The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition

[uuuhhii]

twilight of the gods are out

anyone test it to see how snyder it is

[Sarex]

On 9/19/2024 at 9:59 PM, uuuhhii said:

twilight of the gods are out

anyone test it to see how snyder it is

Pretty good tbh. It reminds me a bit of the new God of War game story, but I guess they are pulling from the same source so it's probably mostly that. Also this is meant to be a series, just a fair warning to anyone wanting to try.

[majestic]

A collections of things coming out soon.

Looks like F*ck You, It's January is now F*ck You, It's Every Month!

[Bartimaeus]

The most experimental part of that video was when they randomly used an Age of Empires sheep sound effect. It may be a stock sound effect, but A. I've never heard it anywhere else unlike a whole host of other random stock sounds that I've recognized between many different games, movies, and TV shows, and B. it sounded just as low quality in the video as it did back in 1999.

[LadyCrimson]

Since CBS put the pilot episode on YouTube (free/anyone can view), I watched "Matlock."

The show itself feels like a semi-generic lawyer/courtroom procedural, with a main character serial-motivation/mystery arc, but Kathy Bates is the bees knees. I would watch the show just to watch her performance. She is awesome - both humor and drama - and I'm so glad she decided to do this show before her retirement (so she says). She's like 10 planes of existence above every other actor in the show, imo. I showed hubby, he watched it, and he came in later to say basically that ("Kathy Bates is killin' it").

Now the question is can it hold quality through the supposed 18 ordered episodes. I hope so. If she's truly retiring after this, hope it's a great swan song for her.

Edited September 28 by LadyCrimson

[rjshae]

I've been enjoying the Fargo serials on Hulu. Typically I don't like police procedurals, but I do seem to enjoy crime series that show both sides of the story and take the time for character development.

[Amentep]

 

 

[BruceVC]

9 hours ago, Amentep said:

 

 

" a killer pumpkin "  

It looks very entertaining but its my type of series, horror and supernatural must be scary 

[Amentep]

 

 

[Gfted1]

 

[Lexx]

So I watched the new Deadpool. Not really great, but not the worst movie ever. I did not fall asleep while watching, which already makes this one of the better super hero movies. What I enjoyed about it was that it felt like reasonably fresh content. Even chuckled a bit here and there. One thing is for certain, though: I'm really, really, really damn tired of the multiverse.

[uuuhhii]

33 minutes ago, Lexx said:

So I watched the new Deadpool. Not really great, but not the worst movie ever. I did not fall asleep while watching, which already makes this one of the better super hero movies. What I enjoyed about it was that it felt like reasonably fresh content. Even chuckled a bit here and there. One thing is for certain, though: I'm really, really, really damn tired of the multiverse.

 

multiverse is staying

adaptation can not escape shadow of comic

[ShadySands]

43 minutes ago, Lexx said:

So I watched the new Deadpool. Not really great, but not the worst movie ever. I did not fall asleep while watching, which already makes this one of the better super hero movies. What I enjoyed about it was that it felt like reasonably fresh content. Even chuckled a bit here and there. One thing is for certain, though: I'm really, really, really damn tired of the multiverse.

I went to watch it but I could only rent it for 25 tax non-inclusive warbucks or buy it for 30 tax non-inclusive warbucks. It was free on the plane ride home from Germany but I wasn't in a position to watch it because I was in the middle seat with a baby on my lap and a wife on one shoulder and a son-a-tron on the other.

[Lexx]

Just watched Alien: Romulus. Actually wasn't bad. Would say it's the first non-garbage Alien movie in many years. Some things were a bit annoying, like

all the fan service

but what actually really felt meh to me was how

the alien ages so damn fast. Like, bruh, the things are hatching in minutes now and growing out even faster?

... That's just bs.

