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Johny Cee
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It's also $79.95 at Best Buy. It's a good show, but I don't know that it's $80 worth of 'good' for 27 shows. Loved that show. Only 65 at mine, you sure they priced it right? Older shows with limited popularity I'll wait for it to hit the clearance rack. Picked up The Job complete series that way for $30. |
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Loved that show. Only 65 at mine, you sure they priced it right?
Likely not. This particular Best Buy has a history of pricing things wrong. I got Stadium Arcadium for $9.99 that way. I'll take a look someplace else over the weekend, thx for the heads-up. |
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« Last Edit: July 19, 2006, 08:29:53 PM by MrHat »
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Been watching Lucky Louie on HBO. Pretty funny show.
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Uhm, pray tell what grabbed your attention? It looked positively awful. More teenage angst with accompanied emo soundtrack. |
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tazelbain
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Uhm, pray tell what grabbed your attention? It looked positively awful. More teenage angst with accompanied emo soundtrack.
So you didn't like season 1&2 then? |
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Engels
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I liked season 2 better than season 1, but obviously not for the same reasons that the people who made the above trailer think I did.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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I don't know what it was, but last night's Venture Brothers had me laughing the whole time. The pill-popping Johnny Quest was another nice nod & slap at its source material after last season's Race Bannon death.
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Metalpokalypse I'm not sure on, though. It was amusing but so hard to understand (audibly that is.) I didn't catch all the jokes. Their fans pride over the injuries sustained and dropping the stage on the crowd gave me a good laugh, though.
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tazelbain
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Venture: It's pretty clear that first season wasn't a fluke. I absolutely love how they are slowly filing in the pieces of Venture history. I was hoping Sally would move in with Rusty for a while. A co-dependent girlfriend would prefect for the show.
Metal: I am getting tired of the 15 min cartoons, just when you start getting interested in whats going on its over. It worked for ATHF because there is no story, so they can just jump in. HB:AL works because scripts are really tight. Last night's metal was neither. Plus the hard to hear/follow problem, it kinda sucked. But it was interesting enough that I give another look see.
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Llava
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I do love Brendon Small, but Metal wasn't nearly as good as Home Movies to me.
I won't change the channel when it's on (like I do for some AS shows), but I won't be seeking it out or anything.
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Blade: The Series kicks ass.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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I've been pleasantly surprised by Blade. I didn't like the movies and the potential for camp seemed very high but so far the writing for the show has been solid. I like all the political machinations; it reminds me of Vampire: The Masquerade only without all the emo angst crap.
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Over and out.
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I've been pleasantly surprised by Blade. I didn't like the movies and the potential for camp seemed very high but so far the writing for the show has been solid. I like all the political machinations; it reminds me of Vampire: The Masquerade only without all the emo angst crap.
Someone should do a review of this show. I had no idea there even was a Blade: Series! |
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tazelbain
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It's on a shitty channel. I keep forgetting about it.
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Signe
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It's on a shitty channel. I keep forgetting about it.
I do exactly the same thing. I stumble across a show I like, such as Monk or that new Psych, and unless I miraculously remember to set it to record with the DVR, I forget the whole channel exists. I've never even stumbled across this show, however. |
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I'll write a review tonight!
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Llava
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Seriously, he already wrote it. That was some good springing.
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Margalis
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I'm tightly coiled.
You can take that however you want. Multiple ways even.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Last night may have been the best episode of Deadwood in all 3 seasons. If not for the ongoing annoyance of the theatre troupe subplot (which, while I love Brain Cox, is slowly killing me), and Jane's long drunken rant about her dream, it was nearly perfect. Al was in season 1 form, leaping off the balcony like fucking Batman to rescue Mrs. Ellsworth, and then later kicking the everliving shit out of the head Pinkerton and then slitting his throat. Good times.
I have also finally been ensnared by Entourage. Jeremy Piven was SO born to play Ari Gold.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Last night may have been the best episode of Deadwood in all 3 seasons. If not for the ongoing annoyance of the theatre troupe subplot (which, while I love Brain Cox, is slowly killing me), and Jane's long drunken rant about her dream, it was nearly perfect. Al was in season 1 form, leaping off the balcony like fucking Batman to rescue Mrs. Ellsworth, and then later kicking the everliving shit out of the head Pinkerton and then slitting his throat. Good times.
I have also finally been ensnared by Entourage. Jeremy Piven was SO born to play Ari Gold.
Yes, last night's episode was buckets full of awesome and Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) wrote it! So many great lines and scenes.. Johnny: "Longest a rug's lasted so far.." Al: "Wu." (as to what to do with the body) Al goading Hearst after killing the head "brick". Hearst spitting on EB to make himself feel like a big shot again. Alma: "I'm going to need to remove my corset." And Bullock looked pissed. That was a look of such complete fury that it completely unnerved Sol and Martha. Next episode looks like a "bad times" episode. Hopefully leading to a waterfall of comeuppance for Hearst. |
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Johny Cee
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Last night may have been the best episode of Deadwood in all 3 seasons. If not for the ongoing annoyance of the theatre troupe subplot (which, while I love Brain Cox, is slowly killing me), and Jane's long drunken rant about her dream, it was nearly perfect. Al was in season 1 form, leaping off the balcony like fucking Batman to rescue Mrs. Ellsworth, and then later kicking the everliving shit out of the head Pinkerton and then slitting his throat. Good times.
