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I re-watched the OT a year or two ago with my 15 and 12-year old and they enjoyed them. Then they wanted to watch the prequels and I tried to warn them. They still ended up wanting to watch all the prequels but it was more out of morbid curiosity and completionism (besides getting hype for Duel of the Fates)
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Imagine starting A New Hope after just being introduced to Star Wars via 7 hours of prequels. You see Darth Vader and he's just that annoying motherfucker you've been watching for hours already, you know why he's in the suit, you know he's a fallen Jedi, etc. You know Luke and Leia are siblings and that Vader is their father. Watching the movies starting with episode 1, as a new viewer, would be the most disappointing loving thing you could imagine. "Luke... I am your father" well no poo poo, we saw that two movies ago! You hack fraud!
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mallratcal posted:Oh good... David Goyer...
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Jun 22, 2020 23:46
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I think it would be a good clickbait article for someone to make their kids watch the sequels first. Additionally, it would be an act of good parenting since it would likely smother any interest in the cursed star wars in the crib
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hemale in pain posted:I think when i got to Gaia and all the shared consciousness/living planet stuff I was like naaah i'm bored now. the very end of the series is kind of cool in an all according to keikaku kind of way but agreed. the mule 'fight' is also like the lamest thing ever published
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Jun 23, 2020 00:40
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I'm still mad about Del Toro's Monster adaptation never happening. Not only because it could've been amazing, but also if it was a successful we would've gotten a bunch of good mangas turned into TV shows.
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I'll watch drat near anything with Jarred Harris in it, so Foundation goes on the list.
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Jun 23, 2020 00:59
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counterfeitsaint posted:I'll watch drat near anything with Jarred Harris in it, so Foundation goes on the list. grudgingly same
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counterfeitsaint posted:I'll watch drat near anything with Jarred Harris in it, so Foundation goes on the list. Hits like Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Lost In Space (1998)
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Jun 23, 2020 01:15
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He's only the second best part of lost in space because he has to share the screen with Gary Oldman
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Jun 23, 2020 02:27
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Arcsquad12 posted:He's only the second best part of lost in space because he has to share the screen with Gary Oldman Whose finest role was as Rolf in Tiptoes, which the boys should definitely watch
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Jun 23, 2020 02:28
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Im just glad ive seen the non-special OT about 6 billion times so I'm not in the position kids are in today, watching the movies for the first time and wondering who the gently caress that creepy guy is at the end of Return of the Jedi.
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Jun 23, 2020 04:03
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So I only now started watching Black Mirror, and by the very first episode where the Prime Minister fucks a pig... this is a real show? Charlie Brooker actually wrote this down and got real actors and a crew to film this and it was put on TV? Is it a satire on the vapidity of politicians? Or the callous voyeuristic/exhibitionist nature of the public? Or the excesses of modern art? Or the PM fucks a pig.
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Jun 23, 2020 05:01
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Andro Dunos posted:So I only now started watching Black Mirror, and by the very first episode where the Prime Minister fucks a pig... this is a real show? Charlie Brooker actually wrote this down and got real actors and a crew to film this and it was put on TV? Yeah, I didn't even watch all of that episode. Then a couple years later, a coworker convinced me to give it another shot, and I watched episode 2, and it's got the same "AREN'T I CLEVER AND CONTROVERSIAL?!!!" tone to it. I watched all of episode 2, but I haven't gone back. It really feels like the writer thinks he's smarter than he is.
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Andro Dunos posted:So I only now started watching Black Mirror, and by the very first episode where the Prime Minister fucks a pig... this is a real show? Charlie Brooker actually wrote this down and got real actors and a crew to film this and it was put on TV? The show is all about bitching that people own cell-phones now and don’t have to listen to Charlie Brookner to be on the cutting-edge of political satire. It’s extremely loving vapid and stupid. It was never good and I hate everybody who likes it.
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Jun 23, 2020 05:04
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david cameron actually hosed a pig though
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Jun 23, 2020 05:06
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Giga Gaia posted:david cameron actually hosed a pig though Yeah that was pretty funny, i hope for more such behavior from him in his future election campaigns.
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Jun 23, 2020 05:07
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Black Mirror is really good, thanks for reading
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Endless Trash posted:Black Mirror is really good, thanks for reading I watched half of episode 1 and all of episode 2 and I never want to watch anymore of it ever again. That's not "good."
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Jun 23, 2020 05:10
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The trailer starts out with the BIG HONKS. That's a sure sign right off the bat that this will be a creative masterpiece.
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Andro Dunos posted:So I only now started watching Black Mirror, and by the very first episode where the Prime Minister fucks a pig... this is a real show? Charlie Brooker actually wrote this down and got real actors and a crew to film this and it was put on TV? It's an hour of the greatest black comedy you've ever seen, the growing realization from the PM that he's actually going to have to do it is incredible.
