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Acht posted:I'm thinking of starting on Bosch, but the first episode didn't really sell me yet. All 6 seasons are up on Prime. Does it get noticably better / interesting? It's one of my favorite cop procedurals. It's kinda corny but I really like it. Each season is a new case.
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Acht posted:I'm thinking of starting on Bosch, but the first episode didn't really sell me yet. All 6 seasons are up on Prime. Does it get noticably better / interesting? I think Bosch really starts hitting a groove on episode 3 and 4. The first two or three episodes feel like they were made with the intention of being binged, since there's a lot of ground work laid with all the characters and the growing mysteries. I think that Season 1's villain is compelling enough to watch the whole thing, and the B plot of the child bones cold case leads to interesting character moments with Bosch. It's a show that improves with every episode, because everything gets fleshed out more and more. Season 2 is leaps and bounds better, with all of the plots really coming together in a cohesive way. The characters have more compelling arcs, with some of the actors getting really wonderful moments to shine. I started watching it as a low-key fun show, something to watch when I had nothing else and had an hour to blow, and halfway through Season 1 I was sucked in. I don't binge TV shows, but Season 2 had me watching 2 or 3 episodes at a time. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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That's a really convincing post Franches, thank you.  Going to give it a proper go.
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Mover posted:Actually, I’m super curious which ones you consider worth watching. Save the rest of us, make your sacrifice mean something. I don't think any of them were particularly *good* but I did enjoy - The Body Flesh & Blood Pooka was okay Crawlers was funny There were others that were okay, and all had some good moments, but overall they were very predictable and generic horror stories.
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Medullah posted:I don't think any of them were particularly *good* but I did enjoy - I think A Nasty Piece of Work is pretty fun and off-putting in a good way, even if the ending gets a little too weird. Acht posted:That's a really convincing post Franches, thank you. Hope you like it! Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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Jul 29, 2020 15:06
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Medullah posted:Can someone please tell me why I watch every episode of Hulu's Into the Dark movies? They're like 3 for 15 but I keep going. Sunken cost fallacy. I need help. Holy crap, a horror anthology series I haven't heard of. Is it truly awful? I have a surprisingly high tolerance for those as long as they aren't insultingly bad. As long as the production values and acting are halfway decent, I'll watch anything.
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Franchescanado posted:I think A Nasty Piece of Work is pretty fun and off-putting in a good way, even if the ending gets a little too weird. Oh yeah I liked that one a lot too. LifeLynx posted:Holy crap, a horror anthology series I haven't heard of. Is it truly awful? I have a surprisingly high tolerance for those as long as they aren't insultingly bad. As long as the production values and acting are halfway decent, I'll watch anything. It's Blumhouse's anthology. I mean, I enjoy watching them when I'm doing something else, but I wouldn't call them good. Some good actors in them (Jimmi Simpson is great in his as always)
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In terms of leaser known anthologies, Prime has season 2 (only) of The Hunger, a short lived Canadian Showtime horror anthology show which honestly isn’t terrible, just all in on the early 2000s World Of Darkness aesthetic, which also has the distinction of being hosted by David Bowie
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Every into the dark I've watched has been mediocre at best, terrible at worst. I think I'm Just loving with You was the best one and it wasn't great.
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Fear City is dope but it loving sucks they interviewed noted ghoul Rudy Giuliani, guess they had to
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Medullah posted:Can someone please tell me why I watch every episode of Hulu's Into the Dark movies? They're like 3 for 15 but I keep going. Sunken cost fallacy. I need help. I watched them all too. Decent to have on in the background.
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LifeLynx posted:Holy crap, a horror anthology series I haven't heard of. Is it truly awful? I have a surprisingly high tolerance for those as long as they aren't insultingly bad. As long as the production values and acting are halfway decent, I'll watch anything. I didn't think any were terrible.....except for 'My Valentine'. That one was offensively bad.
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Finally decided to check out Bosch after years of constant recommendations, and I don't think you could create a worse protagonist for 2020. Old, rich, white cop on trial for his 5th civilian shooting death. Oh, and of course he's ex special-forces with too high a body count to remember and a hot younger woman trying to get him into the sack. That said, I kinda got hooked despite myself and watched the first 4 eps before forcing myself to go to bed. So, in summary, life is a land of contrasts and Bosch is good?
