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Punkin Spunkin posted:I'm not saying he's bad or anything. I thought The Nice Guys was...nice. He wrote some really fun movies. ugh, "quippy" has breached the comic book thread limits. Do you think His Girl Friday counts as a quippy film. e: Lobok posted:It's been done. The One is a seriously under-rated movie, and Jet Li's best film other than his scenes in the fourth Lethal Weapon.
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Gravy Jones posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3cwWEYpkw Goddamn. That's going to make for one hell of a double feature with Widows.
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Shageletic posted:ugh, "quippy" has breached the comic book thread limits. Check out Hitman (US title: Contract Killer), Dr. Wai in 'The Scripture of No Words', My Father is a Hero (The Enforcer), Bodyguard from Beijing (The Defender), and Unleashed (Danny the Dog). The One is a really solid film though.
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The MSJ posted:From south of the border, I bring you drugs and a vengeful spirit. Pena is Camarena??? 
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Shageletic posted:The One is a seriously under-rated movie, and Jet Li's best film other than his scenes in the fourth Lethal Weapon. Jet Li's best film is Unleashed by a thousand miles.
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Gravy Jones posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3cwWEYpkw Can anyone tell me where that trailer music is from? It sounds super familiar but I can't place it.
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AFewBricksShy posted:Can anyone tell me where that trailer music is from? It sounds super familiar but I can't place it. It sounds like Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Edit: From the middle of "09-15-00". Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Oct 19, 2018 |
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Mierenneuker posted:It sounds like Godspeed You! Black Emperor. You're the best. Thanks, it was driving me nuts.
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Friend posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTjYRFZOf4I My friend Nican is in this movie!
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Shageletic posted:ugh, "quippy" has breached the comic book thread limits. Are we just talking about English language movies?
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Mierenneuker posted:It sounds like Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
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Shageletic posted:The One is a seriously under-rated movie, and Jet Li's best film other than his scenes in the fourth Lethal Weapon. Fun fact: per the DVD commentary they cast Delroy Lindo in The One because of his role in The Cider House Rules.
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Friend posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTjYRFZOf4I I love that trailer. Made me a little misty eyed at, "I never made the time," then he just starts spitting-sputtering everywhere and I cracked up like, holy poo poo, is this a dramedy? Like a really intense dramedy? Accretionist fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Oct 20, 2018 |
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zandert33 posted:Are we just talking about English language movies? They probably are because nobody has mentioned Kung Fu Cult Master yet, his undisputed masterpiece.
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Is NARCOS arguably Netflix's most successful show at this point? It's not tainted the way HOUSE OF CARDS is, and it's still going unlike those Marvel shows they've just cancelled and it seems to be well-liked. Changing up the focus each season seems to work well for them. Though I'm sad it probably puts a hold on anyone tackling Don Winslow's books for TV.
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DrVenkman posted:Is NARCOS arguably Netflix's most successful show at this point? It's not tainted the way HOUSE OF CARDS is, and it's still going unlike those Marvel shows they've just cancelled and it seems to be well-liked. Changing up the focus each season seems to work well for them. Though I'm sad it probably puts a hold on anyone tackling Don Winslow's books for TV. Depends what you mean by successful. Orange is the New Black has been on longer, Bojack Horseman has done better critically and Stranger Things is bigger culturally. I haven't seen Narcos though, so it may trump them when it comes to quality.
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LesterGroans posted:Depends what you mean by successful. Orange is the New Black has been on longer, Bojack Horseman has done better critically and Stranger Things is bigger culturally. I haven't seen Narcos though, so it may trump them when it comes to quality. I've never seen Narcos either and I don't know anyone who has. Women wouldn't shut up about Orange when it first came out, and my dumb 80s-kid generation loved Stranger Things because it tapped their nostalgia button in cheap and tacky ways. Everyone I know is talking about Hill House though, across genders and age groups too. It's pretty impressive how popular it is.
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LesterGroans posted:Stranger Things is bigger culturally. I would say was, not is. People turned on that show pretty hard.
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While I've had a handful of conversations with folks who felt similar to me about season 2, the vast majority of people seem to still love it, or love it outside of that one episode. At Halloween Horror Nights this year the Stranger Things house it had an absurdly long line and was the first one everyone flocked to.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I would say was, not is. People turned on that show pretty hard. When did this happen? As far as I know S02 was just as popular as S01.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I would say was, not is. People turned on that show pretty hard. What are you talking about?
