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Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:47 pm

I grew up in Chicago with those Bulls teams and am therefore biased, but it is an amazing documentary.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:34 pm

We watched Over the Moon this weekend, which is one of the Oscar Nominated movies this year. The beginning and the end were the best, with it feeling quite like a Pixar setup. It kind of gave me an Up and Coco vibe, but it's when the girl actually gets to the moon where I feel things fall apart. You can tell it's primarily designed as a children's movie because from then on it's full of fantastical action sequences full of neon colors, and I almost lost interest then. There's even a castle that has an almost exact profile to Disney's castle, which made me wonder how they could get away with that. Kind of made me wonder if it was originally was intended to be distributed by Disney. Ultimately we found it kind of disappointing.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:03 pm

Rumpy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:34 pm We watched Over the Moon this weekend, which is one of the Oscar Nominated movies this year. The beginning and the end were the best, with it feeling quite like a Pixar setup. It kind of gave me an Up and Coco vibe, but it's when the girl actually gets to the moon where I feel things fall apart. You can tell it's primarily designed as a children's movie because from then on it's full of fantastical action sequences full of neon colors, and I almost lost interest then. There's even a castle that has an almost exact profile to Disney's castle, which made me wonder how they could get away with that. Kind of made me wonder if it was originally was intended to be distributed by Disney. Ultimately we found it kind of disappointing.

Strange--we also watched it this weekend, and my impressions mirror yours.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:06 pm

Netflix thread -- we're enjoying Lupin (though you need to put up with either subtitles, dubs, or speaka the French).

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:17 pm

I keep forgetting about Lupin. I really need to give it a go. Subtitles don’t bother me as I pretty much live and breathe foreign films.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:14 pm

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:03 pm
Rumpy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:34 pm We watched Over the Moon this weekend, which is one of the Oscar Nominated movies this year. The beginning and the end were the best, with it feeling quite like a Pixar setup. It kind of gave me an Up and Coco vibe, but it's when the girl actually gets to the moon where I feel things fall apart. You can tell it's primarily designed as a children's movie because from then on it's full of fantastical action sequences full of neon colors, and I almost lost interest then. There's even a castle that has an almost exact profile to Disney's castle, which made me wonder how they could get away with that. Kind of made me wonder if it was originally was intended to be distributed by Disney. Ultimately we found it kind of disappointing.
Strange--we also watched it this weekend, and my impressions mirror yours.

What's so strange about that?

Oh, and another thing: It felt like the beginning and the end, and the middle were made by two entire different teams with different ideals. The beginning showed such promise with it being cute and charming. When she got to the moon, it's like they tonally switched gears and made it as annoying as they could, including the music. When the moon goddess started to sing, I almost wondered if we had mistakenly wandered into a different movie. It was so different to what we were treated with earlier.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:45 pm

We watched The Last Blockbuster and it was frustratingly mediocre. I wanted to like it more than I did, but it was largely annoying due to its amateurish production. It could have been great, but they spent far too much time with nerds and geeks instead of simple ordinary people exploring what it meant for different demographics, and the people they chose to interview weren't all that interesting to begin with. It was also very repetitive. They kept mentioning the same things over and over again and it felt like they were running out of things to say.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Sat Apr 03, 2021 4:54 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:00 pm The Liberator

Deadline

Producers L.C. Crowley and Brandon Barr and former LucasFilm and Industrial Light & Magic VFX creative Greg Jonkajtys have launched a studio to develop projects in Trioscope, a new hybrid animation technology that combines state-of-the-art CGI with live-action performance.

This comes off the back of Netflix’s The Liberator, the first project produced using the technology, which the trio scored with Die Hard writer Jed Stuart, A+E Studios and Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne’s Unique Features.

Trioscope Studios will develop original drama content and adapt third party IP using its proprietary animation technology.
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Trioscope reinvents the way animation is produced; it uses human performances with animated environments to bring photo-real quality to human faces character movement and action to animation.

