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Post by toei on Apr 16, 2017 11:22:53 GMT -5
I actually saw two episodes of Iron Fist. It's as bad as everyone says. There's all this boring stuff going on and you think to yourself, "man, when will they actually fight?" Then when they do, you understand why they rarely fight; they're really, really bad at it. They litterally look like they've had 4-5 classes and they showing off to friends. At some point the guy and the girl try to impress each other back and forth by dicking around with nunchucks, and the dissonance between their confident expressions and their awful moves is hilarious. Like, the actor is all contracted, afraid he'll hit himself, while pretending to be this amazing martial artist. It's unbelievable that this is the caliber of shows they're producing.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Apr 16, 2017 21:41:55 GMT -5
I actually saw two episodes of Iron Fist. It's as bad as everyone says. There's all this boring stuff going on and you think to yourself, "man, when will they actually fight?" Then when they do, you understand why they rarely fight; they're really, really bad at it. They litterally look like they've had 4-5 classes and they showing off to friends. At some point the guy and the girl try to impress each other back and forth by dicking around with nunchucks, and the dissonance between their confident expressions and their awful moves is hilarious. Like, the actor is all contracted, afraid he'll hit himself, while pretending to be this amazing martial artist. It's unbelievable that this is the caliber of shows they're producing. Which is really fucked up considering that the other Netflix Marvel series are at least decent. I just finished episode five of Channel Zero: Candle Cove. I have mixed feelings. I really liked the first four episodes. It's not a masterpiece but it's entertaining light horror. A little corny but not over the top. Fifth episode just felt really phoned in to me. I hope episode six is better, and I do plan on at least starting the second season (No End House) and seeing how it goes.
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Post by Snake on Apr 17, 2017 11:03:47 GMT -5
I actually saw two episodes of Iron Fist. It's as bad as everyone says. There's all this boring stuff going on and you think to yourself, "man, when will they actually fight?" Then when they do, you understand why they rarely fight; they're really, really bad at it. They litterally look like they've had 4-5 classes and they showing off to friends. At some point the guy and the girl try to impress each other back and forth by dicking around with nunchucks, and the dissonance between their confident expressions and their awful moves is hilarious. Like, the actor is all contracted, afraid he'll hit himself, while pretending to be this amazing martial artist. It's unbelievable that this is the caliber of shows they're producing. Hahaha, now I actually want to see a few episodes of Iron Fist. I'm a fan of poorly choreographed, wannabe martial arts. Especially if it's so bad, it's good, as the bad BAD Dolemite!
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Post by toei on Apr 20, 2017 14:40:09 GMT -5
I actually saw two episodes of Iron Fist. It's as bad as everyone says. There's all this boring stuff going on and you think to yourself, "man, when will they actually fight?" Then when they do, you understand why they rarely fight; they're really, really bad at it. They litterally look like they've had 4-5 classes and they showing off to friends. At some point the guy and the girl try to impress each other back and forth by dicking around with nunchucks, and the dissonance between their confident expressions and their awful moves is hilarious. Like, the actor is all contracted, afraid he'll hit himself, while pretending to be this amazing martial artist. It's unbelievable that this is the caliber of shows they're producing. Hahaha, now I actually want to see a few episodes of Iron Fist. I'm a fan of poorly choreographed, wannabe martial arts. Especially if it's so bad, it's good, as the bad BAD Dolemite! Dolemite was cool because they just went for whatever they thought would be fun and did all kinds of weird meta shit. In The Human Tornado, anyway, which is the one I saw. Like when Dolemite jumps down a hill, the movie freeze frames, and a voiceover yells "YES, THAT'S REALLY ME JUMPING. NOW WATCH THAT GOOD SHIT!" and they just rewind the (unimpressive) stunt. I wish Iron Fist was half as fun, but they're going for Serious American Superhero Shit (with a lot of poorly-written corporate shenanigans for some reason) and they're just sad to watch. I mean the Iron Fist actor (who may have a name, whatever) actually stares at his hands throughout his martial arts stance, cause he's not sure he's doing them right.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Apr 26, 2017 22:10:07 GMT -5
Stupid procedurals. I'm addicted to Chicago Med and Chicago Fire now.
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Post by lurker on May 18, 2017 13:10:10 GMT -5
Well that's an interesting surprise...
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Post by Snake on May 18, 2017 16:56:51 GMT -5
Well that's an interesting surprise... Dark Crystal freaked me out as a kid. Those character designs danced a fine line between creepy and intrigue for me. It's good to see that they're sticking to puppetry.
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Post by Catalyst on May 19, 2017 1:18:59 GMT -5
I need to rewatch that.
Also, anyone here addicted to Jordskott on the Shudder app? If this shit was on Netflix and the language barrier wasn't an issue, we'd have our next big thing. Maybe not Stranger Things amount of big, but pretty darn close. The show has awesome actors, great pacing for the mystery, and holds enough tedium in it's scenes that when something horrible does happen it feels quite surreal. Difficult to explain. I think I called it a blend between The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Ring, when describing it to a friend. Looking forward to bingewatching the hell out of the last couple of episodes this weekend, along with the new modern slasher Lake Bodom and some 1980s revenge thriller called Ms. 45.
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Post by moran on May 27, 2017 21:22:59 GMT -5
I thought that Twin Peaks couldn't more odd after Fire Walk With Me, but this new season is out there.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on May 27, 2017 22:02:42 GMT -5
Well I'm really enjoying American Gods, though I'm not sure if I'd have any idea what's going on if I hadn't read the book.
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Post by lurker on Jun 9, 2017 21:06:58 GMT -5
Looks like we've got new Ducktales shorts
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Jun 9, 2017 22:01:04 GMT -5
Started watching 13 Reasons Why. It's holding my interest, though I wouldn't call it spectacular. I do love the music direction, though. Lots of bands I grew up with, and some new stuff that I dig.
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Post by lurker on Jun 14, 2017 13:13:34 GMT -5
The intro for the new Ducktales just dropped today...
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Post by kaoru on Jul 3, 2017 2:46:10 GMT -5
So every once in a while, I get a little bit obsessed with shitty reality TV. Sometimes that leads to nice results, like when I discovered the best show ever conceived by manking, RuPaul's Drag Race. Most of the time it is shit like when I binge watched The Real Housewives of Vanoucer's first season and never felt the need for a second season served to me. Currently I found a show called Supersize vs Superskinny in my YT recomendations and went for it. It's a pretty bad show where they have an obese and a too skinny person have to eat the meals of the other one for a couple days as shock therapy to realize how litte/much they are eating. Thing is they really don't get much into what a healthy diet for either one would specifically be, what kind of workout would help etc. Even when they send them away for 12 weeks with a new diet plan to later show the results of we aren't actually told what's in these. The few tips also tend to be the obvious things everyone knows: Chicken and fish are healthier alternatives to red meat, several small meals are better than two large ones, stuff like that. So in the end, I mostly watched some episodes to look at cute skinny guys, because I'm physically incapable to type "cute skinny guys" into Google picture search. Funnilly enough, the show is a British one not American like my prejudiced ass thought when seeing the title - but that made me go like "cool, if it is European, they'll use cm and kg like I'm used too" only for the show to measure people in foot and stone. I mean, at least I have a general sense of what a height of 6'1 is, but what in the everliving fuck is 10 Stone 2? Sure, I just googled it, but it really surprised me the British have yet another one. And that's it for my anecdote of the day.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Jul 3, 2017 3:26:53 GMT -5
I like reality cooking shows.
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