My girlfriend and I watched the original 1960's King Kong vs. Godzilla last night. Holy shit, did that movie suck.
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My girlfriend and I watched the original 1960's King Kong vs. Godzilla last night. Holy shit, did that movie suck.
The Kong suit is a special kind of ugly.
I'm watching the first episode of Iron Fist.
I really wish I could turn my brain off for this stuff.
When he first meets his childhood friend/rival why does he insist on going somewhere to talk and not just blurt out something specific? Ok, maybe in the heat of things he couldn't come up with anything. I can sort of buy that.
But then later mere hours after having a very specific memory and he talks to Joy again, when she responds that his kinda generic information that he used to try to convince her of his identity could be obtained online, why not recount that very specific memory which couldn't have been found online?
I understand why this is being done for story reasons, but it's really stupid and, like I always bitch about, makes a hard to believe scenario even more hard to believe.
Here's a dumb post (as if the one above isn't!) so tapatalk doesn't despoil my spoilers (not that they're end of the world spoilers anyway, but you know.)
Iron Fist is getting terrible reviews from everyone.
How did Jessica and Luke fare? Because I couldn't hang past the opening episode of either and I'm 3 deep into this one. It's fine.
Jessica's not bad (but several episodes too long), Luke has some dumb choices about halfway in that keep if from sticking the landing, and I couldn't get through three episodes of Daredevil 2 because the dialog was agony.
Oh, Kong was so gross.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Allegedly it was made from dog pelts.
Review wise, JJ got a lot of praise. LK not as much but still well received. The reviews for this were based on the first 6 episodes that have derided just about every aspect of the show (awful pacing, bad acting, boring and unconvincing action). The one complaint every Netflix Marvel show has gotten is that they're too long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Lots of fashionable complaints about Iron Fist being a white guy and omg appropriation, but I mean... Shang Chi was the Marvel asian kung fu guy, Iron Fist was always Slightly Alternate Origin Bruce Wayne, and they're both Bruce Lee / Kung Fu knockoffs.
Never let a silly thing like truth get in the way of a crusade to show how above it all you are. That seems to be the mantra of a lot of these people.
Kubo and the Two Strings is some wild shit.
Kubo's really great.
Saw Moonlight, the baseline tone in that movie is super stressful, a bit like Drive. Nothing particularly happens to justify that, but it's a good character study.
Mahershala Ali continues his career habit of completely disappearing from a story just as his character starts to get interesting.
People act like everything is painting John Wayne in brown face so he can play Indians.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Into the Badlands is back for a second season!!! I'm going to watch the ep in just a sec, I'm really happy it's back. It's a hugely underrated show.
It's fucking awesome, that's what it is.
6 episodes in, Legion has completely ruined the other Marvel shows.
I'm becoming obsessed with watching Colbert's Late Show interviews on youtube. They are so stilted and awkward, it's bizarre. He'll be talking to someone hilarious like Andy Daly, and just giving him absolutely nothing. It's pretty interesting to be able to watch him learn how to do this.
I also discovered (super late) the 70s Japanese live action Spiderman show and I can't wait to watch every episode. the transformation sequence is one of the best things I have ever seen.
Ah, that show is amazing. Some site had them all streaming for free not too long ago.
Didn't super sentai grow out of that? I think I wrote something up about that and you all shit on and my brain dumped all the info
All that stuff kinda grew up out of Ultra Q and Ultraman.
Google is saying there were 2 ealier super sentais. But spiderman introduced mecha as we know them to super sentai.
The back and forth between japan and the English speaking world is really weird. Like how dick dastardly and muttly inspired time Bokan which would inspire wario. Or how mickey helped inspire sonic. Or Popeye would help inspire pac land and mario nes.
The transforming giant combiner robot thing came out of Spider-Man, I feel like it was a case of a toy already having been designed and then dropped in to the show.
The whole reason we have Donkey Kong is that a Popeye licensing deal fell through. Cross pollination is funny to read about.
Fucking Trainspotting 2 is fucking shit idea. But goddamn will I pay to see it.
Dubstep Born Slippy?
Iron Fist really is terrible :(
Legion is so good I don't care.
Gourmet Samurai. Another Netflix Original.
This is kinda the show I've always wanted and never knew I did.
Episode 6 just depicts my perfect day.
It's half food porn half an ordinary person dealing with ordinarily stressful social situations like a cool ronin would. He tries to anyway.
That sounds strangely cool.
