What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.

[ArchDill]

If anything Jeff set him up.

Jeff wasn't in the picture when her husband disappeared, she had already remarried by then (it took 2 years to declare him dead).

As for the idea of Jeff setting up Joe, the zoo was in Jeff's name, all he had to do was fire him.

The real question is Marc Thompson, who Joe first asked to do it. Thompson was an ex-cop working as a security guard and may have already been working undercover at that point due to so many credible threats made against Carole by Joe over the years. Did the feds ask Jeff to bring him in as part of a plea bargain? We know Joe did try to hire an undercover FBI agent, it may have been him or it could be someone else. Hard to say.

I think proving it was entrapment or even a setup would be difficult, this was Joe asking him to kill someone directly.

I think it was 5 years to declare him dead.

[noisyturtle]

Oh, you meant did Carole kill her previous husband? Yes definitely.

[fatcoffeebeans]

Currently a star wars marathon!

[Leslieann]

So your fem-radar is not detecting anything unusual/sinister about Carole Baskins.

In ur opinion, what are the signs of a female capable of mariticide (husband murdar)

Oh, she's wackadoodle.
Maybe she did, maybe she didn't there's just too many other ways for him to disappear to be sure.
Regardless, I certainly do not think she fed him to a tiger, that's just stupid and lazy speculation. What happens if someone notices before the body is gone or something is left behind?


And that I think is my biggest problem with the idea she did it, the tiger is what makes the story enticing. It's simply too good of a story, without that it's much more boring and why no one wants to consider it. Boring almost always wins in something like this.

[tp4tissue]

Oh, she's wackadoodle.
Maybe she did, maybe she didn't there's just too many other ways for him to disappear to be sure.
Regardless, I certainly do not think she fed him to a tiger, that's just stupid and lazy speculation. What happens if someone notices before the body is gone or something is left behind?

Tigers easily crunch into bones to get at the marrow,  and given they had multiple tigers, and lots of meat and bone passing through their disposal,   All she had to do was bash the more recognizable bones into smaller pieces, and the tiger should take care of the rest, it'd be impossible to recognize post meal thrown in with the rest of the animal carcasses.

[Kavik]

I just re-watched Blade Runner for the first time in at least a decade.

It truly is one of the greatest films of all time, but how do they explain it raining all the time in LA?

I'm not sure why, but I've never been able to get into that movie despite the accolades it receives. Maybe I have a hard time seeing the subtleties of the plot through the atmosphere. I watched it again recently because I thought maybe I was just too young the first time I saw it, but I felt the same after my second viewing. I tried watching the newer one with Ryan Gosling after it, but I only made it a few minutes in - I think I got distracted and just never made it back to it.

[Leslieann]

Normally when an animal like that tastes a human they put them down, scared they will get a taste for it.
Feeding him to a tiger or tigers, puts her and her staff at higher risk of attack later, something I just don't think she would do. She may have hated her husband, but i don;t think she would risk the animals or staff that way.

Also, he disappeared in 1997, DNA testing was a thing by then, if they found even a sliver of bone she's be done. Maybe had it happened in the 80's, but by then most people had at least some idea about DNA testing.

Anyhow, here's someone who was there at the time doing some tweets, there was so much more they just didn't have time for.
https://twitter.com/robertmoor_/status/1242249759156367360

[fohat.digs]

Maybe I have a hard time seeing the subtleties of the plot through the atmosphere.

I had read the book that it was (very loosely) based on several years before the movie was made, and I am big Philip K **** fan in general. Most of the sub-plots (**** books are usually rife with them) had been stripped out already, artificial animals for example, a big theme, was reduced to "Is that a real snake?" - "Do you think I would be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?"

The only real plot, to which everything else was secondary, is the status of artificial personhood.

But, like I said, I too never understood the bizarre and incongruous atmosphere. But aspects of that have become SF movie staples, having settings like Middle Ages third-world style street bazaars or deteriorating dripping abandoned warehouses interspersed with FTL space ships - eg Star Wars, Firefly, etc. 

