Television

[BjorgenFjorgen]

We finished the first season of Detectorists and started the second recently. I'm really loving the show. I know it's older, but it's kind of filling a Lodge 49-shaped hole for me. Any other recs for fairly light-hearted, low-stakes, humanist shows?

 

[jamieanderson1968]

We finished the first season of Detectorists and started the second recently. I'm really loving the show. I know it's older, but it's kind of filling a Lodge 49-shaped hole for me. Any other recs for fairly light-hearted, low-stakes, humanist shows?

Cannot recommend this show enough. As you say, very humanist. Unfolds at a glacial pace, but if you like that this show is for you. Like when MacKenzie Crook is just allowed to be himself, not a bug eyed idiot.

We just started watching Starstruck. I am a sucker for anything with a Taskmaster alum (Rose Matafeo). I am not a big rom-com fan but the first couple of eps are funny. She doesn't break new ground with the genre but the characters are fun. I think the 2nd season just dropped in the UK.

I always push people to Get Shorty. The series has almost nothing to do with the movie/book other than it involves movies. It was much better than I was expecting. Chris O'Dowd is great. Sadly I doubt they will ever do another series after the first few of seasons

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Cannot recommend this show enough. As you say, very humanist. Unfolds at a glacial pace, but if you like that this show is for you. Like when MacKenzie Crook is just allowed to be himself, not a bug eyed idiot.

We just started watching Starstruck. I am a sucker for anything with a Taskmaster alum (Rose Matafeo). I am not a big rom-com fan but the first couple of eps are funny. She doesn't break new ground with the genre but the characters are fun. I think the 2nd season just dropped in the UK.

I always push people to Get Shorty. The series has almost nothing to do with the movie/book other than it involves movies. It was much better than I was expecting. Chris O'Dowd is great. Sadly I doubt they will ever do another series after the first few of seasons

I will check them out, thank you!

Yeah, the glacial pace is part of what I like about the show for sure. It's nice just to exist in their small town/pub/community for a while.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

The Problem with those is that tgey were pretty terrible in the Cinema right upon release

I enjoyed them but I enjoy quest movies. Heck I enjoy Willlow.

 

[Hemotep]

I enjoyed them but I enjoy quest movies. Heck I enjoy Willlow.

Whoever doesn't enjoy Willow is untrustworthy. That movie rules.

 

[kvetcha]

She studied to be a cinematographer.

I just don't think I've ever heard anyone anywhere suggest the movies are poorly shot.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

I just don't think I've ever heard anyone anywhere suggest the movies are poorly shot.

Ever seen Battlefield Earth? Very few scenes are shot level and that was a conscious artistic decision. Has nothing to do with being poorly shot, but the artistic framing becomes tedious and distracting. (This ignores how utterly terrible of a movie it is)

LoTR poorly shot? No. But I find the constant use of soft focus distracts from the visual storytelling. Again this is only my opinion and I don't want to take away anyones enjoyment of the movies.

 

[Turbo]

Ever seen Battlefield Earth? Very few scenes are shot level and that was a conscious artistic decision. Has nothing to do with being poorly shot, but the artistic framing becomes tedious and distracting. (This ignores how utterly terrible of a movie it is)

LoTR poorly shot? No. But I find the constant use of soft focus distracts from the visual storytelling. Again this is only my opinion and I don't want to take away anyones enjoyment of the movies.

The area in front of the main McGill building was closed off for the filming of that abomination. They had made portions of the building and road look post apocalyptic or something. Burnt out cars, cement blocks and such.

That set was on my way home from the lab one day.

This all reminds me of another filming-related story. When I first moved to Montreal in 1994, there was a murder on the road about a block away from my apartment building, so I was a bit on edge in those first few months. A few weeks later, I was walking in a residential part of my neighborhood and some gun shots sounded. I immediately threw myself on the ground behind a parked car, in absolute fear. Next thing I heard was "CUT!". There was some scene being filmed in front of one of those nice row houses. At least I found out I would react quickly if I heard shots.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

This all reminds me of another filming-related story. When I first moved to Montreal in 1994, there was a murder on the road about a block away from my apartment building, so I was a bit on edge in those first few months. A few weeks later, I was walking in a residential part of my neighborhood and some gun shots sounded. I immediately threw myself on the ground behind a parked car, in absolute fear. Next thing I heard was "CUT!". There was some scene being filmed in front of one of those nice row houses. At least I found out I would react quickly if I heard shots.

