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Martman posted:Ok, the crappy new Doom movie was a little bit more fun than I expected. The action is terrible, but I could see a sequel being more functional if they had an actual budget. Christ, is this what it's come to? The action in this action movie was terrible, but if it gets a bigger budget sequel it might actually rise to the level of "functional". Check it out! Human Tornada fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Jan 13, 2020 22:52
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There's movies that are fun to get drunk to, and there are movies that you want to make sure you're already drunk before you even press play. Doom is the latter. That said, I had a lot of fun with it.
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Jan 13, 2020 22:56
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feedmyleg posted:The first film in a series is just a pilot these days. I guess now that TV is more like the movies used to be, movies need to be more like TV is
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Jan 13, 2020 23:10
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Anybody check out Too Old to Die Young? Rewatched some of Refn’s stuff recently and had no idea he just put out this Amazon series, it’s like buried even when you go to their ‘original series’ list.
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Jan 13, 2020 23:44
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Human Tornada posted:Christ, is this what it's come to? The action in this action movie was terrible, but if it gets a bigger budget sequel it might actually rise to the level of "functional". Check it out! the bar is sort of inherently lower for DTV movies made on a budget of pocket change and lint, and I for one find technical flaws in them more forgivable (and technical mastery in them more impressive).
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I'm 3 episodes into Messiah on Netflix and it's pretty good so far. The protagonist actor is insanely charismatic. I would follow that guy into the desert.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:05
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Medical Police is pretty drat funny.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:09
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Doom could make such a good movie in the right hands. It's a shame every effort has been low budget sci fi channel shlock that just uses Doom as a loose theme. Just use the themes and aesthetic from Doom 2016 and make it with the irreverence of like Robocop, Dredd 2012...Just do the setup with corporate greed unleashing hell and then 90 minutes of the Doomslayer just ripping and tearing. And Doomguy is played the guy who was the Mountain in GOT of course.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:17
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Use the aesthetic from the original.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:18
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Anything could make a good movie, especially something as nebulous as "hell is open, and pissed" It's almost admirable how bad the first Doom movie was
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Franchescanado posted:Medical Police is pretty drat funny. It fuckin owns, it's the funniest original Netflix has done imo
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Jan 14, 2020 00:28
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Just watched Tigers Are Not Afraid on Shudder and even if it’s a bit rough around the edges there’s a lot to love. If nothing else the director manages to wrangle some great performances out of an extremely young cast and it’s pretty unique.
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veni veni veni posted:Doom could make such a good movie in the right hands. It's a shame every effort has been low budget sci fi channel shlock that just uses Doom as a loose theme. Just use the themes and aesthetic from Doom 2016 and make it with the irreverence of like Robocop, Dredd 2012...Just do the setup with corporate greed unleashing hell and then 90 minutes of the Doomslayer just ripping and tearing. this is more or less what Annihilation tried to do, though? it just visibly didn't have the budget to nail it (and deliberately avoided the Doom Slayer living-room-elephant, presumably for that reason)
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Jan 14, 2020 01:51
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Ehh. I mean I think without Doomguy it's not Doom. It's not supposed to be a group of people running from Demons it's supposed to be one beefy boy wrecking them. Plus (full disclosure I only skimmed the last half of the movie) the only demons they used were imps and they made them all stupid looking. Even if a lot of that was budget related it's not like it made it any good. Plus the whole recklessly harnessing hell energy as a source of power is way cooler than whatever that teleport thing they were doing was.
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I liked the imp costumes, and three or four of the performances were surprisingly good and fun. Like, yeah I would call it a bad movie, but to do a reasonable attempt that actually features a lot more Doom enemies seems like it quickly gets into legit budget territory. I think they could have just shaved like half an hour off of this and treated it like a proof of concept to try to get funding for a real movie. All I need out of Doom is Event Horizon-esque sci-fi horror but with the goofy twist that it's actually possible to kick the demons' asses by the end, and I thought it had hints of setting that up in a fun way.
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beanieson posted:Anybody check out Too Old to Die Young? It's insanely up it's own rear end and like 3x longer than it should be. I don't regret watching it all, but I'm glad I was painting miniatures while it was playing. There is no way I would have had the patience to finish it if I was giving it my full attention. It's got a few great moments though.
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Class Warcraft posted:It's insanely up it's own rear end and like 3x longer than it should be. I don't regret watching it all, but I'm glad I was painting miniatures while it was playing. There is no way I would have had the patience to finish it if I was giving it my full attention. I actually stopped watching like 20 mins in when I realized that almost all 10 episodes are feature length. It immediately felt like homework.
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I'm like, very late to the party, but Ramy (on Hulu) (for which the lead just won a Golden Globe) is absolutely fantastic. One of my favorite TV shows. There's a second season coming this year and I am now very excited.
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Franchescanado posted:Medical Police is pretty drat funny. I enjoyed it but it really just made me want to watch Angie Tribeca again, which I think pushes the absurdity further in a good way. I never watched Children's Hospital, though.
