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Sarchasm posted:Yeah, it's from the main page. Interesting that they took a different route with mobile. Netflix swaps the title cards around a bunch. it might just be the luck of the draw.
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Netflix does swap out title cards on shows, and very often its with random people who aren't main characters. But I have to assume an exec came down to marketing and made sure of it in this case.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:My current one still has Spacey on it. Though I don't doubt they've removed or altered the occurrence of his face on a bunch of them. When I searched just now it gave me a black and white shot of Frank and Claire's heads facing opposite directions.
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is Master of None good?drunken officeparty posted:but even his worst (Jackie Brown) is still pretty good. woof
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Master of None is the best show of the past 10 years. It's just not for everyone.
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Master of None is good up until the ending of the second season. Everyone basically sounds like an Aziz Ansari sock puppet speaking stilted lines but I was willing to overlook that just because the overall story is interesting. It becomes painfully apparent when a real actress shows up though (Angela Bassett) Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Master of None is fantastic, and really changed my mind about Aziz (I always liked him but had no idea he was that talented)
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There is an episode of Master of None where Aziz and his cousin bomb around and eat food together (which isn't a spoiler since every episode in the show is "people eat food together"). The plot itself wasn't bad, but, oh man, was his cousin the worst actor I've ever seen on TV. I know he is family and not professional, but boy oh boy, I did not enjoy his performance one bit.
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Here I am on the on the slow burn thriller watch again, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is up on Amazon Prime. Clive Owen, Malcolm MacDowell, Jonathan Rhys-Myers all star. Best if you go in blind, but in short, it is an excellent British gangster revenge flick. edit: director is Mike Hodges, and he's kind of re-creating Get Carter (which he directed the original of). He also directed Croupier, another extremely good Clive Owen film. Bayham Badger fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 03:28
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Master of None is best looked at as a play that's being filmed. The dialogue isn't natural and very deliberate, but it's a fantastic show.
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Master of None has the best and possibly the most natural American Sign Language scene too, although they do ham it up a little bit. How were the lines stilted though? I felt like they talked like real people throughout the whole series.
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Franchescanado posted:It's a mediocre show based on a bad podcast. So the narration in Lore, is that the actual podcast guy talking? His voice is so... grating, yeesh. We watched a couple episodes of it, and it's meh. Maybe I did too much reading as a kid because like, the vampire episode, I was like 'I know all this already. Lame.'
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I'm not an Aziz fan at all and I loved master of none so take that as you will.
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Yeah master of none is good. I can see being annoyed by it if you don’t have friends or relationships or something to relate to about it
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LadyPictureShow posted:So the narration in Lore, is that the actual podcast guy talking? His voice is so... grating, yeesh. Yeah he is the worst narrator I have ever heard in my life and the show stinks. It's mostly basic crap you probably know, the reenactments are just a notch above Unsolved Mysteries and the production values seem like a Youtube video. I quit watching on the episode that starts out with an actual interesting story about some escaped murderer, just to reveal that it's a total bluff and use it as a seg into something totally unrelated. it's trash on every level.
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A MIRACLE posted:Yeah master of none is good. I can see being annoyed by it if you don’t have friends or relationships or something to relate to about it It's generally good, although as typical with the thread, the "it's the best show of the decade" is absolute hyperbole. I felt like the first season didn't really click for me because it was very much fell into the "moderately affluent and aimless 30-somethings who act like they're 20-somethings in New York" trope. The second season was a bit of a shift away from that, which was welcome, but it's still very much a fantasy. The poster who said it was more like a play had a pretty good point.
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LadyPictureShow posted:So the narration in Lore, is that the actual podcast guy talking? His voice is so... grating, yeesh. Yes. That's the actual podcast guy, Aaron Mahnke, self-titled "Writer of Dark Things"... He's...not good. It was brought up when the show first launched, but it's a bad podcast with a narrator who doesn't understand cadence or delivery. I think it's just managed to maintain it's popularity with it being 1. Really cheap to produce, and 2. Right time right place. Lore is absolutely the type of show I like, but this is a dreadfully dull iteration of it.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:There is an episode of Master of None where Aziz and his cousin bomb around and eat food together (which isn't a spoiler since every episode in the show is "people eat food together"). The plot itself wasn't bad, but, oh man, was his cousin the worst actor I've ever seen on TV. I know he is family and not professional, but boy oh boy, I did not enjoy his performance one bit. Yeah, he's not an actor. He's his cousin Harris! The cousin that Aziz has been making jokes about in his standup for a decade! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3DO450VJ0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA74oEenClU "Life's a dirty game. You gotta play dirty to win it." - a chubby kid named Harris Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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elysium was good and the worst part was jodie foster's accent. wtf was going on with that?
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Parachute posted:elysium was good and the worst part was jodie foster's accent. wtf was going on with that? I remember at the time she explained it as she was a person raised around computers, so naturally she grew up with a Siri accent.
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Franchescanado posted:Yes. That's the actual podcast guy, Aaron Mahnke, self-titled "Writer of Dark Things"... He's...not good. It was brought up when the show first launched, but it's a bad podcast with a narrator who doesn't understand cadence or delivery. I think it's just managed to maintain it's popularity with it being 1. Really cheap to produce, and 2. Right time right place. I hate the guys delivery too, but no one seemed to agree with me so I thought I was crazy. I know this aint the place for podcast talk, but is there one out there that is Lore...but better?