[phinix]

Just watched Knives Out.
Pretty good comedy/crime story. I liked it.

[absyrd]

Homeland and Westworld off the DVR today.

[phinix]

Just watched Dark Waters.
Interesting subject, good movie, recommended.
Tomorrow I'm throwing away all my teflon pans...

[tp4tissue]

Just watched Dark Waters.
Interesting subject, good movie, recommended.
Tomorrow I'm throwing away all my teflon pans...

I didn't understand the movie,  is it just that chemical, or is it ALL teflon.

Where's  Chyros.

[Leslieann]

Just watched Dark Waters.
Interesting subject, good movie, recommended.
Tomorrow I'm throwing away all my teflon pans...

I didn't understand the movie,  is it just that chemical, or is it ALL teflon.

Where's  Chyros.

There was a documentary about this a few years ago (Possibly The Devil We Know), this sounds like a movie version of it (working to see it now).

The chemical in particular is
Perfluorooctanoic acid - better known as C8, it's a primary ingredient in PTFE (Teflon is a brand of PTFE).

This stuff never goes away (the environment or your bloodstream) and is found inside everything now, it's toxic as hell and leads to multiple forms of cancer and birth defects. It was mostly phased out in by 2015 when most manufacturers stopped making (I can't confirm if China stopped using it), however, they developed a new version now called C9, which is only a slightly different formulation and is suspected to be just as bad but since it's a new compound all testing has to start anew, and since the US doesn't pro-actively test chemicals like this it will be years before we know for certain. Yay.

Best advice, at the very least remove it from cookware (especially pots and pans), overheating and burning is the biggest threat as it will off-gas and leech, room temp solids are supposed to be safe. If you have a 3d printer, make sure you never over heat the hot end, better still, place the printer in a closet with a hepa filter that contains activated carbon.

[clankgy1]

Picard - Finished it, ending could have been stronger.
Devs - Great show, real mind-f
Westworld - Season 3 is more linear, but still a brainbuster
The Expanse - On season 2 right now, great show that I never watched

[iri]

Just watched Dark Waters.
Interesting subject, good movie, recommended.

Could be shrunk by half an hour without losing anything.

[Shapey Fiend]

Been watching Devs as well. Build has maybe been a bit better than the payoffs (so far) but we'll see. It's nicely shot anyway.

Brockmire has just started up again. I was thinking, great, something light. But by coincidence this season is set in a future where the world is full of disease and they're burning bodies in the streets.

[tp4tissue]

Just watched the 5 epis of Devs.



What do you guys think ?

[invariance]

We just finished watching the Tiger King as well.
Besides the unhinged nature of all of the main ’characters’ and the menagerie of misfits and criminals in tow, it was a well constructed train wreck.
My wife and I nearly wet ourselves when Joe Exotic said “I would like to introduce my wife, but he is at home feeding our brand new baby kangaroo”.

[tp4tissue]

We just finished watching the Tiger King as well.
Besides the unhinged nature of all of the main ’characters’ and the menagerie of misfits and criminals in tow, it was a well constructed train wreck.
My wife and I nearly wet ourselves when Joe Exotic said “I would like to introduce my wife, but he is at home feeding our brand new baby kangaroo”.

also the whole ghey4meth situation.. yikez0rz.

[invariance]

We just finished watching the Tiger King as well.
Besides the unhinged nature of all of the main ’characters’ and the menagerie of misfits and criminals in tow, it was a well constructed train wreck.
My wife and I nearly wet ourselves when Joe Exotic said “I would like to introduce my wife, but he is at home feeding our brand new baby kangaroo”.

also the whole ghey4meth situation.. yikez0rz.

Yes.  Maybe it needs the subtitle “How to keep your husband enslaved “
I noticed how the subtitle for John went from husband to ex-husband and the number of teeth diminished, then when they gave more background on Travis it all made sense.

[noisyturtle]

Recommended Tiger Kong to my dad who watched the first episode and hated it.

Been blazing through the seasons of Fargo, already halfway done with s03. I do think the first season was the best, the other two hinge on people doing really really dumb things. Apparently they are all based upon true stories so I dunno.

