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The actors (and writing) have gotten dumber.
The actors (and writing) have gotten dumber.
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TV: The League Of Anarchy Is A Bunch Of Justified Mad Men
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Re: TV: The League Of Anarchy Is A Bunch Of Justified Mad Men
Finally finished season 3 of Sherlock. On the whole, I enjoyed it. Coupla spoilers:
Loved 3.2 (John's wedding). There was a lot going on, but it managed to hold up.
OTOH, 3.3 (His Last Vow) was just a mess. There was way, way too much going on, much of it just violating the spirit of Holmes' character. The twist with Mary was as gratuitous as a late Sit Com birth. And with the Big Bad dead, the attempt to create a bigger, badder collapsed of its own weight. They really lost the point of the show.
Finally finished season 3 of Sherlock. On the whole, I enjoyed it. Coupla spoilers:
Loved 3.2 (John's wedding). There was a lot going on, but it managed to hold up.
OTOH, 3.3 (His Last Vow) was just a mess. There was way, way too much going on, much of it just violating the spirit of Holmes' character. The twist with Mary was as gratuitous as a late Sit Com birth. And with the Big Bad dead, the attempt to create a bigger, badder collapsed of its own weight. They really lost the point of the show.
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I've come close to quitting quite a few times. Not that I spend a bunch of time on it, it's just a show I basically binge each half season once it's completed so I'm not too invested but I cannot stand how every episode just seems like one drawn out cliff hanger, or why they don't just effing get in the car for once and drive north or find a boat and get to an island, or how annoying Carl is, either by writing or because the kid can't act.
"Crap, we ran out of story, we'll just add a few zombie fights, that'll give us an extra five minutes."
"We gotta kill this guy off, just have a zombie get a bite of his shoulder. Nah nah nah, it doesn't matter we've shown every character fight off four of them at the same time before, just get them distracted with something and have one come up."
"Noise in the woods? Character looks 360 degrees and sees nothing? Eff it, have a zombie come from a wide open space anyway"
I've come close to quitting quite a few times. Not that I spend a bunch of time on it, it's just a show I basically binge each half season once it's completed so I'm not too invested but I cannot stand how every episode just seems like one drawn out cliff hanger, or why they don't just effing get in the car for once and drive north or find a boat and get to an island, or how annoying Carl is, either by writing or because the kid can't act.
"Crap, we ran out of story, we'll just add a few zombie fights, that'll give us an extra five minutes."
"We gotta kill this guy off, just have a zombie get a bite of his shoulder. Nah nah nah, it doesn't matter we've shown every character fight off four of them at the same time before, just get them distracted with something and have one come up."
"Noise in the woods? Character looks 360 degrees and sees nothing? Eff it, have a zombie come from a wide open space anyway"
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There are literally thousands of uninhabited islands on the Atlantic coast where they could go. Set up camp, fish and hunt for food, wood to build cabins etc. Steal some boats and cast off. It's been more than two years and they're still within 60 miles of Atlanta. Ginger and the Fraud made it from Texas in less time. That would make a much better story: Rebuilding civilization instead of endless walking around Georgia. Even the hobbits think they spend too much time walking. At least those little guys get somewhere, unlike these characters who apparently walk in circles.
BTW, "Ginger and the Fraud" would be a great name for a band...
There are literally thousands of uninhabited islands on the Atlantic coast where they could go. Set up camp, fish and hunt for food, wood to build cabins etc. Steal some boats and cast off. It's been more than two years and they're still within 60 miles of Atlanta. Ginger and the Fraud made it from Texas in less time. That would make a much better story: Rebuilding civilization instead of endless walking around Georgia. Even the hobbits think they spend too much time walking. At least those little guys get somewhere, unlike these characters who apparently walk in circles.
BTW, "Ginger and the Fraud" would be a great name for a band...
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The Bachelor is back in January. I know several of you will be looking forward to my episode reviews...
Here's a quick roster of the quim about to be ritually sacrificed on the altar of True Love. Actually, this year's bachelor is a super-duper-Christian hayseed so I expect the long game will be not to drop your drawers. Baby Jesus wouldn't like that, no siree bob.
