Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Govi]

Joaquin Phoenix's Joker got a sequel.

Next, they should have him do Trump's biography in that makeup.

 

[Caete]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!

 

[Isabeau]

I realize humour is different for everyone but just watched Peter Holmes (stand up comedian) on Netflix and enjoyed it.

 

[Noodles]

I WANT to really like Heroes.

But I have only watched like, Season 1 nd a bit into Season 2. It just went from 60 to 0 real fast on the enjoyment for reasons I can't really place.

Also, the first season had time travel shenanigans, which honestly, always feel awkward in future seasons, because it becomes, "why didn't that become a thing before, when they were time traveling."

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I WANT to really like Heroes.

But I have only watched like, Season 1 nd a bit into Season 2. It just went from 60 to 0 real fast on the enjoyment for reasons I can't really place.

Best description of the show ever!

 

[Free]

I WANT to really like Heroes.

But I have only watched like, Season 1 nd a bit into Season 2. It just went from 60 to 0 real fast on the enjoyment for reasons I can't really place.

It's best, in your mind, to decide that everyone involved with the show got amnesia and completely forgot they had made it right after season 1, and didn't do any more episodes or series continuations.

 

[Noodles]

It's best, in your mind, to decide that everyone involved with the show got amnesia and completely forgot they had made it right after season 1, and didn't do any more episodes or series continuations.

I pretty much do this with Glee as well.

I really enjoy Glee. But basically, everything after Season 3, when they split the cast between the school and New York, is non existent.

The new kids are not awful but they all felt like remixed bootlegs of the originals. And the last season, after Finn's actor ODed or whatever and died IRL, and they had like 3 entire tribute episodes over the course of the season.

Side note, I have a lot of strong opinions about Glee and in my personal journal bitching I have written about it dozens of times even after it was ended and oh my God I am doing it again....

 

[Caete]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Hollywood is really running out of ideas and butchering old success stories again: there's a reboot of "The Naked Gun" planned, with Liam Neeson taking the role of Leslie Nielsen as cop and Pamela Anderson to play the part of Priscilla Presley.

Pamela Anderson to Star Opposite Liam Neeson in ‘Naked Gun’ Remake

'Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers' director Akiva Schaffer will helm the Paramount Pictures feature.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Isabeau]

There are a bunch of new shows on my list I should be watching, but I’m currently binging “Dexter”. Never saw it when it first aired.

 

[Free]

There are a bunch of new shows on my list I should be watching, but I’m currently binging “Dexter”. Never saw it when it first aired.

Good show binge choice. Best seasons are 2 (which is how I got caught up in it), and 4 - I think - the one with John Lithgow.

 

[Isabeau]

I’m almost done with season 1. Glad it gets even better.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I’m almost done with season 1. Glad it gets even better.

Up until it gets worse.

 

[Free]

Up until it gets worse.

Yeah, but you still get a solid 5. (7 is good, though.)

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And some amazing guest stars. John Lithgow and Peter Weller are outstanding in their seasons.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

So... I watched "Rebel Moon part 2: the scar giver" or whatever. (What scar? Was that covered in the first part? If so it wasn't that memorable.)

I didn't hate it. But I went in with expectations so very low, surpassing them only really required being interesting enough that I didn't fall asleep while watching. (His dc movies failed that test... And I saw them in a theater).

The first time I watch something I like to "immerse" and just lose myself in watching uncritically. It succeeded at pulling me in a few times, but rarely for long. There are so many problems that it kept knocking me back into my head with questions or criticisms.

I have a theory... The moon where the story takes place is orbiting a massive ringed gas giant... The gravitational forces must be so extreme that it causes frequent "time dilation storms", thus all the ridiculously excessive use of slow motion. Reaping wheat... Walking,... Panning around a stationary robot, "slow" blasters. Without all the slow-mo, part 1 and 2 could probably fit together into a normal length movie.

Or, Maybe Snyder thought the saying was "*slow*, don't tell".

On the positive side... The visuals are nice, and more time focused on them meant less talking, which rarely rose aboveb the level of "pure cringe". I guess Snyder's workaround to the writer's strike was to go without one. I kind of wish I watched it dubbed into French (which I'm not fluent in), and just relied on context.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I plan on watching it when the "Director's Cut" versions are released. My expectations for Snyder are extremely low. Mindless action starring pretty people. The very definition of popcorn movies.

 

[Free]

When it comes to Zack Snyder's films, I pretty much gave up on him after Sucker Punch (I managed through Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead has its moments).

I can't fault him at his skills in putting on a production, and his visuals can be pretty powerful, but I don't think he's fully broken away from his music video roots and found a way to tell a story in "long" form all that effectively. He certainly doesn't do subtlety. To quote my mom, he's all about the razzle-dazzle.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

He missed the entire point of Watchmen. And changed the ending to one that makes zero sense. He has Veidt drive off Dr Manhattan and then frame him for a series of nuclear explosions to bring Humanity together. Without considering that if The US had a superweapon who let us pretty much rule the world and then they blew up a bunch of cities and disappeared we would suddenly have a very pissed off world aimed at us. Terry Gillium had proposed an ending where instead of driving away Dr Manhattan, the plot makes him realize how badly he has messed up the world and he uses his power to prevent himself from getting powers, shifting the timeline back on track to be our world. And Snyder said he "saved us" from that version.

He makes pretty, empty films that hold up if he doesn't try to make them deep. But he wouldn't know what subtlety is is you wrote it on a 2x4 and hit him across the head with it.

I remember people defending Sucker Punch because "most people miss that there's another layer!" I'm like Taco Bell made a seven layer burrito, and I'm pretty sure if they added another layer I'd still be in the bathroom all night from it.