Just watch the final episode of Season 3 of Reacher. Awesome!
Now to wait at least a year for Season 4.
Reacher is good?
This interests me, having finished "Dark" a couple weeks ago, and then watched the unfortunately quite woke "Fallout" after. The latter was very average, and nothing inspirational.
In which ways did you find the Fallout series “woke”? I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve been contemplating giving it a shot.
The typical woke homogenization tropes are in there. I think the first reply this reddit post sums this up pretty well: '
Basically the same old nauseating ingredients we've been seeing everywhere, lately, that have grown tiresome.
The way they play out in the show would not even be an issue if the plot and story were better. They are alright, and I suppose try to replicate the game, but epic "Game of Thrones" they are not. Not much is--which I happen to also be watching through again after many years over dinner every night. The first four seasons of "Thrones" are top-tier television(or anything for that matter) as they were the first time I saw them.
Sadly, out of the recent series adapted from video games, I have to say that Twisted Metal has been the best so far, as it doesn't take itself too seriously and I had zero expectations for it.
I'm already pre emptively cringing when I think how the Cyberpunk live action series is likely to turn out.
A Night to Remember 1958 - Even though Cameron's Titanic has some nice special effects I found that I prefer this version. More grounded historically and devoid of the Hollywood stuff. I do like seeing the Captain facing his moment in the Cameron version though. We do see the Captain return to the helm but not his final moments in a "Night to Remember" if memory serves.
The Sound of Fury 1950 (Apparently also called "Try and Get Me") with Frank Lovejoy and Lloyd Bridges - I enjoyed this one though its not a happy movie and one that one commenter said was based off a real event. A down on his luck, unemployed man meets the Bridges character who is a professional criminal. At first its just a job as the getaway driver but then Bridges commits a heinous act of murder which eventually eats the Lovejoy's character up with shame and guilt, turning himself in. All the while a popular reporter and newspaper writer is influencing the public negatively prior to the criminals day in court with his articles. The end of the movie sees a very large, dangerous mob develop outside the jail. They overwhelm the police, break in and drag out the two men and personally execute them.
Between Midnight and Dawn 1950 - Not really Noir but crime drama I suppose though their is a great Noir-like line that an off duty policeman delivers to a local night club owner who is also organized crime. I really enjoyed this one as well. The story follows two patrolmen who are also war buddies.
A Night to Remember 1958 - Even though Cameron's Titanic has some nice special effects I found that I prefer this version. More grounded historically and devoid of the Hollywood stuff. I do like seeing the Captain facing his moment in the Cameron version though. We do see the Captain return to the helm but not his final moments in a "Night to Remember" if memory serves.
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I haven't seen it but I believe that Alec Guinness was in it?
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I have been watching Magnum PI again. The real one, the Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti version. I was watching Mannix on Pluto TV which only had seasons 1 and 2 available. On April 1st they removed seasons 1 and 2 and replaced them with seasons 3 and 4. I just missed getting through season 1 and I did not see any of the season 2 episodes. I am not interested in skipping an entire season and going back later to watch it if they decide to add Seasons 1 and 2 back into their line up.
I wasn't expecting much but it was surprising decent as long as you're not overly bothered by scenes of a 115 lb woman beating up KGB assassins or a weak plot.
The action scenes were better than the John Wick movies IMO, and the late Cold War setting was a nice touch.
A naive young lady goes to NYC hoping to become a star on Broadway.
The men in this movie are creepy. Everyone is trying to get her to sleep with them in return for giving her a break on Broadway.
There is even a scene when she goes to a party hosted by Broadway producers and managers, they get her drunk, she passes out, they put her in a bedroom for her to sleep it off and one of the Broadway producers who must be 50 years old, takes advantage of her (it's not shown but it is implied and widely discussed the next day by the men)
This movie was made before the Hollywood censorship code was established and enforced (1934) so at the time, there was no one to dictate what could or couldn't go into a movie.
After I done watching it, I look up the IMDB and WIKI, this was Katherine Hepburn's 3rd movie, she was 25 at the time and she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar,
It was the first of 12 Best Actress Oscar nominations she would receive from 1934-1982 and it was also the first of four times she would win a Best Actress Oscar.
She was paid $2000 a week for this movie when the average yearly salary was about $1000.
That's crazy how much she was paid because in the movie, her character was begging the Broadway producers for any roles that would pay her $20 a week.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I rank Nash Bridges similarly to New York Undercover, where it falls short of Miami Vice in its heyday but compares favorably to the the weaker seasons of that series.
I keep re-watching Perry Mason series. Series total 271 episodes. The 5th play-through is almost done.
One thing that makes it re-watchable is that they used the same ~30 member cast in every episode.
They just juggled their roles from "key" to "distant backdrop" for each episode.
My memory is based on visualization. So, the episodes tend to "look" the same to my eyes because its the same people in similar locations -- only the plot is different.
Moreover, the plot lines pick from only several basic approaches -- not 271.
Which makes the shows re-watchable for me.
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1. The Seven Basic Plots (Christopher Booker):
This theory, outlined in Booker's book, identifies seven fundamental plot types: Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, The Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth. These seven plot structures are seen as the basis for many stories, with variations and combinations creating the vast range of narratives we see.
2. Other Theories:
Georges Polti (36): Polti's theory suggests that all stories are based on 36 basic dramatic situations.
Other Variations: Some theories propose 3, 5, 6, or other numbers of basic plots.
I’ve found that I can find legal dramas interesting if they are within either a military or science fiction context so hence movies like “A Few Good Men” and the episodes of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica that centered around a trial I found to be great.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I’ve found that I can find legal dramas interesting if they are within either a military or science fiction context so hence movies like “A Few Good Men” and the episodes of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica that centered around a trial I found to be great.
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