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Constellation is good, it's no Severance, but it isn't bad. Much better than Invasion.
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Feb 29, 2024 04:20
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muscles like this! posted:David Dastmalchian has joined the cast of Apple's Murderbot Diaries tv show. He's playing on of the crew that Murderbot is contracted to protect. Fess up, did you know how to spell that without looking Some news on the netflix series i am apparently personally writing, directing, and casting https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1762968550740832639 zoux fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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Feb 29, 2024 04:36
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 That looks more like a live action Yellow Submarine remake
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Feb 29, 2024 05:01
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zoux posted:Fess up, did you know how to spell that without looking I don't see where Jason Manzoukas is involved?
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Feb 29, 2024 06:15
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D-Pad posted:Constellation is good, it's no Severance, but it isn't bad. Much better than Invasion. Yeah, Constellation is fantastic, though I can understand why it's not for everyone. It's getting a lot of buzz in the Apple TV thread if people are curious. I recommend giving it a shot if you're into weird sci-fi stuff.
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Feb 29, 2024 07:19
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1762912106700034118 "I've got full blown AIDS, Nordberg." Nothing Liam ever does will be funnier than that scene of him jumping the fence in Taken 3. That poo poo is legit like the Deadliest Joke In The World to me, I laugh so hard I can't breathe whenever I see it. The guy who edited that deserves an Oscar for services to comedy.
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Feb 29, 2024 17:34
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IRQ posted:This sounds a lot like the Carmen Sandiego final challenge that was basically physically impossible to do in the time alotted. I read that the first season or so of Carmen San Diego started paying out too much so the later seasons used Europe and that was still too easy so they started using Africa to clamp down on people winning.
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Feb 29, 2024 17:58
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Sentinel Red posted:"I've got full blown AIDS, Nordberg." Had to look this up. Impressive editing work, indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCKhktcbfQM
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Feb 29, 2024 18:43
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Mooseontheloose posted:I read that the first season or so of Carmen San Diego started paying out too much so the later seasons used Europe and that was still too easy so they started using Africa to clamp down on people winning. The first season of WITWICS was immediately obsolete due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and breakup of Yugoslavia impacting European maps. They added a disclaimer for the second season onward saying the maps they used were accurate at the time of taping.
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Feb 29, 2024 19:31
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zoux posted:Fess up, did you know how to spell that without looking Having a fun time imagining them getting the rights to Ballad of Guitaeau from Soundheim's Assassins musical for this. Assuming Shannon or Offerman is cast as Guitaeau either would kill it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5QjBrcjUJE edit: in speed to dream missed that MacFayden is Guitaeau. Heck, I'd sign up to see him sing this diddy too, guy's probably got pipes.
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Feb 29, 2024 19:36
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Watching Shogun, and I love how the Japanese characters speak actual Japanese, but Portuguese is represented by characters speaking modern English and being like "Whazzup, mate, you speak Portuguese too? Awesome!"
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Feb 29, 2024 22:45
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They should at least throw in a "bom dia" here and there
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Feb 29, 2024 23:41
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I liked the scene in the second episode where they just stopped showing the translation and had the characters talking to each other. Something I think is funny is how the main Japanese clan is not-Tokugawa but they still use the Tokugawa crest.
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Mar 1, 2024 00:38
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Clavell changed the name, I think, because "Tokogawa Ieyasu" would be harder for westerners to hang with than "Toranaga Yoshi". Also it meant he didn't have to be beholden to the actual history of the Tokogawa shogunate.
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Mar 1, 2024 00:47
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Yoshi, sure, everyone knows Yoshi. But Toronaga isn't easier than Tokugawa and sounds like the name of a drug cartel leader from a modern drama or Brooklyn 99.
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Mar 1, 2024 00:54
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Today I learned that only three streaming services actually turn a profit: -Netflix -Hulu -Max (No, really)
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Mar 1, 2024 03:12
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Been watching Resident Evil and now I'm in S2 and it's the best thing I'm watching. Very funny and great. Surprised it's not talked about more.
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Mar 1, 2024 03:31
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Uhhh, assuming you mean Resident Alien.
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Mar 1, 2024 03:58
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Lol yeah I did. Woops
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Mar 1, 2024 04:32
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The latest episode of Halo was the best one yet, and it hardly had any fighting. It's a little wild that a show that was aggressively mediocre bordering on bad, is now good.
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Mar 1, 2024 04:33
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Shageletic posted:Been watching Resident Evil and now I'm in S2 and it's the best thing I'm watching. Very funny and great. Surprised it's not talked about more. I just caught up on the newest episode of S3. Show's still got it, shame this is the final season.
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Mar 1, 2024 06:11
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feedmyleg posted:Show's still got it, shame this is the final season. I have seen nothing at all that's been announced that Season 3 is a final season.
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Mar 1, 2024 06:16
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bull3964 posted:I have seen nothing at all that's been announced that Season 3 is a final season. No but the writing is basically on the wall with the reduced episode count.
