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« Reply #742 on: June 03, 2025, 10:37:54 AM »
Silo s2 seemed to retcon some things from s1.  I'll probably watch the next season if there's another one out when Severance comes back and we cut on AppleTV, but I feel like Silo is more potential than actual high quality. 

I still want to read the books.
I read three of the books (apparently there are a bunch outside of the main 3).  The first one was decent, but honestly I felt like the plot holes just got bigger and bigger by the 2nd and 3rd book.  

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« Reply #743 on: June 03, 2025, 11:33:28 AM »
Silo S2 was just ....dark.  Literally....dark, I can't even make out the scenes.  I know it had to be somewhat dark due to the Silo being dead, but dang it seems like they could figure out how to do it right. 
True. I routinely made sure my TV viewing area was as dark as possible so I could make it out.

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« Reply #744 on: June 06, 2025, 10:32:18 AM »
Anyone watch White Lotus? Binged Season 3 on a recent work trip, and very impressed. I'm not used to a show prompting me to think about its characters with the depth that I would for literary characters.


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« Reply #745 on: June 06, 2025, 10:35:04 AM »
My i s c & a aggie wife and my daughter like it.  I've watched most of S1 and part of S2 with them.  It's pretty good.  

S1 with Sydney Sweeney and Alexandra Daddario was... nice.


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« Reply #746 on: June 06, 2025, 12:18:26 PM »
Haven't seen season 3 yet, but I enjoyed the first two.

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« Reply #747 on: June 06, 2025, 12:47:42 PM »
I'm convinced Parker Posey isn't an actress and has no idea there are cameras filming her.  
“The Swamp is where Gators live.  We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous." - Steve Spurrier

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« Reply #748 on: June 06, 2025, 12:56:00 PM »
I've been a big fan of Parker Posey for decades. 


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« Reply #749 on: June 08, 2025, 01:39:30 PM »
Didn't they do that with Jamie Foxx like 20 years ago?
yeah, Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell played the leads, directed by Michael Mann (same dude that did excellent movies like Collateral and Heat) and it was actually pretty good. 

kinda shocked they would even do a reboot. 

a) there really isn't a demand for it....it's not that popular of ip. 

b) the last movie lost money. don't see how a new one will escape that same fate. 

c) Miami is not the same city it was in the '80s and in the days of the Cocaine Cowboys. Not even the same city it was 20 years ago when that movie was made. Miami is now the city of Medicare/Medicaid fraud, real estate scams, Crypto Bros, Latina/Russian gold digging whores and then all these small town American girls who move there to become OnlyFans "models/influencer" whores. Who the hell would want to watch that movie? 

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« Reply #750 on: June 08, 2025, 05:34:33 PM »
Miami is now the city of Medicare/Medicaid fraud, real estate scams, Crypto Bros, Latina/Russian gold digging whores and then all these small town American girls who move there to become OnlyFans "models/influencer" whores. Who the hell would want to watch that movie?


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« Reply #751 on: July 01, 2025, 05:50:32 PM »
We finally saw Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning in the theater this past weekend.  Overall I liked it.  There were numerous callbacks to previous movies throughout the franchise, and it pretty well stayed on-brand for what the franchise settled into starting with the 4th installation, or maybe the 3rd, depending on your opinion.  

Although I never found those movies particularly memorable, I always enjoyed watching them and I was never sorry I spent my time on it.  This one is no different.  It's Tom Cruise doing a bunch of crazy action stunts in crazy situations in crazy-beautiful locations.  

I've seen quite a few criticisms levied at the film and its predecessor Dead Reckoning, which this new movie completes, but I found I didn't agree with most of them.  Some thought the villain being an AI entity was off-brand and didn't work as well the typical Bond-super-villain type, but I thought the idea worked well.  Some thought the plot was goofy, but I thought it was no more or less goofy than any of the other movies.  Some thought it had too much exposition, but I didn't feel the same.  

My criticisms, if I had to find some, were that it lagged a bit in the middle and probably some of the film could've been edited down.  And it seemed too contrived at times the way they tried to incorporate plot points from previous movies into this one when the earlier movies clearly never had any intention of leading anywhere.  But I can easily forgive that because it was done as fan-service and because it was the last movie of the franchise, and that's the kind of thing you do in those situations.  

Anyway, whether you catch it in theaters while it's still there, or consider renting on streaming services when it's available, I'd say if you liked the other installments, you'll like this one too.  

I saw the first MI movie in the summer before my senior year of high school.  Crazy.  

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« Reply #752 on: July 01, 2025, 05:52:23 PM »
That movie was silly and fine. 

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« Reply #753 on: July 01, 2025, 05:54:12 PM »
I stopped watching the MI movies around #3 or #4, I think.  Just more of the same thing, and I didn't really feel the need to continue seeing it.

Arguably James Bond is the same thing, but I've always found Bond and the cast around him, to be more compelling characters.

That said, I haven't seen the last 2 or 3 Bond films, either.


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« Reply #754 on: July 01, 2025, 06:07:01 PM »
Latina/Russian gold digging whores and then all these small town American girls who move there to become OnlyFans "models/influencer" whores. Who the hell would want to watch that movie?
High school boys?
“The Swamp is where Gators live.  We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous." - Steve Spurrier

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« Reply #755 on: July 01, 2025, 06:08:09 PM »
I stopped watching the MI movies around #3 or #4, I think.  Just more of the same thing, and I didn't really feel the need to continue seeing it.
A movie loses me the moment there's a 2nd realistic-looking mask reveal happens.
Fuck that.  
Then anyone could be anyone, what's the point?
“The Swamp is where Gators live.  We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous." - Steve Spurrier

 

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