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Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!
Since it’s been talked about so much in this thread, I watched Synecdoche, NY tonight. I’d purposefully never looked up anything about the film or watched any trailers.

That’s… uhhh… a helluva film, eh?

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Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
Yeah it's pretty wild.

Baron von Eevl
Jan 24, 2005

WHITE NOISE
GENERATOR

🔊😴
It's a really great example of magical realism but boy howdy do I hate it

Open Source Idiom
Jan 4, 2013
Made my friends watch it for my 21st, sight unseen (me incl.) It ruled.

[standing waist deep in swirling smoke] "I really love the house. I'm just a little concerned. About the fire."

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
My favourite movie ever. My friend just yesterday came back from LA and brought me a For Your Consideration DVD screener of it he found for like a dollar in a thrift shop, and I will treasure it forever!

LesterGroans
Jun 9, 2009

It's funny...

You were so scary at night.

Escobarbarian posted:

My favourite movie ever. My friend just yesterday came back from LA and brought me a For Your Consideration DVD screener of it he found for like a dollar in a thrift shop, and I will treasure it forever!

lol that rules. Amazing movie.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
https://youtu.be/6CaHP5P4wUc

we are SO back

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
God I saw some stuff going around about Nathan getting a pilot license but Christ I wasn't expecting this, lmao.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Season’s gonna end with the reveal he’s responsible for all them plane crashes a few weeks ago

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
This shot absolutely hosed me up:

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!

Holy poo poo.

Escobarbarian posted:

This shot absolutely hosed me up:



I'm glad you shared this shot because this is absolutely the image I was about to share as well. Holy gently caress. I'm vibrating with excitement.

gurragadon
Jul 28, 2006

What is that shot? It looks like a recreating of a childhood memory or something about becoming a pilot. I wonder if that's going to be the whole season, maybe with multiple subjects in the same experiment.

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

I stumbled ass-backwards into a comfortable, easy life for reasons beyond my comprehension and now I think I'm better than you for it.
The fake airport set was the one that got me.

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!
The thing I always think about Nathan Fielder trailers is: "if this is what they're showing in the trailer..."

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

I stumbled ass-backwards into a comfortable, easy life for reasons beyond my comprehension and now I think I'm better than you for it.
I wasn't sure how he could top the sheer primal horror of the baby swapping in season 1, but he did it!

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010

lmao i am so excited for this poo poo.

Nathan and Conner are probably the two best avante garde comedians right now

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
Nathan is really going to drive me to madness with this one.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Nathan could actually get deported on terrorism charges.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
Wait, is that Thomas? Lmao.

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

Escobarbarian posted:

This shot absolutely hosed me up:



Crispin Glover?

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


season 2 trailer is amazing and i'm so pumped for this now, despite some of the first season being a minor disappointment.

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
holy poo poo holy poo poo holy poo poo

God Hole
Mar 2, 2016

this is just like when I crashed my JetBlue 321 at 100mph

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


plane city over here

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


hahahahahahahaha

brilliant, can't wait

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
I wonder how he feels about all the plane crashes. I hope that somehow ties in

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
im so in

i didnt even finish The Curse tbh

TIP
Mar 21, 2006

Your move, creep.



Alan Smithee posted:

im so in

i didnt even finish The Curse tbh

at least go back and watch the last episode

JFC what an experience

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!
While all of the episodes of The Curse have a little bit of vicarious cringe, I never found it unbearable like some people here seem to have. That being said, the finale literally had my stomach in knots in a way no show ever has.

CatstropheWaitress
Nov 26, 2017

We're so back, wow.

CatstropheWaitress fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Apr 3, 2025

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
rehearsing for the depression

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

Alan Smithee posted:

im so in

i didnt even finish The Curse tbh

what on earth

Hakkesshu
Nov 4, 2009


Escobarbarian posted:

what on earth

The Curse (2023)

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
Please do not talk about what you saw in the structure

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
Since they are bringing back Thomas I wonder if they are others that will return... fake angela...

Rodney The Yam II
Mar 3, 2007




Ive never been so excited about television

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
bring back kor

Old Doggy Bastard
Dec 18, 2008

I feel like anyone who did a Cameo is going to be gone.

Markovnikov
Nov 6, 2010

The White Man calls her flute playing... wind...

2006 for life
With the upcoming srason 2 of The Rehearsal, I managed to gather enough strength to finish The Curse. That huh, that sure is an ending. Reminds me a bit of how at some point in history people started experiencing "glass delusions" where they thought they were made of glass or porcelain or some similar material, and they would break if they fell down. I think even some inbred king or another suffered from it?

All in all, I didn't really enjoy it. Which I guess is the point? It's awkward but in a bad way compared to Nathan's other shows were you are in on the joke. The Curse feels like it's daring you to laugh, like you are the butt of the joke. I think if maybe the surrealism had flowed in earlier (there are hints here and there), or if it had been shorter instead of 10 episodes, I would have enjoyed it more.

Looking forward to the new season. The Rehearsal season 1 is just crazy, the way the show keeps folding reality and irreality and surreality into each other like layers (like in a croissant if I may be smug about it) is just so great. With it and Nathan For You I think you can sometimes tell things that were made in post/editing, or that were kind of scripted, or where they rolled the dice enough times until they got the results they wanted. But the moments where they just seem to roll with whatever actually happened are also great.

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Open Source Idiom
Jan 4, 2013

Markovnikov posted:

The Curse feels like it's daring you to laugh, like you are the butt of the joke.

The show is Cara's turkey shavings, and the viewer is either Graham Greene or Whitney.

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