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Post by Taildragger on Mar 28, 2020 23:06:57 GMT -5
We just finished it tonight. All in all, pretty good, despite requiring the reading of subtitles (unless you speak Icelandic):
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Mar 29, 2020 14:23:22 GMT -5
I managed to get through it week before last. The plot was fine but the actors were difficult to adjust to (as an American viewer) -- they were a bit too real.
I have no idea how the police operate in Iceland but every time they went into a sketchy situation without a Glock or Sig it just took me out of the story.
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Post by Chris Greene on Mar 29, 2020 14:54:23 GMT -5
Was it on Netflix that they had the gangster show with Steven van Zandt called Lilyhammer? That was great.
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 29, 2020 16:12:35 GMT -5
I managed to get through it week before last. The plot was fine but the actors were difficult to adjust to (as an American viewer) -- they were a bit too real. I have no idea how the police operate in Iceland but every time they went into a sketchy situation without a Glock or Sig it just took me out of the story. One episode left me under the impression that they keep their sidearms in a locked gun safe in the trunk of the car and have to get verbal authorization from HQ to break them out. If that is accurate, it may be one step above the Brit cops, but still insanely dangerous IMHO.
I read all of Ian Rankin's crime novels about a Glasgow cop and that was one of the things that always had me on edge: he'd walk into a estate block ("project") full of little knife-wielding, petrol-bomb-tossing banger thugs to ask questions with no gun. Nuts.
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Post by professor on Mar 30, 2020 14:26:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip. All the nordic noir stuff is interesting, though often the criminal themes are the same, some combination of human/drug smuggling, neo and real Nazis, and pedophilia. I'm also reminded to scratch Iceland off my places to retire to list. Gray, dark, cold. I also can't get over the degree to which there must have been inbreeding for 1,000 years. "Trapped" is a good one, great main character, "Andrei". Each day is worse than the one before.
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 30, 2020 15:43:50 GMT -5
I'm also reminded to scratch Iceland off my places to retire to list. Gray, dark, cold. I also can't get over the degree to which there must have been inbreeding for 1,000 years. And thank you for the tip about "Trapped".
If I was to go to a place like Iceland, I'd kind of approach it as I do going to the desert. At first, places like that just strike me as having a bleak sameness to them. But after awhile, I tend to "re-calibrate" my senses and start to realize that there actually is quite a bit of variety, it's just more subtle and nuanced than in some other environments.
Here's some beautiful, documentary footage taken in Iceland:
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Post by professor on Mar 31, 2020 10:56:20 GMT -5
Taildragger, here's athe trailer for a short documentary about some guys looking to surf under the northern lights in Iceland. Makes my teeth hurt...
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Post by professor on Mar 31, 2020 11:01:47 GMT -5
...a longer clip
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Post by digiboy on Apr 2, 2020 21:13:28 GMT -5
We just finished it tonight. All in all, pretty good, despite requiring the reading of subtitles (unless you speak Icelandic):
Hey Taildragger or anyone else who watched the Valahlla Murders.
Finished it today.
Did I miss a scene? I'm talking about the sub-plot of Kata's son and the video from the party. She found the "red hoody" that implied he was guilty so she burned it. Then suddenly he was innocent. There was one casual reference made later that others at the party were arrested and admitted her son wasn't there, but did we ever see that happen? It's like they just shrugged off that part of the story like there wasn't time to film it. Or did I nod off during a scene?
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 2, 2020 22:06:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought they kinda just dropped that "side plot" without adequate explanation too. Maybe careless editing?
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 2, 2020 23:23:23 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip. All the nordic noir stuff is interesting, though often the criminal themes are the same, some combination of human/drug smuggling, neo and real Nazis, and pedophilia. I'm also reminded to scratch Iceland off my places to retire to list. Gray, dark, cold. I also can't get over the degree to which there must have been inbreeding for 1,000 years. "Trapped" is a good one, great main character, "Andrei". Each day is worse than the one before.
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www.amazon.com/Trapped-Season-1-English-Subtitled/dp/B071WB7XGGOoooh, that was a good one, prof. We watched it quite awhile ago but it had slipped my mind.
And thanks for posting the other ones about surfing in Iceland. I'd seen a bunch of other ones about arctic surfing, but not that one.
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Post by Richard L on Apr 3, 2020 13:09:07 GMT -5
I like these Icelandic/Scandinavian crime series. However I do get tired of trying to read white sub-titles against white backgrounds (snow, shirts, etc etc). Is it really beyond today's technology to vary the text colour or back the titles with a grey block. Also sometimes the sub-title flashes off the screen before I've had time to read it - not sure whether this is a Netflix issue or something not quite right at our end.
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 3, 2020 13:51:26 GMT -5
You need to look deeper into your NetFlix "captions" settings: we've done this when necessary. |
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