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We watched the new Studio 54 documentary on Netflix over the weekend. It's a good example of how not to do a documentary and I can't recommend it at all. It's really obvious the filmmakers really set out to make a love story to the club and consequently skim over almost all of the important or interesting things.
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It took me a long time to get around to watching it, but the second half of Season 5 of Arrested Development is much better than the first half. It's still not great, but there are jokes with some pretty funny payoffs. I would upgrade it to "Don't Buy."
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Apr 22, 2019 18:47
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I watched The Wandering Earth and it was really not what I was expecting. I thought it would be a much better movie where maybe some of the metaphor didn't translate very well, or it was difficult to understand what was happening. Instead, it is a Chinese Roland Emmerich movie with a half-assed translation.
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Jun 3, 2019 03:55
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WWZ is still pretty bad. It's just that at the time it seemed pretty bottom of the barrel, and we've subsequently realized that it isn't even close to the bottom.
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Sep 3, 2019 15:57
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Mammal Sauce posted:I remember my brother and I renting this right after it came out on VHS. My brother had seen it, but hadn't really told me much about it and I was definitely surprised. My wife had never seen it and about 6 months ago I streamed it from somewhere and her reaction was pretty good. The first 2/3 of it are good. I'm really not a fan of the last act. So if you can deal with having a really unsatisfactory ending it's worthwhile.
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Oct 1, 2019 16:07
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I just started The Expanse and am enjoying it so far, about four episodes in. Does the show stay good or should I get out now while I still have the opportunity?
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Jan 9, 2020 20:48
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veni veni veni posted:I should really probably watch the Expanse. I love Sci Fi, but I'm really wary of Sci Fi television for some reason. Never liked Star Trek or Stargate (except the movie) and all of those 90's sci fi originals just made me steer clear of the genre entirely.
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Jan 10, 2020 08:05
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’m not sure I’d call it objectively bad per se, but it’s definitely a lovely sequel to the 2014 movie and all of the main characters loving suck and the plot is nonsense. KOTM is very faithful to the older Godzilla movies, which in my opinion is the worst part about it. It doesn't work at all as a continuation of the universe of 2014 and Skull Island, and really only succeeded in zapping any enthusiasm I might have had for Kong vs. Godzilla.
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Jan 21, 2020 06:09
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The specifics are modern, but stuff like the alpha device, the flying aircraft carrier, undersea base, hidden city and all that absolutely wouldn't be out of place in the 60s-70s era. Even the score is an update of the classic themes.
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Jan 21, 2020 07:08
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The series is a gigantic clusterfuck of ideas at this point, so there really is no unified vision of how the economy works. Some of the earlier Trek is a little more explicit in stating that modern economic theories of capitalism or socialism are outright irrelevant in the Star Trek future. To use your energy example, energy is so free and prevalent that it is functionally post- scarcity at the consumer level. There is far more clean energy available than any single user is capable of consuming. The federation credits are used to trade with entities outside the federation, and most often are depicted as betting kind of worthless. Probably because they have no value within the Fed.
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Feb 10, 2020 22:07
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married but discreet posted:How does it compare to Rush(2013)? Rush is more focused on the racing, Ford vs. Ferrari is more focused on the technical development side. They are both kind of the same vein of classic race car porn. I saw it in the best possible setting, in a theater with the volume turned up uncomfortably loud.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:57
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I thought that Tiger King actually lived up to the hype. It's such a small insular community that people in the doc didn't even seem to realize that maybe they shouldn't be candid. I think a lot of these type of documentaries people have a public face, and then there'll be a rare moment when their guard is down. But in this, the subjects are who they are.
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Apr 3, 2020 19:19
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My wife and I discovered My Hotter Half on Netflix last night. It is just a terrible show. We were instantly hooked. The basic gist is they take a couple and take photos on each of them individually. Then poll a bunch of random strangers if they would date the person in the picture. The winner is whoever gets the higher percentage of yes votes. They then give the loser a makeover and run another survey for the loser after the makeover. It is so dumb, but kind of an interesting sociological experiment.
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Apr 9, 2020 12:42
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:The racist poo poo was added more and more as time went on because it was Chevy. Plus he was just talking about dream casting, neither would ever have taken the job. Yeah, I would have to fo back and rewatch it, but I'm pretty sure his character in the pilot is old, out-of-touch guy who unwittingly says offensive stuff. That's easily a role Fred Willard could have played. ChickenMedium posted:That's bog-standard industryspeak. "I've been a fan since the beginning" "I've read the comics since I was a kid" "I've been a fan of their work for years" No one in Hollywood has ever worked with someone they've never heard of or on a project that wasn't a labor of love.
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May 18, 2020 14:17
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Columbo past season 7 is still pretty good, but there're a couple things that they changed that made it a little bit weird. It becomes really obvious who the real life reference point is for a lot of the guest murderers. Also, they changed the formula quite a bit and in some episodes Columbo doesn't even show up until like halfway through. Columbo on a cruise ship is a pretty fun episode. Not a big fan of Columbo goes to Mexico though.
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May 20, 2020 17:07
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Field Mousepad posted:An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn on Netflix is a trip. It's like the Big Lebowski and Napoleon Dynamite had a weird little baby. Tons of greats actors in it too. I watched it a few weeks ago and hesitated on recommending it. I liked it, but it felt like one of those straight down the line, you either love it or hate it movies. I checked Rotten Tomatoes and sure enough it's right around 50% with both audiences and critics.
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Jul 28, 2020 18:06
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Sicario 2 had a really bad and misleading ad campaign, but it's also really obvious in reviews who actually paid attention when they watched the movie. Prayer mats and a suicide bombing are the events that start the plot of the movie in motion, but then it's later revealed, in the movie, that the two things have nothing to do with one another.
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Sep 4, 2020 16:13
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Acinonyx posted:Very late to the Always Sunny chat, but if you watch no other episode, do yourself a favor and watch 'The Nightman Cometh'. There are no words.... I don't know, that one is the payoff to an earlier episode Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person, which you probably need to watch first. But that episode is probably not going to be everybody's favorite cup of tea.
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Dec 4, 2020 22:48
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nate fisher posted:I loved that David being gay was never an issue for anyone. Yeah watching behind the scenes stuff this is a pretty huge deal for a lot of people. There's never any special episode where the townspeople learn to come to grips with anyone's sexuality or anything like that. Characters just are who they are, and it's never an issue.
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Dec 6, 2020 05:45
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The other night I watched Billionaire Boys Club on Prime. It seems a lot of negativity about this movie had top do with Kevin Spacey's involvement, which is a shame, because the movie it's rife with baffling movie-making decisions every bit the equal of something like 2019s Serenity. That said the movie never really goes off the rails, so it's difficult to recommend as anything other than a subpar true crime drama.
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Jun 15, 2021 16:21
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The surprise twist of T2 is basically that Sarah Conner becomes a terminator, and that's not really spoiled in any of the trailers.
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I feel like the female reboot is a pretty tired genre. And the Expendables franchise is garbage. But it would all be worth it if we could get an Expendables reboot with Milla Jovovich and Kate Beckinsale.
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