Willow: It's horrible! That's me as a vampire? I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
Buffy: Willow, just remember, a vampire's personality has nothing to do with the person it was.
Angel: Well, actually... That's a good point.
LOL
Jesus. This is as bad as Suicide Squad honestly. Harley Quinn was way better in that movie, and here it's just all over the place, with rough story-telling, bad acting from pretty much everyone (the cop and Ewan McGregor especially), the same dumb exposition, and marketed as if Deadpool and Deadpool 2 were the style they went for. I wasted my money so you can save it.
[Movistar +] A dynamic, emphatic, forceful series about the police and the ins and outs of corruption. It is a production made with talent, sequence shots that take your breath away. Sorogoyen is a master at managing the internal tension of a scene, at portraying the emotional turmoil of the characters. Sustained in a script that is armed with a very solid structure, it is five hours of pure cinema.
This show is amazing and so important.
It's really hard to make you feel shocked and good about a scene at the same time, and this show making it every episode. The fusion of the music or an absurd sentence in the peak of really amotional event is a little magic, every time.
As a Dutch person, I never actually knew the story behind Fokker and the KLM, so that got me interested combined with the preview I saw. In that preview they mentioned this was one of the highest budget Dutch television series ever made, with lots of actual footage, models and CGI where needed. Without spoiling anything from the storyline itself, I can say that not once I noticed I was watching a CGI enhanced scene. Of course, once you know that CGI is being used you can easily guess the scenes in which it was used, but nonetheless it was extremely well made. The most important part is actually the acting and that's absolutely perfect.
The fact they used a younger and older Anthony Fokker and Albert Plesman (and their wives) was the stroke of a genius. Not only that, in one case the older actor adjusted to the younger and in the other case vice versa, either way they were so well cast and even better how it smoothly went from one to the other. It's a miracle that in such a small country (compared to the UK or US) the young and old Anthony Fokker look so much alike and also share the same traits both on and off camera.
The storyline isn't always true to reality, but it doesn't detract from it otherwise. Being a limited series, I can understand that they had to simplify the death of one of Plesman's sons Jan. In the series he simply just died during a flight, while in reality he died in 1944 while fighting in his Spitfire during WWII. I can see that some people will not consider this to be a good thing, but I do see the burden of explaining the whole WWII phase and as it's not about Jan, but rather his father, I get the fact they did want to show his grief upon losing two sons, but not wanting to extend a couple of episodes just for that.
Fun fact: Albert Plesman's son Jan had the nickname De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) which coincidentally is where the name of this tv series came from, though in this case they called it Vliegende Hollanders (plural, Flying Dutchmen), obviously meaning Anthony Fokker and Albert Plesman.
Great tv show and although I don't often watch Dutch productions because of bad experiences in the past, this one was well worth it and has shown me that we can deliver production quality comparative to UK or US productions.
Several things....Since moving to Viceland, these episodes are too long and they add cheesy music that makes it stupid. They need to change the format or I will probably not be watching much longer. HBO was must watch nightly. This Viceland...snoozefest mostly.
[NRK] It tries to humanize the characters so much that it cannot avoid falling into sentimentality and chauvinism, but curiously it does a disservice to historical characters like Princess Märtha by inventing an unbelievable romantic relationship with President Roosevelt. An uninspired example of "inspired by real events", monarchical and patriotic in the worst sense, and surprisingly produced by a public channel.
No one discuss that historical facts can be used as the basis for constructing a fictional narrative ("The Crown" (Netflix, 2016-) does so consistently with good results). The question is if it is really necessary and if that contributes to making a more interesting narrative. Norwegian historian Trond Norén Isaksen said in the newspaper Aftenposten that "there is no indication that the princess and the president had an affair or that Roosevelt was sexually active after being paralyzed from the waist down in 1921." And that the alleged romantic relationship was a "fake new" created by the president's opponents and especially The Chicago Tribune newspaper. This historical reality is so fascinating, with its political intrigues and conspiracies, that the sentimental story of unrequited love. La ficción evita la realidad para crear una narración que es mucho menos atractiva. Fiction avoids reality to create a narrative that is much less engaging. And it is the great mistake of the screenwriters, who also detract from characters like Prince Olav, here portrayed as a simple jealous husband, and Eleanor Roosevelt, overshadowed by her husband.
So erm....#TriggerPoint who else was screaming WHY would would you turn on any switch anywhere in that place ? and why would you RELEASE the cordon before you'd completed the number plate check ?
Helping to move the plot along I guess....also they seemed so lax and took numerous unnecessary risks
#Triggerpoint
This is not good. I really enjoyed first two seasons. But this is ridiculous. I understand they building up to a Dory as a cult leader or something along the lines. But this is so poorly written unbelievable waste of time. I was selling this show to my friends but I’m would advise not to waste time with it. It’s cartoonish. Which might have been the goal. But there’s no substance to the cartoonish mess.
