What are we watching now?

[spawnofthesith]

That's why I have such a love/hate relationship with most Media, and the TV, in general. All the time lost
spent looking for something inspiring or fun to watch, and then the realization that there is actually
so very little of it.

Then I beat myself up for trying, and think of the multiplicity of ways the time could have been better spent.
But I can't get that time back.

Only to forget all of that and do it all again.





I may end up just doing Youtube at some point. For some reason I can always find something cool on there.

My FB algorithm for reels is majority shit but at the same time I get a lot of long form geography and exotic food content that makes up for the political vitriol (mostly stuff from “not my side” so I’m certainly not in an echo chamber lol). Often worth scrolling through the shit to get the good bits

 

[JiveTurkey]

My FB algorithm for reels is majority shit

Not to don the tinfoil hat but I swear we are all purposely getting forced into mass ADHD. We watched a show over the weekend (Deadloch) Police procedural from down under. It took a bit to enjoy it but we ended up having some good laughs. The thing I definitely noticed was every character was moving 1000 miles an hour, yelling and doing nonsensical things out of nowhere. It was serious TRIGGERING. I've seen a bunch of other series and shorter form stuff doing variations on this same thing. The Bear S2(?) christmas dinner episode is a prime example. Good lord; quit yelling at the viewer

 

[bucephalus]

The Bear S2(?) christmas dinner episode is a prime example. Good lord; quit yelling at the viewer

Shit, yeah that was so stressful to watch i had to take a break from it for a couple weeks.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Shit, yeah that was so stressful to watch i had to take a break from it for a couple weeks.

I gave up on the show after that. WAYYYYYY too much anxiety triggering for me. JLC was playing a variation in that Scarpetta show with Nicole Kidman and it was just shy of being the same thing there, too.

 

[bucephalus]

I gave up on the show after that. WAYYYYYY too much anxiety triggering for me. JLC was playing a variation in that Scarpetta show with Nicole Kidman and it was just shy of being the same thing there, too.

She seems to only play those roles lately.

 

[JiveTurkey]

She seems to only play those roles lately.

Do what you're good at but lord; I'm getting a panic attack!

Been catching The Pitt each week. Not sure why a hospital procedure soap opera is so eternally appealing but it is.

 

[la szum]

Never seen this before. Just on a Waylon kick this week.

Look at the whole backline of Mesa Boogie Wickered up Fenders.
That's a shit-tone of clean headroom! :lol

I wonder if Mesa did those. Either way pretty cool!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Never seen this before. Just on a Waylon kick this week.

Look at the whole backline of Mesa Boogie Wickered up Fenders.
That's a shit-tone of clean headroom! :lol

I wonder if Mesa did those. Either way pretty cool!

The first cassette I played on my new to me stereo was the title track to the Highwaymen album

 

[JiveTurkey]

Started watching a show on HBO (Duster). Crime series starring long haired Lost dude who isn't in much of anything. Keith David is in it as well. So far; really good throwback to the 70s. Digging it.

 

[mbenigni]

I actually like the first one just a bit more? It's over the top but a little more 'subtle' comparatively. If there is a such a thing in the action movie realm

I watched the first Sisu last week. It was also great. Gun to my head, I'd probably say I liked the second one a bit more, but I think 90% of this is simply down to my having seen it first; it set the tone for what my brain thought these movies "should be". Part of what I fell in love with in the second movie is the fact there's all of about 500ms of dialog, and yet it's still so engaging. The original is closer to "conventional" amounts of action movie dialog and this isn't really it's strongest suit? (A couple of monologues felt a bit forced.) They were also much more explicit with the whole immortal thing in the first movie, whereas in the second (if you hadn't seen the first), it was just kind of a cool implication.

But I'm working hard to draw a distinction here. They're both a blast. (And to be fair: I watched the original on Prime Video with ugh commercial breaks, so that didn't help.)

I'd also watched Nobody 2 a couple of weeks ago, then watched the original right after Sisu. Funny watching two action/ revenge franchises backward and right on top of one another like that. (I liked the first Nobody much more than the second. The whole water park thing in the sequel was a bit too cute, and kind of undermined the tone IMO.)

 

[JiveTurkey]

I feel like a lot of people didn't like Nobody 2. I thought it was a blast!

 

[mbenigni]

I feel like a lot of people didn't like Nobody 2. I thought it was a blast!

I enjoyed it. I liked the build up more than the anticipated payoff. ("I forgot my phone" tension and the subsequent fight scene were brilliant. Blowing up an amusement park, a little too silly.)

 

[JiveTurkey]

I thought the park was just the right amount of silly

 

[mbenigni]

I thought the park was just the right amount of silly

Sometimes I just can't pry the "Film Critic" hat off my fat head LOL.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Sometimes I just can't pry the "Film Critic" hat off my fat head LOL.

Jon Lovitz's greatest role!

 

[mbenigni]