Michael Hopcroft Posted May 30 Report Share Posted May 30 7 hours ago, Old Man said: The Green Knight, 2020 version with Dev Patel. A well written and brilliantly acted take on the old story. Pretty faithful to the source material. A bit slow and weird, though. 7 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: Which also fits the source material. 6 hours ago, Old Man said: And in this case, the viewer. It is certainly a beautiful film, with lots of visual intensity in every frame. But that did not help me much in terms of understanding what I was seeing. Especially the ending, which left me with a sort of Schrödinger's Knight sensation. slikmar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 30 Report Share Posted May 30 That’s part of the original source material IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 I've completed the second season of Picard on Paramount+, and I have to note that it is an improvement over the first season, though that's a low bar. I've watched a few episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks, which i like so far. Meanwhile, my copy of The Last Starfighter Limited Edition in 4K arrived today. It's an Arrow Video release, and comes with a bunch of bonus features on the disc and in a booklet. The image quality is good (better than my Blu-ray released by Universal about a decade ago), and there's a choice between stereo, 4.1 (remastered from the original 70mm print's sound mix), and 5.1, and multiple commentary tracks. The computer-generated graphics look surprisingly good, with the HDR smoothing out some of the color banding that shows up on the Universal Blu-ray. It is, however, priced for collectors, with a $49.99 list price (I paid $35 at Amazon as a new release/preorder). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Picard season 3 is very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Next up in my ... er, voyage through Star Trek: Voyager is the episode "30 Days", wherein Tom Paris is busted to ensign and spends a month in solitary for an act of well-intentioned ecoterrorism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 2 Report Share Posted June 2 Crown Court Case 18 involves whether a councillor and his ex-secretary engaged in a fraudulent act in buying and selling land in order to profit from a bypass that the council had compulsorily purchased. Later the verdict may have gone against the pair but this was the 70s. Case 19 involves which will that an artist made was the more up to date and correct one. This is one that could have gone either way and today would still work. Case 20 involves whether a prison officer and a prisoner were in cahoots over smuggling material into the prison. Several familiar faces to British TV viewers including Bob Hoskins. The prison officer and prisoner had different lawyers and one turned on the other resulting in their acquittal. Case 21 involves whether a baby born at home to a teenage mother was killed by the girl's father. Both the girl and her mother claim to have killed the child. The family is very religious. Maigret Maigret Defends himself. This story has the detective accused of attempted rape and he has to work out why. It ties into another story that followed it later as the surveillance on a particular criminal is what sets the criminal off. He thought they were watching him and not the other party who is close by. I did not piece together what was going on but the clues are there and as Maigret is set in early 50s France it works as Maigret's questioning of the people enables him to work out what is going on. Maigret et la Tete d'un Homme. Maigret allows a man to escape from prison as he is sure that the man did not commit a double murder and wants to catch the real killer. Again I can directly relate this to the 60s series. This is one where the killer thinks they are smarter than the police. Cecile is Dead. Maigret is constantly visited by Cecile who is sure someone is breaking into the apartment she shares with her aunt. The detective can find nothing but then the aunt is found murdered and Cecile herself is killed inside the police buildings. So who did it and why ? The answer is a lot murkier than you would suppose. Maigret and Lock No 1. A rich entrepreneur is assaulted and dumped into the canal. He survives but who did it. This involves the man's family and an old friend of the man. Maigret and the Ghost. When a French detective is shot in Finland, Maigret goes to find out who did it and why his colleague was there in the first place. Soldier Blue First time I have seen this Western which leads up to the massacre of an Indian village which is really nasty. The survivors of an Indian attack on a paymaster's column try to reach the army fort where the woman's fiance is. They run into other Indians and a trader who is taking guns to the Indians. Worth seeing once but the brutality at the end may put you off a rewatch. Summer of Sam This is a Spike Lee film about New York in 1977 as the heat builds and the Son of Sam killings occur. The locals look at anyone who they think might be guilty while the police and crooks try to find the killer themselves. It is not bad and the soundtrack is brilliant. The killings are handled discreetly to my way of thinking and not overly exploited or sensationalised. The Groundstar Conspiracy Several people are killed at the Groundstar installation with one man escaping the complex but he is badly wounded. As he undergoes hospital treatment George Peppard's investigator keeps everyone else away much to the chagrin of the base's administrators