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Tom Hardy was insufferable on the Fury Road set so maybe they're waiting to cast a new Max. Ben Affleck is available and seems suitably angst-ridden.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:The book is rubbish and doesn’t even have a proper ending,the main character is about to get his revenge that the whole book has been hinging on....and then someone tells him he can’t have his revenge and he’s like “ok”. It is, however, a book based on historical frontier figures. I guess Jim Bridger never ascended to the same stature as Davey Crockett or whoever, but it’s not just some stupid story someone made up of whole cloth. Not defending it, tho. I wanted more out of both the book and the movie, cuz I’m from that area and I like it when we have good representations of our history in film and literature. Blew my fuckin mind when I watched Legends of the Fall as a kid, and Brad Pitt’s all talking like Helena, Montana in the 20s is like Paris or some other fancy city.
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Cleretic posted:I at one point set a roleplaying campaign within the real-life Australian town of Bordertown, so named because it's on the border of two states and Australians aren't very creative. Not only am I sure there are already things called Bartertown, I'm fairly sure there were already things called Bartertown when Mad Max 3 was made. I've been there! There's not much to it. We also have a city of Townsville. It's a shithole.
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Jun 21, 2020 19:28
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also Doctor Who sucks. I've watched most of them. It sucked decades ago, it sucked ten years ago when all my friends were into it, it sucks now. Modern doctor who has like 1/8 good episodes, 3/8 bland episodes, and 1/2 loving awful episodes. Some of the good episodes really make me want to like the show, but I gave up on it around season 4 or 5 because of the many, many abysmally bad episodes.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Tom Hardy was insufferable on the Fury Road set While this is true he has been openly regretful and apologetic about this. It was an extremely difficult shoot and he didn't "get" the film until he saw it complete. Not excusing his behavior, but he'd likely be better in a hypothetical sequel. DontMockMySmock posted:Modern doctor who has like 1/8 good episodes, 3/8 bland episodes, and 1/2 loving awful episodes. Some of the good episodes really make me want to like the show, but I gave up on it around season 4 or 5 because of the many, many abysmally bad episodes. It does have an episode where a guy face-fucks a paving stone, so there's that.
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DontMockMySmock posted:Modern doctor who has like 1/8 good episodes, 3/8 bland episodes, and 1/2 loving awful episodes. Some of the good episodes really make me want to like the show, but I gave up on it around season 4 or 5 because of the many, many abysmally bad episodes. I watched it all obsessively until the Clara era, where I stuck around mostly because Capaldi owns, and Jodie Whittaker was a good choice but nobody really cares about the show anymore because it's not 2008 everything from the Nerd Era seems really unpleasantly optimistic now though e: love and monsters is the only episode I never watched more than once, gently caress you for invoking the cursed episode
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've been there! There's not much to it.
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rydiafan posted:It does have an episode where a guy face-fucks a paving stone, so there's that. TheKennedys posted:gently caress you for invoking the cursed episode
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Jun 21, 2020 19:43
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Veotax posted:Isn't the second pilot just a series of clips trying to show what the show would be rather than an actual episode? Like they re-shot scenes from the British show with the American cast. No - there were two distinct US pilots, with two different Cats (one had the guy who made everyone sing in that Buffy episode, the other had Dax from DS9 playing Cat) I believe one did have clips from Season 5’s Terrorform - I’d assume the bit from the beginning when Kryten was stranded in the wrecked ship, since he was the only UK actor to be carried to the US version.
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DontMockMySmock posted:Modern doctor who has like 1/8 good episodes, 3/8 bland episodes, and 1/2 loving awful episodes. Some of the good episodes really make me want to like the show, but I gave up on it around season 4 or 5 because of the many, many abysmally bad episodes. I bailed partway through S4. It’s really not helped by the fact it’ll drag down good episodes with the ol’ “well, everyone liked this concept/alien/whatever the first time, and we’re out of ideas, so let’s bring them back!” trick.
