ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Tetris film? That sounds interesting.
Netflix recommendations
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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We’re on episode 7. And once they get the most outrageous bits out of their system (though a degree of WTFness remains through the series), there’s actually good storyline to be had.
Funny as fuck, and very watchable
Were you all watching the same thing I was?
I put it on tonight with great expectations after these very favorable recommendations. OTT comedy action bollocks from the creators of cobra kai. Sounds perfect!
Man what an absolute stinker in pretty much every way possible.
Not funny, not exciting or thrilling and all the characters are unbearably irritating.
Booooo.
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Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Miserable twat hasn’t even put the tree up this yearOfficial seal of approval then.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
How unnecessarily rude.Miserable twat hasn’t even put the tree up this year
And irrelevant.
How does that have anything to do with this?
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
You honestly made it sound like it was right up my street. I genuinely can't see what you guys are seeing that I am not. It's not even shit good.Official seal of approval then.
T & P
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I don’t anyone has suggested it’s highbrow, sophisticated, well written or even well acted comedy- just that it’s funny as fuck. Puerile to the extreme, so not for everyone. But then puerile comedy can be very funny.
Admittedly the first episode feels like this is going to be awful, but the show really finds its legs before episode 2 is finished, and gets better and more three-dimensional with every passing episode.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I don't like anything T & P says is good. That's not written to insult, it's just a fact. I find most of it dumb and empty.
You tend to know when something is bad, and say so. Which I like.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
And I didn't say I needed something to be highbrow or sophisticated for me to enjoy it. As I said, I was going on the rave write ups that I read on this page. More than anything else I was expecting it to be over the top, bombastic and "Funny as fuck" purile fun.
It wasn't that crazy and it certainly wasn't as funny as fuck.
Usually when loads of people rave about something and it sounds like the sort of thing I would like, it is at the very very least OK on some level. I really didn't expect it to be this much of a steaming turd.
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None taken! I've always believed in 'it's a matter of opinion' when it comes to films and TV shows. People have different tastes, and that's fine.
Though in my defence, I have vocally praised if not created threads for the likes of Breaking Bad, Fargo, White Lotus, Maniac, Severance, Black Mirror, Inside No. 9, Succession, Better Call Saul, Justified, Parks and Recreation, Fleabag, Slow Horses, Beef, The Bear, Stranger Things, and undoubtedly several dozen others I can't be arsed to search for that enjoy nearly universal praise in here.
I can only imagine it's the fact that I also happen to like a fair amount of shows that some people find really shit that sticks to the minds of a few people in here. Unless of course you and anyone else who sees me as a reverse recommendation guide actually think the shows I name above are actually dumb and empty.
Not you, but the lack of self awareness and double standards by some posters when it comes to judging cheap thrill entertainment films and series in this forum is laughable. Literally being told 'you only like dumb shit stuff' by people who make a project of watching the entire film catalogue of actors whose great majority of films are so dreadful, you'd see better plot and acting in a porn flick.
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AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Le Chant du Loup is excellent French submarine thriller.
"The film is about a submarine's sonar operator, Chanteraide (François Civil), who must use his brilliant sense of hearing to track down a French ballistic missile submarine and end the threat of nuclear war." - Wikipedia
Here's the trailer:
"The film is about a submarine's sonar operator, Chanteraide (François Civil), who must use his brilliant sense of hearing to track down a French ballistic missile submarine and end the threat of nuclear war." - Wikipedia
Here's the trailer:
It's all a matter of taste etc.
Some people (not just here) can get very protective about their favourite things and thus get very offended when their precious is dissed.
There's shows that you I've championed over the years, and it's always nice when others agree. But it bothers less and less when such shows are dismissed, or bailed out of after ten minutes or whatever.
Everyone has different life experiences and ways of seeing/enjoying stuff. There's not really a need to convince folks to come on board with a show.
If some truly believe that there's nothing decent on telly/streaming and they want to revisit old shows and films... it's no big deal.
Fwiw, although might poke fun at some choices here and there, all choices are equally valid. And always looking forward to reading people's picks here.
(Apart from pornhub. What the hell is that all about?)
