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So I started Bosch since I heard good things about it both here and elsewhere, but I gotta say after the first episode my impression is a bit mixed. The actual detective work was well done, but the opening in particular featured some pretty rancid copaganda what with the whole "hard-bitten cop who doesn't play by the rules gets unfairly hounded by the meanie IA just because he killed a guy" thing. Does it get better about that as the series goes on, or at least less in-your-face? Or is that more something you just gotta put up with to get to the good parts?
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feedmyleg posted:Care to spoil the weirdest stuff? (Rescue Rangers) Well, if you ever thought to yourself watching the original show "Were Gadget and Zipper loving?", the answer is a responding "Yep!" as they're now married with 42 children.
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My wife loves the Paddington movie thank you for the rec
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If I know nothing about Paddington, would I enjoy the movies? They seem to be very highly praised.
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May 21, 2022 15:45
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I know nothing about it either but it’s really cute and well directed. There’s sight gags in every shot and it’s just overall good vibes
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BisterdDave posted:If I know nothing about Paddington, would I enjoy the movies? They seem to be very highly praised. I've only seen the first one and I loved it (having no knowledge of Paddington before). It's just super charming and very well done.
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May 21, 2022 15:55
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Exceedingly good vibes. Those movies give off a strong air of pleasantness. Especially Paddington 2.
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May 21, 2022 15:55
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May 21, 2022 16:07
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Perestroika posted:So I started Bosch since I heard good things about it both here and elsewhere, but I gotta say after the first episode my impression is a bit mixed. The actual detective work was well done, but the opening in particular featured some pretty rancid copaganda what with the whole "hard-bitten cop who doesn't play by the rules gets unfairly hounded by the meanie IA just because he killed a guy" thing. Does it get better about that as the series goes on, or at least less in-your-face? Or is that more something you just gotta put up with to get to the good parts? Did you hear good things about the show from 53 year old, Tom Clancy-loving dads? Cause that's the target audience.
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BisterdDave posted:If I know nothing about Paddington, would I enjoy the movies? They seem to be very highly praised. What's there to know about Paddington? He's a bear that shows up, there's not a lot of lore.
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I feel like the people who hype Paddington 2 as the best are the same ones that hyped up Toy Story 2 back in the day.Nihonniboku posted:She Hulk starts August 17 on Disney Plus. I'm only interested if Charlie Cox is one of the antagonists. As a lawyer, no cape poo poo. I am only here for superhero law stuff.
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Bananaquiter posted:I feel like the people who hype Paddington 2 as the best are the same ones that hyped up Toy Story 2 back in the day. I haven’t seen Paddington one. But I went back and rewatched toy story two and it does hold up imo
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The French Dispatch is Wes Anderson at the peak of his style, just effortlessly showing off his filmmaking talent. Also excellent cast of course... But, I found most of the New Yorker-rear end characters and plots pretty tedious, well-worn...all these tired trite cliche ruminations on art/1968/etc. It's no surprise that the one part with any heart is Wes just having Jeffrey Wright basically play James Baldwin. It's hard to go wrong there, it's the least creative work Wes has to expend, the one with the least of his fingerprints, and not coincidentally it's the best part. it's the only part with any staying power or resonance (tilda swinton/adrien brody/edward norton were silly fun at least).
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Man, the original Top Gun is such a complete bore. No stakes, annoying characters and it's so obviously just stock footage of jets flying around cut with green screen of them in the cockpits. It really really really doesn't hold up.
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mcmagic posted:Man, the original Top Gun is such a complete bore. No stakes, annoying characters and it's so obviously just stock footage of jets flying around cut with green screen of them in the cockpits. It really really really doesn't hold up. Yeah, it was nowhere near as good as I was expecting. Tom Cruise is such a goober in it too.
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mcmagic posted:Man, the original Top Gun is such a complete bore. No stakes, annoying characters and it's so obviously just stock footage of jets flying around cut with green screen of them in the cockpits. It really really really doesn't hold up. "Stock footage" isn't the right term for it any more than watching stunt drivers in cars is "stock footage." Those jet flights were performed and shot for Top Gun. It's just really hard to practically film and edit high speed aircraft maneuvers in a way that both reads legibly and as intense action. So in 1986 they basically went with the vehicle equivalent of a shaky-cam fistfight scene.
