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[Corvinus85]

On 4/16/2023 at 5:15 AM, 3CityApache said:

We feel sorry for you. Be brave. 

Why?

OK, finished and Ronald D Moore is doing it again, meaning he's turning another good show into something more bonkers than it should be. 

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I so hated the character of Danny Stevens. I suppose there is a possibility that even in a space program when it grows too much, too fast, individuals like Danny can slip through the cracks. But his presence in the main storyline is more unrealistic than all the crazy space stuff they pull off this season, which was still good. (except for the North Koreans surviving a trip to Mars in that tin can. lol)

I disliked how they wrote off Molly Cobb, though they gave her a deserved ending, I suppose. She was my favorite character in season 1.

I did like the three-way race plot and how the characters came together to work out all the problems. The season had a strong start and a decent ending. I suppose the bombing of the JSC is partially meant to take the place of the Oklahoma bombing. Also, Ellen had a good arc.

Overall, I like the worldbuilding of this show. All the differences between reality and how this alternate world evolves. Funny to think that we could have had a greater space program if only we let the Soviets win the Moon race.

I see Moore has a 7 year plan for the show. I wonder if he intends to end somewhere around our present time.

[Spockydog]

7 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said:

I see Moore has a 7 year plan for the show. I wonder if he intends to end somewhere around our present time.

God help us. And if astronauts start hearing Jimmy Hendrix in the walls of the freakin' hab I'm outta here. 

[BigFatCoward]

Barry 4 has just been made available and my wife wants to talk. Ffs woman. 

[Jace, Extat]

Watching one of my favorite directors' films. 

Anyway, yo. I was poooor. Like growin our own sustenance and can'n tomatos for the long winter kinda shit. 

I chopped fucking firewood after school. That's how we heated our house.

Anyways, thats all pre ramble... ...

So check it:

I was like 15 when me and the folks went to see The Dark Knight. 

Yo, we went to the Family Video if we were feeling rich on weekends. 

We weren't a go-out-family.

 

Yo. 

I didn't know

that you could make a movie like that...

I had no fuckin clue man. I walked in there with Joel Schumacher as my Batman director. And I fuckin LOVE Joel Schumacher baby 

But you see what I'm saying right? 

Like, guys. Batman was a joke to me. 

A wonderful, comfortable and BatFamily joke. 

I had no idea people like took this guy seriously. No clue. There's no JOKER character in the Schumacher movies! There's Jim Carey! And Agent K!!! 

And my God it's two different Batmans and who cares? We're making kids laugh. Fuck yeah! 

ARNOLD! And Poiiiisooon Iiiiivy! 

And so like I heard this dude fucking DIED right after the movie. That's fucking crazy. And it looks super dope, on TV. I definitely would have gone myself if it hadn't become a family trip.

 

I did not know... that you could make a movie like that. 

Out of a BATMAN!!!! 

 

And my god... the man DIED. He fucking died at the end of this magnificent work of art! It's fucking beautiful and moving and intense and it's about trying to be good. 

Trying, no matter what. 

 

That's some real shit. 

And yo I'm not retarded. I'd seen a dramatic fucking movie before. But idk, we were years past like Jurassic Park 3 and Terminator 3... earnest yet unsatisfying fumbles at the finish. 

I looked at movies differently. 

Yo, like you just made a movie... a SEQUEL??? I had no notion.  Seriously. Never seen a Christopher Nolan before. No idea. 

And you just skullfucked my precious love of Empire Strikes Back, Chamber of Secrets/Goblet of Fire, and The Two Towers right into Heath Ledgers' GRAVE 

 

I didn't know that you could make a movie like that.

Sorry I'm fucking weird. 

[RumHam]

F. Murray Abraham Was Kicked Off ‘Mythic Quest’ for Sexual Misconduct

Fuuuck, I liked him. They made it sound like it was maybe a covid or creative thing at the time. 

