What Are You Watching Right Now - The Watching Dead
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No procedure could make that happen.
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Battleship is on TV. I genuinely don't understand the hate for this perfectly harmless and cheekily entertaining movie.
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Is there much in the way of Rhianna eye candy? I likes me some Rhi-Rhi.
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It was before she became a mardy-faced, over-inked clothes horse.
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At last we agree! I thought it was a lot of fun. Stupid, stupid, stupid fun.Dalty wrote:Battleship is on TV. I genuinely don't understand the hate for this perfectly harmless and cheekily entertaining movie.
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Yup! Sometimes stupid fun is...... fun!
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PBS.
More informative and educational in one hour than the entire months output of History, Discovery and National Geographic channels combined these days. Those so-called "educational" channels should hang their heads in shame at the anti-intellectualism they seem to permanently peddle.
More informative and educational in one hour than the entire months output of History, Discovery and National Geographic channels combined these days. Those so-called "educational" channels should hang their heads in shame at the anti-intellectualism they seem to permanently peddle.
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It is a cold-ass night in Toronto. Gonna binge watch some Saul, then rewatch a few movies.
Haven't seen Training Day in awhile.
Haven't seen Training Day in awhile.
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Have 'The Martian' on demand......
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i started watching BoJack Horseman on Netflix. It's sort of funny, but seems to be really Hollywood/entertainment industry focused. i heard it gets better as it goes along, I think I am only about 5 or 6 episodes in.
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All this high-falutin' talk about gravity waves lately has got me in the mood for some Interstellar again.
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I've started going back to Walking Dead. I saw the first 2 seasons but let it go. Now I'm game to take it all in.
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Holy fucking shit Walking Dead! What an episode to introduce the second half of the season!
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It's on my Sky box - taunting me..... I am resisting the urge as its 10:50pm here and I have work tomorrow.
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That was a pretty awesome episode of TWD.
Binged "Fear the Walking Dead" last week. Not sure why it was sorta panned, it's not bad. Not like TWD, but it's a cool plague story and I like those. I'll check out the next season when it comes.
Binged "Fear the Walking Dead" last week. Not sure why it was sorta panned, it's not bad. Not like TWD, but it's a cool plague story and I like those. I'll check out the next season when it comes.
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Gotta watch it now!!! But I like to drink wine with TWD - and I am not allowed to drink during the week. Ho-motherhubbard-hum.
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You need to drink during the week. Otherwise, you'll dehydrate.
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Negs, make sure you watch the webisodes for Fear the Walking Dead. They are going to introduce a new character on the show through the webisode. They have had 9 installments so far, not sure how many more they will have.neglet wrote:That was a pretty awesome episode of TWD.
Binged "Fear the Walking Dead" last week. Not sure why it was sorta panned, it's not bad. Not like TWD, but it's a cool plague story and I like those. I'll check out the next season when it comes.
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Wine open......
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Me and my GF watched "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" over the weekend. I had intended on ignoring it, but surprisingly she wanted to see it. So...easy anniversary present.
I also thought, since I have been lax on writing lately I'd try and work up a little review. (also, lax on spelling. So many red lines to correct before posting this)
Also, I'll attempt to keep spoilers light, but it may be peppered with a few, specifically in the lists.
Ahem
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
In "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" (referred to as PPZ for the future) England is under siege from a terrible plague, the recently dead have risen and are set upon making tea from the brains of their betters. But normal life must go one, and as humanity dwindles down at an ever increasing pace the aristocracy must survive. One man, with little screen time, must attempt to marry off his daughters so that they can abandon the life he has forged for them and mooch off another man.
I'm not really sure what needs to be reiterated here, as this is a project that seems to have permeated the mass consciousness pretty well. It is Pride and Prejudice but they have included zombies, and this was a big deal back when the book came out. It is interesting though that rather than simply bolting on one of the preexisting zombie tropes they have opted to create their own mythology here (granted, they could be lifting from a source unknown to me, but at least it is not an obvious one). And the blending does work well, with the source material providing a well established 'normal life' for the characters to have leaving the writers of this to focus on establishing a solid framework to build on.
They have, however, ran short on Spackle, as events fly by with only a handful of character names and allegiances revealed. A interesting world is built but not shown. And an overzealous plot peters out in a silly fashion that left me with questions that the movie didn't even have to include.
And now, lists:
[*]Zombies in period pieces in general is an idea I enjoy. Most zombie films break down to humanity facing it's dark side and our returning to a more primitive time to deal with it. I like the idea of people in those 'primitive' times dealing with it, in much the same fashion as they go about their day. I enjoyed it here, I enjoyed it in Red Dead Redemption and I'd like to see it used elsewhere as well.
[*]The use of martial arts as a staple in this world was pretty cool. That well to do families sent their children off to become better at fighting simply to survive the world as it had become. This helped preserve a bit of determination, and also the difference between styles was an interesting class choice.
[*]Matt Smith. I was worried that he would take me out of the film, but instead he gave me at least one character to latch on to. Very funny.
[*]The acting was pretty competent all around.
[*]The zombie plot peters out and there is nothing done with it, except to give one person an out that makes little sense given what the audience has recently watched.
