Tokelau All Star posted:

We had elderly relatives staying with us for the last week so we started watching Great British Bake-Off, and you know what, it's loving great.

Papercut posted:

I liked how for some reason they'd send these covert tactical teams to infiltrate a base to destroy some tech and then just nuke the base afterwards anyway

Wolfsheim posted:

also a lot of good seasons of television ended the last couple weeks

The Curse is amazing, as previously mentioned. Ten hours of the cringiest deadpan you've ever seen from Nathan Fielder and friends followed by an ending that is somehow both thematically relevant and a huge gently caress-you. Loved it.

Fargo did pretty well this season. It ends a little too cleanly for my tastes (the good guys win and the bad guys lose) but it's still a huge improvement over the absolute dud of the Chris Rock season. It also feels like it has the most overt Coen callbacks to date, with so many scenes and ideas and structures lifted almost directly from their works, though usually by being turned on their head a little bit which is fun. Fun fact: the Coens hate this show and do not want people to mention it around them!

Reacher okay I wouldn't call this a good show but it's entertaining, sometimes entertainingly stupid but there it is. The ending is absolutely ridiculous, with the villain who had been killing his way to this arms deal dying so immediately and without a fight that you wonder why they showed his journey at all, Reacher and his team both doing wacky 'sure you can go...psych!'-style execution against the remaining bad guys and Reacher stealing millions in unmarked bearer bonds and doling them out to friends and loved ones like a homeless caveman Santa Claus while the government just kind of winks and lets him do it. I'm half-tempted to actually start reading the books if any of them are half as bonkers as this.

FLIPADELPHIA posted:

Watching Masters of the Air now and so far it's good. I do think the show suffers from a lack of introduction to the characters though - in BoB you get to see the men bond together in boot camp and training, so by the time they get to combat they are fleshed out and their bond is already evident. In MoA they are thrown into the meat grinder almost immediately- which definitely packs a punch, but just hits differently.

The cast is outstanding as is the production itself. It's gorgeous to look at, almost too beautiful.

smackfu posted:

Eternals was a pure standalone and no one cared about it.

Think the trick is making good movies.

Papercut posted:

Same, and I usually watch the MCU movies just for dumb fun. It was dumb and not fun.

Wolfsheim posted:

Isnt there a guy itt who would rather die than ever see a 30 second commercial play before anything, I remember when I said I only have hulu because you can get the basic version for $1/month every black Friday he acted like I'd committed a sin against man

magiccarpet posted:

They jacked CD prices up to 17.99 and limewire/kazzaa/napster happened. Most people had dial up. Now we've all got VPNs riding our fiber lines. Crazy they are trying to push it again.

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Baron von Eevl posted:

Predator 2 might be the sweatiest movie ever made, just positively drenched. Bill Paxton is sweating through his suit jacket, they're probably even sweating in that deep freezer.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

A Time to Kill is still the sweatiest movie

eighty-four merc posted:

Wasn’t Lost really popular with normies? That’s how I remember it c. 2005-2006 anyway

Martman posted:

but is it fetch

1glitch0 posted:

I somehow watched many seasons of Rick and Morty without ever being exposed to the discussion about it on the internet and was very confused when I finally heard some of it. Great show.

Enos Cabell posted:

I saw Blair Witch Project, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Event Horizon in the theater on lsd, fun times!

MacheteZombie posted:

dont be weird

toggle posted:

I started a rewatch of Natural Born Killers, for like the 3rd time in 5 years, and I just can’t do it. First couple of times I tapped out at the snake bite sequence, this time was the drug store shoot out. I have seen it before, about 20 years ago, but it just kinda sucks and it’s a real slog. It looks pretty though.

withak posted:

My recollection is that Halo is about shooting up a lot of aliens and driving around in a fun jeep.

david_a posted:

Roar is an utterly insane film with an absurd amount of untrained big cats on screen made by a real-life lunatic. It’s supposed to be a lighthearted comedy. 70 members of the cast and crew were injured, some severely. Despite this, the movie is somehow fairly boring

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Oh it was awful to watch in real time over years, just always hoping the show would get its edge back somehow, unable to stop watching, tuning in week after week for the most treacly bullshit about the magic of friendship. I've never had less of a desire to rewatch anything other than the later seasons of Parks and Rec, tied with Come and See.

10 Beers posted:

Also good to see Mikey from Justified again!

mystes posted:

Tell that to the average restaurant patron

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Just discovered that Exosquad, the finest children's cartoon of the 1990's, is on Peacock.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I don't remember that, but it's possible.

Exosquad is the show that had incredibly detailed characters and told a nuanced story about racism and the trauma of war while still spending lots of screen time showing you all the cool mech suits and vehicles that could buy at your local toy store

If you think BTAS was a show that treated its young audience with respect and didn't pull any punches in its storytelling, Exosquad is that but turned up a few notches.

There was so much crap, absolute complete crap cartoons for children in the 80's and 90's. GI Joe was a ham and cheese lunchable, Exosquad was prosciutto wrapped around a slice of musky melon. While still being toyetic as hell! Of course it was an absolute failure.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I've been recently enraptured by the idea of a "phone movie" or a "phone show" which is something you can put on while sitting around doing stuff on your phone half paying attention and not miss a whole lot. 2019's Midway is an excellent phone movie. What other movies or shows fall in that category?