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Feb 26, 2013 22:28
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:You need to massively massively up the levels of preening arrogant condescension in your posts, and also make a lot less sense. And then you should be fired into the sun. I will fight to the death over this, he's the best fuckin' poster. Everyone else will be going "uh, this film sucked, and like, it didn't make any sense how the chick didn't just run out of the way of the spaceship, and what is black goo??" (the condescension is deserved) and then he'll just drop in and start firing Zizek quotes and mathemes and Hegelian mysticism at everyone in his path, and nobody ever seems to like or understand it. Yet he persists. Don't worry SMG, I like your posts 
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Feb 26, 2013 22:33
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Allan Assiduity posted:Newest episode of Black Mirror sounds interesting, but doesn't seem to be working on 4od - watching some of the first series instead. This is bloody excellent Good thing Channel 4 put all their content up on Youtube too!
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Feb 26, 2013 22:34
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Gosh, I miss Utopia on a Tuesday night  . The prospect of Shameless Season Umpteen in its place isn't really floating my boat.Anybody got any recommendations? I want something weird and black-hearted, plotty and quirky (and I've already watched Luther and The Shadow Line and Red Riding). I don't mind subtitles if you're got any mental foreign conspiracy dramas you want to share your opinions on.
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Feb 26, 2013 22:37
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:I will fight to the death over this, he's the best fuckin' poster. Everyone else will be going "uh, this film sucked, and like, it didn't make any sense how the chick didn't just run out of the way of the spaceship, and what is black goo??" (the condescension is deserved) and then he'll just drop in and start firing Zizek quotes and mathemes and Hegelian mysticism at everyone in his path, and nobody ever seems to like or understand it. Yet he persists. Don't worry SMG, I like your posts
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Feb 26, 2013 22:37
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Anyone watching The Railway? I'm afraid I did laugh out loud at Ronnie the stiff little dog. I did feel bad, but the poor little thing did look comical.
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Feb 26, 2013 22:40
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Irisi posted:Anybody got any recommendations? I want something weird and black-hearted, plotty Just watch Cracker again. Still the best ever drama series on British TV.
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Feb 26, 2013 22:45
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Watching Big Ask on Dave. Stephen Mangan revealed that he will be voicing Postman Pat in a new film by Dreamworks. Except Gary Barlow will supply his singing voice. I post this without comment.
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Feb 26, 2013 23:25
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BizarroAzrael posted:Watching Big Ask on Dave. Stephen Mangan revealed that he will be voicing Postman Pat in a new film by Dreamworks. Except Gary Barlow will supply his singing voice. I post this without comment. Danny Dyer's view on Postman Pat on last weeks 8 out of 10 Cats was pretty hilarious.
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Feb 26, 2013 23:41
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Feb 26, 2013 23:43
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Captain Mediocre posted:I quite liked it, but mostly because the whole thing seems to have been shot in High Wycombe and seeing your town on TV is always weird as heck. Especially seeing it cast as a dystopian hellhole in the credit sequence. That bridge is actually quite nice. Sup fellow Wycombe goon. It was weird seeing Wycombe, especially as it was presumably chosen to represent an anonymous every-town, which I struggle to conceptualise as I grew up there and know it like the back of my hand. When the old Tory said that the system built those roads, he was on the dual carriage way by the fire station, which is just one of the local tidbits with which I was able to endlessly entertain my girlfriend.
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Feb 26, 2013 23:43
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Where is Jeremy Paxman he has dissapeared from Newsnight completely this year... They had a 10 year Iraq war anniversary special tonight, if you were wondering Tony Blair is still a oval office.
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Feb 27, 2013 00:20
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Metrication posted:Where is Jeremy Paxman he has dissapeared from Newsnight completely this year... Whats new?
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Feb 27, 2013 00:23
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Rondette posted:Anyone watching The Railway? I'm afraid I did laugh out loud at Ronnie the stiff little dog. I did feel bad, but the poor little thing did look comical. Had to do the shop tonight so I missed it, and it's taking a long time to go up on the iPlayer.
