“Legacy” movies/shows

[epilogue]

Twin Peaks: The Return was outstanding all around.

Masterful.

A huge part of my enjoyment of that particular series was anticipation and letting the previous episodes ferment in my head for a week. I am planning a full Twin Peaks revisit soon.

A good friend of mine decided to do a full series watch (he's never seen any of it before) about six months ago. He finished S1 and S2 in time to go see FWWM in theaters on Twin Peaks day. He hasn't started The Return yet. I just can't wait for him to see it.

Suggest he takes his time with it.

The Return aired on Sundays... I think I can make an episode a week work with my sched, July 3rd penciled in.

Oh yeah. I made sure he didn't binge any of it. I told him to give it at least three days between episodes. For The Return I'll make sure he takes a week per.

[epilogue]

Twin Peaks: The Return was outstanding all around.

I think you can make an argument that this doesn't fit in with the current trend of reboots, since most of the other series/movies listed above were "dead" properties that were brought back to life, often on a wave of nostalgia, whereas Twin Peaks Season 2 promised a return in 25 years. It was planned all along.

But we both know that's not true.

[Jorge]

Looking forward to posting the Clerks 3 trailer here soon

Looks bad

[daft twat]

That looks awful.

[BurtReynolds]

That Dark Crystal series on Netflix was criminally overlooked and it sucks that they're not making more of it.

Yeah I get depressed thinking about it.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[BurtReynolds]

Eh, Affleck probably feels like he owes him.

[BurtReynolds]

The real question is how did Kevin Smith make a movie like Clerks to begin with? He doesn't seem capable.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

The real question is how did Kevin Smith make a movie like Clerks to begin with? He doesn't seem capable.

What do you mean? A cruddy-looking film about a couple of underachievers sitting around throwing pop culture references at each other, made up of mostly static mid-shots? How is he not capable of that?

[Jorge]

The new Beavis and Butthead movie was funny, but not as good as Do America.

[The Argonaut]

Clerks came at a time when you could sell a movie just by making it at least eighty minutes long and telling people it cost less than $40k to make. It didn't catually have to be competent or good. Robert Rodriguez similarly benefited from this phenomenon

[BurtReynolds]

I just meant personality or temperament mostly, but I'm going to rescind my previous comment anyway.

Clerks just felt so authentic to me, but nothing else he's ever done has.

[Simple Torture]

Clerks cartoon >>>>> any other Kevin Smith content

[oasisfan35]

Clerks cartoon >>>>> any other Kevin Smith content

"Who's driving? OH NO! Bear's driving!"

[Jorge]

I just meant personality or temperament mostly, but I'm going to rescind my previous comment anyway.

Clerks just felt so authentic to me, but nothing else he's ever done has.

I think I know what you mean. My take is that the authenticity you describe was actually an affectation. I think pre-fame Kevin Smith was motivated by an aspiration to indie DIY coolness. He wanted to be Richard Linklater or Hal Hartley. He lost that almost immediately and gave in to what I believe is his more authentic self: a goofy comic book man

[Simple Torture]

Clerks cartoon >>>>> any other Kevin Smith content

"Who's driving? OH NO! Bear's driving!"

This and "Nothing can kill the Grimace!" are probably Top 10 TV gags for me of all time.

[daft twat]

Top Gun: Maverick just passed $700 million domestically. It’s about the cost of a Honda Civic away from passing Black Panther for 5th all-time (unadjusted for inflation, obviously). This film is somehow both David and Goliath.

I don’t know if the new Lord of the Rings series fits here, but the movies came out 20 years ago. Seems like not much of RM is watching. I loved the first two episodes.

We’re less than a week away from Cobra Kai season 5.

[Bammer]

Alternate (see: better) thread title: Prequels, Sequels, Spinoffs, & Remakes

[VinylGuy]

Top Gun: Maverick just passed $700 million domestically. It’s about the cost of a Honda Civic away from passing Black Panther for 5th all-time (unadjusted for inflation, obviously). This film is somehow both David and Goliath.

I don’t know if the new Lord of the Rings series fits here, but the movies came out 20 years ago. Seems like not much of RM is watching. I loved the first two episodes.

We’re less than a week away from Cobra Kai season 5.

im exited for season 5 of Kai