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There are definitely a lot of great genre directors who stopped getting work or who simply chose shit projects. Having verhoeven, mctiernan, andrew davis, etc at the helm of so many great films back then, we didn't know how good we had it. Then we wind up with brett ratner and bryan singer. Signs of civilization's decline.

omar little, Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:42 (one year ago)

everyone went to television. for money. or lots of people did anyway. when i watch streaming shows i'm amazed at how many past Sundance darlings i see in the credits.

scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:03 (one year ago)

McTiernan went to jail too.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:23 (one year ago)

I liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith when I saw it in the theater but I've never gotten around to watching it again to see if it's actually good.

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:31 (one year ago)

i mean look at Andrew Davis, these films are all great -- Code of Silence, Above the Law, The Package, Under Siege, The Fugitive. and of course to cash in on his mega-success, he makes...Steal Big, Steal Little. a comedy movie starring Andy Garcia as twins. might as well have made an Ernest film.

omar little, Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:40 (one year ago)

I liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith when I saw it in the theater but I've never gotten around to watching it again to see if it's actually good.

I watched it less than a year ago. It's not good.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:42 (one year ago)

i would watch the nu-Roadhouse if it was directed by that guy who directed Brawl In Cell Block 99.

Kind of apropos, given this comment on the "Roadhouse" thread:

Mystified by this sudden convergence of reactionary politics and Hollywood action movies
. Like, don't get me wrong, I liked "Brawl," but that dude is literally the epitome of the intersection of reactionary politics and Hollywood action.

Wonder what S. Craig Zahler has been up to. He hasn't made a new movie since "Dragged Across Concrete," which came out in 2018. He writes books and graphic novels too, right?

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:49 (one year ago)

as far as i know he has only done the three movies. bone, brawl, and dragged. and he wrote a nazi puppet master movie starring udo kier.

i liked all three of those movies though i grit my teeth to watch a new mel gibson movie. i only watched it because i liked brawl so much.

scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:14 (one year ago)

I feel like I read somewhere that he's got a new one coming. But his movies don't make any money, so I wonder where he got the funding. I hope not from Ben Shapiro.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:20 (one year ago)

Could imagine Zahler doing TV in the vein of the Sons of Anarchy guy.

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:32 (one year ago)

Also, Slow Horses has become total comfort food programming.


Love this show. Oldman is perfect

infinite wiggles (Spottie), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:42 (one year ago)

Edge of Tomorrow is a masterpiece.

dan selzer, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:05 (one year ago)

Edging of Tomorrow, however, is a terrible porn parody and I regret having participated in its production.

Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:48 (one year ago)

Masters of the Air looked way better than the impression I got from the trailer. It’s a little too smooth (missing the film grain of Band of Brothers) but the air CGI wasn’t distracting.

papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:27 (one year ago)

I’ve started CRIMINAL RECORD, a new show on AppleTV. About a cop who learns of a possible wrongful conviction of a murderer from 10 years back, and butts heads with the original cop who got the conviction. 1st ep was pretty good.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:37 (one year ago)

I just started the morning show and I just don't know. I'm finding it corny. so many amazing elements that could add up to something incredible. really don't know if I'll make it past the first two episodes.

Swen, Sunday, 28 January 2024 05:30 (one year ago)

> I'm finding it corny. so many amazing elements that could add up to something incredible

That’s the Apple TV goal, I think.

papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 28 January 2024 06:20 (one year ago)

morning show leans corny at times but over the series i found that it corrected itself when it counts, if that makes sense

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2024 06:35 (one year ago)

interesting, I did feel that way about certain moments so good to know

Swen, Sunday, 28 January 2024 13:04 (one year ago)

The Roadhouse film also features absolute racist POS C0n0r McGreg0r in some capacity, so it can absolutely get fucked.

trishyb, Sunday, 28 January 2024 15:51 (one year ago)

Somewhat aptly, Mr & Mrs Smith is also getting another reboot but Hiro Murai and Donald Glover are involved so I have higher hopes for that xps

groovypanda, Sunday, 28 January 2024 19:25 (one year ago)

I completely missed watching Justified when it was first on. Finished season 1 on Hulu - damn what a good show. How many seasons are worth watching?

that's not my post, Monday, 29 January 2024 05:28 (one year ago)

xposts Where is Dekalog currently streaming?

It's not. Criterion BluRay or piracy are your choices.

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 05:35 (one year ago)

xpost the 5th season is skippable, i haven't seen the revival

i'd watch season 2 to 4, read wikipedia for 5, then 6. 2 is the highlight, not to knock the other seasons, which are very enjoyable (except for 5)

Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 January 2024 10:15 (one year ago)

^thanks

that's not my post, Monday, 29 January 2024 14:45 (one year ago)

Julien Leclercq (THE CREW, EARTH & BLOOD, SENTINELLE, GANGLANDS) has directed a remake of THE WAGES OF FEAR that'll be on Netflix at the end of March. Shame he couldn't find a role for Sami Bouajila, but I'll still watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk1y5KB6JPk

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:56 (one year ago)

I got the notification in my account about the Prime price bump for ad-free taking effect today. Anyone know how bad/intrusive the imposed 'limited commercial interruptions' are yet?

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 January 2024 21:27 (one year ago)

Hopefully they're using the same algorithm as YouTube and will just drop an ad right in the middle of a line of dialoHELLO FRESH IS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MEAL KIT, AND FOR A LIMITED TIME NEW MEMBERS CAN GET 18 FREE MEALS! SIGN UP TODAY!gue because I really really vibe with that.

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2024 21:43 (one year ago)

Outside of movies I'm abandoning paying extra for ad-free. They've gotten a lot less annoying since the early days of Hulu when it would be the same scammy ad over and over.

