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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, even some of the worst episodes have great moments, like the giant chess piece being cut open with a chainsaw in the background during a super serious conversation. Gets me every time. Twin Peaks doesn't get enough credit for being funny. I think it was episode 2 when Leland Palmer lies down on Laura's coffin sobbing and his weight fucks up the pneumatic lift and the coffin starts bouncing him up and down I realized oh this is supposed to be goofy.
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# ? May 23, 2017 21:13 |
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david_a posted:Was Lynch involved at all in bringing her in to S2 in the first place? Maybe he's ditching plot threads that he didn't come up with. She was in the movie, I don't see why that would be a reason.
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# ? May 23, 2017 22:04 |
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Dr Monkeysee posted:Twin Peaks doesn't get enough credit for being funny. From the new season, not really a spoiler but two of the drat funniest things I've heard all year so far: "YOU'RE AN INDIAN" "IT'S NOT the bunnies! ...is it the bunnies?!"
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# ? May 23, 2017 22:36 |
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Dr Monkeysee posted:Twin Peaks doesn't get enough credit for being funny. I think it was episode 2 when Leland Palmer lies down on Laura's coffin sobbing and his weight fucks up the pneumatic lift and the coffin starts bouncing him up and down I realized oh this is supposed to be goofy. Oh yeah, dude, it's one of the funniest shows I've seen. I mentioned earlier the scene in Season 2 where they're having a deadly serious conversation about who's killing people and in the background is a bunch of incompetent police officers trying to cut out a body in a giant chess piece with a chainsaw. Leland's always been pretty funny, as has Andy (when he's not crying), Lucy, etc. I just mentioned it because people were saying Season 3 is "too dark and serious", and people just seem to forget that there are a lot of dark, sad moments from the show, especially it's early episodes, in addition to the hilarious and quirky moments and romance plots and stuff.
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# ? May 23, 2017 22:39 |
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I was thinking of the word "goofy" in a negative way to describe what's wrong with season 2. It just didn't do it for me, a lot of the goofy stuff felt out of place set in the same world as all the overly serious, heavy, little bit pretentious but not enough to be bad stuff. Might just have been that I was watching it in 2017. Whenever the show got too goofy it felt like a big reminder that "This show was made in 1990!" Different tastes and all though, I guess.
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BrainDance posted:I was thinking of the word "goofy" in a negative way to describe what's wrong with season 2. It just didn't do it for me, a lot of the goofy stuff felt out of place set in the same world as all the overly serious, heavy, little bit pretentious but not enough to be bad stuff. There's nothing grounding it. Twin Peaks works when it's quirky people working through trauma/depression/grief/life struggles. It's funny that an alpaca is in the Sheriff's office while they're investigating a murder. It doesn't work if your drama is a blathering serial killer only going after one person through chess metaphors, and your intrigue is based on who Lucy's going to date, who's going to win a pageant, and if Audrey's gonna bang Billy Zane.
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# ? May 23, 2017 22:53 |
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Yeah that makes sense. And I guess actually when you put it that way I might have been thinking of something different as being "goofy". I'm completely fine with those sorta teen drama story elements. I'd have to go re-watch to find specific examples, but I remember there being quite a few moments in season two where something would happen that would break up the flow of the story and serve no purpose other than being funny. But funny in the way an episode of Full House was "funny" (probably was a lot less striking in the early 90s). Just small, quick events that would maybe be one quick interaction between two characters, 20 or 30 seconds, but be enough to take me out of the story and the world. I never had those moments watching season 1, and it worked just fine that way. I guess that doesn't make much sense without specific examples, but uhh I really don't wanna start re-watching the show specifically looking for awkward 90s sitcom moments. And for the record overall I liked season 2, in spite of its flaws. So I'm not trying to trash an otherwise amazing show.
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# ? May 23, 2017 23:09 |
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I've always described it as self-aware but not self-serious but always sincere. So yes to goofy, weird, quirky, silly, funny, because it is all those at some point.
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# ? May 23, 2017 23:13 |
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I think most people are probably unaware that Lynch is a deeply funny person that doesn't really take his own films nearly as seriously as some people allege he does.
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Franchescanado posted:I've always described it as self-aware but not self-serious but always sincere. So yes to goofy, weird, quirky, silly, funny, because it is all those at some point. Yeah definitely. Really if it wasn't that way I think it would just be pretentious instead of almost pretentious.
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# ? May 23, 2017 23:27 |
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Between Us is good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vanxIyGp_x8
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# ? May 24, 2017 01:18 |
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Goddamn, Master of None S2 is so loving good. I love the poo poo out of it.
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# ? May 24, 2017 11:12 |
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Your Castlevania trailer. https://youtu.be/iIMrFnl5NiA Edit: Got the right thing copied now! Detective No. 27 fucked around with this message at 03:42 on May 25, 2017 |
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Man, I was really hoping it was a long form drama I could bitch about and laugh at and it turns out to just be a cartoon I won't watch in a million years.
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# ? May 25, 2017 06:57 |
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Don't think the show will be anything special but man I dug the retro trailer format. WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE
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Detective No. 27 posted:Your Castlevania trailer. veni veni veni posted:Man, I was really hoping it was a long form drama I could bitch about and laugh at and it turns out to just be a cartoon I won't watch in a million years. Wait, is this an American show that's been designed to look like anime, or what?
