What are we watching now?

[JiveTurkey]

I watched two episodes of Adolescence on Netflix on Monday.
Not sure if I’m going to watch the two remaining episodes ?
It’s very good but thought provoking and harrowing to watch.

I wondered about this one. Stephen Graham is awesome and we love British police procedurals. 4 episodes is a quick watch too

 

[Dave Lewis]

I wondered about this one. Stephen Graham is awesome and we love British police procedurals. 4 episodes is a quick watch too

Steven’s wife is also in it.
It will definitely win a few awards .

 

[EOengineer]

If you dig this sort of thing; check out Brightburn. Same kind of vibe.

I was going to recommend this. Really enjoyed this movie. The “NOPE” scene in the truck had me laughing so hard. I think about it whenever I’m mentally noping out of something.

 

[MTB1973]

Finished Dopesick the other night. Really good, but the ending kinda leaves you empty. Very depressing.

 

[EOengineer]

Finished Dopesick the other night. Really good, but the ending kinda leaves you empty. Very depressing.

Fitting for the subject matter.

I really enjoyed this show. While I’m sure they took some liberties, it presents a very compelling argument to why we’re experiencing the opioid epidemic we are, and how many millions of innocent people ended up hooked on opiates because they took what was marketed as a non habit forming drug prescribed by doctors for everyday injuries.

Many of us who grew up in the 90s remember losing friends to oxy. I lost several friends in high school alone in the late 90s, more in college, and several more since then. One was prescribed oxy to help after a car accident. He was dead from an overdose within 2 years. The local town paper treated him a like some delinquent drug addict because he was a drummer in a metal band.

It’s terribly sad and frustrating, particularly when the Sacklers were able to successfully isolate their personal fortunes when the families tried to get recourse recently.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Just watched Saturday Night and Sunday Morning from 1960, because I really felt the need to have Albert Finney look like he's fourteen but sound like he's sixty-five bellowing his lines for an hour and a half at my face. He treated the English language like it was a filthy cigarette to put out in baby's crib in that movie. Great film!

Martin Scorsese said the mirror scene in Taxi Driver was inspired by the mirror scene in this film, so I had to try it. It was such a nihilistic piece, really interesting and cool and totally sociopathic. It felt original.

We had to use subtitles because the Northern English dialect sounded like a foreign language, in the best possible way. Cool directing and cooler acting.

 

[Dave Lewis]

This Brilliant concert on BBC FOUR
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011qkh6


Main content

Watch live

Ian Dury and The Blockheads​

The Old Grey Whistle Test
Anne Nightingale presents a live concert special featuring Ian Dury and The Blockheads at the Dominion Theatre.

1 hour

 

[norminal]

Watched the Season 2 finale of Severance last night, and wow, what a wild ride. I’ll definitely need to rewatch it—there are so many subtle details that are easy to miss. It’s just such a brilliant show. Already hyped for Season 3!

 

[MTB1973]

Watched the Season 2 finale of Severance last night, and wow, what a wild ride. I’ll definitely need to rewatch it—there are so many subtle details that are easy to miss. It’s just such a brilliant show. Already hyped for Season 3!

See you in 3 years….I hope not.

 

[la szum]

Fitting for the subject matter.

I really enjoyed this show. While I’m sure they took some liberties, it presents a very compelling argument to why we’re experiencing the opioid epidemic we are, and how many millions of innocent people ended up hooked on opiates because they took what was marketed as a non habit forming drug prescribed by doctors for everyday injuries.

Many of us who grew up in the 90s remember losing friends to oxy. I lost several friends in high school alone in the late 90s, more in college, and several more since then. One was prescribed oxy to help after a car accident. He was dead from an overdose within 2 years. The local town paper treated him a like some delinquent drug addict because he was a drummer in a metal band.

It’s terribly sad and frustrating, particularly when the Sacklers were able to successfully isolate their personal fortunes when the families tried to get recourse recently.

Butal!

I sat on the Jury of a Murder Trial in the County I live in. A Nephew got addicted to Oxy, and killed his Uncle
who came home while the Nephew was in his house searching for Pills. Shot him with an Handgun
the Nephew stole from another house he broke into a few weeks earlier looking... again... for Pills.

 

[State of Epicicity]

We watched Awakenings from 1990. God, it's one of the brutal concepts ever; the fact that this is based on a true story is unbelievable. Robin Williams is just the most nuanced and wonderful actor; I can't believe how beautiful his performances were in general. What a fucking loss.

 

[JiveTurkey]

We watched Awakenings from 1990. God, it's one of the brutal concepts ever; the fact that this is based on a true story is unbelievable. Robin Williams is just the most nuanced and wonderful actor; I can't believe how beautiful his performances were in general. What a fucking loss.

One of my favorite movies of all time. Multiple onion sandwiches on this one

 

[State of Epicicity]

Last night we watched Ed Wood from 1994. I really do like Johnny Depp's acting in general; I feel like, in the films I've seen, he's mostly a worker. Here you can see him working hard even when lazy models like Patricia Arquette are giving nothing in return. Bill Murray is hilarious, and Tim Burton's directing is really the funniest thing. Of course Martin Landau is off the charts in how world class his performance is. We'll have to watch Plan 9 from Outer Space next. I saw it decades ago, but I barely remember.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Last night we watched Ed Wood from 1994. I really do like Johnny Depp's acting in general; I feel like, in the films I've seen, he's mostly a worker. Here you can see him working hard even when lazy models like Patricia Arquette are giving nothing in return. Bill Murray is hilarious, and Tim Burton's directing is really the funniest thing. Of course Martin Landau is off the charts in how world class his performance is. We'll have to watch Plan 9 from Outer Space next. I saw it decades ago, but I barely remember.

There's a reason why Chuck Russell was so hard on Patricia during the making of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Her style is basically giving just about nothing.

 

[norminal]

There's a reason why Chuck Russell was so hard on Patricia during the making of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Her style is basically giving just about nothing.

I don’t know about her older work, but Patricia absolutely killed it in Severance.

 

[JiveTurkey]

True Romance = lifetime pass, no matter how shitty she actually is.

 

[State of Epicicity]

There's a reason why Chuck Russell was so hard on Patricia during the making of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Her style is basically giving just about nothing.

Oh I didn't know that. Power to Russell. I think she's just inherently a shitty actor.

 

[State of Epicicity]

True Romance = lifetime pass, no matter how shitty she actually is.

It's funny you brought that up, because I was actually pretty pissed off about how she just ruined any parts of scenes she was in in Ed Wood, but that the one exception I know of for her is True Romance. I was thinking about the fight scene between her and James Gandolfini, where she loses her mind, how she became a worker for one movie, then slacked off in everything else I've seen.

I love a few films she's been in, including Lost Highway, and she's a shitty actor in that too. It's great that she's smoking hot as she undresses in that movie, but it would be way better if she just decided to build a character and be in the moment like what trained actors do, rather than just relying on being smoking hot.

 

[laxu]

Finished season 2 of Severance. I liked the first season more, I felt it built up on the mystery a lot better. Still looking forward to season 3, hopefully it comes sooner rather than later.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Oh I didn't know that. Power to Russell. I think she's just inherently a shitty actor.

In context, he was kind of a difficult director to work with and apparently the film (Dream Warriors) was very tense. At one point, a producer asks him what he thinks being a director is. Apparently, his answer was basically being a survivor. Even Robert Englund was on edge.