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Jun 04, 2022 01:44PM
Lol. Just watched Intercepter on Netflix. Very average female Diehard like movie.
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Finishing a rewatch of "Band of Brothers" on HBO Max, pretty excellent stuff and tons of "wow, I didn't remember he was in this....."
I recently started watching Under the Banner of Heaven on Hulu. It's inspired by a true-crime novel Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. My co-workers are watching it & described it as Mormon True Detective. It stars Andrew "Amazing Spider-Man" Garfield as the detective main character plus Sam Worthington, Wyatt Russell, Christopher Heyerdahl & Gil Birmingham. I'm hooked!
Watching Obi-wan Kenobi and I was rather underwhelmed. (view spoiler)Haven't watched Boba Fett, I hope that's not a problem.
Silvana wrote: "Watching Obi-wan Kenobi and I was rather underwhelmed. the feud with third sister felt weird. I felt more tension between both in the rebel series. I like little Leia though. And my heart bleeds ev..."Judging you for skipping Boba Fett. ;-P
I started watching The Boys and it’s quite good. I had avoided watching it because I really disliked the comic. They seem like they’ve really cut back a lot of the stuff that was there for purely shock value. That was what put me off of the comic and why I stopped reading, I didn’t need such unrelenting darkness in my life. I also think the depiction of Homelander as an angry, petulant god that nobody can really control is much better in the show.
@Ian: I still plan to watch it! No time yet though.
Since Obi wan takes place 20 some years before The Book of Boba, I would think you are Ok. So far I haven’t seen any references. To think about it, that is almost a bit surprising since they were presumably filming at, or near, the same time, and would probably use similar locations. You would think just as a bit of cost savings they may have reused a few more assets. But we have a few more episodes to find out for sure.
Brad wrote: "I started watching The Boys and it’s quite good. I had avoided watching it because I really disliked the comic. They seem like they’ve really cut back a lot of the stuff that was there for purely s..."I haven't read the comic, but I LOVE the show. Just checked out episode one of season 3. Great start. Have you watched Invincible yet? Those two shows alone rival everything Marvel is doing in quality, IMO.
Tommy wrote: "Brad wrote: "I started watching The Boys and it’s quite good. I had avoided watching it because I really disliked the comic. They seem like they’ve really cut back a lot of the stuff that was there..."The Boys took a few episodes to hook me, I think because I figured it was going to end up as unremittingly bleak. But there's enough ridiculous stuff in there too that I really like it now. And yes, Invincible is great too. The first episode opens like a 1990's Saturday morning cartoon, and ends up in a different place entirely.
Brad wrote: "I started watching The Boys and it’s quite good. I had avoided watching it because I really disliked the comic. They seem like they’ve really cut back a lot of the stuff that was there for purely s..."I think The Boys does to Justice League what The Magicians did to Harry Potter :)
AndrewP wrote: "I think The Boys does to Justice League what The Magicians did to Harry Potter :)."I'd say that's as well a breakdown as anything I would have come up with, yeah.
John (Taloni) wrote: "Am I crazy or is this week's ST: Strange New Worlds a straight rip of [spoilers removed]"You're not crazy. I had the same thought watching it.
^ Don't get me wrong, that story has a great SFnal pedigree. I'm not mad to see it adapted, but maybe give credit. Also, after watching I had the thought that if this were TOS, Kirk (view spoiler)
What did we think of Ms. Marvel? It's getting "review bombed" but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Phil wrote: "What did we think of Ms. Marvel? It's getting "review bombed" but I enjoyed it quite a bit."I just came here to say that I had just watched it, and really enjoyed it as well. I liked the design style, the writing and the dialogue, and even thought the acting was good. Was it made for me as a 40 something male, heck now, but it was still very relatable, and I enjoyed that fact as well. I'll keep watching for sure.
I really liked Ms. Marvel. I thought it captured the tone of the comic, which is one of my favorites.
I finished watching Under the Banner of Heaven on Hulu & started Godless on Netflix. I'm also watching the new He-Man kids cartoon & some Ninja Turtles on Netflix. I'm caught up on Mayans, Better Call Saul, Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think we're about to watch Episode 2 of Stranger Things season 4 & I'll probably watch the 1st episode of Ms. Marvel this weekend.
