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Rhyno posted:Whatever, just give me more Ryan Hansen as Dick. Speaking of Ryan Hansen, what happened to that web show where he played himself trying to convince the Veronica Mars cast to make a show with Dick as a private investigator? Is it worth trying to track it down? SimonChris fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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isaboo posted:I guess this would be a good time to finally watch B5 That's pretty much the worst possible place to stop watching. It becomes amazing in the second half of S2.
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https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1354806628491567110 Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer is inspired. I'm in.
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Looten Plunder posted:Why is this? I thought she'd done pretty well for herself post The Wire. When she was arrested, she was denied bail because the judge had watched The Wire and feared that her amazing acting abilities would allow her to change her personality and disappear into the crowds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson posted:At the first hearing after Pearson's arrest, Judge John Addison Howard denied her bail due to Pearson's acting ability, stating: "Well, you can change your appearance, I've seen the episodes of The Wire in which you appear. You look very different than you do here today, and I'm not talking about the jumpsuit, I'm talking about your general appearance."
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Kazzah posted:Obligatory mention of the Mike's Voice argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8ltCu8sCE
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Looten Plunder posted:Is anyone watching American Gods? Apparently 8 episodes have aired and I haven't seen one mention of it in the thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3818200&pagenumber=81#lastpost It has it's own thread, you know.
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Slamhound posted:It’s a fairly typical procedural. The first couple of episodes are annoying with how Clarice’s comrades are pointlessly dickish, but that gets sorted out. Are there any references to the Silence of the Lambs universe at all, or did they seriously just pay a licensing fee to call the main character "Clarice"?
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Peter Falk fans should also watch "Wings of Desire", where Peter Falk plays himself filming a movie in Berlin, and it is revealed that he is a fallen angel.
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I also feel like the whole "24 hours earlier" thing completely misses the point of in medias res. You are supposed to start in the middle of the action and then keep going, filling out the backstory through dialogue and context. I mean, if the introductory part of the story is so boring that you don't trust it to keep the viewers attention, why include it at all? Obviously, this doesn't apply when non-linear narratives are used to achieve an artistic effect, but the default "let's move this one cool scene to the front so people don't change the channel" is just lazy storytelling.
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feedmyleg posted:Attack of the Hawkmen, too. I'd throw Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life in there as well, but it's more of a drama than an adventure riff. Daredevils of the Desert is better than Crystal Skull but not Temple of Doom. Are the DVD edits just removing the Old Indiana Jones segments, or do they make other changes?
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/VinceMancini/status/1379467083214323715 There is a scene in the Doom Patrol show where Cyborg is dismayed to learn that he has said booyah often enough to count as a catchphrase. Doom Patrol is so good.
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Anyone else watching Shadow and Bone on Netflix? I had never heard of it before, but it looks promising so far. A bit fantasy steampunky.
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Shadow and Bone is the GOAT* (very minor spoilers):     * It's an actual goat, get it? SimonChris fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Having finished Shadow and Bone, I think my main problem with the show is that they have combined plots from two different book series, and one is way more interesting than the other: Plot A: Magic teenager from humble origins is the chosen one who must save the world. Plot B: Ocean's Eleven in fantasy Amsterdam, featuring a diverse cast of lovable rogues with hearts of gold who carry the show on their shoulders (along with their emotional support goat).   It's no contest, really. Plot A is still reasonably entertaining, as these things go, but I would have happily traded it away for more Gangs of Magic Amsterdam. I hope they do a proper Six of Crows season later.
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shirunei posted:It's terrible. Love to see some 30 year old dude "romancing" a teen. That guy is the main villain, and it is explicitly pointed out later that he was just grooming her for nefarious purposes. They even have another character tell her that she just thinks she likes him because he has centuries of experience manipulating dumb teenagers. It's honestly better than a lot of other YA fantasy stuff in this regard. 500 year old vampires/wizards/whatever romancing teenagers is commonly presented as cool and romantic.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I want to edit all the previously-ons from each episode together in a row and see just how intensely repetitive it would be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2aINQduzqM
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IRQ posted:I finished it the other day, and frustrating is a good way to describe it. It wasn't bad, and netflix has really stepped up their production quality, just it felt like a lot was missing or very underdeveloped. I don't know the source material though, so that could just be the YA trapings. But some of those plot elements desperately needed more time to breathe. That's excusing all the normal YA stuff like ridiculous coincidences and the off-the-shelf protagonist. I was disappointed that the protagonist being a cartographer ended up being of no significance to the plot. I had no idea what the story was about and was getting all excited to watch a show about fantasy cartographers who go on perilous journeys to map the world. They even have a scene in the beginning of her badassedly drawing a map during a bumpy wagon ride because she is such a hardcore cartographer. Have these writers never heard of Chekhov's gun? There should at least have been a scene towards the end where she saves the day by drawing a map, somehow.
