Stranger Things (Spoilers, duh!)

[Don]

We really enjoyed Stranger Things, too. It really was an homage to those Stephen King mini-series of yesteryear...but hugely enjoyable at the same time.

Season 2 will definitely get a watch.

[mikees]

Well that was great !

What now? Any recommendations for something similar - i.e. good?

Have Netflix and Amazon


Mike

[Zoon]

mikees said:

Well that was great !

What now? Any recommendations for something similar - i.e. good?

Have Netflix and Amazon


Mike

Narcos on Netflix.

[R1gtr]

Zoon said:

mikees said:

Well that was great !

What now? Any recommendations for something similar - i.e. good?

Have Netflix and Amazon


Mike

Narcos on Netflix.

Narcos is good, also you need to watch 'Making a Murderer' it's a true story and everyone I know that has watched it had been gobsmacked, you will fly thru it as you want to find out the outcome.

[Otispunkmeyer]

Polished this off in 24 hours it was that good. I could have watched all 8 back to back.

A second series is on the cards and from what I have read it will be set a good year or so after this series (apparently the young guy with the missing teeth has already started with the voice breaking) so that character changes aren't so jarring.

Bit weary of it though because I don't want them to do what a lot of series do and just go on too long, descending into a load of nonsense.

[Watchman]

I have only just started watching this - I'm on ep4 - and already I'm hooked. In 1983 I was a little older than these kids (couple of years) but I had a banana seat bike when I was their age and I was allowed to wander unsupervised all day (at weekends) like these kids are.

I feel quite nostalgic for the time... the bikes, the music, and the smaller world they lived in. Of course, we didn't have interdimensional monsters in our neighbourhood but there were a couple of odd people.

Great series.

[SpudLink]

Watchman said:

Of course, we didn't have interdimensional monsters in our neighbourhood but there were a couple of odd people.

Reminds me of a conversation with and old chap at work a while ago. He was lamenting the fact that kids are overprotected these days.
"When we were kids we played outdoors all summer. We'd stop overnight at a friends place, or sleep in a tree house. Childhood was so much healthier."
Then he paused for a moment, and added... "Mind you, the moors murderers were active in the area at the time."

Amusing, yes, but I think we sometimes view our childhood through rose tinted specs.

[Spanna]

There's some fun interviews with the young cast on YouTube, they're all so chilled yet charismatic and mature.

Here they are with Fallon: https://youtu.be/fbqiN9hHyJo

[ukaskew]

SpudLink said:

Amusing, yes, but I think we sometimes view our childhood through rose tinted specs.

I left the house at 8am, maybe came back for dinner and then out again until 8pm pretty much every day in the summer. Statistically are kids any safer now they are likely to be on a shorter leash (or at least have the tech to be in contact with an adult in seconds)?

We're more aware of the horrors (real and perceived) now, but I doubt statistically it make any real difference if I let him 'vanish' for 12 hours every single day in the summer without any means of contacting us.

[dave_s13]

R1gtr said:

.....you need to watch 'Making a Murderer' it's a true story and everyone I know that has watched it had been gobsmacked, you will fly thru it as you want to find out the outcome.

I started with this and got he impression its basically about some hills have eyes type redneck that get's put done for a crime he didn't commit then gets out, proves his innocence and sues the police.....or something.

I couldn't have cared less about the redneck and it tells you what happened before it even starts. The police were bent as you like but because you know what's going to happen and the protagonist is essentially a 3.14 key.....who cares!?

Did I read it wrong?

[anonymous-user]

dave_s13 said:

R1gtr said:

.....you need to watch 'Making a Murderer' it's a true story and everyone I know that has watched it had been gobsmacked, you will fly thru it as you want to find out the outcome.

I started with this and got he impression its basically about some hills have eyes type redneck that get's put done for a crime he didn't commit then gets out, proves his innocence and sues the police.....or something.

I couldn't have cared less about the redneck and it tells you what happened before it even starts. The police were bent as you like but because you know what's going to happen and the protagonist is essentially a 3.14 key.....who cares!?

Did I read it wrong?

Watch it, it's unbelievably gripping and you won't believe your eyes

[dave_s13]

anonymous said:

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lol.....ok, I'll give it another go but pay more attention this time...cheers

[Spanna]

dave_s13 said:

lol.....ok, I'll give it another go but pay more attention this time...cheers

You should. It's not a horror story, it's real with real people. The fact that Stephen and his family appears uneducated gave me more sympathy for them. Less a 3.14key, more a lowly council estate type bloke.

The facts of it are what should get you, not the story as a whole.

[moanthebairns]

Spanna said:

dave_s13 said:

lol.....ok, I'll give it another go but pay more attention this time...cheers

You should. It's not a horror story, it's real with real people. The fact that Stephen and his family appears uneducated gave me more sympathy for them. Less a 3.14key, more a lowly council estate type bloke.

The facts of it are what should get you, not the story as a whole.

