The Television Streaming Thread: Now With Felonies

Arts & Entertainment
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Oh nah I enjoy “so bad they’re good” movies, and I’ve watched a bunch of Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst series which is a little like MST3K. I just think MST3K in particular sucks.

You have to be careful with “so bad they’re good” movies though because deliberately bad movies are the most insufferable things ever. True classics of the bad movie genre involve people trying to make good movies and failing horribly (The Room, Samurai Cop, Neil Breen movies, etc). Also enjoyable are movies so camp as to be satires of their own genre (Top Gun, Commando). What is bad is like Troma movies and Sharknado 3 and that kind of shit. Awful.

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5790

Some of my favorite TV experiences were watching a few seasons of Walking Dead while following the acerbic comments on the 2+2 TV thread. The logical inconsistencies and ninja zombies and terrible character decision making were pretty funny if you were following along in the thread.

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5791

It’s probably better called ‘Bad’ But Enjoyable. And if you don’t actually enjoy them, well, that’s fine, it’s not like ‘enjoyable’ is some objective category.

5792

Yep, just not my thing. There are too many great movies that I haven’t seen to spend time on bad ones.

5793

The good thing about RLM is you don’t actually have to watch the whole movie. They do it for you and just show the dumbest parts.

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5794

I just finished first ep of The Undoing, hot damn that really picks up pace as it goes along, I’m in for more for sure, sad I gotta go to sleep now

just realized i posted in the movie thread, so posting here now.

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5795

Commando is unironically one of my favorite movies and holds up incredibly well. I showed it to my nephews aged 8, 11, 14, all were cracking up nonstop at how over the top it is and Arnold’s incredible one-liners.

5796

Fans of fun bad movies should check out the podcast How Did This Get Made?.

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5797

Except for the Room, right?

5798

I prefer We Hate Movies, but both are really good for killing a lot of time.

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5799

Also they just finished their Halloween Spooktacular which is always my favorite time of year. Highly recommended.

5800

I tried really hard to watch it and couldn’t make it. Also thought the movie about making it was meh.

5801

Also I think Nicole Kidman looks really good IMO

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5802

this show is really getting me into it now, cops fucking assholes as always man wtf

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5803

This is definitely not going to be a crying movie :eyes:

We should watch this as a double feature with A Marriage Story. A great way to start 2020.

5806

I was talking with my wife about her when we watched the show (we played the “how old do you think she is?” game). Kidman is objectively beautiful and clearly a great actress, but her versions of both of those have never done it for me. I’ve just never been into her.

Considering my wife is a short brunette, she enjoyed hearing that.

5808

Nice. I appreciate you sharing your experience of the show.

For me, there are multiple notes and they’re all among my favorites.

  1. everyone outsmarting everyone
  2. unreliable narrators
  3. a murder mystery
  4. extreme codependence
  5. the hubris and catastrophe of infidelity

And most of all is seeing people of privilege crack under pressure. Even the people who start the story innocent end up guilty by the end.

Now maybe that doesn’t do it for you, but I could consume nothing but this sort of stuff day on end.

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5809

Cops are assholes, kidman has alot to be stressed about, and her son has a lot to be sad about is what i took from it.

+1 to what Risky said

5810

Plus, in this kind of story…the cops could be in on it! Easiest way to convince people a suspect is guilty is to apply so much pressure that they break the law in an equally devastating manner.

5811

Welp…

That’s a thing that I’ll probably watch and then file away with Dear Zachary never to be seen again.

Looks like Shia is attempting a comeback.

Also, fuck A Marriage Story for being such a good movie. Fuck that noise.

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