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Dr Monkeysee posted:I feel like they were shooting for more of an epic hero approach in the latter two seasons. Spartacus has transcended his lowly gladiator status and become the myth of history we all know. Yeah they really rubbed it in that EVERYONE that believed in or followed Spartacus got annihilated, but it's also stressed that their revolt ultimately led to the breakdown of the Republic (their ultimate goal) so I guess it is hopeful in a way. Caesar's characterization was great, I also really appreciate how Crassus was portrayed. However, I felt the climax of the series and Spartacus' personal retribution was the defeat of Glaber so in a way there was this overlying sense that the entire final season was just an epilogue.
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Watched both seasons of Red Road, was an interesting show, pretty dark, enjoyed it a lot. Then I broke down and watched Jessica Jones. It was p okay I guess but outside of being super duper anti rape culture/patriarchy it's a character I never knew much about, and I can only handle so many grizzled comic book P.I.s. Luke Cage gonna be rad though.
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Dec 4, 2015 23:44
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Instead of talking about Back To The Future Time Travel Theories, can we talk about Darkman going up on Netflix and how much Darkman owns? Because Darkman owns, and I'd bet money it's the reason Sam Raimi directed the Spider-Man films. Darkman is so great. I know a lot of people wish Bruce Campbell could have gotten the lead role but Liam Neeson channeling Nic Cage levels of craziness is just wonderful.
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coyo7e posted:Watched both seasons of Red Road, was an interesting show, pretty dark, enjoyed it a lot. Then I broke down and watched Jessica Jones. It was p okay I guess but outside of being super duper anti rape culture/patriarchy it's a character I never knew much about, and I can only handle so many grizzled comic book P.I.s. Luke Cage gonna be rad though. Seconding Red Road. Chichevache fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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speshl guy posted:However, I felt the climax of the series and Spartacus' personal retribution was the defeat of Glaber so in a way there was this overlying sense that the entire final season was just an epilogue. Yeah that's true. Up until then Spartacus's revolt was driven largely by vendetta and thus very personal. I think they did a good job depicting how the revolt had escalated to the point that Rome had to get serious but season 3 was definitely "Our Heros vs The Mechanistic Apparatus of State". Crassus et. al. were just doing their jobs and didn't give a poo poo who Spartacus was or why he was doing anything.
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coyo7e posted:I broke down and watched Jessica Jones. It was p okay I guess but outside of being super duper anti rape culture/patriarchy it's a character I never knew much about, and I can only handle so many grizzled comic book P.I.s. Luke Cage gonna be rad though. Yeah Jessica Jones is just kinda OK. Jessica herself is portrayed as your standard grizzled PI, the rest of the supporting characters are all kind of lackluster, and the vilian is more annoying than menacing, which I think may be a problem with casting or something. The show stretches a lot to try and be shocking with regards to violence but it comes off really forced. Superpowers are treated as deus ex machinas far too often. Contrast that with Daredevil where you had a lot of well worn tropes, but they all seemed to mesh better. The vilian is slightly unusual, there's a lot more plot progression, not as many spin off side stories, etc.
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Dec 5, 2015 04:53
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Dr Monkeysee posted:Yeah that's true. Up until then Spartacus's revolt was driven largely by vendetta and thus very personal. I think they did a good job depicting how the revolt had escalated to the point that Rome had to get serious but season 3 was definitely "Our Heros vs The Mechanistic Apparatus of State". Crassus et. al. were just doing their jobs and didn't give a poo poo who Spartacus was or why he was doing anything. Crassus and Caesar were p cool villains though.
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LogisticEarth posted:Yeah Jessica Jones is just kinda OK. Jessica herself is portrayed as your standard grizzled PI, the rest of the supporting characters are all kind of lackluster, and the vilian is more annoying than menacing, which I think may be a problem with casting or something. The show stretches a lot to try and be shocking with regards to violence but it comes off really forced. Superpowers are treated as deus ex machinas far too often. I'm still a few episodes from the finale so I'll hold off on any opinions about the series as a whole, but David Tenant is the best part of this show by leaps and bounds. He's just the right mix of menacing and disarming. He's never on camera with another character that I don't sit up a little bit, expecting something horrible to happen. He's a huge improvement over the typical MCU villain that's just The Hero, But Evil. I don't think he's quite up to D'Onofrio's Kingpin, but he's really, really good.
