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Zwille posted:And then I watched the first episode of Adolescence on Netflix not knowing their gimmick and was all They (Adolescence) execute it beautifully, especially ep2, which I can't fathom how they pulled off, logistically. Technically, sure, but marshalling all the moving pieces and people? Goddamn. Real school with real schoolkid and teacher extras. Dug Studio ep2's take too.
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I thought the Adolescence oners were a bit distracting tbh, especially in the second episode. They’re most effective in the first and third episodes IMO (maybe it’s also because the writing in the second ep was much more clunky and on the nose). I had to laugh out loud when the cop is chasing the kid and is so clearly holding back so he doesn’t catch up to him prematurely.
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Sch posted:I thought the Adolescence oners were a bit distracting tbh, especially in the second episode. They’re most effective in the first and third episodes IMO (maybe it’s also because the writing in the second ep was much more clunky and on the nose). I had to laugh out loud when the cop is chasing the kid and is so clearly holding back so he doesn’t catch up to him prematurely. Yeah, that chase is the low point of the show in terms of execution.
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PriorMarcus posted:Yeah, that chase is the low point of the show in terms of execution. They try to have their cake and eat it too, with that line about him being out of shape, but that's a) very clearly untrue and b) him being fit is something other characters point out multiple times in that episode. That episode of Apple TV'S Adolescence, airing on Apple TV.
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Open Source Idiom posted:They try to have their cake and eat it too, with that line about him being out of shape, but that's a) very clearly untrue and b) him being fit is something other characters point out multiple times in that episode. Yeah, he's even in a skin tight top that shows' off how ripped he is. Personally I just wouldn't of included a drawn out chase scene and instead ended it pretty quickly after the kid jumped out of the window, but maybe they felt the episode needed an action scene for inexplicable reasons.
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Mar 27, 2025 17:46
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Maybe he skips cardio days
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Studio Episode One I think this is a great concept and the opportunities to have people come in gives it Curb or Extras thoughts. I love the cinematography as well and the pacing with the drums, it reminds me a lot of Charlie Work from Sunny. I do think that they should have gone younger on Jim Jones and went with someone like Sebastian Stan or maybe even simply saying….. Chalamet. Seriously though Sebastian Stan would do well. Seriously though where is my Scorsese Jonestown movie?
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Mar 27, 2025 18:45
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Because the entire point was that the actor chosen is great, and people love him, but he won't sell tickets. The people you mentioned would sell tickets just so teen to middle aged women could see one of those dudes as a cult leader. Also, I don't get why they still can't make Scorsese's movie. Like someone in the show said, Flavor Aid was used in Jonestown, not Kool Aid. Make the Jonestown movie and emphasize that they used Flavor Aid. You can't tell me that Kool Aid wouldn't be onboard with setting that record straight where a wacky Kool Aid Movie comes out alongside a movie that tells everyone that the phrase should be Flavor Aid.
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Spacebump posted:Enjoyed Side Quest more than the most recent two Mythic Quest seasons. Would recommend if you like the one off episodes in each Mythic Quest season. Yeah it was definitely much better than MQ seasons 3-4. Didn’t like the last episode much, but the others were really good, especially the middle two.
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Studio One episode 2 was a real 10/10 proof of concept. I didn't understand from the marketing that it's Rogan is meant to be so loving unlikeable. Edit: "take it from there and stitch it together, like in 1917 they whip panned to cover it" *whip pan* "We are not stitching it together"
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I don't know if the point of the whole show is that he's unlikeable. I think the point of the episode was that him just being there was going to mess things up no matter what he did. It was really good at making me hate him for being so ignorant of what was going on. The dynamics of everyone being extra diplomatic because they either want something or they don't want to upset him because he's the studio head and him not understanding that even though it was explained to him several times by the two people who can actually be honest with him. Then he is so obsessed with the book ends of the film with the joint and then he book ends destroying the shot by having his car parked directly where Greta needs to drive her car. I enjoyed the first, but I really enjoyed the meta-ness of the second episode. I can tell a lot of thought was put into making it a grueling experience for everyone involved, including the audience.
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I think that's a really good point. A farce relies on the character lying or doing something wrong to heighten the stakes of the farce, which is what he was doing. Maybe "hate" is too strong of a word then.
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What I like about The Studio is that unlike so many Hollywood behind the scenes comedies/dramas is that it focuses on the suits and money, rather than the artists. I hope they explore just how hard it is to tell if any piece of art is going to be good/make money before you receive the finished product.
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algebra testes posted:Studio One episode 2 was a real 10/10 proof of concept. I didn't understand from the marketing that it's Rogan is meant to be so loving unlikeable. Really liking this show. It reminds me a little bit of Curb.
