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Love, Gilda is on Hulu and it’s great because she was great and they use portions of the audiobook for her autobiography as narration.
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I think I'm a bit late to the game but I'm watching dear white people on Netflix and it's pretty solid
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Feb 17, 2019 19:36
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plz dont pull out posted:Yeah I really enjoyed it. Brought me back in a lot of ways It's a really (sometimes horrifically) relatable take on what it felt like to be an awkward middle schooler with your BFF. It totally nails how weird and insane middle schoolers are. It's super bizarre how much the leads both manage to pass off as 7th graders and also look like 30 year old lol.
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Feb 17, 2019 20:00
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Abducted in plain sight is loving insane. I feel bad for the parents, but...surely they must be some of the dumbest people on earth.
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Feb 17, 2019 22:00
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Zwabu posted:It basically feels like if Wes Anderson directed an X Men movie. This sounds pretty awesome, to be honest. Based on the comics, that seems tonally appropriate, if not as goofy.
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Feb 17, 2019 22:11
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I think that's going too far. There's just definitely some Wes Anderson influence.
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Umbrella Academy was OK, but it's extremely predictable and as a result it seems a bit absurd for it to act like everything is so mysterious. Also, (spoiler from the end of the show if you somehow can't guess it from the first episode) another loving super hero show where someone's powers go out of control causing the end of the world, how original. I'm also not sure how well the zany action and slow burn mystery stuff worked together, and to be honest I think there have been a lot of shows/movies that have done this kind of zany action better recently.
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I don't really get the "X-Men by Wes Anderson" thing at all. It's not nearly meticulous or quirky enough (for better or worse) for that comparison, to me. The action is well choreographed, the characters each get enough time to shine, but it's definitely all very silly in a handwavey kind of way. The last comic book adaptation of a zany ragtag group of people with ludicrous origins I watched (Runaways) was loving terrible, so maybe I'm only enjoying it by comparison, but I think it's worth a watch. UA definitely seems like it ventures much closer to Preacher territory in its weirdness and bizarre out-of-time style (although not nearly as disgusting or crass).
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It’s more an issue of the retro look of everything (see the old deep sea diver space suit on Luther, lack of cell phones or computers) and the languid pacing. Not being familiar with the comic I couldn’t say how much was from that, but it really feels like it’s trying hard to ape a Wes Anderson aesthetic.
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I’m on episode 4 and I have no idea what everyone’s super powers are supposed to be.
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Feb 18, 2019 03:46
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They make it pretty clear in the first episode. Especially with the bank robbery scene.
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Lycus posted:They make it pretty clear in the first episode. Especially with the bank robbery scene. I guess it’s because they don’t really use them at all I just kind of forgot and they all just seem to be good at fighting. Aside from the obvious Black Lady has some kind of persuasion power Drug Guy can talk to Dead people Smaller White Guy throws knives real good Bigger White Guy good at fighting?? Then got mutated and is now really strong?
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He had super strength before he was mutated. He threw a guy in the bank robbery scene. I take it Diego's power is basically "super-dexterity" I imagine he'd be Hawkeye if he used a bow, but prefers knives. Lycus fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Feb 18, 2019 |
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Feb 18, 2019 04:32
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Never mind I don't feel bad for the parents in Abducted in plain sight. Being this stupid and selfish is complicit in what happened.
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Feb 18, 2019 04:35
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Filthy Hans posted:the Papillon remake is on Prime and it's instantly forgettable In no world do you watch that and think it needs remade
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Feb 18, 2019 05:59
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They remade the French prison movie Papillon? The one that had starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman?
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Zwabu posted:They remade the French prison movie Papillon? The one that had starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman? Yeop. Only now it's Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek. LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Feb 18, 2019 |
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Feb 18, 2019 08:06
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Well I wasn't interested before but Rami Malek means I'll at least try it. Love the original tho And yeah PEN15 is so funny. Oh my gawd, shut up! So funny. Yeah. Too funny and stuff. Oh my gawd.
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I'm on episode 7 of Umbrella Academy and I'm really enjoying it. It's different enough that it doesn't feel like other superhero shows and I like the world and the mystery of it. Yeah some of the dialogue isn't the greatest but it's fun to just switch off and go with it. Also Robert Sheehan is a delight as usual. It's also funny to see the guy who played Ed Kemper in Mindhunter in this and be a wildly different character.
