Thank you so much for watching ‘Dead Like Me’ with me! 😊 If you want to see my FULL Movie reaction, you can check out my Patreon!: Patreon.com/larissazeeuwe 🫶🏻 Just want to quickly say that when I saw the movie again while editing, I noticed more flaws in the movie I didn’t like. I also talked to some people who explained why people weren’t so happy with this movie, and I do understand and agree with it more now. The reaction you see here is just my first reaction and my first thought after seeing this, and just excitement to see all the characters again. I still had a lot of fun watching the movie, but wanted to clear up how I felt about the movie after thinking about it a bit more 😄
I agree that they did Daisy wrong. As long as they were recasting the character, they should have made her a new addition to the group, with Daisy moving on.
Larissa, I have really enjoyed this journey. This is one of those series that was part of my youth and I got the chance to watch it all again (plus the movie, which was new to me) thanks to you. Great job! Thanks.
I'm not really sure if you noticed it as well, but the location they filmed the movie in is also different from the series, and that's why a lot of places might look odd. The series was filmed in Vancouver, while the movie was filmed in Montreal. Hence the reason, for example,......no 'Der Waffle Haus' (which was a real Vancouver diner,..... 'Tom and Jerry's',...that unfortunately closed down in between the show and the movie and had in the time being been converted to a pet shop. Making the Waffle Haus burned down as a great way to get around not having it on the show anymore and also slide in the fact that Rube had moved on.
I miss Tom & Jerrys. Food was mid, but I always ended up going there like once every 2 to 4 months because of the show......then one day, it changed to an Indian restaurant for a little while & they got rid of all the tables & accessories, so it felt like it was already gone then.... before becoming the pet store. Also, they only did the pilot there. The rest of DWH is in studio.
My sister said the way she saw it was at the end eith all the post its. Was whoever's was In charge was then giving her Rubes job. Cos she was the only one that did the right thing in the end
It was nice revisiting this show with you. I hadn't seen it since it's original run and had forgotten a lot. A show I think you'd find interesting and has similar themes is Six Feet Under.
I get the sense that their "new boss" was a devil like figure. He was literally trying to seed chaos, to literally mislead them with half truths, lies, and misinformation (including giving George the absolute wrong time for her own reap, and creating chaos from that as well). His whole purpose was to, in his own words, to create ripples in the natural progress of events, which would increasingly make things worse in the world.
If you think back to the beginning of the series, George got punished for trying to talk to her old family, her memories were removed. That rule wasn't enforced in this movie, it's like the rules no longer apply.
Daisy had said she was always background. Getting the spotlight only proved why this was the case. Sleeping her way to the top never worked, and so did taking out the lead. It's sad it took her 70 years to figure it out.
I think not all stories are about plot - some, like this, are about themes of grief and loss and everything that surrounds it. I think the purpose of the film was to end it thematically, with acceptance and moving on. The issue with Daisy, I think, is that Sarah Wynter wasn't adequately brief on her character development, so played original Daisy - and this meant that getting jiggy with Cameron therefore din't quite come across as a relapse. as I suspect was intended, as Cameron played on their vulnerabilities. Something I did discover was that the film improves on a second watch because all of the changes are less distracting. Mandy Patinkin is, quite famously, very hard to work with - so I wonder if he was just not invited back (given that Ellen Muth appears to have quit acting, I wonder if there is some cause and effect going on...).
I saw this on UA-cam - it was ok - close out her family story. If they remade this what would YOU do differently? I would address how they account for their presence at times and if they can be seen after a reap. They talk to the soul but wouldn't others wonder who they are talking to?
To me, for a TV movie... its an ok movie, its just not... great, as it could have been. But yeah the George and Reggie parts are good, even if it breaks some of the rules the emotions from it kinda make up for it... and for me as a 'crayzie cat man', Murray's death hits me hard, ive had many Murray's in my life that ive lost especially in the last 10 years, I cant not get teary over his death and the funeral poem, I know how the character Delorise would be feeling just a little to strongly. I think alot of the negativity is from the time gap given the movie came out years after the show was canceled, when you love a unique and great show alot and then it gets a kinda closure half a decade latter only for it to kinda drop the ball, people can get a little grumpy.
I've always liked the movie, mainly for the Reggie & George scenes. The writing for Daisy is what i didn't like, as they ignored all the character development she had.
