Anna Kendrick and suspect she usually makes the kind of films I wouldn't watch anyway. The fact that she was wearing lipstick on the launch underlined that and also signalled to me that the film might be a bunch of arse. Funny how something so small can do that.

 

[Epona]

Agree about Toni Colette. She's just great.
I haven't seen much with Anna Kendrick and suspect she usually makes the kind of films I wouldn't watch anyway. The fact that she was wearing lipstick on the launch underlined that and also signalled to me that the film might be a bunch of arse. Funny how something so small can do that.

I was thinking this the other day about female roles where they aren't appearing to be wearing any makeup (which probably means that both female and male actors are wearing makeup on set but that it makes them both look natural on screen - everyone on film or in a play generally wears makeup, sometimes very thick, under harsh screen/stage lighting which would otherwise wash out your appearance, both male and female, the difference is whether it makes someone look under harsh set lights and on camera like they are wearing makeup or looking natural)

I am always very pleased to see a more natural look (even if that takes a few coats under stage lighting to achieve).

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I was thinking this the other day about female roles where they aren't appearing to be wearing any makeup (which probably means that both female and male actors are wearing makeup on set but that it makes them both look natural on screen - everyone on film or in a play generally wears makeup, sometimes very thick, under harsh screen/stage lighting which would otherwise wash out your appearance, both male and female, the difference is whether it makes someone look under harsh set lights and on camera like they are wearing makeup or looking natural)

I am always very pleased to see a more natural look (even if that takes a few coats under stage lighting to achieve).

I mean yes I appreciate that everyone in the film will be wearing make up because they all have make up. What irked me was the quite obvious lipstick that I'm pretty sure someone being blasted into space would not be wearing.

 

[Epona]

I mean yes I appreciate that everyone in the film will be wearing make up because they all have make up. What irked me was the quite obvious lipstick that I'm pretty sure someone being blasted into space would not be wearing.

Yeah I was agreeing that I like when female characters in films have a natural look, especially when they are going into space or similar I was just being a bit pedantic which is something I do but I mean no harm.

 

[Chz]

Series 2 of Love, Death & Robots drops May 14.

 

[T & P]

Series 2 of Love, Death & Robots drops May 14.

Oooh, this is most excellent news. The first series was on the whole fucking great

 

[T & P]

The end of this month is looking good. New seasons of Ragnarok and Lucifer confirmed for the 27th & 28th respectively

 

[MrCurry]

Watching the Stowaway.
Stowaway (by mistake) on board a three man mars mission (how the hell??). Only enough oxygen for three (this later drops to two). Fab moral dilemma/drama/'what would you do?' time . . . . except no. Writer cop out time. The dodging of the moral element and the lack of investment in any of the characters utterly undermines the intended gut punch of the ending (which ends up just flatlining).
Obviously a low budget, no set affair, they waste their money on the shit spacewalk when they should have spent it on better writers.

Such a brilliant set up for what could have been an amazing film. I'm so pissed off.

Agreed. Another really disappointing sic-fi on Netflix. Total waste of time really. I don’t know why they don’t seem to be able to do sci fi when they’re so good at other genres.

 

[rubbershoes]

Finished Kingdom. The first series was good but the second was fantastic. I was slightly disappointed at the end by the unnecessary and clunky set up for the next series. It would have been better to leave it as a stand alone series

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Agreed. Another really disappointing sic-fi on Netflix. Total waste of time really. I don’t know why they don’t seem to be able to do sci fi when they’re so good at other genres.

The weird thing is, in general the basic ideas sound good, but yes, all of them fail on script, filming, casting and acting. I genuinely think I could do better.
Maybe the point is that they just need everyone to give it one quick look, one short series, then move onto the next. doesn't have to actually be good.

It's a bit like the regime at ITV when I worked there. What is costing money? staff? TV shows? Get rid of them. What makes money? adverts? get a huge department to try and get companies to pay for adverts. . . . adverts between what? . . . .oh. whoops.

 

[spanglechick]

Space exploration would be more interesting to me if there was the likelihood of wearing bold lipstick. Everything is so dull and Spartan.

 

[T & P]

Starting Netflix’s brand new big profile series, Jupiter’s Legacy. Superhero miniseries.

Decisively lukewarm and mixed reviews so not holding my breath. The consensus seems to be that it not a bad series per se but too slow paced to be good.

 

[Epona]

Space exploration would be more interesting to me if there was the likelihood of wearing bold lipstick. Everything is so dull and Spartan.

See I reckon there's at least 2 strains of film that sci-fi can be divided into, in general terms - there's the slow ponderous thoughtful often moral dilemma space is empty and quiet type thing (similar atmosphere to modern zombie/post apocalyptic solo/small group survival films in a way), and then there's the explosions and laser gun fights and planets exploding type stuff (with or without lipstick! - the space Western or space adventure type stuff)- I have to say that I am mostly in the latter camp.

EDIT: By which I mean I am getting a little bored of the "small group of astronauts in slow survival/psychological thriller" type of near-future space exploration sci-fi films that seem to be the current fashion. There are some standouts from this btw, The Martian falls mostly within this category IMO and is a bloody excellent film. I also liked Gravity. But most of the others end up being somewhat disappointing or just downright boring. (Also an early forerunner, Silent Running, is excellent). These space isolation films don't always have some sort of point to make either or are necessarily somehow superior to explosions and gunfights - Passengers is genuinely fucking problematic stalker shit that made my skin crawl but it's all handwaved away, they fell in love at the end so it was all worth it - I mean seriously?

 

[Chz]

Starting Netflix’s brand new big profile series, Jupiter’s Legacy. Superhero miniseries.

Decisively lukewarm and mixed reviews so not holding my breath. The consensus seems to be that it not a bad series per se but too slow paced to be good.

I'd agree with the many reviews that basically state it's too ludicrous to take itself as seriously as it does.

 

[T & P]

I'd agree with the many reviews that basically state it's too ludicrous to take itself as seriously as it does.

FWIW I don’t have a problem with the pace so far. Plenty of other issues with it though.

The very concept of a god-fearing christian superhero saying grace before every meal or telling off people for the mildest of swearwords just irks me so. But not as much as him disowning his son for killing a supervillain in an unavoidable life or death situation.

 

[sojourner]

Not the kind of thing we'd usually watch, but it had John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas in it, so thought it might be worth a watch, and it was - Bullet Head. Enjoyed it, once I'd climbed off the top of the couch!

Not a fan of Elton John really, but again - Rocketman was engaging. Loved some of the choreography, very impressive.

 

[Sunray]

Series 2 of Love, Death & Robots drops May 14.

Brillant! I loved the 1st, esp the robot tourists.

I have been watching Locke and Key, thought it'd be terrible but actually its decent.
Monkey on the other hand is pretty terrible, it's funny once or twice an episode, will see if it improves. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the entire original series, which took about 7 weeks to torrent. I'm unsure if it's better or worse.

I was looking for this Korean Zombie thing I started watching but it appears to have disappeared.
Started off with this lone zombie walking up to a battalion of troops with a monologue and getting shot millions of times. Could have sworn it was on Netflix. At the time, I was enthused by Alice in Borderland so started watching more Korean stuff. Wasn't in the mood for the zombie thing at the time, thought I'd give it another try.
Does anyone remember what it was called?