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Halt and Catch Fire has really solid acting and stories. It would be doing a lot better if the name of the show wasn't so awkward. Also the posters and ads are really bad. The season 3 trailer quotes a site saying something like "gripping and consistently surprising." That's praise enough to put in a commercial? Look at this poster. You guys are making chat rooms and video games. 
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Oct 15, 2016 08:48
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And don't miss Kraft Punk
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Mu Zeta posted:And don't miss Kraft Punk Time to deliver a PIZZA BAAAAALLLLLLL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzteyXbqNg
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Oct 15, 2016 09:26
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I know Longmire seasons always end with cliffhangers, but I feel like that one ended an episode or two too soon.
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Oct 15, 2016 10:13
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Dark Shadows Once I listened to a segment of an old, old mid-90s This American Life episode about Dark Shadows fandom where they had conventions and were making fan films and even hiring the original actors for them. It was weird as heck, especially since this was effectively pre-internet and it was so far outside of the normal sci-fi/fantasy niche.
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Lycus posted:I know Longmire seasons always end with cliffhangers, but I feel like that one ended an episode or two too soon. It's less that it ended on a cliffhanger, and more that it seemed like there wasn't a big payoff for the season. The next to last episode was pretty good, and felt like it was ramping up to something, and then the finale felt like a wet fart. Don't get me wrong, great season, great show, but that's the weakest finale so far in the show.
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Guy Mann posted:Once I listened to a segment of an old, old mid-90s This American Life episode about Dark Shadows fandom where they had conventions and were making fan films and even hiring the original actors for them. It was weird as heck, especially since this was effectively pre-internet and it was so far outside of the normal sci-fi/fantasy niche. Star Trek has been doing this since the beginning
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Okay but he literally said it was weird because it was outside of the normal scifi/fantasy niche for that...
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spooky like this! posted:They've been trying to make a new Highlander movie for years but they just can't get it off the ground. Probably doesn't bode well for a TV show's chances. The last Highlander movie, The Source, was one of the worst things I've ever seen, so maybe we should let dead things stay in their grave. I don't think Highlander really works if it's not in the form of a Queen rock opera.
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Oct 16, 2016 01:40
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The original Highlander TV show wasn't bad.
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Yeah, the tv series want bad, but it's got the stink of '90s Syndication all over it though. I think I watched every episode when it was originally on, but going back to watch it on Netflix some time ago was pretty rough.
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Now that katanas are played out and MMA is all the rage the new Highlander has them wrestling and then smashing the other immortals' heads, Riki-Oh style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Sptdhpa8A
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Mu Zeta posted:Halt and Catch Fire has really solid acting and stories. It would be doing a lot better if the name of the show wasn't so awkward. Also the posters and ads are really bad. The season 3 trailer quotes a site saying something like "gripping and consistently surprising." That's praise enough to put in a commercial? Yeah like, what does "Halt and Catch Fire" even mean? It doesn't bring anything useful to mind.
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Oct 16, 2016 03:16
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It's computer nerd slang that became an actual real code for an unrecoverable CPU stop.
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Oct 16, 2016 03:29
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That's even less user friendly than "The Big Bang Theory"
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raditts posted:The last Highlander movie, The Source, was one of the worst things I've ever seen, so maybe we should let dead things stay in their grave. I don't think Highlander really works if it's not in the form of a Queen rock opera. Broadway it is then.
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Oct 16, 2016 04:25
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Does anyone else use PS Vue? The last couple of days it's been really wigging out when watched through my Fire Stick. Things that have been DVR'ed are acting kind of weird with shows starting 15 minutes in and everything recording way too long.
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Oct 16, 2016 04:48
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"adorable" isn't an adjective you would use to describe a show like Lethal Weapon but I just did.
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Kraps posted:"adorable" isn't an adjective you would use to describe a show like Lethal Weapon but I just did. Yeah, the shtick is not new but all the characters just click into their roles and each other.
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Oct 16, 2016 05:15
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I like Lethal Weapon but I can see already it's going to settle into generic buddy cop show.
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Oct 16, 2016 05:44
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I counted 4 slow ballad montages in the first episode of Frequency. I hate the CW.
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wormil posted:I like Lethal Weapon but I can see already it's going to settle into generic buddy cop show. That's fine, seeing as it is on Fox it'll be a one and done show.