[rjshae]

I persevered through two seasons of The Ark and I have to say it is one of the dumbest-written sci-fi series I've ever seen. It's like the writers have absolutely no understanding of physics, or science in general. But I suppose it's entertaining in its own way. Mostly eye candy space opera stuff with plenty of plot twists.

One of these days we'll see an actual good movie or drama series about a generation ship and its crew.

Edited October 16 by rjshae

[LadyCrimson]

Unhinged, via Netflix

Absolutely not recommended, even if you like dumb action/thriller flicks.

[majestic]

Alien: Romulus.

Oh boy. Half of the film is enjoyable, the other half is just garbage, and the less is said about everything that happens once they find Z-01 the better.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

1 hour ago, majestic said:

Alien: Romulus.

Oh boy. Half of the film is enjoyable, the other half is just garbage, and the less is said about everything that happens once they find Z-01 the better.

Is it a pretty even split so that you can just stop or fast forward?

[majestic]

2 hours ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

Is it a pretty even split so that you can just stop or fast forward?

Yes and no. You can watch the first hour and then just skip to the moment Not!Ripley drops the cargo container with the alien into space. You'll miss out on the character deaths and the reason how an alien got there in the first place, but that is better than to sit through what actually happens in the film. Fair warning: you still have to deal with Deepfake!Ash. Disney pulled off another Fake!Cushing, just with Bilbo Baggins this time.

Spoilers:

Spoiler

This so dumb it hurts to recap, but the things you will miss this way: TokenMinority!Ash, Not!Ripley and Not!Ripley's sort of boyfriend go to grab the Z-01, a variation of the Engineer's black goo Weyland-Yutani reverse engineered from the xenomorph they recovered from the wreck of the Nostromo, created with the goal of givig humans immortality. Fake!IanHolm shows them how it works on rats and of course omits the side effect of the rat just bursting a couple of minutes later, mutating into some non-viable rat-xenomorph hybrid.

They are ambushed on their way out and look for a different exit, leading them to the xenomorph nest from Aliens (even though there is no queen on the station) where they find the severely wounded Pregnant!Girl from around 1:05. They free her, Not!Ripley's sort of boyfriend dies, TokenMinority!Ash suggests that Pregnant!Girl should take Z-01, but Not!Ripley is against it. TokenMinority!Ash glitches out, Pregnant!Girl and Not!Ripley head to an elevator, but Not!Ripley has a change of heart and goes back for glitchy TokenMinority!Ash. They then have the Aliens shootout while Pregnant!Girl injects herself with Z-01 to save herself.

After a lengthy action scene they all end up at the ore mining ship where they reenact the final scenes of Aliens, with Not!Ripley running around in her underwear, getting ready for cryo sleep when Pregnant!Girl gives birth to a xenomoprh egg containing an Engineer-Xenomorph hybrid that proceeds to eat Pregnant!Girl. No, I am not making this up. I wish I was. I really, really wish I was making up an Engineer-Xenomorph.

This. Can't. Be. Happening.

Not!Ripley drops it into space with the cargo container and leaves for another planet with TokenMinority!Ash.

It also needs to be said that TokenMinority!Ash behaves more like a Bishop type prior to his upgrade (and after the removal of the upgrade when he glitches out) but is an older model, hence TokenMinority!Ash.

I am also not sure if an older synth model used primarily for initial colonization efforts (one would imagine that to be dangerous and hard labour) being a black guy was intentional.

 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

1 hour ago, majestic said:

Yes and no. You can watch the first hour and then just skip to the moment Not!Ripley drops the cargo container with the alien into space. You'll miss out on the character deaths and the reason how an alien got there in the first place, but that is better than to sit through what actually happens in the film. Fair warning: you still have to deal with Deepfake!Ash. Disney pulled off another Fake!Cushing, just with Bilbo Baggins this time.

