Originally Posted by
Wise_A
Into the Badlands--AMC, Netflix. It's a Kung Fu/Western hybrid that holds up pretty well on re-watching. Upscales to 4k from HD very nicely, great colors on my Sony. Not in the same league visually as Altered Carbon, but certainly better than a lot of 4K UHD content.
The Silence--Netflix. It wants to be A Quiet Place so badly, but it's not. Formulaic monster apocalypse:
(1) ZOMG MONSTERS WHAT ARE THEY??!!
(2) Unprepared Dad: We must evacuate in a random direction. North sounds good.
(3) Dad's Friend With Lots of Guns: Follow me, I have guns.
(4) Dad's Friend: My guns are useless, allow me to sacrifice myself heroically because :kids:. Make sure to leave all my guns behind, because surely they will not come in handy.
(5) Average Housewife: Monsters have injured me, I will die without a bunch of random bottles from pharmacy.
(6) Insane Preacher: Whutup! Even though it has been less than 36 hours since :monsters:, we have cut out our tongues and killed everyone else in our town, because everyone in a small town is two steps away from being in a torture cult. You should join us, let me make some vaguely rape-y insinuations about your daughter being fertile!
(7) Unprepared Dad: lolno
(8) Insane Preacher: Not a request. Behold, my insidious midnight attack using monsters!
(9) Grandma With Cancer: Allow me to sacrifice myself heroically because :kids:.
(10) Average Housewife: Even though it looked like I was just dying and my leg was swollen to twice it's normal size, I will now start killing cultists with a hammer because don't take my fertile daughter.
(11) Unprepared Dad: Nobody's fucking my daughter, especially not some tongueless whacko cult leader.
(12) Insane Preacher: Srsly, why'd we cut out our tongues? That wouldn't make anyone quiet, just unintelligible.
(13) Unprepared Dad: I have found inner strength to be more like my big, strong, dumb friend who is dead. I will now smash this preacher's skull into jelly with a shotgun butt.
(14) Unprepared Dad: Okay, north.
(15) Daughter Who Is Deaf: Look how well we have adapted to the New Normal of Flying Sound Monsters! Also, I am now strong, even though I contributed absolutely fuck-all to my own survival this entire time, when even my 9-year-old brother killed that guy with the spear. And look, my pissant boyfriend from New Jersey survived and somehow walked all the way up here!
(16) Pissant Boyfriend: Even though she is stronger than me, I am totally fucking her.
(17) Unprepared Dad: Goddammit.
The dude that played the preacher was actually pretty good, but he also had literally zero lines. Stanley Tucci played Stanley Tucci, he worked with what he had. I would not bother watching it, just get A Quiet Place instead.