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Aramek posted:They're worse, because corporate stuff is inherently better than indie stuff. Are you measuring value with money, or some other abstract?
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steinrokkan posted:Whoever runs a show about the Great War ought to understand that every victory comes at the cost of a sacrifice.
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Aramek posted:They're worse, because corporate stuff is inherently better than indie stuff. lol
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doverhog posted:Are you measuring value with money, or some other abstract? Higher production values?
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steinrokkan posted:Whoever runs a show about the Great War ought to understand that every victory comes at the cost of a sacrifice.
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Money spent on production is a pretty terrible measuring stick.
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poptart_fairy posted:Yeah. Raking in several grand for making elf titties every so often, loving hell. Sincerely, don't ever EVER work in UK mental health, if you saw how much money the average person in supported accommodation pisses away on gently caress all it would make your blood instantly turn to steam.
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doverhog posted:Money spent on production is a pretty terrible measuring stick. If a movie is trying to be artistic for the sake of art, then yes the money spent on it and how much it makes doesn't matter. But if it's meant to make money, a movie that can't secure funding and/or doesn't make money, it is inherently worse from that perspective than the ones that do.
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You are introducing a whole new variable here, profitability. It's ok, it's a far more valuable metric than production budget.
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We've finally come to a point in capitalism where the people that consume media both willingly donate for it's creation and purchase it later. It's beautiful in a way.
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A system where people directly pay the creator and interact with them is far more wholesome than the entire movie business.
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The_Rob posted:You must be real dumb when you can't understand children's films. Granted
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Caddyshack 2 is better than Caddyshack
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I miss PCOS. But I know why it had to be done.
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Stranger Things season 2 was poo poo.
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Mackers posted:Stranger Things season 2 was poo poo. Stranger Things season 1 wasn't much good either. I didn't dislike it, I just don't get the hype. Everyone was going absolutely crazy over it and it was... fine, I guess?
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Tiggum posted:Stranger Things season 1 wasn't much good either. I didn't dislike it, I just don't get the hype. Everyone was going absolutely crazy over it and it was... fine, I guess? It's because of all the nerd/nostalgia pandering, that's pretty much it. Take away all the D&D references and set it in 2017 and we probably wouldn't be talking about it. Both seasons were pretty good especially for a netflix exclusive (if you think it's bad, try checking out a random netflix exclusive show you never heard of), but the hype about it is crazy. I think that's just how people think you have to act when you like a show though (see also: game of thrones, breaking bad...). Like there's no "this show is OK" middle ground, it's either OMG AMAZING or "worst loving trash I've seen in my life".
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Mackers posted:Stranger Things season 2 was poo poo. Me and my friend tried to push through it but there is just so much poo poo and so little to care about. We tapped out when Eleven turned goth anarchist and came out to a slow motion music video Season one was fine as a nostalgia... tribute or whatever and was actually cohesive and had a mystery that I felt was compelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Radg-Kn0jLs Aesop Poprock has a new favorite as of 16:42 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Aramek posted:I miss PCOS. But I know why it had to be done. Did he get banned? He was a real d bag but I gotta admit he was pretty funny sometimes. Tiggum posted:Stranger Things season 1 wasn't much good either. I didn't dislike it, I just don't get the hype. Everyone was going absolutely crazy over it and it was... fine, I guess? Stranger things 1 was a mid tier episode of the X-Files stretched into 10 hours. All the Spielberg/Stephen King nostalgia pandering stuff has rubbed me the wrong way dating back to Super 8. Super 8 stranger things, It... They all just feel so calculated. Like "remember when movies were like this? Well, we are just going to make exactly that and you idiots are going to lap it up" veni veni veni has a new favorite as of 18:10 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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I know for a fact PCOS has posted in this thread within the last 10 pages
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I liked Stranger Things but my biggest problem is with the monsters. Theyre too boring. The Demogorgon is just a slenderman-looking thing. The Mind Flayer is just a shadow thing. And the hive-mind with the "demodogs" was just uninspired. Like, come on, the Duffer Brothers couldnt have come up with something better than that?? I wish the monsters were more strange. Its called "stranger things", make things really weird and strange. These entities are supposed to be Lovecraftian things from another dimension.
