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Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sat Oct 15, 2022 1:01 pm

Speaking of original content, their documentary series on Three Mile Island is gripping stuff.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:24 am

JCC wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:13 am I enjoyed Mr. Harrigan's Phone. A SK novella well suited for adaptation. It's a slow paced chiller drama. It stuck well to the novella as far as I recall. It's not an awesome movie, but I thought it was a good one.

Yeah, I watched this over the weekend and had the same thoughts. Good, not great, and it was very true to the source material.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:04 am

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:28 am

Enola Holmes 2

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:32 am

The Mother

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:36 am

They Cloned Tyrone

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:52 am

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:32 am The Mother

Is this the link you're looking for?

Seriously, we do appreciate you doing this.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 11:03 am

Thanks. There's bound to be an error or two that slips in.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 11:06 am

Issy was programmed to mimic human behavior and there is a variable we can have changed if we find the errors come to often. Frankly, I think it’s at about the right level, mostly perfect - but not enough to get too creepy.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:27 pm

My issue is mostly with Issienet potentially getting the nuclear codes and misinterpreting a BAM.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:36 pm

The Wonder

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:33 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:27 pm My issue is mostly with Issienet potentially getting the nuclear codes and misinterpreting a BAM.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:34 pm

Holy shit, RRR. I'm 1 hour in and already

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 8:40 pm

The movie is insanely over the top. I don’t like Indian films, and I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Marvel and DC would be wise to look at the director.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:21 pm

Couldn't RRResist; I made a dedicated thRRRead.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Oct 22, 2022 11:26 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:24 am
JCC wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:13 am I enjoyed Mr. Harrigan's Phone. A SK novella well suited for adaptation. It's a slow paced chiller drama. It stuck well to the novella as far as I recall. It's not an awesome movie, but I thought it was a good one.
Yeah, I watched this over the weekend and had the same thoughts. Good, not great, and it was very true to the source material.

I watched and enjoyed it as well. But the book and this movie owe quite a bit to the great Richard Matheson’s Long Distance Call, and the equally great Twilight Zone episode Night Call that was adapted from that short story. Man, that scared the crap out of me as a kid.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Oct 23, 2022 3:40 pm

Rumpy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 2:00 pm Man, Kleo is such a wild and weird show. I can't decide if I like it or not. The reveal at the end kind of made me wonder if I should pick it back up if it gets renewed. It's the kind of reveal that can be deflating, rather than exciting.

Spoiler:
It propose that Reagan helped fund the GDR. Like WTF

I just finished watching this and enjoyed it quite a lot. Netflix has commissioned a second season, so I'm looking forward to seeing the further adventures of Kloe and Sven.

Spoiler:

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:46 pm

I guess I just found it a tad too far off the wall for my liking. But I do like the actress.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Oct 23, 2022 10:17 pm

Spoiler:

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:30 pm

I meant the show overall, not just the suitcase

Well, it kind of plays off like a Germoan version of Kingsman, I guess.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:07 am

There's a little Kill Bill mixed in too.

It's stylized and over the top at times, but it works for me.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:20 am

Oh yeah, definitely saw a bit of that in there too.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:53 pm

The Pale Blue Eye

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:57 pm

Max Peck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:07 am There's a little Kill Bill mixed in too.

It's stylized and over the top at times, but it works for me.

Okay, looks like this goes on my watch list after all.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Thu Oct 27, 2022 8:19 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:57 pm
Max Peck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:07 am There's a little Kill Bill mixed in too.

It's stylized and over the top at times, but it works for me.
Okay, looks like this goes on my watch list after all.

We're talking about RRR again, eh?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 27, 2022 9:23 pm

I do love me a little over the top.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Oct 28, 2022 6:32 pm

Just a bump to remind everyone that S6 released today. Still enjoy the hell out of this show. And yeah, NSFW.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:37 pm

I'm ready for a nursing home. I just watched a Taylor Swift documentary.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:07 pm

I watched a documentary on Dexy’s Midnight Runners a few nights ago. After 9pm, I’ll watch just about anything if it means I don’t have to reach for the remote.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:14 am

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:46 pm Finally watched this over the weekend (Mrs. Kub really doesn't want to watch anything but Shameless lately - we're on s6), and we really enjoyed this.

I had no idea that was eleven! Or Cavill! Or that it was based on an actual tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle until the delay due to the Holmes estate lawsuit and even then I didn't remember it from my Sherlock Holmes reading many, many (many!) moons ago. Has me wanting to dig up the story now - I think I have a complete collection on the Kindle somewhere.

Late to the party as always, I watched Enola Holmes today. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I have the sequel queued up for tomorrow.

It's based on the first of Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes Mysteries young adult novels, The Case of the Missing Marquess, rather than any of Conan Doyle's stories. Apparently the lawsuit wasn't about the plot, it was an attempt to claim that Holmes' "warm personality" as depicted in Springer's novels and the film was somehow under copyright.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate and the creators of Netflix movie Enola Holmes have agreed to dismiss a copyright lawsuit over Sherlock Holmes’ emotions. Copyright Lately reported on the outcome today, noting that the court didn’t rule on the merits of the case, possibly indicating that the parties settled. So unfortunately, we don’t know if Enola Holmes’ take on Doyle’s famous detective violated copyright by showing a wider range of feelings and greater respect for women.

