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veni veni veni posted:Archive 81 isn't perfect but it feels very close to being great so far (5 episodes in). It does so much right that the clunkier moments feel a little more glaring but I still really like it. Its not, but if they somehow get the budget to do some of season 2 podcast stuff, it'd very much be worth the wait. Although it seems to be going in a separate direction. punk rebel ecks posted:I always roll my eyes when I hear this. Adjusted for inflation, cable was priced twice as high as being subscribed to Netflix, Disney+ Bundle, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime at once, and the streaming services have no ads. Even DirectTV's most basic plan was more expensive than being subscribed to all major streaming services. Also the reason streaming services suck right now is because of instead focusing on a certain demographic of people, they are always aiming to be for everybody. If streaming services were more like traditional tv channels and focused on a niche of content, they would be a lot better. Of course there has been some streaming services that were too focused like the stargate or DC comics streaming service. Shudder gets the balance right. IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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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. That poo poo is all made up. The author is notorious for fabricating stories.
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mystes posted:In-story Adelstein is the author's self-insert character Not even a self-insert character, in the book its based on its supposed to literally be him, and everything really happened. (although a bunch of people have pointed out its almost certainly mostly bullshit.)
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david_a posted:I really hope Severance doesn’t pull a Raised By Wolves in S2 and goes so hard that it loses the audience, leading to an early cancellation. Although it also feels like a show that will get worse and worse the longer it lasts. The first season of Severance feels like a season cut in half, so I don't think we need to worry about that until season 3. (if there even is one).
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Baron von Eevl posted:That's true, but also moon knight is an incredibly low rung hero, even for the marvel television shows and Egypt stuff isn't really having a moment now like it was in *checks notes* the 1990s or 1920s. Moon Knight's fundamental problem was that the show was dealing with too large of a scale of a problem. It absolutely should have not been about trying to save the world. I was incredibly bored by the two giant CGI gods duking it out. It also had an incredibly lazy ending where the plot was resolved by two Deus Ex Machinas in a row..
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I love how everybody is Dolores in season 3
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Part of me is hoping all these current streaming services will just implode, which will give room for more focused streaming services like Shudder to pick up the rights for a bunch of content for a low price.
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm awake, no more pirating tips n tricks But how are people going to know to wear an eyepatch, so they can see better in the dark?
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In Day Shift, the entire thing with the vampire girl doesn't make sense. She is barely a character for most of the movie and then Bud starts talking about how she betrayed him. I think the only reason she wasn't cut completely was because she was critical for the finale.
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precision posted:Capitalism has finally monetized the "Capitalism sucks" movement Finally? Let me remind you of all the people who have been wearing Che Guevara shirts for decades.
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veni veni veni posted:This guy is overstating the importance of Franz Ferdinand by so much lol. The whole indie dance punk thing was absolutely in full swing by time they came around. They were on the back end of what they were doing. I mean his assassination did start World War I. Also, I'm not sure indie dance punk was a thing in 1914.
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Rarity posted:Arcane is so much better than a LoL tie-in has any right to be Its actual purpose is probably to promote the LoL MMO that is being worked on.
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FishBowlRobot posted:I thought the characters were obnoxious, ..., and the camera work too frantic. I feel like that is the kind of the point. Its about skater kids filming a skating video and then suddenly having to fight evil skeletons. Its a skater video version of a horror film.
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On the other hand AMC+ just let me keep using their service for free for over a month, after the free trial expired.
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I watched white noise because a lot of people are talking about it. Its a pretty bad generic horror movie. Dunno why it suddenly got so popular. Not even Micheal Keaton could save it.
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Speaking of The Menu, if you liked the movie, I highly suggest reading this article. I would've sworn that the movie was inspired by this article, but the timeline doesn't match up.
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Watched The Rig on Amazon. I think it probably would've worked better as a movie.
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isaboo posted:I started watching this because of Emily Hampshire but it seems pretty silly two episodes in. Even dumber, Some sentient organism is trying to wipe out humanity because it perceives it as a threat. It is responsible for the past mass extinction events.
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1glitch0 posted:I was thinking of watching it. Does it have an ending or a cliffhanger? It's probably not setting up for a new season at the end. Its very heavily implied at the end that they were unable to stop the extinction event, and that everybody is going to die.
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I never saw The Menu as an eat the rich film. Its more specifically targeted at foodie culture, which happens to consist mostly of rich people. I think its more about art losing sight of its purpose for existing to please those who use it for their own vanity.
