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Escobarbarian posted:Loot is back! It’s still a good time and it has what must be a bizarrely expensive music budget Maya Rudolph is a national treasure and deserves a place of veneration.
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Hughlander posted:Maya Rudolph is a national treasure and deserves a place of veneration. Oh, the nepo baby? 
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Loot is kind of a dogshit show morally tbh but it’s fun and has good jokes so
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I just finished Constellation. What a waste of an otherwise interesting premise! I hate that they setup the ending halfway through and then just didn't go through with it??? Henry explains how a waveform works to Alice and that it collapses when observed by an outsider. I assumed that meant that when the extremely fragile looking CAL was inevitably broken one of the universes would disappear so Jo was going to face a choice on whether to break it or not. Maybe she would die. Maybe Paul would live. Maybe she would end up back in the right universe. The whole point of the quantum metaphor is that she won't know until she makes a choice to perturb the superposition. Instead we get the stupid "There are two universes and one is the darkest timeline with Henry on trial for murder, Paul in a hospital and craycray, and Jo Two-Face in Space" ending. Ugh! Others have pointed that half the scientists in this drat show are the most incurious people imaginable. That also bugged the hell out of me.
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Man I was hoping Sugar would be good because I love Colin Farrell and I love this genre, but the first episode has already exceeded ny expectations.
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AcidCat posted:Man I was hoping Sugar would be good because I love Colin Farrell and I love this genre, but the first episode has already exceeded ny expectations. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/sugar-review-colin-farrell-apple-1234996609/ Apparently, this has a crazy twist towards the end of the season that turns it into a completely different show. None of the reviewers will spoil it, so now I'm going to be looking for clues for most of the season. Is Colin Farrel a robot? Living in the matrix? What??? SimonChris fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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SimonChris posted:https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/sugar-review-colin-farrell-apple-1234996609/ drat it, i accidently rolled over that. Any chance next time you can put the soilery bit at the end of the sentence?
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drat the dialogue in Sugar ep 1 is truly atrocious
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Daily Beast review of Sugar This review spoils the central mystery of Sugar (labelled "Minor spoilers" to boot). Do NOT read unless you - like me - can't wait to know.
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Ugh, I didnt spoil myself but that doesnt bode well.
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I watched the first episode, show is interesting at least, I loved the scene where he collapses but he's still standing in the mirror apparently watching himself. I do wish I didn't know there is supposed to be some kind of twist though, since now I'm looking out for it/reading too much into things.
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I haven't read any of those spoilers but it's very strange to write a noir where the protagonist is the most morally decent person who's ever lived
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Do they ever play the System of a Down song?
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Jerusalem posted:I do wish I didn't know there is supposed to be some kind of twist though, since now I'm looking out for it/reading too much into things.
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Been enjoying Sugar. It's up its own rear end in a way I appreciate.
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Zoracle Zed posted:I haven't read any of those spoilers but it's very strange to write a noir where the protagonist is the most morally decent person who's ever lived Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder posted:In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. I do not care much about his private life; he is neither a eunuch nor a satyr; I think he might seduce a duchess and I am quite sure he would not spoil a virgin; if he is a man of honor in one thing, he is that in all things.
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the show explicitly quotes the canon too! Do you really see Sugar's moral disposition as a simple reflection of Marlowe et al? maybe i'm crazy
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Really enjoying Sugar. Simon Kinberg's involvement must have been limited to funding and nothing else
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I'm also really enjoying Sugar and avoiding reading as much about it as I can. Colin Farrell is fantastic in everything. Episode 3 really threw me for a loop though.
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ShowTime posted:I'm also really enjoying Sugar and avoiding reading as much about it as I can. Colin Farrell is fantastic in everything. Episode 3 really threw me for a loop though. Yeah, it really did. I might have to watch it again
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I've read every spoiler I could find on Sugar, and I still have no idea what's going on. I like it.
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ShowTime posted:Episode 3 really threw me for a loop though. Haha, right. I had a moment where I thought this polyglot group is a bunch of aliens, but I really haveno clue wtf.
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Kind of intrigued to see whether Michael Douglas can possibly pull off Ben Franklin
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Trailer for new Blake Crouch adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ucGt_Xp14 (And not the lovely TV series from ten years ago.) Crouch is adapting it himself, which is good, because he's actually a pretty tight TV writer when adapting his own stuff (first season of Wayward Pines, both seasons of Good Behavior). Plus Connelley goes so goes my country.
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AcidCat posted:Haha, right. I had a moment where I thought this polyglot group is a bunch of aliens, but I really haveno clue wtf. This is where I’m leaning rn
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If they are doing some sort of alien infiltration plotline (which is also my guess, given all the cuts to the moon and such) then I've no idea what a second season of this would look like. Maybe a different genre shift each season, with a different director and style attached? Though it would be a shame to lose what Fernando Meirelles is brining to the noir elements -- though the one spoiler I know is that (and this is a directional thing) they deliberately drop his style later in the season. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:Trailer for new Blake Crouch adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ucGt_Xp14 ah, a dark version of Sliders
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I’ll give sugar a few more episodes. The homages and hodgepodge of styles are kinda off putting to me and Sugar trying to be individual savior in addition to all his other personality traits is a lot. My spouse is digging it so maybe I just need to settle into it .
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sonatinas posted:I’ll give sugar a few more episodes. The homages and hodgepodge of styles are kinda off putting to me and Sugar trying to be individual savior in addition to all his other personality traits is a lot. My vibe is that this is some massive overcompensating guilt. It's an interesting take on the idea of the Noir protagonist who becomes obsessed with a random girl. Sugar's gonna glom onto any sad soul that crosses his path, because (ep 3) he's part of some alien(?) infiltration project that's probably not got their best interests at heart. This is just my theorycrafting based on the first three episodes though.
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I didn't really pick up on the whole alien (or otherwise) thing, but I guess it makes sense. I just guessed Sugar was some kind of super ex-CIA operative with a heroic complex after he lost his daughter or something. Which I guess they initially paint it as that, but who is that good, really? He's like, too kind to be this way without having some kind of really weird background.
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It turns out, Société Polyglotte Cosmopolite means "Cosmopolitan Polyglot Society!" 😒 Wait, guess what "polyglot" means!
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UZR IS BULLSHIT posted:It turns out, Société Polyglotte Cosmopolite means "Cosmopolitan Polyglot Society!" Poor Davey is such a fail son
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I watched the first episode of Franklin. Where are the turtles?
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Sugar as an alien would be cool and unexpected for the genre I guess but I suppose I'm hoping there's something else going on, even if it's just an insane Get Shorty.
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Ron Funches getting heckled in this week’s Loot is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at this show probably. “You look like if Luther Vandross worked at a GameStop”. I really wish this show would focus on its premise more tho
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Sugar as an alien would be cool and unexpected for the genre I guess but I suppose I'm hoping there's something else going on, even if it's just an insane Get Shorty. I haven't watched ep4 that's just dropped yet, but the polyglot gathering in ep3 I maybe got a little 'Wings of Desire' Angels in the Library vibe, is this drat show a reboot of Highway to Heaven!? 
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