Give me something to watch on Netflix

jp_nyc said:
And Sandman drops in August.
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Well, that looks like it’s probably gonna elide all the stuff that is great about the comics and focus on all the procedural and obvious comicsy bits that were just there as plot glue. Also points off for doing the bad lighting/filter effects and bass drop trailer soundtrack nonsense.
 
Flamencology said:
It’s Tim Burton. It’s not gonna be good.
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I think Burton is a bit of a difficult subject for those of us of a certain age from a certain (often suburban or small town) milieu who maybe had Burton as one of the few examples of accessible weird/out there/gothish kid-friendly content creators. So there’s a bond with the aesthetic or the nostalgia that is unwarranted or that doesn’t hold up to better informed critical scrutiny. In particular, cash in adaptation era Timmy B is an egregious bit of a dude milking his brand by slathering it all over other IP and pretending that he “updated” or “enhanced” Dorthy and the Wizard of Hot Topic or whatever nonsense he’s working on.

I’ll kinda go to bat for the Pee Wee movie as a wacky romp and Scissorshands as a candy-colored fairy story, but that’s about as much consideration that duder gets from me nowadays. Some general good feelings for 30 year old kids movies.
 
Peen Simmons said:
Well, that looks like it’s probably gonna elide all the stuff that is great about the comics and focus on all the procedural and obvious comicsy bits that were just there as plot glue. Also points off for doing the bad lighting/filter effects and bass drop trailer soundtrack nonsense.
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I’ve never been a Gaiman fanboy — there are far too many — but I loved Sandman and have spent the first 20+ years hope it that it would never be adapted. I get that it pays for new houses, but I wish that more writers (the wealthy ones, anyway) would take a hard ‘no’ on such offers.

Also, some little part of me cringes at the fact that they’ve added ‘The’ to the title.
 
Peen Simmons said:


I think Burton is a bit of a difficult subject for those of us of a certain age from a certain (often suburban or small town) milieu who maybe had Burton as one of the few examples of accessible weird/out there/gothish kid-friendly content creators. So there’s a bond with the aesthetic or the nostalgia that is unwarranted or that doesn’t hold up to better informed critical scrutiny. In particular, cash in adaptation era Timmy B is an egregious bit of a dude milking his brand by slathering it all over other IP and pretending that he “updated” or “enhanced” Dorthy and the Wizard of Hot Topic or whatever nonsense he’s working on.

I’ll kinda go to bat for the Pee Wee movie as a wacky romp and Scissorshands as a candy-colored fairy story, but that’s about as much consideration that duder gets from me nowadays. Some general good feelings for 30 year old kids movies.
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Ed Wood is a straight-up great film.
 
There's a show called "The Bear" on hulu that's about chefy stuff and chicago beef and back of the house stress and it's pretty good. AND it has Matty Matheson in it
 
dmn23 said:
I'm seven episodes in. This is truly excellent.
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I admit it was the Chicago-iness that initially caught my attention, and that same Chicago-iness that also made it really hard to accept the central conceit of an Italian beef place that somehow also did fine dining being successful, but the knots it put my stomach in, both because of the really good depiction of the stress of trying to keep a restaurant afloat (and the background family drama stuff), and because it made me SO HUNGRY with all the food porn, are what kept me watching
 
@Flamencology should appreciate this:

My kids have been on a bit of a weird movie kick lately, so I thought I'd queue up the granddaddy of all weird movies: Eraserhead.

Found it on HBO Max. In the "Similar to this" section for Eraserhead, I saw a few expected things like Twin Peaks but they also had Citizen Kane listed. Citizen Kane?
 
GomezAddams said:
@Flamencology should appreciate this:

My kids have been on a bit of a weird movie kick lately, so I thought I'd queue up the granddaddy of all weird movies: Eraserhead.

Found it on HBO Max. In the "Similar to this" section for Eraserhead, I saw a few expected things like Twin Peaks but they also had Citizen Kane listed. Citizen Kane?
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They’re both blank & white motion pictures. That’s as similar as it gets.
 
Burned through Farzar on Netflix this week.

Futurama-esque adult nonsense. Quite enjoyable.
 
The whole family watched Rescued by Ruby. Geared towards kids, it’s a sweet little doggie story based on actual events.

the best part was that our dog watched practically the whole movie. Mostly on top of us on the couch (she’s huge). And she would jump up and bark at the TV when the dogs on screen got excited. And if a dog ran off screen, she’d run behind the TV trying to find it.

never saw a dog watch tv for more than a minute or two.
 
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