What are you watching now?

kluurs

Ditto - critics are worthless.

Horace

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.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@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."

Mik

Enjoying Wednesday. Great show, very original.

Just this minute finished Strange New Worlds. Very good episode, hate the cliffhanger.

Mik

@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.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@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/

Copper

The Wild, Wild West on Amazon Prime

Now with advertising

Rainman

Diesel Creek
On YouTube.
Does that count?

kluurs

Watched Ann with and E - horrible show. One hates the lead character.

Jolly

Our Man in India.

James May crosses the country, in typical fashion.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Dr. Brain

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.

Link to video

Mik

Sounds stupid. Watched MotA e4 last night. Pretty good but one a week is frustrating.

Aqua Letifer

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

Sounds stupid. Watched MotA e4 last night. Pretty good but one a week is frustrating.

Same.

89th

@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.

89th

Ok just finished it.

Dune.

Never read the books, but it seems to be a common number one all-time sci-fi listing. Will go find our thread now.

In short, I don’t know how anyone can watch that movie without subtitles, so many original terms and hard to hear. Otherwise I enjoyed the production quality and emersion into that world. Good music, visuals… I feel like I got dropped into an epic sci fi tale without knowing the previous context or the eventual future, but I heard Dune 2 is beyond impressive.