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If you fancy a nostalgic evening watching Beverley Hills Cop: Axel Foley, don't bother.
Eddie Murphy clearly can't be bothered. Absolutely phones it in with now where near the energy of the original films. Terrible script and acting. Judge Reinhold makes Mickey Rourke look normal, which is probably why he's only in it for 15 minutes. John Ashton's hair and moustache dye job would make Rudy Guliani wince. There's also an utterly bizarre and pointless scenes with Luis Guzman. Kevin Bacon's henchmen looked like the cast off love children of Siegfried and Roy. The plot is absolute garbage and it's just a series of really bad set pieces.
Why him ? Is utter filthy crude humour a v comedic watch
My review of the season finale of House of the Dragon: <sigh>
We gave up on it after 2 or 3 episodes of watching people mumbling to each other in dark castles and realising we couldn’t care less if every last one of them was incinerated by a dragon. In fact, that would be infinitely preferable to the spirit-crushing tedium of what wasn’t happening on screen
Its like they drew up an exhaustive list of all the things that made Game of Thrones brilliant, then systematically removed any last trace of them.
Awful!
In somewhat more interesting news: Ted Lasso series 4 is on the way 😀
I'm still working at The Boys S4, and it does feel like work tbh. Clearly they're trying to tee things up for the final season, but the pacing is so all over the shop. Ep1/2 - actual stuff happens. Ep3/4/5 - nothing happens, so instead there are diversions with flying sheep, dying people not dying, and randomly bringing in events from the TV show as if you remember seeing them.
Definitely not impressed
Brassic is great fun for a bit of silliness. All filmed around our neck of the woods so we have the added bonus of location spotting. Worth watching just for Jim the Farmer
Another new series to watch - Perfect Couple directed by Susanne Bier (Bird Box and a load of Dansk films) and starring Nicole Kidman as rich American woman (as usual) and various other well known actors in other roles Bono’s daughter from Bad Sisters (forgot her name), the cosmetic surgery nightmare that is now Isabelle Adjani and others. Enjoyed the first one.
@DrJ - It’s very good. Has that familiar very slick feel of White Lotus or Nine Perfect Strangers. A great cast who all seem to be enjoying themselves playing thoroughly unpleasant people and the plot is a good, old-fashioned Agatha Christie style whodunnit.
Well worth a viewing
Bad Monkey on Apple TV is enjoyable. It's Vince Vaughan pretty much playing Vince Vaughan as a disgraced detective in the Florida Keys. Interesting plot and a few laughs along the way. Halfway through the series and it's holding our interest.
I accidentally watch Netflix's No.1 pickathepopschartrundownpoppickers film the other day - and it was pretty good! Expected dumb action movie, got quite thoughtful, sometime complex, semi-action, quite thoughtful erm, 'cops are bad' thriller : 'Rebel Ridge'
Also, may have been mentioned but knockabout plague and pestulance comedy 'Decammeron' is worth a watch.
+1 for Rebel Ridge. I'd seen a 5* newspaper review of it so spotted it - the title does it no favours, but it's solid thoughtful action beat em up.
Just finished S2 of Mayor of Kingstown, need a bit of a breather after that. Bad Monkey next I reckon!
Started Sherwood S1, I thought it was very good, great writing; the OH isn't so sure.
Has anyone looked at Stags on Paramount? Also got great reviews, but after 1 episode I'm not totally sure.
Decammeron
Does it improve? I watched the first couple and it felt like there was an in-joke I was missing?
I didn't expect to like Decammeron (it was recommended by a strange person), but found it funny. That doesn't mean you will, of course.
Watched Eden Lake on Amazon at the weekend - amazed we hadn't seen it before (2008)
Totally infuriating at times, but a distrubing gritty horror.
We then followed that up with Summer Scars - a budget Welsh film. At times nasty and disturbing, but in a way, a complete contrast to the previous film
Both are centred round working glass gangs of kids, I'll not say too much more
Lou.
Decameron was mostly funny, but walked a very fine line between excellence, and disappearing up its own arse.
It could have been better without the preachy ending, too. That was one of the bits that didn't fall on the side of excellence, but went the other way...
Decameron was mostly funny
Oh, I agree, it wasn't the best thing I've ever seen, you can't expect all recommendations to be absolutely perfect! But it was worth watching for the Tindaro character, I thought he was bloody hilarious.
Eden Lake on Amazon at the weekend
Saw that when it came out, it lingers in the mind. Its a great horror, because it could actually happen. Humans do make the best monsters.
worth watching for the Tindaro character, I thought he was
bloody hilarious.Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart
Couldn't agree more, I half expected a copyright suit to follow.
Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart
You clearly watched a very different version of Blackadder to me!! Absolutely **** all like Flashheart!
+3 Rebel Ridge. Very good.
Perfect Couple
Agreed. A couple of episodes in and enjoying that.
I think it was on Prime originally but Nine Perfect Strangers is another series with Nicole Kidman that has a nice watchable / quirky what's going on feel about it.
We're enjoying Glitch at the moment.
And can anyone tell me does the new series of Umbrella Academy get better. First episode left me cold, which is a shame as really enjoyed the earlier ones.
And can anyone tell me does the new series of Umbrella Academy get better. First episode left me cold, which is a shame as really enjoyed the earlier ones.
Yes. Give it an episode or 2, it warms up!
Umbrella academy final season left me somewhat underwhelmed.
Quite a few plot lines appeared to be there mainly as fillers, and what was the ending all about?
I think it was on Prime originally but Nine Perfect Strangers is another series with Nicole Kidman that has a nice watchable / quirky what’s going on feel about it.
Couldn't get on with it. In theory I should have liked it, I usually like a whatsgoingon as much as a whodunnit, but it just didn't stick. I kept wishing a sinkhole would appear under the resort and consume everyone; no sinkhole after ep3, I gave up. YMMV.
Into the Fire - the documentary on Netflix is absolutely insane. Completely ****ed up and a totally compelling story about what a woman is prepared to do to find what happened to her missing daughter
Not an easy watch at all, but a pretty inspiring story about about sheer bloody-mindedness and intuition
Second Into The Fire. What a monster!
Third for Into the Fire, watched it today after Binners recommendation.
Another new series to watch – Perfect Couple directed by Susanne Bier (Bird Box and a load of Dansk films) and starring Nicole Kidman as rich American woman (as usual) and various other well known actors in other roles Bono’s daughter from Bad Sisters
Started off good but thought the ending was a bit weak.
I found Bono’s daughter to be a really weird actor, only seemed to have a few facial characteristics and to display them at the wrong time.
Right, finished S4 of the Boys and by god it's awful. The pacing is all over the shop, the writing is just horrendous, the storylines abysmal (Hughie's last few episodes are just... what?!) and the gore is used to make up for it all, it seems. S5 will have to be something special to get me to watch it.
Bad Monkey wasn't gripping me, but episode 3 is a bit of a gamechanger, definitely has me more interested now.
Still trying to persuade the OH to try more of Sherwood ("oh but it's depressing" says the woman who loved Happy Valley). And apparently Presumed Innocent (Apple TV) is good?
Apparently The Penguin is supposed to be quite good according to the Guardian.
Yeah, we watched the first episode last night and its looking very promising. Farrell was very good (although you wouldnt know it was him from looking)
Yep, I thought The Penguin was excellent.
Nothing like I was expecting; no sign of Batman or other sillyness. More like a gangster/mafia series.
Can't wait for the next episode.
The Forest is great for a French language series. Will probably work for you if you liked Broadchurch.
Not Netflix, but BBC iPlayer. Bob Servant, both series. A cult classic, one of the funniest things by the writer of Guilt and The Gold.
Starring Brian Cox (Succession, not Astronomy) who I used to think was pompous and humourless, but not any longer.
Vox Machina series 1-3 on Prime.
Not Netflix but there's a 2 part Ken Burns documentary on iPlayer at moment about the American Buffalo which is superb.
I just kind of stopped watching the new series of The Boys. Might pick it up again, but it's definitely lost its mojo.
Really enjoyed the second series of Colin From Accounts (iPlayer).
Noticed the OG Mean Girls is on Prime for free, so I've marked that to watch with my daughter.
I just kind of stopped watching the new series of The Boys.
It's pretty obvious that it's just scripted to move the story along to the finale, so it's hard not to treat it as filler. If you know the series well enough, you could watch the first and last ep. of season 4 and not really miss out anything crucial.
Rebel Ridge on NetFlix. Late to the party I know. Thought it was great, wonder if they'll do another one.
Ludvig on iPlayer. David Mitchell doing David Mitchell things. Best thing I reckon he's done since upstart crow. And defo set up for a second series.
Slow Horses S4: just gets better. We deliberately waited until all episodes were ready to stream as we knew we'd binge watch it.
I got 2 episodes into Kaos (which was very well reviewed) but just didn't gel with it at all. Binned that off.
I watched Wolfs last night (Apple TV which required signing up for a week's free trial which I'm going to have to cancel again before they take £8.99 off me) which was enjoyable. Quite silly but funny in parts, even if it is just Brad Pitt and George Clooney being Brad Pitt and George Clooney.