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Android Apocalypse posted:I just started Black Adam and it's boring as hell so far. It's not going to get any better. It's real bad.
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If you’ve never seen the F&F movies, watch the first one, then skip to the last one and watch it. You’ll be so confused you’ll have to watch the other ones to figure out wtf happened in between
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Feb 12, 2023 00:52
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The Lord of the Rings trilogy is on Netflix. I forgot how drat good Fellowship is. I should rewatch these movies more often.
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F&F 1: Going after people boosting DVDs with cars. F&F 9: Driving a car into orbit to hack a satellite
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Joey Freshwater posted:If you’ve never seen the F&F movies, watch the first one, then skip to the last one and watch it. You’ll be so confused you’ll have to watch the other ones to figure out wtf happened in between You gotta watch through Tokyo Drift, THEN forget about the series until Hobbs & Shaw, then come back and Be Really Confused As Hell. It worked for me and now I'm back into the big dumb franchise. For a mindless afternoon in an Imax theater, at least.
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Again, the insanity of the Fast & Furious movies becomes so much easier to swallow when you realize that starting around the fourth or fifth movie, Vin Diesel is simply using the franchise to make the most ungodly expensive Dungeons & Dragons campaign in history. I haven't liked any of the movies after 7, but I guess I'll watch this one if / when it hits streaming, presumably on Peacock. I generally like Leterrier as a director, as he has a real flair for good kinetic action.
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Feb 12, 2023 01:05
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3 DONG HORSE posted:The Lord of the Rings trilogy is on Netflix. I forgot how drat good Fellowship is. I should rewatch these movies more often. I watch all 3 extendeds in one day once a year. Usually a rainy day in winter.
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Feb 12, 2023 01:15
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Timby posted:Again, the insanity of the Fast & Furious movies becomes so much easier to swallow when you realize that starting around the fourth or fifth movie, Vin Diesel is simply using the franchise to make the most ungodly expensive Dungeons & Dragons campaign in history. I liked 9 more than 8, but yeah, they aren't the same after Paul Walker's death.
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Feb 12, 2023 01:15
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Skwirl posted:I liked 9 more than 8, but yeah, they aren't the same after Paul Walker's death. Walker brought strong himbo energy to the series, which is lacking now and John Cena can't fill that void (although his hairpiece looks even more ridiculous in this one). They also haven't been the same ever since The Rock decided he, too, was tired of Vin Diesel's bullshit and told him to gently caress off.
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BlindSite posted:I watch all 3 extendeds in one day once a year. Usually a rainy day in winter. Christmas was the family tradition around my house
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Skwirl posted:I liked 9 more than 8, but yeah, they aren't the same after Paul Walker's death. I think that is why 7 was the most fun to watch for the first time. He died before it came out but after filming most of his scenes. So anytime he was in a fight or it was looking bad, I was like "oh, this is how he dies in the franchise!"
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swickles posted:I think that is why 7 was the most fun to watch for the first time. He died before it came out but after filming most of his scenes. So anytime he was in a fight or it was looking bad, I was like "oh, this is how he dies in the franchise!" Somebody listens to Howdidthisgetmade and it’s u
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Timby posted:They also haven't been the same ever since The Rock decided he, too, was tired of Vin Diesel's bullshit and told him to gently caress off. Yeah, but Hobbes and Shaw wasn't that great either.
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Helen Mirren just having so much fun in her scenes is awesome though.
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, but Hobbes and Shaw wasn't that great either. Oh, I thought Hobbs & Shaw was boring as hell, but that was largely due to the script sucking poo poo. David Leitch is also not a particularly talented director, since his other movies have been mediocre at best.
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Timby posted:It's not going to get any better. It's real bad. Good lord you are correct. How can The Rock be such a charismatic black hole in this?!? I remember listening to Ringer's The Big Picture podcast and the big complaint is Black Adam starts powerful and in essence doesn't have any real adversity to deal with. It's seems pretty accurate.  Honestly I'm just watching this as I smoke these eggplant "bacon." The pork belly will go on later.
