Movies, books, tv
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I watched the first episode during a mindless call earlier.
But, isn't this just a limted mini series version of another Amazon property with literally the same plot....the Without Remorse movie with Michael B Jordan? Way to branch out there Amazon.
I mean I'll still watch it b/c revenge flicks rule and all.
I don’t believe they’re related at all, but they do have similar plots.
Without Remorse was bad, turned it off halfway in.
Read part 2 of the Follett trilogy, World Without End. Pretty solid, although I was disappointed that the MacGuffin turned out to be just a MacGuffin. I was hoping for something more. Just started part 3, A Column of Fire.
If you like classic movies Lawrence of Arabia is available on YouTube in 4k and it's free. I have the premium YouTube which allows you to avoid commercials so you may run into commercial breaks. BTW Lawrence was filmed in 70mm format, so it cand be upgraded even later to 8k or 16k or whatever the future format standards will be but it really looks great in 4k. It looks so much better than I have ever seen it in earlier home video formats.
I attended a WW1 seminar at the KC WW1 Museum, and a presenter from the Army spoke on Lawrence. An audience member asked him for good material to learn more. The presenter said, "Watch the movie". He spoke about how outstanding the movie was historically, then added a couple books.
The Gray Man on Netflix was a good action flick. Basically all action start to finish. No fluff. Dumb as hell. Plus Chris Evans as a bad guy (completely over the top). Ryan Gosling as his character from Drive but as an assassin this time.
The book one of Clancy’s best. Well worth the time. Yeah, the movie was awful.
Started Follett's new book, out in paperback now, called Never. It's fairly good . . . .
Finished Before The Fall by Noah Hawley. It's a compelling read, even with the OTT monologue that the protaganist succums to in a supposed TV interview. I might read it again . . . more slowly this time to see what I missed.
Finished A Column of Fire today. Definitely my favorite of the trilogy. Very similar to the first two in terms of plot and structure, but it felt like a neater, tighter work, because the POV characters' actions and motivations were more intimately tied to each other. When you read what Rollo is doing, you can't help but think how it's affecting Ned, and when you read what Ned is doing, you can't help but think how it's affecting Pierre. My only complaint - and it's a weak one - is that the story is so closely tied to well-known historical events, that some of the tension is missing. The entire plot line about Allison was subdued by the fact that I already knew full well what would happen to Queen Mary.
Not sure if I'll pick up the prequel next or if I'll take a break and move on to something else.
For anyone else who also enjoyed the Kingsbridge trilogy, I'll take this opportunity to (again) plug another author. It's slightly heavier reading, but a great place for historical fiction to go after Follet's books would be Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost. Set in post-restoration England, it picks up very close to where Follet leaves off, and like Follet, Pears writes from multiple POVs. What's different is that Pears' characters are all purposefully unreliable narrators. However, the various governmental and religious tensions explored in Kingsbridge are very much at the center of Pears' novel, as well.
Not sure if I'll pick up the prequel next or if I'll take a break and move on to something else.
For anyone else who also enjoyed the Kingsbridge trilogy, I'll take this opportunity to (again) plug another author. It's slightly heavier reading, but a great place for historical fiction to go after Follet's books would be Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost. Set in post-restoration England, it picks up very close to where Follet leaves off, and like Follet, Pears writes from multiple POVs. What's different is that Pears' characters are all purposefully unreliable narrators. However, the various governmental and religious tensions explored in Kingsbridge are very much at the center of Pears' novel, as well.
Fingerpost . . . lemme guess . . . it's about the Cooler, isn't it?
I think I have a feeling for your reading predilections. We've shared some books. That Jack Rogers book was something I poured over and found truly illuminating.
If you haven't read Pears yet, I think you would find Fingerpost fascinating. I would say that to most anyone, but you especially; I think you'd love it.
I'll check it out.
But poured? Really? I don't care how much you've had to drink . . . .
PS . . . I don't think I recommended/provided/suggested/talked about any book by Jack Rogers.
