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red19fire posted:Is this it? Holy poo poo, that letter! I didn't remember it being one of the summer school ones, but that must be it. I have no memory of that amazing letter though.
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I forgot how good the first 3-4 seasons of House are. It gets ridiculous past that, but the front half of the show is still solid.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I forgot how good the first 3-4 seasons of House are. It gets ridiculous past that, but the front half of the show is still solid. The last season's pretty good too, at least as a wrap-up for everything. So I guess that means only like 3 seasons are really poor.
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No idea what season it was but as soon as house decided he needed to stick silverware into an electrical socket to get into the mindset of why one of his patients liked to get electrocuted, I was out.
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God Hole posted:No idea what season it was but as soon as house decided he needed to stick silverware into an electrical socket to get into the mindset of why one of his patients liked to get electrocuted, I was out. if i remember right doesnt he do this because his patient believes in god so he tries to die 2 have a near-death experience and decides that God Is Good
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computer parts posted:The last season's pretty good too, at least as a wrap-up for everything. So I guess that means only like 3 seasons are really poor. The only season that I thought was really intolerable was the seventh, with all of the House / Cuddy love crap. Other weak spots were the fourth (the one with the auditions for the new team; I loving hate Kal Penn) and the fifth, which was just way too serious for its own good. But really, for running for eight seasons, never truly going off the rails is a heck of an achievement.
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House doesn't have a single bad season, but hoo boy it has some real stinker episodes in the later seasons. The season premieres and finales are always amazing though, especially "20 Vicodin" and the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest homage. I'm gonna watch that right now in fact.
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Hat Thoughts posted:if i remember right doesnt he do this because his patient believes in god so he tries to die 2 have a near-death experience and decides that God Is Good drat read the Bible or something House.
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Apr 18, 2016 00:29
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He should have just gotten one of those calendars that has a line of scripture for every day of the year.
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Which is the season where you find out he was abused as a kid and R. Lee Ermy is introduced as his father? That's when I gave up on it as it was airing.
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I love House but I do think it worked better broken up by weekly tv formatting. Since 90% of the episodes follow a similar template it doesn't work too great trying to binge watch. My favorite episode is when Dave Matthews played a brain damaged musical savant and they taught him to tie his shoes him by removing half his brain.
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Timby posted:The only season that I thought was really intolerable was the seventh, with all of the House / Cuddy love crap. Though the ending is pretty great, with House on an island resort after plowing through her house.
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User-Friendly posted:Which is the season where you find out he was abused as a kid and R. Lee Ermy is introduced as his father? That's when I gave up on it as it was airing. That was the second season, I think, so you gave up pretty early.
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User-Friendly posted:Which is the season where you find out he was abused as a kid and R. Lee Ermy is introduced as his father? That's when I gave up on it as it was airing. Strangely enough, this is also an SVU episode.
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Accident Underwater posted:
Mine too. The scene where he brings the piano into the room is awesome, and Kurtwood Smith of all people is one of the most touching guest stars in the entire run of the show.
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Thanks to everyone for the action flick recommendations. I added them to my list and watched The Crow, which was much more stylish than I was expecting. It was fun. My favorite House episode is the one where the Miley Cyrus-type pop singer patient is discovered to be a hermaphrodite with internal testicles after she has a sexual relationship with her father/manager. It went off the rails when a love affair between House and Cuddy turned out to be a Vicodin hallucination, but I think that was the same season with an episode mostly from a paralyzed Mos Def POV. House is awesome. Edit: Also The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and its sequels are on Netflix, and they seriously kick rear end. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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computer parts posted:Strangely enough, this is also an SVU episode. Scrubs too! (kinda)
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Franchescanado posted:My favorite House episode is the one where the Miley Cyrus-type pop singer patient is discovered to be a hermaphrodite with internal testicles after she has a sexual relationship with her father/manager. This is my favorite too, since the plot works equally well on House or Jerry Springer.
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Franchescanado posted:
There are a bunch of Shaw Bros films on Netflix now. I think my favorite I've seen so far is Crippled Avengers, which is as hilariously offensive as the name suggests.
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Five Deadly Venoms was up on Netflix.
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dreadnought posted:There are a bunch of Shaw Bros films on Netflix now. I think my favorite I've seen so far is Crippled Avengers, which is as hilariously offensive as the name suggests. Crippled Avengers is sick as hell.
