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After all the Casino talk in last year's thread I finally sat down and watched it. ...it was just Goodfellas but longer and worse.
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Vanderdeath posted:Was Casino the one that had Joe Pesci get hit with a shovel during the middle of his narration and subsequently beaten to death because that's the one thing I remember vividly from both of those movies. Yes. That actually was a really good/clever moment, but holy crap there is no reason for the film to be three hours long. There's plenty of memorable moments from Goodfellas, though most of them are around Pesci. The clown joke and shooting the waiter in the foot are the first two I thought of. Oh, and the Layla sequence. The final scene is pretty memorable, too. Probably one of the better "he gets away with it, but not really" scenes in film. The thing that really stuck out for me, watching Casino, was how much I hated the characters and how stupid they were. There was plenty of stupidity in Goodfellas, too, but at least it wanted to tell a story, and Henry Hill was an involving protagonist who I both wanted to see succeed and also get taken down. With Casino it's three hours of waiting for the assholes to get what's coming to them.
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X-O posted:There are some early 20 somethings that work in the adjacent department that never saw The Office on TV when it aired and watch it on Netflix all the time and are always talking about it. I wouldn't be surprised if just as many people are watching it now as were watching when it originally aired. This is also true where I work, there's a ton of people younger than me always talking about The Office. It's really strange.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/rodneyrothman/status/1081213903793676288 I have no loving clue how I didn't know who Rodney was before Spider-Verse but he has very quickly become my favorite twitter follow precision posted:Unfortunate Events 3 is amazing, so nice when a complete story comes together The End surprised me. If you haven't read the books, they end very differently. We don't find out what was in the sugar bowl, for instance, and Beatrice doesn't meet up with Lemony, so he never gets closure on the Beaudelares story. The IDV showing up at the outrigger with the apple doesn't happen either, and the kids wait a few more years before leaving the island--the implication being that they intentionally waited for the world to end before returning to it. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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muscles like this! posted:I think my favorite episode of S3 was the first part of the hotel story. The writing was very snappy and I really liked the part where you get to the end of Sunny's section and realize that there was a third brother. I had somehow completely forgotten that from the book (I read it once when it came out) so that ended up surprising me too!
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Rarity posted:Max Greenfield was fantastic and I really wish he'd had more screentime Yeah, the rest of the "guest stars" we're fun (was that Felicia Day as the Snow Scouts leader?) but Max Greenfield was easily the best.
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precision posted:I was gonna say that literally the only genre with no redeeming bands is nu-metal but then I remembered that The Deftones were fuckin great Incubus, Deftones, and SOAD getting slapped with the nu-metal tag was bullshit, but otoh that does mean that there are three good nu-metal bands. there's actually four because Linkin Park was good before they went pop
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Jan 9, 2019 12:42
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The Masked Singer is such garbage TV. The wife and I love it. We're pretty garbage at guessing who the singers are (I convinced myself that The Pineapple was Johnny Knoxville somehow) but it's pretty fun to speculate.
