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I started The Shield when the second season premiered and the reveal that Armadillo had tattooed his rape mark on the little girl's face was shocking These days you expect that kind of thing from really edgy shows but at the time I think the only show that had ever been that cruel was Oz edit: and the Shield got away with all that poo poo on basic cable Filthy Hans fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Jan 22, 2019 |
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Basebf555 posted:We've regressed since those years, as far as network television goes. All of the boundary pushing content went to the streaming services, but before that you had big network shows like NYPD Blue just throwing out curse words and even nudity and if it was a big enough hit they were allowed to do it. There was some real torture porn on the networks for a while there, first Law & Order: SVU and then the really heinous poo poo like Criminal Minds
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Watching the Fyre doc, is it wrong to hate the influencers more than anyone else?
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Polar is a remarkably unpleasant movie
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:If you watch one Vanessa Hudgens Netflix film, make it
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Sir Kodiak posted:They were the advertising firm for the Fyre Festival, a fraudulent music festival, which just had two documentaries released on streaming (Hulu and Netflix). They helped produce the Netflix doc, which does some work to try to exonerate them from what seem like credible charges that they were either in on the scam or, at least, should have known they were selling lies. So them then complaining that they didn't get paid in full by a seeming co-conspirator is tangentially streaming-related schadenfreude, on top of the general thing of people viewing them as content thieves. The doc producers certainly let the various contractors lay out their ignorance defense, and someone in the film claimed McFarland is some sort of compartmentalization savant, but the film also emphasizes how there were plenty of people on staff who communicated their misgivings to people in other divisions and got canned for it, and there were also plenty of public, independent sources of information detailing the fraud and failures basically from the beginning of the enterprise, so the culpability of minor players is treated fairly evenhandedly. Also, the final revelations about how indebted these contractors were is damning - two thirds of their pay was being withheld until after the event so they were basically looking the other way in regards to the fraud and putting in their own money out of desperation, victims of the sunk cost fallacy and compromised ethics.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Boardwalk Empire is worth it for the comedy stylings of Nelson van Alden and Eli Thompson. They became my favorite duo. It was a loooong time ago when I watched it but I remember Dabney Coleman doing a fantastic job depicting a total poo poo of a human being
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I didn't think I'd like Velvet Buzzsaw based on the trailer but in the end I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for art world satire, so if you're tired of that genre I'd stay away. The casting is great throughout, and I don't remember Rene Russo ever being so good. The best part was when the gallery opened with Toni Collette's exsanguinated corpse at the base of the sphere and everyone thought it was part of the exhibit. I'd totally get a print of the baboon mechanics piece if I could find one.
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Holy moly the 4th season of Continuum is dire
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Frog Act posted:Continuum was a show I really wanted to like but just couldn’t reconcile the shows poor messaging and increasingly unqualified endorsement of the main characters gestapo membership with it’s cool aesthetic and premise. I think Altered Carbon was basically just better in every way, even though it was also very flawed The future dystopia flashbacks got really crazy by the third season, my favorite was when Kiera and her jackboot squad were busting up some event and she found their confidential informant and was told to execute him and said "no he's our guy on the inside, maybe we shouldn't murder our own asset are you sure about this" so they bypassed her central nervous system, turned her into a meat puppet and used her hijacked corpus to assassinate the dude, then gave her back control over her own body and she was just like "well that sucked" and went on jackbootin'
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I watched Pandorum last night because any movie starring Ben Foster has got to be at least pretty good, right? nope
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the Papillon remake is on Prime and it's instantly forgettable
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syscall girl posted:In no world do you watch that and think it needs remade The only thing that could have been interesting for the remake would have been if the filmmakers made a good faith effort to rein in the author's bullshit a bit, look at the prison records and other accounts of the time, and try to tell the true story of the guy instead of just credulously repeating everything in the autobiography as if it were 100% true. The author was upfront about the story being partially fabricated at the time of publishing, and the story's already been filmed once as if it were the unvarnished truth, and said movie was fantastic and iconic.
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A.B.C. Murders was a disappointment, Malkovich and the prime suspect were both really good in it but it was a rather boring mystery and it was 3 hours long when it should have been 2 also they retconned in an alternate universe backstory for Poirot and it adds nothing to the story
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Colostomy Bag posted:Yeah, I wouldn't say it's great but I've wasted three hours on much more trash. My main problem was After the 2 or 3rd murder you realize he isn't the killer because they never show him doing the deed. yeah, for me it was that the show spent a ton of time at the mansion and the killer they cast has been in practically every british mystery show I've seen in the last few years
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