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Old 01-13-2023, 07:16 PM   #1831
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This movie is rich with both allegory and cinemaphotography: Helmsman. Caution: contains surrealistic art, and may proceed too slowly for average consumers of action movies.
 
Old 01-24-2023, 11:02 AM   #1832
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A few lines on things I've been looking at

Dark S01 Supposedly a thing with German & English audio, where people are kidnapped and all the buried feelings rise. I could only get German audio, with German/English subtitles, and German subtitles hardcoded in. I believe it is excellently done, but it's definitely not my kind of show. Actors may like the parts, directors may like the screenplay; that's why these things get made. But they depress you. I've witnessed enough people falling apart noisily.

Office Space Follows the adventures of some guy as a cog in a wheel of Inintech, some multinational. It's amusing, but I hardly laughed once. Then it got late and they steered the plot away from my interest so I went to bed. It was that riveting(/sarc).

Leverage S01 This is more to my taste. As we sit here, we know there's guys around the place making millions or billions illegally, usually with a commercial giant(s) or a politician(s) aiding & abetting. They crush any who get in their way. A team of one 'honest' guy (ex-insurance fraud detector) and 4 criminals get together to right the wrongs, and play Robin Hood with a modern twist. Slighly unrealistic, but very entertaining.

Traitors UK & Traitors AU It's a game with a cash prize. About 2 dozen people are taken off to a secluded retreat. A small number are assigned as traitors, the rest are faithful. During the day, they do stuff to build the prize pot. Every night, they meet and must expel one they think is a traitor. The traitors get to kill one faithful also. Last in claims the prize. I'm taking this pair one episode a week - AU midweek and UK weekends. I wouldn't advise binging. It is different.
 
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Things have gone awful quiet here... Here's a few things I have looked at

Van Der Valk: (2020 version) This appears to be a British made detective series about crime in Amsterdam. It did not feel like Ireland/England all right looking at the streets. Language is English, although I presume it's dubbed to suit. So although it's British, you get none of the dwelling on the tortured lives and sexual perversions of criminals, suspects and victims. No crowd scenes either, which you'd expect in Amsterdam. The plot is complex, and I'm left with the impression that it's based on books. Nevertheless, the action moves quickly, each episode fills two hours. I gather this is a reboot of an earlier series which bombed. This is solid, but only 2 seasons so far. Piet Van der Valk is 40-ish, athletic & blonde, played by Mark Warren.

Murder in Provence Not much of this show to be seen either, but I like what I've seen. It's quintessentially French. The guy (a Judge) is effectively a detective, but France use an Inquisitorial system instead of an adversarial one. So everyone is good humoured & light hearted, on their second or third marriage. The husband is probably cheating on his wife, but she doesn't care because she plays away from home too. The Judge has to be faithful because they're going to get married soon (at 50?). It's the sort of show you can talk over and follow, but it moves along. Not action packed, but filmed like a tourist advert.

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