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Whispered · 06-07-2018 11:15AM

Started good girls last night. It started so strong but by the end of episode one I was a bit bored and distracted. I'll watch another one and see how it goes.

Bunny Colvin · 06-07-2018 11:37AM

kunst nugget wrote: »

I thought Looper was one of the biggest hapes of shíte I had the misfortune to watch. The plot was pure bollocks. I watched that and Prometheus in the same weekend. Ranks as one of the worst weekends of my life.

I'm very sorry that you had to go through that. I still haven't seen Looper so hopefully it will be okay!

FunLover18 · 06-07-2018 11:41AM

I thought Looper was great (once you get past JGL's dodgy prosthetics), some really good sci-fi. It's major flaw is the expository narration but it's great to see Willis actually doing some actual acting again.

pixelburp · 06-07-2018 11:53AM

Yeah, Looper feels like the last time Willis actually bothered to do some acting; the film itself was a great, self-contained thriller - I can't attest if the time travel logic was bulletproof, but honestly it was such a blatant 'elevator pitch' concept, pulled off with enough imagination and panache by Riain Johnson, I wasn't that bothered trying to find holes. It felt like the kind of time travel movie Hitchcock might have approved of, were he into that sort of thing

Sad Professor · 06-07-2018 11:53AM

Looper is awesome. It's in that overly ambitious, high concept Chris Nolan tradition. It probably borrows something from every time travel movie of the last 30 years but still feels fresh. If you are a time travel geek, be aware that it is a dark twist on Back to the Future's approach to time travel in which changes to time causes people to disappear, fade away, etc, i.e. it doesn't make sense but that's okay because time travel as seen in movies nearly never does make sense.

pixelburp · 06-07-2018 11:59AM

I can't think of a greater fools errand of a thought experiment than trying to parse a timetravel plot; if the first-glance holds fast, I leave well alone as otherwise you just get lost in the weeds of loopy, brain melting logic. Even physicists can't properly nail down the 4th dimension, so why would a bunch of scriptwriters fare any better?

The best use of the time-loop in a narrative I've seen in recent years was the Ethan Hawke film 'Predestination', whose loop is the most ostensibly watertight I've come across, resulting in a great series of twists; the worst has to be Speilberg's Minority Report, where the aforementioned first-glance immediately broke down the very story & plot because the whole loop couldn't work.

peteeeed · 06-07-2018 12:11PM

i loved looper , ive always though scareface was overrated

06-07-2018 12:15PM

Watched Calibre last night. Really enjoyed it. Had me gripped from start to finish. Worth a watch.

06-07-2018 12:18PM

Perks of being a wallflower is a great film

Decuc500 · 06-07-2018 12:18PM

Sacred Games is an Indian crime series from Anurag Kashyap, director of Gangs of Waseypur, a sprawling 5 hour plus gangster epic clearly influenced by Scorsese and Tarantino (that unfortunately isn’t on Netflix).

He does have a few other films on Netflix that sound suitably dark and have been very well received that I must check out.

whatever76 · 06-07-2018 12:24PM

binged Season 4 of schitts creek this week ( its getting better !) - nice easy 20 min watch after a crap day. Some classic one liners. Season 5 out next year

Fysh · 06-07-2018 12:25PM

pixelburp wrote: »

I can't think of a greater fools errand of a thought experiment than trying to parse a timetravel plot; if the first-glance holds fast, I leave well alone as otherwise you just get lost in the weeds of loopy, brain melting logic. Even physicists can't properly nail down the 4th dimension, so why would a bunch of scriptwriters fare any better?

The best use of the time-loop in a narrative I've seen in recent years was the Ethan Hawke film 'Predestination', whose loop is the most ostensibly watertight I've come across, resulting in a great series of twists; the worst has to be Speilberg's Minority Report, where the aforementioned first-glance immediately broke down the very story & plot because the whole loop couldn't work.

I might give Predestination a look in that case - the current high watermark for planning and plotting of a timetravel movie is Primer, for me, but it can be a bloody headscratcher to keep up with towards the very end...

06-07-2018 12:27PM

Fysh wrote: »

I might give Predestination a look in that case - the current high watermark for planning and plotting of a timetravel movie is Primer, for me, but it can be a bloody headscratcher to keep up with towards the very end...

Predestination is excellent, best experienced cold it's one of the few bright spots in recent science fiction cinema. I've seen it in Dealz alongside Automata a lot recently.

pixelburp · 06-07-2018 12:30PM

Fysh wrote: »

I might give Predestination a look in that case - the current high watermark for planning and plotting of a timetravel movie is Primer, for me, but it can be a bloody headscratcher to keep up with towards the very end...

Full disclosure I've never seen Primer, but from the reviews and thoughts of others it has always appeared aggressively, scientifically plotted which is a turn off. Predestination worked in a strict time loop model without creating an impenetrable narrative.

