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Agreed. This whole thing was heartwarming af. Rainn Wilson has been doing similarly upbeat videos for years now with SoulPancake. Definitely check that out if you haven't already.
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Agreed! The season opener, destination wedding, and John Ham episodes were all instant classics. Also, John Ham is the new Leon. I said it.
Season 10 was a great season overall. And that S10 finale was a big
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@Bindusara speaks the truth. Very much looking forward to seeing this.
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Episode 2 was more meh, but episodes 3 & 4 picked things up. I like the crew of the new ship. Samaurai Romulan and Hispanic Han Solo look to be standout characters. Having him do the EH holograms in different accents is hilarious. Although the Irish one made me cringe. What say ye @alive she cried, was my Irish brogue at least better than that EH?
About to watch episode 5 now.
Season Prediction Spoilers
Rich Evans from RLM had a great prediction that I totally agree with--the reason Data's "daughters" keep getting called "the destroyer" is because the Romulans accidentally created the Borg thousands of years ago and that's the secret the DajVajwhatever are keeping secret and why they hate synths so much. Maybe they're somehow Borg, too?
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Internets says this looks like Year Zero inspired Bats. Eh.
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I first heard about her from Solo, but I think S1 of this show had already been out when the movie released. Anyway, I sat down to finally give this a go on Sunday and binged the entire two seasons in one sitting. I too am jealous DOJ got to see her live. After this last awards season it'll be impossible to get tickets to anything she does for a while.
S1 was legit one of the best things I've seen. Emotional, surprising, honest, hilarious. Fucking amazing.
S2 picked up, but the last two episodes kinda made it fall apart for me. I thought the writing would be better than that. Amazing 10 episode streak there though. *sigh* But those first six episodes in S1 could've been a film-- Oscar Winning film.
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On 1/6/2020 at 5:44 PM, C_U_SPACECOWBOY said:
Did you ever see this Hakujin? I'm going to try and catch this either tomorrow or Wednesday. Good Time (the Safdie Brothers film before this) was one of the better films I saw in 2017. I'll post with thoughts.
Yes! I saw it a few weeks ago, and it is one of those films that lives up to the hype. The character played by Sandler is just pure kinetic energy. The whole lifestyle he leads is just so fast paced and drama filled that most of the film is just one tension filled set-up after another. And the synth score is pretty mesmerizing, too. Highly recommend this one.
I never heard of the Safdie Bros. before this film, but I definitely want to catch up on their previous films having now seen Uncut Gems.
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It wasn't terrible but there were some...concerns. I definitely liked it more than these two though.
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Fantastic list, ASC! I'm still formulating mine, but you set the bar high with the pics & vid links. Well done.
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So I made the huge (yuuujah) mistake of waiting until S4 was completely over to binge watch it rather than go week-to-week. In my defense, I don't have USA, so it would've been tricky to do so, and S3, with some truly stellar exceptions, was really mediocre on the whole.
But Season 4 is a different tale. Holysplittingdickholes, this thing is just a beast, an absolute gem, of a season thus far. I've got five episodes left, and I'm just spent--S4E7 & E8 are especially emotional. However, something in S4E8 compelled me to post something about it...
Gawdamn, that scene where Dom annihilates Janice's sociopathic ass is just pure perfection. Seriously, Dom is T2 Sarah Conner level badass motherfucker. If you don't stand up and applaud after Janet gets that bullet int he head then I don't know what's wrong witchu.
Whew. Okay, that's done. I'm gonna try and finish S4 this weekend. Hopefully someone else around here is watching/has watched S4. If not, get on it!
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This has been getting so much press and the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, that I'm finally convinced I shouldn't wait for home release and that I need to go see this in the theater. We're going tomorrow, so hopefully it lives up tot the hype. Good on NZA for noting this way back in September though.
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Anyone else watching this on Disney+? It's been pretty fantastic. It's definitely delivering what the title promises. Pretty much this, Mandalorian, and 90s X-Men cartoons are the only shows I've been watching on Disney+. Hopefully they've got him locked for more seasons.
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Twenty questions about your year in entertainment.
- What was your favorite live event (concert, sporting event, play, festival, convention, etc.) you attended in 2019?
- Favorite musical artist of 2019?
- What song did you hit “repeat” on the most in 2019?
- Favorite book and/or comic you read in 2019?
- Favorite hour long TV show you binge watched in 2019?
- Favorite half-hour long TV show you binge watched in 2019?
- Favorite hour long TV show you watched week to week in 2019?
- Favorite half-hour long TV show you watched week to week in 2019?
- Favorite animated series of 2019?
