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VegaTaxeca wrote: ↑
3 months ago
I just heard that the new Buffy series has been scrapped by Hulu.

That's unfortunate. I would have liked to have seen a modern take on the classic Buffy series. We rarely ever get an explanation from execs on why these projects don't go forward.

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Feel free to take this post with a grain of salt, I am not a Star Wars fan, I don't really have a dog in the fight, my interest here is just as someone who has always been fascinated by how the sausage is made in films and television, but looking at it from afar, it seems that Kathleen Kennedy's job...

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So sad. This website seems like it is dying a slow death due to neglect by its owner.

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I know no one on here will care about this, but General Hospital was on the verge of cancellation in the late 70's, new EP Gloria Monty had 13 weeks to revitalize the show, she hired Tony Geary for the then short 13 week run, the part of Luke Spencer, and the rest is history, Luke and Laura became a...

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As someone who came of age before the Internet, cell phones, and social media, the one aspect I find odd on social media is how folks predict, project, speculate, and dissect everything about a movie before it even comes out and having seen it and act as if they know what every frame of the film con...

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I think if folks are going to pick Paramount in this drama, the question has to be, based on what, with "Thanks Dad" Ellison at the helm. Ellison's kid is the great unknown at this point. It's funny. Before WBD went up for sale, folks seemed to think media consolidation might be the answer...

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Their site seems to be gone. Anyone know where to find videos from this producer? They had a great catalogue of raunchy superheroine stuff. Was this Risque Renee? If so i remember low budget but more sexual than most the stuff around that time Yes, it looked like they did almost all of their videos...

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I remember that studio. I bought DVD's of their stuff through the mail. They were among the early SHIP producers who really seemed to get and understand the SHIP genre.

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Happy Birthday!

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Mr. X wrote: ↑
10 months ago
Thank the repubs. They're the dumb idiots pushing censorship.Could also be china pressure.

China pressure? What do you mean by that? Just curious.

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Question for SHIP film producers. Watching SHIP films, one thing I have always been curious about is whether SHIP films are mostly scripted. The thought occurs to me that these folks are not classically trained actors schooled in script memorization, from my totally uninformed ignorant perch as a SH...

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Some of her views were, to many, offensive. Bashing mask wearing during a pandemic is not helpful. A lot of people died, more than needed to, and putting out unqualified medical advice, was not using her celebrity well. Since the Republican president is currently setting up concentration camps, I g...

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I wish the best for any actor or celebrity, regardless of their political views, that mindset is one that almost all rational, reasonable people used to share before social media and cancel culture warped people's minds. It's nice to see the tide turning back towards sanity again.

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I am happy for Gina Carano. Saying something imbecilically stupid ought not be a fireable offense. Let's leave it at that.

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Yes, Loni Anderson was beautiful. Besides WKRP, I remember having a brief arc on Melrose Place, playing Pamela Anderson's mom on the show "VIP". Loni Anderson was certainly a TV sex symbol of the 1970's and 80's, the kind they won't let us have anymore, sadly.

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I saw the Naked Gun film today. It was great. As I said previously, I tempered my expectations, didn't expect it to even rival the original, and it didn't, but the reboot film surpassed my modest expectations, the laughs and jokes coming at me left and right. Who knew Pamela Anderson actually had ac...

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OK, to try to veer this discussion away from the needless politicization of the question, I think a lot of the frustration isn't that SHIP is dead or dying as much as the hopes among many that the genre hasn't grown to the extent that many may have hoped, it never really exploded. SHIP has never bee...

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It's weird how at one point I can't find anything good to stream and then all of a sudden an avalanche of new stuff just gets released. Definitely looking forward to streaming Strange New Worlds season 3. I really enjoyed the first two seasons. There really to seem to be echos here of the glory days...

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Has anybody seen the show "Paradise"? I am a little late to the party, I just binged the first five episodes, I think it's a great show. I know the show Fallout has covered this bit with an underground city, but with Paradise, it hits differently because we're not far removed from our own ...

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When I went to see "sinners", I saw the trailer for "Thunderbolts". It seems like a fun movie, but the trailer didn't make me want to see it so badly that I would go to the theatre to see it. I will probably check it out when it reaches the streamers.

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Every ten years you have to be aware that they don't make movies like they used to... last decade, much less since the dawn of time. Film making 'gently' evolves with the world as it grows, it's imperceptible from one film to another... but over periods of time even as small as just a decade, enorm...

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I didn't think my post here necessitated a new topic, so I will post it here. I just came out from seeing the film "Sinners" starring Michael B Jordan. This was a really weird and bizarre film, and I mean that in a good way. Sometimes it is good to go into a film not knowing a lot about th...

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Is there a modern actor who can do deadpan humour as well as Adam West or Leslie Nielsen? R5 Please don't judge, LOL! I was watching an episode of Highway to Heaven last week, Leslie Nielson was the villainous, evil rich guy given a second chance to right his wrongs. Just playing it deadpan straigh...

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Its was niche TV level comedy. It won't work now. It was like a movie full of memes based on old 70s, 80s and 90s TV shows that we don't have anymore. We lost the social zeitgeist of connection which makes things funny cause we all understand them cause we only had 3 networks. I'm not holding my br...

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I just saw a trailer online for a 2025 remake of the classic "Naked Gun". It looks promising. Seth Macfarlane is producing. Liam Neeson plays the son of Leslie Nielson's character, which considering the age difference, is funny right there. I know there is probably a 100% chance it won't m...

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It's a weird thing. I saw a guy on Twitter say Val Kilmer's role in Tombstone was his definitive role and what he is best known for, but I opined that Top Gun was one of the biggest blockbusters of the 80's and 90's, more folks know him from that film rather than Tombstone, which did well, just not ...

