I terrified my son watching that movie. The "peace no peace" scene made him legit cry. I thought it was a bit amusing at the time, but we haven't watched it since with him.
Things you just watched on netflix/streaming video...spoilers all over the joint...
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I terrified my son watching that movie. The "peace no peace" scene made him legit cry. I thought it was a bit amusing at the time, but we haven't watched it since with him.
After hearing about the oh so satisfying start to Cross 2024 s2 we decided to watch the first season. It was pretty good, and an interesting concept for the villain. Although is every Alex Cross story filled with, "uh oh, how MANY moles do we have in this place?!"
I am curious to see where they will go with season 2, but that first twentyish minutes sold me on finishing this season.
I am curious to see where they will go with season 2, but that first twentyish minutes sold me on finishing this season.
I heard one should watch Prey on Disney+ and not Hulu because it was 4k and Hulu's was 1080p but now it seems that if you're firing it up on the former you're just watching the latter's version anyway. Is that true?
In The Blink Of An Eye gets 4 out of 5 petrified acorns. A good sci-fi movie slightly let down by its cast.
The movie links 3 stories.
The story is outstanding. The three stories interweave, but not in ways that are obvious or predictable. There's a fair amount of tension, especially in the Neanderthal family's struggles and the spaceship floating in interstellar space.
The only reason I wouldn't give it a 100% rating is the lead actresses. Rashida Jones as the anthropologist and Kate McKinnon as the spaceship crew. They're both hilarious comedians, and I'm a big fan of them. But they're just decent dramatic actresses. They're not bad, but they're not good enough for what the movie asks.
The most intense moments of the film don't have dialogue, and they have to "act with their eyes." They stare at the camera and have to make little changes with eyebrows, lips, and nose. Think of Florence Pugh in Midsommar going from total panic to total bliss just staring at the camera. Or Mia Goth making the closing credits scarier than the rest of the movie. Rashida Jones and Kate McKinnon can't quite do that. When the camera lingers on them, it doesn't tug your heart strings; it just slows the movie down.
That criticism aside, In The Blink Of An Eye is top-notch film. It emphasizes how much all our lives are connected. However short and insignificant our lives may be, the human race is an amazing organism of which we're all a part.
The movie links 3 stories.
- 45,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals is trying to survive in a world increasingly dominated by modern humans. This is the best part of the film. The family is struggling in a very dangerous world, and there are some real tear-jerker moments.
- In the modern day, an anthropologist is examining a fossilized skeleton. It's likely one of the family members from the first story. As she works on her Ph.D., she finds that her mother is dying of cancer.
- Hundreds of years in the future, a spaceship is carrying human embryos to a distant planet for colonization. There is only one crew member, a "longevity enhanced" person who can survive the entire 500 year journey. She's accompanied by an advanced AI, who discovers an unexpected problem that could cause mission failure.
The story is outstanding. The three stories interweave, but not in ways that are obvious or predictable. There's a fair amount of tension, especially in the Neanderthal family's struggles and the spaceship floating in interstellar space.
The only reason I wouldn't give it a 100% rating is the lead actresses. Rashida Jones as the anthropologist and Kate McKinnon as the spaceship crew. They're both hilarious comedians, and I'm a big fan of them. But they're just decent dramatic actresses. They're not bad, but they're not good enough for what the movie asks.
The most intense moments of the film don't have dialogue, and they have to "act with their eyes." They stare at the camera and have to make little changes with eyebrows, lips, and nose. Think of Florence Pugh in Midsommar going from total panic to total bliss just staring at the camera. Or Mia Goth making the closing credits scarier than the rest of the movie. Rashida Jones and Kate McKinnon can't quite do that. When the camera lingers on them, it doesn't tug your heart strings; it just slows the movie down.
That criticism aside, In The Blink Of An Eye is top-notch film. It emphasizes how much all our lives are connected. However short and insignificant our lives may be, the human race is an amazing organism of which we're all a part.