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Sarchasm posted:I'm still a few episodes from the finale so I'll hold off on any opinions about the series as a whole, but David Tenant is the best part of this show by leaps and bounds. He's just the right mix of menacing and disarming. He's never on camera with another character that I don't sit up a little bit, expecting something horrible to happen. He's a huge improvement over the typical MCU villain that's just The Hero, But Evil. There is a scene late in the season of JJ where she and Kilgrave are talking, and he mentions a moment in time where she'd actually been happy "for 16 seconds, you forgot to hate me" or something like that. It was a pretty good characterization of how sinister and self-deceiving he is, but the whole "I'm gonna make everybody kill themselves if I don't get my way!" angle wears thin pretty quickly, and I'm not really sure what other interesting character arcs Jessica Jones is involved in after she takes out Kilgrave (because let's be fair, Kilgrave was a throwaway villain and Tenant's got other things to do). Wasn't JJ the woman who Luke Cage butt-hosed and they depicted her talking about not wanting to but going for it anyway and :canofworms: ?
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Jessica Jones would be a lot better if they trimmed it down to six or eight episodes and eliminated the sci-fi half of the cop's plot + the awful upstairs neighbors. The stuff with Kilgrave is interesting but gets repetitive.
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morestuff posted:Jessica Jones would be a lot better if they trimmed it down to six or eight episodes and eliminated the sci-fi half of the cop's plot + the awful upstairs neighbors. The stuff with Kilgrave is interesting but gets repetitive. I actually thought the pre-sci-fi half of the cop's plot was way worse. bad character all around.
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Dec 5, 2015 17:47
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speshl guy posted:Doc and Marty are cursed to forever be drawn toward each other and travel through time in every possible alternate reality. In the span of one night on October 26, 1985, every possible Marty traveled to another timeline at once, and infinite iterations of Lorraine and George were greeted the next morning by a changeling Marty: a strange boy they had never known but identical to their son in every way. speshl guy posted:I suggest checking out Source Code This is now making me  because Source Code does the same thing. You have this school teacher who after Jake Gyllenhaal's helicopter pilot takes over his consciousness suddenly stops a terrorist attack, gets the girls, and rides off into the sunset. But he doesn't know anything about this school teacher's life, and to everyone around him he's suddenly a badass. Like he can't just show up at an army base and say he's a pilot, and he's probably not too hot at teaching social studies. So what does he do like a week after the movie ends?Seconding that a 'side effects of time travel' movie/documentary would be fascinating.
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morestuff posted:Jessica Jones would be a lot better if they trimmed it down to six or eight episodes and eliminated the sci-fi half of the cop's plot + the awful upstairs neighbors. The stuff with Kilgrave is interesting but gets repetitive. The funny thing is that Netflix's contract with Marvel was for four 12-episode seasons and a miniseries, so they didn't really have a choice. Even without traditional networks shows are still getting hosed up by the higher-ups dictating things.
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That length is fine if you come up with interesting stuff to fill it, and "superhero PI" and "superhero lawyer" shouldn't be that hard to do good self-contained episodes or plot threads with. Neither quite pull it off, though.
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morestuff posted:That length is fine if you come up with interesting stuff to fill it, and "superhero PI" and "superhero lawyer" shouldn't be that hard to do good self-contained episodes or plot threads with. Neither quite pull it off, though. i said it before but the big obvious problem with Jessica Jones as a show is that it rushes straight into the Purple Man stuff and drags it out over the whole season instead of giving us at least one or two episodes of her doing P.I. poo poo and letting us learn a bit about her as a character apart from the Purple Man first.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i said it before but the big obvious problem with Jessica Jones as a show is that it rushes straight into the Purple Man stuff and drags it out over the whole season instead of giving us at least one or two episodes of her doing P.I. poo poo and letting us learn a bit about her as a character apart from the Purple Man first. If they did that people would complain about them wasting time on episodic plots that don't connect to anything. And honestly I'm not that pumped for a straightforward "superhero PI" show anyway, I like the personal angle. It's a pretty character driven show though there are some parts I don't like (that loving crazy twin sister.)
