yup! it's about a family in search of their missing patriarch/travel host in the amazon with a film crew in tow. it's made by the paranormal activity people, very digital camera footage-y. and what we're watching is supposed to be found footage i believe too, so i'm just waiting for everyone to die off. no real verdict yet.
This is The River, on which my mother got me hooked, after trying to get me to sit through the first episode several times (we have an On Demand service with our cable subscription). It's pretty cheesy -- the conceit is that it's the continuation of a long-running Steve_Irwin-ish nature series where the increasingly mystical patriarch goes around the bend after twenty years and disappears, and the wife and son that he totally alienated are recruited by his old producer to go back to the Amazon and find him.
The first episode is excruciating, all jumpy camera and Ghost Hunters, but I think that a combination of pretty good story-telling and Stockholm Syndrome sets in, and you start thinking that maybe the bad acting was probably calculated -- those looks at the camera mean something, and you start name-checking stuff that you read in National Geographic -- the scene immediately after the monkey-dollface was one where I said "I've heard about this, it's blah-de-blah blah" and the characters filled in what I said verbatim
I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it, but I'm not putting off other plans, and I am then going to force my mother to watch Battlestar Galactica just to clean my palate.
Plus for you is that you'll likely know what the mechanic and his gorgeous-but-spooky daughter are saying to each other -- other than the character setups in the first episode, English captions for the Portuguese are not provided ... which kinds of deepens the mystery (as in, why did they stop translating? And, are they really Brazilian?).
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on 2012-02-20 09:09 pm (UTC)I can spot a monkey a mile off, even in a mask.
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on 2012-02-25 03:41 am (UTC)The first episode is excruciating, all jumpy camera and Ghost Hunters, but I think that a combination of pretty good story-telling and Stockholm Syndrome sets in, and you start thinking that maybe the bad acting was probably calculated -- those looks at the camera mean something, and you start name-checking stuff that you read in National Geographic -- the scene immediately after the monkey-dollface was one where I said "I've heard about this, it's blah-de-blah blah" and the characters filled in what I said verbatim
I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it, but I'm not putting off other plans, and I am then going to force my mother to watch Battlestar Galactica just to clean my palate.
Plus for you is that you'll likely know what the mechanic and his gorgeous-but-spooky daughter are saying to each other -- other than the character setups in the first episode, English captions for the Portuguese are not provided ... which kinds of deepens the mystery (as in, why did they stop translating? And, are they really Brazilian?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_(U.S._TV_series)
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on 2012-02-25 01:16 pm (UTC)It sounds like it could be a guilty pleasure series to follow.