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Cojawfee posted:Because the entire point was that the actor chosen is great, and people love him, but he won't sell tickets. The people you mentioned would sell tickets just so teen to middle aged women could see one of those dudes as a cult leader. Also, I don't get why they still can't make Scorsese's movie. Like someone in the show said, Flavor Aid was used in Jonestown, not Kool Aid. Make the Jonestown movie and emphasize that they used Flavor Aid. You can't tell me that Kool Aid wouldn't be onboard with setting that record straight where a wacky Kool Aid Movie comes out alongside a movie that tells everyone that the phrase should be Flavor Aid. I now suspect this won’t happen because Scorsese has to be a cameo, not a cast member but I was hoping they would solve the issue way later by having someone realize that it was flavor aid, thus allowing them to cut the linkage between the two and make the lovely koolaid movie, and be far enough along that they are forced to finish Scorsese’s movie as well. But I’m a big fan of that trivia and how “drink the koolaid” has become vernacular (do you think people who work on the kool-aid brand have to be careful about saying it? Like it’s a corporate sore spot?) so I probably overthought it. And they can’t make the movie because it’s clear the money guys are in charge and stock price is all that matters. The entire joke is that a movie that ends in mass suicide cannot get $200 million from a traditional studio, much less the $250 promised. You’d be betting your new job on one film. I’d be there day one in the theater though. They have left out one major part of new heads coming in. He hasn’t been shown trying to find marginal development projects to kill because the guy who got fired would get credit. Usually if you get to this role you do a little purge and then start and make your mark. Enderzero fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Mar 31, 2025 |
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I think his plan to make his mark on the studio was to make movies that mean something and then the money said no. I think it's a bit different because he's not some new guy coming in who is going to shake things up, he was already working there. I would have expected a bit more time at first to show something he was already working on and then try to give it more resources when he got the studio head job.
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Cojawfee posted:I think his plan to make his mark on the studio was to make movies that mean something and then the money said no. I think it's a bit different because he's not some new guy coming in who is going to shake things up, he was already working there. I would have expected a bit more time at first to show something he was already working on and then try to give it more resources when he got the studio head job. Yeah that’s his plan. He loves movies butttt if he’s not the head he has no ultimate control. It’s a Faustian bargain - he has the responsibility, but not the actual power, which he only partially gained by agreeing to an albatross. This character is honestly too nice to be a studio head in real life, which is ok because here it gives a narrative drive. But in actuality, everyone is more like Cranston and Barinholtz’s character - you only get there if you’re willing to do what it takes, not what it takes to make a good movie. I’ve seen so many accounts of shows I, and probably you, loved that got shafted because a new exec came in and tossed the old guy’s work unless it was a hit. You almost have to because then you have a full stable of shows or movies developed by you, rather than sharing credit for whichever ones becomes hits or failures (and you definitely want to cull the failures). I should be clear, this isn’t restricted to Hollywood. This is how most modern corporations function. New guy wants to make a mark, cuts disgraced leader’s achievements. But it’s ok if they don’t get to this, they clearly have a narrative arc planned so whatever parts of the job they include are fine by me. Enderzero fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Apr 1, 2025 |
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I think that's the case for someone new that comes in to run things. Like Zaslav was running Discovery and then became CEO of Warner Discovery when they merged. So he decided to kill a bunch of Warner stuff for tax writeoffs and then he could do his own stuff. For this show, he was already working there so killing things means he's killing stuff that his friends there were working on.
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Cojawfee posted:I think that's the case for someone new that comes in to run things. Like Zaslav was running Discovery and then became CEO of Warner Discovery when they merged. So he decided to kill a bunch of Warner stuff for tax writeoffs and then he could do his own stuff. For this show, he was already working there so killing things means he's killing stuff that his friends there were working on. Definitely even more so in those situations, yeah, it’s a whole dang we bought you situation. I think of it like that 30 Rock joke where it looks like Jack has embarrassed himself enough to lose his job “When one of the Big Ones fall, 4 smaller ones move up ahaha!”
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Just watched episode 2 of The Studio, loving incredible with a perfect climax and then that loving song plays over the credits goddamn 
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It's very funny to see that just this week David Zaslav is meeting with new people to be the studio head because Mike De Luca was greenlighting too many Talent-led projects and not enough IP driven ones.
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Jerusalem posted:Just watched episode 2 of The Studio, loving incredible with a perfect climax and then that loving song plays over the credits goddamn "Do you think they got it" as they are driving by lit street lights in the now obvious darkness. *ding* "They didn't get it." Slayed me.
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The uncomfortable silence at the end of both car rides really hit for me. In a typical show you don't allow that kind of dead air unless it's for a good reason but in this, the only good reason is because it's just realistic silence that comes with the uninterrupted existence of living.
