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I don't recall S3 of GLOW being super sappy or too dramatic or anything like that, there was less of the wrestling show but I think that may have been an issue of the long wait meant the actors were not in as much condition to get thrown around.
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precision posted:no that's lena dunham, the one that isn't funny They did both attack women who accused their friends of rape though.
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everyone who works in tv is a huge piece of poo poo according to my friend at HBO so I kind of just blissfully try to ignore that stuff because I like ~my stories~
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:They did both attack women who accused their friends of rape though. oof, yeah, i forgot about that i'm watching Deep Water. it is definitely a stupid cheezy throwback to 90s thrillers. pretty enjoyable.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:They did both attack women who accused their friends of rape though. I just looked up the Amy Schumer one and this seems to be twisting the truth, like alot.
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Life & Beth is basically a drawn out rom com, its not really a dramedy its just kind of low key funny the whole way so far
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I apologize about the large image before. Was phone posting and didn't realize the image was that big. Also, if what the person said is true, then I was correct that HBO Max and Hulu top hitters aren't anywhere near as big as even Netflix's A-tier list (let alone S-tier).  This is probably a large reason of Netflix's perceived decline. A lot of their most renowned shows were things that would never have gotten greenlit anywhere else. - An adult animated cartoon targeted toward middle aged adults about a washed up 50 something year old 90's family sitcom star with depression and addiction issues in a world where anthropomorphic animals and humans live together? And the main character is a horse? - Why take another shot on this trashy female novel that bombed on network television? It's about a stalker who is obsessed with his crushes as he charms his way into their lives and kills everyone around them. It's too dark and violent for women and too romantic and girly for men. - So let me get this straight, you want to make a series about those '80s E.T. movie rip-offs, but violence and swearing in it so kids can't watch it, but still have kids star in it so parents won't relate to it? - Okay...just wait one second, you want not only a high production adult animated series, but one that is: 2D, based on a niche abandoned video game franchise, and action focused with little to no comedy? - Who on Earth will want to watch a 10 episode, 10 hour documentary? I know that crime content is "in", but documentaries rarely are. I mean Michael Moore is the peak of documentary success and has only had two "big hit" documentaries. A lot of Netflix's best stuff was new and unique programming that was rarely if ever done before. In just ten short years they've managed to revolutionize the television medium in several genres. They showed the world why streaming was the future not just because of convivence, but because it's business model was infinitely better for the consumer as it allows for more risk taking from the creator's side. It feels that Netflix has gotten a lot more boring and safe with what they have been putting out the past two years. I consider the cancellation of "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" to be the turning point as that was the last high production show Netflix made that was really "out there" in concept. The said thing is, by far the service's most popular and influential show in not only recent years, but ever, was: "So let me understand this correctly. You want to invest in a big budget, foreign film with strong anti-capitalist themes, with virtually zero white actors, and virtually zero English spoken, and try to see if this will appeal to the modern polarized world, let alone the United States?" Maxwell Lord posted:I don't recall S3 of GLOW being super sappy or too dramatic or anything like that, there was less of the wrestling show but I think that may have been an issue of the long wait meant the actors were not in as much condition to get thrown around. I agree. There was less wrestling than before. I was impressed by Awesome Kong's incredible acting. However, one scene in the season sticks out to me with how bad it is: It's during when the Cambodian woman and the Jewish woman have a rift due to how the latter was portraying Asian culture, but they end up bonding due to genocide. "ThE kILliNg FiELDs!" scene had such awkward delivery. Not to mention the message is terrible. Please forgive me for doing a racist caricature , because my grandma died in a genocide. Since virtually all of your immediate family died in a genocide, this makes us relatable so...yeah let it slide. punk rebel ecks fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Just finished watching "Hail, Cesar" and man the film was kind of...bad. The plot was dumb and non-sensical. And for some reason Hollywood gives the dumbest portrayals of socialists/communists as they show they don't even understand very basic points of the philosophy. Finally, I realize that there was controversy over the film for lacking minority roles. I thought it was stupid when I first hear it because OF COURSE Hollywood circa 1950s would be insanely white. But the fact that the film lacked a single person of color besides an arguably white passing character for a total of five minutes is...distracting. Like even out and about in Los Angeles I didn't see a single non-Anglo person. I noticed there is a big discrepancy between what critics rated this film and filmgoers, and this is a case where filmgoers had it correct.
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finished Deep Water, big recommend. it's about 30% trash/70% legit great movie. Affleck is super fun, not something i've ever said often before.
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I decided to let my Netflix subscription lapse at the end of the month, but I'm glad I caught The Power of the Dog before it did. Such a gripping, surprising, beautiful, and emotionally grounded western thriller. Totally surpassed my expectations.
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Chris James 2 posted:Windfall is 90 minutes of an attempted robbery going comically and horribly wrong (Jason Segel breaking into the home of Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins) in every way. I've seen a lot of films this year so far, I've liked and loved a lot; this is one of my favs somehow I passed on this last night but I'm enjoying it now. Instead I watched The Girl Next Door which was good fun. I can see why it wasn't commercially successful and why it's become a cult hit over the years.
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Thanks for the heads up. I do dig a good (neo) noir so I will probably like it. Hadn't heard about it, and just assumed it was Taken with a different name. Glad to know its not.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Just finished watching "Hail, Cesar" and man the film was kind of...bad. I remember liking it a lot but when I really think about it I think I just enjoy the Channing Tatum choreography and 'would that it were so simple' scenes and that's about it
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Fresh on Hulu is a riot. Don’t really have much to say about it except that it’s in the same vein as (the superior) Promising Young Woman. I.e., Fresh takes the premise “dating!” and the thesis “men are trash” (in the most played out, rosé-all-day Twitter sense), and then somehow it has its own voice and not a grating one. My girlfriend had some minor visceral reactions to the body horror elements, but not nearly as strongly as she did to Possessor which she couldn’t finish. So to some degree I think it succeeded in making those kinds of horror / thriller elements more accessible for a wider audience, which is an achievement. A less charitable take could be that it was watered down, though I never felt that way. Won’t be recommending it to my mom though, lol.
