What are you watching now?
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Just finished Reply 1988, a Korean "slice of life" drama about a close knit group of families in a lower middle class/middle class neighborhood in Seoul during 1988 and 1989. Main focus is on 5 friends navigating life and relationships during their last year of high school, though it does focus on their families as well.
Brings back a lot of memories, as Korea, like Taiwan, was still developing in the late 1980's and 1990's. (I too can remember the excitement of having meat with a meal rather than just tofu and rice. LOL)
I think it does a very good job of capturing the atmosphere and style of life during that time. I recommend you watch it. It is 20 episodes, each one about 90-120 minutes in long.
Pseudo Trailer below
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Just watched Nefarious on Prime. Free and no commercials for some reason. I was surprised that it was a Christian morality play with high production values, good script, good acting, not cringey. Overt with some of the culture stuff, no more so than your typical mainstream moralizing in the opposite direction though. It has 33% in the tomato meter, with a 96% audience rating.
Education is extremely important.
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Spanish paranormal drama about a Catholic priest exiled in a small village. Okay, so that sounds boring, but it really isn't. The first episode packs in a lot. Beware though; the show can be graphic and gory at times. There is a second season, but I haven't watched it yet.
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Just watched Nefarious on Prime. Free and no commercials for some reason. I was surprised that it was a Christian morality play with high production values, good script, good acting, not cringey. Overt with some of the culture stuff, no more so than your typical mainstream moralizing in the opposite direction though. It has 33% in the tomato meter, with a 96% audience rating.
@Horace said in What are you watching now?:
Just watched Nefarious on Prime. Free and no commercials for some reason. I was surprised that it was a Christian morality play with high production values, good script, good acting, not cringey. Overt with some of the culture stuff, no more so than your typical mainstream moralizing in the opposite direction though. It has 33% in the tomato meter, with a 96% audience rating.
Don't trust the tomato meter anymore. I go by audience ratings. Too many darn woke critics.
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I watched three S Craig Zahler movies, and like all of them a lot. Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cellblock 99, Dragged Across Concrete. Heavy Tarantino vibes. They won't be to everybody's taste, but the actors are excellent and the stories are excellent. I mistook these movies for B level action movie cash grabs like Bruce Willis did towards the end of his career, but they are not. They are real pieces of art.
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@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
Masters Of The Air, of course.
Caught up with it yesterday AM.
Beautifully shot, the CGI is really good and the costumes and sets are great as well.
But...
Unlike "Band of Brothers," I'm not getting a sense of who's who in the story. Yeah, Buck and Bucky are the leads, but there are so many others whose stories are barely touched upon. Too many people to present a coherent story of "let's follow these guys."
Lots of disposable characters as well (yeah, but it's about bombers over Europe, so there's that) whom you never get to know, so their loss is inconsequential to the drama.
So far, not as good as "The Pacific" and not close to "Band of Brothers."
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
Masters Of The Air, of course.
Caught up with it yesterday AM.
Beautifully shot, the CGI is really good and the costumes and sets are great as well.
But...
Unlike "Band of Brothers," I'm not getting a sense of who's who in the story. Yeah, Buck and Bucky are the leads, but there are so many others whose stories are barely touched upon. Too many people to present a coherent story of "let's follow these guys."
Lots of disposable characters as well (yeah, but it's about bombers over Europe, so there's that) whom you never get to know, so their loss is inconsequential to the drama.
So far, not as good as "The Pacific" and not close to "Band of Brothers."
@George-K yeah, BoB was all about the people. MoA has not really established that yet. I believe I read that about 70% died so it might be hard to do that.
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@George-K yeah, BoB was all about the people. MoA has not really established that yet. I believe I read that about 70% died so it might be hard to do that.
@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
@George-K yeah, BoB was all about the people. MoA has not really established that yet.
I just finished E4. It's only now that I'm understanding who some of the characters are, Buck, Bucky, Croz...
But you're right. I really don't feel like I know any of these guys - yet.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/bomber-crew-in-wwii-was-deadly/
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After losing his family in a mysterious accident, Sewon, a brilliant brain scientist, tries to solve what happened. He performs "brain syncs" with the deceased in order to search for clues hidden in their memories, but it becomes difficult to separate those memories from his own experiences.
Watched half an hour of the first episode (first with subtitles, then dubbed). Gave up.
Stupid.
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@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
Sounds stupid. Watched MotA e4 last night. Pretty good but one a week is frustrating.
Same.
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@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
Masters Of The Air, of course.
Caught up with it yesterday AM.
Beautifully shot, the CGI is really good and the costumes and sets are great as well.
But...
Unlike "Band of Brothers," I'm not getting a sense of who's who in the story. Yeah, Buck and Bucky are the leads, but there are so many others whose stories are barely touched upon. Too many people to present a coherent story of "let's follow these guys."
Lots of disposable characters as well (yeah, but it's about bombers over Europe, so there's that) whom you never get to know, so their loss is inconsequential to the drama.
So far, not as good as "The Pacific" and not close to "Band of Brothers."
@George-K said in What are you watching now?:
@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
Masters Of The Air, of course.
Caught up with it yesterday AM.
Beautifully shot, the CGI is really good and the costumes and sets are great as well.
But...
Unlike "Band of Brothers," I'm not getting a sense of who's who in the story. Yeah, Buck and Bucky are the leads, but there are so many others whose stories are barely touched upon. Too many people to present a coherent story of "let's follow these guys."
Lots of disposable characters as well (yeah, but it's about bombers over Europe, so there's that) whom you never get to know, so their loss is inconsequential to the drama.
So far, not as good as "The Pacific" and not close to "Band of Brothers."
Just finished The Pacific yesterday. Was better than expected. It didn't have a central character/story from start to finish the way BoB did, so I felt that hurt it a bit, but thought it overall captured the fighting and relationships pretty well. Really hard to try and find "problems" with a show of such quality.
I'm watching a movie right now that I'll mention later, so as not to be spoiled. All I'll say is I've had to had the Closed Captions on the whole time to understand the names/terms used... it would be impossible in a movie theater, I think, to follow along. Anyway, will let you know what it is when I'm done... and no, it's not Tenet.
