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raditts posted:There was a show I saw randomly on a Friday evening a couple months ago called "World's Funniest Fails" which was basically just a bunch of C-list celebrities commenting on and voting on a variety of categories of Youtube videos, but it was hosted by Terry Crews and god dammit if he didn't make an entire hour of that totally watchable. To my great shame, I have yet to be able to see an episode of this. For what it's worth, my friends who have seen it pretty much had the exact same reaction.
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As a person that has/had absolutely no interest in the character, Daredevil is fun as hell, beautifully shot and a really enjoyable show. It's what I wanted Agents of SHIELD to be, i.e. a show showing more mundane but far-reaching stories in a fantastical world.
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Daredevil really highlights how ugly AoS and Agent Carter are in comparison to a competently run show.
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It turns out shows don't need to be well-made or well-written as long as they can vaguely convince nerds they're "fun".
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Bown posted:It turns out shows don't need to be well-made or well-written as long as they can vaguely convince nerds they're "fun". It's actually that no show needs to be well-made or well-written if a large enough audience finds it fun. Nerds aren't special in that regard.
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raditts posted:Daredevil really highlights how ugly AoS and Agent Carter are in comparison to a competently run show. It's more to do with time constraints really. When you have to churn out 22 episodes with about 8 days filming each, things like looking good suffer.
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Apr 14, 2015 08:54
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Turn: Washington's Spies began it's second season on AMC last night with a two hour episode.
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Gonz posted:Turn: Washington's Spies began it's second season on AMC last night with a two hour episode. The first season was alright, not great. If they had kept it on Saturdays I would definitely have jumped back in, but it doesn't make the cut on Mondays.
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ShakeZula posted:The first season was alright, not great. If they had kept it on Saturdays I would definitely have jumped back in, but it doesn't make the cut on Mondays. More happened in the first two hours of the second season than 85% of the first season. A lot of big historical names introduced to the cast.
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Apr 14, 2015 11:32
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Vanderdeath posted:As a person that has/had absolutely no interest in the character, Daredevil is fun as hell, beautifully shot It's too dark (even with screen brightness turned to max) which ruins many of the shots. Wandle Cax posted:It's more to do with time constraints really. When you have to churn out 22 episodes with about 8 days filming each, things like looking good suffer. Yet comparable other network shows like PoI still look great. The AoS crew is just incompetent.
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less laughter posted:The AoS crew is just incompetent. This cannot be said enough. Nerds love to justify AoS's failures with excuses that make no sense. "They couldn't make the show good because Marvel wouldn't let them!" "Their hands were tied until the release of Winter Soldier!" "Its impossible to produce 22 episodes a year!" "Ward's wooden acting and complete lack of on-screen charisma was deliberate because he was actually a mole!" "[something something] Dollhouse! [something something]"
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What failures? You just gonna make stuff up cause you don't like the show?
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I'm referring to AoS's general failure to be an entertaining, well-written, well-produced, well-acted and relatively good-looking television show.
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Apr 14, 2015 12:19
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Yes, that was what I mean by 'make stuff up cause you don't like the show'.
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Apr 14, 2015 12:21
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Joe knows this because he still watches every week, while obviously hating it the entire time.
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I'm assuming he's being a hate watch cock? i can't see his posts. Tell me i'm right
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Rocksicles posted:I'm assuming he's being a hate watch cock? i can't see his posts. Tell me i'm right Yeah, he's pretending not to like Agents of Shield, but I'm aware of his reputation so I'm not believing a minute of it.
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I feel like I stumbled into the world's most passive-aggressive game of telephone.
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Hey Rocksicles, Irish Joe says he'd like to call you up and discuss how good Agents of Shield is.
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If he wants to call during work hours, when i get paid for dealing with morons, i'm all ears.
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Irish Joe posted:I feel like I stumbled into the world's most passive-aggressive game of telephone.
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Apr 14, 2015 12:38
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Gonz posted:Turn: Washington's Spies began it's second season on AMC last night with a two hour episode. Still find it kind of odd how they rebranded the show between the first and second season.
