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Bottoms was much better than I expected from the reviews.

Curious about Monsieur Spade, True Detective and the Mandy Patinkin thing, but they kinda look they might all fall under "pretty good not great".

I'm on the third episode of Deadloch, I can imagine it might start running on the spot as it goes along, but it's incredibly good fun and the mystery is a pretty good mystery! There's such a lot of attention to detail (place, character, how people spend their time), it feels like a real place without seeming like icky "world-building". The characters feel heightened, but also real, which is another hard trick to pull off - it's the perfect smart/dumb tightrope walk.

Season finale of Reacher was pretty disappointing. They tried to stretch 15 minutes of plot out to 40 and it really, really drags.

whole season was pretty bland. really missed the small town charm/characters from season 1

Haven't watched the finale yet but I'd rate this season below the first Tom Cruise movie (and maybe the second but I'm pretty hazy on that one other than vaguely remembering that Robin from How I Met Your Mother was the co-star).

Feel like a helicopter with a minigun lighting up a Queens junkyard (shortly after multiple buildings explode) might be national news, the show about the 6'7" MP-slash-Jason Bourne drifter got too ridiculous.

I'm curious how close to the book this season was.

I'm curious how close to the book this season was.

Which reminds me that the credit at the beginning of every episode never fails to crack me up:

BASED ON THE BOOK HARD LUCK & TROUBLE BY LEE CHILD AND HIS CHARACTER JACK REACHER

So...Reacher helped write the book?

The Damned United is on Tubi for a while

i watched a bad movie called The Baker on Hulu and then later i was watching Fargo and i kept expecting to see characters from The Baker because that is how my streaming life goes. one thing streams into another. i think i'm done with the new Fargo season. i'm halfway through episode 6 and it just gets clunkier and less fun and more pointless. which is sad cuz i will always love JJL doing her best Hudsucker voice. that movie was all the way back in 1994! where does the time go? i've been a fan of hers since the best little girl in the world. that was 1981. i'll bet i've seen 30 JJL movies.

(i watched The Brothers Sun on Netflix and somehow made it all the way through that. though i was tempted to stop a lot. its not great. always nice to see michelle yeoh but its really not great.)

Just read an interview with Alan Ritchson, star of REACHER, and have realized there is some Lord Of The Rings-level cheat-casting going on. That dude is only 6'2". I'M 6'2", which means everybody else on that show must be, like, 5'5", max.

oh totally

Man, the Godzilla show is awful.

Death and Other Details - feels like some people saw Knives Out/Glass Onion and the Branagh Agatha Christie movies making money and decided they needed to get in on it.

yeah its pretty normcore so far
but i don’t mind it
i am just here for mandy patinkin and rahul kohli

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is now on Hulu so I thought I’d give it a try. I think I got maybe 45mins in before giving up. It’s so fucking boring!

^lol we bailed for the same reason

I know there are specific threads for each of these two shows, avoiding those because spoilers, but we finally got started on both Reservation Dogs and Slow Horses. Both far better than I expected them to be, didn't realize I'd appreciate a bloated, farting Gary Oldman as much as I do.

i think once upon a time in hollywood worked much better in the theater than at home

I forgot to stop in here to mention that my gf was watching Obliterated on Netflix and I was half-watching her watch Obliterated on Netflix and...well, just maybe don't watch Obliterated on Netflix. It looks stupid and bad, which I realize is probably a sufficient deterrent for many people, but it's just epically stupid and bad. Unless you are really into the kind of tryhard edgelordy dark humor bullshit featured in like GTA cutscenes, in which case...have a ball, I guess? She stopped watching very abruptly when they got around to an excruciating torture scene (shot in lurid, close-up detail) the likes of which I genuinely have never seen depicted in filmed entertainment before. I think she was already half out the door when they showed someone washing C. Thomas Howell's shit-covered ass in a public fountain but the torture was the last nail in the, uh, coffin. And if you're a Cobra Kai fan, don't be fooled by the fact that this is from the same people. This ain't no Cobra Kai. I can only imagine the number of horrified parents who are discovering that fact the hard way.

even i stopped watching Obliterated and i think its documented pretty thoroughly that i will watch anything.

sometimes something just looks like it was made my porn people. not funny and "over the top" in a not funny or interesting way.

(my tradition of ignoring tarantino began with Django. which means i have ignored 3 movies. his whole thing just makes me cringe now. and i can't watch dicaprio in anything ever again. him or johnny depp. or matt damon. brad pitt is a case by case kinda thing. but i can live without him. they all seem like 90s relics now. like they live in some alternate tarantino world of stardom that is just lame now and sad.)

I haven’t watched a second of Obliterated and didn’t know any of the above, but based on the trailer/premise it seemed like it should’ve been a movie and not a whole series. I mean, eventually people sober up.

"made by porn people" is a good way to describe a lot of stuff that's out there now, just absolutely vacant minded infantilizing bullshit which is probably somehow contributing to a form of cultural shit life syndrome. Even when they're supposed to be good, idk.