[Maithanet]

On 4/15/2023 at 5:51 PM, RhaenysBee said:

I’m watching Last Kingdom season 5 - yes I’m very late to the game. But I need to finish the series before I watch the film, right? 

wheeeeeeeeeeellllllll

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Why won’t people age? Aelswith has to be nearing if not over 60 even by the most generous estimation. Eliza Butterworth who is phenomenal in this role needs a damn full grey wig and some serious prosthetic wrinkles. Aethelflaed also needs more grey hair but she sort of passes for her age. Uthred seriously needs aging. Vikings did an atrocious job with aging characters too but they had the grace to age Ragnar and Rollo at least. Grey the damn actor’s hair and slap some latex under his eyes for crying out loud. The King was aged very decently. The queen looks the same she did when they wanted to pass her as a 15 year old. Oh tv… 

Also, Aethelflaed has breast cancer? Really? That one? Right now? Did you have to? Okay I know the show has been out for years so it’s hardy right now. It also helps that 900s are a very safe distance in time from 2023 in terms of medical advancement. And I didn’t wait around for a year to show mine to someone either, right?

Also also, is there any particular reason that Stiorra and Sigtrygrr(?) don’t have a child or the show forgot that time passed in York as well? 

Choreography overall looks faker than anything I have seen on this show or in the genre. 

Brida as the main antagonist is lackluster and tired and clearly the actress thinks so. 

 

I agree that the lack of effort on aging was strange and a bad choice.  Aelswith is the most egregious example, since she seems to age from her late 20s to...early 40s in the space of almost 60 years.  The scenes with her, her daughter and grandaughter all in the same room were particularly egregious, since the actual actors are like 5 years apart. 

Brida as the main antagonist in season 5 is disappointing, but fortunately it doesn't last and they move on to more interesting antagonists. 

FYI, there's a thread for the Last Kingdom from when Season 5 came out.  There's some spoilers since you haven't finished season 5, so you might want to watch those before you venture in. 

[Darryk]

I rewatched Sunshine, what a great film. A real hidden gem. I wonder why it flew under the radar when it came out. Maybe the name put people off; makes it sound like a kid's film rather than a thriller.

[TheLastWolf]

On 4/18/2023 at 1:24 AM, Secretary of Eumenes said:

Sorry I'm fucking weird. 

Makes two of us 

[Zorral]

Chevalier was a great disappointment for many reasons.  Its fast and loose playing with the known facts of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges's biography, and of history even -- Marie Antoinette did not give him his title, that was Louis XV -- are only the beginning.

It's such a shame that this man, who I first learned of via reading letters of (later to be President) John Adams, who was so accomplished, who did so very many important things, just starting with music composition and musicianship, was reduced to an affair with an aristo.

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 He is the most accomplished Man in Europe in Riding, Shooting, Fencing, Dancing, Music. He will hit a button on the Coat or Waistcoat of the Masters. He will hit a Crown Piece in the Air with a Pistol Ball.

Recall, that among his many achievements, he successfully led an all-black regiment in the French army -- until, Napoleon erased all Black people of achievement from their positions and out of history, particularly those of military achievement, not least, Alexandre Dumas's father. 

This film is the equivalent of making a film of the life of Frederick Douglass, and reducing everything he did and created to the single matter that he married a white woman.

Additionally, thereby, the filmmakers chose to navigate precariously closely those waters on which sail a mainstay of porn, the enslaved black stud and the white lady.

I am not the only person to feel this way.  For a single example our (Black, Haitian) friend who is a symphony orchestra director, composer and conductor, who has been conducting performances of the Chevalier's music in many cities, just HATES this film.  He, like el V, is particularly outraged by the cutting game between the Chevalier and Mozart that opens the film -- this is something Blues musicians only began, here, in the USA.  As per usual, movies, particularly made by Americans, cannot imagine a Black experience that isn't African American.  Moreover, it seems that the two composer/musicians were friends, not rivals, with Mozart even living in the Chevalier's house for a short time. But then, movies/tv very, very, VERY seldom know who and what musicians -- or artists generally -- are -- musicians particularly.  Really, as Joseph and Amadeus were about the same age, it is far more likely they joyed to make music together than tried to cut each other down.  Musicians really like to do that, you know?

