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Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)
| September 26th, 2016 at 3:47:19 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11826 |
I liked Arq I give it 7 out of 10 stars I wanted to know what they would try next I liked those electric knuckles too. Kind of neat the bad guy was catching on and knew he had to change it up every time also. Didn't have to spend much on a set budget, whole movie pretty much takes place in just 3 rooms, bedroom, basement and kitchen Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| September 26th, 2016 at 11:39:29 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Without giving too much away, it does have a darker tone than Groundhog Day, Source Code or Edge of Tomorrow. In that sense it is more like Twelve Monkeys or "A Most Unusual Camera". |
| September 28th, 2016 at 1:10:08 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |  I have to say Marcella is the best thing I've seen made by Netflix (2 out of 8 episodes). Very intense. I like that she is an extremely flawed character. She is given to violent rage and the implication is she may be slightly psychotic. She doctors evidence and outright lies periodically. I particularly liked one scene where Marcella is walking into the tube and passes a woman begging for money with a baby and she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a cell phone to make a call. She seems oblivious to the beggar. In a later scene she goes back to the woman and pays her to do something for Marcella's own benefit, which implies that she not only uses people, but she did notice her in the original scene. In Land of the Lost from 2009 and from Pushing Daisies   Anna Friel in racier movie (but still safe for youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx9ezREF-O4 |
| September 29th, 2016 at 3:22:13 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | Netflix will raise prices in Mexico next month by 30%. Considering how seldom I make use of it, I think I should cancel before the next bill is due on Oct. 28th. I do know the new Trek series will be there, as well as, supposedly, all other Trek series. That would be great, but not US $6.50 a month great. Besides, I figure I can wait until the full first season of the series is in, pay one month, binge it, and then cancel :) So long, Netflix. it was... ok, I guess. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| September 29th, 2016 at 4:30:44 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Marcella rated an 89% on rotten tomatoes (1 bad review in 8)
David Tennant TV appearances 93% Marvel's Jessica Jones 2015 85% The Escape Artist 2013-2014 66% Gracepoint 2014 88% Broadchurch 2013 60% Spies Of Warsaw 2013 89% Doctor Who 2006 |
| September 29th, 2016 at 5:14:43 PM permalink | |
| TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 | Anna Friel is simply brilliant. Never seen a bad performance from her, just bad scripts she's had. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
| September 29th, 2016 at 5:56:19 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 | A lot of one and two star reviews on the Netflix Marcella page. Mostly about her dour demeanor all the time, and the story in general. Apparently they kill an animal in one episode and that really turns people off. It encourages people to do it, that's why it's verboten. It sounds like a dark violent show, I might look at it anyway. Not a fan usually. https://www.netflix.com/search/mar?jbv=80094728&jbp=2&jbr=1 If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 29th, 2016 at 7:11:24 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I suppose they think that killing a dog is worse than killing a child. The show is very dark, violent and depressing. More and more European TV shows are in this genre, and they can be very disturbing. American shows keep the violence a little more cartoon-like and confine it to violent criminals. Innocents are not killed as often. |
| September 29th, 2016 at 7:38:57 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
People feel differently about their dogs. They often feel far closer to the family pet than the family itself. Dogs are always there for you, they never complain, they never get mad, they always do what you want to do, and very enthusiastically. Dogs experience, in a limited fashion, 30 of the same emotions we do. You can get closer to a dog emotionally than any other animal. I remember when Mickey Rourke won a big award for The Wrestler. He had been down and out for years. In his acceptance speech, he thanked his dogs for pulling him thru that time emotionally. All his friends had deserted him, something a dog will never do. Only a dog person would understand what he was talking about. A relationship you have with a special dog can be the most fulfilling one you ever have. This was my sig line for a long time. "I've been around people and I've been around dogs. I prefer dogs." Charles DeGaulle If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 30th, 2016 at 4:40:14 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |  CBS bought the rights to this book last summer and aired a TV series about it. The first season was diverting fun, but the second season seems to have jumped the shark badly and the animals are developing some alien like powers. Did anyone read the book? I was wondering if they used up the ideas in the book in the first season, and now some stoned twenty somethings are writing the storyline. ----------------- I dislike genre jumping. There was a very entertaining thriller directed by James Cameron called "The Abyss" that came out in 1989. It followed The Terminator (1984), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), and Aliens (1986).  In the last section of the movie, it seemed that they wanted to show off the burgeoning Computer Graphics industry, and all these aliens appeared.  In particular 27 years later when those CG images are the fodder of cheap TV shows, the movie has lost any eternal qualities as the story line was just terminated with cheap writing. |