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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 3, 2020 17:57:29 GMT
Fnck yeah.......Netflix trailer coming soon for this Aussie production allegedly so I figured might as well give it it's own thread and this is the initial "non-Netflix" trailer. This is an ensemble show obviously...... July 8th starts on Netflix
www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/stateless/s01
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Post by cheesecake on Jun 3, 2020 19:06:23 GMT
This looks promising. Feel like I haven't heard Blanchett with that accent in ages, haha.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 25, 2020 14:45:43 GMT
Netflix trailer:
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 3, 2020 9:52:04 GMT
89% atm - 8/9 positive and the one negative (TV Guide) seems to be more on content than quality. Looks like an interesting show if you read some of these and starts next week (the 8th). www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/stateless/s01 |
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jul 4, 2020 10:52:22 GMT
89% atm - 8/9 positive and the one negative (TV Guide) seems to be more on content than quality. Looks like an interesting show if you read some of these and starts next week (the 8th). www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/stateless/s01Oh honey, it's interesting that Blannie hasn't been at all bothered about the release of her shows (This & Mrs America) during the pandemic, while Nicole shelved her show The Undoing, because she couldn't do the disproportionate amount of publicity and marketing that she always does whenever she's in anything...
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 4, 2020 15:10:47 GMT
89% atm - 8/9 positive and the one negative (TV Guide) seems to be more on content than quality. Looks like an interesting show if you read some of these and starts next week (the 8th). www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/stateless/s01Oh honey, it's interesting that Blannie hasn't been at all bothered about the release of her shows (This & Mrs America) during the pandemic, while Nicole shelved her show The Undoing, because she couldn't do the disproportionate amount of publicity and marketing that she always does whenever she's in anything... Indeed Legend. As you know, the Movie Gods will think MAR was legitimately insane in ever seeing them as "artistic rivals" because they were around the same age, in the film industry and were from Australia. I mean I'm the same age as American dirt and we both are different when we are rained upon ........but we are not "rivals" either  I think of Jon Voight/Robert De Niro .......sort of the same age, same country, made movies, each won an Oscar but one won 2 and exceeds the other by 7 to 4 in nominations, both played a Vietnam vet, both played a boxer, both played in a film where a group of friends were transformed by events (Deliverance/Deer Hunter).......but no one thought that Jon Voight was actually a "rival" to Robert De Niro or ever wanted to see them in a movie together (even when they actually made one!) because one actor was........ Robert F'N De Niro and the other was not. Nicole Kidman is "Jon Voight" here (with a more fanatical fan base and better publicists) ...... I'm kidding a little ..........calm down everyone.......but not that much come on .........I like Nicole Kidman but in no way is she close to Blanchett as an actress - as a star confection-brand maybe she is......... like Liz Taylor to Blanchett's Geraldine Page. But by the time their careers are over it will seem even more absurd that Kidman/Blanchett were ever linked at all ................and I'm saying it kind of seems absurd right now doesn't it...............and the comparison between them never elevates Kidman to Blanchett artistically it just makes Nicole look worse ....... worse than a bad hair day with no available wigs to try on. That was for you MsMovieStar , I remain your humble servant and will order more Vodka!
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 8, 2020 16:06:16 GMT
Episode 1 - Well this is one of those shows that telegraphs its punches and scatters its points. Episode 1 is hard to follow but you have to stick with it - impeccably acted and staged - it works best at least in Episode 1 if you're really focused on who is who and what their story is. You can't rush it..... Probably won't binge this but will make time for it - a tough watch but a good one. Blanchett is not in E1 much but is brilliant anyway - she enters the storyline dancing (!), sort of eerily lays out her part as one-half of a conning couple and sinister-like holds a baby as a vampire wolf mother (somebody give her a new horror film please). Later she sings (!) and both gazes and deftly avoids gazes at crucial times which is becoming her specialty......this is a bravura turn in Episode 1 but it's very much in support and often in the background so far. Yvonne Strahovski as Sofie Werner is quite good here too as the most compelling lead (so far).  |
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 13, 2020 21:11:01 GMT
I thought this was very good, very well-acted. How people are pulled in, duped, swept out, seeking, stuck — from the wellness cult (with its cheesy, creepy husband-wife leaders), to the detention centers, where the new hires (guard, manager) are tested, flummoxed, verging on collapse like the institution itself which is more concerned with the hovering media and averting crises than clearing and resolving what’s going on inside.
Series opens on Yvonne Strahovski running away, from who/what we don’t yet know; a key image of trapping out the answers around desired escape. Her performance of fugue derangement is startlingly effective. Asher Keddie as the manager is as clinically ambitious as she is fed-up stressed and gives the best performance - a really tense, unpredictable perf. Fayssal Bazzi and his daughter, as the central refugees, are devastating. Dominic West and Cate Blanchett have smaller parts but are slyly realized as superficial clones of human help. When Yvonne is cruelly berated in front of a crowd she looks to Blanchett who turns her head away swiftly - there are suggestions in Blanchett that she merely echoes her husband (“your dirty negativity” she repeats from his line) and in one shot the way she privately breathes and braces herself for “the show.” At what price (sort of literal price too) has she sought an audience?
Here, the day-to-day detention problems surmount the larger issues, and crises are only to be mitigated or snuck away. Personal change here ( the ironic “transformation trophy” ) is not a redefining but a blurring or complete loss of self, like how names in the center are altered, irrelevant.
One nagging thing I found were the flashbacks how they were teased and reined for obvious dramatic purposes. Otherwise, recommended! for some reason not many seem to be watching this or have even heard of it... crikey...
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