Spoilers:

  Reveal hidden contents

This so dumb it hurts to recap, but the things you will miss this way: TokenMinority!Ash, Not!Ripley and Not!Ripley's sort of boyfriend go to grab the Z-01, a variation of the Engineer's black goo Weyland-Yutani reverse engineered from the xenomorph they recovered from the wreck of the Nostromo, created with the goal of givig humans immortality. Fake!IanHolm shows them how it works on rats and of course omits the side effect of the rat just bursting a couple of minutes later, mutating into some non-viable rat-xenomorph hybrid.

They are ambushed on their way out and look for a different exit, leading them to the xenomorph nest from Aliens (even though there is no queen on the station) where they find the severely wounded Pregnant!Girl from around 1:05. They free her, Not!Ripley's sort of boyfriend dies, TokenMinority!Ash suggests that Pregnant!Girl should take Z-01, but Not!Ripley is against it. TokenMinority!Ash glitches out, Pregnant!Girl and Not!Ripley head to an elevator, but Not!Ripley has a change of heart and goes back for glitchy TokenMinority!Ash. They then have the Aliens shootout while Pregnant!Girl injects herself with Z-01 to save herself.

After a lengthy action scene they all end up at the ore mining ship where they reenact the final scenes of Aliens, with Not!Ripley running around in her underwear, getting ready for cryo sleep when Pregnant!Girl gives birth to a xenomoprh egg containing an Engineer-Xenomorph hybrid that proceeds to eat Pregnant!Girl. No, I am not making this up. I wish I was. I really, really wish I was making up an Engineer-Xenomorph.

This. Can't. Be. Happening.

Not!Ripley drops it into space with the cargo container and leaves for another planet with TokenMinority!Ash.

It also needs to be said that TokenMinority!Ash behaves more like a Bishop type prior to his upgrade (and after the removal of the upgrade when he glitches out) but is an older model, hence TokenMinority!Ash.

I am also not sure if an older synth model used primarily for initial colonization efforts (one would imagine that to be dangerous and hard labour) being a black guy was intentional.

 

.....What the ****? How the hell did that **** get greenlit? 

I have to think they're making a joke because Engineer-Xenomorph hybrid birthed by a hu-mon is the absolute dumbest **** I've ever heard of. Worse than any asspulls Star Wars or the worst of Trek have pulled.

[Amentep]

 

 

Prometheus already showed that humans were engineered from the...er...Engineers genetics. Alien implies the xenomorph on the Nostromo was born from eggs laid by the xenomorph that burst from the Engineer/Space Jockey. The Z-01 was reverse engineered from the xenomorph from the Nostromo. The implication at the end was the Z-01 mutated pregnant-girl's baby into the engineer-xenomorph which doesn't seemed far fetched given the genetic lineage to me?

[Sarex]

Wayne. Going in to this knowing that there is cliffhanger and no season 2, but so far it still seems worth it. The show has a very odd vibe and I like it so far.

[LadyCrimson]

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Netflix)

What a unique presentation and touching life-of/tribute type documentary. It got me in the feels. Thumbs up from me.

[LadyCrimson]

The Resident (tv series, via Netflix), several episodes

--read Bruce Greenwood has a role in it (not a main lead but a higher supporting), so I gave it a shot because I like him.
--a lot of focus seems to be regarding hospital patient care vs. business politics etc, but it's probably the worst medical series I've ever seen, far as the medical/patient emergency cases go. Just laughable. Not sure if I like the characters/situations enough to put up with it, ala House. At least House was sometimes funny.

[Sarex]

6 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

The Resident (tv series, via Netflix), several episodes

--read Bruce Greenwood has a role in it (not a main lead but a higher supporting), so I gave it a shot because I like him.
--a lot of focus seems to be regarding hospital patient care vs. business politics etc, but it's probably the worst medical series I've ever seen, far as the medical/patient emergency cases go. Just laughable. Not sure if I like the characters/situations enough to put up with it, ala House. At least House was sometimes funny.

It does stop focusing on that and it gets a little better overall through season 1. Say that the show overall is very mid.