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No, she's usually the one on the giving end of the violence.
BEST TV Shows to watch... CURRENTLY...
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I like Buffy but she’s completely different than Sarah Connor and Ripley. Buffy is a superhuman and exists in a fantasy world with magic and silly monsters. Terminator, Predator and Alien are all sci-fi but in a very grounded way. Also the characters have no powers and the enemies they fight are also far more realistic than vampires and demons and shit.
Comparing Buffy to Ripley is silly.
Comparing Buffy to Ripley is silly.
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Foundation
I love sci fi, it's probably my favourite genre, but I'd held off on watching this because I found the first book somehow dull, and never bothered with the rest of the novels.
The tv series looks fantastic, the world building is second to none, I like the majority of the cast. Everything is in place for an absolute classic. So why am I bored?
I somehow don't see the point in it all - I don't like the 'good guys' one iota more than the 'bad guys'. I don't care what happens to anyone. There are no rules to anything, people live, die, come back again, live for hundreds of years, whatever suits the story that episode. People have a new power that suits that episodes story that doesn't appear again, it's exhausting.
I couldn't be arsed to live in their world, and I'm starting to feel the same about watching it.
I love sci fi, it's probably my favourite genre, but I'd held off on watching this because I found the first book somehow dull, and never bothered with the rest of the novels.
The tv series looks fantastic, the world building is second to none, I like the majority of the cast. Everything is in place for an absolute classic. So why am I bored?
I somehow don't see the point in it all - I don't like the 'good guys' one iota more than the 'bad guys'. I don't care what happens to anyone. There are no rules to anything, people live, die, come back again, live for hundreds of years, whatever suits the story that episode. People have a new power that suits that episodes story that doesn't appear again, it's exhausting.
I couldn't be arsed to live in their world, and I'm starting to feel the same about watching it.
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Foundation as a whole isn't that good. What's special about it is how much it influenced and inspired later, much better works.
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Agreed. I watched the first season and was tremendously bored. And I'm a big Jared Harris fan! Seeing him as essentially THEE main character of the series of books was "gonna be cool" but it was quite uneventful and pretty much nothing like the book lol. I didn't bother with the 2nd season or 3rd.
I.. hated the Foundation, Foundation & Empire and Second Foundation books. Hay-ted. Them.
The biggest issue with the books for me, at least with the first one is that literally every other page was "ok 500 years later..." and it was all new characters talking to the Seldon hologram. Once they pick up whats his face (dont want to mention in case theres people who dont want spoilers) it gets better, but not by much.
I liked I Robot, the Positronic Man and even several of his shorts like the Last Question and The Immortal Bard. Nightfall was meh, and the 90s movie was HILARIOUSLY horrible. Regardless of my thoughts on it, the man could write. That's not in contention here. But everyone shits their pants at the Foundation novels and I was just like... "wow that was a fucking SLOG" when I hit that last page. I didnt bother with Foundations Edge/and Earth, etc.
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I thought it was the 2nd but I guess the 3rd?
It's been about 10 years since I read em.
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Ive only read the first of the Barsoom novels but when I was a kid.
Also - I know I'm probably in the minority but I actually enjoyed John Carter of Mars from a few years back. It coulda been cool.
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James Gunn comes back from his hopeful, lighthearted, family friendly Superman movie with the Peacemaker season 2 premiere. Featuring our hero essentially breaking into his parallel counterpart's home and accidentally killing him right after having a bisexual orgy to cope with Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, and Max Lord relentlessly bullying him.
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This is by the same people that did Mare of Eastown and like that was filmed at the studio near me and around the area last year and the year before that. I’m interested to see the area on tv I know some of the filming locations as areas were shut down around that time
I saw a trailer for this this morning and it looks like fun hope it’s good
I saw a trailer for this this morning and it looks like fun hope it’s good
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@Ralfakick looking forward to that, Mare of Easton was excellent.
Been watching Bad Monkey, it’s not bad. Based on the Carl Hiaasen book, Hiaasen’s books are all comedic murder mysteries set in Florida. They are known for making fun of Florida and its general idiocy, corruption and rampant petty crime. You know, “Florida Man” shit. They usually include a large and colorful cast of characters.
The show stars Vince Vaughn as a disgraced detective in the Keys currently assigned to restaurant inspector as a punishment. He gets caught up in a series of murders after a severed arm is found by some fishing tourists. This leads to everything from medical fraud and real estate scams to a sexy Bahamian voodoo queen to grave desecration.
Vaughn is a bit grating at times but a lot of that is the character and writing. Overall the show has a nice pace and feel to it. It’s well made amusing breezy fun.
Been watching Bad Monkey, it’s not bad. Based on the Carl Hiaasen book, Hiaasen’s books are all comedic murder mysteries set in Florida. They are known for making fun of Florida and its general idiocy, corruption and rampant petty crime. You know, “Florida Man” shit. They usually include a large and colorful cast of characters.
The show stars Vince Vaughn as a disgraced detective in the Keys currently assigned to restaurant inspector as a punishment. He gets caught up in a series of murders after a severed arm is found by some fishing tourists. This leads to everything from medical fraud and real estate scams to a sexy Bahamian voodoo queen to grave desecration.
Vaughn is a bit grating at times but a lot of that is the character and writing. Overall the show has a nice pace and feel to it. It’s well made amusing breezy fun.
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I’ll probably make @Jon watch it when he visits next and point out all the places.
It’s weird to think of the star power that’s been in my little town at the movie studio here: Stallone, Winslet , Smith, Sandler, Gere etc
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Tim Meadows is hilarious in this week's Peacemaker.
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Comedy Central is really pushing this Digman shit hard. I can't sit through an episode. Andy Samberg is, by his own admission, doing a poor Nic Cage impression the entire time voicing the main character and it's just grating.
They recently had an animation panel and they threw Samberg up on stage with fucking Mike Judge, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone like he's their peer in this space.
They recently had an animation panel and they threw Samberg up on stage with fucking Mike Judge, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone like he's their peer in this space.
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Alien: Earth has consistently been a pretty mixed bag. For every awesome thing it does something equally dumb or unnecessary. Makes it kind of hard to judge but I’ve definitely been enjoying it more than Romulus. I think the biggest problem is the whole putting children’s consciousness into synthetic adult bodies and then making them do stuff children could never handle. It’s just weird and seems like kind of cheap writing.
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So pretty much everything in this entire franchise except for the first two films.
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Yeah but I feel AE at least stands on its own a bit better than most of the others. So far it hasn’t resorted to the eye rolling levels of “remember this” that Romulus did. It’s also not as up its own ass as Prometheus and Covenant.
Plus it has actual characters, something that Prometheus, Covenant and Romulus were almost completely lacking.
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Romulus could have been the best since Aliens.
The fact that it becomes a member berry trap half way through makes me hate it more than any of the films post Aliens in the franchise.
Yes, I am saying I'd watch Prometheus again before I'd watch Romulus.
The fact that it becomes a member berry trap half way through makes me hate it more than any of the films post Aliens in the franchise.
Yes, I am saying I'd watch Prometheus again before I'd watch Romulus.
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It's Alien: The Force Awakens with deepfake Ian Holm
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I couldn't get through two episodes of Alien Earth. Stupid concept, stupid cliche characters, stupid cliche Peter Pan shit, stupid cliche coincidences that drive the plot. I've sat through Prometheus, Covenant, and Romulus, but I can't handle this level of lazy masquerading as smart and interesting.
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But its got the best retarded misuse of a classic phrase from a GOOD Alien movie.
"Get away from you you bitch!" but said "*pant pant pant - get away from her.. you... *pant pant* b-bitch"