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Enos Cabell posted:Finally decided to check out Bosch after years of constant recommendations, and I don't think you could create a worse protagonist for 2020. Old, rich, white cop on trial for his 5th civilian shooting death. Oh, and of course he's ex special-forces with too high a body count to remember and a hot younger woman trying to get him into the sack. Yeah. It does these weird moments where it does show a (small) contrast against it's conservative streak. Bosch is obsessed with his job, but it's ruined his social life and he has no friends. Bosch lives in a nice house (due to having sold the rights of a case to have a movie made), but he's not actually rich. (Although I don't know how he affords his property tax.) The hot younger woman cop affair plays out pretty logically, which is a surprise. And even though Bosch is a Good Guy and a Good Cop, Irvin Irving's plot in season 1 is about systematic corruption, since he's playing a political game instead of concentrating on actually benefiting his investigations. Season 2 dives into police corruption even more. Bosch is still a Good Guy, but the whole B-Plot of Season 2 is about a group of cops secretly going rogue and loving poo poo up, and, without spoiling things, that theme is replicated in Bosch's plot in three different ways. And, honestly, even though Bosch may have good intentions, he explicitly does shady poo poo all the time while sticking to his personal moral code, and while the repercussions are never too severe, it's still emphasized by the show and other characters. It's definitely a Dad Show, and it's a centrist-skewing-towards-conservative in how it explores these ideas, but it's still really fun to watch. It still makes me laugh that little Titus Welliver at 5'7" is bad rear end ex-special forces Bosch, but he somehow sells it with his voice and demeanor.
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A comedian I like describes Bosch as “for dads, by dads” and I think that is a good summary of the show
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I watched American Animals on HBO and liked the way they spliced together the real-life subjects and their actor counterparts. It was a solid 'heist gone wrong' movie and the characters all felt like very real pseudo-intellectual college kids you'd meet at any university. I had no idea there was a Transylvania University inside the US I watched it because John Waters loved it so much (his top films of 2018 list)
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That's even more recommendation for me then. I'm an Actual Dad! Seriously; seen the first 3 episodes now and it's pretty good! Quite interested to see where it goes. I like those two goofball cops that pop up now and then. Hope they are regulars.
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LemonLimeSoda posted:I watched American Animals on HBO and liked the way they spliced together the real-life subjects and their actor counterparts. I liked this one a lot. The stakes are lower than something like Heat or Oceans 11, but the tension is ratcheted so high because these dudes aren't master thieves, they're just regular joes.
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Re: Bosch I enjoyed the books and the show. The books have Bosch as a tunnel rat in Vietnam so I imagined him as a little, nasty, way too serious guy. I feel Titus is a good pick compared to say Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher which always bothered me. I like how his personal code creates drama without Bosch making horror movie style obviously bad decisions. I think they show how much work Bosch does grinding the case rather than Mentalist style perfect inspiration. The books have more of his thoughts. I remember a scene where he's in Vegas, his lips are chapped, and he's has his daughter's strawberry chapstick but is too self conscious to use it in front of the FBI agent he's with.
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Just finished season 2 of Lodge 49 and man, i'm bummed it's probably not coming back. I get why it wouldn't be most people's cup of tea, and am not sure how you'd really market it. It has a pretty unique feeling that I haven't seen in a lot of other shows. Really hoping that maybe Hulu picks it up now that they have both seasons, but it seems pretty unlikely.
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For horror anthologies, I'd recommend Hammer House of Horror on Prime. It's from the early 80s and corny as hell, but pretty entertaining.
