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In the 4th Stimpire E: drat bad way to start a new page. So I saw an article on A.V. Club that I can’t link now but apparently Paramount Plus is going to start showing classic Beavis and Butthead with the videos intact? I mean I’m still skeptical but that’s what they’re promising.
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Maxwell Lord posted:In the 4th Stimpire maybe the music industry has finally realized that nothing matters and that it's really dumb to hold back all these shows because of music rights issues when all it can do is help drive up their spotify clicks
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Jun 6, 2022 01:07
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I thought they cleared most of the videos for a recent-ish home media release?
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Jun 6, 2022 02:48
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david_a posted:I thought they cleared most of the videos for a recent-ish home media release? most but not all they're claiming to be showing them all now the recent-ish release didn't have some of the best ones like ethyl meatplow "devil's johnson" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3sY8IP8yVs that was the first band i ever saw live btw, opening for front 242. man what a wild show
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Upsidads posted:Got excited when stranger things season four spent two episodes moving at a good clip to have it poo poo the bed and just turn on the emergency break and pad the gently caress out of the rest. Just finished ep 3 I was ready to be interested in the show being without superpowers for once, and seeing El deal with trauma, and what happens when someone who has dealt with her problems exclusively with special powers and great violence suddenly has to face consequences for it... then Paul Reiser lols up a massive exposition dump and says, "Yeah don't worry about almost killing your bully, I'm going to get your powers back so you can save the world again." I mean, maybe the show goes another way anyhow, but ugh. One other thing. Did the show always make small things extremely loud? Like unlocking a door should not include a massive bass drop, and a microfiche reader should not sound like a passing train. Liked most of what I've seen up to now, though. It's juggling a handful of plotlines and it's working for me. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Jun 6, 2022 06:16
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It was working for me until the padding just hit and the two main plots just draaggggggg
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Jun 6, 2022 06:29
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Upsidads posted:It was working for me until the padding just hit and the two main plots just draaggggggg Maybe it's where I'm at mentally, or maybe I haven't reached the saturation point yet, but letting a noisy fantasy world wash over me for 10 hours isn't the worst thing in the world right now. So let 'er drag for now, I guess 
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Edit: looks like RRR was already mention but holy poo poo it was a blast
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Jun 6, 2022 10:46
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Been steadily moving through Gamorra, which makes the Sopranos look like a frolic through the flowers by comparison. Def worth a watch if you can stomach an unflinching portrayal of mafia culture in the slums of Naples.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Been steadily moving through Gamorra, which makes the Sopranos look like a frolic through the flowers by comparison. Def worth a watch if you can stomach an unflinching portrayal of mafia culture in the slums of Naples. I hated pretty much every character in Sopranos save the kids and that one woman. Who got whacked in her gabagool. I prefer ZeroZeroZero for my Italy fix.
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Jun 6, 2022 18:11
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doctorfrog posted:Just finished ep 3 EP 4 is when it really starts to come together, you're going to wish you waited until that one to write down your reactions.
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Jun 6, 2022 18:22
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Glottis posted:EP 4 is when it really starts to come together, you're going to wish you waited until that one to write down your reactions. Will be happy to eat my words, I like being wrong sometimes.
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Jun 6, 2022 18:32
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Wait, the first 4 episodes of Stranger Things S4 are the ones WITHOUT unnecessary padding? Oof, I am not going to like the rest of this season, then... I think the biggest issue is that they saddled themselves with some boring characters that they have no idea what to do with (Nancy, Jonathan, Mike) so every time they cut from fun times with Dustin and Steve to the whiny charisma-vacuum that is Finn Wolfhard, I immediately tune out. Sure, Hopper is in a Russian prison, but let's spend more time on how Nancy is gonna get that HOT SCOOP for the loving HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER.
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Jun 6, 2022 19:07
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I just don't like the format of jumping to each character for five minutes of story progression per episode. I'd rather they shove all the Russia stuff into one boring episode, all the Eleven stuff in another boring episode, and then have the rest of the show focusing on the interesting Hawkins stuff.
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Jun 6, 2022 19:47
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I hated pretty much every character in Sopranos save the kids and that one woman. Gamorrah is very comparable to ZeroZeroZero, so much so that I almost mentioned it in my post but didn't think many people have seen it. They are both extremely bleak, but I like that about both shows. (I'm also a huge Sopranos fan too, but it's practically a different genre despite the purported subject matter)
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Jun 6, 2022 19:56
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Gamorrah is very comparable to ZeroZeroZero, so much so that I almost mentioned it in my post but didn't think many people have seen it. They are both extremely bleak, but I like that about both shows. Well they are the same showrunner so that’s probably why haha
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Gomorrah is extremely legit, I’ll have to check out ZeroZeroZero
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Gamorrah is very comparable to ZeroZeroZero, so much so that I almost mentioned it in my post but didn't think many people have seen it. They are both extremely bleak, but I like that about both shows. I like the therapist angle but hate every aspect of it. T is such a piece of poo poo, and I understand where he's coming from and I hate it. His arc is tragic and passionate and die in a dumpster. Thankfully the show runner was like yeah he got capped. Thoughts and prayers for the NJPD, biggest gang. Rhode Island mafia 4 lyfe.
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Starks posted:Well they are the same showrunner so that’s probably why haha drat, I was 100% unaware but holy poo poo does that make sense.