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I'm probably going to need to see that in theaters
My wife and I enjoyed it very much, and some of the small twists were really nice ones. Thumbs up.
Christ, has it been 26 years since Ray got stabbed with a dick Scary Movie first came out? I think I need to get a giant pile of sativa an watch the whole series again.
The first one is streaming on Kanopy, Fubo, and Paramount. 2 and 3 are on Fubo and Paramount. 4 and 5 are on Plex.
It'll be interesting to see how comedy has changed since 2000. A lot of common insults then are unspeakable "letter-words" now. And a lot of the humor around gay people and women has changed quite a bit.
The first one is streaming on Kanopy, Fubo, and Paramount. 2 and 3 are on Fubo and Paramount. 4 and 5 are on Plex.
It'll be interesting to see how comedy has changed since 2000. A lot of common insults then are unspeakable "letter-words" now. And a lot of the humor around gay people and women has changed quite a bit.
….. yeah.
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All in the past ten days.
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All in the past ten days.
Character names used here, but:
Book passed away in universe and IRL.
Jane is now a red hat wearing nutter IRL.
Wash was a leaf on the wind, and it is still too soon!
That leaves the elder Tam sibling.
I will curmudgeon all over this.
It has been 24 years since the premiere of "Firefly." TV and science fiction have moved past it.
I like a lot of the actors from it, most have gone on to do other things I enjoy.
Any sort of Firefly resurrection will be either a shitty nostalgia bomb, or simply bad. If it becomes a platform for Joss Whedon's 'good-guy redemption tour', then fuck it entirely.
It has been 24 years since the premiere of "Firefly." TV and science fiction have moved past it.
I like a lot of the actors from it, most have gone on to do other things I enjoy.
Any sort of Firefly resurrection will be either a shitty nostalgia bomb, or simply bad. If it becomes a platform for Joss Whedon's 'good-guy redemption tour', then fuck it entirely.
My concern with Firefly is that they should not all be on the ship still. Time has passed, people move on to other things. Even in the movie, Morena Baccarin's character had moved on from the ship. So you have to think of a way to get them all back together. While it is conceivable and even probable some are together, it seems unlikely all of them would be.
Started the new Bridgerton season on Netflix.
The new romance features a Bridgerton and a non-noble love interest. They leaned heavily into Cinderella themes in the first episode.
I don't know if I'll stick with it. It's only been 2 years, but the show feels dated already.
The new romance features a Bridgerton and a non-noble love interest. They leaned heavily into Cinderella themes in the first episode.
I don't know if I'll stick with it. It's only been 2 years, but the show feels dated already.
I wonder if we can make a list of "Things Millenial Geeks Regret Never Seeing":
Half Life 2, Episode 3
Firefly Season 2
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 3
Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared
Half Life 2, Episode 3
Firefly Season 2
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 3
Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared
What if Gerald's Game was a romantic comedy? That's the premise of Oh Hi, streaming on Netflix.
A young couple rent an Air BnB in upstate New York. Poking around, they discover the owner has a set of bondage gear hidden away, and they proceed to play with it. Isaac learns that you don't talk about love on long-term relationships until after she uncuffs you from the bed.
The first third of the movie is the epitome of romance. The middle third is the epitome of black humor. The end of the story is a little disappointing, but only because the rest of it is so great. I give the film 3 out of 4 limbs tied to bedposts.
A young couple rent an Air BnB in upstate New York. Poking around, they discover the owner has a set of bondage gear hidden away, and they proceed to play with it. Isaac learns that you don't talk about love on long-term relationships until after she uncuffs you from the bed.
The first third of the movie is the epitome of romance. The middle third is the epitome of black humor. The end of the story is a little disappointing, but only because the rest of it is so great. I give the film 3 out of 4 limbs tied to bedposts.
I watched this over the top of the book I was reading as La Femme wanted to watch it. My main takeaway was “these people are undeserving complete wastes of time, doing nothing but sponging off of the produce of the masses. They staff should rise up and lop their heads off.”