Reggie was "trained" by her mom's cold prickliness to not want to share, as her feelings would regularly get shut down as ridiculous throughout the show. Of COURSE Reggie was always a jerk, it was a natural response to her mother. The mom has grown of course, and running a grief group indicates she's gotten even better, but that doesn't undo Reggie's whole childhood combined with the emotionally pent up grief process of George's death. Yeah, I think George is the new boss. Did a lot of great character stuff and catching up with Reggie/the family, with Dolores and the job... in the middle of an absolute dumpster fire of a reaper plot. That Daisy casting was the worst, the character writing was terrible, the new boss basically went nowhere... ugh. So much potential. It definitely did not help the rating to be that much forward in time and to like, have Rube just obviously written out (not having even a brief cameo for SOME kind of payoff IN the movie), characterizations felt off (nm Daisy, just... off for the other reapers to varying degrees), it avoided dealing with their stories to any real degree, all that. Frustrating and definitely hurt it at the time vs watching it much later. Thank you so much for sticking with this show, it isn't one you hear about much and was so memorable.
Regarding George being the new boss, is it just me or did it seem a little bit like all of the reapers were being tested in Rube's absence and George was the only one that didn't really waiver in her tasks. I mean she kept trying to do that reap for ?months? in the absence of success when all of the other reapers were turning into the metaphorical rowdy kids in the class. Granted, George outed herself, but she kept her dedication to her job the whole time. So it would really make sense in this story that George would be the new boss.
For me, I found the movie a substantial drop off in quality, and without Rube & real Daisy, there was a huge gap they couldnt fill with two mediocre characters. The movie over all is "not bad", but its so below DLM standards thats why I grade it so lowly myself. I'm still mad they did the movie in Montreal. I learned about DLM quite literally the month after they wrapped season 2....and I kept impatiently waiting for a season 3 so I could go see them film & meet the cast, and they never came back. Worst part of all of it was, they could have had Laura & Mandy back, if they had just waited 3 months.....as both of them were no longer employed on the projects holding them back from doing the movie then.
Thank you so much for watching ‘Dead Like Me’ with me! 😊
If you want to see my FULL Movie reaction, you can check out my Patreon!: Patreon.com/larissazeeuwe 🫶🏻
Just want to quickly say that when I saw the movie again while editing, I noticed more flaws in the movie I didn’t like.
I also talked to some people who explained why people weren’t so happy with this movie, and I do understand and agree with it more now.
The reaction you see here is just my first reaction and my first thought after seeing this, and just excitement to see all the characters again.
I still had a lot of fun watching the movie, but wanted to clear up how I felt about the movie after thinking about it a bit more 😄
I don't blame you for watching this but the Reggie seeing George was the perfect ending.
I agree that they did Daisy wrong. As long as they were recasting the character, they should have made her a new addition to the group, with Daisy moving on.
Larissa, I have really enjoyed this journey. This is one of those series that was part of my youth and I got the chance to watch it all again (plus the movie, which was new to me) thanks to you. Great job! Thanks.
You should really give «Pushing Daisies» a chance ☺
Wonderfalls first, then Pushing Daisies.
I'm not really sure if you noticed it as well, but the location they filmed the movie in is also different from the series, and that's why a lot of places might look odd.
The series was filmed in Vancouver, while the movie was filmed in Montreal.
Hence the reason, for example,......no 'Der Waffle Haus' (which was a real Vancouver diner,..... 'Tom and Jerry's',...that unfortunately closed down in between the show and the movie and had in the time being been converted to a pet shop.
Making the Waffle Haus burned down as a great way to get around not having it on the show anymore and also slide in the fact that Rube had moved on.
I miss Tom & Jerrys.
Food was mid, but I always ended up going there like once every 2 to 4 months because of the show......then one day, it changed to an Indian restaurant for a little while & they got rid of all the tables & accessories, so it felt like it was already gone then.... before becoming the pet store.
Also, they only did the pilot there. The rest of DWH is in studio.
My sister said the way she saw it was at the end eith all the post its. Was whoever's was In charge was then giving her Rubes job. Cos she was the only one that did the right thing in the end
It was nice revisiting this show with you. I hadn't seen it since it's original run and had forgotten a lot. A show I think you'd find interesting and has similar themes is Six Feet Under.
I get the sense that their "new boss" was a devil like figure. He was literally trying to seed chaos, to literally mislead them with half truths, lies, and misinformation (including giving George the absolute wrong time for her own reap, and creating chaos from that as well). His whole purpose was to, in his own words, to create ripples in the natural progress of events, which would increasingly make things worse in the world.
Glad u enjoyed the ride. I always enjoyed this show
I love the movie sometimes I wish they could bring the show back as a continuation and have different main character and keep the morbid humor
If you think back to the beginning of the series, George got punished for trying to talk to her old family, her memories were removed. That rule wasn't enforced in this movie, it's like the rules no longer apply.
