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lumpentroll posted:perfect strangers had eight seasons… the thing is: the two leads had this chemistry that was just completely outstanding, unreal, borderline romantic, and its tragic that they werent paired up in more + different movies / tv shows because their chemistry elevates what fundamentally isnt very strong material to something memorable eight seasons of Perfect Strangers is some consolation but overall it feels like a monument to so many wasted opportunities 
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May 16, 2024 00:46
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remember the episode of The Leftovers where Mark Linn Baker shows up playing himself as a travel agent for a purported dimension-traversing device
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May 16, 2024 00:46
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that show fucks
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May 16, 2024 00:48
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indigi posted:remember the episode of The Leftovers where Mark Linn Baker shows up playing himself as a travel agent for a purported dimension-traversing device he just wanted to be with Balki again
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May 16, 2024 00:49
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Fighting Elegy posted:he just wanted to be with Balki again
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May 16, 2024 00:50
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indigi posted:that show fucks
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May 16, 2024 00:57
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indigi posted:remember the episode of The Leftovers where Mark Linn Baker shows up playing himself as a travel agent for a purported dimension-traversing device lol at the idea of a rewatch post covid though. can you imagine what it would be like if 2% of the population just... disappeared? well yea, i kinda can
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May 16, 2024 00:58
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Lol the Afghan interpreter sitcom had an episode about the Taliban retaking the country.
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May 16, 2024 00:58
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galagazombie posted:Lol the Afghan interpreter sitcom had an episode about the Taliban retaking the country. Yeah that's one of the few episodes I caught and it was revolting lol.
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May 16, 2024 01:00
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Got distracted talking about Home Improvement earlier, but I finished another Discworld book. Jingo this time. I thought this was gonna be a ham-handed Iraq metaphor at first but it didn't turn out to be, and upon further investigation I found it was published in 1997. That'd do it. As expected, there was a lot in there about the pointlessness and senselessness of war without it being all grimdark like a Joe Abercrombie book or something. Also some decent satire of "fifth-column" wartime racism and a segment where Nobby is disguised as a woman which I wasn't quite sure what to make of but which certainly could have been worse. Good narrative overall, I liked Ahmed, good Angua content but Carrot seemed a bit static. Vimes is always a good character. Liked the part where Vetinari was inexplicably a really good juggler, even if he seemed like an incongruous match for Colon/Nobbs hijinx. Gonna read Soul Music next I think.
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May 16, 2024 01:24
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:If we're doing 90s comedy revivals why is no one going for Austin Powers new austin powers movie but it is about his exposure and canceling for a sex crimes
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May 16, 2024 01:31
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bedpan posted:new austin powers movie but it is about his exposure and canceling for a sex crimes See that's the easy joke but in the very first movie we see him refuse to sleep with his drunk partner Austin Powers says consent is shagadelic, baby
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May 16, 2024 01:35
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:See that's the easy joke but in the very first movie we see him refuse to sleep with his drunk partner
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May 16, 2024 01:37
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Austin Powers: Brexit Through the Gape Shop
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May 16, 2024 01:39
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the milk machine posted:i'm really interested in how your ballsack gets close enough to a running bandsaw blade to "open it up" Twigand Berries posted:I will never let anyone watch me jerk off. This technique dies with me.
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May 16, 2024 02:29
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Spergin Morlock posted:lol at the idea of a rewatch post covid though. can you imagine what it would be like if 2% of the population just... disappeared? well yea, i kinda can tbf we know exactly where covid patients went if they died. it’s not like it was an act of god or something that makes you question reality, it was just a deadly plague
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May 16, 2024 04:49
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CaptainBeefart posted:There's a CBS sitcom starring Mike from Mike & Molly and he lost so much weight it's off-putting to look at him. ahhhhhhhhhh that's so weird
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May 16, 2024 06:14
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Spergin Morlock posted:he needs to stick to dramatic work these days and get his oscar before retiring. he should not be doing "goofy comedy" past age 40. he has enough razzies already He should actually double down and get more Razzies, creating a shortage of Razzies on the collectors market which he can then capitalise on by manipulating the perceived resale value by setting his own prices. If it can work for the good folks down at r/PokeInvesting then it can work for Adam Sandler.