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I remember seeing her in House of Dragons as the younger version of Rhaenyra Targaryen. I actually liked her more than the adult version of the character that followed. The young lady is a heck of an actress. I like the idea of the Australian actress playing Supergirl.

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Giving the girl the ol’ stumpf is fine if that’s your thing. Plenty of people like straight porn, but superheroine stories, I think are more melodrama driven. People want to see interesting things happening. What perversions had the villain thought up? What does the heroine experience? How will she...

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I loved Gene Hackman in Hoosiers and Mississippi Burning. Folks in our community will of course recall Hackman playing Lex Luthor in Superman in the Christopher Reeve films. Many critics have declared the decade of the 70's to be the greatest decade of films ever. Hackman had much success in that de...

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So, I watched it. I have no idea where the Celestial Islands came from, guessing I missed that movie. Adamantium now I thing I guess? (Not a spoiler it's just a McGuffin so far, but the name being dropped might matter). Other than that, was okay I guess. Plot was very similar to Civil War but with ...

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Why does anybody care what these things cost? Why can't people be normal about movies? I think there is being a fan of films, and then there are those who have a fascination with how the sausage is made, the background of how a film is made, whether it is greenlit, what's the budget, how successful...

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Why does anybody care what these things cost? Why can't people be normal about movies? I think there is being a fan of films, and then there are those who have a fascination with how the sausage is made, the background of how a film is made, whether it is greenlit, what's the budget, how successful...

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Dazzle1 wrote: ↑
1 year ago
The question though should the BBC charge a liscence fee who don't watch their content because some of their shows are on a third party site

OK, I have an open mind about this, what is the rationale for the BBC charging a license fee for Netflix? It feels like a shakedown to me.

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I agree. You can make a great argument for PBS in the 70's and 80's when you only had three networks and perhaps two UHF independent stations, but nowadays in a 500 channel universe with numerous options, I quetsion whether there is that same need for public television when there is indeed somethin...

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Public broadcast serves a purpose in carrying programming that the networks won't carry. But using its power that way is ridiculous. PBS in the US was the one back in the 1970s that carried BBC shows like Monty Python's Flying Circus and short limited run British dramas on Masterpiece Theater. Befo...

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I love the unmasking aspect as well. When done right, nice and slow, and deliberately, it can be sexy. The folks who do the unmasking aspect poorly are the folks who just rip the mask off quickly and barely play or sell that storyline beat and treat it as an afterthought. It ought to always be playe...

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I remember Linda Lavin from the sitcom "Alice". They don't do that anymore, do they, build sitcoms around established stars.

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One final thought on Superman & Lois. I don't know if I have ever seen a show improve so much from the relatively mediocre and mundane season one to the really solid seasons three and four. Usually, these shows run out of creative gas the longer they go, but season 3, and especially season four ...

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Watched the final episode yesterday. Yup, a great ending to a standout series! A great mixture between thriller, mob story, and character study. And it's odd how you can somehow cheer for someone who is really wicked and twisted. I mean the main protagonist has some sympathetic features... but stil...

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I didn't have HBO when this limited series first came out, but I am currently enjoying HBO's Band of Brothers which is currently streaming on Max. This is a great topic, I couldn't stomach listening to these idiots all night, just tell me when there's a winner. Quite a few actors I recognize on Band...

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Lex Luthor does not make a lot of sense. Does he really think he daughter will want anything to do with him with all that he has done? Also, even if he was sent to jail for crimes he did not commit, his criminal actions will send him to jail. Jordan could have and should have killed him when he had...

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I am surprised no one started a thread for the final season of Superman & Lois. For me, one of the more ironic aspects of the series is that while shows like The Flash and Arrow started off relatively strong and lost steam in their final seasons, I find the opposite is true for Superman & Lo...

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Although the genre is going through a rough patch despite Deadpool and Wolverine Who has not been used that would be good. My criteria even if the movie was horrible can't be considered. D.C. Black Canary, Starfire Marvel Spiderwoman, Black Cat Black Cat is the only of the four you've listed who ha...

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I don't see a lot of movies these days, there is not a lot I am interested in seeing. Deadpool and Wolverine was excellent, a film with a ton of cameos, most of which I was able to identify the actor. There was one character in the film, Gambit, I didn't know who the actor was (no, I haven't been in...

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A lot of actors relish the thought of playing the villain, having that meaty anti-hero/villain material to play and maybe chew the scenery. In most of those Batman films, it seems like the role of the Joker is the more sought-after prize than Batman. Downey has played the hero quite often recently; ...

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After reading the rave reviews on here and in other places, I was afraid the film wouldn't meet my expectations, but it in fact it surpassed my expectations, I thought the movie was awesome. It was the most meta and inside joke film I have ever seen, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I loved the cam...

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I remember Shannen from 90210. Her character Brenda was the wholesome girl next door from Minneapolis. As the actress became more assertive and problematic on set behind the scenes, the show began to write to that for her character on screen. Doherty was a solid actress, but as with a lot of these ...

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I remember Shannen from 90210. Her character Brenda was the wholesome girl next door from Minneapolis. As the actress became more assertive and problematic on set behind the scenes, the show began to write to that for her character on screen. Doherty was a solid actress, but as with a lot of these a...

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The Dynasty, Charmed, and Nancy Drew reboots lasted several seasons but the CW didn't have much besides the Arrowverse to draw in viewers. Reboots really depend upon how good the writing is to sustain ratings. Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum, P. I. did well, but Quantum Leap even with good writing and a prem...

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I used to love those anthology series where you had new characters, guest stars, and stories every week, with Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) and that little guy. They replaced the little guy in the final season with the British dude who played the housekeeper in Mr. Belvedere. In my youth, this was...

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