Criticism and analysis of Games, TV, Movies, and other media. Streaming on Twitch occasionally and archived on my gaming channel: ru-vid.com/show-UCUwSQ3pDCG8hW49-wjmQR0g
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 began in 1993. Unlike the rest of Star Trek which was episodic, it was a serialized show. One of the many ways it broke the mold of Star Trek, and why it is so good.
Favorite episode is hard. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, The Unnatural, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, The Blessing Way, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, How The Ghosts Stole Christmas, Triangle, Dreamland, The Field Where I Died, X Cops, Improbable, Patience.
I don't think there was any obvious bad CGI. It was all done very well actually. Favourite eps are Leonard Betts, One Breath, Roadrunners....then: Musings of a CSM, Paperhearts, Humbug, the Field Where I Died, Via Negativa, EBE, Eve, Shapes, Tooms, Gender Bender, Kill Switch, Ascension, Sleepless, Drive, The Unnatural, ZeroSum, and Travellers...off the top of my head!😁
I am pretty biased towards Psych, bcs his German VA Robin Kahnmeyer also synchronizes Sherlock Holmes in Elementary 😊 (Also he voices Yamato in Digimon Season 1 & Joey Wheeler)
Psych is just like the Mentalist. Except that guy is a fake. If Shawn was a fake psychic, it would be eerily similar. Exactly the same. A virtual carbon copy
Psych actually had more in common with Chuck than it does with The mentalist cause both those show are kind of a comedy/ mystery hybrid but Chuck has ongoing storylines while psych doesn’t.
It’s probably because I read the book first, but I hated the movie. I feel like it needlessly ruined a good story. Then again, it might just be a Kubrick thing for me. I’ve never really enjoyed his movies. I feel like he sacrificed storytelling for the sake of visual appeal. I’m aware that I don’t share that opinion with most, oh well.
Reuploaded after I deleted it for some reason. I wish I had the comments back, because they were very interesting with the different views and interpretations of this that a lot of people had.
I've always felt that the film made it pretty clear from the start that maybe, just maybe, it was all in their heads. Ullman spelled it out near the beginning of it. That it was, maybe, a case cabin fever for the Grady family. I do believe there is a sort of ambiguity to it all. We never actually see proof of anything that happened to them. Physical proof at least. We don't really know for sure how Jack exited the freezer, just that he heard a voice speak to him and it apparently opened the door. That Wendy was, apparently, seeing spooky skeletons and blood. I mean, the end of the film shows the picture of Jack at the July ball, but there are a lot of people in the course of history that look at an awful lot like people in the present. I feel like there was at least more ambiguity in Kubrick's story. The fans of the book and King describe his story as a typical horror film with spooky ghosts, but we see a lot more of that in the novel version than we do in the film. You can count the number of alleged paranormal activities in the film on one hand. And most can be treated with some skepticism. Dick Hallorann was supposedly a shiner, and so was Danny, but a skeptic could potentially just write it off as either psychotic episodes, or just Danny and Dick having more intuitive minds than your average person. Even the finger talking could be written off as a coping mechanism. Meanwhile, in the book, the kid not only hears Tony, he sees him. Jack not only sees the ghosts and talks to them, he hears them through the radio. He experienced way more paranormal activity than movie Jack. I think there are more layers to this film than most are willing to admit, or just miss. It can be interpretted in many different ways.
When you change the 2 main protagonists for a long-running show, that usually happens. It's not that they were bad, it's that it wasn't what people wanted.
Both the book and the film are great. It's okay to like both. It's also okay for a film to depart from the source material. It doesn't matter what Stephen King thinks or whether he liked it or not. The only thing I don't like about the film is the casting of Jack Nicholson. That doesn't mean I don't like it. The film works as a whole. But Kubrick should've went with Robert De Niro, whom he was considering in the first place. Or Al Pacino.
been born after the show’s release, i’m usually never disappointed when i’m watching old shows and movies, and i’ve been seeing a lot of x-files content recently that i’ve been liking so i went to watch the show with high hopes and.. did not like it a single bit, weirdly. it just seems like a complete filler, the episodes never have a satisfying ending, the mysteries are not presented as such and have no hooks for a viewer to try and guess what’s going on (or the hooks are complete nonsense), artistically it might’ve been better in comparison back then, but feels lacking in a way other old media do not, episodes do not have a finish point or a specific storyline throughout them, and the dynamic between mulder and scully is kinda there, but it’s not moving anywhere at all, just constantly jumps from the extreme to nothing in circles. and it’s mostly not even funny! i understand the nostalgic part, but i’m just so surprised of how far my expectations were from the reality didn’t want to slander the show, just wanted to express my opinion and maybe hear some opinions of others
There's a lot of status quo going on that I think prevented it from being a better show. And believe it or not, this had more plot progression than the usual '90s shows had.
