ATOMIC SUPLEX
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What makes is a homage? Is that an official statement from the makers or just something you think?Just watched the Twin Peaks homage episode in Psych. Fucking amazing in every respect
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I am forced to admit that against all my better instincts, I quite loved Axel F.
Of all the 80s reboots they’ve tried to make in the last 10 years or so, this is the only one that has genuinely felt like a 1980s movie — light-hearted and silly but also a plot you can hum and sentimentally feel-good. No archness or irony, no over-the-top call-backs, no “we’re making an 80s movie but we’re not really” or the introduction of unnecessary children to reach new demographics, just the nostalgia of feeling like you’ve discovered a missing Beverly Hills Cop film (and not the rubbish 1990s third one). I laughed, and I rarely laugh at films these days
Interesting. Maybe I should give it another try. I couldn't finish it, but I don't think I was paying it enough attention (I can't remember why, but it wasn't getting my full eyeballin')
I thought Murphy had lost all his youthful joy (but why shouldn't he). I did like the 'My two dads' guy actually falling on his sword for axel and being a really great mate after all. I also liked the fact that (as you say) it was an 80s movie without being an 80s movie. Scenes shot to 80s music, with the same cut style because the characters were in their heyday when the the 80s happened is reason enough. . . . if you were soundtracking my walk to tesco metro to get some oat milk it would probably be the same.
I heard Richard Osman really rave about it too.
T & P
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The fact that the premise is based on Twin Peaks, the very title of the episode is a nod to it, and most importantly, that practically every main lead from TP who is still alive appears in this episode
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Sorry I don't know anything about it. Just asking.The fact that the premise is based on Twin Peaks, the very title of the episode is a nod to it, and most importantly, that practically every main lead from TP who is still alive appears in this episode
Was the entire series created with this in mind?
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Oh hang on. . . I misread your original post. It's just one episode spoof or something. Not a series created as a homage.
Never heard of Psych. What is it about? Is it a comedy?
T & P
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Neither had we until it recently appeared on Netflix. It is an award winning crime comedy that span eight seasons and had three spin off films about a man with remarkable memory and powers of observation, which he uses to blag his way into the position of a poice physic consultant. It's surprisingly watchable and gets better with every season. The creator is an 80s & 90s TV and cinema nerd and many episodes have nods in their plot to anything from The X-Files to Star Trek, and very often featuring cameos from actors from those shows.
It's silly, but very easy to watch and some of the crime plots are quite ingenious.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I'm fairly sure it used to be on afternoon tv during the week. Maybe channel 5 or 4....I saw a few episodes. It may have been on alongside Monk at some point...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
That’s not an indication of quality, is it?
In fact, it’s a red flag.
Can’t wait to read a rave T & P review of Doctors when Netflix acquires it
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It totally belongs alongside Monk. Though Psych is even less serious, if that's possible.
It's good fluff. You need fluff sometimes.
T & P
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Is it red flag? Really? Because no quality TV show ever made had its beginnings in a low-audicence channel or broadcast at outside of the evening time. Right...That’s not an indication of quality, is it?
In fact, it’s a red flag.
Can’t wait to read a rave T & P review of Doctors when Netflix acquires it
Anways, what do the overwhelming majority of critics and audicences alike know? If I liked it, it can't possibly be anything other than shit
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I am not as impressed at an audience rating as you are. A high audience rating is not an indication of quality. It is an indication of popularity. Lots of popular things are shit, esp tv shows.
I was just making a funny though.
I was just making a funny though.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
That’s not an indication of quality, is it?
In fact, it’s a red flag.
Can’t wait to read a rave T & P review of Doctors when Netflix acquires it
No. I quite enjoyed the episodes I did see. It was probably out of step with the other TV shows that were popular at that time because it was episodic, light hearted and not anti-hero driven. Likewise, Monk was a daytime TV show here and I always enjoyed that a lot. There were other US shows that seemed to end up on during daytime/early evening around the same period; The Mentalist rings a bell, although I never watched that at all. I'm probably going to watch all of Psych now it is on Netflix. It'll do me when I am eating my dinner.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
42 minutes of fluff isn't even the same type of entertainment as a solid 60+ minutes of, say, Shogun. You miss 30 seconds of Shogun and it's "What the fuck is happening now, I have to rewind". You takena pee break during Psych and forget to pause and it's... eh, I'll just keep watching. I can't unwind watching serious stuff, and that seems to be common given how popular this sort of thing is.
Or to put it differently... I can watch Psych and post on urban. I can't do that with "great" stuff.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I find that utterly mystifying, but hey ho, horses for courses.
I can only watch tv that demands my attention, which involves actively watching it with no distractions. If it’s fluff, there’s no point having it on, cos attention will drift.
