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mcmagic posted:She-Hulk has fun moments but it does take the whole Whedon-esque soy banter to another level of cringe. lol
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BisterdDave posted:Thanks to whoever recommended Reservation Dogs! Just finished the first season and it was much better than I was anticipating. Show consistently has me teary, maybe because i'm familiar with that type of grief that suffuses the whole thing. Pretty heavy while still managing to keep it light. Kinda an invigorating watch.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You're a very foolish person if you think anyone ever "wins" or "loses" the culture war. culture war...culture war never changes
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Nihonniboku posted:constant knowing more than she is willing to reveal. a huge red flag for a writing team not having any idea of where they want a character/story to go.
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Aug 25, 2022 19:03
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Nobodies are perfect bc they will do anything insane execs tell them to
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feedmyleg posted:There's good trash and there's bad trash. Watch Carnosaur instead. If you've seen that, watch Tammy and the T-Rex. If you've seen that, watch Theodore Rex. If you've seen that, watch Baby. If you've seen that, watch The Dinosaur Project. If you've seen that, watch the Mario Bros. movie. If you've seen that, watch... Saving this for later
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BonoMan posted:This is all stuff that happens pre-books though right? And, as far as I know, is based off of more encyclopedic works instead of narrative things. So I'm interested to know what they're basing their complaints about the characterizations off of. I could be definitely wrong too. I have a coworker who absolutely will not watch them. A huge Tolkien nerd and won't even give them a chance. Just straight up says he saw enough of the pre-production press to know he won't like it which seems... dog whistle-y. I mean I feel the same way and it's because of what I know about what they're allowed to write about and who is doing the actual writing (untested writers/producers under Amazon execs thumbs). Like let's not make any criticism or lack of enthusiasm of the project be a dog whistle.
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Sep 6, 2022 19:31
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:It's based off of the appendices of LotR and they can't use anything from the The Silmarillion. To be more specific and pedantic it's the lotr and the hobbit film rights are owned by Middle Earth Enterprises who bought it off the Tolkein estate in the 70s then licensed it to New Line. A weird video game company named Embracer is about to buy Middle Earth Enterprises. Warner Brothers, which owns New Line, contends they still are honoring the contractual requirements to own this license. That's why there's a lotr anime supposed to come out in 2024. This doesn't include the television rights. So Amazon bought the TV rights to the lotr and hobbit books only. The actual in depth histories of the second age were not part of this purchase. So we got the bare minimum ages and dates mentioned in the appendices and a few songs sprinkled in the books as the foundation of this show, run by people that don't have a history writing fantasy. Gonna hold off until the season finale personally and there's good reviews of it.
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Sep 6, 2022 19:41
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Sep 6, 2022 19:44
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I feel like in this thread and others oriented towards media there tends to be plurality of views that leans towards something being good or bad. This is esp helpful as there are a few folks from previous posts that seem to like what I like and there are other folks I recognize that have way different standards for what they like than I do.
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Sep 6, 2022 20:04
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remigious posted:I would rather just watch the thing I’m interested in and not let the internet hive mind bias my impression. I mean that makes sense of there weren't a 100 different shows. Am I saying something that's so crazy? The trailer didn't grab me, the production and writing staff isn't impressive, and there's alot of other things I'd rather watch, unless I'm hearing overwhelmingly good things. E: for God's sake I still am in the middle of finishing BCS
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Sep 6, 2022 20:14
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Nihonniboku posted:Like with most Showtime shows that end up being good, Nurse Jackie was only good for a couple of seasons before turning south. Merritt Weaver was amazing in it though, and deserved that Emmy win. The show also featured a young Arjun Gupta who went on to star on the wonderful The Magicians, which is still streaming on Netflix for anyone who hasn't seen it yet and needs a reminder. Feels like a huge commitment to spend 20 hrs watching something before it turns good
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Anyway about to watch the last episode of S5 of BCS and Rhea Seehorn is the best actor on TV. Haven't seen such a dominant actor like that since Jon Hamm with Mad Men.
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Sep 12, 2022 13:21
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Sep 15, 2022 19:25
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A MIRACLE posted:i saw bloc party too at the same festival lol. the festival seemed to be aimed at people whose musical tastes stopped evolving in 2004. santigold was legit tho THEY MADE THIS CONCERT! FOR ME!!!! My drummer always said that I only like bands that peaked around 2005 lol
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Sep 15, 2022 19:38
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Edward Mass posted:Bloc Party came back this year! Already sharing the poo poo outta this. Thanks.
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Sep 16, 2022 15:17
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Keyser_Soze posted:you guys forgot Hot Hot Heat I really like their transformation. Men's Needs is a great loving track. E: Ah poo poo that's The Cribs
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Sep 16, 2022 15:24
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Not sure how much a child is going to care about She Hulk hooking up on Tindr or whatever
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Field Mousepad posted:Holy poo poo gripweed is back. I've had him on ignore for years now. Oh, copy that.
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Simplex posted:The reunion episode for Season 2 is one of the most surreal things I've seen. It's like a recreation of the Chappelle Show Mad Real World skit, where the one sane person just gets ganged up on and made to look like an rear end in a top hat by a bunch of lunatics. I really like hearing about these shows second hand. Got any details? I looked up the show and it got sued for inhuman working conditions?
