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I actually liked the first season of the OA (people thought the twist was too silly but if anything playing something that silly 100% straight is a real big dick move on Brit Marling's part) but my SO had no interest in S2 so I was content to just pretend it was a one and done miniseries and frankly its stronger for it
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Wolfsheim posted:I actually liked the first season of the OA (people thought the twist was too silly but if anything playing something that silly 100% straight is a real big dick move on Brit Marling's part) but my SO had no interest in S2 so I was content to just pretend it was a one and done miniseries and frankly its stronger for it The tease at the end of the second season setting up the third was insane and I would've loved to have seen it.
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The OA creators claimed to have a 5 season plan too, which is pretty hard to imagine
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stop. don’t make me watch the oa season 2. nooooooo *reaches for apple tv remote*
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Oh man oh man I loving loved The OA. I love the way it played the silly twist -- if the twist you're thinking about is the same one I'm thinking about -- completely straight; it's a great subversive choice and a clever way to end the first season. The second season was great too, though I think it might have been slightly lesser. That cut to the opening credits, during the first season, was so sudden and strange it brought me to actual tears the first time I saw it, I can't explain why, and the second season doesn't have anything near that level. (But very little does tbh.) They've got a new show coming, I think it's been completely filmed and has a killer cast, but it seems to be wrapped up in whatever is going on over at Paramount so who knows when it'll actually air. Papercut posted:You're the sad guy on the dark side of the bus obsessing about the particulars of global capitalism as it relates to art, and the rest of us are happily on the sunny side of the bus enjoying the shows that are good. FWIW, I'm both of these people, and I think it's possible to be both someone who enjoys a show like Andor -- that's me -- and someone who'd like to talk about wider trends in pop culture through a critical lens -- that's also me. I also think that Black Lighter really was trying to engage with good faith and wasn't here to dunk on people or their opinions, but then the situation escalated and that possibility went out the window. But, honestly, I think it's time to drop this and move on. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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Okay, Prime is telling me that there's a third Fletch movie, starring Jon Hamm, and I'm like... well in theory that should be fine, but also, I've never heard of it so it prolly sucks
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precision posted:Okay, Prime is telling me that there's a third Fletch movie, starring Jon Hamm, and I'm like... well in theory that should be fine, but also, I've never heard of it so it prolly sucks It’s actually pretty funny. Hamm is great in it.
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I thought so too and initially engaged in good faith. Regardless of the fact that she hadn't seen the show - or really any Star Wars lately - and was attempting to pass off some film school 101 critique. Star Wars, regardless of the tone of the OG trilogy, has made a decades long impact on the cultural zeitgeist and has expanded its reach across tons of mediums and properties/shows and, therefore, different audiences/tones/etc. I don't even particularly *like* most Star Wars stuff. Literally I find the majority of it not really good. But you can't attempt to reduce it down to a single thesis based on some campiness of the 70s/early 80s movies. That just doesn't hold up under even the lightest of scrutiny. Then.... Black Lighter posted:Enjoy your baby food, I guess? ... this happened. The mask was completely off and it became immediately clear this was some 20-something with a flimsy and infantile sense of film history that was just trying to dress up a "me no like" hot take in some sort of pseudo intellectual discourse. That's not good faith.
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precision posted:Okay, Prime is telling me that there's a third Fletch movie, starring Jon Hamm, and I'm like... well in theory that should be fine, but also, I've never heard of it so it prolly sucks I really enjoyed it. FWIW it's supposed to be more accurate to the book portrayal of him than Chevy was.
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BonoMan posted:The mask was completely off and it became immediately clear this was some 20-something with a flimsy and infantile sense of film history that was just trying to dress up a "me no like" hot take in some sort of pseudo intellectual discourse. “Big-budget IPs like Star Wars and Marvel have taken over everything and there is not as much room for original or more realistic works to get made” and “we should have matured beyond using metaphors to talk about real world things by now” are two wildly different arguments. One is certainly a good faith argument, the other is… well, I guess it could still be good faith, it’s just also extremely stupid. That poster’s whole problem is that when anyone criticized their second argument, they acted like it was actually their first argument being criticized, even though those were two completely different things.
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precision posted:Okay, Prime is telling me that there's a third Fletch movie, starring Jon Hamm, and I'm like... well in theory that should be fine, but also, I've never heard of it so it prolly sucks I've never seen a Fletch movie, and I legit laughed more at that movie than I've laughed at a comedy in a long time.
