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Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Is Beef worth bothering with? The well across all the streamers seems to be running dry.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I always thought some of it was a bit dodgy. It's also too long and totally screws up the tottaly decent slow burning friendship, opting instead for an boring and inappropriate attraction / romance.
It has always looked to me like a little rich girls half baked idea saved by a an excellent crew.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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BTW, I see Triangle Of Sadness has been added.
A fairly recent film I enjoyed. Worth checking out.
A fairly recent film I enjoyed. Worth checking out.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The age gap is a bit concerning, unless it's deliberately meant to be a male midlife crisis taking place.
It's good in places, though. That dreamlike quality of Tokyo is very much the outsider's perception of it.
Certain Bill Murray films don't age well.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
They made a film about hash browns?
T & P
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Absolutely fucking brilliant. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a proper wrong’un and no mistake. Pretty much went home with most main category awards it was nominated for.
Beef | Rotten Tomatoes
Two strangers get into a road rage incident that brings chaos into their lives.
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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It just pissed me off. I thought they were two very different people who found a friendship and connection while very disconnected from their surroundings. I thought that was great. I thought Johanneson was upset / disappointed at Murray for cheating on his wife. . . No, it turns our she was jealous, and the only reason Murray made a 'connection' with Scarlet (who was young and already had a husband) was because he was thinking with his dick. Ruined the whole nature of the film for me. I thought it was saying something sweet about friendship across age and social boundaries.
That I agree with. That element was very good. This is why I said the crew saved the film. The behind the scenes story seems to suggest Coppla didn't really have a propper plan, shoots were not booked, or fell through and the crew just got on and filmed these bits, sometimes secretly and without permission. . . Just to get something in the can while Coppla had a meltdown elsewhere.
I also liked the film for the fact that it managed to get Kevin Shields to write his only decent new song since Isn't Anything (City Girl). His other soundtrack offerings were shite though.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I thoroughly enjoyed this, well worth a watch.
I really really liked Beef.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I gave up after a couple of episodes. YMMV
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I'd never heard of it or new anything about it, so I watched it without having the slightest idea of what was about to happen. Epic! Had to watch in two sittings, as it's long, but I really enjoyed it. I like that I get to imagine what happens at the end.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Indeed. You said in one 'to the point' sentence what I was trying to convey in a long meandering late night word vomit.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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There is a lot to like. Plenty to think about, laugh about, some great tension and I do love a good film to have an ending people can discuss and speculate about.
I'd like to see it again, but there are some bits that will never give you quite the same experience when you know the outcome.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Me too. . . . well, just one episode for me. I just didn't like the escalating ugliness and misfortune that seemed to be the basis (from the set up and the title) for the whole series. I remember asking on here if it continued in that vein. I didn't want to see six hours of unhappiness and people acting like jerks. So far nobody has changed my mind with their reviews.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Never liked it
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Japanese time travel TV show Extremely Inappropriate is getting well weird. I know it's supposed to be odd, but it's quite fun seeing them worry about the damaging effects of time travel while simultaneously not giving two shits about going backwards and forwards. . . all in a very localised casual / matter of fact setting. They switch between being amazed and blase and nobody thinks about taking advantage of the situation (perhaps beyond the opportunity of re watching a popular 80s soap on the telly)
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Watched Free Solo again last night.
Incredible and scary at the same time. How his girlfriend copes, I don't know
Incredible and scary at the same time. How his girlfriend copes, I don't know
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Netflix?
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
They've now got 2 children together. I don't think he's free solo'ing much/at all any more.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I watched about five minutes of the making of Rebel Moon because I'd never seen Zak Snyder talking before and was curious as to how big a twit he is. He wears bad shoes!
It turns out that everyone working on it was an idiot (or idiot enough to be interviewed and say things like 'super exciting' or 'Zak loves world building'), but what was most obvious is that they must have spent a fucking fortune on those two piss weak films. There were so many practical effects and life size sets. Pre-production alone must have burnt through the cash. What a waste!
It turns out that everyone working on it was an idiot (or idiot enough to be interviewed and say things like 'super exciting' or 'Zak loves world building'), but what was most obvious is that they must have spent a fucking fortune on those two piss weak films. There were so many practical effects and life size sets. Pre-production alone must have burnt through the cash. What a waste!
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
MMDV indeed. Abandoned ship 30 mins into the first. The female lead and her husband were implausible caricatures of something which if it exists, only does so in Los Angeles.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The Asunta Case is very interesting. It's a Spanish 6 parter about an apparently famous murder of a girl in Galicia.
It gives a fascinating insight into the bizarre (if true) way that criminal investigations are conducted in Spain, basically in public, with the lawyers and police reporting the whole investigation to the press as it develops.
It gives a fascinating insight into the bizarre (if true) way that criminal investigations are conducted in Spain, basically in public, with the lawyers and police reporting the whole investigation to the press as it develops.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Secrets of the Neanderthals. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.
A pleasant 80mins. Nothing that anyone with an interest in the topic won’t already know. Apart from the facial reconstruction that they save until the end, but that was in the news in the last couple of days anyway.
I spotted two errors in the narration, so there are probably more. (45,000 years ago isn’t the Neolithic, it’s the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic. And we don’t “all” have Neanderthal DNA: people with only sub-Saharan ancestry don’t. People with European ancestry do). But that’s the fault of the script and production team, not the scientists featured.
But some lovely photography and footage of ongoing archeology from Shanidar and other sites. And some archive footage of Ralph Solecki.
And of course, it’s one of the great stories. Our close human cousins.
A pleasant 80mins. Nothing that anyone with an interest in the topic won’t already know. Apart from the facial reconstruction that they save until the end, but that was in the news in the last couple of days anyway.
I spotted two errors in the narration, so there are probably more. (45,000 years ago isn’t the Neolithic, it’s the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic. And we don’t “all” have Neanderthal DNA: people with only sub-Saharan ancestry don’t. People with European ancestry do). But that’s the fault of the script and production team, not the scientists featured.
But some lovely photography and footage of ongoing archeology from Shanidar and other sites. And some archive footage of Ralph Solecki.
And of course, it’s one of the great stories. Our close human cousins.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Does it explain their demise?
T & P
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Is it grim? I am not talking about sporadic accounts of graphic violence, which is fine by me if it’s a gripping enough story, but a general theme of utterly horrific and depressing human behaviour that leaves you wishing you hadn’t known about the case. In particular as this is apparently based on a real life story.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The environmental theory.
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