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I gave it an honest shot, but I Think You Should Leave is mostly filler poo poo that wouldn't even work on something more esoteric like The State or Kids in the Hall. Drivin' Crooner is good and so is Coffin Flop, but everything else is mostly, "Yes, that is funny one time and never again" and "gently caress, lemme just see the Drivin' Crooner again."
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Technowrite posted:I gave it an honest shot, but I Think You Should Leave is mostly filler poo poo that wouldn't even work on something more esoteric like The State or Kids in the Hall. ITYSL pulls off something i didnt really think was possible with media. the show is not at its best while you're watching it, it's best when you're having or overhearing a regular every day conversation and the show just pops into your brain bc some sketch has a topic that's either overlapping or adjacent to what you're hearing IRL. it is the embodiment of living in your head rent free. it's so much funnier to quote it either with people who have no idea wtf you're talking about, but even better with someone else who does know. big fat load of cum then
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Jan 3, 2024 21:59
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There are a lot of sketches which don't land, but some of them make me giggle more than anything since I've been a stoned af teenager.
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Jan 3, 2024 22:02
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A lot of the sketches are just him being a jerk and loud. But some really hit.
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Very late to the thread but I love the thread title starting off with "What Show" and then immediately going "(or I guess anything anyone has ever created)". Among the Breaking Bad haters and Melba contrarians we can expect Salieri's ghost to pop in and be like oh sweet, finally a place that will accept my hot takes.
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Jan 3, 2024 22:12
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I also feel the same way about Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job. Tom Goes to the Mayor is loving horrible, though.
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All of Queen's most well known hits, aside from Don't Stop Me Now, have been so run into the ground that I'm sick of them. Especially Bohemian Rhapsody, one of their most original songs but I'm just so tired of hearing it.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:All of Queen's most well known hits, aside from Don't Stop Me Now, have been so run into the ground that I'm sick of them. Especially Bohemian Rhapsody, one of their most original songs but I'm just so tired of hearing it. I somehow avoided Don't Stop Me Now for most of my life so thankfully it's still pretty fresh and would take a lot to run it into the ground for me.
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Lobok posted:I somehow avoided Don't Stop Me Now for most of my life so thankfully it's still pretty fresh and would take a lot to run it into the ground for me. How about a Google Doodle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0gIFxYhrk
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:All of Queen's most well known hits, aside from Don't Stop Me Now, have been so run into the ground that I'm sick of them. Especially Bohemian Rhapsody, one of their most original songs but I'm just so tired of hearing it. I recently listened to Deep Cuts, a Queen compilation that is the band's personal favorites without any of the hits. Now my favourite Queen song is Ogre Battle. It's nice to listen to a big band without having to fast forward the overplayed hits. Very freshing.
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steinrokkan posted:The Alan partridge movie was alright Agreed. Big fan of IAP and KMKY here, but I don't think the modern Partridge stuff is any good at all. It might raise a smile and a smirk but it's sad to see it's not a patch on the old stuff. One might even say moribund
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Not to mention Colaiuta, Bozzio, Vai, Ponty, etc. Say what you will about his personality, Zappa's music is beyond reproach and I won't hear otherwise. I think I suffered from reading fatigue about Zappa: you read all this stuff about him and dry dissecrions of his music for too long and you go "yeah he sucks". But recently I put on We're Only In It For The Money and thought "yeah that's pretty drat impressive".
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Chrpno posted:Agreed. Big fan of IAP and KMKY here, but I don't think the modern Partridge stuff is any good at all. It might raise a smile and a smirk but it's sad to see it's not a patch on the old stuff. One might even say moribund
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Elissimpark posted:I recently listened to Deep Cuts, a Queen compilation that is the band's personal favorites without any of the hits. Now my favourite Queen song is Ogre Battle. Queen II is their best album, kind of heavy proggy. Queen was never about anything other than money and once they got it - around A Night at the Opera - they quit being creative. News of the World is the first album where it really shows. The band's fights were over who got the extra money on singles releases. The reason they began crediting the band as songwriters in the mid-1980s because nobody would shut up about the money and it nearly broke them up. Hot Space is the last album that feels like anyone had any actual passion. It was not popular - I kinda like it - and they went back to the soulless well for The Works. Had Mercury not gotten HIV and kept living through the 1990s, I have no doubt he'd be full of bad opinions and cringe behavior.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Had Mercury not gotten HIV and kept living through the 1990s, I have no doubt he'd be full of bad opinions and cringe behavior. jeez man you're hating on the guy without even giving him a chance to have become a british media boomer
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anyone here into ted lasso? so many people i know claim it's a great show and i see so much about it in media it makes me sick. i think the main actor is not funny in anything he's in, and a show everyone claims is surprisingly/refreshingly wholesome is bound to be boring as poo poo. i hate it and i've never (and will never) watch it.
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I thought I'd hate it but it really is refreshingly wholesome. There aren't many/any comedies around anymore where every character is a good person. It's kind of like the reverse of when married with children started the sitcom trend of every character being an unabashed scumbag and was fun despite not being good. It has some clever wordplay jokes which I'm a sucker for though. The second season wasn't nearly as good and the third was mid at best but it was just kewl to watch something about good people for a change.
