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muscles like this! posted:CW's live action Powerpuff Girls has started to come apart at the seams as Chloe Bennet has exited the project (which was going to eventually shoot another pilot) due to "scheduling conflicts." Aww she was the only reason I had any interest in that too
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Aug 11, 2021 22:58
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Aug 11, 2021 22:59
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Aug 11, 2021 23:00
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Tosk posted:I couldn't find a thread for The Americans and have been spoiled after going through The Wire, Sopranos, and part of Mad Men with Jerusalem's amazing commentary. Does anyone have any recommendations for companion pieces as I rewatch the series? Would love to read some thoughtful analysis on the historical context of everything that's going on. There's this reddit archive of episode discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheAmericans/wiki/episodes
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Aug 11, 2021 23:03
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Gaius Marius posted:Are the scream movies any good? They're kind of a victim of their own popularity because if you've seen any horror movies made after them you've seen most of their tricks.
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Aug 11, 2021 23:04
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muscles like this! posted:They're kind of a victim of their own popularity because if you've seen any horror movies made after them you've seen most of their tricks. I just rewatched all 4 of them. 1 holds up still, 2 BILLY'S MOTHERand 3 are atrocious and 4 is decent.
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Aug 11, 2021 23:10
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The original Scream still holds up. It's one of those movies that, even though I own it, if I stumble across it on TV I usually end up watching the whole thing (5th Element also falls into this category.) The twists of the plot aren't really the point, though they are delivered in a very straightforward manner that don't seem convoluted in retrospect. The various set pieces in the movie work so well and the pacing is about perfect. The movie also pretty much embodies the 90s without beating you over the head about it. It also brought the R rated slasher back to the theater. I'm really looking forward to the UHD coming out in a few months.
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Aug 11, 2021 23:12
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Medullah posted:I just rewatched all 4 of them. 1 holds up still, 2 BILLY'S MOTHERand 3 are atrocious and 4 is decent. I'd say 1 holds up, 2 is underrated (it veers a little harder into the gore than the first one did, though you can tell the movie is a victim of the entire third act being rewritten after a leak in the middle of shooting--the original killers were Derek, Hallie and Debbie Salt; they also toyed with going whole-hog and having Cotton involved), 3 is a mess with a few decent scenes but is overall disappointing because Ehren Kruger is a loving terrible writer but it at least has a killer remix of Nick Cave's Red Right Hand, and I thought 4 was just really forgettable; even Wes Craven said he was incredibly unhappy with 4 and didn't enjoy talking about it after it was released. Timby fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Aug 11, 2021 23:15
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Timby posted:I'd say 1 holds up, 2 is underrated (it veers a little harder into the gore than the first one did, though you can tell the movie is a victim of the entire third act being rewritten after a leak in the middle of shooting--the original killers were Derek, Hallie and Debbie Salt; they also toyed with going whole-hog and having Cotton involved), 3 is a mess with a few decent scenes but is overall disappointing because Ehren Kruger is a loving terrible writer but it at least has a killer remix of Nick Cave's Red Right Hand, and I thought 4 was just really forgettable; even Wes Craven said he was incredibly unhappy with 4 and didn't enjoy talking about it after it was released. When I saw Scream 2 in the theater I was 100% convinced the killer was Portia De Rossi and Rebecca Gayhearts sorority sisters. Rewatching I actually had pushed the actual killers memory out of my head and I watched it thinking my memory of them being the killers was correct, and it made a lot of sense still.
