Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Isabeau]

I finally watched Love Actually. I thought I had seen it because it’s always referenced but no, I was confusing it with something else. Anyway, wtaf? Terrible

 

[Free]

Metropolis is a film that stars no one I know.

Gotham is a nickname of New York City.

 

[Free]

I finally watched Love Actually. I thought I had seen it because it’s always referenced but no, I was confusing it with something else. Anyway, wtaf? Terrible

I've never gotten why people like it. There's a few funny bits, but otherwise a lot of storytelling nonsense pretending to be romantic comedy shorts.

 

[Noodles]

I thought Metropolis was Chicago?

If any of them are Chicago, I would think it was Gotham.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I finally watched Love Actually. I thought I had seen it because it’s always referenced but no, I was confusing it with something else. Anyway, wtaf? Terrible

You monster! Wait that's wrong.
Espèce de monstre!

I've never gotten why people like it. There's a few funny bits, but otherwise a lot of storytelling nonsense pretending to be romantic comedy shorts.

You monster!

Personally, I like the film, but I think the porn body doubles bits are the weakest part. Also the age difference between Keira Knightly and Rick Grimes and The Operator bugs me. I think the best bits are Liam Neeson and son, Snape and Trelawny, and Prime Minister Hugh Grant.

 

[Free]

You monster!

I think the best bits are Liam Neeson and son

I do like this part (though how fast can that kid learn to play drums? Sure...). All the other "relationships" either make me cringe at varying levels, or depress me (the "Snape and Trelawny" stuff should be in another movie!).

 

[Isabeau]

I don’t know, snape buys a gold necklace for his potential lover (his secretary no less) and a cd for his wife. The walking dead guy secretly tells his best friend’s new wife he loves her (now she has to lie to her new husband, or break-up their friendship. Middle-aged Prime Minister goes for much younger assistant(?) but only after firing her because he sees her being mauled by the US president. All the fat jokes. Darcy finds his wife (girlfriend?) in bed with his brother (or bf) then falls madly in love with his housekeeper even if they haven’t even had one conversation and asks her to marry him. Liam Neeson talks to his miniature son about having sex with Claudia Schaffer in the boys bedroom…
just goes on and on.

But sure, I’m the monstre.


Emma Thompson was good, though. She always is.

 

[Isabeau]

I watched Becky on New Years. Enjoyed it.
There’s a second one, Becky’s Wrath.
Maybe I’m just in a violent mood ha ha

 

[Free]

Emma Thompson was good, though. She always is.

She's the reason I watched Saving Mr. Banks. Twice. (Come on, a movie that turns Walt Disney into a heartwarming figure? eww...)

 

[Free]

Becky Proves Kevin James Makes a Better Mall Cop Than a Murderous Nazi: Review

On the other hand, Lulu Wilson is becoming a total genre star.

consequence.net

But thanks for the recommendation. I'm up for a Taken revival with a kid in the Liam Neeson role! Or is it more of a Home Alone remake with a girl in the Macaulay Culkin role?

I will say that Lulu Wilson looks like she could be Mackenzie Davis' daughter.

 

[Isabeau]

Kevin James wasn’t actually that bad. I didn’t recognize him till the end.

 

[Free]

I was not planning on a tv binge tonight, but I started in on a 4 episode "limited" series from the BBC playing on Amazon Prime, and got so hooked I had to watch all the way through.

The show is Life After Life, based on a novel by Kate Atkinson. It's not a linearly plotted storyline, it's more of a...well, it's pretty much a British Groundhog Day, the story circling (pun intended!) around an English woman's life(s) and death(s) in the first half of the 20th Century. Ursula Todd is born in 1910, where she ends up dying at birth - strangled by her umbilical as the doctor was delayed by a snow storm. But then she's alive once more, born again (literally) with the doctor making it to her birth this time.

As we watch Ursula grow up, die due to accidents and illnesses and a few times by choice, return to her birth and grow up all over again, no one knows this is going on, though Ursula is aware at an instinctual or unconscious level. Every time through is nearly, though not quite, the same so at first small differences keep Ursula (and others, over time) alive, but as she ages she starts gaining more agency and figuring ways to avoid the circumstances of these deaths. The director John Crowley does a good job keeping the sequences that cover the same ground from feeling too redundant, and just tells the story in a lovely way. The entire cast is near perfect. Thomasin McKenzie from Jojo Rabbit plays Ursula as a teen and adult, and at times blew me away with her performance.

