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If you just want Sherlock except with good plots and only focusing on homicide, give Luther a whirl.
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Give the first season of Luther a whirl, everything after shits the bed.
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Jan 22, 2017 21:02
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Do not even ask posted:Give the first season of Luther a whirl, everything after shits the bed. I thought the second season was pretty awesome. Didn't care too much for the third though. The whole point of getting Ripley to join internal affairs was just silly though. Luther is horrendously irresponsible when going after a case, but nothing he'd done before that suggested he'd be willing to do a batman interrogation holding a suspect over a railing. Season 1 is the best though. The episode with the ptsd soldier and his abusive prison father was amazing. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Jan 22, 2017 21:09
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Detective Conan is a mystery series aimed at children, and thus I remember from years ago that it felt like reading long-form Slylock Fox with extreme violence.
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Jan 22, 2017 21:41
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Detective Conan is a mystery show aimed at children, and thus I remember from years ago that it felt like reading long-form Inspector Fox with extreme violence. Eh, in tone I'd put it next to Midsomer Murders. There's always the tongue-in-cheek element to it but then the murders get pretty graphic such as in the in the very first case where the murderer loving decapitates her victim.
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Linear Zoetrope posted:Mumbles quit, because she couldn't take the comments on Shamus' blog anymore. Well that's one hell of a monkey's paw right there.
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Jan 22, 2017 22:53
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Arcsquad12 posted:If you just want Sherlock except with good plots and only focusing on homicide, give Luther a whirl. I dunno, I started Luther and it felt like a condensed parody of every Unstable Genius show from the last 15 years.
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Jan 22, 2017 23:04
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LFK posted:I dunno, I started Luther and it felt like a condensed parody of every Unstable Genius show from the last 15 years. Luther really does suffer from a similair problem as Sherlock (cocky writers getting sloppy and lazy) especially with how it just gets worse and worse the more the show goes on. However I'd say Luther starts at a way higher quality level and even at its worst is probably better than Sherlocks best. And if we're just talking lead actors Idris Elba is way better than Benedict Cumberland.
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Jan 22, 2017 23:45
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I've hated Cumberbatch ever since I saw that horrible Imitation Game. God, what a loving disgrace. that movie was.
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Jan 23, 2017 00:37
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Beneficial Cabbagepatch annoys me because internet dorks love him for some inexplicable reason. Anyways here have JonTron crying about the Women's March because he's a massive fuccboi neckbeard. https://twitter.com/JonTronShow/status/823081694676795397
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Jan 23, 2017 00:55
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Hey remember when people liked him? I sure don't anymore ever since he decided to have an interview with Nazis.
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Jan 23, 2017 00:59
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He seems awful. He's like the evil version of a man who is eternally a 15-year-old-boy. A nega-James-Rolfe.
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Jan 23, 2017 01:01
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He's a sheltered nerd with super conservative parents and probably believes everything he reads online outside of the "lying" main stream media. I know people like that.
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SunAndSpring posted:Beneficial Cabbagepatch annoys me because internet dorks love him for some inexplicable reason. That stopped actually. The backlash has been in full swing for at least two years now
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Hey my computer was out of commission since just before New Year. I was on page 466. I'm not reading the backlog. Did I miss anything fun?
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lornekates posted:Hey my computer was out of commission since just before New Year. I was on page 466. I'm not reading the backlog. Did I miss anything fun? RLM is run by old people and jontron is a nazi.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:36
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cosmically_cosmic posted:Luther really does suffer from a similair problem as Sherlock (cocky writers getting sloppy and lazy) especially with how it just gets worse and worse the more the show goes on. However I'd say Luther starts at a way higher quality level and even at its worst is probably better than Sherlocks best. Idris Elba is really who sells the show. Luther isn't a particularly unique character, but Elba plays him so damned well at switching between a cocky, charismatic prick, and an uncontrollable psychopath beaten down by how stressful his job is. I'd also suggest anyone looking for some good crime/mystery shows give Ripper Street a turn. It has its own share of problems too, but the main cast is just so good and at least its outdated politics make more sense because of its period setting.
