Black Mirror (Incredible TV Show)
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A million comedians try 'orange man bad' jokes, but Brooker is the only one who bothers to be funny.
"aging He-man cosplayer dressed for a court appearance"
"If he kissed a baby, it is probably the first step in a long game of going to bed with it in 18 years."
"guinea pig in a toby jug"
"aging He-man cosplayer dressed for a court appearance"
"If he kissed a baby, it is probably the first step in a long game of going to bed with it in 18 years."
"guinea pig in a toby jug"
What did you guys think of Bandersnatch?
RawGod said:
Ya it's going to be hard to pirate. It was interesting but not worth a lot of effort to see, imo.
Not really up to usual Black Mirror standards. Definitely not up to the standard of the last Black Mirror special I remember - that Christmas one with Jon Hamm.
sterling_archer
Hummingbird
Yify has uploaded movie, but it is not an interactive movie of course. Uploader made choices on his own accord and what was uploaded was his vision how the film should have ended. Not sure if I will watch it though because of that.
sterling_archer
Hummingbird
I spoiled myself endings already. 
Windom Earle said:
I enjoyed it. I like the way they designed the choices and the ability to pick differently while keeping you immersed. I do hope that they find a way to add some more humor to the concept,it could get stale if everytime they do one of these it's super serious.
I feel they can take the interactivity even further and immersivity will eventually become standard in the future with this type of genre, i.e. a call comes through to your phone, a linked device is activated etc.
^ even if you don’t take the acid, he puts it in your tea - but he jumps.
I found Black Mirror sort of went out of it's way to being SJW by inserting as many black characters as possible (even though they're just 3% of the British population). I'm not British but I prefer to watch a British show to depict British people as a way for me to experience their culture (so something like Netflix's Sick Note set in Britain was more enjoyable for me to watch). It seems other people must agree with me because a show called Downton Abbey (which was white British people 100 years ago) was a huge hit all around the world.
It's kind of weird that Bandersnatch went against this: almost all the characters were white except for the Indian Game Developer who kind of lived up to an Indian business owner stereotype (although I question if there were any Indian video game studio leaders in the 1980s).
It's kind of weird that Bandersnatch went against this: almost all the characters were white except for the Indian Game Developer who kind of lived up to an Indian business owner stereotype (although I question if there were any Indian video game studio leaders in the 1980s).
Windom Earle said:
Its a shame there isn't a satisfying conclusion that truly solves the mystery and thereby the real solution to the obstacles that is brought up.
infowarrior1 said:
The only issues I really saw in Bandersnatch was maybe a Mommy complex and issues that every teenager goes through.
IMHO - issues easily fixed by not fucking up that game making job, moving out of Dad's house and then banging some 39 year old MILF. But of course Black Mirror's solutions were intentionally weird but that's kind of their artistic style that their fans enjoy.
Richard Turpin
Kingfisher
I've been wanting to catch Black Mirror for ages after hearing good things about it. Never got round to it, until the other day when I saw the word 'interactive' and was intrigued.
Myself, the missus and my teenage son sat and watched Bandersnatch. We quickly lost interest.
I loved the old Fighting Fantasy 'choose your own adventure' gamebooks as a kid so was hoping for something similar. I get that the writers were trying to be clever and make a point about our lack of free-will, but there's nothing new or clever here that nobody hasn't read about or seen before and it was poorly executed in my opinion. I'm still gonna watch the rest of the Black Mirror catalogue as some of the episodes sound very good.
Bandersnatch screamed 'gimmick' and proved to be exactly that. I wonder if it was a little rushed, as I feel they could have done this a whole lot better than they did.
Myself, the missus and my teenage son sat and watched Bandersnatch. We quickly lost interest.
I loved the old Fighting Fantasy 'choose your own adventure' gamebooks as a kid so was hoping for something similar. I get that the writers were trying to be clever and make a point about our lack of free-will, but there's nothing new or clever here that nobody hasn't read about or seen before and it was poorly executed in my opinion. I'm still gonna watch the rest of the Black Mirror catalogue as some of the episodes sound very good.
Bandersnatch screamed 'gimmick' and proved to be exactly that. I wonder if it was a little rushed, as I feel they could have done this a whole lot better than they did.
BaatumMania said:
I saw all the endings. One is that he discovers that his dad is not what he seems. And there is a true reason behind the way he turned out that is much more than your above explanation.
There isn't a true ending which truly lays all the issues to rest and he truly overcomes the game.
Every last one of them is a bad ending.
I'm kind of surprised the only responses to the "USS Callister" episode in this thread have been positive. To me, it seemed the message of the episode was that omega males/incels/whatever you want to call them are the way they are because they are fundamentally evil people, i.e., they're secretly sadistic sociopaths, that is why women don't like them, women are right to hate them, and they should be destroyed.