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99% amazing. agree with all the above. there were some really neat callbacks to film noir both in soundtrack, cinematography, plot......the charisma, chemistry (&hotness!) of the leads was offscale.

but.....oh man, the last 1%? that ending 💩 . such a tonally jarring change, 5?7? years later, they look identical! motherhood & apple pie!!!?? talk about NOT sticking the landing.

I want the director's cut to end at the cop's body stopping breathing; maybe a monologue?
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:36 PM on June 8, 2024

I enjoyed this movie, however I am troubled by the inclusion of graphic sexual abuse

where was that?
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:31 PM on April 15, 2024

We *loved* the indigenous women's revenge reveal. Absolutely A+ - we gasped with enjoyment - for all the themic and historical reasons described above.

Rose's character! Her ultracompetence, being a soigneé fuckin' wolf-gutter and corpse disposer....was awesome. . Her ending monolog; one of the few satisfying ones that we heard.

I loved, loved, loved the still, quiet conversations between Navarro and Qavik. More of this please....… [more]
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:18 PM on February 21, 2024

the interpersonal stuff (Qavik and Evangeline are amazing, I love the stepdaughter), the cinematography - the long shots of the landscape, and the existential dread are great

the supernatural-on-a-plate and the fucking jump scares are so . fucking. CHEAP.

get rid of the fucking horror shlock.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:57 PM on February 20, 2024

So far the most disturbing, upsetting scene for me has been Danvers forcing her daughter to "wipte that shit" off her face. I hated watching that so much.

absolutely a guaranteed way to get the kid to get a real tattoo of that on her face!
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 5:47 PM on February 20, 2024

Came to this reading about Sarah Snook performing 26 roles in a single performance of The Picture of Dorian Gray and this being a harbinger of her scary talent. They were right; she was excellent.

Also: here's a timeline for the original heinlein book
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 9:13 PM on February 17, 2024

“She told me you’d say all this…..

Tell Him: None of this is his fault - it was already burning, He’s just the first spark of the fire

Tell Him : He knows everything he needs to know and feels everything he needs to feel,
and when the day comes, and those two pull together, he will be an unstoppable force for good.


Tell Him: …. …… I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong”
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:29 PM on December 9, 2022

The music. Oh the music at the funeral parade. My heart.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:31 PM on December 9, 2022

The level of anxiety over things like Mothma getting picked up by the iSB, when we clearly know she won't, is a major credit to the writers and creators.

we know no such thing!

we don't know any of the peril or woes that the people who survived till Rogue One started underwent. we know they survived, but that's it.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 4:28 PM on February 25, 2023

S2 likely delayed till "early 2025". bah!
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:56 PM on February 7, 2024

Just watched this again. Damn, this is good moviemaking.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 9:58 PM on January 25, 2024

Thanks mefi, I stopped at e6 and didn't watch these last two. the recaps saved me 2 hours of my life.

Were there any good bon-mots or deadpans? Please let me know!
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:42 PM on January 24, 2024

yeah this show gets dumber by the minute. It's a shame because the lead actors clearly are having fun with the characters, and the infrequent deadpan bon-mots ("informal tu") are goood, but the majority of the writing is SO. BAD.

It has "A-Team" level of plot armor. Some presumably well-trained guy's spraying reacher with an automatic rifle with dozens of shots from a helicopter with him standing in the open. and no hit? but he bangs away with his… [more]
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 4:58 AM on January 23, 2024

More and more disappointing, more and more video-game like, in spite of the charisma of the main characters.

Plus despite its veneer of antiauthoritarianism thru reacher and his renegades, this is a show in love with all of the symbols of power and flag and faith.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:00 PM on January 5, 2024

yeah on one hand, the tearney.tavener chat was magnetic because of the actors charisma and distdain.

but the script? serial monologue please confess all now in expository dialogue a la james bond villain.... was..... WEAK.

beneath the good writing of the books.

this is becoming a worse show, not a better one. more political machination, less explosions, PLEASE.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:15 PM on January 2, 2024

too much bang bang not enough plan plan
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:11 PM on January 2, 2024

nice. echoes of "sacrifice" at end of Constantine too.....
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:33 PM on December 17, 2023

mmmmm spaghetti.....
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:14 PM on December 17, 2023

if you would seek revenge, dig two graves
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:05 PM on December 11, 2023

they sure like vomiting as a motif
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:45 PM on December 2, 2023

meh. too much vomit, not enough zingers
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:15 PM on November 28, 2023

best rake pratfall
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:26 PM on November 27, 2023

This was great! Really rounded out the universe and backstory of some slow horses ppl.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:57 PM on November 22, 2023

the dark side has

the best cheek/jawbones - deadlier than any blade (lanfear!)

and

the best facial profiles - eybrows that could stop the wheel (ishamel)

ergo darkside ftw
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:03 PM on November 7, 2023

While I can, actually, believe that the final result of the world's most intensely over-the-top luxury fine dining restaurant is a death cult, I really do not believe that a mega uber hyper ultra rich person restaurant on a private island with a live-in staff and infinite high end ingredients could subsist on $15,000 ($1,250 x 12 diners) per day.



