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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.11.24.249 |
Am giving Gotham another go and am glad to be doing so. It's pretty grim but in a weirdly light way, the bad guys quirky oddballs who wouldn't really be out of place in the old Adam West shows. I expected to miss Batman's presence but I don't. I mean he's there, and almost already fully formed, but the crime bubbling away with little people trying to keep it from boiling over is fascinating. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.29.153.70 |
Wandavision. Very magical, maybe a key ingredient we forgot we'd been missing. Black and white turning into colour, stuff like that. Feeling kind of lonely. Just dropping by to have a look down the empty halls. On the off chance. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.7.51 |
Shakespeare and Hathaway. Daytime tec show. Funny, fluffy, but every actor is fantastic and they all click together in a way that makes you want them to stay. You could almost not notice there was a story you're enjoying it all so much. Maybe that's the key to good art. Trek still my favourite thing. "Backwards is the wrong direction." | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.4.131 |
The Terror on iplayer, based on a book by Dan Simmons. Have been watching on the projector and is amazing. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.4.131 |
Wandavision lost its magic and me as a viewer. Started watching Lost and thought I was loving it, but have kind of dropped out of watching it now. Same with Gotham. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.67.143 |
I thought The Terror was remarkably good. So refreshing to see some imperfect characters develop and act with honour and integrity. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.2.54 |
Yes, it feels adult. I have to say, watching on the projector makes me sad at all filmmakers of television shows because the scale that fills you with awe on a big screen will largely never be appreciated by people who see it on tv. Big it feels like an alien world. Realistic historical film feels like SF. Wandavision has picked up. The last two episodes are just incredible television. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.129.76.55 |
There's an inevitable compromise in TV compared to film, and it's not just in the screen size. You simply can't create that quantity of material and have it be as rich as a well-developed film. You get more time for world-building in TV which I suppose is its own form of richness - there's no other way you could build a universe like Star Trek for instance - but I do think we're in danger of losing cinema, which is a unique form. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.1.53 |
Craig, who comes on here now and again, reckons cinema is dead. I watched TNG on a big screen. It doesn't work. It was like watching people acting in your living room (which is less ok than it sounds). It was shot FOR tv. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.1.53 |
Terror had one of the worst deaths I've ever seen. Ciaran Hinds falling down that hole. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.1.53 |
By the way, some documentaries on a big screen are incredible, and I mean simple, low budget ones that aren't anything to do with people killing whales and apes eating each other up the last tree in the Congo or something. David Lean wasn't thinking about the lens of time when he said kitchen sink films were rubbish, either. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 108.221.136.29 |
I do reckon, sadly. However, counter-point: I know anecdotally of two people who are overjoyed the movie theater in town is back open, and can't wait to get there to watch a movie! Counter-counter-point: They're both age 60+. How many of the younger generations feel this way? Those are the ones that will determine the fate of theaters.... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.5.67 |
They open here this week, but the old movies they have on don't appeal - Total Recall (Arnie was kind of where rot set in, his being squeezed into films that didn't feel real because he was there, the stories and style made brash to match him), Grease, (which I loved as a kid but now feels kind of cold and cynical), and LOTR which I've seen too recently. Myths are dying with the church, I think, and cinemas were probably starting to feel even more churchy than they already did. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.249.184.228 |
The group is dying. Watched TNG. The one where Wesley falls in love with the being of pure light. So beautiful. I feel we will never see its like again. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.205.241.64 |
Videos of this band. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3MrrVb_pf3w | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.205.241.132 |
Watching Walking Dead again, from scratch. An odd thing, I was watching ads before it and finding myself all worked up, almost hyperventilating, they felt so emotionally charged. When Walking Dead started I was struck by how "calm" it felt, comparitively, even during the tenser scenes. Has tv changed in the interrim from when it was made to now and the tone of the ads? Are we being made too emotional? Started watching The Outsider last night, too. The Stephen King thing. It's very good, but oddly it doesn't feel like King. Maybe that's why it was good. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.4.196 |
The latest American Horror Story - Red Tide. I have never enjoyed AHS before but love this one. It's not scary or as shocking as I think it would like to be but the story really resonates with me. And Macaulay Culkin is amazing, the role of his life. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.4.196 |
And now American Horror Stories!!! That first episode - wow. People who say tv has taken over from movies might be onto something - I haven't been caught up this much in horror for a LONG time. The show felt longer than its 50 minutes run time not because it dragged but because it was so dense with incident. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.11.24.190 |
Of course American Horror Story went downhill. Watched Cabinet of Curiosities...was ok, best two episodes were the skin creme one and Murmur, which I really loved because it was so quiet. The ghosts could have been done better though. Squid Game is amazing. As great as people said. The Devil's Hour is fantastic. Not perfect, but totally gripping and unpredictable. Rings of Power - not perfect again but really, It didn't deserve the hate it got.i actually have a huge soft spot for it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.11.27.55 |
Tim Burton's Wednesday. Great fun, a lost art. Watched his Sleepy Hollow recently, a film I used to hate, and it became an all time favourite. The fun felt generous. We forget how much we like his characters, even the minor ones. He's skilled really. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.180.70.140 |
It IS really good! |