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Wolfsheim posted:Its kind of bad? It has excellent casting and a clearly huge budget and it just doesn't work, though part of it I think is just how hard it leans into kind of a 90s music video aesthetic for all the action scenes and how wry half-winking Neil Gaiman dialogue works on a page but falls flat in live-action. I think its most effective in the mostly-disconnected vignettes, but it never feels cohesive, even if all the actors are doing a good job.
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I watched the entire Jack Ryan series over the last two weeks and he sure goes from an analyst arguing with bureaucrats in meetings to relentless murder machine quick. Over like 11 episodes it becomes a very different show.
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American Gods season 1 I found generally alright, just on the back of very strong and entertaining performances and a cool visual style. But season two already dropped fairly sharply, losing both key actors and switching to a much more boring aesthetic. From what I hear season 3 lost even more of the remaining good actors, so I never even tried it. Good Omens I actually enjoyed a fair bit. But yeah, it goes in hard for a very particular tone, and if you're not feeling that tone I'd expect it to just not work at all.
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Feb 6, 2023 10:19
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Deadite posted:I watched the entire Jack Ryan series over the last two weeks and he sure goes from an analyst arguing with bureaucrats in meetings to relentless murder machine quick. Over like 11 episodes it becomes a very different show. first half was better than the action in the last
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Feb 6, 2023 11:50
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Wolfsheim posted:I had to burn a 7-day STARZ subscription to watch X-Men Origins Wolverine for free (don't ask) so I did it on the Roku Channel then decided to give the first season of American Gods a shot since I remember liking the book twenty years ago and will probably never watch it otherwise. If it's any consolation, season one looks like a miracle in comparison to the rest of the show. It tanked without Fuller, on-screen and off-
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Wolfsheim posted:American Gods I only watched the first season; I thought it was alright at best and behind the scenes drama and losing the show runner after that made me think it wasn't going to get better so I didn't bother art that. Anyway I liked some of the poo poo they changed for it like having thousands of Jesuses (Jesi?), and although Orlando Jones was definitely not how I imagined Mr Nancy he kind of stole the show. The episode that opened with him in the bowels of a slave ship inciting mutiny was amazing.
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Chris James 2 posted:If it's any consolation, season one looks like a miracle in comparison to the rest of the show. It tanked without Fuller, on-screen and off- What is it with Brian Fuller where he quits or is fired from pretty much every project he's ever involved on?
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Is the Super Bowl on any of the streaming services? Ten seconds of research makes it seems like it’s only on the cable-like services.
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smackfu posted:Is the Super Bowl on any of the streaming services? Are you in the US? It should be on free TV no matter where you are. It's probably going to be free streamed on the FOX website even if you don't have a cable sub too.
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Nihonniboku posted:What is it with Brian Fuller where he quits or is fired from pretty much every project he's ever involved on? He goes comically over-budget, never listens to any studio input, and will just over turn the table and quit if anyone tries to make changes to his artistic vision. The stuff he makes frequently looks good, but it's arguable that his attitude is a detriment to his wider work since he never freaking finishes anything because he is so inflexible.
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Anonymous Zebra posted:He goes comically over-budget, never listens to any studio input, and will just over turn the table and quit if anyone tries to make changes to his artistic vision. The stuff he makes frequently looks good, but it's arguable that his attitude is a detriment to his wider work since he never freaking finishes anything because he is so inflexible. Pretty much this, yeah When it's perfect (Hannibal), it still gets cancelled early because we're not allowed nice things for long. Still worked out because the ending we got, I'd argue, ruled a lot, but drat if I wouldn't still love to see what one or two more years of it looked like, because I don't doubt it still would be great
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Um'm halff a bottle of ZUBROWKSI the VOKDA OF MY PARENTS PEEOPLES jesus tis tchrist is this so gross and eevnen warhheads / lsour key canada (the iibgtit ones from costcotco) chasters cant ge et rid of this poo poo wheat pissa poland calls vokdaf  oh yea,. time for PLANE, review posibnly 2 folow
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Just be sure to drink some water too.
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butt Im a POW befacause i Carshed my plane ontoo an THE BEACH x 50 billigunsss more fiiireeee powerrrrrrrrrrr
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Hirez posted:butt Im a POW befacause i Carshed my plane ontoo an THE BEACH x 50 billigunsss more fiiireeee powerrrrrrrrrrr gos i hate gertarad BUTTlerr (lol!)) but man I eneven watched LASTS SEEN ALIVE the worst covid movieie ever. Guy has worst agent in hollywoodod
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loook at this poo poo other than geoostorm which i loving love lol, its all jutst poo poo so far PLANE isnnt ending that streakk but I may be surprised
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I saw this sketch on SNL and it made me think of this thread and the state of movies in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2G9QePGoI
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I saw this sketch on SNL and it made me think of this thread and the state of movies in general. Hah I was just about to post this. SNL is mega unfunny these days but I laughed at this one, so goddam true.
