Hunters

[Sugar Ape]

New Pacino show out on Amazon today with him hunting down Nazis in the 70s in New York. 
 

Just watched the first episode (90 fucking minutes long!) and loved it. Opens with a great scene and really sets the show up by the end. Some obvious parallels with Inglourious Basterds. 
 

Reviews seem a bit mixed so I read quite a few of them before, most of the positive ones focus on the acting, production values, storyline etc... and the negative ones barely mention any of that but moan about things like Pacino getting cast ‘over any number of equally qualified big-name Jewish actors’ and a flashback scene to a concentration camp including an atrocity that didn’t happen in real life and was invented just for the programme.
 

The reviewer after spending ‘as much research as time and emotional resources will allow’ establishing this fact comes to the conclusion that this is not ok. No surprise that’s the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/21/hunters-review-al-pacino-nazis-amazon-jordan-peele?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[Bjornebye]

Cant wait to watch this later. 

[SasaS]

21 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

New Pacino show out on Amazon today with him hunting down Nazis in the 70s in New York. 
Just watched the first episode (90 fucking minutes long!) and loved it. Opens with a great scene and really sets the show up by the end. Some obvious parallels with Inglourious Basterds. 
 

Reviews seem a bit mixed so I read quite a few of them before, most of the positive ones focus on the acting, production values, storyline etc... and the negative ones barely mention any of that but moan about things like Pacino getting cast ‘over any number of equally qualified big-name Jewish actors’ and a flashback scene to a concentration camp including an atrocity that didn’t happen in real life and was invented just for the programme.
 

The reviewer after spending ‘as much research as time and emotional resources will allow’ establishing this fact comes to the conclusion that this is not ok. No surprise that’s the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/21/hunters-review-al-pacino-nazis-amazon-jordan-peele?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Insensitive Basterds?

[Mudface]

2 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

New Pacino show out on Amazon today with him hunting down Nazis in the 70s in New York. 
 

Just watched the first episode (90 fucking minutes long!) and loved it. Opens with a great scene and really sets the show up by the end. Some obvious parallels with Inglourious Basterds. 
 

Reviews seem a bit mixed so I read quite a few of them before, most of the positive ones focus on the acting, production values, storyline etc... and the negative ones barely mention any of that but moan about things like Pacino getting cast ‘over any number of equally qualified big-name Jewish actors’ and a flashback scene to a concentration camp including an atrocity that didn’t happen in real life and was invented just for the programme.
 

The reviewer after spending ‘as much research as time and emotional resources will allow’ establishing this fact comes to the conclusion that this is not ok. No surprise that’s the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/21/hunters-review-al-pacino-nazis-amazon-jordan-peele?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Yes, if there's one thing US film and TV is short on, it's Jewish representation... The reviewer, Lucy Mangan, is terrible. She gave Chernobyl a mediocre review because the first episode was 'confusing' and 'chaotic'- it was almost like a nuclear power plant had blown up and no one knew why. The Guardian as a whole really needs to knock off the identity politics in film and TV reviews, it's incredibly tiresome.

[Rico1304]

By far my favourite wellies. 

[SasaS]

22 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Yes, if there's one thing US film and TV is short on, it's Jewish representation... The reviewer, Lucy Mangan, is terrible. She gave Chernobyl a mediocre review because the first episode was 'confusing' and 'chaotic'- it was almost like a nuclear power plant had blown up and no one knew why. The Guardian as a whole really needs to knock off the identity politics in film and TV reviews, it's incredibly tiresome.

Yes, ideological reviewing seems to be de rigueur there now.

 

Although to be fair to the Guardian this time, my take was that the reviewer is not so much against the lead not being Jewish as much as saying that the fact they gave it to Pacino of all people serves as an indicator of overall insensitivity to the subject matter further evidenced by the propensity towards the giallo-style violence porn.  

[SasaS]

Just to ad that I don't share the view that giving Pacino the role would go against the authenticity of the project.

[Elite]

Should have cast Seth Rogan instead of Pacino or maybe Gilbert Gottfried.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Episode 1 was slow. To be expected though, a scene setter. Expect the pace to quicken big style.

 

The full series has dropped already on Kodi Fen in 1080p.

[Carvalho Diablo]

34 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Just to ad that I don't share the view that giving Pacino the role would go against the authenticity of the project.

I thought his fame detracted from it tbh. Would much prefer an unknown / little known actor in the role, but with the money invested that was never going to happen.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Just watching episode 2 now and I'll call it already - Hunters is gash.

 

It so wants to be Tarantino but fails miserably, and the comedic elements are as funny as Zyklon B.

 

3/10

[Sugar Ape]

Disagree with CD. Just finished the third episode and I’m liking it. 7.5/10 so far. 

[Scooby Dudek]

Watched the first episode, pre credits scene was great. Slow build but really liked it.

Looking forward to watching more tomorrow.

[mattyq]

The first episode was deeply weird and not in a good way

Will watch the 2nd to see if it improves 

[Captain Turdseye]

I tried to stream it on TyphoonTV last night and every link was a shite 80’s cop show called Hunter. It’s crap. 

[manwiththestick]

2 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I tried to stream it on TyphoonTV last night and every link was a shite 80’s cop show called Hunter. It’s crap. 

Haha, I used to love Hunter, if I recall he had a dark red car that had like a silver trim at the bottom, carried a big gun and had a woman sidekick with massive 80's perm.

 

I guess like most things, it will have been of the time.

[Carvalho Diablo]

8 hours ago, mattyq said:

The first episode was deeply weird and not in a good way

Will watch the 2nd to see if it improves 

Episode 2 shamelessly tries to rip off Tarantino's pastiches and fails miserably.

 

Episode 2 also tries to inject some humour and fails miserably.

 

Episode 3 is in the bin with the rest of the rubbish.

[Carvalho Diablo]

1 hour ago, manwiththestick said:

Haha, I used to love Hunter, if I recall he had a dark red car that had like a silver trim at the bottom, carried a big gun and had a woman sidekick with massive 80's perm.

 

I guess like most things, it will have been of the time.

Better than this garbage.