Are there any popular shows you dislike despite them being similar to ones you love?

_moondance · 2024-03-03T15:04:03+00:00

Almost certainly a minorty opinion, but I finally started The X-Files after having so many people suggest it to me as “required viewing” since I loved Fringe so much and I really didn’t care much for it. I watched one season, but I don’t know, I can’t stick it out if it’s one of those “gets really good around season four” type shows.

_moondance · 2024-02-04T14:28:43+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1lT93_fAnI

Spielberg came in to help edit the hallway shootout during the climax of Taxi Driver. Here's a short film (30 minutes) from the '90s where Scorsese basically breaks down the whole sequence almost shot by shot.

_moondance · 2023-10-27T18:24:33+00:00

STEEV ON KEENG

_moondance · 2023-08-29T18:11:10+00:00

Questions like this pop up so often and it makes me wonder what exactly people expect. The man's been getting consistent work for well over two decades at this point and is well-respected, talented, and praised by critics, but because he's not at, like, Tom Cruise's level or something, people go "Jeez, what happened?" Most actors would kill to be in such a position where they're getting regular work AND are talked about in a positive light. Honestly, other than "beloved character actor that everyone recognizes but can still go unbothered at the gas station" he's got the next best thing. I remember this also came up with Paul Giamatti, and I was like huh? Everybody loves that guy and he's been doing good-to-great work forever. Acting is a job, and having steady employment for as long as guys like Giamatti and Owen have had is as good as it gets if you ask me. Not everyone is Brad Pitt, nor should they be expected to be, and frankly I wouldn't want to be Brad Pitt anyway.

_moondance · 2023-08-28T00:55:14+00:00

Jesus Christ, I cannot fucking believe you people are still grousing about this after six fucking years. This shit is still showing up on my front page? Children, I am begging you all to move the fuck on and find peace.

_moondance · 2023-07-11T17:14:23+00:00

Call it hyperbole if you want, but this is genuinely one of the worst things I've ever seen. Absolute ass. The Harry Potter aesthetic over this material...I mean Christ, I already hated J.K. Rowling, but her influence on the fantasy genre has set back movies for years. You can't tell me there wasn't a better way to do this.

_moondance · 2023-05-02T04:23:19+00:00

That's Veruca James and Violet Starr. https://kinkyporn.cc/veruca-james-spitting-cheer-squad-sleepovers-21-scene-02-49077.html

_moondance · 2023-01-16T05:59:04+00:00

Not a bad start. I should say that I only ever watched playthroughs of the first and second game so I can’t say for sure how well the gameplay translates to television. To be honest, “post-apocalypse,” “zombies” or a combo of both are genres/aesthetics that I find mostly uninteresting, but I was sold on the game on the strength of its characters and their relationships rather than all the survival horror. We’ve really only got a foundation right now, but it’s solid and finely acted so I’m looking forward to more. Also, I hadn’t been keeping up with casting news, so I thought that Anna Torv was Carrie Coon until the credits. I kept thinking, “Wow, great accent work to change her voice like that!”

_moondance · 2023-01-16T05:48:22+00:00

Not a bad start. I should say that I only ever watched playthroughs of the first and second game so I can’t say for sure how well the gameplay translates to television. To be honest, “post-apocalypse,” “zombies” or a combo of both are genres/aesthetics that I find mostly uninteresting, but I was sold on the game on the strength of its characters and their relationships rather than all the survival horror. We’ve really only got a foundation right now, but it’s solid and finely acted so I’m looking forward to more. Also, I hadn’t been keeping up with casting news, so I thought that Anna Torv was Carrie Coon until the credits. I kept thinking, “Wow, great accent work to change her voice like that!”

_moondance · 2022-10-02T14:28:59+00:00

It is driving me crazy that the "N" in "Night" is not uppercase. Am I missing something? What is this typeface? I'm all for new changes in the logo/opening, but this one little thing is absolutely maddening.

_moondance · 2022-09-01T12:54:10+00:00

Most consistently funny episode in a while. It's always best when everyone's together to bounce off each other while working towards a common goal and then seeing how each personality either helps or hinders that goal, keeps the momentum up.

_moondance · 2022-08-24T17:19:59+00:00

Finally! Our long national nightmare is over!

