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13 hours ago, ztejas said:
Shame then that it doesn't lick Seinfeld's jockstrap in overall quality.
Yeah, but Fleabag would have shown her licking Jerry’s jock, with him in it, on screen. Two completely different shows from two different eras and two somewhat similar nations. I’m not saying Fleabag was better than Seinfeld overall, but rather that its two-season run did exactly what Seinfeld purported, but failed, to do. Sure, Seinfeld could have run for a few more mediocre seasons, but did anyone have the sense that there was anything left for the show? Contrast that with Fleabag, where the audience is left wanting more.
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26 minutes ago, irishtexan said:
A few random observations:
Very surprised that Freaks & Geeks didn't make the list, especially with the list being curated by Sepinwal and other pop culture critics. I suppose it could be argued that they didn't have a long enough run with only one season and 18 episodes (a few of which never even aired on network TV, and were only accessible via the DVDs or through streaming services a little later on), but it had six more episodes than Fleabag.
I love Fleabag. Thought it was incredible. But at 12 total half-hour episodes, there's not enough meat on that bone to justify coming in at 21.
I loved Arrested Development, but 15 feels too high.
Bojack Horseman cracking the top 20 is also surprising and hard to justify, imo.
I've literally never heard of "Review" until now. I guess I have to check it out.
Fleabag actually did what Seinfeld purported to do: Go out on top. Seinfeld had been coasting for a year or two before the end, maybe not for ratings, but definitely in terms of content. It wasn't as egregious as some sitcoms, (Modern Family or even Parks & Rec), but there was a downward trend.
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Sam Malone, no question, both in terms of quantity and quality. The joke with Dan Fielding was that he was pathetic. Yeah, he'd get some, but they were usually bored and ready to ditch him.
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I don't have a problem with the top 10, just not in that order. Both Seinfeld and Cheers have very strong claims to the top spot. Don't think Sex and the City belongs on the list. Not sure about the rankings of Scrubs and Murphy Brown. Shocked at the lack of Married With Children, Family Guy, etc.
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I would play the hell out of that.
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I’d imagine it starts with him being busted down to night court DA after a sex scandal. Harry’s “daughter”, (Rauch), takes on his role as the night court judge. Would love to see Brent Spiner as a regular.
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The movie was alright when I saw it as a teenager. Definitely enjoyed Harrison Ford playing against type in the movie and wish he'd have done it more often. Tried to read the book about a decade ago and didn't make it past the first chapter or two. It's still sitting on my bookshelf. That has more to do with not being instantly hooked than anything else. Haven't even bothered to watch the trailer, but might give it a shot.
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2 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:
Kylie Morganthal was the least charismatic and wooden baddie, she was hard to look at, and her fight scenes forced you to suspend disbelief farther than most of the fantastical comic book scenes asked us to. She just 100% didn’t work and Sam being sympathetic was forced and rushed.
Hard to look at? Interesting. Now I like redheads like Vic likes fat women, but it took a few eps for her looks to grow on me. She’s always striking in looks, but it takes a bit to see her as attractive.
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The cast of the Clone Wars was too large and unwieldy. It stretched the series out. Caused it to lose focus at times. It's no surprise that some people don't like it.
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49 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:
Marka Lee Bodine.
she abused a boy who had just turned 13
Groomed and then abused for 2-3 years, which sent him running to both the school and the police.
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What, you don’t want this to end up as the Adventures of the SS Bubba Bucky? Where Buck and Falcon ply the seas, trawling their nets, bonding, and fighting crime?
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There were two Clone Wars "series". There's the famous one that just ended, but there is a lesser known one that appeared as 5-minute shorts on Cartoon Network between the theatrical releases of Episodes 2 and 3 that bridges the gap. workswithweed is talking about the lesser known series.
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Not that I've noticed. Can't think of the last time I had something die. Let's see. My son killed an iphone 6 or 7 via accidental exposure to water four or five years ago. A year or two before that, he had a B&N Nook die. I've given away four laptops in the last year, ranging in age from five to seven years. All worked perfectly. They were all low-end, three cheap Asus laptops and a budget Lenovo edge thinkpad.
