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There's a video I can't find at the moment of Louis CK(I know I know) where he talks about how the executives completely shut him out of the editing process of Pootie Tang. It's pretty interesting.
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Field Mousepad posted:There's a video I can't find at the moment of Louis CK(I know I know) where he talks about how the executives completely shut him out of the editing process of Pootie Tang. It's pretty interesting. As many times as I've seen the movie (I know I know), I had no idea Louis CK was involved. TIL.
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Feb 8, 2023 16:34
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Strange wilderness was good. I need more Steve zahn in my life
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Feb 8, 2023 16:41
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Nihonniboku posted:Yup! It's the name of the movie, with the rest of the title of the book put in spoiler tags because it's a pretty big spoiler. It stars Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, and Sally Field. The book is a memoir by tv critic Michael Ausiello about his love story with his husband Kit. It's a real tearjerker. I mean the synopsis says that it's based on a true story about a guy with terminal cancer so unless he recovers and lives a long, fulfilling life but then, suprise! it was actually a Harvey Weinstein biopic! I'm not sure the spoiler tags are necessary.
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Feb 8, 2023 16:52
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Jonah Hill was really funny in his early career, in bit parts (Accepted, Grandma's Boy) but got less funny over time. Grandma's Boy is particularly terrible but Hill has some funny lines and he's the funniest character in Accepted. I still use "Hope you got your hobo stab insurance" all the time.
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Feb 8, 2023 17:06
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i put on shrinking. they do the trope where the dad is trying to connect with his kids by making a big breakfast and they just leave with a pop tart harrison ford calls jason segel a dipshit so you have that to look forward to its ok so far i'm just not ready to care about any of these characters and it feels like the show is going to try to make me care
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Feb 8, 2023 17:14
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A MIRACLE posted:Strange wilderness was good. I need more Steve zahn in my life I love this movie so much, it is fuckin hysterical. Super underrated flick.
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Feb 8, 2023 17:20
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Nihonniboku posted:Spoiler Alert, the movie based on the book Spoiler Alert the Hero Dies at the End is on Peacock. It got middling reviews, so even though I read the book and cried ugly while reading it, I had low expectations. But here I am crying. I was so confused, thought you were talking about the book/movie John Dies at the End and couldn't imagine how someone would be moved to tears by that.
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Feb 8, 2023 17:31
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BisterdDave posted:As many times as I've seen the movie (I know I know), I had no idea Louis CK was involved. TIL. Seeing Pootie Tang in the theater was one of my favorite movie going experiences. My coworker Jason and I skipped work to see it, and ate a ton of candy to get a nice sugar rush. We were the only people in the theater except for a mother and her severely autistic, wheelchair-bound son. The kid absolutely loved the movie. He copied most of what Pootie Tang said, and went bananas whenever Pootie would crack his belt. After the movie, we talked to the mom and she said that her son was mostly nonverbal but certain films would get him talking. He was a really sweet kid and his mom let us give him our leftover candy. As we left he screamed "Sa da tay!" The next day at work, Jason found Louis CK's email address somehow and wrote to him in Pootie-speak. They went back and forth several times until Louis got bored and stopped responding.
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reluctantly admitting that shrinking is cute and i'm gonna pause it now cause my wife is gonna want to watch this too
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I watched The Internship because Hulu's blurb recommending it made me laugh out loud: "For Shawn Levy fans" Who even knows who Shawn Levy is enough to be a fan of him? Is the algorithm writing the taglines now too and just completely running on fumes? Anyway it was very bad
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Feb 8, 2023 23:41
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Was that the Google movie?
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I remember that. It was like the unfunniest thing I had ever seen and felt like a weird product placement movie for google Now The Intern was a surprise breakout for me. Loved that movie and I expected to hate it. Watch that instead imo
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Edward Mass posted:Was that the Google movie? It was and every scene is about how useful Google is and how even olds will love it when they learn to adapt to it But for the first 20 minutes before they try to get jobs at Google it's a pretty funny standard Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson thing so you could just watch that and then turn it off and you'll have gotten a couple chuckles A MIRACLE posted:Now The Intern was a surprise breakout for me. Loved that movie and I expected to hate it. Watch that instead imo I've seen this and it does absolutely own
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Wolfsheim posted:It was and every scene is about how useful Google is and how even olds will love it when they learn to adapt to it An interesting historical document about how high tech companies were riding before November 2016.
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I don't feel the need to assess Jonah Hill's relative acting ability. He's just a casual comedic actor and if you don't like him that's fine, just ignore his stuff. It's the streaming era and it's not like you have to skip your weekly cinema experience because it's overly saturated with him or whatever. I find him enjoyable most of the time. I feel like he does well in bit roles in big movies (Wolf of Wall Street, etc... maybe that's the only one). Anyway, speaking of bad taste, Violent Night is on Peacock and pretty much delivers on the premise presented. I think if you read the description and think "sure" you'll find it at least moderately enjoyable. The gag of Santa himself having no clue how any of this poo poo works amused me. edit: Also really enjoyed ep5 of Poker Face and I'm hoping they bring some of the plots together, but who knows. Glottis fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Tampopo is on HBO Max, I just learned. I love this movie and definitely found it on this forum many years ago. First time seeing it in HD. It's sort of an 80s Japanese Western in the context of a ramen restaurant. It's goofy, and it will make you very hungry, but it's approachable to anyone.
