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#9,442
1883.
Episode one was alright, two so far is a yawner. I keep falling asleep. The gal doing the random narrating is getting annoying. The other dialogue is men mumbling speaking terrible English.
This feels like a ripoff of Delores and Westworld.

-Mike
 
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The Alien Autopsy Scandal




3 part documentary series, that's pretty funny in a sort of heist movie kind of way.

I thought the 3rd episode fumbled the ball, and didn't quite get it across the line - there were a couple of really important, glaringly obvious questions that apparently nobody thought to ask (or they feared it would make the subjects bolt, and refuse to cooperate further?) - but still felt it was worth watching, and plenty entertaining.

Actually, the 2006 movie version of the story, starring British TV double act Ant & Dec was surprisingly good.
 
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When a movie has an alien planet and people look human and speak English, I get it. That's fine. It's not okay when everyone speaks like Gen z teenagers. It's not okay when an alien lounge singer sings girl from Ipanema. Millie Alcock was good in game of thrones as a multi-generationally inbred, pouty, child psychopath. She's terrible in this. She's not charming or relatable or likable.The dialogue isn't good. There's no creative use of her powers. The cgi dog isn't cute or at all real looking. Jason Mamoa dressed up like Lobo and played Jason Mamoa. A character has a cathartic moment where she overcomes her struggle and literally said in relation to the bad thing that happened to her "I wish the bad thing never happened". Supergirl is ******* terrible.
 
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I wrapped up 1883. It ended up getting better as it went and I enjoyed it. Brutal at times, that's for sure, but that was apparently real life on the Oregon Trail.
Sheridan described it as a 10 hour movie with an ending, which I agree with. I thought it ended well, wrapping up the various character stories well. There's room to develop the characters, but this didn't leave you with unanswered questions that require you to watch 1923 or Yellowstone to have them answered.
However, I am going to start 1923 tonight. I'm excited since I really like Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.

-Mike
 
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"The Yearling"
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Found it while channel surfing. I wasn't planning to watch an old-fashioned, heartwarming, family-friendly movie, but goshdarnit, it sucked me in and I ended up watching the whole thing. I kind of liked it.
 
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I'm three episodes in on 1923. The Africa storyline is distracting, I don't even know why it's in here. All I really want to say right now is they better not have killed off Harrison Ford after three episodes. I'll have to continue tomorrow to find out. It's bed time.

-Mike
 
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Ran into two old sci-fi films I've heard of, but never have watched. Both ended ambiguously, which is something I don't mind.

The Quiet Earth (New Zealand, 1985). A well done, in my opinion, 'last man on earth' film. There were two other survivors. Not sure at all where the ending took the original guy.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). Reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode called The Midnight Sun (1961) except the film didn't have a trick ending where everything was actually freezing. The film ended before we discovered if a whopping huge correction effort succeeded. Now, the version I saw was the American version where an audible sound at the end was added to make folk think the effort succeeded. All other countries versions didn't have the audio cue, leaving it ambiguous.
 
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fig said:
Ran into two old sci-fi films I've heard of, but never have watched. Both ended ambiguously, which is something I don't mind.

The Quiet Earth (New Zealand, 1985). A well done, in my opinion, 'last man on earth' film. There were two other survivors. Not sure at all where the ending took the original guy.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). Reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode called The Midnight Sun (1961) except the film didn't have a trick ending where everything was actually freezing. The film ended before we discovered if a whopping huge correction effort succeeded. Now, the version I saw was the American version where an audible sound at the end was added to make folk think the effort succeeded. All other countries versions didn't have the audio cue, leaving it ambiguous.
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Two of my faves.

I remember seeing The Quiet Earth on TV as a kid, in about 1987, and it totally blew me away (I'd previously seen the BBC adaptation of The Day Of The Triffids, which made a lasting impression - one that was clearly an influence on 28 Days Later, and The Walking Dead - but The Quiet Earth was the first time I'd seen that idea realised on such impressive ambitious scale, and in a eerily convincing way).

I remember revisiting it on DVD in the late 90's / early 2000's, and being shocked at the scope, and downright grimness of that vision - as I'd completely forgotten about the scene where he makes a ghastly discovery whilst wandering through a vacant hospital. Or the crashed airliner.

It was also doubly impressive on that later viewing, to realise what a tiny budget it had, and what it managed to pull off (even just in terms of getting businesses, and residents to cooperate and make it possible to make the city seem unoccupied).
 
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I wrapped up 1923. I have to say, 1883 was better. I liked 1923 overall, but the whole two seasons felt sloppy. Clean endings for the main characters, so that was good.
The BDSM stuff, in my opinion, was way over the top. More than just gratuitous nudity. We get it. Whitfield was a wicked man, but watching that violence and murder of the woman was unnecessary in my opinion.
The Teonna storyline needed to be told and I am glad he did, but my goodness that was just going from one killing to another. It felt like Sheridan forgot about her until the last episode, even almost admitting as much in the dialogue when Teonna asks the marshal where to go and she just says.... Leave here.
Spencer waking up with his wife dead next to him and he just walks away to get his aunt like nothing happened was out of his character in my ripping
Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren made that series what is was, and I'm glad they both made it to the end.
I just found out Yellowstone was set in modern times. I'll give a couple episodes a try, but I'm not sure I'll dig it.

-Mike
 
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We watched "Project Hail Mary" over the weekend (we had to break it up 'cause we were tired). Going in, I had no expectations. I can say that I was pleasantly surprised. It was a good story and was clever and heartfelt. That said, the jumping back and forth in the timeline was jarring at times. Overall, it was really good.
 
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MonetBass said:
We watched "Project Hail Mary" over the weekend (we had to break it up 'cause we were tired). Going in, I had no expectations. I can say that I was pleasantly surprised. It was a good story and was clever and heartfelt. That said, the jumping back and forth in the timeline was jarring at times. Overall, it was really good.
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The whole point of the flashbacks was so it could eventually be revealed that he was betrayed and didn't want to be there, but I don't think that added anything. It only made the lady look like a terrible person. Apparently in the books it's explained that she was given carte blanche by every government to do whatever she wanted so her immoral actions are explained more, but it still made her look awful, despite how much we're supposed to like her because she joined in on the karaoke.
 
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Gorn said:
The whole point of the flashbacks was so it could eventually be revealed that he was betrayed and didn't want to be there, but I don't think that added anything. It only made the lady look like a terrible person. Apparently in the books it's explained that she was given carte blanche by every government to do whatever she wanted so her immoral actions are explained more, but it still made her look awful, despite how much we're supposed to like her because she joined in on the karaoke.
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She wasn't awful. She was charged with saving the human species. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
 
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Gorn said:
The whole point of the flashbacks was so it could eventually be revealed that he was betrayed and didn't want to be there, but I don't think that added anything. It only made the lady look like a terrible person. Apparently in the books it's explained that she was given carte blanche by every government to do whatever she wanted so her immoral actions are explained more, but it still made her look awful, despite how much we're supposed to like her because she joined in on the karaoke.
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We took it as Eva not really having a choice in terms of saving the human race in what she did to Dr. Grace to get him on board. At least that's how it came across. But my point was that they could have done less jumping back and forth and still made it compelling and understandable.
 
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gln1955 said:
She wasn't awful. She was charged with saving the human species. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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....or the one, of course. But it doesn't take away from what she did. It was a personal betrayal after they established mutual respect, and maybe more, and it was a violation of his free will. It was necessary because he refused to volunteer, but it was still immoral.
 

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