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It has the bones to be a good show and, hopefully, now the set-up episode is over it can improve.
I'd give it a 6/10.
^ Too many trips to the well for me to get excited about this one. I'll probably watch it. Eventually.
I saw Dr. Strange last night. For me it was just ok. I thought it lacked a kind of energy. Looking forward to Jurassic Park and The Thing (its the anniversary of the film release).
I am really enjoying Obi-Wan.
Today we watched Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 7/10. I bought it recently from iTunes. I hadn't realized it was a reboot. My rating may have been generous, but we had a lot of fun watching it. Bambi screamed a lot!
Ian (RebelGeek) wrote: "I finished watching Under the Banner of Heaven on Hulu ..."I really wanted to like Under the Banner of Heaven, but could not get into it. I did enjoy following Lindsay Hansen Park's thoughts on it when episodes came out but the pacing was just off for me.
I started watching Joe Pickett today on Paramount+. I needed something like that to watch. It's about a Wyoming Game Warden. It's based on books by C.J. Box which I haven't read.
Woah there's a Joe Pickett series??Watching Orville New Horizons on Hulu. They sure went all out with the effects and the drama.
Tamahome wrote: "Woah there's a Joe Pickett series??Watching Orville New Horizons on Hulu. They sure went all out with the effects and the drama."
Orville is so much better than it needs to be. I need to catch up on it.
Saw the latest episode of Kenobi, fifth of six episodes.The writing on this one has finally risen to the level of adequate. It's still Kenobi subordinate in his own show, but the ep was at least interesting. Third Sister's writing has gone from comically bad to now a decent backstory. Some good twists.
The look and feel worked well. It looks like a Star Wars show. The sets fit, the ships look and act right, that part works.
As for Vader, they can put the suit on other people but none of them have a tenth of the physical presence of David Prowse. Vader doesn't rush. He strides majestically.
As for this new tension between Anakin and Kenobi, it's more retcon fluffery. The Vader complex was the Emperor's mindfuck. The flashback wasn't a bad idea, but it felt like a witness lying on the stand about motivation, bolstering a weak case with fake recollections of events. None of it felt like it fit even the mediocre level of writing of the prequels.
I could go on...a whole military maneuver dependent on a restraining bolt, easily removed? That's up there with South Park levels of silliness. (Specifically the "Not Without My Daughter" Terrance and Phillip section. "Where in this vast country can we find my daughter? Oh, there she is.) The brave, brave *sniff* droid...pointless death sequences for plot advancement...eh. It was decent TV.
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In an electrical service hatch only accessible by 10 year old girls 😕
Good thing I don't expect logic in my Star Wars 😉
The 2nd episode of Ms Marvel was better than the first.
^ I will get to Ms. Marvel, eventually. Too much going to the well right now. I skipped Moon Knight completely although that was more bad promotion for an iffy property than any active dislike.Right now kinda waiting on Resident Alien to get started back up. They had about eight really good episodes over a ten episode first season, and I kinda think they've backloaded the good ones over this split sixteen episode "season." Whole lotta filler in Resident Alien S2 first half, but I still wanna see more. No firm start date that I can see.
Moon Knight was good overall. It shares a problem with Obi Wan and which might be a Marvel issue... they take the first 2 eps to do stage setting. That's OK in a 13 ep series but taking fully 1/3 of the series to just set things up feels out of proportion. In both cases I think if the second ep had been a little more setup and then moving into the story proper it would feel right. I've said this before but showrunners need to remember that while the casual pace might make sense in the context of the fictional universe, the audience knows that things will move into telling a story. We knew Stephen Grant would not sell gifts in the museum for the entire series and we knew that Obi-Wan wasn't going to be a meat cutter for six eps. That means too much setup just makes viewers impatient for the story to actually begin.
I have just watched the Netflix animated mini series Arcane. Probably the best video game adjacent thing I have ever watched.The connection with League of Legends actually put me off, but was I wrong to judge "the book by its cover" as just about everything it did was done really really well.
