GallowKnight Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 I just got out from watching the new Halloween. It was fucking awesome and I loved it. Easily the best Halloween movie since the original. I didn’t find it all that scary, but i never really do with slashers. But it was moody, atmospheric, brutal and most importantly, good, which was all I really wanted. Unfortunatley the true horror is sitting in front of a bunch of teenagers that can’t help commenting on every fucking thing that happens in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 The "live; inside no9" episode that aired on BBC the other is probably the scariest thing I'll be seeing this Halloween and easily one of the most inventive 30 minutes of TV for a long, long, time. How pemberton and shearsmith haven't been snapped up by Amazon/Netflix or Hollywood and handed a pile of cash to go wild us beyond me. They are easily the measure of Charlie Brooker. I get the impression that they live making something where they have so much creative freedom and control over execution though. 30 minute done in one episodes that are generally dark but can be anything from musicals, horror, comedies, thrillers or the love of cryptic crosswords. All they need is to somehow fit "no.9" into the episode somewhere. Maybe a bigger budget and longer/feature length versions would stifle the creative thing they have going. I need to check to see how many complaints the episode got as some of the tricks they use are the kind that people devoid of humour will accuse the BBC of fraud. Like when they get upset over newsreaders reading out the news in an episode of Dr who or the bodyguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 22 hours ago, briantw said: Don't give George Lucas any ideas. You know you'd go see that movie! I gave the Sabrina Netflix show a try. I'm so here for it! My only question, because I just watched the first episode, is are they going for a more PG-13 vibe or hard R? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 Also, one more thing about Netflix. They have some amazing documentaries available right now. Make sure to scroll through that subsection if and when you get a chance. I recently watched a six part doc on the South Pacific. It was excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 I'm gonna guess that's the 2009 BBC series narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cas Stark Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 So in honor of Halloween.... Rewatched the Rob Zombie reboots I & II, and, yeah, they were as bad I remembered. Torture porn level gore. Hobo bearded MM? the fuck was that about. Malcolm McDowell was a worthy successor to Donald Pleasence, but Scout Taylor Compton, she ain't no Jamie Lee Curtis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 11 minutes ago, Calibandar said: I'm gonna guess that's the 2009 BBC series narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martini Sigil Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 After Daredevil, we watched the Bodyguard with Richard Madden (Rob Stark).... It was OK, not great.... I didn;t care for the finale... Then we watched Sabrina, which was weird.... I guess the best way to describe it would be Graphic Gore meets the CW... there were times when it was light and cute.... and other times when it was pretty violent and bloody.... Start-Up season 3 starts Thursday.... so we'll wait to start anything new on a streaming service until then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 We watched The Bodyguard from Netflix/BBC. I’d give it 3.5/5 but my wife gave it 4.5/5. It felt similar in structure to The Night Manager but with a weaker cast: there’s a relatively small cast of potential traitors/conspirators, and the show cycles through these trying to maintain maximum tension and uncertainty. But that limits the scope of the narrative to a protracted simple whodunnit with lots of constipated grimacing by the lead actor. I would have given it 4/5 but the resolution relies on Spoiler two improbably helpful confessions in the absence of any evidence at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallowKnight Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 7 hours ago, Cas Stark said: So in honor of Halloween.... Rewatched the Rob Zombie reboots I & II, and, yeah, they were as bad I remembered. Torture porn level gore. Hobo bearded MM? the fuck was that about. Malcolm McDowell was a worthy successor to Donald Pleasence, but Scout Taylor Compton, she ain't no Jamie Lee Curtis. Why would you do that to yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 On 10/29/2018 at 7:22 PM, SpaceChampion said: Watched "Sorry To Bother You". Good surreal and biting satire. This was fantastic. I did not realize how surreal it'd get but I was a huge fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toth Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 So... for the first time in ages I went to the cinema and watched a movie. "Bohemian Rhapsody" had its German premiere today and I was watching it undubbed in an afternoon showing with just 30 people. I was thinking that it should work far better in a cinema than when watching it at home and I guess it delivered that much. And actually, I was starting to think that the whole movie was just an excuse to reenact Queen's entry to the Live-Aid concert in its entirety. No kidding, the last twenty minutes are just the Live-Aid concert frame by frame. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, because it is truly a terrific scene! Well... all in all it certainly is a good movie that delivers great entertainment, but maybe I was expecting too much. It is not a master-piece given that there was always a certain something that was missing. It has some fun and some heartfelt moments, but the pace was so fast that the messages it wanted to get across never really managed to deliver. I'm thinking that maybe there will be a director's cut offering a better story. More to that in the spoilers: Spoiler At its very core Bohemian Rhapsody has a very generic story about Freddie growing into a prideful, arrogant jerkass who destroys his relationships and ultimately his life through his excessive partying, but then realizes his mistakes and makes amends with the people he hurt. 