Gargoyles had a surprising amount of straight up murders for Disney afternoon show. Most of the them were still disneyfied, but there was a lot of people getting tossed off roofs and humans and gargoyles turned into statues and then smashed to pieces.
Non-Horrible Young Kid-Friendly Stuff Includes:
Danger and Eggs (Amazon)
Cupcake and Dino (Netflix)
Hilda (Netflix)
Harvey Girls (Netflix)
Dinotrux (Netflix)
Archibald's Next Big Thing (Netflix)
Hilda is good and my daughter watches it but it's also got some shit that really young kids would probably find a little scary.
Non-Horrible Young Kid-Friendly Stuff Includes:
Danger and Eggs (Amazon)
Cupcake and Dino (Netflix)
Hilda (Netflix)
Harvey Girls (Netflix)
Dinotrux (Netflix)
Archibald's Next Big Thing (Netflix)
Hilda is good and my daughter watches it but it's also got some shit that really young kids would probably find a little scary.
The lawyers?
But yeah, a lot of these have moments where it's good to at least be close enough for a hug.
Umbrella Academy trailer came out same time as The Boys; co workers tell me it's a good show but all I can think when I see it is Morrison's Doom Patrol, then Morrison's X-men and that scene from The Simpsons with Stan from American dad in an Italian law book subtitled "Plagiarismo di Plagiarismo"
Oh, and freaking finally, Amazon Prime is rolling out separate viewing profiles so our Prime won't just be a sea of true crime and serial killers recommendations. Now if they'd just add family accounts in Canada already.
Umbrella Academy trailer came out same time as The Boys; co workers tell me it's a good show but all I can think when I see it is Morrison's Doom Patrol, then Morrison's X-men and that scene from The Simpsons with Stan from American dad in an Italian law book subtitled "Plagiarismo di Plagiarismo"
Oh, and freaking finally, Amazon Prime is rolling out separate viewing profiles so our Prime won't just be a sea of true crime and serial killers recommendations. Now if they'd just add family accounts in Canada already.
Having seen seasons 1 of Umbrella Academy, The Boys, and Doom Patrol: none of them are particularly similar. I guess Doom Patrol and Umbrella Academy are the most alike but still extremely different in tone and content.
Doom patrol is really different from umbrella academy. Doom patrol is tongue in cheek/silly hijinks of immortals of different origins and their baggage, UA is much more focused and serious story with some levity.
I don't want to put words into Nosf's mouth, but I think they were getting at the fact that Umbrella Academy is essentially a pastiche of Doom Patrol the comic, not Doom Patrol the TV show. Honestly, there's definitely some inspiration there, which is hardly surprising considering Gerad Way would go on to get his own Doom Patrol run.
Umbrella Academy trailer came out same time as The Boys; co workers tell me it's a good show but all I can think when I see it is Morrison's Doom Patrol, then Morrison's X-men and that scene from The Simpsons with Stan from American dad in an Italian law book subtitled "Plagiarismo di Plagiarismo"
Oh, and freaking finally, Amazon Prime is rolling out separate viewing profiles so our Prime won't just be a sea of true crime and serial killers recommendations. Now if they'd just add family accounts in Canada already.
Can't say how it compares to Doom Patrol, but I enjoyed Umbrella Academy. The first episode or two was a bit rough though since pretty much all the characters start off as really unlikable. It improves greatly once they flesh them out and slather on some backstory and character building, but I had to batten down to get through those first impressions.
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I love Dark now that we are into season 2, but my wife can't watch it before bed. So we started watching Homeland.
Does it get any better after the first season? Also I have to keep reminding myself that the first season was back in 2011.
Homeland is wildly erratic throughout its entire run, but no matter how bad it gets, watching Danes and Patinkin work with the material they're given is worth it. It really helps if you're generally into spy stuff, but you can watch it just for their interplay (and how they run everyone around them).
