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I just started to watch X-Files (I'm at S2 E 7 right now) and holy poo poo is this show great. I watched some of it with my mother when it aired and I remember that some of the episodes scared the poo poo out of me. And for some reason the ugly 90's video quality really works for the show.
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I feel like X-Files would work best if watched on old worn out VHS tapes with the occasional tracking issue.
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Nov 24, 2013 00:58
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lelandjs posted:I feel like X-Files would work best if watched on old worn out VHS tapes with the occasional tracking issue. No, in a dark room on a big curved glass CRT from a DVD player. Watching it off of a VHS would be worse quality than a TV broadcast but you still get that old TV feel with the curved glass edit: gently caress, I'm a television hipster
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Nov 24, 2013 01:00
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Bill Cosby's new special is on NOW MoFos. Watch it.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:02
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Any good? I was never a fan of Cosby's old standup, but I'm willing to give him a chance if his material has improved.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:09
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Popelmon posted:I just started to watch X-Files (I'm at S2 E 7 right now) and holy poo poo is this show great. I watched some of it with my mother when it aired and I remember that some of the episodes scared the poo poo out of me. "Field Trip" from one of the later seasons is my favourite X-files episode. I'll bust out the black bars because today I don't feel like being too much of a dick apart from mentioning Girls: For me it successfully captured that feeling of knowing you're somewhere, in a normal situation perhaps at home, just living your life and - No you're actually not there you're somewhere else all messed up and you have no idea what's what because your brain not in it's normal state but you're kind of coming around and just realising that everything is absolutely NOT as it seems and it's kinda scary and kinda cool and exciting and above all else it makes you feel small and totally out of control of your perception of things but nevermind all that I* just need to work out exactly what I* am first. *Trying to cogitate all this without any concept of "I" "me" or "perception" You'll probably either like/dislike it a lot, or not really think much of it at all depending on what you've tried.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:11
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Irish Joe posted:Any good? I was never a fan of Cosby's old standup, but I'm willing to give him a chance if his material has improved. I admire you for not just towing the party line on Himself and standing up against it as if it wasn't one of the funniest comedy specials ever made, even to this day. You're still wrong, but good on you for owning it.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:16
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Cactus posted:"Field Trip" from one of the later seasons is my favourite X-files episode. I'll bust out the black bars because today I don't feel like being too much of a dick apart from mentioning Girls: For me the climax of that episode is when the Lone Gunmen guy tells Scully that he thinks that Mulder died in exactly the way she described and you right away know that something is up, the line just gives off this real spookiness from how "right" that it would be that they all went with Scully.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:20
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Irish Joe posted:Any good? I was never a fan of Cosby's old standup, but I'm willing to give him a chance if his material has improved. I think it's safe to say if you didn't appreciate 76-year old comedian Bill Cosby's previous material you're not going to change your mind at this point Irish Joe.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:20
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Himself is the poo poo and totally stands the test of time. Unlike, say, Eddie Murphy's Delirious where you have a  -worthy rant about gay people come out of nowhere and kind of ruin the whole thing in retrospect.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:29
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DivisionPost posted:I admire you for not just towing the party line on Himself and standing up against it as if it wasn't one of the funniest comedy specials ever made, even to this day. I can't imagine a person who doesn't laugh their rear end off at least at some part of Himself. That person must have nothing good in their life. ...of SCIENCE! posted:Himself is the poo poo and totally stands the test of time. Unlike, say, Eddie Murphy's Delirious where you have a I haven't seen Delirious in years so I don't recall how long that part was, but I guess you just kind of have to treat it like "my racist grandpa" in that it was a casual mindset at the time. IIRC it's at least at the beginning and he doesn't seem to say it in a particularly malicious way. It is the first thing I think of when I watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and that scene comes on where Mr. T's character clenches up his buttcheeks, though. raditts fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Nov 24, 2013 |
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piratepilates posted:For me the climax of that episode is when the Lone Gunmen guy tells Scully that he thinks that Mulder died in exactly the way she described and you right away know that something is up, the line just gives off this real spookiness from how "right" that it would be that they all went with Scully. Not many shows can pull off that feeling of spookiness you mention of things not seeming too out there, but at the same time being so out there they cannot possibly be real - yet the explanation of those things is not what they first seemed but turns out to make internally consistent sense. Not a TV show, but the Machinist, and more recently Source Code, are films that I also think do this really well.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:35
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zoux posted:Holy poo poo: HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER Is this Experimental Music Video week or something?
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Nov 24, 2013 03:57
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raditts posted:HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER Dunno, but that would be an amazing thing. I like the song.
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Nov 24, 2013 04:46
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raditts posted:HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER Kanye's submission was to have Kim Kardashian take her clothes off. He needs to go back to the drawing board.
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Nov 24, 2013 06:38
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hcreight posted:Kanye's submission was to have Kim Kardashian take her clothes off. For all of Kim Kardashian's faults, literally none of them are "Is not attractive".
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Nov 24, 2013 06:45
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Yoshifan823 posted:For all of Kim Kardashian's faults, literally none of them are "Is not attractive". Don't care, I want her awful rear end family to go away forever.
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Nov 24, 2013 06:49
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hcreight posted:Don't care, I want her awful rear end family to go away forever. Poor choice of words, her rear end is probably her biggest (no pun intended) claim to fame.
