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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It's the episode where they commission a public survey and it finds that the people think the monarchy is out of touch and they just say gently caress that. Also Tony Blair and his staff make a bunch of very reasonable recommendations about how they could employ fewer people to do less stupid poo poo and they interview everyone and we see all these absolutely adorable dudes who are definitely not getting paid for doing nothing and Elizabeth says she won't change and that everything is okay. Yeah it feels like it has lost its already fuzzy distance to conservative monarchial politics. I didn't even complete the last season. Loved the first couple tho.
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Upsidads posted:Wind River is overworked crap toggle posted:It looks pretty though  Very much just more incredibly bland incredibly overrated Taylor Sheridan. Wish someone would shoot that guy and Craig S Zahler into space. Boy was Those Who Wish Me Dead totally forgettable.
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Honestly the only time I enjoyed Jeremy Renner rennering all over the place was him (sorta) channeling Pesci in the also terrible film American Hustle directed by another famed white dude hack. Renner's fine but you can't give him too much leash, god was he dead weight when they brought him on for Mission Impossible. Almost as bad as them getting more Simon Pegg Hollywood Wisecracking in.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Honestly the only time I enjoyed Jeremy Renner rennering all over the place was him (sorta) channeling Pesci in the also terrible film American Hustle directed by another famed white dude hack. He's pretty good in Mayor of Kingstown, yelling "gently caress" every sentence.
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I refuse to believe that Mayor of Kingstown and Mare of Easttown are two different shows.
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Mare of east town was good but idk if it’s a solvable mystery for the viewer which irks me a little
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I mean the approach was kind of formulaic so you knew who it wasn't. "Oh, they're casting suspicion on this dude in the 3rd episode, it's too early just a red herring." "Oh the killers caught but there's a whole other episode, so the guy that confessed is protecting someone." But I might have had help since I had read the book the plot was 'borrowed' from.
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A MIRACLE posted:Mare of east town was good but idk if it’s a solvable mystery for the viewer which irks me a little Sherlock is this problem, the show
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Sherlock is this problem, the show
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Kate Winslet's delco accent was okay, but no better than that.
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finished murder at the end of the world, with a fizzle and not a bang. guessed the ending like 2 episodes in. skip it did the ever explain who was threatening darby to "stop digging or I will kill again"
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A MIRACLE posted:did the ever explain who was threatening darby to "stop digging or I will kill again"
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mystes posted:yes I believe the last episode explained that And it was incredibly stupid
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Finally started watching the Hunger Games movies (finishing the second one, which lmao almost has a 4 on letterboxd somehow) and lord I wish I could get one of these movies that's just "young people are forced to kill each other". I know it's YA but my god are all the loving mutant animals and poo poo like the giant clock and poison fog just tedious, scatter-brained, and remarkably uncreative. A lot of the time (assuming this poo poo is all in the books) it feels like Suzanne Collins just tossed together a bunch of random bullshit. They're like ok so far. Not like, total poo poo at least, even if a lot of the aesthetic choices can be pretty lame. Do they drop off a cliff at some point? Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Dec 20, 2023 |
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go back to the roots. watch battle royale.
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ymgve posted:go back to the roots. watch battle royale. Just stop br 2 at the ten min mark where the director died
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ymgve posted:go back to the roots. watch battle royale. Also BR2 was a solid fun bad movie imo. Really need to drop Kazou Kiriyama into one of these gottdang Hunger Games.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Finally started watching the Hunger Games movies (finishing the second one, which lmao almost has a 4 on letterboxd somehow) and lord I wish I could get one of these movies that's just "young people are forced to kill each other". I know it's YA but my god are all the loving mutant animals and poo poo like the giant clock and poison fog just tedious, scatter-brained, and remarkably uncreative. A lot of the time (assuming this poo poo is all in the books) it feels like Suzanne Collins just tossed together a bunch of random bullshit. I think they get better as they go along actually, even though there's less focus on the titular Hunger Games. The third one has very little action and it's mostly about the main characters making anti-government propaganda. It's not as interesting or good as I would have hoped from that premise but it is a bit more substance than I was expecting from a YA series. Overall I think the movies end up having more coherency and thought put into their politics and story than a lot of other YA stuff, though I don't think any of the movies rise above decent. Even the recent prequel movie was pretty alright and has some interesting stuff in it.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Kate Winslet's delco accent was okay, but no better than that. It's ridiculous there isn't more Delco media, but it's probably because it's such a boring place. Wyoming has two senators, and Delco has more people. Kansas City has a football team, and Delco has more people. Delco has its own unique accent, lots of local cuisine, and plenty of attractions. It's one of the most ethnically and economically diverse places in the country. And all it gets is Mare of Easttown and Silver Linings Playbook. If you don't know about the place, it's the Staten Island of Philadelphia.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also Tina Fey! Upper Darby never gonna let that one go. Jamie Kennedy is also from Upper Dirty but you don't hear Delconians talk about that
