Discussion questions:
What TV shows or films have you watched recently?
What subscription services are you subscribed to, if any?
Question of the week:
What TV shows of 2023 are you currently enjoying?
Finished DS9. It was amazing, period.
Also just finished Season 2 of Yellowjackets, a show about a high school girls’ soccer team that (mostly) survives an airplane crash in the wilderness and has to resort to horrid things to survive. It also shows some of the girls in their 40s in the modern day (they crashed in 96) and displays how they’re coping or not coping with the trauma of their shared experience. It’s riveting, I love the inclusion of well-rounded LGB characters, and ah it’s just great entertainment.
Oh nice. I’m not sure what show to watch. I’m watching The Sandman, but other than that? Not sure what to watch and nothing seems to be good.
Getting hyped for the new seasons of the Eric Andre Show, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Alone. I also just watched “Do the Right Thing” for the first time. Interesting.
Do the Right Thing? What’s that about? Should I watch it?
A Spike Lee joint, made in 1989, it’s about racism in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, how conflict arises from desperate conditions. It’s pretty good, but kind of difficult to watch as it gets… intense at times.
Ooo, I see.
I finally got around to watching RRR. Amazing film.
Excited to watch season 2 of Star Trek: Bi-Panic soon.
Guess I’ll watch RRR myself.
I agree, all the actors are pretty good looking.
I don’t know what movie I want to watch. I’m working on finishing my watchlist on IMDB/Netflix though, so probably a movie from there. The last one I watched was Gangs of Wasseypur, a Bollywood movie. I thought it was okay. But first I’m finishing Trailer Park Boys. Just finished season 10.
Criterion Channel helps.
It curates movies well.
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I recently watched Oliver Stone’s JFK, very interesting. Very compelling narrative. Definitely something I’d recommend to anyone in the left as this was just a very high profile example of the type of shit the CIA gets up to all the time. Also rewatched it again with commentary track.
I am looking forward to in future the Venture Bro’s wrap-up movie (Go Team Venture) and I’ll probably, possibly, maybe watch Season 3 of Praise Geraldo just because I enjoy expensive fantasy universes I’m somewhat familiar with and because I watched the other 2.
I continue to be subscribed to MAX (what a shitty rebrand from Discovery).
I also continue to be “subscribed” to Plex. My collection of Linux distros grows larger by the week.
Praise Geraldo?
I love expansive fantasy universes so count me in.
Praise Geraldo is le meme way to refer to the Witcher (Geraldo = Geralt)
Praise Geraldo Riviera!
…I don’t get it.
…Oh. D’oh! It’s like the “Gohan Blanco” meme for the Dragon Ball series. Got it.
…Is the show any good or…?
It’s alright. If you like the games, it’s better. Not sure about the books, I’m like 20 pages into The Last Wish (and have been for over a year now 😅🫥) so results may vary! Also heard it’s got pretty explicit anticommunist underpinnings - the entire canon, that is - and I am inclined to agree.
mild spoilers
The bad guy empire are all brainwashing pillagers worshipping a vague religion that teaches that everyone is equal (and thusly maybe equally as fun to slaughter in a genuine Nilfgardiatic horde of genocidal maniacs). Everyone is so equal that their citizens are indeed equally poor and overworked and thusly eat rock soup and drink shitwater for every meal or something. I can even remember pretty distinctly an argument in the show wherein the vague ideas of ‘freedom’ and ‘equality’ were considered opposites, and we as the audience were being guided to sympathize more with “freedom”.
All that said I dig the lore. I like the elves, guerilla and otherwise. The politics can also be intriguing, if one allows them to be.
It is also very much worth noting that in-universe Nilfgard supports the right of self-determination of the elven people and even VIOLENTLY defends them and creates an ethno-endostate within Nilfgardian borders so they’ll always be defended by a strong army against the literally genocidal regime that Geraldo finds himself living within and more often than not finding ways to side with it.
I’ve learned that when presented with fantasy anti-communist propaganda, I tend to just side with the fictional quasi-communist side semi-ironically. I find it quite enjoyable at times.
Long live Nilfgaard!
edit: @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml I’ve seen you talk abt the Witcher, comrade, and I am curious of ur understanding of Nilfgaard and if I gave a pretty accurate rundown or not lol.
