Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
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I watched Ralph 2 and Lego Movie 2 each with trepidation since I read lackluster reviews, but had to see em with the kids anyway. Dunno if it was just due to lowered expectations but I enjoyed both.
Lego one was more recent obviously, but things I wanted out of it more were more musical numbers. I really liked the not an evil queen song.
Lego one was more recent obviously, but things I wanted out of it more were more musical numbers. I really liked the not an evil queen song.
I just finished the first episode of Sick Note.
It's a dark British comedy about a lazy lying sack of shit protagonist (I mean, whom among us hasn't...) who turns his life around when he's diagnosed with cancer.
For a show that jokes about having cancer (and a guy killing himself, and several other things), it's hilarious. I also laugh at It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the first few seasons of Shameless, so...
Also, my deepest apologies to Nick Frost, who I got confused with Ricky Gervais for a bit. Nobody deserves that.
It's a dark British comedy about a lazy lying sack of shit protagonist (I mean, whom among us hasn't...) who turns his life around when he's diagnosed with cancer.
For a show that jokes about having cancer (and a guy killing himself, and several other things), it's hilarious. I also laugh at It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the first few seasons of Shameless, so...
Also, my deepest apologies to Nick Frost, who I got confused with Ricky Gervais for a bit. Nobody deserves that.
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I really liked My Name is Earl; I did not care for Sick Note.
When you're trying to create a redemption arc, you have to have a deeply flawed protagonist but you also have to have a reason to root for him. I didn't find the character of Daniel Glass to be likable enough to root for him.
I generally like Nick Frost, but I also found it hard to root for his character. There was an incompetent doctor on Scrubs that found his niche working in the morgue - it was cringe inducing that he was responsible for so many deaths; I think it's hard to find incompetent doctors funny.
I only watched the first episode.
When you're trying to create a redemption arc, you have to have a deeply flawed protagonist but you also have to have a reason to root for him. I didn't find the character of Daniel Glass to be likable enough to root for him.
I generally like Nick Frost, but I also found it hard to root for his character. There was an incompetent doctor on Scrubs that found his niche working in the morgue - it was cringe inducing that he was responsible for so many deaths; I think it's hard to find incompetent doctors funny.
I only watched the first episode.
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I enjoyed the first five or six episodes, but I found the plotting dragged more and more as the show went on. Typical Netflix original content, I guess. Also, I'm unsure whether the idiocy/incompetence of almost every character is meant to be a feature or a bug.rasmuswagner wrote:Umbrella Academy is so good,I don't even mind that the shootouts look like absolute, utter shit.
Out beyond the hull, mucoid strings of non-baryonic matter streamed past like Christ's blood in the firmament.
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The Captain Marvel promo yesterday where they just livestreamed the cat being a cat for like 53 minutes was marketing genius.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
I finally watched it and thought the same. My fam enjoyed it, too. Did they make this movie to shut up people who thought a black {insert superhero of choice} was against cannon?Cervantes wrote:Into the Spiderverse is real good.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
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It took a lot of liberties with the source material, mostly for the better. The reduction of utter insanity for an increased focus on accessible psychodrama made for a stronger story.rasmuswagner wrote:Umbrella Academy is so good,I don't even mind that the shootouts look like absolute, utter shit.
I was disappointed that they changed Diego's power to something combat-worthy. His original mostly-useless talent made Vanya's exclusion that much more arbitrary.
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https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannon_(disambiguation)Maj wrote:I finally watched it and thought the same. My fam enjoyed it, too. Did they make this movie to shut up people who thought a black {insert superhero of choice} was against cannon?Cervantes wrote:Into the Spiderverse is real good.
(Aside: Miles gave Particle Man an eight-week old hamburger and in turn the latter restored Miles's mom back to life. That's... all I really know about him outside the film.)
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Shrapnel wrote:https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannon_(disambiguation)Maj wrote:I finally watched it and thought the same. My fam enjoyed it, too. Did they make this movie to shut up people who thought a black {insert superhero of choice} was against cannon?Cervantes wrote:Into the Spiderverse is real good.
Oops. Canon.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
Yeah, but the film has been four to five years in the making, and a lot of other things have happened in the Marvel Universe to piss people off (Kamala Khan and Jane Foster, for example). Spiderman just seems like a good place to start because there's so much there.
