General Netflix Discussion-TV Shows

[Ben Staad]

Wow. I'm not a fan of the series and these comments certainly don't change my opinion.

Tried watching a series called The Judge starring Brian Cranston. The premise was sketchy to me and the execution of said premise, from what I watched, isn't done very well. It feels forced and highly unbelievable. This is still on my watchlist but I doubt I will go back to it.

LOL! I saw an interview where he (Jokingly, I thought...) said that he told the Director "I can't run!". Then I saw the movie, and realized he wasn't joking.

 

[dannyboy121070]

Yeah, a friend of mine forced me to watch Axel F and it was pretty bad, a pure paint by numbers movie. Also doesn't help when your lead in an action film refuses to do stunts and won't even run. Murphy basically rides in a golf cart anytime he would have run in a previous film, it's so bad that it actually becomes funny. Probably the last new Eddie Murphy film that I will ever watch.

LOL! I saw an interview where he (Jokingly, I thought...) said that he told the Director "I can't run!". Then I saw the movie, and realized he wasn't joking.

[sholloman81]

I was all set to watch the new Beverly Hills Cop movie on Netflix when I realized...I have never seen BHC II & III. So, off to Paramount+ I went to remedy that!

As I get older, I find that if I try reading/watching something that I passed on when I was younger, I usually end up learning that my initial impulse was right, and I passed on it for a good reason. These films were no exception.

BHC II was decent. Tony Scott makes films that are nice to look at, so there was that. The plot was ridiculously complex (Why stage an elaborate series of alphabet-themed robberies, leaving Riddler-esque clues, if you're planning to commit insurance fraud with the racetrack that you own? Why would someone leave a note to themselves with a code and latitude/longitude coordinates when they could just write "Racetrack on Friday"...?) I think I chuckled once.

BHC III was...bad. Sooo bad. It seemed to go on for hours. Cheap-looking, badly filmed, written, acted....another convoluted mess. If you were running a counterfeiting ring, why would you do it from work? Especially if you worked in an amusement park? Just take the printer home and do it there. There were two good laughs, though, so...there was that. (Oddly enough, of the three laughs that I had over the course of these two films, NONE were generated by Eddie Murphy.)

So then I finally got to watch Axel F last night. My wife just walked out after 30 minutes, lol. As with most Netflix films, it was a film. That's the best that I can say about it. It was just there. It hit the nostalgia buttons (Neutron Dance, Shakedown, The Heat is On, Taggart and Rosewood returning), but brought nothing new or worthwhile to the game. Eddie Murphy....one of the funniest people alive, and the guy hasn't made a good film since The Klumps.

I didn't feel the need to see the original again, and now I'm wondering if it would hold up and be as fun as I remember it being when I was a kid. Regardless, this is a mostly bad franchise, and I hope they let it rest in peace after this latest.....

Yeah, a friend of mine forced me to watch Axel F and it was pretty bad, a pure paint by numbers movie. Also doesn't help when your lead in an action film refuses to do stunts and won't even run. Murphy basically rides in a golf cart anytime he would have run in a previous film, it's so bad that it actually becomes funny. Probably the last new Eddie Murphy film that I will ever watch.

[dannyboy121070]

I was all set to watch the new Beverly Hills Cop movie on Netflix when I realized...I have never seen BHC II & III. So, off to Paramount+ I went to remedy that!

As I get older, I find that if I try reading/watching something that I passed on when I was younger, I usually end up learning that my initial impulse was right, and I passed on it for a good reason. These films were no exception.

BHC II was decent. Tony Scott makes films that are nice to look at, so there was that. The plot was ridiculously complex (Why stage an elaborate series of alphabet-themed robberies, leaving Riddler-esque clues, if you're planning to commit insurance fraud with the racetrack that you own? Why would someone leave a note to themselves with a code and latitude/longitude coordinates when they could just write "Racetrack on Friday"...?) I think I chuckled once.

BHC III was...bad. Sooo bad. It seemed to go on for hours. Cheap-looking, badly filmed, written, acted....another convoluted mess. If you were running a counterfeiting ring, why would you do it from work? Especially if you worked in an amusement park? Just take the printer home and do it there. There were two good laughs, though, so...there was that. (Oddly enough, of the three laughs that I had over the course of these two films, NONE were generated by Eddie Murphy.)

So then I finally got to watch Axel F last night. My wife just walked out after 30 minutes, lol. As with most Netflix films, it was a film. That's the best that I can say about it. It was just there. It hit the nostalgia buttons (Neutron Dance, Shakedown, The Heat is On, Taggart and Rosewood returning), but brought nothing new or worthwhile to the game. Eddie Murphy....one of the funniest people alive, and the guy hasn't made a good film since The Klumps.

I didn't feel the need to see the original again, and now I'm wondering if it would hold up and be as fun as I remember it being when I was a kid. Regardless, this is a mostly bad franchise, and I hope they let it rest in peace after this latest.....

[dannyboy121070]

Shows have waaaaay too long of a lag time between (SHORT!) seasons these days.....

[sholloman81]

I'm not a big fan of hers either, but POKER FACE is such a fun show.....Highly recommended. I hope it comes back soon.

Oddly enough, I just saw online today that they have started filming season 2 which probably means a late 2025 release...

[dannyboy121070]

It's a fun show.. There's an overarching theme to the season, but the episodes are basically standalone murder mysteries, with a lot of humor thrown in.

[Sock Monkey]

I'm not a big fan of hers either, but POKER FACE is such a fun show.....Highly recommended. I hope it comes back soon.

I've definitely going to at least check out an episode or two.  Just found it that it is by Rian Johnson and while I am not as enamored with the KNIVES OUT films as critics are, I absolutely love BRICK so I always give his stuff a watch.