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eighty-four merc posted:Fresh on Hulu is a riot. I've been kind of on the fence about watching Fresh but if you're comparing it to Possessor then I'll definitely give it a watch.
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Windfall is freakin great lmao
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Watching Wild Wild Country is interesting. In all the sort of clickbait/podcast takes I'd heard about this story before it was made into a doc, it was all about this WACKY POWER-HUNGRY EVIL CULT but the real villains revealed are psychopathic arrogant white Americans and their media. "THEY'RE BRINGING IN 'STREET PEOPLE'!! AND FEEDING THEM!!! WE NEED TO BOMB THEM!!" the absolute ARROGANCE to act like they have a centimeter of room to cry about "seperation of church and state". As if they'd give a gently caress if this were a bunch of Methodists and not SCARY EASTERN THING WITH HOMELESS PEOPLE!! The attorney general literally describes his mission to defend the seperation of church and state from these people as "a mission from god" lmao you cant make that poo poo up And it also reveals how willing these white people are to bend the law or change the law to support the outcomes they want, all their laws and imbecilic talk of DEMOCRACY and CONSTITUTION are just a pretense to get the white supremacist psycho outcomes they want. They're fine with Utah just basically being a sovereign Mormon state, they're fine with their own churches having a strangehold over our politics. It's like the people scaremongering about SHARIA LAW while they're literally the white Christian Taliban. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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Just saw this on imgur and this perfectly describes me when starting to watch foreign media on HBO Max:
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Was watching Extra Ordinary the other day with a friend and he asked if we could put on subtitles due to the strong accents. I tend not to for anything that's English language, but within a couple of minutes I was very glad we had. Also, solid sweet fun flick if you enjoy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace or any of the Conchords-adjacent stuff.
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Field Mousepad posted:I've been kind of on the fence about watching Fresh but if you're comparing it to Possessor then I'll definitely give it a watch. I liked Fresh but it's not nearly as good as Possessor and also has almost nothing in common with it. I don't think that's what the person you quoted was saying. They both just happen to have some body horror in them. Either way it's worth watching for free.
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I watch TV with headphones now after hearing at some point how loud it still is in the hallway outside my apartment.
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I watched the first episode of “Is it cake” and while the people on it are talented it’s kind of BS as a game show. The first guy literally won by what I would call cheating and…no one cares. Also the whole thing hinges on showing the audience and judges the creations from 20 feet away which is kind of frustrating to watch lol.
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Jumped into "Our Flag Means Death" blind and I'm finding the show to be great. I initially thought the main character was Martin Freeman too for a few minutes, but he's still fantastic for the role.
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veni veni veni posted:I liked Fresh but it's not nearly as good as Possessor and also has almost nothing in common with it. I don't think that's what the person you quoted was saying. They both just happen to have some body horror in them. Yeah that was before I had coffee, totally misread it. Still gonna give Fresh a watch though.
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my neighbor likes to yell about how i'm a "loving f*****" so i see no real point in keeping my TV volume low
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punk rebel ecks posted:Just saw this on imgur and this perfectly describes me when starting to watch foreign media on HBO Max: on that note, is there a way to make the HBO Max subtitles not loving gigantic or is that just an issue with my streaming device
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Field Mousepad posted:Yeah that was before I had coffee, totally misread it. Still gonna give Fresh a watch though. I was disappointed in Fresh after all the hype. It doesn't really commit to the horror, comment on anything very meaningful (like Possessor and Piercing do), and I was rolling my eyes at the plot turns. It's the first thing I've seen Sebastian Stan in where he wasn't bland though!
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Not sure I get the recs for Deep Water. Granted, I was quite high watching it but the motivations were not coming through for me
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snoot posted:It's the first thing I've seen Sebastian Stan in where he wasn't bland though! He was pretty good playing a rockstar douchebag in Pam and Tommy. Lily James walked away with that show though.
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A MIRACLE posted:Pam & tommy looked funny but ended up just being really sad Yeah, it did this thing where it tried to make everyone sympathetic.
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A MIRACLE posted:Pam & tommy looked funny but ended up just being really sad the first couple eps were good i thought, but yeah
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Black Crab is visually cool and the action is very tense. I loved it.
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A MIRACLE posted:I live in a apartment and don’t like my tv too loud. I think if I had a proper center channel setup it would be fine but with regular stereo I can’t hear dialogue too good most of the time same
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i liked ryan reynolds and kid ryan reynolds movie with bonus all the avengers or whatever but as other people it was fun to watch
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The first 3 episodes Below Deck Down Under is now up as a Peacock exclusive. Down Under is now the 4th series in the Below Deck franchise, following OG, Mediterranean, and Sailing Yacht. I'm so glad that Aesha from Below Deck Med has returned as Chief Stew.
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Just finished the fifth and, I believe, best so far episode of Pam & Tommy. It's good but it's definitely a huge bummer. Holy poo poo Semi-Charmed Life over the end credits, wow.
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Glottis posted:on that note, is there a way to make the HBO Max subtitles not loving gigantic or is that just an issue with my streaming device I don't think so. HBO Max keeps finding ways of making subtitles worse. Like now they move in position depending on which character is speaking. precision posted:my neighbor likes to yell about how i'm a "loving f*****" so i see no real point in keeping my TV volume low Umm...wow. I'd ask for more info but I don't think it's something you'd want to speak abouut.
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