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Manhunt: Unabomber. Anyone watching this? The premise sounded good, with being based on true events to boot, however I was finding it only average.

Some of Sam Worthington’s acting was annoying me slightly, and I wasn’t 100% getting along with some of the production. I felt it lacked a true style; seemed to shift around slightly. 

 

That was, until, episode six hit. Wow. Paul Bettany absolutely nailed that episode, and I found it almost too moving to watch. He was brilliant.

It really pulled things together and finalised the tone of the previous five episodes for me, (it would have benefitted from this earlier but better late than never).

I’d be interested in a re-watch. I’d watch it all again just for that sixth episode to hit me again to be honest. Now I’m really looking forward to episode seven. 

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1 hour ago, NexivRed said:

Manhunt: Unabomber. Anyone watching this? The premise sounded good, with being based on true events to boot, however I was finding it only average.

Some of Sam Worthington’s acting was annoying me slightly, and I wasn’t 100% getting along with some of the production. I felt it lacked a true style; seemed to shift around slightly. 

 

That was, until, episode six hit. Wow. Paul Bettany absolutely nailed that episode, and I found it almost too moving to watch. He was brilliant.

It really pulled things together and finalised the tone of the previous five episodes for me, (it would have benefitted from this earlier but better late than never).

I’d be interested in a re-watch. I’d watch it all again just for that sixth episode to hit me again to be honest. Now I’m really looking forward to episode seven. 

 

I felt the same, episode 6 was incredible, especially as it is true! Mental.

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4 hours ago, Minion said:

 

I felt the same, episode 6 was incredible, especially as it is true! Mental.

 

Yeah. I haven’t googled it all yet, I’ll do that at the end. But I love the true story stuff. 

 

That episode was heartbreaking. I know criminal empathy isn’t top of everyone’s list, but it seems more often than not that behind every criminal is a fucking miserable past. 

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22 hours ago, NexivRed said:

 

Yeah. I haven’t googled it all yet, I’ll do that at the end. But I love the true story stuff. 

 

That episode was heartbreaking. I know criminal empathy isn’t top of everyone’s list, but it seems more often than not that behind every criminal is a fucking miserable past. 

 

Yeah I felt the show actually shows that he was seriously mentally disturbed and that was a key reason

 

 

Being abused, belittled and denigrated for a year by people you look up to, have power and authority over you, all for some fucked up experiment, it's mental, and he took it all. It screams of someone who really had low self esteem and allowed himself to be abused and it undoubtedly had an effect on the man in later life. I don't have any sympathy for what he did but I do have sympathy for what those fucks at Harvard did to him and sympathy for his having strong beliefs which he actually practiced. He shouldn't have blown people up though, that's fucking twisted.

 

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Few things to recommend. 

 

Dirk Gently S2 yes I know Max Fucking Lands but I still enjoyed the first series. 

 

Comedians in cars getting coffee has gone up today. Seinfeld meets comedians gets a coffee with them. Has a chinwag. 

 

Bushwick. Decidedly average movie but done as one take. Recommend because the score by ASAP Rock is superb. 

 

 

 

 

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Not sure  if it has been recommended here but I've recently enjoyed Easy. It's an ensemble show with each episode focusing on different characters but some of them appear in more than one episode. I found it enjoyable at least.

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I saw Die Hard 4.0 is now up. which I started watching and it brought up a common problem I have with some movies. Does anyone else notice zero subtitles when they should be on screen (for people speaking foreign languages)? I also noticed it during Power Rangers when Zordon was speaking alien at the start.

 

On the subject of Die Hard 4.....in a post A Good Day To Die Hard world, it's actually not that bad.

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On 01/01/2018 at 18:56, Sartre84 said:

I've just started watching La Mante which is a French serial killer thriller. Haven't watched enough to give a personal opinion as of yet but it has received positive reviews! Its a six part series.

I enjoyed it. I then went and watched The Frozen Dead. Another French murder thing, which was also pretty good. Now I'm watching The Lava Field, an Icelandic murder thing, which is also ok.

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I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore is a very strong recommendation, a really fun black comedy thriller type of thing with a surprisingly entertaining weirdo performance from Elijah Wood. The basic synopsis is that the other actress from Heavenly Creatures gets burgled and has her granny's silver stolen. Fed up with people being dicks she teams up with her weird neighbour to try to confront whoever stole her shit. And things go wrong from there. 

 

It has a really charming, sweet tone despite the  black comedy and gritty thriller stuff. Lovely. 

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On 27/12/2017 at 15:32, Monkeyboy said:

Bushwick has just been added. Basically, a New York borough has been invaded by a right wing militia. Stars Dave Bautista as an ex-marine caught up in the chaos, along with Brittany Snow who's fresh off the train and kind of teams up with him. Shot in long takes which are then merged together using camera/digital trickery to give the appearance of one huge long take. Really cool soundtrack as well.

 

Watched this yesterday and it's just not very good at all. I liked the idea of the long shots from your post and it did work on screen, however, the film was marred by some atrocious acting - the sister was cringe-worthy. The two gang members who appear just before big Dave appears are stereotypes and the entire thing was a cliche

 

they even had Hasidic Jews representing the broad cultural diversity of Brunswick battling it out on the streets with rifles and petrol bombs!

Dave Bautista punches some people and grunts a lot and gives a really cliche ridden speech near the end.  The ending is just silly and there are so many wtf?! little segments where the film asks you over and over to suspend your disbelief that it really doesn't work at all.  If it had ended up as a "it was all a dream after all" reveal, I wouldn't have been surprised. If they'd spent a bit more of the budget on the rest of the cast (I imagine Dave took a big chunk of the budget), it might have worked as it didn't need an action hero lead character, perhaps it would have been better - the best actor was

 

the shopkeeper who was stabbed and he said about ten words and was on screen for about a minute.

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Old stuff, new series this year now that it's moved to Netflix.

The ones on there are the reformatted, into collections, Crackle series.

It's brilliant.

 

There's also a new Seinfeld stand-up show from the Comedy Club in NYC where he started his career, that's great too.

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I'm still finishing a couple of things off at the moment, but I might give Erased a go next. Its another international time travel offering from Japan this time. Its received positive reviews though it might prove to be a bit of a disappointment after Dark. Its a series.

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2 hours ago, Sartre84 said:

I'm still finishing a couple of things off at the moment, but I might give Erased a go next. Its another international time travel offering from Japan this time. Its received positive reviews though it might prove to be a bit of a disappointment after Dark. Its a series.

 

Hadn't heard of Erased, thanks for the mention I will try this

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La Casa De Papel is a really entertaining Spanish heist thriller series - a group of trope-tastic robbers are brought together by a beardy academic-sort of bloke in an elaborate plan to rob the Spanish Royal Mint. You have the avuncular ex-miner, the sexy lady fugitive whose boyfriend was killed on her last job, a suave veteran jewel thief who would be played by Peter Serafinowicz in a remake, that sort of thing. It has that gripping perfect paced action-thriller feel of early seasons of 24 or Prison Break, with plenty of fun and unexpected twists and turns and a (surprisingly large) cast of good characters.

 

Watch it before it gets an American remarke! 

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23 hours ago, neoELITE said:

I watched the Toy documentary series (apart from GI Joe) yesterday - it's really good and quite funny in places. The He-Man episode is really, really good.

Yeah they as fun, I like the warts and all approach they've taken.

 

GI Joe is worth watching too, I did have to check that Action Man and Action Force were the same things though as there is no mention of the internationally licenced products. 

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