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Shin Sekai Yori. Few shows have been able to make me think as much, from the implications of PK to the level your typical shonen shows in actual society, to the kind of measures you'd need to go down to actually maintain a society with a semblance of stability, to actually rooting for the fucking evil guy of the series.
Damn, I don't think I'll be able to re-watch that serie because of how heavy it is.
Damn, I don't think I'll be able to re-watch that serie because of how heavy it is.
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That's Molecule Man. Particle Man is a song by They Might Be Giants.Shrapnel wrote:
(Aside: Miles gave Particle Man an eight-week old hamburger and in turn the latter restored Miles's mom back to life. That's... all I really know about him outside the film.)
And now I want TMBG to do a summary of the recent Secret Wars event.
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The Orville... I REALLY enjoyed S2, even more than S1. I'm not a cranky old man after all...
Koumei: and if I wanted that, I'd take some mescaline and run into the park after watching a documentary about wasps.
PhoneLobster: DM : Mr Monkey doesn't like it. Eldritch : Mr Monkey can do what he is god damn told.
MGuy: The point is to normalize 'my' point of view. How the fuck do you think civil rights occurred? You think things got this way because people sat down and fucking waited for public opinion to change?
PhoneLobster: DM : Mr Monkey doesn't like it. Eldritch : Mr Monkey can do what he is god damn told.
MGuy: The point is to normalize 'my' point of view. How the fuck do you think civil rights occurred? You think things got this way because people sat down and fucking waited for public opinion to change?
I finally watched Russian Doll, knowing nothing about it, other than that people who I consider to generally have good taste, liked it.
It was amazing, and I needed that story right now.
It was amazing, and I needed that story right now.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Cop-induced PTSD again yesterday, so I went back to Netflix to relax myself enough to be a semi-functional person.
Salt Fat Acid Heat is a relaxing show. It's like the combined Mr. Rogers with Anthony Bourdain. She is a chef who travels the world, learning about cooking and food in general from both grandmothers who cook in traditional ways, and food industry professionals (cheesemakers, salt vendors, etc.). Everyone on the show seems super happy to talk about their food, everything is really chill, and it's informative enough that I can sit and watch for the entire episode without thinking about other things. Exactly what I needed.
Salt Fat Acid Heat is a relaxing show. It's like the combined Mr. Rogers with Anthony Bourdain. She is a chef who travels the world, learning about cooking and food in general from both grandmothers who cook in traditional ways, and food industry professionals (cheesemakers, salt vendors, etc.). Everyone on the show seems super happy to talk about their food, everything is really chill, and it's informative enough that I can sit and watch for the entire episode without thinking about other things. Exactly what I needed.
Salt Fat Acid Heat is a very good show, would recommend. She also pops up in a couple of youtube cooking vids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GxzGND1NnA
Would recommend the tuna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GxzGND1NnA
Would recommend the tuna.
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Ralph 2 had three "rocked me" bits:erik wrote:I watched Ralph 2.
1. The surprise Stan Lee cameo.
2. The self-mocking, but yet affirming portrayal of the Disney Princesses
3. The way the climax is set up by Knowsmore's "only two answers" line.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Dredd, the 2012 movie. I had seen it before, and I was just cruising for light background entertainment. It kinda drew me in, and the moment the blast doors came down and Lena Headey was emoting at full blast, I was completely hooked and nothing else got done this evening.
Every time you play in a "low magic world" with D&D rules (or derivates), a unicorn steps on a kitten and an orphan drops his ice cream cone.
Just saw the latest Marvel movie. I'd put it at a solid "1st Thor" in terms of "this thing is a pretty serviceable origin story with some fun action moments, but not much more impressive than that."
However some spoilery things I did kind of like a lot:
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However some spoilery things I did kind of like a lot:
- The skrull not being invaders but refugees was an interesting direction to take them in.
- The part of the movie where Carol goes super saiyan was wonderful. The moment the audience realizes that the chip "giving" her her powers is actual a limiter, and then the moment when she burns it out, is exactly as anime as it needs to be.
- The part of the movie where Carol goes super saiyan was wonderful. The moment the audience realizes that the chip "giving" her her powers is actual a limiter, and then the moment when she burns it out, is exactly as anime as it needs to be.
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