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I really loved The Dead Don't Die, although I suspect a lot of Bill Murray and/or zombie movie fans will go see it who have never seen a Jim Jarmusch movie and find it a little laconic and slow. Anyway, most of it is far from subtle, and very meta but Tilda Swinton's character drops a meta meta hint about why she's there. Adam Driver isn't the only one who's read the script. She tells him earlier when they leave her at the police station that she will "see them at the cemetery" and yet when Driver sees the UFO he says "That was unexpected." Anyway her alien was only there because she likes Earth's genre movies. Imagined has a new favorite as of 21:25 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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oldpainless posted:Off the top of my head, the only show that never decreased in quality as it went on is Friends
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Zedd posted:30Rock. 
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Zedd posted:30Rock. V true
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oldpainless posted:Off the top of my head, the only show that never decreased in quality as it went on is Friends Eastbound and Down. Possibly Justified.
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Kids in the Hall started strong and ended stronger*. Not even Monty Python accomplished that, with the crappy fourth season without Cleese. Edit: also Blackadder. Farscape. Veep. Firefly. And stuff it, guy who is rushing to his keyboard to say it was never good. *Death Comes to Town and Brain Candy don't count. Imagined has a new favorite as of 02:11 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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Sep 4, 2019 02:00
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It's impressive how Veep got better even after they changed show runners and 2016 happened.
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I have consistently laughed and cringed appropriately at Always Sunny for its entire run.
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Real Sex The McLaughlin Group Hoarders
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I really don't like black adder Like, I can see the jokes, I can see the humor and talent and the all star cast in their prime. But dang it just don't make me laugh. A bit of get and Laurie though, and I'm in stitches
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Thinking Veep got better after Iannucci left is absolute lunacy
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pentyne posted:Possibly Justified. The main problem is that season 2 set an incredibly high bar which was never really exceeded by the rest of the seasons. And honestly the fifth season was the weakest of them all. I still love the show though.
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Blackadder managed to keep it's quality up by having entirely new settings to set it's stories in for each series. This helped it, and it's writers/actors avoid burnout and stretching single ideas too thin. It is also helped by the way that Rowan Atkinson, and the rest of the main cast play each version of their characters ever so slightly differently in each time period. So combine that with the time/setting changes it's not one long show, but a series of related shorter series'.
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Imagined posted:Kids in the Hall started strong and ended stronger*. Not even Monty Python accomplished that, with the crappy fourth season without Cleese. Brain Candy rules.
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I DON'T THINK I WILL 'gently caress STUMMIES', BRAD
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its a video game not a movie but like i love that the gnome in left 4 dead 2 is named "gnome chomsky"
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BrigadierSensible posted:Blackadder managed to keep it's quality up by having entirely new settings to set it's stories in for each series. This helped it, and it's writers/actors avoid burnout and stretching single ideas too thin. And it ends marvelously.
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Kanine posted:its a video game not a movie but like Currently playing the outer wilds and it does this thing where the elements of the theme song are spread out between different characters in different locales/planets. So when you walk past one npc they are playing a simple banjo tune, or a flute, or some bongos And your player character has a device that can hear across the expanses(it is set in a small scale solar system) between the NPCs. Given that the game is in space and does its best to model orbits and gravity, occasionally NPCs are in line with each other and you get to hear the full theme song by virtue of orbital mechanics, it sort of fades in and out in this really poignant way
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Jestery posted:Currently playing the outer wilds and it does this thing where the elements of the theme song are spread out between different characters in different locales/planets. I noticed this when I accidentally followed the thing that shoots out of the orbital cannon outside of the solar system
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Henchman of Santa posted:Thinking Veep got better after Iannucci left is absolute lunacy I think 5 is probably my favourite, but 6-7 are definitely the worst.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Blackadder managed to keep it's quality up by having entirely new settings to set it's stories in for each series. This helped it, and it's writers/actors avoid burnout and stretching single ideas too thin.
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Jestery posted:Currently playing the outer wilds and it does this thing where the elements of the theme song are spread out between different characters in different locales/planets. There's a really awesome mission in breath of the wild where you are tasked with building a small town, then finding people to populate it. You end up traveling the world, finding people who are lost or unhappy in their current homes, and convincing them to move. The music, though, is really well done. When you first visit the spot for the town it's silent, with a tiny hint of a beat. As you build the town and full it with people, different instruments and choruses join in (appropriate to the person just added), fleshing out the tune. Eventually, when it's full, you have a vibrant town with music to match. It's really subtle, considering how long it takes you to find everyone and build everything, but if you're paying attention it's really cool.
