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Except for those who use the "first new post" button and find themselves staring at some evil super-link. And then have to click again to re-establish normal thrad properties.
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Hey! New page. Imma post it again without the nasty url (I hope).
I agree with Bort and Crumb and Ari. This is the first I have heard about a spin-off and omg what a terrible idea.
Okay, but also I watched the whole season, and before I got to the end I kept seeing brief snippets about how the season finale is the Worst. Episode. Ever. I didn't read on because I didn't want to get spoilt, but I was super excited to get to the episode and see what was so bad about it.
I fucking loved it! I was like, what the hell is there to hate? So then I went back to read about it on AV club, and everything he hates about it is exactly what I loved about it! It's the weirdest thing, we agree on almost everything about the episode, but came to exact opposite conclusions.
From the "I'm pretty sure that exactly is the point" department:
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"Black Museum" is the closest Black Mirror has come to self-parody, and there’s an argument to be made that this was the intent.
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The best defense of the episode is to view it as a way to poke fun at Black Mirror’s most hidebound conventions before brutally punishing the "writer" for his crimes. At the very least, the potential meta aspect offers the possibility that everyone involved was in on the joke.
From the "That sounds pretty awesome to me, actually" department:
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The stories are presented through Rolo’s narration, and Rolo doesn’t have much room for humanity in his vision. He presents himself as a kind of ambulatory monkey’s paw, popping into people’s lives to offer them what they think they want, then standing on the sidelines grinning as everything goes wrong.
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You are right ES. I liked that episode.
I liked the whole season really. Though Metalhead was just creepy and sad.
I find it funny that people seem to think that Hang the DJ was this (relatively) positive, uplifting episode. They can't seem to see the simulations as people in the same way that they do in Black Museum.
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Watched the first 1.7 or so episodes of Dirty Money this morning. The first episode focused on Volkswagen's aggravated and egregious fraud in rigging emissions tests on its "clean diesel" cars, but escalated to include multiple diesel car manufacturers and their shenanigans in the EU as well.
The second episode, which I haven't quite finished, centers on this asshole, a payday lending mogul who recently got sentenced to 16 years in prison (in addition to getting tagged with a $1.3 billion adverse judgment in an action brought by the Federal Trade Commission). It's some pretty good outrage porn thus far.
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Wasn't a Hitler show per se, but there was definitely Hitler footage involved.
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Apparently, GM has been dragged into the VW Dieselgate thing because they outsourced the coding for their diesel emissions control computers to the same German company that did VWs. GM claims not to have knowledge of the emissions defeat code until just recently.
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It's not very obscure, because it got a Superbowl advertisement, but I watched The Cloverfield Paradox because I just recently watched 10 Cloverfield Lane and enjoyed it, and then I saw this come out as a surprise release. Yes, I fell for the marketing gimmick.
I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as 10, but it was OK. It's just a slightly better than average scifi B movie. Lots of bad/weird science so that all sorts of freaky things could happen. The movie is entirely illogical but it's made better by the great cast.
One very positive thing about the movie: It's a diverse cast, with a black woman as the lead character. The bulk of the time is set on an international space station, so it's easy to make that conceit, but it was nice to see.
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It's just a slightly better than average scifi B movie. Lots of bad/weird science so that all sorts of freaky things could happen. The movie is entirely illogical but it's made better by the great cast.
That's p much the constant refrain for most of JJ Abram's projects. I'm planning on seeing it soon but since my roommate is also intrigued, I'm wondering if he needs to see the Cloverfield and Lane movies so he'll have at least some context. First blush suggests that so far everything's been more like an anthology than "real" sequels so he'd be okay. Mostly because I thought Cloverfield itself was a lot of stuff without any real payoff. (Kind of my default for those found footage style projects.)
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It's not very obscure, because it got a Superbowl advertisement, but I watched The Cloverfield Paradox because I just recently watched 10 Cloverfield Lane and enjoyed it, and then I saw this come out as a surprise release. Yes, I fell for the marketing gimmick.
We watched this as well and enjoyed it. I never saw the first movie, because I'm not into that shaky-cam found-footage blair-witch style of cinematography, but I LOVED 10 Cloverfield Lane. Watched it at the theater and again recently on demand or redbox or something or other.
Paradox didn't really seem to have anything to do with 10, just as I don't think 10 had anything to do with the original. Something I read said that Paradox was supposed to answer some unanswered question from the first one, but bey saw the original and doesn't know what that refers to, so who knows.
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I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as 10, but it was OK. It's just a slightly better than average scifi B movie. Lots of bad/weird science so that all sorts of freaky things could happen. The movie is entirely illogical but it's made better by the great cast.
