[H]

We watched Dark on Netflix.  Went with the original German, rather than the dub, since I usually hate dubbed things.

I don't usually go in for shows like this one, but I have to say it is well done and entertaining.  Season 3 comes out in 11 days or so.

[TaoHorror]

We watched Dark on Netflix.  Went with the original German, rather than the dub, since I usually hate dubbed things.

I don't usually go in for shows like this one, but I have to say it is well done and entertaining.  Season 3 comes out in 11 days or so.

VERY FUCKING SPOILERY

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Some damn fine writing with this thing, imho. Someone fighting with their different selves from different time periods is some cool stuff - there's 4 versions of him running around now, right? I kept track of 3, but the 4th one I forgot his timeline. Having the pro and antagonist as the same person and it not being a split personality thing is great stuff.

[H]

We watched Dark on Netflix.  Went with the original German, rather than the dub, since I usually hate dubbed things.

I don't usually go in for shows like this one, but I have to say it is well done and entertaining.  Season 3 comes out in 11 days or so.

VERY FUCKING SPOILERY

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Some damn fine writing with this thing, imho. Someone fighting with their different selves from different time periods is some cool stuff - there's 4 versions of him running around now, right? I kept track of 3, but the 4th one I forgot his timeline. Having the pro and antagonist as the same person and it not being a split personality thing is great stuff.

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Yeah, I still have some doubts about it actually being him, but maybe that isn't the actual "gotcha."  Maybe the kicker is already implicit in his "new" name.  Why an Adam with no Eve?  Not that there can't be, but perhaps Martha (or Marta, I can't tell what he name should actually be) is the Eve to his Adam?

In other words, while this alternate universe Martha seems like a surprise, maybe she isn't really, and all of that has also already happened before.

[The P]

I love Dark.  Based on the intro, I assumed it would be some kind of creepy horror.  It's turned out to be one of the best Netflix originals.  Excited to see how season 3 turns out.

[TaoHorror]

So I started watching Avenue 5 and hmm ... strange beast, this thing is. I'll have to finish it to give final thoughts on it. So I'm being kicked around between thinking it sucks and it being brilliant. Some of the bits are very funny and had me laughing, which is hard to do for me with comedies. It's campy ( which I don't like ), but clever as well. Heavy cussing with callous humor which is normally not my thing ( I like to cuss, but find cussing in comedy to frequently be a cheap way to humor ), but some of it is extremely funny I have to admit. I wonder how much of the space stuff is accurate. It appears to mix accurate space physics with comic space physics, so it has me wondering, I'll give it that. Wondering if anyone else has watched it and what you think about it. Some very funny shit here and there. Zach Woods steels the show, not all of his bits are funny, but some of it will floor ya, he's a mad character in a mundane role on the ship.

[TaoHorror]

Finished Avenue 5 - it's mixed, some great, much of it not so great. Some very funny shit thrown about.

I watched Prodigal Son. Another weird one, mostly prime-time shit tv, but I love Michael Sheen, great actor, so I stuck with it ( poorly directed into over-acting ). The lead actor sucks, that's a big problem. Some of the other actors aren't bad, but mired in boring formulaic prime-time story crap. Too bad, it could have been a nice take on the Starling/Lector dynamic in Silence of the Lambs ( obvious inspiration for the idea of the show ). I would've figured prime-time would've finally evolved to up it's game to match all of the original cable content that's come out over 2 decades now. I don't know, seems like the problem is the major studios refuses to pay for the writing and think they can come up with good stories on their own. Mostly stupid, all of the mystery and "surprise" falls flat given how poor the show is.

[sciborg2]

I've been meaning to look again at Avenue 5...your review seems mixed...would it make sense to start in the middle of it?

I blew through the John Wick movies and have come away convinced they are a prequel or sequel to the Matrix. They seem to purposely go out of their way to suggest video games, some of which I admit can be accidental or just thematic but other things - like passerbys being so NPC-ish they don't care about the bodies - seem deliberate....

[TaoHorror]

I've been meaning to look again at Avenue 5...your review seems mixed...would it make sense to start in the middle of it?