La Femme didn’t quite share my point of view but she was less than impressed.
Twenty four insufferable people.
Thirty six unique torture instruments.
Six different celebrity judges.
And one inquisitior who will get the confession.
Who will survive and what will be left of them. Torquemada's Dungeon this fall on Fox.
Thirty six unique torture instruments.
Six different celebrity judges.
And one inquisitior who will get the confession.
Who will survive and what will be left of them. Torquemada's Dungeon this fall on Fox.
I'm starting up Farscape again. The first time through I stalled out somewhere in S3. So far I'm only 3 episodes in but I'm enjoying it.
I avoided Farscape for a long time because of the puppet characters. I gave it a try ten years ago, but when the antagonist started living in the hero's mind and dressing in leather fetish gear, I gave up.
I got around to My Dinner With Andre. I tend to agree with Wally that people should be present in their real lives and enjoy the here and now, rather than with Andre that we need mountaintop experiences and drugs and theater to be and enjoy ourselves.
I got around to My Dinner With Andre. I tend to agree with Wally that people should be present in their real lives and enjoy the here and now, rather than with Andre that we need mountaintop experiences and drugs and theater to be and enjoy ourselves.
I've seen reboot not sequel thrown around in a few articles online. Even still.. that seems weird
But.. I'm a Firefly fan so I'll be following it
According to the instagram post from Tudyk and Fillion’s podcast of the… meeting… with Jewel?
March 15th we should know more.
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I'll be the voice of dissent and say I don't want a reboot or sequel. Firefly was a lightning in a bottle, one time thing. No clue how it would've turned out if they had Season 2. A lot of those reboots end... poorly, especially after 23 years. Ron Glass passed away a few years ago (EDIT: 10 years, holy crap) and Wash died in Serenity.
However, what could work, with the current situation, would be a prequel or "pre-Serenity" animated series. Finding someone to sound similar to Ron Glass's voice wouldn't be too hard, Disney does it all the time in their animated series. Keeping the proper Ron Glass mannerisms, would be harder. He was as unique in Barney Miller as he was in Firefly.
It wouldn't matter that Wash died either, he'd still be alive.
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Scorpius and Harvey were weird, but ok. The arc they did where the Moya crew went to Earth really was a slog for me. But yeah, Farscape was a really weird show, in a good way for me.
I don't want it either tbh. But, I'm a fan so I'll follow it.
Same with Lord of the Rings. I didn't want Rings of Power, I tried following it and it was terrible so I stopped. I'll follow the Gollum movie but if it sucks I won't be surprised.
Who were Book* and Jane again? Wash was Alan Tudyk's character, who died in the movie, right?
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I was watching the episode from the 6th season of Black Mirror last night, called "Beyond the Sea," with Aaron Paul, Kate Mara and Josh Hartnett (sp?), set in a weird alt-1969 where not only do we get to the moon but there are interplanetary missions during which the astronauts can transmit their consciousness from their regular bodies to android replicas of themselves back on Earth.
The conflict begins where some Manson-esque Luddite hippies attack the family of the more urban(e) of the two astronauts (David, played by Josh Hartnett) and not only destroy his replica but kill his wife and kids. Seeing his co-astronaut nearing suicidal depression, the other one, Cliff (Aaron Paul) decides to let him occasionally come to Earth by using his replica. Needless to say problems ensue
It was about twenty-some minutes from finishing and I could see this wouldn't end well, and I didn't want to actually witness it so I looked up a synopsis. Sure enough,
In retrospect, if you think about the setup for even a couple of minutes, you go, wait a minute,
The conflict begins where some Manson-esque Luddite hippies attack the family of the more urban(e) of the two astronauts (David, played by Josh Hartnett) and not only destroy his replica but kill his wife and kids. Seeing his co-astronaut nearing suicidal depression, the other one, Cliff (Aaron Paul) decides to let him occasionally come to Earth by using his replica. Needless to say problems ensue
when David eventually falls for Cliff's wife and makes a pass at her, but is rebuffed.
