Ouch. SubRosa came in with the RKO out of nowhere on Dunkirk. I haven't seen the movie, nor really planned to. But it certainly sounds like something I will be avoiding now.

You know, I keep meaning to get around to that recent Vietnam War documentary by Ken Burns, but I keep forgetting about it or I am doing something else. I hope to watch that sometime in the near future.

The Ken Burns documentary was good. It completely misses a few things, but it was still solid over all. The first episode is a bit confusing, because it goes from explaining historical events taking place in or after WWII, and then cuts to an American talking about their experience sometime in the 60s (without telling you that it was an American in the 60s), and then goes back to telling the historical events in the 40s and 50s. It is like they were afraid viewers would get bored and turn it off if there was not an American talking about a gunfight every 15 minutes. Once it gets to America's involvement in the war, that jumping around stops thankfully.

I can't understand why he would refuse to use something that (as long as it is well done) can only enhance the picture = and if he wanted to take that "high road" as he seems to be implying = then spend the money to put a mass of real extras and props like they did in Game of Thrones.

It really does sound like a pedestrian effort; and if the critics actually did "Like" it = probably because the people in media positions consider themselves leaders of the minds of the sheep public; and if they say a "dog" like Nolan's movie is amazing they think the public will immediately love it and make it a hit. The movie's audience was more discerning than the critics; I have to applaud the audience for seeing a dog and saying it.

Finished watching Breaking Bad earlier. Damn good series, with a damn good ending. Loved it, start to finish.

Now I need to decide what to rewatch next

They had a Breaking Bad marathon here too; and I rewatched it too = but missed a bunch, and had to wait for them to continue it when they broke for hours at a time between seasons - so instead I finally watched it on my Son's Netflix instead so that I could binge it from the very beginning to the end and even replay scenes like where Gus gets killed or where Walter says "I am the one knocking," etc.

This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 4 2018, 06:41 AM

Nice. There really are some fantastic scenes in there. And after only having seen Bryan Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle, I was astonished by how good an actor he actually is

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Jan 5 2018, 10:30 AM

That is the only place I ever really saw him before too; (actually, he did bit parts as Dr. Watley on "Seinfeld;" but nothing that displayed his acting ability).

I absolutely never realized he could do such an intense role! I read or saw something about the making of Breaking Bad where someone in the production insisted the role of Walter go to Bryan Cranston; so THEY knew something I don't think even the public realized. He is an outstanding actor; and it kind of shocked me to watch him transform from Hal to Walt that way.







This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 5 2018, 03:39 PM

Agree completely on Bryan Cranston and the ending for Breaking Bad... we just finished it ourselves.

Tried watching Myths and Monsters... and gave up part way through the first installment. The subject matter is interesting and should be right in my wheelhouse- but they managed to make it dull- plus they kept jumping around, instead of focusing on a single theme....

Currently about halfway through Godless. If you are a fan of- 1)Gritty and intense 2)Westerns 3) Dark foreboding- this is a show for you.

Khajiit has watched Ep.1 of this but hasn’t started the second one yet.

This is on my Watch List, too.

Now if only I could leave Tamriel long enough to watch this and so many others . . .

Exactly Khajiit’ problem!!

Conan the Barbarian in AMC!

Crom!

Tried to find a gif of Valeria doing the sword palm tap thing but surprisingly, Khajiit couldn’t find one.

While in the Mall this Monday to buy a 2018 Wall Calendar, I stopped at Barnes & Noble and spent almost the whole of an Xmas gift card to purchase the movie Patton (cheap) and Game of Thrones Season Five (not cheap). Haven't watched either due to not feeling well much of the week. (For once this feels like a traditional winter bug of some sort rather than a flareup of one of my serious conditions. I likely caught it from my brother, who complained of similar symptoms during his last visit.)

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jan 6 2018, 06:38 PM

Wow, to sick to watch a movie!
Hope you feel better soon D!

Aw, so sorry you haven't felt well! Hope both you and your Brother get well soon!

Finished up "Godless"- highly recommended.

Also finished "Longmire"- some disappointment in one choice the final episode made, but overall a good program.

Started watching "Frontier." Appropriately bloody, as it involves the fur trade in North America in the 1700's. Will give it some more time, despite the obvious anachronisms, such as the use of "Okay" by an Englishman, when the term did not come into use until most likely 1830's U.S. Not to mention Michael Smyth's leather coat. Just what every Irish petty thief on the London waterfront was wearing prior to the American Revolution...

