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CaptainHollywood posted:Who else here is a 'loser'? Well, I'm not losing that hour of my life anymore, so I guess we'll have to disagree on our definitions of the word. Tuxedo Jack posted:I'm glad Jack is back, and I'm gonna watch it... But let's not pretend the last two seasons of 24 weren't garbage. My expectations are very, very low. Saying only the last two seasons were garbage is pretty generous, honestly. I mean I'm totally gonna watch it just to see how post-9/11 paranoia holds up in the year 2014 if nothing else, but I'm not fooling myself into thinking I won't be watching garbage. Happy Noodle Boy posted:Season 2 was legit good but Season 3 is still my favorite. Chase, Nina, and Saunders were all awesome characters. Not to mention being the origin of TVIV emoticon  zoux posted:The one where the nuke went off in LA was literally the last episode of 24 that I watched, who died in between then and now? I'm pretty sure most of the cast not only died, but also came back to life somehow. It's like Dragonball Z except with nukes and bullets instead of energy blasts. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Doug Benson's on @Midnight tonight, so that should be fun! I liked him in that youtube video about weed. That was him, I think...
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MentholsNBeer posted:I liked him in that youtube video about weed. That was him, I think...
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:He does like his weed. That "Super High Me" movie? Dumb premise. I've been getting stoned every day for a lot longer than a month - at one point I went something like 4 years with literally only 2 days where I didn't smoke at all. There are people I know who have been high every day for decades. Mitch Hedberg was much more funny. 
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Feb 4, 2014 00:58
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You have to admire doug benson for having a career in comedy without a sense of humor.
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Yeah Super High Me was pretty bad. I find Doug Benson funny in other situations but SHM just wasn't any fun.
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precision posted:That "Super High Me" movie? Dumb premise. I've been getting stoned every day for a lot longer than a month - at one point I went something like 4 years with literally only 2 days where I didn't smoke at all. There are people I know who have been high every day for decades. That sounds expensive! Also you made me think of-Mitch Hedberg in Super High Me Prequel: Heroin Edition...
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Feb 4, 2014 01:03
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I mean, Doug Benson seems like a cool guy, but I always get the impression he's putting the least possible effort into his routines. He relies on the audience laughing because "ha, he's stoned!" It's always weird to me when I get reminded that, for large chunks of America, "someone is high" is still inherently funny. To me, that's as weird as "person is drunk" being inherently funny.
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Fooz posted:You have to admire doug benson for having a career in comedy without a sense of humor. He's far from the only one the achieve this feat.
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Feb 4, 2014 01:28
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Doug Benson's on @Midnight tonight, so that should be fun! I am enjoying @Midnight more than I thought I would. I love the pointless panel 'Game' shows.
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Feb 4, 2014 01:31
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Deadpool posted:He's far from the only one the achieve this feat. Colin Quinn and Ned Holness come to mind immediately. raditts posted:Well, I'm not losing that hour of my life anymore, so I guess we'll have to disagree on our definitions of the word. Well put, and now that I know the only decent actor on that pile of flaming garbage is a smug dick I just really don't care anymore. Sorry your show sucks, if it's any consolation Marvel and Disney won't let it get cancelled after 1 season.
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I am having a blast watching Episodes. My wife was watching and I snuck a few ganders, now it's the first thing I watch when new episodes are waiting. I can't tell if it's LeBlanc parodying himself or what, but I'm enjoying it.
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IRQ posted:Well put, and now that I know the only decent actor on that pile of flaming garbage is a smug dick I just really don't care anymore. Sorry your show sucks, if it's any consolation Marvel and Disney won't let it get cancelled after 1 season. Gosh, you make one little comment which may be partly in jest and now you're a smug dick. Tough crowd.
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Feb 4, 2014 02:42
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Holy loving Christ, NBC's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit tribute is a travesty. Everyone is tiptoeing around the fact that's a mostly irrelevant spank mag and pretending that it's about exotic locations and good photography.
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Wandle Cax posted:Gosh, you make one little comment which may be partly in jest and now you're a smug dick. Tough crowd. Calling people who don't like your boring show losers is not smug? "No but really there's Z-list Marvel characters you haven't ever heard of coming up, please don't pay attention to the fact that we can't have any of the characters from the movies! I mean it's ok we mentioned The Avengers that one time in passing. Losers."
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Feb 4, 2014 03:17
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Hahahahaha holy poo poo, The Following. I'm watching a Manic Pixie Dream Girl and some boy bond over their death cult. What is this?
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precision posted:Hahahahaha holy poo poo, The Following. I'm watching a Manic Pixie Dream Girl and some boy bond over their death cult. What is this? The greatest show on TV
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Feb 4, 2014 03:33
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Someone stabbed their own eyes out in the first season.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:33
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American Horror Story has covered that ground pretty well too.
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IRQ posted:Calling people who don't like your boring show losers is not smug? Yeah, that kinda sounds like something Donald Trump would say about people that didn't watch The Celebrity Apprentice Season 26.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:41
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Are those James Purefoy masks on sale anywhere?
