OA is OAmazing
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 23 March 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link
OATMFM
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 March 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
The Dirt was about as good as those VH1 biopics so not very. Aside from everything, everyone looked so showered & healthy! And everyone’s hair was TOO FLATmy favorite thing was the DLR scene where they said THATS DAVID LEE ROTH like 9 times to make sure you got it because dude looked ~nothing~ like DLR
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 March 2019 06:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah The Dirt is somehow even dumber than I expected. Quality about equivalent to the band though.
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 March 2019 07:18 (five years ago) link
The Dirt was okay for the first half, shitty production values fit the material. When they started the everybody gets sober plot point it went off the rails.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 23 March 2019 07:56 (five years ago) link
so to speak...
you can hear her croaking here:📹
― nathom, Saturday, 23 March 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
I wish the fact that I have no doubts that The Dirt is as shitty as unperson says would prevent me from watching it but I'm helpless
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
^ oh for sure better shitty than mediocre
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
Netflix original programming in general "barely not shitty"
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
I can't get through a single episode of almost anything discussed itt. Psyched for the Dylan Rolling Thunder doc though!
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
The Dirt is not shitty in an entertaining way. It's just tedious and unpleasant
― Number None, Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
something is def wrong w me because you just pushed it to the top of my list
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
I mean I watched it, so who am I to judge?
― Number None, Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
― maura, Saturday, 23 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
one of the promises of prestige television was serial fiction that might have a story of the week format but have a greater focus on season or series-long plots
that’s one of the things that has both enabled and wrecked most netflix shows. the pacing is completely blown in an attempt to cater to binging
― mh, Saturday, 23 March 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
I'm about 15 minutes into the Dirt. It's pretty corny for sure but I'm enjoying Ramsey Bolton as Mick Mars exactly as much as I thought I would.
― ☮, 🐸 (peace, man), Saturday, 23 March 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
Just wanna say that The Order is totally hitting that slightly-low-rent-but-surprisingly-good-zings "first-season-Buffy-like" spot I didn't know I need scratched
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 23 March 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
ha, i saw that on the interface and had no idea what the heck kinda show it was. Buffy you say? but the first season wasn't that strong...
― Nhex, Sunday, 24 March 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
after Ozzy snorts those ants and licks up his pee and the other guy's pee, you might as well turn off The Dirt.
However, I'm really enjoying "Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman"
and The OA is back!
― maffew12, Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:13 (five years ago) link
on second thought... the second you see Ozzy, just stop
― maffew12, Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
they gilded the lily on a lot of heinous shit from the book and/or left out tons of other heinous shit. so it’s become “a light romp with lots of tits & a facepunching lets be cool”. which is really the worst thing about it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
but the first season wasn't that strong...
That's what I mean, the Order isn't exactly good the way Buffy got, but it has personality and zing, the way Buffy did from the start.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
gotcha eephus
― Nhex, Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
Turn Up Charlie ended really abruptly.
I remember someone else was posting how much they liked Kantaro. I watched two-three episodes but it didn't hold me.
― Yerac, Sunday, 24 March 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
What makes the book good is Strauss finding a way to write each member’s voice in a very distinct and personable way. Nearly everything they do is heinous, and we all know the music is 97% worthless, so it’s him writing their charisma or self-belief onto the page that makes it fun. That’s not going to exist in any live-action adaptation, especially a DTV quickie made by nobodies.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 24 March 2019 02:25 (five years ago) link
i just remembered that i read the book right before 9/11
― maura, Sunday, 24 March 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
sic otmalso the band being involved in the production of the movie guarantees eliding the heinous stuffin the book
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 March 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link
I’ve never read the book but it’s notable that the anecdotes shared in reviews closer to the time it came out were gross but in a funny way, but the reviews of the movie mention the omission of the nastier things.. that weren’t mentioned in the book reviews!I think it’s a fairer lens overall
― mh, Sunday, 24 March 2019 05:09 (five years ago) link
it was definitely the way Strauss captured their insane self-delusion in the book that made it readable the delusion in the movie is a whole other level
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 March 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
anecdotes shared in reviews closer to the time it came out were gross but in a funny way
I gotta give this to Strauss as well: he gets you onside and laughing with the band early on when they're buying takeaway burritos on the way home and fucking them in the back of the van so their girfriends don't smell the unprotected sex with groupies that they've previously had in the van on their dicks, or snorting live ants with Ozzy. By the time they're raping unconscious women, manslaughtering their friends, and working out by lifting garbage bags full of water while in prison for beating their wives, you've bought in to the characters. These depradations thus seem like a dark dip in their funtime fortunes, rather than the obvious next step in a straight line for these three idiot monsters (while Mick Mars is off having painful surgery and practicing guitar).
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 24 March 2019 07:30 (five years ago) link
According to his wiki page, Vince Neil has had 2 DUI's since the crash which killed his friend. How the fuck has he evaded jail?
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 24 March 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
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― Number None, Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
This book has always sounded like someone I would rather die than read and Strauss should be metoo’d by the neck until dead, can’t even imagine giving time to a Netflix version
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
*someTHING
first two crüe records are awesome btw. after that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
first 2 albums rule (i have unsupportable enjoyment of Dr Feelgood that we won’t get into)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
I'm enjoying The Sinner, a clever and atmospheric crime drama. Like a less pretentious True Detective.
(apologies if mentioned before, thread will crash my browser if I show all)
― chap, Sunday, 24 March 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
I think it has been. I didn’t have high expectations but season 1 of the sinner might be my favorite crime type show of the last few years.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 March 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
I regret watching the first episode of 'You,' I want a shower now.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 25 March 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
Watched the final season of Longmire (I'd seen seasons 1-5 via Amazon). It was a good show the whole way along and then MASSIVELY shit the bed in its final 15 minutes.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 25 March 2019 01:59 (five years ago) link
Sinner S1 is surprisingly good, pretty stoked to see the Carrie Coon-starring second season.
― Simon H., Monday, 25 March 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
S2 is really really good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link
I'm waiting impatiently for Netflix to add the damn thing.
― Simon H., Monday, 25 March 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
Three episodes into S2, it's a little more pulpy and lurid than the first but still pretty good. Coon is excellent, Pullman continues to be excellent.
I ended up watching the whole of You for some reason. More or less garbage.
― chap, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
Watched all of After Life this weekend because I had the flu and was dependant on the kindness of others. Those who bailed early missed the repeated lectures on the moral and intellectual superiority of atheism, the fat jokes, the murder of a heroin addict portrayed as an act of mercy by a superior being, and an entire episode devoted to everyone on the show telling fuckface what a lovely, lovely man he is. The only redeeming quality of this tribute to a fascist's ego: they didn't kill the dog.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:20 (five years ago) link
I watched ep1, thought the premise was good but otherwise it was just nasty. Thought I'd try another ep or two to see where it goes but might not bother now. all the 'jokes' are just shitty things he says iirc
― kinder, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:01 (five years ago) link
The Sinner was that mad Jessica Biel thing, wasn't it? is s2 similar?
― kinder, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:03 (five years ago) link
There were clearly people involved with the show who cared about other aspects of the experience than Gervais' ego and there were affecting moments because of it -- but ultimately, it was looking at a guy looking at himself in the mirror and liking what he sees way more than I could.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:05 (five years ago) link
is s2 similar?
There's the same starting point of a murder in which the perpertrator is apparent from the start, but in a completely new setting and completely different characters apart from Ambrose.
― chap, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link