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30 minutes ago, TwinIon said:
One tiny question for those who watched the finale: what was the deal with the constant fades to black? It was a stylistic choice that I didn't get and was actually kind of annoying for the first act of the episode.
I think pulling off a firefight between the FBI and a militia was probably just beyond the scope of the show. I do agree though that the way that scene was edited was disappointing and anticlimactic.
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I dug Ep 1 more than I expected. The Thing had a place of honor on the DVD shelf in the opening scene and it's influence is clearly felt.
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Well that last scene was an all time lamao.
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I don't think the writers of this show have ever met a rich person before, but they've got nihilists pegged pretty accurately.
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The bit about Gollum actually made me sad.
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1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:
There are a lot more, does the age of the movie matter to you?
Not really so long as the movie ages well.
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55 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:
Sticking to just shows or are we including movies too?
Movies are fine. I've mostly seen the blockbuster action spy movies which, while decent in their own right, don't really scratch the Slow Horses itch.
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Finishing this now. I never got too deep into spy stuff but now I have an itch to scratch. Other than The Americans, which I’ve seen and is fantastic, are there any other good spy dramas anyone would recommend? I especially enjoy that this and The Americans are more grounded and less action oriented than most spy movies.
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The combat in Alan Wake I is incredibly tedious with few enemy types and repetitive arenas. Even for its time, the combat was bad and detracted from the experience. I also hated the combat in Control for basically the same reason, dull bullet sponge enemies in empty repetitive arenas.
So far, the combat in Alan Wake II feels more interesting than both, and more impressively, I manage to stay completely engaged with the game for about two hours before even firing my gun.
I've always felt like Remedy is a studio with very defined strengths and weaknesses, and so far, AW2 feels like the game where they finally managed to play to their strengths.
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Just picked this up and started playing on my new PC. It looks incredible and about an hour and a half of the way into it I'm loving it. I still haven't reached any combat, which I've always felt to be Remedy's weakness, but I'm impressed that they seem to finally make a game centered more around the strength of their world building.
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17 hours ago, SoberChef said:
Since no one else has brought it up, White Lotus is legit awesome AF!
White Lotus slipped my mind but is/was fantastic. It also has one of the all time bangers of a theme song.
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"Just" started watching this and now I can't stop. Finished episode 5 and I'm impressed just how much they're able to pack into each episode.
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55 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:
Green Lantern is terrible, I meant how can you put Killing Deer alongside it? Killing Deer is universally regarded, not Green Lantern.
Ah, gotcha, I misread your post and was startled to find a Green Lantern defender.
It's been a while since I watched it, and there's a lot of stuff going on with that movie, so I can't really give a perfect explanation for why I disliked it so much. I like weird horror, I love Colin Farrel, I liked the trailer, and I went into the movie with high expectations.
What I remember really hating about the movie was the dialogue. I don't expect every movie and show to have realistic dialogue, and I often enjoy media that embraces weird dialogue, but it just felt like every line in this movie was calculated to take me out of the experience. I can suspend my disbelief all kinds of ways, but so much of the dialogue just felt like something nobody would ever say, when every other aspect of the movie was grounded magical realism. The dialogue was too weird for the rest of the movie, or the rest of the movie was too normal for the dialogue, and this led to basically every other line feeling like it was written by an alien.
I get why other people might like it. The actual plot of the movie is interesting, and I generally like movies that really make you struggle to imagine how you would act in the character's shoes, but here I am, wondering what I would do in Colin Farrel's situation, while instead of acting like a person he's busy talking about jerking his dad off.
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1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:
But, I mean, second least favorite movie of all time with Green Lantern? That's some serious hyperbole since it's an almost universally regarded good movie and there is a lot of trash I'm sure you've seen out there.
I don't want to derail the thread too much with green lantern talk, but I tend to value interesting trash over dull mediocrity. Green Lantern was the dullest most mediocre time waster of a movie I've seen, and I will forever want my two hours back.
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If The Killing of a Sacred Deer is maybe my second least favorite movie of all time (behind Green Lantern 2011), is there any hope that I'd like this movie?
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True Detective season 1
The Sopranos
On top of everything else listed.
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I’m just glad this show has given us bathtub Geralt Jon Hamm.
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30 minutes ago, CayceG said:
California and Texas? Surely not. Maybe it's non-bay area and SoCal California and Texas.
The movie is going to try to have it both ways, concocting something similar to current politics but not quite and setting it in current times with lots of imagery and symbols for currently divisive political issues (ala the thumbnail). The creators realize that having it be a clear continuation of real world politics would be a disaster, so they're going to make it just off kilter enough to pretend to not be fanning the flame.
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Beautiful week for the NFCN.
Lions exposed as frauds by none other than the Bears.
Vikings manage to win the worst game in years.
Packers, sleeping with the fishes.
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3 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:
Having the thumbnail be someone aiming down sight with their fingernails painted trans flag colors is… a choice.
Yeah, that's too on the nose for me.
While the trailer doesn't exactly get into the whole sides or nature of the conflict, having not been born yesterday it feels like this is probably going to be a fantasy of the very correct liberals killing the bad conservatives under the guise of a "cautionary tale." I don't think this is a subject that can be handled tastefully, especially when it's clearly an action movie, and I think when it inevitably reaches the conclusion of "well actually both sides bad though" it will be just as empty as it is politically divisive.
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Mizu is pretty hot tho
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Valve should automatically refund people who bought this trash.
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Getting a 4070 system soon, I'll probably check this game out when it inevitably goes on a deep sale. Reading between the lines on a lot of reviews and opinions, it seems like the kind of game that might develop a cult following over the next few years as hardware improves to be able to showcase it and people get over the presence of a few vestigial UbisoftTM systems. I say this as a deep Ubisoft hater who hasn't purchased one of their shit games since The Division, which I liked well-enough.
The bit about Gollum actually made me sad. 
True Detective: Night Country (HBO) - Official Trailer
in The Performing Arts Centre
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Reading the article, I get Pizzalatte's position, it's one thing to use the True Detective brand name and another to lay your work on top of someone else's without their permission or input.