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DC Murderverse posted:i got on a Beatles kick today and i've gotta say, one of the big streamers needs to team up with the BBC and do the big blowout Beatles limited series that the story of that band deserves. I've always wondered about how a Beatles movie would look but I think you could make about 5 different movies about various parts of the history of the band, so it almost just makes more sense for someone to make 13 episodes and try and fit as many of their songs in as possible. It took an act of God just to get them to allow Beatles Rock Band to be made. Yoko would never agree to anything that didn't paint Lennon in anything but the brightest light.
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precision posted:I'm rewatching some peak 30 Rock and holy crap how did I forget how great this show was There's a reason Bob Greenblatt keeps begging Tina Fey to bring it back.
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Surprising no one, Megan Ganz had it out with Dan Harmon on Twitter.
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bull3964 posted:AFAIK, he's not really involved with that series to a significant degree. Someone else was writing it I think. Yeah, Jeff Buhler wrote the TV movie that served as the pilot and they put together a writers room a while back to assemble scripts. Martin has an executive producer credit because he wrote the short story but he isn't really part of it. Rhyno posted:Man, I've pretty much had enough of Dan Harmon for the rest of my life. Yeah, his pseudo-apologies are really starting to wear thin, especially in that exchange with Ganz--he can't actually own up to what he did, he's saying she has to publicly accuse him and say what he did to her before he'll cop to it, which is 31 flavors of manipulative bullshit.
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IRQ posted:Wait I'm allowed to get pissed that my boss is a dumb piece of poo poo who treats me like garbage? Or did I miss Harmon doing something else? - Harmon says 2018 should be the year of "Not as Much of an rear end in a top hat" - Megan Ganz basically dares him to 'fess up to his behavior towards her on Community, saying that "redemption follows allocution"--as in, say what you did, you rear end in a top hat - Harmon offers some mealy-mouthed pseudo-sort of apologies - Ganz isn't buying it, says she was treated horribly and wants him to actually own up - Harmon responds by saying he'll "co-sign" or attest to any statement she puts out there, claiming he has a foggy memory--as in, "fine, I'll cop to it, but you have to relive it and write it and post it publicly where people will probably shame you and call you a slut whore worthless bitch" Basically, pure manipulative bullshit. He's fine with admitting he's an rear end in a top hat, but he doesn't want to proactively talk about just how much of an rear end in a top hat he is, he wants someone else to do it for him.
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Rhyno posted:Also the Beavis & Butthead revival was not good. Mostly because Judge forgot how to do the Beavis voice. Could just be vocal inability. Frank Oz's Yoda has sounded like Miss Piggy since 1999.
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precision posted:also i don't recall this being posted in here Looks better than that promo shot of Tennant and Sheen. All I can see from Tennant is Geddy Lee:  swickles posted:Wasn't there someone else kind of famous that voiced a character, but was never credited because if they credited him then they would have to pay him the minimum amount for a SAG member, which they couldn't afford? The big example of this that comes to mind is the first Metal Gear Solid, in which everyone but David Hayter (who wasn't SAG) had to be credited under a pseudonym because they couldn't afford guild rates. Timby fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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muscles like this! posted:More bad American Gods S2 news, Gillian Anderson has stated that she will not be returning. At this point I figure it's an open question as to whether or not a second season actually gets made.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Star Citizen: The Game: The TV Show by Bryan Fuller That's only slightly more insane than that ridiculous You Don't Know Jack TV series from like 15 years ago, with Paul Reubens playing a fictional host against real contestants.
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IRQ posted:I don't have sound and I didn't read the title of the video so at first I thought the joke was that she would get such an easy question wrong, but she didn't, then I got confused and read the title and uhhhh, even without what I assume is a creepy heavy breathing voiceover that's all kinds of creepy Worse. It's all set to "Just the Two of Us."
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Jan 8, 2018 20:32
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Lurdiak posted:So now that I'm done with The Good Wife, I need a new procedural or legal drama to keep my nervous system intact. I tried watchimg Midsomer Murders, but so far the pilot is sapping my will to live. And it's 100 minutes long. I don't know what's available in Canuckistan, but off the top of my head: Gotham, Broadchurch, Luther, Rake, White Collar, Longmire, The Fall, Rectify, Southland.
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Jan 12, 2018 16:24
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Aziz Ansari being a creep is possibly the least-surprising news ever. He's intolerable on both Scrubs and Parks & Rec and his stand-up has always come across as phony "white people you so crazy" stuff.
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Yo, all fifteen seasons of ER hit Hulu this morning, marking the first time it's ever been on a streaming service.
