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Although, funny enough, Mantracker is a Canadian show.
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Yeah I just found that out haha.
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mood music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqn9fXzYWoo
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Nov 5, 2018 09:43
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This is a great TV scene, not film, but it’s sooooo good https://youtu.be/te_U-Ukz1vY
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Nov 5, 2018 10:50
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Great scenes featuring generals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66Cp4-1p_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1QwHF7Pu5k
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Nov 5, 2018 10:59
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If we include television, then "Three Men and Adena" from Homicide: Life on the Street counts as perfect.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:03
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LesterGroans posted:If we include television, then "Three Men and Adena" from Homicide: Life on the Street counts as perfect. Good God, absolutely. Just an amazing 40-some minutes of acting from three powerhouses. It's basically a televised stage play. I have always loved that Homicide never solved the Adena Watson case.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:11
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Sure, there's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" from Miami Vice.
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Timby posted:Good God, absolutely. Just an amazing 40-some minutes of acting from three powerhouses. It's maybe the best non-resolution ever. Like, just the detectives switching their notions is more than enough. Such a great episode of TV. It's wild that you have that back-and-forth patter between Pemberton and Bayliss, maybe the epitome of interrogation scenes, and Moses Gunn still steals the whole thing out from under them.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:15
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If I had to pick one short film I'd consider perfect and possibly the best of all time I'd probably go with Duck Amuck
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Nov 5, 2018 11:20
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axelblaze posted:If I had to pick one short film I'd consider perfect and possibly the best of all time I'd probably go with Duck Amuck Not The Procedure?
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Nov 5, 2018 11:29
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LesterGroans posted:If we include television, then "Three Men and Adena" from Homicide: Life on the Street counts as perfect. MY DOGG!!!! Homicide: Life on the Streets is a great show throughout but man, did it peak early.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:38
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Lurdiak posted:MY DOGG!!!! Even though the final season is really rough ("OMG who will go with whom to the policeman's ball" bullshit, yikes), it's still better than pretty much every drama that was on TV at that time. And the movie is great.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:47
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Lurdiak posted:MY DOGG!!!! I mostly remember Reed Diamond drama for the last few years, but good God, we had a series starring Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo and Andre Braugher and it barely gets an "also ran" level of respect. For shame.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:50
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The movie utterly redeems the weaknesses of the last 2 seasons for me.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:51
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Lurdiak posted:The movie utterly redeems the weaknesses of the last 2 seasons for me. Timby posted:And the movie is great. Yeah, the movie is great. It makes some amends to Jon Polito, which is always good.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:52
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LesterGroans posted:Not The Procedure? That's perfect in it's way but it's pretty much a perfect execution of a simple absurd idea while Duck Amuck is a perfect implementation of dozens of complex absurd ideas.
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Nov 5, 2018 11:56
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Also I really need to watch Homicide again. I haven't watched it since it aired and I only recall small bits and pieces. The first episode I watched was the one where Pembleton had a stroke and that left a hell of an impression on me
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Nov 5, 2018 11:58
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axelblaze posted:Also I really need to watch Homicide again. I haven't watched it since it aired and I only recall small bits and pieces. The first episode I watched was the one where Pembleton had a stroke and that left a hell of an impression on me The first three seasons (outside of the Robin Williams episode in S2) are pretty much unimpeachable television. Beyond Three Men and Adena, Night of the Dead Living is great and its final scene is used in the last shot of the movie.
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Nov 5, 2018 12:02
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gently caress, I just remembered one of my favourite episodes is Vincent D'Onofrio stuck under a subway car, and I think that was a mid or late series episode. That one's so good.
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LesterGroans posted:gently caress, I just remembered one of my favourite episodes is Vincent D'Onofrio stuck under a subway car, and I think that was a mid or late series episode. That one's so good. Subway is kind of halfway through the sixth season, yeah. It's another great hour of TV, because both D'Onofrio and Braugher bring their A-game. When Homicide did those "small cast, one set" stage play shows, it was impeccable. Although I wonder how much of a pain in the rear end it was for the MTA. The City that Bleeds is also great, even though it revisits the "main characters get shot" trope. Belzer kills it in the third season, both during that arc and afterwards.
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Nov 5, 2018 12:14
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Timby posted:Subway is kind of halfway through the sixth season, yeah. It's another great hour of TV, because both D'Onofrio and Braugher bring their A-game. When Homicide did those "small cast, one set" stage play shows, it was impeccable. Although I wonder how much of a pain in the rear end it was for the MTA. I happened to catch Munch's last episode of SVU on TV and there was a flashback to Homicide and it was surprisingly touching,
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Nov 5, 2018 12:28
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LesterGroans posted:I happened to catch Munch's last episode of SVU on TV and there was a flashback to Homicide and it was surprisingly touching, Belzer is happy smoking weed and drinking wine in France. Good for him. Edit: Although the way SVU basically turned him into a background character, then gradually wrote him off, was bullshit. I did appreciate the uncredited Lewis cameo in his roast, though. Timby fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Nov 5, 2018 |
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Nov 5, 2018 12:32
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If anyone feels like becoming infuriated today, check out the Movie Details subreddit where morons pat themselves on the back for noticing the most basic of details about films and misread the meaning and intention of scenes.
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Timby posted:The first three seasons (outside of the Robin Williams episode in S2) are pretty much unimpeachable television. Beyond Three Men and Adena, Night of the Dead Living is great and its final scene is used in the last shot of the movie. I actually really liked the Robin Williams episode.
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feedmyleg posted:If anyone feels like becoming infuriated today, check out the Movie Details subreddit where morons pat themselves on the back for noticing the most basic of details about films and misread the meaning and intention of scenes. Eh, seems pretty harmless, especially as far as subreddits go
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Nov 5, 2018 12:47
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Lurdiak posted:I actually really liked the Robin Williams episode. I understand what it was going for but it was really fist-handed in its writing and execution. I've been casually re-watching Homicide as of late and it sticks out as a kind of "stunt" episode (understandable, since they were always on the brink of cancellation).
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Nov 5, 2018 12:56
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Did you ever watch Last Train to Freo?
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axelblaze posted:Eh, seems pretty harmless, especially as far as subreddits go 
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Tbh I'm not sure if that is backing up or contradicting my post
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Okay this made me laugh
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were we talking about perfect short films? https://twitter.com/jkusunoki/status/1059223762434973697
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I was not expecting this direction for Poppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQsxWKfTSU
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Skwirl posted:were we talking about perfect short films?
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I just can't https://twitter.com/chaeronaea/status/1059158291048251392
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Perfect short film? That's easy, The Book of Life. Not an instant wasted.
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I'd like to add, completely without irony, Resident Evil Extinction (the second one) to my list of perfect movies
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precision posted:I'd like to add, completely without irony, Resident Evil Extinction (the second one) to my list of perfect movies What's your area code? Because I'm calling the police on you for a mental health check.
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Nov 5, 2018 19:42
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precision posted:I'd like to add, completely without irony, Resident Evil Extinction (the second one) to my list of perfect movies It felt like a very accurate metaphor for George Bush's America at the time it came out, but now we live in an even worse version of hellworld, so it seems quaint.
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Timby posted:What's your area code? Because I'm calling the police on you for a mental health check. Why would you want him dead? It seems a little harsh.
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