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muscles like this? posted:Still find it kind of odd how they rebranded the show between the first and second season. Yeah, and when they were showing reruns in the winter, they changed the name, too. I guess people were flipping through the channels and something called TURN in all caps wasn't exactly giving them a good idea of what the show was about. Though it's not just cosmetic; the new season does indeed feature a metric shitload of spying by people associated with George Washington. And Benedict Arnold slowly turning into the world's biggest piece of poo poo will apparently be a major part of this season. Gonz fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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Irish Joe posted:I feel like I stumbled into the world's most passive-aggressive game of telephone. Come on guys, this was a good one.
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:Hey, remember when I hoped that Terry Crews would be a veritable shot in the arm for "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" like Steve Harvey has been for Family Feud? It turns out that I have no idea what I'm talking about. The execs are claiming Terry is leaving the show because of his heavy workload right now. Which is a reasonable excuse, given B99 and whatever else he's doing at the moment.
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Bown posted:It turns out shows don't need to be well-made or well-written as long as they can vaguely convince nerds they're "fun". The problem some might have is that Daredevil doesn't really have much to say except surface level examinations of whatever it's about or broader themes and issues it uses to service its story. I think someone linked a WP 'review' on DD which sorta criticized the show for coming out at a bad time where the show more or less portrays extra-legal punishment (i.e. vigilantism) in a much more positive light (not really glorifying it, but) without really wanting to broach the subject or explore it in depth via the fiction. I mean one could also make the argument it shouldn't apply because it's just a comic book adaption doing comic book-y things but quite a few people got riled up by someone's opinion about a show they found "fun", probably because of some, "someone unfamiliar with the source material is coming after them" mentality.
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That was a dumbass review of clickbait bullshit that made it clear the reviewer hadn't watched or understood what she'd watched.
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It was because the reviewer hadn't even watched an episode, from what I recall.
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zoux posted:That was a dumbass review of clickbait bullshit that made it clear the reviewer hadn't watched or understood what she'd watched.
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Sober posted:Last I checked when I read it, it was for the first 7 episodes and she missed a detail in the pilot? You know like how his powers work and that he even has powers.
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Sober posted:The problem some might have is that Daredevil doesn't really have much to say except surface level examinations of whatever it's about or broader themes and issues it uses to service its story. I think someone linked a WP 'review' on DD which sorta criticized the show for coming out at a bad time where the show more or less portrays extra-legal punishment (i.e. vigilantism) in a much more positive light (not really glorifying it, but) without really wanting to broach the subject or explore it in depth via the fiction. Kingpin has the cops on the take, that was a key plot point in like the pilot and only got more solidified as the season progressed. It's also not a remotely unique conceit in superhero shows that the cops are crooked, and if it isn't that, they're incompetent. Either way they become a frustration for the hero and aren't filling the enforcement role the hero is.
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Holy poo poo, Courteney Cox played in Ace Ventura. This movie is really weird, it's full of poop and sex jokes, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be for children or really immature adults. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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Kurtofan posted:This movie is really weird, it's full of poop and sex jokes, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be for children or really immature adults. Yes.
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You forgot the homophobia!
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bobkatt013 posted:You forgot the homophobia! quote:Sean Young as Lt. Lois Einhorn / Ray Finkle wait a minute I can't wait till the big reveal
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Kurtofan posted:wait a minute There was also the scene with him looking at the rings in the bathroom, and a player prances out after him.
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bobkatt013 posted:There was also the scene with him looking at the rings in the bathroom, and a player prances out after him. After doing a big  Edit: curiously I think the mask holds up much better, though it was released the same year. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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I'm not entirely sure where this goes since I don't think there's a movie forum or whatever I'm currently watching Pain & Gain. It's significantly darker than I expected from Michael Bay. Don't get me wrong, I love dark comedies, but this is uncomfortably dark. It's weirdly good, but also dark.
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Thumbtacks posted:I'm not entirely sure where this goes since I don't think there's a movie forum or whatever http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=151
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