[phinix]

Recommended Tiger Kong to my dad who watched the first episode and hated it.

Been blazing through the seasons of Fargo, already halfway done with s03. I do think the first season was the best, the other two hinge on people doing really really dumb things. Apparently they are all based upon true stories so I dunno.

This is one of the best tv shows on my list. I loved it. Loved the story, music, characters, editing.
Have you seen the movie? Its good to see it too, as first season is based on its story.

[noisyturtle]

Recommended Tiger Kong to my dad who watched the first episode and hated it.

Been blazing through the seasons of Fargo, already halfway done with s03. I do think the first season was the best, the other two hinge on people doing really really dumb things. Apparently they are all based upon true stories so I dunno.

This is one of the best tv shows on my list. I loved it. Loved the story, music, characters, editing.
Have you seen the movie? Its good to see it too, as first season is based on its story.

Oh it's a fantastic movie. They nailed the casting, everyone is perfect.

[tp4tissue]

Trying to get through all dat Star Wars,  some of these movies are quite boring.

[HoffmanMyster]

Trying to get through all dat Star Wars,  some of these movies are quite boring.

Prequels?  Or do you find some of the others boring as well?

Been blazing through the seasons of Fargo, already halfway done with s03. I do think the first season was the best, the other two hinge on people doing really really dumb things. Apparently they are all based upon true stories so I dunno.

Fargo TV show is very good (as is the movie, but... of course - Coen Brothers).  I have a hard time transitioning between the seasons though.  Need some sort of a gap to reset my brain.  The intense climax of one season leading in to a lull of setup in the next makes it too jarring apparently.  I think it's about time to give the third season another try.

[tp4tissue]

Trying to get through all dat Star Wars,  some of these movies are quite boring.

Prequels?  Or do you find some of the others boring as well?

Watchn' the whole series on the latest 4K discs,  Everyone's still disappointed in the prequels, low res CGI + heavy degrain/denoise algorithms kill detail..

[HoffmanMyster]

Trying to get through all dat Star Wars,  some of these movies are quite boring.

Prequels?  Or do you find some of the others boring as well?

Watchn' the whole series on the latest 4K discs,  Everyone's still disappointed in the prequels, low res CGI + heavy degrain/denoise algorithms kill detail..

Ahhh, yup.  Makes sense.  What order are you watching in?  Chronological, episodic, machete? 

Did Lucas muck things up further in the 4k release, or have things stayed mostly the same since the Blu-ray release? 

[tp4tissue]

Ahhh, yup.  Makes sense.  What order are you watching in?  Chronological, episodic, machete? 

Did Lucas muck things up further in the 4k release, or have things stayed mostly the same since the Blu-ray release? 

I'mma watch it once in release order, and once in chronological.

Things are mostly the same from the Blu-ray, they've been re-colorized, so the tone is much more natural looking vs the old jazzed-up colors on the blurays.

The plot/cgi/cutting is the same as lucas's bray rework.

[noisyturtle]

Ahhh, yup.  Makes sense.  What order are you watching in?  Chronological, episodic, machete? 

Did Lucas muck things up further in the 4k release, or have things stayed mostly the same since the Blu-ray release? 

I'mma watch it once in release order, and once in chronological.

Things are mostly the same from the Blu-ray, they've been re-colorized, so the tone is much more natural looking vs the old jazzed-up colors on the blurays.

The plot/cgi/cutting is the same as lucas's bray rework.

Personal rankings of the only ones that matter:

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Return of the Jedi
3. A New Hope
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Rogue One
6. Solo
6. Phantom Menace
7. The Force Awakens
9. Attack of the Clones (it's so bad it skipped position 8 )

[Darthbaggins]

Right now watching Sponge Bob w/ my 5yr old son, lol.
Just watched the new Bad Boys, it was meh but still hit that spot for senseless action movie.  I have Train to Busan, Snow Piercer, Vavarium, and a few other movies lined up to watch next.  Also I did enjoy Hunters - fairly well done series that gets the hamster moving in my head.

