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Martman posted:Wtf there's a new Gremlins cartoon. Did I miss discussion of this or was it stealth dropped? Neither - it was one of the marquee new show for Max, and nobody here is talking about Max in that way.
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Sell me on Justified. I don’t know a whole lot about the show. I’ve watched the first episode (which I liked well enough) so I know the basics. I’m trying to decide if I want to keep Hulu around for however long it’ll take me to get through all 70+ episodes of it or if I should rotate to another streaming service.
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If you make it to season 5 you can see Michael Rappaport do one of the worst southern accents in TV history
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david_a posted:Sell me on Justified. I don’t know a whole lot about the show. I’ve watched the first episode (which I liked well enough) so I know the basics. I’m trying to decide if I want to keep Hulu around for however long it’ll take me to get through all 70+ episodes of it or if I should rotate to another streaming service. It's like reverse hillbilly Sopranos, with a not-cop you kinda sorta want to succeed at at least not dying while he does his job of surveying the awful wreckage of a holler. And it's not smarmy and dumb like Ozark got. e: also starts with some Elmore Leonard stuff if you like his style but then goes on a tangent
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Deadite posted:If you make it to season 5 you can see Michael Rappaport do one of the worst southern accents in TV history I went to middle & high school in KY (granted, close to Louisville and not Lexington) and the accents already bother me
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david_a posted:I went to middle & high school in KY (granted, close to Louisville and not Lexington) and the accents already bother me I don’t remember what episode or season, but you get to see a couple of Ale 8 bottles. Not sure if that was around where you grew up, but here in eastern Kentucky we were raised on it. Doesn’t make up for the accents though.
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May 26, 2023 03:24
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david_a posted:Sell me on Justified. I don’t know a whole lot about the show. I’ve watched the first episode (which I liked well enough) so I know the basics. I’m trying to decide if I want to keep Hulu around for however long it’ll take me to get through all 70+ episodes of it or if I should rotate to another streaming service. It's a solid B+ show about a US Marshall who really loves shooting people but he's so cool and clever that his boss and coworkers just treat him like the office rascal.
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david_a posted:I went to middle & high school in KY (granted, close to Louisville and not Lexington) and the accents already bother me I grew up in TN, but my mom moved all over the South. I don't think she speaks a word of any foreign language but she can usually tell you what county in which state an accent is from. Her weird superpower. Justified was one of those shows where she'd call me, living on the other side of the country, to complain about the bad/mixed accents. It is a fun show though!
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Justified is a fun show that really finds its legs in Season Two. The second through to the fourth seasons are straight up excellent, funny noir television with tight and surprising plotting, plenty of really good standalone mysteries plus ongoing poo poo. And the first season has plenty of good episodes too. The fifth and sixth seasons are huge duds when it comes to the ongoing mystery, both way overplotted and far too in love with characters whose use-by dates were long past. I really fell out of love with the show around then, and never finished the series.
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Any show that doesn't find its legs until the second season ain't worth your time yall, rapture won't be long.
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Walton Goggins is on Justified, so you should watch it.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Any show that doesn't find its legs until the second season ain't worth your time yall, rapture won't be long. Season 1 is good. Seasons 2-4 are great. Seasons 5-6 are middling to good (theres some good characters that show up, some good moments, the ending is good imo)
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Walter Goggins is also in The Crow: Salvation, and I recommend yall find salvation before you watch x seasons of justified and find out its "pretty okay"
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I randomly decided to watch Justified when I saw a new season is coming in July. I'm in S2 and it's great
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Why are there two shows about Candy Montgomery?
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Any show that doesn't find its legs until the second season ain't worth your time yall, rapture won't be long. Punkin Spunkin posted:Walter Goggins is also in The Crow: Salvation, and I recommend yall find salvation before you watch x seasons of justified and find out its "pretty okay" I think I'm using that phrase differently to how you use that phrase. But if you read back what I said, I think it's pretty clear that I watched while I was enjoying it, really enjoyed some of it and stopped when I wasn't enjoying it anymore. Is that so unreasonable? Disposable Scud posted:Why are there two shows about Candy Montgomery? True crime is a cash cow, and sometimes things just randomly line up like that because two independent groups both have metrics to think they'll sell. I liked the Hulu version a lot, but I like most of what Nick Antosca does and that's why I checked it out.
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Don’t forget to check out Santa Clarita Diet after Justified, that show is insane in the best way.
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someone give me recommendations for 90s style courtroom thriller dramas that I might not have seen. no true crime unless it has really dramatic legal tension
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A MIRACLE posted:someone give me recommendations for 90s style courtroom thriller dramas that I might not have seen. no true crime unless it has really dramatic legal tension It's 2004 but The Jury? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398498/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%2520jur
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Time to Kill is a seminal one E: A Civil Action is an underrated classic
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A MIRACLE posted:someone give me recommendations for 90s style courtroom thriller dramas that I might not have seen. no true crime unless it has really dramatic legal tension Primal Fear is fantastic. Put Ed Norton on the map.