Trioscope is currently in production on Netflix’s forthcoming World War II animated drama series The Liberator. Written by Jeb Stuart and directed by Jonkajtys and produced by A&E Studios and Unique Features, it is based on Alex Kershaw’s book The Liberator: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey and tells the riveting true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of maverick U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks and his infantry unit as they fought for over 500 days to liberate Europe.

Trioscope has also already partnered with Hulu, Dark Horse Comics, Oni Press and Unique Features on other projects.
I look forward to their remakes of Wizards and The Lord of the Rings.

I saw this today and liked it. It's not Band of Brothers, but it's good.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:51 pm

Tao wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:22 pm Anyone else still watching season 3 of Depress-enchantment? For a quirky animated show with a demon that looks like a cat and an elf named Elfo this show has taken a serious and depressing turn.

Totally. It made me think someone involved with the writing has been dealing with someone with dementia or similar condition.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:18 am

I started watching The Irregulars. It's about a group of teens in Sherlock Holmes' London solving supernatural mysteries. I've seen the first two episodes now and it's... ok? So far it's been pretty CWish, but the 2nd episode was better than the first. And it's clear there is some overarching mystery that will presumably link all the monster-of-the-week episodes. A review from Vox (I think?) said that it started slow but really built into something pretty good by the end, so I'm planning to keep watching.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:47 am

Netflix nabs Sony's featured films:

For theatrically released films, the five-year pact will begin with Sony's 2022 slate, which includes Morbius, Uncharted, Bullet Train and the sequel to the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In the future, it will also cover installments from major Sony franchises like Jumanji and Bad Boys. Sources tell THR that the deal is worth roughly $1 billion to Sony.

Netflix, which has been spending billions to build out a library of its own in anticipation of the launch of studio streaming services, will also have access to a new library of films. The streamer will have the ability to license the rights to select titles from Sony's library, which includes Columbia's nearly century-old catalog as well as other studio labels Tri-Star, Sony Pictures Classics and Screen Gems. Netflix and Sony have a pre-existing output deal for Sony Pictures Animation titles, first inked in 2014.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:14 pm

I just finished The Serpent.
If you want a dizzying display of back and forth timelines, this is the show for you!!
It literally flips thru days, months and years so much that you actually lose track of when the events are taking place.
Funny thing is, it really doesnt matter. You know where and when the story is even without the constant on screen reminders.

It's a good series despite that.

paulbaxter · Post by **paulbaxter** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:33 pm

It's old by today's standards, but I just finished The Get Down and really enjoyed it. Cadillac was without peer in being the most stylish bad guy I've ever seen in anything.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:12 pm

Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is terrible.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:01 pm

As expected.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:57 pm

Netflix showed me a preview of that tonight (as it insists on doing) and I couldn't get it off-screen fast enough. Yuck.

Their algorithm decided to show me that after I had just finished "This is a robbery: the world's biggest art heist." It's a 4-part series on the 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. If you like art, or true crime documentaries, or Boston's culture, or even mob history, you might like this. The crime is still unsolved but the filmmakers weave a pretty strong circumstantial case for who knows what happened to those paintings. I almost stopped after part 2 because it was slow and repetitive of part 1. But the last two installments picked back up and I'm glad I finished it.

This might not appeal to anyone here. If you don't care about any of those subjects then this will bore you to tears. I've long been fascinated with the case and learned a lot from it. I will say that it's a 2-3 hour story at most, padded out to 4 hours. Partly because the pandemic interrupted production, they replay a lot of archival footage over and over and over again.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:24 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:12 pm Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is terrible.

I recently saw an article point out that MM is very good except when her husband is involved as director or producer, and this is that.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:49 am

Holman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:24 pm
stessier wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:12 pm Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is terrible.
I recently saw an article point out that MM is very good except when her husband is involved as director or producer, and this is that.

