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precision posted:watched Inside Llewyn Davis for the 5th or 6th time and yeah, i'm just gonna officially declare it my favorite Coen Bros movie. man. it is just so drat great 
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Yeah, I have the distinct feeling it'll be the last/latest Coen Brothers movie I truly love for a long while, if not forever. It's fantastic, and their stuff ever since has kinda been either decent (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) or kinda mediocre (Hail, Caesar!, honestly I'm being kind, I thought it was mostly forgettable and stupid)...and Joel Coen's solo Macbeth was pretty fuckin mid imo. Llewyn's definitely up there with my favorite Coen Bros films, hard to say what my absolute favorite is, probably The Hudsucker Proxy. Gotta recommend a real Netflix hidden gem (the term is often pretty loving loose on there lol). Coven of Sisters (2020) also known as "Coven"/"Akelarre". Some may be lower than me on it, but honestly, "film set in 17th century Basque country under the Spanish Inquisition" was enough to sell me and I thought it was executed pretty well. Touches of The Witch, The Crucible, etc.
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Srice posted:HBO Max is culling its animation lineup https://twitter.com/CNschedules/status/1560051134185684992 Welcome to the Streampocalypse where shows just disappear with no warning, they don't even show up on the leaving soon/last chance page!
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precision posted:watched Inside Llewyn Davis for the 5th or 6th time and yeah, i'm just gonna officially declare it my favorite Coen Bros movie. man. it is just so drat great
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Wolfsheim posted:Puh-puh-please Mr Kennedy, I dont wanna go (please dont shoot me into outer space) UH OH
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She Hulk’s writing was a little rough around the edges but it’s easy to overlook because it’s so fun
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Sheesh, HBO Max subscriber was in the middle of watching Infinity Train when WBD decided to remove it to avoid paying residuals https://twitter.com/eddicherrycola/status/1560524255409741827?s=21&t=xwqencsUbMOGB4YlrMffaQ
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Oh poo poo Netflix just dropped an 11th episode of Sandman It’s the cat story 
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Steve Yun posted:Oh poo poo Netflix just dropped an 11th episode of Sandman Oh poo poo that's a great fuckin story Edit - Title says Calliope too, I wonder if it will include the rape rape rape
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Day Shift was alright, a perfectly fine 6/10 movie. But it oddly felt like a bunch of scenes were missing even in a 2 hour long movie. There's mention of various things that don't seem to have any payoff, like a 700 year old vampire that you would think is going to be the secret mastermind behind whatever this oncoming vampire war is but no. And there's an Aztec style temple under a mall in LA? uh why? how is it related to the vampires and the plot other than just being a location for the ending action sequence to take place in? And what exactly is the main antagonist's plan because why do vampires need to buy houses to infiltrate the Valley? can't they just kill the residents and take over, or make them vampires and take over, or find familiars to buy the houses and then move in that way to take over? Oh also there are friendly vampires that don't kill people to survive but for some reason they are still working for the bad guy until they're not? Overall not a bad way to burn an couple of hours, the action parts are pretty good and frantic and there's some jokes that got a laugh out of me, but the script clearly left me with a lot of questions.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Yeah, I have the distinct feeling it'll be the last/latest Coen Brothers movie I truly love for a long while, if not forever. It's fantastic, and their stuff ever since has kinda been either decent (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) or kinda mediocre (Hail, Caesar!, honestly I'm being kind, I thought it was mostly forgettable and stupid)...and Joel Coen's solo Macbeth was pretty fuckin mid imo. Llewyn's definitely up there with my favorite Coen Bros films, hard to say what my absolute favorite is, probably The Hudsucker Proxy. Going to watch both of these. Somehow there’s a coen movie I haven’t seen
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Steve Yun posted:https://twitter.com/eddicherrycola/status/1560524255409741827?s=21&t=xwqencsUbMOGB4YlrMffaQ
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Day Shift was alright, a perfectly fine 6/10 movie. But it oddly felt like a bunch of scenes were missing even in a 2 hour long movie. There's mention of various things that don't seem to have any payoff, like a 700 year old vampire that you would think is going to be the secret mastermind behind whatever this oncoming vampire war is but no. And there's an Aztec style temple under a mall in LA? uh why? how is it related to the vampires and the plot other than just being a location for the ending action sequence to take place in? And what exactly is the main antagonist's plan because why do vampires need to buy houses to infiltrate the Valley? can't they just kill the residents and take over, or make them vampires and take over, or find familiars to buy the houses and then move in that way to take over? Oh also there are friendly vampires that don't kill people to survive but for some reason they are still working for the bad guy until they're not? Day Shift had its moments that did really entertain me. However, a lot of it felt like a goofy stuntperson's reel intermixed with someone's contortionism fetish. I know it's a movie about vampires but if Jaime Foxx fires a shotgun from the hip that kicks back a little it shouldn't send someone backflipping away through a wall, and your last spoiler was the one that I felt really needed more explanation. If you're ok with your supernatural action comedy being whatever the opposite of gritty and grounded is, it's fun enough, and relatively quick. edit: hah I thought that was a joke about a new The Sandman episode. It's basically 2 little 15 minute shorts in one episode, and both were great. (assuming you enjoyed the rest overall) Glottis fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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In Day Shift, the entire thing with the vampire girl doesn't make sense. She is barely a character for most of the movie and then Bud starts talking about how she betrayed him. I think the only reason she wasn't cut completely was because she was critical for the finale.
