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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Tokyo Vice was good but not great. Some of the acting is really good (Watanabe, Sugata, Kasamatsu) but the main character is really boring and his the whole subplot with the escort girls is just not that interesting. The show is apparently based on real events so they had some constraints with the plot but it's just not a gripping crime drama in the style of Michal Mann. It's more about expats living in Tokyo that occasionally come into contact with criminals. makes me want to re-watch Giri/Haji, which is also, in broad strokes, a crime drama that has to do with cultural differences between Japan and "the West" (in this case the UK specifically).
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Giri/Haji is on Netflix, Dark is more of a mystery box show but feels like Mare of Easttown. I think I have gone to bat for giri/haji a number of times in this here thread and I'll do it again. bit of a weird ending that may not be for everyone but overall a worthwhile watch.
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oh drat, the Chapo guys would never say something offensive unintentionally or ironically. great point.
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yeah my thoughts on Hellraiser 2022 directly after watching it: - Visual effects were gorgeous, which really buoyed it. really would have disliked it otherwise - The main character was not that compelling or interesting. Also she looked like a muppet for 95% of the film thanks to the costume/make-up direction. - Probably most importantly, it never felt scary at all. Not enough well used dark shots, poorly lit claustrophobic spaces, etc. The overly dark stuff felt pointless, and then once it got extremely brightly lit, what little suspense was drained out of the film. And once the Cenobites were confirmed to not be a drug addled hallucination, they just kind of appeared and meandered around. They never felt like a threat, more of an obstacle. - Not enough bondage gear and/or leather. as pointed out in the thread, how did that manage to make a sexless Hellraiser flick??? - Not gory enough - Soundtrack should have been wayyyyy better. I would have liked something more like the Guest, with dancy goth/industrial stuff popping up here and there, since the franchise has been such a staple/influence of that musical scene, it would have been a logical inclusion. We got ultra generic poo poo instead. - Jamie Clayton did a great job with the role as given, but effectively she just wandered around the set like the rest of the Cenobites. Best scene with her was with Norah, the girl who gets stuck in the hidden passageway and then jabbed by the dude impaled by the sewing machine. ultimately, felt like very high quality direct-to-DVD Hellraiser movie. C/C- film at best. I would have liked a far more tense, dramatic horror where the main character's addiction issues lead to it not being clear at all what's real or not, culminating in a visually insane, gorefest with the Cenobites. Instead we got part of the plot of Hellraiser 2, and part of the plot of OG Hellraiser, with none of the stakes or tension that made either of them interesting.
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Wolfsheim posted:The Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special was very obviously shooting around Chris Pratt's limited availability or something because they go all in on Drax and Mantis and let's just say a little bit goes a long way. I have a modicum of interest in this as the Old 97's, a band that I've enjoyed for many years, makes an appearance, in costume as aliens or something?
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There was no particular outcry against Chang painting himself blue/black as a Drow (I would imagine also because the punchline to the joke was "you shouldn't do something that could be construed as blackface, because people will find it offensive"), but in the summer of 2020, Netflix and other services rushed to remove any instances of blackface (30 Rock and Scrubs both had multiple episodes pulled from streaming, and those jokes were far less clever).
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Jan 26, 2023 20:43
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Jenna multiple times, and John Hamm!
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Enos Cabell posted:Shrinking, on Apple+, is freaking hilarious so far. Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and Jessica Williams are all fantastic, and then they are surrounded by sitcom MVPs like Christa Miller, Wendie Malick and Ted McGinley (who has the best one liners in the show). I wasn't familiar with Luke Tennie, Michael Urie or Lukita Maxwell going in, but they have all put in really strong performances too. Not a weak link to be found. I'm looking forward to checking it out. Bill Lawrence is the showrunner (Christa Miller's involvement usually is a dead giveaway), and he has a pretty good track record in my book.
