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I like to refer to Phillip K Dick as "Harlan Ellison with a brain"
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Mar 13, 2020 14:12
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Remember when they made Independence Day 2?
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Mar 13, 2020 14:29
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Junkie Disease posted:Remember when they made Independence Day 2? I liked it.
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Junkie Disease posted:Remember when they made Independence Day 2? Objection, these questions were supposed to be made available beforehand so I might prepare a proper response
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Junkie Disease posted:Remember when they made Independence Day 2? Yeah. I had fun with it but it’s trash and should be forgotten.
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Mar 13, 2020 16:20
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I can’t search posts with the awful app but I know The Magicians came up a couple weeks ago and someone mentioned they killed the character everyone hated last season. They really didn’t. At least two characters and who knows how many writers are still carrying the torch. This show is great either way. Don’t let me down.
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ruddiger posted:The new Zodiac doc on Hulu, The Most Dangerous Animal of All, is a huge waste of time and the subject of the doc is a known fraud, which is revealed at the end of the doc. I’m glad I ended up passing out during the middle two eps instead of wasting time on the whole series. That and the new Amazing Johnathan doc (also on Hulu) are garbo. Docs with fraudulent premises are a new pet peeve of mine. I watched one not long ago that was really egregious but I can’t remember what it was now for the life of me. Wrinkles the Clown was sort of like that too. The subject had legs to stay interesting for a 15 minute YouTube doc, so they just fabricate some poo poo for 2/3rds of it. And the stuff they fabricate isn’t even interesting! loving terrible
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Mar 13, 2020 18:16
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Yall Kingdom Season 2 dropped. Why are we not talking hats and zombies?
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people probably aren't in the mood for zombie media
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flatluigi posted:people probably aren't in the mood for zombie media If this is what it takes to end this trend of lovely zombie tv shows then it’ll all be worthwhile
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Mar 14, 2020 14:31
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Yall Kingdom Season 2 dropped.
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beanieson posted:If this is what it takes to end this trend of lovely zombie tv shows then it’ll all be worthwhile Is there a trend? Assuming they still make them I was hoping they’d jump some kind of shark and say “you, Malcolm you are one of the good ones. I can trust you with a shotgun heck I’d almost trust you with my daughter *laughtrack* Dang Ezekiel I sho ain’t no walking dead... am I?”
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beanieson posted:If this is what it takes to end this trend of lovely zombie tv shows then it’ll all be worthwhile Please please let it be over
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Mar 14, 2020 22:51
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I am completely sick of long form true crime docs but McMillions was really good.
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beanieson posted:If this is what it takes to end this trend of lovely zombie tv shows then it’ll all be worthwhile Kingdom is very much not a lovely zombie tv show
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I'm 3 episodes in and it's not bad, but I haven't watched anything having to do with zombies for around 5 years. I don't watch Korean TV either so I'm digging the great hats and what... appears to be setting up the main guy for a budding class consciousness? Also I've laughed several times, which for zombie television is a goddamn relief, let me tell you. It's a dreary genre.
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Mar 15, 2020 06:48
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veni veni veni posted:I am completely sick of long form true crime docs but McMillions was really good. Yeah I'm only a few in and I'm shamelessly hooked
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McMillions is different in that it's actually incredibly fun instead of bleak and depressing.
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Mar 15, 2020 22:49
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Does McMillions justify its length? I’ve seen a few docuseries where my reactions was basically “this is good but could have been 90 mins”
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beanieson posted:Does McMillions justify its length? I’ve seen a few docuseries where my reactions was basically “this is good but could have been 90 mins” Yeah. I’m loving it (me encanta) for dragging it out for weeks but I must learn the dark secret of how Jerry did it. Worried the feebs don’t have the deets 
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McMillions was really great and I'm glad it exists in docu form as opposed to podcast form. I was actually pretty impressed with the production value of any reenactments. (Although HBO did a podcast too because why not I guess)
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beanieson posted:Does McMillions justify its length? I’ve seen a few docuseries where my reactions was basically “this is good but could have been 90 mins” Just like all docuseries nowadays, half of the series was filler. The first ep. is wonderful, the rest could have been condensed down into 2-3 more exceptional episodes, but whatever.
