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Toshimo posted:MitM has aged very poorly in a lot of respects, yeah. Having Chris Benoit in their intro was a sign, yes.
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Baby Driver is now twice as difficult to watch as it was in 2017.
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Jun 20, 2020 01:00
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Do the Dutch still do zwarte piet?
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Jun 20, 2020 01:54
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Yes, despite everybody else telling them how racist it is, they still did it last year.
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Jun 20, 2020 02:35
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There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.
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Zaroff posted:Aside from certain channels refusing to stop showing it, and following on the HIMYM bandwagon, what about the other Chuck Lorre monstrosities - Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory? Big Bang Theory no, that one's gonna have a long-lasting footprint. But Two and a Half Men, absolutely. That last season just sucked all the goodwill about it away.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:25
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Baby Driver is now twice as difficult to watch as it was in 2017. who else but Spacey? it isn't Ansel is it?
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Jun 20, 2020 03:28
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Mister No posted:who else but Spacey? it isn't Ansel is it? It's Ansel. Sorry.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:31
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Drive over Kevin Spacey twice and send Ansel to jail. Baby Driver was prescient.
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Mister No posted:who else but Spacey? it isn't Ansel is it? Sexually assaulted a a 17 year old he was 20. According to her account she cried and said she didn’t want to and he said they needed to break her in. You know, Hollywood stuff
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Baby Driver is now twice as difficult to watch as it was in 2017. Baby Driver is maybe the best action movie to come out in the last twenty years but BOY is it hard to watch Kevin Spacey "act" as a megalomaniac in a position of power over a teenage boy. And now the lead actor, too. 
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My parents were watching The Ranch and when Danny Masterson's character just mysteriously died off screen they had no idea about the real life situation that happened, but I think that flew under the radar more than usual for whatever reason.
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Jun 20, 2020 05:51
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Whybird posted:Life On Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Two series that were huge and iconic in the UK, ended around the same time as Lost, and then vanished completely. This is mostly because (for Ashes to Ashes at least) the producers cheaper out and didn't secure music rights for international distribution.
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Barney deserves the bulk of scorn in HIMYM, but I'll be goddamned if Ted isn't a loving emotional vampire. Dude is so unbelievably picky with women and then feels sorry for himself for being alone. He has a respected high paying job, a cool apartment, and close friends but he spends most of the show whining to them about how hard his life is. And the show always tries to portray his behavior as romantic.
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Malcom in the Middle if anything may be ahead of its time, when you consider it's specifically about an abusive family and the effects the abuse has on every one of the brothers. In general, the comedies that don't try to pretend the characters are good people age better.
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Jun 20, 2020 06:33
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Malcom in the Middle if anything may be ahead of its time, when you consider it's specifically about an abusive family and the effects the abuse has on every one of the brothers. At the end, don't two of the sons actually derive significant joy from having severed from their mother entirely and avoiding any attempts she makes to contact them?
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grittyreboot posted:Barney deserves the bulk of scorn in HIMYM, but I'll be goddamned if Ted isn't a loving emotional vampire. Dude is so unbelievably picky with women and then feels sorry for himself for being alone. He has a respected high paying job, a cool apartment, and close friends but he spends most of the show whining to them about how hard his life is. And the show always tries to portray his behavior as romantic. Honestly the show was always at its best when it was dunking on Ted.
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Can I assume those would be Francis and a later in life Dewey? Malcolm's too weak and Reese seems too dependent.
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There's quite a lot of layers to it, really. IIRC, the parents are implied to have a pretty toxic, co-dependent relationship, and the dad goes completely out of control whenever the mom's out of town. I remember reading what I think might have been a novelisation of an episode, or a tie-in book, which spelled out the dynamics even more clearly, including the oldest son having been treated as a scapegoat before being sent to military school.
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I like when Novelisations elaborate on characters, like the Muppets movie with Amy Adams. It has a villain who instead of actually laughing evilly he just says the words "Maniacal laugh" in a monotone, and at the end of the movie something happens to jar his body in such a way he actually starts laughing for real - the book explains that he had a physiological condition that meant his body could never actually laugh which is why he was such an rear end in a top hat, the jar in the movie fixed him.