“Angel investor” (lol) means no need to break even.....
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:16 PM on August 8, 2023

Adjoa Andoh is AMAZING in the audiobook version of this. Her voicework makes an already empathy-rich novel overflow with emotion.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:52 PM on August 7, 2023

Good stuff.


Leonard: “I don’t know anything about lying, subterfuge….. "

Francis: “You don’t know how to say one thing when you mean somethin’ else?.. I thought you were English”
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 4:58 PM on July 4, 2023

a few lolz, lots of well-earned emotional beats by good actors in the service of nostalgia, but as far as sci-fi, as far as story….where to fucking begin????

Plot Armor for everyone: Check
Easy defeat of omnipotent multi-year plans by a thoughtful enemy just by a few pew-pews: Check
Dumb technobabble/deus-ex-machina to drive the hero’s quest forward: Check
No real consequences for anyone ……No wider ramifications on their actions at all… [more]
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 9:13 PM on May 27, 2023

Set course to the fanwank sector of lazyscript system!

Beam Ignatius J. Reilly to the bridge, with phasers set to KILL

ffs this was AWFUL. AW-FUL.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:14 PM on May 19, 2023

“Paging Ensign Tommy Westphall. Ensign Westphall to the holodeck, your program is malfunctioning.”
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 1:39 AM on May 4, 2023

vulcan villaain ♫

vulcan villaain ♫

worf be chillin'

vulcaaaann. v v v v villlaaaaaaaan

vulcaaaann ♫♫♫♫♫ villln
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:21 PM on May 2, 2023

By 2045, Star Trek will be basically Deadwood with transporters.

DINNA THREATEN ME WIV A GEUD TIME, LADDIE
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 9:33 PM on May 1, 2023

less pew pew deus ex machina, moar logotherapeutic monologues and existential tension/bonhomie

100% pure TNG juice. inject it into my VEINS. this is why we are here!



how dumb are the fucking big-eyed space squid babies tho'
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 9:36 PM on May 1, 2023

don't meditate too much worf or you'll get all sapir, and not be able to fight
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 9:34 PM on April 30, 2023

st : jss

(star trek: jerry springer show)
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 9:16 PM on April 29, 2023

it's meh, jim, but not as we know it.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:24 PM on April 29, 2023

I love this series

but it really doesn't get the power of audio recordings.

I really think that luthen using his own, unscrambled voice to have a wee chat with the empire ship is an error. Like all the chats had in public spaces


/nitpick
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:45 PM on December 8, 2022

Damn this show gives me the frisson chills on So. Many.Levels.


Stupid human fascists!Prison Needs more murderdroids!

Water prison escape flashbacks to Face/Off!

I think Mon Mothma is going to marry her daughter off to that thug's son, and I think both her husband and her daughter are going to think it's the only good idea she's had all year, and I think it's going to destroy her. God, this show is SO GOOD.

PREACH
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:23 PM on December 7, 2022

I really hope the antique shop, or the senator's house or party location..... isn't bugged.

---
I mean, goddamn.

"that's just love. There's nothing you can do about that."

A Seminal Line delivered with such depth. That's gonna be tattooed on a lot of people.
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:50 PM on December 4, 2022

socialist revolutionary crushed by pile of gold. ouch

may the force rififi be with you!
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:10 PM on December 3, 2022

i could eat this series for 3 meals a day

next up on my wish list : tinker tailor soldier sith
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:52 PM on December 2, 2022

what if ww2 spy movie but in space

great stuff
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:07 PM on November 30, 2022

This was GREAT. Am excited for more.
Fiona Shaw IS a fucking treasure
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:56 AM on November 30, 2022

Just watched this. Excellent, mixed, weird, but worth it. The cinematography alone, a love letter to NYC almost as strong as the first. And for all the pat moments, there were some breathtaking profound arcs.


i) I want to be invited to art-shmuck party.
ii) Young RUTHIE! god what a friend and mother! when she hocked her ring to get the krugerands back after nadia changed her fucking mind, and then sat in the bar and just wanted to be seen and heard. My heart almost burst!
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:07 PM on November 26, 2022

the writing clunky, the performances stiff, the sfx laughable (the fucking dollar store ripoff " school for the gifted/ xmen plane" launch looked like a 1st yr VFX student project failure! easily the worst vfx i've seen in a film in a decade)

windchick and too-much-adolescence dude were AWFUL.AW. FUL. just painful.

Sarah Shahi was charismatic, while hawkdude was a muppet with a stick in his ass.

piers and… [more]
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 8:57 PM on November 16, 2022

Audiobook was great - hard agree with the text being brought to life by the narrator

. I never thought I'd tear up at this kind of novel but when Rocky and Grace reunited, man........
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:26 AM on October 25, 2022

I loved the cyberpsycho multiple eye glitch animation thing

i mean that's how i feel after too much coffee

guess i'm not cut out for the chrome
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 7:50 PM on October 19, 2022

Well this scene from e06 hits a little different now.....
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 5:08 AM on October 16, 2022

interview with the showrunners (SLNYT)
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 4:25 PM on October 16, 2022

There's a takedown in the guardian which I don't like, so I'm not posting. But the top comment is great


"Stupid fat amazonses, spoiling nice precious."
posted to FanFare by lalochezia at 6:22 AM on October 17, 2022