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I had a long response written to this, it was kind of brilliant, but then I hit a formatting button and it all disappeared. sigh. The gist of it was that it was more fun to watch the people make Will laugh than the actual plot of the show/series was. And this actually hurt the non-comedians (and Ken) because Conan and Kumail were both taking shots at Will so much. There was one moment where it was just Will holding onto the bridge of his nose for like five seconds trying to get composed and that was funnier than whatever it was that Kumail was doing.Originally Posted by otnavuskire
Also the line where Will says he's going to pretend to be a Pakistani uncle and Kumail says, sure, ok, but don't be racist. And the other guy's just like, "oh, right, let's see this" and they say 'don't be racist' three or four times...oh man. Just, like, don't be Apu! and then Will just puts on an English accent instead and kind of kills it anyway. Great bit.
Watched this. If you have any idea who Charlie Brooker is outside of his Black Mirror show you will know going in that this is a wild ride of satire. If you don't, well.
I honestly don't know how she's able to roll through the various lines that Charlie's had her say over the past decade. From Weekly Wipe to Cunk on Britain to Death to 2020/2021 and the upcoming Cunk on Earth, she's just a brilliant straight face. No idea how she does it. I was watching a short interview with her and she was acting normal and I couldn't handle it, she was laughing and emoting and it was just a lot. lol
Just another clip from Death to 2020 so you can see what they're shooting at.
so many comments about how "I didn't know this was a parody"
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Sesame Street had a song about this!Marshawn Lynch
I remember back when The Drew Carey Show was on and we had the East and West coast ABC feeds on DirecTV so we could watch both of the live episodes. Improv in a show setting can be pretty good so I'll definitely check it out.
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He's a pretty funny guy. I could see him being good in this.
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Just finished watching Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (after binging the series on DVD; so many one liners re-imbedded in my brainmeats now) and if you are a fan of the series, it does well. It was the same sort of broken the series does. I could even see them doing another one (given the nature of the series, plot resolutions aren't exactly a thing to be worried about).
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/14/2...ll-plans-hd-4k
Honestly, Netflix just isn't worth it. If anything they should have lowered their prices. HBO Max is worth $15. Netflix is trying to charge $0.50 more for their analogous plan. Netflix is about half as good and I hope people leave in droves out of principle. They won't but they should.
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Agreeded, I hardly use Netflix anymore, lots of tv shows and movies made for their service and that's it.
HBO Max and Disney Plus actually have catalog titles I want to watch (and good new series too).
I might have to cancel, for the second time.
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This past year I've just been subscribing to a single streaming service a month. I don't have all that much time to watch stuff anyways and with the massive amount of streaming services out there staying subscribed just doesn't make sense. I subbed to Netflix for one month out of the whole year to watch a couple things and I spent the rest of the month regretting it because they have almost nothing at all I want to watch. Disney isn't my thing either but when I tried their service at least it was only a few bucks and they do have an enormous amount of content. Not to mention if you have kids I'm sure its a must have.
It's actually kinda crazy to me that the most expensive service I paid for (HBO MAX) is the only one that always makes me feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of it. I got a HULU deal for like $2 a month to watch It's Always Sunny and other than that it's even worse than Netflix, though the ads color my opinion as I can't stand ads.
I don't have anything against Netflix, they used to be the best but I can't really see myself subbing to them very much in the future. If things continue on this course with all the different services I think we are at the end of the golden age of streaming. It'll all just fragment and be cable 2.0 in the end. Contrast that with the music industry. Spotify is great for a music fan.
The only hope is that eventually many of these services fail and there are only a few left standing.
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Oh. My. God.
RA-MEN ROPPAI
Looks great. Not a fan of that Devil redesign, though. He's halfway between normal and final form, and he's scrawny. Everyone else looks almost dead-on.
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A few episodes in, and this feels promising. Spooky and promising. I hope that it keeps up what it is doing well, and sticks the landing. God forbid it ends with something incredibly stupid like aliens.
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I got a bit of Rosemary's Baby/Prince of Darkness vibes from it at times. Genuine creepy moments.A few episodes in, and this feels promising. Spooky and promising. I hope that it keeps up what it is doing well, and sticks the landing. God forbid it ends with something incredibly stupid like aliens.
Overall though, it lost me midway through the series. I made it through. I rate it a 6 out of 10.
I was nobody. Nothing.
Damn, that's rough to.hear.
I've seen three stunning episodes, and was hoping.it kept.up.the same quality.
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My parents enjoyed it more than me, so you may enjoy it more than me too! I think I'm a bit jaded at this point with horror.
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I don't know if it's a spoiler or not to watch the trailer but the whole reason I want to watch the movie now is in the trailer. I can't say anything about it that isn't exactly that to make you want to watch it. Well, I guess I can say "hey kids, do you like horror? monsters? violence? then have I got the film for you."
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That's a fair rating. I thought it was pretty solid until the last 1 or 2 episodes. It didn't stick the landing but many shows often don't. I really enjoyed the scene at the séance. It felt like total David Lynch.
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Watched this...
...and while I had heard of this via conman via a podcast years ago, watching this with the new info was wild.
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I'll watch this...
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Just finished She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and I HATE that it’s over. I could live in this world for another 5 seasons, and am team Catradora until the day I die.
