What TV series are you watching at moment?

Mr Robot definitely censored the fucks

Though they did a half assed job.

not sure if posted, but here ya go

wait is it a documentary about the movie or are they sullying it with a reboot?

  On 5/18/2017 at 6:32 PM, dr lopez said:

wait is it a documentary about the movie or are they sullying it with a reboot?

10 episode prequel. I always wanted to know where the skeksis came from. Finally, I'll get my answers.

  On 5/18/2017 at 6:32 PM, dr lopez said:

wait is it a documentary about the movie or are they sullying it with a reboot?

Prequel, directed by a mediocre director

  On 5/18/2017 at 6:35 PM, olo said:

 

  On 5/18/2017 at 6:32 PM, dr lopez said:

wait is it a documentary about the movie or are they sullying it with a reboot?

 

10 episode prequel. I always wanted to know where the skeksis came from. Finally, I'll get my answers.

 

does this question really prevent you from enjoying the dark crystal? fuck man, midichlorians or w/e

those daft elf things were enough the first time around, my kid brothers enjoyed it, but hormonal influxes & thrash metal meant that gear looked a bit Jim Henson for a jaded teenager like meself at the time.... you cant do filems like that after discovering Slayer

next it'll be The Neverending Story & summat like the Caravan of Courage, re-dissected into yet more guff

Howard the duck prequel please

hahaaa

Aren't they already making Labyrinth 2

re-watching G.L.O.W. in anticipation of the netflix remake

https://youtu.be/wH65MPnKojk

https://youtu.be/AZqDO6cTYVY

Yeah The Americans 511 was v good.

I started watching Outcast, I'm only halfway through episode 2, but this seems terrible. Does it get any better? The internet keeps telling me it's pretty good.

That show's absolutely awful. 

On a TV related note, did anyone see Amazon has partnered with Element to produce their own line of LED televisions?  If you're a Prime member, and a big Fire user, $650 isn't too shabby for a 55" smart TV.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XDC9RBJ/ref=ods_gw_d_ra_watchdark?enableAutoPlay=1&pf_rd_p=eacdce09-3a1e-4b83-ad41-5354f3a87639&pf_rd_r=8M3MSEAQ34X1605BTS29

brandish newish..

White Gold

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6010920

not unfunny that is..basically Inbetweeners go Loadsamoney 80s

David Thewlis is absolutely stealing the show on Fargo, jesus those bleeding gums.  And Mary Elizabeth Winstead's ass is almost its own character, lol

  On 5/25/2017 at 10:41 AM, Rubin Farr said:

David Thewlis is absolutely stealing the show on Fargo, jesus those bleeding gums.  And Mary Elizabeth Winstead's ass is almost its own character, lol

Agreed. Poor Ray just couldn't gtfo of his own way. Just take the stamp asshole. Nice call back to NCFOM.

Thewlis is great. Chilling in his semi listening to Chopin. Still want to know what their gonna do with this Gloria Burgle/no technology thing...

Girlboss... don't ask. I'm not sure if it's the writing or the actress but the main character Sophia is incredibly grating and unlikeable.

not subtle feminism/10

The Handmaid's Tale - first episode 

For some reason they are digitally brightening the eyes of the handmaids, it makes it incredibly distracting to watch the show when it's almost like watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit every time there's a close-up of someone's face.

For a show that's supposed to be grounded in some sort of 'around the corner dystopia' realism, it really pulls me out of immersion and just makes me lol every time I see it.

The extremely low contrast, earthy colour grading looks like someone went overboard with VSCO filters in the phone app. It really doesn't look good at all. Unfortunately this seems to be a trend, as shows like Broadchurch (and pretty much any ITV 'drama' show) as well as Sherlock, are going for this over-the-top fake filmic look (completely crush the blacks, shave off some of the highlights), and it immediately dates a show as being produced during the latter half of the 2010s. As a photographer who likes the filmic look in photos, even this looks way too over the top. I admit that in my early amateur days, I would do the same. But it really does look like someone just discovered curves in Adobe Premier.

I know the show is based on a book, where the majority of it is presented in the form of Offred's internal monologue, but the constant voiceover seems too much. I haven't read the book yet though, but at times it really feels like the show is relying on voiceover as a hand-holding mechanism.

I'll see what the rest brings, as the base story and the 'world' is interesting enough.

5/10

  On 5/31/2017 at 5:33 PM, xxx said:

Overall, I'm liking Handmaid's Tale but I have the exact same problem as you do with it. It's overly stylized to the point that it feels like a 90s music video. Lots of slow motion, lingering face close-ups, the treatments you mentioned, etc. Only when

 

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Ofglen ran over the policeman and Nick fucked Ofred

 

did the show get some realism going.

I've got nothing against visuals being overly stylised (Utopia is up there with the best shows I've seen in recent years, and I still love The Matrix), but this is particularly egregious. It's not only the clipped shadows and highlights, but the colour grading just looks like shit - as if someone has thrown brown shit everywhere. Even the sky is no longer blue, it's yellow-brown shit.

But man, dem eyes. 

And yes, the slow motion. There's only one director who in my opinion does slow motion correctly, and that's Wes Anderson.

aka Mr Style Over Content

The Handmaid's Tale rocks, i could give a fuck about Trump and analogies to contemporary US politics/circus, its real strength is that its underpinned by a novel that was ahead of its own time when written

does it justify the hype and probable guardian blogging? possibly not, but then there will always be contrarian commentaries to something solid regardless, so pro's/cons

5/10 is just plain mean, i love the original score, not the pop shit, the droney dissonant string sequences & Ann Dowd is the kind of lady who is a credit to her industry, its easily as good as anything else wanked over in the last 30-odd years (disregarding Twin Peaks as that occupies a universe & style unto itself)

  On 5/31/2017 at 9:33 PM, cwmbrancity said:

aka Mr Style Over Content

 

The Handmaid's Tale rocks, i could give a fuck about Trump and analogies to contemporary US politics/circus, its real strength is that its underpinned by a novel that was ahead of its own time when written

 

does it justify the hype and probable guardian blogging? possibly not, but then there will always be contrarian commentaries to something solid regardless, so pro's/cons

 

5/10 is just plain mean, i love the original score, not the pop shit, the droney dissonant string sequences & Ann Dowd is the kind of lady who is a credit to her industry, its easily as good as anything else wanked over in the last 30-odd years (disregarding Twin Peaks as that occupies a universe & style unto itself)

It's not mean. I'm not reviewing the book. If I wanted just the 'content' then I would've read the book.

Trying to make out that the visual look of a TV show doesn't matter is reductionist.

In any case, my opinion about the show (and the rating I gave it) is subjective. Just because I don't love it as much as you, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

just finished battlestar galactica. good cheesy fun. 

  On 5/31/2017 at 10:17 PM, messiaen said:

just finished battlestar galactica. good cheesy fun.

OG or the RDM one?