Bojack is wonderful but will absolutely eat at your self doubt about if you are inflicting harm on your children that will haunt them their whole lives.
On top of making you wonder if you're otherwise a real piece of shit.
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Anybody have any idea how the deal with The Expanse and Netflix stands? I get S4 is Amazon, but does Netflix get S3 and is it coming to Europe?
The Expanse is my SF drug of choice.
If I had to guess, I'd say it was dead when Amazon picked up the show earlier this year. AFAIK, Netflix's agreement was with SciFi not the production company.
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Buster Scruggs was really fucking good. The Coen Bros knocked it out of the park. It's a brilliant series of small scale segmented short stories in the style of old pulp serials of the 40s and 50s. It opens bombastically but settles in for some amazing tales from the west. It's got everything you could want in a cowboy movie all with that subtle edge and wit that the Coens are so well known for. Everyone involved is absolutely giving it their all and it shows. There's a little bit of dodgy CGI in a few parts but overall the film looked amazing. There were plenty of wide open vista and epic panning shots across the vast untapped wilderness of the American old west. The attention to detail was impressive, especially for the genera. It's definitely worth the time if you have Netflix.
It's about on par with the Lady Killers remake. Easily one of the most pointless things the Coens have ever done.
What does that even mean?
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Buster Scruggs wasnt what I thought it was going to be so it left me kind of disappointed, but looking back there was really only one segment that didnt do anything for me which was the Liam Neeson segment.
If you're expecting a 2 hour coherent story, you'll be disappointed. If you're not its pretty great. Also, the Ballad of Buster Scruggs segment was fantastic, easily my favorite. Ordering the rest kinda gets more difficult but I think it'd be something like this:
1: Buster Scruggs
2: All Gold Canyon
3: The Girl Who Got Rattled
4: The Mortal Remains
5: Near Algodones
Saw Ballad, loved Ballad. It's now my 5th favorite Coen bros movie. The ranking goes:
1. A Serious Man
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Barton Fink
5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
6. Hail, Caesar!
7. Burn After Reading
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Fargo
10. Miller's Crossing
11. Blood Simple
12. The Man Who Wasn't There
13. O Brother Where Art Thou?
14. The Hudsucker Proxy
15. Raising Arizona
16. True Grit
17. The Ladykillers
18. Intolerable Cruelty
Heard disturbing accounts of racism against Native Americans in Buster Scruggs. Is this true? The Coens' may be talented filmmakers but they do have history of problematic decisions and opinions.
Heard disturbing accounts of racism against Native Americans in Buster Scruggs. Is this true? The Coens' may be talented filmmakers but they do have history of problematic decisions and opinions.
It was the period, dude. Glossing over the terrible racist attitudes of the time would be worse, I think.
Heard disturbing accounts of racism against Native Americans in Buster Scruggs. Is this true? The Coens' may be talented filmmakers but they do have history of problematic decisions and opinions.
This seems like generic twitter outrage. Indians are shown as raiding parties in two of the stories and that's about it and they aren't even the crux of those stories either, and nothing comes across as out of sorts for the period.
Ballad of Buster Scruggs was overall good, but one great, one really good one good story don't make up for the other three meh to terrible ones, even though Stephen Root was in one of them. Meal Ticket, I've not felt contempt like that for a movie since American Hustle (or The Assassin) and really showed how the anthology portion cut into anything that would establish growth or emotion or characterization. The whole thing felt a bit like the Coen's didn't bring their A-game and just settled on a B-game and Netflix was none the wiser, using the anthology to skip out on real endings for two of them.
But damn that Buster Scruggs part was the best, I want a whole movie like that, in 10 minutes it did more than A Million Ways to Die in the West did with 100.
