Netflix/Prime/Hulu/BritBox Binge Watching: Coronavirus Edition

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emason

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The Knightly Pride and Prejudice is just godawful in my opinion. I love the book and this movie version is not faithful to it in several ways. Why bother adapting something if it is obvious that you don’t like it and feel the need to change so much? My #1 mantra for adaptations: Trust Your Source Material!
 

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I found 1995 Persuasion fine but stilted, but it’s been awhile since I have seen it.

The trailer for Persuasion looks fantastic to me, even though I have not given Bridgerton a glance. I tried giving the new Emma a chance but it looks annoying to me.

The backlash reminds me of the Keira Knightly Pride and Prejudice, which I think is the best period piece film of the 2000s.

I liked the new Emma. It didn't bug me. And I LOVED Keira Knighly's Pride and Prejudice. I watch that movie all the time. It's still very true to Austen, IMO.

This trailer, totally not at all comparable to either of those two adaptations. My goodness. I repeat myself: it's awful!
 

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The Knightly version is gorgeous and beautiful. I can't think of a better Mary. And we have seen a good number of P&P skating programs but none of the teams ever recreate the iconic dance sequence between Elizabeth and Darcy!
 

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The Knightly version is gorgeous and beautiful. I can't think of a better Mary. And we have seen a good number of P&P skating programs but none of the teams ever recreate the iconic dance sequence between Elizabeth and Darcy!
I remember an interview with Donald Sutherland years after filming and he said how much he loved each of his daughters in that film and I think it shows. I also like that Knightley's clothing was plain much of the time---that brown shift sticks out in my mind---I think NOT dressing someone up only enhances their natural beauty.
 

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I binge-watched "You" on Netflix the last two weeks. Good fun if you like dark humor about serial killers!
 

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Has there ever been any talk of legal reform to identify these type of tactics by an organization against one person? I would think this is one area that needs desperate reform to allow people to leave cults without this much harassment.
There is anti-SLAPP suit legislation. It's supposed to protect you from frivolous lawsuits.
 

emason

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I liked the new Emma. It didn't bug me. And I LOVED Keira Knighly's Pride and Prejudice. I watch that movie all the time. It's still very true to Austen, IMO.
1) The Bennets are landed gentry, NOT some sort of farm family with a barnyard outside their door. 2) Blethyn and Sutherland leering at each other at movie’s end as if the Bennet parents are going to have sex that night. This is so not the Bennets of the book. 3) Darcy portrayed as some sort of Heathcliff or brooding Byronic character when what Austen wrote was light social comedy of manners.

I could go on but I think I’ve made my point. This movie is not faithful to Austen.
 

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The Knightly Pride and Prejudice is just godawful in my opinion. I love the book and this movie version is not faithful to it in several ways. Why bother adapting something if it is obvious that you don’t like it and feel the need to change so much? My #1 mantra for adaptations: Trust Your Source Material!
I don't hate it, but it's definitely not a favourite of mine either. Doesn't help that I find Keira Knightley annoying in pretty much everything, and all the giggling at the start of the film drove me bonkers.

You can get away with changing a few things for dramatic licence and still remain pretty faithful to the source - see Emma Thompson's Sense & Sensibility.
 

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When Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility starring and adapted by Emma Thompson was released to critical acclaim and awards, it received a slew of Oscar nominations (including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supp. Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, etc. although, its director Ang Lee was snubbed....well, he would later on win two Best Director prizes and his film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would be nominated for 10 Oscars and win 4 where he was most likely runner-up for Director that year). Before the Oscar ceremonies, apparently some members of the Jane Austen Society or whatever they were called were threatening to host a protest outside the red carpet for what they felt were infractions against the source material. Thompson just laughed it off and said she'd love to see them do that and in period costumes.

I understand people's love of the source material and they hate to see adaptations that steer away from it (and probably miss the point). But it's just one out of many adaptations and will probably come and go without much notice...except the new Persuasion trailer has garnered so much attention and response that now even I'm curious about watching it.
 

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What the hell did I just watch? This is everything I hate about adaptations of classics which try and make the heroes 'relatable' to modern audiences as if young folk are incapable of understanding that things were different in 'the olden days'. At least I know not to watch it when it gets released.
I laughed when she talked about she and the captain as "friends" now. What the hell...if you are going to update to this century just make them "friends with benefits."
 

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Thompson just laughed it off and said she'd love to see them do that and in period costumes.
That would be the best.

I wonder if this new adaptation of Persuasion was in the works before Bridgerton came out? It probably was. So this "color-blind" treatment is going to seem derivative when it probably wasn't.
 

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I went down the Mormon rabbit hole. Watched Under the Banner of Heaven, and then had to watch Be Sweet, Pray, and Obey, which is a documentary series about the capture and conviction of Warren Jeffs. The last episode so creepy and ICK. IIIICCCKKKK. Honestly if it didn't happen, I wouldn't believe it as a work of fiction.