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yoohoo posted:TLJ is a good sci-fi movie but not a good Star Wars movie It'd be a terrible sci-fi movie. The main plot is in a holding pattern while the protagonist discovers herself, so it spends a bunch of time on subplots that don't end up really mattering that much. Its also pretty bloated. It'd really need its length cut down to be a good standalone sci-fi movie.
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The main cast of Detective Conan have been involved in some capacity with over 500 murders. At this point, I don't know why anybody would invite that family over.
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But how we will find out what happens with Megabyte?
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BonoMan posted:Not lookin' super rosy for D+ - not surprising... their content releases have been pretty anemic. I think that was a given. A lot of their subscribers probably took advantage of the really good deal they had if you preordered it, and probably were a lot less likely to renew now that it was a lot more expensive.
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BonoMan posted:I mean D+ as a proposition is great. It's got the MCU, Pixar, an insane backlog of Disney stuff. It's all there. And they aren't facing unique challenges. Pretty much all of the new series are just Marvel or Star Wars stuff too. Nothing that can stand on its own.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Yeah it's sad looking back at all the Skylar hating discourse from back then but it's not surprising I honestly think its a problem with the character. Skylar is incredibly boring, and all she does is get in the way of Walter doing interesting things. There is very little more to her beyond that. Its not very surprising that people hate her, and I don't think it really shows anything about their character.
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Its goes against the core themes of the books which can be fine, but not if its doing that so it can use extremely boring cliches.
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Glottis posted:For anyone else that finished Hello Tomorrow!, was it at all jarring to anyone else that not only is a character's hand brutally disintegrated in a toaster, but they functionally send an entire cabin of people off to their deaths at the end? I thought the inciting incident in episode 1 of the truck backing into whatsherface was weirdly more violent than everything else, but it kinda jumped up in that area. My bet is that there is something on the moon from Jack's dad's previous attempt. There are too many important characters on it for them all to die. Honestly, something isn't quite clicking for the show with me. I think I'm more intrigued by the idea of getting the lunar base to work than exploring the grift aspect of it when the show is the exact opposite. I also think the opening had a type of humor that is mostly lacking for the rest of the show except for very brief moments like the toaster that is capable of disintegrating a person's hand for some reason. It feels like it barely uses the setting, and it could be a period piece where Jack is trying to sell land on a hard to reach tropical island instead.
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A MIRACLE posted:My wife was the biggest HP fan and she doesn’t even mention it any more. the fans are gone. We’ve moved on to dnd lol People keep on claiming this, but this isn't true at all. Sure Fantastic Beasts didn't do well, but Harry Potter overall still does extremely well. The game sold well, and the books also sold very well in 2022. I imagine the show will do extremely well too.
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feedmyleg posted:I've been to Disney twice as an adult, once Land and once World. I like the Pirates and Haunted Mansion rides a lot beacuse they're immersive and animatronics are super cool, and the old World's Fair dinosaurs are pretty neat. The tiki bar at the Polynesian hotel was fun, too. The rest of it was cute but not all that memorable. I can't fathom how someone would make it their whole personality, though. The thing I don't get is that apparently amusement parks are trying to move away from animatronics and going to fancy monitors. I can't imagine spending a bunch of money to wait in lines and watch things on a monitor.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I was pleasantly surprised by the marketing misdirection of Pig The weird thing is that there is one scene that does feel like its out of a John Wick movie.
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Upsidads posted:https://youtu.be/gUgYOzubRpU?si=hsLrU6AnXckK9eev This one is funny. Its basically just an adaptation of The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward, but since Lovecraft was still extremely obscure at that point they call it an adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe film. I think the only things that make it Edgar Allen Poe related was the title and a quote from the poem.
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Flying Zamboni posted:As far as I can find it's the first feature length adaptation of any Lovecraft story. Roger Corman was trying to take a break from making Poe adaptations with this movie but his prior Poe movies were very successful so the studio forced him to slap on some Poe stuff in the title and opening credits so they could try and leverage that in the advertising. There was one Spanish movie before it called Mark of the Dead Man. Its also an adaptation of The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
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Famethrowa posted:Bottoms was super charming. was not expecting such a surreal? magical realist? movie  Just to be 100% clear this is not what I actually believe. The Holocaust was indeed real.
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It just leads to better pacing too. Shows meant for binging tend to be written like really long movies, instead of TV shows with discrete episodes.
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Libraries also have games now.
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