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22 minutes ago, Bronx Babe said:
I'm curious -- not a snarky curiosity mind you but a very serious and respectful inquiry -- does anyone here enjoy John Waters' movies with Divine? (and Tab Hunter) I love them and wonder if their transgressive campy trash value can be happily reconciled with an addiction to these stodgy and synthetic Hallmark productions.
I like them, but I think my enjoyment of Hallmark movies has more to do with basic tropes (Fake dating! Second chance romance! Enemies to lovers!) found in summer beach reads.
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I agree with others, Santa Summit was quirky in a good way. The three friends seemed like actual friends, and it felt like there was a lot of ad-libbing, which made the dialogue feel less cookie cutter. The actual love story was pretty weak, and I found the scenes where the love interest met Hunter King's friends to be really forced, and kind of weird. Like with friend number two he immediately offered to buy her a drink (yes, it was funny when he said he'd expense it!) and was asking her all of these personal questions. If I'd encountered him in real life, I'd be enforcing the buddy system for the rest of the night to avoid him.
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17 hours ago, Hedgehog2022 said:
Yes...I stand corrected. The article I read on it was incorrect but I did not know it when I reposted it.
In the comments, The Ashley is standing by their reporting that it was a boy and a girl. Kail's Instagram announcement says it's three parts, and she's only released the first two so far, so there's speculation that the third part will reveal the twist that one of the twins was a girl.
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11 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:
And considering that most shows, if they are lucky enough to make it past the pilot, don't become any kind of noteworthy hit it seems like the odds of getting any kind of residual are pretty tiny. And if that is the case, if it was me, I would rather have more money upfront than taking a chance on getting a tiny amount of money down the road or an astronomically small chance of my show being the next Office and maybe making a whole lot of money.
These are separate issues, though. Streamers are generating as much content as possible hoping that something will stick, and to do that, they are running on bare bone budgets. The amount an actor makes upfront was included in these negotiations, and I believe they got raises, but that's not where all the money is at. It was critical to define how residuals would be calculated off subscription fees, especially since many shows which existed before the advent of streaming are featured on these platforms. Actors aren't expecting to take one job and live off those royalties forever, but they do depend on the small income stream to help keep their benefits active during slower working periods.
Regardless, it seems like the residual issues have been resolved in negotiations. It's AI that's holding things up. Residuals just seem to stick out more to the general public because few earn their income that way. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a strategy from the AMPTP, because AI is what should be scaring the general public too. It's not only actors who are threatened by the emerging technology.
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54 minutes ago, Miss Bones said:
I almost felt like they were going to have her end up getting romantically involved with the popular girl that she was hanging out with throughout the movie.
I thought those two actresses were the ones with the most chemistry. Never Been Kris'd was fine, but it's not one I'll bother watching again. My DVR is already packed to the gills with holiday movies, and it's only the first week of November! I hadn't realized they started airing new movies in mid-October this year, so I'm playing major catchup.
I agree with others that Mystic Christmas was enjoyable, but there was zero chemistry between the two leads. I think Chandler Massey is a fantastic actor, but he has a hard time generating romantic chemistry with his love interests. I think his best pairing has been with Lyndsey Fonseca in Next Stop, Christmas.
The script for Checkin' It Twice was really bad. I cringed through most of it. But Kim Matula is just so charming, she made it watchable. I thought Kevin McGarry was good in this too, and their romance was believable.
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1 hour ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
As much as I love Scorcese, he can just SHUT IT and stick to doing what he does best and not opening his fucking mouth.
For a guy who is so anti-streaming, why would he want to make sure the theater going experience is as miserable as possible? This also ensures people dart out of the theater the second the credits start to roll.
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Poor Josh Hutcherson having a relatively successful comeback film (Five Nights at Freddie's) on the cusp of the Hunger Games prequel coming out, and he can't capitalize on it due to the strike.
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If the strike is resolved before Tuesday, I hope Halloween costumes are attributed with ending the strike in the same way Dancing with the Stars ended the WGA strike.
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I was full out bawling by the end of the Len tribute, then saw Edyta was in her usual micro scrap of fabric for a costume and it somehow made me feel better.
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16 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:
I can't read the entire schedule. Am I to assume that Peacock isn't covering the live Grand Prix events this year? WTF?
There's a second table for "remainder of coverage" at the bottom of the page, and it looks like Peacock is covering everything, although it's just a blanket statement per event without events/times.
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I’m confused. Did they preempt for certain markets? I’m in the DC metro region, and they played the episode with Lois today, although the middle was missing due to Biden speaking.
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3 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:
I wish some kind of main Star Wars project (like a movie or live action D+ show) would explore how much the Jedi order sucked. Because from their point of view you if you were skilled in the force you had to train as Jedi and have no close personal connections, because otherwise you would fall for the temptation of the dark side and turn evil. But their super rigid ways led to the downfall of the galaxy
Yes! I keep waiting for this. Acknowledging that Ahsoka was a child soldier was the closest I’ve seen to pointing out the Jedi Order’s flaws. The Jedi are recruited as infants with no agency and isolated from their family so that the Order is all they have. That’s pretty messed up.