They thank his mother at the end for not stifling his love of comic books. Maybe he was just reading the really bad ones.

I guess as long as they had fun making it, that's all that matters.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:01 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:57 pm Netflix showed me a preview of that tonight (as it insists on doing) and I couldn't get it off-screen fast enough. Yuck.

Their algorithm decided to show me that after I had just finished "This is a robbery: the world's biggest art heist." It's a 4-part series on the 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. If you like art, or true crime documentaries, or Boston's culture, or even mob history, you might like this. The crime is still unsolved but the filmmakers weave a pretty strong circumstantial case for who knows what happened to those paintings. I almost stopped after part 2 because it was slow and repetitive of part 1. But the last two installments picked back up and I'm glad I finished it.

This might not appeal to anyone here. If you don't care about any of those subjects then this will bore you to tears. I've long been fascinated with the case and learned a lot from it. I will say that it's a 2-3 hour story at most, padded out to 4 hours. Partly because the pandemic interrupted production, they replay a lot of archival footage over and over and over again.

Wife and I just started this and it was nice to see the inside of the Gardner again. We had a great anniversary lunch date there once and would love to go back some time once the current pandemic unpleasantness is done. Along with the art they have a top notch restaurant.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:02 am

stessier wrote:
Holman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:24 pm
stessier wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:12 pm Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is terrible.
I recently saw an article point out that MM is very good except when her husband is involved as director or producer, and this is that.
They thank his mother at the end for not stifling his love of comic books. Maybe he was just reading the really bad ones.

I guess as long as they had fun making it, that's all that matters.

Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew?

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:26 pm

$iljanus wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:01 am
Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:57 pm Netflix showed me a preview of that tonight (as it insists on doing) and I couldn't get it off-screen fast enough. Yuck.

Their algorithm decided to show me that after I had just finished "This is a robbery: the world's biggest art heist." It's a 4-part series on the 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. If you like art, or true crime documentaries, or Boston's culture, or even mob history, you might like this. The crime is still unsolved but the filmmakers weave a pretty strong circumstantial case for who knows what happened to those paintings. I almost stopped after part 2 because it was slow and repetitive of part 1. But the last two installments picked back up and I'm glad I finished it.

This might not appeal to anyone here. If you don't care about any of those subjects then this will bore you to tears. I've long been fascinated with the case and learned a lot from it. I will say that it's a 2-3 hour story at most, padded out to 4 hours. Partly because the pandemic interrupted production, they replay a lot of archival footage over and over and over again.
Wife and I just started this and it was nice to see the inside of the Gardner again. We had a great anniversary lunch date there once and would love to go back some time once the current pandemic unpleasantness is done. Along with the art they have a top notch restaurant.

I haven't been there since the expansion opened.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:15 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:12 pm Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is terrible.

On a scale of Waterworld to 10, what are we looking at?

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:05 pm

I'm sure this must have been covered already, as it's been out for weeks or months already, but "My Octopus Teacher" is worthwhile even if you don't care for nature documentaries. I usually don't, but once it drew me in (which took half an hour) I was fascinated.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:45 pm

Concrete Cowboy

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:03 pm

Stowaway

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:18 pm

Monster

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:25 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:15 pm
stessier wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:12 pm Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is terrible.
On a scale of Waterworld to 10, what are we looking at?

I've never seen Waterworld.

I laughed at exactly one joke in Thunder Force and I felt bad about it because it was basically a fat joke. I don't think it would be a fun hate watch. The sad part is that I think there could have been a good movie in there.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:40 am

Honestly, with a title of “Thunder Force”, I assumed the entire movie was one long, drawn out fat joke.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:46 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:40 am Honestly, with a title of “Thunder Force”, I assumed the entire movie was one long, drawn out fat joke.