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Maxwell Lord posted:If they did that people would complain about them wasting time on episodic plots that don't connect to anything. Yeah but those people would be wrong and I'd be right Seriously though complaining about a tv show having "episodic plots" is hilarious
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Yeah but those people would be wrong and I'd be right Yeah isn't the whole appeal of tv that you can take time to explore characters and events you wouldn't be able to explore in a film?
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red19fire posted:This is now making me yeah, but also the implication from the ending was that every time they loaded up the program to send Jake Gyllenhaal into that dude's memory, they copied and pasted a new universe into existence, each of which also had their own shady government source code organization within it making new universes ad infinitum.
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Dark was the Night was a passable monster flick but goddamn what a disappointing looking monster.
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NESguerilla posted:Dark was the Night was a passable monster flick but goddamn what a disappointing looking monster. I bet he hates diddy kong.
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coyo7e posted:He doesn't hit me nearly as hard as, say, Moriarty in the new Holmes show with cumberbatch for instance I think you and I must be exact opposites. Moriarty in the new Holmes did nothing but annoy me and make me roll my eyes. He was so over the top that I could never take him seriously as a threat. I loved Sherlock anyway, though.
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I finally got around to watching Ex Machina (free on Amazon Prime right now) today, and wow, was that ever fantastic. ... and now I'm watching Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead which sure ... is ... something. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying this but it's definitely for a night you're thinking more Evil Dead 2 instead of Night of the Living Dead, right down to the opening voiceover montage.
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speshl guy posted:yeah, but also the implication from the ending was that every time they loaded up the program to send Jake Gyllenhaal into that dude's memory, they copied and pasted a new universe into existence, each of which also had their own shady government source code organization within it making new universes ad infinitum. Also, every time the Source Code succeeds, the government people have no idea that it worked since he's stopped a terrorist attack before it happens. So there's multiple iterations of Gyllenhaal's consciousness inhabiting people in the 'final' world, right? That's what I thought, anyway.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead I found that to be a kind of disappointing sequel honestly.
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The part in a electric boogaloo with the Christmas tree and a bag of oranges is the hardest I have laughed in a while. I really have to see The Last American Virgin.
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Just watched all of Detectorists, a charming little comedy series from the UK about metal detector hobbyists and their quirky lives. Written by McKenzie Crook, and starring him and Toby Jones. Great writing, subtle humor, and wonderful cinematography of the english countryside. Deffo recommended, check it out on Netflix US/Canada.
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I was disappointed with the second season of Broadchurch. Changing the focus from a murder investigation to court drama meant the new investigation felt like an afterthought. Also I am unfamiliar with British law but the trial seemed rather preposterous to me would the admissibility of a confession really be argued in front of the jury? That's extremely prejudicial, don't they have pre-trial hearings like an American grand jury to handle that? Also do they have any rules of evidence whatsoever? If they ditched most of the trial they could have fleshed out how Tennant's character's prior investigation of this season's case led him to his conclusions, and also how the case against the suspects fell apart. Instead we got interminable scenes of characters sitting outside the courtroom waiting to be called for testimony.
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Man, thanks to whoever recommended instant watcher. That site is great.
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Apocalypto is on UK Netflix.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Apocalypto is on UK Netflix. It used to be on US Netflix, if it's gone that's a real shame. It's like Noah in that it's a completely unnecessary and weird movie that is still also super entertaining.
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precision posted:It used to be on US Netflix, if it's gone that's a real shame. It's like Noah in that it's a completely unnecessary and weird movie that is still also super entertaining.
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Dec 8, 2015 06:28
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SubG posted:School me on the concept of unnecessary movies. The Phantom Menace
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That new Peanuts movie is the ultimate unnecessary movie.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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I think u guys r just listing stuff you don't like
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SubG posted:School me on the concept of unnecessary movies. Anything your parents filmed of their little angel. 
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precision posted:It used to be on US Netflix, if it's gone that's a real shame. It's like Noah in that it's a completely unnecessary and weird movie that is still also super entertaining. Apocalypto is really good (I think Gibson did a great job directing it), unlike Noah which is Aronofsky's worst move.
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Noah looks fantastic and has a lot of fun ideas in it. Not as good as Black Swan or The Fountain but worthy of the Aronofsky name in my opinion.
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nate fisher posted:Apocalypto is really good (I think Gibson did a great job directing it), unlike Noah which is Aronofsky's worst move. Jaguar out of nowhere!
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