Gareth

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  1. What are you watching and enjoying?

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    I ended up shotgunning all of A Series of Unfortunate Events. I found it mostly enjoyable. It was a fun show that was also dark as all hell at the same time.

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    The show was not bad... necessarily, but when it comes to pure filmmaking craft the movie adaptation was so much better.  It was like a character-actor's paradise.  Jim Carrey, Timothy Spall, Jude Law, Billy Connolly, even Thomas Newman's score are just palely imitated in this version.  Barry Sonnenfeld went so tongue-and-cheek with the style that I wouldn't even call it dark.  There were some genuinely heart-felt moments in the film but nothing struck a chord with me in the series. 

    The benefits here are that the whole series feels more thought out, less crammed together, and all things considered a little better written than even the books were.  There's certainly a lot to like but it really made me realize how much stronger of a director Brad Silberling is to Sonnenfeld (although that's not saying much).

    Oh, and anything to do with Sunny, K. Todd Freeman's Poe, and Olaf's henchmen is cringe-inducingly bad.

    EDIT: Having said all that, if I had seen this show when I was eleven it would've been my favorite thing ever.

  3. What are you watching and enjoying?

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    Four episodes into season 3 of Harvey Birdman, and this season is knocking it out of the park. Every episode has me in tears. Stephen Colbert is a vocal comic genius, and Peter McNichol is massively underrated as well.

    Only semi-related but Adult Swim's been re-airing some old episodes of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and I am loving every second of it.  I wouldn't go as far as to say that Adult Swim's gone to shit, cause... y'know, Rick and Morty, but I do miss the daring and improvisational edge of their early shows.

  11. Every film you've watched in 2016

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    Space Cop: I finally got around to watching RedLetterMedia's original movie and I gotta say I had a really great time with it.  It was much better than I had expected based on the overall reaction.  And I actually watched their "VHS version" which may have positively affected my opinion.

    Suicide Squad: It was terrible but I had fun.

    Jason Bourne: Incomprehensible nonsense.

    Star Trek Beyond: I was asleep.

  13. Suicide Squad

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    This was complete shlock.  Me and the person I saw it with were actually laughing at the movie consistently by the end.  The writing and most of the acting was truly horrible, however, I gotta say I had a really good time.  It's not a good movie and I'll never watch it again but in the end I'll put it at least a couple notches above 'Civil War' when it comes to summer blockerbusters of 2016.

  20. Preacher on AMC

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    Yeah, this was pretty bad.  The direction was incredibly over done, and although I enjoyed the fact that they seemed to be having fun with the style, it really just came across as a bad "Fargo on FX" impersonation.  It was also horribly over-edited and I had trouble following it.  I didn't make it through the first episode.

  25. Captain America 3

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    Here's my MCU rating rundown:

    Great

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    Captain America: Winter Soldier

     

    Really good (not great)

    Captain America

    Iron Man

     

    OK

    Captain America: Civil War

    Thor: The Dark World

    The Avengers

     

    Utter dogshit

    Ant-Man

    Iron Man 2

    Incredible Hulk

    Avengers: Age of Ultron

    Thor

    Iron Man 3

    Looking at this list I realize that I've only seen 4 of these, and based on the general reaction in this thread I don't feel like I'm missing anything.