Power Ranking:
1. Buster Scruggs
2. Gal Who Got Rattled
3. All Gold Canyon
4. The Mortal Remains
5. Near Algodones
NVM, I can’t read. I thought there was some controversy with the filming and casting. But, I can’t find anything. It might have been another production I am thinking of. Westerns have a number of tricky pitfalls around them anyways, for obvious reasons.
there's a bit where a white guy singlehandedly fights off a war party of comanches that i thought was highly questionable. less because it depicts native americans as being violent then because it depicts them as being bad at violence. like he specifically makes comments about how they fight stupidly and will run away if their leader gets killed, because they're superstitious or something. i thought that was not historically accurate
I finally am catching up on Altered Carbon. I don't really get the changes they made to the envoy stuff.
They basically took book envoys, made them C-Tact or whatever and then made Envoys a resistance cult. I guess it adds depth and flavor to the character?
I do like making his sister the bad guy though.
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Show Me a Hero is the last David Simon show I need to watch before I start The Deuce. Almost finished now and I’d say it’s pretty enjoyable. The structure is really neat—here’s this bitchy political fight storyline, with Oscar Isaacs fighting to be mayor of Yonkers amid a big dispute about whether the city will build public housing for low income residents, and the other half of the show is a half dozen stories of those would-be residents living their lives. It demonstrates in a really strong way that the people the vocally racist Yonkers NIMBYs are so worried about are just people who deserve a chance and would probably really benefit from this housing. The structure makes the point without the show having to be didactic about it.
What’s great, too, is Isaacs’ performance as man who is a hero almost in spite of himself, and only slowly comes to realize the enormity of what he’s actually done. This slow dawning mirrors the audience’s understanding of the moral implications of the story. Really powerful stuff.
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I’m on Gold Canyon and so far this Buster Scruggs anthology series seems like the worst thing I’ve ever seen from the Coen bros.
Even the singing cowboy thing at the start which everyone else seems to love. I find the actor supremely grating to begin with and then he’s doing the weird singing cowboy shtick from the early 20th century, which was so played out by mid century that they made fun of it in The Searchers.
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Heard disturbing accounts of racism against Native Americans in Buster Scruggs. Is this true? The Coens' may be talented filmmakers but they do have history of problematic decisions and opinions.
It was the period, dude. Glossing over the terrible racist attitudes of the time would be worse, I think.
No-one is asking for it to be glossed over, the complaints I’ve read are they were employing negative stereotypes from the 50’s in it and not doing anything constructive or instructive with it.
Their options aren’t simply doing what they did and ignoring the racism entirely. Plenty of film makers have delved into racism against minorities in America without looking like they wanted to play the Greatest Hits with negative racist stereotypes in media. When people in the audience are getting the idea they think you’re encouraging racism than showing how bad it is it’s time to rethink about how your going about subjects like that when you make a movie.
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Finished Ballad of Buster Scruggs
All Gold Canyon was probably my favorite, followed by Mortal Remains.
Gal Who Got Rattled was good for the first 90%, but then it kicks you in the crotch and steals your lunch money
Buster Scruggs was ok, but very grating
Algodones and Meal Ticket were a trash fire
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Bojack is wonderful but will absolutely eat at your self doubt about if you are inflicting harm on your children that will haunt them their whole lives.
On top of making you wonder if you're otherwise a real piece of shit.
Conversely, it might make you feel "well I'm not being a complete and total evil piece of shit to my kids, so maybe I'm not doing too bad after all"
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I have discovered a film on Netflix called Slow West.
It’s much better than Buster Scruggs was, and it has Michael Fassbender
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
The show hasn't lost any of its potency. Best season yet from the episodes I've seen.
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Ugh man, that Devil May Cry news gives me the chills. I would love for him to just buy out all the rights from Capcom and make a huge multiverse. It would be cool if he shopped to other studios too. I'd like a Parasite Eve anime too!
Watched The Curious Creations of Christine McConnel on the weekend with the fam. At first I was turned off by the (admittiedly intentional) cheesiness, but once I let myself buy into the premise, I came away completely charmed. It's a DIY show who wears its Adams Family/Munsters/Elvira influence on its sleeve, with backing from Jim Henson Studios. The fact that Christine herself is easy on the eyes doesn't hurt either.
Two parts that had my rolling my eyes and giggling at the same time:
1: - While already preparing a ridiculously elaborate meal for her coming date, Christine takes a break and retires up to her room to go make a dress. My whole family: "OH COME ON!"
