OT TV and Movies (Please use spoiler tags)

[MoreTrife]

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Lists like this make me want to watch TV 24/7.

[Siefer]

I want to love The Rings of Power but the snail pacing and overwrought dialogue and boring ass subplots make me want to quit it. I'll stick with it and hope it gets better, though.

Okay, honest question. Why watch a bad show that you're having a bad time with? There are so many good shows to watch instead!

[ReasonablySober]

I want to love The Rings of Power but the snail pacing and overwrought dialogue and boring ass subplots make me want to quit it. I'll stick with it and hope it gets better, though.

Okay, honest question. Why watch a bad show that you're having a bad time with? There are so many good shows to watch instead!

I think if you're invested in a property you might feel like you owe it to yourself to give it a shot. I felt that watching The Winter King last year and Borderlands last week. Knew going in that both would be bad and terribly disappointing, but I wanted to see if there was any enjoyment to wring out of them.

[humanrefutation]

I want to love The Rings of Power but the snail pacing and overwrought dialogue and boring ass subplots make me want to quit it. I'll stick with it and hope it gets better, though.

Okay, honest question. Why watch a bad show that you're having a bad time with? There are so many good shows to watch instead!

I'm invested in the story, I suppose. I'm not even a major Tolkien fan, but I loved the Peter Jackson movies and there was something quite thrilling about a show that depicts the backstory. And there were a handful of moments in Season 1 that had me pretty enthralled and allowed me to enjoy the show despite the things that I disliked about it.

But the things about Season 1 that bugged me have been magnified in Season 2. It's like they took the wrong lessons from the first season and doubled down on them.

[TroyD92]

I mean its a spin off of probably the most beloved movie trilogy in history. I feel like there's a lot of people who still love of lord of rings. Tolkien fan or not.

[Prez]

Late to the party a bit but I really liked Alien Romulus personally.

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I’m seeing a decent amount of criticism aimed at all the callbacks to the other movies but I kinda liked it, I didn’t find it too bad. I thought the atmosphere, cinematography, feel, soundtrack was all top notch and the movie was genuinely scary at times. Effects were awesome outside of the CGI for Ian holm.

Thought the Offspring twist at the end was bat **** in a good way, creature design was great and genuinely upsetting, again in a good way haha. Like some ungodly hybrid of the Engineers from Prometheus, Slenderman, and Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne. It’s dope they cast some 7’7” Romanian basketball player to play the part lol.

Andy the android was awesome, dude basically plays two separate characters and kills it with both of them.

My main criticism of the film, and I get why others would dislike the movie over it, is that I genuinely didn’t give a crap about any of the characters outside of Rain and Andy. The movie had a 2 hour runtime, I think you could tack on like 10-15 minutes with better character development. Nothing crazy, but like add a few scenes, some conversations between them (before **** gets crazy) that add more color to the characters so they’re not just the chick that gets chest bursted or the British dude that gets killed by acid lol. Like give me a couple scenes at least of them talking, doing stuff that makes me think of them as semi interesting human beings rather than just fodder for the facehuggers and xenos.

Again it didn’t bother me a ton, but just something that kept it as an 8/10 for me rather than a 9+.

[ReasonablySober]

Late to the party a bit but I really liked Alien Romulus personally.

Spoiler:

I’m seeing a decent amount of criticism aimed at all the callbacks to the other movies but I kinda liked it, I didn’t find it too bad. I thought the atmosphere, cinematography, feel, soundtrack was all top notch and the movie was genuinely scary at times. Effects were awesome outside of the CGI for Ian holm.

Thought the Offspring twist at the end was bat **** in a good way, creature design was great and genuinely upsetting, again in a good way haha. Like some ungodly hybrid of the Engineers from Prometheus, Slenderman, and Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne. It’s dope they cast some 7’7” Romanian basketball player to play the part lol.

Andy the android was awesome, dude basically plays two separate characters and kills it with both of them.

My main criticism of the film, and I get why others would dislike the movie over it, is that I genuinely didn’t give a crap about any of the characters outside of Rain and Andy. The movie had a 2 hour runtime, I think you could tack on like 10-15 minutes with better character development. Nothing crazy, but like add a few scenes, some conversations between them (before **** gets crazy) that add more color to the characters so they’re not just the chick that gets chest bursted or the British dude that gets killed by acid lol. Like give me a couple scenes at least of them talking, doing stuff that makes me think of them as semi interesting human beings rather than just fodder for the facehuggers and xenos.

Again it didn’t bother me a ton, but just something that kept it as an 8/10 for me rather than a 9+.

Yea, I thought this summed up it up nicely.

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I couldn't even understand 90% of what one of the characters was saying. Some of it was the Britishness of it all but I also think the sound mixing was off.

[FrieAaron]

Still plugging "Signal 30" for Mad Men though.

Good pick. Vincent Kartheiser doesn't get enough individual recognition for his work on the show.

[ReasonablySober]

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Couldn't help but notice an omission clearly meant to bother an audience of one (me. the only person who cares about Wings is me).

[KidA24]

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Couldn't help but notice an omission clearly meant to bother an audience of one (me. the only person who cares about Wings is me).

I noticed that, as well as they picked a season 8 episode of Game of Thrones.

