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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 9:44:03 GMT
Yeah I enjoyed it a lot. Absolutely bat shit though.
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Post by Tuffty on Oct 8, 2021 13:22:32 GMT
Finished Midnight Mass. Not so much a horror, scares are far and few between, but it is a drama that's worth your time. It's a slow start and I know people got turned off by the volume of monologues, but I didn't mind at all. It all builds up to some incredible pay off by the end. All supported by some great performances and a character right up there among the list of evil characters you wanna reach through the screen and smack like Joffrey.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 8, 2021 13:25:07 GMT
The next time someone doesn't like my cooking, I want to have had Willem Dafoe's Neptune speech memorised and ready to go.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 13:33:56 GMT
Also watched 1 ep Alice in Borderlands in the hope it would come me up to the standards of Squid Game... It didn't. It's a different vibe for sure. Alice feels like a manga/anime in live action. It hits a lot of anime tropes like the psycho silent killer, the crazy pretty boy, the endearing but naive best friend etc. Squid Game you can interpret as having a deeper message to it while Alice is just schlocky entertainment. I still actually prefer Alice in Borderland to be honest. It's definitely more live action manga/anime in style (I think it's based on one?). Finished Squid Game last night and it's still brilliant. Wasn't quite expecting it to end the way it did but I presume that, either planned or not, there will be a second series of it at some point due to how successful it has been. I would definitely be on board for that. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 12, 2021 11:26:01 GMT
Baki Hanma is out, if you're into impossibly muscled men ripping faces off and the like. Weird that it's not just shown as season 3 or whatever of Baki the Grappler, but there you go.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 12, 2021 11:30:04 GMT
Each story arc seems to be classed as a new series. I was watching it in the background last week while I was working and, obviously, the mrs walked in during the scene where one big muscled hunk is pissing on another muscled hunk who just sits there laughing.
'at least these cartoons are branching out from women being raped'
Thanks, Baki.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 12, 2021 11:31:08 GMT
When the mrs worked for ITV, you could pitch ideas internally for fun and profit. If they got made, you got money and a percentage. During the 'Celebrity [XXXX]' fad about 15 years ago we kept pitching celebrity formats and kept getting knocked back because they were already being made. We gave up after pitching 'Celebrity Circus' something so dumb, they cant have been making it. But they were and with Zammo off Grange Hill. The host of a podcast (Geoff Lloyd, Adrift) I listen to did similar - think his idea was celebrity rollerskating or something. Rang 2 separate friends in production only to find out that was the big one everyone was trying to crack. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 12, 2021 11:33:04 GMT
Each story arc seems to be classed as a new series. I was watching it in the background last week while I was working and, obviously, the mrs walked in during the scene where one big muscled hunk is pissing on another muscled hunk who just sits there laughing. 'at least these cartoons are branching out from women being raped' Thanks, Baki. Come on now, there's... one female character? That's progress right |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 12, 2021 11:33:41 GMT
Hah, yeah, a big fatso who baki uses as a pillow when he's tired.
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Post by Vortex on Oct 12, 2021 11:34:56 GMT
Each story arc seems to be classed as a new series. I was watching it in the background last week while I was working and, obviously, the mrs walked in during the scene where one big muscled hunk is pissing on another muscled hunk who just sits there laughing. 'at least these cartoons are branching out from women being raped' Thanks, Baki.  I am at work shaking quietly with laughter. Her comment has really tickled me. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 13, 2021 9:20:42 GMT
"Now that your bladder is empty, how will you overcome this tetrahedron?!"
is a question I don't think will ever be topped for as long as I live.
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Post by mrpon on Oct 13, 2021 9:54:56 GMT
Yeah Squid Game was really good, though I didn't really care for the ending Still though, it's a solid recommendation overall. Yes, that's the one thing I didn't care for either, but the rest more than makes up for it. It would have been nice to have a happy ending, that contrasts with all the misery the main character went through. Instead, his mother died alone on the floor, and the show seemed to want to focus on unnecessary twists instead.