2:
- Christine (contemplating a neighbor's fate): "I do think we should kill him!"
- Everyone else: "Yay!"
- Christine (in a chastising tone): "With kindness"
- Cat: "UGH! But that takes sooo loooooong!"
Watched The Curious Creations of Christine McConnel on the weekend with the fam. At first I was turned off by the (admittiedly intentional) cheesiness, but once I let myself buy into the premise, I came away completely charmed. It's a DIY show who wears its Adams Family/Munsters/Elvira influence on its sleeve, with backing from Jim Henson Studios. The fact that Christine herself is easy on the eyes doesn't hurt either.
Two parts that had my rolling my eyes and giggling at the same time:
1: - While already preparing a ridiculously elaborate meal for her coming date, Christine takes a break and retires up to her room to go make a dress. My whole family: "OH COME ON!"
2:
- Christine (contemplating a neighbor's fate): "I do think we should kill him!"
- Everyone else: "Yay!"
- Christine (in a chastising tone): "With kindness"
- Cat: "UGH! But that takes sooo loooooong!"
She is just ridiculously attractive. Incredibly talented, smart, and creative.
My "What the hell?" moment was just how long it takes to make a single bone cookie.
Watched The Curious Creations of Christine McConnel on the weekend with the fam. At first I was turned off by the (admittiedly intentional) cheesiness, but once I let myself buy into the premise, I came away completely charmed. It's a DIY show who wears its Adams Family/Munsters/Elvira influence on its sleeve, with backing from Jim Henson Studios. The fact that Christine herself is easy on the eyes doesn't hurt either.
Two parts that had my rolling my eyes and giggling at the same time:
1: - While already preparing a ridiculously elaborate meal for her coming date, Christine takes a break and retires up to her room to go make a dress. My whole family: "OH COME ON!"
2:
- Christine (contemplating a neighbor's fate): "I do think we should kill him!"
- Everyone else: "Yay!"
- Christine (in a chastising tone): "With kindness"
- Cat: "UGH! But that takes sooo loooooong!"
She is just ridiculously attractive. Incredibly talented, smart, and creative.
My "What the hell?" moment was just how long it takes to make a single bone cookie.
lol, right, and I'm sure she managed to whip up that crazily detailed gingerbread haunted house in a single afternoon too.
Ballad of Buster was 100% amazing. I can see how you might not like it if you aren't a fan of the Coen's way of doing things. If you are, i think you'll dig it.
For me, i love western stuff, and the anthology stories were the perfect length to never over stay their welcome. Its also shot beautifully, and the acting was 100% great. Easily my 2nd favorite thing they've ever done.
Make no mistake though, if you like character progress and deep dives into the human condition this isn't your place. All the stories happen, and leave, with little to zero explanation of who what when where or why.
Instead, its short little odd stories like a western Coen fever dream that jump in and out just fast enough to punch you in your gut and leave you wondering and wishing for and explanation. or -at least- an ending. Which you'll never get. They also do a great job of showing you what will happen long before it does, but making you spend the next 3 minutes (until the thing actually happens) convince yourself that what you know will happen isnt REALLY what will happen, and surely there is a better out come to ....... nope.
I want an entire Buster Scruggs movie (which i'll never get because Coen Bros) and I hope Mr Knapp will be ok.
Ballad is on my Thanksgiving consumption list, and I would like to be friends with the people who rated A Serious Man as a top Coen flick, because I feel this is a beautiful gem overlooked by so many people, even fans.
Tried the new Michael Douglas/Alan Arkin series on Netflix and found it to be mediocre at best. It feels like a bunch of 60 year old Hollywood writers and producers rehashing characters, plots, and concepts we've all been watching for decades. It's really, really stale even with two exceptional actors (and many supporting cast members) on board. It's an unfortunate side effect of Peak TV, I think. A lot of this stuff would have never made it past pilot season even 10 years ago.
Also, totally unrelated, but where the hell is my back half of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? Where is it! I'm waiting!
