Greatoneshere

3 hours ago, Air_Delivery said:

Gambling is fine as long as you have the right mind set to have fun not make money. 

However too many people can't handle their shit. 

Human nature in a nutshell. 

On 3/28/2024 at 2:01 PM, Greatoneshere said:

I love Seinfeld (the show), I loved Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, I love Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up specials, I saw him live once and it was great and Bee Movie sucked. With all that being said, I can't tell from that trailer (I usually don't watch trailers but was curious here) if this will be any good or not but I did enjoy the absolute absurdity of it all.

 

It's the same four writers (including Jerry Seinfeld) that wrote Bee Movie, so there's that . . . 

I mean, I guess we should have known it was definitely going to be bad. Seinfeld, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and his stand up stuff = good. Bee Movie and Unfrosted = bad.

6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

True. Bu as for this Andres Pinte:

Sounds like he is doing this for the taste of musk’s….musk

I mean, we got people saying real men wear diapers as a positive. Perhaps we've underestimated how much people like being beta'd by people like this since we're talking about diapers and all, man children ready to lead us into the future.

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

I’d fucking quit if I had to kiss his stupid ass as part of my job

Not if your visa depended on it! Musk fucking sucks.

I'd certainly be interested in an Oz reunion kind of thing, could be pretty hard hitting in the same way the original show was, with characters who are now old and still in prison or back in prison or still living a criminal life. I haven't seen the original show since it was coming out but that was a great (but intense) show.

1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said:

I just wish QT had a better editor.

Just as an aside, you may be aware of this but Quentin Tarantino's long-time film editor Sally Menke (since Reservoir Dogs, did every single one of his films), passed away unfortunately at age 56 in a kind of freak heat-related hiking accident in LA in 2010. The last film she did of his was Inglourious Basterds. Now I'm not sure if there's been a clear difference in his films' editing since then, Jackie Brown and Inglourious Basterds and Kill Bill Vol. 2 have numerous scenes where Tarantino just lets a lot of time pass luxuriating in a scene, building dialogue and tension (and those were with Sally Menke). Just to name some examples of films of his people think are "slower" or have more fluff. Django Unchained, his first movie without her, is edited pretty well and moves at a pretty good clip. 

But, that may explain things to some degree. You lose such a close collaborator in such a key position after so long I imagine something unfortunately is permanently lost in transition.

10 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

I think this was supposed to be politically timed for the 2022 midterms and then the DEA majorly dragged its feet on moving this along. 

I mean, we just got the FTC to reinstate net neutrality so this tracks. Interesting that when Trump wanted things, things moved fast. Or, at least the attempt at whatever barely legal or extralegal or straight up illegal policy he was trying to institute or implement.

5 hours ago, Jason said:

apoced

I am surprised so many users in this thread attempted to genuinely engage BloodyHell in honest debate and discussion given that it's been done countless times in the past with them on this and the other boards here where he'll just say inflammatory or ridiculous things, then we go into great detail (because we care and want to educate) on how they're wrong, he rarely comes back for a follow up or to continue the conversation (probably because he's frequently losing the debate and only entered it to say some incendiary things) and then we repeat the process all over again. Why we keep doing this with certain users I'll never know (and I'm susceptible to this too when I should know better). There are other users we know around here who debate this same way, where every new discussion is the first time it's apparently ever being had with them and "they're just asking questions" or just "putting it out there" and then we all have to act like they are being reasonable.

I mean, "I personally don't know a single conservative who is anti-union" is saying something in such clearly bad faith that it's hard to even take seriously. The only way to interpret this is either (a) they're straight up lying and don't actually know any conservatives or (b) they're stupid and don't know who is and isn't considered "conservative" in the year 2024. It's this constant bad faith debating with BloodyHell and certain other users that has begun to drive me crazy, like we're being gaslit constantly for trying to actually use the message board for real debates and discussions, whether they are small or big, matters or doesn't matter, by bad faith or ignorant users who put no stock in anything other than trolling or being ignorant and posting whatever they please and then being like: "bro it's just a random message board who cares about anything". Not sure how that makes any sense when we have threads discussing how we've all been at least sorta around for over a decade or two in many cases. 

She probably thought the story about killing the puppy would actually help her with Trump, because lest we forget, Trump infamously hates dogs. You'd think it would be that trait that would have turned off conservatives since everyone in America are obsessed with dogs but they're very stupid so here we are.