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So, I've been doing podcasts as a patreon reward where I review LGBT and historical novels, rather than visual media. They're a bit different in style to my regular show, significantly more off-the-cuff (still edited though, none of those bits where people in the podcast say "we should edit this out" and then don't.) Most of them are only available for Patreon supporters, but I recently just did a brief review of the 9 books I read this summer holidays, so if you're interested in my take on historical and crime fiction, here's the Infamous Sphere Summer Reading Special! MonsieurChoc posted:I've hated Cumberbatch ever since I saw that horrible Imitation Game. God, what a loving disgrace. that movie was. That movie suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Like, I couldn't even bring myself to review it on my show because it's just so incredibly lukewarm. Just watch the Bletchley Circle instead! And/or just watch Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, or the Russian one. I'm going to look smug but I always vastly preferred Holmes as a period piece, so I was never sold on Sherlock. Tuned out the minute that terrible Irene Adler episode happened, and it apparently still managed to get worse from there?
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Infamous Sphere posted:So, I've been doing podcasts as a patreon reward where I review LGBT and historical novels, rather than visual media. They're a bit different in style to my regular show, significantly more off-the-cuff (still edited though, none of those bits where people in the podcast say "we should edit this out" and then don't.) Most of them are only available for Patreon supporters, but I recently just did a brief review of the 9 books I read this summer holidays, so if you're interested in my take on historical and crime fiction, here's the Infamous Sphere Summer Reading Special! I most hated the movie because it handled Alan Turing's life completely wrong. They didn't get his personality right, they didn't get his life story right, they completely botched it. They don't show why what he and his crew did was important, they don't explain anything to the audience (seriously, it's not that hard to have one or two scenes of basic exposition to explain what's going on in layman's terms!), they barely cover his tragic end and do so in a completely half-assed manner that is almost insulting to real-life LGBT people and how they got treated back then. It's a perfect example of Hollywood Biopic writing where everything is twisted to followed the cliché pre-established narrative at the expanse of the actually interesting and relevant life of the character.
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It's like the Patch Adams movie complete with condescending "I don't trust this new kind of thinking grumble grumble" stereotypical boss character archetype.
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Mokinokaro posted:He's a sheltered nerd with super conservative parents and probably believes everything he reads online outside of the "lying" main stream media. I know people like that. I've known women who've spent time with him at industry parties and whatnot - he's just as much a gross misogynist as you think he is.
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Arcsquad12 posted:It's like the Patch Adams movie complete with condescending "I don't trust this new kind of thinking grumble grumble" stereotypical boss character archetype. I guess THE NAZIS weren't compelling enough antagonists. Or the British government after the war.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I guess THE NAZIS weren't compelling enough antagonists. Or the British government after the war. Or like...the law that made being gay illegal. And Turing wasn't exactly secretive about being gay, if the Radiolab episode on him is any indication. I feel like Morten Tyldum might be a bad director? I mean we've basically got this and Passengers, and we know how Passengers turned out.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Or like...the law that made being gay illegal. And Turing wasn't exactly secretive about being gay, if the Radiolab episode on him is any indication. Passengers "Let's psychologically torture/monitor/break a woman for the selfish desires of a terrible man, people love that sort of thing"
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Passengers is such a hosed up movie and man, this doesn't even take some kind of deep look at themes or subtle cues or any of that to realize it, it takes like a hard minute of stopping and thinking about the situation at all.
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Mr. Fowl posted:RLM is run by old people and jontron is a nazi. Oh Drama Bombs, how I've missed you.
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lornekates posted:Oh Drama Bombs, how I've missed you. I hate them myself and am getting long past the point where I just don't want to know anything about anyone lest I can no longer enjoy anything they create. Like right now I have a book about the history of comics I am debating burning because of what the author likes to do which ideally will put him in prison forever and should probably have his junk ripped off with an industrial belt sander. This goes to lesser degrees with say folks like Jontron or Tom Cruise and the like but.. Yeah. I am really happier not knowing anything anyone creative does or thinks because if it's awful/OMG disagree I have my enjoyment of previous works lessened and am unlikely to want anything new by them, in some cases just because I don't want to support assholes. Jontron is one of those I was happier not knowing about though the examples of his badness seem minor and possibly correctable if people like talk and communicate with him. (Which nobody ever does because screaming and yelling seems to be what people want when someone has opposing action thing. And it doesn't actually work. If anything it makes people double down on their douche. Even if it was all really a sitcom like misunderstanding to start with. GREAT JOB.) At least in his case he is kind of a sellout so it makes avoiding his honestly limited output pretty easy to do if his dumb opinions are a thing one wouldn't want to support. (If you cannot get people to be more better through genuine communication hit em in the wallet. Money has a way of solving problems. Like that Nazi douche who got knocked out? Punching him ain't gonna do poo poo. Costing that dickhead actual money? While not satisfying or illegal if done correctly, it can actually fix assholery.) So yeah. Fans could help JT not be poo poo if done right. Not supporting him is also a way to do this because if communication doesn't work not giving him money and making his views cost him money might be the only solution. That or we just get loving rid of Twitter entirely so we can go back to some level of blissful ignorance of creative's opinions that might be lovely.
