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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.

ep 2 of Masters of the Air was even better, seriously the logistics of these bomber squadrons is so crazy, dudes mustve had nerves of steel

I have an allergy to Austin Butler. Some of the action scenes look good but I just can’t find time for a show with him as the lead.

;_;

xposts Where is Dekalog currently streaming?

Just learned about this movie (the director’s pissed it’ll be a Prime exclusive). I’m pissed at the very idea of remaking a cult classic!: https://deadline.com/2024/01/road-house-movie-doug-liman-boycott-sxsw-premiere-amazon-1235803736/

I saw the poster that was posted in the Jake Gyllenhaal thread the other day and didn't even twig it was a remake of the Swayze film

i would watch the nu-Roadhouse if it was directed by that guy who directed Brawl In Cell Block 99. doug liman probably hasn't made a good movie since bourne identity. or go. or swingers starring Brawl In Cell Block 99 star Vince Vaughn.

A Go remake with Jakey G in the Katie Holmes roll, that I would watch.

Edge Of Tomorrow (aka "Let's Kill Tom Cruise Again!") was very good. I don't think Liman's done anything interesting since then, though.

Yeah the biggest films he's made since then are american made, which is that Tom Cruise drug flick which looked pretty terrible, and the Tom Holland / Daisy Ridley flick chaos walking which looked even worse.

The declines of '90s film directors would be a good thread topic.

American Made was a snooze. Didn't even realize it was Liman

There are definitely a lot of great genre directors who stopped getting work or who simply chose shit projects. Having verhoeven, mctiernan, andrew davis, etc at the helm of so many great films back then, we didn't know how good we had it. Then we wind up with brett ratner and bryan singer. Signs of civilization's decline.

everyone went to television. for money. or lots of people did anyway. when i watch streaming shows i'm amazed at how many past Sundance darlings i see in the credits.

McTiernan went to jail too.

I liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith when I saw it in the theater but I've never gotten around to watching it again to see if it's actually good.

i mean look at Andrew Davis, these films are all great -- Code of Silence, Above the Law, The Package, Under Siege, The Fugitive. and of course to cash in on his mega-success, he makes...Steal Big, Steal Little. a comedy movie starring Andy Garcia as twins. might as well have made an Ernest film.

I liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith when I saw it in the theater but I've never gotten around to watching it again to see if it's actually good.

I watched it less than a year ago. It's not good.

i would watch the nu-Roadhouse if it was directed by that guy who directed Brawl In Cell Block 99.

Kind of apropos, given this comment on the "Roadhouse" thread:

Mystified by this sudden convergence of reactionary politics and Hollywood action movies

Wonder what S. Craig Zahler has been up to. He hasn't made a new movie since "Dragged Across Concrete," which came out in 2018. He writes books and graphic novels too, right?

as far as i know he has only done the three movies. bone, brawl, and dragged. and he wrote a nazi puppet master movie starring udo kier.

i liked all three of those movies though i grit my teeth to watch a new mel gibson movie. i only watched it because i liked brawl so much.

I feel like I read somewhere that he's got a new one coming. But his movies don't make any money, so I wonder where he got the funding. I hope not from Ben Shapiro.

Could imagine Zahler doing TV in the vein of the Sons of Anarchy guy.

Also, Slow Horses has become total comfort food programming.

Edge of Tomorrow is a masterpiece.

Edging of Tomorrow, however, is a terrible porn parody and I regret having participated in its production.

Masters of the Air looked way better than the impression I got from the trailer. It’s a little too smooth (missing the film grain of Band of Brothers) but the air CGI wasn’t distracting.

I’ve started CRIMINAL RECORD, a new show on AppleTV. About a cop who learns of a possible wrongful conviction of a murderer from 10 years back, and butts heads with the original cop who got the conviction. 1st ep was pretty good.

I just started the morning show and I just don't know. I'm finding it corny. so many amazing elements that could add up to something incredible. really don't know if I'll make it past the first two episodes.

