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whowhatwhere posted:It's the dumbest possible show in the best way. Subtitled babies are always a winner.
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radical meme posted:I thought the premiere of Taboo was great. If the rest is equally interesting then it will be a wonderful show. I really like Hardy; I think he can say more with a grunt and a shrug than most actors can with an entire dialogue.
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Qmass posted:I felt the same way. I think that review is way off... I thought there were definite humorous moments in there too, like the part where he steals the pennies from his father's eyes and then next scene you see him putting them in the church's poorbox. Edit: Also apparently despite calling it a "Limited Series" EP Stephen Knight is saying that the show will have a second season. Anyway, turns out that the weird casting of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson will come to naught as Sky Arts has announced they're shelving his episode of "Urban Myths."
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I'm losing my mind about how good Series of Unfortunate Events was Waiting a year for more is gonna be torture
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I'm annoyed that (from what I read) the release of Series of Unfortunate Events isn't in HDR with this initial release. I held off on watching Luke Cage until Netflix updated it to HDR and was really glad I did since it really helped the atmosphere. It seems like something heavily stylized like this could really benefit, but I don't know if I can hold off on this one though.
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MiddleOne posted:I think the problem is that some episodes just fall completely flat. For instance, I liked both the wedding episode from last season and last weeks episode but the others around them fall between mediocre and boring. The writers are way too obsessed with twists and the directors over-complicate everything for the purposes of visual gimmicks. My favorite Sherlock episode is ironically the pilot and by that I don't mean the first episode. They re-shot the pilot with a higher budget and it actually became worse and more contrived despite having veritably the same actors and script. Thanks for the reasonable response! That's more or less how I feel about the show, honestly, and yeah I loved the wedding episode. e: I'm only 10 minutes into Lemony Snicket and holy poo poo this is the best precision fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Good in what way? Good like in the way goons were losing their poo poo over the headless horsemen using a machine gun, or something else?
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Escobarbarian posted:What the gently caress this Snicket show is so good Ok what is up with you guys? What is this show? I remember a movie of it coming out that looked bad.
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Yeah that movie sucked but the first ep of this show is super good. It's based on an apparently popular children's book series that I never read but if the adaptations I've seen are anything to go by it has a pretty fun sense of humour.
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IRQ posted:Ok what is up with you guys? What is this show? Read the OP of my thread, it tells you everything you need to know about what this is and where it came from. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3804363 Short version it's a Netflix show based on a fantastic series of books that I loved as a teenager, that was adapted into an awful movie years ago, and is now finally being adapted into a TV show that is excellent.
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Escobarbarian posted:Yeah that movie sucked but the first ep of this show is super good. It's based on an apparently popular children's book series that I never read but if the adaptations I've seen are anything to go by it has a pretty fun sense of humour. Yeah the books were pretty great. Especially once the underlying story and conspiracies get going.
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BSam posted:Especially once the underlying story and conspiracies get going. And the show just brings that poo poo in from minute one, it's cool
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Regy Rusty posted:And the show just brings that poo poo in from minute one, it's cool Yup Also having grown up with the books, from late high school at least, I'd love some kind of behind the scenes special in the vein of the Unauthorised Autobiography.
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Lemony Snicket is already in the running for best show of 2017, it's actually insane just how good it is. I never read the books but I probably will now. e: When two of the people saying it's good are the two people who kept telling you not to sleep on Rectify you best listen! precision fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Ugh that show sounds terrible but like 80℅ of my posts in this thread are about how amazing Rectify is so you picked the right lever to get me to think about it.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Ugh that show sounds terrible but like 80℅ of my posts in this thread are about how amazing Rectify is so you picked the right lever to get me to think about it. It literally has no correlation to Rectify at all. I'm not even sure why that was brought up.
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All I learned in this thread is that Lemony Snicket is good but no actual reason
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Ugh that show sounds terrible but like 80℅ of my posts in this thread are about how amazing Rectify is so you picked the right lever to get me to think about it. It gives me a very Terry Gilliam vibe - along the tone of Time Bandits or Baron Munchausen.
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Mu Zeta posted:All I learned in this thread is that Lemony Snicket is good but no actual reason It is well acted, written and directed as well as having really good production values.
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Mu Zeta posted:All I learned in this thread is that Lemony Snicket is good but no actual reason Did you like Pushing Daisies? Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the pilot for that show and set the tone for it, directed half the episodes of Lemony Snicket and brought a lot of the same whimsical design theory to it.
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Mu Zeta posted:All I learned in this thread is that Lemony Snicket is good but no actual reason It's based on a series of children's books that are equal parts whimsical and morbid, about a family of children whose parents were killed in a fire as they run from scenario to scenario where their uncle is trying to murder them for their inheritance and no adults will listen to them. There's a bit more to it than that but that's the basic plotline. There was a movie like 10 years ago starring Jim Carrey as the murderous uncle that covers roughly the first three books, but I didn't think it was that great. DivisionPost posted:Did you like Pushing Daisies? Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the pilot for that show and set the tone for it, directed half the episodes of Lemony Snicket and brought a lot of the same whimsical design theory to it. Pushing Daisies was, in turn, very clearly inspired in narration by the Lemony Snicket books. raditts fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Snak posted:Amazon.com says that Taboo is a documentary. They might be mixing it up with the Nat Geo show.
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muscles like this! posted:They might be mixing it up with the Nat Geo show. Ah, then it's the reviewers who are confused. It says it's a nat geo documentary about vodou and witchcraft but all the reviews talk about Tom Hardy.
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X-O posted:It literally has no correlation to Rectify at all. I'm not even sure why that was brought up. The person was establishing their credentials as someone with good taste and I at least appreciated that.
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I didn't say anything about Sherlock because when I saw the discussion basically everything I thought relevant had already been said, but I have just recently discovered that there was a special episode for New Year 2016 (The Abominable Bride). And I just now watched it. And good lord, I feel like puking. It's the cheesiest, dumbest, most transparently commercial "feminist" story I have seen in a long loving time, interspersed with tons of gratuitious fancy-sounding over-acted-to-poo poo dialogue between inconsistent characters with the depth of puddles (those words could also be said of regular Sherlock but *this is worse*). I usually manage to still enjoy the Sherlock episodes on some level but this was beyond garbage. Stay away.
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Dancer posted:I didn't say anything about Sherlock because when I saw the discussion basically everything I thought relevant had already been said, but I have just recently discovered that there was a special episode for New Year 2016 (The Abominable Bride). And I just now watched it. And good lord, I feel like puking. It's the cheesiest, dumbest, most transparently commercial "feminist" story I have seen in a long loving time, interspersed with tons of gratuitious fancy-sounding over-acted-to-poo poo dialogue between inconsistent characters with the depth of puddles (those words could also be said of regular Sherlock but *this is worse*). I usually manage to still enjoy the Sherlock episodes on some level but this was beyond garbage. Stay away. I'm sorry, what?
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So between the Netflix Unfortunate Events show and this New Yorker article about the rise of nostalgia for MCR/Green Day style pop-punk, I fear we have arrived at the time when the pop culture of the early 2000s rears its ugly head again
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We survived pop-punk once, we can survive it again. My condolences to those who lose loved ones to terrible, terrible music.
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Liked the first episode of UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. Though I feel like they should've held off on that final scene for another few episodes. It kind of undercuts the tension. Also shout out to ARROW for having Oliver massively gently caress up, but immediately own up to it and the other characters acknowledging that its not his fault.
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