[watching] What have you viewed recently? (II)

Guvnor said:
Theatre of Blood excellent horror comedy with Vincent Price and Diana Rigg and everyone else from 1970 UK cinema.. at first.. 8/10
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I like that one. Keep meaning to watch the Dr Phibes films which I think are in a similar vein?
 
ltd said:
I like that one. Keep meaning to watch the Dr Phibes films which I think are in a similar vein?
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Yes I have seen a review that suggested it was the third Phones film in intent if not reality. I have them recorded on the PVR to watch next.
 
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S2 is hugely better and S3 looks like it will be epic based on where it got to. The first few eps of S1 were a little weak but it picked up well, both myself and my wife (who is Ok with fantasy but not a die-hard fan) enjoyed it.
 
dbm said:
S2 is hugely better and S3 looks like it will be epic based on where it got to. The first few eps of S1 were a little weak but it picked up well, both myself and my wife (who is Ok with fantasy but not a die-hard fan) enjoyed it.
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I thought the same. S2 was certainly a change of gear.
 
Watched Joker: Folie a deux tonight. It was a very interesting and engaging film. Very dark. Very different from the first film in some ways - kind of like how Alien and Aliens are very different films. A proper cinematic experience.
 
BBC4 reshowing Threads on Wednesday. Got the prawn cocktail crisps in all ready.
 
Buckaroo Banzai
Never watched it before. Verdict's out.
 
dbm said:
It’s so cheesy it’s good.
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It fails the Bechdel test so terribly that that bothered me. But it has elements and potential. That's not really enough for me. 5/10
 
It is a product of its time.

Compare that to the original Foundation book, which doesn’t even have a single female character in it. Another product of its time.
 
Fallout
Amazon
Oh I am so pleased they made this.
It's brilliant.
Plus I can't play the games, just incompetent, and this revealed to me a setting and story that I too can love.
 
Watched the Black Shuck episode of Charlie Cooper's Myth Country. The actor/writer from This Country goes in search of the legendary East Anglian devil dog. An interesting premise and some nice photography, but spoiled by eye bleeding editing and Cooper pratting about in his village idiot personna. I do think he's genuinely interested in folklore but he doesn't do himself any favours carrying on as if he's still in a comedy show.
 
Bullet Train
2022
Assassins on a train, very coincidentally a bullet train.
Quite fun colourful violent nonsense.
6/10
 
An anime palette cleanser before I turn to something more educational...

Scavengers' Reign: Shipwreck survivors marooned on an alien planet, trying to find their way home. 12 episodes. Some swearing and body horror. The ending is clearly setting up a second season, which I probably won't watch because I found the show very slow-moving, and it failed to answer any of the questions it sets up.

Terminator Zero: In a parallel 1990s Tokyo, a scientist is working on AI. Skynet sends a terminator back to stop him. The resistance sends a lone soldier back to stop the terminator. 8 episodes. This one feels more self-contained, although a second series would be possible. It builds on the idea from The Sarah Connor Chronicles that there are multiple timelines where Skynet and the resistance use time travel, but once you've established that sending someone back in time sends them to a parallel timeline, so the organisation sending them back can't benefit from doing so, you have to wonder why they bother. I managed not to think about that most of the time and enjoyed the show. (We won't get into the debate about time machines only working on living tissue, so how do terminators travel anyway?)
 
Paddington in Peru (Cinema) - stereotypical, amusing but never steps over the line.

Slow Horses Season 4 (AppleTV+) - absolutely top class, once again. Roll on season 5.

The Man in the High Castle (Amazon Prime) - finally finished this, and it ended very ambiguously. I could never binge watch it as the world it shows (where the Nazis won the war and conquered the USA and Japan occupied the Pacific rim of the US) was painful in the banality of the evil. Overall, a good series but I think it reminds me to much what's at stake in the US.

Working my way through The Bureau (Prime but purchased) which is a French spy drama following a DGSE operational team. The protagonist has returned to the office having been in the field for a long time and is adjusting back to a more normal life. Nice tradecraft, a different plot (the main thread circles around a missing agent in Algeria, but there's also a Syrian Civil War connection and another joint operation. One to savour.
 
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