Posted on 07/23/2017 4:56:36 AM PDT by Chickensoup
This is a slow Sunday morning.
I am not much of a vid watcher. And for over 25 years we didn't have a TV. Back a few years ago I found a TV, with Freeper input and have Netflix. To me the TV is a great going to the theater experience.
I have been watching different things on the TV for occasional entertainment for the past couple of years, Netflix both streaming and DVD.
I have discovered that most shows that I have watched, both the compelling ones that I have enjoyed like Longmire, Bluebloods, and even Father Brown have significant violence and show gross dead bodies.
I understand that the public is used to this and that over the past couple of decades, people have watched shows about dead and decaying bodies.
I am amazed at this turn of events. Almost every show and film I find has some sort of murder, often by some bizarre sicko. Death-porn packaged into otherwise nice storylines.
I enjoy shows like Last Man Standing, Mad Men, 30 Below, films like Primer, Silver Linings Playbook. I am looking for recommendations that are perhaps more about a story, a situation, a relational issue that is compelling.
I have started renting DVDs through Netflix and am going through their old films, where face it, film-makers did not use sensationalism in the place of fine script writing and directing. So I have some of the old films covered.
I think of that scene in The Searchers where John Wayne returns from finding the body of a girl whose kidnappers he was tracking, and he said when asked what happened, with full painful angry emotion in his voice: What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? That one sentence, acted in such a profound way, gave the viewer everything he needed to know about this poor child and her death and how the protagonists were going to proceed.
So if you can recommend a film or series that you enjoyed that is interesting and doesn't make its centerpiece death and destruction, I would love to hear about it.
I am not much of a vid watcher. And for over 25 years we didn't have a TV. Back a few years ago I found a TV, with Freeper input and have Netflix. To me the TV is a great going to the theater experience.
I have been watching different things on the TV for occasional entertainment for the past couple of years, Netflix both streaming and DVD.
I have discovered that most shows that I have watched, both the compelling ones that I have enjoyed like Longmire, Bluebloods, and even Father Brown have significant violence and show gross dead bodies.
I understand that the public is used to this and that over the past couple of decades, people have watched shows about dead and decaying bodies.
I am amazed at this turn of events. Almost every show I find has some sort of murder, often by some bizarre sicko. Death-porn packaged into otherwise nice storylines.
I enjoy shows like Last Man Standing, 30 Below, films like Primer, Silver Linings Playbook. I am looking for recommendations that are perhaps more about a story, a situation, a relational issue that is compelling.
I have started renting DVDs through Netflix and am going through their old films, where face it, film-makers did not use sensationalism in the place of fine script writing and directing.
I think of that scene in The Searchers where John Wayne returns from finding the body of a girl whose kidnappers he was tracking, and he said when asked what happened, with full painful angry emotion in his voice: What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? That one sentence, acted in such a profound way, gave the viewer everything he needed to know about this poor child and her death and how the protagonists were going to proceed.
So if you can recommend a film or series that you enjoyed that is interesting and doesn't make its centerpiece death and destruction, I would love to hear about it.
Thank you.
Inception
— Joe vs. The Volcano.
— Pawn Shop Chronicles
— John Dies at the End
— The Butterfly Effect
— Glengarry Glen Ross
— Slamdance
— The Inner Circle
— Oleanna
Thank you!
Downton Abbey
If you see Deutschland 83 come up (in German, but it’ll have the English sub-titles)...it’s an 8-hour mini-series of the cold war period in Germany....early 1980s. Really carves out a great story with fiction and fact tied in.
YESS!! Even my very blue collar, alpha male husband got hooked!
I just downloaded “Three Days of the Condor”. Looking forward to watching it again with my son.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Mr. Nobody
Everything is Illuminated
These are both amazing films.
The Father Brown books are infinitely better than any of the movies or shows. In fact, and read of Chesterton is highly recommended. Same with the Sydney Chambers or Grantchester Towers. I read the first two books, which I found quite good. The TV series infuses homosexuality and infidelity into every episode.
I liked the Kon Tiki movie. Sort of violence with their encounters with weather, aquatic life, and each other but nothing I found offensive. Ron Howard’s Nixon was good, no violence. In fact, Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon are a couple of my favorites if you don’t find Hanks offensive. We recently watched Akela and the Bee and found it enjoyable.
The Family Man
Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni
Kolya
Cinema Paradiso
Try the Thin Man movies with William Powell and Myrna Loy. Those are great!
Round Midnight
I really need to watch those. I’ve read all his books.
Gattaca (1997)
The Verdict (1982)
The Ipcress File (1965)
The High and the Mighty (1954).
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