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Mu Zeta posted:Late to the party but I finally saw Last Of Us. The first half has some really impressive set pieces and the tension building is just great. Totally from the makers of Chernobyl. But then the second half of the episode is completely different and falls down a cliff. What happened. I really have no interest in seeing any more of those zombies. It feels like going from the amazing Walking Dead pilot to the crappy second and third episodes. Well if they continue following the game really closely it's basically like all zombie media as far as who the real monsters are.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I actually just rewatched Blade Runner 2049 last night and he’s fine in it, but I can also name at least a dozen other similar actors off the top of my head who’d have given equivalent or better performances. Leto brings nothing unique to it other than his real world unpleasantness. Oh, what could have been
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Jan 20, 2023 12:59
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Bowie was the first choice for Michael Sheen's role in TRON: Legacy, too, if I remember correctly. Which would have been awesome, as good as Sheen was. ...and now Leto is going to be in Tron 3. So is Leto just finding franchises that wanted Bowie and attaching himself to them? Is that a thing? Probably not.
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thrawn527 posted:...and now Leto is going to be in Tron 3. So is Leto just finding franchises that wanted Bowie and attaching himself to them? Is that a thing? Probably not. Thirty Seconds to Mars... Starman... join the dots 
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I could definitely see him thinking he's taking the baton from Bowie. But while they are both creeps, at least Bowie was a talented and fascinating creep. I've found peace with Leto in BR2049, though. Sure, I'd rather it were anyone else, but it's a very effective casting to get me to loathe the character. Tron 3... idk, we'll see if it makes any interesting choices. I'm just bummed that we could have had a Kosinski film starring Cillian Murphy channeling David Warner and we got this instead.
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We were looking for something short and light to watch last night, so on a whim we watched the first episode of Reboot (the Hulu show, not the Tron ripoff cartoon). It was pretty good! Definitely 30 Rock vibes, especially Rachel Bloom who was very clearly channeling Liz Lemon. It was killing me who the kid actor was and I can't believe I didn't recognize Alex Trimboli from American Vandal. Also, completely did not expect to see Judy Greer's boobs. Something I never expected to see after all those Arrested Development jokes. thrawn527 posted:Bowie was the first choice for Michael Sheen's role in TRON: Legacy, too, if I remember correctly. Which would have been awesome, as good as Sheen was. When I first watched Tron Legacy in the theater, for a moment I actually thought it was Bowie who had been deaged or digitally altered. For Blade Runner, should have just gone the Lynch route and made Wallace a giant kettle. As this is TVIV, if you're a fan of Tron Legacy, the Tron: Uprising animated prequel that came out a year or two after is worth watching, even though its usage of Tron doesn't really line up with the movie. Great voice cast too, and especially liked the choice of having Tricia Helfer as the voice of the Game Grid.
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zoux posted:Well, here's the counter case to Zaslav. I read in another article that the ad-supported tier was 9% of new Netflix subs, which was so low they had to give money back to advertisers for missing their targets so badly.
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I'm excited for my wife to be done with GoT these next few days so I can cancel HBO. Returning to Netflix after 6 months though has been really nice! Sandman was awesome and we are just starting Dark, which we've never watched before. My kid will miss the ghibli stuff...I may just buy them.
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Jan 20, 2023 17:08
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Don’t Netflix have every Ghibli? Is that everywhere but the US? e: drat yeah everywhere except US, Canada, and Japan
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Chairman Capone posted:Reboot (not the Tron ripoff cartoon) I cannot believe you would do Reboot dirty like this
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Escobarbarian posted:Don’t Netflix have every Ghibli? Is that everywhere but the US? America is a cursed country 
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In a plot twist, soon Ghibli will be the only thing left on HBO Max.
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theflyingexecutive posted:I read in another article that the ad-supported tier was 9% of new Netflix subs, which was so low they had to give money back to advertisers for missing their targets so badly. lol that's a really good sign for us. Netflix having a positive cash flow of $3bn in FY 23 while not turning to some FAST bullshit would be a pretty strong rebuttal to Zaslav Thought.
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I'm interested in HBO making more low budget stuff like High Maintenance or Betty or John Wilson. I definitely got way more enjoyment out of those series than HotD or Flight Attendant. Seems like that would appease Zaslav.
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Jan 20, 2023 19:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDOpHuUppU Fun teaser, can't wait for the show to be back.
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Jan 20, 2023 19:28
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Where the gently caress is more Righteous Gemstones.
