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[celedhring]

Second series is a lot less good

Too bad. I guess I will give the first eps a go.

[Josephus]

Finished binging the first season of Broadburch. I was hooked throughout but I thought the resolution was a bit weak.[spoiler] I mean, the killer gives himself up out of guilt, which could've happened in episode 1. That makes the police work feel a bit pointless since they never get near the real killer on their own.[/spoiler]. It's not really a big indictment of the series because the police work is still the main catalyst which uncovers the town's little secrets that simmer under its peaceful surface, and the human drama is certainly interesting.

I suppose there's some additional wrinkles to be revealed in season 2.

No,not really.

[celedhring]

Yeah, watched an episode and a half of season 2 and I couldn't get into it. Seems it's turning into Law and Order and the Sandbrook mystery seems a bit tacked on.

Gonna try Ray Donovan now. I'm actually running out of appealing stuff to watch in Spanish Netflix 

[Ideologue]

It is all Peter Jackson's fault isn't it? He showed that audiences love bloated films.

Well, it's gotta be Cameron, at the beginning: he was doing bladder-busters even back when they weren't in vogue--Aliens, The Abyss, T2 and even True Lies all top two hours, even in their theatrical releases, with savage cuts--and he wasn't getting punished for it. (Nor should he have been--but that goes without saying, right?)  Then there was Titanic, and, eventually, Avatar--but by the time Avatar came out, that kind of punishing runtime had been normalized.

Jackson definitely helped in the 2000s, but the LotR trilogy itself, I think, only showed executives that audiences loved bloated LotR movies.  (And Christ, do they ever. )  I don't think King Kong's box office really swayed anybody one way or the other.

(Cel mentions Spielberg, but Jaws is just 125 minutes.  And the only Indy OT movie to top 2 hours was Last Crusade, and only by a little bit.  Spielberg's serious movies are all super-long, true--but that's been true of serious movies forever, which is why I don't think Apocalypse Now or The Deer Hunter or whatever really inform the length of Batman v Superman or whatever.)

But if you want to point to somebody who made two and half hours de rigeur for absolutely no fucking reason, then point at Michael Bay: nearly every film he's ever made, even in the 90s, has been unsupportably long.  So say everything you want about orange-and-teal color correction, shooting the whole movie at magic hour, quick-cutting, slow-motion, his grotesquely leering camera, etc--his worst sin as a filmmaker, by far, is his inability to produce a final cut of a length appropriate to the film he's making.  Hence a Transformers movie that takes almost as long to watch Schindler's fucking List.

Also: Hi Shaun!

[Valmy]

The funny thing was I saw the first two Bayformers movies, not in the theatre of course, and I barely remember much about them besides thinking they were idiotic even by the standards of an 80s childrens cartoon. Amazing they were that long with so little memorable content.

[Eddie Teach]

Wow an ideologue sighting!

[garbon]

Last week's Mr. Robot

[spoiler]While it did what seems like some good setup, ultimately just a filler episode...[/spoiler]

[Josephus]

Last week's Mr. Robot

[spoiler]While it did what seems like some good setup, ultimately just a filler episode...[/spoiler]

Agreed. This season has been iffy overall

[viper37]

Gonna try Ray Donovan now.

It's a nice show, but by the 4th season, I feel it's getting tedious, more of the same.

[11B4V]

Gonna try Ray Donovan now.

It's a nice show, but by the 4th season, I feel it's getting tedious, more of the same.

Nah, still pretty good.

[katmai]

BAKE OFF!!!!!

what about it?

[Josephus]

Watched first two episodes of The Night Of. Really good so far.

Though the set up is a bit weak. No need for spoiler tag. Basically guy steals his dad's cab. The cab is shared between three different owners/operators.. Yet on a Friday evening in New York, it's parked at the curb. That's right. No one's workig the cab on a Friday evening. I guess Friday evenings are slow?

[mongers]

BAKE OFF!!!!!

what about it?

Formulaic, tedious?

[Admiral Yi]

Been binging Rome.  Great tits, disappointing Cleopatra.

[Gups]

Seen 3 episodes of the Get Down. A very watchable mess. Stupid plot line, some terrible acting but great looking.