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Chalk me down as another person who enjoyed Solo. A lot of it has to do with Donald Glover, but I thought Alden Eichenerich was fine as Han. There was some stupid poo poo (how he got his name) but every Star Wars film since Empire has at least one groanworthy scene or sequence. And I say this as someone who walked in prepared to be disappointed, as I've been stanning for Lord & Miller forever and was super bitter when they were fired. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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Jan 15, 2019 13:37
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Wheat Loaf posted:Imagine Trump sitting at his desk in the Oval Office addressing the nation while eating a Big Mac with ketchup and mustard stains round his mouth and down his shirt front. That would never happen because Big Macs don't have mustard and ketchup, Trump would be encrusted with Special Sauce
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I don't know if anyone mentioned him when we were doing YouTube recommendations but Bill Wurtz just might be the most brilliant creator on the whole flipping platform. He writes songs that are somehow both incoherently shallow but intensely philosophical. Musically he's... I guess technically vaporwave, but completely original with insane tempo, key, melody, and signature changes (that somehow aren't alienating). He's like an electric blanket made of nostalgia and introspection. His best song is probably "When I Get Older": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-Qr8iNqm0 He also sometimes does non-song comedy videos. You've probably already seen "history of japan" but just in case you haven't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o [Edit: he's also a loving genius when it comes to video editing] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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Jan 16, 2019 01:29
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Calaveron posted:Has there ever been a more perfectly cast tv show than 3rd Rock From the Sun Well, most good comedies end up having "perfect" casts because the characters often end up being changed to match the actors, and often times written with that specific actor in mind. That said: Arrested Development, Community, 30 Rock, Seinfeld, Newsradio, Boston Legal, Parks and Rec, That 70's Show, The Office, Always Sunny (once DeVito joined) and The Good Place. All have amazing ensemble casts that I can't imagine a single character that would be better played by someone else, stretching all the way down to reoccurring characters who only show up two or three times. And that's just off the top of my head. A more interesting question would be "Which comedy had the most disappointing cast" to which I would answer, uh.... Mulaney? Goddamn that show should have been a slam dunk but it was the loudest and wettest of farts. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:Hey I see you trying to sneak Boston Legal in there, acting like it's a comedy classic. Nuh-uh. It is, but more importantly the question was about perfect casts, and Boston Legal is perfectly casted 
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Calaveron posted:Oh, I agree, but from the very first second of 3rd rock John Lithgow stood up with a bat in hand, pointed to the bleachers, and hit it so hard the ball's still soaring through the universe out there in the exact same direction Oh don't get me wrong, 3rd Rock is an amazing, incredibly well casted show, but it's really hard to say what the best one ever is. Probably Arrested Development though. Arist posted:John Mulaney owns and I would have argued that his comic persona just doesn't translate outside of his actual stand-up comedy but then Spider-Verse came out and welp "My hand's wet because I just washed it. No other reason." asecondduck fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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Jan 21, 2019 04:49
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feedmyleg posted:Good first step. Now kill the monologue and stop scripting the interviews so heavily. Or just make the whole show Conan Without Borders. Just keep reducing the budget until it's Conan in a broom closet being recorded with a guy with an iPhone
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I like it when movies have a serious commentary and then a second jokey one. The LotR films are the best example if that, because it's Dominic Monahan and Billy Boyd goofing off the entire time. Scott Pilgrim has a good casual cast commentary too.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/TheJeffBridges/status/1088481555582996480 What if... what if this year's Netflix Superbowl surprise is The Big Lebowski 2?
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I mean, it's almost certainly an ad of Kahlua or something but hey, you never know.
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Guy Mann posted:As opposed to female genre fiction authors, who only write about polyamorous monster fuckers and sadistic gay vampire predators for purely intellectual reasons. ah but you see the women actually hold all the power in those stories so therefore they are feminist works - Joss Whedon, probably
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To be fair that used to trip me up too for some reason, somehow the thing that worked was just remembering that one Smashing Pumpkins album whenever I saw the word and I haven't said it wrong since.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Really excited for that day when I end up watching every Fast & Furious movie on some TBS marathon. I bought the first six films in a boxset from Target a few years back for like... $40? At the time I thought they would make for a few good drunk bad movie mock nights. And then I watched a few of them one afternoon when I was sober and bored and realized that, actually, no, overall they're pretty decent big dumb action films! Except the second one, the second one is just dumb and I'm pretty sure is skippable unless you really want to know how Luda and Tyrese became part of the "family". Amazon has a collection of the first seven films for $28 right now. Pick it up, they're worth it.
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Croatoan posted:I watched like half of fast 5 this morning and I want you all to know that I am disappointed in you people. This is the dumbest poo poo. Rageaholic Monkey posted:Yeah, it's dumb as hell and it loving owns Yeah, they're big dumb Hollywood movies that are big and dumb. I like to compare them to golden retrievers. They're big and dumb and just want to make you happy. Isn't Fast Five the one where the Rock busts his arm out of a cast by flexing really hard?