T-Mobile started offering free Hulu w/ ads, I'll save $12 a month or whatever and see a few ads during FX originals, whatever.

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 January 2024 21:47 (one year ago)

I got the notification in my account about the Prime price bump for ad-free taking effect today. Anyone know how bad/intrusive the imposed 'limited commercial interruptions' are yet?

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, January 29, 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Funny, I've been binging the final season of Mrs Maisel all weekend and suddenly, today, a third of the way into the final episode, a commercial popped up. I will say it was only one commercial and it only came on once. I'm sure the quantity and frequency will increase, but today it was tolerable.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:20 (one year ago)

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Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:24 (one year ago)

Eh, I survived watching commercial television in the 1970s and I suspect I can survive this. Maybe we just lucked out for a while, and can feel lucky that we experienced a brief golden age.

Just kidding. It all sucks and we are doomed

Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:24 (one year ago)

cable ads are the worst. my dad watches tons of msnbc and cnn and the endless insurance/children's hospital/vitamins/mesothelioma ads are very long and horrible. every 10 minutes or so!

i happily pay for ad-free hulu and youtube.

scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 22:40 (one year ago)

After Elvis T talked about Gyeongseong Creature I've burned through it pretty quickly and enjoyed it a lot, but fuck me it's too long - especially the first section of 7 which could easily have wrapped up in 3.

It reminds me of a particularly unsatisfactory RPG adventure where the narrative never moves forward and the tricks you would use as a GM to make sure it does are pretty much exactly what the director does - a character literally trips over a nitrogen cylinder because he hasn't put together that he keeps seeing empty and discarded cylinders everywhere and they have a key part to play. Also it feels like there are repeated runs round the same cycles (up and down the same corridor or repeated encounters with the same NPC) because the characters either don't roll successfully to have the encounter when they're in the location or ask completely the wrong questions and you can't railroad them to the right one so you have to run it again.

Also the monster totally feels like one of those instances where the characters accidentally encounter it far too early in the plot, when they lack either an artefact or some information to defeat it, so you have to make up on the hoof some miraculous way for them to escape.

The second block of three was far better paced but could still have shed an episode.

That said, am I up for S2 in the present day? Certainly am.

Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:57 (one year ago)

I know what you're saying, Puffin, but we weren't paying subscription fees for commercial TV

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:00 (one year ago)

otmfm

dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:04 (one year ago)

i really don't watch much on amazon prime and consider it a bonus to same day/ next day delivery of garbage that I decide to buy spur of the moment on amazon. but this is still annoying. Freevee is terrible with the rude interruptions mid-sentence. They pushed Freevee content all over Amazon Video as a sort of bellwether for this move I think; but I'm hoping the actual implementation for non Freevee content is more sensitive.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:26 (one year ago)

We watched downloads of Fargo 5, and the built-in fade to blacks showed where all the commercials would be, and woof, would that have made the experience so much worse.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 23:48 (one year ago)

I think the version of The Thing I watched on AMC+ was formatted for commercials. There were some jarring cuts to black I don’t remember.

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:59 (one year ago)

Yes I survived commercial tv during the before times. But a show has to be really worth it for me to sit thru ads these days. Peacock is pretty bad. We gave up on one show cos of the ads.

that's not my post, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 00:03 (one year ago)

I watched Tank Girl on FreeVee a week or so ago, and the interruptions weren't <that> bad. They were logically spaced between sequences (not always the case with the service), and I counted 7 of them, the longest being 1:30 and three or for that were only 15 seconds. The worst part was they bounced me to another film partway through the end credits, so I had to X out and pull TG back up so I could hear "Mockingbird Girl".

FreeVee's got a really nice selection of vintage TV and a pretty broad selection of films that's quite appealing.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 00:04 (one year ago)

"I watched" = "I screened", obvs.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 00:05 (one year ago)

lol

cellaring potential (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 00:33 (one year ago)

Tubi is just off the hook with nutzo exploitation movies. reform school girls. teenage hitchhikers. street girls. the naked cage. caged fury. doris wishman's hideout in the sun. just endless really. hot summer in barefoot county! some seriously shitty looking movies. but lots to choose from. i started watching The Laughing Woman from 1969 but my stomach isn't as strong for eurosexweirdness as it might have been in my wild youth so i doubt i will watch the whole thing. probably go back to Hell's Kitchen.

scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 00:35 (one year ago)

I think Tubi and Comet TV got me over caring about commercials for most things + there's little TV now where a 90 second ad break ruins anything. It would probably suck for True Detective but Death and Other Details? Meh, I'm not glued to the screen waiting for the next riveting moment.

If I didn't get Peacock and Hulu for free I just wouldn't watch them, though. Not paying extra for no-commercials but also not paying for anything with commercials.

papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:01 (one year ago)

The thing is too that streaming ad breaks have nothing on regular TV and Cable breaks these days. A normal 1-hour drama or talk show slot now consists of about 40-42 minutes of show (including credits) and the rest is ads.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:05 (one year ago)

The ads are only inserted into Amazon programming, though. I have a Max subscription through Prime and there were no commercial breaks in the latest episode of True Detective.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:45 (one year ago)

I started watching Fast X on Prime a couple of days ago and now I'm wondering if there will be commercials if I go back to it. I stopped about 45 minutes in. It was SO STUPID.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:46 (one year ago)

currently catching up on some latter season Top Model on Amazon Prime - fun glitch - doesn't save your spot when streaming on a computer! also something weird - they only have select seasons. i had to BUY one.

Swen, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:44 (one year ago)

I watched The Raid 2 on Freevee last night, mainly to see if I could stand watching a film with ad breaks -- hell no, it was awful, not doing that again.

that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:11 (one year ago)


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