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VogeGandire posted:Just, be prepared to be disappointed by the movie. Or rather, by the ending of the movie. It's the schmaltziest "and they all lived happily ever after" dreck. I was hoping, with it being the Inbetweeners, they'd go the other way and make totally depressing ending, as keeping to the series. I genuinely thought Simon was going to drown at the end, because just a total u-turn from the rest of the film would have been hilarious. Would have been a better ending!
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How in the flying gently caress did they get Stephen Hawking to be in a Go Compare advert? I barely have to ever watch adverts due to the glory that is Internet iPlayers but god drat I swear I haven't seen a good ad since that Guinness "tick follows tock" one that aired eleventy billion years ago.
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Jan 5, 2013 18:05
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I'm ashamed of myself for this but the Ladbrokes "NO KAMMY FOOTBALL IS ON" advert made me laugh the first time I saw it.
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Jan 5, 2013 18:07
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Lugaloco posted:How in the flying gently caress did they get Stephen Hawking to be in a Go Compare advert? I barely have to ever watch adverts due to the glory that is Internet iPlayers but god drat I swear I haven't seen a good ad since that Guinness "tick follows tock" one that aired eleventy billion years ago. The gorilla playing the drums for cadbury was good. As was the one where they exploded all that paint on some dreary estate in scotland for sony. Also regardless if you even like football this was a great ad for the 2010 world cup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSggaxXUS8k Ponce de Le0n fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jan 5, 2013 |
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Jan 5, 2013 18:28
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Lugaloco posted:How in the flying gently caress did they get Stephen Hawking to be in a Go Compare advert? Well it's not like he can do anything about it.
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Run Dodo Run posted:I genuinely thought Simon was going to drown at the end, because just a total u-turn from the rest of the film would have been hilarious. Would have been a better ending! That would be amazing. Just cut to the credits in silence as Simon just floats face down. Bleak as all gently caress, but certainly memorable.
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Jan 5, 2013 19:46
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Lugaloco posted:How in the flying gently caress did they get Stephen Hawking to be in a Go Compare advert? I barely have to ever watch adverts due to the glory that is Internet iPlayers but god drat I swear I haven't seen a good ad since that Guinness "tick follows tock" one that aired eleventy billion years ago. I just looked it up. I watched it. And now I'm not entirely sure that I'm awake.
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"I am a fan of the Gocompare.com adverts, but I am also an opera fan, so I was delighted to be given the opportunity to help save the nation and silence Gio. I hope the public find it as funny as I did."
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Jan 5, 2013 20:12
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VogeGandire posted:It's just, even the happiest ending in the series involved Simon's car rolling into a lake. And then them all puking on each other.
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Jan 5, 2013 23:19
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VogeGandire posted:Mr Gilbert steals every scene he's in. Went to see Greg Davies' The Back Of My Mum's Head show in Blackpool (It was the last one) and he was great there too. Wasn't sure if he'd be any good but apparently he's been on Live at the Apollo as well. It was a bit gimmicky though, he turned big signs around for his punchlines and ended on a song. Fun night though. The support act was alright too but hell if I can remember his name.
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Chuck Bartowski posted:The support act was alright too but hell if I can remember his name.
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It's the TV show everyone's been waiting for https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/splash-/series-1/episode-1 Yes you can watch it now. Yes it is 90 minutes. Yes it does say "advances into the semi-finals" hinting that this is part 1 of a 6 part series. Yes the theme music does appear to be sampled from Guile's SF2 theme. Yes it is loving terrible.
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Giedroyc posted:Yes the theme music does appear to be sampled from Guile's SF2 theme. This made me click the link. I'm reminded of why I don't watch ITV. edit: Jade Ewen in a gold bikini made me watch this longer than I thought I would. Chunk5 fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Jan 6, 2013 |
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Jan 6, 2013 13:11
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Giedroyc posted:It's the TV show everyone's been waiting for I managed to hang in there long enough to hear the theme music you spoke of. It is pretty close isnt it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof5pRAIZmw I dunno what to say about this, have we got a 'lost all faith in humanity, reason, sense and the end is nigh' icon?
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Jan 6, 2013 13:15
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Can someone stop being coy and mention what the gently caress it is? I can't see it on my phone.
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Jan 6, 2013 13:42
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Watched '50 Funniest Moments of 2012' on E4 last night, just the regular old talking heads clip show thing but was surprised to see the Greek Golden Dawn guy hitting the female politician live on air was featured and then made fun of. 
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Jan 6, 2013 13:48
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I've been watching through Star Stories again and forgot how good it is. "Good morning, boys and girls. I'm John Leslie and I'm an INTENSELY SEXUAL BEING."
