Lockdown - What's Worth a Watch?
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Martinr36
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Maybe he's got a comfy commode....You missed Tena products from the list
HomerJ
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TonyCarter
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Waterproof sheets (and a drainage channel) FTW!
HomerJ
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homer imagined that rigged to look like a hotwheels race track, four loop the loops and out the window
Martinr36
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homer imagined that rigged to look like a hotwheels race track, four loop the loops and out the window
SpyderTracks
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Wow, had no idea this was being made!
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, with Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe, and of course, Michael Keaton, and Directed by Tim Burton - Due 6th September 2024
Beetlejuice 2 (2024) | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Beetlejuice 2: Directed by Tim Burton. With Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe. This is a follow-up to the comedy Beetlejuice (1988), about a ghost who's recruited to help haunt a house.www.imdb.com
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I think it shows how much the actors love Tim Burton to pretty much all come back and do a sequel 35 years later."Beetlejuice is loose"
In some ways I wished they'd done a follow up earlier, in other ways, I hope it will make this one that bit more special.
I hope it's not a roadhouse.... That's for sure.
It's got some clever bits on it but as soon as Connor Mac walked in it was game over 🤦
I don't think Jake Gyllenhaal is going to be especially proud of that one. He puts on an OK performance, but the script is just awful. Some of the worst screenwriting I think I've ever seen too. It's no surprise it went straight to stream. I was really looking forward to it as well.
It's got some clever bits on it but as soon as Connor Mac walked in it was game over 🤦
I don't think Jake Gyllenhaal is going to be especially proud of that one. He puts on an OK performance, but the script is just awful. Some of the worst screenwriting I think I've ever seen too. It's no surprise it went straight to stream. I was really looking forward to it as well.
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That's a real shame, I was looking forward to that. But Jake Gyllenhaal wasn't the right guy for the part IMHO, you needed someone far smoother. But sounds like the overall direction was a major downfall.
It's a bit of a trainwreck mate. The casting is the least of the issues, and that includes that complete buffoon MacGregor (wait till you see him in this, any realism goes completely out of the window).
There aren't any real relationships either, there's no bonding. It's like matchmaking throughout, he needs to have a GF, throw one at his feet..... he needs a purpose... they'll do... etc. It's just very poor.
I was going to say it could be almost AI generated, but Tbh I think AI would have done a far better job with the storytelling. It missed every single bit of the charm that the original had.
The "Bar fight" shout at the 3/4 mark just summed it up. That just doesn't happen IRL and I can't even imagine the neanderthals required to make it possible.
TonyCarter
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Just binge-watched 3 Body Problem on Netflix, and the story is mostly as the books, albeit with a Western/London-centric bias.
www.netflix.com
They obviously trimmed it down to both fit the first book (and some of the 2nd) into a single season, and have cut out some of the long, meandering sections of narrative (especially around the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s), but it almost as they’ve trimmed/removed too much and you lose some of the cultural context. It completely removes the three competing factions/cults and just shows the ‘religious’ one.
This is of course all with the knowledge that the English-language translation actually changes the structure of the first book to introduce the Chinese Cultural Revolution to readers at the start of the book (supposedly because the Chinese version has Chinese censors in mind, so they fed in the context much more gradually).
Glad they didn’t try to fit the whole trilogy into a single season 🤣
Probably doesn’t help that I know what happens in the later books and can see how much of the effort humanity wastes in the first book
But, despite deviating from both the Chinese and English versions, I’d still recommend a watch.
Watch 3 Body Problem | Netflix Official Site
Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.
www.netflix.com
They obviously trimmed it down to both fit the first book (and some of the 2nd) into a single season, and have cut out some of the long, meandering sections of narrative (especially around the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s), but it almost as they’ve trimmed/removed too much and you lose some of the cultural context. It completely removes the three competing factions/cults and just shows the ‘religious’ one.
This is of course all with the knowledge that the English-language translation actually changes the structure of the first book to introduce the Chinese Cultural Revolution to readers at the start of the book (supposedly because the Chinese version has Chinese censors in mind, so they fed in the context much more gradually).
Glad they didn’t try to fit the whole trilogy into a single season 🤣
Probably doesn’t help that I know what happens in the later books and can see how much of the effort humanity wastes in the first book
But, despite deviating from both the Chinese and English versions, I’d still recommend a watch.
HomerJ
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a good film worth watching for a bit of nostalgia alone
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doesnt quite work with a smartphone these days
Phone Booth (film) - Wikipedia
doesnt quite work with a smartphone these days
SpyderTracks
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Oh, cool! What does she do?
My sis worked on this project
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Very cool!Well, as our name will be displayed in the credits, I can only say that she worked in the animation studio and worked with the animation part