melasnus

Very funny movie.

dex14

Almost as funny as We're The Millers.

He was amazing in Detroit.

melasnus

Almost...

Damn, haven't got to this one yet.
Putting in my queue now...

Abob Teff

People are idiots. I am not agreeing with that behavior or observation at all, but I do have to comment that it did seem as if the makeup crew didn't do favors to anybody on this production. I don't know if it was that the makeup wasn't prepared for shots that close up, if it was a high-def issue, or what ... but everybody was having their blemishes shown in extreme detail.

Jay G.

Netflix has released a few making-of featurettes on Youtube:




Also, I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread, but this movie is apparently inspired by a real-life attempt in 1984 to create a game called Bandersnatch by gaming company Imagine Software. The game was supposedly so advanced they needed to include a hardware add-on for the Z Spectrum with the game. Imagine went bankrupt before the game was released, but a documentary crew was on hand during the collapse and created the 1984 documentary "Commercial Breaks - The Battle For Santa's Software" covering it. It's available to view on Youtube:

fiver

I've been trying for days to remember where I knew Will Poulter from as I haven't seen any of the other movies mentioned here. It was his first film when he was a child, Son of Rambow, very sweet and charming movie. I don't understand the trend lately for geeks to cyber-bully actors and actresses for made up reasons or no reason at all. He was great in Bandersnatch.

Josh-da-man

movieguru

This is how I felt. The overall story wasn't interesting at all and neither were the characters in it. It seemed like no matter what choice you made you would eventuallu get rerouted to make the other choice eventually. I like most of Black Mirror's episodes especially when they had a twist ending like San Juniper. By the time I got to the end of this episode I just didn't care. I fely it dragged on for too long and really went nowhere. I think Black Mirror set the bar really high with San Juniper and it will be really difficult for them to reach that level again. It's kind of like M Night movies. It will be very hard to top the twist ending that he had with Sixth Sense and no other movie he does after that is every going to be able to have that same level of amazement. I can't imagine any new movies he does to have a better plot twist than Bruce Willis being a ghost.

RichC2

San Junipero was a good episode, but the ending was really obvious for a Black Mirror episode.

Also, the movie ends when you get to an ending -- them allowing you to keep going definitely took away from it (but saved me time since I would have gone for every ending regardless). I like to believe him going to the doctor and kicking his dad in the balls was the proper ending.

Brian T

Netflix Hit With Lawsuit Over ‘Bandersnatch’ by ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Book Publisher
https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/ba...ix-1203105544/

TomOpus

I would think it could increase book sales.

Jay G.

There's tons of off-brand CYOA adventure series. The genre is called gamebooks, although that includes books that play like a solitaire RPG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebook
https://gamebooks.org/Series/List

Ryan North has a series of "Chooseable-Path Adventures" based on Shakespeare. Doctor Who has the "Decide Your Destiny" and "Choose the Future" series of books. There's "Pick Your Own Quest" and "You Say Which Way Adventures" book series.

Then there's the books that more closely ape the CYOA name, and even book cover design. "Choose Your Own Misery: Dating", "Killing Hitler With Praise And Fire: Choose Your Own Horrible History", "Ocean of Lard (Choose Your Own Mindf*** Fest #17)" , and "Escape from Fire Island!: A Date with Destiny Adventure". These are also more mature titles aimed at adults. They may get away with the similarities by being parodies of the CYOA series.

There's also gamebook erotica, so definitely more "adult" than the CYOA series.

This is also not Netflix's first interactive episode. They've done interactive episodes of Puss in Boots, Buddy Thunderstruck, and Stretch Armstrong before Bandersnatch
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/ne...ut-1201959464/

I think Bandersnatch rose the level of prominence of the episodes Netflix was doing though, which maybe prompted this response. The two main points the CYOA team have for their trademark infringement claim are that a character actually says the phrase "choose your own adventure" in the episode, and that Netflix tried to negotiate a license for the CYOA name. I think the idea is that since Netflix tried to license the name, they new they could be potentially infringing on the trademark. However, CYOA is just a trademark, not a copyright or patent over the genre, so Netflix isn't infringing just by making interactive content. Also, while the phrase is used in Bandersnatch, I don't think it credibly confuses the reasonable consumer into thinking it's officially connected to the CYOA book series.

SunMonkey

One of today’s ShirtPunch offerings.

Deftones

Finally got around to watching Bandersnatch. I enjoyed the hell out of it, both the story and the concept of it. It was really fun, making the choices and how meta they were. I am really impressed at how seamless it was on Netflix. I appreciate that they are willing to take chances like this on things. Can't wait for the season.

d2cheer

Thanks for this. I got the PACS ending. Which does not sound as cool as some of the others. I thought it was pretty well done overall. Some choices it appeared you had to take to move the narrative.

eXcentris

Netflix Saved and Collected Every Choice Viewers Made in ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/ne...K2ONjvTOTanZSc