Upcoming movies/TV shows you're looking forward to

Westside Steve

@gftchris said:
So Westworld has started and it's pretty good if you like that kind of thing.

Just an anecdote I found amusing. Back in the late sixties some friends and I or working at a bake sale to raise money for the prom. It was almost over and a small boy who looked a little bit like Dennis the Menace came up and asked what we had. My buddy Barbara from the Pep Squad pointed at one of our items and said 'this is good if you like pound cake.' The little fellow replied with a straight face 'shit's good if you like shit.'

That's not a commentary on the show just a story I thought was cute.

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gftChris

I like that.

What I mean is, if you like dystopian and/or AI things, this is pretty good.

Westside Steve

@gftchris said:

I like that.

What I mean is, if you like dystopian and/or AI things, this is pretty good.

Ha

I usually love those things. Looking forward to the post apocalypse. I used to like the graphic comic Magazine heavy metal which had a lot of that stuff.

But I just thought the story was funny.

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gftChris

Give it a shot then. The premise is, it's essentially a modern day billionaire's theme park, where instead of 'rides' it's an old 'wild' west town. There are hundreds of robot actors that just work through a loop unless someone interacts with them, and then they go along with that. Including bars, hookers, outlaws, bounty hunts, things like that. Guests can't be killed in the park (apparently...not sure how, yet), but can 'kill' the robots.

It's quite neat, and as you'd expect with this genre, there's the theme of 'hey, the robots are doing small things we didn't tell them to and it's getting more noticeable every week" and a sub plot of "wait a minute, there's more to this world than we expected" - the usual stuff, but then the story is 40+ years old.

Westside Steve

Like I said it's on my list right after season 4 of Ray Donovan. Either Westworld or the John tuturro thing but they're both in the Queue

gftChris

New series of not-top-gear (aka Grand Tour) has started, episode one on amazon as of today. Happy camper.

Westside Steve

I finished the night of and loved it. Finished season 2 of Bosch and liked it a lot.

Right now in the second season of Daredevil which I don't like so well.

I think Westworld will be next up. Amazon Prime has something called humans which looks intriguing.

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gftChris

@westside-steve said:

I finished the night of and loved it. Finished season 2 of Bosch and liked it a lot.

Right now in the second season of Daredevil which I don't like so well.

I think Westworld will be next up. Amazon Prime has something called humans which looks intriguing.

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Didn't realise humans was on amazon prime now. It's a channel 4 show, the first series was a year ago and the second is airing now. Watched the first, it's a bit twisty and unnecessarily so sometimes but an interesting concept, of sentient android 'home help' that is discovering consciousness along the way. Decent, not unmissable.

Tour2ma

@westside-steve said:
I finished the night of and loved it.

I think Westworld will be next up.

told ya...
Watched Ep 1 and it did not grab me...

On the other hand... after the Westworld false start, we watched season 3(?) of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire over the past few evenings... thoroughly enjoyed it. Almost as much as Season 1... much more than season 2.

Westside Steve

@tour2ma said:

told ya...

Watched Ep 1 and it did not grab me...

On the other hand... after the Westworld false start, we watched season 3(?) of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire over the past few evenings... thoroughly enjoyed it. Almost as much as Season 1... much more than season 2.

I've been told it takes a couple of episodes before Westworld grabs you. Same thing with Breaking Bad for me. After episode three I was hooked. I still recommend Glenn Close Damages highly.

Could not get beyond episode 1 season 2 True Detective though.

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Tour2ma

I'll keep Damages in mind...

Meanwhile was scrolling down my recording list last nite and saw a folder I'd forgotten about... Mr. Robot Season 3. That'll be up next for us.

Westside Steve

So I'm guessing you liked the first two seasons...

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Tour2ma

Season 1... bigly. S2? Somewhat...

More or less the same pattern as Halt and Catch Fire... so I have hope for S3.

Tour2ma

New addition to my list...

Taboo... coming to FX (or FXX) in January. Hard to tell what it's about from the promos so far... witchcraft... Gothic horror... other... but it's starring Tom Hardy, so I'm in.

DVR is already set.

Westside Steve

Tom Hardy is one of the best in the business. FX usually puts out a pretty interesting series.

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The Gipper

Upcoming movies anticipated?: Rogue One.

The thing about this movie, is that it tells the story, apparently of the very first thing that any of us ever saw in the Star Wars Universe:

The story of the rebel spies who stole the plans of the Death Star, mentioned in the very first two paragraphs at the beginning of the scroll at the start of the Star Wars movie going back to 1977.

Westside Steve

Yeah I guess a lot of people are bigger Star Wars fans than I have been.

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Tour2ma

Ditto... and I am married to one...

And could not agree more on Hardy. I was enjoying his work before I knew his name, Inception and Band of Brothers. Hard pressed to think of a male lead whose work I currently like more.

Now I watch him in anything that comes on. Thought he stole The Revenant out from under Leo. He made Fury Road more watchable than I thought it could be. And out of nowhere he made The Drop one of my Top Ten-ish movies. Still have yet to see Legend... hope to correct that over the holidays.

Westside Steve

The drop, overlooked gem.

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Westside Steve

I didn't see Legend. I think it might be on Cinemax I will check the on demand and record it if it is.

I did see another movie about the krays many years ago.

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