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For the life of me, I cannot understand how someone could make a miniseries entitled "Hollywood's Best Film Directors" and choose post- Clone Wars George Lucas for its exemplar
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K. Waste posted:The Man With the Iron Fists 2 has some of the worst production value I've ever seen. Not even admirably bad. Watching that movie made me ashamed for everyone involved in its production. Especially Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, for some reason.
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computer parts posted:I've been meaning to see Person of Interest so I'm glad that's up. Good news: Lawrence of Arabia has an intermission, just gotta look up when it falls in the movie and plan accordingly
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pahuyuth posted:Hemlock Grove will be in its 3rd season?! Is it any good? Take a minute out of your life and find out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzYGcPs_bo
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coyo7e posted:I'm glad that Davos Seaworthy finally gets a happy ending for once. He's always so He's in Star Citizen Squadron 42 as well, but I doubt that will be a happy ending for anyone involved, save perhaps Derek Smart
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:What's the gayest movie? Top Gun? Tango & Cash must be included in this conversation. The sexual tension between Stallone and Russell could be measured in plate tectonic units. edit: now that I think about it, Cobra is pretty gay too
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I was disappointed with the second season of Broadchurch. Changing the focus from a murder investigation to court drama meant the new investigation felt like an afterthought. Also I am unfamiliar with British law but the trial seemed rather preposterous to me would the admissibility of a confession really be argued in front of the jury? That's extremely prejudicial, don't they have pre-trial hearings like an American grand jury to handle that? Also do they have any rules of evidence whatsoever? If they ditched most of the trial they could have fleshed out how Tennant's character's prior investigation of this season's case led him to his conclusions, and also how the case against the suspects fell apart. Instead we got interminable scenes of characters sitting outside the courtroom waiting to be called for testimony.
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Dr Monkeysee posted:I just started this but am ambivalent as I thought the first season was ludicrously melodramatic at times. The performances are strong but the story is sort of silly and overwrought. In addition to Southcliffe which has already been recommended, Happy Valley and The Fall are both really good British crime dramas, give them a try before you abandon the genre
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I got freaked out early on in Upstream Color when The woman first wakes up with the worm infection, she's clearly in pain and horror but she's also making some erotic body gyrations which seemed really incongruous and downright freaky. In retrospect the scene made sense, considering the reproductive theme, but it's still an unnerving image. Very good film.
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Dec 14, 2015 08:18
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X-Ray Pecs posted:It's not like any episodes are stinkers (except possibly Charlie and Dee Find Love), so you should just watch them all. Some personal episode recommendations would be: Charlie Got Molested is one of my faves, Mac having a nervous breakdown because he wasn't molested was comedy gold. It was also the only good McPoyle episode, featured Dennis and Dee arguing about the merits of a completed psych minor vs an uncompleted psych major, and had the most uncomfortable intervention in TV history. Also Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare belongs on the list. Filthy Hans fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Jan 10, 2016 |
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Ok, ok, it's the only good McPoyle episode that I remember, I shouldn't say that the rest were bad simply because I don't remember them
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I sat through season 2 of Helix and wouldn't recommend it to anyone, even those who enjoyed the fever dream first season
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david_a posted:Can anybody give an overview of The Shield? It got added to Hulu recently. All I know about it is that it's about police, starred some bald guy, it's dark or something, and is supposed to be good. I thought it was set in NY but apparently it's LA. I watched the pilot which was a bit shaky but still entertaining. I wasn't really prepared for how old it looked (the Kid Rock song at the end was a bit embarrassing). How does this show hold up? In addition to what others are saying about The Shield, it has some really great characters backed up by excellent acting. In particular, Walton Goggins is a treasure.
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red19fire posted:Battle Creek is a pretty solid show. I love Dean Winters' curmudgeon act, and its enough of a police procedural but not so bad that you can predict the culprit in the first 5 minutes of the show. And created by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad I was a little disappointed to learn this show was cancelled after 1 season and I hope Dean Winters gets another good role soon. The show wasn't great but it was pretty good and the final episode is a fantastic end to the series. My one issue with it was the tone, it had a generic and upbeat musical score which clashed with the rather dark material of the weekly mysteries. In other cancelled series opinions, the first season of Legends is excellent because Sean Bean plays all of his various alter egos excellently. I particularly liked his "big hat" cowboy legend. Heard the show goes off the rails in the second season, but it's not streaming yet so I must remain agnostic on that judgment.
