Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

Finally started Wentworth season 3. Too damn good. This season is off to a good start with all the craziness. Bea is a damn mastermind.
 
Yeah I understand they shouldn't make Jumanji without Robin but lets be real... His character is NEVER touching that game again. After all they went thru in the movie, it makes no sense for his character to be back. New characters, same game, different outcomes. That's how you do it.
 
I'm fine with a Bad Boys 3/4... play into the absurdity of it all. 

I really wanted a Bad Boys 3 ten years ago, but what can you do. 

I wasn't that  interested in seeing Fantastic Four. It looked average from the trailers, didn't get me that excited, but if the reviews were positive, I'd probably check it out. If the reviews were mixed? Maybe see if it I was bored or wait for it and watch later.

But with the reviews being this bad?  With this supposedly atrocious 3rd act? The terrible CGI face change scene? Now I'm excited to see how bad it is.
 
Uptempo kid said:
Yeah I understand they shouldn't make Jumanji without Robin but lets be real... His character is NEVER touching that game again. After all they went thru in the movie, it makes no sense for his character to be back. New characters, same game, different outcomes. That's how you do it.
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It's not even about doing it without Robin. I don't think it should be continued at all.

It was a thing at a certain time. It was great. That's that. It's one of the more frequent unique and final things about movies as opposed to the product being packaged as a never ending serial (which has it's good points too but is clearly received differently).

So yeah, when they do remake it or continue on I think it'll be a slim chance that it'll recapture the success of the OG. I know they won't match the quality.
 
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It's going to feel so weird not having Stewart on nearly every night. It was strange enough when Colbert signed off, but I've honestly tuned in to their shows regularly for years. Just the consistency of it always throws me off a bit. I didn't routinely watch Letterman, but it was DAVID LETTERMAN. He's been on TV since... well since before I was born.  Like when you graduated from school, change jobs, move, and so on... Things keep going, but they're not the same. 

Television is interesting like that to me. People can talk about remembering Carson's last episode, about where you were when we landed on the moon, when major news broke, about gathering around the television to share in the moment. And whether it's television, computers, your phones, it doesn't matter, it's that shared experience of our culture, I've always found that fascinating and special. And on a much smaller scale, you can take any show, Breaking Bad for example.. when that went off, you had your articles, discussions, retrospectives, and we all got to look back fondly on the show and the memories. And then the show ends. The thing you look forward to several weeks in a row is no longer on. The discussions you have slowly start to fade as people pop in less and less to talk since there's less and less to talk about. Every now and then, the Breaking Bad thread gets updated with a few new sparks of conversation, but people move on to other shows. 

So it's like anything in life.. it begins, continues, and then ends. It's nothing to be depressed, I just always feel a bit.. different whenever it happens. I know a lot of people just see TV as something that they put on in the background or they don't ever care to overanalyze things like I tend to do, but I guess it just connects to the larger idea of change. It's not a bad thing, it's just how things work. Everything ends at some point. For myself, I've been able to look back on shows and remember specific points in my life. Boy Meets World was like a BIG DEAL in my younger days... The Simpsons and Seinfeld reruns were a daily.. DAILY thing in my house. You put the TV on so we could watch that every night. Friday Night Lights was the show I watched with my mom, episode by episode.. before I left for college. And then afterwards I would get to talk to her about the episodes. I've always had a weirdly sentimental memory like that with certain things, television being no exception.

But when a show has lasted so long.. and when I've watched it for so long.. it makes that ending all the more magnified. I've watched The Daily Show when I was living with my brother, when I was in school with my roommates, when I came home living on my home, it's been around for awhile.

With Stewart leaving, though... it feels a bit more disappointing than usual. Colbert was hilarious and a character who was ready to drop his act, Letterman's earned his retirement, and even Stewart can't be expected to put out another 16 years of television, so I'm glad he gets to go out on top (although he's clearly been ready to move on for a little while). Stewart's job was important.. and that's the difference. He was able to connect a huge audience to politics, social issues, the absurdity of this country, in a really amazing way. He wasn't the first, he won't be the last, but his influence was profound. And there are other outlets for that kind of stuff, John Oliver for one has been great, but the Daily Show was just a reliable, constant source of satire and sometimes frighteningly funny look at our country. 

