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LabyaMynora posted:Just finished watching "The Night Manager," which was recommended in the previous thread for spy stuff less like James Bond and more like Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy. I liked it a lot, but hate that the main character seems to fall into bed with every female (except the older, pregnant one), and the ending is a bit too buttoned up. I wikipedia'd the novel and of course it has a bit more of an ambiguous, less happily-ever-after ending. It held my attention enough to watch all the episodes but I didn't think it was very good. I found the last episode to be especially bad and the very end kinda ruined the whole premise of the show. If you're okay with the villain, who you got in custody at this point, being taken and killed by some random third party, why not have him assassinated in episode 2 and be done with it. I don't know if it's better in the book. More last episode The cliff hanger for the last episode being if the dude from the Night Managers past will recognize him and blow his cover was resolved in just the most uninteresting way possible. He doesn't ever recognize him until TNM kills him mid episode.
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Wooper posted:I don't know if it's better in the book. If you want to know the end of the book (according to wikipedia) - Roper is torturing Jed and Pine on a yacht and Burr (who is a dude in the books) basically makes him a deal - return Jed and Pine alive, and they'll let Roper flee. He agrees and gets away, Burr gets Jed and Pine back to England alive where they live out their lives together in a cottage in some small town. No justice for Roper, no great victory for Pine or Burr.
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The Expanse is pretty fun as audio books, due mostly to the reader (Jefferson Mays). For me, it helps offset the writing. His version of the Belter accent/language is really great to listen to. One of the nice things about the later books is how people start dunking on Holden for being such a boy scout. And also that Holden is written as having some kind of PTSD from his experiences in book 1. Nice to see that kind of lasting impact from what should be a pretty terrifying event for the character.
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"Venom" is loving terrible I can't believe people were telling me it was good. That Eminem song for is it atrocious too.
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When RLM won't tell me what to think about something I just flip a coin and then make up an opinion from that. I call the coin Ol' Flippy.
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RLM makes your brain grow incalculably huge and all your hair has to get pushed off your skull to make room for the new brain to fit real good.
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LabyaMynora posted:Just finished watching "The Night Manager," which was recommended in the previous thread for spy stuff less like James Bond and more like Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy. I liked it a lot, but hate that the main character seems to fall into bed with every female (except the older, pregnant one), and the ending is a bit too buttoned up. I wikipedia'd the novel and of course it has a bit more of an ambiguous, less happily-ever-after ending.
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I like the expanse but a lot of the characters are powerfully dull. Tipper is very pretty though.
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Will I get bored 3 episodes into The Expanse and give up like I did with Battlestar?
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luchajones posted:Will I get bored 3 episodes into The Expanse and give up like I did with Battlestar? I thought the thing with Battlestar was that the miniseries and roughly the first half of season 1 is really good, then after that it turns to stupid bullshit that goes nowhere and has no idea where its going other than playing up some mystical stuff and mysterious plots. Which is why I got out. A really sweaty guy getting caught jerking off all the time can only keep something going for so long.
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Carlos is amazing and will make you yearn for the 70s, when terrorism was all leather jackets and berets and basically being dope as gently caress.
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YagotmeIdidit posted:I like post-breakdown Pewdiepie, I like that his fuckups and being shunned by many youtubers caused him to drop his stupid phony façade, sure he has some very questionable opinions and taste in media, at least you know his opinions and tastes are his. Thank you for your service.
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LabyaMynora posted:Just finished watching "The Night Manager," which was recommended in the previous thread for spy stuff less like James Bond and more like Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy. I liked it a lot, but hate that the main character seems to fall into bed with every female (except the older, pregnant one), and the ending is a bit too buttoned up. I wikipedia'd the novel and of course it has a bit more of an ambiguous, less happily-ever-after ending. Night Manager is basically Tom Hiddleston’s audition reel for Bond. It was fine, but as you mention I remember the ending being kind of a wet fart. The villain is built up as this brilliant guy and he goes down in a way that makes him look kind of stupid (from what I can remember). Little Drummer Girl is a bit better
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hemale in pain posted:I like the expanse but a lot of the characters are powerfully dull. Tipper is very pretty though. This is my problem with it (watched the entire first season). I just don’t like any of the characters, or find any of them compellingly unlikable.
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this does imply people older than 20 make these images 
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YagotmeIdidit posted:I like post-breakdown Pewdiepie, I like that his fuckups and being shunned by many youtubers caused him to drop his stupid phony façade, sure he has some very questionable opinions and taste in media, at least you know his opinions and tastes are his. what the gently caress YagotmeIdidit posted:Dude's friends with H3H3 and they've defended him. what the gently caress
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it's like tetris with hats
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Saint Drogo posted:this does imply people older than 20 make these images It looks like something a CineD poster would make
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LMAO the monster from Bird Box looks the old dancing guy from those 90's Six Flags commercials.
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Just found the new thread. Is GBS GBS'ing yet?
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:LMAO the monster from Bird Box looks the old dancing guy from those 90's Six Flags commercials. lol I can see why they didn't use it. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOZPt-g9SJ/?utm_source=ig_embed
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mallratcal posted:lol I can see why they didn't use it. Cool, I just had to kill my self in a pointless spectacle straight out of The Happening thanks to that link.
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After that one woman in the movie was all "No mom, don't go...", they should've just made the twist that what everyone was seeing was an impossibly beautiful, indescribable vision of the afterlife, and people were killing themselves because they wanted to get to "heaven" as fast as possible. But nope, had to go with big uggo demons. Peeps always wanna kill themselves after seeing Undead Baby Huey.
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I like when the obvious crazy guy shows up and is all "LOL crazies are running around killing people haha but not me, nosirree bob!" and everyone is just like "oh ok, here's a shotgun and some rope, we're going to go sleep with our doors unlocked now, incredibly twitchy bug-eyed guy with blood stains on your ill fitting suit you stole off a victim".
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I like when the obvious crazy guy shows up and is all "LOL crazies are running around killing people haha but not me, nosirree bob!" and everyone is just like "oh ok, here's a shotgun and some rope, we're going to go sleep with our doors unlocked now, incredibly twitchy bug-eyed guy with blood stains on your ill fitting suit you stole off a victim". alright already I'll leave
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So I decided to subscribe to gilchrist’s YouTube channel and he posted this today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OBoR74FRMQ omg the cgi is wonderful this is excellent BotW material. watch the whole thing - the editing is perfect
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It's not every day you see something worse than space cop
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2019 off to a dark start if we're gonna break the Gilchrist Seal.
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I like to imagine a dark universe where Rich died of diabetes before RLM got big, so Mike had to get Gilchrist to be the whipping boy of the group.
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pretty sure in that timeline the bloodclot throws much quicker and he never makes it all the way through his insurrection review.
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mallratcal posted:He was posting clips last year, don't know if I can stomach a full 21 minutes. so you know how painful it is. precisely why it’s botw material
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The golden globes (balls hehe) are tonight, wonder what kind of turds are going to win. Black Panther got nominated for best drama... lol
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace was one of the worst things ive ever watched on TV. How did it win 2 things?
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luchajones posted:The Assassination of Gianni Versace was one of the worst things ive ever watched on TV. How did it win 2 things? lol
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