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What DVDs/ Video are you watching
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#281FURY ROAD! Best movie I saw in 2015 (and again in 2016). And I saw a lot of them.
SHINY AND CHROME!!! -
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#282Lets see... Just finished "Smallvile", "Lost", "24", "Penny Dreadful", "Stranger things" on Netflix, "Annabel Creation", "Annabel",
"The Conjuring" "Silent Hill", "Ash vs Evil Dead" on Netflix.
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#283Just started watching a show on Netflix called "El Ministerio del Tiempo." It's a Spanish production, clearly, but the first episode showed a solid sci-fi/fantasy show.
The basic premise is, Isabella and Ferdinand were given secret knowledge of a tunnel of doors in Madrid that takes travellers to different times. They established a Ministry of Time to prevent incursions and interruptions to the timeline. The Ministry recruits Spainards from across the timeline. The show centers on three: a soldier from the 17th century, a female college student from the 1880s, and a 21st century medic. The first episode has them trying to stop an 1808 French soldier from stealing knowledge and weaponry from the 21st century to change the course of the Napoleonic Wars.
Not being a Spainard, some of the references are a little past me, but the writing and acting are pretty solid. I can't wait to delve more into it. -
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#284Finished Altered Carbon, fantastic series, can't wait for season 2
watching Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams series on Amazon Prime, top notch cast, a lot like Black Mirror -
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#285I Heard of Black mirror... Is it any good? -
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I Heard of Black mirror... Is it any good?
It is in the same vein as Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits, but it has a very strong technological angle, with robots, mind control, artificial reality, and so forth, and rather than being anvilicious parables, they tell their story. Some are very dark, some are ambiguous. There are increasing signs that the entire series is interconnected through a fairly long timeline, moving to and through a technological singularity.
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#287Thank you very much... I now Have to check it out! I have Netflix. I tell you what I think about it...But from what you said, I'm going to love it.
I loved Twilight Zone and Outer limits growing up.
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#288Thank you , I really enjoyed what i have seen of Black Mirror ...Techno weird....The Scary thing about it is some of it we are getting real close to in real life...That is what intrigues me so much...Awesome. :thumbup: -
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#289Ahem, videos and dvds? This here thread needs a new title.
Having said that, this is what I just started watching.
La Peste (The Plague). 8 episodes. I’m 2 episodes in. It’s really really good!!
16th century Seville, Spain. One of the great “centers of the world” in its day. Fifty different languegues can be heard in its streets. Gold arriving from the new world, the Plague, the Inquisition, Hedonism and extreme poverty. Bridges made of gold on one side of town, Plague-ridden peasants in ghettos on the other. Into this cityscape we are introduced to several characters. A wanted man who was sworn to extract his dead friend’s bastard son from the city streets. A wealthy and mysterious man, who does not want word of the Plague to get out just yet. There are also diabolical serial murders going on, and one of the men is tasked with finding out who is killing folks ritualistically. Anyhoo, so far so good. Great depiction of a late medieva/early renaissance city, great acting and production. Like game of thrones but with *much* fewer characters, no magic or monsters, and about the same amount of nudity and sex. -
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#290Anime:
Tokyo Ghoul
My Hero Academia
Attack on Titan
High School DxD
Steins:Gate
Darling in the FranXX
Sword Art Online (for wife)
Non Anime:
Disenchanted
Venture Bros
Movies:
Ready Player One (I watched it three times in 2 days holy fuck)
The Hunt for Red October (for wife)
Big Trouble in Little Chine (for wife)
Justice League
Wonder Woman
Justice League Dark
Justice League Gods and Monsters
Bladerunner 2049
I Kill Giants
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#291We dumped the satellite and went straight to streaming (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime), so now I can binge the ever loving fuck out of series, 3 episodes per hour, zero commercials, and I can skip end credits, opening theme, and recaps if I want. I can watch an entire season of anime in about a week -
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#292Thumbs up for no cable. Have been streaming (in different ways) since 2000. Haven't bought cable, nor been in a house that has cable (frugal parents who still refuse to get cable), for my entire life. Just got Hulu and Netflix (for free with phone account) and family loves it. Much more reliable than my ways of getting shows.