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thrawn527 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDOpHuUppU Is it an intentional choice to have such a low framerate and the lips not syncing at all
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Read After Burning posted:Where the gently caress is more Righteous Gemstones.
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thrawn527 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDOpHuUppU Did they switch to full 3d animation or something? This looks pretty awful. I'm sure the show will be good anyway, but I had hoped they would step up their animation game, not the opposite.
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That is obviously something they threw together for a promo, did y'all not watch it past the first five seconds? Those aren't upcoming scenes.
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Yeah, like I said, fun teaser, but that's all it is. It's very meta, talking about the show itself, showing the animating of the show. It's not like this is going to be a scene from the show, just something fun to announce the new season.
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It's actually double meta!
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That looks so bad they should not have made it (the fuckin camera shake??????). I sure HOPE the full season won't look like that, but it's not exactly inspiring confidence!
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I cannot believe you would do Reboot dirty like this Because it's really bad OP
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zoux posted:It's actually double meta! That's wonderful.
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Hakkesshu posted:That looks so bad they should not have made it (the fuckin camera shake??????). I sure HOPE the full season won't look like that, but it's not exactly inspiring confidence! They went out of their way to create a promo instead of just putting out a press release dude, the fact that they went to what is insane effort compared to tweeting "Invincible Season 3 coming late 2023" should inspire a lot of confidence. They wrote a 3 min script with jokes for it.
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zoux posted:They went out of their way to create a promo instead of just putting out a press release dude, the fact that they went to what is insane effort compared to tweeting "Invincible Season 3 coming late 2023" should inspire a lot of confidence. They wrote a 3 min script with jokes for it. They literally talk about how much time and effort it takes to make a show like this and people are like "is it gonna look like this short promo that was rushed out to appease fans?"
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I made the horrible mistake of watching the first 5 episodes of Paul T. Goldman this week and now the wait until Sunday for the finale is KILLING ME. Please take a lesson from me, and wait until sunday to binge all of Paul T. Goldman. But definitely do it on Sunday because it's bananas. Anyone know when Peacock shows drop on the service? Is it midnight ET? 3am ET? Something WORSE?
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OldSenileGuy posted:I made the horrible mistake of watching the first 5 episodes of Paul T. Goldman this week and now the wait until Sunday for the finale is KILLING ME. I have no idea when Peacock releases new episodes, but I am in the same boat as you in eagerly waiting for the last episode! Also worth noting that on Thursday, Peacock debuts the first four episodes of Poker Face, the mystery show by Rian Johnson starring Natasha Lyonne.
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I am also very very excited for the last episode. I’ll probably watch it before The Last of Us tbh. The torrent versions have been going up at around 5am ET. So I’m told 
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Between TLOU, Poker Face, and that new Bill Lawrence Apple thing Shrinking, TV is really starting to pick up again.
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For me I currently have Last of Us, Paul T. Goldman, and Servant on our viewing docket, and in the next month or so Poker Face, Hello Tomorrow, Party Down, The Consultant, and The Mandalorian all starting, and then Yellowjackets at the end of March.
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I'd counter that BTG is BETTER with a weekly wait, because it really gave you an opportunity to think one way about him only to have it change, and then change again. It's really a well done show and I absolutely can't wait for Sunday
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Medullah posted:I'd counter that BTG is BETTER with a weekly wait, because it really gave you an opportunity to think one way about him only to have it change, and then change again. It's really a well done show and I absolutely can't wait for Sunday Baul T. Goldman
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Arist posted:Baul T. Goldman Haha wtf I double checked that I hit P, I wonder what BTG is that it auto corrected. But I mean, I can see season 2...Baul isn't out of the question
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Escobarbarian posted:Between TLOU, Poker Face, and that new Bill Lawrence Apple thing Shrinking, TV is really starting to pick up again. Apple is really killing it lately with Shrinking, Hello Tomorrow, and a Eugene Levy travel show all coming out relatively soon. Not sure if any of them will be good, but they've definitely got my attention.
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Better Try Gai(us) E: poo poo, I thought this was the thread with the current battlestar discussion ruddiger fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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ruddiger posted:Better Try Gai(us) It certainly can be, if you want it to be! I remember James Callis said that when he told his friends he was cast as Gaius Baltar, they told him, "Do they know how horribly miscast you've been?" And I get what they mean, given what the original character was. But my god, what an amazing performance he gave on that show. To the point where, whenever he shows up in anything now (which is far too rare), I'm all, "Oh here we go!" He was, like, the one good thing about Picard season 2. And unfortunately in only one episode.
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