4 hours ago, tv-talk said:Sure but in each encounter including the last one, Dooku was able to brush Kenobi off like he was nothing iirc. Basically I dont see a reason that Kenobi should have always been able to defeat Anakin/Darth in battle.
Obi Wan trained Anakin, and knows his fighting style better than anyone. Anakin was the greatest warrior of his time, but he was also an emotional fighter, which made him sloppy. Obi Wan only ever bested Anakin by anticipating his mistakes.
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On 10/6/2023 at 9:45 AM, tv-talk said:
Considering the many comments here saying that Ahsoka herself was a dud and people wished Sabine would be killed, one could make the argument that more backstory is exactly what was needed to make the characters more likable.
I agree. I think it's fine to drop into the middle of a story and get to know the characters as you go along, but I felt this show depended too heavily on already watching Rebels. They tried to properly introduce Sabine with her motorcycle chase on Lothal, but the only character beats they seemed to cover with her was a brat who doesn't respond the authority. Her backstory was that her entire family was killed in the purge, but that was always mentioned as secondary to Sabine disobeying orders again. On paper: Sabine desperately wants to rescue Ezra because she couldn't save her family seems like pretty good character motivation, but in execution, came off really blasé.
On 10/7/2023 at 2:09 AM, rtms77 said:It’s the one big complaint I’ve had all season. Dawson especially, Stevenson (rip)slightly better, with Morgan, Sabine and the best Shin. Ahsoka should be jumping and leaping around, quick actions, but Dawson looked like a stiff board, like someone trying to remember dance step, or rub her tummy and tap her head at the same time. The fight choreography was terrible. And age has nothing to do with it. Dooku, Yoda etc were old in the prequels yet were very agile. Ahsoka should be on the same level.
This was my primary thought through the finale. I was trying to think how many lightsaber battles there have been in the Star Wars television series. The Mandalorian has had a handful, but Kenobi is the only that's had several duels, and in those cases, the choreography was secondary to the emotional punch of the acting. The fight choreography in Ahsoka was abysmal. Rosario Dawson always looked like she was marking a rehearsal. There was an elaborate fight sequence in every episode, but they were performed so clunkily, I wish they'd only focus on a few. For example, the fight between young Ahsoka and Anakin was incredible, and I think it was partly due to it being their one great scene. Meanwhile, Rosario Dawson had to train for like 16 different fight sequences, and it showed.
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Patrick Adams is the latest actor to fumble the terms of the SAG strike. It's a bummer for him that his former show is experiencing a resurgence during a period that he's not allowed to talk about it.
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42 minutes ago, scarynikki12 said:
It’s why Barbie and Oppenheimer had their premieres when they did. WB and Universal knew SAG was going on strike and wanted to make as much money in the final moments as they could. They had those casts out promoting until the second the strike started.
Didn't SAG-AFTRA even delay their strike authorization by a week or two? It felt like all of Hollywood wanted Barbenheimer to succeed.
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2 hours ago, Dani said:
The timing of the deal happening just before Dancing with the Stars was about to be delayed due to the backlash makes me think Disney was a big player in holding out as long as they could and in pushing the deal through this weekend.
I was thinking the same thing. I think most of the controversial talk show returns were syndicated. DWTS seemed to be the first network specific target, and the major breakthrough for negotiations happens 48 hours before the show was due to return.
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20 hours ago, BetterButter said:
Is this their way of saying this movie is never going to happen?
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12 hours ago, tv-talk said:
So what was the actual point here? That Ahsoka met up with Anakin and finished her fight training? Is Anakin now the gatekeeper of life and death, if you can defeat him you live but if not you die? Is the total purpose of whatever that was that she comes back a better warrior than before? It seemed that way to me.
I think it was more about facing her demons. Ahsoka has been cagey about her past, and has stated that she and Anakin have unfinished business. If you hadn't watched the Clone Wars or Rebels, all you really know so far is that Ahsoka was trained by Anakin at some point, so I think this episode was important for giving an overview of Ahsoka's role in the Clone Wars. She was a kid, assigned to an unhinged prodigy with rage issues who was let loose on the battlefield. Everyone in Anakin's circle blamed themselves for his turn to the Dark Side, but in hindsight, there were red flags all along. I thought the point was for Ahsoka to see Anakin with a more nuanced perspective, so she could overcome her trauma and be free of her guilt over Anakin's fate. She could face the rest of eternity battling her demons, or she could live.
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43 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:
I'd say it's likely she knows because I think Luke would want to tell her. Maybe she said something like, "fighting him was hard for me; I can't imagine what you went through." "Well, in the end, Anakin came back to us." How could it not come up?