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Re: Bosch I watch it as a cop half-fantasy, and as the last of the dad cop shows. Also I used to make a lot of trips to LA, a town that I do not much care for, and I don't claim this as anything more than a visitor, but it nails the feeling of LA for me that I actually kinda enjoyed. I listened to a couple of Bosch audiobooks in the last couple months, narrated by Welliver himself, and I recommend them if you want more of the same. It seems to ride a similar line in its attitudes about the police that the show does, tending toward permitting the occasional rules-bending because the In one book, Bosch rides along with what's essentially a secret LAPD paramilitary hit squad that hunts down some Mexican gangstas that kidnapped his daughter, and he watches them execute the gang leader and his bodyguard from the passenger seat of a blacked-out Dodge Charger using a FLIR. In another, he tortures a confession out of a serial rapist by threatening him with an improvised sulfuric acid device. There's usually at least one justified shooting or other form of violence, like many police shows, and you're kinda left figuring out how you feel about it. I think in both cases Bosch appeared to be conflicted, but the narration doesn't dwell a whole lot on it. Like every other mystery story I've ever read, the details immediately start melting away once I finish the book. I think for me, it's one of the last police procedurals I'm gonna watch, but I like the corruption, the politics, the personalities, and the city.
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frogbs posted:Just finished season 2 of Lodge 49 and man, i'm bummed it's probably not coming back. I get why it wouldn't be most people's cup of tea, and am not sure how you'd really market it. It has a pretty unique feeling that I haven't seen in a lot of other shows. Really hoping that maybe Hulu picks it up now that they have both seasons, but it seems pretty unlikely. Season 2 is on Hulu now? Good, the ending to the first was ridiculous and I want more. I'm with you though.
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I tried 'Dating on the Spectrum' and it seems to vary widely between between genuine and exploitative based entirely around the person being filmed. I dont know if they had separate teams filming or maybe it just feels that way or they used the same shot construction regardless of the person's place on the spectrum.
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I was happy to see Bosch kind of right the ship a little with Season 6. I thought 5 was drifting into rougher waters but it seems like a relatively small dip now. Mentioning Bosch as by Dads for Dads, made think of Scott & Bailey, which is basically the by Moms for Moms version. It's on Amazon and apparently Hulu, and it's by the writer who went on to make Happy Valley if that helps. I really liked it and it was a good show to watch and chat about with my mom and one of my sisters. It's a decent British police procedural with a similar kind of energy to Bosch except it's two women as the leads who are living destroyed lives in a way that isn't romanticized. Although it's quaint that one of the officers illegally pulling license plate records to investigate her boyfriend is treated as a sword of Damocles. Like Bosch, I think it's neat that it's more of a grind show with a lot of meetings and careful work to piece the case together. I also didn't realize this, but it's very interesting to see a show mix up the cases. There are some standard procedural mysteries with a lot of twists and turns and some that run a few episodes or even come back around, but they also slot in some pretty straightforward ones and occasionally do some fun subversions.
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Action Movie Streaming Update August 2020 Netflix: Hardcore Henry, Mad Max, Casino Royale / Quantum of Solace (8/31) Hulu: The Last Stand, Top Gun, Casino Royale / Quantum of Solace (8/31) HBO: Hard to Kill, The Marine, Romeo Must Die Tubi: Desperado, Parker, Paycheck, Universal Soldier
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Medullah posted:There were others that were okay, and all had some good moments, but overall they were very predictable and generic horror stories. My best description is that they're good for when you have other things to do, because you don't have to pay *that much* attention and can duck in and out and not miss much.
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Iron Crowned posted:My best description is that they're good for when you have other things to do, because you don't have to pay *that much* attention and can duck in and out and not miss much. I'm always on the lookout for that kind of stuff because I watch it while I'm working. Anthology shows are great because there's no overarching plot where I have to worry about being confused because I got distracted and missed a plot point two hours back.
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Has anyone watched Butt Boy on Amazon prime? Cause it looks like it has weirdly high production values for something so... stupid sounding.
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Bosch is pretty good, I'm actually watching it episode by episode with my dad whenever I come over. I think in season 3 there's scene where a cop shoots a guy as he tried to pull a gun on him. They go to great lengths to show how seriously everyone takes this and the cop is grilled on whether he saw the gun before shooting etc. His son even asks him if the dead guy was black or white lol. Tonight I just watched Yes, God, Yes. It felt pretty lightweight but entertaining enough as far as growing up movies go. Just barely longer than an hour so that's a plus too. Without looking anything up I'd guess that it's somewhat autobiographical because otherwise there's no reason to set it in early 2000s.