Surprised they allowed you to get that close to it. I remember when they were filming a scene from Fringe that involved a shoot out scene near my office. They had so much signage around about the sounds people would hear, plus they had production people come by the office a couple of days before and the day of. They even brought us a bunch of doughnuts and coffee.

But Battlefield Earth is a true abomination. My friend thinks is should be declared a hate crime.

 

[kvetcha]

Ever seen Battlefield Earth? Very few scenes are shot level and that was a conscious artistic decision. Has nothing to do with being poorly shot, but the artistic framing becomes tedious and distracting. (This ignores how utterly terrible of a movie it is)

LoTR poorly shot? No. But I find the constant use of soft focus distracts from the visual storytelling. Again this is only my opinion and I don't want to take away anyones enjoyment of the movies.

Yeah, BE was all dutch angles without any artistic intent.

I suppose I’ve never really thought of LotR as having a lot of soft focus outside of the Elves.

 

[Turbo]

Surprised they allowed you to get that close to it. I remember when they were filming a scene from Fringe that involved a shoot out scene near my office. They had so much signage around about the sounds people would hear, plus they had production people come by the office a couple of days before and the day of. They even brought us a bunch of doughnuts and coffee.

But Battlefield Earth is a true abomination. My friend thinks is should be declared a hate crime.

For the BE set, they weren't actually filming when I went by. They had some security guards and fences blocking things, but you could walk by quite close so I was able to have a good look at the sets. I remember being amazed at how cheap it all looked.

For the other set, it was pretty much just closed off at the front of that row house. I was probably 5-6 houses down when the shots fired so I couldn't tell what was happening on the spot.

 

[Hemotep]

Ever seen Battlefield Earth? Very few scenes are shot level and that was a conscious artistic decision. Has nothing to do with being poorly shot, but the artistic framing becomes tedious and distracting. (This ignores how utterly terrible of a movie it is)

LoTR poorly shot? No. But I find the constant use of soft focus distracts from the visual storytelling. Again this is only my opinion and I don't want to take away anyones enjoyment of the movies.

I'd never argue the fact that BE is objectively a terrible movie, but that didn't stop me from getting it on DVD and probably watching it while stoned a dozen or so times when it came out.

 

[kvetcha]

I'd never argue the fact that BE is objectively a terrible movie, but that didn't stop me from getting it on DVD and probably watching it while stoned a dozen or so times when it came out.

Have you watched it with the Rifftrax?

 

[Hemotep]

Have you watched it with the Rifftrax?

No, but I think I need to now

 

[Max Sterling]

 

[ayayrawn]

Kind of impressed at how this looks incredibly cheap and expensive at the same time.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Kind of impressed at how this looks incredibly cheap and expensive at the same time.

It’s all too perfect. A mythical medieval realm shouldn’t be so pristine.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I am excited for this one…

…John C Reilly as Jerry Buss during the “Showtime” years!? Hell yes! They better not shy away from the coke parties and locker room orgies. I hope this turns out being Boogie Nights but with Basketball.

 

[tvham]

Euphoria

Spoiler

fuck Nate

 

[nolalady]

Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Rises: Inside ‘The Rings of Power’

One show to rule them all—the first look at a billion-dollar saga set thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary trilogy.

www.vanityfair.com

Oh please, please let them not mess this up the way they did the Fountain and The Wheel of Time.

I am excited for this one…

…John C Reilly as Jerry Buss during the “Showtime” years!? Hell yes! They better not shy away from the coke parties and locker room orgies. I hope this turns out being Boogie Nights but with Basketball.

I don't like basketball, but this looks FUN.