'Family' being the tag-line here, with both his parents as well as his bandmates being considered that family he might lose. This development is best showcased with the bookend device the movie deploys: It starts out with Freddie preparing for the live-aid concert and going on stage with the camera following his back closely. It's just Freddie, alone. At the end of the movie the same set of scenes is shown, but this time the camera has more of a distance and it's not just Freddie, but the entire band entering the stage together. As a team, as a family. That was masterfully done! Too bad the the built-up to that moment falls a little short. The best scenes are the ones were we see Queen writing and recording their songs, showcasing that the band is made up by 4 gifted individuals who each shape Queen in their own unique way, even though it is accompanied by constant bickering, sarcasm and fighting. Except poor Deacy, who just wants to play music and gets all the lemons. XD Thing is, all these scenes were already in the trailers and teasers. There are no more. And due to this lack of developing how despite their bickering, they actually love and value each other, but so much focus on Freddie being an ass and throwing hissy fits, it is really difficult to really care for this core conflict. It could have been so much better! Shown especially by the scene where Freddie tells the others that he has AIDS and gives a heartfelt speech about how they shall not waste precious time with pity since that is time they could use to make music. Their stunned silence, Rami Malek's delivery, this was such a great and pivotal point of the movie! Really, if the movie had spent more time on their friendship, then it could have been utterly terrific! But like this... much of its impact gets lost to an audience that saw just a set of music videos in the first 30 minutes. And yet the actors are so great! Rami Malek may not look very convincing as Freddie, but his speech patterns are Freddie alright and the acting is A-grade. Also Gwilym Lee's Brian May is terrific. I could have sworn that was the actual May standing there in every single scene! Lucy Boynton's acting was also fine, too bad that her character barely is more than a glorified cheerleader (though granted, the ending of her engagement came because of just that reason). So if it's not the actors, the reason for the movie being so underwhelming was mostly how little it spent on developing characters and relationships. Because if the core narrative is as generic as it can possibly get, you really, really need to focus on the characters for crying out loud! That's why I'm hoping that scenes like that were sacrificed on the cutting board in favor of more song montages (which could have been better executed as well...) and that a director's cut would return those. Otherwise... I guess there is little room for excuses. In fact, many of the clichés the story included were so downtrodden that even I as a very casual Queen fan got the impression that none of these scenes could have possibly happened, which really is a shame in what is claiming to be a biopic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 In Canada, Crave TV, TMN and HBO Canada are merging like Voltron to become a new Crave on-demand streaming app for android and iOS, and on Crave.ca so no more cable need, Canucks! Will included Star Trek Discovery ( i presume other CBS All-Access shows) and Hulu's Handmaid's Tale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Watched the film Bohemian Rhapsody. Great movie and definitely one to watch on the big screen. Malek nailed the part and the performance movements, and the music sounded great. There are multiple stunning visual scenes of concerts and tours, including a full-on music set. There's been some legitimate criticism of the film, including that it falls prey to some of the weaknesses of other musical biopics, but I really don't think this mattered, since the movie really entertains. It keeps moving along and there are many high points during it. It's a fairly long movie, but it did not feel like it at all. I do think it should have been rated R and not PG-13, and likely they did that for commercial reasons. It's unfortunate, as I think it could have been an even better film if they didn't need to censor themselves, but still overall it was a great time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I went to see Bohemian Rhapsody, which I enjoyed. I think Rami Malek's performance as Freddy is definitely the highlight, he brings the right mix of insecurity and charisma to the role and any insights into his complex character come from Malek rather than the workmanlike script. The story is trying to pack almost two decades of Queen's career into two hours and so most of it ends up being a bit superficial, occasional roadblocks to the band's success are thrown up but they're apparently all easily overcome until the final stages of the story. It has an unsurprisingly great soundtrack and the recreation of their Live Aid set does give a superb finale, but it feels like there was room for improvement in some of the earlier parts of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astromech Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Watched the first two episodes of Babylon Berlin. Pretty good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l2 0 5 5 Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 2 eps into Ozark. Loving it already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 I just watched the first two episodes of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. I enjoyed watching the information that was presented. Yet, I don’t think I can watch an entire season of something that looks like a TED talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 I watched Slaughterhouse Rulez. It's hard to escape the feeling that it really wants to be an Edgar Wright film, especially with the presence of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the cast, it does have some good scenes although overall it's probably more World's End than Shaun of the Dead. Michael Sheen's eccentric headmaster is probably the highlight of the film, he seems to be having great fun with the role, I was less impressed with Pegg in this, his character has a lengthy subplot about his love life which never manages to be either interesting or funny. The younger cast do a decent job, particularly Asa Butterfield who has a story arc that feels much serious than the silly comedy of the rest of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Loving Rake on Netflix.Australian comedy drama.Roxburgh nails it in the lead role with great aplomb. Easy watching with biting satire,frequently very funny. I think it's a gem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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