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Upsidads posted:We get it. one of really didn't like John Wick 4 I liked John Wick 4 quite a bit, I didn't get the impression it was too long. Though it was weird how they ended the movie after an hour and a half or so and started a Warriors remake.
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man, Jury Duty is great, and watching the episodes with cast/director commentary afterwards is almost just as good.
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Jun 14, 2023 14:29
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Glottis posted:man, Jury Duty is great, and watching the episodes with cast/director commentary afterwards is almost just as good. I've tried watching a few episodes and haven't been able to get into it. The guy they got to be at the center of the show is certainly sweet and charming. But if we as the audience are all in on the joke that the rest of the cast are all improvising the whole thing, I'm not sure why we're getting The Office style mockumentary talking heads without the guy in the room at all.
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Jun 14, 2023 14:35
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Yea I watched the first couple episodes and couldn’t figure that out either. It just felt shaky and contrived
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Jun 14, 2023 14:40
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Wolfsheim posted:Both Idol episodes have followed the structure of 'mildly interesting management team drama that goes on a little too long' for the first half and then 'the weeknd and the depp daughter in the shittiest music video you've ever seen that never ends' for the second half
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Jun 14, 2023 15:23
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Glottis posted:man, Jury Duty is great, and watching the episodes with cast/director commentary afterwards is almost just as good. Jury Duty was a bit too straightforward and wholesome for me. The Rehersal still trounces it. I've heard good things about Paul T. Goodman.
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Jun 14, 2023 15:41
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't know why the show is getting so much attention. From the online buzz I assumed everyone but me had marathoned the whole season, then I realized there are only two episodes out. It's just another show. It's a show about a pop singer meeting the vampire from that Key & Peele sketch. I had the same impression. There was so much scolding, think pieces and hot takes ... then I found out that there was only one episode out. Which, of it's as bad as said, might be justified. But it's still a lot of self-excited attention
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Jun 14, 2023 15:54
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I'm almost done with Smartless: On the Road. The first impression, going in blind, was wow these guys are so far up their own rear end. But as you watch more it becomes clear that that's part of the bit, and there's at least a couple *really* funny moments in every episode. It's become a big recommend for me, it was fun.
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Jun 14, 2023 16:12
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I watched it too, there were some funny candid moments but dear god the interviews / celebrity jerkoff sessions were awful. if thats the podcast I'll just stick to comedy bang bang
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Jun 14, 2023 16:16
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A MIRACLE posted:I watched it too, there were some funny candid moments but dear god the interviews / celebrity jerkoff sessions were awful. if thats the podcast I'll just stick to comedy bang bang I almost instantly fast forwarded through the Mark Cuban part lol E: I had never even heard of the podcast before watching the show
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Jury Duty was a bit too straightforward and wholesome for me. The Rehersal still trounces it. I see those all as very different shows, although I see the thread connecting them. Jury Duty: Office-style courtroom hijinks with the added element of logistics and writing challenges keeping up with one person who is not an actor or aware it's a show. Paul T. Goodman: A documentary about a completely insane man without actors, aside from when there is content being produced inside the show. The Rehearsal: The host is the insane person in this one, and generally everyone being filmed is aware of it when it's fake. The Rehearsal is definitely my favorite of the three, but I appreciate Jury Duty for being way more positive in tone. It's the only one of the three where I don't feel like the humor is derived from laughing at someone's expense. The character bits when Ronald isn't even around are just to build the characters that those actors had to live in for ~8 hours a day, which is nuts.
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John Wick 4 was kind of a slog to me. I could definitely feel its runtime, mostly because I felt like the movie wasn't really doing anything interesting or new. Was fine enough to end the series, just not the best imo. John Wick 3 is still my favorite by a country mile, followed by the first one. Didn't really care much for Chapter 2.
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Papercut posted:I'm almost done with Smartless: On the Road. The first impression, going in blind, was wow these guys are so far up their own rear end. But as you watch more it becomes clear that that's part of the bit, and there's at least a couple *really* funny moments in every episode. It's become a big recommend for me, it was fun. Glad you could get to the other side and see the goodness! Bateman in particular plays the rear end in a top hat a bit too well sometimes so if you aren’t familiar with their dynamic it’d be very easy to think ‘what an dick’ when he’s just tap dancing for the camera the only way he knows how. I only finished ep2 I think when they had AOC on and it was fun watching them realize what a dumb mistake that was in real time.
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teagone posted:John Wick 4 was kind of a slog to me. I could definitely feel its runtime, mostly because I felt like the movie wasn't really doing anything interesting or new. Was fine enough to end the series, just not the best imo. John Wick 3 is still my favorite by a country mile, followed by the first one. Didn't really care much for Chapter 2. Lol I think they’re planning to make several more aren’t they?
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Glottis posted:I see those all as very different shows, although I see the thread connecting them. Yeah the "laughing alongside Ronald, not at him" element of Jury Duty sold it for me, as well as the production logistics. It helped that the other actors they had were quite good. The transhumanist guy was great, and Marsden did such a great job as a smarmy, stuck-up version of himself.