Last night I was digging through the pile of unwatched movies and pulled out a beauty: Enter the Dragon. I actually somehow have never seen this in its entirety, it was awesome.
I like Way of the Dragon more, Kien Shih just doesn't strike me as someone who can even put a scratch on Bruce Lee.
Well he can but he had to use a claw
Way of the Dragon doesn't have Jim Kelly.
Jim Kelly was awesome.
I showed EtD to a room full of erstwhile apathetic undergrads once. They got way into it.
That movie is a gosh darn classic.
Trainspotting on the other hand, is my least favorite movie ever. I can't believe that 1. people like it and 2. people want a second one
First 15 minutes of season 3 episode 1 Broadchurch. Fuck.
Attempted to watch Captain America: Civil War but finally tapped out about 2 hours into this seemingly endless slog.
I don't understand how this is a movie. It's like the story mode for Injustic; an endless parade of character cameos with no development, story or motivation, all to set up action sequences that don't matter, and driven by a story that gets like 10 minutes of screen time in the whole movie.
It's not a good movie, but it's a dynamite Nerd Experience the first time through. I'll never watch it again.
Yeah, it's disposable entertainment, and the content is vapid.
There's a show on Amazon called Fleabag. It's really funny and insightful, and the characters are faceted. I like that the main character is kind-of of despicable and raunchy, and a woman, but her being a woman isn't the message of the show, it's just a fact of the character. I've only seen the first 3 episodes, but it's surprisingly thoughtful, and british without being overly british.
The Honest Trailer they made is really good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Tapeheads with John Cusack is one of the most brilliant movies I've ever seen. Cleverness on par with Idiocracy. Random cameos with stiv bators and jello Biafra too.
I kept seeing the LD of Tapeheads for sale and didn't know what to make of it. It was a buck! I'll grab it next time.
You better!
Also what do you think of this Kino?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq9y8Hptyc
That used to air right next to the original Mighty Mouse and the Woody Woodpecker / Chilly Willy half hour... I didn't quite understand why it was different at the time, but I sure liked it better!
I just grab anything I see that's a dollar. I've bought a few stinkers, but it's also made me discover some classics that I never would have watched, like Leon The Professional which is one of the most badass movies ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I usually roll the dice. That said I have a pretty good stack of discards at this point.
To be fair, all the character development was done in the other movies. The only redeeming thing is the fight scene, and it didn't really matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
BUY ITQuote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I remember watching this when it played on saturday mornings. There was a new popeye around that time too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
I was pretty sure that the Ren and Stimpy that came later was related some way, but didn't know why until later.
E.T. My kid is way into it.
Dexter. I had seen the first 6 seasons before, but never the last two. The last season really seemed to be going somewhere, then it didn't.
The episodes with Mrs Def were really quite good, and the Trinity Killer too... those were great. Pretty much everything else is just kinda there. I don't like the "Spooky Dexter" voice that dude started using around the 4th season (maybe). And I don't like the wig he wore for a season or two either. Why didn't people just spit out the cloth he stuck in their mouth? That's not really how a gag works, but they kept doing it right up to the end of the show.
I actually thought it sucked the first time. I am quite surprised I got burnt out on comic book movies before the general public, didn't see that coming.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Nothing wrong with that. I thought Doctor Strange was garbage, I think the spell is broke
The formula isn't a lot of fun anymore.
I didn't like Dr. Strange either. Magic is lame.
Magic expressed as 'see through whip' and 'see through shield" is super lame.
The first season of Dexter is the best TV I'd ever seen. The last, probably some of the worst. It got way too cheesy and needed to end after Rita died.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I didn't like the first season as much this time around. It was still good but not "oh wow"
I watched some of this last night. It was really cute and relaxing, it's like a slice of life manga but with an old dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Yeah man glad you checked it out. I like that it's so relaxing and not hooky so I can go to sleep.
The guy is apparently a very prominent voice actor.
The ep where they do the tabletop barbecue is so relaxing, just listening to meat sizzle is great
I like S2 the best, Doakes is the best character. S4 has the best villian (Trinity killer). I stopped after 4, and from what I gather, it was an excellent decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
I watched a couple episodes of Frasier. Nothing reminded me of Seattle. Maybe the coffee before Starbucks made it normie.
But David Hyde Pierce is awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
One of my biggest tween crushes was on Niles, and I wanted to be Lilith when I grew up. They were like, ideal adults to me.
