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What I've Been Watching, May 2015
May. 29th, 2015 07:35 pmRecently Seen
Mad Max: Fury Road. As visually (and aurally) amazing as everyone says, but a superb film for far more reasons than that. I've heard it said that it's thin on plot, but it's not: it has a very spare and efficient plot, which it advances with ruthless narrative drive save for the couple of interludes when a pause works just as well in terms of developing the characters. Everyone seems to try to come up with their elevator pitch for the movie: mine would be "If Games Workshop combined Battlecars with Warhammer 40K and had the result orchestrated by Rammstein."
(I actually have a copy of Battlecars, a relic of the fabled times when GW were more than All Warhammer All The Time.)
Daredevil. The Netflix TV series, not the movie. Only seen a couple of episodes so far, but impressed by them. It's evidently trying to be the Torchwood of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, more violent and adult than the continuity it sprang from but dropping enough references to it that we know it comes from the same roots.
Penny Dreadful, S2. Victorian gothic melodrama to the max! Interested to see where this goes, with one of the S1 background characters seemingly promoted to / revealed as the Big Bad. I hear that Fox is planning a TV version of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I would have thought will run into the problem that Penny Dreadful pretty much is that already.
The Game. It would be a bit harsh to describe this as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with the serial numbers filed off and with Birmingham doubling for London – harsh, but not entirely unfair. Inevitably this means that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
attimes_bracing and I are playing 'spot the location' but it's standing up pretty well as a drama in its own right, although the suspension of disbelief necessary to enjoy the plot is growing episode by episode.
( This looks familiar... )
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Need to catch up on this, as I've only seen the first episode so far, but it certainly looked and felt right. Alas, lack of time has precluded my re-reading the book in advance.
Mad Max: Fury Road. As visually (and aurally) amazing as everyone says, but a superb film for far more reasons than that. I've heard it said that it's thin on plot, but it's not: it has a very spare and efficient plot, which it advances with ruthless narrative drive save for the couple of interludes when a pause works just as well in terms of developing the characters. Everyone seems to try to come up with their elevator pitch for the movie: mine would be "If Games Workshop combined Battlecars with Warhammer 40K and had the result orchestrated by Rammstein."
(I actually have a copy of Battlecars, a relic of the fabled times when GW were more than All Warhammer All The Time.)
Daredevil. The Netflix TV series, not the movie. Only seen a couple of episodes so far, but impressed by them. It's evidently trying to be the Torchwood of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, more violent and adult than the continuity it sprang from but dropping enough references to it that we know it comes from the same roots.
Penny Dreadful, S2. Victorian gothic melodrama to the max! Interested to see where this goes, with one of the S1 background characters seemingly promoted to / revealed as the Big Bad. I hear that Fox is planning a TV version of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I would have thought will run into the problem that Penny Dreadful pretty much is that already.
The Game. It would be a bit harsh to describe this as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with the serial numbers filed off and with Birmingham doubling for London – harsh, but not entirely unfair. Inevitably this means that
attimes_bracing and I are playing 'spot the location' but it's standing up pretty well as a drama in its own right, although the suspension of disbelief necessary to enjoy the plot is growing episode by episode.( This looks familiar... )
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Need to catch up on this, as I've only seen the first episode so far, but it certainly looked and felt right. Alas, lack of time has precluded my re-reading the book in advance.
