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[Khartun]

YouTube video link:

Peacemaker Season 2 | Official Teaser | DC​

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Oh hell yes!

 

[VaqueroTD]

Oh hell yes!

Definitely! The DC Deadpool! Already watched it twice. Gunn should have been over Suicide Squad from the beginning. Fits his style perfectly.

 

[SlammedZero]

YouTube video link:

Peacemaker Season 2 | Official Teaser | DC​

* Video contains language

Yes!! Can't wait. I absolutely loved the first season.

I axed Max awhile back, but now there are like 3-4 shows on it that have my interest, so I think it's time to sign back up again for awhile.

 

[DallasEast]

Yes!! Can't wait. I absolutely loved the first season.

I axed Max awhile back, but now there are like 3-4 shows on it that have my interest, so I think it's time to sign back up again for awhile.

It is still MAX but will change back to HBO MAX (link) at some point in the near future. It has only been two years since the name change. I guess they went through their version of the New Coke experience that Coca-Cola went through, lol.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I have mentioned these before.
If you have not watched any of them and are bored and want to binge some good shows...

Mobland. Helen Mirren, Patty Considine, Geoff Bell, Tom Hardy and Pierce Bronson. Very good show.

Gangs Of London...If you like Mobland you might like this one. Similar premise.

Landman - Good stuff with Billy Bob.

Also finally got around to watching 1923. I kind of liked 1883 better in some respects but this show was not bad either. Could have done a little less with the never ending romance/love type stuff but otherwise pretty good.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Andor season 2 has been outstanding.

Crazy to see all the parallels playing out in real life in the storyline of the show.

 

[Creeper]

Dear Hongrang on Netflix. It's a Korean period series, 11 episodes, which takes place I am guessing 18th century. It's a drama with some "palace" intrigue, competing factions, sword fights and romance. Not my usual watch but it was pretty good for what it is. There is a song throughout the series that is stuck in my head now and I can't seem to shake it. It's not a particularly good song, and it is sung in Korean but the melody is burned into my cranium for some reason.

I give it a 6 out of 10.

 

[Khartun]

Dear Hongrang on Netflix. It's a Korean period series, 11 episodes, which takes place I am guessing 18th century. It's a drama with some "palace" intrigue, competing factions, sword fights and romance. Not my usual watch but it was pretty good for what it is. There is a song throughout the series that is stuck in my head now and I can't seem to shake it. It's not a particularly good song, and it is sung in Korean but the melody is burned into my cranium for some reason.

I give it a 6 out of 10.

I love Korean cinema. They are making some outstanding horror. Kingdom, Squid Game, All of Us are Dead, Train to Busan... all top notch.

 

[visionary]

The Romeo Section
7/10 Amazon Prime
2 seasons
Pretty good low key canadian spy drama with Chinese flavor

 

[Creeper]

I love Korean cinema. They are making some outstanding horror. Kingdom, Squid Game, All of Us are Dead, Train to Busan... all top notch.

I agree, there is a quality to what they produce that is very appealing. It's much better than most other foreign stuff in terms of production quality.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I love Korean cinema. They are making some outstanding horror. Kingdom, Squid Game, All of Us are Dead, Train to Busan... all top notch.

I saw the Devil is top notch.
The original Old Boy.
Both with the same actor.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Just watched Titan: The Ocean Gate Disaster

Pretty interesting watch. Crazy how ill-conceived from the project was from the beginning, eschewing regulatory/oversight bodies. The CEO was completely wreckless when it came to his own and, more importantly, others safety and well being.

I can’t even imagine getting inside that thing…

 

[Creeper]

Just watched Titan: The Ocean Gate Disaster

Pretty interesting watch. Crazy how ill-conceived from the project was from the beginning, eschewing regulatory/oversight bodies. The CEO was completely wreckless when it came to his own and, more importantly, others safety and well being.

I can’t even imagine getting inside that thing…

After I watched it I thought Stockton Rush should be prosecuted for his reckless behavior that cost the lives of 4 other people. But being that he is dead, that is pointless.

 

[rags747]

I have seen more detailed Titan information on YouTube. The Netflix doc I rate a 4, maybe.

 

[Rockport]

Just watched Titan: The Ocean Gate Disaster

Pretty interesting watch. Crazy how ill-conceived from the project was from the beginning, eschewing regulatory/oversight bodies. The CEO was completely wreckless when it came to his own and, more importantly, others safety and well being.

I can’t even imagine getting inside that thing…

Yeah, that was a great documentary. Going down after knowing and seeing the cracks from previous dives and taking paid passengers is the ultimate in greed. And know one stopped him is just unbelievable.

 

[Creeper]

Yeah, that was a great documentary. Going down after knowing and seeing the cracks from previous dives and taking paid passengers is the ultimate in greed. And know one stopped him is just unbelievable.