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iajanus posted:There's a really awesome mission in breath of the wild where you are tasked with building a small town, then finding people to populate it. You end up traveling the world, finding people who are lost or unhappy in their current homes, and convincing them to move. The music, though, is really well done. When you first visit the spot for the town it's silent, with a tiny hint of a beat. As you build the town and full it with people, different instruments and choruses join in (appropriate to the person just added), fleshing out the tune. Eventually, when it's full, you have a vibrant town with music to match. It's really subtle, considering how long it takes you to find everyone and build everything, but if you're paying attention it's really cool. Kass' accordion and the stable ocarina theme also overlay wonderfully when he's standing close enough to hear! That loving game, man.
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I'm not sure how subtle this actually is, but I only noticed it on a rewatch, so I'm counting it. One of the early jokes in Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus is Dib, when trying to explain how he wants to get his father's approval by revealing Zim's an alien, breaks into a stunningly bad impression of his father. Gaz calls it 'the worst impression ever'. Later, when he's preparing to reveal Zim to the world, he has a brief fantasy sequence of everyone adoring him for doing it, including his father... speaking in that same terrible voice Dib used in his impression. He's not just bad at impressions; he really does think his dad sounds like that. After that, we get full scenes with an extremely poorly-made clone of Dib's dad... and he talks like that, too.
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The only way that could be funnier is a surprise reveal that his dad actually does talk like that.
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It's not like it's that much more ridiculous than his usual manner of speaking. Not sure if it's subtle, but I do like that Zim's plan actually (kinda) succeeds because he gives GIR an order that's just stupid enough for them to execute it flawlessly.
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I DON'T THINK I WILL 'gently caress STUMMIES', BRAD CAT ON MY HEAD! Hey... you know those 'peelz'? You know what they're made from? I love KitH, but I think the only time I laughed out loud during Brain Candy was the 'Just a guy' part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th_N6_A4gW8 Around 3:30 here. Rupert Buttermilk has a new favorite as of 17:11 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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I still quote that to this day.
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bony tony posted:And it ends marvelously. Well, maybe the next series can still screw it up.
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Mister Mind posted:Well, maybe the next series can still screw it up. Back and Forth was fine as a Doctor Who parody. Watching A Knight's Tale. All the Knights start laughing at Will's new armour because it's so small but they stop when he mounts his horse with no effort at all. Later you see knights in heavier armour struggling to get into the saddle even with their Squires pushing. Fun little sight gag. Another fun one is when they're at Notre Dame. Jocelyn and her handmaiden dip their fingers in a bowl of holy water to annoint themselves. Will barges in and uses the bowl to slick back his hair. Arc Hammer has a new favorite as of 03:47 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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Eddie Murphy: Uh, I'm not sure I can throw Mike over this table myself Director: Okay we'll get a stunt guy to do it Eddie Murphy: But he's 3 inches taller and 75 pounds heavier than me! Director: No one will ever notice https://i.imgur.com/NEBTofj.mp4
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The loving guy looks like Fred Williamson.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Eddie Murphy: Uh, I'm not sure I can throw Mike over this table myself Haha this is great
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Eddie Murphy: Uh, I'm not sure I can throw Mike over this table myself This is as good as the Star Trek HD fight scenes where it becomes incredibly obvious that William Shatner suddenly becomes a much fitter man in between close ups.
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Eddie Murphy hulks out when he gets mad, returns to normal very quickly. So what?
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BrigadierSensible posted:Blackadder managed to keep it's quality up by having entirely new settings to set it's stories in for each series. This helped it, and it's writers/actors avoid burnout and stretching single ideas too thin. Also it's great the way the Blackadders become less and less grandiose as they go on. The Black Adder is the son of the king. Blackadder the Second is the Queen's favoured counsellor. Blackadder the Third is the Prince Regent's butler. And the last Edmund Blackadder is an insignificant captain in a pointless war whose death was implied to end the line.
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For some reason that reminded me of the third Robocop where, after the samurai robot cuts off Murphy's arm with a sword, you can clearly see it in a black sleeve just tied behind his back throughout the rest of the scene. Like it's right loving there. I need to find a clip.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:For some reason that reminded me of the third Robocop where, after the samurai robot cuts off Murphy's arm with a sword, you can clearly see it in a black sleeve just tied behind his back throughout the rest of the scene. Like it's right loving there. I need to find a clip. Also at the end the baddie turns into a plastic statue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saLl-IdZNvU&t=62s
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drat that was quick, thank you. And yeah, I forgot about the plastic statue. I was about to say it's a shame that basically destroyed his career outside of being a script doctor, but then Dekker went ahead and wrote the latest Predator with Shane Black. Make of that what you will.
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