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Cincydawg

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #714 on: May 20, 2025, 02:34:22 PM »
How often does a friend who you usually like and respect plenty well say "X is great" and you try it and find you're bored with it?

Happens to me, I'm a little quick maybe to pull the trigger on the machine gun, but three round bursts.

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« Reply #715 on: May 20, 2025, 04:14:52 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 20, 2025, 02:34:22 PM
How often does a friend who you usually like and respect plenty well say "X is great" and you try it and find you're bored with it?

Happens to me, I'm a little quick maybe to pull the trigger on the machine gun, but three round bursts.
Andor S2 bored me to tears.  
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« Reply #716 on: May 20, 2025, 04:53:38 PM »
We also stumbled upon Nonnas, on Netflix. It's a "based on a true story" movie about a real Staten Island restaurant that was conceived as being a kitchen staffed by Italian grandmothers. Pretty solid cast. Vince Vaughan as Joe Scarabella, the protagonist who is trying to open the restaurant. Joe Manganiello as Joe's best friend with Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos) as his wife. As two of the grandmothers, you have Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) and Susan Sarandon. 

This is the sort of movie that is probably a "relax on the couch with your significant other" / date night sort of movie. It's not Oscar bait, and there are zero machine guns. But we really liked it. It was sweet, heartfelt, and funny. Well acted, good story. 
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« Reply #717 on: May 20, 2025, 05:26:31 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on May 20, 2025, 04:14:52 PM
Andor S2 bored me to tears. 

Haven't seen it.  Didn't realize it was all out yet.  

Just checked the IMDB scores, viewers rated the first two episodes Meh, and then really thought highly of it from there on out, except for one episode.  I mostly agreed with the s1 episode scores, and in general agree with its scores.  

I learned my lesson one time several years back when The Mummy was quite poorly rated, and I thought "There's no way Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe did a movie that bad."  Spent my money to rent it, and, nope, it really did suck.  
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« Reply #718 on: May 20, 2025, 07:57:59 PM »
I asked a good friend and Star Wars freak (he's seen literally everything, animation spinoffs, every.thing.) about Andor S2.

His words: "It was alright. Not peak Star Wars, but passable."

That moved the series onto the get-around-to-it-someday list for me.
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« Reply #719 on: May 20, 2025, 08:01:06 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on May 20, 2025, 01:23:21 PM
I agree, with Severance, there's no practical good outcome long-term for what iMark and Helly wind up doing.  I think it speaks to how the innies are, at bottom, very childlike.  They retain critical thinking, but they have zero real-world experience that mixes with that to constitute what we'd call maturity.  I don't think they were really thinking very far ahead, nor do they have a great ability to.  It's kind of a case of "This is what I want, so this is what I'll do," sort of like a 5-yr old.  YMMV, that's my take on it. 
That's pretty close to what Adam Scott said in BTS footage. They don't have a plan. They don't know if they'll be together 10 minutes or 10 years, but in that moment, he chose her.
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« Reply #720 on: May 20, 2025, 08:30:57 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on May 20, 2025, 04:53:38 PM
We also stumbled upon Nonnas, on Netflix. It's a "based on a true story" movie about a real Staten Island restaurant that was conceived as being a kitchen staffed by Italian grandmothers. Pretty solid cast. Vince Vaughan as Joe Scarabella, the protagonist who is trying to open the restaurant. Joe Manganiello as Joe's best friend with Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos) as his wife. As two of the grandmothers, you have Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) and Susan Sarandon.

This is the sort of movie that is probably a "relax on the couch with your significant other" / date night sort of movie. It's not Oscar bait, and there are zero machine guns. But we really liked it. It was sweet, heartfelt, and funny. Well acted, good story.
Enjoyed it as well.  Of course- having an Italian grandma of my own, who was the best cook in my lifetime- it brought back some great memories.  
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« Reply #721 on: May 21, 2025, 08:50:22 AM »
there are times when I can't find a ballgame on TV
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« Reply #722 on: May 21, 2025, 12:11:09 PM »
On Severance, the concept at the beginning is that people chose this "inside" life to escape some trauma they have in their "outside" lives. For 8 hours a day, they forget the thing that weighs them down. The problem is they build new traumas on the inside, so the escape doesn't last very long. Is that the overall theme: you can't escape trauma in a human existence, you just have to learn to live with it? Seems reasonable.

There is the whole corporate overlords, cult, and inhumane use of people as science experiments angle, too. Need a bad guy (or three) to tell your story.
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« Reply #723 on: May 21, 2025, 02:13:31 PM »
Quote from: iahawk15 on May 20, 2025, 07:57:59 PM
I asked a good friend and Star Wars freak (he's seen literally everything, animation spinoffs, every.thing.) about Andor S2.

His words: "It was alright. Not peak Star Wars, but passable."

That moved the series onto the get-around-to-it-someday list for me.
No space battles.  No light-saber fights.  No force wielders.  Politics, espionage, long winded plots.  Might as well be watching the "West Wing".  
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« Reply #724 on: May 23, 2025, 09:57:42 AM »

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« Reply #725 on: May 23, 2025, 01:28:43 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on May 21, 2025, 08:50:22 AM
there are times when I can't find a ballgame on TV
Did you check all the apps?  HBO Max has games, Prime has a lot of games.  I used to think there was 1 "free game of the day," but there's like 4.  
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #726 on: May 23, 2025, 02:06:42 PM »
I can get MLB now, so I can usually find something
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #727 on: May 23, 2025, 03:24:39 PM »
If you want a movie to watch this weekend (especially), this one is very good.

Taking Chance (TV Movie 2009) - IMDb
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