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What measurement is used for success? Cultural impact? Critical reception? Subscriptions sold? Viewership? The last two we have no idea about. Voltron is fresh in my mind because I just got done watching the seventh season. And I wonder how "successful" it is. Easily one of the best animated series' I've ever seen, especially considering its longevity, but outside of threads/subreddits specifically dedicated to discussion of it you'll never hear about the show.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I would say was, not is. People turned on that show pretty hard. People didn’t like Season 2 as much, but if the giant 2 hour line for the haunted house at universal is anything to go by, people are still really into it.
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re: people turning on ST around S2, am I seriously the only one who noticed pretty much a 180 in popular perception of the show? Like, it felt like when S2 dropped a ton of people I know went from loving it to "wait actually this show is terrible," the merch went from selling like crazy to shelf-warming, and none of their marketing stuff since has gotten any real attention (I didn't know about the Spotify thing at all until I saw the option in my settings and went "wait huh?" and googled it).
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You have your anecdote and I have mine.
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When that S3 trailer for Stranger Things hit's youre gonna see some serious poo poo. ST is insanely popular. There's just nothing right now to really get hype about until something drops.
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Stranger Things is one of those classic Netflix shows (House of Cards is another one) where it feels like they fed a bunch of stuff that people like (Supernatural shenanigans! The 80s! Stephen King!) into an autistic supercomputer and this is what it spit out. Like it looks like a tv show, but brother it ain't a tv show.
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That post is like someone just fed a bunch of words into a smug cynical computer and it spat out that post.
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I never enjoyed ST S1 all that much, but I got really put off when I realized the one ST scene I found touching was ripped wholesale from It, when watching the remake.
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Say what you will about the quality of Stranger Things' storytelling but the music for it loving owns. S U R V I V E owns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm68hhqv3eY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7ld1ykNg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H4-1EUtkqo Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Oct 20, 2018 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:re: people turning on ST around S2, am I seriously the only one who noticed pretty much a 180 in popular perception of the show? Like, it felt like when S2 dropped a ton of people I know went from loving it to "wait actually this show is terrible," the merch went from selling like crazy to shelf-warming, and none of their marketing stuff since has gotten any real attention (I didn't know about the Spotify thing at all until I saw the option in my settings and went "wait huh?" and googled it). I think it was still very very popular. Granted there was a lot of the viral mystique that wasn't there because people know about it and it wasn't getting "discovered." Like the first season. You can only do that once. And the merch was just way more saturated because of the popularity. I don't think the actual love for the series has lessened that much.
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CelticPredator posted:That post is like someone just fed a bunch of words into a smug cynical computer and it spat out that post. The cynicism is entirely on the side of those who use your childhood associations to sell you flavor water.
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porfiria posted:The cynicism is entirely on the side of those who use your childhood associations to sell you flavor water.
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porfiria posted:The cynicism is entirely on the side of those who use your childhood associations to sell you flavor water. I was born in the 90’s.
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porfiria posted:The cynicism is entirely on the side of those who use your childhood associations to sell you flavor water. a setting is a setting. if people just liked it because it has 80s references they wouldnt reference the plot nearly as much when talking about it. think about what people say when they reference the show in conversation: they talk about the upside-down, or eleven, or the christmas lights or the sheriff. they usually dont talk about how 80s it is, because the only way its 80s is in its setting and your comparison is disingenuous as flavor water costs a buck a bottle and stranger things is part of an ubiquitous package subscription at no additional cost. its like if buying one bottle of water let you drink everything else in the cooler too
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also producers being greedy has sometimes had a positive effect on shows with large budgets because producers like to gamble and hiring true believer artist directors is a big gamble with potentially huge payout. one pitfall is that sometimes true believers are not artists and direct awful garbage like heroes that fails horribly and has to be micromanaged to eke out a profit before completely falling apart
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I thought season 2 was pretty OK. Had its moments but I felt like it was too similar to season 1. That one episode that stood out was just a worse retelling of X-MEN First Class.
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CelticPredator posted:I was born in the 90’s. Flavor water's been around a long time, mate
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DrVenkman posted:Is NARCOS arguably Netflix's most successful show at this point? It's not tainted the way HOUSE OF CARDS is, and it's still going unlike those Marvel shows they've just cancelled and it seems to be well-liked. Changing up the focus each season seems to work well for them. Though I'm sad it probably puts a hold on anyone tackling Don Winslow's books for TV. I quit after Season 2, but yeah, it started out really good? I dunno if 3 or 4 held up
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Narcos S3 actually held pretty strong even without Pablo. Peña was arguably the better character tbh. Also Narcos isn't exactly clean either, considering an actual person was murdered during production of S4. S4 is looking pretty promising tho, even with Pedro Pascal's departure.
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