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Whatched a bunch of movies the past couple weeks.
Naked Gun Trilogy: Movies still crack me up like no other. I somehow never saw the 3rd one. Never realized how many 90s comedies had
Creed Trilogy: Don't know why I waited so long to watch these. I love Rocky movies, even the bad ones, and these are all good films.
Interstellar: Managed to watch this one blind after all these years. Not at all what I was expecting. Considering how much they had scientists "back it up' it was a lot more fiction than science. A lot of it straight up ridiculous. Okay movie.
Gladiator 2:
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Because wiry is a good descriptor of neurotic McConaughey performances
that elderly daughter scene though, phew. i cri evrytiem
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Yeah, with
s now being the major thing that all of our lives are wrapped around, it's interesting how they were treated in my time. It wasn't hatred, nobody felt threatened. They were just a curiosity.
I wasn't impressed. My grandparents actually went through the Dust Bowl. Okay, so we're gonna hear about that. Suddenly that's gone. We're flying through space with Anne Hathaway, the most basic white b-word ever. Look, I'm not expecting you to get Gong Li or Nakama Yukie or Melina Mercouri every time but you've got about a 500 million women to choose from so... yeah, actually that is a reasonable expectation.
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Yeah, Interstellar tried to do too much with some flimsy premises. The part with Matt Damon was my favorite. The main plot was uninspired.Over a hundred years of time travel stories to work on and you just write a classic predestination paradox .
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(spoilers ahead)
First season
Pretty good. All the characters feel like distinct characters and the plot is fairly hard to predict. The IT guy as mayor awkwardly giving that funeral speech and then Juliette as sheriff, both out of place in their new professions while trying to get stuff done which is usually an interesting plot.
I thought they might be laying on the mystery a bit too much. Doing a Lost thing where you invent mysteries before you can think of resolutions.
I couldn't guess where they were going with the plot and who was going to live or die which is refreshing.
Second season
So now there's a war between the mayor and the people at the bottom. ...oh nooo they're going to do the cheesy YA story about a band of misfits vs the uptight authoritarians aren't they. It must be hard for writers to resist doing that plot with this kind of setup. Easy to write and people tend to watch it, but it's cliche, predictable and unrealistic. Everything suddenly gets soap opera-like and every scene can be predicted from the first second you see the placements of the actors. And there are some stupid cheesy moments.
Suspension of disbelief gets harder too. Why all the secrecy? Just send out a rabbit or something every year and check if it dies on the big monitor. Why does everyone have 80s equipment too and why do the IT guys have scifi flatscreen AI stuff? And how do they manage to keep it all operational with only 10,000 people? I'm pretty sure they don't have a microchip manufacturing floor. I lold a bit how pumps were suddenly a thing too. I guess the writers realised oh there'd be water I didn't think about that better write about some pumps to explain it.
Solo was a stupid character and they showed too much of him. I've noticed you tell some actors to act childish and they don't really know what to do so go into some OO AA IM A BIG BOY r-slurred exaggeration. So we got to see that for half of every episode.
Juliette got absolutely rekt every episode too. I've noticed some writers do that. Like if it's a male character he defeats the bad guy heroically despite being injured or something and the injury isn't the main point of the scene. If it's a female character she just gets pummelled for no reason every episode. It's weird and fetishistic.
Overall much worse than the first season which is a shame. Will watch the 3rd though to see where they take it next. I'm predicting the reveal of an even more uptight and serious authoritarian group which everyone unites against with their ragtag band of everyone including a reformed mayor and then save the world in a lame cliche way.
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The scenery and atmosphere is good imo, but yeah there are so many plotholes you could drive a truck through them. The main problem is that it's dragged out so darn much. If it was paced better you could ignore all that shit and suspend your disbelief but since it fricking takes 60 minutes to advance the plot by literally 60 minutes, it ruins what could otherwise probably be a good show.
Also I hate the main actresses accent and her acting is super stiff.
I kinda liked Solo, Steve Zahn did the best he could with shitty writing.