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Nuts and Gum posted:I’d never heard of cunk until the latest show dropped. Is this like white female Ali G? They actually have a fairly close relationship. Cunk was originally a character on Screenwipe, a show created by Charlie Brooker, who was a writer on Chris Morris' Brass Eye, the show that laid the groundwork for conducting interviews under false pretenses that SBC later used for Ali G, Borat and Bruno. I read a book about it years ago, which has some amusing details: Disgusting Bliss by Lucian Randall posted:There was still one more battle for Brass Eye to fight, but at least it was one that had been long predicted. A complaint had been made to the ITC by the MPs featured in the Drugs episode. Graham Linehan remembers Morris telling him he had phoned David Amess pretending to be Piers Morgan in order to find out if he intended to sue. Amess not only shared his plans but was sufficiently convinced by Morris’s impersonation to round off the conversation by asking who he thought would win the general election that month. Morris improvised some likely Morgan-esque banter on the subject. On 19 May the ITC ruled that the MPs had been misled over format, subject and purpose and, as expected, the robust defence of public interest offered by Prash Naik and Jan Tomalin was not allowed under the code. Both complaints were upheld and Sir Graham Bright’s contribution was removed from further broadcasts, though the ITC also ruled that the show was ‘in general amusing and innovative’. Channel 4 believed that the adjudications helpfully acknowledged, for the first time, tacit approval for the use of a public interest defence in entertainment programmes of a similar sort and some months later lobbied successfully for the ITC code to be revised to allow such set-ups (an amendment affectionately known in the station’s legal department as the ‘Brass Eye clause’). In some ways the clause made it harder for programme-makers. Producers might once have subtly misled subjects about certain aspects of how they were going to appear, but after Morris had exposed the most intimate parts of celebrities’ media transactions for the public to point and laugh at, anyone else had to make very sure they could comprehensively defend any deception. Brass Eye’s Andrew Newman went on to develop the 11 O’Clock Show, where Sacha Baron Cohen, advised by Prash Naik, developed Ali G off the back of the changed code. Newman applied Brass Eye tricks and methods to Ali’s celebrity interviews, though he recalls that the production team had to explain a little more of what was happening post-Brass Eye. He was later a consultant on Borat the movie. Ali G’s target was media vanity but, while Prash Naik’s advice was that the new public interest test might be met, it was also heading into uncharted broadcasting territory. Its overwhelming success led to further amendment of the code after lobbying by Channel 4, and Baron Cohen was able to do further set-ups – though had it not been for Brass Eye neither Ali G nor similar programmes would have seen the light of day.
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A MIRACLE posted:Cunk reminds me more of Alan partridge than Ali g Chris Morris & co were also responsible for Partridge (Iannucci I think is credited along with Coogan), so that also tracks
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He was good in that Community table read in 2020, stepping in for Walton Goggins
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I watched Amsterdam on HBOMax and it was so in love with itself, overstuffed and tonally whiplashing, I think there was a movie in there that I enjoyed and a movie in there that I disliked. Very good cast though, the leads all had solid chemistry with each other, and I really liked the artwork that Margot Robbie's character made.
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Feb 26, 2023 00:55
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S3 of Picard is leaps and bounds better than the first two seasons, but that is an extremely low bar to clear, and in spite of that, it only does so just barely. Plus we're just halfway through the season, so it remains to be seen whether or not it will absolutely poo poo the bed in the next few episodes.
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Overall, I enjoyed Way of Water, warts and all, with the single glaring exception being the roided out literal 14 year old running around in a diaper and gasmask for the majority of the film (this is not an insult to the actor, I'm sure it was a grueling process, but it was a terrible creative decision).
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Glottis posted:I see those all as very different shows, although I see the thread connecting them. Yeah the "laughing alongside Ronald, not at him" element of Jury Duty sold it for me, as well as the production logistics. It helped that the other actors they had were quite good. The transhumanist guy was great, and Marsden did such a great job as a smarmy, stuck-up version of himself.
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It looks like it's just season 1 that is unavailable, 2-7 all look included with Prime for me (in the US).
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I enjoyed the visuals and one of the overarching themes (the US military industrial complex is bad) but it was pretty tedious overall. Dreadful writing and plot beats.
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I mean that everything in the story was paint-by-numbers and very boring/unoriginal hth
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Famethrowa posted:was really hoping for a light fluffy movie so we put on Self Reliance on Hulu and it stunk!! felt like an overlong I Think You Should Leave sketch (not just because Biff Wiff was in it) and had a shaggy dog ending that felt in no way deserved. Boo! I also felt like it was reminiscent of a long ITYSL sketch, but I found it pretty enjoyable. A bit of Lynch and Eternal Sunshine influences mixed in as well. I would say that the writing was a little weak at points.
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I'm always on board for Riz Ahmed, too
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it's very funny to me that he's the guy with the film rights to Infinite Jest, of all people
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