Tried the new Michael Douglas/Alan Arkin series on Netflix and found it to be mediocre at best. It feels like a bunch of 60 year old Hollywood writers and producers rehashing characters, plots, and concepts we've all been watching for decades. It's really, really stale even with two exceptional actors (and many supporting cast members) on board. It's an unfortunate side effect of Peak TV, I think. A lot of this stuff would have never made it past pilot season even 10 years ago.
I don't believe you, the creator of THE BIG BANG THEORY and TWO AND A HALF MEN would never let me down with middling comedy!
Is Narcos: Mexico a continuation of the other 3 seasons? I was expecting a "New Episodes" and this being season 4, not just a whole new entry...
It's a whole new entry but it has to deal with Kiki Cameron which I think this guy who made DEA agents untouchable. Anyway, it is still pretty good and I'm loving it way more than I loved last season.
Tried the new Michael Douglas/Alan Arkin series on Netflix and found it to be mediocre at best. It feels like a bunch of 60 year old Hollywood writers and producers rehashing characters, plots, and concepts we've all been watching for decades. It's really, really stale even with two exceptional actors (and many supporting cast members) on board. It's an unfortunate side effect of Peak TV, I think. A lot of this stuff would have never made it past pilot season even 10 years ago.
I don't believe you, the creator of THE BIG BANG THEORY and TWO AND A HALF MEN would never let me down with middling comedy!
Well, they secured dr. mantis toboggan to appear in it, so it has my interest.
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Bojack is wonderful but will absolutely eat at your self doubt about if you are inflicting harm on your children that will haunt them their whole lives.
On top of making you wonder if you're otherwise a real piece of shit.
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If I had to guess, I'd say it was dead when Amazon picked up the show earlier this year. AFAIK, Netflix's agreement was with SciFi not the production company.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Fanwankery but could you imagine ST and It happening near the same times? Steven King multiverse being weird and junk.
This is a bad opinion
It is possibly the most Coen thing I’ve ever seen and I love it for that
I'll second this. Scruggs was great. The cinematography alone makes it worth watching.
What does that even mean?
If you're expecting a 2 hour coherent story, you'll be disappointed. If you're not its pretty great. Also, the Ballad of Buster Scruggs segment was fantastic, easily my favorite. Ordering the rest kinda gets more difficult but I think it'd be something like this:
1: Buster Scruggs
2: All Gold Canyon
3: The Girl Who Got Rattled
4: The Mortal Remains
5: Near Algodones
6: Meal Ticket
1. A Serious Man
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Barton Fink
5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
6. Hail, Caesar!
7. Burn After Reading
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Fargo
10. Miller's Crossing
11. Blood Simple
12. The Man Who Wasn't There
13. O Brother Where Art Thou?
14. The Hudsucker Proxy
15. Raising Arizona
16. True Grit
17. The Ladykillers
18. Intolerable Cruelty
Bojack is outstanding. I think I watched all of it in a week and a half.
It was the period, dude. Glossing over the terrible racist attitudes of the time would be worse, I think.
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This seems like generic twitter outrage. Indians are shown as raiding parties in two of the stories and that's about it and they aren't even the crux of those stories either, and nothing comes across as out of sorts for the period.
Ballad of Buster Scruggs was overall good, but one great, one really good one good story don't make up for the other three meh to terrible ones, even though Stephen Root was in one of them. Meal Ticket, I've not felt contempt like that for a movie since American Hustle (or The Assassin) and really showed how the anthology portion cut into anything that would establish growth or emotion or characterization. The whole thing felt a bit like the Coen's didn't bring their A-game and just settled on a B-game and Netflix was none the wiser, using the anthology to skip out on real endings for two of them.
But damn that Buster Scruggs part was the best, I want a whole movie like that, in 10 minutes it did more than A Million Ways to Die in the West did with 100.
Power Ranking:
1. Buster Scruggs
2. Gal Who Got Rattled
3. All Gold Canyon
4. The Mortal Remains
5. Near Algodones
10. Meal Ticket
I do like making his sister the bad guy though.
