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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 25, 2023 16:08:54 GMT -5
I watched Princess of Mars on Tubi earlier this week. That's the film The Asylum produced to ride on the coat-tails of the marketing campaign of the John Carter movie that Disney produced a few years ago, as per the production house's business plan. They make cheap knock-off of big Hollywood productions, with titles like Transmorphers, Cretaceous Park or Almighty Thor. Straight to video (now streaming) stuff. (...) Sounds like you're talking about the one starring Traci Lords, which was made in 2009, so about three years before Disney's John Carter. I watched it on TV about a year or two after its release (it was shoved into one of those after midnight slots as a schedule filler). Otherwise, your review pretty much sums up my own thoughts on it. I'll just add that I think the bulk of the outdoor Barsoom scenes were shot at the renowned Vasquez Rocks, which is why everything looked so familiar.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 25, 2023 17:24:46 GMT -5
I watched Princess of Mars on Tubi earlier this week. That's the film The Asylum produced to ride on the coat-tails of the marketing campaign of the John Carter movie that Disney produced a few years ago, as per the production house's business plan. They make cheap knock-off of big Hollywood productions, with titles like Transmorphers, Cretaceous Park or Almighty Thor. Straight to video (now streaming) stuff. (...) Sounds like your talking about the one starring Traci Lords, which was made in 2009, so about three years before Disney's John Carter. I watched it on TV about a year or two after its release (it was shoved into one of those after midnight slots as a schedule filler). Otherwise, your review pretty much sums up my own thoughts on it. I'll just add that I think the bulk of the outdoor Barsoom scenes were shot at the renowned Vasquez Rocks, which is why everything looked so familiar.
That's the one. I just read that it cost $300,000 to make, with only $70,000 going to principal photography (the bulk of the rest being eaten up by the CGI). That's crazy cheap! You're right about Vasquez rocks too; it's not quite at the end of the parking lot, but is a 34 minute drive from Burbank, if Google map is to be trusted. I must say, I'm quite impressed by how much was done with so little. The return on investment was much better here than for the Disney film!
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Post by majestic on Sept 2, 2023 20:38:08 GMT -5
Just finished Jury Duty on Amazon FreeVee. It was a really neat concept that made it a quirky series. The guy that was featured was really unflappable and rolled with all the weird characters around him. The concept is they are filming a documentary about jury duty and everyone is am actor except for one person who isn't aware that it is all fake. James Marsden of X-Men fame appears as himself. If you like quirky strange humor you would like this show.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 24, 2023 2:23:17 GMT -5
How cow! I just realized last night that the entire fifth season of What We Do in the Shadows has been out since this past summer - damn! Got some TV watching to do; perfect for the Halloween season, though.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 26, 2023 12:14:48 GMT -5
Recently watched the second season of Good Omens. Another fun romp, which is just really about David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Episode two, with the torment of Job was just bloody hilarious and brilliantly skewering satire. Maybe not quite as good as Season One, but still very fun.
Almost done with the third and final season of Reservation Dogs. I really can't say enough about this show. I'm sorry to see it end, but it's at the choice of the creators not due to monetary issues. At turns funny and poignant. I love that they really are delving in to the generational issues of indigenous life this season.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 3, 2023 4:01:00 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone has been watching, but I finished the two seasons of Only Murders in the Building. The Hulu offering stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as true crime podcast fans who get involved in solving a murder (then another) in their Manhattan apartment building. Steve Martin is a freakin' national treasure and Martin Short is usually enjoyable. I honestly only knew Selena Gomez as a child star that I was vaguely aware of by cultural osmosis, but she's quite enjoyable as Mabel. It's honestly a super fun show that I recommend. It also usually has at least one pretty big name guest star per season, Sting in Season One, Tina Fey in Season Two and Paul Rudd appears to be on tap for Season Three. Just finished watching season one last night (it's being shown by Star - formerly Fox - Channel in my neighborhood); it took about two episodes for it to fully click with me, but after that I quite thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait to watch the further seasons. And yes, I agree about Gomez - I only knew that she was famous for reasons unknown to me, and was pleasantly surprised at what an outstanding actress she is.
Just a correction, Tina Fey also appeared occasionally in season one (I love her role as the full-of-herself superstar podcaster); in fact, an additionally entertaining aspect for me was seeing all of the various, pretty well-known actors who had larger or smaller supporting roles in the show, e.g. Nathan Lane, Roy Wood Jr., Jane Lynch...
Edited to add: for those who are more curious as to what it's all about, here's the season 1 trailer...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 19, 2024 9:43:12 GMT -5
Anyone else here watch Tartakovsky's animated series Primal? For those who may be unfamiliar, it's a fantasy series set in an imaginary past in which dinosaurs, pre-human mammal species, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens (which only becomes apparent at the end of the first season) coexist.
The main characters are a Neanderthal man, who doesn't have a name but is called 'Spear' in all of the descriptions, and a female Tyrannosaur, called 'Fang.' They form an initially uneasy alliance in the first episode after they both lose their families (Fang's hatchlings and Spear's mate and children) to the same marauding pack of Gigantosauri. The first season mainly follows Spear and Fang as they wander about their incredibly dangerous world trying to survive. There is absolutely no dialogue - besides growling, roaring and screaming. At the end of season 1, Spear and Fang encounter a woman (Homo sapien), who emerges from the water with a sort of wooden harness around her neck and manacles on her wrists. They eventually befriend each other but then the woman, named Mira (whose dialogue is in Arabic), is again abducted. That leads to the second season...
...in which all but one episode* are all tied together, as Spear and Fang first search for Mira, and are then reunited but still have to deal with a world of troubles, although now the main problems are caused not by horrifying predatory animals but rather other humans, who resemble Vikings, ancient Egyptians and others. The Spear character often reminded me of Conan, as he is preternaturally strong and basically unkillable, despite all of the abuse he endures, and this was really driven home in the second season, wherein the world in which they travel really resembles Howard's Hyborian Age. It's a pretty good series, all in all, with excellent animation - although be warned, it is extremely, brutally violent.
* That episode, my least favorite, is the only one in which English is spoken, as it's set in London in the 1890s and involves a bunch of wealthy, stuffy English dudes dealing with an escapee from an insane asylum who breaks into their mansion.
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Post by berkley on Mar 19, 2024 12:18:39 GMT -5
Primal, Only Murders, and Reservation Dags all sound good, I've added them to my list.
A newish one I've only just heard about but haven't yet tried is The Gone - reportedly about an Irish cop who goes to New Zealand on a murder investigation, or something like that.
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