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Yardbomb posted:Passengers is such a hosed up movie and man, this doesn't even take some kind of deep look at themes or subtle cues or any of that to realize it, it takes like a hard minute of stopping and thinking about the situation at all. And the funniest thing? The story could've been easily fixed to tell the one the filmmakers wanted. Just have both characters wake up at the same time and, boom, most of the disturbing factor is gone. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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Mokinokaro posted:And the funniest thing? The story could've been easily fixed to tell the one the filmmakers wanted. Just have both characters wake up at the same time and, boom, most of the disturbing factor is gone. I wanted a David Lynch thriller where she spaces him as a last ditch effort of survival against a controlling monster but nooo, we can't have nice things.
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Captain Rufus posted:At least in his case he is kind of a sellout so it makes avoiding his honestly limited output pretty easy to do if his dumb opinions are a thing one wouldn't want to support. (If you cannot get people to be more better through genuine communication hit em in the wallet. Money has a way of solving problems. Like that Nazi douche who got knocked out? Punching him ain't gonna do poo poo. Costing that dickhead actual money? While not satisfying or illegal if done correctly, it can actually fix assholery.) This ignores the market of people who super want terrible views and are willing to shell out forever to hear someone take whatever group they hate down a peg or three. (Or at least pretend to.) Not that I disagree with your general point, but right now the angry manchild demo has already proven it's totally profitable to vomit hate onto the internet.
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Mokinokaro posted:And the funniest thing? The story could've been easily fixed to tell the one the filmmakers wanted. Just have both characters wake up at the same time and, boom, most of the disturbing factor is gone. My own idea to fix it was to have her be an engineer he wakes up to fix the ship.
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Mokinokaro posted:And the funniest thing? The story could've been easily fixed to tell the one the filmmakers wanted. Just have both characters wake up at the same time and, boom, most of the disturbing factor is gone. That's what I thought it was gonna be from the initial trailers.
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Kuroyama posted:That's what I thought it was gonna be from the initial trailers. that was the intent. The creepy, terrible, genuinely hosed up thing was meant to be a big dramatic twist
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Tatum Girlparts posted:The creepy, terrible, genuinely hosed up thing was meant to be a big dramatic twist The problem is that doesn't actually seem to be the intent or a big twist. "It’s not afraid to entertain but at the same time it asks big questions about what does it mean to really feel happy. Every generation has its love story. I feel like this is it. I had to do it." - The director
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Yardbomb posted:The problem is that doesn't actually seem to be the intent or a big twist. haha wait WHAT
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I just watched a video by Jenny Nicholson and I felt like I went on a train journey sitting next to an autistic 15 year old who needs to tell you all the things that are wrong with an old movie. Point by point. Non-stop. Right in my face. Out of focus. For 10 hours*. Am I missing something? It's parodic, right? * time is elastic and subject to personal perspective Josef K. Sourdust fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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Jan 24, 2017 10:45
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Eh, the original twist variation seems like it'd wind up being inadvertently more supportive of the dude's choice. The movie we got, at least, front loaded that the dude knew it was wrong, actively resisted doing it, did it at the lowest point he could be, and runs away in regret the minute he does it. Later on we have a third party saying what he did was terribly hosed up, too. I mean, poo poo, I think even the most ethical, introverted person in the world, being totally isolated for the rest of their lives, would eventually do what the dude did.
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MisterBibs posted:Eh, the original twist variation seems like it'd wind up being inadvertently more supportive of the dude's choice. The movie we got, at least, front loaded that the dude knew it was wrong, actively resisted doing it, did it at the lowest point he could be, and runs away in regret the minute he does it. Later on we have a third party saying what he did was terribly hosed up, too. finally, someone will stick up for the awful movie Passengers
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