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Feb 27, 2013 00:42
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The Perfect Element posted:Sup fellow Wycombe goon. It was weird seeing Wycombe, especially as it was presumably chosen to represent an anonymous every-town, which I struggle to conceptualise as I grew up there and know it like the back of my hand. When the old Tory said that the system built those roads, he was on the dual carriage way by the fire station, which is just one of the local tidbits with which I was able to endlessly entertain my girlfriend. Amen brother. I bored everyone to death talking about how Waldo's van was superimposed over Dennis's kebab van. Eating there is definately going to be a weird experience now.
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Feb 27, 2013 00:46
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WastedJoker posted:Danny Dyer's view on Postman Pat on last weeks 8 out of 10 Cats was pretty hilarious. I didn't make it that far, even reminding myself of how hilariously badly his film is doing couldn't stop the pain of watching him.
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Feb 27, 2013 01:02
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Irisi posted:Gosh, I miss Utopia on a Tuesday night State of Play hasn't got the weird darkness but it's a good conspiracy thriller if that's what you're after. Rondette posted:Anyone watching The Railway? I'm afraid I did laugh out loud at Ronnie the stiff little dog. I did feel bad, but the poor little thing did look comical. Because he was flat on one side I thought he'd been chopped clean in two initially, which regrettably somehow made it more funny. Can't help feeling the guy who made the call needs to brush up on his "breaking bad news" skills though... And I couldn't help but be impressed by the stationmaster's facial hair.
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Feb 27, 2013 01:42
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Did anybody else here watch Good Italy, Bad Italy: Girlfriend in a Coma on BBC4 just now? It was as mental as it title implies. A former editor of the economist and Lenin-impersonator wanders around Italy to continue his vendetta against Berlusconi. Very interesting, and with a startling collection of talking heads including Umberto Eco, Beppe Grillo, two separate people under Police protection from the Mafia, Mario Monti... They even got Benedict Cumberbatch to give readings from Dante. But who structures an essay after Goofus and Gallant? It spends 50 minutes kicking around the culture of corruption and 20 minutes praising the flecks of resistance who stand against it. Also casting Italy as his girlfriend (in a coma) is really creepy, especially when cartoons of her being assaulted by Punch abound.Metrication posted:Where is Jeremy Paxman he has dissapeared from Newsnight completely this year... His evidence to the Pollard review was, like, entirely redacted because of the sheer amount of bile directed against specific execs, so you get the sense he's not happy with the show.
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Feb 27, 2013 01:43
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Flatscan posted:Look at the way that scene was shot. We absolutely are meant to sympathise and agree with him. They may have cast the most sneering, chinless actor they could find but I rather think that was the point. He looks like an inbred upper-class tosser, but throughout the story he does absolutely nothing wrong. Waldo attacks him for being a public schoolboy with a superiority complex but at no point are we actually shown him being such. The other candidates he attacks are explicitly shown to be exactly what he accuses them of being, but not the Tory. Everything the Tory accuses Jamie of, just before Waldo breaks into his tirade, is absolutely true. As such, when Waldo does lay into him it comes across as being completely unfair, based on class prejudice and self-loathing rather than truth. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/16/charlie-brooker-cameron-a-lizard clearly an article written by a Tory voter. For the record I thought that the Labour candidate was a far more sympathetic character. So she stood in a safe tory seat to further her career, don't hate the player, hate the game. She would have called BT man after the election if he could just keep his mouth shut. The fact that you found the smarmy public school boy in the blue rosette more appealing may mean that you are a closet Tory.
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Feb 27, 2013 02:07
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BBC2 late night keeps playing bits of shows out of context. I miss the old ceefax pages .
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Feb 27, 2013 03:09
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Ben Soosneb posted:BBC2 late night keeps playing bits of shows out of context. I miss the old ceefax pages . Fun fact: The music they played over the ceefax pages late at night was often by Aphex Twin 
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Flatscan posted:Well it looks like Charlie Brooker votes Tory then. Charlie Brooker posted:Naturally, I'm biased. I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth. If there was an election tomorrow, and the only two choices were the Nazis or the Tories, I'd vote Tory with an extremely heavy heart. In descending order of vehemence, my objections to the Tory species stem from a) everything they do, b) everything they say, c) everything they stand for, d) how they look, e) their stupid names and f) the noises I imagine they make in bed Just thought I'd add to the proof that Charlie Brooker outright despises the Tories like any right thinking person does.