both military and civil and the senator who pushed for money for the project and is stationing in the state. A woman who the man ran into is used by Peppard to work out who was behind the man as he stole data from the facility. It is a complex story as the man recovers from operations to save him but is left with amnesia and so he and the audience don't know what is going on until close to the end. The Giro d'Italia 2023 First of the year's Grand Tours got underway and looked like heading one way with Remco Evenepoel in the driving seat until Covid cut him down and he was forced to retire. This left the GC battle between Geraint Thomas and Primoz Roglic. Both were involved in accidents and Thomas's team mate Geoghan Hart forced to pull out because of an accident. Covid decimated the field as well. Thomas spent more time in the Maglia Rose but Roglic won on the penultimate stage which was a quasi repeat of the end of the Tour de France in 2020 when Roglic lost the lead and the race. In both cases it was a mountain time trial. The other story was that Mark Cavendish was racing for Astana and looking to go to the Tour if he won two stages. On the second rest day he announced his retirement at the end of the season. And on the very last stage Thomas helped his old team mate and Cavendish won the final stage which was the first win in four years at the Giro for the team. Another old campaigner Thibault Pinot had also announced his retirement and ended up King of the Mountains in a see saw battle. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 2 Report Share Posted June 2 Watched a few more episodes of GLOW. Netflix is gone now so no more eps for me. It starts really slowly IMO, and it was just starting to get good. Curse my impatienfce! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted June 2 Report Share Posted June 2 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1. Dang, this first season really worked. archer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 2 Report Share Posted June 2 IMO it started a little slow, but once it got to the big MCU twist reveal it really started to cook. archer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 Fast X Part I. In my defense, I was quasi-kidnapped for this one. As expected, Dom and the gang use their physics-breaking superpowers to try and save the day. It's gotten to the point where I have trouble telling these movies apart in my mind. There is a mid-credits scene after which I fled. I can't wait for Part II and the spinoff with The Rock. God I wish this franchise would die. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 Across the Spider-Verse. A very worthy sequel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 I've finished season 3 of Star Trek: Picard, and it is much better than both seasons that came before. Part of that is a return of the Next Generation core characters, behaving in ways we expect (even if the details have changed). There's quite a bit of nostalgia at play, and this season as a whole seems amost like a continuation of the Next Generation movies, or even a throwback to some of the better Next Gen episodes. It's also fairly obvious that the actors enjoyed the chance to work with each other again in the Star Trek setting, and it's perhaps our last chance to see all of them together onscreen. Starlord and mattingly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Walsh Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 Barry (S4). What a shame. Seasons 1-3 were fantastic. Season 4 was "meh" at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 Villainous: max. Great little series of animated shorts about a supervillain support organization. It's dubbed (well) in English, but it was originally a Spanish production (Villanos). That makes it just a little weird with the credits and scenery all in Spanish, and the English subtitles are just a wee bit off. It was a Cartoon Network creation and some other characters make small cameos. I thought this was a lot of fun and I wish there were more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted June 8 Report Share Posted June 8 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was recently dropped on Youtube, and I spent Yesterday binge watching the whole first season (10 Episodes). It's more li9ke Old Star Trek, than the excrable discovery, but the tone is a little off, a littl bt snarky around the edges, and the cast has a suspicious amount of women in it, but the stories in the broad strokes seemed very Star Trek, even if the details didn't. One of the Episodes, they redid a classic Star Trek Episode, and showed how a difference in approach lead to catastrophic consequences. Now it wan't as good as the Third Season of Picard, and there were echoes of Discovery in the first two episodes. The Smell of Michael Burnham had not yet oleft the room. Speaking of rooms, the sets were enormous! this version of the Enterprise was gigantic on the inside, and the use of a Ski Resort firepit in the captain's cabin was a ludicrous touch of interior design.On tyhe whole, it's better than Discovery, but not as good at 3rd Season Picard. mattingly, Ternaugh, Lord Liaden and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 (edited) On 6/3/2023 at 11:31 PM, Old Man said: Fast X Part I. In my defense, I was quasi-kidnapped for this one. As expected, Dom and the gang use their physics-breaking superpowers to try and save the day. It's gotten to the point where I have trouble telling these movies apart in my mind. There is a mid-credits scene after which I