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Akuma posted:Can someone stop being coy and mention what the gently caress it is? I can't see it on my phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAxNT5SQIo
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Jan 6, 2013 14:08
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I'm surprised ITV showed restraint and didn't have a little cartoon Tom Daley's dad giving a thumbs up/thumbs down.
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To be fair, opening Flash and/or After Effects to do that would probably cost more than they have budget for.
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I watched bits of it and I came to the conclusion that it was no more offensive or pointless than any other talent show on TV. I can't wait for my Facebook feed to become flooded by people that insist that they absolutely hate it and yet every week will write large diatribes about how it is obviously rigged and so and so was cheated out of staying in.
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Gorn Myson posted:I watched bits of it and I came to the conclusion that it was no more offensive or pointless than any other talent show on TV. I can't wait for my Facebook feed to become flooded by people that insist that they absolutely hate it and yet every week will write large diatribes about how it is obviously rigged and so and so was cheated out of staying in. This is why I loving dread the X Factor. Not because of the people talking about it, to each their own, but the people who endlessly loving complain about people posting about it. "OH HOW COULD YOU WATCH THAT IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY RIGGED IT'S POINTLESS". Just let people like what they like, man. And it's never the people who post about what THEY like, it's just the people who constantly complain about anything popular. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jan 6, 2013 |
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VogeGandire posted:This is why I loving dread the X Factor. Not because of the people talking about it, to each their own, but the people who endlessly loving complain about people posting about it. "OH HOW COULD YOU WATCH THAT IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY RIGGED IT'S POINTLESS". Absolutely, couldn't agree more. I've never seen a full episode of the X-Factor and have no interest in it, because it's not aimed me. What I hate though, is the idea that I'm "supposed" to hate it on some sort of moral level, when frankly I think it's a brilliant idea. It's taken something that was pretty much done behind closed doors and made it into a multi-million (billion?) pound industry. I honestly don't see who X Factor's a bad thing for, except maybe the winners once the public get fed up of them. Stuff like "lets get RATM's worst song to number 1 for no reason" annoyed me infinitely more than X Factor ever will.
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The main complaint about xfactor is that it advocates the same cookie cutter style of singing/artist that when Pop Idol/Popstars are taken into consideration have been churned out for about a decade now. They seldom have staying power unless they have a gimmick so once the show is over they have about a six month sell by date because the labels/PR drop them in favour of the next batch of disposables.
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Mickolution posted:Stuff like "lets get RATM's worst song to number 1 for no reason" annoyed me infinitely more than X Factor ever will. Really? I thought it was really interesting and one of the more exciting Christmas number 1 races in years. Maybe I'm just moving away from this thread. I'm a person who genuinely still likes Top Gear and didn't really care about the plot holes in TDKR unlike a number of people here.
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I can't help but feel sorry for those who go onto it with the right intentions (but are deluded about their own talents) solely to be laughed at and ridiculed. I know they went on of their own volition, but (especially in the earlier days) they had no idea of how it worked. Your average joe doesn't understand the nuances of television that someone who's more media literate does. It's not that they're stupid; it's that they take programming at face value. They assume that everyone on Jeremy Kyle is incoherent and has anger issues, but doesn't think for a minute that someone from the production team is plying them with alcohol and winding them up whilst they're waiting in the wings. Similarly, in the early days, people assumed you went straight through to be seen by the judges when you auditioned for X Factor. I have a mate who auditioned (a long time before I met her) and she's a fantastic singer. She auditioned before the production team and they told her that although she had a good voice, they weren't taking her through. Standing next to her was a deluded soul who was awful - and much to my mate's upset, he went through. Of course, she realised what was going on once she saw him being ripped to shreds on television. But if you stand in that chap's shoes for a second...he thought he was good. He was auditioned and he went through whilst the great singer next to him got knocked out. "YES!" he thinks, not considering for a second that he's going to be ridiculed - "I must be even better than she is!" And then they're wound up, cheered on and encouraged to beg for spots...because then they believe they're 'in' on the game, without ever realising that they sound awful and the joke is on them. I find that extremely distasteful - and there's a lot of people who join in with the, "Oh yeah, it's rigged, it's crap, I don't watch it...apart from the auditions to laugh at." I personally think that's the worst part. All power to the ones who go through the entire process - most of them are extremely good singers, who have the talent to make it if things go their way. It's the constant mindgames and power play that's grim to watch. As for RAGE, the thing that irritated me that year was that it was apparently a foregone conclusion that the X Factor would have the top spot, and the Radio Times had a blurb about TOTP featuring an interview with the Number One artist - and that irked me a bit. It also 'ruined' any race for the Christmas Number One, as everyone else stopped releasing Christmas singles, knowing they'd get blown into oblivion.