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Glottis posted:Tampopo is on HBO Max, I just learned. I love this movie and definitely found it on this forum many years ago. First time seeing it in HD. Tampon is the the absolute best! Glad it's now on a more popular service (I think it's been on Criterion for a bit now) so I can force all my friends to watch it
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thatfuturekid posted:Tampon is the the absolute best! Glad it's now on a more popular service (I think it's been on Criterion for a bit now) so I can force all my friends to watch it
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Wolfsheim posted:It was and every scene is about how useful Google is and how even olds will love it when they learn to adapt to it I forget where I read this but there was an intereview recently where he said it was originally a hard R rating movie and the studio forced him to make it PG-13
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Not lookin' super rosy for D+ - not surprising... their content releases have been pretty anemic. https://gizmodo.com/disney-espn-hulu-layoffs-marvel-bob-iger-1850093319
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i slept on south side on hbo, its good so far
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Glottis posted:Tampopo is on HBO Max, I just learned. I love this movie and definitely found it on this forum many years ago. First time seeing it in HD. It is great. "These noodle lack ... profundity." It and A Taxing Woman are part of this golden era of weird Japanese films. Recommended.
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A MIRACLE posted:i slept on south side on hbo, its good so far It's really good, pretty sure it got renewed for another season too!
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BonoMan posted:Not lookin' super rosy for D+ - not surprising... their content releases have been pretty anemic. I think that was a given. A lot of their subscribers probably took advantage of the really good deal they had if you preordered it, and probably were a lot less likely to renew now that it was a lot more expensive.
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It also got a huge boost during the pandemic when everyone stayed home
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It also launched during a period when people were probably still thinking "hey new streaming services, maybe I should try them out" rather than "there are too many loving streaming services; should I account-share or go back to piracy?"
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Hopefully the shows that I like just make the move to Hulu, since that service seems to be healthy.
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I remember there being some specific content that got a bunch of people to sign up for D+ too, like my mother in law got it before anyone else I knew and watched one thing and I doubt has ever watched it again
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I mean D+ as a proposition is great. It's got the MCU, Pixar, an insane backlog of Disney stuff. It's all there. And they aren't facing unique challenges. But there's not decent schedule of content delivery. You sign up, gorge on on it and then there's like...maybe 1 or 2 decent-ish series a year if that? There's just no incentive to stay on month to month. Even our kids, the prime target, just got bored of watching the same stuff over and over
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BonoMan posted:I mean D+ as a proposition is great. It's got the MCU, Pixar, an insane backlog of Disney stuff. It's all there. And they aren't facing unique challenges. Most people aren’t savvy enough to realize they can cancel and sign up over and over again.
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A MIRACLE posted:i put on shrinking. they do the trope where the dad is trying to connect with his kids by making a big breakfast and they just leave with a pop tart I like Shrinking well enough, but it feels to me like the moment Harrison Ford signed up they completely rewrote all the scripts at the last minute to give him more screen time. All the meetings he has with the girl in the park, the many scenes where he's talking to someone on the phone. It all feels like it was added later or something. It makes everything feel disjointed.
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frogbs posted:I like Shrinking well enough, but it feels to me like the moment Harrison Ford signed up they completely rewrote all the scripts at the last minute to give him more screen time. All the meetings he has with the girl in the park, the many scenes where he's talking to someone on the phone. It all feels like it was added later or something. It makes everything feel disjointed. Apple's current commissioning process requires a star to be attached to any project they commission -- Severance has Ben Stiller, Servant has Shylaman, a lot of other shows have actors like Hiddelson, Tom Holland, Rose Byrne, etc. Even if Ford wasn't attached at the start (unlikely, there are stories about Apple refusing to take a meeting unless there's a name attached to a project already, but maybe they'd take one off the back of Ted Lasso?) they would have expected a role carved out for a name star in the pitch. So there was always the expectation that someone famous would be attached to the project. I reckon they just filmed his poo poo separately to a lot of the rest of the cast because covid.
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I wonder how For All Mankind got the green light. Unless Joel Kinnaman is a bigger star than I realize.
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BonoMan posted:I mean D+ as a proposition is great. It's got the MCU, Pixar, an insane backlog of Disney stuff. It's all there. And they aren't facing unique challenges. Pretty much all of the new series are just Marvel or Star Wars stuff too. Nothing that can stand on its own.
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Hey guys, welcome to part 13 of my video series on why Disney is a doomed company
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Deadite posted:I wonder how For All Mankind got the green light. Unless Joel Kinnaman is a bigger star than I realize. Ronald D. Moore of BSG and Star Trek was the name that got that made.
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Deadite posted:I wonder how For All Mankind got the green light. Unless Joel Kinnaman is a bigger star than I realize. Ron Moore is the star there. Then he left for a development deal elsewhere after Season 2. E: loving beaten
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Rewatching Patriot since someone mentioned it in the last page or 2. Such a unique, phenomenal show.
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