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Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #405 on: January 17, 2023, 06:58:04 pm »
I’m sorry this is happening to you.  I hope you get through this difficult time.  There’s always the option of, checks notes, not watching it.

Once again, you are unable to separate my making a comment from my personal feelings about this.

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« Reply #406 on: January 26, 2023, 05:07:05 am »
I really enjoyed the Glass Onion ("A Knives Out Mystery") movie.

I also really liked "The Pale Blue Eye", starring Christian Bale. Bale is a retired detective named Augustus Landor who is called in to solve a murder-mystery at the West Point military academy in 1830. One of the cadets Landor encounters is a young Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling).  I had to look it up... Poe really did attend West Point and serve in the US army. And Melling in this show bears an uncanny resemblance to the portraits of Poe I saw. Anyway, it was pretty good. I especially enjoyed the cinematography. It's a beautiful film to look at.

I watched an episode of Kaleidoscope, and it didn't really grab me.  It's a heist series, with the gimmick that you can apparently watch the episodes in any order. I think the episode I saw is called "yellow". Anyway, it stars Giancarlo Esposito as a man putting together a team for a huge heist.  Based on Esposito's reputation I had high hopes for this, but so far it just isn't very good.

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« Reply #407 on: January 26, 2023, 08:37:24 am »
I watched an episode of Kaleidoscope, and it didn't really grab me.  It's a heist series, with the gimmick that you can apparently watch the episodes in any order. I think the episode I saw is called "yellow". Anyway, it stars Giancarlo Esposito as a man putting together a team for a huge heist.  Based on Esposito's reputation I had high hopes for this, but so far it just isn't very good.


I started watching that as well, and felt similar.  It felt like the gimmick was too much the focus, and that you were watching some weird hybrid of drama/documentary that just felt awkward.   

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« Reply #408 on: February 04, 2023, 12:13:57 pm »
Cunk on Earth

Philomena Cunk, a character dreamed up by British comedian Diane Morgan. A bit like watching Ali G. Funny, excruciating and often insightful in a backhanded way.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/cunk-on-earth-review-netflix-black-mirror-charlie-brooker-diane-morgan-mockumentary-1234671454/

I see that is behind a paywall. If you erase cookies you can see the whole article.

Otherwise

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1153800012/cunk-on-earth-review-diane-morgan-black-mirror-charlie-brooker
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« Reply #409 on: March 24, 2023, 12:40:09 am »
We watched "We Have A Ghost" on Netflix recently.  Based on the previews, I expected it to be total dogshit, but we were looking for something light and dumb to watch after a stressful day.  To my surprise I quite liked it.

Down-on-his luck dad Frank (Anthony Mackie, aka "The Falcon" from the Avengers movies) moves his family into a "fixer-upper" mansion that they bought at a really great price. Why so cheap? Because it's haunted, obviously.  But when their angsty teenage son Kevin catches the ghost on video, Frank uploads the video and it becomes a social media phenomenon and Frank thinks he can make money off of it.  Kevin, on the other hand, befriends the ghost. The ghost (David Harbour, aka "Sherriff Hopper" from Stranger Things) is unable to talk and can't remember his past, but Kevin calls him Ernest because that's what is written on his bowling shirt. While Frank tries to cash in, Kevin and Ernest embark on an adventure to find Ernest's past and help him "cross over".  And (spoiler) they all learn important lessons about life along the way.

This all sounds fairly trite and predictable, and it is, but it still works because of David Harbour and the young actor who plays Kevin (Jahi DiAllo Winston, who I have never heard of before.) They're a genuinely likeable team. It's wholesome, kind-hearted family entertainment.  And Jennifer Coolidge is hilarious in a brief cameo as a scammy TV "psychic".


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« Reply #410 on: May 08, 2023, 07:23:54 pm »
Season 3 of The Great on May 12. Should be on Prime.
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« Reply #411 on: May 09, 2023, 06:16:08 am »
How?

Season 2 was the only ending.

I don't like when good shows do that.

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« Reply #412 on: December 29, 2023, 09:29:52 am »
Ricky Gervais special, Armageddon. As with his other Netflix specials he tackles religion, woke, gender, disabled  and all the other subjects few others will touch. Everything except politics.
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« Reply #413 on: December 29, 2023, 12:37:02 pm »
Ricky Gervais special, Armageddon. As with his other Netflix specials he tackles religion, woke, gender, disabled  and all the other subjects few others will touch. Everything except politics.

Is it funny though? I heard not?.

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« Reply #414 on: December 29, 2023, 03:38:45 pm »
Is it funny though? I heard not?.

Gervais goes places others won't because he doesn't give a crap about being cancelled. As he says, I'm rich so it's working pretty well for me so far. Is it funny? I think so but I'm sure it is also offensive to some because it presents some uncomfortable truths, mocks the absolute stupidity of much of our politically correct cancel culture and how wokeness has become the opposite of what it was intended to describe. As he rightly (IMO) says, some things are so terrible we joke about them as a way of coping with them.
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« Reply #415 on: December 29, 2023, 05:05:35 pm »
Gervais goes places others won't because he doesn't give a crap about being cancelled. As he says, I'm rich so it's working pretty well for me so far. Is it funny? I think so but I'm sure it is also offensive to some because it presents some uncomfortable truths, mocks the absolute stupidity of much of our politically correct cancel culture and how wokeness has become the opposite of what it was intended to describe. As he rightly (IMO) says, some things are so terrible we joke about them as a way of coping with them.

Okay, but the culture war comics, such as Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle and now Gervais. Now Gervais I guess feel like they're just lecturing and not entertaining me.

I'm kind of a Jim Gaffigan guy.

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« Reply #416 on: December 29, 2023, 06:20:06 pm »
Okay, but the culture war comics, such as Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle and now Gervais. Now Gervais I guess feel like they're just lecturing and not entertaining me.

I'm kind of a Jim Gaffigan guy.

I like Gaffigan as well. I don't see Gervais as a cultural warrior, just someone who points out how ridiculous we can be. No subject should be off limits as long as it is funny. 
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« Reply #417 on: December 29, 2023, 06:59:39 pm »
Okay, but the culture war comics, such as Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle and now Gervais. Now Gervais I guess feel like they're just lecturing and not entertaining me.

I'm kind of a Jim Gaffigan guy.

Never heard of Hannah Gadsby before.  She's seems terrible.  I'm sure she has her own audience though, which is fine, but also weird since most comedians are usually enjoyed by most.  I agree Chappelle has become too preachy, just do the funny.

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« Reply #418 on: December 29, 2023, 07:08:14 pm »
Never heard of Hannah Gadsby before.  She's seems terrible.  I'm sure she has her own audience though, which is fine, but also weird since most comedians are usually enjoyed by most.  I agree Chappelle has become too preachy, just do the funny.


Hannah Gadsby is absolutely terrible.   Gervais and Chappelle are the best comics right now.  They’re some of the few that actually joke about people you’re not “suppose” to joke about, and push back on popular culture.  That used to be what most comics did, before they got scared to do it because of cancel culture.
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« Reply #419 on: December 29, 2023, 07:12:26 pm »
Humour is about irony and making fun of our inconsistencies. No subject should be off limits.  I would put Jim Jeffries in the same category. Makes you cringe sometimes but funny.
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