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Deadite posted:If you make it to season 5 you can see Michael Rappaport do one of the worst southern accents in TV history Not possible, Kevin Spacey in house of cards still exists. Dude sounds like a 1920s plantation owner.
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Yeah Kevin Spacey literally said "I'm gonna be Foghorn Leghorn"
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I recently finished The Dropout, Hulu's show about Elizabeth Holmes. I enjoyed it overall and found most of it really compelling but the end is kind of anticlimactic, almost by necessity- after all the hype and lawyering and posturing she gets taken down not even by the article but by someone writing to an obscure government agency. The main reason to watch is Amanda Seyfried and she is wonderful, but the entire cast is pretty good.
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Disposable Scud posted:Why are there two shows about Candy Montgomery? I didn’t know there was another one. The only reason I’m checking out the HBO one is because it’s based on a true crime book written years ago by Joe Bob Briggs.
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Disposable Scud posted:Why are there two shows about Candy Montgomery? Yeah I was so confused when I saw the HBO trailer. It doesn't even look markedly different from the Hulu one.
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Starship Troopers is on Netflix for those that don't already own the blu-ray. A masterpiece in big budget satire. Unique in that no studio ever approved a movie like it since....and probably never will.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Starship Troopers is on Netflix for those that don't already own the blu-ray. A masterpiece in big budget satire. Unique in that no studio ever approved a movie like it since....and probably never will. I genuinely don't think the studio knew it was satire. I was amazed at how many people didn't get it when it came out.
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All 24 seasons of How It’s Made are on Max now, so that’s my background noise sorted for the foreseeable future
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Deadite posted:All 24 seasons of How It’s Made are on Max now, so that’s my background noise sorted for the foreseeable future Man I love that show. I'm weirdly fascinated by all of those weird rear end one purpose assembly line tools there are.
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1glitch0 posted:I genuinely don't think the studio knew it was satire. I was amazed at how many people didn't get it when it came out. I was only eight at the time.....so I can't speak to it. But considering how many idiots I encounter today.......I can only imagine that this movie was over most people's heads back then. I mean.....we didn't have a successful non-laugh track sitcom at that time.
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I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all
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1glitch0 posted:I genuinely don't think the studio knew it was satire. I was amazed at how many people didn't get it when it came out. I cut a trailer for Starship Troopers through the lens of my 11-year old self when I saw it, i.e., where any satire was completely lost on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-q8J4FFs4Y
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I was like 14 or 15 when it came out and it landed in a really weird spot for me. I was surprised by how corny it was, but also don't think I recognized it as satire either. I mostly just thought it was stupid but the gore and effects were cool. Really weird movie. You have the huge mainstream appeal with the epic giant bug action movie, some of the hottest stars at the time, tons of kid appeal, but also it's an extremely hard R filled with gore and nudity. Then there's whole satire/humor aspect. I do not think that movie would get made at all now, but I am actually surprised it was even made in 97. That was well into the "PG-13 sells best" era. It's like an 80s movie made in 1997.
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I remember the trailer used Blur’s Song 2
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I think I sorta got that it was being not entirely serious, and I’d read the book that summer and got that the movie was taking the piss out of the book’s more… unpleasant elements, but I don’t think I appreciated just how satirical it was.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Starship Troopers is on Netflix for those that don't already own the blu-ray. A masterpiece in big budget satire. Unique in that no studio ever approved a movie like it since....and probably never will. I'm rewatching the recent 4K master of Starship Troopers and it is absolutely phenomenal. Every bit of it (except for a few scenes where the future tech is clearly 90s-inspired -- though, given vaporwave etc, maybe that's not entirely wrong) holds up. The practical effects and modelwork are great, the CGI is well lit enough to not be obviously late 90s CGI, and the way some of the scenes with the no-name actors are filmed just feels like they're intentionally being mediocre. The biggest thing that sticks out as a "wait, this was filmed in the 90s" is Neil Patrick Harris being, like, 20 years old.
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Kazinsal posted:...and the way some of the scenes with the no-name actors are filmed just feels like they're intentionally being mediocre. https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a823951/starship-troopers-paul-verhoeven-donald-trump-20-years-anniversary/ quote:Some Troopers defenders even claim that Verhoeven deliberately chose bad actors to push his satire even further.
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SCheeseman posted:More of a happy accident. Oh, it doesn't surprise me at all that Verhoeven managed to, erm, Verhoeven himself into the perfect cast for Starship Troopers. As far as actual good acting goes, the film is 100% carried by Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, NPH, Seth Gillam, and (to some extent) Jake Busey. The overall feel and post-production of it makes it a classic in my eyes. e: I love Rico's dad's assumption that his 35%-on-the-12th-grade-math-final son is going to go to Harvard just off of bribery alone. Even in the SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP world of Starship Troopers, I'd expect Harvard of all places to have some standards Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 09:17 on May 27, 2023 |
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Deadite posted:All 24 seasons of How It’s Made are on Max now, so that’s my background noise sorted for the foreseeable future this makes me so happy 
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