What have you seen recently? 4

[Who's Wee Dug]

I got the DVD set. I don't have any TV sets. Gods! I'm old!!!

 

[Tonyblack]

 

[RathDarkblade]

That's funny - I'm more reminded of this ...

A very good rendition. Both he and the chorus have good voices, excellent diction and superb stage presence. Bravo.

 

[Penfold]

I went and saw 'Wicked Little Letters', yesterday, starring Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley. Very funny, although a bit sweary, and filmed locally in Worthing and Arundel. They even used our shop at The Studio at The Lido, but it was unrecognizable due to the false frontage they had built on it for the set. Oh, and it's based on a true story as well.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I saw Dune 2 yesterday as good if not a little better as the first one apart from a couple scenes, good battle parts, but it ended on a big cliff hanger that harks back to an earlier scene.

 

[SpideyGirl]

hi guys! I've just finished The 3 Body Problem, very good. The scene with the ship, my word!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

hi guys! I've just finished The 3 Body Problem, very good. The scene with the ship, my word!

Just seen the first one, the rest to watch

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Last night I watched Morbius, I know it did not get all that good reviews but I thought it was OK.

 

[SpideyGirl]

Last night I watched Morbius, I know it did not get all that good reviews but I thought it was OK.

I've been avoiding it might but it might do for a rainy afternoon sometime

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I watched Damsel on Netflix, Dragon story with a twist quite enjoyed that. With Mille Bobby Brown and Ray Winstone.

 

[=Tamar]

I finally got to watch Good Omens Season Two. It had some good moments but I think it suffered a little from middle-book-of-a-trilogy syndrome. Now looking forward to Season Three in a couple of years.

 

[RathDarkblade]

I wonder when us Antipodeans can get to watch GOS2 ...

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I watched the last Resident Evil film: Racoon City it was Ok to pass the time some good action scenes.

 

[RathDarkblade]

I finally finished watching the entire run of M*A*S*H*. Good fun. I wonder why I'd never seen the entire thing before.

(Possibly because it's only available on DVD, and the boxset costs a fair bit?) =P

 

[SpideyGirl]

Scavengers Reign on Netflix is just incredible. No second series yet sadly but it finishes well enough.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Scavengers Reign on Netflix is just incredible. No second series yet sadly but it finishes well enough.

I will check that one out Spidey, as if I have not enough to watch on my Fav's list.

 

[Quatermass]

I recently watched more of House of the Dragon, and I sort of slogged through it. This is, admittedly, partly due to my attention span problems lately, making it harder to sit down and watch a TV show or a movie at home. But I think it's also because I'm becoming more and more discontented with this particular type of dark fantasy, specifically the sort that is basically less fantasy, and thus less wonder. Which is, admittedly, mostly stuff like House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones.

I actually love dark fantasy as a genre, if done right. The Nasuverse is a good example. So too is the recent animated series Arcane. Hell, even Berserk, for all that it ladles on all the gore and squick, still has a sense of wonder to it. But I find myself tiring of stuff that's more drama and conflict than wonder. I would've thought that fantasy was about escapism, even dark fantasy.

Don't get me wrong, I love Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, and the parent series of A Song of Ice and Fire. But it feels unrelentingly bleak at times. I mean, even the part-George RR Martin-penned story for the game Elden Ring has more than a few optimistic endings, or at least ones that are bittersweet.