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12-29-2018 , 11:57 AM

#19851

Pinkmann

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Would it be better to watch it knowing which options to choose? If some choices just end up being a dead end that isnt interesting and makes you start over I'd rather just cheat.

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12-29-2018 , 12:07 PM

#19852

spidercrab

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Originally Posted by businessdude

I wanted it to be more like Signs

Possibly the worst opinion in this thread. Imagine wanting anything to be more like Signs.

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12-29-2018 , 12:48 PM

#19853

Ungoliant

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Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,337

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Originally Posted by Pinkmann

Would it be better to watch it knowing which options to choose? If some choices just end up being a dead end that isnt interesting and makes you start over I'd rather just cheat.

You don't really "start over" from the very beginning, it just takes you back to the point where you can make a different choice. Seeing the different outcomes is really the whole point though. If you just watch a single path, the story is pretty thin.

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12-29-2018 , 01:35 PM

#19854

businessdude

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Originally Posted by spidercrab

Possibly the worst opinion in this thread. Imagine wanting anything to be more like Signs.

seriously? Signs is pretty good - even a 74% on RT

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12-29-2018 , 01:38 PM

#19855

orange

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Birdbox was alright, maybe a 3/5. I think it's worth a watch if you enjoy this genre (Post apoc/ end of world/ monster movies). It kind of reminded me of A Quiet Place or The Happening. Nothing super memorable about this movie and the overall story is straightforward/action is pretty decent.

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12-29-2018 , 01:42 PM

#19856

Umcle Diddler

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Originally Posted by businessdude

seriously? Signs is pretty good - even a 74% on RT

Signs might be one of the worst movies of all time. Big scary aliens defeated the same way Dorothy beat the wicked witch. NO thanks.

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12-29-2018 , 02:19 PM

#19857

robert_utk

Not From the UK

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,836

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Originally Posted by Umcle Diddler

Signs might be one of the worst movies of all time. Big scary aliens defeated the same way Dorothy beat the wicked witch. NO thanks.

Wow. Totally miss the point much?

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12-29-2018 , 02:36 PM

#19858

spidercrab

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Originally Posted by businessdude

seriously? Signs is pretty good - even a 74% on RT

Gonna quote a long post from the motley fool:

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I guess I'll put a spoiler warning on this post, but I'm not sure it's doing anybody a favor. I scrupulously avoided reading any spoiler information. A friend of mine who had heard spoilers from his co-workers surprised me by refusing to see the movie with me. But I wanted to believe it would be good, so I went to see it. My friend was the lucky one.

Signs is crap. Oh, it has some of the elements of a good movie, maybe, but if you have the makings of a great cheeseburger and add brake fluid, you're not left with an okay cheeseburger.

We now bring you a synopsis of the hit movie Signs:

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Graham: I was an Episcopalian priest, but then my wife got run over by a truck, so I quit. What's even the point of being a priest if you don't get special protection from that kind of thing?

"Ray" crosses. The others look at him.

Morgan: Is that... him?

Merrill: Yes.

Bo: Who is that?

Graham: That's M. Night Shyamalan, the writer/director.

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The Aliens: Next up on the list of planets to invade: "the Earth." As you can see from the blue globe filling the viewport, a better name would be "the Water." Most of the surface is submerged in water, and most of the rest of the surface is soaked in atmospheric water at irregular intervals. The lifeforms cluster around the water, because they are in fact mostly made of water. Anyway, we're going to attack. Hopefully they won't guess our one weakness.

"Ray": Water?

The Aliens: DAMN it. How did you guess that?

"Ray": Well, water was the secret weakness in my last... I mean, in the last M. Night Shyamalan movie.

The Aliens: Yeah, what's with that? Issues stemming from a childhood sprinkler accident?

"Ray": I'd rather not talk about it.

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The Alien: Okay, I'm going down. Can I have an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?

The Other Aliens: No.

The Alien: Can I have a spacesuit to protect me from all the water?

The Other Aliens: No.

The Alien: Can I have a flintlock pistol?

The Other Aliens: No.

The Alien: Can I have a crowbar? You mentioned I might have to break into some houses...

The Other Aliens: No.

The Alien: Can I have a pointed stick? What if the natives are armed with baseball bats or kitchen knives?

The Other Aliens: No. Listen, what you do is catch them when they're asleep or unconscious, and use your poison gas tube to squirt poison gas up their nostrils.

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"Ray": I trapped an alien in my pantry!

The Alien: I was looking for SOMETHING to eat that wasn't MADE of #*(%ing WATER.

The Alien wiggles his fingers under the door.

The Alien: Help! I'm in here! Let me out!

Graham cuts off two of the Alien's fingers.

The Alien: Ow!

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The Other Aliens: We're leaving. We never expected the natives to have knives, and water. We're leaving so fast that we're abandoning our wounded to die on this watery hell-world.

The Alien: Guys! Guys! It's a flesh wound! Two lousy fingertips! Look, I can still pick stuff up!

The Other Aliens: Sorry, Harry. You're wounded, not a whole alien any more. What would Cheryl think if she saw you like this? Bye now.

The Alien: This is a #*(%ing travesty. This is just #*(%ing embarrassing. The aliens in #*(%ing Independence Day were smarter and tougher than this.

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The Radio: The aliens have fled after some people in villages in the Middle East figured out a means to defeat them. We have no more details at this time. It is not known if the successful stratagem involved cutting the aliens with knives, hitting them with sticks, or spraying them with water.

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The Alien: At last, an unconscious asthmatic boy. Someone sufficiently weak and defenseless that I can squirt poison gas up his nostrils.

Merrill: It seems like if you have to get in close like that, you're missing the whole point of having poison gas.