From the offset I felt sympathy, wealthy or education shouldn't tarnish your perception of an individual.

However, after about 3 or 4 episodes I did think, right that's it whats the point in this now, then bang, fk me. Stick with it because just when you think this is going to go on and on, the story completely changes.

[Spanna]

moanthebairns said:

Spanna said:

dave_s13 said:

lol.....ok, I'll give it another go but pay more attention this time...cheers

You should. It's not a horror story, it's real with real people. The fact that Stephen and his family appears uneducated gave me more sympathy for them. Less a 3.14key, more a lowly council estate type bloke.

The facts of it are what should get you, not the story as a whole.

From the offset I felt sympathy, wealthy or education shouldn't tarnish your perception of an individual.

However, after about 3 or 4 episodes I did think, right that's it whats the point in this now, then bang, fk me. Stick with it because just when you think this is going to go on and on, the story completely changes.

The more sympathy for Brendan I should've said given his ordeal. Unreal! I'd obviously feel sympathetic for anyone in their situations whatever the background.

[Watchman]

SpudLink said:

Watchman said:

Of course, we didn't have interdimensional monsters in our neighbourhood but there were a couple of odd people.

Reminds me of a conversation with and old chap at work a while ago. He was lamenting the fact that kids are overprotected these days.
"When we were kids we played outdoors all summer. We'd stop overnight at a friends place, or sleep in a tree house. Childhood was so much healthier."
Then he paused for a moment, and added... "Mind you, the moors murderers were active in the area at the time."

Amusing, yes, but I think we sometimes view our childhood through rose tinted specs.

Well, as hypocritical as this will sound, despite me enjoying complete freedom to go out after breakfast and return at sundown, I absolutely could not allow my children that freedom. If nothing else then there are about 3-times the number of cars on the roads, and people drive significantly faster. My kids are not terribly street-wise in that regard.

However, we do live next to fields and I am happy for them to play in a group together as long as they stay in contact. I have 5 walkie talkies so I give 4 to the kids and keep one switched-on in the house where I can hear them. They love it.

I recently gave my son a phone. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. He's still too young to go off alone (11yo) but I am going to face this scenario soon enough I guess.


And... well, I lost my son earlier this year. We were cycling in the Forest of Dean. He went on ahead. We reached the road crossing and he wasn't there. He knows not to cross the road but he wasn't there. I spent the next 90 minutes cycling along every spurred-track off the one we had come along, shouting my head off trying to find him. Turned out he had crossed the road and was perfectly safe but my mind took me to some really dark places as I raced around trying to find him to hard that I actually ran out of energy and couldn't stand for a time.

We made a pact to keep each other informed a bit more in the future. I will allow him the freedom if he just makes sure I know he's going to make a break for it. He's a sensible kid. I don't fear his stupidity at all... but other people... Maybe the 24x7 news has poisoned us all and the absence of it in the 1980s was how our parents coped with our going out all day unsupervised?

[98elise]

Just started watching this and I'm liking it so far.

[malks222]

done and dusted over the weekend! absolutely loved stranger things. thought the characters, filming, acting and storyline were all spot on.

also 8 episodes, no filler, decent pace of the story, all worked really well.

[croyde]

I should like this but it's not doing it for me.

Seems like a long winded mish mash of Super 8 and the original Poltergeist film. Usual series thing of nothing happening for 50 minutes then some excitement for the last 10 just to keep you hooked.

Watched 5 episodes so far and really can't be bothered to continue.

Am I the only one

[daddy cool]

Me and the missus finished this a week or so ago. I did enjoy it, and thought it was a nice homage to 80's horror movies and things like The Goonies, but didnt think it was absolutely amazing in the way my buddy did, or some of the posters here.

A few comments/questions:

- Everyone cared about the boy missing/potentially dead/trapped in the netherworld. As for big ginge Barbara? Meh - there she is over there, with a snake poking out of her decomposing body.... anyway, moving on...
- Eleven said she "created" by accident the pathway between the two worlds in the basement of the Energy facility when one of her remote viewing tests went wrong. So how come there is at least one other pathway in a tree stump out in the woods? And why is Winona's house wall also a pathway?
- Do the Government know the creature is prowling around, taking people? Did they know it took Will in ep1? If so, did they NOT KNOW it took Barbara?
- Assuming somehow the Govt know it took Will, why did they do the elaborate coverup involving a doll filled with stuffing? Why not just not get involved and leave his disappearance to the Police (who presumably would have eventually just closed the case as missing presumed dead/abducted)? Why not do the same with Barbara?
- Any reason it went for Will to begin with? The kids work out if is attracted by blood - was Will bleeding?
- I was riled that in the end the girl stuck with the big-haired Trendy, and Thom Yorke was relegated to the Friendzone
- Some of the dialogue jarred, like the 2016 trend of US dialogue adding "right now" superfluously - as it "Are you serious right now???". I guess thats picking holes though...