> I'm finding it corny. so many amazing elements that could add up to something incredible

That’s the Apple TV goal, I think.

morning show leans corny at times but over the series i found that it corrected itself when it counts, if that makes sense

interesting, I did feel that way about certain moments so good to know

The Roadhouse film also features absolute racist POS C0n0r McGreg0r in some capacity, so it can absolutely get fucked.

Somewhat aptly, Mr & Mrs Smith is also getting another reboot but Hiro Murai and Donald Glover are involved so I have higher hopes for that xps

I completely missed watching Justified when it was first on. Finished season 1 on Hulu - damn what a good show. How many seasons are worth watching?

xposts Where is Dekalog currently streaming?

It's not. Criterion BluRay or piracy are your choices.

xpost the 5th season is skippable, i haven't seen the revival

i'd watch season 2 to 4, read wikipedia for 5, then 6. 2 is the highlight, not to knock the other seasons, which are very enjoyable (except for 5)

^thanks

Julien Leclercq (THE CREW, EARTH & BLOOD, SENTINELLE, GANGLANDS) has directed a remake of THE WAGES OF FEAR that'll be on Netflix at the end of March. Shame he couldn't find a role for Sami Bouajila, but I'll still watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk1y5KB6JPk

I got the notification in my account about the Prime price bump for ad-free taking effect today. Anyone know how bad/intrusive the imposed 'limited commercial interruptions' are yet?

Hopefully they're using the same algorithm as YouTube and will just drop an ad right in the middle of a line of dialoHELLO FRESH IS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MEAL KIT, AND FOR A LIMITED TIME NEW MEMBERS CAN GET 18 FREE MEALS! SIGN UP TODAY!gue because I really really vibe with that.

Outside of movies I'm abandoning paying extra for ad-free. They've gotten a lot less annoying since the early days of Hulu when it would be the same scammy ad over and over.

T-Mobile started offering free Hulu w/ ads, I'll save $12 a month or whatever and see a few ads during FX originals, whatever.

I got the notification in my account about the Prime price bump for ad-free taking effect today. Anyone know how bad/intrusive the imposed 'limited commercial interruptions' are yet?

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Funny, I've been binging the final season of Mrs Maisel all weekend and suddenly, today, a third of the way into the final episode, a commercial popped up. I will say it was only one commercial and it only came on once. I'm sure the quantity and frequency will increase, but today it was tolerable.

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Eh, I survived watching commercial television in the 1970s and I suspect I can survive this. Maybe we just lucked out for a while, and can feel lucky that we experienced a brief golden age.

Just kidding. It all sucks and we are doomed

cable ads are the worst. my dad watches tons of msnbc and cnn and the endless insurance/children's hospital/vitamins/mesothelioma ads are very long and horrible. every 10 minutes or so!

i happily pay for ad-free hulu and youtube.

After Elvis T talked about Gyeongseong Creature I've burned through it pretty quickly and enjoyed it a lot, but fuck me it's too long - especially the first section of 7 which could easily have wrapped up in 3.

It reminds me of a particularly unsatisfactory RPG adventure where the narrative never moves forward and the tricks you would use as a GM to make sure it does are pretty much exactly what the director does - a character literally trips over a nitrogen cylinder because he hasn't put together that he keeps seeing empty and discarded cylinders everywhere and they have a key part to play. Also it feels like there are repeated runs round the same cycles (up and down the same corridor or repeated encounters with the same NPC) because the characters either don't roll successfully to have the encounter when they're in the location or ask completely the wrong questions and you can't railroad them to the right one so you have to run it again.

Also the monster totally feels like one of those instances where the characters accidentally encounter it far too early in the plot, when they lack either an artefact or some information to defeat it, so you have to make up on the hoof some miraculous way for them to escape.

The second block of three was far better paced but could still have shed an episode.

That said, am I up for S2 in the present day? Certainly am.

I know what you're saying, Puffin, but we weren't paying subscription fees for commercial TV

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