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i almost don't count it as Marvel, which is weird. I guess I don't count it as Netflix Marvel. loving amazing show tho.
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Apr 18, 2018 03:56
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Legion loving rules. They set the bar for Marvel shows.
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Apr 18, 2018 04:09
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Is there a place to stream season 2 or Legion?
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Apr 18, 2018 04:12
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Luke Cage is great y'all back off
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Apr 18, 2018 05:39
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Beyond Skyline is utterly insane and I don't know if I mean that as a complement or a criticism. If you don't know, the first Skyline is a fairly generic alien invasion flick, where the gimmick is that the aliens use an intense blue light to lure and capture humans. The sequel more or less picks up where the first one ends, except with a gruff down-on-his-luck/bad father street cop as the protagonist. Then about mid way through it transforms into a Hong Kong Kung Fu movie set in Laos. If you feel that is a startling juxtaposition, you are correct.
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Apr 18, 2018 06:54
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Simplex posted:Beyond Skyline is utterly insane and I don't know if I mean that as a complement or a criticism. You forget to mention that Iko Uwais and Yayan from The Raid fight aliens with silat. Edit: If you watched the first Skyline, the protagonist of that movie and his family plays a major role in Beyond. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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Apr 18, 2018 07:15
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Skyline was a quirky little exercise in Hollywood meta-commentary, yeah? A bunch of characters wringing their hands about the invasion of special effects that hypnotize you when you look at them, attempting and failing to avoid it with stuff like closing the curtains and engaging in some utterly trite overdramatic acting, etc., until the main character finally decides to immerse himself in the special effects and use them for good to fight back against the bad guys. I remember an SMG post on it that was pretty helpful, but I dunno if I can find it. So I'm wondering, does Beyond Skyline seem to represent a continuation of that conversation? Martman fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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Apr 18, 2018 11:04
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Martman posted:Skyline was a quirky little exercise in Hollywood meta-commentary, yeah? A bunch of characters wringing their hands about the invasion of special effects that hypnotize you when you look at them, attempting and failing to avoid it with stuff like closing the curtains and engaging in some utterly trite overdramatic acting, etc., until the main character finally decides to immerse himself in the special effects and use them for good to fight back against the bad guys. I remember an SMG post on it that was pretty helpful, but I dunno if I can find it. I think yes. The aliens experimented on the baby of the couple from the first movie. Her blood can interact with the alien weapons to create a counter-light that can 'wake up' human brains inside the alien bodies and machines. It escalates until the humans end the movie controlling their own fleet of spaceships and launching their own attack on the aliens. A 'visual effect' that you cannot tell apart from the real thing, dazzling even its creators.
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Apr 18, 2018 11:30
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Blind Rasputin posted:Is there a place to stream season 2 or Legion?
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Apr 18, 2018 12:21
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david_a posted:Hulu had season 1, don’t know if they’ve added S2 yet since I don’t have Hulu currently. They haven't in the US, at least. It's the only show I really feel like I'm missing with my current subscriptions (Netflix, Prime, Hulu, no add-ons).
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Apr 18, 2018 12:45
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Field Mousepad posted:Legion loving rules. They set the bar for Marvel shows. I should start legion, is season one available anywhere?
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Apr 18, 2018 13:14
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Enos Cabell posted:Legion is legit great. Junkie Disease posted:Luke Cage is great y'all back off Apart from these two, I haven't had any interest at all in watching other marvel superhero shows. Between all of the shows and movies, over saturated is even a fit description anymore.
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Apr 18, 2018 13:33
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Iron Crowned posted:I should start legion, is season one available anywhere? Hulu
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Apr 18, 2018 14:42
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david_a posted:Hulu had season 1, don’t know if they’ve added S2 yet since I don’t have Hulu currently. I thought Hulu added shows a week after they aired but there's no s2 up yet. Did they change that or am I remembering that wrong? Also Tale of Tales on Netflix was pretty cool. I love me some adult fairy tales.
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Apr 18, 2018 14:49
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Field Mousepad posted:I thought Hulu added shows a week after they aired but there's no s2 up yet. Did they change that or am I remembering that wrong? That depends on a lot of factors. Some stuff goes up a week later, some doesn't go up until the new season is about to air ala netflix.
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Apr 18, 2018 14:58
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Field Mousepad posted:I thought Hulu added shows a week after they aired but there's no s2 up yet. Did they change that or am I remembering that wrong? Anything from FX goes up months after the season airs, sometimes just before the next season starts.
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Apr 18, 2018 16:03
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The new LOST IN SPACE sucks right? This first episode should have been call WINTER FUN TIME ADVENTURE... pretty boring stuff. I then slept through the next 2 episodes. Wondering if I even give it another chance.