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I had kind of always thought the best episodes of The X-Files were in the first two or three seasons, but season six is hit after hit
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Boco_T posted:Action Movie Streaming Update I completely forgot they made a Parker movie with Statham. The Parker books are excellent by the way and Richard Stark/Donald Westlake wrote a bunch of them.
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Inspector Hound posted:I had kind of always thought the best episodes of The X-Files were in the first two or three seasons, but season six is hit after hit I prefer the Vancouver seasons but the show’s decline doesn’t really start until Duchovny goes part-time in S8. And even then I still like the dynamic between Scully and Doggett. Season 9 is just awful all around though and Reyes is terrible.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I prefer the Vancouver seasons but the show’s decline doesn’t really start until Duchovny goes part-time in S8. And even then I still like the dynamic between Scully and Doggett. Season 9 is just awful all around though and Reyes is terrible. I loved X-Files as a kid and just watched whatever episodes I could find, without worrying about the order. Then, years ago, I started watching it from the beginning and made it early in season 8 (episode 5, Invocation). I'd suggest watching seasons 1-5, then the first movie. I like the first movie a lot, and while it won't really provide answers, it's a good high point to go out on.
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DorianGravy posted:I loved X-Files as a kid and just watched whatever episodes I could find, without worrying about the order. Then, years ago, I started watching it from the beginning and made it early in season 8 (episode 5, Invocation). I'd suggest watching seasons 1-5, then the first movie. I like the first movie a lot, and while it won't really provide answers, it's a good high point to go out on. This was my opinion too until like three days ago; the first episode of season 6 nullifies the movie, as it should, then it follows it up with absolute classics like Drive, the one where Walter White's head will explode if he doesn't go fast enough, Dreamland, the men in black freaky Friday and probably my favorite episode of the series, the Christmas ghosts episode, the Bruce Campbell one, the rain maker episode with Victoria Jackson, I don't know how I was remembering the show being poo poo after like season 4.
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Tokyo Tribe on Prime is incredible, especially if you're a Yakuza 0 fan. The film opens with a 30 minute rap tour through different parts of the Tokyo criminal underworld, at one point featuring Awano from Y0. Just an incredible and awe-inspiring cinematic achievement.
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Taintrunner posted:Tokyo Tribe on Prime is incredible, especially if you're a Yakuza 0 fan. The film opens with a 30 minute rap tour through different parts of the Tokyo criminal underworld, at one point featuring Awano from Y0. Just an incredible and awe-inspiring cinematic achievement. That sounds rad.
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The problem is that the rap really sucks rear end, and it's pretty gross in an anime sort of way too.
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Inspector Hound posted:This was my opinion too until like three days ago; the first episode of season 6 nullifies the movie, as it should, then it follows it up with absolute classics like Drive, the one where Walter White's head will explode if he doesn't go fast enough, Dreamland, the men in black freaky Friday and probably my favorite episode of the series, the Christmas ghosts episode, the Bruce Campbell one, the rain maker episode with Victoria Jackson, I don't know how I was remembering the show being poo poo after like season 4. Yeah, I'm sure that there are lots of good episodes left in the series at that point, so I guess people should just keep watching until they get tired. For me (at least in my memory), season 6 is where the show becomes increasingly less satisfying as far as the "myth-arc" went. For example, I felt that the Two Fathers/One Son two-parter was an extremely dull and disappointing way to wrap up one of the show's most interesting story lines. Why were you glad they nullified the movie? I liked that the movie finally gave us something more substantial. In the early seasons, not knowing who or what to trust is absolutely one of the series strengths, but at some point the characters needs to find something true, or else I'm going to lose interest. This all being said, X-Files is still one of my favorite shows.
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DorianGravy posted:Yeah, I'm sure that there are lots of good episodes left in the series at that point, so I guess people should just keep watching until they get tired. For me (at least in my memory), season 6 is where the show becomes increasingly less satisfying as far as the "myth-arc" went. For example, I felt that the Two Fathers/One Son two-parter was an extremely dull and disappointing way to wrap up one of the show's most interesting story lines. S1-Movie is a reasonably coherent package, but S6 and to a lesser degree S7 and 8 have some killer episodes too so it'd be a shame to dismiss them outright.
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