OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, Teachers & More!! - Part 3

[Shak_Celts]

I got a donut yesterday and the family in front of me had no idea what a dozen is. The kid said 10, the mom said 8, and the dad laughed and said no it's 16.

Teachers where you at?? (haha)

It’s important not to leave out key details, I know those had to be teen parents. I think they should be commended for their child speaking so early!

[bisme37]

I got a donut yesterday and the family in front of me had no idea what a dozen is. The kid said 10, the mom said 8, and the dad laughed and said no it's 16.

Teachers where you at?? (haha)

It’s important not to leave out key details, I know those had to be teen parents. I think they should be commended for their child speaking so early!

The parents looked to be in their 30's. The kid was maybe 8, but she was closest to the actual answer haha.

[Smart2Nesmith43]

I got a donut yesterday and the family in front of me had no idea what a dozen is. The kid said 10, the mom said 8, and the dad laughed and said no it's 16.

Teachers where you at?? (haha)

It’s important not to leave out key details, I know those had to be teen parents. I think they should be commended for their child speaking so early!

The parents looked to be in their 30's. The kid was maybe 8, but she was closest to the actual answer haha.

I feel bad for that kid. Pretty obvious that the education system AND her family has failed her. Time to get her some books to expand her horizons:

Watch on YouTube

[fallguy]

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777210/tonight-in-jungleland-by-peter-ames-carlin/

This is wonderful and full of new insight for any Bruce-heads around here.

[jmr07019]

Tires season 2 is SOOOO FUNNNNY!

[Shak_Celts]

Sinners!


I want to say, if you didn’t like it, ONE reason is because you didn’t understand it. I get it, some people just want the story to lay everything plain and simple for them, that’s cool. Forgetting the other reasons that can’t be discussed on here. I implore you, if you didn’t like it, look for videos on YouTube that will explain the MANY things you likely missed, then watch it again. They slapped a horror tag on it, as they do, but this work is multi-genre! There is so much to be missed and it could open your eyes to a real experience! If you understand things, that aren’t Easter eggs as people try to call them, and you still don’t like it, okay.


Edit: there are simply a lot of things black people will get off first watch because it’s lived traditions or things we know because of harm, but even then, there is so much more. They carefully crafted every scene and every character! Please, find the information and watch it again.

[bisme37]

Last couple months I've been tearing through several really good shows from the last decade that I never watched at the time.

The Americans - full series is on Hulu - excellent

Mr. Robot - full series on Netflix - also excellent

Bates Motel - full series is on Prime - very absorbing and super bonkers lol

And now I'm into Orphan Black, which was recently adde to Netflix. Good so far.

All recommended by yours truly.

I've also been keeping up with the ongoing seasons of Foundation, Invasion, and Platonic on Apple. Peacemaker on HBO Max. Finished the recent seasons of Upload on Prime, Twisted Metal on Peacock and Wednesday on Netflix. Planning to watch the Dexter finale tonight. And the show Crashing on HBO is really good and funny. And Countdown on Prime was entertaining enough. And I'm probably forgetting 10 other things that went in one eye and out the other.

New season of Only Murders in the Building drops in a few days as well so I'm looking forward to that. Oh yeah and Thunderbolts is on Disney+ now and def one the better Marvel movies in recent years.

Now you guys are all up to date on my excessive television watching haha.

Edit: Oh yeah, Alien Earth!

And I had to change my Netflix thumb rating for Orphan Black from "I like this" to "I love this." I'm really into it.

[brackdan70]

Last couple months I've been tearing through several really good shows from the last decade that I never watched at the time.

The Americans - full series is on Hulu - excellent

Mr. Robot - full series on Netflix - also excellent

Bates Motel - full series is on Prime - very absorbing and super bonkers lol

And now I'm into Orphan Black, which was recently adde to Netflix. Good so far.

All recommended by yours truly.

I've also been keeping up with the ongoing seasons of Foundation, Invasion, and Platonic on Apple. Peacemaker on HBO Max. Finished the recent seasons of Upload on Prime, Twisted Metal on Peacock and Wednesday on Netflix. Planing to watch the Dexter finale tonight. And the show Crashing on HBO is really good and funny. And Countdown on Prime was entertaining enough. And I'm probably forgetting 10 other things that went in one eye and out the other.