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BisterdDave posted:Yeah, it was nowhere near as good as I was expecting. Tom Cruise is such a goober in it too. *snaps teeth at you*
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May 21, 2022 19:14
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One of those movies where you just remember the soundtrack and your mind fills in the movie as “good, right?”
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regulargonzalez posted:Did you hear good things about the show from 53 year old, Tom Clancy-loving dads? Cause that's the target audience. Ya I like the books but not the Bosch character. He sees himself as a righteous defender but according to his code. He's an old man who gets things done but no one likes working with him.
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eh i also rewatched Top Gun last week and i thought it did hold up pretty well
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Perestroika posted:So I started Bosch since I heard good things about it both here and elsewhere, but I gotta say after the first episode my impression is a bit mixed. The actual detective work was well done, but the opening in particular featured some pretty rancid copaganda what with the whole "hard-bitten cop who doesn't play by the rules gets unfairly hounded by the meanie IA just because he killed a guy" thing. Does it get better about that as the series goes on, or at least less in-your-face? Or is that more something you just gotta put up with to get to the good parts? There's an important bit that sometimes got lost on the forum that Bosch is really good...if you like cop/detective stories. If you're not picking up what it's putting down, then it's nothing special. For the scene in the opener, season 1 spoilers, The show ultimately is clear enough settling on a point similar to how Justified treated Raylan. If you haven't seen Justified maybe check it out too. It's obvious that Bosch did a technically legal murder for vigilante reasons and the show's clear that it's not a great thing even if it doesn't condemn it. Bosch is gray area at best within the show's logic. Some of the later seasons deal with Bosch going to worse and worse places and treat it as a bad thing. The show overall kind of drifts back and forth toward copaganda stuff and usually comes out alright. The only egregious one I remember is a trash sub-story in like season 4 or 5 where a case integrity unit has the audacity to review a shady case Bosch did. It's all because Bosch's crazy ex has an ax to grind  . It sucked enough to about make me give up the show but the ending's not terrible and I don't think they ever dropped back to that point.
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Perestroika posted:So I started Bosch since I heard good things about it both here and elsewhere, but I gotta say after the first episode my impression is a bit mixed. The actual detective work was well done, but the opening in particular featured some pretty rancid copaganda what with the whole "hard-bitten cop who doesn't play by the rules gets unfairly hounded by the meanie IA just because he killed a guy" thing. Does it get better about that as the series goes on, or at least less in-your-face? Or is that more something you just gotta put up with to get to the good parts? I think I made an almost identical post when I started Bosch and got the same vibe from the first episode. I stuck with it and ending up loving the show, and don't think it gets to far into copaganda stuff.
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MixMasterMalaria posted:My main complaint was that cell shaded Chip looked weird and they should have just animated him by hand to contrast with CG Dale. I've seen a lot of people say this, but I gotta say that I really didn't notice outside of a certain difference in how some Z-axis movement is accomplished. Disney killed it's 2D animation department and laid everyone off in the time between Princess and the Frog (2007) and The Pooh Movie (2011), they were not going to produce feature-length hand drawn animation for the first time in a decade just for a Disney+ feature of the week. Corporate has a tendency to specifically target Disney Afternoon nostalgia projects as low-brow filler for the devoted, since the one time Disneyland did a fireworks show for C&D/TaleSpin/etc a few years ago it was when the castle was buried under scaffolding and most of the rides were closed for renovation so the audience was mostly the Kool-Aid crowd who would go to Disney even if the pin stand was the only thing open. I actually thought the movie was a pretty good production considering who they had tailored it for. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 22:07 on May 21, 2022 |
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MixMasterMalaria posted:I thought it was good. The writing was above average and it felt like they knew what sort of tone they were going for and kept it consistent. The extensive cameos outside Disney IP helped, and had a good blend of nostalgia/genre/comedy. Felt like a good follow-up to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. My main complaint was that cell shaded Chip looked weird and they should have just animated him by hand to contrast with CG Dale. Maybe they intended to but the switch to streaming cut the budget? Still felt good enough for a theatrical release and overall exceeded my expectations. The director Akiva Schaffer was on the podcast Scott Hasn't seen yesterday and ended up talking about the production of this movie quite a bit. The budget was never cut surprisingly but they also couldnt get them to budge on increasing the budget. So there were a few things they had to cut with the animation when.it became clear there was no way to get it done. SunshineDanceParty fucked around with this message at 22:26 on May 21, 2022 |
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The 2D animation in Chip n' Dale just looks like a more polished version of Joel Haver's youtube stuff. It's clearly not hand-drawn but I think it looks fine. I thought the movie was enjoyable. It's got plenty of pandering but it's interesting to see that Disney is capable of producing something in 2022 that leans closer to Who Framed Roger Rabbit than WB's Space Jam 2, which was just awful.