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Aug 11, 2021 23:28
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Medullah posted:When I saw Scream 2 in the theater I was 100% convinced the killer was Portia De Rossi and Rebecca Gayhearts sorority sisters. Rewatching I actually had pushed the actual killers memory out of my head and I watched it thinking my memory of them being the killers was correct, and it made a lot of sense still. Yeah, Scream 2 is what happens when your original script gets out into the open and then your writer and director have to do the mother of all rear end-pulls to switch things up. Williamson later said, after Craven's death, that there was never a leak and that they were sending fake scripts to the cast, but before he passed, Craven steadfastly denied that (and spoke quite openly about the leaks on audio commentaries). Then with Scream 3 they just decided to do the dumbest poo poo possible and go with the secret half-brother as the killer.  Edit: I'll also never forget how salty Craven was about Scream 4. Craven quite specifically signed on to do the movie because Kevin Williamson was going to be the sole writer, and then TWC sacked Williamson and brought in that rat-turd Ehren Kruger to do rewrites. In an interview about the movie, Craven flat-out said, "I signed up to direct a movie written by Kevin. That didn't happen." Timby fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Aug 11, 2021 23:48
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muscles like this! posted:They're kind of a victim of their own popularity because if you've seen any horror movies made after them you've seen most of their tricks. I can assure you I have not. The only horror movies I've seen are the number 23, the invisible maniac, and the one with the evil water coming through the ceiling. It's not a genre I prefer. Really I'm just reeling from no scream queens season three and figure watching scream and mean girls back to back is as close to season three I'll get
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muscles like this! posted:CW's live action Powerpuff Girls has started to come apart at the seams as Chloe Bennet has exited the project (which was going to eventually shoot another pilot) due to "scheduling conflicts." What's the likelihood that the first pilot with the edgy script that people didn't like gets leaked?
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Randallteal posted:What's the likelihood that the first pilot with the edgy script that people didn't like gets leaked? It might show up eventually but I wouldn't hold my breath. It wasn't screened anywhere so someone involved in the production would have to leak it and they probably won't unless the second pilot fails.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:28
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Medullah posted:Anyone watching Reservation Dogs? First episode seemed interesting but didn't totally grab me. I want to give anything Taika does a chance though. My wife and I are. She's loving that there's finally some TV media that feels like it's made for her.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:52
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I really liked the first episode of Reservation Dogs, gonna check out the 2nd tonight. Also, Brooklyn Nine-Nine returns tomorrow (Thursday) night with 2 episodes! I hope we get more Cheddar this season.
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Aug 12, 2021 01:06
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Gaius Marius posted:I can assure you I have not. The only horror movies I've seen are the number 23, the invisible maniac, and the one with the evil water coming through the ceiling. It's not a genre I prefer Scream is a bit like Cabin in the Woods, in which, the charm and cleverness of the movies is that they are riffing on/subverting horror movie tropes. They can still be enjoyable in isolation but you're not going to get the full effect.
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Seed of Chucky is a better version of Scream than Scream is, IMO.
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https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a37218555/taboo-season-2-tom-hardy/ So according to Tom Hardy he still plans on making another season of Taboo. Although it sounds pretty far off since he doesn't even have a concrete concept of what he wants to do yet, talking about maybe abandoning the characters of season 1 and doing something in a different time period.
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I remember really liking taboo but I can't remember anything specific about it. Gonna have to do a rewatch at some point.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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I liked the concept/world of taboo but the show kind of bored me at the same time so I like this idea (It was basically mystical Tom Hardy returns from Africa to take on the East India Company over the inheritance (from his father's murder) of a valuable island that they want. Looten Plunder fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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Aug 12, 2021 04:11
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Saw this on another forum and it sums up Taboo pretty wellquote:mmmmm
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I started Taboo and Bates Motel around the same time and all that incest was just a bit too much.
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I respect the acting in Bates Motel for conveying a situation where it would somehow have been less disconcerting if they actually slept together.
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Mu Zeta posted:Saw this on another forum and it sums up Taboo pretty well Heh, was just thinking about Taboo. My memories of it are just *takes another blow to the head past the point of suspension of disbelief, like ow, that's going to take a while to recover from. No? OK carry on then* and "I have a use for you"
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muscles like this! posted:They're kind of a victim of their own popularity because if you've seen any horror movies made after them you've seen most of their tricks. So it's the Citizen Kane of slasher movies?
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Apparently this is still happening. At least the cast appears age appropriate and not full of 25 year olds playing kids. https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1425826908462272512
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hey does anyone have a good example of a comedy that has someone saying something ridiculous offscreen as the character onscreen tries to pretend its not happening. Feels like its a gag that's been done a bit, and I'm trying to remember one, but the only one I can remember is the one in the IT crowd when someone founds out someone is transgender while someone else is giving a press conference, and that is probably one of the worst scenes imaginable.