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VogeGandire posted:This is why I loving dread the X Factor. Not because of the people talking about it, to each their own, but the people who endlessly loving complain about people posting about it. "OH HOW COULD YOU WATCH THAT IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY RIGGED IT'S POINTLESS".
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NaDy posted:Really? I thought it was really interesting and one of the more exciting Christmas number 1 races in years. Maybe I'm just moving away from this thread. I'm a person who genuinely still likes Top Gear and didn't really care about the plot holes in TDKR unlike a number of people here. Whats a big dumb comic book film got to do with this thread? X-factor is made by some very smart people that know exactly what they are doing and the love/hate reaction it gets goes a long way into ensuring its success, it'll go the same way as big brother and something new will fill the gap once it finishes. There's a huge market for it and yeah the rage thing was by people who obviously cared enough to try and do a silly symbolic gently caress you to it all. As futile as it was it was still a bit of fun and a lot of people on the internet utterly hate that. FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:Watched '50 Funniest Moments of 2012' on E4 last night, just the regular old talking heads clip show thing but was surprised to see the Greek Golden Dawn guy hitting the female politician live on air was featured and then made fun of. As talking head/list shows go it was an really bad one, usually i don't mind it and its a nice 30-min rundown of the years events in an easily digestible form, but the jokes just came off as bitter and cynical rather than poking fun at it ( a lot of "well if i was there i would have done *random thing* LOL!!!" ) and Stacy Solomon gushing about how Boris johnson does silly things that make us laugh ahaha what a card!
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NaDy posted:Really? I thought it was really interesting and one of the more exciting Christmas number 1 races in years. Maybe I'm just moving away from this thread. I'm a person who genuinely still likes Top Gear and didn't really care about the plot holes in TDKR unlike a number of people here. The best thing about that competition is that the XFactor winner in question, when asked about it, was all "Yeah, you know, it's cool I don't really mind not being number 1 that much, and I like that RATM song" and yet Simon Cowell was all "THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER" Says a lot, really.
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Leon with a Zero posted:Whats a big dumb comic book film got to do with this thread? There was some discussion about it a few pages back, because Brooker brought it up in his 2012 wipe.
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VogeGandire posted:I've been watching through Star Stories again and forgot how good it is. My partner introduced me to Star Stories with the Heather Mills one (as I'm a Beatles' fan, but Paul irritates me...); that's another series I revisit every year or so. It also means every time I see a clip of the real George Michael, I start singing, 'Famine!' Never quite got into Stella Street, but the combination of silliness and that the Star Stories scripts are frequently lifted directly out of the news stories never fails to get me giggling. That, and I adore Matt King.
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You X-Factor defending fucks would probably bay and laugh and boo at Hot Shot. You make me sick.
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Seaside Loafer posted:I managed to hang in there long enough to hear the theme music you spoke of. It is pretty close isnt it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof5pRAIZmw Go home and produce a low production reality program for ITV.
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It's a celebrity contestant reality show, who cares? I don't remember this much fuss about Cirque de Celebrity or any of the other twenty of these there's been. Of course it's poo poo, you don't need to watch it and then give a trip report back to the thread that yeah it turns out Celebrity Diving on ITV isn't your cup of tea.
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Testro posted:words Testro posted:They assume that everyone on Jeremy Kyle is incoherent and has anger issues, but doesn't think for a minute that someone from the production team is plying them with alcohol
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Yeah, that would never, ever happen. It would only take a single person even ALLEGING it before OFCOM would be swarming them like locusts.
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Someone explain to me what the deal is with the "Christmas number 1"? Surely not being interested in X-factor means you're also not interested in who is number 1 in the pop charts? Honestly, I really need someone to tell me why it's a good thing that RATM got the number 1 instead of the X-factor, or why a foregone conclusion is a bad thing.
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Testro posted:I can't help but feel sorry for those who go onto it with the right intentions (but are deluded about their own talents) solely to be laughed at and ridiculed. I know they went on of their own volition, but (especially in the earlier days) they had no idea of how it worked. For someone who is incredibly nuanced in television production what you are saying here is absolute rubbish.
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Hoops posted:Surely not being interested in X-factor means you're also not interested in who is number 1 in the pop charts? Are you seriously suggesting that not appreciating some bullshit reality show that churns out generic pap precludes you from having any interest in music whatsoever?
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Flatscan posted:Are you seriously suggesting that not appreciating some bullshit reality show that churns out generic pap precludes you from having any interest in music whatsoever?
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