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Human Tornada posted:Do you like R-rated Batman & Robin (1997) mixed with bad 90's Sci-Fi Channel original series? Because that's what the show felt like to me, corny and graceless, but I seem to be in the minority on this one so give it a shot I guess.
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The Matrix is on Netflix. We had the internet 100% figured out in 1999.Human Tornada posted:Do you like R-rated Batman & Robin (1997) mixed with bad 90's Sci-Fi Channel original series? Because that's what the show felt like to me, corny and graceless, but I seem to be in the minority on this one so give it a shot I guess. I remembered liking it, although not expecting much since it was an original series, and thinking the first season was like Total Recall plus Blade Runner plus The Fifth Element. After watching the recap it turns out that's all I remember, and I need to rewatch season one if the second season is going to make any sense. Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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Franchescanado posted:You can literally go by any name you want. My grandpa’s name was Elvin, only ever went by Billy his whole life. No other part of his name is related to Billy, he just preferred it. No one asks for legal proof of your name except for forms. My uncle's name isn't actually "Norm Torby Corlbort the Fourth" but it's something equally bad if not worse, for the same reasons. He goes by Todd.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:I agree except I do sort of like it. I don't know if I'd argue it's great or good or something but 1997 Batman & Robin is insane and special and stuff with that kind of energy sometimes hits the spot. I actually like Batman & Robin and would take it any day over Altered Carbon because at least it knows it's a cartoon. Altered Carbon seems to think it's dark and grown-up and "about ideas" but it's mostly just guys in goofy costumes repeating chichéd dialog and clobbering each other.
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Human Tornada posted:Do you like R-rated Batman & Robin (1997) mixed with bad 90's Sci-Fi Channel original series? Because that's what the show felt like to me, corny and graceless, but I seem to be in the minority on this one so give it a shot I guess. this is a fairly accurate assessment but that's part of why I liked season 1. I remember thinking the set design and cinematography were better than most things on netflix as well.
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Personally, Altered Carbon is exactly the kind of sci-fi nonsense I enjoy sometimes. Season 1 had some great moments, but yeah, I'm not going to shout from the rooftops to get people to watch it. edit: I'm on S2E3 and kind of really enjoying it, probably because I like Poe and I got major Equilibrium vibes from a certain scene. Glottis fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Feb 29, 2020 |
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Franchescanado posted:You can literally go by any name you want. My grandpa’s name was Elvin, only ever went by Billy his whole life. No other part of his name is related to Billy, he just preferred it. No one asks for legal proof of your name except for forms. My grandfather's name was Weston, which was apparently an unusual name at a time when the only legal names for men were Bill, Bob, John, Joe, and George. "Weston" was too confusing so people just started calling him Bill. Including my grandma, lol Oh yeah, movies. So Atlantics is supposed to be good?
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Atlantics is good, yeah. I think it could've done more interesting stuff with its premise (it sort of goes out of its way not to say as much interesting stuff about gender and sexuality as it could've) but what's there is great.
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Finally tracked down a copy of possession on DVD through inter library loan, but it is a region 2 dvd and I can’t watch it
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# ? Feb 29, 2020 17:04 |
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Altered Carbon s2 is even better than s1.
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# ? Feb 29, 2020 17:38 |
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In what way? Every review I read said that it was pretty disappointing outside of the visuals.
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tweet my meat posted:Altered Carbon s2 is even better than s1. Is it still schlocky Syfy channel nonsense but with the occasional tiddy?
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# ? Feb 29, 2020 21:27 |
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Drive To Survive is really good, and I particularly love hearing the Battlefield 4 OST throughout.
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beanieson posted:Is it still schlocky Syfy channel nonsense but with the occasional tiddy? They toned down the nudity, upped the cyberpunk dystopia, added Simone Missick, gave Chris Connor more to do and cast someone who could act as Kovacs.
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# ? Feb 29, 2020 23:31 |
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If you are wondering what happened to the Disney+ Lizzie McGuire show they were filming, the showrunner was effectively fired because she was making the series "too mature". Hillary Duff is campaigning for Disney to move the series to Hulu.
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The MSJ posted:If you are wondering what happened to the Disney+ Lizzie McGuire show they were filming, the showrunner was effectively fired because she was making the series "too mature". Hillary Duff is campaigning for Disney to move the series to Hulu. Lol this makes me actually interested in it
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The MSJ posted:If you are wondering what happened to the Disney+ Lizzie McGuire show they were filming, the showrunner was effectively fired because she was making the series "too mature". Hillary Duff is campaigning for Disney to move the series to Hulu. I was reading about this and apparently the new version of High Fidelity with Zoe Kravitz was originally going to be on Disney+ and was moved to Hulu for similar reasons. Imagining that show on D+ is really weird, why did they ever think that was a good fit for it? This is also the case for the Love, Simon tv adaptation, it's not hard to figure out why that one was considered too "mature" for Disney. Anyway, I was a big fan of Lizzie McGuire back in the day so I hope this works out instead of the whole thing falling apart, even though I thought it entirely unnecessary to bring the show back in the first place. gently caress Disney, just in general.
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I never saw the last season of Game of Thrones, but I'm randomly seeing the third episode of the last season and it seems like a perfectly serviceable series finale, it could have come basically right after the last episode of the previous season and tied everything up. There's really more after this? vv yeah basically after that i'm wondering who's even left alive to have their story finished vv Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Inspector Hound posted:I never saw the last season of Game of Thrones, but I'm randomly seeing the third episode of the last season and it seems like a perfectly serviceable series finale, it could have come basically right after the last episode of the previous season and tied everything up. There's really more after this? I mean, yes? There’s all the living drama to take care of now that the dead drama is done. The resolution to all that stuff is even less satisfying. I thought a big issue towards the end was that the cast had gotten so thin with everyone getting killed off. Having the Big Bad be completely mute was a gigantic mistake, although maybe it was a blessing considering his motivations were so boring. The Night King was ultimately completely uninteresting.