The first 15 of Obliterated is okay action-trash but then it got so stupid and repetitive I gave up with 10 minutes left.

the difference now too is that action-trash used to be its own genre left alone by respectable people but now helen mirren makes action-trash. everyone does. because you gotta make the donuts. i guess i never thought i'd see a time when every major and not so major star was so all in on guns galore. you would think there would have been some sort of backlash over it but then i remember where i live. i blame tarantino.

"This ain't no Cobra Kai. I can only imagine the number of horrified parents who are discovering that fact the hard way."\

i still feel bad for the hypothetical little kid who decides to watch Daredevil on Netflix. that show is so mean and gruesome. so many comic book sneak attacks on netflix. i do miss when funny books were for the tots. i can't blame tarantino for that though i want to. frank miller will have to do. the Sin City movie some sort of bleak benchmark for future dark marvels. so gross.

aging film guy rant --

i think the John Wick films wiped me out as far as action trash goes, v good series for what it set out to do, i liked so much about the films, but the returns were diminishing and i wasn't left feeling much of anything. and the various knockoffs do so much less. I know those films have a "plot" but they're exhaustingly thin. McTiernan, George Miller, Cameron, those guys know what's up -- smart filmmakers who aren't gleefully reveling in the trashiness of action but just simply making these great films.

i think a lot of these action trash movies are equally as bad as Marvel when it comes to co-opting the time of great actors who just don't belong in the genre, who feel like they're brought in to class up the proceedings and not get down in the muck.

that's why you can't top something like Hard Target, you've got a ridiculous JCVD, and a fully committed Lance Henriksen/Arnold Vosloo combo. showing my age here obv.

Prestige Redbox Action

still plenty of good indian and asian action trash. Song of the Bandits was fun on Netflix! and bloody and had lots of guns but it had more on its mind than that. Bloodhounds was good too and it had mobsters and blood and and all that but also a little...heart? funny moments? i liked it. when in doubt, go Korean.

I usually go for Indonesian movies before Korean ones. I have an actual blu-ray of BuyBust on the way to me, which is an incredible movie if you've never seen it. It's a drug raid/siege movie but the thing that makes it amazing is that the horrifying slum the soldiers and drug dealers are rampaging and mass-murdering through is a giant set that they built! It's the Hard To Be A God of ultraviolent Asian action trash.

(and it should be said that there is a lot of good horror out there from around the world that is exciting and insane and imaginative and bloody and it is not john wick and you don't need movie stars to make good horror. did you guys see When Evil Lurks? from Argentina? ahhhhhhhhhh!!!! that movie is nuts. and does not resemble mundane netflix gristle in any way.)

i own an actual blu-ray of Buybust. i'm not some amateur you know....

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the level at which action cinema from SK has operated at for a long time is really impressive. obv HK and Indonesia have vibrant industries too, though for the former we're past the glory days, when every VHS I'd blind-buy at a shop in Chinatown was at the very least interesting, and definitely not boring.

when i introduced my son to HK films through Drunken Master 2 (the original version, not the m1ramax edit), he was amazed. he keeps talking about it.

I even remember where i got my copy of Buybust. Job Lot in Greenwich, New York outside of Saratoga. I got pizza next door. Not the worst upstate pizza in the world. Not the best.

I would very much bookmark a thread devoted to ultra-violent crime shows and movies on streaming services. I've been watching, and loving, Ganglands. I also really enjoyed Believer and am getting ready to watch the sequel. Anyway, really enjoying the recommendations here.

I think that's a good idea:

Violence Is A Universal Language: International Action Trash On Streaming Services

I have been nodding off momentarily during Mrs. Davis (which is not a criticism of the show, my sleep schedule is just fucked lately) and I think it's actually been the right way to watch this one - kind of like watching TV after eating an edible.

Mrs Davis was a delight

Eh. It was all right for 2.5 episodes and then somehow became absolutely unbearable even though the tone was mostly consistent and there weren’t any wild plot revelations at that point.

yeah same for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGoXyRPQOM

I have to say I'm not loving some of the line readings.

For those of us who can't really handle ultraviolence but still like to dabble in a bit of the old punchy kicky, The Brothers Sun is a good time. It's very competently made, basic American telly with some fun martial arts fight scenes thrown in. Jokes are good, characters are likeable.

I watched the first ep of Masters Of The Air on Apple+ (Spielberg/Hanks/WW2 series abt airforce pilots)

It’s a lot cleaner-looking than Band of Brothers & some of the line readings are bit clunky, but jesus the combat sequences are really good, i’m def in for this one

i really like Austin Butler & Barry Keoghan so far (also Cary Fukunaga directing = looks fkn great)

recommend if you are at all WW2-pilled
if not then this is is just dudes in planes please don’t @ me

Sold obv

:D

Masters Of The Air is seriously my shit presumably, but it's down the queue. I'm back on Gyeongseong Creature after taking a break. It's great horror, but rough going - the main plot of the show - a Unit 731 operation in occupied Seoul manifests an unstoppable, shoggoth-like Something - doesn't hold back on portraying war crimes while the rest of the plot goes on.

Mitigating factors: we've recently watched is Raoul Peck's Exterminate All The Brutes (legit must watch) and Kieślowski's Dekalog (first rewatch since the 90s). Both brilliantly great, but heavy going.

Also, Slow Horses has become total comfort food programming.