Daisy had said she was always background.
Getting the spotlight only proved why this was the case.
Sleeping her way to the top never worked, and so did taking out the lead.
It's sad it took her 70 years to figure it out.
The George and Dolores bits I loved, they were adorable. The Reggie and Joy bits I also loved. Just the new boss plot I didn't like.
I recommend watching TV shows, The Leftovers and Preacher. They deal with issues of life and death and the afterlife.
I honestly never knew there was a movie!
It gets over looked a lot...I enjoyed it but I see why some people don't like it
under-whelming
I think not all stories are about plot - some, like this, are about themes of grief and loss and everything that surrounds it. I think the purpose of the film was to end it thematically, with acceptance and moving on. The issue with Daisy, I think, is that Sarah Wynter wasn't adequately brief on her character development, so played original Daisy - and this meant that getting jiggy with Cameron therefore din't quite come across as a relapse. as I suspect was intended, as Cameron played on their vulnerabilities. Something I did discover was that the film improves on a second watch because all of the changes are less distracting. Mandy Patinkin is, quite famously, very hard to work with - so I wonder if he was just not invited back (given that Ellen Muth appears to have quit acting, I wonder if there is some cause and effect going on...).
From what I've heard, Mandy turned it down after reading the script.
I saw this on UA-cam - it was ok - close out her family story. If they remade this what would YOU do differently? I would address how they account for their presence at times and if they can be seen after a reap. They talk to the soul but wouldn't others wonder who they are talking to?
To me, for a TV movie... its an ok movie, its just not... great, as it could have been.
But yeah the George and Reggie parts are good, even if it breaks some of the rules the emotions from it kinda make up for it... and for me as a 'crayzie cat man', Murray's death hits me hard, ive had many Murray's in my life that ive lost especially in the last 10 years, I cant not get teary over his death and the funeral poem, I know how the character Delorise would be feeling just a little to strongly.
I think alot of the negativity is from the time gap given the movie came out years after the show was canceled, when you love a unique and great show alot and then it gets a kinda closure half a decade latter only for it to kinda drop the ball, people can get a little grumpy.
Please watch
WONDERFALLS (2004, 1 Season, 14 episodes, also by Bryan Fuller)
If you liked DEAD LIK ME, you won´t regret it.
I've always liked the movie, mainly for the Reggie & George scenes. The writing for Daisy is what i didn't like, as they ignored all the character development she had.
Reggie was "trained" by her mom's cold prickliness to not want to share, as her feelings would regularly get shut down as ridiculous throughout the show. Of COURSE Reggie was always a jerk, it was a natural response to her mother. The mom has grown of course, and running a grief group indicates she's gotten even better, but that doesn't undo Reggie's whole childhood combined with the emotionally pent up grief process of George's death.
Yeah, I think George is the new boss.
Did a lot of great character stuff and catching up with Reggie/the family, with Dolores and the job... in the middle of an absolute dumpster fire of a reaper plot. That Daisy casting was the worst, the character writing was terrible, the new boss basically went nowhere... ugh. So much potential.
It definitely did not help the rating to be that much forward in time and to like, have Rube just obviously written out (not having even a brief cameo for SOME kind of payoff IN the movie), characterizations felt off (nm Daisy, just... off for the other reapers to varying degrees), it avoided dealing with their stories to any real degree, all that. Frustrating and definitely hurt it at the time vs watching it much later.
Thank you so much for sticking with this show, it isn't one you hear about much and was so memorable.
Regarding George being the new boss, is it just me or did it seem a little bit like all of the reapers were being tested in Rube's absence and George was the only one that didn't really waiver in her tasks. I mean she kept trying to do that reap for ?months? in the absence of success when all of the other reapers were turning into the metaphorical rowdy kids in the class. Granted, George outed herself, but she kept her dedication to her job the whole time. So it would really make sense in this story that George would be the new boss.
For me, I found the movie a substantial drop off in quality, and without Rube & real Daisy, there was a huge gap they couldnt fill with two mediocre characters. The movie over all is "not bad", but its so below DLM standards thats why I grade it so lowly myself.
I'm still mad they did the movie in Montreal. I learned about DLM quite literally the month after they wrapped season 2....and I kept impatiently waiting for a season 3 so I could go see them film & meet the cast, and they never came back. Worst part of all of it was, they could have had Laura & Mandy back, if they had just waited 3 months.....as both of them were no longer employed on the projects holding them back from doing the movie then.
The movie had some great moments, mixed with some pretty bad writing.
Too this day I'd don't understand the ending of the movie
I don't blame the actor for Daisy's performance. I was ok with the casting, the writing was just trash.
Yup agree