I'm enjoying the Judge Dee mysteries on Netflix. It's a Chinese series loosely based on the novels by a Dutch orientalist who based his character on an 18th century Chinese detective novel that uses a real 7th century statesman as the basis for it's protagonist.
It's a police procedural set in Tang China. Certainly not pulse pounding action even though it looks like it should be and has a few fight scenes. I like the 4 main characters (Di Renjie, his old family retainer, and two former outlaws that he has made into his assistants) enough to put up with the subtitles. Who knows if I will last through all 32 episodes but it looks like each of the novels has been turned into 3 or so episodes so it is possible that there will be natural breakpoints to watch something else for a while.
Hopefully you're not watching The Retirement Plan. I went in blind, thinking that with Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Ernie Hudson and Jackie Earle Haley fronting the cast, there'd be something in there worth my time. Not so much...
"What? What?What?" -- The 14th Doctor
It's not enough to be a good player... you also have to play well. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
We finished Avatar the last air bender and my wife and i both liked it a lot.
Neitjer of us have seen the cartoon so we didn't expect anything goung in. Not sure if that helped or hurt but either way we liked it.
Really hoping they finish the other 2 seasons and I'll probably start watching the cartoon.
We watched some other things since we were away on vacation but I can't remember what they were. I only remember avatar because we just finished the last episode.
I discovered that Werner Herzog’s My Best Fiend, his documentary about knowing and working with Klaus Kinski, is on Tubi. Just watch it. That’s all I can say. Life is indeed stranger than fiction. Especially when that life is a goddamn raving lunatic.
I watched Freaks on Netflix this week. It's a pretty good indie sci-fi/horror film starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew and Lexy Kolker.
The crazy thing about this film, watching it, is that you'd never guess that it had a production budget of CAD $2000.
"What? What?What?" -- The 14th Doctor
It's not enough to be a good player... you also have to play well. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
I had watched that years ago after it got a lot of buzz on various genre movie sites. It really is quite good. And yeah, it's surprising what they were able to do with such a small budget.
A mysterious archeological dig in the frozen tundra of Canada where weird shit starts happening. A The Thing vibe at a slower pace. Best line so far: You cauterized his wound with a fucking shovel! On Amazon Prime.
hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:07 pm
I discovered that Werner Herzog’s My Best Fiend, his documentary about knowing and working with Klaus Kinski, is on Tubi. Just watch it. That’s all I can say. Life is indeed stranger than fiction. Especially when that life is a goddamn raving lunatic.
hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:07 pm
I discovered that Werner Herzog’s My Best Fiend, his documentary about knowing and working with Klaus Kinski, is on Tubi. Just watch it. That’s all I can say. Life is indeed stranger than fiction. Especially when that life is a goddamn raving lunatic.
Which one was the lunatic?
I used to have a thing for Kinski's daughter...
IIRC, my brother has a poster of her on the wall going down to the basement or it's on a wall in the basement.
It's her sitting nude with a snake. Maybe she also has an apple. Not sure. I think hes had it for decades.
She is the only reason I watched Cat People in the early 80s on HBO. I think I was 13.
And the only thing I'm watching is Reacher.
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hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:07 pm
I discovered that Werner Herzog’s My Best Fiend, his documentary about knowing and working with Klaus Kinski, is on Tubi. Just watch it. That’s all I can say. Life is indeed stranger than fiction. Especially when that life is a goddamn raving lunatic.
Which one was the lunatic?
I used to have a thing for Kinski's daughter...
IIRC, my brother has a poster of her on the wall going down to the basement or it's on a wall in the basement.
It's her sitting nude with a snake. Maybe she also has an apple. Not sure. I think hes had it for decades.
Didn't she wind up doing Lifetime movies? I'm really surprised she didn't have a sexy action hero run after Cat People.
