Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Man, I hate Kevin Smith.
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PizzaDeliveryGuy
extra sausage
Man, I love Kevin Smith.
Charlie Frown
Footballguy
I see the problem here.This is a selling point? BG sucked Cylon nuts.We've had this conversation. The production values (special effects, sets, locations, # of extras etc.) are cheesy. The original budget was almost non-existant and it was so horribly mismanaged by Fox that it wasn't able to generate enough of a following early on to warrant additional money for more episodes. Often when you have a cheap looking show it creates the notion that everything about it must be cheap, that simply wasn't the case with FF. The actors were very well cast and the writing? That was top notch.It came off as cheesy as hell.
Fox dropped the ball on this one, properly handled it could have become Battlestar Galactia, which if you watch the mini-series you will see it also had many of the same problems that plagued FF.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Yea, the opening scene was just funny. hey ####suck! do you #### baby heads??I'd probably give it a 4. It's not the Usual Suspects, but it's a decent movie. Kind of out there.'Sconch said:
Chaka
Footballguy
Really? Lots of fantastically entertaining docs long before those guys became mainstream. And Moore, as a recognized documentarian (is that a word?), predate Spurlock with Roger & Me (1998). Spurlock hit with Super Size Me in 2004.
Chaka
Footballguy
Watched the 3rd and final episode last night.'jdoggydogg said:'facook said:The guy who plays Sherlock is outstanding.
Moriarty is GLORIOUSLY creepy.
Not sure if it was in this thread or the other but I was actually disappointed with Moriarty. Seemed that he was trying too hard to channel the Heath Ledger/Joker. I think the character of Sherlock's brother would have been a much better mold for Moriarty as a pure evil genius with no explanation for his insanity rather than this version where the psychosis is so obviously teeming, unrestrained, on the surface of the character. I think Moriarty should be amoral rather than immoral.
facook
Footballguy
Watched the 3rd and final episode last night.'jdoggydogg said:'facook said:Moriarty is GLORIOUSLY creepy.
Not sure if it was in this thread or the other but I was actually disappointed with Moriarty. Seemed that he was trying too hard to channel the Heath Ledger/Joker. I think the character of Sherlock's brother would have been a much better mold for Moriarty as a pure evil genius with no explanation for his insanity rather than this version where the psychosis is so obviously teeming, unrestrained, on the surface of the character. I think Moriarty should be amoral rather than immoral.
Interesting. I'd be on board with that. All I know is that for 13 minutes (or whatever) that he was on the show, I was completely enthralled.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Boooooooooooo.'Nigel Tufnel said:
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Hooray!'PizzaDeliveryGuy said:
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Looking forward to Season 2. It's already aired in England, I believe.Watched the 3rd and final episode last night.'jdoggydogg said:'facook said:Moriarty is GLORIOUSLY creepy.
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Looking forward to Season 2. It's already aired in England, I believe.Wikipedia says Fall '11, no airdates up yet.Watched the 3rd and final episode last night.'jdoggydogg said:'facook said:Moriarty is GLORIOUSLY creepy.
Sarnoff
Footballguy
It's really interesting to read up on some of the wikipedia & other articles on Sherlock... how closely they follow, yet slightly update, the original stories. His first line upon meeting Watson, along the lines of "I see you've been serving in Afghanistan", is the same as Doyle's books... Dr. Watson had served with the British forces there in the 1880s.
Another one (slight spoiler, going to remove title/episode info):
Another one (slight spoiler, going to remove title/episode info):
In one of the books, Holmes lures out the bad guy with the ring the victim lost off her finger in a struggle... in the TV version, Holmes lures out the bad guy by "ringing" the victim's lost cell phone.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
That's very clever. I must say, that as a big fan of the original PBS Jeremy Brett series, I was extremely skeptical of this new series. But they hit it out of the park.
⚡DEADHEAD⚡
Footballguy
Well worth watching and impressive overall. Maybe a little predictable at points. An easy movie to get sucked in to.Compelling movie.
McJose
Footballguy
It reminded me a lot of the old 80s movie "At Close Range". I guess both movies were based on true stories. At least Animal Kingdom was inspired by one.Well worth watching and impressive overall. Maybe a little predictable at points. An easy movie to get sucked in to.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Black Death....I think it had it at a 4.2/5 recommendation for me. Shouldve been more like a 2.2/5. This was pretty bad. Have no idea how the hell its rated so highly.
PizzaDeliveryGuy
extra sausage
I would rate it slightly higher than you but not much.Harry Brown wasn't too bad but nothing to be in a hurry to watch.
I Saw the Devil is pretty good but is way too long. If this movie were 1:40 instead of 2:24 it would be quite a bit more enjoyable.
hooter311
Footballguy
So I stumbled on the show "Human Wrecking Ball" recently.
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You got two guys, the Pumphrey brothers, who hold multiple world records in breaking competitions. They are capable of dismantling nearly anything man made with their bare hands and steel toe boots. Helicopters, airplanes, buses, post offices, arcades, whatever. They are decked head to toe in Affliction gear and talk smack the entire time. The D-bag level is off the charts in a totally awesome way. They need to add these guys to the Ocean's 11 crew.