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Apr 18, 2018 19:34
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Martman posted:Skyline was a quirky little exercise in Hollywood meta-commentary, yeah? A bunch of characters wringing their hands about the invasion of special effects that hypnotize you when you look at them, attempting and failing to avoid it with stuff like closing the curtains and engaging in some utterly trite overdramatic acting, etc., until the main character finally decides to immerse himself in the special effects and use them for good to fight back against the bad guys. I remember an SMG post on it that was pretty helpful, but I dunno if I can find it. I'm not sure if I really agree with that reading of Skyline, but there is a continuation of that conversation I suppose in Beyond. It's not really a movie that has any business criticizing any other movie about anything ever. Maybe the best way to explain it, is that the typical cycle is big blockbuster movie -> disappointing sequel -> DTV movie starring Dolph Lundgren - > In Space. With Beyond Skyline they decided to just cut to the chase and put all of movies 2-4 into one package. It doesn't really attempt to tell one coherent story. But on the other hand it shows a bunch of aliens who survived a nuclear blast later getting taken down by a karate kick to the head, and it does this without any sense of irony or winking at the camera.
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Apr 18, 2018 20:25
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FrankeeFrankFrank posted:The new LOST IN SPACE sucks right? It's really pretty and Parker Posey is fantastic but it's very much a hangover show.
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Apr 19, 2018 01:48
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Lost in Space is “what if The Martian except Vancouver and he has a robot”. I mean there’s literally an entire plot involving them lightening the ship by tossing everything nonessential so someone can pilot it manually to achieve escape velo.
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Apr 19, 2018 02:28
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That's older than the Martian.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lost in Space is “what if The Martian except Vancouver and he has a robot”.
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Apr 19, 2018 03:26
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Finished Bosch season 4 and thought it was great. If you liked the other seasons this one is best in my opinion.
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Apr 19, 2018 04:47
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Anyone watching The Crossing on Hulu? Is it any good?
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Apr 19, 2018 07:08
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Lycus posted:That's older than the Martian. Wasn’t that an episode of the original Star Trek?
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Apr 19, 2018 10:19
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Blind Rasputin posted:Anyone watching The Crossing on Hulu? Is it any good? I watched like half of the first season (I love cult stuff), and it felt just average. It just didn’t click for me. I thought about going back, but after reading reviews I doubt I ever will.
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business hammocks posted:Wasn’t that an episode of the original Star Trek?
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Apr 19, 2018 13:15
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david_a posted:Yes, The Galileo Seven. Wasn't it also in Around The World in 80 Days?
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Apr 19, 2018 16:13
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precision posted:It's really pretty and Parker Posey is fantastic but it's very much a hangover show. The entirety of Parker Posey’s screen time is spent on shots where she smiles and then turns around and slowly turns that smile into a mean look
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Apr 19, 2018 17:59
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It feels like she's barely ever with the rest of the cast through much of the middle.
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Apr 19, 2018 18:02
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I'm only halfway through it but Counterpart is fantastic.
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https://twitter.com/peabodyawards/status/986987985861271553
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Well drat deserved.
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Fallom posted:The entirety of Parker Posey’s screen time is spent on shots where she smiles and then turns around and slowly turns that smile into a mean look Isn't that pretty much her entire career?
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Apr 19, 2018 20:04
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so today I learned that CBS made American Vandal which means that presumably all their network shows are deliberately awful, because they're perfectly goddamn capable of making good TV when it's not airing over-the-air (as evidenced by this and Trek: Discovery)
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Apr 19, 2018 20:06
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:so today I learned that CBS made American Vandal Oh yea, absolutely. It's just that white people age 50-75 have decided that they want to watch the same kind of t.v. until they die, and aren't interested in anything that messes with the formula.
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Basebf555 posted:Oh yea, absolutely. It's just that white people age 50-75 have decided that they want to watch the same kind of t.v. until they die, and aren't interested in anything that messes with the formula. it's... it's not even the formula that's bad, though. police procedurals and sitcoms are totally capable of being good. the CBS ones are just consistently stunningly awful in their execution. it's like they deliberately make the shows bad so that only white people age 50-75 who have had their brains turned to literal mush will watch them.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:14
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There is pretty much nothing on broadcast network TV that I want to watch anymore except maybe the occasional live sports event or news show. When I see an ad for a sitcom or other prime time show they all look ridiculously terrible and bland. This is not to say that I'm not also wary of most of the offerings from streaming services and premium cable channels now, because I am. But at least I feel there's a decent chance that the show or film COULD be good and I don't require like ten people coming up to me telling me it's good unlike network TV.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:it's... it's not even the formula that's bad, though. police procedurals and sitcoms are totally capable of being good. the CBS ones are just consistently stunningly awful in their execution. it's like they deliberately make the shows bad so that only white people age 50-75 who have had their brains turned to literal mush will watch them. The things you would say make a procedural or sitcom good turn off old white people though. At least the ones in my family. Ongoing storylines that require remembering what happened earlier in the season? Hell no that's just confusing. Unanswered, but tantalizing questions left unanswered? Well hell, if you weren't gonna give the answer then don't waste my time in the first place! Themes that make me question my own worldview? That's offensive and I will write a letter of complaint to the network.
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