Umbrella Academy trailer came out same time as The Boys; co workers tell me it's a good show but all I can think when I see it is Morrison's Doom Patrol, then Morrison's X-men and that scene from The Simpsons with Stan from American dad in an Italian law book subtitled "Plagiarismo di Plagiarismo"
Oh, and freaking finally, Amazon Prime is rolling out separate viewing profiles so our Prime won't just be a sea of true crime and serial killers recommendations. Now if they'd just add family accounts in Canada already.
Having seen seasons 1 of Umbrella Academy, The Boys, and Doom Patrol: none of them are particularly similar. I guess Doom Patrol and Umbrella Academy are the most alike but still extremely different in tone and content.
I think UA is closer to Dirk Gently - weirdness, shenanigans and crazy stuff abounds.
Looking forward to UA 2 - wasn’t sure it would get a season two and was happy to see the trailer pop up.
Between this and the Boys 2, we’ve got some good TV on the way.
Finished watching Warrior Nun; I'm still kind of so-so on it, but it's not terrible. As mentioned, Ava is terrible and it feels like the plot really meanders in the middle (which for a short season is a problem). I saw the final twists coming a mile away, but they do set up some interesting things for next season potentially.
Started on season 2 of Hanna; also very much on the so-so bucket. The actors are so wooden its hard to get involved. Its also jarring to me that they make Hanna into some Jason Bourne level secret agent. She lived in a literal forest with no human contact until 16, but somehow knows how to drive, pickpocket, avoid cameras, etc etc.
I want to like Hanna S2. I like exploring the school and seeing more of the corporate/government entity that is responsible for all of this (kind of like Homecoming did in its second season), but honestly (imnsho), it's just so boring, and there's absolutely nothing in this show we haven't seen in a hundred other lady assassin/feral child assassin productions from the last couple of decades.
I want to like Hanna S2. I like exploring the school and seeing more of the corporate/government entity that is responsible for all of this (kind of like Homecoming did in its second season), but honestly (imnsho), it's just so boring, and there's absolutely nothing in this show we haven't seen in a hundred other lady assassin/feral child assassin productions from the last couple of decades.
Yeah, I'm definitely in the same boat. Just finished episode 6 and I'm not really looking forward to slogging through two more episodes (although I probably will). The random betrayals and stupid decisions from the girls are just so baffling. It's like you said, we've seen it in a hundred other productions so I know what they are trying to go for, but it just feels so unearned in the context of the show and the actors are all just so wooden it's just "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal" over and over, with like zero emotional conflict either on the betrayor or betrayee. Just feels like they have a checkbox of plot points and they are going down the list. "whelp, guess I just betrayed my only friend in the world (again), now time to turn around and betray the group I betrayed the first person for, for literally no reason other than the group doing what I knew they were doing the entire time. I will communicate my deep emotional conflict by staring blankly at the camera without saying anything for a few minutes"
Theron is 44, so probably needs to produce things to get cast.
I watched Palm Springs, which is a Hulu Groundhog Day kind of thing, but enough different to be amusing. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti (the titular mother in HIMYM who was so badly served by the producers of that) star. JK Simmons is also there.
Basically:
We join him millions of days into the loop when he accidentally introduces Milioti's character into it. Previously he got Simmons in, and Simmons' character is pissed and regularly hunts him down to murder him.
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I watched The Old Guard earlier, the new Charlize Theron film on Netflix.
A good enough action film, worth a watch.
Clearly set up for a sequel, though, so I wonder if they got a contract to make multiple movies ?
Theron is listed as an executive producer, so I wonder if it’s a project for her.
Watched it tonight too. I watch whatever Theron is in pretty much. She was good as usual and the movie was fine. Well made. But it didn't really grab me. A little lacking in creativity and world building. The bad guy was kind of a lazy archetype.
Also a clear example of a movie that was using the inception soundtrack as temporary music and then the composer was forced to make something that sounds exactly the same.
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I watched The Old Guard earlier, the new Charlize Theron film on Netflix.
A good enough action film, worth a watch.