I was so disturbed, I re-watched select episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer because I actually needed to watch a little blonde girl kick ass and take names. and not be a victim.
 

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Have been binge watching “FBI Files” on YouTube. It’s an old series available free of charge and I am loving it! The series uses a mixture of real life footage and reenactment to tell stories of the FBI’s most famous take downs.
 

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Finally started Strange New Worlds. Best new Star Trek series since The Orville. :lol:
I have this on my list but haven’t started it yet.

I’m currently binging The Resident on Hulu. I‘d started watching it in maybe the 3rd season or so, and so I started at the beginning. Holy cow, most of the main characters who are still in it have completely changed. I am wondering if someone wakes up from a dream and they’re all back to what’s normal for me! :lol: I watch one a night so it will take me awhile to find out.
 

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:rofl: :inavoid:

Umbrella Academy, Season 3, Episode 1

I'll just say that Footloose is my favorite scene they have ever done and I will love them forever.


Although I have to wonder why Allison still thinks she has a child. Their entire lives changed because they were never adopted. How would she have met her husband and had her child?
 
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I just watched “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” on Prime.

Not even sure how to feel about it.

It stars Emma Thompson and is supposed to be groundbreaking in its portrayal of a widowed woman’s pursuit of sexual pleasure which has escaped her during her decades long marriage.

And it is but……it takes a lot of twists and turns and seems more like a play on a stage rather than a movie and turns into something you don’t think it’s going to be.

It’s also extremely dialogue driven with only three characters (two main, one almost incidental) in the movie.

I’m not even sure what to think but I can’t stop thinking about it. :lol:

I can’t decide if it’s excellent or a dud.

The acting is really good though especially the guy who plays Leo Grande.
 

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Before the Oscar ceremonies, apparently some members of the Jane Austen Society or whatever they were called were threatening to host a protest outside the red carpet for what they felt were infractions against the source material. Thompson just laughed it off and said she'd love to see them do that and in period costumes.
The Sherlock Holmes society I belong to actually did picket a cinema in period costume when the Holmes parody 'Without A Clue' came out. But it was done as a joke and they went to see the film afterwards (and thoroughly enjoyed it).
 

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The Sherlock Holmes society I belong to actually did picket a cinema in period costume when the Holmes parody 'Without A Clue' came out. But it was done as a joke and they went to see the film afterwards (and thoroughly enjoyed it).
That's something I can totally get behind.
 

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Last episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi aired yesterday, and I found the entire series to be quite excellent. The production value were phenominal. I hope they do more with this series.
 

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I binged and loved “Lodge 49” on Hulu. This is an unusual, quirky series with so much warmth about the value of good friends and the unexpected adventures life can offer. It only ran two seasons but it was able to come to a satisfying conclusion while leaving me wanting more. Really an unexpected pleasure...
 

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Just watched the Netflix documentary miniseries “Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey” that came out this month. I highly recommend it if you are interested in how fundamental religions and cult work.

However - just a warning - I figured beforehand that the FLDS and Rulon & Warren story was disturbing. This docuseries discussed things that were beyond what I thought that they would. 😔
 
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Just watched the Netflix documentary miniseries “Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey” that came out this month. I highly recommend it if you are interested in how fundamental religions and cult work.

However - just a warning - I figured beforehand that the FLDS and Rulon & Warren story was disturbing. This docuseries discussed things that were beyond what I thought that they would. 😔
I'd read Carolyn Jessop's books and so had some knowledge of that group, and in general I find cults and culty things fascinating so consume a lot of media about cults, but that documentary had a lot of horrifying things I was unaware of. My husband tried to watch with me, but he ended up angrily pacing and clenching his fists, so I sent him out of the room.
 

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I just saw that Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey came up on my Netflix

I’ll probably watch it once I finish JLo’s Halftime. :lol:
 

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I just finished Keep Sweet myself. It felt incomplete to me. I'm sure there's so much more to the story.
I wanted to know more about how some of them left FLDS. The woman with 6 kids who smoked and had tattoos. How did she end up leaving? What happened to Rebecca's dad once he was essentially shunned? They don't seem to be part of FLDS anymore. The men who were kicked out: what happened to them? It's not just about Jeffs. Were any of the husband's of these underage girls prosecuted?

I want to know the backstory of the people they interviewed. That was left blank.
 

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I was watching a blast from the past: I Love You to Death. I completely forgot that Keanu Reeves and William Hurt had small parts in it. Tracey Ullman, Kevin Kline, Joan Plowright and River Phoenix are just a lot of fun to watch. This was loosely based on a real story of a woman who made 4 attempts to kill her husband after she discovered he was cheating on her.
 
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