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TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

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Kepler said:
The only one that really bugs me is Stuck in the Middle, and (happily) I never liked the song. It's just such a stupid, irresponsible, gratuitous and worthless scene in all respects. I love Tarantino but it was so offensive for a scene which doesn't matter in any way to the story. Madsden already fully develops his character before then with fantastic underacted touches. Only the high school kids needed the torture porn.

Songs like Gimme Shelter are so iconic they dwarf any film use. For example Jumpin' Jack Flash towers over the Whoopie scene. Likewise, Blue Danube survives 2001 untouched but Zarathustra has been compromised by it.
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The Dogs scene was essential to the plot, though. I was surprised at the LACK of detail (the showing of it all) of the actions, given the future movies of QT. It furthers the plot point of The Rat and The Cop's conversation later on.

And while I agree to a point on the icon songs (the aforementioned Bohemian), sometimes you cannot think of another song that would fit so perfectly with the scene/sequence.

Breaking Bad had a couple good ones (Marty Robbins' "El Paso" and The Associations' "Windy").
 
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The Rube said:
And while I agree to a point on the icon songs (the aforementioned Bohemian), sometimes you cannot think of another song that would fit so perfectly with the scene/sequence.
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The Wayne's World lead in is, for my money, the single greatest match of song to narrative device in movie history. Everything about it is perfect. It's a master's in film writing just by itself. You couldn't establish those characters any better with hundreds of lines of dialog or exposition. That is genius writing.
 
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Kepler said:
The Wayne's World lead in is, for my money, the single greatest match of song to narrative device in movie history. Everything about it is perfect. It's a master's in film writing just by itself. You couldn't establish those characters any better with hundreds of lines of dialog or exposition. That is genius writing.
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The following makes inclusion of that song even better (IMDB):
The studio wanted to use a Guns N' Roses track instead of "Bohemian Rhapsody", but Mike Myers fought for the inclusion of the Queen song. Myers even threatened to quit the production if he didn't get what he wanted, and eventually the studio gave in to his demand.
 
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I watched the original movie that this song came from but my mind wandered elsewhere

Not a movie but every time I hear this song my mind goes here
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Pretty sure this episode will be the Emmy entry for Jodie comer and she should win.
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I was thinking the same thing for much of the episode. Fantastic in many ways.

Also I forgot to mention that I did not mind seeing Niko get offed the previous episide.
 
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Kepler said:
The Wayne's World lead in is, for my money, the single greatest match of song to narrative device in movie history. Everything about it is perfect. It's a master's in film writing just by itself. You couldn't establish those characters any better with hundreds of lines of dialog or exposition. That is genius writing.
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Well, maybe this. You know exactly what this movie is, and who these kids are, without a bit of dialog to tell you.

The slo-mo of that GTO cruising through the parking lot is an amazing shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrtQ5uIOcKY
 
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Hard to beat Apocalypse Now for a musical intro. Don't sleep on Dog Day Afternoon, Do The Right Thing, Pulp Fiction, The Graduate, Trainspotting, MASH.

For very different reasons the intro to Day For Night is one of my favorites, although pretty meaningless unless you watch the entire film.
 
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Finished The Sopranos and now having seen the episodes I missed (season 4 and 2:3 of season 6) I still feel the same: great ending, Tony Lives.

Starting Justified now. Walton Goggins is great!
 
Kepler said:
Yes. Had Emmy bait all over it. Arguably it was even written with that in mind.
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The scene where she just laughed at the Russian who said the earth was flat was perfect. As was her scene dancing at the harvest festival while playing the game
 
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solovsfett said:
Finished The Sopranos and now having seen the episodes I missed (season 4 and 2:3 of season 6) I still feel the same: great ending, Tony Lives.

Starting Justified now. Walton Goggins is great!
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Justified is awesome. It loses its way IIRC in the 4th (?) season? Elmore Leonard (creator) passed, and I think the writers didn't know exactly what to do with the storylines, but they got back on track for the final seasons.

There's a related SoA post here, but I sure as hell don't want to spoil it, as it concerns Walton Goggins. :D
 
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Had an episode from the first season of JAG playing in the background yesterday, and noticed Walton Goggins in he credits. Didn't see him in the show, as it was a bit part, and I really wasn't paying full attention. But the main guest star was a young, brown-haired Neal McDonough.
 
The Rube said:
Justified is awesome. It loses its way IIRC in the 4th (?) season? Elmore Leonard (creator) passed, and I think the writers didn't know exactly what to do with the storylines, but they got back on track for the final seasons.

There's a related SoA post here, but I sure as hell don't want to spoil it, as it concerns Walton Goggins. :D
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Finished season 1, looking forward to the rest. I also want to buy the book or novella this is based on.

Thanks for not leaving spoilers!!
 
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Dark Side Of The Ring...man...when I was a kid I loved wrestling and to see what happened to The Road Warriors Hawk is tragic. Those guys had it all. My Dad took me to AWA shows and i’ll Never forget the day I saw these two monster bad asses walk into the arena to Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” and as they approached the ring they began to run, slid under the ropes and started pummeling the **** out of whomever before the bell even rang!

Legends! RIP Mike/Hawk.
 
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rufus said:
Had an episode from the first season of JAG playing in the background yesterday, and noticed Walton Goggins in he credits. Didn't see him in the show, as it was a bit part, and I really wasn't paying full attention. But the main guest star was a young, brown-haired Neal McDonough.
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What channel? I loved JAG when it was on.
 
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Scarlet said:
What channel? I loved JAG when it was on.
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Not sure. it's playing on two channels locally. Wednesdays, they have all day marathons on this local channel, WPXT2, which bills itself as the Heroes and Icons channel, or something like that. Used to call itself ME-TV. Shows a bunch of old westerns, and then different marathons of shows each day of the week. House, JAG, Monk, I don't know what else. Right now JAG is playing on a channel called WGN America, which I think shows a couple episodes every day.
 
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rufus said:
Not sure. it's playing on two channels locally. Wednesdays, they have all day marathons on this local channel, WPXT2, which bills itself as the Heroes and Icons channel, or something like that. Used to call itself ME-TV. Shows a bunch of old westerns, and then different marathons of shows each day of the week. House, JAG, Monk, I don't know what else. Right now JAG is playing on a channel called WGN America, which I think shows a couple episodes every day.
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Yay! Thanks. I didn't realize I had that channel. Watching now. Or, rather, playing in the background while I'm working now. :o
 
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Has anyone watched What We Do In The Shadows? The subject matter doesn't automatically appeal to me and yet it looks intriguing.
 
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