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Altered Carbon is a show whose entire premise is that people can jump between bodies, swap bodies, jump into cloned bodies, etc., and the main character is somehow the first person in hundreds of years to realize that a safe that unlocks based on DNA is a terrible idea. Or am I misremembering this part?
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Martman posted:Altered Carbon is a show whose entire premise is that people can jump between bodies, swap bodies, jump into cloned bodies, etc., and the main character is somehow the first person in hundreds of years to realize that a safe that unlocks based on DNA is a terrible idea. Or am I misremembering this part? was it a really secure rich dude's dna, b/c if so maybe part of the point was hubris
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wizardofloneliness posted:I was reading about this and apparently the new version of High Fidelity with Zoe Kravitz was originally going to be on Disney+ and was moved to Hulu for similar reasons. Imagining that show on D+ is really weird, why did they ever think that was a good fit for it? This is also the case for the Love, Simon tv adaptation, it's not hard to figure out why that one was considered too "mature" for Disney. Anyway, I was a big fan of Lizzie McGuire back in the day so I hope this works out instead of the whole thing falling apart, even though I thought it entirely unnecessary to bring the show back in the first place. Weird thing is I'm sure by "mature" they just mean the new Lizzie McGuire show is at most PG13, same as the MCU movies which are on Disney+.
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Girl on the Third Floor is crap
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You know how lately there's been all these wrestlers breaking out into acting, and you might be skeptical of them at first, but they end up surprising you by being pretty good ,or at the very least charming enough that you enjoyed them? CM Punk, not one of those guys.
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Martman posted:Altered Carbon is a show whose entire premise is that people can jump between bodies, swap bodies, jump into cloned bodies, etc., and the main character is somehow the first person in hundreds of years to realize that a safe that unlocks based on DNA is a terrible idea. Or am I misremembering this part? Let's not forget that the terrorist group we are supposed to sympathize with decided arbitrarily that people should die after 100 years, despite the leader being a hypocrite who is well over 100 years old herself. Supposedly its because only rich people can afford it, but the leader is also a genius scientist, and its already been established that cloning/robot bodies exist. She could just be working to make them cheaper.
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veni veni veni posted:You know how lately there's been all these wrestlers breaking out into acting, and you might be skeptical of them at first, but they end up surprising you by being pretty good ,or at the very least charming enough that you enjoyed them? CM Punk, not one of those guys. It was like a parody of a parody of someone who say Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead 2
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In a move that has to have some intentionality to it, Netflix just added Outbreak.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:In a move that has to have some intentionality to it, Netflix just added Outbreak. Oh man I can’t wait
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:In a move that has to have some intentionality to it, Netflix just added Outbreak. I did an Outbreak and Contagion double feature last week. It was great.
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Hereditary left me not knowing how to feel, I don't know if I liked it, I have no idea how to rate it. It is well acted and directed with an ominous sound track but not very inspired, clever, or original. It's a good movie but not great.
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teagone posted:I did an Outbreak and Contagion double feature last week. It was great. Outbreak is garbage, I wish Contagion was streaming somewhere.
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I just know someone right now is putting together another adaptation of The Andromeda Strain Which actually is a good book and maybe could be done right as like a period piece or something
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wormil posted:Hereditary left me not knowing how to feel, I don't know if I liked it, I have no idea how to rate it. It is well acted and directed with an ominous sound track but not very inspired, clever, or original. It's a good movie but not great. I enjoyed it but I felt like I needed a hug afterwards.
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When I think about horror movies that I like clever is not a word I would associate with any of them except for maybe cabin in the woods. That's kind of a weird thing to expect from a horror flick.
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Field Mousepad posted:When I think about horror movies that I like clever is not a word I would associate with any of them except for maybe cabin in the woods. That's kind of a weird thing to expect from a horror flick. You should respect horror
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10 Beers posted:I enjoyed it but I felt like I needed a hug afterwards. I liked it I guess, the depictions of grief were realistic and that one wtf moment made me sit up and actually say, what the gently caress, but I would have liked an ending that left something to think about or been shocking. By the end we already know what's going on and the final scene was a little comical.
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It makes pretty much no effort hide the ending though.
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wormil posted:I liked it I guess, the depictions of grief were realistic and that one wtf moment made me sit up and actually say, what the gently caress, but I would have liked an ending that left something to think about or been shocking. By the end we already know what's going on and the final scene was a little comical. The whole movie is pretty darkly comedic. And the ending is pretty open-ended. Hop into the Midsommar thread, there's plenty of questions in there. Field Mousepad posted:It makes pretty much no effort hide the ending though. Yeah, absolutely. You ever see a couple that absolutely should not be together? That they are absolutely doomed to everyone around them, but no one's gonna say anything? They're just gonna wait a month or two until they hate each other and break up and everyone can move on? That's what Midsommar does with it's foreshadowing. The first shot of the film is the plot drawn out into a Mu Pan tapestry. edit: I realized afterwards we're talking about Hereditary, not Midsommar! My bad. But yes, Hereditary also has some pitch-black comedy going on in the final act. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Mar 2, 2020 |
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The main scene that gives away that Hereditary is a pitch black comedy is the book burning scene. I see we're talking about Midsommar though. Carry on.
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Basebf555 posted:I see we're talking about Midsommar though. Franchescanado posted:I realized afterwards we're talking about Hereditary Well I'm lost
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