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Nov 24, 2013 06:50
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Yoshifan, why must you apologize for awful things.Mr. Fowl posted:Dunno, but that would be an amazing thing. I like the song. Me too. I watched it long enough to hear the song like 10 times in a row. raditts fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Nov 24, 2013 |
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Nov 24, 2013 07:00
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Bound 2 is amazing and that video is even better. Cause it's Kanye premiering that on the loving Ellen Degeneres show, and not giving a gently caress.
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Nov 24, 2013 07:40
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Did he actually air the uncensored version on Ellen? I didn't see the episode but I've seen the Bound 2 video, and if that's true, holy gently caress.
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Nov 24, 2013 07:41
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Look, I'm not saying I like Kim Kardashian (though if her being Kanye's muse results in more Yeezus level albums, she can stick around), but I have no idea what insulting her looks has to do with anything, especially because she's pretty drat attractive. Now, Kris Jenner on the other hand is just awful.
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Nov 24, 2013 08:15
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The Wire is fluctuating between $69 and $89 right now at this very moment, like some sort of Schroedinger's DVD set http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=gb1h_ti...rd_p=1673798022 Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Nov 24, 2013 |
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Nov 24, 2013 09:19
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Yoshifan823 posted:Look, I'm not saying I like Kim Kardashian (though if her being Kanye's muse results in more Yeezus level albums, she can stick around), but I have no idea what insulting her looks has to do with anything, especially because she's pretty drat attractive. Nobody is insulting her looks. The video is awful for many other reasons.
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Nov 24, 2013 09:34
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The Bound 2 video promotes unsafe motorcycle driving habits 
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Himself is the poo poo and totally stands the test of time. Unlike, say, Eddie Murphy's Delirious where you have a If a person can't laugh at Bill Cosby playing 'Jesus Christ' and his brother, 'Goddamn it' then they are totally broken.
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Nov 24, 2013 12:28
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Steve Yun posted:The Wire is fluctuating between $69 and $89 right now at this very moment, like some sort of Schroedinger's DVD set I bought mine a couple years ago in Tesco for about £50. I wasn't aware The Wire had a rep for being prohibitively expensive, it's been out for ages now.
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Cactus posted:I bought mine a couple years ago in Tesco for about £50. I wasn't aware The Wire had a rep for being prohibitively expensive, it's been out for ages now. The Wire Box sets are like many other HBO box sets in that at retail they're usually $150 or more. Side note, make sure you're getting the box set with the DVDs/blu-rays held in place with prongs. The original box set was a shoddy mess, the DVDs were held in cardboard sleeves by tiny dabs of hot glue. The glue usually came apart in shipment and the DVDs got scratched all to hell.
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Cactus posted:I bought mine a couple years ago in Tesco for about £50. I wasn't aware The Wire had a rep for being prohibitively expensive, it's been out for ages now. All HBO shows have always had ludicrous prices, like 5 times any other show at least.
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Nov 24, 2013 17:16
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Man, I think I'm in love with the X-Files. One of the Lone Gunmen just said this: "You’re welcome to come over Saturday. We’re all hopping on the Internet to nitpick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2." This episode was aired in 1994  .
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Nov 24, 2013 20:51
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Popelmon posted:"You’re welcome to come over Saturday. We’re all hopping on the Internet to nitpick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2." Jesus, in 1994 I would have been on Prodigy waiting forty minutes for an image to half load before the connection timed out.
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Nov 24, 2013 21:01
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Irish Joe posted:Jesus, in 1994 I would have been on Prodigy waiting forty minutes for an image to half load before the connection timed out. Your family went with Prodigy in 1994. I'm a lot more sympathetic knowing that being wrong just runs in your genes. It's okay, Joe, we're all here for you.
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Popelmon posted:Man, I think I'm in love with the X-Files. One of the Lone Gunmen just said this: The X-Files: over a decade ahead of The Big Bang Theory.
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Nov 24, 2013 21:49
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DivisionPost posted:Your family went with Prodigy in 1994. I'm a lot more sympathetic knowing that being wrong just runs in your genes. In all fairness to my parents, they were well ahead of the curve considering only 12% of Americans had access to the internet in 1994. Its not like anyone who wasn't a nerd or in a high tech industry knew what the internet was or what it could be used for at the time.
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Nov 24, 2013 22:06
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I'm finally catching up on The Americans after having it languish on my DVR for the last 10 months. It's a shame there wasn't much buzz about this show, because drat it is so good.
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Nov 24, 2013 22:58
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That first scene with Tusk playing in the background was one hell of an opening.
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Haven't seen this mentioned in here yet (hope I didn't skim past it...); the new season of Orphan Black starts on April 19th in Canada. I assume it will be the same in the US, given they aired on the same schedules during season one. Just thought people would like to know.
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Captain Vittles posted:Haven't seen this mentioned in here yet (hope I didn't skim past it...); the new season of Orphan Black starts on April 19th in Canada. I assume it will be the same in the US, given they aired on the same schedules during season one. Just thought people would like to know. Yeah, it's the same. Here's a teaser they released yesterday during Whomania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zCNJG07i-g
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hcreight posted:Yeah, it's the same. Here's a teaser they released yesterday during Whomania: I keep hearing Orphan Black is pretty good. Anyone know if it's streaming on, like, Netflix or something?
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Teddybear posted:I keep hearing Orphan Black is pretty good. Anyone know if it's streaming on, like, Netflix or something? It's not on Netflix. Which drives me crazy because COPPER is on netflix and that's a BBCA production. Where the hell is my Orphan Black?
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