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Just watched a movie... as I do from time to time. Not often do I see lighting, design, color, camerawork and the story of a production come together into such a visually enjoyable experience. Leans a little to the complimentary colors of Orange and Teal but done in quite a subtle nuanced way. A 9.5/10 from me

Runtime 3 hr 9 min (189 min)
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Color Color
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa XT Plus, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses
Laboratory ARRI Media, Germany
Cinematographic Process Codex
Printed Film Format DCP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEYXnDNcrg

Chris Young
 
Just finished a 2nd time viewing of Breaking Bad. Whew! Storytelling just doesn't get any better than that last season of BB.
 
This week I started Hunters on Amazon and season two of Altered Carbon on Netflix. Finished season two of Yellowstone on Paramount last week(probably one of the best shows on TV, right now). I also highly recommend Peaky Blinders on Netflix. I finished all current seasons a little while back.

I like the photography on Hunters. Some different and interesting shots that really work for the feel of the show. I really like some of the direct overhead shots. Very disorienting.
 
Sneakle said:
Just finished a 2nd time viewing of Breaking Bad. Whew! Storytelling just doesn't get any better than that last season of BB.
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+ 1 on that. BB is a keeper series for me for sure. What with work bookings falling in a hole I guess I'll be revisiting some of my fave series over the next few months... years or whatever!

Chris Young
 
Been going back through The Sopranos, it's a great escape.

I tried watching Hunters and got disgusted after episode one. Some good actors, great production values, nicely shot but the treating of hunting down war criminals as comic book fantasy really bothers me.
There is something about the way it's depicted that revenge fantasizes the subject in the same way that Inglorious Bastards did that I despise. The reign of the Third Reich and the Holocaust and it's aftermath
deserve more reverence than that in my mind. It's like all of this art is being created by filmmakers who are so far removed from the reality and horror of what happened that they sort of turn it into just a
big fantasy thing. That rubs me the wrong way.

Tarantino is a really talented filmmaker but Inglorious Bastards made me write him off as far as wanting to see more of his films. I did see Once Upon a Time and LOVED it up to the last ten minutes which were frankly just stupid.
As someone who grew up in the area when the Tate murders happened, in that exact era, I hate treating real life horror as revenge fantasy, it's puerile and adolescent. I was a kid when it happened but I remember the
newcasts and newspapers and it sickened me as a kid, that there was that much evil out there.
 
Sports fanatics must be having a hard time. I see that all the sports channels are running reruns of old games.

I may have to get a Netflix subscription so I can watch Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Is that still being made?

I'm watching a lot of Youtube. I'm surprised they haven't had network brownouts.
 
puredrifting said:
I tried watching Hunters and got disgusted after episode one.
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I though the pilot was pretty strong, and had the proper tone. But once they got into the Grindhouse flourishes in episode two it lost its way. I watched to the end, mostly because the production value was so good and, quarantine boredom, but...BOY OH BOY is there a ridiculous, absurd whopper of a twist that flushes the entire series down the toilet.


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Al Pacino's character was actually a Nazi who got plastic surgery, took a Jewish surname, lived as a Jew and realized the horror of what he'd done and sought to make amends by hunting Nazis. This comes out of nowhere and despite Pacino's attempts to make it plausible, goes over like a wet fart.
 
Batutta said:
I though the pilot was pretty strong, and had the proper tone. But once they got into the Grindhouse flourishes in episode two it lost its way. I watched to the end, mostly because the production value was so good and, quarantine boredom, but...BOY OH BOY is there a ridiculous, absurd whopper of a twist that flushes the entire series down the toilet.


SPOILERS








Al Pacino's character was actually a Nazi who got plastic surgery, took a Jewish surname, lived as a Jew and realized the horror of what he'd done and sought to make amends by hunting Nazis. This comes out of nowhere and despite Pacino's attempts to make it plausible, goes over like a wet fart.
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OMG, glad you told me, I would have thrown something at my TV set if I had endured that. Ughh, that sounds REALLY cheesy. To me, tone is important and a lot of pieces these days are tone deaf.
 
puredrifting said:
Been going back through The Sopranos, it's a great escape.

I tried watching Hunters and got disgusted after episode one. Some good actors, great production values, nicely shot but the treating of hunting down war criminals as comic book fantasy really bothers me.
There is something about the way it's depicted that revenge fantasizes the subject in the same way that Inglorious Bastards did that I despise. The reign of the Third Reich and the Holocaust and it's aftermath
deserve more reverence than that in my mind. It's like all of this art is being created by filmmakers who are so far removed from the reality and horror of what happened that they sort of turn it into just a
big fantasy thing. That rubs me the wrong way.

Tarantino is a really talented filmmaker but Inglorious Bastards made me write him off as far as wanting to see more of his films. I did see Once Upon a Time and LOVED it up to the last ten minutes which were frankly just stupid.
As someone who grew up in the area when the Tate murders happened, in that exact era, I hate treating real life horror as revenge fantasy, it's puerile and adolescent. I was a kid when it happened but I remember the
newcasts and newspapers and it sickened me as a kid, that there was that much evil out there.
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I can see where you're coming from, but I also feel that the "flashback" scenes to the time of the concentration camps and when they were rounding people up, really help illustrate the horrible atrocities that happened and that people really were treated like that.