I blew through the John Wick movies and have come away convinced they are a prequel or sequel to the Matrix. They seem to purposely go out of their way to suggest video games, some of which I admit can be accidental or just thematic but other things - like passerbys being so NPC-ish they don't care about the bodies - seem deliberate....

Sorry I missed your post, Sci. I would recommend seeing all of Avenue 5 if you can. Not that you wouldn't catch on quick, it's a simple plot - but it's a vehicle for jokes and bits and some of it is really fricken funny ( so you would be missing some of the funny stuff if you started in the middle ).

Interesting take on John Wick - hmmm

[TaoHorror]

True Crime

So, while not "into" true crime, I have dabbled and it's been descent. I've seen Forensic Files and the like when I was out of town in a hotel - while not great, I've enjoyed much of it. I've seen 2 True Crime "documentaries" lately and will give my thoughts. Guess I'll put in Spoiler, but not really needed since this is "factual".

I'll Be Gone In The Dark

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Not very good. Very repetitive. It tries to pull off 2 things: The tragedy of Michelle McNamara's death and solving the mystery of the Golden State Killer. It failed at both. About 10% of this is fascinating, so if you're patient, you might like it. Oddly spends too much time on Michelle and her obsession, but fails to give enough insight into her. Not saying I need to know her, but it was trying to get us to know her, so ...

The mystery is very cool - but didn't spend enough time on it and too much time on the victims ( which they did since they obviously didn't have enough material for this thing ). Makes me wonder what her contribution to solving it really was. If a few things are true, then she did contribute, but they gave it so little focus, it makes me wonder. If it was her idea to use the ancestry websites to zero in on him, then she solved it in that sense and deserves credit. Also, if she did connect more crimes to him than the police/FBI did, she gets high marks for that as well since it widened the amount of available DNA to test ( which was decades old, so pretty important ).

Don't Fuck With Cats

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This was pretty good, I enjoyed it. It got to me much more so than I'll be Gone In The Dark - which is either my jacked self feeling more for animal torture than human torture or it was the better work ( maybe both ). It was hard to watch at times, I got to give it that, almost looking away and had to stop to take breaks. That's pretty powerful documenting, if you ask me. Some wicked psychological stuff with the suspect engaging the online group trying to find him, etc.

The ending was classic - so part of this is the obsessive tracking of the suspect by these online sleuths and one of the major players gives "us"/the audience, a talking to, berating us for watching this documentary, that if we weren't the voyeurs we are than this person wouldn't have done what they did. I laughed hard at that, not sure if I've witnessed such a pure act of projection such as this - someone who lives socially on the internet scolding others for being on the internet at all. Like a super gun enthusiast with a stockpile of armaments looking down on me for having a bee bee gun.

[TaoHorror]

Blade Runner 2049

Taking Q to a thread. The Q scrolled past some of your stuff, SmilerLoki - would enjoy you rehashing here if you want. In response to your point that they should've dropped the Harrison Ford character ( Deckard ). I didn't think of that, what it would be like without him - didn't come across as forced to me, seemed pretty good. His name helps the movie, ofc. But was he necessary - maybe not, but I found his performance entertaining, though it was overly done.

Movie and cinematography was very very cool - but it could've been more exciting. The ending kinda thumped and wasn't the beautiful Roy Batty monologue the first one had.

[H]

Raised By Wolves and Lovecraft Country.  Neither is perfect, but entertaining enough to watch.

[TaoHorror]

Raised By Wolves and Lovecraft Country.  Neither is perfect, but entertaining enough to watch.

Was wondering about Lovecraft Country - couldn't figure out if it was good or just a cheap horror flick. Good enough, you say?

[themerchant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4&feature=emb_logo

Dune trailer

[TaoHorror]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4&feature=emb_logo

Dune trailer

Dat is pretty damn cool!

[H]

Was wondering about Lovecraft Country - couldn't figure out if it was good or just a cheap horror flick. Good enough, you say?

Definitely depends on what you want out of it.  It isn't cheap horror but also isn't high drama.  Sort of a mix, which might be off-putting to some.