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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 9, 2018 3:21:42 GMT
About David Cameron. The episode was transmitted BEFORE the scandal! I remember people mentioning the episode when that "anecdote" was published in a book/article(?) Huh, well isn't that a coincidence! I actually know next to nothing about the Cameron scandal, I've just heard that it happened but I couldn't remember at all when. Maybe the people who came up with that story (unless of course it's true...) saw the Black Mirror episode and were inspired. That's pretty sad. It was an unconfirmed anecdote published on an unauthorized biography and attribution to an anonymous source but, you know, British tabloids and social media ran with it, anyway. Who knows? Maybe someone was indeed influence by the episode and fabricated it.
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Post by mllemass on Feb 9, 2018 9:12:47 GMT
I didn't think the black-and-white episode was meant to be artsy - I thought they did it that way to make all the bloodshed look less gruesome. It didn't help.
The writer of that list placed a lot of importance on the ending of each episode, which hadn't even occurred to me when I watched it. It shouldn't be too hard to find a list that you agree with - there are so many out there! I do that with movie reviews, too. I keep reading them until I find one that I agree with, and then I think that the writer is brilliant! Ha!
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Post by igs on Feb 9, 2018 13:47:30 GMT
It shouldn't be too hard to find a list that you agree with - there are so many out there! I do that with movie reviews, too. I keep reading them until I find one that I agree with, and then I think that the writer is brilliant! Ha! Haha I definitely do that too. Black Mirror rankings are fun to read because they vary quite a lot, and there are so many different opinions on every episode. I mean there are a few episodes that are generally more/less well-liked but even those aren't universally applauded/panned. This is the good thing about anthology shows, they offer something for (almost) everyone.
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Post by mllemass on Feb 10, 2018 21:39:33 GMT
I decided to watch all 8 episodes, even though I was ready to give up on it several times. It took way too long to get going, and it was too much time to spend with such unlikeable characters. By the end, I liked both of the stars. When it started, it seemed to be a Dexter origin story - a teenage boy who loved to kill animals and was ready advance to killing a human being. But then it turned into Bonnie and Clyde on a giddy crime spree. Finally, it became Thelma and Louise.
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Post by onebluestocking on Mar 7, 2018 18:17:46 GMT
I've been wracking my brain to figure out who the blonde, American actress is in the Nosedive episode, only to finally recognize it was Alice Eve! She does a very convincing accent!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 28, 2018 23:15:56 GMT
I watched or more exactly tried to watch the new thing and it was very frustrating! I guess I’m too purist about movies narrative vs video games’! Actually it was fun but very random at the beginning but then when they asked me to kill the leading guy or not, I decided to ended all! He was becoming boring! But they forced me to revive him! Later I killed him again giving him what I thought was a decent ending but they don’t just forced me to revive him AGAIN but to chose a very corny plot in which Netflix itself (and we in the future) are manipulating him! He suddenly is on a movie set recording the movie, I guess! And then I decided to stop watching it! That’s like the third time they do a “it’s just a TV show in a TV show” plot line! In other words, Black Mirror at its worst! I guess I could had chose a better ending but I kind of did it and they made me to rewind to watch a dumb one!
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Post by mllemass on Dec 29, 2018 3:27:20 GMT
I just finished watching it. It was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be - it was certainly much better than Bird Box that I wasted time on last week!
I stayed with it until the very end. I knew it was finally the end when Netflix began its countdown to the next episode. I agree that it didn’t sound like a particularly original idea, but I thought they handled it in a fun way.
It reminded me of a disturbing Tom Hanks movie I saw on tv a long time ago, Mazes and Monsters. In it, a group of friends plays a game that was supposed to be like Dungeons and Dragons. Speaking of Tom Hanks, doesn’t he create a choose-your-own-adventure video game when he gets a job at a toy company in Big?
Bandersnatch also reminded me of several Twilight Zone episodes and also some Stephen King (Bird Box also reminded me of a SK book, but he did it much better).
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 29, 2018 4:17:38 GMT
Did you ended [ with the Netflix subplot? When they asked me to chose between Netflix or the sign the writer painted with his wife’s blood I chose the latter because “Netflix” sounded incredible stupid but then after what I thought was the ending they returned to it and I hated to choose it! Sooo corny! And just stopped watching it when he woke up in a Netflix TV studio! I saw a Tweet saying how great it’s because it shows we don’t have free will and I thought I have! I turned off the TV!
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Post by mllemass on Dec 29, 2018 8:48:17 GMT
I went through it enough times that I think I eventually chose every option. There were some things that you never got to choose more than once - like the cereal. And other things you had to choose over and over, which is where I eventually changed my selections. But even if you kept choosing the same things, it was actually a bit different each time.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 29, 2018 13:50:25 GMT
I guess I got one (good not great) ending and it rewinded it to another (awful) option. I guess I’m very impatient to explore all options, especially when I didn’t love it and I was thinking the second option was extremely ridiculous!
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