It seemed like she knew in the Boba Fett episode. She fondly compared Luke to his father, which I don't think she would have if she thought he died as Vader. Which just reminds me that we were deprived of Ahsoka learning about and meeting Luke. I had thought we might learn more about it in this series, but...
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30 minutes ago, FierceCritter said:
All I heard was "Mwowm." Even after I re-wound and turned the volume up. The only way I understood that's what he was saying was because I watch with subtitles.
Am I the only one?Yes, it was very marble mouthed and distorted.
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I swear, Chad Duell is the walking embodiment of "Bless his heart."
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14 hours ago, Morrigan2575 said:
I enjoyed this episode but, I'm going to make a (probably) unpopular comment, I don't like Ahsoka's lightsaber battles. I honestly think Rosario Dawson is not got with the fight choreography, she's too slow, her moves are telegraphed and there were a couple of points where is was like she's just standing still.
I've noticed that she's been fighting while wearing her robe, which looks heavy and restricts movement. (Dropping the Jedi robe was so frequent in the prequels, it became a meme.) But I think the point is, Ahsoka hasn't faced a worthy enemy, so she doesn't need to do anything fancy. She can predict her enemies movements, so it looks telegraphed on her end. It wasn't until she faced Baylen that she shed her robe, although we still haven't reached prequel caliber choreography.
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17 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:
And we get our first sighting of Anakin! If someone told me way back in 2005 that I would be marking out for Hayden Christensen after Revenge of the Sith, I wouldn't have believed them. And yet here we are!
I know! I couldn't have cared less about Anakin during the prequel trilogies, but The Clone Wars made him one of my favorite characters, so I'm excited to see Hayden's take on Dave Filoni's version of the character.
11 hours ago, baldryanr said:She was disobeying orders - you don't leave you kid behind with your pissed off superiors to use as leverage to force you back.
This is where the lack of Han and Leia's presence is glaring. If you're about to piss off your superiors, surely the Organa-Solo's would have your back and watch your kid. They could have even saved CGI bucks by having Hera dump Jacen on Chewie.
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I actually liked this episode a lot better than the first two. I think the premiere leaned in too heavily on existing material. A lot of tell rather than show. But in this episode, seeing Ahsoka and Sabine work as a team, you could actually see the history between them. The episode flew by.
I do wish they'd develop the villains a little more. Star Wars is famous for having evil characters who are evil for the sake of being evil, so it isn't a problem with this show, per se. We know Ahsoka was disenchanted by the Jedi order, so it would be relevant to the story to flesh out Baylon's falling out as well, but that's just me being nit picky.
10 hours ago, dwmarch said:Speaking of the Force (or is it The Force?), it is hilarious that Sabine is basically in the same position as Silent Bob in Mallrats. Put my coffee cup just out of reach from me and I'll be a Jedi Master in about fifteen minutes.
Bonus points if the time the Force actually "works" for her, it's actually just physics.
6 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:Mon Mothma sighting! Always great to see her. Still have to imagine that Genevieve O'Reilly never would have imagined she'd suddenly not only be reprising a character that she did over fifteen years ago (in films that, at best, had a "mixed" reaction at the time), but it would even be expanded upon and make her even a bigger fan favorite. Between this and Andor, she should be set for a while!
This is the first time I think we've seen her post-RotJ, so now I'm actually nervous about whether she survives this series. I don't think she was ever mentioned in the sequel trilogy.
6 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:Always a sucker for a good old Star Wars space battle! Ahoska literally going outside the ship as a distraction was pretty outlandish, but maybe even she got the sense that Shin Haiti couldn't help herself and try to take her out instead of, you, know, just blowing up the entire ship. Ahoska's awesome, but I don't think even she has the reach to defend the entire ship with her two lightsabers.
This was all I could think about. One, this move was very Clone Wars. I remember Plo Koon standing on top of his fighter and I think there were a couple of battles on surfaces of ships throughout the series. And Anakin Skywalker's apprentice would 100% defend their ship this way. But also, yes, the ship was dead in the water with no shields. If it were a no-name Tie Fighter without plot armor, it would have exploded with a single laser bolt.
23 minutes ago, Anduin said:Yes, like Leia in TLJ! I wonder if some of the whinier 'fans' would have accepted Ahsoka doing it. Now, I like TLJ, but I'll admit that not everyone sees it like me. You could see it as Dave Filoni working elements from that movie into his own section of Star Wars. But no. Ah well.
Haven't they excused that Leia Poppins was special and unique to Leia because she was in the realm of Anakin and Luke when it came to wielding the Force?
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Holiday TV Movies & (Non-Rankin Bass) Holiday Specials - General Discussion
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We're Scrooged on Up!TV was kind of decent. Former high school sweethearts get trapped in a retelling of A Christmas Carol while attending their class reunion. It drags a bit near the end, but I thought it was more engaging than most of what Hallmark has offered so far this season.