OT: TV and Movies

[Prez]

Like 25 years late to this lol but watched ‘Audition’, the 1999 Japanese horror movie and it’s as **** up and disturbing as I expected. Builds up pretty slowly but when it gets going, my god lol.

[HaroldinGMinor]

Like 25 years late to this lol but watched ‘Audition’, the 1999 Japanese horror movie and it’s as **** up and disturbing as I expected. Builds up pretty slowly but when it gets going, my god lol.

Yeah the last like 15 min are nightmare fuel.

[JayMKE]

If you think that True Detective going for a "supernatural/occult" angle is a big deviation then that tells me that you didn't even watch Season 1 lol.

Did you? I said supernatural/sci-fi as in ghosts/aliens/magic not the occult which is definitely a deviation for a gritty noir detective show, there isn't anything like that in the first 3 seasons. There's a lot of drug induced hallucinations during it but nothing was ever presented as not taking place in reality. S4E1 not so subtly hints at The Thing and the Dyatlov Pass incident, we'll see where it goes maybe its a fake out.

also a lot of bad CGI

[Ron Swanson]

If you think that True Detective going for a "supernatural/occult" angle is a big deviation then that tells me that you didn't even watch Season 1 lol.

Did you? I said supernatural/sci-fi as in ghosts/aliens/magic not the occult which is definitely a deviation for a gritty noir detective show, there isn't anything like that in the first 3 seasons. There's a lot of drug induced hallucinations during it but nothing was ever presented as not taking place in reality. S4E1 not so subtly hints at The Thing and the Dyatlov Pass incident, we'll see where it goes maybe its a fake out.

also a lot of bad CGI

I mean yeah, it could be a fake out....

Spoiler:

Exactly like Season 1

[JayMKE]

If you think that True Detective going for a "supernatural/occult" angle is a big deviation then that tells me that you didn't even watch Season 1 lol.

Did you? I said supernatural/sci-fi as in ghosts/aliens/magic not the occult which is definitely a deviation for a gritty noir detective show, there isn't anything like that in the first 3 seasons. There's a lot of drug induced hallucinations during it but nothing was ever presented as not taking place in reality. S4E1 not so subtly hints at The Thing and the Dyatlov Pass incident, we'll see where it goes maybe its a fake out.

also a lot of bad CGI

I mean yeah, it could be a fake out....

Spoiler:

Exactly like Season 1

S4e1 spoilers in here

Spoiler:

Literally rewatched S1 immediately before S4 premier and consider myself a big fan so lets cool the condescension. There are allusions to cosmic horror but nothing that happened on the show ever crossed the line into the actual supernatural.

S4 starts with a herd of bad cgi caribou jumping off a cliff, has a weird ghost that interpretative dances its way to the bodies of the missing workers from the research station that are naked and frozen for some reason, shared visions between multiple characters so its already made that leap it feels like. I read the fan theory about the ground water being contaminated from the environmental contamination or climate change so maybe everybody is tripping balls, its hard to think of how else it can be explained rationally. I believe Issa Lopez’s other work has been supernatural although I haven’t seen it.

The show is called True Detective so it does open itself to compare & contrasting, not being able to get out from the shadow of S1 is the main reason Nic Pizolatto isn’t still making the show AFAIK. S2 was weird and not what fans wanted so then he kinda reluctantly wrote S3, if he wrote S4 I would have been more intrigued but would still be skeptical.

[buckboy]

Thanks. You just saved me an hour.

FWIW, it's getting review bombed by the type of pissy man-babies who usually do this ****.

You're further reinforcing he won't watch it

WTF are you two on about?

[HaroldinGMinor]

I think a big part of True Detective S4 is probably gonna be native spiritualism, signs from the gods, that kind of thing.

Spoiler:

After E1, it could go either way but if they start to have ghosts and monsters killing people then it's not really True Detective anymore, IMO. It's...X-FIles or HBO's The Outsider. I am guessing it's not.

[MickeyDavis]

Rewatched Fargo season 1, episode 1. Good stuff. Perfect role for Billy Bob

[jimmybones]

My first impression of season 4 was the writing seems pretty corny.

At this point I’m just considering season one to be a standalone masterpiece.

[MickeyDavis]

Fargo finale

Spoiler:

The first 2/3 or so I liked. I knew the last part would be wrapping up Ole Munch. But that part seemed anti climatic. Overall good season.

[BUCKnation]

I liked the first ep of True Detective. Think the element of constant night leaving you with no concept of time is cool.

[DingleJerry]

Fargo finale

Spoiler:

The first 2/3 or so I liked. I knew the last part would be wrapping up Ole Munch. But that part seemed anti climatic. Overall good season.

Spoiler:

Watched instead of the 2H of the Bucks game. Yea, great season overall but wouldn't say the best finale. Nothing bad just a bit slow. With all that setup to the big battle at the ranch I kinda thought there would be more to it rather than wrapped so cleanly and easily. Too bad to see Winny the Bish go down.

Agree with you on the Munch slow ending. If nothing was going to happen I probably would've just let his story end with him walking off into the snow/woods like he did last episode (if I remember correctly). And instead spent the time a bit more on the ranch stuff or even Don Draper stuff in prison. But I guess they wanted that positivity spin talk with Munch I guess, which was fine but slow and anticlimatic.

[ejn1214]

Fargo finale:

Those black screen cuts are so annoying. The scene after with the cop was ridiculous. I haven't finished yet but I literally want to turn it off right now.

[HaroldinGMinor]

I thought the Fargo finale was great. It was a great way to tie up the theme of the season.

[Whiteman]

First episode of True Detective 4 was pretty good. Probably one of those seasons where you only find out 2/3rds of the way through whether it was worth your time.

Priscilla was typical Sophia Coppola - slow, well-acted, and beautifully shot. I enjoyed it.

[crkone]

I thought the Fargo finale was great. It was a great way to tie up the theme of the season.

I agree. Debt CAN be forgiven. Whether financial, spiritual, familial, etc.

[Finn]

I thought the Fargo finale was great. It was a great way to tie up the theme of the season.

I agree. Debt CAN be forgiven. Whether financial, spiritual, familial, etc.

Absolutely loved it.

[ReasonablySober]

Watch on YouTube

Loved this so much. 47 years old. Have a martooni for the old man.

[humanrefutation]

I got sucked into rewatching The Sopranos. My wife hasn't seen the show, so we're watching it together. So many classic lines and scenes. Just cracks me up to no end.

[ReasonablySober]

Reacher was missing the fun this season.