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Really enjoyed the first two episodes of Dope Thief. Wikipedia says it's a miniseries based on a book? It'll be a shame if it's just a one-off, Brian Tyree Henry is giving a great performance.
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If "The Oner" is a Home Run, surely "The Note" is at least a triple, or a stand up double. Great loving episode.
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Yeah, I loved how they stretched a small thing across an entire episode, but it was hilarious every time there was a new conceit thrown into the mix. Anthony Mackie was stellar throughout, deserving of the glazing he kept getting. And now I kinda wanna see him in a movie with Dave Franco
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The Franco and Mackie fake movie kinda reminded me of collateral, except Franco's character wasn't a hitman going around to his targets with an unwilling participant
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I like The Studio, but It really stretches belief that a Hollywood studio head would be this conflict averse.
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fez_machine posted:I like The Studio, but It really stretches belief that a Hollywood studio head would be this conflict averse. It stretches belief that people still think of Ron Howard as a legendary untouchable director in TYOOL 2025
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stev posted:It stretches belief that people still think of Ron Howard as a legendary untouchable director in TYOOL 2025 He's probably the only director they can get who is willing to dumb poo poo like he did in Arrested Development and make fun of himself. That was a great episode. I am loving The Studio so far.
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Making lovable Hollywood people into horrible villains is a slowball win and I don't care. Ron and Mackie are terrific. I laughed so hard at Rogan falling backwards into a snack tray just because Ron threw a hat at him. Even though he is a completely unbelievable character, I'm going to just see all this the way the show is presenting it: He has a problem specific to this situation and context. The show did go out of its way to say that he's normally made worse notes over people who hate him more, he's not above the job, this is just a very specific situation. You need a little leap of faith for the show to work but I'll take it. It's too fun not to.
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stev posted:It stretches belief that people still think of Ron Howard as a legendary untouchable director in TYOOL 2025 Not in the universe we see. Smart film lovers know he’s up and down and mostly down lately, but in Hollywood they look at everything like an In Memoriam segment. He’s an Iconic director in their world. Hell, the boomers that loved him as a kid actor haven’t even died off yet.
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DaveKap posted:Making lovable Hollywood people into horrible villains is a slowball win and I don't care. Ron and Mackie are terrific. I laughed so hard at Rogan falling backwards into a snack tray just because Ron threw a hat at him. Even though he is a completely unbelievable character, I'm going to just see all this the way the show is presenting it: He has a problem specific to this situation and context. The show did go out of its way to say that he's normally made worse notes over people who hate him more, he's not above the job, this is just a very specific situation. You need a little leap of faith for the show to work but I'll take it. It's too fun not to. For gods sake, I’ve been wondering where Pickle:Inspected and that puppet come from, it’s been like 17 years, please tell me!!
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Enderzero posted:For gods sake, I’ve been wondering where Pickle:Inspected and that puppet come from, it’s been like 17 years, please tell me!! Where Homestuck got it? I have no Earthly clue. (Pickle: Inspected was from MSPaintAdventures Problem Sleuth https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Pickle_Inspector Everyone in the MSPA thread got it at some point) DaveKap fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Apr 3, 2025 |
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DaveKap posted:Homestuck. I'm sorry. God, thank you. You’re one of the few remaining long term avatar posters where I didn’t figure out the source and every 5 years I would search to try and figure yours out. Mystery solved! The puppet threw me off I suspect lol
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fez_machine posted:I like The Studio, but It really stretches belief that a Hollywood studio head would be this conflict averse. This is extremely true, but I have a great time watching the show anyway. It’s just super funny and well-made, and I don’t think the lead character being wildly unrealistic for the concept detracts from that too much. I can totally see it being a dealbreaker for others, though
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Kathryn Hahn’s outfits are insane in this show, but she makes them work. I think what makes them stand out so much is that she feels like the only one not trying to look like they’re in the 70s.
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Escobarbarian posted:This is extremely true, but I have a great time watching the show anyway. It’s just super funny and well-made, and I don’t think the lead character being wildly unrealistic for the concept detracts from that too much. I can totally see it being a dealbreaker for others, though Rogen's affect is not of someone who's climbed up cut throat ladders of being an agent and studio guy, but of someone who is either very new and junior at the studio or someone who made their money in other ways and now runs a mid-level production company it's the last one, that's Rogen and Goldberg. That's the experience their drawing from
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Audaciously loving over Marty in the first episode was a good bit but I'm personally a bit over the gimmick of famous people known for personality trait A doing a shocking 180 to personality trait B I could see the show burning out quickly if they keep going back to this well Vernacular fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Apr 3, 2025 |
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It's got some good poo poo but it's too much like Entourage, People yelling all the time is really exhausting.
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