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NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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shit wizard dad

lol apropos of the signage - the Pratchett live-action show of 'The Watch' starts airing tomorrow as per my Radarr dashboard.

# ? Jan 3, 2021 10:12

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jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

has there been a good pratchett TV adaptation yet? i really liked the bbc radio small gods but all the tvs ive seen have been complete garbage

# ? Jan 3, 2021 11:26

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007

Hogfather was good.

# ? Jan 3, 2021 11:31

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

i remember paul bettany being real good and it being bad apart from that but it�s been a long time since i watched it

e: marc warren not paul bettany

# ? Jan 3, 2021 11:32

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

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# ? Jan 3, 2021 12:42

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

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# ? Jan 3, 2021 12:46

in a well actually: Jan 26, 2011; dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

it's kinda gross when they're actually producing milk fyi

also if you spill it in the fridge

(it has waaaaay more fats and sugars than any other animal milk, it's oily and sticky and more difficult to clean)

dsyp

# ? Jan 3, 2021 14:53

Roosevelt: Jul 18, 2009; Tony Pizzuto Says Hello

i dont like milk. it's oily and sticky and more difficult to clean. and it gets everywhere.

# ? Jan 3, 2021 15:00

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

jesus WEP posted:

has there been a good pratchett TV adaptation yet? i really liked the bbc radio small gods but all the tvs ive seen have been complete garbage

imo they've all been moderately okay in the very modern british television style.

# ? Jan 3, 2021 15:02

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

jesus WEP posted:

has there been a good pratchett TV adaptation yet? i really liked the bbc radio small gods but all the tvs ive seen have been complete garbage

good omens was alright imo, if that counts

# ? Jan 3, 2021 15:40

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

I enjoyed hogfather and going postal, but the latter mostly because it had the guy from coupling

I mean it was enjoyable otherwise

also lord vetinari's actor went on to a game of thrones or whatever

# ? Jan 3, 2021 15:47

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

i too enjoyed going postal, but i just like that story and the character in general. it's probably the strongest of the adaptations i've seen, but none of them are really bad. none of them are really great either.

# ? Jan 3, 2021 15:50

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

i thought the colour of magic was completely terrible and david jason was a stupid choice to play rincewind, like they literally only put him in because he's A Big Name

# ? Jan 3, 2021 16:35

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

colour of magic is easily the worst discworld book as well, so it is just a poor choice. all the components of the style is there, but it hasn't found its form yet.

# ? Jan 3, 2021 16:39

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

haveblue posted:

well the last time we let a super old director resurrect a classic action franchise with a focus on "juice" we got a pretty good movie out of it

yeah but Miller was only 70 by the time it came out

# ? Jan 3, 2021 16:51

in a well actually: Jan 26, 2011; dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

colour of magic is easily the worst discworld book as well, so it is just a poor choice. all the components of the style is there, but it hasn't found its form yet.

imma stop you right there and say that raising steam is the worst non-ya discworld book

everything after monstrous regiment is downhill tbh

# ? Jan 3, 2021 17:25

BaldDwarfOnPCP: Jun 26, 2019; by Pragmatica

pseudorandom name posted:

Hogfather was good.

yeah i seem to remember liking that

going postal was pretty good too

# ? Jan 3, 2021 19:39

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Good Omens was good

# ? Jan 3, 2021 20:49

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

PCjr sidecar posted:

imma stop you right there and say that raising steam is the worst non-ya discworld book

everything after monstrous regiment is downhill tbh

i read all the discworld books in chronological order a couple years ago, and man, the 2000s hit pratchett like a ton of bricks.

# ? Jan 3, 2021 20:50

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

finally got a chance to watch Le Doulos last night, man what a good flick

# ? Jan 3, 2021 21:25

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

jesus WEP posted:

i thought the colour of magic was completely terrible and david jason was a stupid choice to play rincewind, like they literally only put him in because he's A Big Name

i don't know if it was the adaptation or the source material (i've not read it), but i thought colour of magic relied way too much on expecting you to find the whimsicalness of it all charming.

just watched going postal today though and thought it was great

Sweevo fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jan 3, 2021

# ? Jan 3, 2021 22:02

rjmccall: Sep 7, 2007; no worries friend; Fun Shoe

Sweevo posted:

i don't know if it was the adaptation or the source material (i've not read it), but i though colour of magic relied way too much on expecting you to find the whimsicalness of it all charming.

that�s pretty true of the book, too, yeah. to be fair to pratchett a light-hearted fantasy setting was still relatively novel at the time. but mostly he got much better (very quickly) at writing characters and stories that stood up on their own rather than just as tours of the whimsical world

# ? Jan 3, 2021 22:54

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

https://twitter.com/davescheidt/status/1345492875677675521

lol :eyepop:

# ? Jan 3, 2021 23:54

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

Chris Knight posted:

finally got a chance to watch Le Doulos last night, man what a good flick

hell yeah

last night i watched kiss kiss bang bang (first time) and finished the chinese connection/fist of fury (first time in a couple decades). neither were very good. i think i would've liked kkbb when it came out, but it didn't age super well. fist of fury was just kind of lame. it's like a bridge between full-on kung fu movies like five deadly venoms and hong kong action. you don't get the sweet kung fu of the former, but the character development and stuff is only kind of halfway there. it was cool seeing the hk melodrama in prototypical form, but i wish i would've picked shaw brothers i haven't seen to watch

the nunchaku scenes were rad, though. can't take that away from it

# ? Jan 4, 2021 01:05

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

yeah i seem to remember liking that

going postal was pretty good too

im p sure i watched hogfather but cant remember it really

# ? Jan 4, 2021 01:22

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

NoneMoreNegative posted:

https://twitter.com/davescheidt/status/1345492875677675521

lol

lol

# ? Jan 4, 2021 01:24

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Achmed Jones posted:

hell yeah

last night i watched kiss kiss bang bang (first time) and finished the chinese connection/fist of fury (first time in a couple decades). neither were very good. i think i would've liked kkbb when it came out, but it didn't age super well. fist of fury was just kind of lame. it's like a bridge between full-on kung fu movies like five deadly venoms and hong kong action. you don't get the sweet kung fu of the former, but the character development and stuff is only kind of halfway there. it was cool seeing the hk melodrama in prototypical form, but i wish i would've picked shaw brothers i haven't seen to watch

the nunchaku scenes were rad, though. can't take that away from it

achmed jones i have another recommendation for you as far as classic noir heist movies: the killing by stanley kubrick (1956)

its not a euro noir but it has the swiss watch pacing and timing that raffifi and the melville films have

# ? Jan 4, 2021 01:47