Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
The networks are having a hard time getting millennials to watch TV. Most of them don't own a TV set and if they watch something it is often on their phone, tablet or laptop. That's why they're trying Jimmy Fallon for "The Tonight Show" which probably won't work either. Perhaps they need to hire a some 27 year olds to run the networks but probably the first thing they would do if put all the ads in one break up front which would not please the advertisers. :-D On 03/23/2014 09:50 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: At your age, I think probably you do not need to choose. :-| ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It's just that this one was a retread of old 1960s SciFi ideas packaged so as to appeal to a drugged-out, energy drink-swilling, not-terribly-bright YA audience. I choose not to be one of them. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
On 03/23/2014 09:38 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: *From:* Bhairitu *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 23, 2014 5:24 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review BTW, the second season of "Line of Duty", all episodes, is now available in the US on HuluPlus. That's just a little over a month after it played in the UK. Now THAT is a good series. Compelling from start to finish, with excellent characterization *and* plot. It is very, very, very rare that a writer of crime / conspiracy plots can keep me hanging until the very end of the series without having figured everything out, but Jed Mercurio did. I think Keeley Hawes is already considered to have a lock on a BAFTA nomination for her work in it, and Mercurio himself will almost certainly be nominated again himself as writer/creator. BTW, not to prolong my dumping on "The 100" but to explain further, it's not that I dislike "Young Adult" movies and TV made from popular YA novels as a whole. Yes, the "Twilight" series sucked dead dogs, but I actually enjoyed many parts of the "Hunger Games" series. It's just that this one was a retread of old 1960s SciFi ideas packaged so as to appeal to a drugged-out, energy drink-swilling, not-terribly-bright YA audience. I choose not to be one of them. :-) So of these ideas need to be repackaged for younger audiences. "Continuum" which began it's third season in Canada a couple weeks ago and starts the 4th of April in the US doesn't really have that many new ideas either but it is an interesting show. I tried "Star Crossed" and the "Tomorrow People" on the CW and lasted one episode of each. OTOH, I've been a "Supernatural" fan for years but then it's target audience is older. I watched two episodes of "Line of Duty" season 2 last night and will watch a couple more tonight. Hulu didn't overload it with commercials either with probably 4 breaks of a minute each. Some folks are dropping their Hulu+ subscriptions because of increasing commercials. Hulu which is otherwise free on the Internet may have just one episode a week of "Line of Duty". They did that with "Bron Broen" but had all episode available on Plus.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
At your age, I think probably you do not need to choose. :-| ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It's just that this one was a retread of old 1960s SciFi ideas packaged so as to appeal to a drugged-out, energy drink-swilling, not-terribly-bright YA audience. I choose not to be one of them. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
From: Bhairitu To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review BTW, the second season of "Line of Duty", all episodes, is now available in the US on HuluPlus. That's just a little over a month after it played in the UK. Now THAT is a good series. Compelling from start to finish, with excellent characterization *and* plot. It is very, very, very rare that a writer of crime / conspiracy plots can keep me hanging until the very end of the series without having figured everything out, but Jed Mercurio did. I think Keeley Hawes is already considered to have a lock on a BAFTA nomination for her work in it, and Mercurio himself will almost certainly be nominated again himself as writer/creator. BTW, not to prolong my dumping on "The 100" but to explain further, it's not that I dislike "Young Adult" movies and TV made from popular YA novels as a whole. Yes, the "Twilight" series sucked dead dogs, but I actually enjoyed many parts of the "Hunger Games" series. It's just that this one was a retread of old 1960s SciFi ideas packaged so as to appeal to a drugged-out, energy drink-swilling, not-terribly-bright YA audience. I choose not to be one of them. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
From: Bhairitu To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review On 03/23/2014 05:15 AM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: >---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : > > > >You might want to check out the CW series "The 100" which debuted this last >week. Usually CW, whose target audience is younger, has some fairly >adolescent shows and of course the central characters in this one are older >teens. The premise is that there was an apocalyptic nuclear war on earth and >a small number of people escaped to a space station. Now that they feel the >earth is safe they send a group of 100 teens to the planet. But there is >really another reason they were sent... ;-) > >Dumbest and least interesting TV show I may have ever seen in my life. > I suspect you didn't watch it through to the end. Like I said the target market is teens. I watched it all. The strength of my review was wrath at having had an hour taken from me that I can never get back. :-) I probably watch show for a different reason than you. I want to see what they are telegraphing to audiences. It's actually playing well for a selective audience on a home theater forum I'm on. That is probably why I hated it so much. If the "Young Adult" audience of America is dumb enough to like this, I fear for the country's future. They are treading into areas such as "Utopia" did, speaking of which it will be interesting to see how HBO kills that remake. It also treaded a bit into "Logan's Run" territory. ;-) "Retread" is more like it. There was not an original idea in the whole hour.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