[fohat.digs]

Right now watching Sponge Bob w/ my 5yr old son

Find "Patrick Smart Pants" it is the best episode ever.

[noisyturtle]

One episode into Devs. All the characters perfectly embody the self-important castrated and sheltered robotic pricks I hate in the tech industry. So they got that part right, although it doesn't do much for making me feel anything but disdain for all of them.

ahh, it's getting better by the 2nd ep

[SBJ]

One episode into Devs. All the characters perfectly embody the self-important castrated and sheltered robotic pricks I hate in the tech industry. So they got that part right, although it doesn't do much for making me feel anything but disdain for all of them.

ahh, it's getting better by the 2nd ep

Looks like an interesting series. Might have to give that a go later on.

[noisyturtle]

One episode into Devs. All the characters perfectly embody the self-important castrated and sheltered robotic pricks I hate in the tech industry. So they got that part right, although it doesn't do much for making me feel anything but disdain for all of them.

ahh, it's getting better by the 2nd ep

well that last episode was dumb as ****. If I gave you a gun and said you are about to shoot yourself, would you do it? No, right? I could barely get through that drivel. The entire theme is so defeatist it's annoying.

[Darthbaggins]

Just finished Season 1 of Mythic Quest, was funnier than I expected.

[absyrd]

Ozark.

[clankgy1]

One episode into Devs. All the characters perfectly embody the self-important castrated and sheltered robotic pricks I hate in the tech industry. So they got that part right, although it doesn't do much for making me feel anything but disdain for all of them.

ahh, it's getting better by the 2nd ep

well that last episode was dumb as ****. If I gave you a gun and said you are about to shoot yourself, would you do it? No, right? I could barely get through that drivel. The entire theme is so defeatist it's annoying.

I'm finding the deterministic model as presented in this show flawed given what you've detailed above.  While there is a certain amount of mystery as to what happens if somebody "jumps off the tram
 after seeing the future, I have no idea why that character did what they did.  Having said that, Allison Pill's character is a monster and I am enjoying watching that.

[tp4tissue]

One episode into Devs. All the characters perfectly embody the self-important castrated and sheltered robotic pricks I hate in the tech industry. So they got that part right, although it doesn't do much for making me feel anything but disdain for all of them.

ahh, it's getting better by the 2nd ep

well that last episode was dumb as ****. If I gave you a gun and said you are about to shoot yourself, would you do it? No, right? I could barely get through that drivel. The entire theme is so defeatist it's annoying.

I'm finding the deterministic model as presented in this show flawed given what you've detailed above.  While there is a certain amount of mystery as to what happens if somebody "jumps off the tram
 after seeing the future, I have no idea why that character did what they did.  Having said that, Allison Pill's character is a monster and I am enjoying watching that.

Well it only looks confusing if you believe the older notion of determinism VS free-will.

In actuality both are true.

Determinism does not conflict with choice.

You still choose, but your choice is already determined by the sum of concurrent events.

It's not illustrated well in the way they framed it.

However, consider this,  the guy hands you a gun, tells you he's seen you shoot yourself, so why would you do it.

Well that's the wrong question. You as the person now with the gun, asking yourself why you'd shoot yourself is irrelevant.  The stress of the situation, the events leading up till now, all of those things, Gamma rays from space,  the entirety of the universe compounds into the Decision to shoot oneself.

It feels like a choice, and the person Does Choose from his perspective, however he couldn't have chosen otherwise.

Having a choice is only consequence of the imperfect cognition that the arbitrary circle of space is capable of. It is only a partition of the whole, the partition is uncertain, while the whole is certain.

[Sintpinty]

watched blade runner and scary movie 3.5 all in one day

[phinix]

I watched The Blues Brothers.
I remember watching it when I was maybe 7 years old. Now it looks a bit weird, but still, cool movie.

[fohat.digs]

Now it looks a bit weird,

All of the original crop of Saturday Night Live TV and spin-off movies are kind of painful to watch now.

