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Samaritan - Official Trailer | Prime Video

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Not an Amazon show, aired on USA, but it's on Prime to watch... Mr Robot. I know some have seen it but we just recently caught up and finished it after watching the first 2 seasons years ago. It was still really great with the long break and the finale was excellent. If you never saw it, check it out. One of the top 10 shows of the last decade easily.

Stele wrote:

Not an Amazon show, aired on USA, but it's on Prime to watch... Mr Robot. I know some have seen it but we just recently caught up and finished it after watching the first 2 seasons years ago. It was still really great with the long break and the finale was excellent. If you never saw it, check it out. One of the top 10 shows of the last decade easily.

I rewatched the show about a year ago because my partner was interested and never saw it. It was really good to view it a second time knowing where it is going to go.

For example:

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The scene where young Elliot and his dad are at the movies. You think they are fighting about the accident that broke his arm and about keeping his cancer diagnosis a secret. But if you listen to it now, it's obvious they are actually talking about the sexual abuse.

I also really liked that the alternate universe machine Whiterose was obsessed with ended up being a MacGuffin. It doesn't matter whether it ever would have worked or not - causing untold amounts of human suffering just because of a vision where you think it will make everything better in the end is insanity, and it's a clear metaphor for what political leaders and CEOs do all the time.

RE spoiler Macguffin

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Still it almost got me. After Whiterose last ditch claim that Angela was alive, I thought maybe...

I bet a lot of scenes play differently knowing the end. One thing made a lot more sense that they even mentioned, end of season 1 or start of season 2...

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When Elliott kissed Darlene. Like being Mr Robot shouldn't have made him forget his sister. But ah, now it makes sense.

Stele wrote:

RE spoiler Macguffin

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Still it almost got me. After Whiterose last ditch claim that Angela was alive, I thought maybe...

I bet a lot of scenes play differently knowing the end. One thing made a lot more sense that they even mentioned, end of season 1 or start of season 2...

Spoiler:

When Elliott kissed Darlene. Like being Mr Robot shouldn't have made him forget his sister. But ah, now it makes sense.

I watched this last year as well. I'd bailed after season 2 left me a bit cold. In retrospect, it could have been improved, but also week-to-week with season 2 was a bit of a slog. Going straight through the series was pretty amazing. I miss that show, but thought it ended on an incredibly high note. As other mentioned, I loved how it recontextualized things you've already seen. It'll make for a great rewatch, I'd imagine.

Finished Paper Girls, liked it a lot. Really hope Amazon gives it a second season. The first episode felt a bit rushed, but the rest of them flowed a lot better.

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The scene at Old Erin's where they were making fun and giggling like it was a stereotypical preteen sleepover party felt a bit odd and out of place, because at that point the girls have only really known each other for a few hours without any real chance to get to know each other yet. Also, one of them accidentally shot and almost killed another one and a different one actually did killed someone.

Moonfall is by far one of the stupidest films I have ever seen. However, it’s a stupidly enjoyable stupid film. Just don’t think - at all - while you’re watching it.

Sorbicol wrote:

Moonfall is by far one of the stupidest films I have ever seen. However, it’s a stupidly enjoyable stupid film. Just don’t think - at all - while you’re watching it.

Me and kids had a blast making fun of it as we watched it.

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes was found pretty randomly. Its 1hour and 10 minutes and if you like strange little 'sci fi' stories its pretty delightful.

polypusher wrote:

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes was found pretty randomly. Its 1hour and 10 minutes and if you like strange little 'sci fi' stories its pretty delightful.

Delightful is a good word for that one. I watched it a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

League of Their Own is great! Loved the first episode.

The low budget, British sci-fi/horror, Xtro, popped up on Prime the other week.

I never saw it as a child (I was waaaay to young), but I never forgot the UK poster. The tag line cleverly referenced the fact that Xtro was released the year after E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

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It is mind-boggling bad. Even Xtro's director, Harry Bromley Davenport, admitted at the time that it was "a mess". It 'borrows' freely and badly from - among other films -

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Don't Look Now
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Alien

But it's an interesting curio. For old(er) British GwJers, it features the mime artists, Tik and Tok.

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And for film certification nerds, Xtro is also one of the first films to be exhibited under the then new ratings system. The poster above includes a reminder that '18' is equivalent to the old 'X' rating.

