May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I watched it on holiday last week, just brilliant, I couldn't look awayChuffing hell. That was WTF!!! Almost made me scared to go to another festival
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Because you misread the review, which was one of the whole season.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I hadn’t read it at all beyond the headline, for fear of spoilers. Now I have, there’s a bloody big spoiler for the next episode (which is meant to be the actual finest hour of tv). Hey ho
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Have an update on the charming fellow
Briton who was Netflix’s ‘ultimate conman’ flees French police
Robert Hendy-Freegard, subject of Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman documentary, may face attempted murder charges
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It got better, imo. Even I struggled with the first 20 mins, but I had nothing better to do. But I'm not going to promise it's great, because it isn't.
mystic pyjamas
Don't call us,we'll call you.
The Quiet Hour.
Good solid British post apocalyptic film where a brother and sister struggle to survive an ever present alien force that scoops up the Earth's resources and kills any sign of human life it comes across. As if that's not enough to worry about there's also some pesky starving cannibals they have to contend with.
Decent action thriller if you are stuck for something to watch.
Good solid British post apocalyptic film where a brother and sister struggle to survive an ever present alien force that scoops up the Earth's resources and kills any sign of human life it comes across. As if that's not enough to worry about there's also some pesky starving cannibals they have to contend with.
Decent action thriller if you are stuck for something to watch.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Just watched the first episode with subtitles and enjoyed it.
The only annoying thing is the subtitles are closed caption ones.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Neflix recommended me Adam Sandler for some reason, so I started watching some of his modern comedy films on Netflix.
Grown ups 2, Blended, Grown ups, Wrong missy, shit like that.
It's quite fascinating. The films are all terrible and all follow a very boring formula that has the plot just happening with the only character motivation being to stick to this rather dull plot. There is zero character development in any of the films, and all feature several odd scenes where someone suddenly just changes their mind about something to get the 'plot' back on track.
I can understand a comedy film that has a weak plot linked with a series of sketches, but there generally aren't 'sketches'. It's not funny, just a series of scenes. . . a child might say 'poo' in one, or a woman might have large breasts that make all the men stare.
The morals are really dubious. It's often ok to be a bully and never learn not to be. Sexism a plenty, and everyone is often quite mean to women who are not super models. Physical attributes are there to be made fun of. You can hit and constantly be a dick to a small guy, because he small, and that's funny. Genuinely shocked when David Spade tells one guy at the end of the film (that he has had no dialogue with in the movie up to this point), that he would never do anything to hurt him (despite the group being utter shits to him throughout the film) and he is his best friend in the world. Where did that come from?
The Sandler characters seem to get away with the most. They are generally an absolute arsehole, but I think we as viewers are maybe not supposed to think this? In grown ups, he slaps a guy around the face several times (in a quite spiteful way) for trying to cook everyone a vegan breakfast. 'No bacon' is the reason he is allowed to be a bullying cunt.
The biggest weirdness is the supporting cast. . . why did all these quite famous actors sign up for these films? They are loaded with faces. Can they all have thought the script was decent? It's so obviously a steaming turd (they all are). Is he such a nice guy in real life that everyone just loves being in films with him? I watched some of his famous vintage SNL sketches for research, but they are all insanely unfunny . . . I really don't get it.
Is it all a cheap payday scam for Sandler and his mates? There is certainly a whole load of coke cans in prominent positions. . . Hooters, etc etc.
So far I have laughed only once. I can't even understand why though (a policeman in grown ups 2 said '. . . in my pants' in a comedy voice with a nicely paced delivery).
It's utterly bewildering yet fascinating.
Grown ups 2, Blended, Grown ups, Wrong missy, shit like that.
It's quite fascinating. The films are all terrible and all follow a very boring formula that has the plot just happening with the only character motivation being to stick to this rather dull plot. There is zero character development in any of the films, and all feature several odd scenes where someone suddenly just changes their mind about something to get the 'plot' back on track.
I can understand a comedy film that has a weak plot linked with a series of sketches, but there generally aren't 'sketches'. It's not funny, just a series of scenes. . . a child might say 'poo' in one, or a woman might have large breasts that make all the men stare.
