Mindhunter on Netflix: 8.5/10
Give it more than one episode and it starts to be very good.
For me Mindhunter is a 7/10 at best. It is a good show, with some good character building, but I have one major problem with it. It had bad pacing. It needed better editing. There was a lot of wasted time due to scenes that lead nowhere, that caused it to lose the flow of the main plot. I felt that the show could have been edited down by at least 3 episodes without losing anything at all and that would have gained it some much needed pacing.
For me Mindhunter is a 7/10 at best. It is a good show, with some good character building, but I have one major problem with it. It had bad pacing. It needed better editing. There was a lot of wasted time due to scenes that lead nowhere, that caused it to lose the flow of the main plot. I felt that the show could have been edited down by at least 3 episodes without losing anything at all and that would have gained it some much needed pacing.
We watched the first episode and found it pretty lacking. It looked great, but the acting was quite poor and the story/dialogue was not really done all that well. Not really excited to keep watching based on that first episode.
KT
First episode is fairly weak but it gets better during the 2nd when you get your first interview with Ed Kemper.
We watched the first episode and found it pretty lacking. It looked great, but the acting was quite poor and the story/dialogue was not really done all that well. Not really excited to keep watching based on that first episode.
KT
Yeah I was hoping for Zodiac, but it definitely did not meet those expectations. You're right, not much else grabbing me these days so we may as well stick with this.I just finished Mindhunter last night. I liked it. It's not as good as a Fincher film but it seems like there are no great TV shows on right now so it was good enough to keep me interested. The first episode was the weakest for sure.
"We filmed with live actors on green screen, we composited into the background of those shots, Van Gogh paintings. We cut it together like a live-action film but then we projected each frame individually onto canvas," explained producer Ivan Mactaggart.
Still from "Loving Vincent"
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A team of 120 artists recruited from all over the world turned those projections into oil paintings.
"You're not just filling in, or over-painting a scene as you see it. You're actually having to interpret a moving scene in the style of an artist who died 126 years ago," McTaggart said.
To be clear, every single frame – all 64,000 of them – is painted by hand. The equivalent of 64,000 canvases.
Hmm, sounds and looks cool. I'll have to check that out. Where did you watch it Perk?Loving Vincent -- 10/10: Transcendent! The entire film is a work of art, of heart-stopping beauty, an entirely fitting paean to one of the greatest painters of all time. Not only is this film a technological and artistic tour de force, but the whole enterprise is in service of an extremely well written and crafted script, brought to life by a first rate cast.
This trailer doesn't do it justice. My review most certainly doesn't do it justice. I've seen a bunch of films lately, some fairly decent, that I haven't even been moved to review here. This one I had to.
It's at my local, in-town theater, which, like a lot of older, stand alone, "faded glory" theaters got bought by a group of us and turned into an art/rep, member supported place. I've got a date to see it there (again!) this week, but I journeyed down to yet another of these type of places to see it with someone who just really had to go right then and there and begged me to come along.Hmm, sounds and looks cool. I'll have to check that out. Where did you watch it Perk?
KT
Shit yeah son. Despite some stupid/unbelievable parts, I liked it overall. I don't get too hung up on criticizing unbelievable things in shows and movies cause it's just mindless entertainment and you're gonna find a bunch of things anyway cause they're not documentaries. I'd end up hating every thing I watch if I did that. Anyway, I especially like Negan's dialog. LMAO, what a BA.Did anyone watch The Walking Dead?
Did anyone watch The Walking Dead?
Spiderman Homecoming: 3/10 - I fell asleep because I had been fishing/drinking all day but I also fell asleep because it was boring as shit with an annoying main character. I also didn't like how it just started out with him as Spiderman, they didn't even give us a third origin story of Spiderman. What I do remember of the movie reminded me of a video game and it looked like one too since it was just a lot of CGI the entire movie. I ended up returning it without even considering watching it again when I could stay awake for it. My wife seemed to somewhat enjoy it though.
The sets are amazing, and while you can notice occasionally when there is no breath condensation, when watching the film it draws you in and looks stunningly real.This is the first of John Carpenter's films which he did not score himself. The film's original choice of composer was Jerry Goldsmith, but he passed and Ennio Morricone composed a very low-key Carpenter-like score filled with brooding, menacing bass chords.
Nice to hear, I wanted to see the movie and it looks like it has gotten quite good reviews.Only the Brave 8/10.
Beautifully shot. Even though you know it's coming, the film builds great suspense. Felt a bit like the film tried to accomplish too much, even though it was 2+ hours long. By the end of the film, you feel the pain of the families - very striking and stark. Not a fun flick by any means, might have rated higher except for the sadness and empty feeling after leaving the theater.