Bellenda Carlisle

I heard there was recent but already cancelled series called Kidding about a legendary kid's puppet show presenter having a crisis. It stars Jim Carrey and is produced by Michel Gondry.

I was excited to watch it cos I love kids TV and puppets and stuff, and with Carrey and Gondry I was expecting an imaginative feast of epic proportions. I watched both series in 1 day and I hated nearly everything about it.

I don't regret watching it because it's rare that I actually dislike something so much in such detail, but I do regret watching it alone because it would have been fun to bore someone to death with a constant commentary of why I didn't like it. 

The main thing that pissed me off about it was that with all the potential to do something unique it was just another boring story about a rich white family's power balance, that was the backbone and anything whimsical was just garnish. The few times they did go out of the box to do something a bit weird I also hated as well because they were all stupid and terrible.

My expectations were probably too high for Jim Carrey in this but his character was awful, the basic idea of the character was was ok but having it framed against all the family business squabbles sucked the life out of it and every time he did something out of character to show he was going a bit crazy it was too out of character and so unnapeallingly written that it was never funny or enjoyable or clever or anything. I didn't think the sentimentality was particularly well done in most of the parts with his wife and son but some bits were ok, but I really hated all the stuff with his sister and dad.

Pros : It did have puppets and stuff in it.

Judy Greer gets her tits out twice.

Jim Carrey's brother in law has a couple of funny moments

Sorry for the wall of text, if anyone read this far I guess I did get to bore someone to death after all.

Danny Elfman has a new song! He hasn't done anything like this for so long.

I only like the version with no snoop dogg.

Tony Jaa getting an English language action movie trilogy, awesome news, I love that guy.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/tony-jaa-turns-assassin-for-new-action-trilogy/

I thought it was a good show, I like the ppv format they're doing now of just putting a few matches on the b shows, this one only had a handful and they were mostly pretty important storyline wise. Sasha/Bayley was great, I liked all the cell matches. 

I'm fine with Orton as champ, he's one of my faves and he's been as good as ever recently, was surprised to see him use a lightsaber in the match though.

Poor Otis 

This thread should be locked. I illegally download everything. It's either a movie,  a tv show or a documentary.

What did we think of Borat 2 then? 

It was basically exactly as you'd imagine, more of the same but a decade and a half after the idea was first fresh. I laughed or watched it cringing behind my fingers enough that it was worthwhile but it didn't all work for me.

Tutar was great, she was the highlight for me and could have a great future in comedy with a debut performance like that.

On 9/29/2020 at 8:44 PM, SuperBacon said:

Just tried these and was pretty impressed. Very good texture, held together and they were very burgery. 7 year old didn't notice they were meat free as well, the absolute suckeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

Just tried these and thought they were amazing, probably my new fave veggie burger. They were so disgusting coming out of the packet that I had no confidence in them but they fried really nicely.

I did used to bring these apple pie cookies to work and they were really popular but they're practically cakes tbh and people already know that Apple pie is nice.

13 minutes ago, gmoney said:

Yeah you don't get much apple flavoured stuff because they mainly taste of dirty water.

 

Green apple is a popular flavour in sweets, especially sour ones. Particularly in the states.

Stephen Dorff MMA drama coming out next month, it looked ok but then after the revelation at like 1:50 I'm kind of sold on it now, that's pretty fun.

If you thought the last couple of Die Hard films were as low as it could get, the new one is 2 minutes long, fucking hell Bruce.

I thought it worked well having some wrestlers among the heads in the thunderdome, don't know why they haven't been doing it all along. Also seeing people do the YES hands thing on the screens was the first time it's felt like the virtual audience were remotely connected to the show, nice one D Bry. 

Hope Corbin gets something to do, he barely got mentioned in the draft.

"When I was by your side when you won your first women's championship, who was by your side?... me"  _Sasha Banks 

6 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said:

This is genuinely up there as one of the best songs of all time. It's astonishing.

 

When I was at secondary school we had an assembly for the whole school and the deputy head of year played that song (it had just come out) in its entirety on the speakers because he thought it was so inspiring that every kid should listen to it. It was a cool moment I never forgot, I'm quite sentimental about that song, it's lovely.

Auto Focus (2002)

Greg Kinnear in the true story of a family man sitcom star in the 60s/70s who's so obsessed with shagging around and making sex tapes of himself that it brings about his downfall.

Willem Dafoe was great as his sleazy desperate friend who's an enthusiast of early video technology and old school swinging sex stuff

It reminded me of all the other biopics from around that time but the seedy sex angle gave it a bit of an edge. It was easy to watch but it wasn't particularly exciting despite the scandalous subject matter. 

1 minute ago, mim731 said:

 

8 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

With more adult, edgier comics getting TV adaptations like Preacher, Watchmen and The Boys what do we think might come next?

I really hope it's Marshal Law.

The finale of the Boys was great, if anything it had too much going on and some of the big happenings of the series could have been spread out a bit more.

I love The Deep, he cracks me up.

I completely agree, I was so excited for the story and love the idea but it just wasn't presented well enough. The animation was shocking and bland and they should have focused more on archive footage and contemporary info and less on those terrible talking heads who went there once.

I get everything by nefarious means but it didn't have an abundance of seeders so wherever you can find it is good.

Feels good man, the documentary about Pepe the cartoon frog being co-opted by the alt right. 

I'm a flaky cartoonist like the guy in the movie so I could really put myself in his position which made it particularly interesting for me, but it's pretty watchable and well put together in any case. @Chest Rockwell you might enjoy it if you haven't seen it.