I just discovered a short series, Tony Robinson’s History of England, starring you guessed it – Baldric from Blackadder.
The first installment was pretty interesting, with Tony talking to historians about how the common people of England shaped history during the Tudor period.
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I’ve been watching some of those too. I’ve not seen “Marnie” yet but “Arrietty” was good, and I did not see the end coming!
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My daughters’ favourite is the cat returns. It’s generally considered a minor one in the canon but if you have a cat in the house it’s a winner. They also liked Howls moving castle and Kiki’s delivery service.
They didn’t particularly like Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away - second too frightening and the first just too gross and confusing.
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Oh yeah, i really liked arrietty as well. I find a lot of ghibli films don’t give you a pat ending, they treat the audience with a bit more respect and don’t always give you a disneyfied ending where everything is wrapped up with a neat bow. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but sometimes nothing truly ends it just fades away.
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My 12 Yr old wants to watch Stranger Things but I honestly think she’ll be too scared of it, would this work? She likes Buffy.
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Howl is probably my favourite and I’m quite fond of Spirited Away, you’re right about The Cat Returns, that’s a low-key winner.
@politeruin I like that they don’t all have happy endings but that one threw me totally. It definitely makes a change from obvious Disney endings.
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McMillions HBO
Tiger King Netflix
The Office Netflix
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Oh yeah, McMillions is almost as crazy as Tiger King!
ETA: And the reveal of how it was possible was jaw-dropping. Talk about luck.
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I’ve not seen the dubbed version but i just saw this on the wiki article…
The Disney international dubbed version contains a final monologue, where Shō states that he never saw Arrietty again and returned to the home a year later, indicating that the operation had been successful. He is happy to hear rumors of objects disappearing in his neighbors’ homes.
Which is just… it really does not need that! Yet the studio obviously felt that audiences couldn’t cope with the ending as it was.
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Bizarre tangent - the Miami Vice movie starts mid-way through a plot and finishes in the same way to denote that the film is just one story in a whole arc of lives continuing. Not every story needs to be that 3 act resolution.
Arriety is similar in that, we get to see a few days not a complete life.
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That’s what i really liked about dredd actually, that it was just another day on the job. I just find this notion of closure a bit odd really.
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That is another good movie!
I was hooked from the opening and remember counting off all of Dredd’s special ammo thinking they did a good job.
“Incendiary.”
Oh, I missed one…
Then he goes back to work at the end!
Continuation or ambiguity is great in a movie, I agree.
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The first episode didn’t have any monsters or horror, but the plot was pretty unsettling, much more like one of the ‘happier” Black Mirror episodes than say, Stranger Things or Twilight Zone. The second one was darker, but again, no jump scares or physical horror - just unsettling.
While the cast is roughly the same across the first two episodes, they were stand-alone episodes so you can safely watch the first and walk away satisfied with an almost-conclusive end.
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I worry for Kim, but not because of Lalo.
Due to Saul’s first appearance in BrBa, we know that Lalo disappears never to be 2seen or heard from again… but Saul doesn’t know that during his second encounter with Walt & Jesse. He gets hijacked and automatically assumes it’s some kind of retaliation, immediately giving up Nacho’s name… Ignacio, whom we also never hear of ever again, for the rest of the series.
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Better Call Saul S05E09
Jesus christ, was that tense.
BCS has had fewer of these moments than BrBa did but there was a moment in this (that phone call and the knock at the door) when i started thinking this was going to be saul’s version of the ozymandias episode. Kim was awesome but i did genuinely fear for her talking like that to lalo.
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I’m watching Killing Eve season 3, and
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I used to think Kim would become an addict. Now I think she’s going to die. And Jimmy will be hollow, no amount of money able to stem the fact his grifting led to the death of his love, and his community (fellow lawyers) will all think he’s a joke so come BB time he’s fully Saul
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Kingdom. Veep. The Great British Baking Show. Tiger King, of course.
I really like Happy
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I still have trouble reconciling the saul we see in BrBa and the jimmy/saul we see in this show apart from when he’s been doing his saul showman act for others, that’s the saul we’ve seen before but we never really got to see who saul was in BrBa when he was off the clock. The small sliver of hope i have for kim not getting horribly murdered is the flash forward we see in quite a ride, that attorney has to be kim!