The Enola Holmes case hinged on Sherlock Holmes’ complicated copyright status. Most Holmes stories sit in the public domain, and stories like Enola Holmes — which reimagines Holmes (played by Henry Cavill) having a younger sister — can freely repurpose their elements. But 10 of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories are still protected by copyright, and the Doyle estate argued that they depict a meaningfully different version of the character. (He’s more caring, less overtly contemptuous of women and friendship, and generally less of a jerk.)

Doyle’s estate claimed that Enola Holmes unlawfully used this copyrighted version of Holmes. And it sued author Nancy Springer, who wrote the original Enola Holmes series of books, along with Netflix, Springer’s publisher, and the film adaptation’s production company. The lawsuit’s defendants argued that Doyle’s estate was trying to copyright “generic concepts like warmth, kindness, empathy, or respect” — rather than any specific plot or character elements contained in those stories.

This lawsuit has revived a complicated legal debate over Sherlock Holmes. But the detective likely won’t be under copyright much longer: Doyle’s final stories are set to fall into the public domain in 2022 and 2023.

Additionally, it was interesting to discover that one of the characters (Edith, the hand-to-hand combat instructor) is based on a historical figure, Edith Garrud, who was a Suffragette jujitsu expert.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:02 pm

Ooh, just saw that there is a new season of The Dragon Prince available.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:42 am

I just finished the 10-part series on Jeffrey Dahmer. The acting was good, but goddamn, did this show need to be 10 episodes? There was so much filler that I was really getting pissed after three episodes, but I was already invested and ended up finishing it. It was just like Inventing Anna or The Hobbit. There is some good stuff there, but it needs to have about 75% of it cut. I can't recommend Dahmer at all, unless you just enjoy things being dragged out endlessly.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:54 am

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:02 pm Ooh, just saw that there is a new season of The Dragon Prince available.

Is goot. We're only halfway thru, tho.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:44 am

McNutt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:42 am I just finished the 10-part series on Jeffrey Dahmer. The acting was good, but goddamn, did this show need to be 10 episodes? There was so much filler that I was really getting pissed after three episodes, but I was already invested and ended up finishing it. It was just like Inventing Anna or The Hobbit. There is some good stuff there, but it needs to have about 75% of it cut. I can't recommend Dahmer at all, unless you just enjoy things being dragged out endlessly.

Looks like they're making a franchise out of Monster by turning it into an anthology series covering different serial killers each season.

I watched the first episode but haven't returned. Not sure if I will.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:48 am

It's probably already been discussed, but we're already halfway through "The Watcher" and I'm quite enjoying it despite Wife spoiling the end for me before we even started it. She says it's already departed enough from the source material that the ending could be different, so there's that.

Daveman · Post by **Daveman** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:59 pm

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:54 am
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:02 pm Ooh, just saw that there is a new season of The Dragon Prince available.
Is goot. We're only halfway thru, tho.

I watched it with my daughter and thought it got good, but wasn't entirely happy early on. I thought they made Soren a little too goofy and the humor was just a little too childish. Yes, I know this is from the makers of Avatar so I'm expecting (and enjoy) their mix of serious story with a lighter side... but the previous seasons of Dragon Prince had a perfect balance.

By the end they've found that balance, so I'm happy. Can't wait for more.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:06 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:44 am Looks like they're making a franchise out of Monster by turning it into an anthology series covering different serial killers each season.

You get a little taste of that in the last Episode of Dahmer.

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:06 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:48 am It's probably already been discussed, but we're already halfway through "The Watcher" and I'm quite enjoying it despite Wife spoiling the end for me before we even started it. She says it's already departed enough from the source material that the ending could be different, so there's that.

As I was already familiar with the story I can't bring myself to watch it. I don't understand how they could make it interesting enough to keep my attention.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:07 pm

Octavious wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:06 pm
Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:48 am It's probably already been discussed, but we're already halfway through "The Watcher" and I'm quite enjoying it despite Wife spoiling the end for me before we even started it. She says it's already departed enough from the source material that the ending could be different, so there's that.
As I was already familiar with the story I can't bring myself to watch it. I don't understand how they could make it interesting enough to keep my attention.

They dont.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Nov 15, 2022 3:15 pm

Octavious wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:06 pm
Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:48 am It's probably already been discussed, but we're already halfway through "The Watcher" and I'm quite enjoying it despite Wife spoiling the end for me before we even started it. She says it's already departed enough from the source material that the ending could be different, so there's that.
As I was already familiar with the story I can't bring myself to watch it. I don't understand how they could make it interesting enough to keep my attention.

It's structured like a whodunnit, wherein virtually every character is under suspicion and some narrators are unreliable. They do a good job of building suspense and a sense of menace.