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dhampyresa) wrote2017-08-29 10:32 pm
dhampyresa) wrote2017-08-29 10:32 pm
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Rec me things
So.
For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I want to watch movies/shows/etc that are completely new to me. As a result, I am willing to try pretty much anything anyone is willing to tell me to watch.
For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I want to watch movies/shows/etc that are completely new to me. As a result, I am willing to try pretty much anything anyone is willing to tell me to watch.
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These should be easy to find on YouTube:
LARP: the Series - Two seasons of short episodes following a LARP group, in and out of character. This is of the go out into the woods in costume and act out combat sort of LARP with a very small group of players doing an ongoing fantasy campaign.
DC Super Hero Girls - The shorts for this series are on YouTube. The movies went to DVD and may or may not be available online. Basically, this is the various DC female characters as students at a high school for supers. Some male heroes also appear as students, but the focus is on the female characters. I've liked everything I've watched for this.
Evillious Chronicles - I looked into this for last year's Yuletide to see if I might offer it (and didn't finish it in time). It's very, very long and consists of a few hundred short videos of varying lengths (two minutes to fifteen, I think). You need to find it subtitled because the audio (songs) is in Japanese. If I'm recalling correctly, there's a website that gives the best order to watch the videos in. They're interconnected and sometimes have the same events from different points of view (which completely alter what the viewer thought was going on) but cover centuries or even millennia in a fantasy world. Quite a bit is grim and creepy but in a way I found fascinating. This is not one to watch while depressed or while pressed for time. I found one collection that had almost all of the videos, but I still had to search out a few by their specific titles.
Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party - This one may make you want to throw things, depending on how much you know about the authors (all either English or from the US) being portrayed because all of the authors are the worst/most ridiculous versions of who people today who don't know much about them think they were. The idea is that Poe is hosting a murder mystery dinner and has invited a number of other authors (not all actually from his period). Then someone starts murdering guests. I couldn't stop watching even though some of the characterization made me angry when I let myself remember it was connected to real authors who I know something about. I don't think any of the episodes are longer than 15 minutes.
Razor Sharp - I also watched this for last Yuletide (and offered it). It's less than half an hour long, including credits, and is vaguely science fiction-ish. It focuses on a woman who steals industrial secrets and finds out that what she's currently trying to steal isn't what she was told it was.
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Baahubali - This was originally in Telugu, but my library claims (this is incredibly unreliable) that their copy is in Hindi. I don't know those languages apart by sound, so I'm not sure what the version I watched was. This is the first half of a longer story (I think the next movie may be out in India, but I haven't checked to be sure) of a lost prince finding out who he is. The second half of the movie is a long flashback to his father's life that ends in a cliffhanger. That part started right when I expected the movie to be over.
Aria the Animation - This is a slice of life anime series with no villains and no particular angst or drama. It's very, very low stress. It's set on a version of Mars that has been terraformed to the point that it has enough water for cities to use gondolas for at least some transportation. The story follows a girl who comes from Earth to Mars to learn to be a gondolier.
Miss Hokusai - This is a Japanese animated movie about a famous artist. It makes some assumptions about what the audience will already know, so I'm quite sure I missed a lot of details. It's been a while since I watched it, but I think it's set some time in the Tokugawa period rather than after the Meiji Restoration. It's not linear and doesn't exactly have a plot of the sort that people used to Hollywood would recognize as such. There is child death, but it's not-- How to put it? It's the sort of signposted long illness not long for this world child death, and the focus is on the title character interacting with the child (her younger sister) before that.
Jodhaa Akbar - My library says their copy is in Hindi. This is historical fiction about a famous arranged marriage between the Mogul emperor Akbar and the Rajput princess, Jodhaa. The love story is famous. The movie is very long.
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Because I'm enjoying the hell out of the Canadian fantasy western Wynonna Earp, which features the great great granddaughter of Wyatt Earp reluctantly hunting demons and enthusiastically being an asshole, and her adorable little sister trying to help, and falling in love with girls. Also staring a dour secret agent with a supernatural past, and a character from Wyatt's life time. The love triangle is non-obnoxious, the lesbians are pretty cute, and the themes are decently feminist. It's also really funny, has terrible special effects and an earnestness that reminds me of the '90s.
My one caveat with this rec is that it does have a fair amount of body horror gore and blood. Including, at one point, a secondary character being vivisected on screen.
First season is on Netflix, second season just finished airing, third season confirmed for next year.
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If you're on S. Asian movies, I highly recommend Dor, about the friendship of two women, one Muslim from the north and one Hindu from the east. It's very sweet and can be seen as quite femslashy.