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Edward Mass posted:Blue Beetle (currently on Max) has the balls to be unabashedly pro-Sandinista, and for that alone I am glad it was made.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Wait...what? How? When? Do I need to see this movie now lmao Spoiler-ing a several-months old movie, just in case. The villain's main henchman is revealed in a flashback to be a child soldier during the Nicaraguan Revolution whose mother was killed by an indiscriminate American missile, all while soundbites from Ronald Reagan play. That's in addition to the whole first act being about Jamie Reyes, a second-generation American, graduating college only to find himself unable to get any kind of non-physical labor work while his family loses their house due to gentrification. Susan Sarandon said it was a pretty Communist movie back when they were filming it, and hell, she's right. e: I should specify the henchman had his memory wiped by the main villain because she was involved with the production of said missile, and when he got his memories back he drags the villain to their eventual demise Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Dec 21, 2023 |
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misguided rage posted:And it was incredibly stupid The tag line should be something like 'It takes the dumbest character around to unravel a mystery much stupider than you could possibly imagine!' I deeply regret finishing it after is started dragging a couple episodes in and I initially stopped watching.
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Flying Zamboni posted:I think they get better as they go along actually, even though there's less focus on the titular Hunger Games. The third one has very little action and it's mostly about the main characters making anti-government propaganda. It's not as interesting or good as I would have hoped from that premise but it is a bit more substance than I was expecting from a YA series. Yeah Ive enjoyed the third one most so far. I'll take any kind of bland Hollywood populism if it just avoids the evil toxic bullshit of "wait...what if the revolution is...just as bad???" I'm about to watch the fourth one tho so I shouldn't speak too soon. Im sure they'll pull some David S Goyer type bullshit. The Hunger Games should've been fun, "bland whitified Battle Royale" ain't the best pitch but it's still something that could be entertaining in concept...however they're mostly lame in execution in the first two films imo. I assume the prequel has them, maybe they're cool in that?? Are they? It just doesn't feel like Collins had any coherent spin of her own on the concept and just tossed a bunch of random ideas in if the books are just like "ummm and there's super wasps!!! And then like...uhhh a giant clock and lightning strikes!!!" Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Watched the first 45 minutes of Rebel Moon before turning it off. It genuinely feels intentionally bad. Switched to The Creator on Hulu instead. It's not good and it's way too long but it was still definitely better than Rebel Moon.
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I found Rebel Moon to just be kinda boring. You can immediately see where a plot thread is going and it always takes longer than you'd think to get there without adding anything surprising in the middle. Plus an extended sequence of a dude trying to ride a griffin thing for I believe absolutely no reason, with zero bearing on the rest of the film? Sound design was kinda neat. Sometimes has some interesting angles during action sequences. I didn't outwardly dislike any of the actors, it's just all very paint by numbers. I'd say you should probably be high to find it amusing, but I'd probably just fall asleep.
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Maestro, on Netflix, has the best old people makeup I've ever seen. I liked the attempt at emulating the film making style of each decade as the story moved through time, it nailed the 1970s scenes in particular.
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Finally got around to seeing RRR after having read so much praise for it and having it on my to-watch list for ages and I was frankly shocked at how lovely and bloated it was. While most of the action set pieces were fun, the acting was bad, the writing poor, the pacing frequently awkward, and it absolutely did not earn its runtime. About halfway through I was just wishing for it to end. It seems like a lot of people liked it because of the anticolonial themes, but given the toxicity of Hindutva politics in India right now the whole narrative ending with one of the protagonists literally becoming a vengeful Hindu god also left a bad taste in my mouth.
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MeinPanzer posted:Finally got around to seeing RRR after having read so much praise for it and having it on my to-watch list for ages and I was frankly shocked at how lovely and bloated it was. While most of the action set pieces were fun, the acting was bad, the writing poor, the pacing frequently awkward, and it absolutely did not earn its runtime. About halfway through I was just wishing for it to end.
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How someone becoming a vengeful Hindu god in a movie is a bad thing is beyond me. That movie fuckin owned bones
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