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[Taylor]

14 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

The OA season 1.

Im not really sure how I feel about this. It's kind of awful but the hard outs on the episodes have me binging. It feels like something I'd write but then throw in the garbage cuz I thought it was trash.

A whole bunch of it doesn't really make sense or feels kind of random, but if you just accept it for what it is, it's kind of compelling... Like, why is Prairie jumping off a bridge in the opening? Are they even gona go back to that? 

And then...

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The school shooter plot line is literally out of left field. If that is your big payoff this should be established somewhere earlier in the series. Who is the school shooter, why are they school shooting? What is it about the dance that they've learned that stops school shooters from firing more than one round? wtf?

At the same time, wanting to learn what happened with Prairie, the details of her near death experience and her years long disappearance are compelling. Also the subtlety unique way the story is told is really engaging. 

Season 1 is like 10 times better when you watch it for the second time.

[Taylor]

5 hours ago, Slegnaac said:

Went to see this at the local theater tonight.  Not a typical Comic Book movie at all.  The performance by Joaquin Phoenix is so edgy.   He has to be the favorite to win the Oscar this year.

I really liked this one.

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I really didn't mind the scenes with young Bruce.  The initial encounter was a main turning point for Arthur, as his decent really took off from there.

What is real and what is imagined.  Did he have a relationship with the lady on his floor?

What is truth and is fabrication.  Was he really adopted?

 

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The romance was imagined.

Whether he was adopted or not is kind of left ambiguous. It's possible that Thomas Wayne covered up the scandal and got Arthur's mom to have a labotomy so that she would be seen as crazy.

 

[cysomeawfulpitcher]

Dolemite Is My Name

Best Eddie Murphy movie in 20 years since Bowfinger.  Welcome back.

[Redondo]

Goliath

Season 1 was great.

Up to the last episode in season 2

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Season 2 went sideways really fast.

The show is about Billy's court expertise and this season is strange with all the fetishes and sideways moves.

Hope it comes back to normal in season 3.

@Lou what do you think?

Anyone else?

[gotbeer]

4 minutes ago, Redondo said:

Goliath

Season 1 was great.

Up to the last episode in season 2

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Season 2 went sideways really fast.

The show is about Billy's court expertise and this season is strange with all the fetishes and sideways moves.

Hope it comes back to normal in season 3.

@Lou what do you think?

Anyone else?

Season 3 starts off sideways.  It was a strange season, but I liked it.  I still have questions about season 3.  

[gotbeer]

Netflix:  In the Shadow of the Moon  A detective who done it Netflix movie.  You kind of figure it out in the middle.  But never the less, was an entertaining movie.   They really focus on the main character/detective, and his spiral downwards, and everything else is just a piece of the puzzle.  It's a good filler/time killer.

[AngelsLakersFan]

34 minutes ago, Redondo said:

Goliath

Season 1 was great.

Up to the last episode in season 2

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Season 2 went sideways really fast.

The show is about Billy's court expertise and this season is strange with all the fetishes and sideways moves.

Hope it comes back to normal in season 3.

@Lou what do you think?

Anyone else?

After season 1 ended it didn't really seem like it had much story left to tell for a second season so I never bothered to check back in.

[Lou]

2 hours ago, Redondo said:

Goliath

Season 1 was great.

Up to the last episode in season 2

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Season 2 went sideways really fast.

The show is about Billy's court expertise and this season is strange with all the fetishes and sideways moves.

Hope it comes back to normal in season 3.

@Lou what do you think?

Anyone else?

I agree with your comments. S3 is much closer to S2, imo. 

[Redondo]

2 hours ago, Lou said:

I agree with your comments. S3 is much closer to S2, imo. 

Don't like hearing this. So much to work with and great actors. Writers could have really done something special with this show. It showed in season 1

Thanks for the input everyone.

[Blarg]

They are doing what they want to, which may not appeal to everyone used to formulas in entertainment. 

I think about the only reason I watch the series is to marvel at how absolutely skinny Billy Bob looks in comparison to his role in Slingblade. 

[Lou]

I would argue that an attorney being 3% litigator and 97% private detective is formulatic. 

[gotbeer]

Movie:  Maleficent Mistress of Evil  It was a good Disney-esque movie.  Definitely a good sequel.  So if you enjoyed the first one, then you should like this one.  Should be good for the young ones too if they liked the first one.  

[Taylor]

The Lighthouse was a really weird movie (as expected). Brilliant cinematography, directing, acting, and dialogue.

[cez]

Farscape is back on Amazon Prime.  I have it on bluray, but I've been watching a couple of eps/night on stream. 

Like Star Trek TNG/DS9/Voyager, it gets off to a rough start, but it's only 4 season total, and from the 2nd half of S1 on, it's pretty fun.  Ahead of its time in many ways. 

[gotbeer]

On 10/26/2019 at 9:25 PM, cysomeawfulpitcher said:

Dolemite Is My Name

Best Eddie Murphy movie in 20 years since Bowfinger.  Welcome back.

 

That was good.  Played well into vintage Eddie Murphy type of humor.  Which is hard to do in today's climate.  Then again, I still like vintage Eddie Murphy humor.

[T.G.]

@Lou  Treadstone?

[gotbeer]

Movie:  Zombieland 2 Double Tap  I was really looking forward to this one.  And it did not live up to my expectations.  I just thought that they rehashed the same old material from the first one too much.  I'd say 2/3 of the movie was rehashed material, and it just felt stale because of it.  And of the material that was original, most were in the trailers, so they weren't a surprise.  Hate to say it, but this one is a cable movie.  I just don't think they brought enough original material to warrant spending money on.  

[Lou]

10 hours ago, True Grich said:

@Lou  Treadstone?

E2 was better, imo.  Nothing great, but I'll keep watching. 

Jack Ryan S2 begins Friday Nov 1st 

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

13 minutes ago, Lou said:

E2 was better, imo.  Nothing great, but I'll keep watching. 

I’m gonna check it out but part of me is having a problem getting past seeing the kid from Almost Famous beating people up in the trailer. 

[Tank]

On 10/29/2019 at 8:24 AM, True Grich said:

@Lou  Treadstone?

i keep forgetting it's on. they do a replay on sunday mornings and i've caught bits and pieces of it that way.

[RallyMo]

JoJo Rabbit

10/10

This is easily my favorite film of 2019 thus far.

[gotbeer]

3 minutes ago, junkorama said:

JoJo Rabbit

10/10

This is easily my favorite film of 2019 thus far.

Is it a dubbed film?  Or in English?

[AngelsLakersFan]

 

[Don]

Watched the first episode of Jack Ryan S2 last night. Really good start to the season. I had kinda forgotten how good that show really is. It's what Homeland should have been if it were planned out a bit better. Also, Wendell Pierce is one of my favorite actors working right now.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

17 minutes ago, Don said:

Watched the first episode of Jack Ryan S2 last night. Really good start to the season. I had kinda forgotten how good that show really is. It's what Homeland should have been if it were planned out a bit better. Also, Wendell Pierce is one of my favorite actors working right now.

I'm going to check season 2 out but I feel like I watched season 1 because I started it and could binge away boredom.  It wasn't terrible but it wasn't anything memorable either, aside from Abbie Cornish in her birthday suit.