What are you watching & why? (splain)

Blues said:
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................ this has always been accurate in my favor lol

(In my youth)
 
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Our County Fairgrounds have weekly rodeo throughout the summer, but this year we are going to be hosting our first Pro Rodeo event, and I can't freakin' wait. We are meeting with their planners next week to review their safety/emergency plan for the event. If you've never seen Pro-level rodeo in person, I guarantee you will have a whole new respect for what they do.

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The past couple of weeks I've been watching "The Man in the High Castle". It's set in the early 60's & it's an alternate reality where America lost WWII. Japan took the west coast & Germany took the east coast with a Neutral (Lawless) zone in the middle. It really interesting & well cast, written & acted. There are four seasons. I'm on S3E2. It's on Netflix & I highly recommend it. It's pretty horrifying whether you're an American on the west coast or the east. The Japanese treat Americans as subhumans & the Nazi's treat anyone that isn't them pretty much the same. I'd take my chances in the neutral zone, personally.
 
JTR357 said:
The past couple of weeks I've been watching "The Man in the High Castle". It's set in the early 60's & it's an alternate reality where America lost WWII. Japan took the west coast & Germany took the east coast with a Neutral (Lawless) zone in the middle. It really interesting & well cast, written & acted. There are four seasons. I'm on S3E2. It's on Netflix & I highly recommend it. It's pretty horrifying whether you're an American on the west coast or the east. The Japanese treat Americans as subhumans & the Nazi's treat anyone that isn't them pretty much the same. I'd take my chances in the neutral zone, personally.
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Started watching that too, but still in season 1.
 
Hammer67 said:
Living in the area, I find the whole ‘Yellowstone’ franchise unbearable to sit through. Way too much of a silly soap opera, and the historical spin-offs were full of blatant inaccuracies.
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I think I've heard others make the comparison that Yellowstone is just a cowboy version of Downton Abbey and I can't disagree. I quit watching after whichever season it was where a 2nd or 3rd group of eastern investors hired hitmen from the mob with New England accents(?) to kill the Duttons and it didn't work.

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Agreed. And yet I read frequent praise for Sheridan’s “depth of historical research.” SMH…
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This makes me worried because I heard he bought the film rights to Empire of the Summer Moon, which is an epic saga that deserves the absolute highest effort and attention to accuracy.
 
JTR357 said:
I heard the book is really good.
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It is absolutely fantastic. If you like it, you might also enjoy:
- Nine Years with the Indians by Herman Lehman (a boy captive of the Apaches, then the Comanches, and a personal friend of Quanah Parker);
- Captured by Scott Zesh (descendant of another captive of the Comanches);
- The Boy Captives by Clinton Smith (another captive of the Comanches, later becoming a Texas Ranger and cowboy); and
- The Son by Philip Meyer (historical fictional revolving around a patriarch who was at one time captured by Comanches).
 
Watched Wuthering Heights, the 2026 version which is now streaming on HBOMax. I liked it enough, well, Margot Robbie, but I don't see what all the hubbub negativity is about! Didn't read the book and haven't seen the handful of its iterations on the silver screen, although the original one in 1939 with Lawrence Oliver and Merle Oberon is supposed to be the best out of them all. Maybe I can find it somewhere to watch for free and see what is twisting the folks' knickers! But did I mention Margot Robbie?!
 
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Casinostocks said:
Watched Wuthering Heights, the 2026 version which is now streaming on HBOMax. I liked it enough, well, Margot Robbie, but I don't see what all the hubbub negativity is about! Didn't read the book and haven't seen the handful of its iterations on the silver screen, although the original one in 1939 with Lawrence Oliver and Merle Oberon is supposed to be the best out of them all. Maybe I can find it somewhere to watch for free and see what is twisting the folks' knickers! But did I mention Margot Robbie?!
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The book is pretty dark - 'twas a one-time read for me quite a ways back. I am not aware of the criticism for the film but I suspect there may have been a group of viewers who thought it would be like Pride & Prejudice or something akin. It is most certainly not that, and folks may have been a little shocked if the movie followed the book any.
 
