Zaxxon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:51 pm
I caught Wind River last night. Didn't realize this had come to Netflix. I had meant to watch it in the theater last year but never made it. Good stuff.
They really did a good job, considering that this is the first time that the MCU and Netflix serieses have been mashed up.
Wind River has nothing to do with the MCU, or a series, other than having Jeremy Renner in it, AFAIK. Maybe you're not talking about the 2017 movie?
What kind of mashup are you talking about if it is the movie?
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I highly recommend EVIL GENIUS. It's about the 2003 "Collar Bomb" bank robbery which is one of the craziest true crime tales you'll probably ever hear. I just finished part 1 of 4 and it's fascinating.
YellowKing wrote:I highly recommend EVIL GENIUS. It's about the 2003 "Collar Bomb" bank robbery which is one of the craziest true crime tales you'll probably ever hear. I just finished part 1 of 4 and it's fascinating.
Saw that yesterday and thought I'd start it tonight. Just the trailer makes that story seem crazy.
Grifman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:23 pm
The Wild Wild Country is a great 6 part documentary about an Eastern religious group/cult that came to Oregon from India in the early 1980’s to start their own commune/city but over time descended into paranoid madness, leading to attempted local govt takeovers, planned assassinations of state and federal govt officials and to the largest bio terrorist attack in US history. I remember this because the leader tried to flee the country and was captured in Charlotte, NC, where I lived at time and it hit a lot of local press. It’s fascinating and hard to stop watching. The first episode is a bit slow but it rapidly builds from there.
Cannot +1 this enough.
Shortly after I moved to OR in 2015, I was on a team that took part in the Wild Canyon Games, which used to be held at the Young Life camp just outside Antelope. The WC Games was a multi-day team relay event, and I did the 10K and a day oh geo-caching. As I was running and roaming all over the terrain around the camp, I noticed all these ramshackle, abandoned buildings. Really creepy. It was only later that I found out that Young Life had taken over much of what used to be the Rajneesh compound, and all the old abandoned buildings were the living quarters for the old commune.
Very strange to be watching Wild Wild Country and recognizing some of that stuff.
Also, just went to dinner this week with some neighbors, and it turns out the husband sold anesthesia machines to the Rajneeshi back in the day. He met Ma Anand Sheela. Crazy,
Been watching this. Holy Cow. Really one of the best documentaries I've seen, and I've seen quite a few.
YellowKing wrote:I highly recommend EVIL GENIUS. It's about the 2003 "Collar Bomb" bank robbery which is one of the craziest true crime tales you'll probably ever hear. I just finished part 1 of 4 and it's fascinating.
Watched the first episode last night and holy crap this is a weird weird story.
$iljanus wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 10:21 pm
Currently watching Bright and I’m rather liking it. Suck it critics!
The wife and I finished this a couple of weeks back and really liked it.
It had a lot of flaws, and Will Smith was rather uninspired in it, but we enjoyed it anyways.
I liked the Orc partner. Yeah, he's a lot like the alien cop on Alien Nation but I liked that character too so it's a win win for me. Also I'm intrigued by the setting so I look forward to seeing a version of Shadowrun playing out on the TV screen.
Black lives matter!
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$iljanus wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 10:21 pm
Currently watching Bright and I’m rather liking it. Suck it critics!
The wife and I finished this a couple of weeks back and really liked it.
It had a lot of flaws, and Will Smith was rather uninspired in it, but we enjoyed it anyways.
I liked the Orc partner. Yeah, he's a lot like the alien cop on Alien Nation but I liked that character too so it's a win win for me. Also I'm intrigued by the setting so I look forward to seeing a version of Shadowrun playing out on the TV screen.
Exactly - the Orc partner (and the world) really carried the movie, IMHO. Will Smith didn't really add anything save name recognition...
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
They can keep their Hello Kitty but I can't wait to see the others. Transformers and LEGO no explanation needed, and the Star Trek toy lines have some fascinating rarities I hope they cover.