Clearly set up for a sequel, though, so I wonder if they got a contract to make multiple movies ?
Theron is listed as an executive producer, so I wonder if it’s a project for her.
I thought it was really boring. How they made a film about immortality, one of my favourite concepts, boring, I do not know. It probably doesn't help that they make every character individually boring and cast individually boring people. Even Theron, who is fire incarnate in most films, is subdued here.
It's like the anti vampire film, where they indulge in every benefit of being unkillable, here they've spent 6,000 years just being miserable apparently, oh and changing world events but we don't see any of that because it's too expensive (which is what Groundhog Day figured out nearly 30 years ago). I assume it is all from the comic, but immortals who can just randomly become not immortal, and there's one made for the first time in 1000 years or whatever but no reason is given, and all those immortal DNA strands and tissues that were captured weren't destroyed as far as I know, and is it magical or is it genetic? How can it be genetic when there is a psychic goddamn connection between you all?
And everyone just looks unhappy. Everyone is sad. Everyone is miserable. But it's not in an interesting, dramatic way.
It was just boring. And I was looking forward to it too.
I’m watching Uncut Gems. I don’t know why. It’s giving me super anxiety.
For a movie filled with characters I didnt really care about I was really impressed with how stressed it made me, Adam Sandler was really impressive.
It's Adam West running down the street with a bomb - you know it's gonna explode you just don't want it to happen around somebody innocent.
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Warrior Nun was an interesting ride for me - I'm not an expert on cinematography, so I tend to be incredibly easy to please when it comes to the moving pictures - I enjoyed the Warrior Nun series, so much I actually watched it twice!
It wasn't particularly ground breaking, in fact some of the scenes you could tell were really low/Netflix budget. The writing was average to good. The acting was average to good. The visual effects overall were good, but at one point demonstrated that the budget wasn't being spent in the graphics department. The scene-to-scene editing was alright - there were a few skips that I found slightly jarring, but not too bad.
A few of the leads stood out in terms of the acting, or at least acting through sheer charisma, in a way I'm unable to describe succinctly.
Where I think my brain got hooked was the framing of the scenes, and the nostalgia of seeing European cities (a lot appears to have been shot on location in Spain & Italy). It was just a hit of something for my brain to see the cobble stone streets in the pedestrian centers. The grand vistas of some of the more 'touristy' spots. The framing of the internal shots in cathedrals. It was definitely an escape to Europe for my brain that I wish could have lasted more than a weekend.
Yeah Netflix doesn't really seem to spend a lot of money on their original action movies. I haven't gotten to Extraction yet but I first noticed this behavior with Triple Frontier, where the interesting plot is tepidly rendered out in an empty house and a bunch of empty hillsides.
The fight choreography in The Old Guard is a lot of fun but I wanted more.
I’m watching Uncut Gems. I don’t know why. It’s giving me super anxiety.
For a movie filled with characters I didnt really care about I was really impressed with how stressed it made me, Adam Sandler was really impressive.
The conversation he essentially has with himself with how big a loser he is and everyone hates him and he's a worthless piece of shit slowly morphing into him declaring he's going to prove all the haters wrong with his bets made me physically uncomfortable.
I watched The Old Guard earlier, the new Charlize Theron film on Netflix.
A good enough action film, worth a watch.
Clearly set up for a sequel, though, so I wonder if they got a contract to make multiple movies ?
Theron is listed as an executive producer, so I wonder if it’s a project for her.
I thought it was really boring. How they made a film about immortality, one of my favourite concepts, boring, I do not know. It probably doesn't help that they make every character individually boring and cast individually boring people. Even Theron, who is fire incarnate in most films, is subdued here.
It's like the anti vampire film, where they indulge in every benefit of being unkillable, here they've spent 6,000 years just being miserable apparently, oh and changing world events but we don't see any of that because it's too expensive (which is what Groundhog Day figured out nearly 30 years ago). I assume it is all from the comic, but immortals who can just randomly become not immortal, and there's one made for the first time in 1000 years or whatever but no reason is given, and all those immortal DNA strands and tissues that were captured weren't destroyed as far as I know, and is it magical or is it genetic? How can it be genetic when there is a psychic goddamn connection between you all?