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I really liked the second season of the OA but I feel like the way the first season ended, the show had a fundamental problem where people who liked the ending of the first season probably wouldn't like the second season and vice versa which probably hurt the number of people who watched the second season a lot
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Nov 10, 2022 02:11
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Google is telling me that Andor Season 2 could drop in 2023 and that better be loving true.
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mcmagic posted:Google is telling me that Andor Season 2 could drop in 2023 and that better be loving true. Gilroy said not to expect it before 2024, so unless they speed up production because of the overwhelming response to this season I can’t see 2023 happening. Today’s episode was just incredible.
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This episode indeed fuckin ruled I love a Empire that makes sense and thus a rebellion that does
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I watched X on prime finally and ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's fine. But absolutely nowhere near as interesting as it thinks it is
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precision posted:I watched X on prime finally and ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The prequel Pearl just came out, with Goth reprising her role as the old woman as a young lady. Far less of a horror movie, more of a drama than anything, but Goth does a good job. Crows Turn Off fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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mcmagic posted:Google is telling me that Andor Season 2 could drop in 2023 and that better be loving true. They're starting filming in November and they're going to film for about 9 months and then have a year of post production. Its not dropping in 2023. Andor is not some baby obi-wan poo poo that films on the volume over the course of 6 weeks. Its an actual production!!
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precision posted:I watched X on prime finally and ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I liked X and appreciated what it was going for with the title and subverting some genre cliches. Didn't realise the 'casting' thing until afterwards, and wasn't really sure what the accident with the cow was supposed to foreshadow/mean. Some blood on a headlight was the only callback.
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snoot posted:I liked X and appreciated what it was going for with the title and subverting some genre cliches. Didn't realise the 'casting' thing until afterwards, and wasn't really sure what the accident with the cow was supposed to foreshadow/mean. Some blood on a headlight was the only callback. I mean, the movie is kinda bookended by that scene and the scene at the end where Maxine runs over Pearl's head and splats it, so I guess that's something? 
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To add to this—which I'd basically agree with in regards to the shows I've seen—if you like espionage thrillers, Slow Horses is pretty good. It's about a group of MI5 agents assigned to "Slough House," a posting for incompetents who have disgraced themselves but aren't quite fireable, who get wrapped up in an actual investigation for the first time in years.
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For All Mankind is great for about two seasons, but after that it sacrifices realism / legitimacy for entertainment.
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Okay so with Andor there’s clearly been a miscommunication because I’m only a couple of episodes in, I’m sure things get much more intense, but like, this ain’t far off from what I recognize as Star Wars either. Sure the first scene has the protagonist straight up executing someone, but there’s still alien varmints pissing on droids and a lot of low key humor with human/alien interactions. It’s not like a deconstruction or anything, it’s just darker and more sedate than usual. Hell it’s more colorful than most of Disney’s Star Wars just through the costume and set design using a lot of reds and greens and yellows. Like it is a change of pace but there’s a sense to which the “this ain’t your daddy’s Star Wars” is overstated. So far my only complaint is the flashbacks have no subtitles- like this is Andor’s past, HE knows what everyone’s saying, so why withhold that from the audience? Can’t be for naturalism’s sake when they have the “floating text to represent someone reading a screen” bit elsewhere. Also not seeing any BR2049 parallels beyond maybe the first couple scenes, like both BR movies are themed around mortality and what it means to be human in a world that devalues humanity, so far this is more about forms of oppression and imperialism both soft and hard.
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Barry Lyndon is on HBO Max. The second half is colossal in scale, filmed in actual palaces and castles. It's wonderful for watching the portraits and furniture and enormous bookshelves float through the background, which is good because it's also terribly boring for the most part.
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I wouldn't say I found it boring, but it is quite long and perhaps drags in some parts. Gave it a rewatch on HBO recently. Now I just gotta get around to watching The Duellists.
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Watched Run Sweetheart Run on prime and quite enjoyed it. Its a horror/suspense in the “woman has to survive the night while being hunted” genre that gets more and more ridiculous as the movie goes on. Fun watch that is on the upper tier of Blumhouse movies imo.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I wouldn't say I found it boring, but it is quite long and perhaps drags in some parts. Gave it a rewatch on HBO recently. Now I just gotta get around to watching The Duellists. It didn’t click for me until the quote at the end, which really hits home that this guy wasted everything he had chasing something that didn’t matter in the end.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33TkQKlIMg drat. Had been hoping this was just going to be hours of expensive space and atomic-level CGI porn. I guess it's mostly about animals.
