Cynnie
From āRotten Tomatoesā of course:
- 80% āFreshā rating.
- This reimagining of Time Bandits swaps out the original filmās eccentricity for a more family-friendly sensibility, delivering an energetic adventure that gets more absorbing as it goes along.
I would say that it is OK if you havenāt seen the original film. It gets better after a couple of episodes, and the historical setting of the week works reasonably well after that. The last couple of episodes were a bit of a mess and they have obviously left this open for a second series, rather than just having the original open, and rather bleak, ending.
I think Lisa Kudrow was miscast. Apparently they had someone else in mind initially and it looks like they re-wrote the part. However, my wife pointed out that it would have been far more suited to Diane Morgan as written.
Itās a pity, really, as I have enjoyed most things Taika Waititi has done and I think if he had been allowed to make the humour a bit more āNew Zealandā it would have worked well, but probably not been entirely suitable as mainstream family viewing.
I suppose really I just want to watch the film again, which was pretty much faultless. Even the closing titles featured a decent throwaway track from George Harrison:
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Watched the third episode of Bad Monkey. Absolutely loved it. Iād almost forgotten how painful it was to watch a show via weekly episodes 
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The Guardian gave it 5/5 stars lol
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I am genuinely stunned 
I was conscious I was just being a grumpy brat after my reaction to the first two so stopped to check some reviews to see if I was being harsh and the first two I found both slated it and for the same reasons that were bothering me. Oh well.
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Nah; youāre not cool enough to be a brat.
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Brats are cool?
Iāve heard theyāre the wurst.
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Im a bit behind.
Maybe I need to Ketch up
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these puns just dont cut the mustard anymoreā¦
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But they just go on i on 
Watched 2 episodes of this last night. Quiet a lot of the stuff is fairly well known and common knowledge, but it does bring up some new stuff which is interesting like the doctor that treated Virgil and Morgan was one of the first doctors to link dirty hands during surgery and infections, so was an early practitioner of washing his hands prior to conducting surgery.
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For me it dispelled a few things/people I thought were significant.
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It was fucking wank mate, that was the problem. YES YES! Odd that all the review bombers who we all know exist and target woke programs went after HOTD for having black characters and lesbians. Oh, no they didnāt because it was brilliant.
Iāve cancelled Netflix!
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So have I! 
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Of all the streaming services Iāve tried, Iād say that Max and Apple (ugh, I feel so dirty even writing this) TV are the best for me. That said, I havenāt tried the likes of Shudder or Peacock.
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I found Apple to be very good. Not a huge catalogue, but what there is, is of high quality.
Is Max an HBO thing?
I was listening to the Richard Osman podcast, and he said that the big growth area for streaming are the āfree with adsā type services, things like Pluto and Roku. Essentially, these are replacing the linear broadcast channels.
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Yeah, it got rebranded from HBO Max to Max (decision obviously made by lords of marketing and invention). The library is great, though, and I think that itās even better if you use it with VPN, so you can access the library of other regions/countries.
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