They were all written by writers who were stoned into near incoherence and played by actors who were wasted at levels that would put elephants into comas. Consequently many of the routines were so stupid that you just had to cringe through them, and wait for those occasional gems that were genuinely hilarious.

That was how I felt decades ago when I watched them when they were new (Dan Aykroyd is 2 weeks younger than me). Today, the vapid parts are even more excruciating, but the funny parts are still funny.

[lakeboredom]

Just discovered MAL sync so.. lots and lots of anime.
Promised Neverland, Demon Slayer, Made in Abyss, and Vinland Saga are all worth watching.

[phinix]

Now it looks a bit weird,

All of the original crop of Saturday Night Live TV and spin-off movies are kind of painful to watch now.

They were all written by writers who were stoned into near incoherence and played by actors who were wasted at levels that would put elephants into comas. Consequently many of the routines were so stupid that you just had to cringe through them, and wait for those occasional gems that were genuinely hilarious.

That was how I felt decades ago when I watched them when they were new (Dan Aykroyd is 2 weeks younger than me). Today, the vapid parts are even more excruciating, but the funny parts are still funny.

Yeah, exactly!
Some scenes are so stupida, that you have to drag yourself through those and wait for better parts. Like that first police chase scene...
It reminds me of those scenes from that movie series where BErt Reynold was driving fast cars... Gumball? Cannonball?

These are old, for example old as all Chavy Chase movies, but I can watch Spies like Us 100 times and it never gets old and stupid

[noisyturtle]

Now it looks a bit weird,

All of the original crop of Saturday Night Live TV and spin-off movies are kind of painful to watch now.

They were all written by writers who were stoned into near incoherence and played by actors who were wasted at levels that would put elephants into comas. Consequently many of the routines were so stupid that you just had to cringe through them, and wait for those occasional gems that were genuinely hilarious.

That was how I felt decades ago when I watched them when they were new (Dan Aykroyd is 2 weeks younger than me). Today, the vapid parts are even more excruciating, but the funny parts are still funny.

Blues Bros and Wayne's World are bad? Huh, guess I have terrible taste.

I also loved McGruber, it was legit funny.

the rest do suck though

[fohat.digs]

All of the original crop of Saturday Night Live TV and spin-off movies

Blues Bros and Wayne's World are bad?

I would call Mike Meyers something like 3rd generation SNL and Wayne's World was far more self-aware than the early stuff.

Bill Murray brought in a very different vibe when he more or less replaced Chevy Chase, and most of what he is involved in holds up better.

As far as those road-race movies go, Gumball Rally was the first and, in my opinion, the standard-bearer.

(if you want white knuckles rather than laughs, give Vanishing Point a spin)

[noisyturtle]

All of the original crop of Saturday Night Live TV and spin-off movies

Blues Bros and Wayne's World are bad?

I would call Mike Meyers something like 3rd generation SNL and Wayne's World was far more self-aware than the early stuff.

Bill Murray brought in a very different vibe when he more or less replaced Chevy Chase, and most of what he is involved in holds up better.

As far as those road-race movies go, Gumball Rally was the first and, in my opinion, the standard-bearer.

(if you want white knuckles rather than laughs, give Vanishing Point a spin)

Ever seen Death Race 2000?

[Kavik]

I started watching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace because anything with Richard Ayoade or Matt Berry is hilarious. It's a blessing and a curse that the Brits make entire shows that are only 6 episodes.

[noisyturtle]

Someone sell me on Ozark, I'm right on the fence if I wanna watch it or not.

[phinix]

Someone sell me on Ozark, I'm right on the fence if I wanna watch it or not.

If you haven't seen it at all, I would definitely watch it.
Loved the first season, other two were a bit worse, but still there were some cool moments.

"Picture this, I'm a bag of ****s, Put me to your lips, I am sick, I will punch a baby bear in his ****"

[Darthbaggins]

I plan on marathoning Ozarks Season 1 to current, heard nothing but positives about the show.  Currently catching up on Season 3 of WestWorld (love the series) and watching Season 2 of American Gods.
Really wish they did a season 4 of Into the BadLands - awesome series that AMC left on a cliffhanger.