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"To the Ends of the Earth"
On Amazon Prime
Based on the classic William Golding trilogy of novels To the Ends of the Earth tells the story of a young Englishman and aristocrat Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his long, dazzling and hazardous sea journey in 1812 from England to Australia. Edmund’s journey takes him on a rite of passage from youthful bravado and arrogance to maturity and humility.
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Someday or One Day
After the death of her boyfriend, Wang Chuan-sheng (Greg Hsu), Huang Yu-hsuan (Ko Chia-yen) misses and longs to see her deceased boyfriend. Out of grief, Yu-hsuan frequently sends him text messages, hoping that he will somehow receive them.
One day, Yu-hsuan receives a parcel containing an old-school Walkman portable cassette player and a cassette tape of Wu Bai's album The End of Love. While listening to the tape on a bus, she falls asleep. Upon awaking, she discovers she has been transported to 1998, and has taken over the body of a high school girl named Chen Yun-ru. The night before, Chen Yun-ru had been hit by a car. When Yu-hsuan regains consciousness in Yun-ru's body, she sees a boy beside her hospital bed, who looks exactly the same as her late boyfriend. At first, Yu-hsuan believes she has been reunited with Chuan-sheng, but she learns things are not how they appear.
Trapped in living another person's life, Yu-hsuan tries to rewrite Yun-ru's fate. As she plays with destiny, Yu-hsuan learns about Yun-ru's "mysterious traffic accident".[5]
A Taiwanese series that was quite popular. There is a Korean remake on Netflix right ow that has done really well. I think top ten in world views recently, but I think the Taiwan version is better!! (No bias of course.) It was also made into a Taiwan movie, which condensed the 13 part series into a single movie. I recommend you watch the series instead.
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@mark said in What are you watching now?:
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Mark I just started this... my brother recommended it. Said it was a combo of Interstellar and Donnie Darko LOL. I'll report back when I'm done watching it in a few days.
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On Netflix - this is quite a good documentary about arguably the greatest current movie composer.
He's also a very likeable individual, and turned composing for movies on it's head. Definitely worth a watch.
I was only joking
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Baby reindeer. Never heard of it until this morning, when I read an article about in the times.
Watched episode 1, intriguing. Gonna continue.
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Ok did 6/7 episodes. I hear the ending is a good one. Very heavy. Adult themes.(sexual violence, identity,) but quite fascinating.
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Baby reindeer. Never heard of it until this morning, when I read an article about in the times.
Watched episode 1, intriguing. Gonna continue.
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Stalking. (In Scotland/london) crazy fat lady stalks naive young Scot with identity issues and a bit of loser but with a good soul.
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On Netflix - this is quite a good documentary about arguably the greatest current movie composer.
He's also a very likeable individual, and turned composing for movies on it's head. Definitely worth a watch.
@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you watching now?:
On Netflix - this is quite a good documentary about arguably the greatest current movie composer.
He's also a very likeable individual, and turned composing for movies on it's head. Definitely worth a watch.
Oh good to know. I'm actually going to his concert in September. Saw him a few years ago, too.
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I enjoyed the book, though my memory of it is dim.
Don't waste your time on this.
The series gets some of Wolfe's wit and sarcasm. Some.
But all the characters are completely two-dimensional and caricatures. You really don't care what happens to any of them - they are little more than stereotype placeholders for an OK plot.
That said, I like Daniels, even though he over-acts in this role. Also, I've lusted after Diane Lane for a long time.
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Spoiler free review of Furiosa that makes me want to see it:
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Yeah, good characters, very film noir. Writing a bit implausible, but it just keeps getting more and more complicated.
Is Sugar any good?
@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
Yeah, good characters, very film noir. Writing a bit implausible, but it just keeps getting more and more complicated.
Well, doesn't get more "noir-ey" than that, does it? Love the premise. Farrell is great, and the rest of the cast is outstanding.
The opening scene, in Japan, was great. It establishes Sugar as a conflicted, potentially very violent, and efficient professional. But...I feel like it's getting complicated for the sake of being complicated. The premise is simple - find the girl. But all the extraneous stuff is getting in the way of the narrative.
I'm enjoying the directing and editing. Very creative.
"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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Is Sugar any good?
@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
Yeah, good characters, very film noir. Writing a bit implausible, but it just keeps getting more and more complicated.
Well, doesn't get more "noir-ey" than that, does it? Love the premise. Farrell is great, and the rest of the cast is outstanding.
The opening scene, in Japan, was great. It establishes Sugar as a conflicted, potentially very violent, and efficient professional. But...I feel like it's getting complicated for the sake of being complicated. The premise is simple - find the girl. But all the extraneous stuff is getting in the way of the narrative.
I'm enjoying the directing and editing. Very creative.
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I feel like it's getting complicated for the sake of being complicated.
Well, that got...weird.
All the complicated stuff got sort of explained. His tolerance of alcohol makes sense in the end.
But, I wish they had just kept it a noir detective story. The character and storytelling are good enough to stop at that.
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I was amused to notice that "genre fiction" has now expanded to include "female true crime lovers". There's a Netflix serial called Killing Eve which targets that demographic, with a milquetoast middle aged female true crime lover who becomes embroiled in a real case, tracking a serial killer. It's on season 4 right now, and the main character was working for MI6 by season 1, episode 2. I guess I won't finish it, but I came across it and thought it was a funny expression of genre fiction. Not sure how they expanded it to four seasons.
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I watched the first season of a BBC production of an American period drama called Eric. First season. First episode. A white dad, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who is a puppeteer, probably modeled after Jim Henson, and who has rage issues in his marriage, but who is an ambiguous guy, spends a likely day and then his kid gets abducted. His kid is missing. There's a black cop who we think is on the case, he seems like an alpha male black cop type and we think he's on the case, then he visits a guy who's on his hospital bed with some cancer, maybe that's his adoptive dad, or something, but no, the alpha black cop climbs on top of the cancer patient and kisses him deeply, just like old times. I guess they used to be partners?
Man, the writers' room vibes are unmistakable. Taking memes, combining them. All for an audience. Meanwhile, these situations never happened in real life, ever.
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Just watched 1917 last night, which is now available on Netflix. I was meaning to watch it once available as I know it was up for Best Picture a couple years ago, including lots of talk about the "one shot take" approach. On that point...... wow, wow, wow. Yes there were some "cuts" hidden in there, but in general they were REALLY hard to see. Honestly the first 25-30 minutes I didn't see a single cut. The story itself is ridiculously simple (and in the trailer).... two soldiers are sent to cross enemy territory to stop another brigade from launching an attack that could kill 1,600 of their own men.