The morals are really dubious. It's often ok to be a bully and never learn not to be. Sexism a plenty, and everyone is often quite mean to women who are not super models. Physical attributes are there to be made fun of. You can hit and constantly be a dick to a small guy, because he small, and that's funny. Genuinely shocked when David Spade tells one guy at the end of the film (that he has had no dialogue with in the movie up to this point), that he would never do anything to hurt him (despite the group being utter shits to him throughout the film) and he is his best friend in the world. Where did that come from?
The Sandler characters seem to get away with the most. They are generally an absolute arsehole, but I think we as viewers are maybe not supposed to think this? In grown ups, he slaps a guy around the face several times (in a quite spiteful way) for trying to cook everyone a vegan breakfast. 'No bacon' is the reason he is allowed to be a bullying cunt.
The biggest weirdness is the supporting cast. . . why did all these quite famous actors sign up for these films? They are loaded with faces. Can they all have thought the script was decent? It's so obviously a steaming turd (they all are). Is he such a nice guy in real life that everyone just loves being in films with him? I watched some of his famous vintage SNL sketches for research, but they are all insanely unfunny . . . I really don't get it.
Is it all a cheap payday scam for Sandler and his mates? There is certainly a whole load of coke cans in prominent positions. . . Hooters, etc etc.
So far I have laughed only once. I can't even understand why though (a policeman in grown ups 2 said '. . . in my pants' in a comedy voice with a nicely paced delivery).
It's utterly bewildering yet fascinating.
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I love how you've put the work in there ATOMIC SUPLEX so we don't have to
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
The Staircase - starring Colin Firth about a man who finds his wife dead at the bottom of the stairs. Really liking this although not quite finished yet, it really keeps you guessing. Seems it's based on a true story, I really want to say more but it's best seen knowing nothing about it because it's easily spoilered.
Reno
The In Kraut
The documentary series it’s based on should also be on Netflix. It made a big splash a couple of decades ago and is considered the daddy of modern true crime series.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Oh is that actually on Netflix now? I've seen the documentary on Netflix but thought the film was going on some other streaming service
nobody ever went broke underestimating etc...
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Yeah I'll look that up next. It was interesting how the filming of the documentary has been incorporated into the dramatization.
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platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Oh it seems I posted this on the wrong thread, I meant to put it on the whodunnit thread. No idea where it can be streamed tbh.
Reno
The In Kraut
I read that the drama series is very good and I’d watch Toni Collette read the phone book. I’ll catch up with it the next time I’ll get a Netflix subscription.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I like what I am hearing. I will check it out.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
A few documentaries.
Barbaric genius. A profile of writer, ex-wino (his phrase) , and chess champion John Healy. His book The Grass Arena about his life as a dosser is very good and the reason that his publisher took it out of print is explained here. I enjoyed seeing him on screen so much that I'm completely unable to say whether the documentary is any good.
Bad Sports is a netflix documentary series where the title obviously came first and they had to scrabble around for subjects. The first one about a basketball betting scandal should go more into the levels of contrition or regret the protagonists have.
The second one about a weed smuggling racing driver is less of a sport story but has more insight from the people
Barbaric genius. A profile of writer, ex-wino (his phrase) , and chess champion John Healy. His book The Grass Arena about his life as a dosser is very good and the reason that his publisher took it out of print is explained here. I enjoyed seeing him on screen so much that I'm completely unable to say whether the documentary is any good.
Bad Sports is a netflix documentary series where the title obviously came first and they had to scrabble around for subjects. The first one about a basketball betting scandal should go more into the levels of contrition or regret the protagonists have.
The second one about a weed smuggling racing driver is less of a sport story but has more insight from the people
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Are you in another country? Can only find the documentary on Netflix, not a Colin Firth film.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Yeah they already said above that they posted on the wrong thread - the film isn't on Netflix unfortunately
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Boo. Where is it?
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Sky/NowTV I think
Reno
The In Kraut
I just checked (Wikipedia is your friend in such cases) and it's HBO Max not Netflix. It's a series though, nöt a film.
T & P
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I want to watch it but will have to wait until I’ve finished the dramatised series of it on Sky.
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