My brother says the same thing. I’m not sure where he picked it up from.
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I love the “I read about them in Time Magazine” bit.
I remember having a Canadian TV show recommended to us. Canadian? Do they even have electricity? What’s the show about? Small town Saskatchewan? Seriously?
Needless to say, Corner Gas is one of my favorite shows of all time.
Yep. Probably the best line in the movie.
Oh gosh, yes. It’s a ton of fun. Johnny Cage’s one liners are great.
re Father Brown Mysteries, agreed. The TV version is tolerant and kind, where Chesterton’s version is a bit harsh. The TV version is kindly toward neo-pagans; Chesterton’s version would be not only disapproving, but bitter. He wouldn’t exactly advocate burning at the stake…but he wouldn’t renounce it either. By and large, Chesterton suffered from a bit of bigotry…and the TV version of Father Brown has turned its back on bigotry. The TV show really is better than the original stories.
The actor who plays Father Brown, Mark Williams, is not religious at all, and he has remarked a few times in interviews how often he disagrees with Father Brown’s methods and point of view. A lot of the murderers go free and only live with guilt, which is really unsatisfying. He injects as much good-nature and tolerance he can into the character to, I think, offset what he sees as a dereliction of serving proper justice.
I had obviously heard of The West Wing. but, not being much of a TV watcher, had never seen it until a few days ago. I’ve been binge-watching and really enjoying it. Just starting Season 3. I understand that the quality really drops off around Season 4, but it’s been great so far.
Better Call Saul. A Breaking Bad prequel centered on the obnoxious lawyer? How is this supposed to be any good?
It is not good, it is excellent. I would say it has even surpassed Breaking Bad in terms of quality.
Both Ace Venture: Pet Detective and Fight Club took me by surprise because I had such low expectations going in.
It’s Season 5 of The West Wing that’s a bit of a slog to get through, even with a couple of really good episodes. Stick with it, though - the Santos campaign stuff in Seasons 6 and 7 is really good.
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A couple of decades ago, I heard that Disney was making a movie based on one of their theme park rides. C’mon, man, that’s just desperate.[/quote]
Almost as bad as making a movie based on a board game. I expected to hate it so much… like flames, on the side of my face! But Clue surprised me.
This might not fit the bill, but not having watched Titanic in 1997, I thought it was a lousy glurg-ish movie that just happened to make a billion at the box office. I eventually did watch the movie in 2009 and it was surprisingly good, very good.
For me, it’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. I refused to see the original in the theatres when it was first released, despite my having gone to pretty much everything at the time, because I couldn’t stand Mike Myers. I’d previously seen him in Wayne’s World, which I found annoying, and So I Married an Axe Murderer, which I found insufferable. (I still bear a grudge against the friend who made me sit through it with him.) I didn’t end up seeing Austin Powers until three or four years later; the family I was rooming with had it on DVD and I walked in on their son watching it on the living room TV. I had only entered the room for some quick errand (I think I may have left my laptop there) but whatever it was, it was completely forgotten after 30 seconds. I ended up watching the film from the middle to the end, and then when it was done, I immediately watched it again from the beginning. I’ve since seen it several more times. Yes, I think it’s that good.
I think the reason the film resonated so much with me was that as a child I was a huge fan of Get Smart. I loved that 1960s parody of the spy genre so much, and appreciated that 30 years later Myers was able to deliver a completely fresh take on it, while still keeping it set in the same era.
If Spongebob is the Ren and Stimpy of this generation, then it must also be the Ren and Stimpy of the previous couple generations—the show is over 20 years old.
Are we watching the same show here? I used to watch this (along with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) as a small child and even back then I could tell that it was produced with the overriding purpose of selling action figures.
You’re not watching the same show. You’re watching She-Ra: Princess of Power, a terrible 80s toy commercial. galen_ubal (and I) are watching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a recent reboot on Netflix. It takes most of the basic elements from the original, and re-mixes them into a surprisingly deep and well-written show, with complex characters and real drama. It’s also just really fun.
Edward Scissorhands. I thought it was going to be a stupid piece of horror fluff…and it was remarkable. It drew me in (my roommate, too) and completely captured me. I was impressed, despite a strong initial prejudice against it.
What gdave said. It hooked me in with just how funny it was, right from the get-go.
When my folks used to visit, I would always try to get them to watch some great movie that I know they would never have seen otherwise. One time, I chose Edward Scissorhands, and my dad (who hated any type of horror) was very leery of it. I told him to trust me.
Both of them ended up loving it.
BTW - same for The Nightmare before Christmas.