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I really enjoyed season one and stopped watching season two after three episodes because I found it pandering and formulaic. I guess that's an unpopular opinion here.
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Eela6 posted:Here's another opinion: I have become very suspicious of loud moral crusaders in general. It is so often the case that the loudest voices against a particular vice are secretly the worst offenders. They're so drat concerned about NOT being seen as something.... Hi sorry I was drunkposting like an idiot, sorry for the meltdown. I’d like to read PHUOs in peace, just sorry everyone.
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pidan posted:I really enjoyed season one and stopped watching season two after three episodes because I found it pandering and formulaic. I guess that's an unpopular opinion here. Only in the sense that finding this season pandering but not the first is kind of weird
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I liked the first season.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Only in the sense that finding this season pandering but not the first is kind of weird Its..........burllssssssshit.
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Stranger things 2 was killed for me because netflix released it all in one, rather than weekly. Part of the appeal of the first one, was having a group of friends over, and watching the episode, then talking about it for the week. I got to think over what had happened, and look forward to what was going to happen. I was really invested, there was a legitimate desire to see what happened next. With the second one, we binge watched it in batches of 4 or so episodes, over a few days; and I honestly do not remember any of the plot at all. It was completely unmemorable. So phuo; releasing an entire season all at once to appease the bingers is bad
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What? Season 1 was also released all at once.
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TheMaskedUgly posted:Stranger things 2 was killed for me because netflix released it all in one, rather than weekly. All Netflix shows are released all at once. You guys made that decision on purpose or you’re thinking of something else. EDIT: also nobody is making you binge on stuff. It's not that hard to avoid things being spoiled for you. Henchman of Santa has a new favorite as of 17:19 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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Say what you will about the nostalgia pandering, the first season of Stranger Things had some great performances propping it up. Season two tried to spread the load around a bit more and predictably it didn't pan out too well.
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I'm going to get ahead of this and JIC use spoiler tags because I haven't seen it yet. No one has said anything tagworthy yet, just a request! You won't be probated or anything if you don't but please be kind 
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EmmyOk posted:I'm going to get ahead of this and JIC use spoiler tags because I haven't seen it yet. No one has said anything tagworthy yet, just a request! You won't be probated or anything if you don't but please be kind Arya goes blind!
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EmmyOk posted:I'm going to get ahead of this and JIC use spoiler tags because I haven't seen it yet. No one has said anything tagworthy yet, just a request! You won't be probated or anything if you don't but please be kind George Gently dies in the final episode.
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Losing Net Neutrality in the U.S. probably isnt the end of the world. Even within the US, its not apocalyptic.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Only in the sense that finding this season pandering but not the first is kind of weird Season one was pandering to nostalgia of a bunch of 80s tropes. Season two was pandering to positive memories of season one of the same show. It's not good when a show starts jerking off to itself let alone in the second season
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Hi sorry Hey, thank you for coming back and apologizing - I mean it. Happy Hannukkah. Eela6 has a new favorite as of 08:00 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:All Netflix shows are released all at once. You guys made that decision on purpose or you’re thinking of something else. Not all netflix shows are released all at once (though most are); and I may be misremembering, but I'm fairly certain ST1 was released weekly. E: apparently not, guess we had more self control back then. It's not worried about spoilers (there was nothing in ST2 worth spoiling); it's the blurring together of episodes. TheMaskedUgly has a new favorite as of 10:42 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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Blue Star posted:Losing Net Neutrality in the U.S. probably isnt the end of the world. Even within the US, its not apocalyptic. They might not do it (though you might have more faith in their good will than I do), but net neutrality regulation is still an important safeguard.
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TheMaskedUgly posted:Not all netflix shows are released all at once (though most are); Such as? quote:It's not worried about spoilers (there was nothing in ST2 worth spoiling); it's the blurring together of episodes. Again, nobody is making you binge the shows. Like you alluded to, you just need self control.
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