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My son wanted to watch American Horror Story again (apparently he'd watched some of it at his mom's when he was younger). We started watching an episode yesterday...and what the fuck is this show? Like, I get horror is full of problems, but people love this show, right? I watched approximately two minutes before checking out. These two red headed twin boys come bullying their way up to a house a or something, and they threaten the girl out front, and it is all so forced and poorly written. Who thinks kids act this way? As they go inside, one of them hits a tree with his stick and say something like, "I hate trees!" What? What the fuck? I am mystified to who let that line get through. Then some non-scary gory stuff happened. 

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47 minutes ago, Simon Steele said:

My son wanted to watch American Horror Story again (apparently he'd watched some of it at his mom's when he was younger). We started watching an episode yesterday...and what the fuck is this show? Like, I get horror is full of problems, but people love this show, right? I watched approximately two minutes before checking out. These two red headed twin boys come bullying their way up to a house a or something, and they threaten the girl out front, and it is all so forced and poorly written. Who thinks kids act this way? As they go inside, one of them hits a tree with his stick and say something like, "I hate trees!" What? What the fuck? I am mystified to who let that line get through. Then some non-scary gory stuff happened. 

I quit watching it a few years ago, after the Hotel Gaga year, it wasn't that good and the level of gore was hitting close to a torture porn feel for me, I think I watched a few random episodes of the next 2 seasons and was not moved to start watching it again, I'm actually surprised it's still going. 

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Went to Hobbs and Shaw yesterday. Luckily, it was 5 dollar Tuesday, and I showed up already drunk. Totally worth it.

Spoiler alert, the last battle starts pre-dawn, instantly becomes full daylight, then within 60 seconds is back to nighttime. They simply didn't give a shit about anything in this movie. 

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24 minutes ago, Heartofice said:

American Horror Story is for people who have no concept of quality. The first season was total soapy trash dressed up as classic horror. People reveal a lot about themselves when they recommend it

Comments like this always crack me up. Even know we all partially judge people on stuff they like, it’s still a ridiculous way of thinking. Unless you still watch TWD... those are just bad people.

I liked the first few seasons of AHS but gave up on it during the 4th. Then I came out of retirement and watched the latest season. It was silly and ridiculous but entertaining enough to finish. 

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10 minutes ago, Ramsay B. said:

Comments like this always crack me up. Even know we all partially judge people on stuff they like, it’s still a ridiculous way of thinking. Unless you still watch TWD... those are just bad people.

I liked the first few seasons of AHS but gave up on it during the 4th. Then I came out of retirement and watched the latest season. It was silly and ridiculous but entertaining enough to finish. 

I dunno there are people who genuinely can’t recognise bad quality when they see it, and recommendations of AHS are a good sign! You can watch the show as a  it of fun, I get it, but at some point it becomes hard to enjoy it’s stupidity.

Ive also stuck through numerous seasons of TWD before giving up, but I will argue that it achieves almost goodness at points in its run before descending into terminal dreariness 

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23 hours ago, Trisky said:
On 8/5/2019 at 8:02 PM, Triskele said:

Well, I stand corrected.  I totally didn't recognize him once the makeup was off.

Never admit error to an inferior ape! Homo sapiens must learn that pan troglodytes is the greatest of all apes!

Yeah, Triskele, don't be an Idiot!

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I started to watch Mission of Honor about the Polish 303 Squadron during the Battle of Britain.  Started because I fell asleep during it.  How can writers make such a boring movie out of such an interesting story? The aerial combat looked terrible. Iwan Rheon is not a lead actor.  The characters were walking stereotypes. I'll have to look around for the Polish film Squadron 303.

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4 hours ago, Argonath Diver said:

Went to Hobbs and Shaw yesterday. Luckily, it was 5 dollar Tuesday, and I showed up already drunk. Totally worth it.

Spoiler alert, the last battle starts pre-dawn, instantly becomes full daylight, then within 60 seconds is back to nighttime. They simply didn't give a shit about anything in this movie. 

Same except I wasn't drunk, but it was a cheap day and free popcorn day so why not? The first half or maybe middle half wasn't bad for an action movie but that last 30-45 minutes holy hell it sucked.

As to the dawn, daylight, night...didn't they set that up by saying 

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the attack would be at dawn and they would use it to advantage, then go to the other side of the island for the kill zone thing where the barrels of gas kept exploding, dawn wouldn't have broke yet?

Although I don't know why I am wasting my time trying to hash out the nonsense that this was!

Also finished S3 of Jessica Jones. I kind of liked it. I liked the way they worked through some issues and I also liked the new character with the headaches. Too bad these are all done. Daredeveil and JJ were both worth watching.

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It wasn't night it was a storm. I mean, it came out of nowhere and dreadfully unconvincingly, but they did specifically mention it in the buildup.

 

But anyway I disagree I thought the final third was just as stupidly awesome as the rest. It was really an action-comedy and it knew it.

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The second unannounced cameo cracked me up throughout, and I generally find that person very tiresome. 

What was with the evil villain over the speakers? Was that something referring to the other Furiously Fast movies? The 'plots' are always so disposable that I hadn't noticed anything recurring about a Bond villain. Elba seemed to be having a terrific time.

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2 hours ago, Argonath Diver said:

The second unannounced cameo cracked me up throughout, and I generally find that person very tiresome. 

I was ok with that cameo at first but it dragged on way too long, it reminded me of

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Joe Pesci in the Lethal Weapon sequels, Leo Getz, cuz Leo gets you stuff.

 

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7 hours ago, Argonath Diver said:

What was with the evil villain over the speakers? Was that something referring to the other Furiously Fast movies? The 'plots' are always so disposable that I hadn't noticed anything recurring about a Bond villain. Elba seemed to be having a terrific time. 



It's conceivable that it's the villain from Fast 8, who will be recurring and was technologically themed, but I doubt it.


 

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5 hours ago, RedEyedGhost said:

I've watched several episodes of Wu Assassin.  The stories pretty basic so far, but the fights are fun :dunno:

I'm planning on giving that a try primarily for the fight choreography.

I enjoyed the most recent (UK) episode of Legion. Utterly bizarre fairy tail but it worked.

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4 hours ago, red snow said:

I'm planning on giving that a try primarily for the fight choreography.

I enjoyed the most recent (UK) episode of Legion. Utterly bizarre fairy tail but it worked.

Same here. Just saw the trailer. It's a bit ridiculous, but I can totally get behind a regular chef kicking ass.

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