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Also, She-Hulk is fun. Tatiana Maslany is, as her fans might expect, charismatic and enjoyable. If you like Marvel stuff and also aren't worried about Hulk power levels, even though they are perfectly addressed, you'll enjoy it. If you don't like Marvel stuff or Tatiana, it's not an immediate sell, but might get there.
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Season finale of The Rehearsal was amazing, and they just announced it's been renewed for a season two.
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Season two should be Nathan trying to get renewed, rehearsing the pitch with someone playing the president of HBO Discovery, and end it with the actual meeting and noting "well, I've actually already shot most of it, in fact we wrap today."
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Apparently Amazon Prime has the rom-coms Marry Me and The Lost City now, which were Peacock / Paramount+ exclusives when they first came out. This new world is weird. Also, was pretty surprised that Marry Me is based on a graphic novel since I would have thought someone just wrote the script for J Lo.
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Enos Cabell posted:Season finale of The Rehearsal was amazing, and they just announced it's been renewed for a season two. The finale already???? Nooooooo
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I declare Sandman to be “fine”, which is exactly my feeling about the comic. The height of the season is definitely Hob’s story in the second half of episode 6, which makes sense since that’s one of the best issues of the comic. If anything, it suffers for staying TOO close to the source material, because all my issues with the show regarding unevenness and characterization are issues I already had with the comic.
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smackfu posted:Apparently Amazon Prime has the rom-coms Marry Me and The Lost City now, which were Peacock / Paramount+ exclusives when they first came out. "Graphic novel" is probably being extremely generous. It's by the same author as this: 
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I liked the part in she-hulk where they’re just smashing poo poo in a pissing contest while overall trying to relegate the destruction their rage-fueled power causes. Hulk just casually causing earthquakes that’ll gently caress up any sound based animals in the area. She-Hulk going clap crazy and just shredding any birds or small game animals caught in the wake, Hulk launching a meteor sized boulder and just not giving a poo poo when and where it comes down. Awesome, insightful stuff.
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Glottis posted:Also, She-Hulk is fun. Tatiana Maslany is, as her fans might expect, charismatic and enjoyable. If you like Marvel stuff and also aren't worried about Hulk power levels, even though they are perfectly addressed, you'll enjoy it. She-Hulk has fun moments but it does take the whole Whedon-esque soy banter to another level of cringe.
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mcmagic posted:soy Stop.
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ruddiger posted:I liked the part in she-hulk where they’re just smashing poo poo in a pissing contest while overall trying to relegate the destruction their rage-fueled power causes. Hulk just casually causing earthquakes that’ll gently caress up any sound based animals in the area. She-Hulk going clap crazy and just shredding any birds or small game animals caught in the wake, Hulk launching a meteor sized boulder and just not giving a poo poo when and where it comes down. Have you read a comic book? Collateral damage is pretty much non existent, calm down.
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Baron von Eevl posted:"Graphic novel" is probably being extremely generous. It's by the same author as this: Thanks for remembering Pupkin
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Day Shift was alright, a perfectly fine 6/10 movie. But it oddly felt like a bunch of scenes were missing even in a 2 hour long movie. There's mention of various things that don't seem to have any payoff, like a 700 year old vampire that you would think is going to be the secret mastermind behind whatever this oncoming vampire war is but no. And there's an Aztec style temple under a mall in LA? uh why? how is it related to the vampires and the plot other than just being a location for the ending action sequence to take place in? And what exactly is the main antagonist's plan because why do vampires need to buy houses to infiltrate the Valley? can't they just kill the residents and take over, or make them vampires and take over, or find familiars to buy the houses and then move in that way to take over? Oh also there are friendly vampires that don't kill people to survive but for some reason they are still working for the bad guy until they're not? A lot of good points, but about the (ending location spoiler) Aztec Temple, the villain does tell Peter Stormare that humans used to worship vampires and build them temples of "blood and bone" . I assume it's one of those. As for why they are there? *scene missing* I guess
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mcmagic posted:She-Hulk has fun moments but it does take the whole Whedon-esque soy banter to another level of cringe. Lmao of course you’re the kind of poster to use the word soy unironically
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Guys, don't even attempt to watch She-Hulk if you don't like comic book poo poo. The character is the original 4th wall-breaking wisecracking goof, on top of normal comic book stuff. It's not high art, and it does not hold up to deep analysis of the lore so you're really just setting yourself up for disappointment or posting goofy poo poo likeruddiger posted:I liked the part in she-hulk where they’re just smashing poo poo in a pissing contest while overall trying to relegate the destruction their rage-fueled power causes. Hulk just casually causing earthquakes that’ll gently caress up any sound based animals in the area. She-Hulk going clap crazy and just shredding any birds or small game animals caught in the wake, Hulk launching a meteor sized boulder and just not giving a poo poo when and where it comes down. yeah it's totally unrealistic, what an insight. Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure that gamma radiation can turn someone into a gigantic green muscle monster, which really ruins the whole thing. mcmagic posted:She-Hulk has fun moments but it does take the whole Whedon-esque soy banter to another level of cringe. do you say "soy" or "cringe" out loud, as someone who I assume is in their mid to late 30s? Glottis fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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I think the only people that use "soy" and "cringe" as part of their regular speaking vocabularies are comfortably in their late 30s.
