Comedy drama about a guy trying to make ends meet in Texas and not having papers, being an undocumented immigrant... sounds grim but it's quite heartfelt and genuinely lol in parts.
If you like Better Call Saul and/or Atlanta - this might be your thing.
Yes, very good. Definitely a good comparison in appeal to Atlanta and finally something really good from Netflix after a good while.
Looking forward to series 2. And even his stand up set on Netflix is enjoyable and I don't usually like stand up.
I'd say it pretty much depends on whether you like Zak Snyder's work or not. If you like an action film that's basically a bunch of really well crafted music videos hung together with absolutely nothing connecting them, then it's great. See Sucker Punch. It's more of the same.
I'd say it pretty much depends on whether you like Zak Snyder's work or not. If you like an action film that's basically a bunch of really well crafted music videos hung together with absolutely nothing connecting them, then it's great. See Sucker Punch. It's more of the same.
Yeah, it's a shame they gave it to him. There's plenty of space to do star wars-ish stuff, or perhaps star wars/firefly cross stuff, but if you want someone to turn a good idea into soulless eye candy with posturing in place of characters then Snyder is your man.
I'd say it pretty much depends on whether you like Zak Snyder's work or not. If you like an action film that's basically a bunch of really well crafted music videos hung together with absolutely nothing connecting them, then it's great. See Sucker Punch. It's more of the same.
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.
Yes, very good. Definitely a good comparison in appeal to Atlanta and finally something really good from Netflix after a good while.
Looking forward to series 2. And even his stand up set on Netflix is enjoyable and I don't usually like stand up.
Yeah, no one else on here has commented on it even though it's way better than some of the other comedies like Fisk and Beef, which are both ok to good but not much more imo.
Uncharted (with Marky Mark and Tom Holland) is a bit duff though.
undiscovered secret tunnel thousands of years old cuts through a rave and is under a street with a modern drain hole on top . . . But nobody has noticed it before? Golden keys are needed, but it would have been easier to copy them than obtain them. I don't mind outlandish indiana Jones tunnels, but it's just stupid when they run though a town centre and nobody has ever noticed them. Especially when you can literally see into them down a drain in the street.
Uncharted (with Marky Mark and Tom Holland) is a bit duff though.
undiscovered secret tunnel thousands of years old cuts through a rave and is under a street with a modern drain hole on top . . . But nobody has noticed it before? Golden keys are needed, but it would have been easier to copy them than obtain them. I don't mind outlandish indiana Jones tunnels, but it's just stupid when they run though a town centre and nobody has ever noticed them. Especially when you can literally see into them down a drain in the street.
Sucker punch was a good idea, but it shows you in the first five minutes that snyder does not know how to construct a story. . . . Protagonist gets stomped on and thown a mile by a gigantic monster. No harm is done, no jeopardy. You just watch 'stuff' happen . . .this continues to the end getting less and less interesting as it goes.
I understand why people might want him to be in charge of the camera (though I personally think his stuff looks shit and unimaginative) but I have no idea why people let him have a free rein on scripts . . . His track record is dreadful.
I had it on last night. It's absolutely dreadful. In . every. way.
Too much to comment on. Its a two hour film and I was cringing at a bad film making decision at least every minute.
On top of it being laughably shit.
His slowmos are redicliously frequent and look horribly dated. Generally bringing nothing to some fairly bland and pointless action. It's worse than those star trek lens flares.
And we have still hot the x rated 'snyder' cut to look forward to. Apparently it needs more sex and violence for snyders true vision to be realised. . As if that is what this mess needs to make it more cohesive.
I had it on last night. It's absolutely dreadful. In . every. way.
Too much to comment on. Its a two hour film and I was cringing at a bad film making decision at least every minute.
On top of it being laughably shit.
His slowmos are redicliously frequent and look horribly dated. Generally bringing nothing to some fairly bland and pointless action. It's worse than those star trek lens flares.
And we have still hot the x rated 'snyder' cut to look forward to. Apparently it needs more sex and violence for snyders true vision to be realised. . As if that is what this mess needs to make it more cohesive.
Rebel Moon is not like Jupiter Ascending and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
It's not completely dreadful, but it's bland and stale. There's nothing new to genre here, it's like a sci-fi/fantasy greatest hits compilation but all the magic is immediately reduced to muzak.
. . . really quite liked both of those film too. I watched Valerian a couple of times. This is not like that. It's just bad. It's got no soul. It's got no story, it's got no jeopardy.
You know the cinematic rule 'show don't tell' . . . this is the opposite of that. And It's full of backstory but no why? There is no heart, no reason for anything, it just is.
Rebel Moon is not like Jupiter Ascending and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
It's not completely dreadful, but it's bland and stale. There's nothing new to genre here, it's like a sci-fi/fantasy greatest hits compilation but all the magic is immediately reduced to muzak.
have to agree with atomic on this one exposition ( here one more with a 2 minute back story) is no substitute for giving you characters you give a fuck about
Outstanding animated film from a graphic novel, which sees the title character, who is a shapeshifter, joining the disgraced knight Ballister Blackheart in his plans to destroy the over-controlling Institute, in a feudal-techno society.
Great story, excellent voice acting, all the feels, lots to say about inclusion and dealing with people as they are, rather than getting all tied up with why they are how they are. Bloody brilliant.
Edit to add: it's also funny, but with shades of Frankenstein and King Kong. I'm going to be thinking about it for a while, it really was excellent
Outstanding animated film from a graphic novel, which sees the title character, who is a shapeshifter, joining the disgraced knight Ballister Blackheart in his plans to destroy the over-controlling Institute, in a feudal-techno society.
Great story, excellent voice acting, all the feels, lots to say about inclusion and dealing with people as they are, rather than getting all tied up with why they are how they are. Bloody brilliant.
Edit to add: it's also funny, but with shades of Frankenstein and King Kong. I'm going to be thinking about it for a while, it really was excellent
Yes it was alright. I liked the messages bubbling underneath. Nothing patronising or in your face. Should have been a bigger hit. That one about the Willoughbys saving the world should have been a cinema smash too.
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