I have also finally been ensnared by Entourage. Jeremy Piven was SO born to play Ari Gold.
Yes, last night's episode was buckets full of awesome and Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) wrote it! So many great lines and scenes.. Johnny: "Longest a rug's lasted so far.." Al: "Wu." (as to what to do with the body) Al goading Hearst after killing the head "brick". Hearst spitting on EB to make himself feel like a big shot again. Alma: "I'm going to need to remove my corset." And Bullock looked pissed. That was a look of such complete fury that it completely unnerved Sol and Martha. Next episode looks like a "bad times" episode. Hopefully leading to a waterfall of comeuppance for Hearst. W. Earl Brown (Dan Dority) played Cameron Diaz's retarded brother in "There's Something About Mary". That kind of blew my mind. Not as much as when I was watching some History Channel show on Roman engineering and they had Peter Weller (Robocop) on as one of the experts on Rome..... I guess he's a part-time history lecturer at Syracuse. Good episode of Deadwood. Great night of TV. I do get the feeling that the whole buildup is going to be anticlimatic. I've been sucked into Entourage. Piven has always been entertaining, but Ari Gold is his niche. He plays a sortof asshole better then anyone. Venture Brothers was hilarious. Brock running around naked (with appropriately placed gray square), covered in blood, carrying around a severed head.... Trina's goth friend gets propositioned by Dr. Girlfriend to go into the supervillain business. Hank ("sort of looks like Buddy Holly") and Dean ("looks like Fred from Scooby Doo").... |
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Johny Cee
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Oh...
The second season of "Dr. Who" is set to start playing on Scifi in late September (29th?), at about the same time BSG makes it's return.
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Not as much as when I was watching some History Channel show on Roman engineering and they had Peter Weller (Robocop) on as one of the experts on Rome..... I guess he's a part-time history lecturer at Syracuse. Yeah, I saw that too. Piven has always been entertaining, but Ari Gold is his niche. He plays a sortof asshole better then anyone. He's definitely great at that, but I still can't bring myself to watch that show. That aspect of Hollywood the writers are drawing from just doesn't interest or entertain me. If the show was totally about Piven's character, and everything was done through his eyes, maybe I'd watch it. |
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That is basically how I watch it. Everything that happens all leads to Ari's reaction to it. Hell, waiting for him to explode is half the fun!
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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You echoed my opinions about the theater troupe plot line exactly. I like Cox and he was good with McRainey in that scene they did together, but otherwise he could have never shown up and nothing would have changed. I really don't know where Milch is/was going with that whole thing, unless he is setting up some weird Hamlet play within a play thing with Hearst or justaposition on where Al "might have been." Meh.
The way Al is twisting up Hearst is just a beauty to behold and I'm just waiting for Oliphant to "Go" batshit.
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HaemishM
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Deadwood was indeed a fantastic episode. The way Milch can have me laughing my ass off at the death of the Pinkerton guy is just beauty. I still don't know where the theatre troupe subplot is going, but I dig Brian Cox enough to trust him with it. Watching him chew scenery is just great. And Oliphant is just showing his acting chops to be exemplary.
Venture Bros. was one of the best of the entire series. Brock and the villains make that show, especially the Monarch. Following on the heels of last week's brouhaha with the Impossibles, which was the next best episode of the series, I hope Adult Swim did the smart thing and signed them for at least 2 more seasons after this one.
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Llava
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Brock diving in through the bathroom window, naked and covered in blood, for some reason cracked me the hell up.
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Been watching Lucky Louie on HBO. Pretty funny show.
Ummm... No. That show has single handedly pushed me far in the direction of cancelling HBO. With them stupidly killing off a Deadwood season 4, and 2007 being the last season for Rome, I'll cancel happily. If shit like Big Love, Entourage, and Lucky Louie (I can't emphasize enough how much I loathe that fucking show) are any indication of future programming, HBO just isn't worth the money anymore. |
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Rescue Me had another solid episode. Shit hit the fan, big time. Some good funny parts, but looks like a couple characters my not be returning for the next season.
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Did anyone see SG1 last night? It had a Farscape parody in it that was hysterical.
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Abagadro
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Ok. I've moved from being disappointed that HBO didn't do anything it could to keep Deadwood going to now being seriously fucking pissed.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Johny Cee
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Ok. I've moved from being disappointed that HBO didn't do anything it could to keep Deadwood going to now being seriously fucking pissed.
Great quotes tonight: "Reason.... ain't his long suit" "Woo. Big man." |
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Big Gulp
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Ok. I've moved from being disappointed that HBO didn't do anything it could to keep Deadwood going to now being seriously fucking pissed.
They pulled the same crap with Carnivale, and I'm not going to put up with any more. I get jerked around enough by network TV shows, I'll be damned if I'm going to pay good money to continually get the rug pulled out from under me. I'll be cancelling on Monday, and I'll just torrent season 2 (which has been chooped down to 10 episodes) of Rome. |
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Abagadro
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Carnivale was pretty decent (and I'm a huge Clancy Brown fan) but Deadwood is on a whole different level. They should have thrown David Chase under the bus two years ago so they could have all that Sopranos money to put into shows like Deadwood.
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