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Glottis posted:I enjoyed it but it really just made me want to watch Angie Tribeca again, which I think pushes the absurdity further in a good way. I never watched Children's Hospital, though. I enjoyed Medical Police a lot. I'd never heard of Children's Hospital, and I'm a little blown away to find out that Medical Police is a spin-off of a long-running show. Anybody watch that one?
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I swear to god doctor-cops has been done as a sketch by many shows over time because the top two drama professions is a no brainer. It's turned me off watching the show.
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Jan 14, 2020 06:56
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Do you have any examples?
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Jan 14, 2020 07:13
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Amazon has a ton of originals that I've never heard of, they're kinda bad at advertising Hell when I saw that Mozart in the Jungle was on season 4 I was like "what, I didn't even know about season 2"
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Jan 14, 2020 07:31
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Similarly I'm aware Apple has shows now but all I could tell you is there's a show with a blind Jason Momoa and there's a show with I think Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carrel. I saw an add during the nfl playoffs for all their shows and I hadn't even heard of any of the rest.
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DorianGravy posted:I enjoyed Medical Police a lot. I'd never heard of Children's Hospital, and I'm a little blown away to find out that Medical Police is a spin-off of a long-running show. Anybody watch that one? Yes, and it's very funny. It's much more absurd. They also stuck to 15 minute episodes for most of it's run, so it's pretty easy to get through. Netflix used to have the whole series. It's more of a satire of all types of medical shows where all the doctors sleep with each other, like ER and Grey's Anatomy. It really hits it's stride in the 2nd season. JBP posted:I swear to god doctor-cops has been done as a sketch by many shows over time because the top two drama professions is a no brainer. It's turned me off watching the show. Eh, for a show called Medical Police, it's surprisingly, more action based, like a parody of NCIS or something. The show is about a globe-trotting adventure to stop a 12 Monkeys type super-virus. Every episode has a sequence that would completely fit in a straight-forward action show. It just also happens to have absurd humor you'd recognize from David Wain, Stella and The State. The antagonist (edit: credit where credit's due, her name is Megan Le/ Megan Nguyen, and she rules) that follows them and tries to kill them is pretty awesome: https://twitter.com/robhuebel/status/1216787185074167809?s=20 But if that clip doesn't appeal to you, and a David Wain / The State show that satires action dramas doesn't sell you, then yeah, save your time. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Big fan of Children's Hospital and had no idea they were working on this. Medical Police is hilarious.
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Watching this Dracula show on Netflix. Finished episode 2 last night and... lmao OK. We're doing this?
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Someone for the love of god spoil the stupid stuff in Dracula so people don’t watch it out of curiosity
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david_a posted:Someone for the love of god spoil the stupid stuff in Dracula so people don’t watch it out of curiosity Haven't seen episode 3 yet to be able to tell anyone whether it's worth it!
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AngryBooch posted:Haven't seen episode 3 yet to be able to tell anyone whether it's worth it! It really isn't. I thought ep 1 was turn the brain off fun. It is a Dracula story, I'm not expecting much. Ep 2 was ok, focusing on the Demeter voyage that was just a footnote in the book was kind of different. I actually liked his character for most of ep1 and parts of 2. They didn't try and make him dark, broody, sexy, sympathetic. I liked that he was an unapologetic bad guy. Ep3 was just really, really bad. I don't think it even needs specific spoilers for story notes. It was just bad.
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Is watching Childrens Hospital and NCIS:SVU:JAG important for watching Medical Police?
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Childrens Hospital has a running joke that the hospital is in Brazil despite very obviously being shot in Los Angeles, Medical Police actually filmed on location in Brazil.
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Zachack posted:Is watching Childrens Hospital and NCIS:SVU:JAG important for watching Medical Police? Not really. There's some references and in-jokes to Children's Hospital in the first episode, but I watched it with a friend who had no idea that Children's Hospital was a show, and he just thought they were absurd bits and he was fine with it.
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Zachack posted:Is watching Childrens Hospital and NCIS:SVU:JAG important for watching Medical Police? I haven’t watched Children’s Hospital and wasn’t aware of the connection until I saw Rob Corddry in the makeup, and I had an awesome time. Thinking I should go back and watch CH now.
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Jan 14, 2020 21:06
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Yeah Childrens Hospital is definitely worth watching if you like Medical Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNzIeISl1uc
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Phetz posted:I haven’t watched Children’s Hospital and wasn’t aware of the connection until I saw Rob Corddry in the makeup, and I had an awesome time. Thinking I should go back and watch CH now. Childrens, not Children's. It's named after the Childrens family.
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pseudorandom name posted:Childrens, not Children's. It's named after the Childrens family. Lol I like this show already.
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Jan 14, 2020 21:27
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Children's Hospital is the web series the precedes Childrens Hospital.
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Deadite posted:Yeah Childrens Hospital is definitely worth watching if you like Medical Police When you see someone with a Birthday Boys avatar post recommendations, you know they're to be trusted. 
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