Movies/series you've watched recently.

[Tyzuris]

So what movies or series have you watched recently? I myself got started on HBO original Succession which is a very neat show about two sons having to take the charge of their father's old fashioned (and failing because of that) media company and try to modernize it to survive modern era. Pretty good show.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I gave up on watching Live Action TV Shows and Movies months ago, haven’t been to a Cinema for a long time

But if you mean recent....Game of Thrones Season 8

 

[Sol Zagato]

Arthdal Chronicles. The scuttlebutt is that it will not see another season, and that's a crying shame.

Also just watched Glass and loved it.

 

[Emperor Tippy]

Queen of the South is the only live action show currently on TV that I watch regularly.

 

[JagerIV]

I've recently began watching Ash vs the Evil Dead on Netflix. Definately entertaining, and nothing else quite like it.

Finishing up Bablyon 5. Or at least, season 4. Deciding whether or not we want to continue on to season 5 and track down the other movies or not: I hear they're very different.

 

[Vargas Fan]

Watched Blake's 7 for the first time in a while, and the 1970s comedy Get Some In about National Service in the RAF in the mid fifties.

Watched season 1 of Black Sails, I'm not sure what to think yet.

 

[prinCZess]

I'd be curious to hear more about Black Sails when you finish it @Vargas Fan , I've always heard good things about it, and I have a weakness for pirate media. But...It always just passed me by for whatever reason(s). I like the concept, but I'm always skeptical of the made-for-TV or subscription-channel stuff just on basic principle (partly the same reason I never could/did get into Game of Thrones).

Rewatched Shutter Island over the weekend, and still think it's a solid movie that has some spot-on acting from DiCaprio. If anyone hasn't seen it, I'd recommend it just because it does a good job of slowly building tension and making everything 'off' in a properly horror-movie way while...Not exactly being a horror movie? Still being a horror movie, but in a different way? Can't describe it entirely, but it's enjoyable to watch.

 

[Deleted member]

Watched Blake's 7 for the first time in a while, and the 1970s comedy Get Some In about National Service in the RAF in the mid fifties.

Watched season 1 of Black Sails, I'm not sure what to think yet.

I loved Blake's 7.

I'm on a memory trip back into the 90s (Bubble Gum Crisis, anyone?) and the world needs more unambiguously fun things, so...



You're Under Arrest, anyone?

 

[Vargas Fan]

I tried watching the Wing Commander animation on Youtube. I'm of mixed minds about it, the music/audio mix is so bad (and reportedly so on the DVD version as well) that the intrusive music makes it near nigh impossible to hear a lot of the dialogue. The Tiger's Claw looks like none of the versions in the game, and there's a wierd mix of Confed fighters, everything from Scimitars, Ferrets (I think) up to Arrows, Hellcats and even a Longbow bomber. It's cool they got Malcolm McDowell, Mark Hamill and Tom Wilson to voice Tolwyn, Blair and Maniac respectively, but there's also guest voices by Michael Dorn and Ron Perlman.

As to Black Sails, bear in mind I've only got the first season. It has it's ups and downs and pacing suffers in places but I put that down to any first season trying to do its best to establish itself, especially considering how ruthless TV can be nowadays. Overall I enjoyed it. The main character is John Silver (Not Long John Silver), and there is also Captain Flint who comes across sometimes as decent, or as decent as a freebooter can be in those times, and a ruthless son of a bitch. It's very grey morality wise, expect more of a Breaking Bad/Game of Thrones morality tone rather than Pirates of the Caribbean. It's well worth a watch and the sea battles are nicely done, what there is of them. It doesn't sanitise conditions at that time. If you also like media set in that time catch the British Hornblower show from a bit back, all of them are good, but the two parter Mutiny, and Retribution with David Warner playing a wonderful part as Captain Sawyer is worthwhile.

 

[prinCZess]

I loved Blake's 7.

I'm on a memory trip back into the 90s (Bubble Gum Crisis, anyone?) and the world needs more unambiguously fun things, so...



You're Under Arrest, anyone?

Bubblegum Crisis is some solid cyberpunk viewing, and combined with someone referencing me the Blade Runner opening over Halloween...I now wanna go back to watch it again, along with a raftload of old similar anime. But I have so many other things to do!
Only ever saw the first section of episodes for You're Under Arrest way back when, but I remember it being quite fun as well. There seems to have been a significant bump in the animation budget for subsequent works, it seems.

I'm very late to the party, but I did have the chance to sit down at a friend's and they let me steal borrow their Netflix to watch the first season of Castlevania. Dunnow if there's supposed to be a connection to the games at all and I wouldn't recognize if there was, but it holds together as a stand-alone vampire/beasties flick pretty well--though I've yet to finish it and who the heck knows when I might get the chance.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I tried watching the Wing Commander animation on Youtube. I'm of mixed minds about it, the music/audio mix is so bad (and reportedly so on the DVD version as well) that the intrusive music makes it near nigh impossible to hear a lot of the dialogue. The Tiger's Claw looks like none of the versions in the game, and there's a wierd mix of Confed fighters, everything from Scimitars, Ferrets (I think) up to Arrows, Hellcats and even a Longbow bomber. It's cool they got Malcolm McDowell, Mark Hamill and Tom Wilson to voice Tolwyn, Blair and Maniac respectively, but there's also guest voices by Michael Dorn and Ron Perlman.

Has to be better then the actual movie though?

I should revisit how the FMV style cutscenes were. They went pretty heavy into those for the later games IIRC.