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Queen are one of those bands I loved every track I've heard but I couldn't name a single track not released as a single
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deep dish peat moss posted:I thought I'd hate it but it really is refreshingly wholesome. There aren't many/any comedies around anymore where every character is a good person. It's kind of like the reverse of when married with children started the sitcom trend of every character being an unabashed scumbag and was fun despite not being good. It has some clever wordplay jokes which I'm a sucker for though. The second season wasn't nearly as good and the third was mid at best but it was just kewl to watch something about good people for a change. interesting. i'm much too cynical i think for it to have an impact on me, but it's interesting to hear this perspective i guess.
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the simpsons everyones alays going on about how classic and great the show is, but i saw one on sunday night and it was just a bunch of dumb garbage
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Junk posted:the simpsons If this isn’t a troll post then the show has been absolute shift for 25 years. People are only fond of seasons 2-8.
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Queen sound like the soundtrack to a musical that I wouldn't want to see.
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The following things are garbage: The Shawshank Redemption Jimi Hendrix Stevie Ray Vaughn Anything Stephen King has written that isn’t Salem’s Lot Stanley Kubrick Ed Norton Bob Dylan John Lennon Paul McCartney
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mweber posted:The following things are garbage: mweber posted:Bob Dylan correct mweber posted:Jimi Hendrix indifferent mweber posted:The Shawshank Redemption fighting words
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ShoogaSlim posted:correct We can bond over how much “Imagine” sucks.
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shawshank redemption is awful sentimental crap, it's titanic for boomer men
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Caesar Saladin posted:Queen sound like the soundtrack to a musical that I wouldn't want to see. I guess that's more Ogre Battles for the rest of us then.
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Doctor Butts posted:A lot of the sketches are just him being a jerk and loud. But some really hit. There's subjectivity to this, of course, but I think it's a smarter show than that. A lot of modern comedy is based around being loud or awkward, but ITYSL has almost every sketch based in the idea of rules, mostly unspoken ones, and being completely unwilling to budge on them. It gives everything a sense of playground stakes, where characters often meet frustration and humiliation because they don't understand why others can't abide by the rules. I've heard it suggested it really resonates with a lot of neurodivergent people. Conversely, I know some people who would describe themselves and anxious absolutely unable to stomach the show. The playground stakes leads to a lot of really funny language, like "at my old work", "the walls are his ground" or "you had all summer to figure out what you do". I'll often catch a slightly off turn of phrase on a rewatch and crack up I'm Crap posted:shawshank redemption is awful sentimental crap, it's titanic for boomer men I could really do without pretty much all of that 90s, golden-hued "there was racism, but only from, like, yokel prison guards", revisionist Oscar-bait nostalgia poo poo. At least Titanic had some spectacle. Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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Okay but he dug a hole all sneaky like! He was innocent and did an escape and was did it by himself he is an inspiration! And then he met up with the guy who served his time (but he did his time he was a real prison guy) and wasn't racist. Can you really write a story like that these days? No way, never, too genius.
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syntaxfunction posted:Okay but he dug a hole all sneaky like! He was innocent and did an escape and was did it by himself he is an inspiration! And then he met up with the guy who served his time (but he did his time he was a real prison guy) and wasn't racist. Can you really write a story like that these days? No way, never, too genius. I don't think that it sucks or anything, but I remember seeing it touted as an all-time classic for a while and nah. It's good, though.
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Yeah it's fine tbh, but holy poo poo it's weirdly overrated. Like Forrest Gump.
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I've never watched a studio ghibli film that didn't make me fall asleep
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:If this isn’t a troll post then the show has been absolute shift for 25 years. People are only fond of seasons 2-8. Nah some of it is "classic" but all of it is good
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I watched Forrest Gump on tv when I was like, 7 years old and loved it, but I haven't watched it since because I don't think it would resonate as well as an adult man. I think Shawshank Redemption is a good movie.
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I enjoy the gradual ensmallening of the"classic" Simpsons among the purists. The boundaries get pushed in every year - now we are to only seasons 2-8, everything else being total trash. Soon there will be one still image from a season 5 episode that will be considered an unimpeachable masterpiece, while everything else will be called a crass imitation of its perfection.
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steinrokkan posted:I enjoy the gradual ensmallening of the"classic" Simpsons among the purists. The boundaries get pushed in every year - now we are to only seasons 2-8, everything else being total trash. Soon there will be one still image from a season 5 episode that will be considered an unimpeachable masterpiece, while everything else will be called a crass imitation of its perfection. a lot of people point to the armin tamzarian episode as being the official starting point of bad simpsons, which is fair because it marks the first time they decided to burn an entire character's worth of continuity and characterization for the sake of one not particularly good episode. that was right at the beginning of season 9, which is why people say 8 was the end. but there's still some good episodes in seasons 9-12: armin tamzarian showed that they were running out of ideas but they didn't actually finish running out for another few seasons, the show just became hit and miss for a while before settling into being miss and miss
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I've never watched a studio ghibli film that didn't make me fall asleep
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I've never watched a studio ghibli film that didn't make me fall asleep I like their stuff, but, kind of to my shame, I know I would have found them boring and confusing as gently caress when I was 8. I saw The Boy and the Heron and liked it, but every parent their with their kids gave off a quinoa and piano lessons vibe.
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shawshank: not racist enough
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Shawshank and Forrest Gump were enjoyable and people today prefer movies that make them feel like poo poo.
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