Yup, some of those shows ie BC Saul - 96%/97% on Rotten Tomatoes - so it isn't down to Netflix being 'trash', it's down to your personal tastes.
What film did you watch last night?
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Yup, some of those shows ie BC Saul - 96%/97% on Rotten Tomatoes - so it isn't down to Netflix being 'trash', it's down to your personal tastes.
Land of Mine similar intensity to kadjaki , gripping, a microcosm of war, humanity ...subtitled
... assume the basic premise that war reparations included munitions clearing is true.
Agree I'd say it's the american production, derivative themes, quantity over quality, of netflix content .... Rotten tomatoes is mostly usa opinion ?
but, what has the BBC done that is much better, albeit their mass market aspirations, co-productions, mean they are susceptible to the same problems ,
so people have little good content per se, and maybe don't realise the overall standard dropped
(killing eve - ok for a few episodes, gangs of london, peaky blinders, McMafia, doctor who ...)
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Schitts creek is great. 
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The longest yard.
Both good films, I really enjoyed Gravity.
Cherry 7/10
Tom Holland stars as Cherry, he drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
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"From beyond the grave", a 70s British horror film, made up of 4 linked stories. It was fun, but not that horrifying. The clothes were the most horrible thing in it.
Lesley-Anne Down is in it. Man, I had such a crush on her when I was younger...
Lesley-Anne Down is in it. Man, I had such a crush on her when I was younger...
What did you think of it?
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I enjoyed it, or certainly expands upon various stories arks etc., Few of the battles feel more finished off rather than rushed.
Few quotes got dropped which we thought "why"? Like (spoiler)
When superman's mum arrives and he previously said "you called her", he doesn't do that in the Snyder Cut, which was odd
Also another spoiler:
Jared Letos small park as joker in this small extra scene was a better performance than his entire performance in Suicide squad....
All in all I like it, the 4:3 aspect ratio I though was going to be odd but you soon forget it. Snyder likes to really try make your screen part of the action as well, with some extra effects around the edges which I can't recall previously.
A few other bonuses, Flash' presence seems to be more involved/mor scenes, which I liked as and there are more with the Cyborg which again expanded the story a bit more. Without those extras the story previously felt a bit 'lost'? Things just sort of happened, and you didn't know why.
Oh and some of the jokes they tried to throw in to jovial the film up are gone, which in my opinion is a good thing, some come from Flash still, but Tbh they're more suited to the character.
Essentially Cyborg and Flash are major characters and very important to the plot. It was criminal to reduce them as much as they did in the theatrical version.
The story had a better opportunity to be fully explored. So much of the Theatrical release was so rushed and made very little sense due to how short and rushed a lot of the scenes ended up.
Yeah that's exactly what I meant, the whole thing just finished with no real reasoning.
Heyyyyy bad guy, ah he's dead.
I sort of feel that the whole of the Snyder cut can be summed up in 2 bullet points.
That’s pretty much it and why it could never be excellent. Try and do a similar summary with, say, The Dark Knight and you just can’t because there is so much more going on.
Bad guys arrive and get chased away.
Superman is dead but comes back.
Superman is dead but comes back.
That’s pretty much it and why it could never be excellent. Try and do a similar summary with, say, The Dark Knight and you just can’t because there is so much more going on.
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A horror / western with Kurt Russell?! How can you lose!!!!
Unfortunately doesn’t quite live up to the premise:
Feels like it could have been better as it’s a great premise with a good cast.
7/10
A horror / western with Kurt Russell?! How can you lose!!!!
Unfortunately doesn’t quite live up to the premise:
Too much slow build foreplay (a lot of hobbling) and not much happening in the finale moments, IMHO. The daft character was also a bit too obnoxiously daft.
Feels like it could have been better as it’s a great premise with a good cast.
7/10
Take it the theatrical release is .5 of a bullet point then?
Same bullet points, just less fleshed out
I recall thinking that the theatrical version was really bad, whilst the Snyder version was mostly watchable, so it clearly did it a lot better but there still just wasn’t any real character progression from..... anyone?!
I thought there was a lot of character progression especially for Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg. Who got little or no back story in the theatrical release.Same bullet points, just less fleshed out
I recall thinking that the theatrical version was really bad, whilst the Snyder version was mostly watchable, so it clearly did it a lot better but there still just wasn’t any real character progression from..... anyone?!
Do you mean ‘screen time’, ‘more back story’ or ‘character progression’?
There was a lot more of the first, more of the second but still pretty limited on the third.
I can’t recall any character progression for any of them. As in, where any of the characters go through some sort of conflict, or have to make hard choices, or do anything that defines them.... whatever. The closest person to someone who got more of that was cyborg. I can’t remember anything like that for the flash.
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Really really good, 3rd time watch
Really really good, 3rd time watch