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Paradox was fine, but a lot of the hosed up poo poo felt like it had no purpose beyond “lets show some hosed up poo poo”. I guess we’re to assume that Volkov was talking to his other-dimension self when he decided to try and kill Daniel Bruhl and that Mundy’s alternate self was controlling the disembodied arm, but none of it is ever explained. It’s fine, a 6/10, but it’s really just a PG-13 Event Horizon with the few good parts of Life sprinkled in.
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LionArcher posted:What does ARG stand for? Alternate Reality Game. It’s basically interactive marketing, lots of clues spread out on several web sites with hidden messages and audio. Each Cloverfield movie has done one and they’re usually fairly interesting.
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Feb 5, 2018 09:24
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Life has by far the dumbest movie scientists ever written in the history of film. It almost comes off as an intentional parody.
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Feb 5, 2018 18:49
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FrankeeFrankFrank posted:Didn't skinny leg scientist disobey some orders, or at least got permission to do something extra? It’s worse than that. He actually hides the dangerous alien from his crew and lets it feast on his legs overnight.
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Feb 5, 2018 19:38
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I don’t think it’s unreasonable to see a trained scientist and astronaut make questionable decisions that put his crew and the planet as a whole at risk and think “Wow, that’s not very wise.” I understand his motivation. I know what he’s trying to do. It’s still needlessly reckless and ultimately leads to every bad thing that happens afterward.
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Feb 5, 2018 21:10
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It Comes at Night was one of my favorite movies from last year, but I also went in with zero expectations and wasn’t even aware it existed until I showed up at the theater that day.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:47
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I recognized O’Dowd, Oyelowo, Brühl, and the German guy from The Martian, but I’m not sure I’d call the cast well known. Brühl is probably the best well-known among Americans for Inglorious Basterds and Civil War, followed by Oyelowo for Selma.
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Feb 25, 2018 01:28
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datajugend posted:this guy? thats the norwegian actor. it was big news when he was in that the rock is hercules movie and the martian. this time i didnt even know the movie was coming out before it did I phrased it poorly. I meant I recognized him from his role as the German astronaut in The Martian.
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Feb 25, 2018 01:59
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Cocoa Ninja posted:Very loose adaptation of the first book. Alex Garland admitted he read the book once then adapted the screenplay based on his recollection of that initial read. This is a little disappointing but not entirely surprising since so much of the book is just internal monologuing. Does the film at least maintain the same unsettling vibe?
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Mar 3, 2018 23:02
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I have a soft spot for the ‘98 Lost in Space, but it is most definitely a Bad Movie that will put you to sleep if you’ve never seen it before. I also remember it being packed into every single new DVD player for years. I think we had 3 copies at one point.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:11
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X-Files is on Hulu and seasons 1-5 are still fantastic. Even the mytharc stuff holds up through season 3. Seconding Legion, I just started that. Man Seeking Woman is pretty great, though I can’t vouch for the final season yet.
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Mar 7, 2018 09:45
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Dirty Money was good, but the Trump episode didn’t feel as in-depth as the others. The payday loan episode makes up for it though.
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Mar 7, 2018 21:20
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Brigsby Bear’s only major fault is that there wasn’t enough Mark Hamill as a giant rear end in a top hat sun taunting the main character
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Mar 8, 2018 13:54
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The "monster of the week" episodes were far better than the over-arching narrative ones that just needlessly dragged conspiracies and plot threads (Samantha) along forever. The first 2-3 seasons had high density and high quality "monster of the weeks". After that the diminishing returns ramp up fast. I maintain that the Mytharc episodes are still great all the way through the first two seasons. Third season is where it starts to go off the rails, but it’s still basically comprehensible. It coasts like that all the way up to the movie, then immediately after that there’s no possible reason you should ever rewatch a mytharc episode. Those season 1 mytharc episodes, though, the ones with Deep Throat and little parcels of conspiracy answers? They’re gold.
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Apr 3, 2018 06:16
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I don’t know if it’s the best ever, but The Wolf Pack is a really fascinating documentary
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Apr 12, 2018 14:40
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Does Lost in Space ever really pick up? That first episode was pretty rough and uninteresting.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:02
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Jose Oquendo posted:Anyone watch Lost in Space yet? I’ve watched the first four episodes and it alternates between boring b-plots and forced familial drama. It’s also extremely predictable and Parker Posey is the only castmember who isn’t a total snooze. I’d pass.
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Apr 13, 2018 22:23
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The other night we noticed that we had not watched the last episode of Nailed It so we sat down to watch and I was laughing so hard that I was crying. That loving Trump cake, holy poo poo. The Sessions/Gollum/Trump cake was all over the internet but I was not at all expecting the glossy Richie Rich baby Trump cake
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Apr 17, 2018 18:08
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Lost in Space is “what if The Martian except Vancouver and he has a robot”. I mean there’s literally an entire plot involving them lightening the ship by tossing everything nonessential so someone can pilot it manually to achieve escape velo.
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Apr 19, 2018 02:28
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These edited episodes are a total mess. The pacing is off and they’ve even redone scenes with bad green-screen to get the cast together. I honestly wish they would have left it alone.
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May 4, 2018 06:52
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Yikes, they somehow turned that trash into even worse trash? I will always defend the Tobias and Gob plots from that season, but yes, they’ve managed to screw up a lot of the jokes that actually worked the first time.