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ETA: Recs:
Slings & Arrows -- Canadian show about a Shakespeare festival. Three seasons, 6 eps per season. The first episode is all set-up, so watch at least through episode two before you decide if you like it. :-)
Avatar: the Last Airbender -- Animation. Some kids team up to save the world. Great characters and world-building.
And my Korean drama recs are here. :-)
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Have you seen Nirvana In Fire? Legion? The Good Place? Fullmetal Alchemist? Samurai Champloo? Avatar: The Last Airbender? Ladyhawke? Sharpe? Peking Opera Blues? So Close? Red Cliff? Lost and Found?(with Takeshi Kaneshiro). I am happy to rec for the ones you haven't seen.
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*They're kind of agender - everyone in this society has a default female body until they reach adulthood, at which point they choose their gender.
Possible warnings: incestuous feelings; shippiness between young characters.
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Teen Titans Go! - This series is good for very short, very batshit comedy with good voice actors who have a strong grasp on the characters. The voice actors also did the voices for the earlier and more serious (and for me more enjoyable) cartoon series, Teen Titans (which, if you haven't already seen it, I recommend very highly). The episodes are about twelve minutes long, and there's no continuity between episodes. The characters are recognizably the same as in the previous series, but their choices and actions are, um, well, batshit.
Phineas and Ferb - This is another cartoon series with twelve minute episodes (and the occasional longer special). There's some continuity, but the setting exists somewhere that manages to be both within day trip distance of Mt Rushmore and within day trip distance of the Atlantic Ocean. I can only suppose some weird fold in space. The title characters are two ten (?) year old step-brothers who, with their friends, make spectacularly weird, dangerous, and fun things every episode. Their older sister keeps trying to get their mother to see, but the inventions always vanish (without the kids doing anything to cause it) before the mother arrives. That's the A plot for any episode. The B plot involves the kids' pet platypus who is secretly an agent for an organization that fights supervillains. His nemesis is Dr Doofenschmirtz, who is kind of likable (and pathetic) at the same time he's constantly doing things that might (usually as a side effect) destroy the world or, at least, the town. There are also songs in each episode and a pretty large cast of recurring characters.
Girl Meets World - This is a half hour Disney sitcom that never once made me cringe due to embarrassment humor. It's about a couple of girls in middle school and their friends and families. It's generally feel good/sweet. But it's Disney, so it may be hard to find.
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures - Actually, any of the LEGO Star Wars things are worth trying if you enjoy Star Wars crackfic. This series is less crack than the others because it doesn't generally include canonical characters. The Freemakers are a trio of siblings (two brothers and a sister0 trying to make a living doing salvage and repair during the days of the Empire (Leia appears in one episode, looking more or less the age she was in the original series). The younger brother proves to be force sensitive and able to track the pieces of an artifact the Emperor wants. There's still a lot of slapstick, but the plot is enjoyable.
The Magic School Bus - I find this series soothing when I don't want to think or to deal with any conflict. It's a PBS Kids cartoon about a teacher, Ms Frizzle, who takes her class on very unusual field trips. Once, they turn into bees. Once, they travel the solar system. There's not a lot of depth to the characters, and some of the science is out of date, but it's cheerful and energetic, and nobody's evil. (I think that a lot of fic writing fans headcanon Ms Frizzle as a Timelord with the Bus as her TARDIS.)
Danny Phantom - This is an old-ish (I have trouble labeling anything that's not older than 1980 as an 'old show', but I think this one is 1990s) cartoon about teens fighting invading ghosts. It skews to the comic rather than to the horrific. The title character gets zapped by something in his parents' lab and suddenly can shift back and forth between being human and being a ghost. He hides this from his parents because they're obsessed with ghosts as evil. Most of the supporting characters are a little one dimensional, but there is development for a few central characters. There are recurring villains, and there's at least one time travel episode.
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Also seconding Wynonna Earp - it's light and the plot is sometimes wafer thin but the characters and relationships are a twelve course meal. So great. Sisters and girlfriends and best friends and trust and hugging and doing the right thing. And demons and curses and family and small town dramas. It's lots of fun. Also a comic, not that I've read it.
I didn't expect to enjoy the Dirk Gently series as much as I did - it's batty and not a lot to do with the original source but it is very much in the mood of it. And there are lots of ladies, even if you don't see them for an episode or so. It's quite violent, though, in a cartoonish way but still with lots of blood.
ETA: I didn't think of it until I'd been out in the garden, but if you haven't seen Person of Interest, and if you'd like me to give you a watching order or rec some episodes to get you going (because it is an amazing show but has pilotitis and the first few eps can seem a bit 'action movie of the week') then please let me know. I am here for you for that. *nods solemnly*
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These all look great. I've already seen "Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party" and it's great. Thanks for the recs.
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I have seen most of Person of Interest; the Machine is my favourite.
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