- Favorite animated film of 2019?
- Favorite documentary (film or series) of 2019?
- Favorite comedy film of 2019?
- Favorite action and/or sci-fi film of 2019?
- Favorite drama and/or romance film of 2019?
- Favorite video game of 2019?
- Favorite YouTube channel in 2019?
- What’s your favorite/most used app on your smartphone in 2019?
- Who is the one entertainer that died in 2019 you’d bring back? (There can be only one!)
- What was your 2019 like as depicted in emojis or a single .gif?
- What entertainment experience (concert, film, TV show, game, etc.) are you most looking forward to in 2020?
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Episode IX:
I've seen it twice in theaters, and the second time I saw it in IMAX 3D, which genuinely improved my impression of the film. It has some amazing sequences that really shine more on the IMAX 3D screen. Overall, it's a good movie that has a great movie buried in it. A decent bit of nostalgia and fan service was present, with some decent course correction away from the stinky mess TLJ left.
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On 12/10/2019 at 1:54 AM, the division of joy said:
This is the best space western since Firefly?
Rosslation: This show fucks dads.
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4 hours ago, The NZA said:
yeah super skrull looks like a cool BAF, still bummed we're getting last year's savage she hulk instead of the current or even earlier/usual one
I concur one hundred percent, traditional green She-Hulk is definitely preferred. But the sculpt on this one is so damn nice I'm not even that mad at the $20 I'll drop on her. I'm sure youtube and instagram will be flooded with people's custom repaints on her once she drops.
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On 11/19/2019 at 2:09 AM, the division of joy said:
I can understand specifically for Japanese food where freshness and quality of fish is imperative.
I'm always surprised that North African/Middle Eastern/Indian food is so reasonable considering the price of some of the spices and ingredients used. Saffron's a bitch yo.
As for french food, maybe butter's pricy in the states?
Down here in NOLA the most expensive (and arguably famous) restaurants are generally French-based. Therefore anyone trying to be "fancy" tries to imitate them--usually by pouring way too much remoulade or other creme based sauce over some form of fish or meat. But if I'm paying $60+ for a meal down here then it's a giant-ass steak with heart-cloggingly large side dishes.
But honestly, that "Southern" category is my jam. And that price point is fairly accurate. However, if I pay $30+ for a fried seafood meal I'm definitely leaving full and with another meal in a container, so it's more likely a meal for two.
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@Stilly, those are great looking figs in the packaging. I dig how the windows are in the shape of their helmets/masks. Please tell me though that they come with a buildable DJ booth & turntables--or at least laptops.
Had a decent sized toyshow in my area this past weekend and I did some Legends & SW Black Series trading. Also picked up a few Legends online through Amazon sales this month. They had $10-15 bucks off the Cap/Peggy set and the Magneto & Kids three pack. (I have a hunch those will also be BF deals next week, so keep a look out if interested in those figs.) I also grabbed the comic book Loki from the Prof. Hulk BAF wave and the final figure I needed to complete my M'Baku BAF for $10 ea on that same sale. I found a Pepper/Mandarin IM3 3-pack on sale from a UK vendor as well. And I did a pre-order back in August for the re-soliciting of the Legends Homecoming Iron Man & Spidey 2-pack from BigBadToyStore, which just shipped last week. So hopefully that arrives before Christmas. BBTS really are garbage compared to Amazon w/ shipping speed and updates, but then again, most sites are. AZN Prime really has spoiled us.
I'm waiting until Black Friday to see if the online retailers do deals on the "Bro-Thor" BAF wave. I got a good deal on the Sauron BAF wave that way last year--from Megalopolis, I think. The Demogoblin BAF looks nice, but old school Toomes Vulture is the only fig I rally want outta that line.
That FF wave that's coming in January though looks fuckin sweet. The Skrull BAF is especially nice. If you want just certain figs outta that line then I recommend holding off a few weeks or so until after it drops b/c a lot of collectors on other sites are talking about buying two waves so they can have both the Skrull & Super Skrull displayed. So individual/loose figs from that wave will likely be plenty and cheap.
I don't think Thing will drop in price too much though. Most people will want a second or third Thing for those additional heads that came witht he Walgreens Exclusive Thing a year or so back. I am hoping that fig drops in price though. Maybe the best Legends fig yet, but the secondary market on that one is stupid expensive. Like, right from the get go those figs were $30 online. Now they're $80 or so on sleazebay. I just lucked up and knew a guy who travels daily for work, and he literally hits up 3-4 Walgreens a day; so I got Surfer & Thing for cost.
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I'm enjoying the hell outta these first two episodes. I'm not sure if this is blatantly obvious or way off track, but after S1E2 my theory on Ozymandias is...
