Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sun January 22, 2017 1:52 am
downton abbey...i hate cora so much
You guys heard of a show called black sails?
And is it any good?
Steve Albini wrote: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.
I was looking forward to checking this out. But after your Zoolander 2 posts, I'm not sure I can trust your opinion of comedy. I'm going to need two or three more posters to weigh in.tragabigzanda wrote:Getting caught up on Man Seeking Woman. This show is just so, so good.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
As far as performances go, all the best players were underutilized and/or completely wasted. I'm not a Will Ferrel fan in general, and Zoolander 2 is a great example of why. He's just loud and masturbatory. It's not funny or interesting to me. The majority of the humor is sophomoric at best and offensive at worst. It offers nothing fresh or new. It's pulled down by poor stupid plotting and terrible pacing. It's an uneven mess, aesthetically. It's like it wants to be a spy movie parody but it can't really commit to what it wants to say about being a spy movie parody. Tonally, it just never delivers. The characters are inconsistent for the sake of humor which is annoying.tragabigzanda wrote:What didn't you like about Zoolander 2?durdencommatyler wrote:I was looking forward to checking this out. But after your Zoolander 2 posts, I'm not sure I can trust your opinion of comedy. I'm going to need two or three more posters to weigh in.tragabigzanda wrote:Getting caught up on Man Seeking Woman. This show is just so, so good.
Stiller and Wilson were both solid, with some really good jokes throughout. Kyle Mooney and Will Ferrell were both hysterical. I didn't find Kristin Wiig's character to be quite the firecracker the reviews would have me believe, but she was funny enough.
There were numerous scenes that were just so bizarre and odd and great. It dragged a bit whenever it tried to retread jokes from the original (the Jitterbug scene, Hansel's orgy). But the first 30 mins had me cracking up; then it dragged a little bit; then once Will Ferrell showed up, I was having tons of fun again.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Probably the best comedy on TVtragabigzanda wrote:Getting caught up on Man Seeking Woman. This show is just so, so good.
Completely agreed. I hope it is renewed. It took several episodes to get going and find its point of view, but the last several episodes were excellent.Joesanity wrote:Watched the season finale of The Good Place over the weekend.
Don't know if anyone else was watching it, but it's very good. Ted Danson is a lot of fun in his role.
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I haven't seen Anchorman 2. Can't imagine that I ever will. But Wayne's World 2 is goddamn genius. And does not suffer at all from the issues of Zoolander 2.tragabigzanda wrote:I definitely see where you're coming from with the bolded part, but I don't care about that sort of stuff in a movie like this. Like Wayne's World 2 or Anchorman 2, the plot and tone take a backset to the individual scenes; it's just a vehicle for characters to be funny. Of course it helps if you actually enjoy the characters. I happen to find Ferrell's Mugatu to be one of the funniest characters ever portrayed on screen.
There's one bit in it that is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The rest of it, not so much.durdencommatyler wrote:I haven't seen Anchorman 2. Can't imagine that I ever will. But Wayne's World 2 is goddamn genius. And does not suffer at all from the issues of Zoolander 2.tragabigzanda wrote:I definitely see where you're coming from with the bolded part, but I don't care about that sort of stuff in a movie like this. Like Wayne's World 2 or Anchorman 2, the plot and tone take a backset to the individual scenes; it's just a vehicle for characters to be funny. Of course it helps if you actually enjoy the characters. I happen to find Ferrell's Mugatu to be one of the funniest characters ever portrayed on screen.
Lv postLoathedVermin72 wrote:Anchorman 2 is waaaaaay better than the first one
I can't agree with that, but I did enjoy it. That restaurant bit IS the funniest thing between the two of them, tho.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Anchorman 2 is waaaaaay better than the first one
That wouldn't be too difficult, though.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Anchorman 2 is waaaaaay better than the first one
Yeah that's kinda true. The first one is fine but I don't love it.durdencommatyler wrote:That wouldn't be too difficult, though.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Anchorman 2 is waaaaaay better than the first one
Fine is probably the best word to describe it, yeah. For the life of me, I'll never understand the love it receives.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Yeah that's kinda true. The first one is fine but I don't love it.durdencommatyler wrote:That wouldn't be too difficult, though.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Anchorman 2 is waaaaaay better than the first one