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Mar 1, 2024 06:21
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That's not a sure thing though. They also recently sold it to Netflix and it's been getting a lot of word of mouth on that platform.
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Mar 1, 2024 06:27
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Oh interesting. I heard about the reduced episode count and assumed.
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Mar 1, 2024 06:34
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BJ Novak's show The Premise is gone. I randomly remembered some part from it and wanted to check it but on top of obviously being cancelled they also just removed it entirely. I suppose many shows in history only ever aired once or a finite number of times before essentially disappearing, but in the streaming era it seems like double-dog cancellation.
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Mar 1, 2024 07:19
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Edward Mass posted:Today I learned that only three streaming services actually turn a profit: Source? I'm surprised Prime doesn't make money. Their interface is set up to upsell the user on digital rentals, purchases and channel subscriptions. A lot of their big ticket shows are based on long running series of books. Surely the cash from a few tens of thousands of people buying one or more Reacher novels from Amazon, and maybe a Kindle to read them on or an audible subscription to listen to them, adds up. High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Mar 1, 2024 07:28
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Khanstant posted:BJ Novak's show The Premise is gone. I randomly remembered some part from it and wanted to check it but on top of obviously being cancelled they also just removed it entirely. I suppose many shows in history only ever aired once or a finite number of times before essentially disappearing, but in the streaming era it seems like double-dog cancellation. I''ve never heard of this show, shame about the cancellation and middling reviews, the premise sounds fun. Like a more interesting middle ground between Black Mirror and Twilight Zone.
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Mar 1, 2024 10:21
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High Warlord Zog posted:Source? Most of the other streaming platforms don't bundle in free two-day shipping with their movies and shows.
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Mar 1, 2024 10:41
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High Warlord Zog posted:Source? I don't think those revenues would be assigned to prime, but rather to the store itself
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Mar 1, 2024 11:18
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bull3964 posted:That's not a sure thing though. It does feel like it should have a limited run tho. Only so much you can do woth the premise. But it really is one of the best arguments for turning an idea into a TV showrather than just a movie. Resident Alien as a movie would be funny but kind a cliche. You need episodes to really explore all the nuances and ridiculous things that arise with an alien trying to and inexplicably fitting into human society.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:52
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Shageletic posted:It does feel like it should have a limited run tho. Only so much you can do woth the premise. It's essentially a small town Canadian show, about a funny outsider who moves in. Except they're doing "alien who doesn't understand humans" instead of "autistic person" or whatever other quirky fish out of whatever person or concept you want to bandy about. You can milk years off variations on that premise. Plenty of other small town Canadian shows have. e.g. Schitts Creek, Little Mosque On The Prairie.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:08
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I found the writing and jokes a lot sharper than what I saw from Schitts creek. Like the joke to line ratio is insane and reminds me a little of Seinfeld in an odd way. I find the outside being embraced thing to be a bit saccharine for me sometimes and the show seems to resolutely avoiding it, like by having the main character be partly defined by his blood thirsty hatred of children
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Mar 1, 2024 15:43
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Shageletic posted:I found the writing and jokes a lot sharper than what I saw from Schitts creek. Like the joke to line ratio is insane and reminds me a little of Seinfeld in an odd way. I find the outside being embraced thing to be a bit saccharine for me sometimes and the show seems to resolutely avoiding it, like by having the main character be partly defined by his blood thirsty hatred of children Nah, Harry likes the kid. He's just got extreme "get off my lawn" energy most of the time. The whole town local legend makes it pretty clear where his arc is heading anyway. IMO of course.
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Mar 1, 2024 15:45
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As happens when a beloved celebrity dies, people are sharing favorite clips. Richard Lewis was a natural. https://twitter.com/JimmyTraina/status/1763588399577891273
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Mar 1, 2024 16:52
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Lol, the first episode of Elsbeth aired just now, and the second episode won't air until April 4th. It's pretty fun though.
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Mar 1, 2024 17:08
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Games Radar dot com has some comments from the makers of the up-coming Fallout teevee show:Total Film posted:The Fallout TV show isn't going to be a mere adaptation of the beloved post-apocalyptic video game series. Instead, the Prime Video series - which stars Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins - is going to have its own canonical space in the nuclear wasteland, a freeing choice that has led executive producer Jonathan Nolan to say the project is "almost like we're Fallout 5".
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Mar 1, 2024 18:21
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Oh no it's going to be another Skyrim port
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Mar 1, 2024 18:21
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Rappaport posted:Games Radar dot com has some comments from the makers of the up-coming Fallout teevee show: Sure why not. I’m in for it.
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Mar 1, 2024 18:23
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I haven't played 3, but the main plot for 4 sucked and blew, so I'm glad they're doing something original. It could also be awful, but there's a chance it won't be? And Kyle MacLachlan is always a good time.
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Mar 1, 2024 18:34
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