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: 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...
Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
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. :-) 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: 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...
Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
I almost got into a binge watch with Les Revenants and will watch a couple more episodes tonight. There's no ten minute film school on the Machete Kills BD just the extras I mentioned. Usually Universal movies rented at Redbox are rental editions with just the movie on them. But that costs extra and the studios that even do the rental discs may not be doing them for the more cult and art film titles. El Mariachi and Desperado were added over the weekend on Netflix. In other news, we had a tragedy occur about a mile from me. A teenage girl who was sitting on the railroad tracks with her boyfriend near a trestle and they got up to move as a train approached. Her cellphone fell and she ran back to retrieve it and was hit and killed by the train. I only mention it as it will probably arise as national or international story. Very sad and will be used as an object lesson for teens and their obsession with phones. On 03/03/2014 09:29 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: 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. :-) *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 mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: 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...
Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: 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...
[FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
We find ourselves in an upscale, beautifully-appointed kitchen, where an elegant dinner is being prepared by an impeccably-dressed host. We see the host's knife slicing the raw main dish, and then arranging it into a presentation that can legitimately be called art. He walks across the room and serves it to his guest, who is seated at the dining table, and they exchange words. Host: This course is called ryukozuki -- seasonal sashimi, sea urchin, water clam, and squid. Guest: What a beautiful presentation, Doctor. Host: Kaiseki - a Japanese artform that honors the taste and aesthetic of what we eat. Guest: Well, I almost feel guilty about eating it. Host: I never feel guilty eating anything. Guest: H...I can't quite place the fish... This would have been a cool season opener in itself, and a very funny one, given that the host in this scene is Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and you can't always tell what he'll be serving with the Chianti. But what makes this scene more powerful is that it wasn't the first scene. It was the second. The first was a type of flashforward known as In Media Res, a technique that dates at least back to Homer, and was discussed by Aristotle. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InMediasRes http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InMediasRes In the first scene, we're in the same kitchen, and a similarly elegant dinner is being prepared for the same guest by the same host. The host uses the same precision with his knife as he slices the main course, but doesn't get to the presentation stage because then his guest enters the room, they exchange glances, each of them seemingly realizing the same thing at the same time, and all hell breaks loose. [ Detail deleted not for spoiler reasons -- since you're going to see it first-thing anyway -- but as a form of kaiseki for those who have not yet savored this episode yet. ] The screen goes black, and a title appears, saying Twelve weeks earlier. Then we see the scene I describe above. Very effective. It worked for Homer, in The Iliad, it worked for Breaking Bad, and it works for the season opener of Hannibal. Something is going to happen during that twelve weeks (coincidentally enough the length of the season) that explains to us how the dinner scene we see second morphs into the one we saw first. The third and forth scenes take an opposite -- or perhaps the same -- structure. In scene three we see Will Graham, FBI profiler whose job it is to catch serial killers by literally getting into their heads, during his rare off-work moments. He's standing in a river in his waders, fly-fishing. He looks up, and on the bank of the river he sees a magnificent deer. We see the awe and reverence on his face as Will gazes at the deer. Cut to scene four, and the same face, staring at us from behind bars. Will is now in jail, charged with being the very serial killer he is chasing. So is scene three a flashback to the past, or a flashforward to the future? Guess we'll have to watch twelve weeks of television to find out. Since this was one of the best 40 minutes of television I've seen in a long time, I see no problem with that... :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
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. In the US these days even if people still have TV via cable or satellite (or even OTA) they tend to watch the next day especially if the show is at 10 PM. This way they can skip commercials using the DVR which is something I miss though Hulu only has about 1 minute spots and I just hit the mute button during them. If I really wanted to see a show almost live I would wait 15 minutes and then watch it on the DVR so I could still skip ads. On 03/01/2014 05:24 AM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: We find ourselves in an upscale, beautifully-appointed kitchen, where an elegant dinner is being prepared by an impeccably-dressed host. We see the host's knife slicing the raw main dish, and then arranging it into a presentation that can legitimately be called art. He walks across the room and serves it to his guest, who is seated at the dining table, and they exchange words. Host:This course is called ryukozuki -- seasonal sashimi, sea urchin, water clam, and squid. Guest:What a beautiful presentation, Doctor. Host:Kaiseki - a Japanese artform that honors the taste and aesthetic of what we eat. Guest:Well, I almost feel guilty about eating it. Host:I never feel guilty eating anything. Guest:H...I can't quite place the fish... This would have been a cool season opener in itself, and a very funny one, given that the host in this scene is Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and you can't always tell what he'll be serving with the Chianti. But what makes this scene more powerful is that it wasn't the first scene. It was the second. The first was a type of flashforward known as In Media Res, a technique that dates at least back to Homer, and was discussed by Aristotle. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InMediasRes In the first scene, we're in the same kitchen, and a similarly elegant dinner is being prepared for the same guest by the same host. The host uses the same precision with his knife as he slices the main course, but doesn't get to the presentation stage because then his guest enters the room, they exchange glances, each of them seemingly realizing the same thing at the same time, and all hell breaks loose. [Detail deleted not for spoiler reasons -- since you're going to see it first-thing anyway -- but as a form of kaiseki for those who have not yet savored this episode yet. ]The screen goes black, and a title appears, saying Twelve weeks earlier. Then we see the scene I describe above. Very effective. It worked for Homer, in The Iliad, it worked for Breaking Bad, and it works for the season opener of Hannibal. Something is going to happen during that twelve weeks (coincidentally enough the length of the season) that explains to us how the dinner scene we see second morphs into the one we saw first. The third and forth scenes take an opposite -- or perhaps the same -- structure. In scene three we see Will Graham, FBI profiler whose job it is to catch serial killers by literally getting into their heads, during his rare off-work moments. He's standing in a river in his waders, fly-fishing. He looks up, and on the bank of the river he sees a magnificent deer. We see the awe and reverence on his face as Will gazes at the deer. Cut to scene four, and the same face, staring at us from behind bars. Will is now in jail, charged with being the very serial killer he is chasing. So is scene three a flashback to the past, or a flashforward to the future? Guess we'll have to watch twelve weeks of television to find out. Since this was one of the best 40 minutes of television I've seen in a long time, I see no problem with that... :-)