I think I have two more episodes left to watch. I'll probably finish up tonight.
 
puredrifting said:
I tried watching Hunters and got disgusted after episode one.
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Right there with you - maybe not disgust as much as incredulous. I actually started watching it last night... wasn't a fan of the main character... but made it through episode one... thinking it had interesting plot. But by end of 1 and then beginning of episode 2 and had to shut it off & find something else.
 
Actually EXBC on twitch (South Korean live casters that I like.)
I had never heard of "Razor Shells" before one of their casts and actually saved a video grab of it at the time.
Here's the Razor Shell clip I saved 7 months ago (4min30sec). And they are live right now. Good kids. :)
https://vimeo.com/354795900

Movies...update later.
 
Finally finished Hunters.
Watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Friday night.
Binged Tiger King, yesterday. Like everyone keeps saying, you couldn’t make this s*** up if you tried. If someone went to a movie studio with this as an idea for an actual movie, they’d laugh at them and say it’s too crazy and no one would believe it.
 
A bit late but just watched all four seasons of The Man In The High Castle. One of the best TV Shows I’ve ever seen. Made by Ridley Scott’s production company. Just fantastic all around.
 
Funny, I just started reading The Man In The High Castle. So far it's amazing. Maybe I'll check out the tv series after I'm done.

Here's what I've been watching. Some are on Netflix. Some on HBO or Amazon.

Contagion (2011) - I watched this a couple weeks ago, just when the "shelter-at-home" orders were going out, schools were closing, and shoppers were decimating the TP aisles everywhere. It scared the bejeezus out of me. How did Soderbergh get it so correctly 9 years ago? It's still haunting my thoughts two weeks later as I watch the worldwide numbers increase.

Andromeda Strain (1971) - I wanted to like this movie. It was the only Crichton novel-based movie I hadn't seen yet. But wow, was it slow. And why couldn't they get any attractive actors to play the main parts?

Doctor Sleep (2019) - I wasn't expecting this to be very good and it impressed me. Of course Danny would grow up to be homeless and alcoholic. His ACES score is through the roof. I thought his character arc was pretty great. It made me want to watch the original again.

The Shining (1980) - I hadn't seen this movie in many years so it was a real treat reviewing it. I came away seeing two distinct themes that carried through the entire movie and interacted with each other. The upfront and obvious theme: male vs. female. Jack dominates and abuses his wife so much it's hard to watch, and poor Danny is caught in between. The larger more obscure theme: Native American genocide. The hotel is built on an Indian burial ground and Native symbols are seen throughout the film. Could the dead Native souls be exacting their revenge upon their killers' future generations by causing them to go mad and murder their families?

Cocoon (1985) - I hadn't seen this since I was little and it held up quite nicely. A good example of a sci-fi premise where the aliens are more humane than the humans. I could've done without seeing Steve Guttenberg in too-tight see-through swim shorts which were frankly way too revealing.

Empire of the Sun (1987) - Jesus this movie was heart wrenching. The young innocent boy thrown into the horror of war with all its violent abuses, losing his innocence in the most brutal ways, surviving at all costs, and at the end returning to his parents with just a glimmer of hope in his eyes. I'm not gonna lie, I was in tears. Makes me think our current situation could be a lot worse.

Silkwood (1983) - I love the characters of this story. Cher in an openly gay relationship. Kurt Russell as a southern man who's sensitive and respects women. Meryl Streep a no-nonsense tell-it-like-it-is working woman, a mother separated from her children, who dares to stand up to corporate management is phenomenal as usual, a force of nature, so authentic, and so young and hot too. Her performance is riveting every minute. And the storyline is ahead of its time: a weapons manufacturing corporation putting profits ahead of its people and murdering a whistle-blower to keep its monstrous malfeasance secret. Based on a true story!
 
The Match of the Century - Italy vs. West Germany, 1970 World Cup semifinal. When I was a kid, my parents took me to our summer house (aka dacha) where we did not have a TV or a radio. I prowled outside of our neighbor's fence to pick up whatever play-by-play sound was leaking through his window. I came out very disappointed. Not with the audio but the score. Which had not changed in fifty years.
 
Tiger King - amazing jaw dropping craziness. Perfect lockdown fodder
I love Dick - great name, brilliant little series with Kathryn Hahn and the Bacon
This Country - amusing mockumentary on BBC iplayer, very English
Sally 4 Ever - the darkest of black humour, Julia Davis is a comedy genius
 
Just powered through all three seasons of The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel. Loved it, a great blend of comedy and drama - and oh so gorgeously made!

We started Tiger King on Netflix last night, and that might just be the most bonkers thing I've ever seen in my life, it's next on the to-binge list.

I also somehow made myself sit through Rise of Skywalker the other day. That was just as awful as the last two they made. I'd been proud of myself for refusing to see it in the theatre (the first Star Wars I've missed on the big screen), but now I kinda regret having seen it at all. Don't waste your time.
 
Man In The High Castle - genius, absolutely riveting, great writing, acting, direction. I miss watching it.
Six Feet Under - if you've never seen it, you must. Profound series, makes you look at life differently.
The Good Place - started out as one thing, but quickly evolves to something a lot deeper and more meaningful. A rare network comedy that was actually good.
 
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