Also, maybe I'm missing something, but while sitcoms, romcoms and straight up comedies have certainly been genres that have been dying lately (unfortunately so as I love those genres), I'm not sure I even agree with the proposition that there are a lack of sitcoms. We're not flooded with them like we once were, but there are plenty of sitcoms out there, I mean, Jerry Seinfeld's friend Larry David just released the last season of his sitcom. I mean, do these not count as good sitcoms? Extended Family, Girls5eva, Abbott Elementary, Night Court, Not Dead Yet, Rick & Morty, What We Do in the Shadows, It's Always Sunny, Letterkenny and more. The best rebuttal I can think of is getting pedantic about what counts as a sitcom, and whether it's on network TV or not, but there isn't some lack of great comedy writing on TV.

10 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

Even if he's talking about network television exclusively (he probably is) it's still a dumb fucking thing to say. All in the Family was initially passed on by ABC because they were wary of Archie Bunker being "a loveable bigot," The Mary Tyler Moore Show went through a bunch of drafts because of thoughts about the premise / material and its adjacency to Moore's turn on The Dick Van Dyke Show, is and was a feminist darling, and I dunno man including MASH on the list of sitcoms that people just kinda came home and watched that wasn't woke or whatever makes me think Seinfeld should be evaluated for a recent stroke.

 

Also buddy, you're fucking Jerry Seinfeld. If this shit is that important to you fucking make a show? What network is going to turn him down? Even if he doesn't wanna do the work, be an EP on something? Seinfeld doesn't know hungry comics who "aren't PC" with a pitch for a sitcom? Eat my ass old man, get in a car with Louis CK and Chappelle then drive into the Hudson.

I think this is a very good point, and it's only gotten more overt on network TV since, not less so (as Seinfeld seems to think). And I agree: there are few people who have more clout in Hollywood than Jerry Seinfeld (he got this movie made with a cast of very well known funny people) and if he really thought there was a voice that was being suppressed you'd think he'd make something to show that. But no, as usual it's this vague "extreme leftist" woke mob stopping . . . nothing? Calling out terrible things? I'd really like to know what things Jerry Seinfeld or others are just dying to say to make us laugh hard that they can't say. I can't imagine anything benign. Like, please, give us one example of a joke you don't feel like you can say that would just kill if we got to hear it. Just one. And then suddenly it's always crickets.

I always like that these comedians complain and whine about "wokeness" when, as others have said here, we get away with a lot more on TV today than when Seinfeld was airing in the '90s. I remember when sexual content on TV was a big deal, and now we have Euphoria right there on HBO and the song WAP right there on Youtube and Spotify. Thinking that content is being "held back" these days rather than the free for all it has become is to clearly lose the forest for the trees. I don't think I've yet seen a comedian who has complained about this that wasn't putting out content that deserved to be lambasted (Chappelle's anti-trans material being one good example). It's not like some comedian made a light joke about someone else's race in their stand up routine and got cancelled for it, it's comedians with really aggressive material, arguably not funny, putting it out there in a mean spirited fashion who are getting called out.

Like, what's the argument there? Let stand-up comedians just go off and be racist and anti-trans and whatever else? I don't think that's "wokeness", I think that's the world trying to make you a better person with better material.

11 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

Had to delay my viewing on account of illness, but finally made it into the theater this weekend. I thought it was decent. A good enough showing for a first time director, but there is some shabbiness in the script and the directing that prevent it from being a home run. There are some flashes of excellence, especially towards the end. Certainly worth a stream when it's available.

It is already available for digital purchase if people are interested. I just saw the film as well and I agree with your take. It was a strong directorial debut, the fight scenes had a good amount of ooomph, the film is not too long, and the unique setting on location (India) helps. But the film's plot is pretty derivative and you feel like the movie could be even more than it actually ends up being. The film feels like it holds back a bit too much and doesn't lean hard enough into being a harder film. Worth watching 7/10, but could have been better at the same time.

The weekend recap: 

-Kill Bill: Vols. 1+2 (2003; dir. Quentin Tarantino): 10/10

-Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023; dir. Steven Caple Jr.): 6.5/10

-Monkey Man (2024; dir. Dev Patel): 7/10

-Wrath of Man (2021; dir. Guy Ritchie): 7.5/10

-Lord of War (2005; dir. Andrew Niccol): 8.5/10

-Casino (1995; dir. Martin Scorsese): 7.5/10

-Rye Lane (2023; dir. Raine Allen-Miller): 7/10

Some updates:

'For All Mankind' Universe Expands With New Spin-off 'Star City'

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The spin-off will focus more on the Soviet space program.

