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Cowboy Bebop redux does some things terribly (Vicious' characterization and That Last Scene), but there really is a lot of good in there if you're willing to let it be its own story. Not gonna lie, I think they did a fantastic job with Pierre le Fou, and may actually in some aspects improved upon the original even though I would have thought it would be basically unadaptable.
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I like Bebop and I think the hate it’s getting online is really overblown and kinda stupid. It’s a fun enjoyable show and the cast works well together. Mustafa Shakir as Jet might be the absolute best thing about the show. I’d watch a whole prequel series just about him wearing detective clothes and talking about future space jazz.
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Dec 4, 2021 20:47
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Whatever you think of the Netflix Cowboy Bebop you have to admire it's boldness. I wouldn't have spent a 3rd of the show's runtime on the main cast sharing minions memes about wine but it's definitely a choice.
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Dec 4, 2021 21:04
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Netflix should have cut out the middleman and cast Noah Antweiler as Vicious.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Whatever you think of the Netflix Cowboy Bebop you have to admire it's boldness. I wouldn't have spent a 3rd of the show's runtime on the main cast sharing minions memes about wine but it's definitely a choice. Reaching that all important out-of-touch Facebook mom demographic
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A MIRACLE posted:Looking for any and all recommendations for movies like Dead Man on Campus Van Wilder
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pospysyl posted:Netflix should have cut out the middleman and cast Noah Antweiler as Vicious. In my head the best choice would be Constantine-era Tilda Swinton.
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Dec 4, 2021 21:32
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Tilda Swinton from The Dead Don't Die.
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I feel like Cowboy Bebop isn't particularly "good" outside of the cast but I also feel like that might be part of the appeal for me. Like a lot of it gives me b-movie, Troma-lite vibes. It's campy but it's entertaining. They do take things in a different direction from the show but as somebody who hasn't watched the original in over a decade the changes either don't bother me or act as a pleasant surprise. I think it helps to go into it just seeing it as Its Own Thing rather than expecting it to be a 1:1 remake of That Awesome Action Sci Fi Show I Watched When I Was Ten I will say one thing I definitely appreciate about the remake vs the original is that the remake is actually far less horny on main. It's ironic because you kind of expect an "adult" show on a streaming service to have more sex and not less but like, the way they animated basically every female character is kind of absurd in retrospect when juxtaposed with the live-action actresses
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punk rebel ecks posted:I watched the first episode of "Santa, Inc." on HBOMax and while the premise is great it unfortunately suffers from being an adult American comedy of shoving as much NSFW jokes and bits as possible regardless if they fit the scene or are even funny. 100% agree, i was kinda looking forward to this but this style of humor is not for me. There aren't any real jokes, it's just an onslaught of random swearing and inappropriate situations that just aren't funny
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I do love that the only other role I know the actor who plays Vicious from is Translucent on The Boys. I wonder what adjective he'll portray next.Blood Nightmaster posted:I feel like Cowboy Bebop isn't particularly "good" outside of the cast but I also feel like that might be part of the appeal for me. Like a lot of it gives me b-movie, Troma-lite vibes. It's campy but it's entertaining. They do take things in a different direction from the show but as somebody who hasn't watched the original in over a decade the changes either don't bother me or act as a pleasant surprise. I think it helps to go into it just seeing it as Its Own Thing rather than expecting it to be a 1:1 remake of That Awesome Action Sci Fi Show I Watched When I Was Ten yeah this is a better way of summing up how I felt.
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I liked parts of the first Bebop episode. It was fun but bad. Cho was great. I'll probably watch miss The Blade Runner: Black Lotus first episode blew. Just a bunch of mediocre action with no characters, story, or worldbuilding. Just zero in common with the movies beyond neon, glowing umbrellas, and geishas on billboards. Absolutely no imagination or heart on display whatsoever.
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Was recommended Space Sweepers (Netflix) on another thread and it's a really fun sci-fi movie if you want something with kind of a BeBop vibe. Made in Korea, has really nice production values, good tone that manages to take on modern class issues in a way that isn't a bummer. My one complaint is it's a bit long, during a big chase scene that I assumed was leading to the third act, I paused to go to the restroom and there was almost an hour left.