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Oct 16, 2016 06:28
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raditts posted:The last Highlander movie, The Source, was one of the worst things I've ever seen, so maybe we should let dead things stay in their grave. I don't think Highlander really works if it's not in the form of a Queen rock opera. Adrian Paul loving hates that movie but he couldn't get out of the contract. I don't know if it's on the DVD but his comments on the movie are hilarious. Halfway through filming they decided to make Duncan into Wolverine and gave him these two random short swords and it makes no sense why they would do that at all. And the Queen covers. Oh god.
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Goliath is out on Amazon Prime, at first I thought, ugh another David E. Kelley lawyer show, but gave it a shot because of Billy Bob Thornton. I ended up enjoying it quite a bit, great cast, high production value and the story is more John Grisham style than Kelley's usual stuff.
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Mu Zeta posted:I counted 4 slow ballad montages in the first episode of Frequency. I hate the CW.
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No but there was Wonderwall by Oasis because I guess that's a classic rock song that's over 20 years old now.
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Vodos posted:Goliath is out on Amazon Prime, at first I thought, ugh another David E. Kelley lawyer show, but gave it a shot because of Billy Bob Thornton. I ended up enjoying it quite a bit, great cast, high production value and the story is more John Grisham style than Kelley's usual stuff. Does it still have his unique style/feel at all?
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Can somebody maybe help me figure out what the hell this show was? Here's what I remember (it aired many years ago, possibly in the 00s or late 90s): Protagonist was a woman who was dead or something, but kept "alive" by regular sessions in this chair thing that had a bunch of needles or something that injected nanomachines or crazy zombie drugs into her. She worked for the organization that owned the technology responsible for her blasphemous unlife as some sort of crimefighter or spy. I remember her wearing a mask over the lower part of her face in one scene. She tries to run away and her body begins to break down. When her handler tracks her down and gives her the "you need us" speech, he gives her an ankh pendant and tells her it's a symbol of Osiris, who he calls the Egyptian god of the dead. Maybe it's a movie?
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Rhyno posted:Adrian Paul loving hates that movie but he couldn't get out of the contract. I don't know if it's on the DVD but his comments on the movie are hilarious. Halfway through filming they decided to make Duncan into Wolverine and gave him these two random short swords and it makes no sense why they would do that at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvS1BdiVC7o
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This clip is the only part of that movie I've seen, and somehow it gets worse every time I watch it.
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Guy Mann posted:...2007 The original plan for the movie was to bring back Christopher Lambert again, but he asked for too much money. Imagine being part of a production so low-budget that you can't afford Christopher Lambert.
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Timby posted:The original plan for the movie was to bring back Christopher Lambert again, but he asked for too much money. Jason Statham said that with the last Transporter movie they tried to lowball him so bad that they were going to pay him less for three movies than he normally gets for one.
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One of the major plots of St. Elsewhere in the early 80s was some kind of thing where the hospital had been turned into Alice in Wonderland or some poo poo. The tragedy is that none of these "wacky soap opera stories" are ever actually interesting to watch, except maybe Passions
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The joy I get from wacky soap operas is when I'm visiting my mom or aunt and doing some work there's always a moment where my head whips around and I say "What did they just say?!" I can't figure out why everyone stays in that town with the hospital when it seems like half the population are serial killers and criminally insane... and why are none of them in prison? That lady kidnapped a baby and that guy poisoned the water supply.
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My personal head canon is Duncan's final line "I'm done with this" is Paul finally getting fed up with being shackled to this boat anchor of a franchise. He was getting film offers in the second season but the exhausting filming schedule of the show prevented him from taking them and by the time the show was over Hollywood wasn't really interested in Jim anymore and he went to B movie hell.
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Mu Zeta posted:No but there was Wonderwall by Oasis because I guess that's a classic rock song that's over 20 years old now. The weirdest one for me was "My Name is Jonas" by Weezer in the second episode. Just felt really random.
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Rhyno posted:He was getting film offers in the second season but the exhausting filming schedule of the show prevented him from taking them and by the time the show was over Hollywood wasn't really interested in Jim anymore and he went to B movie hell. Let's be fair, though. B-movie hell was quite clearly above Paul's pay grade. The best actors on that show were probably Peter Wingfield and Jim Byrnes.
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