New season of Only Murders in the Building drops in a few days as well so I'm looking forward to that. Oh yeah and Thunderbolts is on Disney+ now and def one the better Marvel movies in recent years.

Now you guys are all up to date on my excessive television watching haha.

We’re watching Orphan Black now as well!! It’s good. Watched a season or two of the Americans years back… have to finish it.

[bisme37]

Spoiler:

Last couple months I've been tearing through several really good shows from the last decade that I never watched at the time.

The Americans - full series is on Hulu - excellent

Mr. Robot - full series on Netflix - also excellent

Bates Motel - full series is on Prime - very absorbing and super bonkers lol

And now I'm into Orphan Black, which was recently adde to Netflix. Good so far.

All recommended by yours truly.

I've also been keeping up with the ongoing seasons of Foundation, Invasion, and Platonic on Apple. Peacemaker on HBO Max. Finished the recent seasons of Upload on Prime, Twisted Metal on Peacock and Wednesday on Netflix. Planing to watch the Dexter finale tonight. And the show Crashing on HBO is really good and funny. And Countdown on Prime was entertaining enough. And I'm probably forgetting 10 other things that went in one eye and out the other.

New season of Only Murders in the Building drops in a few days as well so I'm looking forward to that. Oh yeah and Thunderbolts is on Disney+ now and def one the better Marvel movies in recent years.

Now you guys are all up to date on my excessive television watching haha.

We’re watching Orphan Black now as well!! It’s good. Watched a season or two of the Americans years back… have to finish it.

Yeah I've watched most of season 1 of Orphan Black now and I'm fully hooked. Tatiana Maslany is killing it playing all the different characters.

The Americans...

Spoiler:

I'm still mad about the fate of my beautiful girlfriend Nina Sergeevna Krilova,

but aside from that it was really good haha.

[brackdan70]

Spoiler:

Last couple months I've been tearing through several really good shows from the last decade that I never watched at the time.

The Americans - full series is on Hulu - excellent

Mr. Robot - full series on Netflix - also excellent

Bates Motel - full series is on Prime - very absorbing and super bonkers lol

And now I'm into Orphan Black, which was recently adde to Netflix. Good so far.

All recommended by yours truly.

I've also been keeping up with the ongoing seasons of Foundation, Invasion, and Platonic on Apple. Peacemaker on HBO Max. Finished the recent seasons of Upload on Prime, Twisted Metal on Peacock and Wednesday on Netflix. Planing to watch the Dexter finale tonight. And the show Crashing on HBO is really good and funny. And Countdown on Prime was entertaining enough. And I'm probably forgetting 10 other things that went in one eye and out the other.

New season of Only Murders in the Building drops in a few days as well so I'm looking forward to that. Oh yeah and Thunderbolts is on Disney+ now and def one the better Marvel movies in recent years.

Now you guys are all up to date on my excessive television watching haha.

We’re watching Orphan Black now as well!! It’s good. Watched a season or two of the Americans years back… have to finish it.

Yeah I've watched most of season 1 of Orphan Black now and I'm fully hooked. Tatiana Maslany is killing it playing all the different characters.

The Americans...

Spoiler:

I'm still mad about the fate of my beautiful girlfriend Nina Sergeevna Krilova,

but aside from that it was really good haha.

Right!!! So impressive to play all those different characters. At least I’m impressed. And when one character is trying to play another…she does such a good job of not nailing it.

[jmr07019]

Just finished reading Along Came a Spider and wow that is easily one of the best stories I have ever read, watched or listened to. Entertaining cover to cover. There's really no lull in the action. Without thinking too much about it Along Came a Spider is up there with Ozark and Breaking Bad as my favorite stories ever.

[Tatumfor2]

Anyone tried Superstore? It's on Netflix and if you've worked in the service industry it's a must watch. I really liked how they wrapped the series up as well.

[canman1971]

New 2 part documentary on Charlie Sheen was done well, and he was extremely forthcoming.

[bucknersrevenge]

Six episodes into Alien Earth and it's been pretty good so far.

