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Post by Dr Strange on May 7, 2021 21:22:38 GMT
Yes, it is visually very interesting - I think the story just got a bit lost somewhere along the way.
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Post by helrunar on May 7, 2021 21:24:23 GMT
Interesting, Andreas. I guess Roger Corman's Dracula is the same film as Dracula Rising, which a truthful if unkind person on a popular retail site reviewed under the headline Dracula Boring. I couldn't get beyond the fact that inexplicably, Christopher Atkins was cast in the title role. What were they thinking?
Friel certainly has great screen presence--I found her fascinating even just from these glimpses in the trailer.
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on May 7, 2021 22:15:34 GMT
Things Heard & Seen (2021) I like Amanda Seyfried and gave it a chance in spite of the bad reviews. I don't understand why the end had to be explained, are younger people really unable to understand stories any longer which are not spelled out enough?
Anyway, like so many contemporary horror movies it couldn't win me. I don't know the novel so I don't know how loose the adaption is. But large parts were at best unconvincing. The supernatural parts were most of the time too subdued and not the least original. The writing was weak, the habit of cutting a scene too early was annoying. The movie just didn't find a working balance between the supernatural and the marriage in peril.
But my suspense of disbelief finally was killed by the last ten minutes. Nothing made sense any longer - and I don't mean the ending so many viewers complained about -, the motivations went out of the window, the coincidences that were needed to make this work were pretty ridiculous.
On the whole it didn't work as a thriller and it didn't work as a ghost tale.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 7, 2021 22:17:48 GMT
She's a pretty decent actress, probably most famous over here for being one half of (to quote wikipedia) "the first ever pre-9-o'clock watershed lesbian kiss in British television history", which happened in the soap opera Brookside in 1994. Over here, she's probably most famous as one of the leads on the television series Pushing Daisies, a whimsically morbid comedy/fantasy produced by Bryan Fuller. The first season was OK, though I preferred two other Fuller-produced shows (also dark comedies with fantasy elements): Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me.
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Post by andydecker on May 7, 2021 22:28:05 GMT
Dead like me was a lot of fun.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 7, 2021 23:09:51 GMT
Over here, she's probably most famous as one of the leads on the television series Pushing Daisies, a whimsically morbid comedy/fantasy produced by Bryan Fuller. Oh yeah, I'd forgotten that, I watched the first few eps but then lost interest. She's been back on British TV quite a bit recently, though in series I haven't watched - like Marcella, which is a sort of British take on the Scandi-noir detective genre (and apparently very good, if you like that sort of thing).
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 7, 2021 23:26:12 GMT
She's been back on British TV quite a bit recently, though in series I haven't watched - like Marcella, which is a sort of British take on the Scandi-noir detective genre (and apparently very good, if you like that sort of thing). I haven't watched any of those Nordic noir television programs, but I did just start reading I Remember You by Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. She's typically billed as a crime/mystery writer, but the book's subtitle is A Ghost Story, so I'm not sure whether it'll wind up going supernatural or Scooby-doo.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 7, 2021 23:38:47 GMT
Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Your Icelandic orthography is excellent.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 8, 2021 7:29:36 GMT
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten that, I watched the first few eps but then lost interest. She's been back on British TV quite a bit recently, though in series I haven't watched - like Marcella, which is a sort of British take on the Scandi-noir detective genre (and apparently very good, if you like that sort of thing). I'm addicted to the whole scandi-noir thing, and loved Marcella - surprisingly the last season ended on an up-beat note, though stretched belief somewhat. I haven't seen a decent horror series for the a while, though the the M. Night Shyamalan series Servant is definitely worth a look.
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Post by bluetomb on May 9, 2021 2:48:45 GMT
She's been back on British TV quite a bit recently, though in series I haven't watched - like Marcella, which is a sort of British take on the Scandi-noir detective genre (and apparently very good, if you like that sort of thing). I haven't watched any of those Nordic noir television programs, but I did just start reading I Remember You by Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. She's typically billed as a crime/mystery writer, but the book's subtitle is A Ghost Story, so I'm not sure whether it'll wind up going supernatural or Scooby-doo. If I'm thinking of the same thing this had a quite good film. No spoilers, but it was one that seemed generic but ultimately came together in an unexpected relatively unusual and moving way. I'm pretty fond of Nordic noir, though the genre quibbler in me just wants to call them gloomy crime dramas. Particularly The Bridge, for the central extremely fastidious and wonderfully acted Swedish police lady Saga.
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Post by andydecker on May 9, 2021 12:40:34 GMT
I'm pretty fond of Nordic noir, though the genre quibbler in me just wants to call them gloomy crime dramas. Particularly The Bridge, for the central extremely fastidious and wonderfully acted Swedish police lady Saga. Maybe I should give Marcella a second chance. Its on Netflix, and the first episode made me indifferent enough to stop watching it. The Bridge I avoided in every incarnation. The Gloaming I gave up after the fourth episode, I think. Beautiful shot, no doubt, but you could tick the boxes of the noir handbook. Same goes for The Fall. Not even Anderson could make me stay. The modern template of the of course brilliant women in charge (or seldom man only a heartbeat away from his mental breakdown) with enough dark personal problems which would send any ordinary person into psychiatry - while getting mobbed by her/his superiors of course - is enough to make me change channels. It appears that every second new crime show follows this route. Maybe this is an age thing. I couldn't get enough of dark and conflicted, when I was younger. One of my favorite crime novels is The last good Kiss by Crumley, I have read and re-read Ross Macdonald so often, and I adore Chinatown. Maybe it is the writers of these times didn't feel the need to put their "message" in the foreground and subtext was not text.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 9, 2021 21:27:59 GMT
The modern template of the of course brilliant women in charge (or seldom man only a heartbeat away from his mental breakdown) with enough dark personal problems which would send any ordinary person into psychiatry - while getting mobbed by her/his superiors of course - is enough to make me change channels. True enough, Andy, though it's a formula that appeals for some reason. For me The Killing remains the best (who doesn't like those jumpers?). I liked The Bridge though it lost a lot when Kim Bodnia was written out. Anything with Nikolai Lie Kaas is good, especially the Department Q series, and the Icelandic Trapped was good. There's an awful lot to choose from - Jordskott is an interesting one, with some weird elements. Andy, did you watch Dark?
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Post by andydecker on May 9, 2021 22:44:00 GMT
True enough, Andy, though it's a formula that appeals for some reason. For me The Killing remains the best (who doesn't like those jumpers?). I liked The Bridge though it lost a lot when Kim Bodnia was written out. Anything with Nikolai Lie Kaas is good, especially the Department Q series, and the Icelandic Trapped was good. There's an awful lot to choose from - Jordskott is an interesting one, with some weird elements. Andy, did you watch Dark? I am still on the fence to watch Dark or not. I liked Weinberg, also a German mystery series, even if the end was kind of a bad joke. So I wasn't too keen on another small village drama in the rain. When I saw Dark got a second season I decided to wait till it is finished. Now it is three seasons and seems to be rather convoluted. Somehow I think that the supply of short genre series which has replaced the 22 episode network order has become too much. I made it a point to avoid paying for even more channels because I can't keep up with the stuff already shown. I still have not watched The Witcher or the last season of Dr. Who which just blocks space on my hard drive. (And if I think how thoroughly dull I thought the first Chibnall season I tend to delete it and just read it up on Wikipedia). A lot of the movies you mentioned didn't run in Germany, I think. At least Department Q hasn't run yet while Jordskott has run a few years ago but I didn't notice it. (I looked it up). Recently I read that last year or so there were 500+ tv series (both long and short) on air, which is a staggering number. Waiting for the bubble to burst.
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Post by andydecker on May 10, 2021 7:27:38 GMT
The one thing I would really like to watch if it ever gets produced would be a tv version of Dan Abnett's Warhammer series Eisenhorn. In the right hands this could be a lot of fun.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on May 11, 2021 14:45:12 GMT
Do people like Betjeman exist anymore? He seemed such a gentle man. Though he didn't like Slough.
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