And everyone just looks unhappy. Everyone is sad. Everyone is miserable. But it's not in an interesting, dramatic way.
It was just boring. And I was looking forward to it too.
Another thing about the movie that bugged me was the motivations of the traitor. He could have volunteered himself to be tested on my a legitimate lab anytime he wanted to! Could have gone public and made sure his welfare was taken care of. Just visits the lab every week for new tests. It clearly wasn't about making his friends do the torture tests instead of him because his whole plan was to just let himself get captured with them. It makes no sense.
Not to mention that people that are hundreds and thousands of years old aren't trillionaires by now. They should be ruling the world. Not doing these little rescue missions, saving one person at a time.
I watched The Old Guard earlier, the new Charlize Theron film on Netflix.
A good enough action film, worth a watch.
Clearly set up for a sequel, though, so I wonder if they got a contract to make multiple movies ?
Theron is listed as an executive producer, so I wonder if it’s a project for her.
I thought it was really boring. How they made a film about immortality, one of my favourite concepts, boring, I do not know. It probably doesn't help that they make every character individually boring and cast individually boring people. Even Theron, who is fire incarnate in most films, is subdued here.
It's like the anti vampire film, where they indulge in every benefit of being unkillable, here they've spent 6,000 years just being miserable apparently, oh and changing world events but we don't see any of that because it's too expensive (which is what Groundhog Day figured out nearly 30 years ago). I assume it is all from the comic, but immortals who can just randomly become not immortal, and there's one made for the first time in 1000 years or whatever but no reason is given, and all those immortal DNA strands and tissues that were captured weren't destroyed as far as I know, and is it magical or is it genetic? How can it be genetic when there is a psychic goddamn connection between you all?
And everyone just looks unhappy. Everyone is sad. Everyone is miserable. But it's not in an interesting, dramatic way.
It was just boring. And I was looking forward to it too.
Another thing about the movie that bugged me was the motivations of the traitor. He could have volunteered himself to be tested on my a legitimate lab anytime he wanted to! Could have gone public and made sure his welfare was taken care of. Just visits the lab every week for new tests. It clearly wasn't about making his friends do the torture tests instead of him because his whole plan was to just let himself get captured with them. It makes no sense.
Not to mention that people that are hundreds and thousands of years old aren't trillionaires by now. They should be ruling the world. Not doing these little rescue missions, saving one person at a time.
It's an example of the absolute best way to squander immortality.
does anyone have recommendations for shows to watch with younger (5 & 8) kids?
the two big hits so far have been she-ra and avatar: the last airbender
tried a few episodes of adventure time, I think it's a little too old and weird for them
next thing I thought we'd try is infinity train, but any thoughts are appreciated!
The new Voltron (that I totally have to catch up on) was pretty good.
I think if kids can keep up with it, its a really good intro on how saving the day isnt the end of the story, and managing government and the choices you have to make is more complicated than it seems. You cant arrest an empires worth of 'bad guys' once you beat its leader, you have to figure out how to change and improve a system that used to enslave and conquer.
does anyone have recommendations for shows to watch with younger (5 & 8) kids?
the two big hits so far have been she-ra and avatar: the last airbender
tried a few episodes of adventure time, I think it's a little too old and weird for them
next thing I thought we'd try is infinity train, but any thoughts are appreciated!
The new Voltron (that I totally have to catch up on) was pretty good.
I think if kids can keep up with it, its a really good intro on how saving the day isnt the end of the story, and managing government and the choices you have to make is more complicated than it seems. You cant arrest an empires worth of 'bad guys' once you beat its leader, you have to figure out how to change and improve a system that used to enslave and conquer.
