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Helsing posted:Apparently his next project is going to be a comedy film about the death of Stalin, which sounds C-SPAM as gently caress. Stalin trained his guards not to enter his apartment even if they thought something was wrong, and he would troll them to figure out which ones would defy the order. So when he had a stroke nobody went in and he died, so that's pretty goddamn funny off the bat.
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Helsing posted:Veep is a great sitcom but you can tell that Iannucci keeps developing more and more outlandish political situations to try and contort the Presidency / Vice Presidency into resembling the British system. The plot arc of season 5 in particular would make perfect sense in a parliamentary system but is completely implausible as a plot line for the American executive branch. I mean, Congress almost got to pick the president. It wasn't that far off. I'd argue they predicted and captured the chaos of the 2016 election perfectly even though, plot-wise, it wasn't any sort of mirror of the election itself. Also, everyone stabbing everyone in the back during last season is exactly what's going on right now. Finally, Meyer sitting alone on the bleachers with the Washington Monument in the background trying not to cry was an insanely loaded moment for a show that's just one joke after the next for 5 seasons. Maybe someone who interprets it in a similar way but understands how to explain film better than me can explain how it works better than I could. It's a really good show. 
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Stephanie Meyer is an awful person, so I felt Schadenfreude.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Stephanie Meyer is an awful person, so I felt Schadenfreude. cmon, twilight's not that bad
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Helsing posted:Apparently his next project is going to be a comedy film about the death of Stalin, which sounds C-SPAM as gently caress.
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Mayor Dave posted:cmon, twilight's not that bad *Selena 
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rudatron posted:*in zizek voice* Now, you see, Stalin has died twice: First as tragedy, zhen as farce Actually just once, for our sins
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It's fine, it just has a tendency to live in fantasy liberal land a bit too much. The challenges it presents in the show are always swatted away far too easily and it presents too many politicians as being noble and intelligent defenders of the state, as opposed to the reality in which they're spineless slime monsters in it for themselves. You're choice is between the happy world of The West Wing or the nihilistic everything-is-poo poo world of House of Cards. Or Veep I suppose.
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Aaron Sorkin had some burning questions about the lack of diversity in writers’ rooms — an issue that he apparently didn’t know much about until he visited the Writers Guild Festival on Saturday inside the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood. “Are you saying that women and minorities have a more difficult time getting their stuff read than white men and you’re also saying that [white men] get to make mediocre movies and can continue on?” he asked the audience. The weekend-long festival, hosted in partnership with the Academy Education and Nicholl Fellowships Programs, featured headline panels with screenwriter notables including James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) and sneak peek screenings of Starz’s “American Gods” and Fox’s “Shots Fired,” as well as a pitch competition and industry networking opportunities. Sorkin, Academy-Award winning screenwriter and executive producer (“The West Wing,” “The Newsroom,” “A Few Good Men”) was in disbelief at the event during a discussion moderated by KCRW host and film critic Elvis Mitchell. Sorkin asserted that Hollywood is a genuine meritocracy and that he was unaware of Hollywood’s existing diversity problem.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:Aaron Sorkin had some burning questions about the lack of diversity in writers’ rooms — an issue that he apparently didn’t know much about until he visited the Writers Guild Festival on Saturday inside the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood. is this from the onion?
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The middle ground between the West wing and house of cards is actually Shin Godzilla.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:Aaron Sorkin had some burning questions about the lack of diversity in writers’ rooms — an issue that he apparently didn’t know much about until he visited the Writers Guild Festival on Saturday inside the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood. God drat. There are monkeys in the zoo that jerk themselves off in public less than this guy.
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Right now the highest profile black filmmakers (in the US) are Key & Peele. And to get there they had to be stand-ups, work on MadTV in the early 2000s, do some more standup, showrun one of the most popular sketch comedy shows on Comedy Central, and then they got to do big budget Hollywood movies. Meanwhile Max Landis gets to write several major motion pictures because he's John Landis's son.
