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Reacher's hunches were often shown to be wrong in funny or surprising ways, and he's not very charming or good at communicating. It's corny as hell but he's definitely not just "perfect at everything." I liked that he's some weird combo of Sherlock Holmes and like, Paul Bunyan or something, and if he has some superpower it's just being a tank who can shrug off every injury. He seemed pretty flawed in lots of other ways.
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Mar 7, 2022 07:30
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Reacher said nothing.
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Mar 7, 2022 08:30
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Reacher is extremely good for all the reasons you listed
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Reacher feels like it belongs on TNT or the USA Network. Just has those vibes of a mediocre TV cable drama.
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Mar 7, 2022 11:57
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Roth posted:I highly recommend Criterion Channel and Arrow. Thanks for this almost-OP suggestion, I've been getting some decent value out of the criterion service and might also sign up to Arrow. BTW the "layout and curation experience" you're talking about is VHX, a whitelabel video hosting platform by Vimeo. If (for pure hypothetical) someone is having trouble with geo VPN usage with one of these services, it may be because you've used a VHX-hosted service in your home country already, and they've squirrelled something into your browser to track you. Use private browsing or another browser if that happens to you, like it definitely didn't happen to me. An actual question though. It seems to me that Criterion's service is focused on what they consider to be Socially Important films (or at least cinematographically interesting). The words "abstract" and "dreamlike" are in half of the discriptions, and fully half of the library is foreign-language dramas. This is fine when you're in the mood. You suggested Arrow as complementary, but that seems to be a different flavour of the same thing, i.e. it's focused on Culturally Important films perhaps more than whether the film stands up as entertaining on its own. (this is based just on your description to be fair) What I would love is a service which has decent-or-better quality films that aren't emotionally moving dramas or Vampire Zombie Guts 4. Like if you took all the films with an IMDB score between 7 and 8.5, and had a decent number of them, not the amazon or netflix approach of 12 decent films floating in a sea of poo poo. Is there something like that? I'd love to have a good, legal resource for when I just want to see Harrison Ford throw someone off a plane, or whatever.
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Mar 7, 2022 13:38
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I know it’s for story reasons in Reacher but that amount of murders in one small town would not stay a small-town investigation. Especially when it’s most of the police force!
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Mar 7, 2022 14:06
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I thought people were exaggerating how bad The King's Man is, but no, they were not. Maybe the most confused politics in a movie that I've seen. I've heard of making a complicated or nuanced villain, but the movie instead goes with the approach that the villain is basically right, but gently caress him.
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Mar 7, 2022 14:15
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I've watched a bit of Domina, and while it had a pretty solid start, the third episode kind of lost me. Basically it does a timeskip spanning about a decade between episodes and switch out pretty much the entire cast. I'm not too good with character names at the best of times, so having a whole set of new faces and figuring out who is supposed to be who is a lot. Also, not to be racist against white people, but most of these Roman men look the loving same.
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Mar 7, 2022 15:55
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OldSenileGuy posted:Watched Fresh last night. It was good, but it's been driving me insane trying to figure out who the main girl character looks like. She's got some Mary Elizabeth Winstead in there, but that's not who I'm thinking of. She's very good in Normal People too.
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Mar 7, 2022 16:09
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reacher can also absorb bullets i think. he has a lot of powers. think i might do a rewatchsmackfu posted:I know it’s for story reasons in Reacher but that amount of murders in one small town would not stay a small-town investigation. Especially when it’s most of the police force! lol yeah I cracked up at this almost every episode. the local hospitals would be completely overwhelmed
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Mar 7, 2022 16:38
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Google Butt posted:Watch Banshee instead cool Im gonna check this out. looks like its on hbo super max plus
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Mar 7, 2022 16:45
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how does Reacher stay jacked when he's a vagrant who spends his entire life on greyhounds and in motels. the dumbbells they offer in those "gyms" never go above 35 lbs
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Mar 7, 2022 16:58
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A MIRACLE posted:cool Im gonna check this out. looks like its on hbo super max plus Banshee is the best trash tv show I've ever seen.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:06
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Banshee is fun, but it's super dumb and trashy. WAY more so than Reacher.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:22
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smackfu posted:I know it’s for story reasons in Reacher but that amount of murders in one small town would not stay a small-town investigation. Especially when it’s most of the police force! It's hilarious how many times in Reacher someone suggests getting in the FBI / Feds / whatever and then the suggestion is dismissed, so Reacher can continue ganking random henchmen. I enjoyed Reacher, but it's a very subjective thing - it's ridiculous, it knows it's ridiculous and leans in heavily. YMMV
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Mar 7, 2022 17:28
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Enos Cabell posted:Banshee is fun, but it's super dumb and trashy. WAY more so than Reacher. My favourite Banshee moment was when the main cast are trapped in the police station under siege, cutoff from help, and one character reminds the others than this is not the first time the police station has been under siege. Because that's a thing that happens regularly in Banshee.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:33
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God Hole posted:how does Reacher stay jacked when he's a vagrant who spends his entire life on greyhounds and in motels. the dumbbells they offer in those "gyms" never go above 35 lbs HAhahahah I thought the exact same thing throughout. Like "The Rock eats 10 pounds of salmon a day with two hours in the gym, what is this dude doing, killing local wildlife and bench pressing cars???"