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Feb 18, 2019 09:40
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Aphex- posted:
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veni veni veni posted:Never mind I don't feel bad for the parents in Abducted in plain sight. Being this stupid and selfish is complicit in what happened. probably the most naive and credulous people on the planet
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syscall girl posted:In no world do you watch that and think it needs remade The only thing that could have been interesting for the remake would have been if the filmmakers made a good faith effort to rein in the author's bullshit a bit, look at the prison records and other accounts of the time, and try to tell the true story of the guy instead of just credulously repeating everything in the autobiography as if it were 100% true. The author was upfront about the story being partially fabricated at the time of publishing, and the story's already been filmed once as if it were the unvarnished truth, and said movie was fantastic and iconic.
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I saw The Interview with Hugo Weaving, it was a pretty good Australian movie about rear end in a top hat cops who arrest a guy. Its pretty low key and I enjoyed it alot.
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precision posted:And yeah PEN15 is so funny. Oh my gawd, shut up! So funny. Yeah. Too funny and stuff. Oh my gawd. Yeah, PEN15 really is fantastic. So so funny. I'm a guy, and a few years older than the characters portrayed in the show, but god drat, it really does a great job of portraying teenagers in that era. And the show very easily could step into cringeworthy and awkward, because that's so much what being 13 is about. And it does that a little, but with healthy doses of sympathy for these characters. Also, you completely forget that the two leads are actually 30, and not 13 in the show, Which is so funny given that they are acting with a slew of actual 13 year olds.
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I'm a couple episodes into The Umbrella Academy and it's... ok so far. The only character who's made an impression is Number 5. He's also the best actor of the bunch. I like Robert Sheehan, but I feel I'd be better off just watching Misfits again at this point. It seems like where they're going with Ellen Page's character is already extremely obvious from the start. I'm assuming she's actually the most powerful of all of them and the pills are so Daddy Hargreeves could keep her powers in check. I wish it was Wes Anderson meets the X-Men, but it seems to have only surface level comparisons to either of those so far. It's entertaining enough to keep watching for the moment though.
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Feb 18, 2019 23:03
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Any Wes Anderson influence is really just the intro. It's fairly traditional after the first episode.
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I'm like 20 minutes into this Abducted in Plain Sight docu and these families are absolutely unreal - how can any of these people actually exist
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old.flv posted:I'm like 20 minutes into this Abducted in Plain Sight docu and these families are absolutely unreal - how can any of these people actually exist It gets worse
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Filthy Hans posted:the Papillon remake is on Prime and it's instantly forgettable I remember absolutely losing it when I first saw this trailer. It looked like something on CBS All Access.
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Feb 18, 2019 23:19
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So I started The Expanse a week ago and Season 1 and 2 were really good but holy poo poo I’m halfway through Season 3 and boy is it batshit crazy.
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Lycus posted:Any Wes Anderson influence is really just the intro. It's fairly traditional after the first episode. So the step-siblings hooking up was more of a pornhub homage?
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I know it’s kinda old at this point but how is The Fall? Gillian Anderson owns but I never hear about it
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Feb 19, 2019 01:45
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Frog Act posted:I know it’s kinda old at this point but how is The Fall? Gillian Anderson owns but I never hear about it First couple of seasons are great. I didn't watch past that because it seemed to me the story was completely wrapped up and any further episodes or seasons could only be bad news. Watch the first season.
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Frog Act posted:I know it’s kinda old at this point but how is The Fall? Gillian Anderson owns but I never hear about it First 2 seasons were very good then it got slow and I didn't finish the 3rd yet.
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Enter the Dragon is still pretty good
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Frog Act posted:I know it’s kinda old at this point but how is The Fall? Gillian Anderson owns but I never hear about it I really like the first 2 seasons for cat n' mouse stuff, but know that the story is basically over there. The 3rd is a long, slow epilogue.
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I kind of hope Umbrella Academy gets several more seasons, and each season ends with the Apocalypse and them jumping back to try and figure out a different way to totally not gently caress it up this time. Each Apocalypse more ridiculous, and each failure as total.
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Gyges posted:I kind of hope Umbrella Academy gets several more seasons, and each season ends with the Apocalypse and them jumping back to try and figure out a different way to totally not gently caress it up this time. Each Apocalypse more ridiculous, and each failure as total. Alternatively, if they wanted to focus more on mystery/drama maybe they should have alternated between the past and the present the whole season (although perhaps that's probably been done by too many tv shows recently). mystes fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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mystes posted:They honestly should have done that already in this season. I think spending a whole season building up Vanya's meltdown was a good idea. If they did it before the end then I don't think you'd sympathize with her like the show wants you to. Instead of being on Allison's "side" you'd be on Luthor's.
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