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May 4, 2018 06:57
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The Evil Bong movies have been standard “bottom of the list” entries on Netflix for years, even before their catalog started to dwindle. The first one is... okay? I’ve never seen the others.
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May 16, 2018 05:55
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I loved Breaking Bad, but Ozark avoids what turned me off it mid-season one- at no point does the main character turn down the smart option out of pride and make me cringe so hard I turn it off. That’s... the entire point of Breaking Bad though?  Walt’s hubris is the driving force of the entire show, and without it season 1 would be a three episode arc of a man who slowly dies.
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May 18, 2018 01:39
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Cargo was solid. My only complaints are that the ending feels a little rushed and there’s a couple moments throughout that make the entire thing feel like it all happens within half a square mile. If you set your zombie drama in the outback, you should at least take advantage of the setting.
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May 19, 2018 08:20
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Nihonniboku posted:Mad Men is one of the few shows that each season is better than the previous. And for a drama, it's also one of the funniest shows I've ever seen, that Campbell and Pryce fistfight being one of those moments. I’d agree with you if not for that last season. It drags badly until the last couple episodes.
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May 20, 2018 20:36
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I don’t blame her. The average 9 year old has already had to read that terrible book in school. What a boring, boring slog.
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May 24, 2018 01:39
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Yeah. I’ll defend season 4, but this new season is easily the weakest thing they’ve done. It gets better around episode 6, but when your season is only 8 episodes you’ve probably lost most of the audience by then. It also feels incredibly low-budget and small-scale. Most of the side characters either appear in one or two early scenes or don’t appear at all until the last few episodes. They also jettisoned almost all of the characters introduced last season (Dubris, Herbert Love, Lindsay’s face-blind boyfriend, Lucille 2’s brother, Oscar’s friends) and Oscar hasn’t shown up at all, though I’m only on episode 7. The weak re-edits of last season should have been a sign this was going to suck.
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May 30, 2018 06:22
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One of the few things I like this season is Maebe pretending to be a senior and hanging with Sitwell. She does a good Florida retiree impression.
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May 31, 2018 02:36
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I maintain that Ruffalo’s Banner is boring as poo poo and has only been good in Ragnarok. Norton’s portrayal had flaws, but it was a far more interesting take on the character.
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Jun 8, 2018 02:47
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I don’t really care one way or another about Gilbert Gottfried, but the Gilbert doc on Hulu is outstanding. I know it’s been out for a while, but a friend just introduced me to it today.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s really good and I don’t understand anyone’s issue with it at all. It’s like everything they hated is what I liked about it. It’s because the internet as a whole has decided they’re going to eviscerate any Star Wars movie or media project that isn’t the original theatrical OT releases or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, regardless of actual quality. Doubly so for all Disney-era films because .
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Jun 28, 2018 01:23
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Dare we hope for Futurama levels of quality? Somehow I doubt it. The Comedy Central seasons were incredibly uneven, even if we did occasionally get something great like The Late Philip J Fry or the series finale. I like the announced cast for this new show, but the animation looks really rough and cheap and I just can't be bothered to muster up enthusiasm for it.
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Jun 29, 2018 18:54
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I’ve always liked JP3  It’s undeniably a bad movie, but at least it’s a bad horror movie with dinosaurs instead of a generic action movie with dinosaurs like all the other sequels.
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Jul 12, 2018 03:19
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The Wolf Pack on Netflix is a really great documentary.
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Jul 21, 2018 22:10
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The Mist is fantastic, though it’s not a 1:1 adaptation of King’s short story. That ending 
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The MSJ posted:Very cryptic trailer for Maniac, starring Emma Stone and a thin Jonah Hill. quote:Maniac follows "Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim, two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray, claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently." Color me intrigued. I get a Legion season 1 vibe, minus all the actual X-Men content.
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Jul 31, 2018 03:01
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The MSJ posted:Yoga Hosers is mostly a project Depp and Kevin Smith made to star their teenage daughters Lily Rose and Harley Quinn. Can you even imagine a) having Kevin Smith for a father and b) being named after his cartoon jerkoff fantasy?
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Aug 5, 2018 02:56
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Franchescanado posted:I learned very quickly by following the thread for Twin Peaks: The Return that TVIV is the worst place on SomethingAwful full of goons that don't know poo poo about anything. Most TV/IV goons spend the episode thumbing through their phones and then come back to the thread to make grand statements about the writing while simultaneously asking about very obvious plot points they missed because they weren’t paying attention. It’s not as bad in threads about dead shows, but it’s still a garbage forum. tweet my meat posted:As opposed to CD, the last bastion of intelligent discussion on the finer arts. Nah, CD is garbage as well. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Aug 14, 2018 |
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Aug 14, 2018 18:38
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Does Venture Bros count as a sitcom? Because it’s still firing on all cylinders.
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Elfo was the only good part of Disenchanted until they decided to completely change him from “naive and yearning to discover” to “pining after Bean at all times” around episode 4. At that point I decided I’d rather just rewatch Futurama for billionth time. I don’t think it’s a total write-off, but I don’t see a point in watching it until the whole season is out. It’s weaker than the Comedy Central era of Futurama. WarEternal posted:The voice acting on that show, for some reason, seems completely detached. I'm not sure why, I've never really experienced the sensation before. I noticed the same thing, and I think it boils down to Eric Andre and Abbi Jacobson being new to voice acting. I love them both, but VA work has a huge learning curve. That’s why celebrity guest spots on animated shows almost always sound flat and boring. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Aug 20, 2018 |
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