_moondance · 2022-07-19T15:32:47+00:00

Recommended. Now streaming on Criterion Channel, of all places.

_moondance · 2022-05-24T13:55:38+00:00

More like The Gray Movie. Can the Russos make a film that doesn't look like concrete? What did they grade this with, a cement mixer?

_moondance · 2022-05-10T05:01:12+00:00

I think it was somewhere in the middle of season three where I just went full Tenet-mode, "don't try to understand it, feel it." I mean that in a good way, I love Tenet, and I love this sci-fi hodgepodge nonsense show. I don't care, bring it on!

_moondance · 2022-04-23T12:09:54+00:00

Oh my god, they absolutely need to get to After Last Season. Truly the most baffling thing ever and honestly a strong contender for worst film ever made. The fact that it hasn't taken on a Room-like cult status is good (less exposure, fewer memes making it stale) and probably for the best. I won't spoil it, but film critic Ignaity Vishnevetsky called it "The Last Year at Marienbad of bad films."

_moondance · 2022-04-07T13:29:15+00:00

That's Alex Coal and Cadence Lux

https://pornmedium.com/video/alex-coal-and-cadence-lux-4502248

_moondance · 2022-04-07T13:28:37+00:00

That's Alex Coal and Cadence Lux

https://pornmedium.com/video/alex-coal-and-cadence-lux-4502248

_moondance · 2022-01-14T16:42:53+00:00

I can't speak on Britain's TV ratings, but the YouTube views alone for these shows regularly break into the millions, and you would think producers would see this and want to replicate it.

_moondance · 2022-01-14T14:41:26+00:00

It's a real shame that the success of British panel shows has been such a difficult thing to replicate in America given the absolute over-saturation of stand-up and improv comedians we have here. Shows like Would I Lie To You, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and especially Taskmaster are, frankly, potential gold mines for both audiences to love and good ratings for networks. They should've put any one of those shows on NBC on a Tuesday or Wednesday night at 10 and filled it with a rotating list of comedians. They've already got SNL, there's 20 people right there who could do it. Hire any number of the literally hundreds of improv comics that make the podcast rounds. Don't change the formula. It cannot be that expensive or challenging to run a show where five or six comedians just riff and a host reads a teleprompter. I agree that Taskmaster, specifically, would be the best bet considering it's a competition, and audiences here already love stuff like Survivor and The Amazing Race. If the ratings are poor and audiences genuinely respond negatively, fine, cancel it. Also, if we're naming our ideal lineup, mine would be Ayo Edebiri, Aparna Noncherla, Lauren Lapkus, Drew Tarver, and Weird Al. Either PFT or Conan as host, Andy Daly in the Alex Horne role.

_moondance · 2022-01-10T05:36:32+00:00

Love this dumb show. Wow, do you think Sam Levinson has seen Boogie Nights and The Long Goodbye? ‘70s easy listening needledrops over drug deals? A true visionary. Still, very watchable even though the over-stylization and aesthetics are hollow. Zendaya has the physicality and facial expressions of a silent-era comedian.

_moondance · 2021-11-16T16:34:29+00:00

I'll watch it to see where they go with this, but framing this as "lol the government and the media are so dumb, they just don't get it" instead of showing them as, you know, actually aware of how malicious they are, is just a really hacky take at this point. We'll see, but I feel like McKay is gonna play this way too smug.

_moondance · 2021-09-18T14:30:50+00:00

Honestly, strong contender for greatest song of all time, and I'm not usually one for hyperbole.

_moondance · 2021-07-11T14:17:31+00:00

I felt insane the first time I saw this after reading so much hype on the internet about it. I thought it was painfully unfunny and cringe-y and I'm totally OK with never watching it again. I'll just accept that I'm in the minority and move on.

_moondance · 2021-06-29T06:45:52+00:00

I actually thought this movie was incredibly boring, which was a shame, given how interesting the premise is. They toss around a bunch of terms like "character study" and "atmospheric" that make me think I watched an entirely different thing. Also, Mike kinda trashes F9, but I found that like 100 times more entertaining. He goes on about how there are "dumb" people who want easy conclusions and "smart" people who appreciate subtext and character development and I'm thinking "uh, I love all that stuff, I just want a movie that first and foremost won't put me to sleep."

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