@bestofbreakin To be clear I meant this in a "I cant bear to see Old Yeller die" sense not "this is a flaw in the show" sense.
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Blarney Tarney
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Blarney Tarney
@ronnyt
The Emmy Award wanting writer of Whacky Jackers and Whacky Jackers 2: Jackie Whackers. Currently producing a film with Jay Jay Bruhms and Josh Weedin.
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@bestofbreakin This always bothered me, after Walt made a trillion dollars why not have one little scene where he gets a gigantic check from some sketchy charity Saul set up or something.
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@azuregums @bestofbreakin He clearly has pangs of conscience about some of the people he hurts. He's visibly upset hearing about Hugo, Jane's dad, the cleaning ladies at the laundry, etc.
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@ronnyt @bestofbreakin Because Walt probably didnt care enough to remember him and generally was not a good person
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@XFilesAesthetic Once you start answering certain things definitively you collapse the spookiness wave function and your imagination is no longer stirred by the nebulous shadows.
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@XFilesAesthetic Its probably not possible to make a narratively "satisfying" ufo mythology because what makes those stories so compelling in the first place is the murkiness & mystery. Who can we trust? How high does it go? etc. etc. Its like seeing a monster costume in daylight vs the shadows
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Unpopular opinion 👇
The biggest weakness of The X-Files was its mythology ( main conspiracy arc) .
Not because it was confusing but because it made Mulder and Scully feel irrelevant and powerless. As the stakes kept increasing and conspiracy grew larger , they could barely affect it and couldn't stop it.
Ultimately they were reduced to spectators instead of protagonists. And it didn't quite sit right with me.
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@Xenoimpulse It took them like 4 prequels and *15 years* to get to something like a starting point for a Planet of the Apes remake movie (i.e. where astronauts land on a world where apes rule humans as in the original.)
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It's interesting how this applies almost universally to most media now. Movies, games, even some books.
Axio 🔶@axiochrono
The problem with modern TV is that the gap between seasons is so long that no one cares about anything anymore. It's been a year since Severance season 2. In the olden days we would already have season 3 by now. But because there's such a massive gap everyone just loses interest.
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@JamesConran1 @cszabla Ironically the movie Crash has a pretty good soliloquoy about this very topic. Delivered by the rapper Ludacris actually.
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@cszabla Need an area studies translator to explain the stigma attached to buses in American culture for the outside world to truly understand
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this feels like something tabloids would mock in broken britain; american decline is entering more advanced stages than many are prepared to accept
New York Post@nypost
American Airlines passengers shocked to learn their 'flights' were actually bus routes: 'There's no plane' trib.al/Vf75VeJ
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@brianchaley It is genuinely very impressive to make a mob movie so drained of any semblance of glamorization despite the fact that Brad Pitt is playing "Coolest Dude Alive." Sort of like an American "Gomorrah" with the mob as a nondescript bureaucracy of misery.
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Pretty heavy-handed and empty. A mostly miserable time at the movies, which makes it perfect for what it is. Way ahead of the curve on the death of America.
scorsese spam account@PhilmFreak
Killing Them Softly (Dominik, 2012)
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@skrumbum @brianchaley The script is almost word for word from a novel from the 70's.
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@brianchaley yeah this is a weird one. having the guy who played Johnny Sack play essentially the same character but calling him Johnny Squirrel was a strange choice
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@0ba0sama Like "flat-screen tvs" being the epitome of luxury, people have this weird block where they still think you can get an apartment with a few hundred bucks and a handshake.
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BREAKING NEWS: a projector, laptop and sound system are cheaper than renting a studio apartment monthly for $2800.
Hoops@Hoopss
Homeless man seen with projector, laptop, and sound system in his tent in Hollywood
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@willmenaker To be fair Ryan Chapelle was a huge asshole. He never did anything but get in our Boy's way.
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A top notch 24 plot line was when President Palmer has to order Jack to execute his asshole boss who is played by Father Intintola and then he does it. Upon rewatch, much of the show is a workplace fantasy about when it's ok to lie to and/or kill your coworkers.
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@metaplexmovies It evens out a bit and feels less dated by about season 3. I always say its like Homicide: Xtreme Los Angeles edition. One of the lead detectives even looks like Bayliss.
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I have now started THE SHIELD, the most deliriously early 2000s thing I have ever seen (that was incredible)
Brendan Hodges@metaplexmovies
I’m running out of great shows. How good is THE SHIELD?
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@conner_omalley Very few works of art can capture the rambling cadence of a dream light this. Settings kind of decohering into other more babbly bizarre settings.
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@punishednuz Surprisingly there are quite a few more. The coach from Tony's dream. Vernon Holly plays a bookie. reddit.com/r/thesopranos/…
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the rare actor to appear in both the sopranos and the wire
Kevin Finnerty@timeimmemorial_
Longtime Sopranos lore: this was Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan’s acting debut
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@mnolangray Its pretty sad that the dreary little office in Glengarry Glen Ross is arguably a much more pleasant physical space to work in than this. Its right next to transit and there's a cozy little Chinese restaurant right next door.
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I'm generally pro-return to office, but I acknowledge that one of the stronger arguments against this view is the fact that the typical American office space is one of the most soul-destroying spaces in the developed world.
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@JohnFartScent I still have to do about 10 seconds of mental arithmetic to distinguish these movies from their titles in my mind.
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When I was younger and people would talk about taxi driver I thought they meant this movie
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@PInvararity @willmenaker Almost *every* single season has right wing politicians and defense contractors and/or oil companies either working with the terrorists or directly controlling them.
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@willmenaker S2 being about invading a middle eastern country at the behest of oil executives lol
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Recently rewatched season one of 24. Great television! Dennis Hopper's "Serbian" war criminal needs to be in the bad accent hall of fame, and no character in TV history was done more dirty by the writers than Jack Bauer's wife and her haircut.
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@willmenaker I'm always saying this. S1 is also moody and strange in ways it could never be after it became GWOT: The TV Show. Like somewhere between 90's John Woo and The X Files.
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People forget this show premiered like a week after 9/11 and the first season was still going off of a post-Cold War mindset for sourcing evil foreign villains. So instead of Muslims, we get "Serbians" who are basically just "Russians" in the minds of the viewers.
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@BadFilmTakes1 He also invented that Tim and Eric style internet humor.
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Now that I've seen the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and the Wire, it's pretty evident to me that modern tv would not exist without David Lynch. Mad Men and the Sopranos in particular feel very Lynch.
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I consider it a terrible racist injustice that Morgan Freeman is always typecast as the Kind Magic Negro character. You can see in his face a considerable amount of negativity and malice, and it’s a shame he didn’t get to play more bad guys as he did in Street Smart
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman on the set of Se7en, 1995.
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