On 03/23/2014 05:15 AM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You might want to check out the CW series "The 100" which debuted this last week. Usually CW, whose target audience is younger, has some fairly adolescent shows and of course the central characters in this one are older teens. The premise is that there was an apocalyptic nuclear war on earth and a small number of people escaped to a space station. Now that they feel the earth is safe they send a group of 100 teens to the planet. But there is really another reason they were sent... ;-) Dumbest and least interesting TV show I may have ever seen in my life. BTW, the second season of "Line of Duty", all episodes, is now available in the US on HuluPlus. That's just a little over a month after it played in the UK.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
On 03/23/2014 05:15 AM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You might want to check out the CW series "The 100" which debuted this last week. Usually CW, whose target audience is younger, has some fairly adolescent shows and of course the central characters in this one are older teens. The premise is that there was an apocalyptic nuclear war on earth and a small number of people escaped to a space station. Now that they feel the earth is safe they send a group of 100 teens to the planet. But there is really another reason they were sent... ;-) Dumbest and least interesting TV show I may have ever seen in my life. I suspect you didn't watch it through to the end. Like I said the target market is teens. I probably watch show for a different reason than you. I want to see what they are telegraphing to audiences. It's actually playing well for a selective audience on a home theater forum I'm on. They are treading into areas such as "Utopia" did, speaking of which it will be interesting to see how HBO kills that remake. It also treaded a bit into "Logan's Run" territory. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
On 3/23/2014 7:15 AM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: You might want to check out the CW series "The 100" which debuted this last week. Usually CW, whose target audience is younger, has some fairly adolescent shows and of course the central characters in this one are older teens. The premise is that there was an apocalyptic nuclear war on earth and a small number of people escaped to a space station. Now that they feel the earth is safe they send a group of 100 teens to the planet. But there is really another reason they were sent... ;-) Dumbest and least interesting TV show I may have ever seen in my life. > Addressing the important issues! Thanks to the two Barrys for this important review of the CW TV show - "The 100". There seems to be a difference of opinion. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You might want to check out the CW series "The 100" which debuted this last week. Usually CW, whose target audience is younger, has some fairly adolescent shows and of course the central characters in this one are older teens. The premise is that there was an apocalyptic nuclear war on earth and a small number of people escaped to a space station. Now that they feel the earth is safe they send a group of 100 teens to the planet. But there is really another reason they were sent... ;-) Dumbest and least interesting TV show I may have ever seen in my life.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
You might want to check out the CW series "The 100" which debuted this
last week. Usually CW, whose target audience is younger, has some
fairly adolescent shows and of course the central characters in this one
are older teens. The premise is that there was an apocalyptic nuclear
war on earth and a small number of people escaped to a space station.
Now that they feel the earth is safe they send a group of 100 teens to
the planet. But there is really another reason they were sent... ;-)
On 03/22/2014 06:27 AM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Thanks for mentioning this. I'd had it on my watch list for a while
anyway, because of Saoirse Ronan, but it turned out to be a rather
more interesting movie than I was counting on. I just loved the
opening hit/joke scene.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
"Violet and Daisy" is a New York indie comedy about a couple of teenage
girl assassins who find things complicated when they go to do a hit on a
man. It stars Saoirse Ronan ("How I Live Now"), Alexis Bledel ("A Girl
Walks into a Bar") as the teens and the late James Gandolfini as the man
they are to assassinate. There are also cameos with Danny Trejo and
Tatiana Maslany ("Black Orphan"). There is some violence in the film
but overall it is a quirky comedy and has the earmarks of a stage play
redone as a movie. It's on Netflix for you Netflixers:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Violet_Daisy/70212151
[FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
Thanks for mentioning this. I'd had it on my watch list for a while anyway,
because of Saoirse Ronan, but it turned out to be a rather more interesting
movie than I was counting on. I just loved the opening hit/joke scene.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
"Violet and Daisy" is a New York indie comedy about a couple of teenage
girl assassins who find things complicated when they go to do a hit on a
man. It stars Saoirse Ronan ("How I Live Now"), Alexis Bledel ("A Girl
Walks into a Bar") as the teens and the late James Gandolfini as the man
they are to assassinate. There are also cameos with Danny Trejo and
Tatiana Maslany ("Black Orphan"). There is some violence in the film
but overall it is a quirky comedy and has the earmarks of a stage play
redone as a movie. It's on Netflix for you Netflixers:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Violet_Daisy/70212151
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Violet_Daisy/70212151
