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Re: OT: Best TV Show Ever?
« Reply #56 on: August 21, 2021, 08:30:05 PM »
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« Reply #57 on: August 21, 2021, 10:02:43 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 21, 2021, 07:02:39 PM
I think the first movie started out as an amazing visual movie and over the years that esteem leaked into the quality of the movie itself and then the last couple of generations just grew up thinking it was a great movie. 
A similar idea would be Jurassic Park - where the CGI mostly still holds up today, amazingly, had that fact bleed into the greatness of the movie itself....but I don't feel like that's happened.  Or maybe it has - it was so amazing at the time, visually, and maybe that's enough for it to still matter and have its story continue into the present. 
But I don't think there's the same obsession as with Star Wars. 
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Maybe it's not that, maybe it was just the first Sci-Fi movie that had enough action in it to make it big in the mainstream.
A New Hope is a dreadful movie.  But somehow they managed to take a bad movie, with great special effects, and turn it into a great trilogy

The prequels get a bad rap, but they are actually an amazing story, ruined with a bad script, and an over reliance on CGI that wasn't there yet.

The sequel trilogy wasn't just bad, it was bad in a way that poisoned everything before it.  It actually ruined the story.
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« Reply #58 on: August 22, 2021, 08:25:56 AM »
New Hope Star Wars is by far the best one. 

You could maybe make a case for Empire. You'd be wrong, but it's been done. 
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« Reply #59 on: August 22, 2021, 08:32:23 AM »
Yeah can't get on board with New Hope being dreadful. I think it is really good - the ending is pure Roy Rogers, and the effects are the worse of the three, but the very beginning is as iconic as anything in cinema, and the slow burn after that was pretty slick.
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« Reply #60 on: August 22, 2021, 10:46:41 AM »
Since Star Wars is being talked about I'll throw The Mandalorian out there. Not that's it's amongst the best of all time, but its probably the best in the Star Wars universe.

Its not geared towards young kids.  There's more of a dark feel to it with adult content.  The acting is good.  Pedro Pascal is excellent, as usual (he also kills it in Narcos and Game of Thrones).  They set up an interesting villain, played by Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring from Breaking Bad).  
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« Reply #61 on: August 22, 2021, 11:14:05 AM »
Mandalorian is great, really a lot of fun.  
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« Reply #62 on: August 23, 2021, 11:16:34 AM »
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« Reply #63 on: August 23, 2021, 11:35:12 AM »
I thought that was from the CFB Board Meetings
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« Reply #64 on: August 23, 2021, 11:41:20 AM »
Reminds me of this:




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« Reply #65 on: August 23, 2021, 11:44:08 AM »
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« Reply #66 on: August 23, 2021, 10:06:08 PM »
I was having a discussion with a friend of mine today, and was reminded of the TV show Halt And Catch Fire .  It's not the best TV show ever but it was a really good one.  Especially for someone like me that grew up as a computer nerd in the 70s and 80s, and then became a computer engineer in the 90s and 2000s.
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« Reply #67 on: August 23, 2021, 10:21:33 PM »
Lots of great memories sparked by watching that show.  My older brother (born in 71) had some friends which were really into early gaming and computing.   It was fun to learn where we were heading as a young kid.  I thought the modem was the coolest thing and the ability to talk to other computers.   

True story, my Dad was a Secret Sevice agent and this is when computer crimes were exploding in the 80s.  Agents befriended (no different than any other investigative tactics used today) these teens and young adults to really help them get up to speed and on background for all kinds of underworld activity.   One of the cool things I got to learn as I got older.  

Anyways, that show is a very good time capsule.
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« Reply #68 on: August 23, 2021, 10:37:08 PM »
Yup, AMC was attempting to mirror the feel of Mad Men, but in a different era.  And to a certain extent they did.  But they also allowed it to grow into its own thing, and that made it much better than just a copycat.

I was born in '71 as well, and got to watch and learn firsthand as the computer revolution unfolded.  It was a great time to be a kid, and to be a computer nerd.




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« Reply #69 on: August 23, 2021, 10:57:29 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on August 23, 2021, 11:35:12 AM
I thought that was from the CFB Board Meetings
If you guys all met, there should be a geologist present.
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