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Jun 6, 2022 20:28
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15 minutes in to Pachinko, I love it. Apple TV+ is killing it.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:15 minutes in to Pachinko, I love it. make sure you check out Todd Haynes' excellent Velvet Underground documentary. great interviews and some old demos i've never heard, like the original "Venus in Furs" which sounded like "Are You Going to Scarborough Fair?" lmao
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Bananaquiter posted:I just don't like the format of jumping to each character for five minutes of story progression per episode. I'd rather they shove all the Russia stuff into one boring episode, all the Eleven stuff in another boring episode, and then have the rest of the show focusing on the interesting Hawkins stuff. yeppers
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Jun 7, 2022 03:47
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Whoa, look like the Northman is already on peacock, which I get for free with comcast. The vvitch is one of my favorite movies, so I’d wanna check out what the director does, but is it any good.
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meanolmrcloud posted:Whoa, look like the Northman is already on peacock, which I get for free with comcast. The vvitch is one of my favorite movies, so I’d wanna check out what the director does, but is it any good. Yeah, I saw it in the theater and I liked it. Fun fact, there were a couple of nude scenes where the actors wore thongs, so they cg'd in glimpses of balls. It's sad that it didn't do better at the box office, the director considers it a failure and has said he will have to reconsider his future strategy. But I also never considered him a mainstream director, and he should focus on doing his auteur thing.
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it's the best successor to Gladiator ever made
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Class Warcraft posted:Northman owns. There's a scene where a bunch of sweaty jacked bros scream at each other around a fire getting all amped up to to do berserker poo poo. The movie is Gladiator, just Norse. That's the movie. If that sounds good you'll like it.
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Class Warcraft posted:Northman owns. Counterpoint - there's very little in Northman that Conan the Barbarian didn't do better 40 years ago and it's easily the least interesting of Eggers' movies.
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Memnaelar posted:Counterpoint - there's very little in Northman that Conan the Barbarian didn't do better 40 years ago and it's easily the least interesting of Eggers' movies. Making two similar movies in 40 years in a world where the same superhero film has been released over 20 times in the last decade seems like an asinine criticism lol
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Wolfsheim posted:Making two similar movies in 40 years in a world where the same superhero film has been released over 20 times in the last decade seems like an asinine criticism lol Wolfsheim's a nice band but that response is fairly weak. You're right. Northman has as much right to exist as Iron Man 2 and Thor: The Dark World. You got me.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Gamorrah is very comparable to ZeroZeroZero, so much so that I almost mentioned it in my post but didn't think many people have seen it. They are both extremely bleak, but I like that about both shows. Same author as well. Gamorrah is a bit strange in that it comes from a bit of investigative reporting that is relentlessly bleak (the author didn't see any way for Naples to fix itself) that was made into a lightly fictionalised film, also bleak. Then a gangster series, that you could accuse of glamourizing that which the previous installments have condemned but everyone ends up badly and miserable. Romano Criminale is also good. I bounced off Suburra but might return to it - too many whiny teen actors interrupting an interesting plot about corruption in the Vatican.
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Tried that Interceptor movie that Netflix threw at me and... bleh. The actual action is generally competently done, but in a lot of ways it feels like babbies' first action movie. There are no fewer than three separate dramatic countdowns that are stopped just in the nick of time, and a whole host of dramatic one-liners that just don't land. It tries to go for a feminist theme with the protagonist struggling against the deeply ingrained sexist culture in the armed forces, but that ends up feeling a little limp as in the end the moral seems to boil down to "just buckle down and Do Your Job in spite of everything they throw at you and eventually people will recognize your worth (if and when you literally prevent a genocide)". Oh, it also does the thing where the villain is 100% correct about everything in his motivations, but he also inexplicably wants to do a genocide so the audience can safely disregard what he says.
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I saw I had a Target Circle offer for 4 months of Apple TV+ and redeemed that, but also had a 3 month offer in my iPhone Apple TV app, and redeeming both stacked the duration lmao. I now have 7 months of free Apple TV+. What should I watch first?
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Jun 7, 2022 19:49
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Severance.
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teagone posted:I saw I had a Target Circle offer for 4 months of Apple TV+ and redeemed that, but also had a 3 month offer in my iPhone Apple TV app, and redeeming both stacked the duration lmao. I now have 7 months of free Apple TV+. What should I watch first? Severance
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teagone posted:I saw I had a Target Circle offer for 4 months of Apple TV+ and redeemed that, but also had a 3 month offer in my iPhone Apple TV app, and redeeming both stacked the duration lmao. I now have 7 months of free Apple TV+. What should I watch first? For All Mankind season 3 starts this week
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teagone posted:I saw I had a Target Circle offer for 4 months of Apple TV+ and redeemed that, but also had a 3 month offer in my iPhone Apple TV app, and redeeming both stacked the duration lmao. I now have 7 months of free Apple TV+. What should I watch first? Severance
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Severance owns For All Mankind very much owns, i just finished S2 The Velvet Underground documentary owns
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Prehistoric Planet!
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teagone posted:I saw I had a Target Circle offer for 4 months of Apple TV+ and redeemed that, but also had a 3 month offer in my iPhone Apple TV app, and redeeming both stacked the duration lmao. I now have 7 months of free Apple TV+. What should I watch first? I would hold off on severance. It has a vicious cliffhanger so you'd want to watch it as close as possible to the next season. Watch Pachinko and For All Mankind. Even the dumb CGI dinosaur show is pretty fun.
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