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Final season of Money Heist had come to Netflix and it's not working for me. Lots of music-backed montages, endless scenes of people discussing their feelings. I want crazy robbery hijinks damnit.
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TheMopeSquad posted:Tilda Swinton from The Dead Don't Die. I'll take it. Any Tilda Swinton, ever, as Vicious.
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last night i got stoned and watched Smoke for the first time in years. it's on the Criterion Channel. bit of an odd one; written by novelist Paul Auster, it definitely feels more like a play than a film, even structurally. lots of magical realism/postmodern deconstruction of storytelling. Insanely good cast for an indie thing - Harvey Keitel and William Hurt are the primaries, but you have supporting roles played by Forest Whitaker, Harold Perrineau, Stockard Channing, early career Giancarlo Esposito and Jared Harris in minor roles, and Ashley Judd has a brief appearance. set in early 90s Brooklyn NY it very much feels like a series of semi-related neighborhood vignettes, though in typical Auster fashion each story echoes and rhymes with each other. lots of good performances, a handful of not so great ones, mostly due to datedness. Worth checking out overall.
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Hmmm, I'll add that to my list. Just watched Johnny To's Throw Down on the Criterion Channel and it was amazing. Slick, funny, neon-soaked, stylish, emotional dudes just loving judo and flipping/throwing each other on the ground, just some faaantastic choreography and camerawork too. Sometimes a lil corny (keep an eye out for the Gilette product placement lol) but a definite recommend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A79FMoOGyvo
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Hmmm, I'll add that to my list. Just watched Johnny To's Throw Down on the Criterion Channel and it was amazing. Slick, funny, neon-soaked, stylish, emotional dudes just loving judo and flipping/throwing each other on the ground, just some faaantastic choreography and camerawork too. Sometimes a lil corny (keep an eye out for the Gilette product placement lol) but a definite recommend. This looks awesome so thank you for this post. Adding it to my watchlist now
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Maxwell Lord posted:Was recommended Space Sweepers (Netflix) on another thread and it's a really fun sci-fi movie if you want something with kind of a BeBop vibe. Made in Korea, has really nice production values, good tone that manages to take on modern class issues in a way that isn't a bummer. My one complaint is it's a bit long, during a big chase scene that I assumed was leading to the third act, I paused to go to the restroom and there was almost an hour left. Space Sweepers is very underrated, movie has buckets of charm.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Hmmm, I'll add that to my list. Just watched Johnny To's Throw Down on the Criterion Channel and it was amazing. Slick, funny, neon-soaked, stylish, emotional dudes just loving judo and flipping/throwing each other on the ground, just some faaantastic choreography and camerawork too. Sometimes a lil corny (keep an eye out for the Gilette product placement lol) but a definite recommend. i have no idea what's happening in this movie but it's cool
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+1 for Space Sweepers. It's easily one of my favorites I saw this year, alongside such other little known films as Old Henry and Little Fish. Little Fish is on Hulu btw. Watch it if you want to feel something. Jack O'Connell is so loving good. Old Henry is only available for rent/purchase on VOD I think, but also worth a watch.
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Bayham Badger posted:last night i got stoned and watched Smoke for the first time in years. it's on the Criterion Channel. I recall a sequel to Smoke called Blue in the Face.
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yep. Though rather than a separately produced sequel, it is largely cut material from Smoke that Wayne Wang and Auster felt was enough to release separately (if i recall correctly from a screening/Q&A w Auster at Brooklyn Academy of Music a decade ago). edit: notably, Blue in the Face features even more random cameos, such as Madonna, Michael J Fox, Mira Sorvino, Jim Jormusch, Lou Reed and Lily Tomlin. Bayham Badger fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Watch The Power of the Dog on Netflix if you're in the mood to feel tense for two hours and be slightly disappointed that the New Zealand landscape isn't as beautiful as the 1920s Montana landscape where the movie takes place. I think the movie is good to be clear.
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Thoughts on “Shadow and Bone” on Netflix? Seemed like it was jumping around and burning through plot which I figured was due to it being a book adaptation, but it turns out it is even worse and adapting two separate book series into one tv show. Generally enjoyable though, very YA.
