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"Life" on Amazon really pissed me off. I'm a sci-fi junky and I'm more than willing to suspend my disbelief and allow a sci-fi movie to play fast and loose with reality and even science. What I absolutely hate is sci-fi that tries to force stupid plot lines and stupid characters onto the viewer. Yes, I can imagine a space program intended to examine and even study simple life forms found on Mars or someplace else. I can imagine that space stations or laboratory platforms in space can undergo extreme conditions and even be damaged while in orbit. But I absolutely can not accept the idea that the very best and brightest astronauts Earth has to offer and sends into space are complete loving idiots who don't even do the simplest things to protect themselves and their mission. People whose whole lives are dedicated to doing one thing and they can't even do it when they reach their goal, are you kidding me. I thought this movie had so many big name actors in it that it had to be at least modestly good. Boy what a let down. Less than 30 minutes in, anyone who has ever watched any spaceman meets alien movie could write the final 1 hour and 10 minutes of this movie; most could even write a better script than what is presented in the movie. By the time Ryan Reynolds' character gets offed, I wanted the entire crew to die horrible deaths because they were all just too stupid to live. Even the attempt at a shock ending with ominous overtones was so telegraphed and stale that anyone who is a fan of sci-fi knew what was going to happen before the final scene. The ineptitude of these star astronauts and science personnel was even harder to accept knowing the guys who wrote this tired, stale script also wrote Zombieland and Deadpool. If you're a sci-fi fanatic, like me, then yeah it's probably worth the slog through it to get your fix in. Plus, as noted, great actors and actresses who did a good job with what they were given, a really decent director and really good writers, of other movies. The movie has the right pedigree it just didn't click for me personally. radical meme fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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precision posted:Vice Principals is basically the same thing with a different setting/slightly different characters, it's on HBO Go/Now and maybe some other places. Yeah, same creator, same producers (plus Hayes Davenport of Hollywood Handbook), some of the same writers. It's like the group's next project. Mammal Sauce posted:Just finished Eastbound and Down and loved it. Any other non-PC comedies/dramadies recommended? You could also watch Jody Hill's movies Observe & Report and The Foot Fist Way, as well.
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Vice Prinicipals is great but annoying because season 1 ends on a huge cliffhanger, and supposedly season 2 is finished and ready to go, but HBO is just sitting on it 😤
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pizza valentine posted:Vice Prinicipals is great but annoying because season 1 ends on a huge cliffhanger, and supposedly season 2 is finished and ready to go, but HBO is just sitting on it 😤 Season 1 and 2 were filmed together, but they split it up for some reason. I'm with you though. I want the next batch of episodes.
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To be contrarian, I loved Eastbound and Down, but I couldn't make it past the first episode of Vice Principals. Kenny Powers was such a hyperbolically self-centered person that it was hilarious, and everyone else was either a contrast, reflection, or straight man to him; so it was impossible to take seriously. The main characters of Vice Principals, however, are too plausibly terrible to me, so the show seems to delve much more heavily into cringe humor, which I don't enjoy.
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Man, that post smells like a bunch of hosed buttholes.
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pizza valentine posted:Vice Prinicipals is great but annoying because season 1 ends on a huge cliffhanger, and supposedly season 2 is finished and ready to go, but HBO is just sitting on it 😤 Seriously its been like a whole year and absolute radio silence wtf HBO???
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veni veni veni posted:I've been making my way through Delocated and you should really check it out if you like eastbound and down. It's different and somehow more absurd, but hits a lot of the same notes. Delocated was fantastic.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Delocated was fantastic. I could never get into it.  Sell me on it
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Jul 5, 2017 18:39
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Once you get past the voice filter/mask gimmick, Delocated is just a hilarious fuckin' good time. Hulu has four entire seasons of Cutthroat Kitchen. I know what I'm doing today.
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MacheteZombie posted:I could never get into it. It's hilarious
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I need to get a dog now so I can name it Ding Dong Football.
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Where is Delocated at? I used to love that show.
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Yo fam, Netflix just added The House on Coco Road and The Astronaut Farmer which are both non-negotiable must watch, for very different reasons.
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FrankeeFrankFrank posted:Where is Delocated at? I used to love that show. Hulu. I'm currently halfway through season 2. Had seen episodes here and there and always liked it but really missed out on many jokes.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Man, that post smells like a bunch of hosed buttholes. I'm sorry for not liking a show?
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Paper Kaiju posted:I'm sorry for not liking a show? Can you feel the tension, in the air right now? I know I can. I can feel it all the way down in my plums.
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precision posted:Once you get past the voice filter/mask gimmick, Delocated is just a hilarious fuckin' good time. I've been blaring through this and whatever Good Eats episodes they have and now I need an injectable form of Alton Brown because I'm withdrawing.
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Has Gordon Ramsay done anything particularly entertaining lately that's on streaming? The last things I saw were the Kitchen Nightmares season with Amy's Baking Company and that thing where he taught prisoners to cook. Once I discovered Our Lord and Savior Alton Brown I kind of dipped on him. Related, there's a fun show on Netflix called Chug about a guy getting shitfaced drunk on local homemade hooch in various countries and it's really entertaining.
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When my kid was 2 and 3 he LOVED Good Eats. I wish they would put new ones on Netflix. I think he watched the waffle episode 50 times. That one was his favorite.
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I've always been a fan of Master Chef, which is on Hulu. There's a lot of "characters" and drama, but Gordon is in "angrily teaching" Gordon mode instead of Hell's Kitchen screaming Gordon mode. Also some of the contestants are loving insanely good sometimes and it's great seeing the judges react to that.