Interesting. The setting is descreibed, by other people I’ve known, as being “morally grey” and all that… but, of course, a setting being “morally grey” can also be a mask for the author’s own views on the matter. I think I sometimes see this with A Song of Ice and Fire but I would still recommend that series wholeheartedly to you and everyonen else. But even so, I know that an author is rarely, if ever, impartial.
Nilfgaard might be low key jab at communism, but not necessary, it’s not evil enough for polish fantasy to be representation of USSR. Also the dehumanisation of enemy is shown in the books as bad thing, and Nilfgaard is, quite boldly for the genre, the representation of it.
I thought Nilfgaard were supposed to be french?
More like Dutch-Celtic. France (slavicized though) is Temeria.
Just watched the John Wick series in a row, from the first to the fourth.
I’ve been meaning to see the fourth one, I enjoyed the first three.
The fourth one is the best one due to the ending, but unfortunately, they’ll probably make a fifth one to ruin it.
haha they never know when to quit while ahead ;)
True enough!
I’m re watching the MCU chronologically. I’m up to Black Widow but I’m not sure I want to watch it (missed it on release).
I love the character, but not sure if she’s worth an entire movie.
Plus, the movie is low-key anti-communist.
watching spider man across the spider verse, only written on Netflix and the rest I pirate, and I don’t have time to watch any series at the moment.
Fair enough. I heard good things about the Spider-verse movies. Any good?
It’s super fun and the animation of the film is incredible, but you have to know before seeing that it’s part one of the movie
Understood.
My wife and I recently finished Love and Death. It was quite riveting. We also really enjoyed the BlackBerry movie. It was funny, but also interesting even though they obviously took some liberties with the story.
Noice!
Re-watched Jurassic Park 1 on 30th anniversary and just finished re-watching Breaking Bad for the 4th time because I can’t help myself😭
Currently waiting for The Meg, it’s gonna be lit
I want to rewatch Breaking Bad as well, when I finish watching Better Call Saul
It’s so good when you re-watch it right after, only downside is no Lalo😭
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Pretty sad, but interesting.
Also I highly suggest the Justwatch app, you tell them which subscription services you have and they tell you where the movie or tv show you want is. Or just use myflixer if you can’t find it anywhere
Never heard of this app!
Sounds useful.
I’ve got netflix, last show I saw was Mo fang fan. Was pretty good, and got to practice my Mandarin a bit. :)
I’ve been watching plenty of movies, from great ones like Kill Bill vol 1 to shitty ones like Diary of a Wimpy Kid:Dog Days. I love comedies of all stripes and I think I may enjoy crappy comedies nearly as good as great ones. I don’t think DoaWK deserves a real movie review so I’ll give a short analysis. First off, the movie is a sequel but doesn’t really have anything to do w previous Doawk movies, you can watch it separately from the other 2 movies and not miss a thing. Our main character Greg is a typical American white kid who is sorta awkward and overreacts to anything that’s kinda gross, but whatever not a huge deal. He is a very average kid, average lookinh, average height, build, house isn’t humongous or tiny(by movie standards, IRL he would still be pretty rich to have the house he has) and he is practically lusting over this popular girl in his class that he likes. He tries to get this girl’s phone number on the last day of school before summer break. She isn’t able to write down her phone number because the bell rings and everyone runs off. So Greg, acting like an obsessive weirdo, tricks his friend Rowley into trying EVERY POSSIBLE NUMBER that she could have and they don’t figure out the number. Then Greg goes to Rowley’s country club as a guest and basically starts stalking the popular girl, and expecting that she’ll jump in his arms and love him for simply being around her for a long enough period. Eventually he realizes that his friend will be charged for all the bullshit he bought at the country club and it isn’t free. Greg also lies about having a job at the club to his family so he can continue stalking this girl and hanging out with his friend. Eventually he gets caught, apologizes and nobody cares. The only nice message is that the popular girl didn’t care if he was rich or not and they hang out together at the PUBLIC pool(Godforbid😱) which they portray as awful and overcrowded and shitty in every regard. But this positive message aside, they really make the main character a creepy incel that follows a girl around when she gives no signals that she likes him, but they flip it at the end, all I’m gonna say is, this movie gave a lot of fuel to the incels and creepy guys that think they are owed a woman by society, whether the film creators meant that or not. All in all, a shitty film, and yea it’s for kids, but there are millions of movies for kids that have been done so much better
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