Listening to the carbon fibers popping and not worrying that eventually one too many would pop and the vessel would fail was the epitome of ego outweighing intelligence.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Listening to the carbon fibers popping and not worrying that eventually one too many would pop and the vessel would fail was the epitome of ego outweighing intelligence.

Remember, that was just the hull “seasoning” itself.

 

[Creeper]

I just finished binging Season 2 of Last of Us on HBO Max.

I have so much to say, mostly negative but first I have to admit I never played the game, and I don't know squat about the game. I hear a lot of viewers defending the series arguing that the script of the show is following the game. OK, but that doesn't make the show better. I didn't play the Witcher game or Fallout yet I enjoyed both of those shows immensely.

Spoiler

My main critique of the show is the main character, Ellie. I imagine teenagers would love her character, but adults would find her bratty, impulsive, reckless behavior off-putting, and dangerous. In reality, given a scenario like war, or a zombie apocalypse her behavior would get her killed quickly, and probably a lot of people around her. Joel is a skilled soldier who can take some risks, even though he usually tries to find better alternatives that Butch and Sundance running out of the building guns blazing as the Bolivian army opens fire on them.

As for the show, I think it was a mistake to kill off Joel in episode 2. I understand the show follows the game, but without Joel the show depends on Ellie, and her girlfriend Dina, to carry the story. IMO, they can't and the show suffers without Joel. I think another actress may have been able to do it if handled correctly, but not Bella Ramsey. Her acting is better in season 2 than in season 1 but still below the quality needed for her to carry a show by herself. Again, just my opinion. Also, she is weird looking. When her face appears on screen, I find my mind wandering into thoughts about what makes her so weird looking. Just me.

Then there is my other critique which I expressed about season 1 as well. It is supposed to be a zombie apocalypse. There are supposed to be raiders out there, who knows where. And now we have warring factions both of which will kill anyone they find wandering about. To me, it is a tense situation all the time. But our two ladies out to kill the bad guys, like James and Jamie Bond wander around talking loudly and making all sorts of noises likely to attract unwanted attention. Then when they get to Seattle, Ellie manages to turn on the electricity in the building where they are staying so they can have lights! Why not loudspeakers to announce your arrival? Tip of the day, when trying to sneak up on or past the bad guys at night, don't use flashlights to find your way around. In a dark environment, like a bombed out city without electricity it is really dark and any visible light can be seen for miles, even in dark buildings with windows. This is why special forces and other military units use night vision scopes not high beams. It's why during WW2, cities practiced blacking out all the lights so bombers could see them at night and use them to navigate.

More reason why I think Ellie wouldn't last a week in reality. But in a video game, well games are designed for the players to find it difficult to survive and complete the plot of the game. In a game it works because the players are challenged by the difficulty and it makes the game more interesting. But in a TV show or movie. It doesn't translate. Ellie comes off looking like a impulsive idiot and also very unlikeable. The show lacks tension when there should be tension all the time. Black Summer knew how to do it right.

Episode 6 of the 7 episode series was a complete waste of time and obviously put in to fill time. Maybe it was important to reveal the issue between Joel and Ellie, but it should not have taken a full hour.

Episode 7 was almost jumping the shark, almost, but Ellis was in a boat and if it had been a water ski I think the shark would have been jumped. Seriously, Taking off in a boat getting swamped by a single giant wave out of nowhere, then washing ashore only to be captured by a cult, hung almost, then just released, then she gets back in the boat and sails in a massive storm to another shore where she finds just the right number of crates and trash dumpsters to be able to climb up to the second story where she enters the building like James Bond not knowing how many soldiers were in the building with her or where? Then her and two of her friends who somehow managed to find her, rescue her and somehow make it back to the lit up building where Dina and Ellie were hiding out?

And then, somehow Abby, Ellie's Nemesis, manages to show up and shoot two of Ellie's friends? No one asked how did she find Ellie so quickly? And she came by herself?

Then of course we get the cliffhanger ending. Cheap.

I understand there is talk that season 3 will be about Abby. Remember when it ended with Abby looking over the stadium with the subtitle "DAY ONE"? I read season 3 will pick up from there following Abby around for the 3 days until I guess the shooting in the theater that was the cliffhanger at the end of episode 7. I hope not because that sounds like more gaming nonsense where the players switch characters for different episodes of the game. I don't think this would be a good angle for the show to take.

On the other hand, the obvious explanation of the cliffhanger, Dina comes out from wherever she was hiding, after hearing gunshots, and shoots Abby right before Abby can pull the trigger on Ellie, might be too cliche, but I am pretty sure Ellie can't die yet. Without her who is left to take over the show? or the game? But I suppose Ellie is not meant to survive and this is how the series ends. It might be a fitting ending. Ellie gets herself and her friends killed over her selfish, impulsiveness and recklessness.

Have said all that. I like the show, or should I say I want to like the show. I just wish they took a little more liberties adjusting the game story for the TV show so it was more thoughtful.