Pàdruig said:
The book is pretty dark - 'twas a one-time read for me quite a ways back. I am not aware of the criticism for the film but I suspect there may have been a group of viewers who thought it would be like Pride & Prejudice or something akin. It is most certainly not that, and folks may have been a little shocked if the movie followed the book any.
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Oh yes the source material is very dark, I went into it with some morsel background info but the complainers seem to be upset with deviation from the book and not being completely faithful to it (I dunno, I didn’t read the book but glad that I watched the movie). So I do understand those purists who got disappointed but then there are those DEI and woke complainers. Apparently some seem to be unhappy that the access who plays the supporting role (Nelly?) is Asian (I’m sure that the ethnicity of the character was perhaps while back in 1847 or whenever the book was written). I personally think that actress played the role very well. The young man, Jacob Elordi also had a powerful performance as Heathcliff.
 
Pàdruig said:
The book is pretty dark - 'twas a one-time read for me quite a ways back. I am not aware of the criticism for the film but I suspect there may have been a group of viewers who thought it would be like Pride & Prejudice or something akin. It is most certainly not that, and folks may have been a little shocked if the movie followed the book any.
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Casinostocks said:
Watched Wuthering Heights, the 2026 version which is now streaming on HBOMax. I liked it enough, well, Margot Robbie, but I don't see what all the hubbub negativity is about! Didn't read the book and haven't seen the handful of its iterations on the silver screen, although the original one in 1939 with Lawrence Oliver and Merle Oberon is supposed to be the best out of them all. Maybe I can find it somewhere to watch for free and see what is twisting the folks' knickers! But did I mention Margot Robbie?!
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Indeed, the book is extraordinarily dark and dense: it's like the author tried to pack as much negative human emotion possible into one book. It is an English teacher's best friend because they can find foreshadowing and imagery hiding behind every phrase in the book. I hated it when I had to read it and I haven't seen a film adaptation that has changed my mind. The newest movie left out a few of the more questionable parts of the book, I presume in an attempt to make it more palatable. It looks like they failed.

In my mind, the only good thing to come out of the book is some creative choreography by Kate Bush in the 80's.
 
As it happens, HBOMax also has the original 1939 movie Wuthering Heights (with Laurence Oliver, David Niven and Merle Oberon) in their catalog, so I went ahead and watched that adaptation last night. If this original version is closer to the essence of the book, then I "tend to" understand why so many critics, whether professional or laymen, were sour on the 2026 adaptation. However, I came out of it even liking the 2026 adaptation much better! Understandably it is quite unfair to compare a visually drab looking 1939 B&W movie in the lowest resolution to a modern 2026 movie with all the trappings of new tech, visuals, sounds, costumes, etc. But! All that stuff aside, I just found the 2026 version much, much darker than the original!

I am sure that the book back in 1847 during the Victorian era must have been quite shocking to that generation delving into the depth of humans' emotional depravities and the 1939 movie also quite shocking to the cinema goers of that WWII era generation. However, this new adaptation is for now and for this generation. There are definite contrasts between the two storylines which can not be denied but that is why we call it an adaptation! At least to may tastes, this version of the story as told by this female director played out better in my mind despite allegedly deviating much from the original source material.

Lastly, Magot Robbie = Margo Barbie 😍
 
JTR357 said:
I just noticed AMC+ picked up the first two seasons of Tales from the Crypt & I've been spending the day taking a trip down memory lane. I was 14 when this series came out in 1983. I wish they had all the seasons. They had so many big actors in them.
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The ads I saw said they will have all the seasons, releasing them every Friday.
 
I’ve continued my obsession with detective shows with the Italian series Inspector Montalbano. It’s brilliantly done, set in Sicily, and loaded with gorgeous women and picturesque countryside. Highly recommended if you can deal with subtitles. Can get it on Prime with a trial to MhZ for a free week if you want to give it a try. It’s almost as good as a trip to Italy.
 
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