In my opinion one of the best shows in the last decade.
The four you mention are widely different in quality and tone. Secret Invasion was a mess and seems to be totally insignificant to the MCU. She-Hulk was messy but fun in the same way the comic book is. Moon Knight and Echo I enjoyed. Echo managed to have a much different feel that most of the MCU and every appearance of this Kingpin is great.
Mostly I just prefer documentaries to docu-dramas.
Same here. If I wanted to see something that didn’t truly happen, I’d just watch fiction instead.
Started The Studio on Apple TV+, and like earlier posts in the thread I found it tough going.
Pros: it looks good, has a great soundtrack (quiet drum improvisations in the background or Satie-like jazz piano), and some fun ideas.
Okay: all the fictional movie executives/office workers are scumbags, but they’re mostly quite interesting scumbags.
Cons: more hollywood navelgazing about how awful hollywood is. And its very cringe.
I feel better about Bad Monkey. Read a lot of Hiaassen about 20 years ago, but not the source for this. AFAIR they were a breeze to read but I generally found his lead characters bland, and his villains so self destructive they didn’t really feel like a threat. He wrote really good secondary characters and I liked his Florida of offbrand theme parks, bass fishing competitions and dastardly bound-to-fail real estate scams.
Two episodes in. I could do with less captain obvious narration, but the actors are good, half the scenes take place on a beach, harbor or boat, the mystery is not that mysterious, but I want to see it resolved.
Watched the first few eps of North of North on NFLX. A gentle comedy about life in an Arctic village in Canada. Actually filmed on site, as far as I can tell. The main character is a young Tlingit woman from Southeast Alaska, playing a young Inuit woman who is finding her way. Not riotously funny, but warmly amusing.
I recently watched the entire series with my young son long after all the dust settled and besides The Holy Trilogy I think The Last Jedi stands out as the best of the lot.
It’s not perfect, but it’s mostly a Band-Aid to the mistakes of the past and it showed a way forward for the franchise away from white suburban tween boys. Focus on the desperate weak good guys fighting the institutional big bad while also turning the themes on their head. For instance, ‘wreathed hives of scum and villainy’ come in all variety of economic classes.
I really didnt like that show- the later burnt out Woody was so over the top it ruined the series. And the later investigation was really pointless- does that dept have unlimited funds?
Oh please- many of the Fans her have opinions that only “A New Hope” is great- the next two are okay- good, and everything else is total garbage. So how can Disney ruin what the "true fans’ say is unwatchable garbage?
I’m just the opposite. I enjoyed Season 1…I thought McConaughey was excellent.
Season 2…not so much.
Haven’t watched Season 3.
But I did watch Season 4, and I enjoyed that one as well.
Yes, he was. It was Harrelson I didnt like.
I have always felt that Star Wars fans, myself included, consider the original trilogy to be far better than they actually are. If I were to see them for the first time as a 50 year old I probably would not enjoy them as much as I did when I was 8-10.
I believe that can be true, AND the sequels and prequels can still be far worse than the originals.
I started on Until I Kill You on Britbox. Holy crap, that’s one dark series. Based on true events in the UK involving a serial killer.
We watched the first episode of Parasyte: The Grey on Netflix. It’s a Korean adaptation of a Japanese manga about parasites from space taking over human bodies. Basically Invasion of the Body Snatchers with some well done, but derivative (demogorgonish) creature design. The main character is a woman who was only half taken over by her parasite. Her two halves have to work together to avoid the other parasites and the human team formed to hunt them down.
I saw A New Hope first run in a theatre, and yes, it was amazing and almost life changing. We made it a point to stand in line to see the next two as soon as they came out- Day 1.
I wont argue with that, IV was truly amazing at that time, V and VI were pretty damn good. At that time i would say A+ ,A and B+
I, II, II were entertaining with some great moments but overall disappointing and more like C- C+.
But in any case, there are lots of haters- even here- who think epi I- Phantom Menace is a F- piece of crap.
We watched this a couple of weeks ago. We enjoyed it - warmly amusing is a good appraisal of it. I was googling about the show and apparently the lead actress, Anna Lambe, is from the village where they filmed.
I absolutely agree. It is one of those situations where the more you know about a subject, the less impressive the show was. What was impressive about the series were the sets: the phones, filing cabinets, clothes, etc. were absolutely perfect, but they missed the mark on Soviet culture and the history.
“Unfortunately, apart from these striking moments, the series often veers between caricature and folly. In Episode 2, for example, the Central Committee member Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) threatens to have Legasov shot if he doesn’t tell him how a nuclear reactor works. There are a lot of people throughout the series who appear to act out of fear of being shot. This is inaccurate: summary executions, or even delayed executions on orders of a single apparatchik, were not a feature of Soviet life after the nineteen-thirties. By and large, Soviet people did what they were told without being threatened with guns or any punishment.
Similarly repetitive and ridiculous are the many scenes of heroic scientists confronting intransigent bureaucrats by explicitly criticizing the Soviet system of decision-making. In Episode 3, for example, Legasov asks, rhetorically, “Forgive me—maybe I’ve just spent too much time in my lab, or maybe I’m just stupid. Is this really the way it all works? An uninformed, arbitrary decision that will cost who knows how many lives that is made by some apparatchik, some career Party man?” Yes, of course this is the way it works, and, no, he hasn’t been in his lab so long that he didn’t realize that this is how it works. The fact of the matter is, if he didn’t know how it worked, he would never have had a lab.“
Wow, did I get some bad information! I know I read online that she was Tlingit, but that was clearly not so.
I’ve given up on it. I really wanted to like it, but after the first episode, the cringe became the message and there was nothing else. The first episode with Martin Scorsese still cracks me up, though.