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50 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:
If you haven't seen Bowfinger do so immediately. It's damn funny, primarily due to the great writing by Steve Martin (co-stars in the film). When you've got a great script and cast (Heather Graham and Christine Baranski are fantastic; likewise Terence Stamp) and a solid director (Frank Oz) the results are excellent. Chubby rain!
So yeah, I watched the trailer and I was dying. I now recall ads for the movie from when I was in college, but I had better things to do back then. Actually, I only remember the part of the trailer where Heather Graham takes off her top and Eddie says, "You're gonna be a star."
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On 5/2/2018 at 6:51 PM, slorch said:
Movies about social moods are bigger stretches than technological pioneers, IMHO
Red Dawn, not that it was great acting to begin with, but I have often had trouble conveying to younger people what the Cold War was like.
Philadelphia, similarly, it is difficult to convey the mindest of a nation and world who were simultaneously shocked, scared, and mortified while others were apathetic or worse, filled with hate in the face of HIV and AIDS.
For Cold War movies, we shouldn't start with Red Dawn. It would be better to start with both Patton and The Hunt for Red October. IIRC, Patton depicts the general wanting to continue east to fight the Soviets. Or maybe I'm wrong and it would be a good post-movie conversation starter. Red October offers great insight into the 1980s mindset. Follow those up with some Vietnam war era movies. (Forrest Gump and the Watchmen would suffice.) Then show Red Dawn as a what-if riff on the Cold War.
I was actually talking to my 17 year old son about Philadelphia the other day. I asked if he'd seen Forrest Gump and then we started talking about Tom Hanks' amazing run in the 1990s. I think I told him to watch Philadelphia and ...And the Band Played On to get some insight into just how deeply scarring the AIDS epidemic was for Gen Xers and Boomers.
3 hours ago, OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys said:Same with Reservoir Dogs. Still holds up, but Buscemi’s repeated n bombs seem cringy and forced. And because he’s a good actor, you know it isn’t just Tarantino’s bad acting that is off putting.
I always thought they used it so much because those two movies were homages to the '70s, when its use in feature films was common.
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I'd suggest bringing in a security specialist to look into the issue while creating a different username for the new hire.
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4 hours ago, Lobo said:
Curious y'all mentioning 48 Hours. Few weeks ago, I watched it all the way through for probably the first time in 25 years. It's not as funny as I remember and doesn't hold up as well as I was hoping. But holy shit, Eddie Murphy was a really good actor. That was his first feature film, he was just 21 years old. He was obviously very funny, but he played a decently wide range in the film and nailed almost every scene. I forgot how awesome he was once. Not just comedically, but all-around. He was brilliant in 48 Hours and several movies thereafter. And then?....the bad years/decades.
What's the cut-off? I haven't seen all of his movies, but I remember the Distinguished Gentleman was pretty funny. Nothing much beyond that looked good.
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Recently re-watched 48 Hours. Great cast. As an eight year-old, I really loved all them titties flopping around. As an adult, everything just feels off. The forced racial slurs. Eddie Murphy kicking ass. Was it always so self-satirizing or am I just that far removed from the time period?
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19 hours ago, Armybrat said:
Make us shit little toy soldiers?
Kinda. It makes the next generation's taints shorter. /s
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Spoiler
Some parents in the Aledo Independent School District say the district has not done enough after an online game was discovered in which 9th-grade students were “slave-trading” students of color and labeling the group chat “Slave Trade,” “N” Farm, and “N” auction.
Students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus were communicating on Snapchat, and playing a “game” that put prices on children of color at the school and “trading” them.
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12 hours ago, thunderlounge said:
Used these for years. No complaint.
Same. I have used wireless and wired versions of this mouse for 15 or so years. Until I got him a gaming mouse, my son would use one, too. Zero complaints for general purpose use.
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So what do we take from that? Time to change deodorants and no more aluminum dishes or cans? Parchment paper and plastic wrap instead of Reynolds? Reformulated vaccines to remove aluminum?
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Scraggly beard. If a person lacks the awareness of how bad that looks, no way I’m hiring them.
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The last two seasons of Seinfeld are a lot like the fifth season of Babylon 5. It was still good, but the edge was gone.