He's either going to try and clone Dr. Manhattan or recreate the circumstances that created him with himself.
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If y'all were sleeping on those 80th Aniv. Alex Ross Marvel Legends, Wal-Mart has them as on sale as low as $5 in some places! I picked mine up for $15 each on sale, and I thought that was a good deal.
On 10/1/2019 at 9:57 PM, Axels said:Do you guys have any recommendations for bases? I have a couple crappy ones. For the most part my figs can stand up fine, but I have a pretty meaty Venom and Carnage that just don't have the footing and would benefit from a decent base.
Like most things, Amazon is your friend for this. I bought some Neca stands a while back and have had mixed results. They're for 6"-8" figs and have a 3.5" diameter clear base. Pros: sturdy, thick base; come 8 to a pack; reasonably priced. Cons: diameter of the base is so large that it inhibits displaying multiple figs with with stands next to each other; only one peg per base.
Also, the peg hole on some figs isn't deep enough for the pegs on these bases, so it doesn't really do the trick. Right now I've got a Marvel Legends Sinister & Jubilee, the new Mattel/DC Alfred, and a Harley Quinn fig using these stands w/out problems.
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5 hours ago, Axels said:
This was fantastic. Not needed, but much appreciated. It felt like a long episode which is really what I was hoping for and doesn't do anything to tarnish the ending. Don't go in expecting any mindblowing revelations or twists.
Agreed. It's basically a Jesse Pinkman epilogue to the series with some well done and non-gratuitous cameos. This was getting a lot of "meh" reviews in my feed and I don't get it. It's like Axels wrote, a really well done two hours of Breaking Bad that focuses on Pinkman. If you loved the series then I don't know how you wouldn't love this movie.
This literally pics up where Jessie left off in the
Breaking Bad finale. It's also got some great flashbacks that really relate to Jesse's character and motivations in the present. Fucking Todd, that sociopath. And the scene with Walt was so great. It basically encapsulated both characters in one scene. This is some of Vince Gilligan's best writing and directing. It makes me hopeful that S5 of Better Call Saul might finally pick up the pace and get closer tot he greatness of Breaking Bad. -
Joker
A-Firstly, I went in to this with really low expectations. The trailer did not impress me. I felt like it revealed too much of the plot (which it did) and that plot seemed very derivative (which it was). And the one review I read prior to seeing the film took a giant shit all over it. Secondly, fuck was I surprised by how much I liked this film!
The Good: Cast. Characters. Cinematography. Soundtrack. Pacing. The origin of a supervillain.
The cast is outstanding. Phoenix takes a roll that has had at least two other actors perform it with the word "iconic" attached to it yet his is still fresh, engaging, and totally his own. Is he looking about 10-15 years too old to fit into the traditional Batman/Joker dynamic? Yeah. Is it a big deal? Not really. Fleck Joker is not Killing Joke Joker. He doesn't just have "one bad day" to push him over the edge. Fleck's journey over the edge is the film. It's not a bad day that creates Fleck's Joker but literally a lifetime of them.
The supporting cast was also great. They all are memorable in their roles but not distracting from the main attraction. Even DeNiro just kinda fits in to the aesthetic of the whole film. The only face that really stands out is Fleck/Joker's gorgeous neighbor, Zazie Beetz, but that is even calculated as it's a clue to the "delusion twist" later in the third act.
Part of the allure of the Joker as a character is that he represents the "unknown." He's unpredictable. His motives seemingly random. Chaos personified. The perfect unbalanced yin to Batman's balanced, methodical, and calculated yang. Nolan & company exploited this aspect of the Batman/Joker dynamic brilliantly in The Dark Knight. However, like Burton's 1989 Batman, this film gives laughing boy a definitive origin. Mostly. It's still left a bit open as to his parentage--is he really Thomas Wayne & Penny Fleck's love child? Thomas certainly comes off as enough of a dick in this film to leave that doubt. And the inscription on the back of that photo of a young Penny was from "T.S." But the adoption papers are somehow in her mental health file at Arkham? Okay. But the evidence that Penny was/is a cook is also pretty strong. But despite the mystery of Fleck Joker's lineage, this film chronicles the mental breakdown of one man into a supervillain pretty clearly. Unlike Nicholson's Joker, who was motivated by revenge and power, Fleck's Joker is much more layered; he's a crossroads of pain and insanity meeting at rage junction.