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I was looking forward to Machete, then the first time he kills someone they used CGI blood instead of practical effects and I knew I was in for a world of disappointment
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flatluigi posted:I ran out of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, what's a good similar show to watch? Perhaps you'd like The Midsomer Murders, which unsurprisingly is about investigating murders in the small british town of Midsomer. There were enough seasons that I'm surprised anyone was left alive in that little town.
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david_a posted:I watched this yesterday. It was good, sort of an Infernal Affairs crossed with the Godfather. Although I have to say that gang warfare in countries with strict gun laws is weird. I liked the flashback at the very end when you find out the undercover cop had absolutely no qualms about walking into a restaurant full of armed thugs and murdering them and if anyone had been paying closer attention to him they'd realize he's the last person they'd ever want to gently caress with
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Hat Thoughts posted:Every time I've tried to get into Workaholics it's been funny but I feel like it's juuust a little too mean for me to be able to hang with it. I love Peep Show but it's too misanthropic to binge on, I can't do more than two eps in a row
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NESguerilla posted:Hating Paul Reubens for rubbing one out in a porn theater 25 years ago is like being terrified of Dungeons and Dragons because it will possess you with suicide demons. From Wikipedia: "In March 2004, child pornography charges were dropped in exchange for Reubens' guilty plea to a lesser charge. For the next three years he had to register his address with the sheriff's office and could not be in the company of minors without their parents' permission." He was ratted out by one of the witnesses against Jeffrey Jones, I wouldn't be surprised if the child porn was in the vein of Robert Mapplethorpe but either way he's more than your average jerkoff. He served his time though, so I won't judge anyone who likes his old or new stuff.
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ZoDiAC_ posted:Yeah you missed the bit where the charges were dropped and a ton of other things from that article. Yeah you're right, I just read the first bits and stopped there, should've been more diligent
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computer parts posted:New stuff on Netflix! Really good month for movies
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Happy Valley season 2 was a letdown. The protagonist is still cool, but what I liked about the first season was that a)we could follow the central crime and its investigation unfolding contemporaneously and without obfuscation and b)the central crime and its perpetrators were believable. Neither of these virtues are present in the second season. Hopefully Hinterland season 2 will buck the trend that Broadchurch and Happy Valley are setting this year, I love me some British prestige crime dramas
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alansmithee posted:I thought Happy Valley 2 (and Broadchurch 2, for that matter) would've been better had they just started totally fresh and not picked up the old storylines. It especially felt largely tacked on in the case of Happy Valley. It was like they were revisiting things that didn't really need it, and that seemed well enough resolved previously. Agreed. I did like how Happy Valley maintained the close bond between the protagonist and the kidnapped girl's family but they could have included that without the unhinged-woman-as-former-antagonist's-catpaw storyline.
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LloydDobler posted:On the subject of cancelled HBO shows to finally get around to watching, I just started watching Hung and reading the synopsis makes it sound like it's going to be really dirty ala Californication but it's not. I'm 4 episodes in and so far it's a fairly charming show, although maybe a little predictable and cliche. I mean, there is talk of rear end in a top hat licking and big dicks, but it's not all T&A like I assumed it would be. I got fed up with it because at first he had believable clients but then he started on a series of sexy-yet-crazy clients and it just screamed bullshit to me
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Bloodline season 2 is now available. I've watched two episodes and there's 100% less Chloe Sevigny so I'm not happy at all.
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Flumbooze posted:I'm glad it got continued though. The oinly thing that's a bit bothering me is the kid, he's such an awkward addition to the cast and I'm not sure if he makes the story that much more interesting. It's still a good show and all, I just miss my bae. The younger brother really seems like the weak link in the chain so far.
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Good news everyone, there are several episodes of Bloodline that feature Sevigny as a guest actor after all. I finished the season and it's pretty good overall. I thought Linda Cardinelli did the best work in it and Beau Bridges was really good too. The show would be much better without child actors, they really bring it down when they're onscreen. The poo poo really its the fan in the final episode, so I'm looking forward to a third season. I hope John Leguizamo dies on the way to his home planet.
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New Peaky Blinders is pretty good the central theme of class warfare is a bit overbearing though. Highlights were Tom Hardy's jewish gangster making a return and a good soundtrack featuring quite a bit of Radiohead. Dr. Bashir is good in it too.
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pahuyuth posted:I'm hoping Happy Valley has a better reputation around here... Happy Valley season 1 is fantastic. One of the things I really love about it is that you contemporaneously see what's happening to the criminals and how the investigation goes. Sadly in season 2 they do away with this by not keeping the viewer in the loop about the criminals and using red herring fakeouts. It's still good but a decline from season 1.