One review called it a weepathon and the last episode definitely kept me watching with tissue box in hand, but the show is not all that sentimental, especially as it deals with some horrible life events, and there's a lot of effective comedic bits and characterizations peppered throughout. I absolutely loved it.

 

[Noodles]

Becky Proves Kevin James Makes a Better Mall Cop Than a Murderous Nazi: Review

On the other hand, Lulu Wilson is becoming a total genre star.

consequence.net

But thanks for the recommendation. I'm up for a Taken revival with a kid in the Liam Neeson role! Or is it more of a Home Alone remake with a girl in the Macaulay Culkin role?

I forget the names, but maybe look into that movie Home Alone basically was a remake of. I hear its also more violent.

I wish I could remeber the name, it will probably randomly come to me later.

 

[Free]

I forget the names, but maybe look into that movie Home Alone basically was a remake of. I hear its also more violent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone

The 1989 French horror thriller film 3615 code Père Noël [3615 code Father Christmas - also titled Deadly Games], which is about a young boy who is home alone with his elderly grandfather and has to fend off a home invader dressed up as Santa Claus, has been noted for its plot similarities to Home Alone. 3615 code Père Noël director René Manzor threatened the producers of Home Alone with legal action on the grounds of plagiarism, alleging that Home Alone was a remake of his film.

 

[Isabeau]

After tossing and turning and tossing and turning, I got up and realized it was only 11pm. I thought I’d gone to bed past midnight wtf
Anyway, I’m eating the last of my Wednesday oreo cookie cereal and watching Hackers on Tubi. I’ve never seen it.

 

[Khamon]

Take a deep breath and tell us what you thought of the movie.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

After tossing and turning and tossing and turning, I got up and realized it was only 11pm. I thought I’d gone to bed past midnight wtf
Anyway, I’m eating the last of my Wednesday oreo cookie cereal and watching Hackers on Tubi. I’ve never seen it.

Hack the Planet!

#!/bin/sh
echo "Contacting the Gibson"
sleep 2;
echo "Probing the Gibson"
sleep 2;
echo "Analyzing the IPsec Firewall Django"
sleep 2;
echo "Synergizing the Paradigmic Crypto Parameters"
sleep 2;
echo "Crosstalk achieved! Handshaking the Kernel!"
sleep 2;
echo "☠Hacking the Gibson☠"

for x in {1..50} ; do
    sleep .1    # do some work here
    printf .
done | pv -pt -i0.2 -s50 -w 80 > /dev/null
echo -e "GIBSON HACKED!\nMESS WITH THE BEST, DIE LIKE THE REST" | toilet -f smblock --filter border:metal -w 70

Also, a beta of Wipeout in the cyber-hangout.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

After tossing and turning and tossing and turning, I got up and realized it was only 11pm. I thought I’d gone to bed past midnight wtf
Anyway, I’m eating the last of my Wednesday oreo cookie cereal and watching Hackers on Tubi. I’ve never seen it.

Iconic! Exactly what high school was like for me, so technically accurate! It's a wonderful documentary!

 

[Puretone]

Wanted to see the reviews of “It Ends With Us” before deciding if I wanted to watch it, and found this instead.

Blake Lively Sues 'It Ends With Us' Co-Star Justin Baldoni for Sexual Harassment

Blake Lively has sued Justin Baldoni, her co-star in 'It Ends With Us,' accusing him of sexual harassment and attempting to "destroy" her reputation.

www.rollingstone.com

The whole thing gets better and better...
for Blake Lively..

The Streisand Effect Is Not a Legal Strategy, Justin Baldoni

*

www.pajiba.com

 

[Isabeau]

Stallone, Gibson, Voight: Meet Trump’s new Hollywood ‘special ambassadors’ - National | Globalnews.ca

'It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood,' said Trump in his announcement.

globalnews.ca