AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Count me in. Although I'd already seen a trailer and was intrigued by the premise and it looked funny and worth checking out, so had mentally bookmarked it. I'll probably binge watch it over Christmas.
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The Guy Ritchie style dialogue is jarring.
It is like two different shows have been crushed together. One a plain spy thriller, the other a lairy geezer hit man romp (with gay guys and violent women replacing brutish men).
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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One episode to go. Nice and gentle, episodes just the right length. Just when you think it's going nowhere, (not that you notice or care), there is a new little spark. It's good solid quality viewing.
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
Silly is right, but I wouldn't say dull. And it's a cut above Guy Ritchie!
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
For sure, but it definitely feels like he's had a hand in parts of the script. I thought it was going to be a proper spy show, not a comedy/spoof.
The best thing about it is Sarah Lancashire. Never seen her do a posh English woman before.
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Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
I didn't recognise SL - but even after Happy Valley ("yer divven't look very happy, pet") I still think of her as the woman from Corrie.
Mind you, I didn't recognize Keira Knightley either. This is the first thing I've seen her in in years. Ben Wishaw finally looks like he's old enough to vote and buy alcohol - good for him.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
mod
A modernist
That was fucking horrific. What cowards. beating up a group of women in a library.
Nazi scum.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
bcuster
Well-Known Member
I just watched 'Mary' on Netflix. I liked it. Many didn't
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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Will. Belgian WW2 film about two police uncomfortable about having to collaborate with the Nazis. Decent enough film , but not very festive. It's grim at times
Click and Collect . This is part of my Christmas watching every year. Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry play their usual roles with plenty of funny lines. Excellent film
Gangs of London series 1 It starts really well but drifts in the middle. At least they have a proper ending. It's a good series if you enjoy watching geezers doing a bit of the old ultra-violence on each other. Brutal but good
Click and Collect . This is part of my Christmas watching every year. Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry play their usual roles with plenty of funny lines. Excellent film
Gangs of London series 1 It starts really well but drifts in the middle. At least they have a proper ending. It's a good series if you enjoy watching geezers doing a bit of the old ultra-violence on each other. Brutal but good
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T & P
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Just watched the first two episodes of new dark comedy/ crime mystery miniseries No Good Deed.
Very easy watching, good cast, and short, well paced episodes. Recommended so far.
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Very easy watching, good cast, and short, well paced episodes. Recommended so far.
No Good Deed review – Lisa Kudrow carries this twisty, binge-worthy mystery | Television & radio | The Guardian
It’s occasionally clumsy and overly light, but the tale of rich families competing to outbid each other for a house is pacy, packed with plot and stuffed with excellent performances
T & P
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We also watched the brand new action thriller film Carry On. No, for better or worse it’s not a reimagining of the British saucy comedy films, the title referring to what we in Europe call a cabin bag, and revolving around a dastardly plot playing out at an airport.
As ever with escapist edge-of-seat flicks, a fair amount of suspension of disbelief is required, but for what it’s worth it’s actually pretty entertaining and gripping. At least for the first two thirds of the film. Some pretty lazy writing regarding a few plot holes, and anyone with even the flimsiest of knowledge of commercial aircraft will shake their heads and the business end of the story, but overall a pretty entertaining action movie.
Whamageddon alert: Last Christmas will briefly be heard during a car scene in which two Homeland agents are travelling.
As ever with escapist edge-of-seat flicks, a fair amount of suspension of disbelief is required, but for what it’s worth it’s actually pretty entertaining and gripping. At least for the first two thirds of the film. Some pretty lazy writing regarding a few plot holes, and anyone with even the flimsiest of knowledge of commercial aircraft will shake their heads and the business end of the story, but overall a pretty entertaining action movie.
Whamageddon alert: Last Christmas will briefly be heard during a car scene in which two Homeland agents are travelling.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
That's the understatement of the century. It's utter bubblegum drivel that makes the Die Hard films look like sensible documentaries, and manages to work in every cliché of the genre.
I'm embarrassed to say that I really enjoyed it.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
La Palma - four part series about "a Norwegian family vacationing on La Palma faces disaster when a young researcher discovers alarming signs of an imminent volcanic eruption that could trigger a massive tsunami".
Quite good so far. Quite tense. Gripping. A bit more character development and more in-depth ans broader storylines than the usual disaster movie, given there's more time for such developments.
Nevertheless, some of the characters are stereotypical stupid annoying characters, who ignore 'Leave now' 'Do this' 'Don't do that' warnings, and are thus quite irritating, but that's par for the course, part of building up the tension and drama.
It's good overall though, so far, I'm half way through episode 4.
Quite good so far. Quite tense. Gripping. A bit more character development and more in-depth ans broader storylines than the usual disaster movie, given there's more time for such developments.
Nevertheless, some of the characters are stereotypical stupid annoying characters, who ignore 'Leave now' 'Do this' 'Don't do that' warnings, and are thus quite irritating, but that's par for the course, part of building up the tension and drama.
It's good overall though, so far, I'm half way through episode 4.
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Hollis
bloody furious
Same here. I thought it was a briliant documentary. I have very vague memories of the stike.. so learnt loads from it.
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
Was this on Netflix?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I was just coming here to say this! I’m on ep4 and really enjoying it. It’s got more depth than it first appeared but is still nicely light and entertaining.Just watched the first two episodes of new dark comedy/ crime mystery miniseries No Good Deed.
Very easy watching, good cast, and short, well paced episodes. Recommended so far.
No Good Deed review – Lisa Kudrow carries this twisty, binge-worthy mystery | Television & radio | The Guardian
It’s occasionally clumsy and overly light, but the tale of rich families competing to outbid each other for a house is pacy, packed with plot and stuffed with excellent performances
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Despite having only watched one or two documentaries on Netflix, they still keep pushing them to me. And they’re all looooong and last for whole series.
Makes me worry a bit for the documentary as a format/art form. They tend to be more suitable as features - one and done, but that doesn’t suit the Netflix way, I suppose.
Mind you, they’re still making ‘movies’, so perhaps my worries are unfounded and Netflix should just stop taking the piss and milking it
Makes me worry a bit for the documentary as a format/art form. They tend to be more suitable as features - one and done, but that doesn’t suit the Netflix way, I suppose.
Mind you, they’re still making ‘movies’, so perhaps my worries are unfounded and Netflix should just stop taking the piss and milking it
T & P
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Agreed. To their credit they can produce stuff that is highly gripping, but ultimately you can read between the lines and see how they emphasise certain aspects of the case to turn the gripping drama up to 11 and extend something that could have been a one-off feature length documentary into three of them.
The mysterious death of a guest at the Cecil Hotel was a prime example. It was an extraordinarily intriguing in the first place, but Netflix milked it for all it was worth. Including such tactics as devoting large segments of the programme to exploring certain facts of the case that made it look like this was one worthy of agents Mulder and Scully, only to disclose towards the end of the episode a subsequent piece of information received that quickly explained the seemingly borderline supernatural happenings.
I would still recommend watching Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel to give it its full name, because it is enthralling stuff even if you know you’re being manipulated a bit.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
True Crime docs like that are a waste of time IMO and usually in very poor taste. If one shows up on Netflix suggestions and I have not heard of the case, I just look it up on Wikipedia instead. A 5 minute exercise instead of hours of it!
IIRC it was Making A Murderer that kicked off this trend. There were about ten episodes of that. I think I watched just the first episode before resorting to the internet and sacking it off.
IIRC it was Making A Murderer that kicked off this trend. There were about ten episodes of that. I think I watched just the first episode before resorting to the internet and sacking it off.
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