Community Movie Club

I haven't watched these, @Darnell? Have you watched the season finales? How was it? 

I started watching "The Sandman" yesterday, let's see how it goes! As soon as I have an opinion, I'll share with you! 

Any of you watching anything interesting lately @Michaela @ActionJackson @Mikkel @Liz? 

@john.desborough How’d you like WoT? I’ve been a long-time fan of the books, and the show made me reread the last three books in the series.

I found the show to be occasionally incredibly cheesy, with lackluster CGI, and a plotline that jumped all over the place compared to the books. While that doesn’t make it sound as though I liked the show, I thoroughly enjoyed it - it was fun! I’m eagerly waiting for the second season  I heard someone said that Brandon Sanderson had suggested thinking of the show as just a very similar iteration of the same Age. I liked that.

@Gabi Amaral The Wheel of Time? It’s a pretty popular epic fantasy series. The original series consists of 14 rather huge books; the first 11 written by Robert Jordan, and the last three written by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan’s death in 2009 or thereabouts. My favorite aspects would probably be the sprawling plot and the worldbuilding.

I think I liked the books more at a younger age than I do now, and I’m not a hardcore fan of the books any more. (Although the nostalgia is strong indeed!) Still, they make for entertaining TV!

Have you run across any, like, really good book adaptations? 

Hmm...the HBO adaptation of "My Brilliant Friend" from Elena Ferrante is pretty good. However, you still miss a lot of details. Do you have any favorites? @Mikkel!

@Darnell Yes, so many people love Breaking Bad! I never even watched the trailer, but maybe I'll give it a go. I also wanted to watch Narcos! 

What about you @Grace and @the conservative? Have you watched anything interesting in the last weeks? 

For those of you who enjoy documentaries and have been to Barcelona: I watched this documentary called 800 metres about the terrorist attacks in 2017, very interesting to understand what happened. They've done a thorough investigation, it's sad though. 

I also watched another documentary called "The Girl in the Picture" with an unbelievable story (very sad as well).

What have you been watching lately? @Darnell @john.desborough @Liz @Mikkel @Michaela 

@Gabi Amaral I’m now rewatching Breaking Bad and am on the final episodes of the series. Will next up be watching The Rings of Power!

@Grace I haven’t yet started but may after the full season has aired. I’m watching the other big high fantasy series that started airing this past weekend: The Rings of Power and I’m digging it a lot ATM. Super high production value that rivals HBO’s prestige TV value, everything feels lived in, excellent performances, likable characters and multiple perspectives all essentially facing the same thread.

That said, this is a mythology I fancy, as I also really liked The Hobbit and TLOTR trilogies, though I’ve never read any Tolkien books (I prefer watching stories in the fantasy genre over reading about them).

@Grace haha, yes, those trilogies are long and I’m still baffled by why I decided to buy the extended editions where each film is at least 3 hrs long multiplied by 6 flicks, ha! And yes, I agree with you that this series-style format works well for this mythology b/c you’re dealing with each episode being only an hour long released on a weekly basis. Also only 8 episodes in this first season with the first two having already aired. 

I do hope you watch it so I can find someone else to discuss it with, lol.

@Grace I hear ya! And I understand why ‘appointment TV’ works but I personally like to watch shows once the series is complete and I can watch it at whatever pace I like, which included some binging and some splitting episodes up across several weeks.

The Rings of Power is an exception both because I know and like this mythology from the films, and because it’s been hyped up for a few years now so a lot of anticipation is there. 

Lastly, what’s fascinating to me about this series is that it’s built on Tolkien’s appendices from the Second Age of the Earth and therefore is not a beat-for-beat replica of the source material. It’s like having all the broad strokes of how things got to where they were by the time of The Hobbit but the showrunners are free to fill in the plots, arcs, and even add new characters to the proceedings. This, to me, is more interesting than doing a direct adaptation.

Hey all! Thought I’d pop by to say I watched this yesterday

Really enjoyed it, had me crying quite a few times, very heart-warming  

Anyone else watched any good movies lately? 

@Gabi Amaral They talk about being in Peckham, London so guessing they filmed some of it there or at least somewhere similar in London  I would recommend watching it, but get ready to have a cry 

@Darnell I haven't started because tmw I'll go on vacation and don't want to get addicted in any series now! Hehehehehe. Seriously, when I'm into a series, I can't stop watching! But I'll start as soon as I'm back! It'll be good to have my mom to talk about it (besides you!)