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I do wonder what the franchise would look like today if they'd gone with the original casting and we had Tommy Lee Jones instead of The Rock in Fast Five.
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Skwirl posted:I do wonder what the franchise would look like today if they'd gone with the original casting and we had Tommy Lee Jones instead of The Rock in Fast Five. This just took me back to the mid-'90s, when Hollywood decided that Jones could be an action star after he rocked the house in The Fugitive in 1993. Volcano, lol.
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I liked Volcano! I think U.S. Marshals is what put the kibosh on Tommy Lee Jones as an action star. Somehow I missed Dante's Peak. Funny too considering Black Adam has Pierce Brosnan too.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I liked Volcano! Volcano is hokey fun (the dude jumping from the subway car and melting in the lava will never not be hilarious) but it's still bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R01bex9Ejvg
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Ether Frenzy posted:...in Caligula I rented this college with some friends because we'd heard that it was one of the worst movies ever thanks to mid 00's internet. All of us ended up coming out of it feeling underwhelmed with it's awfulness. Even the pornographic parts were pretty tame in our opinion. As for alcohol, my dad was a really bad alcoholic until he got clean about 10 years ago. I remember him having awful shakes and he got at least one DUI with me in the car when I was 2 or 3. After he had his forest accident and lost most of his toes and part of his feet to frostbite his drinking escalated because he couldn't work and had nothing better to do than play Doom II and Sim City on my Super Nintendo. He did detox right before I went to 6th grade becuase all his follow up doctors for his feet told him he needed it since it wasn't making anything better and it probably contributed to him losing an extra toe or two, so he was sober for probably a year after that. Then he relapsed pretty badly and I ended up driving him, my little brother and cousin back to my grandma's house when I was 12 becuase he was too drunk to drive after taking us to Seafair. Thankfully we lived close enough that I was able to it but it definitely gave me issues with driving (on top of my PTSD from getting hit by a car 2 years earlier, just before dad's misguided forest adventure). He also passed out in the tiny lawn strip in front of the house after dropping me off from a weekend visit once. He got to the point where he'd get DTs if he didn't start his day with a beer and he lost a marriage and job over his drinking (and his crack or meth habit, I can't remember which one). It took an ITA to get him sober and now he has no excuse for being an rear end in a top hat anymore.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I liked Volcano! I think U.S. Marshals is what put the kibosh on Tommy Lee Jones as an action star. Dante's Peak ruled and it gave me both an appreciation for Pierce Brosnan and got me in to a volcanology phase as a pre-teen that culiminated in my adult family members telling me to stop asking them questions about where they were when Mt St Helen's erupted because they already told me the story a million times before.
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If you haven't at least once wanted Mt Rainier to wipe a lovely small town off the map, are you really from here?
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Holy poo poo Pedro pascal CRUSHED SNL. I finally caught up and cant stop laughing at several skits
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Amy Pole Her posted:Holy poo poo Pedro pascal CRUSHED SNL. I finally caught up and cant stop laughing at several skits That well done steak bit was so stupid yet so hilarious. I was telling SB that I wrote that same skit in 7th grade English class. We had to do a comedy skit with a partner and ours was called The Bumbling Waitress and it was almost exactly the same premise. I loved it.
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Amy Pole Her posted:Holy poo poo Pedro pascal CRUSHED SNL. I finally caught up and cant stop laughing at several skits I can't wait for them to run Lisa from Temecula into the ground as a recurring character. Although it was amazing how even the background extras completely corpsed when Ego Nwodim said, "'cuz I'm Black?"
