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[Drastic]

TV - Yellowstone. Kevin Costner is a ranch owner with family hanging onto the old life. Beautiful landscapes and cinematography.

Movies - Apocalypse Now Final Cut (2019) - great remaster, interesting cut. A bit let down, not sure if it's because it hasn't aged as well as I remembered or I was expecting more from the cut. Probably both. Loved the Dolby Atmos mix.

[ergophobe]

>>interesting cut

Are there significant differences? That is, things that change the feel of the movie or even the plot?

>> hasn't aged as well as I remembered

Neither have I. I was just looking at some old pictures of myself. Time is a cruel master. That said, my all-time favorite movie (Jeremiah Johnson) still holds up for me. But the first time I saw it after 20 or 30 years, I found Redford's acting not great. But then I watched every couple of years and I grew to love it again.

[Drastic]

The plot didn't change, and it's been a while since I saw the original. There were scenes that were new, for sure, that were more of a fill-in, I think.

[ergophobe]

I was wondering in particular about the scenes with Brando, since "Coppola admitted that he had no ending because Brando was too fat to play the scenes as written in the original script."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now


Knowing only Apocalypse Now and Godfather, I never understood the whole Brando cult. Then I saw him in Streetcar Named Desire, and I thought, "Oh, now I get it. "

[littleman]

I just watched Jeremiah Johnson for the first time a couple of months ago.  I could see how the film would intersect with your life choices.

[littleman]

If you like Tarantino movies Once Upon a Time in Hollywood may be interesting to you.  It is a story based on an alternative timeline of a historical event.

The Irishman if you like mob movies.

The Nightingale an Australian film.

Fleabag & Russian Doll, two irreverent series with modern humor sensibilities

Chernobyl is suppose to be pretty good, haven't seen it.

Did you watch the Deadwood series?  There was a movie made last year that wraps it up.

[ergophobe]

Other end of the spectrum, but we both liked "The Half of It." It's a high school romance, but quite different.

The script was a 2018 Blacklist selection.

[nffc]

>Godfather, I never understood the whole Brando cult.

Take that slander back!

[BoL]

>Chernobyl

Well worth a look, very well made

Peaky Blinders is decent, the British mob in the interwar period mixed in with the Communist uprisings in Brummie land

[littleman]

>Peaky Blinders

Yeah, good show.  It also reminded me to mention Babylon Berlin.  It's a German show, also during the interwar period, quite good.

edit:spelling

[Drastic]

I was wondering in particular about the scenes with Brando, since "Coppola admitted that he had no ending because Brando was too fat to play the scenes as written in the original script."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now


Knowing only Apocalypse Now and Godfather, I never understood the whole Brando cult. Then I saw him in Streetcar Named Desire, and I thought, "Oh, now I get it. "

It actually seemed like his part was a bit abbreviated. Again though, it's been a while since I saw the original and it had a more profound effect on me the first time.

[gm66]

The BBC Dracula series on Netflix is well-done, i normally find BBC productions a bit dull but this is an exception.

Greyhound is a submariner flick with Tom Hanks as captain of the boat. It was okay but there were better sub films made in the 50s.

If you haven't seen Spaced, it's not new but it's funny, that's also on Netflix at the moment, old British comedy TV series.

It's also well worth searching youtube for short films, there's some amazing 'amateur' work going on, especially with CGI.

[Drastic]

>>Peaky Blinders

Thanks! Started this week and really like it so far.

Also Condor TV series is pretty solid.

[Mackin USA]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey

[ergophobe]

I really enjoyed After Life, with Ricky Gervais. It's a bit dark. You have to stick with it. I just watched the first episode of season 2 and will definitely watch the rest.