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nonathlon posted:I had the same impression. There was so much scolding, think pieces and hot takes ... then I found out that there was only one episode out. Which, of it's as bad as said, might be justified. But it's still a lot of self-excited attention I think most of the buzz is from the... Rolling Stone article, I believe. The original showrunner (a woman) was fired midway through production, and Sam Levinson redid most everything from square one. Allegedly, the original story was also supposed to be more about Jocelyn's sexual awakening (titillating, but a bit more feminist), but The Weekend didn't agree with the emphasis on a  perspective.Critics will often get access to advance episodes, so perhaps some of the discourse is about episodes that have yet to air. If the critics didn't get advance episodes in this case, that probably only adds to the knife sharpening. EDIT: The use of separately filmed content in Jury Duty makes me a little suspicious of the whole endeavor, but I'm enjoying it enough just as a straightforward mockumentary sitcom. Also, Ronald has huge loving Disney eyes, which make all his facial reactions 1.5x funnier. The Modern Leper fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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Jun 14, 2023 20:40
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A MIRACLE posted:Lol I think they’re planning to make several more aren’t they? I think they're spinoffs, not mainline Wick stories. The Ballerina one and then the Continental prequel show or whatever.
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Jun 14, 2023 20:45
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They announced 5 two weeks after 4 was released.
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Jun 14, 2023 20:51
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From (season 1) is on Amazon now so I can finally watch it.
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I’m watching the leftovers which I thought I had seen but I guess I only saw season one. Starting s3 now
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:They announced 5 two weeks after 4 was released. Oh, lol. Nevermind then.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:They announced 5 two weeks after 4 was released. To be fair they didn't say Keanu would be in it..... Though I'm sure he will be.
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quote:All 5 Upcoming John Wick Movies & Spinoffs Explained i'll watch all of these of course
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mcmagic posted:To be fair they didn't say Keanu would be in it..... Though I'm sure he will be. At the red carpet event Keanu and Stahelski said there was an extra post credit scene that was only going to air in one market, but considering nothing has been heard about it since they mightve just been loving with people.
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A MIRACLE posted:I’m watching the leftovers which I thought I had seen but I guess I only saw season one. Starting s3 now I recently finished the series for the first time, and drat what a great ride that was.
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Jun 14, 2023 22:00
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I've been watching The Leftovers because people keep talking about how great it is and it never clicked for me. Just more of Lindelof's mysteries that go nowhere. And the biggest mystery of all is how Christopher Eccleston's accent was still so bad after 3 seasons.
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Deadite posted:I've been watching The Leftovers because people keep talking about how great it is and it never clicked for me. Just more of Lindelof's mysteries that go nowhere. I despise Lindelof as much as anyone for his part in Lost and Prometheus but in the case of The Leftovers, he was very up front that the central question of the show would never be answered. Dealing with that uncertainty is kind of what makes the story work.
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I felt very satisfied with the ending.
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Yeah I'm fine with big mystery not being solved, I knew that it wasn't going to be going in. It's everything else that he introduced that was never brought up again even though in the moment it might as well had a flashing neon sign on it that said "IMPORTANT" I like mystery box shows and I love weird for the sake of weird. Something about the way Lindelof does mystery though really bugs me. It's like he baits you into focusing on things that are hinted at paying off in the future and then he calls you dumb for focusing on those things because they weren't the point.
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Well poo poo if they don’t tell me where everyone went I’m gonna stop watching
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A MIRACLE posted:Well poo poo if they don’t tell me where everyone went I’m gonna stop watching 
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A MIRACLE posted:Well poo poo if they don’t tell me where everyone went I’m gonna stop watching The show actually reveals that part! It’s the most boring thing you can possibly think of but makes sense in a weird rear end way.
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RCarr posted:The Leftovers ending was perfect Kevin’s last minute gaslighting of Nora pissed me off cause i started theorycrafting a bunch of bs that wasn’t necessary 
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I think that The Leftovers would have been much better if it had only focused on Kevin and Nora, since everyone else's story didn't really go anywhere, and in some cases they were just dropped entirely without much warning. Like if someone recut this into a 10 episode miniseries I'd probably like it a lot more.
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Also watched The Leftovers for the first through during the first leg of COVID and it was gut-punching. More impressionistic than a lot of shows, especially later on, and because it's an HBO show they were allowed to maintain a very deliberate pacing. It does feel slow at times but it's low-speed high-torque for a while, and the ending is like a rocket car in the desert. I'm not familiar with the novel at all Also just watched the first two episodes of Silo, and I very much was sucked in by some good performances, and the score reminds me of the leftovers now that I think about it. I forget the name of that popular song from another film, it's used in The Leftovers and in a bunch of other things because it's so effective for really big emotional beats, but it really fit when used in the Leftovers
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:The show actually reveals that part! It’s the most boring thing you can possibly think of but makes sense in a weird rear end way. It does? She's lying.
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BonoMan posted:I felt very satisfied with the ending. It was pretty cool and sad. Not very ambiguous and mysterious at all
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LifeLynx posted:It does? She's lying. This is my understanding as well, that she backed out of using the machine. Any concrete answer to the great mysteries of life is just a comforting lie.
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