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Zaroff posted:No - there were two distinct US pilots, with two different Cats (one had the guy who made everyone sing in that Buffy episode, the other had Dax from DS9 playing Cat) There were two different pilots, the second with a revised cast like you said, but looking it up it does seem like the second pilot was just a collection of scenes rather than an actual episode. From the Red Dwarf wiki: quote:With a small budget and deadline, new scenes were quickly shot and mixed in with existing footage of the pilot and UK Series V episodes. Rather than being a complete storyline, the new pilot was more a highlights reel of potential story ideas. Among the most notable was a recreation of scenes from the Series III episode "Marooned".
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I bailed partway through S4. It’s really not helped by the fact it’ll drag down good episodes with the ol’ “well, everyone liked this concept/alien/whatever the first time, and we’re out of ideas, so let’s bring them back!” trick. Amy and Rory were really fun companions, they had some of the weirdest plots, like because they hosed on the Tardis it had side effects for the baby so bizarre that the doctor basically insists on bunk beds since then (although the character that results from that was widely hated). He claims it's just because they are fun, but the real reason is obvious. Also Rory was a very genuine guy, he literally stood guard for 2000 years protecting his wife while she was in suspended animation (he was temporarily immortal due to weird time poo poo).
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BioEnchanted posted:Amy and Rory were really fun companions, they had some of the weirdest plots, like because they hosed on the Tardis it had side effects for the baby so bizarre that the doctor basically insists on bunk beds since then (although the character that results from that was widely hated). He claims it's just because they are fun, but the real reason is obvious. Also Rory was a very genuine guy, he literally stood guard for 2000 years protecting his wife while she was in suspended animation (he was temporarily immortal due to weird time poo poo). And then there was that one episode where she had to wait for like 30 years for them to save her and was incredibly rude about the whole thing. Rory pulled her out of multiple world wars over the course of thousands of years and had no problem or resentment but she got super crazy about 30.
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Rory, Mickey the Idiot, Wilf, Captain Jack and Rory's dad were all better companions than any of the "official" companions
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Len posted:And then there was that one episode where she had to wait for like 30 years for them to save her and was incredibly rude about the whole thing. Rory pulled her out of multiple world wars over the course of thousands of years and had no problem or resentment but she got super crazy about 30. Rory you have to choose: a) the 25-year old version of your hot wife with smooth, tight skin who is really happy to be with you or b) the 55-year old version of your wife with skin like a scrotum, who is bitter and blames you for 30 years of misery Wow, what a dilemma for this guy! What a difficult choice to make, how on earth could be decide. It's like Sophie's Choice!
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Jun 21, 2020 21:03
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Give her a break, her daughter has a time head!
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Re: Doctor Who. Tom Baker will always be The Doctor in my mind. Largely because I am an old, and remember watching repeats of him on TV after school. And partly because I love the camp old over-actor and his silly hat and scarf. Peter Davidson is also cool, but only for the blazer and celery. And a question from an old who hasn't seen any of the new ones, do they have a K-9? Is it any different from the old one?
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BrigadierSensible posted:Re: Doctor Who. There was a spinoff Sarah Jane series targeted specifically for kids, she kept K-9 like she had in the old days. It got some minor updates.
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Arivia posted:There was a spinoff Sarah Jane series targeted specifically for kids, she kept K-9 like she had in the old days. It got some minor updates. Yeah, I had heard of that. I was thinking more the David Tennant, Matt Smith, Jodie Whittaker Doctors. Coz I know they keep the sonic screwdriver, so I was wondering if they kept other throwback elements.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Yeah, I had heard of that. Nope. K-9 appears in a couple Tennant episodes when the Sarah Jane Adventures stuff crosses over, but that's it.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've been there! There's not much to it. I've been. Basically completely unmemorable aside from a pleasant trip out to Maggie where we got slightly daydrunk and blasted around the island on rental scooters.
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Len posted:And then there was that one episode where she had to wait for like 30 years for them to save her and was incredibly rude about the whole thing. Rory pulled her out of multiple world wars over the course of thousands of years and had no problem or resentment but she got super crazy about 30. The big difference between those two points is that Rory generally knew what was going on, there was a plan to follow. But Amy lost thirty years by accident because they didn't realize Weird Time poo poo was going on, and spent thirty years genuinely thinking she was abandoned in a facility full of death robots. I feel like I'd be pretty justifiably pissed if someone left me in a death robot facility for thirty years.