Graham: Something my dying wife said makes me think we should hit the alien with a baseball bat.

The Alien: Ow!

Graham: I feel now that my wife didn't die in vain. How else would we have thought of hitting the alien with a baseball bat?

Morgan: I'm alive! My asthma saved my life.

Bo: And by leaving glasses of water lying around the house, I've saved us the trouble of fetching the hose!

Graham: My family's charming idiosyncrasies have saved us from tragedy (except for my wife) while millions of others have perished. I guess God did intend for us to get special protection after all. I'm going to become a priest again.

The Alien: Yeah, that's deep. About as deep as Independence Day, which also featured a lapsed rabbi who regained his trust in God after the alien invasion. Got anything else?

Graham: Uh, everything happens for a reason?

The Alien: If everything happens for a reason, then what was the reason that we even came to this #*(%ing planet? Answer me that one question and maybe I won't squirt poison gas up M. Night Shyamalan's nostrils.

What a garbage movie

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12-29-2018 , 02:59 PM

#19859

dkgojackets

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Originally Posted by parisron

Not finished it yet, but what is the point of having choices if it makes you go back and do it again if you don't choose what it wants?

what do you mean "what it wants"? you eventually see an "ending" from one choice path then get the chance to go back and see a different one

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12-29-2018 , 03:10 PM

#19860

matrat

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There are final endings that don't loop back to a choice.

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12-29-2018 , 03:45 PM

#19861

Alobar

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Originally Posted by businessdude

seriously? Signs is pretty good - even a 74% on RT

Sings is one of those movies you enjoy while watching it, but then when its over and you think about what just happened you realize it was so incredibly stupid that it physically hurts.

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12-29-2018 , 04:46 PM

#19862

Falc

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Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,493

The episode has been out for less than 24 hours, use spoiler tags or this thread, it's not that hard.

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12-29-2018 , 04:48 PM

#19863

whatthejish

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Originally Posted by Alobar

Sings is one of those movies you enjoy while watching it, but then when its over and you think about what just happened you realize it was so incredibly stupid that it physically hurts.

Nailed it.

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12-30-2018 , 01:06 AM

#19864

Dominic

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,366

Springsteen On Broadway was fantastic. I had no idea he was this damn captivating all by himself, telling poetic stories and playing songs. The guy could’ve been a movie star if he had wanted. Can’t take your eyes off of him.

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12-30-2018 , 11:57 AM

#19865

boscoboy

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Really looking forward to this. Tried for a solid year to 'win' the lottery for $75 seats the theater released daily for the next night's show. Zero success.

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12-30-2018 , 02:36 PM

#19866

Mat the Gambler

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Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,170

Are there any possible pathways were you get to learn more about Colin? He's the most interesting character in the whole thing, and yet as soon as he gets interesting, he forces you to either kill yourself, ending that pathway, or kill him.

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12-30-2018 , 02:50 PM

#19867

housenuts

1st Quartiled the 500

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 53,707

Lots of talk in black mirror thread on ootv about this.

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12-30-2018 , 02:59 PM

#19868

D_goat

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Curious if this will tie into season 5

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12-31-2018 , 12:42 AM

#19869

yimyammer

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Originally Posted by abysmal01

Anyone tried bandersnatch yet? I'm kind of scared to lol

Yes, I fell asleep twice in it and gave up trying to finish it because you have to go back to the beginning if you don't watch it all the way through in one sitting.

can anyone tell me how it ends in spoilers?

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12-31-2018 , 02:20 AM

#19870

housenuts

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Originally Posted by yimyammer

It ends many different ways. That's the point.

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12-31-2018 , 07:34 AM

#19871

sumey

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Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK

Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager - perfect 99 minutes, utterly enjoyable on England manager/national treasure/mensch Sir Bobby Robson. What makes it is Robson's personality, the prototypical boy made good with no airs and graces, this shines through and leads to a superstar cast of interviewees (Ronaldo 9, Guardiola, Sir Alex Ferguson etc.) who you feel agreed to contribute out of love for Sir Bobby more than anything else. It is too insubstantial to classify as great but ideal for the mildly inebriated viewer looking for something easy (not sure a non soccer fan would enjoy it tho).

I watched this yesterday and thought it was very good. Robson always came across as someone you couldn't possibly dislike, and the treatment of him by the gutter press was disgraceful.

I also enjoyed watching the footage of a young Mourinho. His arrogant and aloof demeanour shone through even back then.

For some reason I'm not sure I believe that Guardiola emailed Robson asking to join Newcastle from Barcelona. He seemed to be getting a bit emotional as he talked about it though.

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12-31-2018 , 07:43 AM

#19872

sumey

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I also liked how the contributors referred to Brazilian Ronaldo as 'the real Ronaldo'. I forget sometimes what an amazing player he was.

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12-31-2018 , 11:46 PM

#19873

nyc999

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Originally Posted by boscoboy

Really looking forward to this. Tried for a solid year to 'win' the lottery for $75 seats the theater released daily for the next night's show. Zero success.

I won the initial lottery and saw him early in the run.

Thought the Netflix special was great but it occurred to me he came across a bit tired, he wasn’t singing or playing with the same energy when I saw the show. I suspect a few hundred shows takes its toll at his age.

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01-01-2019 , 02:17 AM

#19874

blind squirrel

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I think the average price for seeing him was about $500. So, even though he played only a theatre, he made some serious bank with this run of shows still. One couple saw him 44 times last year.

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01-01-2019 , 02:21 AM

#19875

Oladipo

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Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 978

Almost finished with Murder Mountain. Definitely kept my interest.

*I’m always probably a little too inclined to label law enforcement as inept, but they completely **** the bed throughout this story and makes this bad situation 100x worse l

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