It was about twenty-some minutes from finishing and I could see this wouldn't end well, and I didn't want to actually witness it so I looked up a synopsis. Sure enough,
on the spacecraft, Cliff discovers a drawing of his own wife, nude, done by David (a gifted draftsman), and slugs the latter. This provokes an enraged David to transfer into Cliff's replica on Earth and murder his wife and child.
In retrospect, if you think about the setup for even a couple of minutes, you go, wait a minute,
if they can make such perfect android replicas of people, why wouldn't they send the replicas into space, even if the meatbag versions have to spend long hours checked out and unconscious back on Earth? Also the episode totally handwaves away the problem of the consciousness transfer not being near instantaneous at interplanetary distances as it would be on Earth.
Alan Ritchson (Jack Reacher on Amazon Prime) continues to demonstrate his one-dimensionality in a new stinker on Netflix. War Machine. Spoilers ahead because it's just so dumb.
Big doofus Army guy in Afghanistan has a big doofus brother there who really, really, really wants to go to Ranger school, so of course he talks Big bro into promising to sign up, too. But Talibans do big ambush and little bro gets fucked up.
Big bro grabs him up and does the man carry for a million miles back to base, but he falls short a hundred meters, wakes up in hospital, and little bro is a goner.
Big bro has Big guilt and failure complex. He's gonna get that Ranger scroll no matter what.
He and a handful of trainee candidates make it through to the last Big test, a hell march through the boonies to reach the finish line of training, while the cadre intend to ambush and harass them all the way.
But wait! While all this is going on, aliens, yes aliens, are landing giant mech fighting machines all over the world and they're fucking shit up. They shoot rays and projectiles and explosive soccer balls like mortars.
Yes, you guessed it, one of those babies lands right in the middle of the hell march course, and proceeds to make Big havoc on the trainees. They run, they swim, they climb, they rappel...but they're no match and Big mech picks 'em off slowly but surely all through the woods.
But wait x2! Big bro and one trainee are left; trainee has fucked up leg and can't walk. Big bro is dragging him on an improvised sled when they find mining construction site next to the course. "I've got an idea", says Big bro.
Big bro lures Big mech to the site, explodes some dy-no-mite on the dig cliff, thereby tumbling Big mech down to the bottom of the quarry. Where.....
where Big bro blasts out of the equipment garage driving Big front loader, and he proceeds to ram Big mech, push him up against the quarry rock wall. Conveniently underneath the conveyor belt that he turns on and dumps a Big ton of rock chips into the top port of Big mech which it looks like is a radiator for all the heat that its Big engine makes. Or something.
Big mech overheats Bigtime and blows up in a Big way.
Now's the chance for Big Bro to atone for Little bro's death: he man carries fucked up other trainee back to the Big training house and crosses the training finish line.
Dramatic music, Ranger badge awarded from cadre bosses, now tell us how you beat Big mech.
Cue fade outs, world-wide Big effort under way to take on the Big mechs, Rangers leading the way. Big God Almighty, it smells like a sequel.
Please, no. It's so bad. It's so dumb. If you're 15 and play Call of Duty, it's for you. For the Lounge, say "no".
Big doofus Army guy in Afghanistan has a big doofus brother there who really, really, really wants to go to Ranger school, so of course he talks Big bro into promising to sign up, too. But Talibans do big ambush and little bro gets fucked up.
Big bro grabs him up and does the man carry for a million miles back to base, but he falls short a hundred meters, wakes up in hospital, and little bro is a goner.
Big bro has Big guilt and failure complex. He's gonna get that Ranger scroll no matter what.
He and a handful of trainee candidates make it through to the last Big test, a hell march through the boonies to reach the finish line of training, while the cadre intend to ambush and harass them all the way.
But wait! While all this is going on, aliens, yes aliens, are landing giant mech fighting machines all over the world and they're fucking shit up. They shoot rays and projectiles and explosive soccer balls like mortars.