I watched it every week when I was a teenager and I enjoyed it just now. It just could take place in St Louis and not change anything.
Oh i thought it was just referenced as Seattle in his backstory during the Cheers years. I guess it seems more likely to have hoity toity people in Seattle than St. Louis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
IIRC his city of origin changed from somewhere else to Seattle over the years on Cheers.
Man Seeking Woman season 2. It's on Hulu. You are doing yourself a disservice by not watching it.
Ab Fab is on Netflix and I'm never watching anything else again
Shin Godzilla and it was FUCKING AWESOME
I haven't seen Blade Runner since the 80s. What's the version to watch?
Final cut.
I still prefer Director's Cut. Final Cut messes up the falling through glass scene iirc. Though I guess if you haven't seen it since the 80s, that's not a thing that would stick out.
Which cut is the Criterion laserdisc?
They reshot that scene with the original actress for the final cut. It was a dude in a wig in the 80's.
I've never seen Blade Runner.
Well, next time you can't sleep give it a try.
This needs to be fixed, you tell me when and I'll be there with a bluray and beers.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
haha a lot of people these days think it is pretty boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
It's a great movie though. They are wrong.
Cool, thanks. I'll start with Final Cut and take it from there. That 5 disc set is expensive but seems to cover a lot of ground.
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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
It begins and ends strong, but the middle is a poorly paced slog. Low volume chit chat and it always being night time put ya out like a light.
International Cut.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
The actress twenty years later looked more like a dude in a wig. I found the differences in the staging to be jarring, IDK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I will never finish Blade Runner, falls asleep every single time.
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' 1971, his first special.
From wikipedia
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Born on December 1, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor grew up in his grandmother's brothel, where his mother, Gertrude L. (née Thomas), practiced prostitution.[9] His father, LeRoy "Buck Carter" Pryor (June 7, 1915 – September 27, 1968), was a former boxer and hustler.[10] After his alcoholic mother abandoned him when he was 10, Pryor was raised primarily by his grandmother Marie Carter,[11] a tall, violent woman who would beat him for any of his eccentricities.[12] Pryor was one of four children raised in his grandmother's brothel and was sexually abused at age seven.[13] He was expelled from school at the age of 14.[14]
I made it through about 40 minutes of Rogue One and am not sure I can endure the rest before my rental period is over. It's awful. The characters are indistinguishable from one another and the stakes don't feel real. I couldn't tell you one the name of one non-New Hope character. I get that I'm not supposed to know the cast insofar as they're all guarding their motivations and emotions, and that's cool. But can I get a character trait aside from "owns a machine gun?"
Part of this is on me, admittedly: I can never follow these kinds of plots with a bunch of designing characters with conflicting allegiances and goals (Mission Impossible, Kubrick's The Killing, etc.), so I don't. I just kind of trust the movie to go where it's going and try to focus on something aside from plot instead. But what is there to Rogue One besides plot?
Oh! Ha ha! He said "You just watch yourself!" Someone is bearing witness to my lonely existence! I hope I laughed hard enough to let my wife know I was In On It.
Vistas man, it's all about the vistas. The beautiful vistas and being able to say, Hey, I Recognize That Star War Thing. Ain't I Swell?
Also that Vader scene.
see above.
I still haven't seen it. Or the one before that.
Okay, the Vader scene was pretty great.
The Vader scene is really all you need to see.
Big Little Lies.
I think it tries a bit too hard to be a bit too clever, but underneath it all it's a pretty good yarn about the lies we tell each other and ourselves just to make it through the day. Worth a binge watch.
That show triggered the fuck out of me. Like, no lie, my parents used to have violent fights to the exact same Neil Young songs. It was really, really hard for me to watch at points but it was overall a fantastic, very surprising show. It made me realize that at soon as I get settled with moving I need to find a therapist haha
What did you think of Chloe?
I'm getting a bit tired of the "4-7 year old child is the smartest one in the room" trope. The relationship she had with Madeline didn't ring true either. There's no way her mother, being the wound up everything must seem perfect personality she was, would allow that little girl to speak the way she does. She'd make more sense if she were Bonnie's daughter. But Bonnie's daughter barely existed in the show except to have one horribly acted (ok ok she's a kid) bout of screaming and crying.
I liked cunty bitch robot.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
But you're not entirely wrong. The movie is forgettable
The best advice I can give any woman (and some men), is to work towards not needing their mother.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
My mental health infinitely improved when my relationship with my mother was based on wants, and not needs.