SubJeff on 26/8/2019 at 07:48
"Was ist es?" pretty much sounds like the English. "Mein arm ist gebrochen"? You can probably guess. Dutch is even more like English in some cases - wat is dat?
demagogue on 26/8/2019 at 11:56
Man, you just muffed up one of the most classic ways German is alien to English.
You'd say "Ich habe mir den Arm gebrochen." I have broken myself the arm.
I can vouch for Dutch though. I remember two guys softly speaking Dutch outside my door once and I'd have sworn it was English.
Gray on 27/8/2019 at 17:28
I've not seen that for, um, what, decades? I keep hoping it'll be on the TV again soon, if nothing else to prove my memories of it wrong. One of my favourite bands, Orbital, sampled it not too long ago, which reminded me of it. Family Guy also parodied it. I want to see it again now, but not enough to actually pay for a DVD.
Gryzemuis on 28/8/2019 at 02:42
Quote Posted by Renzatic
I just got through my week long bing through Dark. Awesome show all around.
Glad you liked it.
I'm watching another show this week. Sharp Objects. HBO show, 2018, 8 episodes. After a novel, so when the 8 episodes are done, the series is done. I'm not sure what to think of this one. But it's good. I've seen 6/8 episodes so far. Really well made. The last 2 tv-series I've seen were Dark and Twin Peaks. This got nothing to do with that. This is a show after a novel written by a woman, the main character is a woman, the scriptwriter and producers are women. And most of the characters in the story are women. On top of that, I usually want a movie or a series to have at least one person I can relate to. The main character in Sharp Objects (played by Amy Adams) has absolutely nothing in common with me. But I still like it.
It's about a woman reporter that goes back to the little city where she grew up, to report about a girl that was murdered, and one girl that is missing. The story is good. The setting is done very well, I think. The actors are good. The attention to detail is amazing. I'm gonna watch the last 2 episodes tomorrow night.
What makes me happy is the fact that this is just a very good tv-series, that I had not heard of before. It seems people are still getting better at making tv-series. And companies allow those people to do whatever they wanna do. Movies are dead. I've watched a lot (really a lot) of movies since I was 20 years old. I can talk for hours about my favorite movies. :) But for some reason, the last 10 years have produced about zero movies that I like. Since I was able to watch movies over the net (2008) I've watched a lot of movies that were on my "back-catalogue". But for some reason, that stopped a few years ago. It's almost as if I've seen all the good movies. And no new good movies are being made these days. I'm not alone in this. My sister's boyfriend is a huge movie-watcher. He's seen a lot more movies than me (also Asian and more obscure movies). But he stopped watching movies 2-3 years ago. Same reason: there are no new interesting movies.
But tv-series are alive. Every year we get a handful of really good, or really entertaining series. I also hope we'll get more series made outside the US and the UK. (Dutch television is mostly Dutch of course, with a bunch of American main-stream movies, and a lot of British detective-series). Dark was good. I'd love to see some Russian tv-series for a change. Russians are good story-tellers.
Anyway, if people have access to Sharp Objects, and got 8 hours to spend, maybe you should watch it. I was sure people on TTLG would like Dark, because the story has a big element in it that would fly with the typical TTLG forum-goer. That's not the case for Sharp Objects. But the show seems to be so well done, that I think people will still like it, even if it doesn't have fantasy or sci-fi elements in it.
Edit: I watched the last 2 episodes of Sharp Objects tonight.
Jezus Christ.
rachel on 28/8/2019 at 11:20
I watched the first eppy of Dark and it seems pretty good indeed, I'll keep on watching. Feels like a German Stranger Things, which is pretty cool.
On the other hand, I watched the first of The Boys and... it did absolutely nothing to me. Not sure why, it just falls flat. *shrug*
I'll check Sharp Objects, Gryz. Sounds pretty good by your description, and I'd watch Amy Adams in pretty much anything. :)
Gryzemuis on 28/8/2019 at 15:41
Stranger Things is fun. But it's basically a kid's show. Nothing deep. A bunch of cliches with some kid's humor and some eighties nostalgia. Dark requires you to have a few more iq-points than Stanger Things. :) Maybe I also liked Dark because it was German. I live 300 meters from the German border. But I never go there. I watch a little German tv sometimes, but not really much. But the Dutch people are basically Germans with their own language. When I watch US tv-shows, it is so obvious that Americans really have a different culture in so many ways. (Sharp Objects is a good example. The things people say or do in that show are sometimes so outrageous, unbelievable. But I do know there are people who are really like that. Just not in my world). On the other hand, watching Germans is like watching Dutch people with a strange accent. So a show like Dark (or Parfum) is much closer to home for me. The people, and especially the kids, seem so much more natural than kids in American shows. That's why I'd like to see Netflix do more international shows.
