okay i know this doesn't belong here but after watching Taken and Taken 2 i can't BELIEVE that they didn't get liam neeson to play jack reacher in the Reacher movie! he would have been PERFECT. sheesh.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
liam neeson is gonna play matt scudder in the upcoming movie version of "A Walk Among The Tombstones" so at least you have that to look forward to.
― ian, Saturday, 19 October 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Scudder
i mean he basically plays Reacher in the Taken movies except for the having a family part.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
― scott seward, Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bit long in the tooth for reacher, who i always imagined as being pretty youthful (so is cruise i guess but he has a younger aura than neeson)
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
still, he was very capable as badass in the Taken movies. you don't need to know his chronology from the books. he could be an older guy. if he could be four feet tall in the movie he could be older too.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
liam has ten years on cruise.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
i dont doubt he's a #1 badass but i think he's got too much sadness in his eyes to be reacher
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
the new girl is abysmal
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
incorrect, interestingly!
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
it's shocking to me that that style of sitcom is even produced any more tbh
i attempted to watch s03e01 & my wife said "so it's like friends?" and i was like, i guess so
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
what style? one camera, no laugh track? that's like... the most common comedy format of this era
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
whatever boss, i'm just saying the style feels dated as hell to me
and it's always a bad sign in my book when "friends" feels like some kind of classic masterwork in comparison
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
yes it's a sign you're getting old
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.babywit.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/r/arf688_1_1.png
(replace "loud" with "whimsical and frothy")
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
the actors seem like they're probably nice people, i feel bad for them that they're stuck inside such a deeply shitty television show that is apparently just successful enough to keep cranking out episodes
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
M. Night Shyamalan's The Devil is on Netflix now. I'm trying and failing to come up with a reason not to watch it.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
New Girl is the best show on television. If you don't agree you are dumb.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/4/1/7/1/2/3/hes-right-you-know-93164244350.jpeg
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
haha i knew selzer couldn't let that pass
― balls, Saturday, 19 October 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
Xpost I've heard Devil is pretty good. M Night didn't direct it just produced it iirc
― Admin is dead, e/t is permitted (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 19 October 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Anyone seen Popatopolis?
Popatopolis follows veteran B-movie auteur Jim Wynorski as he attempts to produce the soft-core film The Witches of Breastwick on a three-day shoot.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 20 October 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
I've heard Devil is pretty good. M Night didn't direct it just produced it iirc
if m night didn't write the scene where a panicky catholic dude tries to prove the devil is near by dropping a piece of butter toast (which lands butter down because of the devil) then it was written by someone on m night's wavelength
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
not say i don't highly recommend watching devil, tho. just watch it knowing that m nightness abounds.
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:03 (ten years ago) link
tracer's reaction to 15 minutes of the new girl is cute cuz it reminds me how much i hated arrested development based on one and a half episodes
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
The Marc Maron standup is sort of entertaining.
I couldn't make it through New Girl either. Seems like Happy Endings minus the likable characters and laughs.
― Darin, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ibtauris.com/~/media/Images/Book%20Covers/Television/9781845115111.ashx
― buzza, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:43 (ten years ago) link
tracer's reaction to 15 minutes of the new girl is cute cuz it reminds me how much i hated arrested development based on one and a half episodes― da croupier, Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― da croupier, Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i too hated arrested development but i certainly didn't stick around for an entire episode and a half to make sure
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 October 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
this is useful.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 20 October 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
i started rewatching new girl, aside from a bit of singing it's on its strengths basically from episode 2, much earlier than i had remembered. they set up the relationships very fast, too, from the pilot/second episode.
they get a lot out of their reaction shots.
― j., Sunday, 20 October 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
liked happy endings more than new girl but if you actually think happy endings had more likeable characters you may be a sociopath
― balls, Sunday, 20 October 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Fine, I just don't like Zooey Deschanel. There I said it. Can one of you recommend one specific episode that brings the lolz and might change my mind?
― Darin, Sunday, 20 October 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
TRUE AMERICAN
― j., Sunday, 20 October 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
fair nuff, I just know that when you have a violent "this is overrated when it is the worst!!!!" reaction to a show, 75% you'll wind up loving it if you invest a little more time. but old people don't do that, I get it.
Can one of you recommend one specific episode that brings the lolz and might change my mind?
weekly serials don't really lend themselves to single episodes that will make grumps unfold their arms, imo. I'd say watch the first disc of season 2, if you're still "THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER!" after giving yourself a chance to get into the groove, then move on.
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
i never got into Friends, but I didn't really try so I have to assume there's a point where you give a rat's ass about those buttfaces the way I liked the buttfaces on post-friends "zany urbanites" shows.
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
with the exception of a show like Parks & rec, where s1 was crazy short, "watch the first disc of season 2, if you're still "THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER!" after giving yourself a chance to get into the groove, then move on" is my recommendation for just about every sitcom
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
i loved Friends. they were my friends.
― scott seward, Sunday, 20 October 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
Just watched The Queen of Versailles, christ alive what a twat that David Siegel is
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 20 October 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
I think every thread for sitcoms that ended up being ILX faves, including New Girl, started out with lots of "Not feeling it" posts and eventually just became a bunch of quotes and gifs. But now that we have Netflix there's a new opportunity for posters to watch the first episode of these shows and come tell us that they suck.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 20 October 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
s/o ppl getting annoyed that other people dont like 'new girl' lmao
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 20 October 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
interrupting this neverending thread about sitcoms to say that the 1978 movie entitled ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? is not a horror movie, but more of an afterschool movie about rape. a girl even gets a picture of herself stuck in her locker that says RAPE on it and then she gets raped.
it gave me fierce hair envy on top of being not a very good movie. can't recommend it even though it seemed like it would be good. it does star some attractive actors and has appealing set design. i guess that's something.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 20 October 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
i watched that! way overplotted and SEMI-SPOILER the identity of the stalker/rapist totally bummed me out, but definitely tv-movie entertaining
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
actually i ffwed like half of it so i guess i shouldn't say it's "tv-movie entertaining"
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Absolute BS
― Moodles, Sunday, 20 October 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
Haha, wrong thread
― Moodles, Sunday, 20 October 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
the architect dad reminded me of a hipster dad of todaysadly i watched the whole thing waiting for it to be a horror movie
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
been watching THE ROCKFORD FILES. if nothing else, great for amazing vintage L.A. location porn.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
architect dads are hipster dads
― mh, Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
i'm probably just allergic to the zany urbanites genre. i saw a few episodes of seinfeld again recently and was surprised at how lame it seemed
i think possibly just the entire brightly-lit couch steez is ruined for me by the office, alan partridge, curb, the thick of it, louis, etc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
omg the main girl in the movie is married to thomas dolby! weird.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link