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Moo the cow posted:Rory you have to choose: Rory would of chose both but the Doctor is a dick and Rory's call out of him was good.
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I loved the moment of River Song's conception - Amy and Rory are alerted, and hurriedly come out into the main room of the Tardis wearing her cop uniform and his centurion outfit, obviously having been in the middle of sexy roleplay.
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I watched Naked Gun 2 1/2 today and at the end Drebbin gives a big speech about his dreams for America. On of his dreams is that you should be able to go to 7/11 without an interpreter and the crowd cheers like crazy. They're still very funny movies, but there are certainly some jokes that shouldn't have been made.
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grittyreboot posted:I watched Naked Gun 2 1/2 today and at the end Drebbin gives a big speech about his dreams for America. On of his dreams is that you should be able to go to 7/11 without an interpreter and the crowd cheers like crazy. They're still very funny movies, but there are certainly some jokes that shouldn't have been made. Probably thanks to David Zucker, who went on to direct An American Carol.
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grittyreboot posted:I watched Naked Gun 2 1/2 today and at the end Drebbin gives a big speech about his dreams for America. On of his dreams is that you should be able to go to 7/11 without an interpreter and the crowd cheers like crazy. They're still very funny movies, but there are certainly some jokes that shouldn't have been made. I have bad news about the guy who played Detective Nordberg.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I have bad news about the guy who played Detective Nordberg. Oh no did he get injured again?
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I kinda stopped paying attention to him around early 1994. Why, did something happen to him?
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The villain of that episode was based on a child's drawing Also it's apparently based on some jerk who ruined a Dr Who fan forum
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Yeah the part of that episode that is about how toxic fans can ruin things for everyone else is good, it's just that it's in the same story as the paving slabs who gives blow-job.
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While on a wiki wormhole, I stumbled across the plot of an episode of Blacklist about abortion and I'm utterly mesmerized with how sick, stupid and misguided it is (warning, contains nightmare fuel) https://the-blacklist.fandom.com/wiki/Hannah_Hayes_(Character) ...like, who the gently caress writes something like this? This is on par with Mark Millar's Nemesis.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Yeah the part of that episode that is about how toxic fans can ruin things for everyone else is good, it's just that it's in the same story as the paving slabs who gives blow-job. What's crazy is that the blowjob part was entirely unnecessary. They were doing the epilogue and decided to tack on two lines at the end that have nothing to do with the plot: quote:[holding Ursula who turned to a floor tile with a face] At any point, someone could have said 'wait, isn't this a children's programme, should we keep the blatent blowjob line?', cut it out and the removal would have been seamless.
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The whole episode was almost literally fanfiction, and it's not fanfiction without some jarring sexual content crowbarred in because the writers are horny shut-ins.
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grittyreboot posted:I watched Naked Gun 2 1/2 today and at the end Drebbin gives a big speech about his dreams for America. On of his dreams is that you should be able to go to 7/11 without an interpreter and the crowd cheers like crazy. They're still very funny movies, but there are certainly some jokes that shouldn't have been made.
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AceOfFlames posted:While on a wiki wormhole, I stumbled across the plot of an episode of Blacklist about abortion and I'm utterly mesmerized with how sick, stupid and misguided it is (warning, contains nightmare fuel) How the gently caress did this get made?
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VanSandman posted:How the gently caress did this get made? It's funny, when Blacklist came out, my running joke was that it was the show that NBC was expecting when they greenlit Hannibal (cookie cutter police procedural starring what is essentially off-brand Hannibal Lecter). And yet, despite Hannibal's violent content, it's a hell of a lot more tasteful and much less exploitative than some of the borderline torture porn poo poo Blacklist comes up with (one moment that comes to mind was the villain of the week kidnapping one of the main characters and planning on paralyzing her and having rats eat her alive).
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