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I watched the first four episodes of Russian Doll tonight and so far my theory is that the professor has a time dick that messes up the time stream of people he's hosed, and then the people they then turn around and gently caress also get their time stream messed up Ok I don't really think that, I just wanted to type the phrase "time dick"
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esperterra posted:Songs About Jane is a loving amazing album. However everything past it is indeed mostly trash lmao Harder To Breathe has always been a guilty pleasure song for me. And YOLO is a good song but A. mostly because of the Joy Formidable sample (how did no one else use that first?) and B. It's just Adam so it doesn't really count as a Maroon 5 song I guess
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Calaveron posted:What is it about Ricks Rick Moranis is ok in my book
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Usenet is faster than downloading torrents and you don't get any letters from your ISP. It's also (generally) better for sourcing older/less popular content.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:
I'm being cautiously optimistic about the Netflix series because the man behind the Middleman is the showrunner. From some of his tweets it seems like they're not interested in simply remaking the series, but instead using the series as a springboard to tell their own stories. While that sounds not great on the surface, Rian Johnson has gone on record citing Bebop as a huge influence for his film Brick (he told JGL to more-or-less play Spike) and the film is fan-loving-tastic and really does feel like Bebop in a bunch of ways despite having really nothing in common besides the atmosphere and pacing. So it's totally possible to capture the feel of Bebop in live action and without the score.
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If it was posted here I missed it, but TBS put the first episode of Miracle Workers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jcvU607KCM Buschemi and Radcliffe are fantastic (duh) but I'm not sure if the show is gonna keep my attention based on the ending. Maybe it'll be more of a prayer-of-the-week instead of Dan and the other angels trying to get two people to hook up every episode? Eh, it's TBS, who am I kidding.
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Where is John Mulaney on the scale of comedians who say hosed up things? My favorite bit of his is 100% family safe (well, comedy-wise at least, he does swear a few times) but his Ice-T impression is not the greatest look ever
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Hakkesshu posted:First time I looked up John Mulaney I got a bit where he argues he should be able to say midget because it's not as bad as the n-word and it was supremely unfunny and made me never want to look up more of his stuff. Ouch, I forgot about that. For a MUCH funnier take on those two words, check out Donald Glover's Comedy Central standup special. I'd link the bit but I can't find it on YouTube.
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IRQ posted:Literally everything I've seen or heard about it looked insultingly terrible to the original movie and the audience, but those live action remakes keeping making a zillion dollars so we'll never be rid of them until the only thing left to remake is Song of the South. And that will probably still make it into production. Disney Presents: Jordan Peele's Song of the South
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I rewatched Dogma recently. It was worse and way longer than I remember. If you cut out most of Ben & Matt's scenes it would be better and shorter.
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I remember Clerks and Clerks 2 being okay. The Clerks Animated Series is easily the best thing he's been associated with though.
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IRQ posted:This but Dogma. Dogma, Donnie Darko, and Saved! are pretty much the epitome of "I'm 17 and these are my favorite films" for people who are now 30somethings Pretty sure Saved! stands up the best but I haven't gone back to check on that.
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Rhyno posted:Yeah but then someone decides hiring Smith for a studio job is a good idea but then it comes out that he doesn't know how to use different lenses. ...showing my ignorance here I'm sure but doesn't the director tell the cinematographer what they want the shot to look like and the cinematographer is the one who determines which lens to use?
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I should note that I still do love Donnie Darko, but I don't identify with it nearly as much as I did as a teen. It's a very  film and both Gyllenhaals are fantastic in it. Actually, the entire cast is really good in it.The Directors Cut is a bunch of horseshit though, I know Kelly really really wanted the INXS song in the film but The Killing Moon is much more thematically appropriate. And then every single change he made was for the worse.
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Popelmon posted:Almost done with season 1 of my Lost rewatch. Really glad that I forgot basically everything. I even forgot about Boone's death!
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X-O posted:Apparently it's also incomplete because all of Quantum Leap is on the NBC app free of charge. No sign in or anything required. Oh poo poo it's about time for a Quantum Leap rewatch. No, seriously. There are some stinkers but overall it's a very solid anthology show with sci-fi underpinnings. I haven't watched the final season but it was quite good up to that point. I really don't understand how it hasn't returned/been rebooted yet.
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muscles like this! posted:NONE OF THEM SOUND ANY GOOD I read through all of them thinking "come on, there has to be at least one good one" and NOPE Christ, even that animated Lord & Miller show sounds bad, which makes no sense considering how solid they are. I'll probably give the Amy Polher show a try, I guess.
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