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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #45 on: May 27, 2021, 08:13:22 PM »
I just watched "The Nevers" on HBO.  And I LOVE it!
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #46 on: May 30, 2021, 02:13:20 AM »
Quote from: littleman on May 25, 2021, 11:56:28 PM
Captain Fantastic (I feel like this could have been you Ergo)

We this last night and the night before (it takes us two days to watch most movies). We liked it, but not as much as Wilderpeople.

I gotta say that Ben is much, much more intense than I am.

Just watched the trailers for the other two. Nebraska looked funny. Ebbing looks... like a rural county. I'll put it on the list.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #47 on: May 30, 2021, 11:52:35 PM »
>We liked it, but not as much as Wilderpeople.

Yeah, I am a fan of Taika Waititi's less blockbustery type movies -- like Wilderpeople, Jojo Rabbit and What We Do in the Shadows.  He's really good when he's not making big budget movies like those superhero things.  I just love movies about quirky people trying to figure it out.   Speaking of, you two might like Lady Bird.

>I gotta say that Ben is much, much more intense than I am.

Yeah, he's more like if I had to right a story with a character loosely based on you but turned up the dials for dramatic and comedy effect. 
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #48 on: June 25, 2021, 06:34:46 PM »
We've been enjoying Mr. InBetween. A sort of Australian Ray Donovan. Wish the eps were longer.

For All Mankind has been interesting through the first season.

Upgrade was the first decent new-ish flick we've watched in a while.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #49 on: June 29, 2021, 01:28:22 PM »
Excellent UK single-season series from the last few months:

I May Destroy You (Michaela Coel)
It's A Sin (Russell T Davies)
Time (Jimmy McGovern with Sean Bean, Stephen Graham)

Favourite films from this year:

Pieces Of A Woman
Nomadland
The Father
Nobody
I Care A Lot
Supernova
Moxie!
Palm Springs
A Quiet Place Part II
Archive
Creation Stories
Synchronic
Another Round
Apples [subtitled]

We've only just discovered drug drama Snowfall, so are catching up on that, along with revisiting St Elsewhere.

@Drastic: We loved the first season on For All Mankind. Less thrilled with the second.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #50 on: September 16, 2021, 01:35:25 AM »
Not new, but I just watched it for the first time.  Contagion 2011, I'm surprised by how much they got right about humans during a pandemic.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #51 on: October 13, 2021, 08:23:43 PM »
Watched The Equalizer from 2014, Denzel. Solid movie.

Vigil submarine/spy series from BBC was pretty good.

The Many Saints of Newark (Tony Soprano origin story) was decent.

Best of the lot for me, though was new release "Old Henry" western. It's not perfect but the best new release I've seen in quite some time. Recommended. If you're interested, don't watch the preview/trailer.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #52 on: October 13, 2021, 09:22:23 PM »
Was forced to watch 'Free Guy' (it's on Disney+)... not too bad but makes you feel a bit older than you'd like maybe. Ryan Reynolds as an 'NPC'... a bit like Ready Player One with lots of cultural references to online gaming.

Downloading Old Henry to have a look at tonight.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #53 on: October 14, 2021, 12:44:53 PM »
'Free Guy' I've been looking at but not dl yet. Thanks for the vote, I'll probably check it out.

What did you think about Old Henry?
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #54 on: October 14, 2021, 02:03:01 PM »
>Old Henry

Enjoyable, I'll not spoil it for anyone else.

Watched about a dozen films of the old West this year, easy watching for me. Last I watched was The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, mini-stories and some are wee bit left-field but plenty of the frontier vibe.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #55 on: December 11, 2021, 03:43:20 AM »
For Ergo: The Alpinist (on Netflix)
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #56 on: December 11, 2021, 05:28:05 AM »
Thanks. Didn't know about it.
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #57 on: December 14, 2021, 03:01:27 PM »
Late to the party but I loved Mr Robot!
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #58 on: December 30, 2021, 12:34:05 AM »
Quote from: littleman on December 11, 2021, 03:43:20 AM
For Ergo: The Alpinist (on Netflix)

We watched this a couple nights ago. I'm curious how it plays for people who have never done any alpine climbing. I watch a move like Free Solo and it is way beyond what I would do, probably even if I had Alex's skill. I've climbed a lot of that terrain ("free" but not "free solo"). It's out there, but I can wrap my mind around it. Same with some of the more insane ski descents.

But once upon a time, I did a fair bit of alpine climbing, mixed climbing, ice climbing. A friend and I even went to Canada with thoughts of possibly getting on the Emperor Face, but we were (probably luckily) shut down by a series of storms. So I have a sense of what it is Marc-Andre is climbing in the film... but it is just so far out there it's hard to wrap my mind around.

I would put it this way. Honnold (Free Solo) is out there on the edges of the map, where the known world meets its limit. Leclerc is off the map, in the white spaces where you encounter dragons.

Maybe for a non-climber it all sort of feels the same?
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Re: New, Good Media
« Reply #59 on: January 03, 2022, 04:41:32 AM »
>The Many Saints of Newark

I think Michael Gandolfini did a good job playing young Tony, but the movie felt really incomplete.  It really felt like an opening episode instead of a movie.
Don't Look Up, a cynical masterpiece inspired by the last two years.
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