Dan Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 I caught the pilot for Scorpion last night. Dopey as fuck. It's created by the Fast and Furious guy, so there were not one but TWO fairly awesome car chases. However, everyone's default mode is "I AM A GENIUS AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR HUMAN EMOTIONS" and that gets real old real fast. Like, if people like House, they'll LOVE four Houses. And they have a "normal" person who's there to be someone who can relate to regular people (i.e., be the Penny)... even though one of the geniuses is supposedly an expert in human behavior. Action? Great. Everything else? Not so much. However, Robert Patrick is in it being Robert Patrick, and Ernie Hudson was in the pilot, and it's always nice to see Ernie Hudson. This might be a "catch it if I happen to be home" show if it improves, but it's not going on my Hulu queue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JackFetch Posted September 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 Forever - A new show on ABC about a guy that lives forever. I like the show but I don't know if I can get past the stupidity of the writing. It's basically a procedural drama where the police break every rule of investigating crimes. The medical examiner becomes a suspect? That's ok. He'll just continue working on the body, and for the hell of it let's have him ride along with the detective to help investigate not five minutes after being questioned as the main suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 Yeah, the idea is interesting, but the writing is bone stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Person of Interest is off to a roaring start. The idea of human footsoldiers in a war between two artificial intelligence gods is something that Philip K Dick would have had a boner for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JackFetch Posted September 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 It feels like that movie was made just for me. It has almost everything I like, yet doesn't give me 100% confidence that it will be any good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 It probably won't be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Who cares if it's """"good""""? It'll be fun as fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 I am looking forward to it, just because it looks visually beautiful and the story as I understand it has legs. That all said, it is telling that the studio exiled it to February when this was obviously made as a Summer Box Office film. We'll see. I will still most likely see it regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 According to Kevin Smith, the spectacular critical and commercial failure of Tusk is leading him to the funding for Clerks 3. Proving that every walrus-man-shaped cloud has a vulgar, slacker-shaped silver lining, Kevin Smith is claiming that his made-on-a-dare movie Tusk has paved the way for him to finally make Clerks III. The Weinstein Company, which owns the rights to the Clerks films, passed on funding the third installment earlier this year. But even though Tusk received only middling reviews and has tanked at the box office, the spectacle of staring at Justin Long’s hideous mustache while Michael Parks stuffs him into a walrus suit has garnered a great deal of attention for Smith’s favorite pet cause: reminding people that Kevin Smith exists, and will make movies if you give him some money. Talking last week on his podcast Hollywood Babble-On, Smith discussed the difficulties of securing funds for the conclusion to his epic trilogy about aging, maturity, and people having sex with corpses and donkeys, and how Tusk turned all that around: “A year and change ago I was desperately trying to get Clerks III made for the 20th anniversary and that desperation—I must have reeked of it, because I couldn’t fucking find money and shit. But it was Tusk, people going ‘Holy fuck, what else do you have?’ and I was like Clerks III and they’re like ‘done’. So, everybody that’s like, ‘He failed, he failed,’ I’m like ‘Thank you, I failed into doing Clerks III.” Smith’s films have always had an autobiographical element, so it remains to be seen whether Clerks III will see protagonists Randall and Dante as podcasters who manage to fail upward, all while celebrating meaningless anniversaries that no one else cares about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Before that, we'll get to see Nepotism: The Movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 There is no greater example of someone who made a few moderately successful and semi-interesting pieces of art and then turned into someone who created a path of pop culture diarrhoea for the vast majority of his career than Kevin Smith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Before that, we'll get to see Nepotism: The Movie. "The film is the second in Smith's True North Trilogy." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted September 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Who keeps giving him money to make movies? I listened to him on a recent Nerdist podcast and the thing he kept saying was that he learned that nobody was going to make the kind of movies he wanted to because nobody wanted to see them, so he had to make them himself. What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfs22E7JmI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted October 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Oh boy! They did it. They killed her. I'm so happy! http://youtu.be/JuU0M2xBasc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Nice reversal of the 'Good Luck.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 So, we're doing the free trial thing for Amazon Prime, and I just found Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain. ...See you in a month, everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 We've been glorying in Animaniacs for a few weeks now. One or two episodes a night. We're going to run out soon and it makes me sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 The show is so much better as an adult, and it's the Tex Avery slapstick mixed with a who's who of voice actors: Rob Paulsen, Tress McNeill, Frank Welker, Maurice LaMauche, Jim Cummings, Jess Harnell, Paul Rugg, Nancy Cartwright, Bernadette Peters, it's just wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Amazon Prime also has BTAS, STAS, and the first 5 or 6 seasons of Star Trek: TNG in their new HD remasters from the blu-ray sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Damn. I wish I had money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 I've had Prime for years just for the free shipping. The streaming video is gravy. And they have a lot of great stuff, especially since they made the deal with HBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfs22E7JmISo Paul Thomas Anderson is doing his Jackie Brown, in December no less. Gotcha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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