What’s great, too, is Isaacs’ performance as man who is a hero almost in spite of himself, and only slowly comes to realize the enormity of what he’s actually done. This slow dawning mirrors the audience’s understanding of the moral implications of the story. Really powerful stuff.
Even the singing cowboy thing at the start which everyone else seems to love. I find the actor supremely grating to begin with and then he’s doing the weird singing cowboy shtick from the early 20th century, which was so played out by mid century that they made fun of it in The Searchers.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
No-one is asking for it to be glossed over, the complaints I’ve read are they were employing negative stereotypes from the 50’s in it and not doing anything constructive or instructive with it.
Their options aren’t simply doing what they did and ignoring the racism entirely. Plenty of film makers have delved into racism against minorities in America without looking like they wanted to play the Greatest Hits with negative racist stereotypes in media. When people in the audience are getting the idea they think you’re encouraging racism than showing how bad it is it’s time to rethink about how your going about subjects like that when you make a movie.
All Gold Canyon was probably my favorite, followed by Mortal Remains.
Gal Who Got Rattled was good for the first 90%, but then it kicks you in the crotch and steals your lunch money
Buster Scruggs was ok, but very grating
Algodones and Meal Ticket were a trash fire
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Conversely, it might make you feel "well I'm not being a complete and total evil piece of shit to my kids, so maybe I'm not doing too bad after all"
It’s much better than Buster Scruggs was, and it has Michael Fassbender
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
The show hasn't lost any of its potency. Best season yet from the episodes I've seen.
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Two parts that had my rolling my eyes and giggling at the same time:
1: - While already preparing a ridiculously elaborate meal for her coming date, Christine takes a break and retires up to her room to go make a dress. My whole family: "OH COME ON!"
2:
- Christine (contemplating a neighbor's fate): "I do think we should kill him!"
- Everyone else: "Yay!"
- Christine (in a chastising tone): "With kindness"
- Cat: "UGH! But that takes sooo loooooong!"
She is just ridiculously attractive. Incredibly talented, smart, and creative.
My "What the hell?" moment was just how long it takes to make a single bone cookie.
lol, right, and I'm sure she managed to whip up that crazily detailed gingerbread haunted house in a single afternoon too.
Is Narcos: Mexico a continuation of the other 3 seasons? I was expecting a "New Episodes" and this being season 4, not just a whole new entry...
For me, i love western stuff, and the anthology stories were the perfect length to never over stay their welcome. Its also shot beautifully, and the acting was 100% great. Easily my 2nd favorite thing they've ever done.
Make no mistake though, if you like character progress and deep dives into the human condition this isn't your place. All the stories happen, and leave, with little to zero explanation of who what when where or why.
Instead, its short little odd stories like a western Coen fever dream that jump in and out just fast enough to punch you in your gut and leave you wondering and wishing for and explanation. or -at least- an ending. Which you'll never get. They also do a great job of showing you what will happen long before it does, but making you spend the next 3 minutes (until the thing actually happens) convince yourself that what you know will happen isnt REALLY what will happen, and surely there is a better out come to ....... nope.
I want an entire Buster Scruggs movie (which i'll never get because Coen Bros) and I hope Mr Knapp will be ok.
Tried the new Michael Douglas/Alan Arkin series on Netflix and found it to be mediocre at best. It feels like a bunch of 60 year old Hollywood writers and producers rehashing characters, plots, and concepts we've all been watching for decades. It's really, really stale even with two exceptional actors (and many supporting cast members) on board. It's an unfortunate side effect of Peak TV, I think. A lot of this stuff would have never made it past pilot season even 10 years ago.
Also, totally unrelated, but where the hell is my back half of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? Where is it! I'm waiting!
I don't believe you, the creator of THE BIG BANG THEORY and TWO AND A HALF MEN would never let me down with middling comedy!
It's a whole new entry but it has to deal with Kiki Cameron which I think this guy who made DEA agents untouchable. Anyway, it is still pretty good and I'm loving it way more than I loved last season.
Well, they secured dr. mantis toboggan to appear in it, so it has my interest.