Haven't seen any discussion lately on Better Caul Saul. Most recent episode has us caught up with Breaking Bad's arc. Interesting pulling back of the curtain. Aaron Paul is kinda ridiculous playing his 20 something character as a 40 year old. Cranston looked he never stopped playing Walter White.
Last two episodes should be pretty good. Still wide open on how it ends. My assumptions:
Jimmy/Saul ends up in prison - he's clearly going to get caught in this most current endeavor. Does he survive? I say yes.
Kim...tough one. Does she have to pay for her sins or has she been scarred enough?
We know what happens to every one else so those two are really the only two characters left with any story to tell that matters. Maybe the secretary (who is amazing, btw).
Last two episodes should be pretty good. Still wide open on how it ends. My assumptions:
Jimmy/Saul ends up in prison - he's clearly going to get caught in this most current endeavor. Does he survive? I say yes.
Kim...tough one. Does she have to pay for her sins or has she been scarred enough?
We know what happens to every one else so those two are really the only two characters left with any story to tell that matters. Maybe the secretary (who is amazing, btw).
I tried to respond several times, but my internet has been acting up. I probably have just mixed up some of my book mailings. Either way, I still think you'll love Fingerpost.
A perfect microcosm of modern society -- a precursor of sorts.
Platforming and promotion of aggressive and hateful shit-stirrers amplifying and stoking up ill feelings. Sound familar?
A total breakdown of services caused by the outsourcing of vital utilities/services; price-gouging for essentials -- the people in charge turning a blind eye to obvious problems and instead claiming everything is going swimmingly, and water polluted with human waste.
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Nippy was a great episode. I thought the Cranston/Paul appearance seemed a bit forced.
Wife is enjoying Sandman on Netflix. Im
Still not watching TV unless it’s news or sports . So basically I’m not watching tv at all.
i did however recently read, In Five Years, by Rebecca Serle. It’s a very easy read, but my brain and attention span can’t handle much these days.
Still not watching TV unless it’s news or sports . So basically I’m not watching tv at all.
i did however recently read, In Five Years, by Rebecca Serle. It’s a very easy read, but my brain and attention span can’t handle much these days.
Oh thanks! Wanting to watch that since I just came back from there and they showed us places where it was shot.
Okay I'm totally lost. I feel like I missed an episode. Can you give me the reader's digest version of how all of the sudden the show's in black and white and jimmy is in with this crew robbing dept stores etc? I went from Howard being killed, and the episode following, to this black and white deal and i have no idea what's going on. Thanks.
Now Kim is in black and white working at a sprinkler company. WTF happened? Did I miss an episode? Black out? How did they all end up in black and white doing random jobs? What happened? I've watched 5 seasons of this shit, loved it, and now i'm on the second to last episode and have no idea what's going on
Not sure if you missed the episode after Howard was killed where Kim split with Jimmy. After that in my opinion there's not much more needed from the past because we know he became Saul completely. When the show turned B&W it was a fast forward to his present days as the bakery manager and how this all ends.
Not so fast. A Civil Action is a pretty good and realistic movie. The book is outstanding. My favorite of all legal non-fiction and fiction.
@Sope Creek A civil action is a excellent book. And i enjoyed the movie too. My favorite legal movie is the verdict. but sope better call saul is a spinoff of breaking bad (i'm sure you know) and wonderful. i guess technically it's an attorney show but it's so different than what you think of in attorney shows. it's wonderful. and where there are attorney scenes and court clips they are great and usually hilarious. the one scene is one of my favorites in tv history. the main guy, jimmy, is taking appointed cases and the viewer has the vantage point of the judge as the judge is looking down at jimmy with client after client making animated argument after animated argument. a cattle call with one lawyer. just one right after another. it's at once fantastic and hilarious and there's no way for me to capture it's greatness in this post. and jimmy is fantastic. a lawyer who wears colored shirts....
Just finished Where The Crawdad Sings, by Delia Owens. I'll never look at any other human being the same way . . . .
I hope you love it. Marco da Cola is one of my favorite characters, and had me hooked on the book from the first couple of chapters.
Dense . . . doctor Da Cola? I'm in Chapter 2 right now . . . and keeping in mind that the narrators aren't 100% reliable.
