kittyP
Pluviophile
I absolutely loved this
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I was really sad when they cancelled it. One of the best series based on a comic. They took the story and expanded it really well.I absolutely loved this
Hollis
bloody furious
Err, I watched the other 'Inside Job' on Netflix - documentary on the 2008 financial crisis. Somewhat limited appeal, but good selection of talking heads and economists from the time.. really highlights how it was an institutional and cultural phonemena... should appeal to anyone currently into Bitcoin!
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Sounds like my sort of thing. . . thanks!
Numbers
an ting!
We did too.I absolutely loved this
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Well it seems to have got pretty mixed reviews (though certainly no consensus and plenty of critics like it), but I thought the first episode of the brand new sci-fi series Cowboy Bepop was pretty decent and entertaining.
I have never watched the animated series it is based on, and cannot comment on how good an adaptation it is. But a promising opening episode for me.
Cowboy Bebop review – a slick and spirited slice of TV cyberpunk | Science fiction TV | The Guardian
I have never watched the animated series it is based on, and cannot comment on how good an adaptation it is. But a promising opening episode for me.
Cowboy Bebop review – a slick and spirited slice of TV cyberpunk | Science fiction TV | The Guardian
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Watched the first ep of Gloría, as per the recommendation of The39thStep. Mrs. Wilson's boy has got it right, this is the real thing and the genuine article. In fact, it's so good, I'm surprised it's on Netflix.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Cowboy Bebop somehow looks expensive but also incredibly cheap at the same time.
Acting and dialogue is mostly absolute horseshit. Crap writing/script in general. There is obviously some cool choreography and decent sets, but the something laking in the directing and cinematography that just makes it look cheap.
To be fair I was no fan of the original anime either.
I don't think am going get beyond episode one.
The live action title sequence was nice though. . . .
Acting and dialogue is mostly absolute horseshit. Crap writing/script in general. There is obviously some cool choreography and decent sets, but the something laking in the directing and cinematography that just makes it look cheap.
To be fair I was no fan of the original anime either.
I don't think am going get beyond episode one.
The live action title sequence was nice though. . . .
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They certainly have had a decent production budget at their disposal- fairly decent and sleek sets, costumes and effects.
That doesn’t make a series good in itself of course, but it helps. On episode 3 and so far I don’t see it as any worse as some other space series of this kind of subgenre that are hugely popular.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I was going to start this tonight but got sidetracked by a 2hr doc on the rise and fall of the Twin Towers.
Looks right up my street though.
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Oohh… this could be the next big South Korean thing… supernatural horror miniseries Hellbound has just dropped. 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far…
www.rottentomatoes.com
Hellbound: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
Unearthly beings deliver condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Did the second ep of Gloria tonight.
FAO The39thStep:
In general, how is the series being received in Portugal, especially by those who lived that bit of history?
FAO The39thStep:
I presume the stuff at the very end where the KGB boys and girl "take care of business" in bloody fashion is based on fact? "A revolution is not a tea party" as the Chairman taught us.
In general, how is the series being received in Portugal, especially by those who lived that bit of history?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The second episode was good wasn't it.?
I live semi rural so it is the younger people who tend to have Netflix and as with a lot of young people anywhere events that happened so long ago don't have much resonance. I have chatted to a few more middle aged about it who have seen it and the general view was that it was good and true. The problem with the discussion about the regime/revolution is that you often tend to get a consensus ( built up by the media and conservative parties who have been in government since the revolution more than the left have) that says Salazar was bad and the Communists were equally bad. That the outcome of the revolution was democracy and that the left were terrorists etc etc .
However, by complete chance I came across a media bloke who was down from Lisbon doing some freelance work interviewing and filming a family I know from Bolton for a Channel 4 follow up programme regarding people who've moved abroad to start a new life. Long story short we were just chatting and I mentioned that I had watched the first episode of Gloria. and had he heard about it. Turns out that his mother and him are in the PCP , as was his grandfather. He said that one of his more interesting projects was that he was interviewing an old ex PCP member in the hope of making a documentary about him. This fella was imprisoned and tortured by the regime and confided to the Lisbon kid about his involvement in shooting a PIDE officer. They had discussed the first episode of Gloria and the old boy had said that the PCP's own illegal radio broadcasts had at times called for bombings , arson attacks, and the assassination of those connected with the regime. The Lisbon bloke said that he wasn't sure that he'd put that in the documentary a) because of the tendency to portray the PCP and left as terrorists and secondly because the PCP necessarily insist on controlling their narrative and history despite attempts by the media and right wing parties to try and locate the PCPs internal documents for that period.
The issue of informers whether paid by the state or unwilling/accidental was a real issue . My neighbour told me , when I asked once if there had been reprisals against them during the revolution shrugged and said if they could be identified then yes 'of course, this is life'.
