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If you get a chance you should check out the two pilots to Columbo, although they are not normally included in the season 1-7 collection you see streaming. They are recognizable as Columbo episodes but the character dynamics are wildly different. The murderers are far less arrogant and call Columbo out that they see through his act. Also in the first one he is fairly clean cut and his detective work is pretty unsavory.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Rian Johnson is making a TV series starring Natasha Lyonne as a Columbo-type, called Poker Face, but it's not coming out for a while. I will be watching this. I hope it's good.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/entertainment/westworld-canceled/index.html Well poo poo. They had planned on wrapping everything up with season 5. I imagine this is part of the new regime just gutting everything over at Warner Brothers. I imagine other than Game of Thrones properties, HBO is going to go through another era of canceling all the big budget shows and greenlighting a bunch of low budget shows nobody will watch like they did 15 years ago when they canceled Rome and Carnivale and started pushing stuff like John from Cincinnati and Tell Me You Love Me.
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John From Cincinnati owned. Westworld deserved to be cancelled after season two.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Hot take: "free with ads" is not fuckin free. In Europe viewers earn PTO and are paid a living wage during the ads
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mcmagic posted:I will be watching this. I hope it's good. I honestly think it's a combo that even if it's not great will at least have some gems that make it worthwhile. I can't imagine a total dud.
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I think the mass cancellations are specifically for HBO max programming, I think normal HBO/broadcast stuff isn't actually part of that arrangement.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think the mass cancellations are specifically for HBO max programming, I think normal HBO/broadcast stuff isn't actually part of that arrangement. Westworld was one of the premiere HBO shows, it predated HBO Max
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Yes, which is why its cancellation was not part of the HBO max shenanigans.
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We watched the first episode of Columbo and now I want to be Columbo.
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Westworld season one and two was an entertaining prestige series that won a lot of awards and had good ratings. Westworld season three and four was none of those things, but it was still really expensive. I remember when it first premiered and it was a huge hit and was obviously HBO’s next big thing. But that was six years ago and it’s not that surprising that it was canceled when you look at the major viewership decline and negative reviews combined with the very large budget.
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Roku presents T mobiles ad filled by hobby lobby and cvs free showing of Weird: a Al Yankovik story It like all Funny or Die presentations, with help from Tango, and the Roku Channel it's got the elements we all love like the newest peewee movie but it's missing the soul and fun of it's standard UHF It's a solid C movie Edit:I originally wrote this on the third commercial break now I'm past the halfway point this movie blows, I blame the cowriter/director on this and maybe half the production companies Upsidads fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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I was totally into Weird. It's a pretty funny take on biopics and pretty funny throughout IMO. Although I also watched it ad free because who the gently caress even has Roku TV?
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I did enjoy Weird, but it's definitely more of an extended Funny or Die skit than something on the caliber of Walk Hard. Granted, I'm sure it had 1/20th the budget.
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Weird Al was fun enough, I would definitely rank it below Walk Hard and Popstar but it's got some good laughs Also watching GDT's Cabinet of Curiosities and it's a bit of a mixed bag so far but I love that there are just two straight-up Lovecraft adaptations right in the middle lol
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Glottis posted:I did enjoy Weird, but it's definitely more of an extended Funny or Die skit than something on the caliber of Walk Hard. Granted, I'm sure it had 1/20th the budget. Yea this is fair really. But you can only expect so much from a made for Roku movie. Also I might be biased as I'm a pretty big Weird Al fan... Also as a bonus the 5 of the songs in the movie, Weird Al rerecorded for the movie so the songs are much better quality than the 1980s versions!
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The Modern Leper posted:Yay! An opportunity to cross post this masterpiece Top link, thanks!
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Wolfsheim posted:there are just two straight-up Lovecraft adaptations right in the middle lol That's being generous. There's one story that could be called a loose adaptation, and then the director of Twilight made an episode that somehow got mislabeled as "Dreams In The Witch House."
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Weird was great IMO, not on the level of Walk Hard but pretty drat funny throughout. e: by the time they showed the origins of Eat It I was fully on board e2: so many great cameos at the Dr. Demento pool party too Enos Cabell fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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I didn’t even realize Westworld season 4 had come out. Was it advertised anywhere? Is it worth watching?