'For All Mankind' Renewed for Season 5 at Apple TV+

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'For All Mankind' is also getting a spin-off series.

Polling has always been "close" yet Democrats have won nearly every election since 2018. So maybe we pump the brakes on the doomsaying.

3 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

Why the fuck are the Yakuza devs making Monkey Ball games? Wait, they were ALWAYS the Monkey Ball dev? What the hell is the history here? Why do they suck so bad at making Monkey Ball now?! Why would you make a Monkey Ball game Switch exclusive, that makes no sense??

These are all the right questions.

1 hour ago, Chairslinger said:

The GOP has long been the party of racists and misogynists, but I feel like bullies, grifters, and sociopaths have made serious inroads during the Trump years.

To be fair, a lot of overlap amongst those groups and ideologies. Racists and misogynists are bullies by their very nature.

The Onion does better news than a lot of "real" news places.

I liked this past Sunday's episode even more than the premiere as the show begins to dig in and lay out the long term game plan. The main actor Hoa Xuende is doing an incredible job playing smooth and sociable with an entire breadth of things happening behind the eyes underneath the surface. Also if you wanted to know if Chan-wook Park would add another bizarre scene with a squid into something he's made, well, he's done it again. Far less uncomfortable than in Old Boy at least, but weird all the same.

Getting so much Chan-wook Park all at once is so good.

46 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

This remains a hilarious farce due to the fact that they're raising these "concerns" while a President who opposes them is currently in power. "Hmm, should Biden be able to have the entire Supreme Court and Congress executed and replaced with puppets? Hmmmm... It's a real head scratcher!"

 

Of course, this only applies to a universe where Biden is fuckin' rad as hell, not ours.

It really is galling. Their questions hinge on the idea that because Biden is a normal person, they won't have any repercussions even though if Biden followed through on supreme leader powers, they'd be theoretically fucked. Hell, if they granted them to Trump, he's loyal to no one, so they could still be fucked. Not sure in what way this helps anyone. 

30 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Let's face it - a very "uncharitable" reading of US support for Ukraine could be that we want to "extend" the conflict as much as possible for that very reason.

The hyper capitalist military industrial complex isn't going to pay for itself!

About fucking time, this took way too long and is more important than a lot of regular people think. It looks like it took 7 years to restore this.

1 hour ago, Kamusha said:

I think about this hypothetical a lot. It certainly would have changed the conversation around Kill Bill and how its viewed. But also I fail to see a four hour movie having the kind of success that Tarantino needed at the time. He hadn't released a movie in 6 years and while it has since be reevaluated Jackie Brown was seen as somehwhat of a disappointment after Pulp Fiction so he really needed to bounce back.

 

He's screened The Whole Bloody Affair at his Beverley Cinema theater a couple times if that counts.

I agree, at the time there's no way a 4-hour Tarantino film would be released in theaters, and successfully? Probably not. Especially coming off of Jackie Brown, as you said (and I am glad Jackie Brown has gotten a reassessment since, it's very good). Still, would have been awesome to see. 

I also believe the Whole Bloody Affair screened once in Philadelphia too, as well as other places. The point is, it exists, and indicates Tarantino considers this to be one film in two parts. 

Small side note: the House of Blue Leaves scene that is in black and white in the West in Vol. 1 has its colors restored, as Tarantino prefers, on the Japanese DVD for Vol. 1 (though it was clever to use the eye being ripped out to switch to black and white for the scene). That's something else I'd like to see rectified if The Whole Bloody Affair released on bluray or 4K. There is a fan edit I believe that fixes that scene and combines the two movies to essentially create The Whole Bloody Affair, but it'd be nice to get an official release.

55 minutes ago, best3444 said:

I've never seen someone this deranged. Now he is bragging how good he looks lmao.  🤣 

 

I am blocking this clown now. 

It's deranged to respond to someone calling you an incel that, based on what others here know about me, is likely not to be true, particularly given I'm married? But sure, I'm the clown responding to ridiculous claims about me. And oh hey, just like I predicted, you didn't follow up you initial, shallow baseless claims with anything substantive. I have never blocked another user so I think this says far more about you than it does about me. 

And nothing of value was lost.