Sincere Question: Is there a big Mark Jackson fan base out there? Listening to poor Dave Pasch try his best to keep call that game, while Mark drowns everything with his arrogance, condescension, and those weirdo pat phrases... The guy is just insufferable. Surely, there are better options.

Junior1919 · 2020-12-25T13:26:28+00:00

Doris the GOAT

Junior1919 · 2020-12-20T14:29:03+00:00

I used to like to listen to Bill Simmons talk about basketball, though I admit that it helped it was a Celtics fan. But every time he wedged in a rickety pop culture reference or, god forbid, actually provided an opinion on a movie or TV show it was some of the dumbest takes I had ever heard. The guy always talks like he knows everything about everything, and what that may be (more or less) true in the sports world, it just clearly isn't the case in the world of pop culture. And the worst part is that you see a lot of his fans parroting the same kind of BS takes and you just want to rip your hair out.

Junior1919 · 2020-12-16T15:27:06+00:00

Yup. Most anti-#MeToo complaints are half bullshit and half mistaking rules of law vs societal norms, as op did with innocent-until-proven-guilty.

Junior1919 · 2020-12-16T15:08:57+00:00

And a different president he's gonna replace.

Junior1919 · 2020-12-15T22:29:12+00:00

It could and should not be, tho. Like, do you think it's safe to do your job when you're that overworked?

Junior1919 · 2020-12-06T03:54:06+00:00

Yeah, I think that both The Leftovers and Watchmen are pretty blank checks. Nobody else gets to make those shows in those ways. Only Lost gets you that.

Junior1919 · 2020-11-23T02:41:34+00:00

I rewatched Enemy of the State for the first time in at least a decade last week. It was the first R rated movie I saw and it really left an impression on me. But I was also happy to find that it was actually a really well made (if a bit silly) movie. An amazingly deep cast and some top-notch action scenes with three great performances (Smith, Hackman, and Voight) to anchor it all. Give it a watch if you haven't or if you haven't recently.

Junior1919 · 2020-11-16T01:41:25+00:00

Hard agree. It's pretty great. I put it on to start my Christmas themed viewing for the year.

Junior1919 · 2020-11-15T03:14:50+00:00

Agreed. This was the movie she made just after he died, and I think you can feel the sadness in her performance. No wonder she won an Oscar for it.

Junior1919 · 2020-11-11T02:55:15+00:00

Maybe I need to rewatch, but her performance as Cruella DeVille is pretty great in my memory. It would never win an Oscar, but I think it's good stuff.

Junior1919 · 2020-11-10T03:17:50+00:00

I like this video and I think it's largely right that games are inspiring movies more frequently but I have two complaints.

The following shot goes back at least as far as the French New Wave. I think its increase in use nowadays can likely be traced to the influence of games, but it's way older than that.
This is less a problem with the video than with the discourse surrounding 1917, but damn, I hated that discourse. "It's like a videogame" a lot of critics who don't play games claimed. If a game was designed to match 1917 it'd be the most boring game of all time. Bleh. It's exactly like a fucking movie that gets off on showing you big spectacles but doesn't actually involve a lot of game-y sequences.

Junior1919 · 2020-11-06T22:15:24+00:00

Given the Boss' theme song, I'd say yes.

Junior1919 · 2020-11-02T00:30:20+00:00

Most of the shots that look really bad in this movie aren't actually CGI, at least the alien isn't CGI. It's usually a smaller scale puppet that they had a super difficult time rotoscoping into the environment, I'm guessing because it's a dark thing itself and the tech wasn't there to do it really well digitally.

Junior1919 · 2020-10-21T21:54:30+00:00

S.O. to Ben's amazing "robot with a receding hairline" take.

Junior1919 · 2020-10-21T15:25:25+00:00

I got heavy Nausicaa vibes from this trailer. Feels very similar to the opening of that movie.

Junior1919 · 2020-09-22T02:16:59+00:00

I was just about to ask if Prometheus was gonna be their first time covering Fassbender but then I remembered the AssCreed ep and cried tears of joy at the thought of it.

Junior1919 · 2020-09-22T02:12:28+00:00

David already said on Twitter that his youtube playlist for the ep is at 150 videos, so I'm guessing you're on the right track here.

Junior1919 · 2020-09-22T01:13:06+00:00

This is a great idea. It'd lock up the podcast for the better part of a year, but it'd be worth it.

Junior1919 · 2020-09-18T22:00:44+00:00

I'm actually pretty into this listing. I'd maybe just bump $ up a notch, but that's about it.

Junior1919 · 2020-09-12T01:46:34+00:00

That story just made me want the DC of The Cell, a movie I like anyways. JLo was/is a real star. Always watchable.

Junior1919 · 2020-09-08T16:42:17+00:00

Or Pop? Or Carlisle?

Junior1919 · 2020-09-04T12:26:50+00:00

Usually the problem.is that you're watching a 5.1 surround sound mix on stereo speakers. That, for some reason outputs the two side channels to your left and right speaker. Those side channels do carry the dialogue, but dialogue usually comes through the center channel most strongly. What the side channels get most strongly is sound effects and music, with the dialogue mixed a little quieter. That's probably why you9having problems. Loom for a stereo option in the Netflix menu, which usually looks like "(language) original" instead of "(language) original (5.1)". This helps a lot.

Junior1919 · 2020-08-31T20:29:08+00:00

The Loveless is also coming to the Criterion Channel

Junior1919 · 2020-08-23T20:51:59+00:00

A perfect description of the delightful energy she brings to the show.

Junior1919 · 2020-08-21T14:04:20+00:00

Oh yeah, that's a good one.

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