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smackfu posted:Thoughts on “Shadow and Bone” on Netflix? Seemed like it was jumping around and burning through plot which I figured was due to it being a book adaptation, but it turns out it is even worse and adapting two separate book series into one tv show. Generally enjoyable though, very YA. It was fine. The worldbuilding was kind of cool, but it was pretty typical chosen one to save the world YA. Getting a second season apparently, not sure if I'll watch it, similar to Locke and Key where I sat down to watch season 2 and realized I just didn't care enough, even though I had watched all of season 1.
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I gave up after #2 I think, because I couldn’t come up with a reason to care what happened to any of those people. Also it was too YA for a prestige fantasy show IMO.
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smackfu posted:Thoughts on “Shadow and Bone” on Netflix? Seemed like it was jumping around and burning through plot which I figured was due to it being a book adaptation, but it turns out it is even worse and adapting two separate book series into one tv show. Generally enjoyable though, very YA. Yeah it was decent enough, I also don't remember what happened at all
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It was definitely very YA, but it was really good YA with a super interesting world.
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The goat alone is worth the price of admission (very minor S&B spoilers):     Also, it's cool to see a fantasy series with a higher level of technology than the standard pseudo-medieval stuff. I loved the old soldier's monologue about how wizards are becoming increasingly irrelevant now that the enemy can just gun them down with WW1 era machine guns. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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AngryBooch posted:Watch The Power of the Dog on Netflix if you're in the mood to feel tense for two hours and be slightly disappointed that the New Zealand landscape isn't as beautiful as the 1920s Montana landscape where the movie takes place. Guess I'll be the first one to say i did not like this movie. After the first hour of nothing happening i figured i was in for a slow burn and a crazy ending but nope, completely predictable snooze fest.
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lol they really did a Sex and the City reboot without Samantha?
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mcmagic posted:lol they really did a Sex and the City reboot without Samantha? None of them have really worked a whole lot since the last movie so they needed one last payday
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mcmagic posted:lol they really did a Sex and the City reboot without Samantha? I'm sure you know, but she's been quite vocal about how much she hates the rest of the cast, especially SJP. She's convinced that SJP is some kind of maniacal bully who tormented her throughout the original series and the two movies, and that she used Kim Catrall's brother's death for her own career exposure.
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Nihonniboku posted:I'm sure you know, but she's been quite vocal about how much she hates the rest of the cast, especially SJP. She's convinced that SJP is some kind of maniacal bully who tormented her throughout the original series and the two movies, and that she used Kim Catrall's brother's death for her own career exposure. I wasn't really aware of any of that lol. But it must be pretty awful between them since I'm sure she had to turn down a ton of cash to not be in it.
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It's possible that Cattrall is the only one of the three other cast members(not including SJP) who can actually afford to turn down the paycheck. She had a legit movie career in the 80s and early 90s and even in the years leading up to Sex in the City she was doing a lot of t.v. movies and other television work. Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis don't have resumes like that, and they really weren't established as known actresses before Sex and the City.
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Just seems similar to a band getting back together. One person needs the money, one person wants to be treated like they are famous again, one person is peer pressured into it, and the last one is happy being retired and doesn’t want to work anymore.
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Basebf555 posted:It's possible that Cattrall is the only one of the three other cast members(not including SJP) who can actually afford to turn down the paycheck. She had a legit movie career in the 80s and early 90s and even in the years leading up to Sex in the City she was doing a lot of t.v. movies and other television work. Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis don't have resumes like that, and they really weren't established as known actresses before Sex and the City. People don't just turn down easy multimillion dollar paydays no matter how much they already have. Also I really doubt that she got fabulously wealthy from making a few bad movies or even from the original run of SatC. They were all probably VERY underpaid during the original run.
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mcmagic posted:People don't just turn down easy multimillion dollar paydays no matter how much they already have. Probably generally true but there are certainly exceptions. In an age of multi-million dollar buyouts for college coaches, Gary Anderson resigned and declined his buyout altogether. Two different times. When it would have been the easiest thing in the world to just be fired instead and bank another $14+ million. He's a unique and interesting guy. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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