Oh, another recommendation is Parfum. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_%282018_TV_series%29) Perfume. Another German Netflix show. Released in November 2018. Vaguely related to the book/movie Perfume. (The kids in the show have all read the book. Smell plays a role in the story). I don't think it's as good or memorable as Dark, Twin Peaks, Sharp Objects, Breaking Bad, etc. But it's still worth watching.
As regular TV is shit these days, and there are no new good movies, I depend on tv-shows now to be able to watch a couple of hours of decent tv per week. I've even gone back and watched all of Ally McBeal a couple of years ago. All of House M.D. For a while I was a little afraid that there would not be enough new stuff to keep me entertained. But I might be wrong. Since the spring I watched Parfum (good), Russian Doll (okish), The Night Of (pretty good), Game Of Thrones (fuck GRRM, and especially fuck D&D), Stranger Things (entertaining), Twin Peaks (good, but not as perfect as I had hoped), Chernobyl (good), Dark (awesome) and now Sharp Objects (awesome). Later this year I'll watch the last season of Elementary (okish, I happen to like Lu), the next season of Vikings (best part is over), the last season of Mr Robot (high hopes). I'm not bored yet.
rachel on 28/8/2019 at 16:30
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
Stranger Things is fun. But it's basically a kid's show. Nothing deep. A bunch of cliches with some kid's humor and some eighties nostalgia. Dark requires you to have a few more iq-points than Stanger Things.
Yeah I think I can handle :p
Gryzemuis on 28/8/2019 at 16:59
Sorry. That remark wasn't supposed to be a snide or snarky remark at you. It's a snarky remark at Stranger Things. :)
Continue watching Dark. When you are at episode 8, and you can still follow the story easily and know who is who, you're doing a good job. After the 2nd episode, I made a list myself with the names (especially family names) of all the characters in the show. Without that, this show can get confusing. :) You will see what I mean, especially once you watched episode 8 (or more). In any case, don't look at wiki-pages, don't google for family-trees. Those are full of spoilers. Spoilers you really don't wanna see. Mostly because it spoils the fun of figuring out what's happening, and maybe some little surprises too. Don't do it. Making your own list is easy: there's just 4 families you need to track.
rachel on 28/8/2019 at 23:24
Quote Posted by icemann
Rewatched "The Faculty". It is so 90s, and is all the better for it. Most of the stuff in that, we'd never see in a movie nowadays. Very un-PC. Great acting across the board. Proved that Robert Patrick was not a 1 shot pony, as he was great as well in it.
That inspired me to rewatch it. I don't think I'd seen this since it came out.
(It's a funny story in fact :D I got my ticket and kinda followed the crowds in and took a seat. And then during the trailers there was this last one that very long. Soo long. After an embarrassingly long moment I
finally realized I had gotten into the wrong room and I was watching
The Faculty instead of the flick I had the ticket for. :laff: I stayed because what the hell, had a great time. I don't remember which one it was I was supposed to see but I went the next day.)
Great flick, didn't remember it was by Robert Rodriguez. Perfect use of horror and scifi tropes to both direct and subvert the action, I wanted to compare it to
Scream in that regard but I see that the same guy wrote both, so that explains why it nails it where others failed... and indeed the cast is just top-notch. I had no clue Jon Stewart played one of the teachers! :D
Good stuff.
rachel on 31/8/2019 at 21:32
So, fresh off Once upon a time... in Hollywood
I don't know. It's well shot, the actors are incredible, the soundtrack is phenomenal, the recreation of 1969 LA is, presumably, second to none... But while it contains good moments, I can't say the film as a whole didn't convince me. The entire endeavor leaves the taste of a kinda vapid, and ultimately frivolous self-indulgence. And there's a dissonance in the ending that I find disturbing. (Not unlike Inglorious Bastards, but then I really didn't like that one)
I'm kinda disappointed. I miss the snappy-dialogue, story-driven Tarantino of the 90s.
And the 747 didn't make its first commercial flight until January 1970, ffs. I guess it goes with the alternate history thing. :p
Might come back later after I digest it.