Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Lexxi]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

"The Sheep Detectives" (95%/96% on rotten tomatoes), very silly, amazing cast, enjoyed it thoroughly. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.

 

[Isabeau]

"The Sheep Detectives" (95%/96% on rotten tomatoes), very silly, amazing cast, enjoyed it thoroughly. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.

I just watched it squeeeeeeee
With all the horrors happening right now, I think it’s exactly what I needed. A murder mystery solved by some sheep detectives.

Did you watch the end credits till the end? You hear a voice say

Spoiler: Baaah

”I still think it was the maid.”

Also, I love Emma Thompson. She’s so good at playing no-nonsense types.
Also, also, I want a little winter lamb…

 

[Free]

Also, also, I want a little winter lamb…

Winter lamb cobbler - Healthy Food Guide

www.healthyfood.com

 

[Isabeau]

Winter lamb cobbler - Healthy Food Guide

www.healthyfood.com

(That actually looks good)

 

[Free]

Move over, Elf, here's the next big Christmas movie.

 

[Noodles]

Nah, sticking with Violent Night.

 

[Free]

Nah, sticking with Violent Night.

A movie released during the Biden administration? Woke...

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Nah, sticking with Violent Night.

Some people say "Die Hard" is their Xmas movie. For me, it's a different Bruce Willis movie:

Spoiler

"12 Monkeys" because it has a scene with a department store still decked out with holiday decorations.

 

[Khamon]

Teh Red movies are my gotos.

 

[Noodles]

Happy Death Day and its sequel Happy Desth Day 2U are both much better than they should be. The second does a fun twist that mixes up the gimmick of the original. They kind of set up a third with a mid credits scene and I hope they get around to doing it.

 

[Free]

I caught a video of Netflix's Willy Wonka game show, and immediately knew it just had to be a shitshow.

Bingo.

Netflix downloads the late Gene Wilder's voice for a Willy Wonka game show

Netflix downloads the late Gene Wilder's voice for a Willy Wonka game show

www.avclub.com

The real centerpiece of the show is Netflix digging up Willy Wonka star Gene Wilder’s vocal cords for the series narrator, giving Wilder’s warmly menacing tones the cadence of a text-to-speech program. While the press release from Netflix doesn’t mention AI, presumably because people aren’t wild about the tech, Deadline reports that Netflix worked with ElevenLabs, which is hard at work recreating Stan Lee’s voice, to develop its simulacrum. The faux Wilder sounds unconvincing and lacks whatever allure the actor brought to the role, e.g., his humanity, but we should note that the streamer did receive the blessing of the Wilder estate.

Knowing the Wilder estate gave the go ahead for this (how much were they paid off for it?) does not make me feel better.

 

[Free]

Maybe I'm just a monster, but I'm already exhausted by all the Minions media hype.

 

[Caete]

 

[Noodles]

Maybe I'm just a monster, but I'm already exhausted by all the Minions media hype.

I have never watched a minions or minion based movie.

 

[Free]

Just finished the 2nd episode of Widow's Bay. Pretty fantastic show so far. Great blend of comedy and horror. The characters feel like they'd be right at home in Fargo. Really enjoying Matthew Rhys' and Kate O'Flynn's performances, along with a lot of the cast.

Reminds me a bit of the show Evil, without the procedural element.

 

[Free]

Finally saw Project Hail Mary.

I found it...fine. I enjoyed it. They did a good job hitting the emotional points I was looking for, and Rocky both as a character and a creation was a delight. But there was a lot of Very Important plot from the book they had to trim or rejigger to make fit the length of a 156 minute film.

This is a movie where I think it helps to have read the book first, to make better sense of the story-compressed montages.

Spoiler

The end with Grace living on Erid worked better than I was expecting it to. I think I believed they'd see it as more of a perfunctory part of the story.

One thing I was a little disappointed by was the look back at Earth, with Eva Stratt reading Grace's message, and the shot of one of the Beatles opened up. This is not in the book, which had Rocky tell Grace that Erid scientists had detected the Sun's luminosity was increasing. That's all we need to know the Beatles had made it to Earth. Instead, they believe movie goers are idiots and need it spelled out for us.

 

[Isabeau]

Someone I know hated it and walked out of the theatre halfway through, something he never does. I was so looking forward to see it, but after he described the over the top bumbling, idk, I’m almost scared to watch and be disappointed. Maybe not a bad thing that I’m now expecting it to be bad, since there was so much hype when it came out. Now I’ll maybe be pleasantly surprised instead.

 

[Isabeau]

I didn’t read the book.

 

[Free]

Someone I know hated it and walked out of the theatre halfway through, something he never does.

I think I can see why. I'm not sure I can quite describe the storytelling methodology involved, but I might call it "jiggery-pokery". More for the feeling of that term than the actual meaning behind it. (Maybe I mean more like jittery-pokingly. Which isn't really a term, so I dunno...) But if you can get into it, it should work for you (whether you know the book or not). If you can't...

EDIT: Honestly, just focus on Rocky, and you'll love it.