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none of the old kung fu movies on netflix have dubs though : (
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Accident Underwater posted:I love House but I do think it worked better broken up by weekly tv formatting. Since 90% of the episodes follow a similar template it doesn't work too great trying to binge watch. I think this is why the later episodes have a lot of style and cinematography changes. Most of the reviews were 'House is great but formulaic procedural medical drama', so Season 3 or 4 incorporated the Survivor style team selection episodes. House was also the first show to use a Canon DSLR to film broadcast TV.
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:none of the old kung fu movies on netflix have dubs though : ( They're so much better subbed.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:They're so much better subbed. this is a very, very arguable point
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Accident Underwater posted:I love House but I do think it worked better broken up by weekly tv formatting. Since 90% of the episodes follow a similar template it doesn't work too great trying to binge watch. I never watched the last two seasons of House mind you (In my mind's eye, the S6 finale, 'Help Me' was about as good a jumping off point as it was going to get, and I never got back into it) but most of the moments that stuck with me were from the first three seasons. I think Three Stories, One Day, One Room, and House Training were my favorites of the bunch.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:this is a very, very arguable point Completely disagree. I used to like funny bad dubs but now I can't stand them.
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Comparing a dub and a sub is like comparing the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Neither is better and each one provides its own distinct point of view, with underlying similarities. Also anyone who dislikes the Samurai Champloo dubs is a heretic who must be burned at a phallic-stake on a pile of Manga printed left-to-right. 
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Apr 18, 2016 20:31
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Chichevache posted:Comparing a dub and a sub is like comparing the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Neither is better and each one provides its own distinct point of view, with underlying similarities. Its a little different when we're talking about kung fu though. The dub is a nostalgic thing for a lot of people, its the way they got used to watching kung fu movies when they were a kid. Unfortunately it becomes "part of the joke", so laughing at how bad the dub is becomes an important part of the experience. The implication being that classic kung fu as a genre doesn't have anything really important to offer, so why not laugh at a bad dub in between the cool fight scenes?
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Basebf555 posted:Its a little different when we're talking about kung fu though. The dub is a nostalgic thing for a lot of people, its the way they got used to watching kung fu movies when they were a kid. Yeah, I used to skip the stories in these movies, but they're actually pretty cool when you pay attention to them.
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Basebf555 posted:Its a little different when we're talking about kung fu though. The dub is a nostalgic thing for a lot of people, its the way they got used to watching kung fu movies when they were a kid. You can still enjoy both, just treat them as separate movies. Star Wars is the sub, Space Balls is the dub.
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The only loss for having no dubs is the Wu-Tang Sample drinking game gets a lot more sober.
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I think the assumption that it's impossible to unironically like HK dubs does not hold much water
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The recent Macbeth adaptation with Michael Fassbender is on Amazon Prime and drat is it good. I guess it didn't do well commercially, but it makes me want a straight-up adaptation of Titus Andronicus done in the same manner.
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I still can't believe it wasn't nominated at least for cinematography at the Oscars. Well, I mean, I can, but it's dumb.
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After seeing the first 3 episodes months ago, I finally got off my rear end (ok, onto my rear end and in front of the TV) and finished Bloodline. Wow. What a fantastic show. In a cast of heavyweight actors, for me it was Ben Mendelsohn as Danny that stole the show. Can't wait for Season 2. Now I guess I'll start Better Call Saul!
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pahuyuth posted:After seeing the first 3 episodes months ago, I finally got off my rear end (ok, onto my rear end and in front of the TV) and finished Bloodline. Wow. What a fantastic show. In a cast of heavyweight actors, for me it was Ben Mendelsohn as Danny that stole the show. Can't wait for Season 2. Season 2? How?
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Slandible posted:Season 2? How?
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Slandible posted:Season 2? How? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBrUPASutc
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david_a posted:The last episode had some incredibly ham-fisted hooks for a new season that honestly put me off on the entire series. I thought S1 was OK but I was a bit annoyed at how it was structured. I'll agree with this for the most part. I was kinda "meh" about everything except the acting until around episode 10 when things really started to heat up w/r/t Danny, but from that point on I was hooked. Edit: goddammit I hosed up my edit and ended up with a double post grrrrr
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