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So apparently the upcoming season of Stranger Things isn't even the last one?! Given the constant media promos, the two hour long episodes, the $30 million per episode budget, and all the stars talking about what an amazing journey it's been and how this season is really going to tie everything together, I just assumed Netflix was going all out for the big finale. But no, there's still another season after this 
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Hm. Well it’s not a huge deal for me because I love the show. But I hope they find an ending for the characters.
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Glottis posted:The 2D animation in Chip n' Dale just looks like a more polished version of Joel Haver's youtube stuff. It's clearly not hand-drawn but I think it looks fine. Missed opportunity by not having a joke about the MMO.
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wizardofloneliness posted:So apparently the upcoming season of Stranger Things isn't even the last one?! Given the constant media promos, the two hour long episodes, the $30 million per episode budget, and all the stars talking about what an amazing journey it's been and how this season is really going to tie everything together, I just assumed Netflix was going all out for the big finale. But no, there's still another season after this Nope. Season 4 is about to premiere, and it's split into two parts. Season 5 will be the last. The younger kids are going to be in their 20s when that finally airs, and the older kids will be in their 30s.
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LifeLynx posted:Love Death + Robots Season 3 is out! It's a mixed bag. Mostly agree except I enjoyed The Very Pulse of the Machine a lot. Trippy sci fi and lonely astronauts are right in my wheelhouse though. My take Three Robots- Solid. Really nothing bad to say about it, but it was kind of just grim Wall-E. A good opener but not a standout Bad Traveling-This was incredible and one of the best entires in any season of LDR. I'd say it's the best, but it's probably tied with a later episode that won't be surprising. Now I really want to see Fincher take on some more fantastical stuff. He's basically done nothing but Dark drama since alien 3 but I would watch the gently caress out of a full movie with this tone. CGI or not. The way the crab communicated through that guys corpse was so delightfully hosed up and creepy. All around it was one of the best watches in the series. The Very Pulse of the Machine- I liked this a lot. I'm just a huge sucker for this kind of thing. it wasn't super original or anything but thematically I really dig that kind of thing and the Moebius-lite aesthetic was cool. I also felt like it was pretty inspired by Danny Boyles Sunshine. Night of the Mini Dead- Loved it. Simple and goofy. I love that little diorama animation style people have been doing lately. The ending made me lol *fart*. Just a good fun one. Kill Team Kill- I enjoyed watching it. Wasn't terrible. meh though. Clearly the worst one but dirty violent GI Joe is a fun enough way to kill 15 minutes. Swarm- Better than above, but squarely in the forgettable category. Nothing bad to say say about it. Not much to say really Masons Rats- Totally agree. Fun to watch for the animation, but the skit itself was kind of dumb and if it was trying to make some sort of statement at all I didn't like it. In the Vaulted Hills Esteemed-This was fine. Forgettable. Just like Swarm Jibaro- JFC. I could tell just from the thumbnail it was going to be by the people that made Witness (which was previously the best LDR entry imo) but that was like, some next level poo poo My brain cant even process that those two are CGI to the point it makes me skeptical, but I do believe it. But it's really just the style that is so unique and unlike anything I can compare it to that makes it stand out. I just kind of want to watch it again already. There's just nothing else like it. Even if someone doesn't care about LDR they owe it to themselves to at least watch Bad Traveling and Jibaro.
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The only massive thumbs down I'll give to the new season of LDR is that if you scan the QR code at the end it does not bring you to some cool interviews or behind the scenes shorts it's some NFT scam. gently caress you. Not gonna hold that against anyone involved except Netflix though.
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Please watch RRR on Netflix. It rules so, so hard. Instead of spending 3 hours watching Avengers or something watch the story of two brothers.
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https://twitter.com/yacobg42/status/1527705595360550917
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