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Timby posted:I'd say 1 holds up, 2 is underrated (it veers a little harder into the gore than the first one did, though you can tell the movie is a victim of the entire third act being rewritten after a leak in the middle of shooting--the original killers were Derek, Hallie and Debbie Salt; they also toyed with going whole-hog and having Cotton involved), 3 is a mess with a few decent scenes but is overall disappointing because Ehren Kruger is a loving terrible writer but it at least has a killer remix of Nick Cave's Red Right Hand, and I thought 4 was just really forgettable; even Wes Craven said he was incredibly unhappy with 4 and didn't enjoy talking about it after it was released. wait it was going to be another killer boyfriend? That's lame, and lol poor Sydney
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Shageletic posted:hey does anyone have a good example of a comedy that has someone saying something ridiculous offscreen as the character onscreen tries to pretend its not happening. Feels like its a gag that's been done a bit, and I'm trying to remember one, but the only one I can remember is the one in the IT crowd when someone founds out someone is transgender while someone else is giving a press conference, and that is probably one of the worst scenes imaginable.
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Has anyone seen or even heard of Motherland Fort Salem? The synopsis says ""An army of witches train to combat terrorist threats" which I would assume would at least be entertaining in a stupid way but this is literally the first I've ever heard of it.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:14
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It's....weird. It's very much a show aimed at tween/younger teen girls, but it's also about graphic depictions of battlefield trauma where these witch cadets are thrown into meat grinder situations. So, you'll have an episode where all the boys from the Boys Witch Academy go to the Girls Witch Academy for a sexy dance but the B-plot is about one of the cadets getting resurrected through necromancy and tortured for information. I watched about half of the first season, it's not great but it's better than you would think. It's like Full Metal Jacket mixed with Step Up.
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Shageletic posted:hey does anyone have a good example of a comedy that has someone saying something ridiculous offscreen as the character onscreen tries to pretend its not happening. Feels like its a gag that's been done a bit, and I'm trying to remember one, but the only one I can remember is the one in the IT crowd when someone founds out someone is transgender while someone else is giving a press conference, and that is probably one of the worst scenes imaginable. Not a show but the dinner scene in Wedding Crasher comes to mind. Vince Vauhn is getting jerked under the table and Owen Wilson tries to play it off. Maybe NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGttPiA96ec
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DAVE finale - That was rough. But the end made it all worth it? Here's hoping it gets renewed
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Hughmoris posted:Not a show but the dinner scene in Wedding Crasher comes to mind. Vince Vauhn is getting jerked under the table and Owen Wilson tries to play it off. Reminds me of the press conference in the first Police Academy.
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Shageletic posted:hey does anyone have a good example of a comedy that has someone saying something ridiculous offscreen as the character onscreen tries to pretend its not happening. Feels like its a gag that's been done a bit, and I'm trying to remember one, but the only one I can remember is the one in the IT crowd when someone founds out someone is transgender while someone else is giving a press conference, and that is probably one of the worst scenes imaginable. The first thing that came to mind was in Seinfeld when Larry David shouts offscreen IS ANYONE HERE A MARINE BIOLOGIST??? Maybe not exactly what you're looking for since George could only ignore it for like 2 seconds, but It might be my favorite line in the entire show and now I can't stop giggling to myself thinking about it.
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Brock Samson posted:DAVE finale - That was rough. But the end made it all worth it? Here's hoping it gets renewed My emotions couldn’t handle all of that omg. Really good season.
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Jingleheimer posted:The first thing that came to mind was in Seinfeld when Larry David shouts offscreen IS ANYONE HERE A MARINE BIOLOGIST??? Maybe not exactly what you're looking for since George could only ignore it for like 2 seconds, but It might be my favorite line in the entire show and now I can't stop giggling to myself thinking about it. The sea was angry that day my friends...
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Escobarbarian posted:My emotions couldn’t handle all of that omg. Really good season. DAVE - I started crying for GaTa. Then I realized where he was and I REALLY started crying
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Shageletic posted:wait it was going to be another killer boyfriend? That's lame, and lol poor Sydney Yyyyyyyyyyyep.
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