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Gal Gadot is a terrible actor and I do not know why she keeps getting roles.

she is very pretty

I’ve only really seen her in WW, but she seemed fine to me there (and that first half hr of WW84, but she wasn’t the problem…)

She was fine in the first WW. Then it became rapidly apparent that that slightly wooden, awkwardly-accented delivery wasnt the Diana charater, its just HER.

Well I guess if Ahnold was able to build an action-hero career under those circumstances…

arnold has kind of a monotone but he’s got some nuance in how he deploys it

I have a pipe dream of DC making one of those alternate-universe movies, starring America Ferrera as Wonder Woman (…but maybe I’ve said too much).

Gal Gadot movies generally do well at the box office.

movies like with Gal Gadot in them

Correct, big budget spectacles from established franchises aimed at international markets. Same reason why Tom Cruise, also a terribly wooden actor imo, Channing Tatum, the Rock, etc. keep getting roles. They are proven quantities.

Gal Gadot is a terrible actor and I do not know why she keeps getting roles.

She's awful, and that whole film is awful, and Jamie Dornan and Alia Bhatt and Sophie Okonedo all deserved better. There's a weird bit in it where they're all in a van and someone says to Gal Gadot "Slow down, are you trying to kill us?" and she says "the exact opposite, actually!" And this little exchange is delivered like a joke, like witty banter, but there's no joke, it's not banter. And all the dialogue in the film is like that.

Tom Cruise

c’mon now… you may not be a Cruise fan, but the dude’s not in this category

(Also. it’s kind of funny in general to be like, “these handsome/charismatic/likable actors only get roles because people go to see them!”)

Why,i mean she's a producer and was the first star attached to the project.

Love Sophie Okenedo in Slow Horses and just about anything she is in. Okenedo was with Gadot in Death on the Nile (where I though Gadot was fine) but then again, who wasn't.

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Tom Cruise

c’mon now… you may not be a Cruise fan, but the dude’s not in this category

― Cone of uncertainty (morrisp), Monday, August 21, 2023 7:50 AM

Oh, I agree. I think Tom Cruise does a good job and probably Gadot does not. Just an example to make the point about why actors get roles.

The Peripheral now not getting a second season apparently due to delays from the strike

RIP, heaven needed a nonsensical glossy techno thriller

Now I can be 100% at peace with giving up on that show midway through, and not questioning my decision when a new hype cycle comes through

Aw I was enjoying that show!

xpost lol same

Anyone else watching the "Telemarketers" doc on HBO? It's pretty nuts. Basically an epic amateur whistleblower tale belatedly unearthed and brought to life by the Safdie Brothers. Third and final part comes out tonight.

its been awhile since i felt compelled to quickly watch a 6 or 8 episode series on netflix but i LOVED Guns and Gulaabs so much i had to keep watching. and then i did the same with Giri/Haji (Duty/Shame) and i kinda didn't even want that one to end cuz i liked the characters so much. i was a little afraid that the cockney gangster guy was going to be too guy ritchie for me but he was fine. i don't know who will sharpe is but i thought he was great as rodney. he really reminded me of some desperate people i have known. the actor who plays yuto mori was almost too hot for the screen. hubba hubba. and taki mori was possibly the cutest person to ever grace a television. and i always love to marvel at kelly macdonald's nose. so many angles and sides and slopes. an uncanny nose! i liked the design of both of these shows. visually. very cool.

the Guns and Gulaabs directors have shows on Prime called Farzia and The Family Man and i would watch both but i don't do Prime.

oh and also there is something sorta unusual that happens toward the end of the last episode of giri/haji that i can imagine people either liking or not liking but it to me it was just so beautiful at that moment. i almost cried. i could cry thinking of it! part of me doesn't really want to read reviews of it though. reviews suck and suck the life out of stuff.

this is not yet on Hulu, but will be in two weeks: Theater Camp! saw it at an actual movie theater last night and it's 100% delightful and fun. Really great low-budget indie written, directed by and starring molly gordon (claire from the bear) along with others. Everyone should watch it.

Watched the first ep of the new season of Invasion. Huge lols at getting Mitsuki suited up, walking her to the door of the alien ship, and only then training her how to use the suit and saying “you should know that every single person who has done this came back with severe neurological damage.” I guess when the boss is a clear Elon Musk caricature, that’s how they’d run things??

I considered watching Giri/Haji but the trailers really didn't sell it. Maybe now that Warrior is over I'll check it out.

you should watch Guns and Gulaabs too! very funny. and tons of action too.

