I saw it with friends who were completely lost. It didn’t help that the sound track was on the loud side, which is typical these days, and the quips went by very quickly, but they had no clue about most of the pop culture references.
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I did see that show (it was on FX), or at least a couple of seasons of it… it was very good.
I think it might have come out before they decided to re-incorporate the X-men into the MCU…
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The movies are so expensive they play it too safe now and they’ve gotten boring. Some of the shows are much better. WandaVision and Loki were interesting with great production design. I thought She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel were breezy fun. The new Daredevil is quite good so far. Even the older Netflix Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage were good, for their first seasons anyway.
But Legion… Legion is a work of ART.
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Yeah, Legion was really innovative; a dance battle in the astral plane? Who thinks of that?
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What about Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! from 1965?
I never try anything. I just do it.
Yeah, it was a little ridiculous, but that seems to have been the point.
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And no CGI!
I wonder if that was her on the rope or a stuntperson.
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Wiki says maybe.
Pearl White performed most of her own stunts for the serial, but also was stunt doubled by a man. Filmed in the Adirondacks in New York, the stunt double rode a horse off a cliff into the lake below.[11] Considerable risk was involved. In one incident, a balloon carrying White escaped and carried her across the Hudson River into a storm, before landing miles away. In another incident her back was permanently injured in a fall.
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Only available in certain cities as of today.
I am nervous that students will be doxxed from this movie, but hopeful that it might make a difference.
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Last night’s SNL was… fine? This was pretty good…
But at the end, when they were going off the air, Morgan Wallen sort of stomped off the stage during the good byes? Apparently he needed to get back to “god’s country”…
Jesus, dude. You could have said “no” to being on the show again. It’s not hard.
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But then he wouldn’t have got paid!
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My husband wondered if his label required him to be on the show? Could be, I guess. SNL is pretty high profile.
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If only all the private jets would fly their passengers to “God’s country”…
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That would be heavenly…well, more like hell!
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Getting caught up on the Walking Dead spin-offs. Just finished the first season of Dead City (the Negan/Maggie spin-off)… I liked both of those characters and the actors who played them, but Lauren Cohan seemed off in this somehow? I don’t think it’s her, but some of the writing seemed… wonky to me? Anyone else see it and what did you think of it?
Next is the first season of Daryl Dixon…
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Just watched the JoAnn Fabric skit on Weekend Update and it was pretty terrible. Wish they used the opportunity to attack the vulture capatalists who forced the company into debt, but instead they made fun of the customers and feminism. And a rape joke! And gay bashing!
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Sorry, I’m late to this discussion. I will preface my comments by admitting I am biased. I am a Marvel fan. Marvel comics, the MCU, almost all of it, and I have been since a neighbor gave me several boxes of her then adult son’s old comic books when I was probably 6 or 7. Those weren’t all Marvel, but I liked the Marvel ones the best. So, big fan, not unbiased.
I don’t think people have superhero movie fatigue. I think people have bad movie fatigue. And I think this extends beyond just the superhero genre. And I absolutely think the financial success of big budget blockbusters has contributed to that, and these days, big budget blockbusters are mostly superhero films. Smaller, cheaper films just don’t get theatrical releases anymore. Or if they do, it’s a limited release just so the film qualifies for awards like the Oscars.
I am convinced that if you make good movies, and especially great movies, people will see them. People will pay money to go see them. But our political climate probably plays into this, too. The Marvels, which was a fun movie (it wasn’t great, but it was fun), cost 300M to make and only made 200M. The new Captain America movie, which no one is saying is good, cost 200M to make and made 400M so far. I can’t explain that. Most of the Sony Spider-verse adjacent films have turned a profit, even though they have been universally panned. It does seem like the budgets for a lot of these films are getting smaller the last couple of years. That may be a good thing. I was thinking about this when someone posted the intro from the Chevy Chase/Goldie Hawn film Foul Play recently. That film could never get a theatrical release today. It would be lucky to get on Netflix. Hell, they’d probably have to rewrite the script and settle for airing it on Hallmark Mysteries. But maybe if these enormous blockbusters stop making gross amounts of money, smaller films can become feasible again.
I still love Marvel. I will still watch these movies and tv shows (the new Daredevil is amazing, by the way), but if them failing makes room for smaller, better films, I wouldn’t hate that.
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Maybe the hate on social media sites can explain it a little.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/media/rotten-tomatoes-box-office.html
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I agree with you. But when they spend enough money to buy a Frigate in a movie, they expect obscene profit. The problem is that they aplly silly formulae nd don’t want to take risks, and I when say risks, I mean something that the audience wasn’t expecting, or at least what the producers think the audience want.
I don’t even know if people would. I think this type of film has become what marketing people say is an “experience”. It’s no longer the film itself. Maybe this is the real tiredness that audiences have been feeling.
I may sound like a hipster, but I really like their first and second phase. I think “smaller” films will end up on TV and streaming, like Daredevil, Loki or Wandavision. And if a smaller film works, it will become a template for all kinds of later adventures.
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I dont understand sitting through that show anymore (and actually haven’t for, well, decades). Is it nostalgia? Family tradition? Any moment where something genuinely funny, biting or clever happens is outweighed for me by about 98% junk (and commercials!). I mean, it’s corporate entertainment, so of course its participants efforts are continually safe, muzzled, and pandering.
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