Oh nice. I'll probably watch it. Been watching a lot of these old crummy 80s horror films. Just watched Alligator recently and honestly it wasn't as bad as I was expecting - Alligator 2 looks almost too bad to invest any time in though. I know I've seen Xtro as a kid - via VHS rental. Checked out the trailer and don't recall a thing from it but looks crazy enough it should be watchable. Seems like a perfect film to watch on the weekend with some rum and Coke on hand.

Garth wrote:
polypusher wrote:

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes was found pretty randomly. Its 1hour and 10 minutes and if you like strange little 'sci fi' stories its pretty delightful.

Delightful is a good word for that one. I watched it a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

Watch past the credits...they filmed it on iPhones.

It's technically on their free-with-ads tier, but Greg Garcia, who created My Name is Earl and Raising Hope, has a new show: Sprung. It carries over a couple of cast members from Raising Hope (Garret Dillahunt and Martha Plimpton), and with two episodes available so far, I'm liking it.

Another trailer for The Rings of Power

Was that…

Spoiler:

Gandalf?!

I enjoyed the comments more than the trailer.

-BEP

Found Thirteen Lives, Ron Howard's re-telling of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand, on Prime last night and found it to be a spiritual successor to Apollo 13, as in you get so hooked in by the movie that you can feel the tension despite knowing the outcome. Also, don't start watching this movie with a full bladder.

Rat Boy wrote:

Found Thirteen Lives, Ron Howard's re-telling of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand, on Prime last night and found it to be a spiritual successor to Apollo 13, as in you get so hooked in by the movie that you can feel the tension despite knowing the outcome. Also, don't start watching this movie with a full bladder.

Yeah, I really enjoyed the movie, fully engrossing, and it leaves you feeling a bit better about humanity.

People Are Loving The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The eight-episode first season begins September 2 with the debut of the first two episodes. Critics who were already sent the first two episodes for editorial purposes were allowed to talk about them as of Tuesday evening. Below you’ll find a ton of reactions, beginning with two from writers on this very website, myself and editor James Whitbrook.James and I both agree that the show is beautiful and shows a lot of promise, but moves a little slowly because it’s juggling so many stories. Basically you’ve got the elves, the dwarves, the humans, and the Harfoots. Then inside each of those groups, two or three characters apiece are doing different things. Galadriel is hunting something. Elrond has a journey to go on. The dwarves have scores to settle. And while the Harfoots just want to migrate to a new place, two of their kind find a mysterious stranger who falls from the sky.

Yeah, it’s a lot, and while James and I were two of the more measured reactions, we were more or less alone in that. Almost everyone else was a full-on rave.

Interesting. I'd just assumed this would be terrible. And not in the youtube man-baby 'tolkien is rolling over in his grave over the casting of minorities' way, but rather in the this-sh*t-is-basically-unfilmable way. I wonder if they're deviating a bunch from the source material, which IIRC is just the appendices to LoTR (??).

They're apparently massively condensing the timeline so they don't keep having to cast a bunch of new humans every time a hundred years go by.

Meanwhile I'm over here like, no, cast a bunch of new humans every season! Show us what it's like for an elf where just when you think you know what these people's deal is, they die and are replaced by a whole new generation! That sounds amazing!

I was doing fine in Thirteen Lives until they reached the team and the coach's first words to the rescuer's camera was apologizing to the parents for endangering the boys and they immediately started shouting that they love their coach and that he kept them together and alive. He even taught them to meditate to help fight panic. That's when the ninja's started cutting onions.

5 or 6 episodes into A League of their Own... Just a spectacular show that is so well written and acted. Superb and heartbreaking character development. Can't recommend it enough.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

5 or 6 episodes into A League of their Own... Just a spectacular show that is so well written and acted. Superb and heartbreaking character development. Can't recommend it enough.

3 in and disagree. It's just 'meh' at this point. It's a series and yet they're forcing things and the acting suffers for it.

ranalin wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

5 or 6 episodes into A League of their Own... Just a spectacular show that is so well written and acted. Superb and heartbreaking character development. Can't recommend it enough.

3 in and disagree. It's just 'meh' at this point. It's a series and yet they're forcing things and the acting suffers for it.

Damn! I'm surprised at that take. We just finished the whole series and loved it. Every character was just so interesting, unique, and memorable!

I really liked it as an inspirational team sports movie too. Had a good arch and finish. Lots of good sports speeches.

Completed Jack Ryan season 2. Slower to get going than season 1 and not as good. I'm not sure if everything came together to make sense at the end. I might have tuned out during critical plot points. There was a hitman guy that I have no idea what happen to him

I wouldn't say that Samaritan was the best movie i have ever seen.