friendofdorothy
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Moves to Heaven - quirky korean tv series. Loved it. Im enjoying watching things from Korea or scandinavia. Makes a great change from USA stuff.
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Aladdin
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Mrs Miggins
It’s all happening tomorrow
The original Mexican version is ace so it I'd give it a whirl.
magneze
🎧
It's good, but be aware the final 5th series isn't on Netflix yet.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
It starts off well but loses momentum
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I'm really enjoying the 'Being Elmo' documentary. Surprisingly interesting.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Today I enjoyed 'Girlfriend's Day' with Bob Odenkirk.
It was actually so 'Odenkwerky' that I thought BO wrote it (like a long, slightly more subdued Mr Show sketch). . . .but he didn't. He did produce it though.
Thumbs up.
It was actually so 'Odenkwerky' that I thought BO wrote it (like a long, slightly more subdued Mr Show sketch). . . .but he didn't. He did produce it though.
Thumbs up.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Just watched the Whole Nine Yards for the first time.
Pretty shite. Look and plays out like an early 80s flick, hard to believe it was this millennium. People bang once with no character development and are suddenly the loves of each others life? Oh it's pitiful, but could have easily gone down a far more cynical dark or even avaunt garde route and been more entertaining.
Perry is playing his same Chandler character from Friends, which gave me an idea . . . this is how the 'Friends' movie/s should have been. Just take all of the actors and character traits and put them in a stand alone fantasy situation. You'd be a lot more forgiving of the vanilla script and the actors would have a lot more fun, without having to stretch out some daft cannon shark jumping event.
Just don't know who Ross would have been without getting shot.
Pretty shite. Look and plays out like an early 80s flick, hard to believe it was this millennium. People bang once with no character development and are suddenly the loves of each others life? Oh it's pitiful, but could have easily gone down a far more cynical dark or even avaunt garde route and been more entertaining.
Perry is playing his same Chandler character from Friends, which gave me an idea . . . this is how the 'Friends' movie/s should have been. Just take all of the actors and character traits and put them in a stand alone fantasy situation. You'd be a lot more forgiving of the vanilla script and the actors would have a lot more fun, without having to stretch out some daft cannon shark jumping event.
Just don't know who Ross would have been without getting shot.
mango5
Endeavour era
A lovely show, well spotted, thanks
Reno
The In Kraut
I've started to watch The Silent Sea, a new Korean sci-fi show about a mission to the moon in the near future to retrieve some mysterious samples from a research station and everything goes wrong from the start. I'm two episodes in and I'm enjoying it so far. It keeps up the tension nicely, the art direction and production values are first class and it stars the always great Bae Doona.
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I've got that on my list too, love Doona Bae. Is it something the whole family can enjoy? 14 year olds?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I've got that on my list too, love Doona Bae. Is it something the whole family can enjoy? 14 year olds?
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
the trailer has roped me in. Going to have check this out ASAP. Two of the actors I've seen somewhere else, I can't put my finger on it.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Looking fwd to seeing this, too. She's a brilliant actor.
Misread your question as "4 year olds". 14 year olds watch what they want (esp these days) and that was my experience many years ago. Could happily flip between Doctor Who and/or The Godfather.
Reno
The In Kraut
So far there is nothing that would be inappropriate for a 14 old, but I'm only two episodes in.
Reno
The In Kraut
At least four of the cast members were in Squid Game, including lead actor Gong Yoo, who also played the father in Train to Busan. Due to her work with the Wachowskis (Cloud Atlas, Sense 8) Bae Doona is probably the most internationally famous South Korean actress. She's also been in some of the biggest South Korean films over the last couple of decades (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, The Host, Air Doll) and she stars in the Netflix series Kingdom.
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Sympathy for Mr vengeance is maybe my favourite Korean film (though I have not seen it in years).
She also does a great turn in Linda Linda Linda with surprisingly good Japanese.
I have fond memories of her in cloud atlas, though I think I inject a lot of what happened in the book into my memory of the film.
She seems to be able to do light-hearted and quirky roles as easily has quite hard, cold characters.
She also does a great turn in Linda Linda Linda with surprisingly good Japanese.
I have fond memories of her in cloud atlas, though I think I inject a lot of what happened in the book into my memory of the film.
She seems to be able to do light-hearted and quirky roles as easily has quite hard, cold characters.
I watched The Ponds on Netflix which I recommend if you fancy watching something quite soothing. Was about an hour long.
Trailer:
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Trailer:
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A hit in UK cinemas and now available worldwide, THE PONDS is a film about the year-round swimmers who brave all weathers to swim in the healing waters of Hampstead…
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
2 eps into season 3 of Money Heist. Feels contrived, plot-wise but... but despite all that ludicrous blimpery, we're enjoying it.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I love Bae Doona mostly for her being one of the leads in Sense8 which was utterly awesome but probably NOT suitable for 14 year olds
I mean I was reading smutty fiction at that age but there is a bit of difference between reading stuff and seeing mass orgies on screen iykwim.I did start watching The Silent Sea but like a lot of things got interrupted this week due to really really shit and miserable IRL stuff. Will catch up soon, I was enjoying it. Where I had got to so far seemed suitable for a teen audience but I cannot speak for the last couple of episodes.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Watched the first silent sea. I'm not impressed so far, but it's only been one episode, and my wife seems to be liking it, as do other people here so let's continue. Bit irritated that some of the science seems to be off (I'm happy to be proved wrong) which ruined all the jeopardy elements so far. Bad and good things appear to happen more for plot/script convenience than anything else. Only episode one though.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Don’t Look Up - some thoughts;
Awful on too many levels and in too many ways to recount here, but some of the cast put in great performances (esp. Blanchett) and it has some very funny bits (some of which you don’t see coming). Some other members of the stellar cast seem relatively unused (eg. Perlman). And some are uncharacteristically bad (see Streep).
Seems to be unconsciously satirising itself in many places.
Appears to have been written by a bickering committee when it actually just needed one competent screenwriter, and perhaps a physics post-grad to help with the science stuff.
Is much too long. Still, I think there has been some aggressive editing which is exacerbating some plot holes. Like there is a 20 minute sub-plot that has just been cut out or something.
I expect a 4 hour “Director’s Cut” at some point, which will either be a lot better or much, much worse.
Go in with very low expectations and you might get a few laughs from it. Or at least at it.
Awful on too many levels and in too many ways to recount here, but some of the cast put in great performances (esp. Blanchett) and it has some very funny bits (some of which you don’t see coming). Some other members of the stellar cast seem relatively unused (eg. Perlman). And some are uncharacteristically bad (see Streep).
Seems to be unconsciously satirising itself in many places.
Appears to have been written by a bickering committee when it actually just needed one competent screenwriter, and perhaps a physics post-grad to help with the science stuff.
Is much too long. Still, I think there has been some aggressive editing which is exacerbating some plot holes. Like there is a 20 minute sub-plot that has just been cut out or something.
I expect a 4 hour “Director’s Cut” at some point, which will either be a lot better or much, much worse.
Go in with very low expectations and you might get a few laughs from it. Or at least at it.
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8ball
Decolonise colons!
You didn’t get a few laughs from it?
8ball
Decolonise colons!
That’s interesting that you seemed to find it both less funny and better overall. Which seems odd for a comedy.
I’m not sure now whether I was taking it too seriously or not seriously enough, but tbf I do sometimes go a bit against the grain with films for my own odd reasons.
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