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Maybe it’s because I don’t remember the bad stuff but I remember a time when HBO was pumping some really good original movies around once a quarter at least.
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Yeah, I kind of got a video game vibe from Sonnie’s Edge and Suits, though Sonnie’s Edge might be because it was made by the team at Blur who handles like 60% of the video game industry’s cutscenes. And Suits was just someone’s riff on Starcraft.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Holy poo poo! Sucker of Souls is awesome! Netflix greenlight this show now! It honestly felt like a The Adventure Zone animatic. It might have been that the professor looked like Clint and the Korean Grad student looked like Griffin though.
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Mar 18, 2019 19:03
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They should also have the spiritual sequel Witch Hunt, which has Dennis Hopper take over the role of H. Phillip Lovecraft.
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Mar 27, 2019 18:21
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Did you watch New Girl? Did you think season 1 was the best and the subsequent seasons suffered because Jess was never able to express herself without the show taking the piss? That’s the only scenario I could see someone enjoying Unicorn Store.
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Apr 8, 2019 16:35
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And created almost as many episodes as both shows combined!
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May 19, 2019 15:54
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Frog Act posted:My problem with repo the genetic opera is that it has made it slightly more confusing to recommend the best science fiction repossession based movie of all time, Repo Man I bought it on release off the strength of Tony Head in a musical but khan bent watched it too many times. The music is just really uneven.
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May 21, 2019 17:34
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:No that would be The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved. I did thoroughly enjoy the article though. This is an amazing article if anyone didn’t click on it, fun bit of history, this is the very first gonzo article.
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May 28, 2019 02:26
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What about lighter movies like After Hours?
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Jun 6, 2019 21:16
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nate fisher posted:It really did a nice job of pacing, and limiting itself to 8 episodes (too bad Jessica Jones never learn this lesson). To be fair, word is that both the showrunners and Netflix wanted to reduce the episode orders for all of the Marvel shows after The Defenders but Disney wouldn’t budge since they were getting paid a flat amount per episode.
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Jul 12, 2019 17:57
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The comparison is apt, Seinfeld is a show with no growth, no learning a lesson. Jerry and George are literally having the same conversation at the beginning and end of the series. IASIP shares a lot of that but I think the characters do grow and do learn lessons, they just don't have the willpower to actually make progressive, positive growth as people and become less horrible. I always thought the same with The League, especially how it matches every Seinfeld episode’s story structure beat for beat, but the I looked it up and the creator of The League is friends with Larry David and wrote a big chunk of Curb and was the writer/story editor for the last few seasons of Seinfeld.
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Jul 19, 2019 17:49
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He claimed he worked at Merrill Lynch in the WTC during 9/11 and narrowly escaped before the building collapsed and that’s why he moved to LA to pursue comedy. A few years later a reporter actually fact checked this and found Merrill Lynch had no record of him ever working for them, that Merrill Lynch’s didn’t have offices in the WTC at the time and that he never actually got any degree in finance.
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Jul 19, 2019 18:36
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Edlund already tweeted that everyone he talked to had passed so it’s dead in the water.
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Jul 30, 2019 21:23
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The MSJ posted:Right now Another Life has gone a bit viral in South East Asia because in one episode they use a rambutan as an "alien fruit". Whoa Black Betty!
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Aug 3, 2019 05:21
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punk rebel ecks posted:I remember watching Chasing Amy for the first time a few months ago and was shocked that it was once seen as cutting edge progressive. Isn’t that a good thing? The moment people start forgetting or stop appreciating how far things have come is the moment backsliding becomes a danger. Just look at where we are now with race relations after 11 years of Fox News declaring that racism ended when Obama was elected. Or the resurgence of hate groups after so many years of groups like the KKK being treated like a punchline and clowns ignoring just how insidious and dangerous they were for so long.
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There was weird time capsule of the ‘00s in there too. Like the plague spreading so wide so fast because the Chinese government executed early infected without knowing about the infection and sold the organs on the black market and Bill Maher and Ann Coulter dying because they were too busy hooking up to realize the rich compound they were staying in was falling. Oh and Russia putting all fertile women into breeding camps.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:04
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Or Mathew Fox’s character being completely cut from the film, except for a five second background shot.
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Sep 4, 2019 18:23
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And that reason is because it was horrible, it apparently hinges on Mathew Fox trying to rape Brad Pit’s wife while zombies are swarming the aircraft carrier.
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Sep 5, 2019 15:52
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skooma512 posted:Dante's Peak is on Netflix. And then the following year the exact same pattern repeated with Armageddon and Deep Impact. Down to one being disaster porn and the other focusing on the human cost of the event.
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Sep 10, 2019 16:12
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The MSJ posted:The second season is an entirely new story set in an American Japanese internment camp during WW2. Yeah, I’ve been thinking of The Terror as a less campy American Horror Story focusing on more classical horror over pop culture horror.
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Sep 12, 2019 17:25
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BisterdDave posted:Disney better release a baby yoda plush before Christmas, my wife desperately wants one. Maybe they’re rushing one but Favreau specifically said they didn’t develop one since toys are the biggest source of Star Wars leaks going back to Empire.
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Nov 24, 2019 18:35
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doctorfrog posted:what? Dumb. It was my go-to for when nearly all the rest of Netflix is uninteresting. And if you have a Samsung tv, their TV+ free service has a 24/7 rifftrax channel.