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I meanntt to post this in Action MOvie s thread because Scott Adkinns is the best f iii u ignore his olast like 5 movies and watch onlo Savage Doog, AVgeenement, Boyka's 1-4, and those Sodlier ones. anywaysa watchg all those. and Sezied . it rulz (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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drunk posting stopped being cool when I was 14 but hey live your dream man
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Three years late to the party, but I'm 3-4 episodes into Lovecraft Country and this is a very weird show that rapidly veers between being an extremely cheesy after school special to extremely cheesy horror. There's not a lot of time for reflection in these shows as that would slow things down too much from a show that's already about peaks and valleys, so characters just don't seem like they're coping with the things they're experiencing and not every plot point makes sense. Even the instigating plot is a bit confusing and just serves to set up obvious situations and setpieces. You don't really have to go to the county where black people keep disappearing from "bear attacks" and the sheriff is a well-known turboracist in 1955, even for the green book. And that's before you figure out what the bears actually are. Luckily everything is a setup to get to horror movie money shots, and every episode feels almost like a complete movie in that regard. And you don't really hate to see Jim Crow racists run afoul of cosmic horror. The CG is not very good but "good for TV." There's some exterior shots of a CG mansion that are just bad, for example.
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Name Change posted:Three years late to the party, but I'm 3-4 episodes into Lovecraft Country and this is a very weird show that rapidly veers between being an extremely cheesy after school special to extremely cheesy horror. There's not a lot of time for reflection in these shows as that would slow things down too much from a show that's already about peaks and valleys, so characters just don't seem like they're coping with the things they're experiencing and not every plot point makes sense. I thought the first episode was phenomenal, and I was really excited to see where it went from there. Unfortunately, the rest of the show was pretty much utter poo poo, going more for a monster of the week type show, instead of really driving forward the overall narrative much at all. I spoke with a friend who read the book the show is based on, and he said that the book was really much more a collection of stories with separate characters, whereas the show tried to place the same central characters into every single story. He explained that storylines were divvied up and giving to various characters, which resulted in a big old mess.
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Nihonniboku posted:I thought the first episode was phenomenal, and I was really excited to see where it went from there. Unfortunately, the rest of the show was pretty much utter poo poo, going more for a monster of the week type show, instead of really driving forward the overall narrative much at all. I spoke with a friend who read the book the show is based on, and he said that the book was really much more a collection of stories with separate characters, whereas the show tried to place the same central characters into every single story. He explained that storylines were divvied up and giving to various characters, which resulted in a big old mess. This is extremely noticeable in the "We bought a house in a racist neighborhood, hijinks ensue" episode that feels like a series reset.
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Shrinking, on Apple+, is freaking hilarious so far. Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and Jessica Williams are all fantastic, and then they are surrounded by sitcom MVPs like Christa Miller, Wendie Malick and Ted McGinley (who has the best one liners in the show). I wasn't familiar with Luke Tennie, Michael Urie or Lukita Maxwell going in, but they have all put in really strong performances too. Not a weak link to be found.
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I'm going to have to subscribe to a month or two of AppleTV at some point. Probably after Severance season 2 assuming it gets reviewed well. There's just too much good stuff on there now.
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I think I found that You People is nowhere near raunchy enough to get away with how offensive it is.
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yeah I made it more than halfway but couldn't bring myself to finish it. also saw this lol https://screenrant.com/you-people-movie-jonah-hill-lauren-london-kiss-cgi/
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Enos Cabell posted:Shrinking, on Apple+, is freaking hilarious so far. Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and Jessica Williams are all fantastic, and then they are surrounded by sitcom MVPs like Christa Miller, Wendie Malick and Ted McGinley (who has the best one liners in the show). I wasn't familiar with Luke Tennie, Michael Urie or Lukita Maxwell going in, but they have all put in really strong performances too. Not a weak link to be found. I'm looking forward to checking it out. Bill Lawrence is the showrunner (Christa Miller's involvement usually is a dead giveaway), and he has a pretty good track record in my book.
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Bayham Badger posted:I'm looking forward to checking it out. Bill Lawrence is the showrunner (Christa Miller's involvement usually is a dead giveaway), and he has a pretty good track record in my book. Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far. And Christa Miller is always a joy to see. She's a bigger draw than Harrison Ford in this show to be honest.
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In Lovecraft Country I really liked the episode with the witch lady that would transform her gender and how she taught the black lady to turn white but everything else was forgettable.
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A MIRACLE posted:yeah I made it more than halfway but couldn't bring myself to finish it. wtf lol
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Nihonniboku posted:I thought the first episode was phenomenal, and I was really excited to see where it went from there. Unfortunately, the rest of the show was pretty much utter poo poo, going more for a monster of the week type show, instead of really driving forward the overall narrative much at all. I spoke with a friend who read the book the show is based on, and he said that the book was really much more a collection of stories with separate characters, whereas the show tried to place the same central characters into every single story. He explained that storylines were divvied up and giving to various characters, which resulted in a big old mess. Same, the first episode is legit great and it really seems like it's the start of this season long arc of him uncovering and joining this secret society and the kind of racial clash at play but then they immediately burn down the secret society in the second episode and then the rest is just random monsters happening at them for no reason Maybe the swiftest jump from 'this is amazing' to 'what the gently caress are they doing' that I've ever seen in a show
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I saw they had the vinyl for the new kid cudi thing on netflix at my local record store this past weekend so of course I bought it lol
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A MIRACLE posted:yeah I made it more than halfway but couldn't bring myself to finish it. If this isn't just some wacko COVID thing I'm gonna die
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Deadite posted:I watched the entire Jack Ryan series over the last two weeks and he sure goes from an analyst arguing with bureaucrats in meetings to relentless murder machine quick. Over like 11 episodes it becomes a very different show. The escalation of the Jack Ryan books is also really something
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sorry for my drunk posts and feel ashamed  I never drink but I was just so excited for Plane... I ended up watching about 5mins before passing out. god bless.
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What is the worst Steven Seagal movie on streaming to laugh at?
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