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Lore sucked, Lore better than chappie, stanger things 2 better than lore but not better than rewatching timecop
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:I hate the guys delivery too, but no one seemed to agree with me so I thought I was crazy. I know this aint the place for podcast talk, but is there one out there that is Lore...but better? The Lore narration is terrible and every time he guest stars on another podcast (like Part Time Genius or he was on like 10 minutes of 99% Invisible) I skip that episode. There was an entire discussion here about how he's like a guy that learned to speak from watching anime. Personally I think he speaks like that gasping kid Stevie on Malcolm in the Middle. Last Podcast on the Left has a series on serial killers. They'll do X number of episodes about a certain serial killer in a row every now and again, with "X" being between 3 and 5. They call them the "heavy hitters" episodes. Unfortunately, what they do in-between the nougatey goodness that is the serial killers is complete garbage. Wiccan rituals, black magic, hollow moon, chemtrails, other bullshit like that. They don't believe the bullshit themselves, but they still talk about it and it's mind-numbingly boring.
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wiccan rituals are not garbage take it back
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:I hate the guys delivery too, but no one seemed to agree with me so I thought I was crazy. I know this aint the place for podcast talk, but is there one out there that is Lore...but better? Astonishing Legends. My Favorite Murder is good if you like serial-killer specific stories. The Dollop has done a lot of good episodes on "supernatural" history, from the origin of the Ouija Board to vampires to the only time a ghost has been used as a witness in court to an entire town suffering from group hysteria, ghosts that like to tickle... I'd go to The Dollop thread in RGD and ask for a list, they're all really great. I've listened to Blame It On Outer Space, The Unbelievable Podcast, Mysterious Universe, Monster Talk, The Unresolved, Unexplained, and they're all better than Lore. I don't like Last Podcast On The Left.
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I'm listening to Last Podcast on the Left. I like it when they're informative, but they're terrible at comedy. Especially when whoever does his Cartman voice. It really makes me appreciate WHM. I'm gonna switch to Blame It On Outer Space now that it's back.
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LPOTL is really good, but yeah sometimes henry really forces his stupid lovely characters. He's an improv comedian, what do you expect
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veni veni veni posted:I quit watching on the episode that starts out with an actual interesting story about some escaped murderer, just to reveal that it's a total bluff and use it as a seg into something totally unrelated. it's trash on every level. I stopped after that one myself. They started out with the Bunnyman/Bunnyman Bridge Urban Legend, then it spiralled into a discussion about lobotomies. I thought it was going to be a show about cool urban legends and poo poo. But nah, just some weird voiced snooze fest about things anyone who can read wikipedia probably already knows. Speaking of, are there any kinds of shows that might scratch the itch for 'weird area-specific or international urban legends? I could stand to waste twenty minutes here and there learning about the Jersey Devil or Kappas or Chupacabras. Watched The Devil's Candy recently. It's really nothing too special for a horror movie, but the acting's good, Pruitt Taylor Vince is the sort of character actor made for this kind of movie, and if nothing else, I realized Ethan Embry is actually in really, really good shape.
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Omg I'm so glad that other people can't stand the last podcast on the left. The subject matter is interesting when they bother to be on topic, but yelling at each other and doing "funny" voices is not comedy. It's completely insufferable.
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LadyPictureShow posted:I stopped after that one myself. They started out with the Bunnyman/Bunnyman Bridge Urban Legend, then it spiralled into a discussion about lobotomies. I thought it was going to be a show about cool urban legends and poo poo. But nah, just some weird voiced snooze fest about things anyone who can read wikipedia probably already knows. Yup. "in 1902, two men escaped a criminal institution, one of them was a crazy rear end killer that murdered people for years. Just kidding none of that happened and it wasn't even based in vague reality! Now I will read the wikipedia page for lobotomy for 25 minutes while some cornballs act it out. It's sort of related to that first thing because I mentioned they were in an institution" -Lore in a nutshell
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Shotgun Stories is a good sad movie about two families feuding directed by Jeff Nichols that is currently on Amazon Prime. I'm gonna check out Get Shelter next. Michael Shannon is awesome. That is all. edit: It's actually Take Shelter, but I'm sure a crossover with Get Out or Get Carter wouldn't be the worst movie. The D in Detroit fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Nov 8, 2017 |
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after take shelter you get to watch mud which is v good. i would say watch midnight special after that but i still havent watched hit for some reason
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veni veni veni posted:Yup. "in 1902, two men escaped a criminal institution, one of them was a crazy rear end killer that murdered people for years. Just kidding none of that happened and it wasn't even based in vague reality! Now I will read the wikipedia page for lobotomy for 25 minutes while some cornballs act it out. It's sort of related to that first thing because I mentioned they were in an institution" -Lore in a nutshell I like your style. Let's be friends.
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Parachute posted:after take shelter you get to watch mud which is v good. i would say watch midnight special after that but i still havent watched hit for some reason I think I watched half of Mud back when it was on Netflix, unfortunately no Michael Shannon but Matthew McConaughey is also acceptable.
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Franchescanado posted:The Mr. Bean series was added to Amazon Prime, and it holds up very well. yessss
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