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Kneecap. About how the Irish language hip-hop act from Belfast came to be.

The movie itself is semi in Irish and part of the movie revolves around getting Irish recognised as an official language in the UK along with Scottish and Welsh Gaelige.

I got a chuckle at the irony of this winning Best British Film at recent awards.
 
State of Epicicity said:
We just finished Better Call Saul. To me much of it was like a great film, and we kept talking about how much Vince Gilligan was shooting in Michael Mann style, and using similar music too. My wife and I both feel like Mann stopped having heart and soul in his work at a certain point, but Gilligan really took the torch from him. It was incredible.

A lot of the ways it went shocked me, and I thought it was interesting how I couldn't see where stuff ended up. I was also surprised by the quality of the acting for so many of the actors.

I did like this more than Breaking Bad, because the characters were just better overall, more finely drawn, more character and personality. They felt more real. Breaking Bad was great, but many of the women's characters were less dimensional than the men, and it was like half the characters' potential was wasted. I felt like that was not the case in Better Call Saul. Here you had a greater sense of everyone in the show, and there was just more characterization in a great way. It meant that when something happened, it had greater impact.

Very cool, and I'm glad I saw it.
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I think something that helped BCS with the more detailed view of the characters was the lack of crazy/unrealistic things happening in it. The arcing plot of a science teacher who creates a meth empire, while the story has some roots in an actual situation that occurred, is a bit of a stretch and there’s maybe 10 people in the US that can say “Ah, I met someone like that before…” as where BCS is a far more relatable show.
 
DrewJD82 said:
I think something that helped BCS with the more detailed view of the characters was the lack of crazy/unrealistic things happening in it. The arcing plot of a science teacher who creates a meth empire, while the story has some roots in an actual situation that occurred, is a bit of a stretch and there’s maybe 10 people in the US that can say “Ah, I met someone like that before…” as where BCS is a far more relatable show.
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I can see how that can work for people. Personally, I like crazy, sketchy shows that are so far from reality, that they could possibly be true. If I want real shit, me and the wifey watch YT real crime interrogation shows - look up Red Tree Crime, there are some sick people walking around in our society.
 
JiveTurkey said:
We started this a ways back. I liked the first episode or two but it was a little too 'aloof' to pull us in? That plus my extreme LOATHING of Apple TV ("Hey what's included on this "subscription" that we don't have to pay additional money to watch? Oh nothing? Cool cool cool" :wat:wat:wat) made it very easy to not circle back to. I realize there are other ways and venues to watch it in but I have this weird thing where I want to watch it at the source. Might have to take another look down the road :unsure:

We've been watching old people shows. The new Matlock and Elsbeth :whistle::wat:roflThey're both actually pretty darn good. If you're old :bag
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100 Years of Solitude. Apparently based on a book of the same name but I've never heard of it.

Colombian Netflix show about a guy looking for gold and fortune. The description says sonething about magic realism but I haven't seen it yet.

Pretty intriguing so far. Not sure where it's going.
 
Byrdman said:
I can see how that can work for people. Personally, I like crazy, sketchy shows that are so far from reality, that they could possibly be true. If I want real shit, me and the wifey watch YT real crime interrogation shows - look up Red Tree Crime, there are some sick people walking around in our society.
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Hahahah I’m on a true crime break right now, which just means that I only watch about an hour of true crime stuff per day, opposed to the nonstop viewing I was doing earlier this year. It feeds into my cynicism way too much.

Lost is my favorite show of all time and it’s specifically because of the fantasy aspects of it, so I get ya there.
 
Jynx said:
100 Years of Solitude. Apparently based on a book of the same name but I've never heard of it.

Colombian Netflix show about a guy looking for gold and fortune. The description says sonething about magic realism but I haven't seen it yet.

Pretty intriguing so far. Not sure where it's going.
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The book is amazing. Have not watched the show yet though.
 
Los-D said:
The book is amazing. Have not watched the show yet though.
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Out of interested I looked to see what they were saying on Reddit and they all seem to agree it is the best adaptation they could've done.
 
I've been on a Wallace and Gromit marathon tonight. In prep for the new movies on BBC tomorrow.

Second marathon this week. I watched all of LOTR yesterday.
 
We watched Raising Arizona last night, and I loved it. It was maybe my third time seeing it. It's strangely directed, because parts of it really feel like the live action version of a Warner Brothers cartoon. I think the directing and acting are incredible across the board, and this is where Nicholas Cage really shines, in my opinion, just hilarious from head to toe. It was also interesting to me that he's very similar in Wild At Heart, but without the humor.
 
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