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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Oct 17, 2024 13:12:05 GMT
The first one was okay, but this sounds awful and like it even makes the first one a waste of time so I think I'll pass... Yeah, I'm not risking any actual money on it. There'll be a download soon enough. That way I can also ff through all the f*cking songs. 😉 😂 You can watch it on Amazon at the end of the month. They've certainly rushed that out. |
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Post by Bernard Marx on Oct 17, 2024 13:18:23 GMT
Yeah, I'm not risking any actual money on it. There'll be a download soon enough. That way I can also ff through all the f*cking songs. 😉 😂 You can watch it on Amazon at the end of the month. They've certainly rushed that out. Presumably because no one’s bothering to spend money on a cinema trip. I might give it a gander, but as I’ve alluded to before, I can imagine it pissing me off hugely (as someone who really liked the first one). The only apparent silver lining is that the first film works well as a standalone film, so if this is as bad as it sounds, there’ll be no need to revisit this in any context. |
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Post by rushy on Oct 17, 2024 13:25:06 GMT
The Red Dwarf books are such strange beasts compared to the episodes. I think they're absolutely vital reading for fans, but the way all the episodes are rewritten to blend into one another gives it a very strange pace.
At first, it's really cool and makes the world feel less episodic, but after a while, you realise the crew never get a break in the books. There are time skips, but they always take place during the actual story, rather than in-between. So Lister is trapped in Better than Life for like a year, then White Hole and Polymorph happen at once right after, then he immediately spends like 20 years aging in Marooned, and then another 20 de-aging in Backwards. It's a bit weird.
I also think the writers got carried away with the surrealistic landscapes in Better than Life and Backwards, because they spend f*cking ages in there.
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Post by rushy on Oct 17, 2024 13:31:07 GMT
Mood-wise, the first book Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers is very series 1/2 influenced. Better than Life takes its cue from series 2-4. Backwards is series 5-6 (the tone of series 5, but the events of 6). And Last Human adapts some series 6 elements, but tonally is closest to series 7.
Last Human is the biggest departure from the show and the previous books tbh, it's kind of its own thing entirely. The narrative of Last Human was never on TV.
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 17, 2024 19:58:46 GMT
Damn you Ludders I got mixed up over what thread this was LOL. I personally haven't seen Joker 2 and I don't think I can be bothered. LOVE Gaga, but this just sounds like misery porn. Have 0 interest in watching Arthur be raped and yeah I don't want the first movie's ending ruined either.
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Post by rushy on Oct 18, 2024 18:11:45 GMT
What would you like the new story to be about? I've heard rumours that Doug Naylor is interested in revisiting some loose ends in these longer specials, and this was certainly true in Promised Land where we caught up with the Cat people.
Here's all the loose ends that I can think of:
1) Kochanski. Lister spent all of Back to Earth and season 10 trying to find her. I don't think they should get together, but some kind of closure would be nice.
2) Future Echoes set up Lister's children Jim and Bexley being on the ship, and Bexley dying. But then between seasons 2 and 3, they leave the ship as babies. So it would make sense to have a story where they return as adults and that future finally comes to pass.
3) Earth. In the books, Lister actually makes it back and discovers that Earth has been turned into humanity's junkyard. I think that'd be pretty terrific to see onscreen.
4) The whole series 8 thing. We never did find out how or why Rimmer stopped being Ace, and what happened to Captain Hollister and the rest of the clones.
5) Rimmer's true love from Holoship could still be out there.
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Post by rushy on Oct 19, 2024 15:29:11 GMT
My review of Better than Life is out!
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Oct 20, 2024 14:03:34 GMT
What would you like the new story to be about? I've heard rumours that Doug Naylor is interested in revisiting some loose ends in these longer specials, and this was certainly true in Promised Land where we caught up with the Cat people. Here's all the loose ends that I can think of: 1) Kochanski. Lister spent all of Back to Earth and season 10 trying to find her. I don't think they should get together, but some kind of closure would be nice. 2) Future Echoes set up Lister's children Jim and Bexley being on the ship, and Bexley dying. But then between seasons 2 and 3, they leave the ship as babies. So it would make sense to have a story where they return as adults and that future finally comes to pass. 3) Earth. In the books, Lister actually makes it back and discovers that Earth has been turned into humanity's junkyard. I think that'd be pretty terrific to see onscreen. 4) The whole series 8 thing. We never did find out how or why Rimmer stopped being Ace, and what happened to Captain Hollister and the rest of the clones. 5) Rimmer's true love from Holoship could still be out there. I'm not sure if I want anything explained except Kochanski coming back. Lister was obsessed with her in series 10, but she's rarely mentioned after that. I just hope Doug writes another movie-style romp . |
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 21, 2024 15:15:50 GMT
Not that related, but found this on my travels. Dave Lister interviewing Amy Winehouse haha.
As a Red Dwarf/Amy fan this awesome. Craig Charles is a man after my own heart being a sci fi icon/Amy fan and the host of Robot Wars another huge childhood favourite too, and he did a Dinosaur Docu. He only needs to do something with vampires and he's got the full set for me haha.
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Post by iank on Oct 21, 2024 16:29:29 GMT
He's done ghosts.  |
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 21, 2024 16:52:45 GMT
He's done ghosts. Are you referring to Ghostwatch? The tv show he was in that pretended it was real when it first aired and scared a teen so badly he killed himself! Craig was a tiny part of that I believe. I didn't know he went back that far. |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Oct 21, 2024 17:03:09 GMT
Not that related, but found this on my travels. Dave Lister interviewing Amy Winehouse haha. As a Red Dwarf/Amy fan this awesome. Craig Charles is a man after my own heart being a sci fi icon/Amy fan and the host of Robot Wars another huge childhood favourite too, and he did a Dinosaur Docu. He only needs to do something with vampires and he's got the full set for me haha. He reacted to Takeshi's Castle, the insane 80s game show from Japan. His reactions were done in the 2000s for the British edit of the show. |
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Post by rushy on Oct 24, 2024 17:06:27 GMT
My review of Thanks for the Memory is out! Surprisingly, I'm not as keen on it this time as I was the last few watches. It's a great episode, don't get me wrong, but it's slipped away from being my favourite... means I have to decide on a new fave!
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 24, 2024 17:29:21 GMT
My review of Thanks for the Memory is out! Surprisingly, I'm not as keen on it this time as I was the last few watches. It's a great episode, don't get me wrong, but it's slipped away from being my favourite... means I have to decide on a new fave! It's just too depressing for me. Poor Rimmer. That said Holoship goes a long way to fixing it. |
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Post by rushy on Oct 26, 2024 17:45:25 GMT
Rimmer when Lister considers travelling to the past to die with Kochanski   |
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