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Is Manifest worth watching? I watched the first episode and it seemed dumb but pop corny enough to keep watching.
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Man. I wanted to like this new cooking show on Netflix but it's way too obvious it's produced by frito lay. Like, I guess most people don't care but it's so obvious
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Dec 5, 2022 06:30
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The Big Brunch show on HBO is good at least. It's very upfront about the fact that it was made so that Dan Levy can have multiple delicious brunches a day. But yeah, Dan is funny and all the chefs and judges are just nice people. They all help and support each other, a nice change of pace from other American cooking competitions. The food looks amazing too, don't watch it hungry.
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Dec 5, 2022 07:28
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I hate The Great British Bake Off on Netflix. I hate it so much I've seen every episode. The new holiday ones are great, I mean terrible, because the contestants aren't professional bakers, they're the cast of some other British TV show. Bong Appetit on Hulu is a show about cooking fancy food with cannabis. It mostly made me mad because they don't decarb all the weed right.
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Dec 5, 2022 13:39
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It’s interesting that Netflix puts out the holiday bake-off shows a year after they air in the UK. I guess the UK channel wants to show them on actual Christmas and New Years and Netflix wants them available for the whole season.
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Dec 5, 2022 13:53
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Christmas is in July in the UK because of time zones.
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Dec 5, 2022 14:01
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Medullah posted:Nope, just both based on similar mythologies lol incredible. they look so similar its like an asylum films ripoff. I wonder if Netflix got fooled when they bought it too.
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Dec 5, 2022 14:13
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mcmagic posted:Is Manifest worth watching? I watched the first episode and it seemed dumb but pop corny enough to keep watching. I've watched the first season and it's... okish but bland? It quickly devolves into the main characters trying to solve whatever mystery of the episode that the visions they receive present, with them occasionally gaining more insight into some sort of conspiracy that is willing to go to unethical lengths in order to experiment on them. I didn't feel like it ever managed to give me a good reason to get invested in working out what is going on.
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Dec 5, 2022 14:18
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veni veni veni posted:The last 2 years have been so insane for television I have trouble even picking favorites at this point.
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Inspector Hound posted:I hate The Great British Bake Off on Netflix. I hate it so much I've seen every episode. The new holiday ones are great, I mean terrible, because the contestants aren't professional bakers, they're the cast of some other British TV show. I really want to like that show because I adore Sandi Toksvig and think she's done a wonderful job as a successor to Stephen Fry on QI but I could give a poo poo about baking. Oh what the fresh hell https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a42141131/bake-off-sandi-toksvig-hospital-pneumonia/
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Dec 5, 2022 14:42
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Inspector Hound posted:I hate The Great British Bake Off on Netflix. I hate it so much I've seen every episode. The new holiday ones are great, I mean terrible, because the contestants aren't professional bakers, they're the cast of some other British TV show. Some other British TV show? This year it was the cast of It's A Sin, which also aired on HBO, a devastating look at the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. I'm not really a crier, but I ugly sobbed in two separate episodes. It's fantastic, and deservedly won a ton of awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnR5DxP2e2g
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Dec 5, 2022 15:55
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Nihonniboku posted:Some other British TV show? This year it was the cast of It's A Sin, which also aired on HBO, a devastating look at the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. I'm not really a crier, but I ugly sobbed in two separate episodes. It's fantastic, and deservedly won a ton of awards. Man I cried when Eazy-E found out he didn't just have a bad cold in Straight Outta Compton I don't even like Eazy-E
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Dec 5, 2022 15:59
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Man I cried when Eazy-E found out he didn't just have a bad cold in Straight Outta Compton I thought it was pretty crazy that the Dre approved biopic made E extremely sympathetic and stopped just short of floating text onscreen saying SUGE KILLED E
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Dec 5, 2022 16:12
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I just caught something called Bullet Train on Netflix. And, despite clearly having a lot of money behind it, between the casting and the effects, it's...bad? Like, pretty goddamn bad? Like, "film student who remembers watching a Quentin Tarantino movie ten years ago but not very well" bad? Somebody commiserate and confirm that you also had a lovely time watching this. I must share this suffering.
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Dec 6, 2022 00:42
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Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
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Dec 6, 2022 00:55
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The ending kinda sucked but I was entertained the whole time.
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Netflix has, as a studio, been really interesting because they have no real idea about how to run a Hollywood studio but they've thrown enough money at the problem to mostly get there. Like yes, occasionally they'll just shell out absurd amounts of money to get Scorsese or Bong or two Knives Out sequels and ends up with what is more or less a real movie, but they also throw the same amount at people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing and not guide them, and they have no concept of how to really market a movie so everything has this kinda "oh, that movie's out, huh" vibe and it makes everything feel weirdly cheap.
