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whatever happened to the show with the lady wrestlers? did they keep making those? vv oh nooooo  vv
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Lazy_Liberal posted:whatever happened to the show with the lady wrestlers? did they keep making those? Glow? It was canceled
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Don't worry it got bad before it got cancelled
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Yeah, Glow morphed from a comedy to a sappy drama. I’m not sure they were even trying to be funny by the end.
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I actually enjoyed Season 3 of "Glow", but I do agree it was the worst of the three seasons. I'm sad there will be no final season, especially with the sort of cliffhanger. Also, "The Adam Project" was okay. I haven't watched Ryan Reynolds in anything but Deadpool, but people keep saying he plays the same character in everything, and...yeah I see their point.
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Yeah, GLOW was renewed for a 4th season and filmed the first episode, but then had to shut down due to COVID and ultimately got canceled later. I guess Netflix decided it wasn’t worth it. I agree that the last season wasn’t the best and was definitely the least funny but it still sucks it went out like that.
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Jaded Burnout posted: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. I missed this post while I was taking a break from the internet. The way I see it is that while Criterion generally offers more "serious" fare (I do think there's an argument to be made that a lot of what people consider high brow arthouse isn't all that super serious), Arrow generally offers more "fun" genre films that are pretty well respected. Criterion has Godzilla while Arrow has Gamera. Part of my view as a film fan is that appreciating film as an art form sorta requires viewing the craft of something like a Heisei Gamera with the same sort of respect that one would give something like The Seventh Seal. They're very different films, but they're both excellent films that I think all film fans should check them out.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Reminds me of this video: Thank you for sharing this!
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I love arrow, just none of it's stuff post 90s that's where it goes from cult film from forced trying to be a cult film. Anything got Godzilla 90s and ye olde Kong vs Godzilla?
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I was extremely charmed by Turning Red being a 2002 period piece and enjoyed Mei and her plucky little pals, probably the best Pixar movie in a minute
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david_a posted:Yeah, Glow morphed from a comedy to a sappy drama. I’m not sure they were even trying to be funny by the end. So many comedies fall into that trap, thinking the audience wants to know more about the characters, introducing plot arcs. Actually, it might be easier to name those that don't become a bit soapy - Always Sunny?
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Glow was always a bit of a dramedy but yeah it kind of lost sight of the comedy aspect. Season 1 is killer. Season 2 is fine. Season 3 is...pretty watchable. I dunno I would have watched more of it, but it's path wasn't strong.
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nonathlon posted:So many comedies fall into that trap, thinking the audience wants to know more about the characters, introducing plot arcs. Actually, it might be easier to name those that don't become a bit soapy - Always Sunny? The fact that Sunny managed to have the most emotionally affecting coming out as gay to your dad(s) scene I've ever seen on a major network, but never lost the shows essential spirit of being rude as hell... truly incredible. It's all about the authenticity baby. A MIRACLE posted:also watching The One 
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Mar 16, 2022 15:24
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nonathlon posted:So many comedies fall into that trap, thinking the audience wants to know more about the characters, introducing plot arcs. Actually, it might be easier to name those that don't become a bit soapy - Always Sunny? ive been watching good girls and season 2 has like 5 jokes total, gonna check out S3 but probably quitting if it doesn't get funny again also watching The One PRESIDENT GORE lol
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Yeah “GLOW” was always a dramedy, with it being significantly more drama than comedy. Season 3 just didn’t strike as good of a balance. Famethrowa posted:The fact that Sunny managed to have the most emotionally affecting coming out as gay to your dad(s) scene I've ever seen on a major network, but never lost the shows essential spirit of being rude as hell... truly incredible. There’s also the scene with Charlie in the very most recent episode.
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nonathlon posted:So many comedies fall into that trap, thinking the audience wants to know more about the characters, introducing plot arcs. Actually, it might be easier to name those that don't become a bit soapy - Always Sunny? Seinfeld. Curb has ongoing storylines but it's never sappy or heartfelt, even Larry's divorce or donating a kidney were played for laughs. Arrested Development Community is debatable I guess
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Lots of classic sitcoms developed characters without miring in drama. The low budget dramedy phenomenon is pretty new and I only feel cheated by the ones that rope you in with laughs first before pulling the rug.
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I just disagree with the concept that GLOW was all but a sitcom that people seem to be insinuating. There were jokes but it was clearly a drama first with a share of funny bits. The first episode literally revolves around the protagonist sleeping with her best friends husband.