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I did enjoy that, but even by the standards of the likes of The Hunt for Red October it's fucking ludicrous!
It does that thing where I know it's not meant to be serious, but it stretches credulity anyhow.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
To be fair, I'll watch anything with Michael Caine in it, even if it is shit....
Harry Brown is a dreadful movie, but I still tell myself it's a bit like Get Carter.
I've only finished four of the shows you name above. I do have Beef on my list to watch, but I might take it off now
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
That I've somehow managed to watch 3 times.
This was good though.I do have Beef on my list to watch, but I might take it off now
I also take his recommendation as a sign it's not for me. No meanness intended, we clearly have opposite taste.
There are one or two other posters who are in the he same category for me.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
it wasn't for me, but I only watched the first one. It's probably not 'bad' but it just seemed like it would be a whole series based on escalating petty revenge which just made me feel sad and irritated rather than entertained.I've only finished four of the shows you name above. I do have Beef on my list to watch, but I might take it off now
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
That's basically what's put me off starting it. I saw some clips on Gogglebox and thought 'is this 10 episodes of people being horrible to each other?'
I can get on the tube and watch that daily...
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yes. It's something I never find entertaining. A lot of reality shows seem to encourage and thrive on it. It makes for miserable viewing and a bad aftertaste.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Well I am just going on episode one which made me just feel miserable . . . I think I might have even switched it off before the end. Fair play if it doesn't continue in the same vein, but going by the title I just figured it would get worse.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Rebel Moon. I'm only 15 minutes in, but it's comically shit. Why do people still allow snider to make films? He might be able to do visuals (if only he woukd stop all the stylised slo mo shit), but he simply can't tell a story, even when that story is already written for him. . . How does anyone expect him to tell his own story?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I'm watching a Swedish series "Nearly normal family" and it's pretty good so far.
I tried that daft shooty, bomby, fighty Vegas nonsense but it's really not my thing.
I'm much happier with some dour nordic types and a dash of murder...
I tried that daft shooty, bomby, fighty Vegas nonsense but it's really not my thing.
I'm much happier with some dour nordic types and a dash of murder...
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Bodies is very good so far. I'm in the middle of episode three. I thought it was going to be a regular contemporary police procedural/cop show, but it's more intriguing than that, and is also set in different eras, set in the past and future.
If you enjoy this, Dark is well worth watching and not as clunky.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I did watch the first season of Dark and thought it was good. And then I tried to watch season two, but it had just been too long between the two seasons, which had been released in... just checked... December 2017 and June 2019 respectively, and so I struggled with what was happening and who was who.
I really wanted to find out what it was all about but was hampered by that time lag and also that I have mild prosopagnosia (face blindness), so I struggled to tell the characters apart, especially the male characters, who mostly looked vaguely similar.
Especially when there wasn't just one version of the characters to keep track of, but sometimes three different versions, of various ages. And when I struggled to tell them apart in the first place, adding different ages of the same characters was too much for me.
Unlike Bodies where the main characters so far include... not really spoilers here as such but descriptions of characters who people might not have come across yet, so hiding in a spoiler tag...
a contemporary African-Asian woman cop, two teenagers who are British Asian or have blond hair and piercing blue eyes, a ginger journalist with period mutton chop side beards, period cop with bushy beard, a different era cop with a pencil moustache, a futuristic woman cop with a severe fringe and undercrop, plus Stephen Graham. So many of the characters look completely different, except when they're played by the same person
So the characters mostly look quite different in Bodies. Also, watching Dark, whereas in an English language show I would also use accents to help me differentiate between the characters, like Cockney, Midlands, Northern, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or various American accents, watching this German show, I didn't and don't know enough German to be able to distinguish accents to help me tell people apart. (Although given Dark was supposed to take part in a small town, not sure that would've helped either.)
And going back to visuals, the way Dark was filmed was more, erm, dark, lots of night scenes, cave scenes etc, so again it was hard to see which character was which.
It was a shame, because like I said I really did want to know what happened in Dark, what I saw of it was good and intriguing.
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ska invita
back on the other side
Just parking this here so I can remember what its called
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
star wars without the star wars supposedly
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