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Okay I'm recommending youse guise check out Letterkenny.

I am not making any guarantees. I am not saying it's a 10 - it's definitely not. It's got eyeroll moments. But it hits a few home runs too.

It's completely idiotic but it knows it's idiotic and I think it's got something that some of youse will like. Eggy eggs I bet will like it. I like it.

They are like 22 minute episodes so it's no big investment. The first season is 6 episodes which I watched in the last day. It was one fairly small file from TPB.



Just lobbing that out there.

That is all.
 
Vinyl is definitely sitting in the category of disappointment right now. That has a lot to do with my own very high - perhaps unrealistic - expectations - and it's not a complete disaster - I am still watching - but it is really lackluster.

I guess no one else is watching or someone would have spoken up by now.
 
Mudcat
Vinyl is definitely sitting in the category of disappointment right now. That has a lot to do with my own very high - perhaps unrealistic - expectations - and it's not a complete disaster - I am still watching - but it is really lackluster.

I guess no one else is watching or someone would have spoken up by now.
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im watching, yeah I agree kinda sucks
 
The Deer Hunter is considered a good movie. It won Best Picture in 1978 and the critics love it. Pretty high general audience rating too at rotten tomatoes. 92% thumbs up.

I am in the middle of deciding for myself right now. Giving it a rewatch. It has been ages since I saw it. In my memory it was kind of dry and too long - and that's what I am finding. The opening act in the hometown is wayyyy too long and has all kinds of stuff that should have been edited out IMO.

Whatever, then they go to Vietnam and some shit happens. Quite the contrast to all the silly stuff they worried about at home. I guess that is the point. Juxtaposition and whatnot.

That's where I am now - in the Vietnam part - and then I believe they go home again and we will see how they have changed.

All about the horrors of war. War is hell. I anticipate I will give it a thumbs up but less enthusiastic than the masses.


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Billions. That is more and more on the radar all the time.

Not necessarily a 1-for-1 trade with Vinyl but I suspect Billions will move it down the pecking order even more.

Hell Vinyl will be over soon anyway. That's the thing about TV series these days. 10 episodes or whatever. Feels like they just started and the end is in sight.

But yap, I'm thinking Billions.
 
Yeah I don't know about ethnicity. Later someone mentions Walken's character's name and asks if he's Russian. He says he's American.

:dunno:

Okay lemme see . . . here's what I find on wiki which will be followed by another shruggy guy:

It seems editors can't agree whether the protagonists are Rusyn American, Russian American or Ukrainian American.

:dunno:



Anyway, war is definitely hell.
 
This could be a thread. Everyone thinks they are good at sex in their own minds.

But what makes one truly elite among their peers?

Seems like athletic skills would be incorporated into the best of the best...?


Mudcat
Tough question though. For me anyway. Fuck all coming to mind.

Maybe if I saw the answers I would be all like, "Ooooooh, sure. Of course!"

But at the moment, I got nothing.

Obviously I am outstanding at sex.

Singing is one that would apply to a lot of people. I would guess that made the survey? Singing?
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Blitty
This could be a thread. Everyone thinks they are good at sex in their own minds.

But what makes one truly elite among their peers?

Seems like athletic skills would be incorporated into the best of the best...?
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That lady on Family Feud did not feel she was good at sex.

I'm sure any one of the multiple female posters I have slept with here would agree that I am great at sex.
 
I am still working my through The Deer Hunter 25 minutes at a time.

I feel like it has something good to say. It may have been pretty original at the time - I'm not sure. I've seen that message delivered in different ways 8 million times since then but maybe it was really WOW food for thought in 1978.

Apocalypse Now was before that - and it certainly makes the point how war changes people - but it's not exactly the same message. Coming home and whatnot.

Problem for me is it's just not all that suck-me-in watchable. Too deliberate. It's got a bit of a homework feel to it.

Theme song is some serious cheesy.
 
I have a long history of low ratings for so-called classics. Another Deniro "classic" Raging Bull I've got around 3.

Best Picture winners Tom Jones and Hamlet are significant thumbs downers. All kinds of beloved Hitchcock stuff I've got as thumbs down.

I recently saw Picnic - based on the William Inge play - which was nominated for Best Picture in its day. It was my first 1 rating in quite awhile. Actually I think I have Moulin Rouge rated 1 and that was also a Best Picture nominee.
 
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Watching family fued last night and the category was "things you're not good at but that you do anyway".
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For A LOT of people, this would be: being funny. A lot of people think they are much funnier than they are.

I imagine part of why they make that mistake is there is laughter after they try to be funny. Problem is: it is them forced-nervous-laughing at themselves. And then a few polite people will forced-nervous-laugh along.

I don't. I don't laugh at myself and I don't laugh when someone tries to be funny but isn't.


These are the thoughts which circumstances dictate I am having this morning.
 
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