i made it through 20 min before turning it off. that chase was a coke-fuelled nightmare to watchidk how michael bay manages to make me hate car chases, explosions & ryan reynolds (all things i normally love unconditionally) but he succeeded
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
finished "Black Spot" yesterday.bloody loved it.definitely something to watch during the dark autumnal season.
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
Veg, if you like Tony Martin & Ed Kavalee chatting, there’s an absolutely gold Michael Bay anecdote on last week’s Little Dum Dum Club
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
ooooh thx sic!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
Tried to cure a small bout of insomnia last night with "Don't Fuck With Cats"... man, that is some fucked up shit. Do not recommend.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
Why? What's it like?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
It's a 3ep true crime series about internet obsessed types trying to track down a guy who posts videos of him killing cats(++) online.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah I watched the preview thinking it was something lighter and yeah, no thanks.
― circa1916, Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
i saw the splash and assumed that was what it was about and so didn't watch it. i would watch a video of that man being killed tho
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
ugh, nope, not what I was hoping for
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I watched the preview and then had to look up who it was about. I don't know how I missed the news about that guy.
― Yerac, Friday, 20 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Couple of "Witcher" reviews I've read have been "Cats"-level negative.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
There is a Top Boy thread on its own but Top Boy (everyone compares to The Wire) is really good. I didn't know it was a netflix reboot from a Channel 4 show so I ended up starting with season 3 and then 1, 2. Just finished it.
― Yerac, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
xp
weirdly pleased about this because i'm sick of the eternal internet gamer circle jerk to The Witcher
― circa1916, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
I think it's a dumb game so am likewise heartened.
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Friday, 20 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
it is sorta weird to be pleased that a tv adaptation of a video game is bad bc you didn't like the [critically acclaimed] game it was based on, but i liked witcher 3 so what do i need
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
know
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Watched the first episode and not sure why it would get Cats level reviews. Bit of a Vikings/Last Kingdom vibe but with added monsters & magic - big, gory hand to hand battles and court politics & intrigue (and a few cheesy/bad monologues)Maybe it goes tits up in subsequent episodes
― groovypanda, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
a tv adaptation of a video game is bad bc you didn't like the [critically acclaimed] game it was based on
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
I've actually since seen a few more balanced reviews. One big complaint is how, at least at the start, it goes full GoT in the boobs and blood department.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
i am aware but the ppl i was responding to were talking about the game
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
2020: in which people on the internet complain about a streaming episodic series based on a game based on a book being too derivative
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Another game adaptation which shows how terrible game writing is.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
My calculus isn't hard:
1. Ressentiment over game loved by other people.2. Henry Cavill is IIRC kind of a garbage human (not that I followed every twist and turn of his utterances so I may be missing context).
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Friday, 20 December 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
does this have more or fewer boobs than his previous pulp tv show, The Tudors?presumably more blood, although they got up to beheadings on that one
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
wait is the witcher series specifically based on the game's interpretation of the books and not just the books?
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
I think just the books, but absolutely influenced by games because it’s the pre-existing visual narrative adaptation
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Two episodes in and no boobs in sight but more beheadings than you could shake a stick at xps
― groovypanda, Saturday, 21 December 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Wait, I could have sworn one review I read said the boobs were front loaded in the first episode, and that there were seven (!) naked ladies! Yeah, the catty EW review (F) is where I read that:
Anyhow, the pilot also features two rough-and-tumble princesses (Freya Allan, Emma Appleton), a wizard (Lars Mikkelsen), and totally gratuitous full-frontal female nudity. There are seven naked women in the first episode alone, Darren. Seven! I… think I’ve seen enough?
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2019/12/20/netflix-the-witcher-review
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 December 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Im not sure how groovypanda missed it but yes, that scene was very "we can be hbo too!" To its credit it was more backgrounded than in similar scenes on GoT, but still completely gratuitous
I'm two eps in and liking it ok, but it seems they're trying to get through a lot of plot in a short amount of time. I would want it to move slower, thus far
― Vinnie, Saturday, 21 December 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Actually yeah I remember now. That was early on in the first episode and I was half watching as finishing off some work stuff. There's also a very bad sex scene in the first episode but both actors are fully clothed.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 21 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
so it IS based on the game then
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 21 December 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Finished Don't Fuck With Cats last night despite it being utterly worthless
Hated it not because I was squeamish or "triggered" but as a piece of journalism or as a documentary with ostensible artistic merit, either way a failure
All the nuance, sensitivity, and sense of context of a CBS News special but since it's on Netflix, it's getting way more attention than it deserves
I don't do a lot of true crime but is a lot of it as glib as this was? Jesus fuck
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 22 December 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
TIL there is a remake of Jacob's Lader
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 22 December 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
so apparently if you have a modern TV and install Netflix as an app, it stops 17 seconds into the credits of a movie and shows literally ten minutes of ads for Netflix-made TV shows, and doesn't go back to the credits afterwards? is there some kind of hidden setting you can change to make it finish the film?
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
are the credits not still there in a little "picture in picture" window? you should be able to navigate to it with your directional keys on your remote and hit enter
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
nope, it started playing a trailer for The Witcher, with three little windows inset of The Witcher and 6 Underground and something else
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
the default assumption in the apps is definitely that people do not watch credits and that you are going to immediately watch something else. I think the idea is that the ads are suggestions for what you watch next — it’s not an interruption, it’s the assumption you are done with the movie so there’s no reason it’d just back to credits since it’a not a commercial breakI haven’t seen that behavior but I have seen a littletimer pop up as credits roll and if you don’t click quickly then it jumps from movie viewing to promo mode
― mh, Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
I'm not that bothered by a default assumption (assuming that someone at Netflix audits each movie to make sure there are no scenes mid- or post-credits, or bloopers*, or images of any kind, or text jokes, or deliberate use of music or w/e). But it should be possible to tell the app that you do want to watch the whole flick.
* except if it's Being There, in which case the blooper should absolutely be excised
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
there is definitely someone at Netflix auditing every movie for every tiny microgenre, as well as for that sort of thing (which is how "skip credits" at the beginning of TV shows on Netflix works so well - someone is actually keying in timecodes of this stuff)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
(which is how "skip credits" at the beginning of TV shows on Netflix works so well - someone is actually keying in timecodes of this stuff)
nah, I've seen that on Big Mouth
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
you've seen what on Big Mouth?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
"skip credits"
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
regardless of whether it's the usual credits or a bespoke one that ties in to themes or events of the episode
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
Right. all I'm saying is that your assumption is correct - someone at Netflix is auditing all of that and adding metadata about when credits begin and end to every movie and tv episode.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
if a character is introduced in the opening credits and repeatedly speaks in them, then reappears through the post-credits part of the episode, imo it is pretty poor auditing to offer a button to skip the credits
if an animated show has drawn a 30-second sequence specifically for one episode, imo offering a "skip this sequence" button might as well be offered at any point in the episode as from 1:30 to 2:00
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
gotcha. yeah I've only ever seen it done when the credits are just literally the same thing every time.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
xp but I WANTED to skip Coach Steve singing "Changes"!
― sleeve, Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
btw Bigmouth S3 is, imo, a significant step up, "Do The Thing" and the cell phone episode were great
― sleeve, Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
but I WANTED to skip Coach Steve singing "Changes"!
ha ha :D
― insecurity bear (sic), Monday, 23 December 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link