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Real Name Grover posted:Jesus, I was wondering when that was gonna happen. Wonder why they held out so long. Complicated ownership issues (as it was a co-production of Amblin and WB).
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Shageletic posted:So I've been sans Netflix for most of 2017. Caught up with Death Note and Dear White People which I found to be both delightful. What else did I miss in the legendarily bad year of 2017 on the plaform? American Vandal, Better Call Saul, Kimmy Schmidt, GLOW, Stranger Things 2, Mindhunter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Punisher, BoJack, MST3K Season 11, American Crime Story: People v. OJ, The Crown, Atypical...
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Now that Rarity's 2017 TV poll is over, what would people consider their all-time greatest and/or favorite shows? I'm not sure I could rank them, but immediately off the top of my head: Homicide: Life on the Street (that one's the clear-cut number one, full stop) Law & Order Seinfeld Frasier 30 Rock Parks & Rec ER (first eight seasons far outweigh the miasma of poo poo that followed) Battlestar Galactica Breaking Bad The Muppet Show
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nate fisher posted:But no The Wire? I enjoy The Wire and think it has some very memorable characters and episodes, but Andre Braugher, Kyle Secor, Melissa Leo and Yaphet Kotto out-act all of them. I also appreciate Homicide for showing much more of Baltimore City and the County, whereas The Wire mostly lived in the western part of the city (which had a lot of goobers saying "Baltimore's such a shithole lollllllll" after watching the show).
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lelandjs posted:Yup. After Casino Royale fixed how Bond interacts with and acts towards women, they threw it all down the shitter in Skyfall. It's not my only issue with the film, but it's a big one. It's not just Bond. Off the top of my head, in Skyfall: - In the beginning, Moneypenny misses the shot, hits Bond. M made the call when it was likely a pretty awful decision. At the end, Moneypenny goes from being a field agent to a man's secretary. - Severine--in addition to the rather horrible shower invasion--appears to be strong and in control, but is actually being controlled, is summarily executed and all that happens is Bond makes a rather tasteless one-liner. - M is shown to make decisions out of maternal feelings; she is not seen as a leader, but rather as a mother figure to both the protagonist and antagonist, who in turn can't make decisions disconnected from her gender. - At the inquiry regarding MI6, the head of the inquiry is a woman and she goes on a tirade at M, and she gets put in her place by a man, essentially being told "shut up." - M can't handle a gun, is unable to defend herself, and dies. Not long after, she's replaced by a man. That whole script is terrible.
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lelandjs posted:Even the last few seasons of Seinfeld were pretty drat good TV, even if they weren't as great as the previous seasons. Late Seinfeld is like Season 7 of Homicide: Life on the Street: Not as good as the seasons that came before it, but still better than just about anything else on television at the time.
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GreenNight posted:I've never seen an episode of Seinfeld, but I was taken to his standup which I thought sucked. His standup is absolutely terrible, and he's an obnoxious human being in general (when he was staying at the hotel I worked at a few years ago, he treated the wait staff at the restaurant and the front desk / bell staff like absolute poo poo). I still think it's creepy that he and Matt Lauer look like long-lost twins now.
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lelandjs posted:To wrap this back around to TV, has there been any further news on Amazon courting EON for the Bond rights? I feel like them doing a film/series is probably the best case scenario for the property. Sounds like Amazon is out of the running as EON decided not to sell the franchise outright. MGM and Annapurna are doing the domestic distribution for the next movie, and Universal, Sony and WB are all vying for the international rights.
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Escobarbarian posted:I dunno how Annapurna managed to bag something big like that but good on em. A bunch of MGM's former marketing and distribution executives now work for Annapurna, and they announced last year they were launching a new MGM Annapurna distribution entity together. Basically, MGM was tired of being so broke that they had to rely on their co-producers like WB and Sony to actually handle distribution so Annapurna put in a huge investment. The big money from Bond movies (at least two-thirds) comes from outside North America, which is why so many other large studios are still trying to get those international rights for Bond 25.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Fixed. I just want something to recapture the lightning that was House S1-4. The Resident (which premieres on Sunday on Fox) is getting extremely good buzz, for what it's worth.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Roger Moore was probably too old to play Bond by the time he got to View To a Kill Moore knew it, too. Not only did he only do the movie because of contractual obligation, when he found out he was literally older than Tanya Roberts' mother, he begged the producers to either re-cast Roberts to someone more age-appropriate or just dump him entirely and find a new Bond.