I'm not sure about the presence of Russian agents and to what degree they 'ran' the PCP. Key members PCP leadership escaped from prison and went to France, Cunhal the PCP leader and a couple of others initially went to France then spent time in the USSR. Others stayed underground in Portugal involved in building strikes, protests and activities against the regime. Out of all the European Communist Parties they were the most closest and supportive of the USSR and were in favour of the tanks going in in Czechoslovakia. I know a few people in Left Bloc and a couple of CP members /associates but I haven't bumped into them for a while so when I do I'll try and start a conversation with them ( although the CP people don't speak English)
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Thanks for that. About what I expected. There's a later Le Carre novel where an ex-KGB man says "yes, we killed people, and some of them were good people who didn't deserve to be killed. . . and some of them were dirty bastards we should have killed twenty times over."
What do they think of the stuff about the Angola war, and what would they say about the war now? Watching Endeavour (maybe like Gloria, a strange exercise in nostalgia) it's interesting that Thursday's son is off in Norn Iron and his mum can't understand why he's there, and what possible concern it could be of people in her part of UK. I'm not saying that "The Troubles" were just like Angola, but it's an interesting comparison, maybe?
Though after the 2008 crash there was stuff in the London media (well C4 news, anyway) about Angolan petrodollars being invested in Lisbon, with a strong "the servant becomes the master" vibe. . . Or maybe that was overstating the matter?
I'm just thinking aloud here. I do recall in one of the big art galleries in Lisbon, when I was there in 2019, there was an installation that involved somebody's home movies of her childhood as an army brat in early 70s Mozambique, and I kept thinking, well is the punchline going to be that her dad was KIA, or a Carnation guy, but in the end there was nothing like that, no politics at all. Which brings me back to the nostalgia thing.
What do they think of the stuff about the Angola war, and what would they say about the war now? Watching Endeavour (maybe like Gloria, a strange exercise in nostalgia) it's interesting that Thursday's son is off in Norn Iron and his mum can't understand why he's there, and what possible concern it could be of people in her part of UK. I'm not saying that "The Troubles" were just like Angola, but it's an interesting comparison, maybe?
Though after the 2008 crash there was stuff in the London media (well C4 news, anyway) about Angolan petrodollars being invested in Lisbon, with a strong "the servant becomes the master" vibe. . . Or maybe that was overstating the matter?
I'm just thinking aloud here. I do recall in one of the big art galleries in Lisbon, when I was there in 2019, there was an installation that involved somebody's home movies of her childhood as an army brat in early 70s Mozambique, and I kept thinking, well is the punchline going to be that her dad was KIA, or a Carnation guy, but in the end there was nothing like that, no politics at all. Which brings me back to the nostalgia thing.
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Well reviews of Cowboy Bepop are decisively Marmite so don’t necessarily take my word for it, but I liked it and we were entertained by it.
I won’t make any in-depth pronouncements about its quality or faithfulness to the original animated series, but as space Western sci-fi series go, is perfectly watchable. As a matter of fact comparable in quality to more than one series of the sub genre that enjoy favourable status among fans.
I won’t make any in-depth pronouncements about its quality or faithfulness to the original animated series, but as space Western sci-fi series go, is perfectly watchable. As a matter of fact comparable in quality to more than one series of the sub genre that enjoy favourable status among fans.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I found it quite faithful . . So far at least it is just as boring.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It is authentically style over substance, but I like it just the same.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I'm going back to Gloria soon, but last night I watched the Cowboy Bebop anime for the first time - not bad at all. Did they get 2000AD in Japan? Well, it could definitely have been a story from the pages of that comic (a periodical of note, to quote Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York).
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
No they didn't have 2000ad in Japan. The Japanese people I have shown it to are not in the slightest bit interested. They don't like the art or stories.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
But! If this Cowboy Bebop thing had been in that periodical of note, it would definitely have been a hit with Toothy readers.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Whereas the progs that have shown here have elicited interest. But it won't catch on, being a tiny British comic that doesn't have the money and marketing power of the likes of Marvel or DC. Nothing to do with stories or art, IMHO.
In the meantime, Gloria (3 eps in) is fascinating but so grim for the women characters.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
If it's available on Netflix UK, would highly recommend Hell or High Water. It's a heist movie set in Texas, starring Jeff Bridges as a ranger who's about to retire who is hoping to catch some bank robbers - Chris Pine and Ben Foster. It's like a modern take on the vanishing wild west, and vanishing lands and locals. Not at all what expected, in a good way. Without spoilers, you get to know who the real villains are by the end of the film.
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
Totally. And the first episode was an almost frame for frame recreation of the original. I think it's amazing and I wasn't particularly obsessed with the anime.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Ah to be as precise as a Thompson twin - I was watching the cartoon original. I'm not sure I'll bother with this live action remake. . .
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Apparently Hellbound has already beaten Squid Game as the most successful Netflix series launch ever. I am liking enough but one episode from the end I would still rate Squid Game a bit higher and more gripping. Interesting to see it doesn’t seem to be being talked about ‘on the street’ as much as Squid Game despite enjoying even bigger viewing figures.
Credit where it’s due though, very intriguing premise and one episode from the end I still don’t know where this is going…
Credit where it’s due though, very intriguing premise and one episode from the end I still don’t know where this is going…
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Have you seen Kingdom? Hear it's pretty good.
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No I haven’t yet…
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