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Nov 27, 2019 20:18
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Lastdancer posted:How long has Booksmart been on Hulu, because it's on there and I am finally watching it About a week after I paid to rent it on Amazon.
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Dec 6, 2019 18:19
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Franchescanado posted:I watched the Witcher episode with the hedge hog soldier. It's the only one I've seen, and I wasn't impressed. It was kind of absurd, with The Witcher and peeps killing dozens of people to protect the one hedgehog warrior, only for everyone to try and hash it out, and then a wind vortex happened? Because of the princess? Some guy downs a potion like a 5 Hour Energy shot so he can fight against the wind vortex? Then it stops? There was somehow 40 minutes left of the episode, so we stopped watching it. My friends love it, though, and one of them started playing Witcher 3 because of it. It's a bit too nonsensical and melodramatic for me. The insect dog with sword hands was pretty cool, though. They’ve said they used The Last Wish as heavy inspiration for the series, which was a collection of short stories that were just retellings of Grimm Fairy Tales with the Witcher inserted into it.
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anime tupac posted:I felt that way too. At first I didn't like Cavill as Geralt, but by the end of the first episode I was completely sold; he even affects the gravelly voice like he's Christian Bale Batman. It just doesn't feel like any ancillary character except Ciri is going to matter (I say this as someone who has never finished a single Witcher game so I have no idea who will inevitably matter, except I assume Triss will show up more). It was fun but lacked... I dunno, a major driving conflict? I think it'd benefit from being more serial than episodic; yeah there's an ongoing plot but the two important storylines never intersect until the final moment of the show. How the relationship between Geralt and his semi-daughter-who-is-magic would turn out was the most interesting part of it to me, and apparently that's only going to happen in S2. My favorite part of the series was keeping true to the original short story compilation and have the Witcher straight up slaughter Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in the first episode.
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beanieson posted:Is that what that was supposed to be? Yeah, Renfri was a princess taken into the woods to be killed by a huntsman under orders from Renfri's stepmother and her wizard. But the huntsman lets her live and eventually Renfri ends up teaming up with 7 traveling companions. The Last Wish is just stories about Geralt finding himself in fairy tales.
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beanieson posted:Is it more clear in the books? I’m in the middle of the show, and I know that (Witcher episode 5)the wizard dude wanted her dead but I don’t think they talked about a huntsman. Or maybe I just missed it. I’m usually pretty good at following shows like this, but I had to turn on subtitles like halfway through the first episode because the names and kingdoms and poo poo were all really confusing. Once I put on the subtitles it became a lot clearer who was who and what factions were doing what. Everything I mentioned was called out in the first episode, either by the wizard or Renfri.
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Jan 6, 2020 05:16
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Oh cool, I knew of it but never saw it since the early 00s seem to be a weird dead time when it comes to streaming presence. I remember Kinnear and Dafoe talking it up a few times in Conan since apparently Conan had a huge interest in Crane's whole deal.
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Franchescanado posted:Netflix promotes their new shows as the first thing you see when you pick your profile. They just changed their reporting metrics in time to make this press release. I'm watching The Witcher now, it's alright I'll finish the season. It just feels like a show that would come on in the mid-90s as some sort of Hercules/Xena power block.
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Jan 22, 2020 15:29
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I didn’t see it mentioned but they’ve announced S2 of Altered Carbon with Anthony Mackie taking over the role of Takeshi Kovacs will start streaming on Feb 27th. Haven’t heard anything of the animated version being done by the Cowboy Bebop guy since the initial announcement though.
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I know I’m late to the party but finally watched The Florida Project last night. Goddamn was that hard to watch at times.
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Jan 24, 2020 23:47
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He was Owlman in Watchmen.
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Jan 25, 2020 01:01
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feedmyleg posted:My biggest inspiration in life is Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler. He's just so driven! That’s the same reason my biggest inspiration is Jessica Tandy I’m Driving Miss Daisy.
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Jan 31, 2020 18:35
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One thing I'm not sure of, was America's deals with Nazis really much if a secret in the70s? I've seen lots of references about it in various stuff from the 50s and 60s over the years and there seems a general knowledge that it was a big reason skiing and ski slopes boomed so much in post war America.
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Feb 22, 2020 15:25
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beanieson posted:Is it still schlocky Syfy channel nonsense but with the occasional tiddy? They toned down the nudity, upped the cyberpunk dystopia, added Simone Missick, gave Chris Connor more to do and cast someone who could act as Kovacs.
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Feb 29, 2020 23:31
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Because Hulu is now the official streaming service of FX instead of just carrying the shows. FX+ was shut down a few months ago in anticipation of the Disney deal.
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Glottis posted:I love You're the Worst so much, and also there are stretches that are intolerably dark. It's a good show to binge. Same, it's just such a brutal satire of Rom/Com's stuck the landing amazingly.
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Mar 5, 2020 06:04
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Despite most of them loving Homicide, The Wire was universally reviled by Baltimore's city politicians. There's a scene in season 3, I think, where the real life cop that G was based on cameos as a judge. The Monday after the episode aired he was summarily fired after 25+ years in the force.
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veni veni veni posted:Alex Garland did an FX miniseries? How the hell did I miss that. Well, Devs is on Hulu. Guess I know what I’m watching this weekend. It's straight to streaming and just launched yesterday. I saw it advertised a bit but only on Hulu.
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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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