I love the way this film was shot and scored. We're all the heroes of our own stories and Fleck's Joker is no different. The cinematography reflects this. Scorsese and early 80s NYC is a huge influence on the aesthetic of this film, and I dig it. I am also a huge Sinatra fan, so I loved that both the soundtrack to the film and the one in Fleck's head is filled with Sinatra's music. A lot of dancing Joker memes going about already, and yeah, the movie could've done with about 10-12% less dancing Joker, but I think it's a big part of who this guy is. There was one scene when, no kidding, I felt like Joaqin Phoenix did the only interpretive dance performance I'd ever watched from start to finish. He expressed his anger, sorrow, and loneliness all through dance. And I was transfixed. Bravo.
And the music was also a big part of the pacing of the film. I'll go more into it in the next section, but for a movie that had a glaringly predictable plot, it moved along nicely and never had me bored.TheBad/Meh: Plot
You really see where this thing is headed from the get go and there are few to no surprises. Again, a lot of that is the fault of the trailer. The Taxi Driver & King of Comedy parallels were all there. The only mild surprise was the relationship with his neighbor (Domino!) being a figment of his imagination/psychosis. However, I was still glued to the screen even though I knew where this road was headed. I liked how this film basically tried to say, "Hey, what if Scorsese made a superhero movie in the early 1980s? It probably wouldn't be about a hero at all." Derivative? Yep. Entertaining? Also yep.
Naturally, given his mental state and knowing even the slightest about the villain he becomes, you're going into this movie assuming Fleck is an unreliable narrator. However, the fact Fleck and not just Joker (I'd say post fridge scene he is more JOKER than Fleck) is revealed to be an extremely unreliable narrator opens up the floodgates for the YouTube 'theorists" to hack away at every piece of dialogue in the film. And that ending scene in the white room, at what we're meant to assume is Arkham, is apparently confusing some people--is it a flash back? Does this mean the previous entirety of the film was all a figment of Flecks twisted imagination? Eh. Nah. It was just a pretty great lead-in for one of the best endings to an anti-hero film ever--those bloody footprints and him running away from an orderly. How many Batman comics have begun with a similar scene? Tonally, this ending was spot on for the Joker.The Ugly: The DCEU
If they did a trilogy of these Joker films with Phoenix, a la Nolan's DK trilogy, I'd be on board. However, with Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn in her own film, who knows where this will end up. If there is never……a Batman to go alongside Phoenix's Joker on screen it'd be a damn shame. Maybe Robert Pattinson's Batman will be the one to meet Fleck Joker? Pattinson's Batman movie isn't slated for release until 2021. So they could meet up in Joker 3 in 2024-ish? So, in my perfect world, the Joker 2 would be about Fleck Joker turning his cult status into a criminal organization and introducing mass chaos to Gotham. Lt. James Gordon and his family are introduced. Harvey Bullock is his partner. Bruce Wayne & Alfred would be the B-plot. Batman shows up in the third act. Third film would be something along the lines of The Killing Joke meets Death in the Family. But it's unlikely to go down that way. Knowing Warner Brothers, Johnny Knoxville will be the next Joker in Suicide Squad III. Meh.
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Just saw JOKER tonight. Firstly, I went in to this with really low expectations. The trailer did not impress me. I felt like it revealed too much of the plot (which it did) and that plot seemed very derivative (which it was). And the one review I read prior to seeing the film took a giant shit all over it. Secondly, fuck was I surprised by how much I liked this film!
Good: Cast. Characters. Cinematography. Soundtrack. Pacing. An origin.
The cast is outstanding. Phoenix takes a roll that has had at least two other actors perform it with the word "iconic" attached to it yet his is still fresh, engaging, and totally his own. Is he looking about 10-15 years too old to fit into the traditional Batman/Joker dynamic? Yeah. Is it a big deal? Not really. Fleck Joker is not Killing Joke Joker. He doesn't just have "one bad day" to push him over the edge. Fleck's journey over the edge is the film. It's not a bad day that creates Fleck's Joker but literally a lifetime of them.
The supporting cast was also great. They all are memorable in their roles but not distracting from the main attraction. Even DeNiro just kinda fits in to the aesthetic of the whole film. The only face that really stands out is Fleck/Joker's gorgeous neighbor, Zazie Beetz, but that is even calculated as it's a clue to the "delusion twist" later in the third act.