Fysh · 06-07-2018 12:34PM

On a different note, I wanted something light and brainless to watch last night so threw on Central Intelligence with The Rock and Kevin Hart. It should be a pretty poor film, given that there's only the thinnest sketch of a plot - but the chemistry between Johnson & Hart, and some good comic timing on Johnson's part, make it a lot more enjoyable than might be expected.

yabadabado · 06-07-2018 01:19PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Good Girls is like a shit version of Claws, I watched a couple of episodes as it aired but grew tired of the constant whining from the cast and the fact that it was done a dozen times before.

Claws is vastly superior in every way, a genuinely great piece of TV and the writing is excellent. Plus it has Dean Norris as Uncle Daddy, the best character to come along since Omar. It's also the rare treat of being a female-centric show in which they genuinely are powerful and in no way defined by the men in their lives. It's also refreshing for how race is never an issue or even brought up even though the main cast are made up of four different races.

Claws is excellent, not on Netflix but we'll worth watching.

Uncle Daddy

Mickeroo · 06-07-2018 01:30PM

Fysh wrote: »

On a different note, I wanted something light and brainless to watch last night so threw on Central Intelligence with The Rock and Kevin Hart. It should be a pretty poor film, given that there's only the thinnest sketch of a plot - but the chemistry between Johnson & Hart, and some good comic timing on Johnson's part, make it a lot more enjoyable than might be expected.

Also enjoyed that, the recent Jumanji reboot was pretty enjoyable too. Hart and the Rock make a good comedy duo.

Been watching Toast of London, it's a bit hit and miss but when it's funny it's very funny. Worth a watch if you like Matt Berry's brand of comedy (IT Crowd/Garth Marenghi)

gargargar · 06-07-2018 01:44PM

+1 for Calibre. Well worth a watch.

Tau is ok. I have seen worse.

Moghead · 06-07-2018 02:42PM

Decuc500 wrote: »

Sacred Games is an Indian crime series from Anurag Kashyap, director of Gangs of Waseypur, a sprawling 5 hour plus gangster epic clearly influenced by Scorsese and Tarantino (that unfortunately isn’t on Netflix).

He does have a few other films on Netflix that sound suitably dark and have been very well received that I must check out.

I read the novel of Sacred Games and enjoyed it. Is the series worth checking out?

Boom_Bap · 06-07-2018 02:42PM

whatever76 wrote: »

binged Season 4 of schitts creek this week ( its getting better !) - nice easy 20 min watch after a crap day. Some classic one liners. Season 5 out next year

Must catch up on it, I think I watched up to the end of S3, great little show.

Decuc500 · 06-07-2018 02:54PM

Moghead wrote: »

I read the novel of Sacred Games and enjoyed it. Is the series worth checking out?

I haven't seen it. Think it starts from tomorrow. I can only say that the director is worth checking out.

facehugger99 · 06-07-2018 02:58PM

Speaking of time-travel.

I'm enjoying 'Travelers' way more than I though I would.

No, it's not about those kind of travelers.

It's a sci-fi series about a group of people who've traveled back to our time from the future. I'm about 6 episodes in and I keep expecting it to get really stupid, but it hasn't yet.

pixelburp · 06-07-2018 03:03PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

Speaking of time-travel.

I'm enjoying 'Travelers' way more than I though I would.

No, it's not about those kind of travelers.

It's a sci-fi series about a group of people who've traveled back to our time from the future. I'm about 6 episodes in and I keep expecting it to get really stupid, but it hasn't yet.

It doesn't go off the rails at all, and if you've liked the first 6 episodes you should enjoy the rest of the first 2 seasons available. I'm a big fan myself, very much another one of those sleeper sci-fi hits Canada exports from time to time.

kunst nugget · 06-07-2018 03:13PM

It's not very credible though. The missus has watched the first two seasons and there hasn't been one drive tarmacced yet.

Hurrache · 06-07-2018 08:40PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Been watching Toast of London, it's a bit hit and miss but when it's funny it's very funny. Worth a watch if you like Matt Berry's brand of comedy (IT Crowd/Garth Marenghi)

It's great, and it took me ages to realise Clem Fandango was played by the same guy who plays a pretty big character on Star Trek Discovery.

peteeeed · 07-07-2018 07:20AM

A ghost story
Added today

peteeeed · 07-07-2018 07:20AM

A ghost story

Added today

Annie with an e season 2 Was also added yesterday

08-07-2018 10:42AM

Watched a few episodes of marlon. Genuinely find it hilarious. Some great one liners

Maybe it’s the heat getting to me!

peteeeed · 08-07-2018 12:08PM

American assassin added today

fin12 · 08-07-2018 12:30PM

The Shallows added to netflix. Good film starring Blake Lively. Re: Shark.

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