This show has bought so much joy to me.
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Finally watched this... it is silly. Looking forward to a S2.
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I was nobody. Nothing.
I caught that news in the wee hours, as I was finishing up.the show, and I was furious...until I saw the ending.
The ending is fine. I don't see it as some batshit crazy cliffhanger, personally.
To me, I'm pretty sure they filmed this thing not knowing if it was getting a second season.
It's based on a podcast, and hell, listening to.that should be interesting: it will make the whole thing a bit more ARG like.
Also, this isn't a reason NOT to watch the show. There's SO much I love about it: slow burn hard mystery, a heaping helping of the occult including references to ACTUAL occult stuff, analog horror, found footage, 90s nostalgia, unreliable narrators, et al.
I think it stands on its own, and I think it's a must for any horror fan.
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that looks pretty great, will definitely check it out.
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Watched Red Notice last night. It was fine. I saw it described as a streaming 9 and a theater 6 and that's about right. Nothing in the film was bombastic enough to say "I wish I had seen this on a big screen".
Some notes:
I didn't get a chance to pause the film there to look it up but the fact they started the scene with Ryan whistling the Raiders theme and then were all "HAY LOOK AT DIS BOXX" for even a split second I was pretty sure that's what the joke was.When they enter the vault at 1:27:38 John Hartley shines a light on a crate marked Top Secret Army Intel 9906753 Do Not Open. That's the crate number which holds the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
it was a pretty good two-second joke, tbh.The boat that Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) is steering onto the beach in Bali has the wording "We're Gonna Make It, Rose" printed on it, a reference to the Oscar-winning film, Titanic.
I also laughed at this because it was so on the nose as both a meta joke and in-movie joke. which I guess is meta anyway? eh.The movie's MacGuffin is a set of three ancient bejeweled antiquities known as ''Cleopatra's Eggs''. "MacGuffin" is the Hitchcockian term for the object at stake in a suspense-thriller. Hitchcock actually explained it as one man telling another that it is "a device to hunt lions in Scotland", and when the other man replies that there aren't any lions in Scotland, the first says "Guess there isn't a MacGuffin, then." So, the MacGuffin is the object that sets the plot in motion but has very little real significance in the plot and it is pretty much useless. It is actually mentioned in the movie when Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) quips: "Look for a box that says 'MacGuffin'."
Ed Sheeran showing up at the end was good for a quick laugh. "Do you know who I am? I was in Game of Thrones! I'm Ed Sheeran, bitch!" and trying to hit people with his guitar. Glad he can laugh at himself.
That said, I was thinking about it this morning and realized that one part of the film was the director just flat-out lying to the audience. Spoilers ahead - not that I think you might care, but because it's actually a very twisty spoiler that does matter.
So, with that said, here we go.
Again, actual spoilers.
At the end of the movie we find out that there are two Bishops (sotto voce gasp) and they show a couple scenes from the film and all the parts where the two worked together. Most of them work well and you think 'ah!' but there's one where the scene they show is completely different from what was shown earlier. The first time you see it it's very clear and obvious to you that there are two people in the scene and one is hiding from the other. The second time, in the reveal montage, it's very clear and obvious to you that there are two people in the scene who are working together. I didn't like it at all because as soon as you introduce this scene the director is lying to you and you lose whatever immersion you had going on.
OTOH it's not listed on IMDB as a goof so either I'm going at this from a way too high-horse movie critic who lost his popcorn angle or no one cares. either way I think I've used enough brain cells critiquing the film.
Final note: Again, it was fine. I liked the previous Ryan Reynolds Netflix movie with Michael Bay much better. Fewer brain cells required, yeah?
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4 episodes into S2 of Russian Doll.
What a fucking trip...
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It's based on a one-line joke from "So I Married an Axe Murderer" and is loaded with Mike Meyers's but I found a lot of places to belly laugh at just how absurd it is.
There are several cameos that are just amazing and one that I had to pause the show for. A couple of jokes that were just OK and the ending was just a little trite "preaching to the choir" bull but getting there was still pretty fun.
The swings from serious to lampoon to straight-up WTF are pretty fast. Bad jokes that Mike liked and didn't want to cut. There are two Netflix interruptions, the first of which you can almost see coming based on the previous couple of minutes and the second a Mac - as in Macintosh - joke that was fun for various reasons, a riff on the opening scene in the second Austin Powers movies.
the best joke is a throwaway line in the first episode that doesn't make any sense when you hear it but then it's expanded on in episode two. hah, no pun intended but lol anyway.
Lastly: the opening credits. first of all you can't skip them but then you have no reason to. Jeremy Irons narrates them and he does a bloody good job of it too! second of all it's motherfucking Orbital's "The Box", a song I never would have thought to hear outside of the 90s and my iTunes collection and Hackers.
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Only By Night
I'd say, teaser 2 is the better trailer, but that isn't saying much. This is getting tiring...
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I swore I'd never subscribe to Netflix (for reasons) but they had to go and adapt The Sandman and for all the little tidbits we've seen, it looks awesome. God. Damn. It.
I'm going to wait until the entire series is available and I'm going to subscribe for one month and binge watch it every day then I'm going to cancel.
Right...
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