5/5 - Simply amazing
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You got two guys, the Pumphrey brothers, who hold multiple world records in breaking competitions. They are capable of dismantling nearly anything man made with their bare hands and steel toe boots. Helicopters, airplanes, buses, post offices, arcades, whatever. They are decked head to toe in Affliction gear and talk smack the entire time. The D-bag level is off the charts in a totally awesome way. They need to add these guys to the Ocean's 11 crew.
5/5 - Simply amazing
hooter311
Footballguy
That is the same reason why I hate it.
Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
My son loves when they blow #### up on Mythbusters, so we'll have to give this a shot.
hooter311
Footballguy
I like Mythbusters, but this is 100x more entertaining. They do talk about the science aspects to what they are doing and create a lot of simple machines to exert force, but it basically comes down to brute strength.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
If were talking '94, Id have to say music > movies but thats probably because it was pretty much all downhill from there popular music wise.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I think there's tons of good music out there if you're tapped into the alternative streams.
Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
He has. I think that's why he said popular music.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Oh, there definitely is. I might even say more good music was released in the 00's than the 90's, but Hollywood is forever popular. There was a lot of good big movies in '94, but popular music, Im talking mostly alternative rock and hip hop, was still great and pretty much the dominant music on the charts. These days its pop that calls itself country and rap (not hip hop) that dominates the charts. I'd definitely lean Hollywood these days.
Bogart
Footballguy
I was just talking movies.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Yeah, I sidetracked. Good year.I was just talking movies.
McJose
Footballguy
Started to watch Red Riding: Part I but not sure if I'll stick with it. Normally I don't have much of a problem understanding heavy Brit accents but this is ridiculous. 10 minutes into it and there's a character (the main character's editor?) who sounds worse than Keith Richards.
ren hoek
Footballguy
I like to call it Teeny Bopper Bull####.
ren hoek
Footballguy
Back on topic, gonna throw in one last recommendation for Claymore (dark anime). It is stellar in every way imagineable, from the music, to the animation, to the voice acting to the adult and sometimes disturbing nature of the show.
A couple buddies plowed through it in 3 nights. Another good friend of mine had a day off from work recently and ended up watching all 26 episodes that day.
I would have never in a million years bothered to watch this show if sports_fan hadn't mentioned it in here earlier, so big props to him that way.
A couple buddies plowed through it in 3 nights. Another good friend of mine had a day off from work recently and ended up watching all 26 episodes that day.
I would have never in a million years bothered to watch this show if sports_fan hadn't mentioned it in here earlier, so big props to him that way.
sports_fan
Footballguy
People are missing out by not giving this a chance. Batman: Under the Red Hood got a lot of praise in this thread after I mentioned it, this show is better.
got_nugs
Footballguy
I bet I have watched that movie over 1,000 times...although I haven't seen it in the past 10 years. What a cheesy/amazing/hokey/awesome movie.
Statler & Waldorf
Footballguy
When I first saw it, I liked it and I even mentioned it a page or two back in this thread. But now after using it, I hate it. I stream through my Mac Mini that's hooked up to my TV and it the webpage never opens correctly anymore. That might be more my problem than the websites so I gotta look into it some more.
Good stuff. Watched it over the past week and a half and found it interesting from start to finish.Finally turned on "This Film is not yet Rated" thanks to the posts in this thread. Good documentary so far, about halfway through and will finish it tonight.
Also really enjoying the "America: the story of us" series and just started Sons of Anarchy
McJose
Footballguy
"The Story of US" is a pretty fun watch. I show bits and pieces to my students when the video matches up with the standard I'm teaching. The kids love the CGI etc. The "celebrity" commentary cracks me up though. Michael Strahan talking about iron workers? I'm not sure which episode it is but they had Rick from Pawn Stars putting in his two cents.Good stuff. Watched it over the past week and a half and found it interesting from start to finish.Finally turned on "This Film is not yet Rated" thanks to the posts in this thread. Good documentary so far, about halfway through and will finish it tonight.
Also really enjoying the "America: the story of us" series and just started Sons of Anarchy
bosoxs45
Footballguy
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Yea, that's what kind of killed the mini series for me. Didn't puff daddy appear as well?!Has anybody watched that Bigfoot hunters show? Weirdos."The Story of US" is a pretty fun watch. I show bits and pieces to my students when the video matches up with the standard I'm teaching. The kids love the CGI etc. The "celebrity" commentary cracks me up though. Michael Strahan talking about iron workers? I'm not sure which episode it is but they had Rick from Pawn Stars putting in his two cents.Good stuff. Watched it over the past week and a half and found it interesting from start to finish.Finally turned on "This Film is not yet Rated" thanks to the posts in this thread. Good documentary so far, about halfway through and will finish it tonight.
Also really enjoying the "America: the story of us" series and just started Sons of Anarchy
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Loved this show so much.
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