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I didn't mind Juliette for the most part. I could believe that she was a character that comes from a serious no bullshit environment and so just behaves in that way. Solo would be better written imo if he was naive and awkward, as someone would be if they'd spent a life alone, but with a proper adult speaking style and thinking pattern instead of that child imitation.
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Sorry ma'am, looks like his delusions have gotten worse. We'll have to admit him.
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Rewatched Silence of the Lambs w/my folks this weekend because dad had never seen it and because I found a really good version on torrentquest, legit 4k no upscaling
Kinda been on a kick with hannibalshit now and trying to watch the 2010's era show but I'm kind of burnt out half way through season 1 with the whole autism-superpower trope
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Season 2 of Hannibal's about as good as it gets. Season 3 is almost too stupid to even care to finish, if S3 is the last season.
The Edward Norton one (Red Dragon?) is the best of the Thomas Harris adaptations fight me irl if you disagree.
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idk because you pinged me referencing buffalo bill 4 hours ago and I assumed you liked the movie
I loved that one but not as much as silence of the lambs. I actually rewatched manhunter and red dragon back to back and literally both are still good but for slightly different reasons.
The terrible truth about manhunter is that everything legit looks effortlessly like the 80's but ages poorly for reasons. Everything in red dragon looks like a dramatized version of what people in the year 2002 think the 80's should look like but still kind of ages better because of higher production value and nostalgia I think. Maybe it was just the weird SAW era desaturation/bleach bypass filter they were using, idk.
Silence of the Lambs was so good though you can obviously tell it was the 90's but there's no magic tech or bravado with portraying the FBI, so it just works.
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Oh yeah lol forgot about that.
Yeah, Silence of the Lambs has one of the best-directed endings of any thriller I've seen. I just prefer the acting and story and setting of Red Dragon. And Ralph is wonderful.
Gary Oldman in Hannibal (I think?) is the only highlight there. Rest of the movie's chintsy or unmemorable.
If halfway through Manhunter it turned into a porno, I'd probably have taken a second to notice. Shit is, like, ethnically 80s. Brian Cox also just isn't spooky enough. And the main guy's just so fricking hangdog. Michael Mann's most annoying movie.
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Agreed but on re-watching it was truly limited by the writing on the screen play I think.
I mean to read the books at some point but my understanding was they had a very different direction and they also made a lot of the elements too fantastical and less grounded in reality unlike silence of the lambs which always is painfully grounded and quickly paced. Tick tock tick tock, Clarice. Quid pro quo.
100% agree. What it gains in some mild 80s authenticity it loses in every other category like acting/cinematography/style and above all scoring as the soundtrack for silence of the lambs is basically flawless, which red dragon attempts to replicate with some success.
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Remember Da Vinci's Inquest? The Canadians thought they could be totally irrational self-destructive r-slurs scamming off us forever and never face any consequences. Well it turns out we can be totally irrational self-destructive r-slurs too. Safe injection sites? Yeah, I got a safe injection site for you on your butt, canuck.
I'm gonna take Jewel Staite down to America and we'll live happily forever after.
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All this Trump Panama drama has inspired me to write an effortpost about historical central american filibustering
But Canada? Not interesting enough for an effortpost
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There was the Fenian thing but I'm pretty sure they just walked over the border and then realized nobody gives a shit about this place and went back to America.
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Taskmaster. With my main PC still burnt and un-operational I'm confined to YouTube on my work PC, and this show is there for free.
I re-watched first 5 seasons (the only ones I've seen before), and then started watching season 16, because I felt like it. I'll probably work my way back to the others when I'm done with this one.
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My fav episode
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One of the best tasks for sure.
Kept me on edge the whole way through.
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I should actually watch these. That's really well animated.
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watching twin peaks to scratch the intrigue itch while waiting for severance
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watchin' those big ol' tiddies on Kanye's gf at the Grammys
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Porn - Lil B
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King of the hill and the boondocks, recently got Futurama,
I fricking got a notice from my ISP about the fricking twilight zone of all things, I've been pirating stuff here for about a year and it's the first thing I got a notice for lol.
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