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It’s not that it’s unrealistic violence, it’s the fact that it’s trying to comment on realistic violence through Bruce’s trauma, then saying no, this is actually good and funny because tv violence has no consequence, so go hog wild and throw desks around crowded courtrooms with people, because it is tv, and so we get to enjoy this spectacle with no little or manufactured fallout. Like I said, insightful stuff into the mentality of the MCU.
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If you're gonna go that route you need to address the other hundred or so shows that show gun violence and murders and poo poo. Where's the fallout there? A couple of comic book people fuckin around seems like small potatoes honestly, not sure what you're going for.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Season two should be Nathan trying to get renewed, rehearsing the pitch with someone playing the president of HBO Discovery, and end it with the actual meeting and noting "well, I've actually already shot most of it, in fact we wrap today." I saw it on Twitter, but my vote is for remake of the first season with different people. All of S1 was a rehearsal. Incidentally, the S1 finale is the first thing that really made me hope to god some of this is scripted.
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Field Mousepad posted:If you're gonna go that route you need to address the other hundred or so shows that show gun violence and murders and poo poo. Where's the fallout there? Don't you get it though? The show tells us that rage filled violence causes widespread harm, but then shows other actions that are not rage filled violence, but that could possibly result in violence off camera. I mean, obviously the whole show is hypocritical if it doesn't show the heads of jaguars exploding from the concussive force of Hulk claps. Mourn the butterflies whose wings are blown off by sonic waves, or you're a bad person.
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This is an anti-recommendation, I got tricked into seeing Trees of Peace on Netflix cuz it's got like, nearly a 4 star average on letterboxd. it's your typical mediocre "Hollywood makes inspiring film about some overseas atrocity/genocide" type thing, in this case about the Rwandan genocide. Hacky tourist poo poo, that's even insecure enough to insert a white American character among the four main leads (what this movie about the Tutsi genocide really needs is a white girl named Peyton and her problems with her parents!!). It's hard because obviously the subject matter is inherently emotionally potent, but the execution and quality is mediocre to hack level poo poo. Oprah Book Club tier poo poo. The whole thing just SCREAMS written and directed by an American (who read a wikipedia article one day). It genuinely includes the line, word for word "They say I saved them, but really...they saved me." quote:While working on a story centered around a trade initiative in Rwanda for an online magazine, Brown stumbled upon various tales of survivors during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. During her preparation for an interview, she began to uncover more details about the women who encountered the horrifying experiences. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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How to Build a Sex Room on Netflix is fun enough to watch on date night. It's sort of like Trading Spaces, except you trade with an eccentric interior designer that gives you a sex dungeon at the end. Even if you don't like it, you get a look at the good and bad million dollar houses in Denver and the vile things rich yuppies do to them. e so many potential grow rooms wasted. Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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Just watched Day Shift and thought it was pretty bad. It's trying to be John Wick But With Vampires but has the laziest world building. My favorite dumb things are Jamie Foxx being paranoid about door locks and repeatedly being shown locking the 5 deadbolts on his front door, which is a foot away from a gigantic plate glass window. Or his ex-wife inexplicably replacing floor tiles in one tiny section of the foyer across 2 different scenes 20min apart. I kept waiting for a payoff or joke relating to this that never came. Also the first 60 seconds of the film shows a vampire house having multiple air conditioning compressors to keep the place ice cold, and later you see an aerial shot of a building with dozens of them covering the roof(?) but this is never explained or mentioned again. Why???
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Steve Yun posted:Oh poo poo Netflix just dropped an 11th episode of Sandman They should have put a warning that such secrets would be shared out loud! (technically this is spoilers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7uHUO8k4Dk
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I watched the Pitch Meeting video for Day Shift, as I do with lots of movies I don't ever intend to watch, and it's hilarious seeing those same things shared in the thread. Sometimes Pitch Meeting is nit-picky (though much funnier than Cinema Sins or Honest Movie Trailers, can't stomach those) but in this case it looks like he was dead on about glaring plot holes or inexplicably dropped things in the movie.
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Glottis posted:Guys, don't even attempt to watch She-Hulk if you don't like comic book poo poo. The character is the original 4th wall-breaking wisecracking goof, on top of normal comic book stuff. It's not high art, and it does not hold up to deep analysis of the lore so you're really just setting yourself up for disappointment or posting goofy poo poo like If you have a better way to describe it i'm all ears lol.
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