Let's talk movies & streaming shows

Fake Friend: the Ticket Scammer - BBC. One for fans of Schadenfreude. The Rich scamming the Rich - includes private schools, lazy languid youths, croaky-voiced young women, private jets, Glastonbury...etc.

I despair 😂
 
The Mosquito Coast - Apple TV. Based on the novel by Paul Theroux. Cinematic scenes of the badlands of Texas & Arizona as a family on the run from US government officials cross the desert. Excellent 9/10
 
castalla said:
The Mosquito Coast - Apple TV. Based on the novel by Paul Theroux. Cinematic scenes of the badlands of Texas & Arizona as a family on the run from US government officials cross the desert. Excellent 9/10
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Series One - 9/10
Series Two - 4/10

Series 2 is a big disappointment 😔
 
Burnside said:
I thought season one was middling, and can’t recall if I bothered with season two
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I read the book decades ago, but have absolutely no recollection of the narrative!
Looking forward to the film version of 'Neuromancer'. Hope it won't be as disappointing as 'The Three Body Problem' was 😞
 
I liked the first series of Altered Carbon with Joel Kinnaman, who I also liked in For All Mankind - it started slow for me but then I was hooked and binge watched several seasons. Looking forward to the fifth season of that which hopefully will be out next year.
 
Is it just me, or is it becoming increasingly difficult to find something really good and new on streaming platforms? Today, we spent more time searching for something on Netflix/Prime than we did actually watching it...
 
FuckaZip said:
Is it just me, or is it becoming increasingly difficult to find something really good and new on streaming platforms? Today, we spent more time searching for something on Netflix/Prime than we did actually watching it...
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Both are scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to new stuff worth watching. Inventive storytelling is just about dead on its feet. Apple tv occasionally produces something worth watching, eg Plur1bus. On the other hand, Netflix has done some good documentaries.
 
FuckaZip said:
Is it just me, or is it becoming increasingly difficult to find something really good and new on streaming platforms? Today, we spent more time searching for something on Netflix/Prime than we did actually watching it...
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I couldn't agree more.😂
So I watch the items in My List over and over again.

Among Netflix productions, I feel Limited series dramas tend to be relatively less likely to disappoint.
 
All Her Fault
The Beast in Me
Pluribus
Landman
Welcome to Derry
Down Cemetary Rd
Stranger Things
White Lotus
Love Life


There should be something in there for everyone 😁
 
FuckaZip said:
Is it just me, or is it becoming increasingly difficult to find something really good and new on streaming platforms? Today, we spent more time searching for something on Netflix/Prime than we did actually watching it...
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Years ago, (early 1980's) I attended a telecommunications seminar. There was an American speaker, who foretold of the "raspberry jam" effect. He said telecommunications and the entertainment industry would converge and result in many channels for TV, radio etc.

He said that there are a given number of good writers, producers and performers, so a limited number of high quality output is possible. When these are concentrated into a few channels all output is high quality. When you have a lot of channels, then the fixed number of hours of quality output is thinly spread (like raspberry jam) over the many channels and the rest of the hours filled with mediocre output.

He was right.
 
Wiimer said:
I couldn't agree more.😂
So I watch the items in My List over and over again.

Among Netflix productions, I feel Limited series dramas tend to be relatively less likely to disappoint.
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It's annoying that the same clichés are used over and over again, and that our high contribution rates are squandered on the same old crap, i.e., mainstream stuff, sometimes with really bad actors. Yes, there are some good things too, but you have to search long and hard to find them... Maybe I'm just getting old 😂
 
AlanB said:
Years ago, (early 1980's) I attended a telecommunications seminar. There was an American speaker, who foretold of the "raspberry jam" effect. He said telecommunications and the entertainment industry would converge and result in many channels for TV, radio etc.

He said that there are a given number of good writers, producers and performers, so a limited number of high quality output is possible. When these are concentrated into a few channels all output is high quality. When you have a lot of channels, then the fixed number of hours of quality output is thinly spread (like raspberry jam) over the many channels and the rest of the hours filled with mediocre output.

He was right.
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I quite agree.

Another reason is that subscriptions have drastically altered my own viewing habits. Back when I frequented the cinema, I would always watch even dull films right to the end. Of course I watched all the end credits.

During the rental video era, I watched most tapes through to the end too. I suppose there was a sense that since I'd paid to borrow it, not watching it all felt like a waste.

But that's not the case now. I give it just the first 10 minutes a try, and if it doesn't look interesting, I move straight on to the next one. Or sometimes I judge it purely by the title or cover art. I have entered an era where so much is easily accessible and just as easily discarded.

The era of 'thank u, next' has arrived. Yet perhaps I have even grown less inclined to give thanks for each and every thing.
 
The Stringer - Netflix documentary. In contrast to the overwhelming mediocre drama content, Netflix produces some excellent documentaries.

This is a very complicated search for the true identity of the photographer who took the shocking 1972 picture of the 'Napalm Girl'. This image was published worldwide and became an iconic marker of the horrors of the Vietnam War.

A homage to war photographers & the local 'stringers' who fade into the background as time passes.
 
MrMan said:
All Her Fault
The Beast in Me
Pluribus
Landman
Welcome to Derry
Down Cemetary Rd
Stranger Things
White Lotus
Love Life


There should be something in there for everyone 😁
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Down Cemetery Road - just reached episode 7. How this almost amateurish pantomime ever got made is beyond me. Perhaps it succeeds as a novel, but a film series was a mistake 😁
 
All Quiet on the Western Front
Netflix

A harrowing and visually stunning adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front follows a young German soldier, Paul Baeumer, as he confronts the brutal realities of World War I. Swept up in patriotic fervor, Paul and his classmates enlist eagerly, only to find themselves trapped in the mud and bloody futility of the trenches. Winner of multiple Academy Awards, including Best International Feature, the film is a weighty indictment of war’s dehumanizing effects and a poignant reflection on the horrors of violence.

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