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Sep 22, 2022 14:55
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This isn't really on topic but this conco reminds me....I saw Zach and Miri make a Porn which was directed by Kevin Smith and starred Seth Rogen at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Q&A didn't have Seth Rogen but it had everyone else and I remember Kevin Smith talking to a giant auditorium full of hundreds of people about how Jason Mewes obviously had to masterbate a little to get his dick bigger on film, because he had seen it so many times, while an obviously uncomfortable Mewes squirmed next to him. Smith seems like a dick.
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Sep 22, 2022 15:24
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I remember also liking her detective role in the New Zealand Lake show
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teagone posted:Finished Cyberpunk Edgerunners last night. Show was pretty wild. I was never a fan of Studio Trigger's anime art style, but it suits Cyberpunk 2077's visual language really, really well. Story and characters are cool; reminded me a bit of Blomkamp's District 9 at times with its fair bit of cyberaugmenting body horror stuff, hyper violence, and one of the plot threads is pretty similar. If you're averse to anime you probably won't like it since it leans heavy into a bunch of anime tropes, but if you're a fan of animation in general and other cyberpunk works like like Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner, I'd say the show is absolutely worth a watch. I think the show wasn't as imaginative as it could be and was def stuck in a retro take on futurism, down to the 80s like exploitation of female nudity, but I thought the short number of eps and how decisively it dealt with its various characters, aping a noir like mindset, was pretty cool, esp for anime.
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Tiny Timbs posted:It’s like the only anime I’ve watched in 20 years besides Cowboy Bebop You can do better
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Sep 26, 2022 15:01
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Ok, I see how people would like how retro it was. Fair enough. Can I say how bad the dialogue was? I had to watch it in Japanese because at least it was a little bit more bearable as another language lol. There is great examples of english dubs out there. Feels like the translators were too locked in to replicating the japanese dialogue, which really only works in that language (tho it isn't that spectacular there either).
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Sep 26, 2022 21:16
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Tiny Timbs posted:I don’t get it. What was wrong with the English dialogue? The slang they use is accurate. Trite. Explicitly stating their thoughts. Obvious attempts at cool lines that fall flat. Just a general dearth of anything approaching humor or interesting lines. E: even anime can do better than that.
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Sep 27, 2022 00:42
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Tiny Timbs posted:Sure but switching to subtitles doesn’t fix that Completely subjective but to me it softens it. At least it's not as jarring and doesn't quite have the same "no one talks like this" factor.
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Sep 27, 2022 01:45
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The funny thing is I've run across the High Maintenance guy in real life a few times in nyc and he's just a regular guy just wandering the city. Seemed pretty nice.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I think it's so far doing a good job of blending the wilder stuff (the stage mom) with stuff that the people who make TV have to contend with. The whole bit with the Hulu VP of Comedy being someone who randomly ended up there because of multiple buyouts and has no real experience with humor, but she means well, the way the script gets rewritten so that it does become more of a balance between the two showrunners' extremes, it rang true to me. I'll give it another shot but that first ep was just a non stop exposition dump
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Sep 28, 2022 14:52
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Upsidads posted:I enjoyed Werewolf by Night wayyyy more then I expected where the hell did this come from? A composer who never go to direct and went all out on his first try
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Oct 11, 2022 05:20
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She Hulk is by far the best Marvel thing in forever and def worth a watch. I can only hope they actually make more episodes next season, as I'd love to have a legal show that actually has a lot of legal cases.
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Wolfsheim posted:I will begrudgingly admit She-Hulk's second half is a lot stronger than its first, it definitely found its footing more after all the setup. They still needed way more cases though. Yeah it's all denouement and after effects. S4 does pick up things tho and ends spectacularly.
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Nihonniboku posted:I'm not sure I agree with your reasoning for disliking it, but I didn't watch it until like a decade after it went off the air, and struggled to get through it. I probably would have given up had the guy I was dating at the time not continuously pressured me to keep watching it, as he watched me eagerly just waiting for the moment when I would finally fall in love with it. I never did, but I recognize that it's a big part of the reason for the new golden age of television. I watched Sopranos for the first time all the way through 2 years ago and I absolutely loved it, but you have to be into the vibe of the darkest comedy ever.
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Oct 19, 2022 04:35
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The takes...the takes keep on getting worse!
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precision posted:reboot is so drat good (the one with judy greer and keegan key) I watched the first episode of reboot and I was struck by how little comedy it had
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precision posted:It does get funnier. I never thought I'd be able to laugh at Paul Reiser playing himself but here we are I'll give it a couple more eps
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Oct 26, 2022 15:02
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God Forbid the doc about Jerry Fallwell Jr and the pool boy is actually not a sketchy or exploitative as I thought it might be. Just about a kid being manipulated by two Christian monsters and now coming forward to clear the air. And it's only a movie knstead of a bloated six part series!
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smackfu posted:Are any of the Netflix original comedies actually funny? American Vandal is kinda a dry type of humor. Santa Clarita Diet is hilarious if you like gore and/or Drew Barrymore. I dislike Bojack.
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A MIRACLE posted:I made I through a few seasons of Bojack. Not sure it’s “funny” or not but I didn’t like it either. I really tried Really gave it a shot as well just a major bummer with alot of puns as it's main source of humor Alotta Hollywood jokes that didn't hit either
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Field Mousepad posted:It's one of those things where if you don't know or like the source material it's not gonna do anything for you but if you do it is wonderful. I never read Sandman and I really liked it except for a couple episodes towards the end. It was really imaginative and at times beautiful fantasy.
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