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suburban virgin posted:God drat. There are monkeys in the zoo that jerk themselves off in public less than this guy. While I like the West Wing, I will never argue that Sorkin is not terminally up his own rear end.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:Aaron Sorkin had some burning questions about the lack of diversity in writers’ rooms — an issue that he apparently didn’t know much about until he visited the Writers Guild Festival on Saturday inside the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood. lol yes hollywood is a genuine meritocracy and not completely about knowing the right people and kissing the right asses
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I don't think I could tolerate an Aaron Sorkin show. I tried watching The Newsroom once and it was just a bad Network wannabe with none of Network's foresight or good acting. Just terrible.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:lol yes hollywood is a genuine meritocracy and not completely about knowing the right people and kissing the right asses The fact that over half of all a listers have family in production is entirely unrelated.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:lol yes hollywood is a genuine meritocracy and not completely about knowing the right people and kissing the right asses Right now there's a West Wing podcast being done by a former cast member and he has had most of the other former cast members guest star on it. Every single time, he asks them how they got cast in The West Wing, and literally every time each cast member has said some variation of "I had worked with Sorkin before on something" or they had otherwise known him or had some other type of connection to get cast. None of them just auditioned without a connection. There is 0 self awareness with these people. E: VVV Funnily, Sheen has been the only major cast member not yet to be on the podcast. WampaLord has issued a correction as of 15:10 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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there's 0 self awareness with sorkin. martin sheen's been pretty clear in interviews that hollywood is incestuous.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I don't think I could tolerate an Aaron Sorkin show. I tried watching The Newsroom once and it was just a bad Network wannabe with none of Network's foresight or good acting. Just terrible. Yeah Newsroom is smug, self-congratulatory garbage.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Yeah Newsroom is smug, self-congratulatory garbage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ivBoB5hCw
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I don't think I could tolerate an Aaron Sorkin show. I tried watching The Newsroom once and it was just a bad Network wannabe with none of Network's foresight or good acting. Just terrible. The movie "Network" correct? God that's a great movie.
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WampaLord posted:Right now there's a West Wing podcast being done by a former cast member and he has had most of the other former cast members guest star on it. Every single time, he asks them how they got cast in The West Wing, and literally every time each cast member has said some variation of "I had worked with Sorkin before on something" or they had otherwise known him or had some other type of connection to get cast. None of them just auditioned without a connection. Donna had one scene on one episode on Sports Night. I liked her but, yeah, he just recycles actors.
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tadashi posted:Donna had one scene on one episode on Sports Night. I liked her but, yeah, he just recycles actors. Donna is in the much better politics show Alpha House which I hope trudeu gets off his rear end and makes a third season of!!!!
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have you seen the bench lately? who else could they have asked other than the greatest (fictional) democrat president
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Right now the highest profile black filmmakers (in the US) are Key & Peele. And to get there they had to be stand-ups, work on MadTV in the early 2000s, do some more standup, showrun one of the most popular sketch comedy shows on Comedy Central, and then they got to do big budget Hollywood movies. No, but, you see, it's a meritocracy...
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tadashi posted:Donna had one scene on one episode on Sports Night. I liked her but, yeah, he just recycles actors. Monica Brazelton owns
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"West Wing" was a fun show for entertainment purposes. If anyone thought that was actually how Washington worked, they were too dumb to watch the show. Also I've met Brad Whitford and Josh Malina and they're really nice IRL. Boom, beat that.
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Majorian posted:"West Wing" was a fun show for entertainment purposes. If anyone thought that was actually how Washington worked, they were too dumb to watch the show. Pretty clearly wrong I think. People are informed by what they see, and what they see is television. I suspect an awful lot of bright young things have headed off to Washington with their heads stuffed full of Sorkin. It would explain why the Democrat's messaging sucks so bad. It's just one "Everyone who doesn't agree with me is dumb" Sorkin rant after another out of those guys.
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there was a surge in enrollments in criminal forensic programs following the massive success of the hit tv show CSI 
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ScrubLeague posted:Season 2 of Cards starts out with a real banger but then quickly devolves into who gives a gently caress  also, how the hell will they top what's happening now, at this point? i don't envy those writers the massive undertaking of writing a suspenseful political thriller in the age of trump
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WMain00 posted:It's fine, it just has a tendency to live in fantasy liberal land a bit too much. The challenges it presents in the show are always swatted away far too easily and it presents too many politicians as being noble and intelligent defenders of the state, as opposed to the reality in which they're spineless slime monsters in it for themselves. i'm a house of cards man myself; veep is too quaint, and the west wing is a joke at this point in light of current affairs
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Veep owns house of cards sucks hard
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paul_soccer10 posted:Veep owns house of cards sucks hard
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If there's anyone we can forgive for enjoying a show about a power-hungry, bisexual, amoral, southern U.S politician I think it's Senator Lindsey Graham.
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matt walsh is the greatest living actor today
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paul_soccer10 posted:matt walsh is the greatest living actor today Looking forward to his new book! https://twitter.com/drsuedvm/status/846795537764548612
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