[bisme37]

Black Rabbit on Netflix seems to be getting mixed reviews but I found it quite gripping and pretty dang good. Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Bateman produces the show and also directs some of the episodes, and it def has an Ozark feel to it. Everything goes more and more wrong for the characters and the tension keeps ratcheting up. Kinda like Ozark meets The Bear. It's not as good as either of those but it's close imo.

I quite enjoyed the new Superman movie, which is on HBO Max now.

The Girlfriend on Prime. Olivia Cooke and Robin Wright go to war with each other after Wright's son brings Cooke home as his new love. Both of the gals go nuts on each other trying to "win" the son and ruin the other's life. Some solid twists and turns as far as you think one of them is the main nut, but then realize the other is even crazier. I spend an episode wondering if I really cared about it, but I ended up watching the whole thing in two nights. So I guess I liked it haha.

[canman1971]

Black Rabbit on Netflix seems to be getting mixed reviews but I found it quite gripping and pretty dang good. Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Bateman produces the show and also directs some of the episodes, and it def has an Ozark feel to it. Everything goes more and more wrong for the characters and the tension keeps ratcheting up. Kinda like Ozark meets The Bear. It's not as good as either of those but it's close imo.

I quite enjoyed the new Superman movie, which is on HBO Max now.

The Girlfriend on Prime. Olivia Cooke and Robin Wright go to war with each other after Wright's son brings Cooke home as his new love. Both of the gals go nuts on each other trying to "win" the son and ruin the other's life. Some solid twists and turns as far as you think one of them is the main nut, but then realize the other is even crazier. I spend an episode wondering if I really cared about it, but I ended up watching the whole thing in two nights. So I guess I liked it haha.

Black Rabbit was fantastic. I said in the first episode Bateman looks like Lt. Dan. And sure enough I guess they felt the same as it got mentioned later on

[Curmudgeon]

Six episodes into Alien Earth and it's been pretty good so far.

I've gotten kind of sick of that franchise after what, six or 7 movies? Even if it's good I doubt if I'll watch it.

I have been watching some old movies made in the 1930's and 1940's by the Korda brothers in England, and later in Hollywood. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) was nominated for best picture and launched Charles Laughton's career. Alexander Korda produced The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935) with Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon and Raymond Massie as the villainous Citizen Chauvelin. Merle Oberon, so beautiful and so talented, spent her life trying to hide the fact that she was of mixed race-- her mother was South Indian from Ceylon. It's a shame that the print of this film available on Amazon is of inferior quality, but even so the acting, script and camera work are outstanding. Sanders of the River (1935), directed by Zoltan Korda, was the first film from a major studio to feature a Black actor (Paul Robeson). And then there is The Four Feathers (1939) with John Clement and Ralph Richardson, which is far superior to the remake with Heath Ledger, and That Hamilton Woman (1941) with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, about Horatio Nelson's notorious affair with the married Emma Hamilton. Even at its age, the picture has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Let me add another Korda brothers movie-- Sahara (1943), with Humphrey Bogart-- directed by Zoltan Korda who also co-wrote the script. They tried to remake that one too, with Jim Belushi in Bogart's role, and the remake was terrible.

[jmr07019]

Black Rabbit on Netflix seems to be getting mixed reviews but I found it quite gripping and pretty dang good. Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Bateman produces the show and also directs some of the episodes, and it def has an Ozark feel to it. Everything goes more and more wrong for the characters and the tension keeps ratcheting up. Kinda like Ozark meets The Bear. It's not as good as either of those but it's close imo.

I quite enjoyed the new Superman movie, which is on HBO Max now.

The Girlfriend on Prime. Olivia Cooke and Robin Wright go to war with each other after Wright's son brings Cooke home as his new love. Both of the gals go nuts on each other trying to "win" the son and ruin the other's life. Some solid twists and turns as far as you think one of them is the main nut, but then realize the other is even crazier. I spend an episode wondering if I really cared about it, but I ended up watching the whole thing in two nights. So I guess I liked it haha.

I really enjoyed Black Rabbit. Surprised to hear it's gotten mixed reviews.

Spoiler:

I enjoyed the fast pace and appreciate that they wrapped the story up in 1 season. While it took him a while it was nice to see Vince finally put the needs of his family above his own needs. I like that the worst people in the show (Vince, Junior, Jules) eventually had to face the consequences of their behavior. Felt bad for Wes. He was a good dude who stood up for both Vince and Jake when others were speaking ill of them, or attempting a hostile take over, and in return Jake stole his girl and Vince shot him. He definitely got a raw deal.