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Braksgirl posted:That well done steak bit was so stupid yet so hilarious. I was telling SB that I wrote that same skit in 7th grade English class. We had to do a comedy skit with a partner and ours was called The Bumbling Waitress and it was almost exactly the same premise. I loved it. Him laughing enough to broke even Yang, waiters bullying the one girl, and the Spanish mom were so drat funny. The Spanish mom. All so funny because of his comedic chops. I absolutely love Pedro pascal. Hell even that last cold play song was actually pretty catchy. Great great episode of SNL
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Amy Pole Her posted:Him laughing enough to broke even Yang, waiters bullying the one girl, and the Spanish mom were so drat funny. The Spanish mom. All so funny because of his comedic chops. I absolutely love Pedro pascal. Yeah, it truly was one of the best episodes of the last few years. And God help me, I want a Mario Kart adaptation with Pedro Pascal badly.
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I wonder how often SNL gets a guest the writers struggle to do anything with and how they deal with that in a week, like an athlete who isn't the best at acting.
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SNL tends to live and die by the host. If they throw themselves into the deep end and let the writers get really weird with it then it’ll probably be a good episode. Of course it helps if they’re actually funny too. Also I don’t care what anyone says, Parachutes through X&Y was legitimately good alt-rock/britpop and I enjoyed seeing Coldplay play a song from one of those instead of their new stuff
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Freaquency posted:SNL tends to live and die by the host. If they throw themselves into the deep end and let the writers get really weird with it then it’ll probably be a good episode. Of course it helps if they’re actually funny too. It depends, really. Heck, they had Steve Martin and Martin Short last December, and while they're comic geniuses, the episode itself was pretty dire. John Mulaney's most recent appearance was pretty bad, too. Conversely, Pascal isn't known as a comedic actor, but he was great in this episode, and Scarlett Johansson is almost always gold. Ultimately, it depends on the vibe and the inspiration that the current writing staff has. There was a great documentary on Netflix aaaaages ago that showed the evolution of an episode that John Malkovich was hosting and it really displayed how chaotic the making of an SNL episode is. The host flies into New York in time for a Monday morning meeting where everyone pitches sketch concepts. Tuesday is the writing day. Wednesday is the table read and when sketch selection is made. Thursday is rewriting and makeup tests and set construction. Friday, they record the pre-taped bits and rehearse the live bits. Saturday, they do a two-hour live dress rehearsal (that's taped) in front of an audience to determine which sketches should be cut, and then 90 minutes later the show goes live. Timby fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Feb 12, 2023 |
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bobjr posted:I wonder how often SNL gets a guest the writers struggle to do anything with and how they deal with that in a week, like an athlete who isn't the best at acting. It tends to come up a couple of times a season. The Elon Musk episode for example was a black hole of comedy because he can only be funny unintentionally. Looking at the last couple of seasons a few rough ones stand out: Elon obviously, then Jack Harlow was awful. Kim Kardashian’s was pretty bad too, though I think I remember at least one decently funny sketch there. JJ Watt was on for the first COVID season and while I think he was pretty game for going weird he just isn’t a very good actor.
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Timby posted:It depends, really. Heck, they had Steve Martin and Martin Short last December, and while they're comic geniuses, the episode itself was pretty dire. John Mulaney's most recent appearance was pretty bad, too. There are times where I think the writing staff says something like “It’s Martin Short and Steve Martin! They can make anything funny” and just phone it in. There’s a sweet spot of a) good actor b) funny but maybe not known for it and c) going whole hog because it’s SNL, might as well have fun. Pascal is a dramatic actor but if you see some of his social media stuff or interviews you can tell that he’s pretty naturally funny.
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Writers always have a few sketches in their pocket that they can go to as filler and aren't dependent on the host. A lot of the various game show ones are a good example of those (although a lot like Black Jeopardy are tailored to the guest). I thought KK was pretty good actually and she had no problem making GBS threads on Kanye and making fun of herself.
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Ether Frenzy posted:...in Caligula There’s an interview where she was asked directly about this role and she just blew off the interviewer by saying “well it paid for my house.”
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Holy poo poo I really enjoyed The Menu. Making fun of foodies was pretty great, and there was a bit of collar tugging with the whole Tyler character.
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