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doctorfrog posted:I'm 3 episodes in and it's not bad, but I haven't watched anything having to do with zombies for around 5 years. I don't watch Korean TV either so I'm digging the great hats and what... appears to be setting up the main guy for a budding class consciousness? Also I've laughed several times, which for zombie television is a goddamn relief, let me tell you. It's a dreary genre. It feels really weird that The Han Solo character butchered an infected corpse and fed a hospital with the resultant stew, thereby starting the zombie plague, and he doesn't suffer the slightest bit of reproach from anyone or even the slightest bit of self recrimination over it.
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tbh I dropped Kingdom pretty early simply because there was literally one character, the Crown Prince, who wasn't a complete insufferable rear end in a top hat and he basically existed to constantly get dunked on by the universe for not being an rear end in a top hat
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Mar 16, 2020 05:25
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Documentaries should be as long as they want to be. Don't rush them because you're impatient.
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kittenmittons posted:Documentaries should be as long as they want to be. Don't rush them because you're impatient. Exactly Pretty sure you can push fast forward on McMillions by looking it up on wikipedia. As far as zodiac goes you can watch a ton of movies and never figure out it was Ted Cruz
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Hunters gets more nuanced than I ever could’ve imagined. By episode five I’m just totally down with everything because the characters aren’t getting it all right but I think the show is necessary. I’m only saying this as a response because I heard somebody say they’re making a mockery of the holocaust because people wouldn’t believe the holocaust ever happened if your only exposure to it was some comic book show.
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kittenmittons posted:Documentaries should be as long as they want to be. Don't rush them because you're impatient. I question most of HBO's output since the ATT / WarnerMedia merger. AT&T specifically told HBO that they were going to need to 10x their production a little more than a year ago in the run up to the HBO Max launch. McMillions was well made and really fun but I don't think the subject matter warranted ~40% of a Ken Burns doc.
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I finished up Star Trek Discovery seasons 1 and 2. I enjoyed them overall, even though I wish there were some more traditional "slow" Star Trek episodes less pre-occupied with the story arc. Not streaming anywhere, I grabbed DVDs from the library. It's crazy how TV can now resemble the big blockbuster reboot movie from a decade ago. I'm revisiting Enterprise. Goddamn, that theme song is kinda endearingly bad.
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I'm going to watch Contagion today. I signed up for a free week of Cinemax on Prime Video. If you'd like to see it without spending money try the same thing!
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It feels really weird that The Han Solo character butchered an infected corpse and fed a hospital with the resultant stew, thereby starting the zombie plague, and he doesn't suffer the slightest bit of reproach from anyone or even the slightest bit of self recrimination over it. Hm, I guess I should stop waiting for someone to mention it, then. He does indicate that cannibalism was being done by the poorest and most desperately starving folks, and he does attempt to hem in the zombies he created with bamboo poles, perhaps as contrition. But, even if he didn't know enough to behead the corpses, I wonder why he wouldn't just burn them all? Maybe some cultural respect for the dead? But, then why chop up a dude and feed it to people? Yeah, turn brain off.
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kittenmittons posted:Documentaries should be as long as they want to be. Don't rush them because you're impatient. Don't gently caress With Cats was an episode too long and Evil Genius was several episodes too long.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I finished up Star Trek Discovery seasons 1 and 2. I enjoyed them overall, even though I wish there were some more traditional "slow" Star Trek episodes less pre-occupied with the story arc. Not streaming anywhere, I grabbed DVDs from the library. It's crazy how TV can now resemble the big blockbuster reboot movie from a decade ago. The Orville is basically TNG. They spend a whole episode (sometimes two) handwringing a single moral question. And it’s not that bad. It’s not family guy in space but you have to get used to seeing a lot of Seth Mcfarlane.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:The Orville is basically TNG. They spend a whole episode (sometimes two) handwringing a single moral question. The Orville was fun
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The pilot episode has some extreme hit-or-miss comedy, but it gets toned down after that
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It still mystifies me how MacFarlane managed to make a show as good as The Orville after making Family Guy.
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tweet my meat posted:It still mystifies me how MacFarlane managed to make a show as good as The Orville after making Family Guy. Like The Simpsons and South Park, there are plenty of legitimately good Family Guy seasons before the schtick got old and the writers got out of touch. I haven't watched The Orville or followed MacFarlane since Ted, but FG was funny for a while. A lot of good comedians I like wrote for it.
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Ah yeah. I'll have to catch The Orville since it's on Hulu.
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beanieson posted:Does McMillions justify its length? I’ve seen a few docuseries where my reactions was basically “this is good but could have been 90 mins” Yes. And I say this as someone who feels the same way as you about almost all true crime docs.
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