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Wandle Cax posted:Gosh, you make one little comment which may be partly in jest and now you're a smug dick. Tough crowd. Did you even read the interview? It's not like he was completely kidding or talking about something else and then that just slipped out.
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The Following is basically telling the writers of Sleepy Hollow to write Hannibal. Maybe it IS the best show on TV.
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IRQ posted:Calling people who don't like your boring show losers is not smug? Yeah, that quote came across as, at best, incredibly ill-judged. It's not the fault of the audience if the programme does not live up to the premise. It stinks of a basic misunderstanding of the target audience as well. 'Geeks' (stupid umbrella term) aren't some monolithic entity. They are, in this context, pretty much everyone in the 14-40 age group who has even a passing familiarity with comics, cartoons, or action films. The problem is that there is nothing remarkable about the programme on any level. It is a second-rate Whedon imitation that is almost the dictionary definition of anodyne, and that is evidently not what people wanted.
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Further in the interview he talks about Agents of Shield being a slow burn, and I'm sorry I just watched the first two seasons of Nikita. I don't have time for slow burns anymore if there's agents involved.
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I'm amazed that people are still into superheroes, let alone tangential superhero related generic squads.
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Fooz posted:I'm amazed that people are still into superheroes, let alone tangential superhero related generic squads. I think it's just the evolution of blockbuster action movies, they were big and muscular in the 80s, everyman in the 90s, and now superpowered. It's basically the same story over and over anyways. I hope wizards are next Femur fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Gregg's being a loving idiot here. I want to believe that he was referring more to people who tuned in thinking Robert Downey Jr. was going to be a recurring guest or something, but at face value, that was just a stupid thing to say. However, if you're going to get defensive over an actor's comments about a show you claim to be no longer interested in, I'm not sure you could be called a winner. There are a dozen other genre shows that have a better handle on pacing and characterization than SHIELD that demand your attention. I guarantee you, you'll be happier for giving it. EDIT: Please understand, I totally get the urge, and it's not like I'm a big SHIELD fanboy. I tuned out after the mid-season finale. But the amount of bitching about this show has been so constant...like, if a show is simply "mediocre," by definition it should not take several medium-length posts to hammer that point home. After a while you have to stop complaining about mediocrity, get over whatever missed opportunities there were, and start focusing on something else. That's really what I'm reacting to here, warranted or otherwise. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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SHIELD's problems have gently caress all to do with slow burns, discovery periods, overarching mysteries, or the Marvel Universe, and everything to do with lovely pacing, dull characters, tepid dialogue, and 80s production values. And yes, I'm still watching.
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precision posted:I mean, Doug Benson seems like a cool guy, but I always get the impression he's putting the least possible effort into his routines. He relies on the audience laughing because "ha, he's stoned!" Getting Doug With High is weed blackface. Fooz posted:I'm amazed that people are still into superheroes, let alone tangential superhero related generic squads. Superheroes are actually getting fun again because now that Marvel blew their wad with The Avengers people can actually have fun and be goofy instead of churning out safe, identical origin stories that are just advertisements for a blockbuster coming out in two years. And with how ridiculously popular Thor was audiences have shown that sillier comic book stuff can fly, so now we get Guardians of the Galaxy and an Edgar Wright-helmed Ant Man next year.
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Slamhound posted:SHIELD's problems have gently caress all to do with slow burns, discovery periods, overarching mysteries, or the Marvel Universe, and everything to do with lovely pacing, dull characters, tepid dialogue, and 80s production values. But you haven't watched anything from the 80s recently i'm assuming.
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Fooz posted:I'm amazed that people are still into superheroes, let alone tangential superhero related generic squads. Iron Man 3 was the 2nd highest grossing movie of 2013. People still really care about superheroes.
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muscles like this? posted:Iron Man 3 was the 2nd highest grossing movie of 2013. People still really care about superheroes. At least Iron Man 3 was really good, unlike The Avengers. I haven't watched Agents of SHIELD but if it's a low-budget Avengers then it's gotta be dire.
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Agents of SHIELD is more like a low budget version of the shawarma scene extended to 42 painful minutes every week.
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:At least Iron Man 3 was really good, unlike The Avengers. I haven't watched Agents of SHIELD but if it's a low-budget Avengers then it's gotta be dire. Agents of SHIELD is more like Marvel-ized Buffy (or some other mostly-ensembley sf/f action/comedy/drama show that I'm blanking on right now) in style than anything particularly similar to The Avengers.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I am enjoying @Midnight more than I thought I would. I love the pointless panel 'Game' shows. Maron talked about it with Simon Amstell on his podcast recently. He said Americans don't understand game shows with no stakes and no prizes, when in reality they are just a staging device for improv comedy. I guess that's why we have Hardwick yelling POINTS every 2 seconds. I really wish he'd stop that.
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My friend is watching Heroes and she won't listen when I tell her it gets bad. Ali Larter is no Tati-chan 
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Haha I forgot how bad Ali Larter is. So bad.
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muscles like this? posted:Iron Man 3 was the 2nd highest grossing movie of 2013. People still really care about superheroes. That's why I'm amazed, per my post. Especially since iron man 3 was the movie that convinced me to never see another superhero movie.
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