TMoney Posted June 12, 2019 Report Posted June 12, 2019 Brent is quickly becoming a legendary binge-er 1 1
Grahame Posted June 16, 2019 Report Posted June 16, 2019 Meanwhile, Re: Chernobyl ... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/12/chernobyl_influencer_scourge/ "perfect arse shot" #SMH 1
ironbut Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 On All Things Considered, they had a bit about the perfect Father's Day Movie. I decided it was a good time to watch mine. 3
blessingx Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 If anyone ever gets a link to this please share. Russian TV to air its own patriotic retelling of Chernobyl story “Russian state TV is set to air its own drama about the deadly 1986 Chernobyl disaster – but unlike the HBO series, which has transfixed viewers around the world, this version will claim that a CIA spy was present for the worst nuclear accident in history.” 1
mikeymad Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 On 6/10/2019 at 7:50 PM, blessingx said: I wasn't aware this existed. Linking in case you weren't also. There's a weekly sister HBO Chernobyl podcast. As the show was about truth and some compromises had to done in the mini-series around facts, this is to explain those choices. It's actually more interesting that just that. Thanks for the podcast recommendation Ric. I finished the series this morning on my commute. I have not watched the series, but I found the podcast informative and engaging. (so many bad things). cheers. 3
blessingx Posted June 18, 2019 Report Posted June 18, 2019 Anyone watching Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old To Die Young on Amazon Prime? I’ve only seen the pilot so far, but it’s very [surprise] Nicolas Winding Refn. You know, good or bad, it’s some endpoint. Probably best to watch late into the night, after a couple glasses or other poisons. Prepare to move slow. 1 1
HiWire Posted June 23, 2019 Report Posted June 23, 2019 (edited) Lost (2004), Season 2 – hard to believe so much time has passed Edited June 23, 2019 by HiWire 1
blessingx Posted June 25, 2019 Report Posted June 25, 2019 Okay, now mid-way through Too Old To Die Young (Prime). THIS IS SOMETHING SPECIAL. Is it meandering, indulgent, and too violent? Yep. Can I sell it to you as great? I'm still not sure. But if you can put up with its vices, do the practically exhausting work to meet halfway, and float on its language and tension, it's an exciting ride to watch an artist create (and only one will take you here). Like movies (which each of these 60-90 minute structured episodes pretty much are), television is such a collaborative medium, it's exciting to see an actual personality surface. Many critics have issues with this series. I don't blame them. I also don't think there are many television achievements this grand, even in this new golden age we're in. It's pretty dark though. Be prepared. 2 1
CD44hi Posted June 25, 2019 Report Posted June 25, 2019 I saw this when it came out a while ago and still remember it well. I liked the darkness and the “true detective”-like mood. But much darker and sometimes just down right odd. Specially that scene on the video above. : - )
Grahame Posted June 29, 2019 Report Posted June 29, 2019 Current location appropriate, and of possible interest to certain other HC'ers 2
CD44hi Posted June 29, 2019 Report Posted June 29, 2019 Dark, season 2. This is really a superb show! Highly recommended! 2
HiWire Posted June 30, 2019 Report Posted June 30, 2019 The History of Fraggle Rock (my favorite children's show):
skullguise Posted July 5, 2019 Report Posted July 5, 2019 Karen and I started Stranger Things Season 3 last night.....just watched first episode.... 3
Dusty Chalk Posted July 7, 2019 Report Posted July 7, 2019 Haven't watched nor listened to any Babymetal in a while, so the full Glastonbury playlist: Nice to see a .strandberg* guitar on stage -- I want one. Didn't realize one of the members had died, looks like his standin took over full time. (Isao Fujita)
blessingx Posted July 8, 2019 Report Posted July 8, 2019 Just one more post, from another’s perspective. “Nicolas Winding Refn is an aesthete; his films vacuous yet gorgeous, replete with all kinds of technical bravado, sly camera movements, images that glisten, over-saturated colors, aphotic darkness, and thrumming music. He’s as philosophical as the college sophomore who just discovered Heidegger (which makes him smarter than the student who just discovered Kant, natch). But his craftsmanship! As Nietzsche said, “All of life is a dispute over taste,” and Refn (or NWR—his directorial credit reads, #ByNWR) certainly isn’t for everybody. His new Amazon show, Too Old to Die Young, is glacial and gaudy, repetitive, a shiny, neon-sodden traipse into an ugly underworld set to an anxious, irascible electronic score and digitally photographed so assiduously, so obsessively, with its slow zooms and precise pans and persnickety compositions that look like modern art installations, anyone who doesn’t nerd out over that kind of stuff will probably find the series insufferable. Characters? Plot? Politics? Hah. This is braggadocio filmmaking, stupid and sublime.”
Dusty Chalk Posted July 8, 2019 Report Posted July 8, 2019 I don’t know that Neon Demon was vacuous, so much as it was about the vacuous. Do agree with the ‘aesthete’ moniker. That’s just too perfect.
TMoney Posted July 10, 2019 Report Posted July 10, 2019 Stranger Things S3 Fun, charming, delightful… basically exactly what you’d expect after the first two seasons. Great new adds to the cast, though the series’ formula is starting to wear a little thin. I hope if they do bring it back it ends after a fourth season. Better to stay too short than stay too long. 1
Torpedo Posted July 10, 2019 Report Posted July 10, 2019 I'm watching it too, but the noisy loud music and the unnecessarily loud tension creating sound effects annoy me to no end. There should be a law that no music or effects should sound any louder than a shout out dialogue.
robm321 Posted July 10, 2019 Report Posted July 10, 2019 We're looking forward to watching when we have some time.
Dusty Chalk Posted July 11, 2019 Report Posted July 11, 2019 Started watching the completely vacuous silly fun that is Strong Girl Bong-Soon. Everything is done completely over-the-top.
Dusty Chalk Posted July 12, 2019 Report Posted July 12, 2019 Not everything out of Norway is black metal
blessingx Posted July 14, 2019 Report Posted July 14, 2019 Nova’s Building Chernobyl’s Megatomb on Netflix. 1 1
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