The positive for the film is several really fine female actors with juicy roles, even though the characters' depictions are either utterly fantasy or historically wrong for the time -- or non-existent. The exception to this might be the Chevalier's mother. 

However, if only inadvertently, the above does point to the essential truth of  success in which Napoleon was tutored by those who survived both the Revolution and the Terror, into the Directorate, that in France, "Women are politics."  Alas one of the ways this point is made is the filmmakers claim that Marie Antoinette was the reason there was a French Revolution.

 

 

[Ran]

4 hours ago, Darryk said:

I rewatched Sunshine, what a great film. A real hidden gem. I wonder why it flew under the radar when it came out. Maybe the name put people off; makes it sound like a kid's film rather than a thriller.

Yeah, excellent science fiction film. Definitely worth watching.

[dog-days]

5 hours ago, Darryk said:

I rewatched Sunshine, what a great film. A real hidden gem. I wonder why it flew under the radar when it came out. Maybe the name put people off; makes it sound like a kid's film rather than a thriller.

I've seen it two or three times; visually and in terms of atmosphere, it's one of my favourite films. Love it. 

[polishgenius]

Also: gave us one of the best bits of film music of the century so far. 
 

 

 

[Ran]

The Blank Check podcast has been doing a mini-series looking at all of Danny Boyle's films, and they did Sunshine two weeks ago or so. They are long and a bit rambley, but they dig into a lot of the history and trivia behind the making of the film. 

[Spockydog]

I really like Sunshine, but it was almost wrecked by the ending. Or am I thinking of Event Horizon...

[BigFatCoward]

I went to see sunshine at the cinema, there was a fire alarm 10 mins from the end, by the time it was resolved they wouldn't restart it from that point and said we had to go into the next showing and watch it from the start, no option of a refund.  Absolute wankers. Still got no idea what happened at the end. 

[RumHam]

Rewatching all the Terminator movies was weird, I had to look up the order. I'm sure I never saw Salvation before. Not that I was missing anything. 

Dark Fate was like a better Rise of the Machines. I get why people didn't like it, Alien 3 syndrome. 

 

[A wilding]

Another vote for Sunshine. Extraordinary atmosphere and imagery, which means I can overlook the uneven plot and bad physics. I had the poster of the psychiatrist starring staring into the sun as my wallpaper for a while.

[RumHam]

10 minutes ago, RumHam said:

 Alien 3 syndrome. 

Really though, I've thought about it and Alien 3 doesn't really erase Ripley's rescue of Newt. 

She was hopeless and horrified. She got hope, she got horrified again, she had hope re-affirmed. She went to sleep convinced she was rescued. That's more than most of us get. 

[GallowKnight]

18 hours ago, Ran said:

The Blank Check podcast has been doing a mini-series looking at all of Danny Boyle's films, and they did Sunshine two weeks ago or so. They are long and a bit rambley, but they dig into a lot of the history and trivia behind the making of the film. 

If you like movie-podcasts where the episodes are way longer than the movie they're discussing it's a good choice.

And Sunshine is great. I actually watched it for the first time recently because the Blank Check episode on it was coming up and I felt it was a good excuse to finally watch it.

[IFR]

The final seasons of Succession and Barry are thus far very satisfying. I had my doubts about HBO - I worried they were just becoming Disney-esque vehicle for pumping out endless Westeros-based iterations, but so far they are still the best producer of television shows in the business.

 

On 4/16/2023 at 9:37 AM, Ran said:

Rewatched The Lion in Winter. Just a ridiculous cast -- Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, a young Anthony Hopkins, an even younger Timothy Dalton, Nigel Terry years before his turn as Arthur in Excalibur -- and enjoyable through-and-through, with delicious dialog. A very 20th century look at a very dysfunctional 12th century family, but it works beautifully. Endlessly quotable film, too.

I love this movie. If I were to cite my top five movies of all time, fixed titles are 12 Angry Men, 2001, and Kurosawa's Ran. The next two often change, but sometimes this movie finds itself on that list.