[Siefer]

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Couldn't help but notice an omission clearly meant to bother an audience of one (me. the only person who cares about Wings is me).

I noticed that, as well as they picked a season 8 episode of Game of Thrones.

That felt like a career achievement award type pick for the career achievement award episode (which was the best episode of the last two seasons imo). I wouldn't have picked it, but I get why.

[buckboy]

As usual, I'm right on top of things. Really enjoying the first season of "Dark Winds". Beautifully shot and well-acted.

[MickeyDavis]

As usual, I'm right on top of things. Really enjoying the first season of "Dark Winds". Beautifully shot and well-acted.

I saw that pop up on Netflix (I think). I like Zahn McClarnon, I'll give it a shot.

[ReasonablySober]

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When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s highly anticipated TV series Alien: Earth from creator Noah Hawley. FX’s Alien: Earth original series coming in 2025, only on Hulu.

Interesting. Doesn't sound like the corporate Weyland-Yutani series I thought we were getting.

[CharityStripe34]

Anyone else watch Warrior? Getting over my post-vacation depression and it's a surprisingly decent show. I'm about halfway through Season 2.

[ReasonablySober]

Anyone else watch Warrior? Getting over my post-vacation depression and it's a surprisingly decent show. I'm about halfway through Season 2.

Warrior is awesome, though I think the first season was the best.

[Iheartfootball]

Late to the party a bit but I really liked Alien Romulus personally.

Spoiler:

I’m seeing a decent amount of criticism aimed at all the callbacks to the other movies but I kinda liked it, I didn’t find it too bad. I thought the atmosphere, cinematography, feel, soundtrack was all top notch and the movie was genuinely scary at times. Effects were awesome outside of the CGI for Ian holm.

Thought the Offspring twist at the end was bat **** in a good way, creature design was great and genuinely upsetting, again in a good way haha. Like some ungodly hybrid of the Engineers from Prometheus, Slenderman, and Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne. It’s dope they cast some 7’7” Romanian basketball player to play the part lol.

Andy the android was awesome, dude basically plays two separate characters and kills it with both of them.

My main criticism of the film, and I get why others would dislike the movie over it, is that I genuinely didn’t give a crap about any of the characters outside of Rain and Andy. The movie had a 2 hour runtime, I think you could tack on like 10-15 minutes with better character development. Nothing crazy, but like add a few scenes, some conversations between them (before **** gets crazy) that add more color to the characters so they’re not just the chick that gets chest bursted or the British dude that gets killed by acid lol. Like give me a couple scenes at least of them talking, doing stuff that makes me think of them as semi interesting human beings rather than just fodder for the facehuggers and xenos.

Again it didn’t bother me a ton, but just something that kept it as an 8/10 for me rather than a 9+.

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Pretty much how I felt. It was a nice nostalgia trip. I found the android guy was a nice loose connection to Raised by Wolves (I really enjoyed that show; slow burn and not for everyone but it was something fresh).

[machu46]

Anyone else watch Warrior? Getting over my post-vacation depression and it's a surprisingly decent show. I'm about halfway through Season 2.

I finished it a couple weeks ago. One of my favorite shows I've watched the last couple years but I'm admittedly a sucker for both the time period and the martial arts. Really sad that the show was cancelled.

[DingleJerry]

Obviously impossible to make a list like that, but if you're picking one Bear episode I can't believe it wasn't the Christmas episode, title had Fish in it somehow. There's a few other shows too where I would've picked a different episode.

[machu46]

Late to the party a bit but I really liked Alien Romulus personally.

Spoiler:

I’m seeing a decent amount of criticism aimed at all the callbacks to the other movies but I kinda liked it, I didn’t find it too bad. I thought the atmosphere, cinematography, feel, soundtrack was all top notch and the movie was genuinely scary at times. Effects were awesome outside of the CGI for Ian holm.

Thought the Offspring twist at the end was bat **** in a good way, creature design was great and genuinely upsetting, again in a good way haha. Like some ungodly hybrid of the Engineers from Prometheus, Slenderman, and Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne. It’s dope they cast some 7’7” Romanian basketball player to play the part lol.

Andy the android was awesome, dude basically plays two separate characters and kills it with both of them.

My main criticism of the film, and I get why others would dislike the movie over it, is that I genuinely didn’t give a crap about any of the characters outside of Rain and Andy. The movie had a 2 hour runtime, I think you could tack on like 10-15 minutes with better character development. Nothing crazy, but like add a few scenes, some conversations between them (before **** gets crazy) that add more color to the characters so they’re not just the chick that gets chest bursted or the British dude that gets killed by acid lol. Like give me a couple scenes at least of them talking, doing stuff that makes me think of them as semi interesting human beings rather than just fodder for the facehuggers and xenos.

Again it didn’t bother me a ton, but just something that kept it as an 8/10 for me rather than a 9+.

I ultimately gave it a 3/5 stars, which is tied with Twisters for my favorite movie of the year so far (not saying much, I've only seen those two, Longlegs, and Night Swim). 3/5 would have placed it just outside of my top 10 if we include last year's movies though (which was closer to 30 total movies).

Solid movie, pretty fun. Some wonky stuff that I just handwave away because I don't want to think that hard about the movie.

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Could have done without all the stuff that came after the false ending, which is also how I felt about NOPE, which I mostly liked a lot.