Movie & TV Show Recommendations

⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
I've been trying to find what I can only describe as Assassin's Creed movies. History pieces, big historical events optional, set in the new world, France, Italy, England etc. Shit even Pride & Prejudice scratched the itch. I've watched The Last Duel and all those mainstream ones.

I've lined up Les Miserables and Master & Commander. Anything else of this sort? Napoleon's setting was great, as was the 2024 french Monte Christo. Even Pride & Prejudice was aight, else I'm at a loss.
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I have a soft spot for the "slop" period pieces like Borgias and The Tudors. They're not historically accurate by any means and are sensationalist but they're clearly working with a budget and are fun watches IMO.

I just finished Anzac Girls, a 6 part mini-series about Australian and New Zealand nurses in WWI. I really love period pieces about nurses and doctors, especially ones in WWI and WWII. Another Australian show I came across is The Doctor Blake Mysteries, post WWII doctor comes home and helps with murders. It's a fun period case fic show for me. Another commentor recommended Call the Midwife and I do really like that show, it lays it on a bit thick with the "think of the poor nigs!" at times but is otherwise earnest and showcases a lot of interesting history especially in regards to medicine.

The Last Kingdom is also good. The main character's story line gets a little repetitive in some ways (you'll understand if you watch) but doesn't diminish from overall enjoyment. I would say it's sort of in the vein of Vikings in terms of style (the first OG one not whatever the other thing is). So it has its inaccuracies and oddities but still a good watch.
 
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Paper Machete said:
I just finished Anzac Girls, a 6 part mini-series about Australian and New Zealand nurses in WWI. I really love period pieces about nurses and doctors, especially ones in WWI and WWII. Another Australian show I came across is The Doctor Blake Mysteries, post WWII doctor comes home and helps with murders. It's a fun period case fic show for me. Another commentor recommended Call the Midwife and I do really like that show, it lays it on a bit thick with the "think of the poor nigs!" at times but is otherwise earnest and showcases a lot of interesting history especially in regards to medicine.
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I'd love a 'background duties' show of Masters of the Air quality. Not just a hospital "oh we got in this guy who blew a leg off", but an actual 70/30 split between engineers or plane repairmen or anything running the war machine, AND the results of their work in brief. Imagine the hype of repairing bombers and then hearing on radio that they just bombed Berlin and such.

I watched Vikings as it aired and the WOO NORSEMEN in my blood enjoyed it, but then it just became political crap where shit like Ass Creed Valhalla is a bit more "vikings are an overruling force that puts puppets on the thrones" etc, which is cool. I tried watching Last kingdom a few times but it never really clicked, even though it's the superior show and iirc a joined effort between nordic countries with B-list actors from each of them. Guess I can try again, but I do love napoleon army type shit too. Rich army folk on ships. Seeing the "usual villain" forces like rome or england. Was fun seeing that one cancelled roman show where they fight the celtics appearing from the trees like madmen.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
I watched Vikings as it aired and the WOO NORSEMEN in my blood enjoyed it, but then it just became political crap where shit like Ass Creed Valhalla is a bit more "vikings are an overruling force that puts puppets on the thrones" etc, which is cool
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Did you watch Norsemen? That was brilliantly done.

 
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Commander X said:
Recommending an independent action film that surprised me, Life After Fighting , written, directed and choregraphed by Australian martial artist Bren Foster. He plays a former professional MMA champion who had to retire because he racked up too many injuries and the doctors told him he should get out of the game. Now he's established himself in an community, known as the local martial arts instructor who teaches taekwondo, Brazilian jiujitsu and other arts to people of all ages. However, some complications crop up. A current MMA champ is trying to call him out of retirement, publicly accusing him of having quit because he's a coward. He tentatively starts a relationship with Samantha, the mother of one of his younger students, who takes lessons herself. Her ex-husband, who has hired goons on his payroll, makes his presence known as even though they divorced years before he still won't let go. Then two of his younger female students disappear, one of them the daughter of his business partner/cousin. They aren't the only ones, a trafficking ring is snapping girls up off of the street for the international market...but after some weeks, Samantha discovers where they are and the resulting rescue leads up to the last 40 or minutes, as the traffickers lay seige to the martial arts studio.

The ingredients could have been a recipe for an embarrassing to watch vanity production, it would not have been the first starring a martial artist wearing different hats, but unlike those, Life After Fighting is actually competent, well made, and looks like a movie instead of some zero-production values slop you can find scrapping the depths of Tubi and such.

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Just watched this. The production value was good, action choreography entertaining, but
needed better plot writing, as that dumb bitch Samantha fucked everything sideways. Couldn't just leave Victors and get the police, had to hang around and chat up the girls. She had to answer the phone. Victor chops off his own kid's finger to demonstrate sadism and establish leverage, but folds to all Alex's demands for terms of engagement. Then eight ex-military decide they cant use guns because apparently theyre too stupid to not shoot little girls on accident. Victor has to pull evil movie villain trope of "I want him alive!" And they have the courtesy to take him in almost entirely 1-on-1 confrontations (dude even keeps picking a lock while his buddy is getting his ass kicked right behind him). Then Beardo McGee hops up after getting KO'd twice just pops up and has the luck to catch Alex during the 15 seconds he's ever winded through the whole movie. And of course the super-ninja bad guy had to hang back in the truck during all this so he could saunter in for the climax fight. Then luckily for Alex the ex-military guy can't land a decent center mass shot from 20 feet away.

And just to backtrack, of course the guy running a kidnapping/trafficking operation thought it would be a great idea to start a bunch of shit and send in goons to fuck around over some petty ex wife shit. Thankfully for him Alex and Aussie police are apparently too retarded to consider that they might be worth looking into when the little girls get grabbed.
The fight scenes were pretty good, though and it was nice to see Alex finally start killing fools after I was worried he was just gonna Batman that shit and knock everyone out, though he did kinda go 0 to 100 with dragging necks over glass and all that, satisfying as it was.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
Cunk on Earth: A continuation of Cunk on Britain,
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Started watching this at the recommendation of a relative and it had me in complete stiches. By the end of the first episode I realized that its basically live action internet historian, the comedy coming from wild extrapolations and absurd conclusions from a pretend expert trying his hardest to find the stupidest thing to say at any given moment.

10/10
 
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Im a big fan of season 1 of da vinci's demons. Basically reimagines Leonardo da vinci's as a Sherlock Holmes style inventive badass while real life shit is happening in the background.

Disk sadly scratched after I got to season 2 so I don't know if that and season 3 are good. Otherwise is a must watch.
 
I recently watched the 2003 TV version of A Wrinkle in Time. Disney practically buried this version when the egregious Oprah version came out. The 2003 version, made in Canada, is a pretty solid work, and though it has some dodgy CG here and there, it still looks pretty good and sticks close to the book for the most part.. It's hard to find, but the Internet Archive has a copy.
 
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Can someone help me identify the source of this clip? 🙂

 
I just got done watching 65. It's a solid creature feature and I enjoyed seeing Adam Driver blasting dinos with his rifle.
Nice to see humans end up as something OTHER than a meal for T-Rex.

Makes me wish we could get a good Turok movie though. Adam Beach can't be THAT busy nowadays can he? (He may be too old though.)
 
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