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Tiny Timbs posted:I didn’t even realize Westworld season 4 had come out. Was it advertised anywhere? Is it worth watching? If you like the scifi elements of season 3, you'll probably like season 4. I'm just surprised that they ended it as they had definitely set season 5 up as the definite ending. Canceling it, they leave it at humanity is essentially extinct
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Nihonniboku posted:If you like the scifi elements of season 3, you'll probably like season 4. I'm just surprised that they ended it as they had definitely set season 5 up as the definite ending. Canceling it, they leave it at humanity is essentially extinct I do like it when shows have happy endings
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As a big fan of Weird Al, I absolutely loved Weird. Not sure what the mileage is if you're not a fan though Edit: Also Radcliffe really got ripped, dang
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Yeah, I wouldn't call Weird a total laugh riot all the way through, but I still loved it and I was grinning like a lunatic all the way through. It definitely helps being a longtime Weird Al fan, and at least being somewhat familiar with his life and all that. Daniel Radcliffe doesn't really sell you on "being" Weird Al, but he sells you on being a character named "Weird Al" in a cheesy Oscar bait-style biopic. Rainn Wilson was phenomenal as Dr. Demento though, I think he was the highlight of the movie.
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Only part that got a laugh out of me is emo Phillips as Dali
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I laughed at several parts, but yeah I was laughing at that Dali bit and I didn't know why it was so naturally funny, and then when it dawned on me who was playing him it was even funnier.
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The meta joke of the music studio exec cursing out Radcliffe Al while actual Al is sitting next to him was pretty funny
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McCloud posted:The meta joke of the music studio exec cursing out Radcliffe Al while actual Al is sitting next to him was pretty funny Yeah this slew me. The movie ruled. Gonna go watch UHF again now
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holy poo poo HOW DO YOU gently caress UP "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" LIKE THAT HOW like what in the gently caress, Netflix? Are you guys capable of adapting ANYTHING without it being hosed with and destroyed???! I'm livid. It was one of my favorite books growing up, and they butchered it. I don't care how great the production values were, I don't care how amazing the industrialist score was, I don't give a gently caress that they did everything they could to make it authentic -- they trimmed the story to the last week of the war, instead of almost the entire war. They even changed Paul's death. Seriously, what the gently caress is wrong with these people? God damnit, I hate Netflix. And they're the ones doing "The Three Body Problem" series next year. Just god loving damnit.
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Well The Three Body Problem is not a good book so the bar should be low! (I did like some of the ideas behind it but the writing was not great... So I'm still excited for the show).
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BonoMan posted:Well The Three Body Problem is not a good book so the bar should be low! Off topic, but Three Body Problem is easily the worst in the book trilogy. It has too many characters and wastes too much time inside the “game” and cultural revolution stuff. Dark Forest and Deaths End are worlds better.
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Are any of the Netflix original comedies actually funny? Yes, I am watching their new show right now, why do you ask?
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Bojack, Kimmy Schmidt (known quantities) Ms. Dynamite (maybe little watched) American Vandal Season 1 (maybe the best pure comedy they've put out) Grace and Frankie (YMMV, but there are a lot of good actors with a lot of great chemistry)
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Sock The Great posted:Off topic, but Three Body Problem is easily the worst in the book trilogy. It has too many characters and wastes too much time inside the “game” and cultural revolution stuff. Dark Forest and Deaths End are worlds better. Ohh I haven't started those so that's good to hear
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smackfu posted:Are any of the Netflix original comedies actually funny? You mean Blockbuster? I laughed when it showed they have a "White Savior" section with movies like The Blind Side and Freedom Writers.
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The Modern Leper posted:Bojack, Kimmy Schmidt (known quantities) Kimmy Schmidt, their funniest comedy IMO, was an acquisition. They didn't make the first season, they just bought it when NBC dropped it. Same thing's happening with the upcoming third season of Girls5Eva, lmfao.
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Lot of cameos in Weird! I saw Scott Aukerman!!!
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