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Dec 6, 2022 01:29
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I don't wanna be That Guy and bash it too hard, but yeah, hard miss for me. Feels like they worked out the plotting, and then the actual script was just "insert dialogue here" first-draft stuff. I won't rag anyone for digging it--it's flashy enough that there are worse ways to kill time. But I could definitely believe that Netflix is doing a fire-and-forget kinda thing, and with a little more love this wouldn't be relegated to the Netflix and chill category.
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mcmagic posted:Is Manifest worth watching? I watched the first episode and it seemed dumb but pop corny enough to keep watching. I think it’s the latest in a line of shows that don’t do the work to earn the payoffs they’re looking for but it is O.K. as a keep warm function for your brain until bedtime
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Dec 6, 2022 02:48
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I want a website that tells people whether or not a cliffhanger is realized, whether a show ever resolved its storylines, whether it was just a pointless mystery box. A website that tells us which series have an actual ending.
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Dec 6, 2022 03:09
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Bullet Train was from Sony and had a normal theatrical release this summer. That one is not on Netflix.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Bullet Train was from Sony and had a normal theatrical release this summer. That one is not on Netflix.
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Dec 6, 2022 03:35
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Glass Onion was pretty great. Didn't feel like a half baked Netflix movie where no one said anything to the filmmaker. It was as good as the first.
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Dec 6, 2022 04:09
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I had a blast with bullet train but yeah it's very cheesy. Very Tarantino like, much in the same way smoking aces was twelve or whatever years ago.
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Dec 6, 2022 04:14
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Yeah, like I said, sometimes they end up with a real movie. Sometimes they end up with a Glass Onion or Okja or (I'm assuming) GdT's Pinocchio, sometimes you end up with Gray Man or Bird Box or Andy Serkis' Jungle Book, these weird little movies that disappear from the cultural consciousness almost immediately.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Netflix has, as a studio, been really interesting because they have no real idea about how to run a Hollywood studio but they've thrown enough money at the problem to mostly get there. Like yes, occasionally they'll just shell out absurd amounts of money to get Scorsese or Bong or two Knives Out sequels and ends up with what is more or less a real movie, but they also throw the same amount at people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing and not guide them, and they have no concept of how to really market a movie so everything has this kinda "oh, that movie's out, huh" vibe and it makes everything feel weirdly cheap. And they just recently had the first Knives Out sequel in around 600 theaters for one week only, they made $15 million which means they probably woulda made more if they’d given it a proper release instead of just a promotional run.
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punissuer posted:I think it’s the latest in a line of shows that don’t do the work to earn the payoffs they’re looking for but it is O.K. as a keep warm function for your brain until bedtime If there isn't any kind of payoff i'll probably skip the rest lol
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Yeah, if Glass Onion had a full promo campaign and theatrical run it might have at least matched the first movie's box office. Netflix paid a stupid amount of money for it, too. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they did because it was great and everyone deserved that payday, but there's absolutely no way it's going to bring them anything close to that amount of money ever.
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I was all prepared to see Glass Onion a second time with a different group when I learned the limited run had already ended. Just the dumbest possible galaxy brain decisions going on at Netflix. Why are streaming execs so goddamn dumb?
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The instant Netflix and Amazon and everybody else can change the Oscar rules to not require a theatrical release they're never going to release their movies in theaters again.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I was all prepared to see Glass Onion a second time with a different group when I learned the limited run had already ended. Just the dumbest possible galaxy brain decisions going on at Netflix. Depends on where you are I guess. It looks like there are still showings at the local Alamo Drafthouse for me
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bullet train is tons of fun but it's more like a really good game night movie with the boys than an actual movie
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bullet train is 2 hours long!? jesus christ why.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Bullet Train was from Sony and had a normal theatrical release this summer. That one is not on Netflix. Good thing I pay for a VPN or my ISP would be very upset.
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Famethrowa posted:bullet train is 2 hours long!? jesus christ why. It felt much longer.
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:I just caught something called Bullet Train on Netflix. And, despite clearly having a lot of money behind it, between the casting and the effects, it's...bad? Like, pretty goddamn bad? Like, "film student who remembers watching a Quentin Tarantino movie ten years ago but not very well" bad? I'd watch it if it were 90 minutes I guess.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I was all prepared to see Glass Onion a second time with a different group when I learned the limited run had already ended. Just the dumbest possible galaxy brain decisions going on at Netflix. If your job is to make money in an industry that historically loses money hand over fist, it's hard to know what to do!
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I was out of the country for a week. When I got back I invited a friend to go see Glass Onion, only to learn that it was already out of theaters.
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Aren't these limited releases pretty much "we showed them in a theatre, so now it's eligible for Oscar nominations"-things?
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Pingiivi posted:Aren't these limited releases pretty much "we showed them in a theatre, so now it's eligible for Oscar nominations"-things?
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