Highly recommended.
Arcane is excellent. I tried watching Ms Marvel and... #bored. I get the appeal, both for teens in general and PoC folk, but it's basically video YA in the sense that the entire first ep was typical 'nerdy kid, strict parents = conflict' stuff.
Having it be a Pakistani Muslim family raised the interest level because it's a glimpse into a different world, but the beats in the episode were bog standard.
I'll wait for more episodes to see what people think of the overall story, but right now this is one of those "good quality, I see why people like it, not for me" shows.
We watched The Northman on Peacock this weekend. 8.5 / 10 stars! We loved it!
Making progress on my Classic SF TV watch. Finished all 110 episodes of 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'. Not sure what to watch next, probably UFO or Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman holds up surprisingly well. It's not just boobs (altho there is plenty of that.)From the same era, I laughed and laughed at Quark, the Galactic Garbageman. Got it on DVD sometime in the last ten years. Shouldn't be hard to find if you want to give it a look.
Loved the Wonder Woman pilot. Also, the old Wonder Woman movie with Cathy Lee Crosby.
I fell behind on American Horror Story. So when I saw Disney + had it I binged the seasons I missed. Forgot how good the series is.
I need to catch up on AHS & American Horror Stories. Yesterday I watched Uncharted 8/10 stars.
I've finished the Obi Wan Kenobi series and overall I found it kind of lame. The acting was fine but it seemed like a long, boring study of depression to me.And not that it's really important but there is one sequence of a spaceship flying in the last episode that looks like it got it's FX from a Buck Rodgers show in the 50's.
Phil wrote: "I've finished the Obi Wan Kenobi series and overall I found it kind of lame. The acting was fine but it seemed like a long, boring study of depression to me.And not that it's really important but ..."
Thats to bad Phil . I do think Obi -Wan was depressed... It had me sobbing at the end.
Andor starts in August. Thats exciting.
Derry Girls was a fun show outside of SFF.
I watched Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness 9/10 & Goodfellas 9/10. I also bought the Foo Fighters Horror movie Studio 666 from iTunes for $7.99!
Phil wrote: "I've finished the Obi Wan Kenobi series and overall I found it kind of lame. The acting was fine but it seemed like a long, boring study of depression to me.And not that it's really important but ..."
I teared up a few different times in Obi-Wan. I feel like they finally gave some props to Padme.
I found Obi-wan a bit underwhelming though McGregor remains fantastic. So far only enjoying The Boys. It has been a rather dry year but I am hoping I could enjoy House of the Dragon and LOTR: ROP.
Phillip wrote: "Derry Girls was a fun show outside of SFF."will we ever get a new season....or is it cancelled already?
FWIW I am anxiously awaiting the second half of season 2 of Resident Alien. It was promised for "Summer 2022" but still no date.I also found Obi-Wan underwhelming. It continues the Disney standard of making the "main" character subordinate in their own show as they introduce new characters. Plus, the latest "Star Wars" stuff is deliberately ignorant of canon.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds looks like it will stay strong to the end of this first season. Thursday is still appointment TV for this one.
She-Hulk looks like fun. *taps fingers until August*
Phil wrote: "...there is one sequence of a spaceship flying in the last episode that looks like it got it's FX from a Buck Rodgers show in the 50's."I liked Obi-Wan but, ugh, yeah I noticed that too. It really stuck out, unfortunately. I think I would say it looked like Buck Rogers from the early 80s, but either way could have used a little more polish.
I think Young Leia looked amazingly like what I would have expected Carrie Fisher to look like at that age, right down to some of her mannerisms and expressions. Remarkable. And I suppose now we know why she thought first of Obi-Wan at the beginning of Star Wars (nope, still not calling it "A New Hope").
I heard there will be a second season. I'm looking forward to it.
Oh and I watched an episode of Ms. Marvel. Like Hawkeye, this seemed to be geared for the teen girl set, so I had to grit my teeth through a lot of it, although my 19 year old daughter enjoyed it. And I did lol at mom agreeing "no, I don't trust you." Much funnier after being on both sides of that fence.
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