I was also a big fan of the superman movie.

Spoiler:

Love how much Superman struggled and how the movie didn't spend time trying to show you how great superman is but instead dove right into the struggle. I thought this was a movie more for adults where as most super hero movies (Marvel) are more geared to teenagers.

[bucknersrevenge]

Black Rabbit on Netflix seems to be getting mixed reviews but I found it quite gripping and pretty dang good. Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Bateman produces the show and also directs some of the episodes, and it def has an Ozark feel to it. Everything goes more and more wrong for the characters and the tension keeps ratcheting up. Kinda like Ozark meets The Bear. It's not as good as either of those but it's close imo.

I quite enjoyed the new Superman movie, which is on HBO Max now.

The Girlfriend on Prime. Olivia Cooke and Robin Wright go to war with each other after Wright's son brings Cooke home as his new love. Both of the gals go nuts on each other trying to "win" the son and ruin the other's life. Some solid twists and turns as far as you think one of them is the main nut, but then realize the other is even crazier. I spend an episode wondering if I really cared about it, but I ended up watching the whole thing in two nights. So I guess I liked it haha.

I really enjoyed Black Rabbit. Surprised to hear it's gotten mixed reviews.

Spoiler:

I enjoyed the fast pace and appreciate that they wrapped the story up in 1 season. While it took him a while it was nice to see Vince finally put the needs of his family above his own needs. I like that the worst people in the show (Vince, Junior, Jules) eventually had to face the consequences of their behavior. Felt bad for Wes. He was a good dude who stood up for both Vince and Jake when others were speaking ill of them, or attempting a hostile take over, and in return Jake stole his girl and Vince shot him. He definitely got a raw deal.

I was also a big fan of the superman movie.

Spoiler:

Love how much Superman struggled and how the movie didn't spend time trying to show you how great superman is but instead dove right into the struggle. I thought this was a movie more for adults where as most super hero movies (Marvel) are more geared to teenagers.

How does this movie compare in your eyes to other Superman movies like Man of Steel or the originals? Do you have a preference?

[jmr07019]

Black Rabbit on Netflix seems to be getting mixed reviews but I found it quite gripping and pretty dang good. Jude Law and Jason Bateman. Bateman produces the show and also directs some of the episodes, and it def has an Ozark feel to it. Everything goes more and more wrong for the characters and the tension keeps ratcheting up. Kinda like Ozark meets The Bear. It's not as good as either of those but it's close imo.

I quite enjoyed the new Superman movie, which is on HBO Max now.

The Girlfriend on Prime. Olivia Cooke and Robin Wright go to war with each other after Wright's son brings Cooke home as his new love. Both of the gals go nuts on each other trying to "win" the son and ruin the other's life. Some solid twists and turns as far as you think one of them is the main nut, but then realize the other is even crazier. I spend an episode wondering if I really cared about it, but I ended up watching the whole thing in two nights. So I guess I liked it haha.

I really enjoyed Black Rabbit. Surprised to hear it's gotten mixed reviews.

Spoiler:

I enjoyed the fast pace and appreciate that they wrapped the story up in 1 season. While it took him a while it was nice to see Vince finally put the needs of his family above his own needs. I like that the worst people in the show (Vince, Junior, Jules) eventually had to face the consequences of their behavior. Felt bad for Wes. He was a good dude who stood up for both Vince and Jake when others were speaking ill of them, or attempting a hostile take over, and in return Jake stole his girl and Vince shot him. He definitely got a raw deal.

I was also a big fan of the superman movie.

Spoiler:

Love how much Superman struggled and how the movie didn't spend time trying to show you how great superman is but instead dove right into the struggle. I thought this was a movie more for adults where as most super hero movies (Marvel) are more geared to teenagers.

How does this movie compare in your eyes to other Superman movies like Man of Steel or the originals? Do you have a preference?

I haven't seen the others. Certainly I've seen bits and pieces here and there but I don't remember watching any of them all the way through. Have you seen the new one? How did you think it compared to the others?