Looking over the lineup, a few tendencies have been exaggerated from prior seasons:
1. They're no longer even pretending the women have a thimbleful of intelligence. Cosmetic designers dot the landscape. The closest these girls will ever come to a degree is an MRS, and they seem perfectly fine with that. Hey, the world needs hood ornaments, too.
2. It may just be the camerawork, but there is a much larger percentage of dangerously underweight talent. Is bulimia still a thing? The poor dears are definitely taking their nutritional advice from Poor Body Image Weekly.
3. Blonde bimbo beach party! Well more than a third (12) are full-on sandy, wheat, or swedish, with another 3 or 4 somewhere in the honey-ish borderlands.
4. No tokens. Every year there are one or two black bachelorettes. The rule is you can't kill them first or you're a racist, so they usually linger until the third or so cut. This year, with maybe one exception (hard to tell with lighting), it's as lily white as a Republican fundraiser.
Other than that it's the usual mess of ex-cheerleader pottage, one token plus size model (in all honesty the prettiest girl in the group), one token single mom (for the corn-fed middle American broodsows to coo over), and nary a flicker of neural activity among the lot -- just as it should be!
The Bachelor is back in January. I know several of you will be looking forward to my episode reviews...
Here's a quick roster of the quim about to be ritually sacrificed on the altar of True Love. Actually, this year's bachelor is a super-duper-Christian hayseed so I expect the long game will be not to drop your drawers. Baby Jesus wouldn't like that, no siree bob.
Looking over the lineup, a few tendencies have been exaggerated from prior seasons:
1. They're no longer even pretending the women have a thimbleful of intelligence. Cosmetic designers dot the landscape. The closest these girls will ever come to a degree is an MRS, and they seem perfectly fine with that. Hey, the world needs hood ornaments, too.
2. It may just be the camerawork, but there is a much larger percentage of dangerously underweight talent. Is bulimia still a thing? The poor dears are definitely taking their nutritional advice from Poor Body Image Weekly.
3. Blonde bimbo beach party! Well more than a third (12) are full-on sandy, wheat, or swedish, with another 3 or 4 somewhere in the honey-ish borderlands.
4. No tokens. Every year there are one or two black bachelorettes. The rule is you can't kill them first or you're a racist, so they usually linger until the third or so cut. This year, with maybe one exception (hard to tell with lighting), it's as lily white as a Republican fundraiser.
Other than that it's the usual mess of ex-cheerleader pottage, one token plus size model (in all honesty the prettiest girl in the group), one token single mom (for the corn-fed middle American broodsows to coo over), and nary a flicker of neural activity among the lot -- just as it should be!
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That one, and saw the commercial for "Fresh Off The Boat" (IIRC that's the title). Um......huh? That series might last 3 episodes.
That one, and saw the commercial for "Fresh Off The Boat" (IIRC that's the title). Um......huh? That series might last 3 episodes.
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Saw a trailer for an upcoming show about the Founding Fathers which looks sort of like Copper (you know the drill -- lots of stop action, heaving bosoms, D. H. Lawrence-like sweaty, se#y John Hancock).
It looks so awesomely terrible that it might be great as long as they Sleepy Hollow it.
Saw a trailer for an upcoming show about the Founding Fathers which looks sort of like Copper (you know the drill -- lots of stop action, heaving bosoms, D. H. Lawrence-like sweaty, se#y John Hancock).
It looks so awesomely terrible that it might be great as long as they Sleepy Hollow it.
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I don't want to see John Hancock's heaving bosom thankyouverymuch.
I don't want to see John Hancock's heaving bosom thankyouverymuch.
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Oh, you will when you see this.
It's like Dumb and Dumber in the colonies.
Oh, you will when you see this.
It's like Dumb and Dumber in the colonies.
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My God. That is it exactly.
My God. That is it exactly.
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It's kinda like this, set in the Revolution. Young, heart-throbby actors playing dress-up in a period piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgd6ZE9UWIQ
It's kinda like this, set in the Revolution. Young, heart-throbby actors playing dress-up in a period piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgd6ZE9UWIQ
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Mobsters rules shut up!