Incoherent Billy Madison-esque rambling aside, I'll truly miss Jon Stewart's Daily Show. Not only for the shared television experience, but for his impact and contribution to comedy and politics. I think what I loved the most about his farewell as it was clear how difficult it was for him. It was someone walking away from a dream job, with an incredible history of funny correspondents, writers, crew, and he moved on because it was what he needed to do. He had done all he could, he needed a change and new challenge, and he gets to take a break with his family. I look forward to whatever he does next, but even if he doesn't, his Daily Show has been a joy to watch and experience.
 
Totally agree. Colbert hit me. Ferguson hit me harder. What happened to Coco is still something I'm not over and it's still not the same to me watching him now.

Jon leaving still hasn't registered in my mind. I watched the last ep, loved it, saw him break down getting that thank you, all of his correspondents, the goodbyes from politicians, and all that but I'm still expecting to see him next week (and I think we will with reruns but I wish he covered the Republican debate tonight).
 
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I never watched Ferguson like I should have. I liked him a lot, it just wasn't in my routine.

Conan is something I accepted but you're right.. it's not the same. He should have been the next Letterman, who transitioned from the absurd Late Night host to the mainstream but still weird and quirky host for the next 15 years. It was set up, it made sense, but NBC's shortsightedness brought it all down. I have no doubts Conan would have found his footing with time, but at least he's got a home and TBS is better than nothing. 

Just imagine getting to see Conan and Colbert on NBC and CBS for the next decade, that would have been awesome. 

And the other thing I just realized. You can't really rewatch late night shows. Other than the remote pieces or the random great segment, they're too topical to replay down the line. You're not going to randomly put on an episode from 3 years ago to watch them talk about whatever is in the news cause you won't care as much. I haven't rewatch old colbert episodes.. I don't even know if they're available to stream.
 
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Right after Conan got the main gig I needed a new late late night itch scratcher. I found I enjoyed Craig's show just as much as I did Coco's if not a bit more as things did not change for so long and got better. To the point he was the only guy I was consistently watching along with Jon and Stephen for a certain period.

Conan finding his footing along with Colbert would've been hard to handle :lol: I'd probably have to watch based on guests who were funnier with the host but alas :smh:
 
I just recently got into light-hearted political shows, and it started with Last Week Tonight.

That got me into looking up some of the more recent Colbert/John Stewart. Definitely see where John Oliver gets his inspiration from.
 
Just posted in the Netflix thread about the French film Tell No One. If you love thrillers/mysteries, it's one of the best ones I've ever seen.
 
Master Zik said:
Uptempo kid said:
Yeah I understand they shouldn't make Jumanji without Robin but lets be real... His character is NEVER touching that game again. After all they went thru in the movie, it makes no sense for his character to be back. New characters, same game, different outcomes. That's how you do it.
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It's not even about doing it without Robin. I don't think it should be continued at all.

It was a thing at a certain time. It was great. That's that. It's one of the more frequent unique and final things about movies as opposed to the product being packaged as a never ending serial (which has it's good points too but is clearly received differently).

So yeah, when they do remake it or continue on I think it'll be a slim chance that it'll recapture the success of the OG. I know they won't match the quality.
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I get that but most of the people talking about Jumanji I've been reading have been saying you can't do it without Robin. Just arguing from a story stand point it doesn't make sense. I rather they don't make Jumanji 2 or whatever and take some other script and make a movie. I know there's like 100's of scripts laying around they can make but too afraid to do.
 
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JapanAir21 said:
Michael Pena is the epitome of bad movie.
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Never seen a movie Michael Pena wasn't funny in. :lol:

Unless of course he wasn't supposed to be funny it...

But that's one funny guy.
 
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Observe and report was meh but Michael Pèna killed it breh. didn't know he had comic chops til then but duke is hilarious. love him in pretty much every flick since

THATS RACISM MAN! I LOVE TO RACISM BRO
 
D0nny Donowitz said:
Observe and report was meh but Michael Pèna killed it breh. didn't know he had comic chops til then but duke is hilarious. love him in pretty much every flick since

THATS RACISM MAN! I LOVE TO RACISM BRO
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He was hilarious in Observe and Report... :lol:
 
RoOk said:
Dude no way lmao the pilot for Mr Robinson might have been the worst show I have ever seen :lol:

Dead serious
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I enjoyed the kids in the show , his music on stage and Meagan good :pimp:
the actual quality of the show like you said isn't good but my expectations where john mulaney bad :lol:
 
Anyone else watched Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau?

Brando was a real nut at the end of his career :lol:
 
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