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May 16, 2024 06:23
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loquacius posted:I do miss the days when every successful IP had a side-scrolling platformer I've heard it wasn't a great game but it was charming, it felt almost like something that Tim Taylor made himself. Notably, apparently it doesn't come with an instruction manual, near uniquely for the time. But the splash screen when you start up the game says 'REAL MEN DON'T NEED INSTRUCTIONS'
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May 16, 2024 07:39
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Fighting Elegy posted:I don't even know if I'd call it a parody tbh. Maybe that's just because I usually think parodies have contempt for their inspiration. It is 100 percent "self-aware" though. It creates its own world where people act and talk differently to normal humans, and it has a lot of fun in that world it creates. Maybe a better comparison is Twin Peaks (which also has Kyle Maclachlan). I think David Lynch once said "Twin Peaks is not a parody of soap operas, it is a soap opera". Desperate Housewives struck me even as a kid as less a parody of soap operas, more a soap opera that's simply doing things differently. Being more self-aware and heavier on the melodrama. I feel like a key element of a parody isn't contempt- that's entirely optional and arguably not even always a good idea- but simply deliberately invoking the structure and genre elements of a particular media and drawing attention to it through subversion. That's different from just using a genre/setting with a different style of storytelling than people are used to, though a lot of audiences don't really understand the difference.
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May 16, 2024 07:49
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Spergin Morlock posted:lol at the idea of a rewatch post covid though. can you imagine what it would be like if 2% of the population just... disappeared? well yea, i kinda can it's even better now
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May 16, 2024 13:11
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The Disappearance is the least important part of The Leftovers so I can easily imagine a rewatch in this, the post-covid world. In fact, I'm imagining it right now
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May 16, 2024 13:12
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Actually now I do want to watch it again lol. The Hotel episode ftw
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May 16, 2024 13:13
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"Nobody's ready to feel better. They're ready to loving explode." how can you tell me a rewatch post-covid isn't better lol
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May 16, 2024 13:16
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Just needed a couple lines about record breaking day after day of stock market growth to really make it seem supernaturally prescient
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May 16, 2024 13:20
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DaysBefore posted:The Disappearance is the least important part of The Leftovers so I can easily imagine a rewatch in this, the post-covid world. In fact, I'm imagining it right now I rewatched it last year, it still kicks big rear end
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May 16, 2024 13:32
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Carrie Coon is so loving good in that show
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May 16, 2024 13:35
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Is 'I Saw the TV Glow' any good?
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May 16, 2024 13:37
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DaysBefore posted:Carrie Coon is so loving good in that show goated with the sauce
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May 16, 2024 13:38
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The best pre-covid culture thing to experience from a post-covid perspective is still probably Death Stranding but I know it's the wrong thread for that
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May 16, 2024 14:07
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DaysBefore posted:Carrie Coon is so loving good in that show Reported for slurs
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May 16, 2024 14:08
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loquacius posted:The best pre-covid culture thing to experience from a post-covid perspective is still probably Death Stranding but I know it's the wrong thread for that that's a good one yeah another good post covid revisit is Chernobyl. it's not great or anything but it's funny that when it came out it was pitched as "wow look how dysfunctional the Soviet Union was!" and watching it post-covid, it turns out governments can try to abate a national disaster, if they want to
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May 16, 2024 14:10
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loquacius posted:The best pre-covid culture thing to experience from a post-covid perspective is still probably Death Stranding but I know it's the wrong thread for that yup it took me a lil bit to get into it but I'll definitely be replaying before the second one comes out. beautiful story.
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May 16, 2024 14:12
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the milk machine posted:that's a good one yeah or even movies with hyper-competent governments in the face of disaster like independence day
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May 16, 2024 14:13
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i uninstalled death stranding when i saw the ghosts for the first time. nobody told me it was a scary game
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May 16, 2024 14:14
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i say swears online posted:or even movies with hyper-competent governments in the face of disaster like independence day I'm reminded of a post in the A/T history thread where the Japanese invasion of Korea was aided by Korean admirals apparently having a policy of scuttling their own fleets at the first excuse
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May 16, 2024 14:15
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https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1790780096279667081
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i say swears online posted:i uninstalled death stranding when i saw the ghosts for the first time. nobody told me it was a scary game tbh that's kind of how I felt playing up through the first Higgs fight and that's when I put it down for a little bit, but the ghosts also get less scary and less scary as you deal with them to the point where getting dragged by a BT goes from the adrenaline equivalent of encountering a wild grizzly to like swatting at a bee that's bothering you
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