I can only watch tv that demands my attention, which involves actively watching it with no distractions. If it’s fluff, there’s no point having it on, cos attention will drift.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Can we please stop talking down the (admittedly misunderstood) Beverly Hills Cop 3? When me mum and dad first got some moody hacked sky dish, we had all the channels, and BHC3 had just been released (Usual Suspects and Naked Gun 3 iirc) ...I must have watched it so many times just because I could. The future! But it has the return of Serge, Rosewood and the Cheif guy have more depth, and the big elephant having a go back at the annoying kid is funnier than it sounds.
It's a very different film to the grittier first two. Not necessarily poorer*, but always poorly received if people expect the same look and feel of the first 2. Basically it's like the Godfather trilogy.
*Sure, it is poorer, but still.
It's a very different film to the grittier first two. Not necessarily poorer*, but always poorly received if people expect the same look and feel of the first 2. Basically it's like the Godfather trilogy.
*Sure, it is poorer, but still.
T & P
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I need to watch 3 again as I remember very little of it, or no. 2 for that matter. It certainly seems to be the Attack of the Clones of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise as far as popular opinion goes.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
2 was so awful, such a drop in quality, couldn't bring myself to watching 3.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
I find it impossible to watch tv like that, it's too passive for me!
I have to be doing something else at the same time.
We're all different.
T & P
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The only thing I remember about 3 is that it was set (partially at least) at an amusement park. I love amusement so that’s one plus point out of the start line for me.
Seriously though, Alex F is a long-term sequel done right. Similarly to what Maverick managed in relation to Top Gun, it blends the right dose of nostalgia and fan service nods to the original film into the film plot, as well as the use of legacy characters, without relying heavily on them to prop up the narrative’s quality. Certainly recommended to fans of the original.
I’ve always thought unplanned sequels produced two decades after the original are far more likely to be good than unplanned sequels made two years after.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I can't remember much about the first one. . .
Guy from my two dads being infuriated.
Axel blags a mansion
Judge Reinhold makes a cute face getting excited about shooting guns or smashing things up.
Axel pretends he has a bomb in brown bag, sprinkles water on his face.
Everyone is dancing in the disco to the theme music. Early digital house rave bop. My brother buys the single . . . I prefer the B side 'shoot out'.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Possibly. It varies. As mentioned before, am not against sequels at all but at the time (when it was released) was just disappointed with BHC2. Have never seen it since.
The better half has expressed an interest in seeing it, the new one, so will report back when we get round to it.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I've just watched this and loved it. Plenty of no no no No No NOOOOO moments of up very very high up shots.
I found it very moving at the end. They are very brave. And have a lot of strength and stamina.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Did first four episodes of The Influencer (Korean game show) - Really watchable especially from the viewpoint of realising, with some horror, how the world has changed - and how many people all over the world actually make a living out of 'influencing' other people... It explores trolling and how negative attention is seen as better than no attention at all.
Guardian review (I didn't feels as despairing of it as the review, and I thought some of it was enterntaining enough). There's spoilers in the review...
www.theguardian.com
Guardian review (I didn't feels as despairing of it as the review, and I thought some of it was enterntaining enough). There's spoilers in the review...
The Influencer review – judging by these social media stars, humanity’s future is bleak
Truth doesn’t matter as Korean influencers battle for popularity in this reality TV show. It’s a horribly compelling insight into their world
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Currently 3 episodes into a seemingly supernatural Icelandic drama; Katla.
If you like Dark/The Returned/Outer Range, this might be for you.
If you like Dark/The Returned/Outer Range, this might be for you.
ash
Inittogether
I’m really enjoying Kleo. It’s the story of a female Stasi assassin. Very stylised and amazing cinematography/scenery/sets - it is set in the 70s- 90’s (so far from what I’ve watched). It’s got a bit of a feel of kill bill and killing Eve but lots of historical and political aspects. Best watched in the German with subtitles to get the feel and atmosphere.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Katla's ace. I loved it. Love the landscape and the whole feel of it.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Just watched The Hitman's Apprentice. Not bad. Peter Mullan is spectacularly nasty and Tim Roth, well he's just great isn't he?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I would file that under hidden gem - better than its generic name and hackneyed one-line précis and location buried in a landfill of Netflix Originals and VOD and STS tax write-offs would suggest.
I watched the documentary Daughters. Excellent but so sad to see the trauma inflicted by incarceration on everyone, adults and children. It also shows how prison is used to decimate the black community in the US, like modern day plantations. And how it doesn't work but how positive and humane programs that offer love and hope do.
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AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Finally got round to watching Scoop last night. What I found especially interesting, other than 'what the hell was he thinking,' was the depiction of class.
Class not just in the context of the morals and mores of the royal family, and that member in particular, but also in the context of BBC journalism and journalists.
Class not just in the context of the morals and mores of the royal family, and that member in particular, but also in the context of BBC journalism and journalists.
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