It left me wondering what the story's message was. I'd assume the message was "family is more important than money" if it wasn't for the fact the main character was in debt to a dangerous gang, practically estranged from his family for not having enough money, not to mention his mother's medical bills, so the show went out its way to establish early on that money is the most important thing in life.
In this sense, the main character had no choice but to compete in the games. In fact... the entire second episode was spent reinforcing this fact. I was left a little unsatisfied by the largely miserable, depressing ending. Was expecting him to have an eye patch at the end. |
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Post by Gruf on Oct 17, 2021 18:29:33 GMT
The King 8/10 Been on my list for a ages. Best historical drama I have seen in a while, a sweeping epic easily matches the classics of this genre. Well worth my time.
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Post by MadCaddy on Oct 18, 2021 15:42:46 GMT
‘You’ is actually a great watch. I’m 3 episodes into s3 and it’s pretty riveting stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2021 15:48:30 GMT
It's great trashy TV with a pretty witty script. I really like it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2021 15:49:46 GMT
It's the worst thing that I like.
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Post by anephric on Oct 19, 2021 16:01:41 GMT
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Post by Kay on Oct 19, 2021 16:17:20 GMT
Yeah, it's definitely understandable why the acting seemed so bad in those scenes. But as I said before, I thought the characters were supposed to be outlandish anyway, so had no major issues with it - although the scenes themselves really weren't necessary imo.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 19, 2021 16:33:13 GMT
‘You’ is actually a great watch. I’m 3 episodes into s3 and it’s pretty riveting stuff. Yeah, at the same point here and it's been a surprisingly solid season so far. I had a picture of how the season would pan out but the first episode flipped that on its head! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2021 16:45:00 GMT
I had a feeling Season 3 would be shit so glad to hear it's decent.
I'm currently watch I Know What You Did Last Summer on Amazon which is similarly addictive trash.
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Post by jono62 on Oct 19, 2021 16:55:26 GMT
I had a feeling Season 3 would be shit so glad to hear it's decent. I'm currently watch I Know What You Did Last Summer on Amazon which is similarly addictive trash. I'm watching this as well. Enjoying it and hoping they all die. The dad is a proper creeper. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 19, 2021 16:56:06 GMT
I had a feeling Season 3 would be shit so glad to hear it's decent. I'm currently watch I Know What You Did Last Summer on Amazon which is similarly addictive trash. Is it about a load of depressed people sitting at home watching trash on streaming services, occasionally stopping to check death rate statistics? |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 19, 2021 18:06:50 GMT
The live action Cowboy Bebop trailer managed to be worse than I feared. I can see what they're trying to do but it just doesn't hit the mark for me at all.
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Post by Gruf on Oct 20, 2021 9:06:33 GMT
Yeah, it looked really naff unfortunately, very hammy, looked like zero chemistry, oh well.
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Post by 😎 on Oct 23, 2021 18:55:19 GMT
A new bunch of Movies That Made Us is up. Halloween specials it seems. Aliens is in there.
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Post by jono62 on Oct 23, 2021 19:15:25 GMT
A new bunch of Movies That Made Us is up. Halloween specials it seems. Aliens is in there. There is Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Aliens, Coming to America, Robocop, Elf and The Nightmare before Christmas. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 19:27:39 GMT
The live action Cowboy Bebop trailer managed to be worse than I feared. I can see what they're trying to do but it just doesn't hit the mark for me at all. Shame too, because I thought the intro sequence which was pretty much a shot for shot remake of the anime's intro showed a lot of promise. I thought they were Robert Rodriguez Sin Citying it. But the clip was corny. |
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Post by simple on Oct 23, 2021 19:55:53 GMT
Live action anime almost always looks like naff cosplay to me
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 19:58:30 GMT
Live action anime almost always looks like naff cosplay to me Absolutely nailed it. Like Power Rangers with a slightly higher budget. |
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Post by Gruf on Oct 27, 2021 6:55:55 GMT
New Cowboy Bebop trailer out, not turned my frown upside down. Sub par CGI, lack of chemistry, corny dialogue, you name it, it's got it.
Will at least watch the first episode.
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