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feedmyleg posted:Hoggle's had it pretty rough, too: Don't worry, they restored him perfectly! http://www.sowatzka.com/content/gary-restores-hoggle 
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Mu Zeta posted:I think they introduce too much new vocab in the first 10 minutes. Though I appreciate that they don't have those awkward expositional dialogue about what these things are. Yeah, I really liked how the show mostly avoided "as you know" dialogue to explain things. You eventually figure out what all those terms mean because people keep using them in conversations. It's nice for a YA show to give the viewer some credit.
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X-O posted:I think the person who wrote the headline might be blind. https://twitter.com/eyetosky/status/1391939211108945924
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xerxus posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Death_%26_Robots https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1108059632008757248 https://comicbook.com/anime/news/netflix-random-episode-orders-love-death-robots/ It's not entirely randomized, but you got assigned one of four different viewing orders.
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Escobarbarian posted:I do wonder how they did it because I don’t know anyone who didn’t have the same order (with Sonnie’s Edge as the first episode, then Three Robots - The Witness - Suits, etc) I got Sonnie's Edge too, but I just checked right now and my order has changed to the one with Three Robots first. That's using the same Netflix account. Now I wonder how often they shuffle it. I have to say, I really don't like the argument that the order shouldn't matter because it's an anthology. An anthology is still an artistic work, and the order in which you watch the episodes is an important part of the experience. I mean, would you argue that the order of songs on a music album doesn't matter? Context is important!
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The only good cops in The Wire are the ones that leave to become school teachers or adopt the children of incarcerated drug dealers. Attempting to improve things through police work is consistently portrayed as naive at best.
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bull3964 posted:Behavior transferrance and perception influencing behavior aren't the same thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxEFNFOVTw Innuendo Studios did a good video about this distinction. Like, violent media doesn't make people more violent; it makes them believe that violence is more prevalent than it really is. This can lead to secondary behavioral effects, such as people being more fearful of going outside.
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What I love about Silver is that even though he is cartoonishly evil, his motives in the movie are entirely unselfish. All he wants is to help his old Vietnam buddy, and if that means taking time off from his billion dollar corporation to torment some rando kid just to make Kreese feel better, so be it!
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The answers to the mysteries of Lodge 49 can all be found in this book:
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bull3964 posted:Obligatory Hal skating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVq_4BA5DQ I kinda wish this meme had become more popular.
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https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1401933466652921862 Neat! While the main story was a bit too formulaic, I am here for the cool setting and more fantasy Amsterdam shenanigans.
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https://twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/status/1402302333799698439 Speaking of behind-the-scenes, this is looking promising.
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Sirotan posted:Yeah, all the original music in season 1 is stripped out on all the streaming services due to licensing shenanigans. None of the replacement music is bad it's just incredibly generic and there are a whole bunch of music cues you miss if you watch it on Netflix the first time through. Do they have the original music on the DVDs?
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I enjoyed all of Legion, but I felt like it stopped being about anything after season 1. Season 1 is very clearly about dealing with mental illness and childhood trauma, and all of the surreal stuff is in service to that theme. Season 2 and 3 didn't feel like they had a coherent theme like that; just a bunch of cool surreal imagery strung together. Also, making a Legion show where Legion does not have multiple personalities is a pretty odd choice. There is some hinting in that direction towards the end of the show, but it never has space to go anywhere.
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Season 3 of The Killing is legit a great standalone one-season crime drama, which doesn't require any knowledge of the first two season. It's a pity that the rambling plot of the first two seasons turned so many people off the show that barely anyone watched it.
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https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/06/jessica-steen-finally-reveals-why-stargate-recast-dr-weir/ The true reason why Jessica Steen was recast as Dr. Weir in Stargate has finally been revealed! She was too much of a hardcore Burning Man fan for the producers to handle. “He said, ‘They felt [that] you were more committed to naked drugging in the desert than you would be committed to doing the show the way they needed you to.”
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https://twitter.com/birthdaynate/status/1420515313943302151 https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/28/bob-odenkirk-heart-related-unconscious-medical-emergency-better-call-saul/ E: Beaten
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MiddleOne posted:To add to this, unlike Stuntmen (who are generally at the peak of their physical condition) Cruise is old. Any injury is potentially one he'll never recover from. Keep in mind that Tom Cruise is an Operating Thetan with complete conscious control of matter and energy, so he is not really taking any risks. He can just levitate away if something goes wrong.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht5R5XxH-60 Every time someone mentions The Rocketeer, I am reminded of this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeGPilWZp0 Reminder that The Matrix canonically ended with everyone sticking their heads up their own asses and curling up into little balls. I look forward to seeing how they incorporate that into the movie. Cojawfee posted:So did they all get tricked into going back into the matrix or something? Or is this another iteration of the matrix but they are older or what is this? Going by Matrix Online canon, most people simply stayed in the matrix voluntarily instead of going to Zion and eating garbage. The central conflict is then the power struggle over who gets to control the matrix. Of course, I doubt they are really going to use all that much of the game canon. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Sep 10, 2021 |
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