Not to mention the reference to someone as an "American"- um... if he was from what is now the U.S., he probably would have been considered an "Englishman". And then there was the supposed French fur trader who expressed surprise at the American's Englishman's seal coat...

And don't even get me started on the accents (such as there are)- the stereotyped characters- or the instant sea travel....

This post has been edited by treydog: Jan 15 2018, 08:19 PM

I too finished watching “Godless” on Netflix. I found myself enjoying it very much, unlike many other so-called Westerns that abandoned historical accuracy for soap opera histrionics. The characters are very well developed, and Jeff Daniels did an awesome job playing the villain in such a homegrown, rough diamond manner. The women are not cardboard cutouts, each one of them with her own history and her own quirks, some of which were merely hinted at in the show.

I always liked Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey, even though there were times I wanted to slap her character Mary silly. In this, she played just the tough, gritty frontierswoman who survives all disasters and keeps her head high, even when you can see the fear and conflict in her eyes.

And Jack O’Connell who plays Roy Goode reminds me so much of a young Kevin Bacon, from his understated delivery to his body language and mannerisms, there were times I thought I was watching Kevin Bacon!

But my undying praise is reserved for two unlikely actresses: Merrit Wever and Tantoo Cardinal. I call them unlikely because to look at, they are unremarkable women. Yet each in her own way portrayed strong, powerful, self reliant women in ways that make you wish they are part of your own life. Merrit Wever is Mary Agnes, the local sherrif’s sister who starts wearing her dead husband’s clothes because it’s easier to get the job done. In fact, I fell in love with her when her brother got on her case about that, and she told him “You wear a dress, Bill. Just put a dress on.”

And Tantoo Cardinal. Gosh, her character Iyovi is old, but as an old Paiute, she is gritty, practical, cynical, and smart. She takes care of her small tribe (Alice, Michelle Dockery’s character, and her son Truckee, played by a rather winsome Samuel Marty) in a no-holds-barred manner. I wish my grandmother was like that!

So like treydoggie, I highly recommend this series.

I watched the new anime Godzilla on Netflix this morning. It was good, although it did have an overabundance of youthful testosterone. When I was 17 that sort of enthusiasm would have resonated with me. Now that I am older, I tend to find that it is just egotism and foolishness. But the characters are still good. They are people you can believe and latch on to.

Godzilla himself (herself, itself?) is really cool. I think anime is a good format for GZ. They are going for the evil version of Godzilla here. Normally I am a little disappointed with that, because I always want to root for Gojira. But he was really awesome here. He is not simply a big irradiated animal. He is a God Of Death sent by the Gods to punish those species who have grown too arrogant. He wiped out human life on planet Earth. They tried to stop him with nukes, and literally turned the entire North American continent into a vast radioactive crater. It did not slow him down one bit.

The human and alien characters in the movie are the lucky 4,000 who escaped the planet on spacecraft, provided by two friendly alien races who came to help humanity, in exchange for a place to live on the planet afterward. Obviously even they were impotent against Godzilla. So they were forced to flee with the humans. The aliens are pretty cool, a bit stereotypical, but that is not a bad thing. That just makes it easy to understand them.

I liked that they acknowledged Relativity in the show. The refugees were traveling at near light speed (and even via a wormhole at one point). Funny things happen with time when you do that. Even though only 20 years had passed for them, they returned to earth 20,000 years later. It is a whole new world, and it is vicious and ticked off.

They did a lot of wild stuff in this, which is usually not good IMHO, alien races, fleeing the Earth and returning, and even some major changes to Godzilla (for example, now he has an electro-magnetic shield that protects him from things like nuclear weapons. Instead of atomic breath, he how has an EMP beam that blows electronics (like mecha and spaceships) to bits. But it all works. Godzilla is more badass than ever.

Most of all it is packed with lots of explosions and guns and fire and killing and giant monsters. Really, everything a Godzilla movie should be. It is a very fun action spectacle.

btw. It is an hour and a half long, and basically a movie and not a normal anime series. But Netflix called it Part 1, and the ending is very wide open to more. In fact it demands more. So my guess is they did the one movie to test the waters, and will probably make more if it does well. Like Netflix's Castlevania series.