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Post by no1novice on Jan 30, 2024 19:52:02 GMT
Thanks, everyone. Arghhhhh. I specifically googled this weekend to see where it is, and the information I had said it was not on Prime. I must have looked at an old news item or something. I do have Prime. Not sure if Mrs Mo will watch it with me because people keep going "ohhh, bathroom scene!!!", LOL...... I googled it too and while it sounds a bit grim, I don't think it'd have me freaking out the way some people are saying. I might give it a go at the weekend. Stuff that has been hyped/promoted so much usually leaves me cold & disappointed. |
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Post by notoriousmkg on Jan 30, 2024 20:11:24 GMT
I googled it too and while it sounds a bit grim, I don't think it'd have me freaking out the way some people are saying. I might give it a go at the weekend. Stuff that has been hyped/promoted so much usually leaves me cold & disappointed. I'm terrible at predicting what people will like. I try to pick and save movies for Mrs Mo all the time on OnDemand (which is like a feature you get from having premium cable TV). That usually works pretty well for her. My daughter and I are pretty aligned, except on Japanese anime - for example, she loved "The Boy and the Heron" and so did Mrs Mo and our son, but I came out of it like, "WTH did I just watch?" A couple months ago, I was on a conference call with like 5 other people and the Sale rep, goes, "Mo, the wife and I just watched that movie you recommended: 'Midsommar'. And I got to tell you, you're a sick puppy." He said it for comedic effect, but it did reinforce that I have to be careful realizing that things that don't faze me at all are borderline traumatic to other people. I am just on an endless search of surprising, non-formulaic movies where I have no idea what's going to happen. It's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of episodic television because I believe that they are tweaking the plot and artistic integrity for audience share. It's not a work of art in that sense. With a movie, you are one and done, and have to deal with the consequences and interpretation of your work for good or bad. |
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Post by burnt_toast on Jan 30, 2024 20:58:46 GMT
Stuff that has been hyped/promoted so much usually leaves me cold & disappointed. This is so true of me that I pretty well don't even watch the over-hyped things until ages later. I didn't even watch GOT until 2021... I did love it, but I had to get out of the 'cultural phenom' phase before I could bring myself to do it. |
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Post by sputnik on Jan 30, 2024 21:50:38 GMT
i do that too but sometimes the hype is justified. 'the wire', 'the sopranos', a lot of shows actually deserve the hype but sometimes it's true the hype can have the opposite effect and make me not want to watch. but maybe it's better to keep an open mind than to end up depriving yourself of something great.
i came late to 'fleabag' and 'succession' because of that and i wish i had watched it at the same time as everyone else and had been able to take part in the conversations.
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Post by no1novice on Jan 30, 2024 22:09:53 GMT
Stuff that has been hyped/promoted so much usually leaves me cold & disappointed. I'm terrible at predicting what people will like. I try to pick and save movies for Mrs Mo all the time on OnDemand (which is like a feature you get from having premium cable TV). That usually works pretty well for her. My daughter and I are pretty aligned, except on Japanese anime - for example, she loved "The Boy and the Heron" and so did Mrs Mo and our son, but I came out of it like, "WTH did I just watch?" A couple months ago, I was on a conference call with like 5 other people and the Sale rep, goes, "Mo, the wife and I just watched that movie you recommended: 'Midsommar'. And I got to tell you, you're a sick puppy." He said it for comedic effect, but it did reinforce that I have to be careful realizing that things that don't faze me at all are borderline traumatic to other people. I am just on an endless search of surprising, non-formulaic movies where I have no idea what's going to happen. It's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of episodic television because I believe that they are tweaking the plot and artistic integrity for audience share. It's not a work of art in that sense. With a movie, you are one and done, and have to deal with the consequences and interpretation of your work for good or bad. I don't do horror at all but I listen to true crime podcasts like they are going out of style. I watch more and more k-tv though. Haven't got around to GoT yet (the books were hard going) Tried The Sopranos and haven't tried The Wire yet. I wanted to love both of these... |
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Post by notoriousmkg on Jan 31, 2024 5:14:08 GMT
I still haven't seen "The Wire", even though it's Baltimore based, and interior scenes were shot here in Columbia. It's gotten so much praise, that there's no way it could live up to the hype for me.
I saw the rest of "Saltburn". I definitely enjoyed it. With the first half, it's kind of an oddball, lurid comedy of manners. But at the halfway point, it definitely turns into something else. Keoghan's character "Oliver" seems to change attitude and character multiple times in the second half, and I read that it was by design and that he had 5 different Oliver character types written into a notebook. Fennell would tell him which one she wanted him to be. I guess Oliver is basically a chameleon.
I don't know if people know this, but Margot Robbie and her company "Lucky Chap" was the producer on both "Barbie" and "Saltburn". Robbie seems to have a future in front of her behind the camera. And Emerald Fennell, acted in "Barbie" but starred and directed "Saltburn". Robbie and Fennell must be really good friends. I also liked that Keoghan respected and wanted to work with Fennell so much that he accepted the role without reading the script.
