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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2024 2:15:25 GMT
I’m seeing the graphics and the non-English language TV and movies are, especially, fascinating! The remake of The Wages of Fear is apparently the most watched non-English movie right now!
Here in Mexico people are mostly watching an Italian movie that it seems it’s also number 1 in other Latin American and Europe countries. Very popular but I have never heard about it! lol I googled it and there are a lot of articles saying it was completely hated by critics! Just like The Wage of Fear! (The new version, obviously!) The only movie I have watched there is the Argentinian film that’s number 1… only in Argentina called Rest in Peace (I think I saw it also in the Mexico list a few days ago but I could be wrong). I saw that the trailer recreated the AMIA bombing (which it’s mostly incidental in the plot) so it catched my eye like two weeks ago but I didn’t even knew about it before that. It’s a good film.
On TV, the Korean series are very strong worldwide but here the most popular thing here is a Spanish soap opera. Very strong in Latin America and Spain. Just there! But there is this Mexican series called Bandidos that looks awful and was strongly publicized here weeks ago (it says that it has 4 weeks in the list) that apparently is being watched, apart of Latino countries, in Italy (returning the favor?) and Pakistan!
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 13, 2024 12:12:23 GMT
Well, I watched episode 1.
I don't find it strange if people -who watch Red Notice and the other top 10 movies or series of the same kind on Netflix'- stop watching it. It's sloooow.
I still don't know what to think about it but if I hadn't previous knowledge of the plot and the actor, I don't know if I'd continue watching it. I doesn't give much.
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Post by mllemass on Apr 13, 2024 15:40:57 GMT
The pace changes in the second episode - stay with it!
If I wasn’t familiar with the actor or the story, I wouldn’t have given up on it yet. I only stop so early if the characters are unlikable and I don’t care what happens to them, but the movie thinks we like them. Or if there’s pointless nudity and vulgar talk that the characters find hilarious. Or lots of chase scenes - although I would never be watching anything with lots of chase scenes.
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Post by queenzod on Apr 13, 2024 15:55:22 GMT
I don’t know if y’all get Turner Classic Movies but they’re running a series of 6 episodes they made in conjunction with a brilliant film scholar from UCLA who explores major themes in classic/popular/lauded films and the nature of story telling. It’s called The Power of Film. The themes are Love & Meaning, Trapped, Character Relationships, Heroes & Villains, Paradox, Memorable & Popular. It’s available on TCM On Demand. It’s quite excellent and I recommend it highly, if you can find it. I put this here because he talks about chase scenes in one of them and how chase scenes (in all their permutations), are an integral part of storytelling, and your post, mllemass , reminded me of this series. I’m bored, too, by most chase scenes. Cutting back and forth between the chaser and the chasee while they’re on motorcycles, running, or in cars. Yawn. I think they appeal more to men (and who directs most films?), than women. It’s that macho action thing. Anyway, check it out if you can find it!
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 13, 2024 18:54:10 GMT
The pace changes in the second episode - stay with it! If I wasn’t familiar with the actor or the story, I wouldn’t have given up on it yet. I only stop so early if the characters are unlikable and I don’t care what happens to them, but the movie thinks we like them. Or if there’s pointless nudity and vulgar talk that the characters find hilarious. Or lots of chase scenes - although I would never be watching anything with lots of chase scenes. I´m going to watch it! It's just that I understand why some people could stop watching. I understand that if TR is older and has nothing, not even a steady work, lives in an awful place and is always watching over his shoulder to see if he's going to be caught he's not going to be cheerful but he's too somber. The part that I don't like much is the rich business man not running a more detailed check on someone he's hiring and trusting to contact his son, giving him money, specially if it was difficult to find him because TR had no address, no known job, etc. Also how is it that he doesn't contact the American Embassy?
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Post by mllemass on Apr 13, 2024 19:50:20 GMT
In the later episodes, we find out that Dickie’s father knew that TR was a shady character who might resort to shady behaviour in order to bring Dickie home. He was counting on it! Dickie’s real friends had refused to take him up on the offer, so TR had been recommended to him.
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 20, 2024 1:47:09 GMT
I've just watched 2 episodes of Ripley and the second one to me was still dull with TR doing stupid things like taking a mafioso to Dickie's villa or opening a letter while the maid was around like helping Marge with her book. Writing fake commercial letters isn't an example of literary competence. I know that he murders Dickie on episode 3 so I'll continue watching. Also I read this article which make me want to watch it.[/quote] www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240410-ripleys-dolce-vita-is-in-black-and-white-but-the-amalfi-coasts-tiny-towns-are-in-technicolourIn that article they said that Escher lived in Atrani an his famous stairs were inspired by the ones we see. I watched the third episode. How is it that he's not totally soaked when he gets to the hotel. His cloathes should be absolutely wrinkled and his shoes should look like canoes and squeak. Not to mention the watch and other items. Watching Ripley is like a chore/task to me.
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Post by mllemass on Apr 20, 2024 2:41:59 GMT
As annoying as these details - like the watch - are, the show does address many of them in later episodes. He makes A LOT of mistakes! Eventually, I began to wonder which mistake would get him caught. I forgot how the movie ended, so I don’t know if this series ends the same way.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 20, 2024 2:48:57 GMT
I haven’t watched it yet. I saw an article in Deadline about how the author never was a fan of Ripley as character. It was pretty bizarre because he wasn’t pretty straightforward about his point but concluded that Hollywood needed some actual young male movie stars so I guess he was calling AS old! A local critic (well, actually she lives in the USA and it’s part of some critics associations there but was a local movie critic many years ago) was also pretty negative about the series, especially the “beautiful” black and white photography that she believes was totally wrong for this adaptation (someone said it was the best adaptation ever because it is very slow and reading Highsmith felt very slow! He wasn’t joking! lol) and that “the great” AS was very miscast because the age, the beauty and the charisma. Someone agreed saying that Ripley should be someone attractive in some way or other, maybe because he is beautiful like Delon or charismatic and seems harmless like Damon. He should foul people so they completely trust him. But that if he sees Scott walking in the sideway, he would cross the street! Probably, the rebuttal is that Ripley has also been played by Dennis Hopper and John Malkovich. You know, more obvious actors specialized in playing villains but they did it in adaptations of other books in which he is much older (probably the best Ripley film is Wim Wender’s The American Friend) and, a few critics, actually though that Scott would had been perfect for older Ripley!
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Post by ellie on Apr 20, 2024 8:28:30 GMT
Unpopular opinion here but I’m not a great fan of Andrew Scott. He was great as Moriarty but I’ve never really liked him in anything else. He is definitely too old for the Ripley character but I may give it a look if only for the scenery!
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