I don't think Giri/Haji fully worked but had a few cool ideas that set it apart from similar shows. Like the ending. Not much of a time investment so it's worth a watch

they both do that same streaming t.v. time thing that so many action/drama shows do. where it will say *5 weeks ago*, *5 minutes ago*, *10 years ago*, etc...

when i like a show it doesn't matter. if i don't like a show that much i always want them to get on with it already. but i understand why people do it so much now and its not because of pulp fiction. its because people have the time to do it! you are basically making an 8 hour movie. you have time for lots of stuff.

Giri/Haji was probably too ambitious or had too many characters and that can make a plot lumpy (even though the basic plot is basically: bring brother home) but then again i loved the 4 generation car ride at the end with the baby so i'm kinda glad that they overstuffed things. you never stay in one place long enough to have someone wear out their welcome.

Season 2 of Bastards of Pizzofalcone (streams on Mhz) ended with a bang and the third season is really great. I'm not done yet but I'm really loving it. There is some griping about the arc of a certain detective, but I think it's very powerful. Anyway I like it a lot. The characters and their relationships are what really make it special imo.

its been awhile since i felt compelled to quickly watch a 6 or 8 episode series on netflix but i LOVED Guns and Gulaabs so much i had to keep watching.

Guns and Gulaabs is great. Love me some Rajkummar Rao.

Couldn't see it mentioned anywhere here earlier but I just caught up with the 1st season of Dark Winds from last year, and it was great - gripping drama and really respectful and interesting angle on the Navajo/Dine culture.

I really wanted to see that when it first premiered, and now apparently it's one of several AMC shows that are gonna be temporarily shown on Max in October and November, so I'm finally gonna get a chance to see it.

2nd season is also a quality view. Haven’t read the Tony Hillerman books, but will someday.

Didn’t know there was a second season. I thought season one was okay. I kinda wished it were more… prestige-y? If that makes sense?

It did occasionally feel low in budget. All the interior car scenes were really clearly greenscreen! But the acting is fantastic. I love Zahn McLarnon, he was great in Fargo.

Anyone else watching the "Telemarketers" doc on HBO? It's pretty nuts. Basically an epic amateur whistleblower tale belatedly unearthed and brought to life by the Safdie Brothers. Third and final part comes out tonight.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 27, 2023 12:58 PM (three days ago

I watched all 3 episodes in a row a couple of nights ago. Its brilliant.

cyrus and i watched telemarketers last night. pat pespas is such a star! joaquin phoenix wishes. such a captivating speaker is some weird way i can't figure out.

I have only watched the first episode so far, but I worked for that company in the early 90s. Not the New Brunswick office, though — I think it was in Edison. And it wasn't as cracked-out as it was by the mid-2000s. But it was definitely crooked as fuck.

whoa!

I wondered where it was going to go after the first episode and the direction it took was good. scott otm about Pat

Um, anyone watch 'Trap Jazz' on Hulu?

i worked at a telemarketing place in the 90s, in knoxville. big flashbacks. we were on the up and up compared to the outfit in this series but people still did all sorts of things. our job was to sell subscriptions to the local newspaper. there was this one guy who'd just make up crazy lies. he sold more subscriptions than anybody and actually got the performance bonuses that nobody else sold enough to get. i'll never forget his phrase: "if you subscribe with me today you'll become what we call a full route subscriber. what does that mean? well it means you get advertising supplements with lots of coupons, you'll get special holiday editions of the paper... it's our premium product." and of course everybody got ads and coupons and holiday editions of the paper, so he wasn't actually lying...

You were in the presence of A Telemarketing Legend

we had these little yellow cards with the first part of the phone number written out, like 555-55__ and then the rest of the card was 100 two-digit numbers, from 00 to 99, and you just called... each... combination. you'd x out the misses, the out of services, the fax machines, the no answers, and once in a goddamn blue moon you'd hit, and you'd circle that one. i think it maybe happened to me three times in the entire time i worked there. they didn't give me my last paycheck until i threatened to write a letter to the national labor relations board.

the job footage was kinda nightmarish. the job itself looks like death to me. but the people were fun!

Thanks to Elvis T for recommending the Korean cops vs gangsters show MY NAME on Netflix. Two episodes in and it's pretty incredible. Shades of infernal affairs/New World (it's one of those "informant caught in the middle" shows) and maybe even some John Wick mixed in there. Really great acting, absolutely no idea where it's going at this point, and it looks amazing.

Congratulations this is the worst idea of all time https://t.co/NJMuO4EVTk

— eve6 (@Eve6) August 30, 2023

I'm watching this great though grim Dutch short documentary called "When A Gabber Dies" about uhh... when a hardcore gabber fan dies. It is on Youtube! Turn on the captions, for english.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiDMlFycNrw