Movies and TV shows (general recommendation thread)

[Xerxes]

I watched Dune 2 again. This time on IMAX. The theatre was packed. And i am sure they are mostly second or third viewings. 
 

speaking of which, this is funny. 
 

 

[Spekulatius]

Gilded age is pretty good. We did a trip Westchester county last weekend and had a tour at Lyndhurst castle (highly recommend ) and they mentioned that part of the show was filmed there. We did recognize some rooms from Lyndhurst in S1 E5.

 

Great show, which had a similar feel than Downton Abbey.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4406178/

[Agrippa07]

On 3/14/2024 at 11:31 PM, Xerxes said:

 

Just finished Fall out, and really enjoyed it. Great characters, and they kept did a good job with keeping the dark humor from the games in the series. 

[Xerxes]

On 4/17/2024 at 4:21 AM, Agrippa07 said:

Just finished Fall out, and really enjoyed it. Great characters, and they kept did a good job with keeping the dark humor from the games in the series. 

Thanks. Will start this weekend. 

[Xerxes]

I recently re-watched House of Dragons S1, before S2 is released in June. 
 

I highly recommend people to re-watch. It has great re-watch qualities and a lot nuances that needs reminding before S2 kicks off.
 

Cannot wait for the Greens and Otto Hightowers to fall. They are nothing but usurpers.  

[LC]

On 4/16/2024 at 6:01 PM, Spekulatius said:

Gilded age is pretty good. We did a trip Westchester county last weekend and had a tour at Lyndhurst castle (highly recommend ) and they mentioned that part of the show was filmed there. We did recognize some rooms from Lyndhurst in S1 E5.

 

 

Oh wow - my brother got married there ages ago Good ole Tarrytown - hopefully Westchester treated your family well!

[Xerxes]

Fallout is one of the best TV I have seen in a while. It got everything !!

[Parsad]

On the weekend, I watched Dumas' Three Musketeers...two parts:

 

D'Artagnan

 

 

Milady

 

 

Terrific actors, great story, writing and action.  Very well done and thoroughly enjoyed them!  Cheers!

[Saluki]

Season 5 of Fargo is great.  It's reimagining of the original Fargo Movie, where the characters have different personalities.  Sort of like the alternate universes in The Man in the High Castle.

 

Fargo Seasons 1 and 2 were great.  Season 3 was passable, and Season 4 was so bad that I couldn't finish it, but they are back on track with the new one. 

[TorontoRaptorsFan]

On 4/19/2024 at 12:56 PM, Xerxes said:

I recently re-watched House of Dragons S1, before S2 is released in June. 
 

I highly recommend people to re-watch. It has great re-watch qualities and a lot nuances that needs reminding before S2 kicks off.
 

Cannot wait for the Greens and Otto Hightowers to fall. They are nothing but usurpers.  

I think HOD was far better than GOT. I too am looking forward to Season 2. 

[Xerxes]

This is really good. 

 

M’lord Boromir is now M’lord Cromwell, the King’ Hand to Henry VIII

 

This is a great mystery, thriller. 
 

 

 

[Xerxes]

“Spies of Warsaw” on Prime is an okay show. Covers the few years leading right up to Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the invasion of Poland. 
 

Sadly much like BBC tv shows, all nationalities speak English for our sake. Except Germans who speak Germans. 

[Saluki]

It's a silly show but by better half and I are watching "Girls 5 Eva" and it's funny and light. 

[DooDiligence]

Probably already been mentioned but...

 

 

[nwoodman]

Whiplash, for the first time.  While watching the kids have both commented how good it is.  Damn, I must have been asleep in 2014/2015 or whenever it started streaming on Netflix. It easily goes into my top 20 movies of all time. Jazz is life.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/whiplash_2014

 

 

[Xerxes]

@Spekulatius

i know you are a big LOTR fan

 

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HBO has been exemplary in their content pipeline. See below for Dune
 

Who the hell needs garbage content from Netflix when you have premium content being created by HBO and Walt Disney. 

 

 

[Saluki]

I don't okay video games, but I'm enjoying the Fallout series in Amazon prime. 

[Luke]

I rewatched this clip recently: 

 

 

 

Lost was such a great series...one of the best.

[Parsad]

9 hours ago, nwoodman said:

Whiplash, for the first time.  While watching the kids have both commented how good it is.  Damn, I must have been asleep in 2014/2015 or whenever it started streaming on Netflix. It easily goes into my top 20 movies of all time. Jazz is life.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/whiplash_2014

 

 

 

Yeah, I thought it was an amazing movie!  Also saw it a couple of years after it came out.  Surprised I didn't watch it earlier!  Cheers!

[james22]

Great.

 

 

[boilermaker75]

On 4/6/2024 at 6:47 PM, Xerxes said:

Shetland Season 8 is outstanding, incredible police show. 
 

Not that previous seasons are any less outstanding. 
 

Amazing plots every season. 

 

Shetland is great. I have only seen the first 6 seasons. So it has held up without Douglas Henshall?

[Spekulatius]

Of the new streaming series, I agree Sugar on Apple TV has been good (Apple continues to deliver high quality content). I also think that Fallout on Amazon Prime was fantastic.

 

The film noir series “Ripley” on Netflix is pretty well made (only watched 3 episodes so far).

Edited May 18, 2024 by Spekulatius

[Xerxes]

9 hours ago, boilermaker75 said:

 

Shetland is great. I have only seen the first 6 seasons. So it has held up without Douglas Henshall?

Actually the last season with Douglas was so-so, but season 8 is great. Superb plot 

[sleepydragon]

I finished A gentleman in Moscow on paramount yesterday. Very very good. Bill gates wrote a review about the book a couple years ago.

also watched Fallout on Amazon. Very good too.

[Xerxes]

On 5/19/2024 at 5:22 PM, sleepydragon said:

I finished A gentleman in Moscow on paramount yesterday. Very very good. Bill gates wrote a review about the book a couple years ago.

also watched Fallout on Amazon. Very good too.

I started watching Gentleman in Moscow. Got it through free-7 days on Prime to watch Paramount+. 
 

I am half way through. Sort of half expecting Dr Zhivago like production and story. will see what happens I guess  

 

I should say that I had to do a Google search why folks depicted in Moscow were of multi ethnicities. 
 

I was introduced to the concept of “color-blind casting”. That i didn’t know it exists.
 

I suppose one can think of English speaking actors pretending to be German or Russian in the past 50 years worth of cinema is of the same thing. 
 

getting use to this

 

 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2024 by Xerxes