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GonSmithe posted:I've always been a fan of Master Chef, which is on Hulu. There's a lot of "characters" and drama, but Gordon is in "angrily teaching" Gordon mode instead of Hell's Kitchen screaming Gordon mode. I don't know if they're still on Hulu but you should watch the UK version of Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word if they have them. Gordon's a likeable guy once you remove all the fake drama that his US shows have.
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Yeah I always preferred the UK Hell's Kitchens to the USA ones, he usually seems to care a lot more about helping the UK people (who are usually just victims of circumstance or being in over their heads) as opposed to the USA people (who are usually just "the most crazy/gross kitchens we could find")
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Call Me Charlie posted:I don't know if they're still on Hulu but you should watch the UK version of Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word if they have them. Gordon's a likeable guy once you remove all the fake drama that his US shows have. Oh I've seen them, that's what I was trying to get at. He's much more that Gordon than his US persona in Master Chef.
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Best cooking show is The Great British Bake Off. No garbage drama, all the contestants seem to be pulling for each other even as they're competing against each other, just a really good show.
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Call Me Charlie posted:I don't know if they're still on Hulu but you should watch the UK version of Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word if they have them. Gordon's a likeable guy once you remove all the fake drama that his US shows have. They actually just took down the f word on Hulu because it looks like they're doing an American version now. Which I imagine will suck. The U.K. F word is really good though.
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I like Guy's Grocery Gulag, or whatever it's called, on Hulu. It's very pleasant, which is something I never thought I'd say about a show starring the super saiyan sauce pig. Everyone is nice and there are lots of episodes where they're trying to raise money for charity and during the end bit, when they race around the store collecting stuff to see how much money they get, Guy will give them a hand if they're not doing so good. It's basically a loud, more garishly colored chamomile.
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regulargonzalez posted:Best cooking show is The Great British Bake Off. No garbage drama, all the contestants seem to be pulling for each other even as they're competing against each other, just a really good show. Yeah, as a sometimes chef it's definitely the most "real" cooking show and the hosts have great chemistry.
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Paper Kaiju posted:I'm sorry for not liking a show? It was just a line from the show. You should keep watching; that cringy realistic assholeness you didn't like definitely expands into to the over the top crazy poo poo you liked from Eastbound & Down.
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Walton Goggins getting to out-crazy Danny McBride is a joy to watch. He loving nailed that role.
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Cutthroat Kitchen and The Great British Bake Off are the alpha and omega of cooking competitions, but they both have a lack of pretension in the actual contest. Nobody except some of the contestants in Cutthroat Kitchen really believes that victory comes from greater cooking skill instead of a willingness to sabotage others at the cost of your own benefit. Meanwhile the competition in the Bake Off has no real actual prize, and there's a general lack of viciousness in both the contestants and judges. It's a contest about amateurs that has proper expectations about what amateur means. They're both great.
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mysterious frankie posted:I like Guy's Grocery Gulag, or whatever it's called, on Hulu. It's very pleasant, which is something I never thought I'd say about a show starring the super saiyan sauce pig. Everyone is nice and there are lots of episodes where they're trying to raise money for charity and during the end bit, when they race around the store collecting stuff to see how much money they get, Guy will give them a hand if they're not doing so good. It's basically a loud, more garishly colored chamomile.
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coyo7e posted:Is this the new Guy Fieri joint? And does he still haul around that hot rod so he can take photos next to it? I think it's his newest thing. No cars to speak of; it's a cooking game show where people compete against one another in timed cook offs to win a cash prize, are judged by a panel, etc, except the big conceit is that it takes place in a grocery store and they have to get the ingredients for their meals from the shelves while under special conditions imposed by Fieri. At the end the winner has to run and get one specific item from each aisle; the number of items they get determines how much money they receive. It's a Guy Fieri show, however, so you can bet there are tons of shots of him sticking one of his apparently indestructible paws into cooking vessels to extract flavor/contaminate the contents with aquanet residue. It's actually a lot of stupid fun. It's the most gentle, easy going dipshit competition show out there, and Guy's more at home as ringmaster than he is terrorizing restaurants and Public Health Agents across our blighted land.
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So, is this show like SuperMarket Sweep with cooking? I would watch that!
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Michael Corleone posted:So, is this show like SuperMarket Sweep with cooking? I would watch that! I feel like with all the hours I spent watching Supermarket Sweep as a kid I could have learned a useful skill. I could be an engineer or something today if only I'd have never been exposed to Supermarket Sweep.
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mysterious frankie posted:I think it's his newest thing. No cars to speak of; it's a cooking game show where people compete against one another in timed cook offs to win a cash prize, are judged by a panel, etc, except the big conceit is that it takes place in a grocery store and they have to get the ingredients for their meals from the shelves while under special conditions imposed by Fieri. At the end the winner has to run and get one specific item from each aisle; the number of items they get determines how much money they receive. It's a Guy Fieri show, however, so you can bet there are tons of shots of him sticking one of his apparently indestructible paws into cooking vessels to extract flavor/contaminate the contents with aquanet residue. I like Guy's Grocery Games and Cooks vs. Cons as well as anything Alton Brown is involved with.
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Michael Corleone posted:So, is this show like SuperMarket Sweep with cooking? I would watch that! Basically. It's also got a lot of heart, which I appreciate. I spend all day at work trying to herd cats, so it's really nice to come home and watch, say, a group of grandmothers competing to see who can make the best after school snacks (Guy's own mom shows up to "secretly" give them extra money to buy their ingredients in one of the competitions), or see some dude trying to win money for a woman's shelter having a hard time finding stuff in the final race, so Guy steps in and helps him net 16K. The contestants help each other out sometimes when a challenge is tough too. It's really nice to see people being pleasant to one another while striving for something.
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