I have been reading more lately than watching movies but Muro's pick spiked my interest. I LOVED Taboo which sounds a little like that. Awesome, gritty story set in dirty London in the early 1800s. Love it!
Vikings, of course. Watching that again. Haven't seen the latest season yet. What a hero's journey in that one. Is awesome.
Anime, watched the RL version of Initial D. Car Drifting movie that is just fun (I drive a FR-S so dream of this kind of stuff).
Death Note RL version was fun.
Attack on Titan - win!
I kill Giants was really fun I thought.
Muro, have you watched Matilda with Danny DeVito? Awesome, awesome kid movie. One of my favorites.
The Professional - my dad never saw it. I was heart broken. He loved it as do I. Assassin movies are my love. Hanna is good. I would even stoop to say I enjoyed Barely Lethal (a silly teen romp with Samuel L. though!) -
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#293LOVED Taboo too!! You just never knew what was going to happen next. I think there’s another season in the works (?). I also think you’d enjoy The Plague. We did finally see Matilda and loved it! The Professional is an all-time fave! -
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#294Heh. I'm half-watching Parks and Rec - my wife and my son watch it, I listen while I play World of Warships or Witcher 3.
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#295Just watched Black Panther since it popped up in Netflix and I was out sick.
Meh.
I might be a bad example because I have stopped watching most of the super hero junk. Just not that entertaining to me. And the pitiful cameo by Stan Lee, they lost me at that point. It wasn't funny, wasn't natural, was way too forced. Entire movie felt that way to me, like they were jamming everything they could in it, still made it over 2 hrs and still had me not really giving a crap about any of the characters. And I didn't follow the comic so have no idea about that. But it reinforced why I gave up watching these films. -
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Just watched Black Panther since it popped up in Netflix and I was out sick.
Meh.
I might be a bad example because I have stopped watching most of the super hero junk. Just not that entertaining to me. And the pitiful cameo by Stan Lee, they lost me at that point. It wasn't funny, wasn't natural, was way too forced. Entire movie felt that way to me, like they were jamming everything they could in it, still made it over 2 hrs and still had me not really giving a crap about any of the characters. And I didn't follow the comic so have no idea about that. But it reinforced why I gave up watching these films.
I also recently watched Black Panther, I didn't see it in the theatres but everyone was blowing up about how good it was, and they are still buzzing about how there is a campaign for it to get Best Picture at the Hollywood circle jerk awards. So I watched it. It was pretty good, but at no point it was NOT a comic book movie. At times the CG was over the top, and the overall plot and pacing were just okay.
I can appreciate it for what it is, a tent pole blockbuster black ensemble movie that isn't based on crime, slavery, or sports.
I would contrast it with Logan (a brutal end of the road movie that happened to have the last X-men in it) or Captain America: The Winter Soldier (a great spy movie) -
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#297I am watching "A Discovery of Witches" on HBO. It is like Twilight for adults. I love the filming and the use of colors. It is rare that I am awestruck by the technical aspects of a TV series. The plot is alright, but what really stands out is the magic items they display in the series. I recommend it to anyone who are A) Not too annoyed by vampire drama, B) want to explore magical items that are fully fleshed out, C) love beautiful filming.
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I am watching "A Discovery of Witches" on HBO. It is like Twilight for adults. I love the filming and the use of colors. It is rare that I am awestruck by the technical aspects of a TV series. The plot is alright, but what really stands out is the magic items they display in the series. I recommend it to anyone who are A) Not too annoyed by vampire drama, B) want to explore magical items that are fully fleshed out, C) love beautiful filming.
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#299Rolled through The Last Magician. Meh
AG turned me onto the Bobiverse. We are Legion (We are Bob). Space Opera at its finest. I am not into to SF too much but this is reminiscent of Hitchhikers in humor/amusement. I am a fan of Bob!! Getting a bit into the second book and just as fun. The Prime Directive be damned. LOL :)
Also listened to Shawshank Redemption again. Stephen King is awesome. He has some stinkers but when he is on it, he is on it. What a great voice in that story. I still like the movie better. Ties things together to make it, as a whole, bit more satisfying. But the story is still outstanding.