Cool, both that you're getting to see the real version of "Les Revenants," and
that you got to see the real version of "Machete Kills." It's *not* a great
movie, but I thought it was fun, and I hope you did, too. Did the BD have
another one of Rodriguez's patented "Ten Minute Film School" episodes on it?
I finished the French series, BTW, and I'm glad I watched it. Very, very
different take on the "returning from the dead" concept, and refreshing in that
it didn't fall into any real genre ruts. But to be honest, one of the things I
loved the most about watching this series is the opportunity it provided me to
see the scenery in an area of France I am not familiar with, the Haute-Savoie.
It's just stunningly lovely...like Switzerland without all of those awful
Swiss. :-)
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From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
It's the original French series "Les Revenants" and not an American remake. At
the moment I haven't even checked to see if there is a US remake in the works.
"Hannibal" was not available for mobile or TV on Hulu+. Probably
because it is primarily a Canadian production. But it was
available on desktop so I just ran it on the Chrome browser and
Chromecast it to my TV. It's a little like video conferencing the
show to your TV in that the frame rate is about 10 frames a
second.
I was not all that impressed with "Machete Kills". It was kind of
a mess and in this case shooting in pristine HD seems to get in
the way of a homage to grindhouse films. Many of those old
exploitation films were also shoot in "scope". He had a fun cast
though. And the BD actually was not a Universal "rental" and had
the "making of" and extended and deleted scenes.
On 03/02/2014 11:48 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote:
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>I won't be reading this because I will be watching "Hannibal" tonight on
>Hulu+. But I was going to mention yesterday that the second season started
>last night and that I almost rented the BD of "Machete Kills" for the evening
>but decided on watching a couple more episodes of "The Returned" on Netflix.
>
>I have to ask...are you watching the original French series "Les Revenants,"
>or the American remake called (either, depending on where you see it
>referenced) "The Returned" or "Resurrection." I'm about to finish watching the
>French series, and you know me w.r.t. European TV...I wouldn't touch an
>American remake with a ten foot pole, but I was just wondering...
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