If Fez doesn't make it through this season I swear I'm gonna lose it
Thank god they announced a renewal yesterday. Living with that suspense until it was official would be sheer torture!!
I thought the social commentary was too... fluffy. Also, kind of ironic coming from Apple.
“Why did you take that washing powder?”
“It’s biological.”
And I believe in Caitríona Balfe supremacy.
Like CGI photos of your childhood: technically well-made, but too polished to feel authentic.
I'm sure this semi-autobiographical film was a passion project for Kenneth Branagh and I'm glad he could get it off his cinematic chest, but, tbh, I was more into the brief, vintage news clips they showed in the background.
Now let's see a film based on the Boney M. song...
Leave it to Jessica Biel to make Candy Montgomery sexy.
I enjoyed that more than the entirety of season 2. Having the main characters back together seems to be a key ingredient, and the focused nature of this episode helped too. I hope this bodes well for the rest of the season.
Future Man ends on a high note after three seasons that got progressively weirder. I can't help but think that a lot of the narrative was created without too much thought about where it was all going, and I imagine that the sad death of actress Glenda Headly during the first season caused some real changes of plan. The finale here feels very disconnected from any events that happened in the show previously, but it's done in such a way that it still works.
Season 2 really didn't work for me and felt like the biggest consequence of the changes. It was very different from what came before and extremely downbeat. Season 3 opts for a bit more fun, some great changes of time period and location throughout, and most importantly it keeps our three main characters together. I didn't find the humour to be quite as on point as before, but the overall tone was a real improvement.
I think the characters of Josh, Tiger and Wolf are going to be the biggest takeaway from this show for me. The actors fit the roles so well that it's now going to be difficult to me to associate them with anything else. Derek Wilson's fake gravel voice and Eliza Coupe's over-the-top aggressiveness were never anything but a joy. And Josh Hutcherson was the glue that held the team together by playing a geeky, terrified everyman that was so easy to relate to. It felt like the actors were always having fun in the roles.
This season makes our heroes wanted criminals being tracked by time police from the future after all the damage they've caused. This is headed up by Seth Rogen. When he appeared at the end of last season I found him to feel out of place but he is integrated far better here. There's also a myriad of famous historical figures who play a part (Marilyn Monroe, Buddy Holly, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus), but while their introduction was fun it also kicked off a run of episodes which really went on for too long. The entire section spent at Haven felt like wasted time in an already short season, and the effect of allowing Tiger and Wolf to grow as people could have been handled much more succinctly. But I did love the goat.
The first season of the show stands as the best it had to offer, but the finale manages to wrap things up nicely. It fulfilled the main requirement which was finally solidifying the bond and friendship that Tiger and Wolf feel for Josh. It's always been funny to see them treat him like crap, but underneath we were all rooting for them to accept each other. They work SO WELL together! And in the end we even find out that it was all based on a true story, with completely whitewashed casting! Genius.
Honestly, I really missed the whole initial concept of the video game geek as the mistaken hero and the mission to kill the man who will destroy humanity, but the show evolved and continued to give us new stuff. This is somewhat rare. Future Man definitely wasn't a show for everyone given how obscene it would regularly get, but it was a show that fully embraced it's geekiness and how silly it was. I'm glad I stayed with it.
when are we giving bill hader every single emmy out there jw
"How fucked up should the next kills be?"
"Yes"
how could a film that bases an entire storyline around a Ratatouille joke not be absolutely fantastic?
I guess they think we were so dumb that we didn’t pay attention to the fact that the dogs stayed right by his side at all times. I guess we’re supposed to think that he forgot to call for his attack dogs while he was being mercilessly beaten. Every bit of rest of this was very good, but that he would not think to simply whistle and stop the attack, and avoid being restrained, and avoid being forced into custody – I just can’t abide.
14 year gap and she still has the same perfect hair
Pretty good show until on season 3 turns braindead stupid. No wonder that one is impossible to watch legally. If I where the creators I would also be ashamed of it and try to hide it.
A pretty good episode in an average season. Almost lost me with the Jersey Devil stuff but worked out alright by the end. I'm over the young Colin Robinson character though.
This episode just exist to spoiled you about The Sopranos, so with you never watched and want to watch Sopranos, be warned.
Solid Roman Roy impression! Didn’t know they got HBO in Westeros?!
I have to say that Koba really hurts the show for me. He's too much of an over the top character (a mix between Borat and the German DJ 'Scooter') and doesn't fit in. He's a bit of a comic villain in an otherwise grounded show. It's not easy to live to the quality of this show though. There are so many strong actors/characters in this show. Luan, Ed, Sean, Marian and Billy are all outstanding in my opinion. Still a fantastic episode.
Poor casting choice for the roles of Charles’ left and right ear.