[dannyboy121070]

I think at this point this is just a TV show thread regardless of where and how you watch it. At least that’s how I’m using it.

As far as Poker Face, describing it as a modern Rockford Files piques my interest, but I’m not the biggest Natasha Lyonne fan (nothing against her personally, I;ve just never really connected with her work).

I'm not a big fan of hers either, but POKER FACE is such a fun show.....Highly recommended. I hope it comes back soon.

[Sock Monkey]

Hope it's ok to post this here as I don't believe it's a Netflix show; however, I just started watching the first season of Pokerface (on Blu-ray). Am only on episode three so far, but this show is really working for me. I've seen others describe it as sort of a modern take on The Rockford Files and that feels like a valid description. Hope the remaining episodes are as strong as the first three.

I think at this point this is just a TV show thread regardless of where and how you watch it. At least that’s how I’m using it.

As far as Poker Face, describing it as a modern Rockford Files piques my interest, but I’m not the biggest Natasha Lyonne fan (nothing against her personally, I’ve just never really connected with her work).

[sholloman81]

Hope it's ok to post this here as I don't believe it's a Netflix show; however, I just started watching the first season of Pokerface (on Blu-ray). Am only on episode three so far, but this show is really working for me. I've seen others describe it as sort of a modern take on The Rockford Files and that feels like a valid description. Hope the remaining episodes are as strong as the first three.

[Sock Monkey]

Finished season three of FOR ALL MANKIND. I thought this season was pretty good. Maybe not as good as season two, but that wrapped up some character arcs in a satisfying manner, so it was going to be a tough one to top either way. I still think that the time jumps are used a little too often to hand wave away narrative questions that they don't want to deal with while still getting the results they want. I was a little bummed by the season finale as it saw the death of what I thought was one of the more interesting characters whose arc still had a lot of potential. I also thought that Ellen's reunion with Pam in the finale was just so mishandled. There is this major event that happens and yet Ellen

Spoiler!

as the US President instead of being shown addressing this issue in some manner

is shown meeting up with her long-lost flame. Maybe it was just me, but it seemed so out of place where the episode was at.

All that being said, I still enjoyed the season and I'm looking forward to diving into the fourth ASAP.

[Sock Monkey]

I broke my ankle in 2005, and my co-workers all chipped in and got me a $500.00 B&N gift card, so I could occupy myself while I was out of work. I bought $500.00 worth of DVDs, and most of them are still sealed and unwatched, so....I get it.

I'm trying to make a concerted effort to get through the rest of backlog now. Some stuff has been lingering for awhile, partly due to our move a couple years back and the complete disarray that my movie collection is still in and part is due to them being odds and ends--foreign dramas picked up way back when Blockbuster was going out of business; offbeat horror movies, usually 70s and earlier that I find that I need to be in a particular mood to enjoy; or movies that I picked up to be part of a retrospective, like the Romero BETWEEN NIGHT AND DAWN set that I plan on watching when I do a full watch of all his work--and for that reason I almost never turn to them for a casual watch. I just need to make it happen because I'm tired of them staring at me from the To Watch shelf in the closet.

I also just realized that I posted both movie reviews in the NETFLIX TELEVISION section. I just searched your post on INFESTED and assumed it was in the movie section and just kept posting!

[dannyboy121070]

I also finished up revisiting Nolan's DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY last night with THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. I actually started it the night prior and was just too tired to finish it so started it all over yesterday with renewed energy and I'm glad that I did. I was worried that I wasn't going to like this one and I think that I actually like it a lot more than the first time that I saw it in the theaters. As a trilogy-capper, it works as both a culmination of plot threads from the previous two films and actually feels much more like a sequel to BEGINS than THE DARK KNIGHT. I also really enjoyed Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle and I think that she nails my idea of her character from the comic books and her chemistry with Bale is great. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's arc also worked a lot better for me this time around. The film isn't as much "fun" and lot more somber than THE DARK KNGHT, which is probably the one that I'd be most likely to revisit independently of the three, and that might be why some people are letdown by the finale. However, watching all three films in short span really made this one increase in my regard for it. So good. GRADE: A-

On a side note, I need to get better at going through my backlog of movies. My copy of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES DVD was still sealed from when I first bought when it was initially released almost 12 years ago in December of 2012. When I got it, I planned on doing a full rewatch of the trilogy and just never got around to it until now. I know that time flies, but twelve years to watch a film is ridiculous...

I broke my ankle in 2005, and my co-workers all chipped in and got me a $500.00 B&N gift card, so I could occupy myself while I was out of work. I bought $500.00 worth of DVDs, and most of them are still sealed and unwatched, so....I get it.

[Sock Monkey]

I also finished up revisiting Nolan's DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY last night with THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. I actually started it the night prior and was just too tired to finish it so started it all over yesterday with renewed energy and I'm glad that I did. I was worried that I wasn't going to like this one and I think that I actually like it a lot more than the first time that I saw it in the theaters. As a trilogy-capper, it works as both a culmination of plot threads from the previous two films and actually feels much more like a sequel to BEGINS than THE DARK KNIGHT. I also really enjoyed Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle and I think that she nails my idea of her character from the comic books and her chemistry with Bale is great. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's arc also worked a lot better for me this time around. The film isn't as much "fun" and lot more somber than THE DARK KNGHT, which is probably the one that I'd be most likely to revisit independently of the three, and that might be why some people are letdown by the finale. However, watching all three films in short span really made this one increase in my regard for it. So good. GRADE: A-

On a side note, I need to get better at going through my backlog of movies. My copy of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES DVD was still sealed from when I first bought when it was initially released almost 12 years ago in December of 2012. When I got it, I planned on doing a full rewatch of the trilogy and just never got around to it until now. I know that time flies, but twelve years to watch a film is ridiculous...