Part of the allure of the Joker as a character is that he represents the "unknown." He's unpredictable. His motives seemingly random. Chaos personified. The perfect unbalanced yin to Batman's balanced, methodical, and calculated yang. Nolan & company exploited this aspect of the Batman/Joker dynamic brilliantly in The Drak Knight. However, like Burton's 1989 Batman, this film gives laughing boy a definitive origin. Mostly. It's still left a bit open as to his parentage--is he really Thomas Wayne & Penny Fleck's love child? Thomas certainly comes off as enough of a dick in this film to leave that doubt. And the inscription on the back of that photo of a young Penny was from "T.S." But the adoption papers are somehow in her mental health file at Arkham? Okay. But the evidence that Penny was/is a cook is also pretty strong. But despite the mystery of Fleck Joker's lineage, this film chronicles the mental breakdown of one man into a supervillain pretty clearly. Unlike Nicholson's Joker, who was motivated by revenge and power, Fleck's Joker is a crossroads of pain and insanity meeting at rage junction.
I love the way this film was shot and scored. We're all the heroes of our own stories and Fleck's Joker is no different. The cinematography reflects this. Scorsese and early 80s NYC is a huge influence on the aesthetic of this film, and I dig it. I am also a huge Sinatra fan, so I loved that both the soundtrack to the film and the one in Fleck's head is filled with Sinatra's music. A lot of dancing Joker memes going about already, and yeah, the movie could've done with about 10-12% less dancing Joker, but I think it's a big part of who this guy is. There was one scene when, no kidding, I felt like Joaqin Phoenix did the only interpretive dance performance I'd ever watched from start to finish. He expressed his anger, sorrow, and loneliness all through dance. And I was transfixed. Bravo.
And the music was also a big part of the pacing of the film. I'll go more into it in the next section, but for a movie that had a glaringly predictable plot, it moved along nicely and never had me bored.Bad/Meh: Plot-
You really see where this thing is headed from the get go and there are few to no surprises. Again, a lot of that is the fault of the trailer. The
Taxi Driver & King of Comedy parallels were all there. The only mild surprise was the relationship with his neighbor (Domino!) being a figment of his imagination/psychosis. However, I was still glued to the screen even though I knew where this road was headed. I liked how this film basically tried to say, "Hey, what if Scorsese made a superhero movie in the early 1980s? It probably wouldn't be about a hero at all." Derivative? Yep. Entertaining? Also yep.
Naturally, given his mental state and knowing even the slightest about the villain he becomes, you're going into this movie assuming Fleck is an unreliable narrator. However, the fact Fleck and not just Joker (I'd say post fridge scene he is more JOKER than Fleck) is revealed to be an extremely unreliable narrator opens up the floodgates for the YouTube 'theorists" to hack away at every piece of dialogue in the film. And that ending scene in the white room, at what we're meant to assume is Arkham, is apparently confusing some people--is it a flash back? Does this mean the previous entirety of the film was all a figment of Flecks twisted imagination? Eh. Nah. It was just a pretty great lead-in for one of the best endings to an anti-hero film ever--those bloody footprints and him running away from an orderly. How many Batman comics have begun with a similar scene? Tonally, this ending was spot on for the Joker.The Ugly: The DCEU
If they did a trilogy of these Joker films with Phoenix, a la Nolan's DK trilogy, I'd be on board. However, with Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn in her own film, who knows where this will end up. If there is never...
...a Batman to go alongside Phoenix's Joker on screen it'd be a damn shame. Maybe Robert Pattinson's Batman will be the one to meet Fleck Joker? Pattinson's Batman movie isn't slated for release until 2021. So they could meet up in Joker 3 in 2024-ish?
So, in my perfect world, the Joker 2 would be about Fleck Joker turning his cult status into a criminal organization and introducing mass chaos to Gotham. Lt. James Gordon and his family are introduced. Harvey Bullock is his partner. Bruce Wayne & Alfred would be the B-plot. Batman shows up in the third act. Third film would be something along the lines of The Killing Joke meets Death in the Family. But it's unlikely to go down that way. Knowing Warner Brothers Johnny Knoxville will be the next Joker in Suicide Squad III. Meh.
Watchmen HBO Series From Damon Lindelof
in Mystery Hondo's Theater 3000
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Turns out my theory on the ending was partially correct. Not a bulls-eye, but I was on the board...
Watchmen S1 Spoilers
Lady Tru as Ozy's secret non-love child was a cool twist. Her turning out to be the one trying to absorb Manhattan was great. As was Manhattan's true identity as Angela's husband.
Honestly the whole season was so satisfying. I literally went into this with the lowest of expectations and it stunned me with how engaging it is, how in love with the source material it is, and how it managed to translate that experience of reading the comic so well into another medium. The website and podcasts are also fantastic and are HIGHLY recommended if you haven't checked them out yet. Not sure if I really want a sequel. Lindelof has said he never went into this project wanting to go past season one. He says he'd only consider coming back if he had the right story, but that won't necessarily stop HBO from doing a second season without him.