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Watched "The Wall" for the first time, which is some kind of high stakes plinko game show. The cancer survivor and her aid worker in Africa sister got nothing. Seems like they need to keep the cool-rear end plinko board and retool everything else about it, because it's just a bunch of random bullishit.
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precision posted:Presented with the comment "holy loving poo poo": This is gonna be great.
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Aug 18, 2017 02:15
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Snak posted:This is gonna be great. At first I thought Jason Isaacs was Jon Hamm Also very interesting that they kept Michael Palin out of the trailer, Iannucci is such a drat tease.
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One development I don't like on this season of Difficult People is that it's now good for a couple lines about Trump and his supporters every episode. I'd call them "jokes," but it feels like they're there to get approving nods instead of laughter. The gay therapy subplot in the second episode was pretty good and the joke about Steve Bannon's book in the latest episode was as well. Other than that, they make me roll my eyes. And I have a feeling that the upcoming season of Broad City will do the same thing, so it'll be very good but with a dash of an element of self-righteousness that it never had before. That being said, I still recommend it highly- they're not frequent at all. Andrea Martin is the best character on the show IMO. Party Plane Jones posted:I'm rewatching Moonbeam City and I'm a bit pissed they cancelled it cause even with shoddy writing the show looks amazing. Timby posted:Oh, this bodes well for Inhumans: I have a bad feeling that Netflix is going to strike out on a lot of their original shows with big-name stars and fall back on Marvel properties to get a return on their billions of dollars of investment in original entertainment. There's no escape from comic books.
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Marvel's TV stuff being connected is mostly fluff bullshit. The movies don't care about Tv shows.
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get that OUT of my face posted:I've never even heard of... Hard Target 1.  That movie loving rules and you need to go watch it right now. It's easily my favorite Van Damme movie. (I haven't seen 2 but isn't Crixus from Spartacus the lead in it? That always gets my attention.)
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Hard Target is John Woo's first Hollywood movie and he pulls out all the stops. This was back when John Woo mattered also.
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Mu Zeta posted:Hard Target is John Woo's first Hollywood movie and he pulls out all the stops. This was back when John Woo mattered also.
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It's great. I always wondered how great it would've been as a HK film with Van Damme in it still though.
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Agreeing on Hard Target being the best Van Damme movie by far. It's perfect in every way. Van Damme is a drifter named Chance Boudreaux with a greasy mullet and a bad Cajun accent, Wilford "Diabeetus" Brimley plays his drunken Cajun uncle who shoots flaming arrows on horseback, and the plot is The Most Dangerous Game set in New Orleans and the surrounding bayou country, with Lance Henricksen and Arnold Vosloo (Imhotep in the GOOD Mummy movie and Zartan in G.I. Joe) as the bad guys. Plus, it's John Woo John Woo-ing it up -- two guns, white doves, the usual.
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Does Orphan Black get... better? I'm at the end of season 1 and although it's not a bad show, it moves pretty slowly and has some real corny parts like the cybergoths and every time they show Helena cutting herself with the fuckin seizure camera and fake Silent Hill music. Also what the hell was up with the loving subplot with the tail?? Only reason I'm asking is because I've seen multiple people saying S1 is one of the best, which is not very encouraging. I don't mind wading through rough parts to get to the good parts, but ideally it should be worth it. Again, it's not that it's bad, it just doesn't strike me as anything special outside of the main gimmick of one person playing 5 characters (which is admittedly still really well-executed). I've seen a lot of passion surrounding the show and I'm not anywhere near there yet myself.
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lelandjs posted:Like most of the things porn sites post this is just a publicity stunt. I doubt that xHampster has the money that it would take to make another season of Sense8. They could totally afford it, and have enough change for a boat.
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Aug 18, 2017 07:46
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Hakkesshu posted:Does Orphan Black get... better? No.