A friend of mine called it Lovecraftian, which, yes.
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One very positive thing about the movie: It's a diverse cast, with a black woman as the lead character. The bulk of the time is set on an international space station, so it's easy to make that conceit, but it was nice to see.
The director, Julius Onah, is a Nigerian man. Netflix is crushing it with the representation.
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I'm planning on seeing it soon but since my roommate is also intrigued, I'm wondering if he needs to see the Cloverfield and Lane movies so he'll have at least some context. First blush suggests that so far everything's been more like an anthology than "real" sequels so he'd be okay.
Nope, definitely don't need the first 2.
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Mostly because I thought Cloverfield itself was a lot of stuff without any real payoff. (Kind of my default for those found footage style projects.)
Like I said, I didn't see Cloverfield, but that was the thing I loved about 10 Cloverfield Lane. Going in to it, it seemed like a lot of people wanted to know whether we see the monster, but I straight up didn't care. I could watch John Goodman be creepy in a fallout shelter all the live-long day. The stuff was the payoff.
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It's just a slightly better than average scifi B movie. Lots of bad/weird science so that all sorts of freaky things could happen. The movie is entirely illogical but it's made better by the great cast.
That's p much the constant refrain for most of JJ Abram's projects. I'm planning on seeing it soon but since my roommate is also intrigued, I'm wondering if he needs to see the Cloverfield and Lane movies so he'll have at least some context. First blush suggests that so far everything's been more like an anthology than "real" sequels so he'd be okay. Mostly because I thought Cloverfield itself was a lot of stuff without any real payoff. (Kind of my default for those found footage style projects.)
Nope, no need to see the previous ones - there's maybe a couple of places where you won't get the references, but doesn't really affect the main story. You are correct in that it's much more like an anthology set in the same universe - or something.
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Like I said, I didn't see Cloverfield, but that was the thing I loved about 10 Cloverfield Lane. Going in to it, it seemed like a lot of people wanted to know whether we see the monster, but I straight up didn't care. I could watch John Goodman be creepy in a fallout shelter all the live-long day. The stuff was the payoff.
I thoroughly enjoyed 10 for being exactly what it was. I was curious how it connected to the monster, but completely pleased with how it happened. It wa a tense thrill ride without needing anything more.
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Nope, no need to see the previous ones - there's maybe a couple of places where you won't get the references, but doesn't really affect the main story. You are correct in that it's much more like an anthology set in the same universe - or something.
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I am enjoying Lost in Space. Being a fan of the 1960s series, it thrills me to hear them use a variation of the later series theme music in the new rebooted series music. Also, Dr. Z. Smith is a lot more sinister in this one, Robot too. OMG, Robot. Robot saved their lives, more than once. Plus, it stars Molly Parker as Maureen Robinson. I've been fan of Molly since Deadwood.
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I watched that documentary I am Jane Doe on Netflix because apparently, it was instrumental in getting SESTA passed. So I wasn't surprised that I disliked it, but honestly, I really was surprised at how stupid and offensive it was.
Not only was it full of misrepresentations and some straight up lies, but they trotted out these young women who'd been trafficked as children and their parents and told THEM a bunch of bullshit to get them to repeat to get people on their side. It was disgusting. They just exploited them all over again for their own purposes.
It was like it was designed specifically to get people worked up emotionally so that they wouldn't notice the ridiculous non-sequiturs and bullshit in their arguments. Seriously, they'd have these women crying and telling these horrible stories, then they'd drop in this, "Oh, yeah, and you know the Wolf of Wall Street? That was somehow because of CDA 230 or something," despite that making no sense at all, and if you totally stretched the argument, it would actually make the opposite of the point they were going for. But hey, you're already outraged about the terrible stories you just heard, so you're primed to just accept whatever they say or imply next, even if it's obvious nonsense.
It was just boneassed stupid and evil, and I just kind of want to put everyone involved in jail for a while. Not charge them with anything. I just want to unilaterally hunt them down and covertly deposit them in jail.
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I am enjoying Lost in Space. Being a fan of the 1960s series, it thrills me to hear them use a variation of the later series theme music in the new rebooted series music. Also, Dr. Z. Smith is a lot more sinister in this one, Robot too. OMG, Robot. Robot saved their lives, more than once. Plus, it stars Molly Parker as Maureen Robinson. I've been fan of Molly since Deadwood.
Ugh. Liquid methane isn't a blue-greenish liquid, it's clear and would instantly vaporize at atmospheric pressure unless refrigerated to -164ºC, not leak out over the ground like so much gasoline.
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