u crazy
― kinder, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
It was FUN and original, but it was also sort of sloppy and "just okay". Whitford was great, but Richard Jenkins just passed me by, and the kids were just terribly bland (even by Scream standards).
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
It was FUN and original, but it was also sort of sloppy and "just okay"
describes every Joss Whedon thing
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 10 June 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
Cloverfield was much better (and scarier), despite being effectively non-meta and having equally nothingy protagonists
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Crazy talk. Cloverfield made me yell at the screen. See Cabin again.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
ive got my reservations about cabin in the woods level of hype, but its still one of the top 5 horror comedies of the last 10 years for sure
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
i liked the concept, i just got so mad that the way they flipped the script on a ~typical boring horror movie~ was by introducing elements from a ~typical boring mission impossible/superhero movie~
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Merman
― Gukbe, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Flipped the script? The movie starts out pretty flipped! And Mission Impossible/Superhero?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/8ddc43aec6e6803b46e3374584095d6d/tumblr_mlt6guPkta1qcga5ro1_400.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
by that i mean "hidden secret network of hyper-tech all accessed by a lone secluded command center" zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
watched "Technicolor Dream" last night and really liked it. Mostly about the early years of Pink Floyd but also the underground in London in the sixties, the UFO club, the beats at the royal albert hall etc.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
Oh that sounds good, I just read the joe boyd book a couple of months ago
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
he is interviewed fairly heavily in the film. there is some great floyd footage. pretty things also featured a bit. roger waters being a dick saying things like "i just wanted to get rich and fuck girls." and "i don't remember the london free school or any of that underground stuff.."
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
sold!
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
any ISB content?
a cinema full of drunk excited people
oh ppl go to the movies drunk? no wonder they all love shit.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
convenient that you skipped over the "excited" part
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
i assumed it was a compound adjectival phrase
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
i started to watch some TNT or A&E prairie cops and indians series on netflix and kara thrace is on it!!!!! oh my god i almost died. i'm gonna watch the whole season with maria now. still trying to get maria to commit to watching battlestar with me cuz i will for some reason feel kinda lame if i watch it all over again by myself.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I've been wrestling for awhile with whether I would get happiness from rewatching the first, say, 3 seasons of bsg. Or if the last season retroactively skunked the whole thing. Man I loved that show for awhile.
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
i think that show might have changed my life in some way.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
it had a profound effect on me anyway.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
i still can't watch the prequel show. it just seems wrong somehow. knowing what i know.
More or less agree.
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
That unicorn gif is hilarious if thought as seamless.
― Evan, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
many xposts: no ISB content in the film iirc.
currently watching season 1 episode 4 of kids in the hall.. it's a real good episode.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 10 June 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
Skot, I watched that whole series! Long-something. Longmire? Loved it even as I rolled my eyes.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 10 June 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
my kids are stuck in the store all day cuz maria has jury duty any offbeat kid suggestions. they have seen so much netflix stuff already....don't judge us. they aren't really into anime. feel like that's an untapped thing. they like the moving castle dude, of course.
and they have no interest in superheroes! don't know how that happened. it wasn't anything i said...
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
think they are watching malcolm in the middle right now. that will probably hold them anyway.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
we just finished season 7 of gilmore girls the other night. don't know how many 10 and 8 year old boys would want to watch 7 seasons of GG. i like to think they're special. took us awhile to do it. we would have binges. i kinda want to watch bad news bears with them tonight.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Did they watch Adventure Time yet?
― Evan, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
i asked. cyrus loves it. rufus not so much.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
cyrus watched a 6-part series on the history of animals on earth going back to the beginning of time. cgi extinct beasts and all that. bbc thing? pretty cool!
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
iirc the Nature episode on best animal friends in on netflix
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
REGULAR SHOW
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
rufus says he hates regular show and that its not as good as adventure time and that it's not very inventive or creative. i've never seen it. i am a lover of chowder and courage the cowardly dog. and flapjack. i think those three are three of the best shows i've ever seen. kid or not kid.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
i only feel a little guilty about how much t.v. they've watched when i think of how many times they have seen every futurama episode. oof. but i probably saw every i love lucy episode 50 times by the time i was ten.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Regular show is a constantly repeated pattern, basically. 100+ variations on the same story. In that way, I could see it being "not creative", but it usually develops that story in a weird and fun way. Definitely not as expansive as Adventure Time, but it still has more likeable characters than most kids TV.
― how's life, Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
i love regular shows vacillation between mundane just-out-of-college soul crushing frustration and the flights of magic realism.also the dopey meme humor shit and heavy last syllable inflection.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmceJic1JhU
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
am a lover of chowder and courage the cowardly dog. and flapjack. i think those three are three of the best shows i've ever seen. kid or not kid.
― scott seward, Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:50 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is how I feel about Adventure Time 100%...
Though stay far away from the later episodes that focus on backstory, (most) with a relationship arc, or otherwise any attempting to overemphasize character development of any kind.
The rest are highly recommended.
― Evan, Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
reglar show's an acquired taste. also a stupid one. but i like it.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
I really struggled with Venture Bros. Supposedly it gets better (in the seasons they don't have on Netflix)?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
cyrus otm. sad but true: adventure time is the only TV show I go out of my way to watch.
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
sometimes it gets so sick & loopy it's on a jodorowsky/lynch level of wtf, and I'm like how is this even pop culture. but it's also sweet & funny, not just weird for weird's sake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2JhiPPdK4
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
There should be a thread full of those moments from popular cartoons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZSXnrbs_k
― Evan, Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
s1 of powerpuff girls is whacked out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhtf2P6IgqA
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
I really struggled with Venture Bros. Supposedly it gets better (in the seasons they don't have on Netflix)?― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:21 PM (21 minutes ago)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:21 PM (21 minutes ago)
i enjoyed it from the jump, but it def gets better over time. less parodic joke, more long haul funny. it's actually got a pretty deep story arc, and they never drop that really, which for cartoon (esp adult swim) is crazy rare. it makes most scripted sitcoms look really really lazy tbh.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
Only season 1 is on Netflix, right? We watched it a couple of months ago, got to the Easy Rider cliffhanger and went "NOOOOO" when there wasn't any more available.
― Home Despot (WilliamC), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
adventure time's weirdness just doesn't click for me, feels too mannered.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link