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Hakkesshu posted:Does Orphan Black get... better? I'm at the end of season 1 and although it's not a bad show, it moves pretty slowly and has some real corny parts like the cybergoths and every time they show Helena cutting herself with the fuckin seizure camera and fake Silent Hill music. Also what the hell was up with the loving subplot with the tail?? How the gently caress does it move slowly? By episode 2 you have someone who realizes they stole the identity of a cop and have to stall to figure out how not get busted. If you aren't hooked by episode 3 of season 1, you will never give a poo poo about the show.\ edit: Hard Target is amazing. fun trivia fact: the amazing boat chase sequence at the end of Face/Off was originally planned to be the finale of Hard Target, but they couldn't afford to do it.
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Aug 18, 2017 08:27
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Snak posted:How the gently caress does it move slowly? By episode 2 you have someone who realizes they stole the identity of a cop and have to stall to figure out how not get busted. If you aren't hooked by episode 3 of season 1, you will never give a poo poo about the show.\ And after that there are like 5 episodes of basically the same things happening over and over. Thanks for the weirdly aggressive answer though.
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I didn't mean to be agressive, I just meant that if it doesn't hook you early, it never will. That was the hook. You saw it. If that's not your thing, that's completely fair. I got bored at the beginning of s3 because it didn't have any of the momentum of the previous seasons. So honestly, if season 1 isn't hooking you it only gets worse. I loved s1, and I just couldn't give a poo poo by s3.
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Aug 18, 2017 09:26
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I think it picks up a bit more in season two, but I was hooked by the pilot, personally. Season three and four get weird but I still dug them. The characters and Maslany's acting was more than engaging enough for me to forgive the convoluted poo poo. Final season somehow managed to tie it all together and deliver imho a satisfying ending. Should have been a two parter with the second to last ep, tho. But yeah if you watched like all of season one and didn't get into it that's cool, may not be your vibe.
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I watched the first season of Orphan Black and thought it was fine, and never got around to s2. I probably never will-- I'm sure it's decent, but there's just so much else to watch.
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Aug 18, 2017 11:00
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Snak posted:fun trivia fact: the amazing boat chase sequence at the end of Face/Off was originally planned to be the finale of Hard Target, but they couldn't afford to do it. This scene was the first ever time I realised stunt doubles were a thing that existed. The use of them is so egregious that it completely took me out of the movie.
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Anyone else been watching the Jim Jefferies show? It has some rough edges but some of the segments are pretty loving amazing. Jim's ability to make really simple analogies that point out how ridiculous something is always impresses me. Is Comedy Central content available on any streaming services at all or is it one of the few remaining things that cable companies clutch dearly to? Looten Plunder fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Aug 18, 2017 12:09
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Looten Plunder posted:Is Comedy Central content available on any streaming services at all or is it one of the few remaining things that cable companies clutch dearly to? They’re on Sling TV, but I think that’s it. Viacom has proven to be unwilling to depackage their channels which means that the providers generally have to pick between offering Viacom channels or Disney channels and since most people keep cable subscriptions for sports they go with Disney. Sling offers a Disney option or a Viacom option, I went with Viacom because I could give a gently caress about ESPN.
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Looten Plunder posted:Anyone else been watching the Jim Jefferies show? It has some rough edges but some of the segments are pretty loving amazing. Jim's ability to make really simple analogies that point out how ridiculous something is always impresses me. I like it, and I like Jim Jefferies, but for some bizarre reason it annoys me when he constantly does the lean back and talk thing. There is no reason it should bother me but it does. As far as streaming, I watch it on CC.com and the Comedy Central app. But no, they yanked all their CC stuff off Hulu and put it on their own site which somehow makes Hulu's interface look amazing.
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Amazon's Galaxy Quest TV series is moving forward again with Paul Scheer as a writer. https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/18/galaxy-quest-amazon-tv-series-back-on/
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If you don't like season 1 of Orphan Black just bail. That season is indicative of the show at its best.
