talk about not learning anything from your parents
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/uma-thurman-daughter-tarantino-film-cast-maya-hawke-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-a8504081.html
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
"American Pie" was close to great...I've progressively lost interest in the monster (in all its various incarnations), otherwise I wouldn't equivocate.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 July 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
Winona looks so much like Harry Dean Stanton in her Russian uniform. I can’t unsee it.
― Mule, Friday, 19 July 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Leave Winona alone
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 20 July 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
Obviously I’m very sorry
― Mule, Saturday, 20 July 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
love this season, all the Steve and Robin stuff was A+, I loved how he deftly turned the "reveal" into a friendly debate about the hotness of her crush
not so keen on the "Russians as villains" arc that they seem to be setting up for S4
the monster was better when it was a creepy gooey crawling pile of partly dissolved rats and flesh, once it gained a form it was a cartoon
― Skip Spence None the Richer (sleeve), Saturday, 20 July 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
dusty and steve spin off when
― meaulnes, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Rewatching ssn 3 with my wifeIt is so apparent that the ice cream shop storyline is the golden one
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Not much to add, was at least as fun to watch as any of the other seasons, A+ top marks for fashion game. It was also kind of a mess. Pushing further out in both tonal directions at the same time made it harder and harder to get that Flayerhunters and Scoops Crew are in the same show: "Scooby-Doo meets Cronenberg" is more difficult to land than "Goonies meets X-Files".
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I think this was the most fun season
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
I stopped after three episodes of the third season (will resume) to go back and rewatch the first for something I'm working on. The contrast was stark. The first season is really tense most of the way; again, only based on three episodes of the third, but they seem to have completely lost that part of the show, try as they might to keep it alive.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
a My Little Pony episode that had not yet been made
Good news. 'Nerd tropes' discussion notwithstanding,that episode was from 1984. And now, the Sea Ponies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TedkQP_hM
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:22 (four years ago) link
when he started talking about My Little Pony, I was like, wait, no, that was absolutely not a nerd thing in the '80s in any way
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
I don't know if cool would be the right word for it, but basically.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
DUSTIN CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE MY GOD THIS SHOW IS ACTUALLY BRILLIANT.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
THE WRITERS ARE HAVING A BIT OF FUN THIS SHOW IS ACTUALLY TERRIBLE!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
FIREWORKS SALES WERE NOT LEGAL IN INDIANA UNTIL 2006 WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Sales were legal before 2006, setting them off instate was not. Indiana's fireworks laws are and were an amusing mess.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
^ This. It was the dumbest shit ever, and so completely unenforced. I don't know how many times as a minor in IN me and my little friends bought fireworks, requested free packs of matches from convenience stores, and set shit off in clandestine places we really shouldn't have, but it was a lot.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
I'll have to bring this up with the editors of IMDB's "goofs" section.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
It's funny/horrifying to think about now. The ethics of selling fireworks to children aside, they were only able to sell them on the tacit promise that they would be fired off in another state. But where the hell is a ten-year-old gonna go to shoot off bottle rockets, really (if you said 'a city park restroom' you are correct).
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Although if it had occurred to us, we would've happily gone with 'from the balcony of a mall'.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
Are there age restrictions of fireworks in the US?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
reminds me of the slot machines in bars long ago with "DOES NOT PAY CASH. ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY" written all over them
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
I feel like there must be stricter regulations these days, but, well, y'know. The past is in so many ways like the wild west compared to today. We used to fuck around with my grandparents' contraband jarts, too.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
misread that as jorts
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
Hot dog on a stick doesn’t exist west of the Barstow iirc
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
if you only heard of this show through the ads/clips they've been running on FB you'd have no idea there was any horror or sci-fi element to it whatsoever
― frogbs, Monday, 12 August 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
thought that the plot and pacing and visuals and sounds were all great this third season, but aside from steve and robin the other characters really were in the way of the above as opposed to either being accepted as established or actually developing them in a non- annoying way.
hopper and joyce in particular became sitcom characters, a real step back from previous
also, im not seeking hyper realism, but they went from two seasons of intradimensional madness, govt all over it, we know theres something goin on here to:
everyone fuckin disbelieving and clueless that strange things are happening, and the same scooby doo troupe left to handle it bar one phonecall to the cia switch?
also, didnt even *try* to pretend hopper had actually been ~spoilered~
ramping up the horror was good tho
8/10 will watch season 4
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 December 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
my niece is at this show's convention in Atlanta w/ her parents right now
true sacrifice
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
From Russia with love… pic.twitter.com/ZWEMgy63Et— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) February 14, 2020
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 February 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
glad they're not even pretending that he might have died
― frogbs, Friday, 14 February 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that could have been excruciatingly bad. The Russians did overtly mention "the American" at the very end of last season, and if that had been misdirection and it was someone other than Hopper, I definitely would have lost fucks for the series.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 14 February 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
Was he not in the final shot? Or am I imagining that?
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Friday, 14 February 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
Last shot I remember is the Russian prisoner being fed to a demogorgon.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 14 February 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
i'm gonna turn into the shakey mo of this thread. show lost me completely early in season 3 and i joyfully dngaf
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
unless shakey is already the shakey of this thread. not going back to check lol.
you rang
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
the main kid in this goes to a school in my old neighborhood and it's very odd to see this global star trudging along the street in his school uniform with his backpack and headphones on like an average moody teen
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
looking forward to the breathless introduction of compact discs in season 4, but which character will be the one to do it?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
hahaha
― sleeve, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
2. Jonathan saying how cool Miyazaki is, somehow having seen Laputa: Castle in the Sky screened in rural Indiana3. Reporting on Chernobyl, cut to "Where's the beef?" Wendy's ad4. Cameo by digitally-deracisted Morrissey, torn apart by demo-dogs
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 14 February 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
There's no way this won't be Steve Harrington.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
4. Cameo by digitally-deracisted Morrissey, torn apart by demo-dogs
"Stranger Things, There I Go"
― blatherskite, Friday, 14 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
I dunno how that railroad will ever get built with bullshit halfassed hammering like that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:34 (four years ago) link
That's exactly what Hopper was about to say in the trailer before it ended. Maybe he'll get a promotion!
― Evan, Monday, 17 February 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
My kids have been nagging me to watch the third season for months now, not getting the hint that if I thought the first season was just OK and the second a dud that maybe I might not be that into the third one, or the show as a whole. Anyway, they've made me watch I think three of them so far, and they're ok but kinda padded, and the acting (esp. the kids) is pretty bad/annoying. I'm sure things pick up, but as I told one of them, the one who complains the most about sitting through movies I pick, at least most movies manage to introduce characters and tell a story from scratch in a little more than two hours. The three episodes of "Stranger Things 3" I've seen come close to three hours, but it feels like what's been introduced and conveyed could have been done in half that, at most. The exception seems to be the Mall Crew, who at least have some chemistry and deserve their own show. Which, at least at this stage in the show, they sort of do. Russian spies in the mall! That I can get behind. But more teen melodrama, and more portentous intimations of the return of evil inter-dimensional beings, that I have less time for, because, duh, this is the third season and we get the idea so get on with it, even if the characters themselves are inexplicably slow to pick up that something that has happened twice before, recently, could very well be on the verge of happening again. As I told one of my kids, if one summer you are attacked by a werewolf and somehow manage to kill the werewolf, that's great, but now you've got the rest of your life ahead of you knowing that werewolves are real. That would really fuck you up, and even if you never saw another werewolf, you'd probably become a full-time werewolf preppier.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 April 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
a prepare-wolf, surely
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
(throws you a milkbone)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 April 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link