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Post by name_here » Wed Dec 25, 2013 2:37 am

I'm a bit dubious that it was part of the exaggerated persona. It was a very unwise comment to make from that perspective. Could be his success with the exaggerated persona led to him saying something he might otherwise have been tactful enough not to say, though.
As for the second comment, it's really in pretty much the same vein of bigotry. Maybe objectively worse but also temporally more distant.

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Post by Whipstitch » Wed Dec 25, 2013 3:57 am

Beyond that, I'm quite happy to scoff at people for what they do with their comedic personas anyway. Lemme put it this way: either this dude is kind of a stupid fuck, or he's a disingenuous carny asshole with a really lazy act ala Larry the Cable Guy.
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Post by Maj » Wed Dec 25, 2013 5:10 am

Proud to be wrong. Holy shit... Why the fuck would anyone do this to themselves? Was this an experiment in trolling? Did he say those things to get out of filming? What the...??!!
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Post by ubernoob » Thu Dec 26, 2013 8:19 am

I just found a show on youtube called Video Game High School. Really cheesy and surprisingly cute. Pretty impressive for something that looks like some college kids threw together for a film class. The second season has half hour episodes, so it looks like they made enough money to get a real budget.
TLDR: It's basically Scott Pilgrim in episode form.
Edit: And it abruptly ends at the end of the sixth episode of season two. Weird.
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Post by Maj » Fri Dec 27, 2013 9:10 pm

I just finished watching The Reichenbach Fall in prep for season three of Sherlock. Happy New Year, indeed.
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Post by Maj » Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:00 am

Loved the season three opener of Sherlock. Now we're binge-watching Arrow.
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Post by Prak » Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:12 am

I did a short piece for the blog I'm writing for about the season premier:

> Not Dead, Korbl Klimecki wrote:After two years of waiting and speculation, BBC’s Sherlock has returned.
> The third season premier teased fans by having Sherlock show up in a costume to surprise John, simply saying “Not Dead” (one of the scenarios dreamed up by fans during the lengthy wait). After a season three announcement that took the form of a hearse with a floral display reading “Sherlock 01 01 14.”
> The premier gave several scenarios positing how Sherlock faked his death. However, none were confirmed. Each was played off as a Sherlock groupie theory, or a story of questionable veracity that Sherlock was telling. This only gave one plausible reason as to why he faked his death, which could also be untrue.
> The episode also gave several nods to the fandom, with a fan club meeting to discuss the aforementioned theories–including “ships”–and twitter hashtags such as #SherlockLives and #NotDead.
> The next episode is set to air this Sunday, Jan. 5.

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Post by Sir Neil » Mon Jan 06, 2014 2:03 am

> OgreBattle wrote:**I'm kinda surprised there's not as much a controversy over what Phil said about Black people in the same interview: "I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field .... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word! ... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues."

I don't see anything controversial in that quote. It seems plausible to me that the people he knew were either apolitical enough or kept their unhappiness private enough that he wouldn't see it.
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Post by Maj » Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:00 am

House of Cards season two, courtesy of Netflix. Thank you, Kevin Spacey.
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Post by Kaelik » Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:16 am

That first episode. So plot, much wow.
Spoilers:
I really liked the the plot twist of episode 1, but I also thought was even better was the way he never spoke to you about anything all episode, and then right at the end, just as I was thinking, "Man, I don't think he has talked to the camera once this whole episode." He looks up from the mirror and says, "Did you think I had forgotten about you." Good shit, such prediction.

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Post by Starmaker » Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:34 am

I'm amazed there's so much "wow", drama, and zomgSPOILERS!!! on the internets. Did no one watch the UK series?
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Post by Kaelik » Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:09 pm

> Starmaker wrote:I'm amazed there's so much "wow", drama, and zomgSPOILERS!!! on the internets. Did no one watch the UK series?

No. But honestly I just spoiler things because people have bitched me out for spoiling season one of game of thrones during season 2, and that is an eleven year old book series, so I'd rather not have the argument about spoilers again, so I just spoiler block shit.

> DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?

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Post by Starmaker » Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:34 pm

> Kaelik wrote:

> > Starmaker wrote:I'm amazed there's so much "wow", drama, and zomgSPOILERS!!! on the internets. Did no one watch the UK series?

> No. But honestly I just spoiler things because people have bitched me out for spoiling season one of game of thrones during season 2, and that is an eleven year old book series, so I'd rather not have the argument about spoilers again, so I just spoiler block shit.

I don't mean this thread, it's just the internet went all "zomgspoilers" and "what a tweeeeeest", while when the US version just started to air, people were openly discussing the supposed spoilers-to-be and how the future event would reflect on the newly reimagined characters.
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Post by Maj » Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:58 pm

There's no "start to air" on Netflix. There are probably lots of people who have already watched the whole season since it came out Friday. Others haven't gotten that far, yet. And no... They probably didn't watch the UK version.
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Post by Kaelik » Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:14 pm

I think he means that when season 1 came out the people who had seen the UK version were arguing about how the
death of a major character
would turn out.
Although I really do think the show has something to gain from the US political system, because the way you become prime minister pretty much has nothing to do with how you get the old prime minister gone, where in the US there are at least three paths to the presidency.

> DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?

