OT: Consolidated Entertainment Thread (TV, movies, books, games) part VI - use spoiler tags!

[Brodeur]

Watch the original. It’s incredible.

It pains me to say the first 2 episodes of the revival sucked and don’t capture the magic of the original at all. They seemingly didn’t commit to either a reboot or a straight continuation of the original. It’s a weird mash up and it doesn’t work at all. My biggest problem with the show is the technical aspects. The score is overbearing and the cinematography sucks. They’ve adopted the MCU aesthetic rather than sticking to the grimy and gritty look and feel of the original. The dialogue as well just doesn’t hit. This show pales in comparison to the original and it’s really bumming me out.

Upon further review I probably watched the first two seasons and then cancelled Netflix before the third. I remember liking it but the one of the few things I can remember is the montage of Kingpin making eggs and how I never knew to add a dash of milk.

 

[My3Sons]

I finally watched Heretic @NjDevsRR

Excellent movie. Grant was fantastic. There are some iffy parts of the setup but you can hand wave most of them based on the nature of Grant's character. The ending was a bit disappointing but it was original and suspenseful and pretty sharp. Thanks for the recommendation.....

 

[NjDevsRR]

I finally watched Heretic @NjDevsRR

Excellent movie. Grant was fantastic. There are some iffy parts of the setup but you can hand wave most of them based on the nature of Grant's character. The ending was a bit disappointing but it was original and suspenseful and pretty sharp. Thanks for the recommendation.....

Watch it a second time, ever better!

Spoiler: Absolutely loved it

Hugh Grant was fantastic, especially the library scene where he was attacking all the denominations of religion while using Monopoly, The Hollie’s, Radiohead, Lana Del Rey, and Jar Jar Binks as examples of capitalistic ventures based on previous work, which he views religion is.

Then his devious scheme is exposed of him kidnapping and using followers of faith as pawns in his game of showing that the true point of religion is “control”.

Then Divine intervention kills the man trying to prove that divine intervention does not exist.

Brilliant

 

[Hisch13r]

Upon further review I probably watched the first two seasons and then cancelled Netflix before the third. I remember liking it but the one of the few things I can remember is the montage of Kingpin making eggs and how I never knew to add a dash of milk.

S3 was the best of the bunch.