Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Argent Stonecutter]

Now every time I watch Trek I'm going to be getting OCD vibes about the walls.

 

[Noodles]

Now every time I watch Trek I'm going to be getting OCD vibes about the walls.

I read somewhere once that the tubes on the walls are marked with DNGN which stood for "Does Nothing Goes Nowhere" and I think about it every time there are tubes and conduits in Star Trek.

 

[Isabeau]

I just watched the first episode of Deadloch, an Australian murder mystery/dark comedy series on Prime. Anyone watching this?

If you haven’t heard of it, I suggest going into it blind. Almost the entire main cast is made up of women . Some of the characters are way over the top at first, but I read that they tone it down after the second episode. I love the protagonist (senior sergeant) who not only has to deal with this murder(s), but also her annoying wife (girlfriend?) who’s the town veterinarian, and a crew of junior officers, and now an obnoxious detective from the city who’s coming in to take over the case (also a woman). The town mayor is, you guessed it, a woman.

What else… It’s set in a small town in Tasmania, there are aboriginal references, a dead body is found on the shore (not a spoiler), there’s a cute dog, and the accent is a bit thick and they’re talking quickly so you may need subtitles at times to catch every down under expression.

 

[Isabeau]

If you don’t like going into stuff blind,

‘Deadloch’ is the Feminist Crime Parody You Didn’t Know You Needed

This delightful Australian import, originally called ‘Funny Broadchurch,’ starts off as a spoof before blooming into an addictive, hilarious thriller that stands on its own.

www.vanityfair.com

 

[Free]

Edgar Wright is executive producer on it, and it seems to include the entire original cast as voice actors. Interesting.

 

[Noodles]

I am in lesbians with it.

 

[Free]

Looks like a crazy ride.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Edgar Wright is executive producer on it, and it seems to include the entire original cast as voice actors. Interesting.

Live-action adaptations of anime seem universally cursed. I suppose someone is banking on doing the opposite will be work out better?

I'm skeptical. But I'll give it a try anyway.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Looks like a crazy ride.

Cute Kittybirb.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Looks like a crazy ride.

It looks marginally better than the three day cut of Justice League.

 

[Noodles]

Live-action adaptations of anime seem universally cursed. I suppose someone is banking on doing the opposite will be work out better?

I'm skeptical. But I'll give it a try anyway.

There is soooo much in the books not in the movie and this trailer seems to be leaning on that. The style is spot on as well.

This whole franchaise may be my favorite, the movie and books are great. I think I am a bit biased because as far as I can tell they are all "20 something in a story set in the early 2000s.". Which is me. Or, was me. It just, hits all those nostalgic feels.

 

[Free]

Slotherhouse: is a horror film about a killer sloth secretly a masterpiece?

On paper, Slotherhouse (that’s right, it’s a pun on the word “slaughterhouse”, but with sloths) has The Asylum written all over it. It has the potential to be a cheaply made, lowest common denominator Sharknadoalike; a great title and an outrageous premise that, in reality, amounts to a stunt-cast non-actor emoting in a single location for an hour to fill the gap between the three VFX shots you already saw in the trailer. Even if you actively enjoy the idea of watching a sloth murder a bunch of people, Slotherhouse still won’t be something worth raising your expectations for.

Reader, raise your expectations. Slotherhouse is a masterpiece. The film is so good, so funny and so completely well-realised that it has received a stateside theatrical release. There’s no word on a UK release date yet, but it deserves to be seen on the biggest screen available.

 

[Noodles]

I mean, Cocaine Bear was more amusing than expected. Why not Sloths.

 

[Arilynn]

I finally saw CODA. I really wanted to see it when it first came out, and I can’t remember why I didn’t. Then I read a lot of grumbling about it, and it fell off my radar. After all this time, I was hopeful, but, wow, did I hate most of it. That it has been embraced by people like those in Deaf West, which I don’t understand unless they change so much of it.

It kills me that the films generally seen as the most D/deaf friendly are CODA and Children of a Lesser God Even the Title is Totally Demeaning. What a sad, bullshit-filled picture does that paint?

 

[Free]

Looks like an interesting return to Godzilla's roots as nuclear holocaust metaphor.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I finally saw CODA. I really wanted to see it when it first came out, and I can’t remember why I didn’t. Then I read a lot of grumbling about it, and it fell off my radar. After all this time, I was hopeful, but, wow, did I hate most of it.

Ah yes, that sweet spot for minorities: someone finally makes a film that acknowledges we exist, but the film is awful.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

CODA acknowledges that Deaf people exist. Instead of focusing on deaf people can do anything - except hear. It focuses on the terrible "burden" placed on their hearing children.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Did you all see that Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30-life?

 

[Free]

Did you all see that Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30-life?

Nope. But not unexpected.

 

[Noodles]

Did you all see that Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30-life?

It got me thinking a bit.

Could say, his fellow 70s show cast members sue someone for damages? Because it feels like his bad rep may affect anybsort of residuals as people avoid the show.

Same for well, lots of other shows. Like say, Roseanne.