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Post by Choconado on Dec 2, 2019 8:54:50 GMT -5
Reminder that boba fett lost a gunfight to a BLIND MAN. And then was immediately eaten. Dude sucked.
Mando is great though. Pretty much Lone Wolf and Cub in space.
Also, I mentioned before my enjoyment of Prodigal Son? Well last week's ep was a stinker. A. it did nothing to move the overall plot, and B. the murder of the week involved a group of pretty, rich people who would use each others' apartments to cheat on their spouses with each other in no-strings-attached arrangements. The protag's first reaction was to call that polyamory, which is pretty much the opposite arrangement, and was offensively ignorant. oh well.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 2, 2019 23:01:55 GMT -5
Doogie Howser makes a pretty good Count Olaf.
That is all.
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Dec 3, 2019 17:03:51 GMT -5
The Mandalorian I never really got the Boba Fett fandom, given that he never actually does anything. So if they had gone ahead and made a series about him, I would have probably never watched it. But I have to say this show is actually really good. I wonder if Boba Fett will ever live up to the potential he demonstrated in The Star Wars Holiday Special? I don't think he's ever been quite as animated as he was there. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Dec 4, 2019 5:28:11 GMT -5
I wonder if Boba Fett will ever live up to the potential he demonstrated in The Star Wars Holiday Special? I don't think he's ever been quite as animated as he was there. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Dec 4, 2019 5:56:54 GMT -5
The Deuce's final season aired earlier this year. Once again, the David Simon machine delivers. Over the course of three seasons, Simon and co-creator George Pelecanos, the acclaimed novelist who was involved in both The Wire and Treme as well, painted a picture of the demise of Times Square in its most infamous incarnation. Starting in 1972 (Season One), jumping ahead to 1977 (Season Two), and then jumping even further ahead to 1985 (Season Three), we see 42nd Street at the height of its sleaze era, hookers and pimps rampant, drug abuse everywhere, the burgeoning of the porn business, Mob control of various businesses, including the newly established peepshows and massage parlors, and the powers that be saying how can we stop this being the first thing people see when they get off of the fucking bus? As per usual for a Simon production, told through the eyes of a cornucopia of characters, most prominently a prostitute who becomes a porn star and then a porn filmmaker (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and twin brothers (James Franco) whose business interests are all mixed up with the afore-mentioned bent-nose bunch.
I am always eager to encourage people to watch more examples of the novelized form of television that has cropped up in the last two decades. For those who like to watch books as well as read them, this ain't an easy ride (the depiction of the working women's lives is particularly difficult to watch, and the third season's addressing of the AIDS crisis is also wrenching), but it's worth it. The courage that the actors, most especially the women, display is astounding. As a bonus, the attention paid to the birth, ascension and descent into stasis of a certain corner of the sleaze movie world should be of particular interest to some around here. Also, I know it doesn't sound like it, but there's a good amount of humor as well. |
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Dec 4, 2019 20:34:01 GMT -5
I don't think he's ever been quite as animated as he was there. What? Why? I believe you may have drawn the wrong conclusion here. *scurries off to the nearest hidey hole to...well, hide* |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Dec 5, 2019 6:18:12 GMT -5
*uses shrink ray on self so I can kick you in the shins* What? Why? I believe you may have drawn the wrong conclusion here. *scurries off to the nearest hidey hole to...well, hide*I just realized that I read what you wrote wrong. I was thinking of some Star Wars cartoon or something, so when you said that he was 'animated,' I thought you were making with the joke. I mean, after all, it is you.
*puts hair in a pun bun and retracts shin kicks*
So, that hole in the baseboard isn't a mouse hole?
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Post by Deeky on Dec 5, 2019 9:07:07 GMT -5
I was thinking of some Star Wars cartoon or something... The Star Wars Holiday Special? |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 5, 2019 22:01:21 GMT -5
I was thinking of some Star Wars cartoon or something... The Star Wars Holiday Special?  Nah... |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Dec 6, 2019 5:53:45 GMT -5
Why did I think that was live action? Are there live action segments in it? Come to think of it, I'm not actually sure I've ever seen it. |
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Post by Mayzshon on Dec 6, 2019 7:10:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Dec 6, 2019 8:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by Choconado on Dec 7, 2019 4:06:17 GMT -5
Frankly the animated Boba Fett adventure is the closest thing to non campy quality the special has. And even then it's Luke, Han, and Chewie being texas two-stepped by him over some magical medallion, and a sleepy sickness where people have to hang upside down or else all the blood will rush to their head and explode. Yes, really.
Also yeah, it's obvious Favreau is a fan, as Mando has already had several sly references to it. One character early on mentions Life Day (the "holiday" in question for the special in place of xmas), and also Mando's got the same weapon Fett uses in the cartoon, a combination cattle prod/disintegration ray.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 7, 2019 11:56:49 GMT -5
I also rather like how the Holiday Special accounts for casting Adam Driver as Han Solo's son...  |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Dec 19, 2019 6:33:19 GMT -5
New candidate for favorite gonzo moment in a revived series: I never ever would have guessed that the Mad About You revival would feature a scene in which Helen Hunt's Jaime Buckman says 'cunts.' (Technically, she says 'Kuntz,' but...) |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jan 11, 2020 6:18:29 GMT -5
Re-watched the first season of HBO's Rome. Excellent British cast (of course; everyone knows all Romans were British) in a multi-faceted story that combines a more personal fictional story with actual historical events. And yet, in a good example of how David Simon has crippled me for all other TV, I couldn't help but wish I had gotten a better sense of the workings of the larger world of the story. Even a bit of beefing up of some of the secondary roles would have provided a closer look. Still, very good.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jan 22, 2020 6:07:36 GMT -5
Finally got around to watching the 2019 HBO Deadwood movie. I had hoped that they might end up doing at least a short miniseries, especially given how viewers were completely left hanging when HBO abruptly canned it in 2006, and on an incredibly sour note at that. But we got what we got, and I have to say, I'm completely satisfied. Taking up a decade after the events of the series, a story unfolds that very much relates back to the incident that was responsible for the sourness. Best of all, it all felt very organic, the actors stepping into the older versions of their characters with remarkable aplomb. I still would have preferred more, but that's been true since 2006; we finally got a real ending and I for one am happy.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 9, 2020 11:38:42 GMT -5
Well, HBO's The Outsider wrapped last night. Not sure how I'll spend Sunday nights henceforth.
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Post by Deeky on Mar 9, 2020 12:00:07 GMT -5
Masturbating?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 11, 2020 0:16:41 GMT -5
Don't mind if I do! And it appears HBO will be joining me*. Apparently, an entire next season of The Outsider is in the works. I don't think that's wise. I might be pleasantly surprised, but I suspect this is going to go downhill fast. They should've just one and done.
*Which begs the question: Is it really 'alone time' if an entire TV network is doing it with you?
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