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Papercut posted:Lol my one complaint about Andor was that it ended on a total cliffhanger, I have only now discovered that the season wasn't over The thing about Andor it feels like it's already had three season finale lmao
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I think mythic quest comes back today, haven't had time to check yet.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay so with Andor there’s clearly been a miscommunication because I’m only a couple of episodes in, I’m sure things get much more intense, but like, this ain’t far off from what I recognize as Star Wars either. Sure the first scene has the protagonist straight up executing someone, but there’s still alien varmints pissing on droids and a lot of low key humor with human/alien interactions. It’s not like a deconstruction or anything, it’s just darker and more sedate than usual. Hell it’s more colorful than most of Disney’s Star Wars just through the costume and set design using a lot of reds and greens and yellows. Once they leave the first planet that is when things really start feeling different.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay so with Andor there’s clearly been a miscommunication because I’m only a couple of episodes in, I’m sure things get much more intense, but like, this ain’t far off from what I recognize as Star Wars either. Sure the first scene has the protagonist straight up executing someone, but there’s still alien varmints pissing on droids and a lot of low key humor with human/alien interactions. It’s not like a deconstruction or anything, it’s just darker and more sedate than usual. Hell it’s more colorful than most of Disney’s Star Wars just through the costume and set design using a lot of reds and greens and yellows. I never felt a BR2049 parallel in theme, just production design and feel. Which admittedly can be a bit vague... but they just both seemed to have a good (sort of grounded) sense in a realistic future with their production design. For me the darker more sedate (and therefore excising the camp and ham-fisted writing) is the appeal to me. That's what makes it "this ain't your daddy's Star Wars." The scale of how impactful that is will vary from person to person of course so you may just come away with a lesser version of that which is fine. In the grand scheme of things it's a subtle shift than something earth shattering, but it makes a lot of difference in how I enjoy the show. Also things will definitely pick up once the bigger picture starts becoming clearer!
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay so with Andor there’s clearly been a miscommunication because I’m only a couple of episodes in, I’m sure things get much more intense, but like, this ain’t far off from what I recognize as Star Wars either. Sure the first scene has the protagonist straight up executing someone, but there’s still alien varmints pissing on droids and a lot of low key humor with human/alien interactions. It’s not like a deconstruction or anything, it’s just darker and more sedate than usual. Hell it’s more colorful than most of Disney’s Star Wars just through the costume and set design using a lot of reds and greens and yellows. The people behind the show weren't setting out to make a show that wasn't Star Wars. It isn't a deconstruction. It's just adding alot more layers to what is already there, making it feel as realistic and weighty as it can get, like alot of the better EU content back in the day.
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Inspector Hound posted:Barry Lyndon is on HBO Max. The second half is colossal in scale, filmed in actual palaces and castles. It's wonderful for watching the portraits and furniture and enormous bookshelves float through the background, which is good because it's also terribly boring for the most part. Barry Lyndon is my favorite Kubrick movie. It might be boring, but only in all the best ways.
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Shageletic posted:The people behind the show weren't setting out to make a show that wasn't Star Wars. It isn't a deconstruction. It's just adding alot more layers to what is already there, making it feel as realistic and weighty as it can get, like alot of the better EU content back in the day. Yea Gilroy and company's goal was to make a show about the person on the street so far removed from the "heroes" of star wars movies. The rebellion and empire has all these people churning in the background of the movies but why are they there what makes them tick. The very very ground level look at all this stuff is what is elevating the show and in how meticulously they've written and planned this out.
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Captain Jesus posted:Barry Lyndon is my favorite Kubrick movie. It might be boring, but only in all the best ways. I really tried to open myself up to the "best Kubrick movie ever" feeling I'd heard about, but it just doesn't top 2001 for me, another insanely slow movie. I was even baked, which should have totally leveled the playing field. I will say I can't really think of anything he should have cut out. e I thought Mom and Dad on Hulu was better than it should have been, so that should probably color my opinion of Barry Lyndon. It's about the frustration of parenthood and the inability of generations to understand each other. Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Nov 11, 2022 |
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Im watching barry lyndon. I made it past intermission already. This movie is basically catch me if you can but if the protagonist was a little shithead. it is exceedingly boring and if i wasnt a boring old person now i would probably hate it
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