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esperterra posted:lol Anderson/Duchovny/Carter say this all the time and then change their minds tbf At Comic-Con or TCA or something last year, Anderson said that literally the only reason she agreed to do season 11 was because she was so unhappy with the tenth year and felt a need to make things right and put a better stamp on the show. I believe her when she says she's done, she doesn't need this poo poo.
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IRQ posted:In fairness HLN is a really garbage news channel. They haven't been a news channel ever since they rebranded from CNN Headline News to HLN. Now it's just sensationalism. loving Zucker.
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Looten Plunder posted:You aren't alone there, this isn't the massive cultural sensation that was the OJ trial. Sepinwalls cohost mentioned this as one of the downsides. Season 1 was something that could appeal to everyone because it could be a different show to different audiences (coutroom drama fans, true crime fans, pop culture fans, people reminiscing and seeing the "behind the scenes" of everything they remember etc.) where as this show is one thing and one thing only. If you are a fan of that thing, it's a great show. Yeah, I mean, I remember hearing all about it on the Today Show's morning headlines before I left to catch the school bus, but honestly all I really knew about Versace was that he designed Judge Dredd's costume for the Stallone movie. God help us if Murphy's plan to do Katrina for Season 3 pans out.
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DivisionPost posted:Those two have a friendship that goes all the way back to film school, and that’s what they’ve always been referred to as. Fred Dekker is weird for me. On one hand ... Monster Squad. On the other hand ... RoboCop 3.
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DivisionPost posted:From what little I heard about RoboCop 3, I’m not sure you could blame Dekker for that. It was a movie made on the cheap, for sure (Robert John Burke had like a day and a half to learn the RoboCop movements from Moni Yakim, and since he was built like a linebacker and was three inches taller than Weller, the suit didn't fit him at all--and with Robosuits costing about $300 grand a pop, lol at the idea of getting a new one made), but Dekker wrote it from notes that Frank Miller gave him, and he directed it, so... Timby fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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Lurdiak posted:Also they made it pg-13 for no reason. There was a huge toyline associated with the movie; Orion, in its infinite wisdom, was aiming for a broader audience. Then Orion went bankrupt and the movie was on the shelf for a year and a half after completion before it was shoved out in the dregs of November. Rhyno posted:Hey let's talk about what they did to the suit for Prime Directives! That's my favorite anecdote. The production had money for exactly one Robosuit, so they spent the money on RoboCable. Rob Bottin agreed to lend the production his original suit from the original movie, the suit from which all other molds were made, for Page Fletcher's use, on the condition that they don't beat the poo poo out of it. Well, Page Fletcher is like 5'7" on a good day and the suit was too big for him. What did Julian Grant tell the prop crew to do? Take a hacksaw to the legs and remove a few inches so Fletcher could fit. Bottin was less than pleased when the suit was returned to him. Timby fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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esperterra posted:And yeah Pratt is typecast af. I don't know if I can call him one note til I see him attempting a different type of role tho. Does he have any dramatic stuff under his belt to look at, anyway? There's the sci-fi movie Passengers from a year or two ago, in which he literally dooms a woman to certain death because he's horny.
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Lurdiak posted:
Then you haven't seen Syriana.
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Paul Bettany will be replacing Matt Smith in The Crown.
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esperterra posted:gently caress yesssssss! Margaret will be Helena Bonham-Carter.
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Rhyno posted:When Daredevil dropped I tried so hard to power through it and it was painful to watch after a while. Now I just do 2-3 at a time of any new show. I do that with a lot of older shows, too. Any more than that and the writing tics start to stick out too much (Royal Pains is particularly bad about this ... if you want liver failure, take a shot every time there's an exchange like "we need to get him to a hospital" / "he'll never make it in time, we've gotta do it now, get the <random medical instrument>").
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IRQ posted:I watched that week to week as it aired (for part of season 1 anyway) and trust me you notice it just as much that way. At least after the first few episodes they dropped the gimmick of Hank narrating every single thing he was doing.
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swickles posted:I wonder if any of that is due to the holidays. A large part of it is that they're finally gaining a foothold in international territories (where they spent a fuckton of money over the last ~6 quarters building out).
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zoux posted:Yeah they don't flinch at the surgery gore at all. Soderbergh is almost always his own cinematographer, under the stage name Peter Andrews.
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Paul Bettany has walked from season 3 of The Crown (which has yet to be officially approved), citing "scheduling difficulties."
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Rhyno posted:Why is this funny? I've lived in three places that allowed me to do it. Your landlords are the exception to the rule, then. I've lived in precisely one rental property that allowed me to make any changes to the property (putting in a satellite dish on a pole in the backyard), and even then the landlord demanded a six-month extension to my lease. Generally speaking, landlords are scum.
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