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# ? May 25, 2017 15:36 |
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I don't really care about castlevania but dude blowing in the cartridge made me chuckle.
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# ? May 25, 2017 15:42 |
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Speaking of castles, the 2014 Beauty and the Beast is up on Netflix, and it's dope.
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# ? May 25, 2017 15:49 |
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Franchescanado posted:Wait, is this an American show that's been designed to look like anime, or what? It's American. This was in development hell for a decade. Was originally gonna be a movie. Written by Warren Ellis too.
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# ? May 25, 2017 16:35 |
I think it looks cool
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# ? May 25, 2017 16:35 |
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The Japanese version is gonna have better music.
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# ? May 25, 2017 16:43 |
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God drat Castlevania This is gonna own so loving hard
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# ? May 25, 2017 20:46 |
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So is it based on Castlevania 3? My only hope is that they would work in some of really weird NES era translations. 'Get a silk bag from the graveyard duck to live longer.'
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# ? May 25, 2017 20:58 |
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Just finished last episode of the 1 season "Legion". What a crazy show. I'm so exitet and can't wait so long to watch the second season. Hope they can top it. Big thank you for this wonderful show tipp. It's a long time ago that I was taking time to watch a season in one run
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:God drat Castlevania I'm a huge Castlevania nerd and Lord oh Lord I wish I had your optimism.
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# ? May 26, 2017 00:44 |
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I still have only watched one episode of legion and it's about to expire in a couple of days. For some dumb reason the newer episodes expire before the old ones
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# ? May 26, 2017 00:52 |
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You'd better hurry then, Legion is 100% worth an emergency binge watch, tell your boss that you're sick and get to it.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Your Castlevania trailer. Ha, that NES interface is a "real" thing that some of the developers showed off at one of their engineering conferences/expos. e: found it! Netflix Hack Day 2015 (Towards the bottom) Neat seeing it in action, I had no idea it could stream the movie in 8-bit too (unless that was just for effect). Warning, the Netflix tech blog can be a black hole. Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 01:31 on May 26, 2017 |
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veni veni veni posted:I still have only watched one episode of legion and it's about to expire in a couple of days. It takes you only 8 hours to watch the whole season 1. 😌 Legion
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# ? May 26, 2017 01:39 |
I need to rewatch legion, it didnt make any sense the first go around
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# ? May 26, 2017 02:06 |
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Like Legion, Patriot is most definitely worthy of an immediate binge if you have not seen it already.
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Sarchasm posted:I'm a huge Castlevania nerd and Lord oh Lord I wish I had your optimism. My dream Castlevania animated thing is Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, plus Belmonts. That looks like Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, plus Belmonts. I'm pretty goddamn happy with what I'm seeing, in other words.
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# ? May 26, 2017 02:26 |
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pahuyuth posted:Like Legion, Patriot is most definitely worthy of an immediate binge if you have not seen it already. TBH I watched the first episode of patriot and it seemed so mean spirited I was put off by it.
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# ? May 26, 2017 02:33 |
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veni veni veni posted:TBH I watched the first episode of patriot and it seemed so mean spirited I was put off by it. The show has a heart, a huge heart. It'll break your heart even. Seriously, it's the opposite of mean spirited by the end.
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precision posted:The show has a heart, a huge heart. It'll break your heart even. Seriously, it's the opposite of mean spirited by the end. Exactly this. I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue past ep1 either, but so glad I did. e: nobody should be deprived of Cool Rick
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Enos Cabell posted:Exactly this. I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue past ep1 either, but so glad I did. Even though it's laid out right there in the title sequence, it's easy to miss that the entire theme of the show is the relationship between John and Rick (and their father), and how you do things for you family without question, just like a... patriot... does... for a country... The scene in "Dick Cheney" with Ichabod was stunningly heartfelt. "Welcome, club member."
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# ? May 26, 2017 03:47 |
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Alright I'll give it a few more episodes.
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# ? May 26, 2017 04:00 |
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Ichabod best bod
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Enos Cabell posted:Exactly this. I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue past ep1 either, but so glad I did. Everything about Patriot clicked for me. It gets my vote for best original series on a streaming service. After the first folk song, I was hooked. Called my wife at 1am and said "you need to watch this right now." I binge watched it from a hotel room and was genuinely pissed when I ran out of episodes. The humor, the direction (especially the urinal scenes and outdoor shots by the concrete pipe yard), and the relative mundane-ness of covert operations relative to other "spy shows/films" - all just worked for me. Like stressing out over a bag of money when in other venues it seems like every spy agency has infinite funds. Cool Rick was the best character I've seen in years. I even identified with the Bad Guy (Red Foreman) as an angry, bitter ex-drunk who has nothing in his life but his work. I was worried they were going to gently caress up the writing by having Wife be some stupid damsel in distress arc that thankfully never happened. And god drat Stephen - I felt so guilty laughing at what kept happening to him and how John hosed with his memory. I loved the ending, where the "white knight" Lux cop is like "gently caress it, I'm out" with the cash. Only thing that really irked me was the string of unlikely coincidences that tied everything together. But that's fiction, I suppose.
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pumped up for school posted:Everything about Patriot clicked for me. It gets my vote for best original series on a streaming service. After the first folk song, I was hooked. Called my wife at 1am and said "you need to watch this right now." I binge watched it from a hotel room and was genuinely pissed when I ran out of episodes. Couldn't have said it better myself, I just adored that show, and I recommend it to everybody.
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