For All Mankind is like a guilty soap opera pleasure for me. I enjoy it but I don’t know if I want to go recommending it to everyone; it can get cheesy at times.
The first season is amazing, 2nd season is great, then it starts to stutter a bit but levels out and is enjoyable. Hoping S5 ticks up a bit (they started filming a few months ago).
I’m a few episodes in on @Its Always Sundstrom recommendation. Seemed to start pretty slow but the acting was really good.
It is very well done. I’m rooting for a total thug but he’s the lesser of thr evils. I will still feel cheated at the end when we don’t even get a cameo of Batman.
Rosemary’s Baby was very good. It’s a creature of its time but that’s what it has to be evaluated against.
Think it aged like milk. Mia Farrow's performance was very good and I'm a huge John Cassavettes fan, but it's pretty rough these days. I see why it resonated, but unlike The Shining, The Exorcist or even The Omen movies, it's just a little too clunky for me. The score, the dialogue, the setups, etc.
Tell me a better movie filmed in that era covering the same subject matter? You are comparing it to movies made much later. Of course they hold up better. You have no obligation to like it and I don’t put it in the same tier as the thr movies you named but that’s not shaming it. It’s like saying Casino isn’t as good as the Godfather movies or Good Fellas.
I’m an M Night fan but his movies can be pretty hit or miss for me. Liked Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, Split but didn’t like the Village, Lady in the Water, The Happenining. For me Trap falls into the later, dispite absolutely loving the intial trailer. I feel like they gave away too much of the plot and the major twist. Was hoping for more.
I get what you're saying. I guess I feel that, even accepting for the era, it still feels like it doesn't have many redeeming qualities. I think I would've been just as disappointed in 1968 as now. I don't compare Psycho or Rear Window to LA Confidential, Parasite, etc. but, despite the old school Hollywood aspects, they still have a lot of power years later. Ditto for the original silent Nosferatu.
Yeah, I went in cold, not knowing anything. So I was very charmed by the premise and how it unfolded.
I think the biggest problem with Rosemary’s Baby is it is over reliant on the implication of the story. For another slightly more update approach watch The Sentinel from 1977. In the era of Rosemary’s Baby they didn’t show anything.
I think it leads j to the next Batman movie so not sure if it will make sense to have future seasons.
The holy grail of modern IP content would be making a compelling and highly watched villain tv series that drives into the next Batman movie over and over again. A true double dip of content that multiplies the success of both home and theater viewing.
I'm not a big Batman guy or DC guy for that matter. I'll watch the movies that interest me so I've seen the Polka Dot Man in the Suicide Squad but are those other two actual villains? Condiment King?
Both real, both guys that would only show up in something like Suicide Squad or Peacemaker because they’re so silly.
Just watched itHoly shit that finale for The Penguin. Such a great show.
I chuckled when they closed the episode on the Bat signal in the sky after the talk of Batman not showing up.
I hope DC makes a Dogwelder series.Both real, both guys that would only show up in something like Suicide Squad or Peacemaker because they’re so silly.
The Penny Peddler is kind of a 1 issue only character because he got sentenced to the death penalty at the end of it and was effectively never heard from again.
Penny Peddler does weird live on though, the batcave is often depicted with a giant penny trophy from their encounter, which you only really know if you’re a completionist Batman fan or you google “Who are the dumbest Batman villains?”
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I have found the science to fuse organics together as if I was welding metal!
I will not watch it. I have too much pride in my home state to accept that some Irish A-lister got slathered in six digits worth of makeup to play a role that could have been played by a Jersey Italian for less. That's anti-Italian discrimination, HBO.
I didn't love the creative choice at the end. I think that pushed him too far over the line to monster and undid a lot of what the series strove for. I understand the decision and in some way it makes sense but it didn't have to be that dark. Just my thought. At least they didn't make him drink kerosene and screw up which Greek myth they were referencing and defraud me with a "Lovecraftian" hype.