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morestuff posted:It's weird seeing "The Killing starts good and gets bad" characterized as some niche goon opinion when that's the only thing I've ever read or heard about the show Yeah, the show was universally panned after the S1 finale and all through S2, S3 was salvaged by one of the Sarsgaard brothers. Joel Kinnamon is really good but didn't have enough material to work with in that show.
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Knightmare posted:I'm a few eps into Luther and not sure if I can hold on...does it get significantly better at any point? The quality of the show declines so if you aren't hooked already then you should bail out
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Chichevache posted:Midway into it now and Piper is back to being the focus, but in a tongue-in-cheek way. She's constantly called out for thinking she is the center of attention. The other inmates are basically audience stand-ins, criticizing her role. They are also taking her character in a direction that plays on how hateable she is. I really like it. I marathoned the whole season and I think overall it's quite good, although there are some dire subplots, in particular the jewish black girl vs. muslim roommate Israel-Palestine allegory was far too on-the-nose and the message of coming together via communication was really condescending. Also I really liked that they allowed characters to just outright fail at times, like when Red cracks in her interrogation and rats out one of her co-conspirators.
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Slandible posted:Is Prison Break worth sticking all the way through? First season was good, but it's gone far south after starting season three. I remember it picking up a bit but it's been a while. It was fun watching the brothers ham it up in season 1 of The Flash, and I can only hope that in season 2 they get to break the clockmaker guy, aka T Bag, out of prison. That would be one hell of a reunion party.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Season three of Todd Margaret was loving incredible. I'm glad I rewatched the first two beforehand, because I think some of it would have gone over my head if I hadn't seen them recently. Gonna start re-binging the series tonight, cringe humor is particularly hit-or-miss but I love Todd Margaret and Peep Show
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Todd Margaret S3 is really uneven. Will Arnett's new role was pretty boring, Jack McBreyer took over Spike Jonze's role and I didn't like the change, and the overarching plot involving the cult just falls flat. On the other hand the writing is still very clever, Dave's still fun to watch and Alice's reveal was amazing. David Cross plays an excellent rear end in a top hat businessman, too. Chalk it up as a rather disappointing season, but I'll still happily wait for season 4.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I can't remember but does season 4 end with him calling for all out loving war after letting a dude get iced on national tv? That was such a badass moment. The final scene freaked me out when Robin Wright shared in Spacey's breaking of the fourth wall, it was a pretty powerful shot
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Call Me Charlie posted:
I disagree, if you have to ignore huge parts of everyday modern life in order for the story to work (no smartphones or social media in 2016? really?) then the world will feel artificial for the sake of the story, rather than picking a time period where the story will work. the poor brother wouldn't use a film camera because it's way more expensive to buy and develop film than to use digital. As for HAM radio, it was really popular in the 80's because there was no internet to chat with randos back then, like 90% of its utility is gone now unless you live out in the sticks. Even the bullying would be anachronistic. You need to have a fully realized world for the trope of an alternate dimension to work, otherwise it just feels like two fantasy worlds in collision. Horror needs to feel like something that can actually imperil the viewer, not something that threatens people from a world you could never identify with In short, the story would have to be drastically different to fit into the modern world. I am glad you enjoyed the series anyway, I did too
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Call Me Charlie posted:
I see what you mean, although I think Twin Peaks is a bad example because the setting was 30 years earlier than production and Stranger Things' setting is also 30 years earlier than production. I like a lot of movies either made or set in a time before the internet or even cell phones because it nicely simplifies the stories and eliminates a whole host of plot holes but that in no ways means there's not a ton of good stuff in a modern setting. Filthy Hans fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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wafflesnsegways posted:Twin Peaks wasn't set in the past, it just had a few characters with 50s-ish haircuts, and other 50s aesthetic flourishes. oops, you're right
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Lycus posted:Stranger Things: Wait, did the teenagers do anything? Their fight with the monster seemed fruitless. Or did they just serve to distract the monster while the adults looked around? Lucas incapacitated the demigorgon when he basically rolled a natural 20 on his slingshot attack. After he hit, it was pinned to the classroom chalkboard by Eleven before she says goodbye and kills the fucker. She wasn't strong enough to take it out on her own but after it was slingshotted she could finally overpower it with her psychokinetics. Without their bravery the demigorgon would continue to terrorize the town, and the only scientists who really knew how they might stop it were already dead.
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