The Netflix/Hulu/Prime Thread

[coldbrightsunlight]

I mean, I don't want to spoil the movie, but Nick Cage doesn't show up.



Or does he?


New Better Call Saul out today. Wooo

[MrNovember]

Following my theme of horror movies that I've been meaning to watch, I just watched the Suspiria remake. That was a wild movie. That final "dance" was definitely very memorable

[coldbrightsunlight]

Still really want to watch this

[jrfox92]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htuNZp82Ck[/youtube]
Been waiting years for this to finally come out.

[jrfox92]

Also, I watched I Am Not Okay With This and it was pretty good.
The payoff was great but it made me realize the entire show felt like it was just the prologue to a much bigger story.

NSFW: show

Also, the show was basically a modern, less campy version of Carrie.

[Dowi]

I mean, I don't want to spoil the movie, but Nick Cage doesn't show up.

Or does he?

Totally offtopic but last week i finally saw Mandy.
Nick Cage Caging at its Cagest.
plus, chainsaw fights!





Next thing on the list is Color out of Space. I read some nice reviews of it, and i am always curious to see Lovecraft work transposed visually, definitely not an easy thing.

[calfzilla]

I mean, I don't want to spoil the movie, but Nick Cage doesn't show up.

Or does he?

Totally offtopic but last week i finally saw Mandy.
Nick Cage Caging at its Cagest.
plus, chainsaw fights!





Next thing on the list is Color out of Space. I read some nice reviews of it, and i am always curious to see Lovecraft work transposed visually, definitely not an easy thing.

I really want to watch those two.

[friendship]

Also, I watched I Am Not Okay With This and it was pretty good.
The payoff was great but it made me realize the entire show felt like it was just the prologue to a much bigger story.

NSFW: show

Also, the show was basically a modern, less campy version of Carrie.

I just watched this over the weekend too. Not original at all as you said, but it was fun anyway!

Spoiler comment:

NSFW: show

Was really not expecting her to straight up detonate the jock's head--I mean I assumed she'd hurt him or someone else because of those foreshadowing scenes of her running away covered with blood, but god damn that was way more brutal than I thought it would be.

[behndy]

i'm torn about the second season of Altered Carbon. i dug the first, not sure about the second. a few things....

- much more into the gritty bright Bladerunner aesthetic of season 1 vs bubbly synthpop in 2.

- Anthony Mackie is a damn good actor, but he feels very wrong for this part. it's an awesome premise to be able to recast the lead each season, but it feels like there was zero attempt to make it look/sound/feel like the same personality in a different body. i liked the big scrappy dood in season 1, Mackie is more sarcastic flippant (kinda.... Marvel Style?) than other guy. seems like they would have a voice coach get Mackie to develop similar speech patterns.

- same as with other adaptions. it seems weird to me to interweave plot points and characters from different books. so far a character named after someone from Book 1 is actually a hollow shell of a main character from Book 3 while the Antagonist Crew is a jarringly different take on the antagonists from Book 2. and more. like... just write something new off of the bones of ONE OR TWO Previous Media ideas, and with something like the Takeshi Kovacs books where he jumps planets and sleeps for 50-100 years between books, keep them on the same world/same time period. it's.... distracting.

[calfzilla]

woah, season two of Altered Carbon is out? Guess I need to get a stand for my phone....

[jrfox92]

- Anthony Mackie is a damn good actor, but he feels very wrong for this part. it's an awesome premise to be able to recast the lead each season, but it feels like there was zero attempt to make it look/sound/feel like the same personality in a different body. i liked the big scrappy dood in season 1, Mackie is more sarcastic flippant (kinda.... Marvel Style?) than other guy. seems like they would have a voice coach get Mackie to develop similar speech patterns.

Agreed. He felt like he was trying really hard to come off like a complete and total asshole, while Joel just didn't. All the interactions between Mackie and Chris Conner felt really off and just not the same as with Conner and Kinnaman.

- same as with other adaptions. it seems weird to me to interweave plot points and characters from different books. so far a character named after someone from Book 1 is actually a hollow shell of a main character from Book 3 while the Antagonist Crew is a jarringly different take on the antagonists from Book 2. and more. like... just write something new off of the bones of ONE OR TWO Previous Media ideas, and with something like the Takeshi Kovacs books where he jumps planets and sleeps for 50-100 years between books, keep them on the same world/same time period. it's.... distracting.

I think that was maybe the point of this season. Richard Morgan even said he's considering writing more, and with how this season ended, I have a feeling they'll try moving forwards with something completely new (assuming Netlfix doesn't cancel the show like they have all their other sci-fi IPs ).

[behndy]

Agreed. He felt like he was trying really hard to come off like a complete and total asshole, while Joel just didn't. All the interactions between Mackie and Chris Conner felt really off and just not the same as with Conner and Kinnaman.

yeah. i like Mackie, but he's just... being Mackie. it's like watching the Falcon And Poe Show. with NO CHEMISTRY.

- ramble ramble blah blah blah

I think that was maybe the point of this season. Richard Morgan even said he's considering writing more, and with how this season ended, I have a feeling they'll try moving forwards with something completely new (assuming Netlfix doesn't cancel the show like they have all their other sci-fi IPs ).

i'm only 3 or 4 episodes in, but yeah. i mean. i guess? if you want to use everything interesting extant and go your own way, cool. but... i dunno. same thing as with Preacher? if you're going to do the shoutouts to please fans of the books, why combine 9 things into 1 so it annoys fanboys, and means nothing to This Medium Only watchers?

i guess i'd be into a new Takeshi Kovacs book? i loved the first 3, but it felt like a solid place to end his stories. it's sort of a guilty pleasure, because it's ULTIMATE MALE TOXICITY, BUT WITH MURDER CARS, but i looooove Market Forces. would rather a sequel of that. just started his new book, what is (at least tangentially? not very far in.) a sequel to Thirteen/Black Man (lol. couldn't release it in the US under that name apparently.), and haven't read anything of his that i hated? i.... like? His Dark Defiles trilogy? but don't love it?

actually paused reading the new one to go through Thirteen again, then will read New Butts, then try the Sword And SciFi Anger Humping trilogy again.

.... i like Morgan's work.

[The Eristic]

Also, I watched I Am Not Okay With This and it was pretty good.
The payoff was great but it made me realize the entire show felt like it was just the prologue to a much bigger story.

NSFW: show

Also, the show was basically a modern, less campy version of Carrie.

I just watched this over the weekend too. Not original at all as you said, but it was fun anyway!

Spoiler comment:

NSFW: show

Was really not expecting her to straight up detonate the jock's head--I mean I assumed she'd hurt him or someone else because of those foreshadowing scenes of her running away covered with blood, but god damn that was way more brutal than I thought it would be.

NSFW: show

The graphic novel ends much more harshly. Kinda wish they'd gone with it but it would've certainly made the show more polarizing and harder to write long term.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Caught up with the new episodes of Better Call Saul now. Iiiii'm going to have to bring forward my planned rewatch of Breaking Bad. Need more I can't be waiting for these episodes.

[adamajah]

Caught up with the new episodes of Better Call Saul now. Iiiii'm going to have to bring forward my planned rewatch of Breaking Bad. Need more I can't be waiting for these episodes.

Tell me about it. I already rewatched all of Saul and Breaking Bad so now I just to wait a week between fixes