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"The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other men's business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs." - Clarence Darrow
I finished rewatching Altered Carbon last night. It was really interesting watching it all unfold while knowing the ultimate outcome. There's one scene that absolutely brought me to tears.
Spoiler:
When Lizzie is reunited with her mom (in the dude's sleeve) and dad in Poe's VR construct. Seeing her recognize her mom immediately ("There's something different...you changed your hair!) really hit me, for some reason.
It's right up with Firefly and Farscape as one of my favorite TV sci-fi shows. Now if they'd just hurry up and start the Poe spinoff.
When darkness veils the world, four Warriors of Light shall come.
Yeah, I started watching it a few nights ago and I'm really enjoying it. They really did a nice job with the visuals. It feels very unlike anything on TV anywhere.
Has anyone watched Cargo? It looks right up my alley with the pandemic theme but some pics I've seen have more of a zombie feel to it (which I am a bit meh on). Are their any OOpinions out there?
Yeah, watched it this past weekend. It was OK, I guess. It has more in common with The Last of Us. It's a bit more about humanity's struggle to survive amid a post-apocalyptic epidemic.
I finished the first season of Travelers this week and really enjoyed it. The last episode was a bit weak, but I'm very interested to see what happens in Season 2.
I finished Evil Genius last night. It was interesting but I don't think the series was as good as some of the other Netflix docs (e.g. Making a Murderer or Wild, Wild Country). I didn't find the people as compelling as in those other docs. and didn't really like how the maker of the doc continually interjected his own feelings as facts (especially apparent in the last episode).
My wife had an extra hard day of work the other day and was looking through Netflix for something to help her unwind and came across a new anime series called Aggretsuko and I couldn't have written a show better to help her through her troubles at work... she keeps saying Retsuko is her spirit animal now.
The Wikipedia entry summarizes it better than I can, but the show is really well written and is a charming coming of age story. If I had a young daughter or niece I would force them to watch it.
Retsuko is an anthropomorphic red panda, 25 years old and single, who works in the accounting department of a Japanese trading firm. Facing constant frustration every day from pushy superiors and annoying co-workers, Retsuko lets out her emotions by going to a karaoke bar every night and singing death metal.[2][3] After five years of working the daily grind, her relationships with her various co-workers are starting to shift, opening up in ways that can change her life for better... or for worse.
Sepiche wrote: ↑Fri May 25, 2018 1:30 pm
Facing constant frustration every day from pushy superiors and annoying co-workers, Retsuko lets out her emotions by going to a karaoke bar every night and singing death metal.
This now has my attention.
When darkness veils the world, four Warriors of Light shall come.
"The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other men's business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs." - Clarence Darrow
Found Eddie Murphy's Delirious last night. I've never seen it before. It has not aged well - particularly the first 10-ish minutes of jokes. I still have 19 minutes left, so maybe it ends strong, but I don't have a lot of hope.
stessier wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:25 am
Found Eddie Murphy's Delirious last night. I've never seen it before. It has not aged well - particularly the first 10-ish minutes of jokes. I still have 19 minutes left, so maybe it ends strong, but I don't have a lot of hope.
Finished last night. Probably not a good sign that the most memorable parts were the "clean" joke told for the kids and the heckler that got Eddie to drop the mic and crack up.
Started Richard Pryor Live In Concert. Only 25 minutes in, but much funnier.
Radius is a low budget gem of a science fiction/thriller. Guy wakes up without any memory and soon discovers anything that comes within 50 feet of him dies instantly. It’s slow but never overly so. And there’s enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the final few minutes.
I watched the History of The Eagles the other day and liked it a lot. I'm not a big Eagles fan by any stretch, but I like Behind the Music type stuff. Has anybody seen any of the other documentaries about bands? Any worth watching?
McNutt wrote:I watched the History of The Eagles the other day and liked it a lot. I'm not a big Eagles fan by any stretch, but I like Behind the Music type stuff. Has anybody seen any of the other documentaries about bands? Any worth watching?
I really enjoyed the Once in a Lifetime episode featuring Moby. The interview was interspersed with some real kick ass performances of his music.
Black lives matter!
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