MY favorite episode was lost art of forehead sweat it weapped it up for me.. ironically they never solved anything in any episode!! I loved fight the future movie too.
My wife and i watched this originally on USA channel only up to the end of the Third season. We recently watched the entire thing from Hulu.. There was only one episode in tge entire series that didnt have an explosion in it. Love this show. I want to get the box set for the special features!
x files were popular, because there was barely no competition, this show wouldn't stick for shit these days, especially with that terrible and incoherent story with plot holes and mistakes in every corner, best part about the show were those goofy, comedy type episodes and there were not a lot of them, the rest is disaster
Nah, it had loads of similar shows, nypd blue, quantum leap, American gothic, dark skies, Roswell, homicide life on the streets, Babylon 5, murder one...all decent shows. Similar structure and feelings...but the filming, attention to detail on sets, direction, cast, acting, storytelling and drama was above the normal shows on tv at the time. If you watch the show now you'll notice the camera work and cinematography is a high quality compared to now, and then.
But agreed, the awful Chris carter hack jobs and writing by the seat of his pants was awful and wouldn't stand against the shows now. That becoming the crutch of the show ruined it and everyone remembers it for the monster of the week episodes... but the other reason for it's popularity was it reflected the paranoia of the 90s when there was less to be upset about politically, so people went looking for things ...the zeitgeist of the era.
The X-Files should have manufactured its conclusion sooner, but obviously the network wanted to milk it for all it was worth. I have to wonder if a spin-off would have been a better way to go.
IT'S a supernatural suspense thriller with credible characters and very well written. You get invested in following the abduction/conspiracy arcs and seeing where the mystery takes Mulder and Scully 👽⚠
1:32 LMAO And the book is better but the movie is still a classic. And there's only so much you can translate into a movie in 1980. Stephen King's imagination can't truly be manifested visually.
Walter's POV: Why would I save a choking snitch who made mah boi Jesse drift away from partnership and could potentially reveal my identity? *stares at her choking to death*
How can you compare The X-Files and Twin Peaks without bringing up that David Duchovny played a standout character in Twin Peaks or maybe giving a shoutout to Michael J. Anderson's turn in the X-Files episode, Humbug? The low ratings of season 11 are the fault of season 10. Season 10 had only one decent episode, Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster, and this turned off the entire audience on watching season 11, which was very much like a pre-season 6 X-Files season, except for maybe the first and last episode. I enjoyed season 11, although at the same time, part of me agrees with Scully at the end of "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat", refusing to eat the Goop-O A-B-C -- I want to remember how it was. You forgot about the most important character that was fired from The X-Files, and that was the location of Vancouver and British Columbia, gone after season 6. The most ground-breaking aspect of The X-Files was the somber tone of the show, which was only possible through the often dreary, rainy atmosphere of the northern Pacific coast combined with the moody ambient music of Mark Snow. This gloomy tone, lightened with Mulder's sardonic comedic touches, made for a show the likes of which had never been seen before. Also, my favorite episode is Season 1, Darkness Falls. I feel this episode does the best job of representing The X-Files at its best.
This movie looks great, all art, no substance. There is very little character development. Jack hates his family from the start. He's basically insane the whole movie. Then there's a ghost somehow. This movie is a mess.
King called it "a shiny car with no engine" or something like that. There's a lot of cool visuals, but the story itself is fairly 1-dimensional unless you look at every frame to decipher the subliminal messages that are apparently there (only nobody can agree on which subluminal message it is).
Eve is my favourite episode too! It’s a great episode, but it is also the first episode of The X Files I ever watched, on its original air date hiding outside my parents bedroom watching their TV while I was supposed to be sleeping, frozen in fear because of the theme song. I was hooked!