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Post by kittylady on Jan 31, 2024 15:06:32 GMT
I'm terrible at predicting what people will like. I try to pick and save movies for Mrs Mo all the time on OnDemand (which is like a feature you get from having premium cable TV). That usually works pretty well for her. My daughter and I are pretty aligned, except on Japanese anime - for example, she loved "The Boy and the Heron" and so did Mrs Mo and our son, but I came out of it like, "WTH did I just watch?" A couple months ago, I was on a conference call with like 5 other people and the Sale rep, goes, "Mo, the wife and I just watched that movie you recommended: 'Midsommar'. And I got to tell you, you're a sick puppy." He said it for comedic effect, but it did reinforce that I have to be careful realizing that things that don't faze me at all are borderline traumatic to other people. I am just on an endless search of surprising, non-formulaic movies where I have no idea what's going to happen. It's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of episodic television because I believe that they are tweaking the plot and artistic integrity for audience share. It's not a work of art in that sense. With a movie, you are one and done, and have to deal with the consequences and interpretation of your work for good or bad. I don't do horror at all but I listen to true crime podcasts like they are going out of style. I watch more and more k-tv though. Haven't got around to GoT yet (the books were hard going) Tried The Sopranos and haven't tried The Wire yet. I wanted to love both of these... I tried Game of Thrones long, long after it had first come out because the hype had put me off. The first series was ok but I didn't feel compelled to stick around and watch the rest. I also avoided watching Father Ted for the longest time because everyone was pushing it and saying how funny it was. I eventually caught an episode during one of those late night "Meh, nothing else on so I may as well watch it" moments and found that I loved it. Replying with a Father Ted quote is a regular thing in our house now.  |
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Post by palta on Jan 31, 2024 18:10:50 GMT
lol about Mo story regarding Midsommar, i watched because of a recommendation and didn't like it. i can understand why other people do and after read a lot about it, it just wasn't my cup of tea. the same person then told me to watch Ready or not, and i hesitated but gave it a chance. didn't like it either lol
i'm very good at assessing what people could like. i don't make recommendations based on my personal taste, i try to see what other people enjoy and what are their preferences.
i love watching pilot episodes too, even if it is something that i wouldn't like i give it a try, i love to be surprised by shows but i also get easily disappointed.
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Post by notoriousmkg on Jan 31, 2024 19:39:45 GMT
lol about Mo story regarding Midsommar, i watched because of a recommendation and didn't like it. i can understand why other people do and after read a lot about it, it just wasn't my cup of tea. the same person then told me to watch Ready or not, and i hesitated but gave it a chance. didn't like it either lol i'm very good at assessing what people could like. i don't make recommendations based on my personal taste, i try to see what other people enjoy and what are their preferences. i love watching pilot episodes too, even if it is something that i wouldn't like i give it a try, i love to be surprised by shows but i also get easily disappointed. Speaking of that - and recommending movies - did I ever tell you guys about the time back in college that I worked in a video store? You were supposed to help customers find something they liked, and this older woman who looked kind of like Professor McGonagall from "Harry Potter", would always come up to me in her theatrical-sounding voice and go, "I'm looking for something with an excellent story - an EXCLLENT story. Maybe a little bit of promiscuity." It was so funny the way she said it because she was so serious. I told my brother about it, and he thought it was hilarious. So, one day, near the end of my tenure at this place, and right before I started my first real job, I'm standing in the middle of the store, and my brother comes up behind me and goes, "I'm looking for something with an EXCELLENT story. And a little bit of promiscuity." I turn around and see him laughing. And then I see the Professor McGonagall woman standing behind him (my brother didn't know she was the woman). My heart sank, but she proceeded to ask me a question and totally didn't get that my brother was doing an impression of my impression of her.  |
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Post by no1novice on Jan 31, 2024 22:45:55 GMT
I don't do horror at all but I listen to true crime podcasts like they are going out of style. I watch more and more k-tv though. Haven't got around to GoT yet (the books were hard going) Tried The Sopranos and haven't tried The Wire yet. I wanted to love both of these... I tried Game of Thrones long, long after it had first come out because the hype had put me off. The first series was ok but I didn't feel compelled to stick around and watch the rest. I also avoided watching Father Ted for the longest time because everyone was pushing it and saying how funny it was. I eventually caught an episode during one of those late night "Meh, nothing else on so I may as well watch it" moments and found that I loved it. Replying with a Father Ted quote is a regular thing in our house now. The same thing happened to me but probably without everyone telling me how funny it was. |
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Post by beeyotch on Jan 31, 2024 22:46:04 GMT
Stuff that has been hyped/promoted so much usually leaves me cold & disappointed. I'm terrible at predicting what people will like. I try to pick and save movies for Mrs Mo all the time on OnDemand (which is like a feature you get from having premium cable TV). That usually works pretty well for her. My daughter and I are pretty aligned, except on Japanese anime - for example, she loved "The Boy and the Heron" and so did Mrs Mo and our son, but I came out of it like, "WTH did I just watch?" A couple months ago, I was on a conference call with like 5 other people and the Sale rep, goes, "Mo, the wife and I just watched that movie you recommended: 'Midsommar'. And I got to tell you, you're a sick puppy." He said it for comedic effect, but it did reinforce that I have to be careful realizing that things that don't faze me at all are borderline traumatic to other people. I am just on an endless search of surprising, non-formulaic movies where I have no idea what's going to happen. It's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of episodic television because I believe that they are tweaking the plot and artistic integrity for audience share. It's not a work of art in that sense. With a movie, you are one and done, and have to deal with the consequences and interpretation of your work for good or bad. Speaking of, I need to side with the Sales rep on this, Mo. I made the mistake of watching Hereditary. I, a grown-ass woman, had nightmares and severe scaredy-cat episodes where I couldn't get that disgusting death scene of Toni Collette's out of my head. It's seared into my brain, like a constant involuntary horror loop. Same reason I cannot to this day watch the Exorcist. So yeah, thanks. Thanks a lot. And you should watch The Wire. You're missing out. |
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Post by sputnik on Feb 1, 2024 3:23:46 GMT
The wire is a masterpiece. That is all.
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