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IIRC there's a cut song from the movie that would spell that out. Novelisations are often based on early scripts and/or incorporate content cut from the end product.
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Mister No posted:who else but Spacey? it isn't Ansel is it? 
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DontMockMySmock posted:Baby Driver is maybe the best action movie to come out in the last twenty years but BOY is it hard to watch Kevin Spacey "act" as a megalomaniac in a position of power over a teenage boy. You night want to watch a movie called Fury Road...
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Thranguy posted:This is mostly because (for Ashes to Ashes at least) the producers cheaper out and didn't secure music rights for international distribution. It's also because Ashes to Ashes was poo poo. Ashley Pharoah had even explained while making Life on Mars why the show wouldn't work if it was set later in time.
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DontMockMySmock posted:Baby Driver is maybe the best action movie to come out in the last twenty years The list of things wrong with it is very long, the plus side is very short. In fact, with the exception of the opening chase, this is maybe my all-time “film I should technically have liked, but ended up hating”.
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Torquemada posted:The list of things wrong with it is very long, the plus side is very short. In fact, with the exception of the opening chase, this is maybe my all-time “film I should technically have liked, but ended up hating”. "But it plays lots of music that I enjoyed as a kid, so it must also have a great plot, characters and sense of drama and not simply be a series of lacklustre car chases loosely tied into a paper-thin plot with cardboard cut-out characters"
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Scaramouche posted:You night want to watch a movie called Fury Road... The amazing thing about that movie for me is that it is NEVER a bad choice to watch no matter the mood. It doesn't drag ever. It tells its story in a really digestible manner though with lots of small details should you pay attention and it sets a mood that you just can't help but get swept up in. I honestly can't think of a single fault with Fury Road or a way it can age badly save the actual apocalypse happening.
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Fury Road had a legitimate shot at Best Picture, Best Director, and Cinematography; The Revenant won those and hasn't been heard from since. Theron should at least have been nominated for Best Actress. Still, the fact that it was in the discussion at all is amazing for a goddamn Mad Max movie.
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Jedit posted:It's also because Ashes to Ashes was poo poo. The ending was especially bad, but the whole show seemed to be designed to ruin its own premise.
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Mokinokaro posted:
I got some bad news about the apocalypse.
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Tiggum posted:The ending was especially bad, but the whole show seemed to be designed to ruin its own premise. Was that when they explicitly spelled out what was going on with the time travel? Because Life on Mars was amazing and didn't feel the need to start giving reasons about things it was about the characters and the culture clash and is a better story for it.
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pentyne posted:Was that when they explicitly spelled out what was going on with the time travel? And guess what the answer was! loving purgatory
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Strom Cuzewon posted:And guess what the answer was! loving purgatory and it was for only for cops who went down in the line of duty or some bullshit because they were such special and important human beings
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Strom Cuzewon posted:And guess what the answer was! loving purgatory I think it's best to just watch LOM and skip ATA althougher, because they reconned the LOM universe to allow them to make ATA and it's a much paler version. also, the plots are poo poo, the characters become parodies of themselves, the main actor can't act as well, the period setting is less authentic and the music is worse.
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grittyreboot posted:I got some bad news about the apocalypse. Has Cancel Culture Gone Too Far?
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Baby Driver made me hate Edgar Wright and made me realize that without Simon Pegg he is a disastrous storyteller. Also, what kind of dumb gently caress do you have to be to see Ansel Elgort and say "yeah he should star in my movie" when you got people like John Boyega right there.
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I was going to argue that with Scott Pilgrim but I forgot Pegg was involved there.
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Mokinokaro posted:The amazing thing about that movie for me is that it is NEVER a bad choice to watch no matter the mood. Agreed. I also feel the same way about Dredd.
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mllaneza posted:Fury Road had a legitimate shot at Best Picture, Best Director, and Cinematography; The Revenant won those and hasn't been heard from since. Theron should at least have been nominated for Best Actress. Still, the fact that it was in the discussion at all is amazing for a goddamn Mad Max movie. The Revenant looks amazing and everybody is acting their asses off, but the story is so cliched and bland.
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