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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
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
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
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 episodeWhat makes is a homage? Is that an official statement from the makers or just something you think?
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
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.Sorry I don't know anything about it. Just asking.
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?
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.
That’s not an indication of quality, is it?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...
It totally belongs alongside Monk. Though Psych is even less serious, if that's possible.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...
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
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
Do we? There’s way too much telly to watch. Even the great stuff. Just speaking for myself of course, but I only have time to watch an hour or two of TV over maybe four or five evenings a week. Fluff begone, I say. There’s no time for it.It totally belongs alongside Monk. Though Psych is even less serious, if that's possible.
It's good fluff. You need fluff sometimes.
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.Do we? There’s way too much telly to watch. Even the great stuff. Just speaking for myself of course, but I only have time to watch an hour or two of TV over maybe four or five evenings a week. Fluff begone, I say. There’s no time for it.
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.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.
I find it impossible to watch tv like that, it's too passive for me!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.
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.2 was so awful, such a drop in quality, couldn't bring myself to watching 3.
I can't remember much about the first one. . .2 was so awful, such a drop in quality, couldn't bring myself to watching 3.
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 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.
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 enjoyed Skywalkers, a love story, though I watched some of it through my fingers.
Far from being an everyday tale of farming folk on Tattoine, it's a documentary about rooftopers, who climb illegally on to the top of tall buildings. Of course they're selfish and have no regard for the people who have to clean them up when they fall, but they're also brave.
This programme follows two Russians seemingly at the top of the rooftopping tree
Katla's ace. I loved it. Love the landscape and the whole feel of it.Currently 3 episodes into a seemingly supernatural Icelandic drama; Katla.
If you like Dark/The Returned/Outer Range, this might be for you.
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.Just watched The Hitman's Apprentice. Not bad. Peter Mullan is spectacularly nasty and Tim Roth, well he's just great isn't he?