Finished Palm Springs on Hulu earlier. I am an absolute sucker for all time-travel/time-loop movies and thus my bar is pretty low. However, this was a certainly enjoyable little rom-com and it had some nice twists on the Groundhog Day theme. Highly recommend if you like any of that style of sci-fi story or you are a big fan of J Jonah Jameson.
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does anyone have recommendations for shows to watch with younger (5 & 8) kids?
the two big hits so far have been she-ra and avatar: the last airbender
tried a few episodes of adventure time, I think it's a little too old and weird for them
next thing I thought we'd try is infinity train, but any thoughts are appreciated!
The new Voltron (that I totally have to catch up on) was pretty good.
I think if kids can keep up with it, its a really good intro on how saving the day isnt the end of the story, and managing government and the choices you have to make is more complicated than it seems. You cant arrest an empires worth of 'bad guys' once you beat its leader, you have to figure out how to change and improve a system that used to enslave and conquer.
You've just sold me on Voltron.
Just to sell it a bit harder, it's similar to She-Ra in the sense that the "bad guys" are almost all more complex than just "are bad guys" and generally can be helped rather than just exploded. Don't get me wrong, there's some plenty evil stuff that happens, but the worst villain in the show also has some painfully understandable motivations.
And the show doesn't shy away from victory and defeat both having costs, but it's also incredibly wholesome overall with some very lighthearted moments. I actually put off finishing the series for something like a year because I couldn't muster the heart to let it end. It's sort of bizarre how great a job they did with building something coherent, excellent, and modern from the rather dated source material.
Second, it's disaster porn. I'm not sure the world needed another pain train to Miseryville in 2020.
Third, it's actually pretty well done. The "slice-of-life apocalypse" concept does have some legs for me, and making who lives and dies kinda random and arbitrary at least gives it some verisimilitude. That said, trigger warnings all up in y'all.
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I dunno, Korra seems definitely more geared towards older kids.
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Hilda is good and my daughter watches it but it's also got some shit that really young kids would probably find a little scary.
The lawyers?
But yeah, a lot of these have moments where it's good to at least be close enough for a hug.
Oh, and freaking finally, Amazon Prime is rolling out separate viewing profiles so our Prime won't just be a sea of true crime and serial killers recommendations. Now if they'd just add family accounts in Canada already.
Having seen seasons 1 of Umbrella Academy, The Boys, and Doom Patrol: none of them are particularly similar. I guess Doom Patrol and Umbrella Academy are the most alike but still extremely different in tone and content.
Can't say how it compares to Doom Patrol, but I enjoyed Umbrella Academy. The first episode or two was a bit rough though since pretty much all the characters start off as really unlikable. It improves greatly once they flesh them out and slather on some backstory and character building, but I had to batten down to get through those first impressions.
Does it get any better after the first season? Also I have to keep reminding myself that the first season was back in 2011.
Storybots is fantastic. I like it more than my daughter does, and I non-ironically watched the newest season (which was too long ago) without her.
Homeland is wildly erratic throughout its entire run, but no matter how bad it gets, watching Danes and Patinkin work with the material they're given is worth it. It really helps if you're generally into spy stuff, but you can watch it just for their interplay (and how they run everyone around them).
I think UA is closer to Dirk Gently - weirdness, shenanigans and crazy stuff abounds.
Looking forward to UA 2 - wasn’t sure it would get a season two and was happy to see the trailer pop up.
Between this and the Boys 2, we’ve got some good TV on the way.
Started on season 2 of Hanna; also very much on the so-so bucket. The actors are so wooden its hard to get involved. Its also jarring to me that they make Hanna into some Jason Bourne level secret agent. She lived in a literal forest with no human contact until 16, but somehow knows how to drive, pickpocket, avoid cameras, etc etc.