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Roth posted:I missed this post while I was taking a break from the internet. I would also say that "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." largely describes my experience with the HBO Max movie selection. Like, all the mid-tier genre movies that I saw ads for during the early to mid 90s, but was too young to actually see. Plus, a pretty insane selection of both "old" (70s and 80s) and OLD (golden age and earlier) movies. EDIT: Like someone said, between their existing reputation for decent to great originals and their broad and deep Warner and Warner-adjacent film library (going back literally a century in some cases), HBO Max has low-key become one of the best streaming values. The Modern Leper fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Mar 16, 2022 |
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nonathlon posted:So many comedies fall into that trap, thinking the audience wants to know more about the characters, introducing plot arcs. Actually, it might be easier to name those that don't become a bit soapy - Always Sunny? Two new network comedies have been good: Abbot Elementary and Grand Crew
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Someone needs to explain to me why The Last Kingdom wants me to feel sympathy for Brida. That lady sucks so bad. I don't care if she's Uhtred's childhood sweetheart. She's horribly murdered tons of children, and even more innocent men and women. Stiorra let her off easy.
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I took it less as the show wanting us, the audience, to have a lot of sympathy for Brida than wanting us to understand Uhtred's perspective. I would have been happy to have the show spend a little less time on her and more on his cousin, but I think it fits with the overall theme of showing how much Uhtred lost in getting to where he is at the end of the series.
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I get that but when you count all Uhtred has lost it makes the shows obsession with Brida even more awkward. Dude has lost like 10 loves of his life. None of them got the level of care as the chick who bathes in baby's blood, metaphorically.
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Yeah, I don't disagree. The bit where he let her go even after she had just recently mutilated his son definitely felt forced in order to stretch out our time with the character. If they had ended it there I think it would have been fine.
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i thought that entirely too much of GLOW was given to drama between Marc Maron and the ladies i actually think Maron is fine and i generally enjoy his "edgy larry david" style but the writing just was not there and it really tanked the show. there were literally half a dozen major plots that all boiled down to "marc maron doesn't get along with girls"
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One thing I hated in the last season of Glow was that they spent 2 seasons actually making the spoiled yuppie guy that you want to hate extremely likeable, which I felt like was kind of a fun out of left field move that felt unique. Then they just made him kind of a prick in season 3.
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precision posted:i thought that entirely too much of GLOW was given to drama between Marc Maron and the ladies I liked Marc in the show but he was just too much of a dick at times. Such as how juvenile when he acted toward the camera man who was dating Ruth.
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veni veni veni posted:One thing I hated in the last season of Glow was that they spent 2 seasons actually making the spoiled yuppie guy that you want to hate extremely likeable, which I felt like was kind of a fun out of left field move that felt unique. Then they just made him kind of a prick in season 3. A lot of this may have just been the nature of a four season arc that gets cut off in season 3. I watched the trailer for "Out Flag Means Death" almost solely because the photo made me think that it was Martin Freeman. Realized it wasn't, and then checked out pretty quickly once the concept unfolded. EDIT: Although reading this guy's wiki, what a president! The Modern Leper fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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The Adam Project was fine, but the cgi young Catherine Keener looked incredibly bad
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veni veni veni posted:One thing I hated in the last season of Glow was that they spent 2 seasons actually making the spoiled yuppie guy that you want to hate extremely likeable, which I felt like was kind of a fun out of left field move that felt unique. Then they just made him kind of a prick in season 3. heck, i liked him from the start. he was a lovable doofus
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Whoever said The Adam Project is Ryan Reynolds downplaying his schtick fully lied lol, if anything the fact that there are two of them at roughly 80% Deadpool mode means you get 160% Deadpool mode
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Wolfsheim posted:Whoever said The Adam Project is Ryan Reynolds downplaying his schtick fully lied lol, if anything the fact that there are two of them at roughly 80% Deadpool mode means you get 160% Deadpool mode truth. It's pretty much Ryan Reynolds+a child Ryan Reynolds who is somehow even more annoying.
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Double Toasted did a good review of the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WE64UbC6Rg
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A MIRACLE posted:Grand crew is getting really good already SunshineDanceParty fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Maybe the closest example I can think of is Happy Endings except Grand Crew figured itself out faster. Caught up on the season overt the last week and what a joy. Oh this will get me to watch. Happy Endings is one of my favorite shows and duck everything for it getting cancelled.
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https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1504447227028291595 a reminder that a lot of mgm-branded movies are with warner but they still have a lot to play with now
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