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Post by Maj » Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:15 pm

I'd have to watch them both to see how close they are (maybe I'll do that this week). A couple of things I do know... The US version is considerably longer - by 22 episodes (and another season of 13 episodes is in the works). It seems surprising to me that we'd drag out a British series like that without something going horribly different, but who knows?
A lot of the nuanced differences in the show that I've seen talked about in online comparisons can be attributed to to the fact that we're Americans, and we don't British. But before I open my mouth and see if my foot fits, I'll actually watch the British version and get my own take on things.
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Post by Maj » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:53 pm

Pokémon is now on Netflix! Each episode even comes with the pokérap. I forgot how annoying Ash is. On the other hand, I forgot how much the show makes fun of the games. And Pikachu is always cute, so that's OK, too.
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Post by Shrapnel » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:28 pm

Ahh, Pokemon. From the good ol' days, no less. It's also on instant streaming, which is even better!
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Post by Maj » Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:43 am

I only Netflix with streaming.
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Post by Stahlseele » Fri Mar 07, 2014 11:43 am

Top Gear Season 21.
The three blokes from the UK are still hillarious ^^
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Post by erik » Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:42 am

I just watched The Lost Room (6x 45min episode miniseries) on the recommendation of a friend, and it was good. It can be found on youtube and possibly on more reputable locales as well, I dunno.
I watched all the Sherlock episodes in February and my socks were surprisingly rocked. It's my favorite Sherlock version to date largely because it is my favorite Watson. I was very lucky that I managed to finish watching all 3 seasons since only until March 4th was the 3rd season free to watch on the PBS website (the first 2 seasons I get on Amazon Prime). I'll buy them all at some point just to support the show, but it was nice to free-binge.
We hit up redbox for a couple movies recently. Ender's Game and the newest Hunger's Game.
Ender's Game wasn't bad, per se. It was just frustrating to watch the book on fast-forward. It made it really hard to develop characters since it just kept leaping forward. I had an even harder time relating to/caring about Ender. It did inspire my wife to read the only book I have from that universe, Ender's Shadow. I think she liked it.
The second hunger games movie... holy Koresh was it dark. I don't mean edgy. I mean that half the movie we couldn't see anything on our TV. Given that I have about zero respect for the third book, I don't think I'll care enough to watch the 3rd movie, even with the desire to complete things.
I'm sad I didn't rent like anything else instead. I could have grabbed Thor's Game 2 or something. Just like one Loki line would've been better than the entire Hunger Games 2 movie. I'm double sad because we had a free rental code for Hungry Hungry Games but we had to return the movie by 9pm tonight and we didn't start watching the 2.5hr movie until past 7pm because my wife spent literally the entire day doing her homework for her online class. So we are going to have to pay money for this rental anyway.
[later recollection: actually in retrospect, Thor was sold out so no I couldn't have rented it. My prioritization was also affected since my wife insists that she hasn't seen the first Thor]
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Post by name_here » Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:47 am

Saw Alien for the first time just now. Watching it while basically knowing everything that happens was very weird, but it was still very good. The crew completely fucking up Xenomorphs 101 was a hell of a lot less annoying than when people in the AvP games do it because not only is fighting Xenomorphs not literally their main job but they were also the first people to do it at all.
Campus film society is showing Predator tomorrow, so I'll watch that too. Yes, I've played AvP games without having seen either of the original films. No, I'm not entirely sure why either.
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Post by name_here » Mon Jun 30, 2014 2:48 am

Watched Edge Of Tomorrow. Having read the manga of All You Need Is Kill, I am deeply saddened by how Rita is substantially less awesome.
Behold:
Movie Rita
Manga Rita
But there's a lot of down left from there, so movie Rita is still pretty awesome and the movie as a whole is good.

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Post by erik » Mon Jun 30, 2014 3:47 am

I've been watching various free things on Amazon Prime.
Carnival Season 1. A bit slow going, and nudity for nudity's sake lets you know it was made for cable. Still I'll probably watch Season 2 someday.
The Last Enemy. Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Carlyle. Yes! I was kind of expecting the ending to play out as it did (big picture anyway), but still got me in the feels.
Monsters. This movie would have been much better if I didn't really dislike the main character. Le sigh. He became more sympathetic eventually but took way too long to get there. The story was devoid of any sense of reality on many fronts, but I could have forgiven it better if I wasn't wishing for the main character to get eaten or something most of the movie.
Star Trek Into Darkness. Yay, more reboot fun. I enjoyed it.
World War Z actually wasn't too bad. I was appalled at Israel grabbing the idiot ball as soon as Brad Pitt showed up, but other than that I didn't grouse much. I'd have been pissed if I went into it thinking it actually had anything to do with the book, but I've long since known better.
I've been waiting to start Orphan Black with mrs. erik but she hasn't been in the mood to watch something longer than 22 minutes most days. I'll probably start it on my own this week.
We finally watched The Lego Movie at the discount theatre with my 5 year old. Was well enjoyed and I grabbed the DVD at the grocery the week after.
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Post by Maj » Mon Jun 30, 2014 7:55 pm

Ooh! Thank you! My brother-in-law just set us up with a year of Prime, and so this is good to know!
As for Orphan Black... I got Ess to watch it by just hitting the play button. We both really, really liked the first episode and plan to continue, but we're trying to finish up the last few episodes of Continuum first.
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