Yes, you guessed it, one of those babies lands right in the middle of the hell march course, and proceeds to make Big havoc on the trainees. They run, they swim, they climb, they rappel...but they're no match and Big mech picks 'em off slowly but surely all through the woods.
But wait x2! Big bro and one trainee are left; trainee has fucked up leg and can't walk. Big bro is dragging him on an improvised sled when they find mining construction site next to the course. "I've got an idea", says Big bro.
Big bro lures Big mech to the site, explodes some dy-no-mite on the dig cliff, thereby tumbling Big mech down to the bottom of the quarry. Where.....
where Big bro blasts out of the equipment garage driving Big front loader, and he proceeds to ram Big mech, push him up against the quarry rock wall. Conveniently underneath the conveyor belt that he turns on and dumps a Big ton of rock chips into the top port of Big mech which it looks like is a radiator for all the heat that its Big engine makes. Or something.
Big mech overheats Bigtime and blows up in a Big way.
Now's the chance for Big Bro to atone for Little bro's death: he man carries fucked up other trainee back to the Big training house and crosses the training finish line.
Dramatic music, Ranger badge awarded from cadre bosses, now tell us how you beat Big mech.
Cue fade outs, world-wide Big effort under way to take on the Big mechs, Rangers leading the way. Big God Almighty, it smells like a sequel.
Please, no. It's so bad. It's so dumb. If you're 15 and play Call of Duty, it's for you. For the Lounge, say "no".
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Polished off 1883. That was some good TV, and rather gritty. I really enjoyed it and it hit hard in places. Of course I love Sam Elliot so anything he stars in has got to be good. Nice to see a TV storyline closed off well, too. No need for a sequel, just a well-told story. Got 1923 queued up, enough cowboying for now...
Recently finished Mobland, the Guy Ritchie-directed crime series with current faverave psycho Tom Hardy in the more-or-less lead role. Also has Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Starts out rather focused on Tom Hardy doing his increasingly boring one-dimensional 'I'm a total psycho, yeah' act. Eventually more characters come on line and a story develops but this is neither quality writing nor direction. By the end of the first series, there's a half dozen open story threads it feels like, but with just enough closure that I'm not going to care if they don't make a second series, which they probably won't. As usual for typical low-rent filler TV series, waaay too many mcguffins.
Also got started on Landman. Juries out, but I'm only 4 episodes in so we'll see. I think it's also a Taylor Sheridan penned series, so it's all Big Texas Lovefest crap
We'll see what they do with it, but no real storyline so far... just Billy Bob Thornton and his Big Texas Truck throwing oil dollars around.
Looking forward to watching US Marshalls, if only because I loved Yellowstone. Speaking of, I have watched so many Yellowstone clips now. Clipping is the new viral marketing technique and sad to say, it works. Well, sort of. James Spader does not a TV show make, but I've whinged about that elsewhere.
Recently finished Mobland, the Guy Ritchie-directed crime series with current faverave psycho Tom Hardy in the more-or-less lead role. Also has Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Starts out rather focused on Tom Hardy doing his increasingly boring one-dimensional 'I'm a total psycho, yeah' act. Eventually more characters come on line and a story develops but this is neither quality writing nor direction. By the end of the first series, there's a half dozen open story threads it feels like, but with just enough closure that I'm not going to care if they don't make a second series, which they probably won't. As usual for typical low-rent filler TV series, waaay too many mcguffins.
Also got started on Landman. Juries out, but I'm only 4 episodes in so we'll see. I think it's also a Taylor Sheridan penned series, so it's all Big Texas Lovefest crap
We'll see what they do with it, but no real storyline so far... just Billy Bob Thornton and his Big Texas Truck throwing oil dollars around.Looking forward to watching US Marshalls, if only because I loved Yellowstone. Speaking of, I have watched so many Yellowstone clips now. Clipping is the new viral marketing technique and sad to say, it works. Well, sort of. James Spader does not a TV show make, but I've whinged about that elsewhere.