fled. I can't wait for Part II and the spinoff with The Rock. God I wish this franchise would die. What was your impression of Jason Momoa? This looked like a rather different role for him. On 6/4/2023 at 11:57 AM, Ternaugh said: I've finished season 3 of Star Trek: Picard, and it is much better than both seasons that came before. Part of that is a return of the Next Generation core characters, behaving in ways we expect (even if the details have changed). There's quite a bit of nostalgia at play, and this season as a whole seems amost like a continuation of the Next Generation movies, or even a throwback to some of the better Next Gen episodes. It's also fairly obvious that the actors enjoyed the chance to work with each other again in the Star Trek setting, and it's perhaps our last chance to see all of them together onscreen. No spoilers, but toward the end of the season we finally get to see the real Jean-Luc Picard back again. Long time coming, almost worth the wait. Edited June 9 by Lord Liaden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 5 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: What was your impression of Jason Momoa? This looked like a rather different role for him. I saw it also, and for what it is worth, he played totally over the top, as you would expect in a movie like this, but he came across as smart and psychopathic, so played the role well, to me. On 6/4/2023 at 3:38 AM, mattingly said: Across the Spider-Verse. A very worthy sequel! Agree, saw it myself today, enjoyed it a lot. Warning, and not a spoiler really, but it is a part 1 of 2. Lord Liaden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 4 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was recently dropped on Youtube, and I spent Yesterday binge watching the whole first season (10 Episodes). It's more li9ke Old Star Trek, than the excrable discovery, but the tone is a little off, a littl bt snarky around the edges, and the cast has a suspicious amount of women in it, but the stories in the broad strokes seemed very Star Trek, even if the details didn't. One of the Episodes, they redid a classic Star Trek Episode, and showed how a difference in approach lead to catastrophic consequences. Now it wan't as good as the Third Season of Picard, and there were echoes of Discovery in the first two episodes. The Smell of Michael Burnham had not yet oleft the room. Speaking of rooms, the sets were enormous! this version of the Enterprise was gigantic on the inside, and the use of a Ski Resort firepit in the captain's cabin was a ludicrous touch of interior design.On tyhe whole, it's better than Discovery, but not as good at 3rd Season Picard. I agree with your assessment. To be fair, it usually takes a little while for a new series to find its legs and its voice. We'll see what season 2 brings. Although in the defense of SNW as opposed to Picard S3, in the former at least there's enough light to see what's happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said: What was your impression of Jason Momoa? This looked like a rather different role for him. He was a bright spot in an otherwise awful film. I can't say he saved it, but he did make the movie less bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 The Show - The description of the movie is "A man's search for a stolen artifact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women." That does not do the weirdness of this movie justice and I highly recommend it. It is possibly the strangest, though not necessarily in a bad way, movie I have seen behind Everything, Everywhere all at Once. There is a lot to like about the movie, but my favorite part may be the Noir Detectives. The movie isn't high drama, seems to not take itself too seriously and made my wife and I laugh at some of the dark humor in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted June 11 Report Share Posted June 11 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: A friend of mine had tickets to an employee movie night at her work, so this one was shown in the Encore Theater at the Wynn. It was fun to see it with friends. The Three Amigos: Three silent film actors are mistaken for the heroes that they play, and are recruited to defend a small village from a bandit gang. This movie has a plethora of enjoyable moments. It's a good watch. (Max) Victor/Victoria: Blake Edwards comedy starring Julie Andrews as a woman playing a man playing a woman. A nostalgia watch. (Max) BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 11 Report Share Posted June 11 7 hours ago, Ternaugh said: Victor/Victoria: Blake Edwards comedy starring Julie Andrews as a woman playing a man playing a woman. A nostalgia watch. (Max) Banned in Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 11 Report Share Posted June 11 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Ant Man 3 Super Mario Bros D&D Honor* Amongst Thieves. *Thieves stole the "u" and thus have no honour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted June 11 Report Share Posted June 11 3 hours ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: Banned in Florida. Now, yes. My first time watching Victor/Victoria was during its theatrical run at the old Athens Theatre in DeLand, Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted June 11 Report Share Posted June 11 4 hours ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: Banned in Florida. Okay...what kind of country bans Julie Andrews? Just....no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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