Eighth Grade for sure. The most cathartic awkwardness I’ve ever experienced watching a movie.
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This show is seriously hot.
We decided to stop after 6 episodes to ration it. So good.
The soundtrack and cinematography really made it unique. The plot ultimately was, like you say, conventional. I did like some aspects of the plot though
ecoterrorism is used a lot but many times it’s just a generic motivation. They went into a lot of detail over multiple episodes to make a really convincing case.
The egalitarianism of their plan was really good too. A lot of times the protagonist gains the moral high ground by pointing out the villain may want to kill a lot of people but they themselves don’t want to die. These villains pointed out several times that they were willing to die for their plan. They even had a whole episode of the villains stopping someone who wanted to protect their little vanguard from dying. That and the multiple scenes like the one you posted make it clear that it’s a well thought out fanaticism and not just generic badness
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The last four you mention are among my favourite films but I thought ad astra was one of the worst films I saw last year!
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Now this is a draft I’d participate in. Can you think of other movies, books, or TV shows like this?
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Watched a Mexican Netflix show Dark Desire.
I guess the genre is erotic murder mystery thriller mixed with a telenovela. Your typical start to an erotic thriller, a married woman cheats on her husband with a good looking guy. The telenovela part comes in because it quickly got way way too complicated with multiple people being accused of murders you find out that they later didn’t commit but also don’t deny immediately which then leads other people to other things in response to their suspicions along with everyone being connected to everyone in elaborate ways. There was a string of about 6 episodes where the good looking guy is sleeping with the married woman’s daughter and the married woman and the married woman knows.
Don’t recommend it. I watched it because the twists and turns became more and more ridiculous. Also the sex was hilarious. Super acrobatic and over the top dramatic. Only topless nudity for like 5 seconds and a lot, I mean a lot, of those elaborate blocking to cover up. It got bit in Austin Powers ridiculous.
Spoiler alert:
The whole murder mystery happens because the married woman’s best friend dies of an apparent suicide but there are clues that she was murdered. After practically everyone gets accused of murdering her and like 5 people die because of crosses and double crosses, turned out she did commit suicide the whole time and they find her voice mail saying she did in the last scene
Add The Club as another Mexican show that sucks. Kids who get into the drug business selling Ecstasy and then quickly get over their heads
Only good part was the next level up narco whose style is flamboyant gay
RE: Normal People
If my therapist hadn’t been tragically killed a month into the pandemic I would talk to him about why shows like this are difficult for me to watch. Is it because of my romantic struggles as a young man? Is it because of what love is like 20 years and two kids into a relationship? Well now I guess I’ll never know. In any case, the show itself is mentally troublesome enough that I won’t be continuing. The actress is indeed very cute tho.
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It’s a brutal watch for sure but also very real and rewarding. Don’t blame you for tapping out though. Understandable.
watched Gravity, was pretty good. Visually was amazing as to be expected.
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well hell I have to check this out now
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watched the first EP and yea it just makes me wish i was that age again, its good
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and yes the actress is beautiful
Just finished Normal People. It’s easily the second best piece of art I have ever seen about relationships. Second only to the Before series. It’s outstanding. I’m a little conflicted on the BDSM stuff but it’s doesn’t even effect the fact that in every other way this is one of the most true things I have ever seen.
A++
Normal People put me in a funk as well. Being in the isolation of quarantine certainly didn’t help. Loss of youth, missed opportunities, lost love yadayadayada.
The 2 lead actors were amazing. They carried the show.
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This is a bold recommendation and fits in well with the earlier discussion of sexualizing “kids” on screen. I only made it 2 episodes in before getting completely creeped out and bailing. For reference, Euphoria was wholesome by comparison.
Edit: caught up on the rest of the discussion. Y’all are creepy
This is a super weird take given every sex scene in the first few episodes is between people in love. It’s the definition of wholesome.
The emotional dynamic doesn’t render the act wholesome no more than a sex scene between former lovers that are hate smashing make it dirty.
Watching kids on screen have sex was uncomfortable. If the “love” you felt between them made it ok, why don’t you go ahead and take a seat right there.
wut, this take is way off base
So, I havent actually seen Normal People but pulling up a cast list shows that all the actors are at least 22, so I’m not sure where the creepiness is coming in. To me there is something way different about 20+ year olds portraying high schoolers in sex scenes than actual teenage actors being used in sex scenes or overtly sexualized for no reason - again, refer to Rookie of the Year and the 12-14 year old female lead being gazed at by the camera and being referred to as “stacked” multiple times.
This is a bizarre take. The two leads are 21 and 23 at the time of filming. What’s bizarre about the take isn’t that you found it uncomfortable because like, you know, you do you, it’s the accusation that other people are “creepy” and should “take a seat right there” if they enjoyed the show. Like it’s honestly almost in the protest-too-much category. I would be surprised if there’s a person ITT who has not seen hardcore porn featuring people as young or younger.
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