froghawk on 10/3/2021 at 14:05
Dark Waters. An ok movie about a subject that needs a whole lot more attention.
demagogue on 10/3/2021 at 16:53
SubjEff is no more, but he was right about The Expanse.
It has to be the best scifi TV I've watched since ... I'm not even sure. I haven't seen some recent highly rated shows and the first one that comes to mind is Battlestar Galactica, and even that didn't sustain its high all the way through. Anyway, there's a lot going for The Expanse. It's character driven, and, no exaggeration, every major character is (improbably) super charismatic and so very well cast. The writers of the set of novels are also apparently controlling the show's writing. And the wrote it to be quite realistic ... gravity, low-G, and zero-G environments work like you'd expect, and they don't really slip. Cross-galactic messages have the expected time delay so, e.g., people will call if they're passing by just to chat without the delay.
The politics is surprisingly credible for a couple of centuries and colonized solar system bodies later, and people's identities works differently. (Like if your Martian colony was largely Texan, Indian, and Chinese, to take one example, mix that up and 200 years later that's your ethnicity now, and Belters seem to be some kind of Dutch Carribean. Our main Belter character switches her accent to their pidgin if she's talking to other Belters but back to Queen's English to the Earthers.)
And the story is a pretty good thriller. It started off pretty modest, but it keeps bumping up the stakes and each stage of it manages to top the last. I'm just 3 seasons in and it's already mindbending, and it's still going up from there.
Well it's a great show. I recommend it too.
zombe on 11/3/2021 at 03:54
First three seasons are superb. Fourth one is interesting too - but the latest one ... a bit of vague setup that was already setup in seasons 3/4 and did not really need repeating ... a big event that really does not change anything in the big picture ... continuation of political shifts already in motion in previous season and that also do nothing ... and that is all. Very disappointing. I guess the 5th season is fully dedicated to the main characters with plenty of soap and nothing else (cannot credit setups and mild setups till they actually pay off).
Tocky on 11/3/2021 at 04:49
Quote Posted by froghawk
Dark Waters. An ok movie about a subject that needs a whole lot more attention.
I assume this isn't the Italian horror about a convent of nuns on an island that keep the devil contained. Creepy movie worth watching but with a choppy plot.
Anyway, I just watched Stephanie, another horror much better than Blood Quantum. It's about a little girl all alone in a home making do for herself. It's funny and sad and cute as hell at first. Then you begin to learn why she is there alone. Then she isn't alone. Then it isn't so cute. It unfolds slowly which is exactly the way it should.
froghawk on 11/3/2021 at 16:43
Haha apparently there is:
Dark Waters (1944) - US Gothic noir
Dark Waters (1956) - a social issue drama about fishermen
Dark Waters (1994) - the Italian horror movie you speak of
Dark Water (2001) - psychological drama
Dark Water (2002) - an excellent Japanese horror movie from the director of Ringu
Dark Waters (2003) - shark horror
Dark Water (2005) - an average American remake of the 2002 film
Dark Water (2007) - thai horror
Dark Waters (aka Rogue) (2007) - crocodile horror
Dark Waters (2016) - an episode of Once Upon a Time s6
Dark Water (2017) - Russian horror
Dark Waters (2018) - crime documentary miniseries
Dark Water (2019) - horror short
Dark Waters (2019) - the one I was just talking about, about the Dupont C8/Teflon debacle.
And a whole lot more.
...they really should have picked a different title.
Tocky on 13/3/2021 at 03:19
The Lodge is a seriously messed up psychological horror along the lines of Goodnight Mommy. It's slow build and you don't know what is truly going on until the end when everything snaps into place. The strange keeps growing and the dread keeps gaining and you know something terrible is going to happen. The problem with horror is that you have to watch five formulaic movies to find one like this. If only there were a way to know from the previews but the previews are cookie cutter dramatic and the ones which fit the good ones are no different than the ones that fit the bad ones. At least I know to avoid the slashers which are all interchangeable drivel. Except for Tucker and Dale vs Evil which is a perfect play on tropes and the funniest shit I've seen.
Tocky on 14/3/2021 at 05:40
Boss Level. It is bad muthafucking ass. Okay. Picture the most ass kicking movie ever jammed into the shortest time possible which happens to be the length of this movie. Throw in video game rules but in a quantum time loop where all the internal logic works. Like how all the logic works in The Terminator. And then... and THEEEEEEEEN make it a goddamn love story near the end. Okay sort of also like Terminator BUT it works. This movie had to be made. I'm surprised it took so long.
Kolya on 21/3/2021 at 21:17
Yes, no, I don't know. Can you repeat the question?
I'm (re)watching Malcom in the Middle. (It's free on Amazon Prime.)
Last night I saw Scully from Brooklyn 99 in an episode. He played a cop who detained Malcom and Reese at the Nascar race. Took me half an hour to remember who that fat neck belonged to.