I never made that connection and it wasn't how the team name came about. In terms of superhero names, I actually kind of like it. Maybe because I've seen all the episodes of the Thundermans.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:48 am

stessier wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:46 am
Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:40 am Honestly, with a title of “Thunder Force”, I assumed the entire movie was one long, drawn out fat joke.
I never made that connection and it wasn't how the team name came about. In terms of superhero names, I actually kind of like it. Maybe because I've seen all the episodes of the Thundermans.

Was it farting? Is that how the name comes about? That was my other thought.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:49 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:48 am
stessier wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:46 am
Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:40 am Honestly, with a title of “Thunder Force”, I assumed the entire movie was one long, drawn out fat joke.
I never made that connection and it wasn't how the team name came about. In terms of superhero names, I actually kind of like it. Maybe because I've seen all the episodes of the Thundermans.
Was it farting? Is that how the name comes about? That was my other thought.

Nope. Wow, maybe the movie was high comedy.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:02 am

My wife wanted to watch Thunder Force this weekend, so we did. It was . . . decent. The plot wasn't much, but it had some good laughs in it. Granted, I think you have to have a high tolerance for McCarthy doing McCarthy things, as she turns it up to 11 for this movie. (You should also have a high tolerance for Jason Bateman doing Jason Bateman comedy things, although not as intense as McCarthy.) Octavia Spencer is largely reduced to a role as a straight (wo)man, but she helps to keep things grounded so that McCarthy can go nuts.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:07 am

stessier wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:25 am
hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:15 pm
stessier wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:12 pm Thunder Force with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is terrible.
On a scale of Waterworld to 10, what are we looking at?
I've never seen Waterworld.

I've never envied another human being as much as I do right now.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:09 am

I have never, since Silver Spoons, stopped loving Jason Bateman.

I can tolerate just about anything if I can watch him go about his business. Maybe I should give it a look.

I’ve also seen every Thundermans episode , btw.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:14 am

Bateman is always good. If you haven't already seen it, watch The Gift. It used to be on Netflix, but it looks like it's gone now. He's so friggin' great in that though, so it's worth seeking out.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:20 am

Thanks, I will check that out!

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:32 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:09 am I have never, since Silver Spoons, stopped loving Jason Bateman.

I can tolerate just about anything if I can watch him go about his business. Maybe I should give it a look.

I’ve also seen every Thundermans episode , btw.

The Roku Channel has seasons 2 & 3 of Silver Spoons and I watched an episode over the weekend with my 11 year old daughter. In it, Ricky has a sleepover with 3 friends and watches a scary movie about human sized frogs. After the movie, they put frogs in Freddy's sleeping bag to scare him. As they were doing it, I recognized Bateman. I had no idea he was in it!

My daughter liked the episode but thought Bateman was a real jerk.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:04 am

Unagi wrote:I have never, since Silver Spoons, stopped loving Jason Bateman.

I can tolerate just about anything if I can watch him go about his business.

Same. Also check out “Game Night” if you haven’t seen it. A well deserved 85% on RT.

Fantastic, hilarious movie that many on this board would appreciate.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:12 am

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:04 am
Unagi wrote:I have never, since Silver Spoons, stopped loving Jason Bateman.

I can tolerate just about anything if I can watch him go about his business.
Same. Also check out “Game Night” if you haven’t seen it. A well deserved 85% on RT.

Fantastic, hilarious movie that many on this board would appreciate.

+1 - that was really fun.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:19 am

I know I am years behind the curve on this one, but we're finally finishing up Black Mirror, thank the pandemic for slowing down netflix output. Jeezus some of this stuff is dark (yeah, I know it's not Rosy Mirror). They teased me with an episode that actually had a generally positive tone and outcome and then BAM, BAM, two of the darkest, most depressing episodes yet.

I also finally sped through the rest of Love, Death and Robots. The back half wasn't nearly as good as the first half for me.

I'm also halfway through the third season of Castlevania. It's a good bit lighter than I expected, given the source material, but I am finding it completely OK. Not in any way exceptional, but I guess for a show based on a video game franchise, that's an accomplishment.