|
Post by harrylemon on Apr 30, 2024 14:13:26 GMT
Currently half way through Ripley. Apart from trying to make every single scene in the first two episodes look like it was lifted from every Italian neorealist film crossed with Orson Welles. Its been pretty good.
|
|
loveless
god
Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
Posts: 2,815
|
Post by loveless on May 1, 2024 10:15:54 GMT
At this point, it's probably been about 20 years since I binged the original series. A conversation with a friend who had just discovered it (particularly, his claim that I'd be stunned by the audiovisual restoration) sent me chasing down the (now out of print) Blu Ray collection. I watched the first episode last night, and indeed, it does look and sound amazing. Whether the series can have anywhere near the same impact the second time around remains to be seen.
|
|
Sneelock
god
Better than Washington...
Posts: 8,594
|
Post by Sneelock on May 1, 2024 16:15:17 GMT
I was trying to explain that show to my Gen X buddy just yesterday. Boy, did he have a blank look on his face. the occasion for me mentioning it was an item that Christopher Nolan might be developing it for a feature film. I try to keep an open mind but I guess I'm not too crazy about the idea and was looking for someone to share that feeling with.
look no further!
Pre-Watergate! Pre-1984 as assigned reading! watching this program awoke in me a feeling of profound paranoia that has never entirely gone away. Most of the kids my age wore laceless "deck shoes" which were very much like what #6 and all his fellow villagers wore. I spent at least a year defensively skittering around in my deck shoes avoiding the enemy agents and weather balloons I imagined to be trying to foil my escape.
many episode's conclusions and the controversial final episodes both enraged and fascinated me. I soon grew to embrace and enjoy this feeling as more and more things enraged & fascinated me.
I watch it every few years. I usually think some things have passed their shelf life only to have them seem fresh on the next airing. I think there's a LOT of serendipity here. Rover as it appeared was apparently a compromise. Also, I think the real scientific breakthroughs of the era made a rich soil for junk science which can be very entertaining.
is it deep? is it a put on? still enraging and fascinating after all these years. it's one of my favorite things ever. I used to have some vinyl of the incidental music featured on the show. hearing that stuff puts me right back in my imaginary village. I long to escape but I think it's cool that the newspapers are on butcher paper rolls and the doors open all by themselves.
|
|
|
Post by adamcoan on May 2, 2024 9:30:50 GMT
It really was just silly bollocks at the end of the day. It plays 24/7 on the conspiracy channel ( available to those of us in the know.)
|
|
|
Post by oh oooh on May 2, 2024 9:37:26 GMT
It really was just silly bollocks at the end of the day.
|
|
|
Post by Charlie O. on May 19, 2024 3:18:09 GMT
My brother's belatedly turned me on to Ted Lasso; we've spent the past week binge-watching it. What a great show.
|
|