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Feb 27, 2013 21:19
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Metrication posted:Where is Jeremy Paxman he has dissapeared from Newsnight completely this year... I don't want to hear another word from that oval office's whore mouth unless he's standing in a dock. That was my e-mail to Points of View. edit: Next week on Newsnight: Live Jimmy Savile seance! Kirsty Wark puts some tough questions to the late national treasure. sex pervert fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Feb 27, 2013 |
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Stalingrad posted:Just thought I'd add to the proof that Charlie Brooker outright despises the Tories like any right thinking person does. But no, you see all his numerous displays of outright hostility to the tory party are just a smokescreen. His real opinion is clearly displayed in his use of thematic imagery in an episode of a dystopian sci-fi drama. 
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Feb 28, 2013 11:45
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I thought it was really cool to have a tory character that wasn't some kind of comic book, Bond villain caricature. Some evil Thatcher parody would have been too easy and one dimensional.
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So did anyone else catch Sue Perkin's new comedy thing Heading Out? First episode was pretty hilarious with the dead cat scenes, both at the end and at the world's most serious pet incinerators. Spoiled just in case you want to see it on Iplayer.
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Junior G-man posted:So did anyone else catch Sue Perkin's new comedy thing Heading Out? clocked this last night looking for something to watch, figured I'd wait for someone else to say that it was good. I'll try it out later!
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Get in there, just got an astonishing three Pointless answers in the final of the show, would have won myself a tasty £18,000 jackpot if I'd actually been playing it for real. Also, huge thanks to the goon who recommended State of Play for those suffering from Utopia withdrawals. I'm two episodes in and it is extremely good, John Simm is just pure, solid gold.
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Irisi posted:Get in there, just got an astonishing three Pointless answers in the final of the show, would have won myself a tasty £18,000 jackpot if I'd actually been playing it for real. It's ruddy brilliant, isn't it? The acting is superb all round and, yeah, John Simm is particularly awesome.
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I've read a lot about the Taste in the Food Network thread, but I'm glad to see it's as shite as they've all been posting. Thanks Charlie! I think the panel sections up to now have only been used to make this joke. lets go swimming fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Feb 28, 2013 23:31
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onoflalks posted:I think the panel sections up to now have only been used to make this joke. I wouldn't be surprised. Best Weekly Wipe so far I think. Equating a food fair to a concentration camp with the words above the gates and everything was astounding.
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Pablo Bluth posted:I never really liked this bit of the show .
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Feb 28, 2013 23:33
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There were some classic 'here is how the news / advertising media is completely and utterly poo poo' bits - but I'm surprised he jumped straight into a 'ha ha look at the Harlem Shake idiots' segment straight afterwards, without giving his point a second or so just to sink in. Maybe there's just been a lot to be bitter about lately?
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Gorn Myson posted:That, and while the rest of the CD crowd will obsess over continuity, super hero costumes, fictional universes and minor plot details, he'll just step in call them a bunch of wankers and give a proper reading. Its so loving awesome. But in some threads, that's an interesting conversation. It's annoying that so many of the longer threads in CD are a few posts saying "This film was a film that happened to me and I watched it happening while it happened to me" then thirty pages of arguing minutae with SMG. If anyone watched Room 237 SMG reminds me of the guy who thought the Shining was all about how the moon landing was faked, because while you can sort of support that it's just reaching much too far and too hard. Anyway - Black Mirror. I loved the first episode of this series. That one and the last one of series 1 are probably my favourites. They're a single idea followed through which relates to stuff in modern life, classic 60s style Sci-fi stuff. Whereas although I see where he was going with episode 2 and 3 so much of it was taken setting the scene that the eventual denouement actually ended up being trite and boring - I'd imagined something better in my head than what it actually turned out to be. S1E3 and S2E1 start with the sci-fi idea and move on from there, but S2E2 and S2E3 more or less end on the idea being revealed and it's not as exciting. That isn't to say any of them are bad, they were all good TV, but I expected more I think.
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onoflalks posted:I think the panel sections up to now have only been used to make this joke. That was the highlight of the series 
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Ha, watched the episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats with Danny Dyer yesterday. They spent most of the show taking the piss out of him and making him seem like a nutter. He didn't help matters either. Although he had quite a sense of humour about the whole thing.
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