Why do people care if movies are historically accurate? These arent documentaries...they can take creative license. The fact that Braveheart completely changed the Battle of Sterling, made Robert the Bruce and Mornay villains when they were nothing of the sort and had William Wallace sleep with the Queen of England doesnt make it a bad film.
Mobsters rules shut up!
Why do people care if movies are historically accurate? These arent documentaries...they can take creative license. The fact that Braveheart completely changed the Battle of Sterling, made Robert the Bruce and Mornay villains when they were nothing of the sort and had William Wallace sleep with the Queen of England doesnt make it a bad film.
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Depending on the movie, I might care. If it portrays itself as "based on a true story" or something, I will care a little more. For example, Goodfellas is about 90% true according to Henry Hill, and even Scorcese said he didn't change much from the book (Wiseguy), because the story itself was difficult to improve. Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes. Sidenote: the Spider incident...apparently that actually happened. IIRC, Spider is buried "somewhere in PA."
For something like Braveheart, it's a nice story, and a great movie. I didn't expect it to be historically accurate. I expected it to be strictly entertaining, which it was.
Edit: it's why I hate the movie The Runaways. Pure piece of trash and mostly fiction.
Mobsters rules shut up!
Why do people care if movies are historically accurate? These arent documentaries...they can take creative license. The fact that Braveheart completely changed the Battle of Sterling, made Robert the Bruce and Mornay villains when they were nothing of the sort and had William Wallace sleep with the Queen of England doesnt make it a bad film.
Depending on the movie, I might care. If it portrays itself as "based on a true story" or something, I will care a little more. For example, Goodfellas is about 90% true according to Henry Hill, and even Scorcese said he didn't change much from the book (Wiseguy), because the story itself was difficult to improve. Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes. Sidenote: the Spider incident...apparently that actually happened. IIRC, Spider is buried "somewhere in PA."
For something like Braveheart, it's a nice story, and a great movie. I didn't expect it to be historically accurate. I expected it to be strictly entertaining, which it was.
Edit: it's why I hate the movie The Runaways. Pure piece of trash and mostly fiction.
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Based on a true story is different than "This Is a True Story". Christ we all love the movie Miracle and they completely Disney'ed it up. If the movie is true to the spirit of the truth and gets it mostly right I dont much care.
And I have a hard time believing anything Henry Hill has to say about anything. Even if he made up all of it though Goodfellas still rocks and that was what mob life was like so who cares.
Based on a true story is different than "This Is a True Story". Christ we all love the movie Miracle and they completely Disney'ed it up. If the movie is true to the spirit of the truth and gets it mostly right I dont much care.
And I have a hard time believing anything Henry Hill has to say about anything. Even if he made up all of it though Goodfellas still rocks and that was what mob life was like so who cares.
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Speaking of heaving bosoms, The Musketeers returns to BBC America on Jan. 17 at 9.
Don't like the Saturday night time slot though. Hockey Night in Canada you know.
Speaking of heaving bosoms, The Musketeers returns to BBC America on Jan. 17 at 9.
Don't like the Saturday night time slot though. Hockey Night in Canada you know.
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I mainly agree. I guess I'm fickle like that. And I actually read the Wiseguy book before seeing the movie, and Pileggi (author) is pretty thorough when he writes. I do think the newer the story, the more I would like it to stick to the facts. Stuff like the American Revolution and Braveheart...much of that was passed on via oral history, so sure facts will get fudged and such. Red Cliff (Chinese history) was told that way, and personally I think that's the greatest movie made.
Amadeus is another one that completely bastardized history, but I loved it.
I mainly agree. I guess I'm fickle like that. And I actually read the Wiseguy book before seeing the movie, and Pileggi (author) is pretty thorough when he writes. I do think the newer the story, the more I would like it to stick to the facts. Stuff like the American Revolution and Braveheart...much of that was passed on via oral history, so sure facts will get fudged and such. Red Cliff (Chinese history) was told that way, and personally I think that's the greatest movie made.
Amadeus is another one that completely bastardized history, but I loved it.
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