[*]Mr. Darcy is a jerk. He is unlikable, we are given no reason to change our opinion of him, and he pretty much consigned several people to death by ignoring everything the movie has taught us.
[*]The romance in the movie is non-existent. Side characters do a decent enough job, but have no focus. The primary couple simply bicker until the point that they are assumed to fall in love.
[*]The action is rarely seen. This is a movie full of gun toting bad ass martial artists. The film however prefers surprise, off-screen head shots and dark room brawls. Until two of the leads engaged in a sitting room altercation I just assumed this was because no-one had been properly trained. Apparently they were, but showing us would have been too hard.
[*]I did some research and it appears that the ending of the film diverges from that of the novel. By a lot. As it stands the ending of the film made little sense to me, whereas the ending of the book seems like it would have been a more satisfying conclusion.
[*]There is a mid-credits sequence and it pretty much erases everything the movie had accomplished.
This is a decent film, that boasts several fun moments. Ultimately, however, it is a romantic, martial arts, zombie movie in which the romance doesn't work, we can't see the action, and the zombies are shoved aside and ignored. It could have been much more.
Two (out of five) Stars.
I also thought, since I have been lax on writing lately I'd try and work up a little review. (also, lax on spelling. So many red lines to correct before posting this)
Also, I'll attempt to keep spoilers light, but it may be peppered with a few, specifically in the lists.
Ahem
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
In "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" (referred to as PPZ for the future) England is under siege from a terrible plague, the recently dead have risen and are set upon making tea from the brains of their betters. But normal life must go one, and as humanity dwindles down at an ever increasing pace the aristocracy must survive. One man, with little screen time, must attempt to marry off his daughters so that they can abandon the life he has forged for them and mooch off another man.
I'm not really sure what needs to be reiterated here, as this is a project that seems to have permeated the mass consciousness pretty well. It is Pride and Prejudice but they have included zombies, and this was a big deal back when the book came out. It is interesting though that rather than simply bolting on one of the preexisting zombie tropes they have opted to create their own mythology here (granted, they could be lifting from a source unknown to me, but at least it is not an obvious one). And the blending does work well, with the source material providing a well established 'normal life' for the characters to have leaving the writers of this to focus on establishing a solid framework to build on.
They have, however, ran short on Spackle, as events fly by with only a handful of character names and allegiances revealed. A interesting world is built but not shown. And an overzealous plot peters out in a silly fashion that left me with questions that the movie didn't even have to include.
And now, lists:
- The Good
[*]Zombies in period pieces in general is an idea I enjoy. Most zombie films break down to humanity facing it's dark side and our returning to a more primitive time to deal with it. I like the idea of people in those 'primitive' times dealing with it, in much the same fashion as they go about their day. I enjoyed it here, I enjoyed it in Red Dead Redemption and I'd like to see it used elsewhere as well.
[*]The use of martial arts as a staple in this world was pretty cool. That well to do families sent their children off to become better at fighting simply to survive the world as it had become. This helped preserve a bit of determination, and also the difference between styles was an interesting class choice.
[*]Matt Smith. I was worried that he would take me out of the film, but instead he gave me at least one character to latch on to. Very funny.
[*]The acting was pretty competent all around.
- The Bad
[*]The zombie plot peters out and there is nothing done with it, except to give one person an out that makes little sense given what the audience has recently watched.
[*]Mr. Darcy is a jerk. He is unlikable, we are given no reason to change our opinion of him, and he pretty much consigned several people to death by ignoring everything the movie has taught us.
[*]The romance in the movie is non-existent. Side characters do a decent enough job, but have no focus. The primary couple simply bicker until the point that they are assumed to fall in love.
[*]The action is rarely seen. This is a movie full of gun toting bad ass martial artists. The film however prefers surprise, off-screen head shots and dark room brawls. Until two of the leads engaged in a sitting room altercation I just assumed this was because no-one had been properly trained. Apparently they were, but showing us would have been too hard.
- The Fiddly
[*]I did some research and it appears that the ending of the film diverges from that of the novel. By a lot. As it stands the ending of the film made little sense to me, whereas the ending of the book seems like it would have been a more satisfying conclusion.
[*]There is a mid-credits sequence and it pretty much erases everything the movie had accomplished.
This is a decent film, that boasts several fun moments. Ultimately, however, it is a romantic, martial arts, zombie movie in which the romance doesn't work, we can't see the action, and the zombies are shoved aside and ignored. It could have been much more.
Two (out of five) Stars.
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I set up PPZ as a way to refer to it later, and then never did so. I suck.
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Mr Darcy was always a jerk, even without Zombies. Yet every woman who has read PP (no Z) melts and fawns over him. Leads me to think maybe women love a jerk!
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All this talk about the global financial shitstorm makes me want to go back and watch Wall Street again.
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You're clearly setting someone up for a pun. Be wary. I have the wall emoticon cocked and ready to fire at a moment's notice.Dalty wrote:Leads me to think maybe women love a jerk!
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No no no no no no. The reason women love Darcy is because he is a jerk, and then specifically changes for the better because of what she says to him. Total fantasy.Dalty wrote:Mr Darcy was always a jerk, even without Zombies. Yet every woman who has read PP (no Z) melts and fawns over him. Leads me to think maybe women love a jerk!