What are you watching?

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

It's a three-part trilogy, so I'd start with the first.

 

[CheriptheRipper]

It's a three-part trilogy, so I'd start with the first.

Nah I mean after the HDM trilogy. What to read between the companion books and the Book of Dust trilogy.
Don't necessarily want to read the first trilogy of books. Unless per chance you've seen the series and read the books and think it's worth double dipping so to say 👀

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I haven't seen the BBC series, only the movie adaptation of Book 1, which came in for criticism, so I can't say. But I found the books worth reading -- for what that's worth.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Seeing John Dall in one of his several appearances on Perry Mason reminded me of what was perhaps his most memorable role, the gun-obsessed "hero" of this long-underrated film noir.

Despite the low budget, it featured some surprising innovations -- for instance, much of the dialog was ad libbed, as in this famous heist sequence:

That's three and a half minutes, in one long shot!😳

Bonnie and Clyde owes much to this film.

Fans of Night of the Demon will recognize Peggy Cummins.

 

[CheriptheRipper]

Seeing John Dall in one of his several appearances on Perry Mason reminded me of what was perhaps his most memorable role, the gun-obsessed "hero" of this long-underrated film noir.

It's gone full cycle now, I'm watching 21st century's Perry Mason today.
Didn't even know there was an old one until a few weeks back.

 

[Deimos]

It's gone full cycle now, I'm watching 21st century's Perry Mason today.
Didn't even know there was an old one until a few weeks back.

Chances are good now that anything you see at the theatre or on TV is a remake.
So just for fun, if you are watching something new, google it to see when it was first made (probably at least 50 years ago).

Nihil sub sole novum.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

When the new Ben Hur was coming out a few years ago, people were complaining that Hollywood was really getting desperate for ideas, if they had to try to remake a great "classic".

I assume they were referring to this:

Or was it perhaps this? 🤔

Oh, by the way, MeTV airs the Raymond Burr Perry Mason episodes twice a day -- though I have a feeling they clip some scenes, to make room for more commercials. 😡

Far more airtime is taken up by commercials now than in those distant days.

(Shameless self-promotion: you'll find several Mason jokes and memes from me here, if you go back a few pages 😃)

Edit: More than a few, I now see!

https://thetolkien.forum/threads/what-are-you-watching.23834/page-17

 

[Olorgando]

Chances are good now that anything you see at the theatre or on TV is a remake.
So just for fun, if you are watching something new, google it to see when it was first made (probably at least 50 years ago).

50 years ago seems much to large a stretch of time by now, what with people delegating their memories to the badly misnamed "smart"-phones. Anybody got their own birthday stored there so you can remember it? ... 😈

Where I came to the conclusion that the "entertainment industry" had totally lost it (letting the likes of "Dallas" and "Dynasty" out of their early afternoon cages was bad enough - it dumbified the already pathetic cookie cutter so that practically everything since then looks like a dang clone) is when they started making "films" based on computer games ... "Mortal Kombat", REALLY?!?!?!?!?!?!? 😵😵😵😵😵

Erm ..........................................................................

... the film I most likely meant is from 1995 ...
... apparently there's a 2021 remake ...

... we're doomed ... 😳😬🥶

 

[Deimos]

... we're doomed ... 😳😬🥶

We are, indeed....

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

when they started making "films" based on computer games ... "Mortal Kombat", REALLY?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Makes as much sense as film versions of TV shows-- maybe more, financially speaking; some games have more fans than a lot of TV shows do.

 

[CheriptheRipper]

Chances are good now that anything you see at the theatre or on TV is a remake.
So just for fun, if you are watching something new, google it to see when it was first made (probably at least 50 years ago).

Nihil sub sole novum.

I've actually adopted that practice a while back. It was quite something discovering the history of the planet of the apes movies, or even seeing the current game trilogy I was playing was already the third iteration of the same trilogy.

Edit: pretty funny in hindsight, I just remembered they announced a new trilogy's in the works not too long ago.

 

[CheriptheRipper]

Makes as much sense as film versions of TV shows-- maybe more, financially speaking; some games have more fans than a lot of TV shows do.

Especially during this new wave of game adaptations. The videogame market has soared during covid.
Someone like Sony who has a library of IPs and the ability to relatively easily adapt them can't help but do that now (see the current TLOU HBO show and the upcoming Gran Turismo movie by Neil Blomkamp).

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

"So you think you're normal."

"Yes, quite normal." 🤸‍♀️

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Olorgando]

Rick Beato interview videos on YouTube. Since I first mentioned them in Mr.Underhill's "quit YouTube" thread on 05 March, I have certainly watched more than 24 hours of them. A serious binge last Sat/Sun, and again now Mon/Tue It's past midnight here in Germany. Most of them with guitarists (just finished the first one not with someone about my age or older, with the 43-year-old "puppy" Derek Trucks). This stuff belongs in the Library of Congress.

 

[CheriptheRipper]

Just watched Knock at the Cabin (2023). It feels like a Shyamalan movie alright but it was a bit disappointing, its trailer made it look more suspenseful.
After reading up on the book I wish they had followed it a bit more closely.
Thematically it's great though, pushes some pretty cool ideas forward.
It's not so much alike but I think Shyamalan did better with 2004's The Village regarding the surrounding mystery.
Great to see Rupert Grint again though, hope to see him in more stuff as he was excellent in Guillermo's Cabinet of Curiosities.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[CheriptheRipper]

I saw this one the other day as well, finally found some gold in the random yt recommendations. It's really caught on 😯

 

[Aldarion]

I saw this one the other day as well, finally found some gold in the random yt recommendations. It's really caught on 😯

I watched it just yesterday!

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I saw that too, on Reddit I think