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I love search party. John Early is a Star.

one of my favourite shows ever. S3 is in the can. no idea why it hasn’t dropped yet.

it dropped three weeks ago

it's on hbo

Search party is amazing and john early's performance is tremendous

I cooled on Search Party after season 2, but 3 is a return to form imo

well this thread spurred me to rewatch s1 on a binge, so i just did that. holds up! Will cycle through 2 shortly.

WHAT!?!?!

search party s3 is out???

that’s what i get for moving away from the country that invented hbo

also they filmed s3 and 4 back to back which seems a particularly prescient move now

the last og is great! highly recommend all three seasons.

Rob Delaney's special "Jackie" on Prime is excellent standup, if you like standup.

there’s a new paul hogan movie on prime and i guarantee it will exceed all your wildest expectations

Almost an Angel 2?

even worse

think of the worst thing that has ever happened and double it

the premise is that hoges has fallen victim to ~~~~~~political correctness~~~~~~ and all his friends have abandoned him and the world has either turned on him or forgotten who he is (depending on which scene you’re watching)

the Jason Reitman project “Home Movie:Princess Bride” made for Quibi is available on t0rrentz

info here if u are unfamiliar:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/the-princess-bride-homemade-fan-film

well worth watching if you are inclined, it’s really great & lots of fun. also more pleasant to watch on tv than phone but also i am old

Crocodile Dundee 3? xps

that came out in 2001

Shit, did it?

4 or 5 then?

here's #4

Crocodile Dundee 3? xps

it’s this whole semi-fictional reflection on the fact that nobody cares about crocodile dundee any more, and that somehow paul hogan is the victim of people not caring who he is or something

Dundee 3 has both Jere Burns & Jonathan Banks for your pre-Breaking Bad needs.

this whole semi-fictional reflection on the fact that nobody cares about

Croc Your Enthusiasm

otm

Man I kept waiting for something good or interesting to happen in Old Guard but I literally fell asleep

Whoops wrong thread

Lol now HBO Max is losing all the Harry Potter films (which have their own section on the homepage). They're losing a whole bunch of other stuff, too, but gaining a bunch of random stuff as well, like the Nolan Batmans (that were promised at launch) and the Leprechaun series, which clearly means that HBO Max is being as carefully curated as the Criterion Channel.

Something I am curious about is the coming addition of "Idiocracy (Extended Version)." I wonder what this is? It's obvious the original version was cut to pieces by the studio. I wonder if this just restores those two or so deleted scenes that were on the DVD?

"hyuck hyuck it just adds footage of America from the last 4 years hyuck hyuck"

Seriously. At this point I'd prefer some aspects of Idiocracy to where we're at in the real world.

Yeah, I'd rather see Ass win 8 Academy Awards than Palm Springs.

Slim pickings this year, if they gave Ass a release (maybe at a drive-in in FL?) it would probably be on the ballot along with Trolls World Tour, The Invisible Man and Bad Boys for Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYnuubY2Uk

i've been watching + enjoying Close Enough on Max which is by the Regular Show guy and has a Manzoukas voiced char. i tried perry mason last night but it was dreary, depressing, and boring so i gave up v quickly. thinking about checking out the mcnamara doc. the looney tunes are clever + better than i would've expected based on most contemporary looney tunes projects. anything else tv-wise on the service i should look into?

I have loved finally watching the pilot to the 90s X-Men cartoon on Disney+, which I completely missed at the time

Close Enough is good imo; Looney Tunes is great. New Adventure Time is good.

xp if you can stomach the glacial pacing and ludicrous voice acting you are in for in a treat. that show went wild places for a '90s Saturday morning kids show

this one's for you, morph

Oh that's misleading, I have watched every episode of the 90s X-Men series EXCEPT the first two

So I'm basically like "FINALLY IN 2020 I CAN SEE THE EPISODES I KEPT MISSING"

Nothing's changed; it's all just the way you left it.

my watch... it's been....... *magnetized*

They're losing a whole bunch of other stuff, too, but gaining a bunch of random stuff as well

so exactly like netflix every month

and... the HBO network, historically

I mean, yes, but ... come on, I'm not captain save-a-service here, but this is a new streaming service that happened to launch during a pandemic when people are as close to literally being stuck inside as they'll ever be, sold on the basis of a few marquee titles (many of them kid-friendly): DC superheroes, Harry Potter, etc. Harry Potter gets its own *section* on the home page. So yeah, Netflix loses stuff all the time, but not stuff promoted as *exclusives*. I get that there are licensing agreements that send these titles all over the place, but then what's the point of an HBO Max streaming service if its only exclusives are HBO shows?

It’s the same price as HBO Now was so anything beyond what HBO was is a bonus.

the point is that it has enough stuff at any given time to keep you suckered in. if that stops being true for you just unsubscribe.

honestly netflix seems to have made the constant churn work for them, ime they advertise the crap out of movies the month they arrive and the month they leave. all they have to do is keep that FOMO mechanism triggered in everyone's brains and most people won't complain, even though they lose more than they gain every month. most people are mainly sticking around for their tv shows anyway! sounds like a business model to emulate

I don't pay for HBO Max, I get it "free"with my cable. The thing that irks me the most is the titles it boasted of at launch that it's already losing, for whatever reason. I've never seen a Netflix ad, nor have I seen anything other than Netflix produced titles dangled out as subscription enticements. But I did see ads for HBO Max and stuff like Harry Potter was heavily promoted, making its reported disappearance just a couple of months later really odd. And yeah, I do get it, shitty companies being shitty, true to form, what else is new. Doesn't make it out of bounds for complaints, imo.

Like, each of the streaming services, they've got to have some stable staples right? what if, for example, the criterion channel lost everything by Bergman or Kurosawa? that would be nuts.

it's not shitty companies being shitty, it's license periods having finite terms. streaming services' only perennials are the material that they own.

The Criterion Channel has existed for less than fifteen months, so it's probably a little premature to speculate about what would be nuts for them to stop signing new deals to license over and over every two or three years for 20 years, regardless of whether anyone has watched it in the previous year, or ten years.

you do seem to be the only person who has seen any ads for HBO Max anywhere tbf. No idea what its interface is like, but HBO Go has "new this month" and "leaving this month" as permanent features on the home page.