Yeah, I'm definitely in the same boat. Just finished episode 6 and I'm not really looking forward to slogging through two more episodes (although I probably will). The random betrayals and stupid decisions from the girls are just so baffling. It's like you said, we've seen it in a hundred other productions so I know what they are trying to go for, but it just feels so unearned in the context of the show and the actors are all just so wooden it's just "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal" over and over, with like zero emotional conflict either on the betrayor or betrayee. Just feels like they have a checkbox of plot points and they are going down the list. "whelp, guess I just betrayed my only friend in the world (again), now time to turn around and betray the group I betrayed the first person for, for literally no reason other than the group doing what I knew they were doing the entire time. I will communicate my deep emotional conflict by staring blankly at the camera without saying anything for a few minutes"
A good enough action film, worth a watch.
Clearly set up for a sequel, though, so I wonder if they got a contract to make multiple movies ?
Theron is listed as an executive producer, so I wonder if it’s a project for her.
I watched Palm Springs, which is a Hulu Groundhog Day kind of thing, but enough different to be amusing. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti (the titular mother in HIMYM who was so badly served by the producers of that) star. JK Simmons is also there.
Basically:
The new Voltron (that I totally have to catch up on) was pretty good.
Watched it tonight too. I watch whatever Theron is in pretty much. She was good as usual and the movie was fine. Well made. But it didn't really grab me. A little lacking in creativity and world building. The bad guy was kind of a lazy archetype.
Also a clear example of a movie that was using the inception soundtrack as temporary music and then the composer was forced to make something that sounds exactly the same.
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I thought it was really boring. How they made a film about immortality, one of my favourite concepts, boring, I do not know. It probably doesn't help that they make every character individually boring and cast individually boring people. Even Theron, who is fire incarnate in most films, is subdued here.
It was just boring. And I was looking forward to it too.
For a movie filled with characters I didnt really care about I was really impressed with how stressed it made me, Adam Sandler was really impressive.
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It wasn't particularly ground breaking, in fact some of the scenes you could tell were really low/Netflix budget. The writing was average to good. The acting was average to good. The visual effects overall were good, but at one point demonstrated that the budget wasn't being spent in the graphics department. The scene-to-scene editing was alright - there were a few skips that I found slightly jarring, but not too bad.
A few of the leads stood out in terms of the acting, or at least acting through sheer charisma, in a way I'm unable to describe succinctly.
Where I think my brain got hooked was the framing of the scenes, and the nostalgia of seeing European cities (a lot appears to have been shot on location in Spain & Italy). It was just a hit of something for my brain to see the cobble stone streets in the pedestrian centers. The grand vistas of some of the more 'touristy' spots. The framing of the internal shots in cathedrals. It was definitely an escape to Europe for my brain that I wish could have lasted more than a weekend.
The fight choreography in The Old Guard is a lot of fun but I wanted more.
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Not to mention that people that are hundreds and thousands of years old aren't trillionaires by now. They should be ruling the world. Not doing these little rescue missions, saving one person at a time.
It's an example of the absolute best way to squander immortality.
I think if kids can keep up with it, its a really good intro on how saving the day isnt the end of the story, and managing government and the choices you have to make is more complicated than it seems. You cant arrest an empires worth of 'bad guys' once you beat its leader, you have to figure out how to change and improve a system that used to enslave and conquer.
You've just sold me on Voltron.
Especially on this friggin board
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Just to sell it a bit harder, it's similar to She-Ra in the sense that the "bad guys" are almost all more complex than just "are bad guys" and generally can be helped rather than just exploded. Don't get me wrong, there's some plenty evil stuff that happens, but the worst villain in the show also has some painfully understandable motivations.
And the show doesn't shy away from victory and defeat both having costs, but it's also incredibly wholesome overall with some very lighthearted moments. I actually put off finishing the series for something like a year because I couldn't muster the heart to let it end. It's sort of bizarre how great a job they did with building something coherent, excellent, and modern from the rather dated source material.
First, Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
Second, it's disaster porn. I'm not sure the world needed another pain train to Miseryville in 2020.
Third, it's actually pretty well done. The "slice-of-life apocalypse" concept does have some legs for me, and making who lives and dies kinda random and arbitrary at least gives it some verisimilitude. That said, trigger warnings all up in y'all.