OT: Let's talk about Movies and TV Shows, Part XXX (...how can this possibly go wrong)

[bleuetbio]

Both the wife and I were huge fans of Lost and barely got through episode one of Yellowjackets.

Huge fan of the original TLOU game, but the choice of Bella Ramsey and the changes to Ellie as a character has made the show less appealling than the original story. It's still a good show, but I expected better and kinda loathe how HBO are dead set on using actors they know rather than actors who would better fit the characters.

Dune Prophecy was pretty good imo, and I'm not some big fan of the movies. Really strong cast and a nice exploration of the origins of the witchs's stronghold on the Empirium.

You should give another to Yellow. The stories in the woods are going better and better.

Last of us.... I would want to say I disagree to Mrs Ramsey, but unfortunatly I have to agree with you. That said, I realy like Pascal choice.

Dune: I was a fan of the movies, just can embrace the serie. Nothing about the cast in particular

 

[angusyoung]

I was told that Guzzo went tits up, couldn't happen to a nicer guy! He's an oddball if there ever was one. His taste in artwork and decorating is pretty weird shit, even his household staff is weird, like they are in some sort of trance or something, his wife however is alright, at least she was back in the day anyways.



Just had to mention we caught a show we never heard of and thought it sounded intriguing and many episodes were available. It is called '' FBI International '' and it appears as if it is indeed filmed in Europe. I can't recall a show with such terrible acting and writing and can only surmise all work done was voluntarily and they used a grade 2 English literature composition as the script. It was riddled with so many errors in so many ways it was ridiculous and pathetic, just a little heads-up people, save your time and sanity.

 

[ahmedou]

My dadou

My mommy

My bro

 

[ahmedou]

 

[Runner77]

 

[LaP]

One of the cheesiest and stupidest moment in TV history.



My mom was so happy. My dad did not understand why she was or at least pretended to not understand and me and my sisters were laughing our asses off.

 

[Runner77]

This nails it in terms of what Dallas was about:

« The Ewings were more operatically miserable than any other family on TV, they slept around more, and many of them were single-mindedly devoted to ruining other people’s lives for money. Inside their all-American house lurked murder schemes, secret relatives, rare diseases, and an entire season that was all a dream. The show upended our common logic—our moral codes, our sense of cause and effect—with a J. R. Ewing smirk. »

Dallas was cheesy but groundbreaking:

« But when we watch TV today, we’re visiting a house that Dallas helped build. Back in 1978, it was rare for a show’s stories to bleed from one episode to the next, for each season to end with a cliff-hanger, and for scripts to foreground a morally compromised protagonist. In 2018 that’s a standard blueprint for prestige television. »

'Dallas' at 40: The Inside Story Behind the Show That Changed Texas Forever

How the trashiest, campiest show on television revolutionized pop culture, rebooted Texas’s reputation, and helped bring down the Romanian government. (Maybe!)

www.texasmonthly.com

 

[Habitant#1]

Andor is such a magnificent show.

Basically in my head the prequel trilogy is now: Andor S1, Andor S2, Rogue One.

For those who haven't watched it: it's set in the Star Wars universe, but without Jedi's and lightsabers. It's about the origins of resistance movement against the Empire before it formally becomes the rebel alliance. It plays as character driven WWII resistance story.

You don't even really need prior Star Wars knowledge other than that the Empire is a fascist dictatorship. Though there are several easter eggs for the SW nerds throughout.

10/10 strongly recommend.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Fun fact: For Halloween as a kid I dressed as a cowboy with a note saying that I shot JR. This was before it was revealed who did it...