OT: TV and Movies

[emunney]

Yeah, I'm not sitting in a movie theater for close to 4 **** hours. Obviously have loved most of Scorsese's work over the years, but he's definitely fallen victim to this insane auteur filmmaker cliche of milking every second of screentime out of the source material and it's exhausting. Raging Bull and Taxi Driver were nice, clean 2-hour movies. Spend some more time in the editing room Marty...

He's had some long BANGERS though. Last Temptation of Christ, Departed, Goodfellas all in the 2.5 hour range.

My personal feeling is that no movie should ever, ever be longer than 3 hours, and only that long in really rare and extreme cases. Reconsider your story at that point.

Should have been a series.

[ReasonablySober]

Doing a rewatch of Banshee and the scope of the show changing in season four is wild. Suddenly there's a drug operation big enough to supply the entire East Coast, it's the center of a massive Neo Nazi organization, the police department goes from roughly four people to forty, there's a booming Satanic community, the mayor is the town's Big Bad, and the media is representative of a major city. What the show packs into its final eight episodes is ridiculous.

[MickeyDavis]

Damn. Blackbeard

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[ReasonablySober]

Damn. Blackbeard

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For my money had the most brutal on-screen TV death of all-time.

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Way too young. RIP.

[chonestown]

"Succession" should have been about the family dynamics of the Successories empire.

Mist Op?
Or Tunity.imo

[Ron Swanson]

Succession:

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All the praise and acclaim that the Logan death episode got should have been reserved for the funeral episode. Absolute masterful television. Roman going on the emotional rollercoaster and the dynamic between him and Ken at the beginning of the episode completely flipping by the end of it.....chef's kiss. Him breaking down trying to give the eulogy nearly broke me.

[emunney]

Succession:

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All the praise and acclaim that the Logan death episode got should have been reserved for the funeral episode. Absolute masterful television. Roman going on the emotional rollercoaster and the dynamic between him and Ken at the beginning of the episode completely flipping by the end of it.....chef's kiss. Him breaking down trying to give the eulogy nearly broke me.

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Dude, the actress who plays Kerry (Zoe Winters) is on some wild tightropes. The complexity of that interaction with Marcia. The ambivalence! Fear, pain, deference, gratitude all on her face within a matter of seconds. Been a while since I've been so impressed by a performance in such a small part. From the hilarious demo tape to the scene with Greg to the airplane to this. I have to shout it out because I haven't seen anybody else talking about it. The character had been so unremarkable before this season.

[Lippo]

Damn. Blackbeard

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Damn Pullo, Was great in Rome.

[MickeyDavis]

Glad Barry is ending this week. A few laughs but not a very good final season.

[Ron Swanson]

Glad Barry is ending this week. A few laughs but not a very good final season.

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I think the last few episodes have kinda pulled them out of a tailspin and somewhat justified the extreme time jump. But yes, overall it's been a pretty mediocre final season. The complete tonal shift was a gamble and I'm not sure it paid off as much as Hader and the showrunners wanted it to.

Although the "you only brought one rocket?" really got me good.

[MickeyDavis]

Glad Barry is ending this week. A few laughs but not a very good final season.

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I think the last few episodes have kinda pulled them out of a tailspin and somewhat justified the extreme time jump. But yes, overall it's been a pretty mediocre final season. The complete tonal shift was a gamble and I'm not sure it paid off as much as Hader and the showrunners wanted it to.

Although the "you only brought one rocket?" really got me good.

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yeah that was pretty good. "You said to watch the budget". "I was talking about office supplies". Also funny with the boxes of heads. When he opens the last one "why do I keep opening these?"

[buckboy]

Barry:

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i've enjoyed the last season. The time jump was a little jarring, but I think they have a good chance to really end it well.

[ReasonablySober]

John Wick 4 is out on digital. Easy purchase.

[Couch Potato]

Sisu is a excellent action/war movie. It's a must see.

[Couch Potato]

The Tank (2023) starring Luciane Buchanan from the Night Agent TV show. The Tank is pretty decent monster movie.

[ReasonablySober]

As up and down as Ted Lasso's been for the last two seasons, this penultimate episode was as good as its ever been, and they've set up the ending to the show pretty perfectly.

[Ron Swanson]

Lasso was great this week. Just a shame that the rest of this season couldn't be as good. Think their problem was that they had enough good content for maybe around a 5-6 episode arc, but ended up trying to stretch it out to 12 episodes.

[ReasonablySober]

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[machu46]

It’s not for everyone, but Fast X was pretty much as good (and wacky) as any of the other Fast movies. Sets up for an interesting finale. Jason Momoa is amazing.


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[M-C-G]

It’s not for everyone, but Fast X was pretty much as good (and wacky) as any of the other Fast movies. Sets up for an interesting finale. Jason Momoa is amazing.


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Momoa fun fact, one of his first big 'gigs' was on the offshoot Star Gate (SG1) series, Star Gate: Atlantis (almost 80 episodes)