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Jun 23, 2020 05:16
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It's an anthology series dummies. Don't watch it in order just look up which ones are the good ones. That said the second episode is one of the good ones so if you didn't like that you probably won't like the rest. Watch the ones where the two former college bros turned middle-aged dads get perfect VR devices to play a Street Fighter game with each other and end up loving.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:The show is all about bitching that people own cell-phones now and don’t have to listen to Charlie Brookner to be on the cutting-edge of political satire. It’s extremely loving vapid and stupid. It was never good and I hate everybody who likes it. I liked Charlie Brooker's various "wipe" shows, but yeah, he really only seems to have the one note. Black Mirror started as "What if Facebook, but too much?" and just sorta kept doing it.
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Jun 23, 2020 05:20
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infernal machines posted:I liked Charlie Brooker's various "wipe" shows, but yeah, he really only seems to have the one note. Black Mirror started as "What if Facebook, but too much?" and just sorta kept doing it. Yeah, I agree with you, I was being a bit intense before.
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PostNouveau posted:It's an anthology series dummies. Don't watch it in order just look up which ones are the good ones. Yeah there are some really good ones in there. Some of them are misses for sure but I think overall they are good. I really liked the one the Bryce Howard and the one with the 80s sea side town. There is some light continuity between them (some of the tech for example) but they are largely self contained sci fi twilight zone episode.
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Gripweed posted:I'm still mad about Del Toro's Monster adaptation never happening. Not only because it could've been amazing, but also if it was a successful we would've gotten a bunch of good mangas turned into TV shows. Same, I'm genuinely mad it never went anywhere, the entire thing would be a loving slam dunk
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MarcusSA posted:Yeah there are some really good ones in there. Some of them are misses for sure but I think overall they are good. Yeah those are good. 80s sea side town one is probably the apex of the series. I also like the one where the creepy video game programmer is making perfect copies of his coworkers to gently caress with inside his Star Trek game. At some point they got very obsessed with the idea of perfect virtual recreations of human brains, and that started dominating the show.
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PostNouveau posted:
that one has discount matt damon in it right? i remember liking that one
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah those are good. 80s sea side town one is probably the apex of the series. Oh yeah that one is super hosed up and good. Also the one where everyone has recording devices in their eyeballs and can play anything they’ve seen back at any time.
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MarcusSA posted:Also the one where everyone has recording devices in their eyeballs and can play anything they’ve seen back at any time. Oh poo poo that part where the couple is having super hot sex and it cuts and they're actually having the world's lamest sex and just replaying a time they got at it good
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A friend tried talking to me about the episode with the soldiers fighting the mutant monsters, and it turns into a hamfisted commentary about ethnic cleansing, that includes them sitting you down at the end of the episode and explaining it to you for like 10 minutes before lobotomizing the character they're explaining it to. He went on and on about how deep it was. I haven't talked to this person in over a year. Good choice, I think.
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A Single Sphink posted:A friend tried talking to me about the episode with the soldiers fighting the mutant monsters, and it turns into a hamfisted commentary about ethnic cleansing, that includes them sitting you down at the end of the episode and explaining it to you for like 10 minutes before lobotomizing the character they're explaining it to. He went on and on about how deep it was. Did you actually watch it? I’m not gonna say it was super deep or anything but it was an interesting concept.
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Black Mirror sucks big time. The most basic-rear end sci fi going "What if your son.... was an app?!!!!" "What if iCloud... could upload your dog?!!"
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Jun 23, 2020 07:18
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"oi guvnah! me phone's suckin me prick!" hm that sounds great, actually
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PostNouveau posted:Oh poo poo that part where the couple is having super hot sex and it cuts and they're actually having the world's lamest sex and just replaying a time they got at it good That was a great twist reveal. This one was always my favorite episode because it took classic issues and conflicts that can happen in a relationship or married couple and then introduces how a technology that can give you perfect recall could change how people act. There's a dinner party where the guy isn't sure if his wife is giving eyes to another guy. In real life, you might notice but think nothing of it. Now he can reply it over and over and drive himself crazy. Black Mirror can have some dumb concepts, be emotionally manipulative, and even rehash some of the same ideas in its episodes, but it's still good overall.
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The thing to keep in mind with Black Mirror is that Charlie Brooker still seems to consider it to be a black comedy full of style-parody above all else.
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I liked the Black Mirror episode where... Oh wait, that's Utopia. Utopia is really good. Black Mirror is twilight zone for the 21st century. A mixed bag. And not as good as Utopia.
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infernal machines posted:Hits like Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Lost In Space (1998) The Downey Sherlocks own, actually
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Downey Sherlocks own, actually 2nd one is poop
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