The Netflix/Hulu/Prime Thread

[The Eristic]

Just finished Wanderlust. Surprisingly, unnervingly intense in places, especially in contrast to the bursts of relative lightness throughout. Maybe can't quite decide what it wants to be, but maybe that's what works.

[Sonaboy]

Fuckin AT&T just up and decided to block HBO from all Dish customers, which means that everyone who bought the add-on channel for SlingTV just got a notice that said, "Oh, btw. We just took it off of your subscription today. Sorry."

What a load of horseshit.

[MechaGodzilla]

Is it better than the first season?

It's quite different. the pace is really changed, it's a slow burner, but the payoff in the later episodes is explosively wonderful. The last scene is bleakly beautiful. It's one of the best things I've watched in ages.

[blakestree]

Wow, I would call that better than the first season, then. Might have to give it a shot. Thanks.

[behndy]

Bullseye was the best part of the new daredevil.

shhhhhhh spoilerrrrrrrrrs.

on the last episode, and yeah. he was awesome, but loooove me some D'anofreruisosu Kingpin.

[ck3]

Daredevil consistently delivered during the first two seasons, so I'm definitely looking forward to the third one. For now, the Punisher has proven to be surprisingly good.

[behndy]

yah. i thought the Hand was the weakest part of the DD season 1 and 2 and the Defenders, so it was nice to see them go away from that in 3?

i hope there will be a 4. they're cancelling allll the Marvel'Flix thingies.

[Warpsmasher]

I've been underwhelmed with marvel tv and want them to step it up to what it could be: good looking comic book level art, animated. Like the intro sequences, but all the way through the whole episode, you know? It's like they're completely unaware of how cool they could be, if they would just try to recapture that creative edge they had in the 80s.

[The Eristic]

i thought the Hand was the weakest part

They had a really cool spooky vibe at first with the whole Black Sky thing, but especially in S2, they just kinda turned into loldumbninjas who looked like they were meant to be extras from a live action reboot of Jackie Chan Adventures.

[jrfox92]

they're cancelling allll the Marvel'Flix thingies.

Honestly, fuck Netflix and Disney.

Netflix consistently ruins their good shows, and Disney seems really intent to fuck people over even more than they normally do with this new streaming service bullshit.

[BetterOffShred]

they're cancelling allll the Marvel'Flix thingies.

Honestly, fuck Netflix and Disney.

Netflix consistently ruins their good shows, and Disney seems really intent to fuck people over even more than they normally do with this new streaming service bullshit.

Disney is late to the "pay for my streaming shit" party and isn't going to have enough content.

Also fuck Disney and all the other studios who think a movie is a failure if it doesn't make literally 1 billion moneez right away. That's not a good mindset or success metric for making decent movies.

[coldbrightsunlight]

It's a mindset for making lots of money though. Which is all they want to do.

[BetterOffShred]

Yeah I get that part, but it's pretty much the death of adventurous movie making. I see lots (even more) remakes in the future.. why take a chance on a new idea

[behndy]

well, sometimes neat things slip through? like, the original Guardians of the Galaxy was a pretty oddball, risky move for A Level Expensive Movie Times, and it worked out welllll.

good stuff is still coming out, Upgrade was AWESOME, too lazy to look at Recent Releases to list a bunch of delicious thingers still getting made, but that's been the status quo for a while no? Blockbuster movies rarely step out of a reliable format mode, smaller things do well and get incorporated into bigger things until they get played out ridiculously and become a trope, wash, rinse, repeat?

[Sonaboy]

Against my bias, House Of Cards is delivering so far. The hyper-self-awareness of everything as they call out Spacey, Twomp, election meddling, conservo press consolidation et al takes expected shots at all of it, usually even without Clare's interior 4th wall breaches. It seems like they're more interested in turning her into a female authoritarian surrogate, which could turn out to be too kitschy IMO, but what do I know?
Ep 03 ending was just lulz.
it's a total gravedigger party up in here.