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Mar 7, 2022 17:37
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Rollos posted:Reacher feels like it belongs on TNT or the USA Network. Just has those vibes of a mediocre TV cable drama. exactly, it's a bit like True Detective but in the style of NCIS there are so many dumb moments but my favorite has to be when the medical examiner analyzes the photos of head wound on a previously closed case suicide (by hanging?) and does a zoom enhance to discover that the wound had to have been made by a large diamond. clearly this implicates the town mayor who walks around with a cane topped by a gigantic diamond
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Mar 7, 2022 18:28
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nonathlon posted:My favourite Banshee moment was when the main cast are trapped in the police station under siege, cutoff from help, and one character reminds the others than this is not the first time the police station has been under siege. Because that's a thing that happens regularly in Banshee. My favorite (among many, it is one of my top shows ever) was when the one deputy's abuser returns and the whole episode kind of sets up the sheriff being the one to handle him and he gets the location of where the guy is from the deputy and goes there and it turns out she gave him the wrong address and she just kicks the everliving poo poo out of this guy (including smashing his head in with a bible) and it rocks It's a very satisfying show...
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Mar 7, 2022 18:31
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A MIRACLE posted:reacher can also absorb bullets i think. he has a lot of powers. think i might do a rewatch Reminds me of how much I liked the start of Justified in Season 2, where it's just boxing up and cataloging the murder board for the ridiculous amount of carnage at the end of Season 1 and how absolutely crazy it'd be to try and handle.
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i thought Guardians of Justice definitely had enough weird and neat visual stuff to keep me watching but it also deffo has an insanely "low budget cable access show" vibe that is baffling... especially some of the ADR sounds just super bad, and also doesn't make sense, like there's one character who is always ADR'd even though he's clearly saying the same words so it's like... why is he even ADR'd haha Fresh is GREAT haha a little predictable in the third act but otherwise 
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Mar 7, 2022 19:40
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I said this in another thread but Diamond Dallas Page as an unhinged Batman is a lot of fun in Guardians of Justice.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:46
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precision posted:she looks quite a bit like Charlotte Gainsbourgh to me Nah, I finally realized it's Ella Hunt who she reminded me of. At certain angles they look very similar.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:54
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Lol I’m watching fresh it’s pretty wacky
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Mar 7, 2022 21:00
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The twist in Guardians of Justice is so insanely stupid.
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Mar 7, 2022 21:58
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A MIRACLE posted:Lol I’m watching fresh it’s pretty wacky it's pretty funny that he cuts off her butt first and that is the only thing that ever gets cut off her so they never have to show her without an appendage or anything.
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Mar 7, 2022 23:02
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West Side Story (the new one) is the most interesting and best possible version of that story, while keeping the original songs, that I can imagine. I still think the songs are hokey as gently caress, and dancing gang members will never make sense, but if you just accept those things and try to enjoy everything else it's pretty great. Some fun shots, sets, and a few pretty decent acting performances. My main complaint is the Maria actress looking, and actually being, like 8-9 years younger than everyone else. It was distracting and odd.
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mcmagic posted:it's pretty funny that he cuts off her butt first and that is the only thing that ever gets cut off her so they never have to show her without an appendage or anything. For some reason I thought the Fresh you're all talking about was that Fresh Prince reboot, so this spoiler took me for a ride.
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Glottis posted:West Side Story (the new one) is the most interesting and best possible version of that story, while keeping the original songs, that I can imagine. I still think the songs are hokey as gently caress, and dancing gang members will never make sense, but if you just accept those things and try to enjoy everything else it's pretty great. Some fun shots, sets, and a few pretty decent acting performances. All of those teen hoodlums had pretty tall foreheads.
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My wife just made the comment: "One thing I will say for Reacher is that the dialogue is about a million times better than anything in Midnight Mass." ...and I can't say I disagree.
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Mar 8, 2022 02:57
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Cithen posted:My wife just made the comment: False, midnight mass has no dialogue, only monologue
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Mar 8, 2022 02:58
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you're right, I'll let her know
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Enos Cabell posted:For some reason I thought the Fresh you're all talking about was that Fresh Prince reboot, so this spoiler took me for a ride. Extremely same, I was about to go watch immediately to see how that could possibly fit in the story.
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The Fresh Prince reboot (Bel Air) is good. Not great, but good. Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv are cool as hell, as is Geoffrey. Carlton makes a good villain. Will is Will but less Will. Ashley hasn't done that much, Hilary seems about right. The original is one of my favorite comedies ever so I'll continue watching this one to just to see where it goes. The show needs more lighthearted moments, though.
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In the Reacher books he expressly doesn't work out, he's just naturally muscular. Parody is too strong a word but there's definitely a sly humor about the character. A behemoth American loner who loves the blues, diners, and frontier justice written by a British guy.
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kinda liking the tourist so far
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Reacher is great because it's literally just a show about a large ham with a license to kill
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"oh that wasn't James Marsden." -me on IMDB after watching Fresh, which was pretty good
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I watched Westside Story in a mostly empty theater weeks before it was on streaming and it was definitely as good as it could ever be The Jets leader looking and sounding exactly like the the boss weasel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was incredibly distracting though
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