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Regy Rusty posted:If you don't like season 1 of Orphan Black just bail. That season is indicative of the show at its best. Yeah, that’s what I did. An amazing lead performance, even in multiple roles, just couldn’t save the show for me. I liked maybe one other character on the show and the plot didn’t grab me at all and that’s probably putting it nicely. I hope Maslany gets roles on shows or in movies I’m interested in eventually though because she’s really good.
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Good lord, Ducktales has been on the air less than a week and the thread is already overrun with the simpsons comic book guy clones.
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Yeah I had to stop reading it because god drat
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Aug 18, 2017 18:33
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Looten Plunder posted:This scene was the first ever time I realised stunt doubles were a thing that existed. The use of them is so egregious that it completely took me out of the movie. That's funny, because I've never noticed the stunt doubles in that scene, and I've seen the movie a dozen times.
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IRQ posted:Good lord, Ducktales has been on the air less than a week and the thread is already overrun with the simpsons comic book guy clones. Don't read threads about cartoons on SA.
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tbh fear of turning into comic book guy is why I haven't watched it, yet. DuckTales is personally one of the most important shows from my youth.
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If you liked Gravity Falls and can appreciate it isn't going to be exactly the same as the old show you have a good chance of enjoying it.
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Aphrodite posted:Don't read threads about cartoons on SA. Or threads of shows that have had more than 2 seasons.
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esperterra posted:tbh fear of turning into comic book guy is why I haven't watched it, yet. DuckTales is personally one of the most important shows from my youth. I meant that slightly more literally, there were apparently Ducktales comic books I guess and man oh man do some people care about them a lot. Aphrodite posted:Don't read threads about cartoons on SA. Yeah, there is that too.
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Escobarbarian posted:If you liked Gravity Falls and can appreciate it isn't going to be exactly the same as the old show you have a good chance of enjoying it. Haven't watched it tbh. I usually don't watch kids' cartoons. I'll check out DuckTales eventually, but I was burned hard by the Powerpuff Girls remake and I don't feel like risking it, though I'm sure Disney will do a better job than what happened with PPG. I also don't like David Tennant. There's a lot working against me, here.
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Fraggle Rock is probably the only show I would have a hard time watching a continuation of.
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GreenNight posted:Fraggle Rock is probably the only show I would have a hard time watching a continuation of. Yeah, that would be rough.
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IRQ posted:Good lord, Ducktales has been on the air less than a week and the thread is already overrun with the simpsons comic book guy clones. more dets plz
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get that OUT of my face posted:One development I don't like on this season of Difficult People is that it's now good for a couple lines about Trump and his supporters every episode. I'd call them "jokes," but it feels like they're there to get approving nods instead of laughter. The gay therapy subplot in the second episode was pretty good and the joke about Steve Bannon's book in the latest episode was as well. Other than that, they make me roll my eyes. And I have a feeling that the upcoming season of Broad City will do the same thing, so it'll be very good but with a dash of an element of self-righteousness that it never had before. I actually really like what they're doing with the Trump jokes. They're mostly asides about an exaggerated Trump world that the self centered characters move on from immediately, because they don't really care beyond how it affects their day. SunshineDanceParty fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUCtYAsqWQY It's been too long. September 6 can't come soon enough.
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Looten Plunder posted:Anyone else been watching the Jim Jefferies show? It has some rough edges but some of the segments are pretty loving amazing. Jim's ability to make really simple analogies that point out how ridiculous something is always impresses me. My experience with Jefferies, admittedly a long time ago, is that "pointing out how ridiculous something is" means moaning about Political Correctness and how "feminists aren't actually about equality, I'm better at equality because I treat people the same without caring about their genitals" and poo poo like that, interspersed with liberal use of rape jokes and misogynist language. I do remember liking some of his jokes and those of his simple analogies that weren't massively lovely. Has he... gotten better?
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