[Movies] Confess your movie sins to me, and be absolved
- Thread starter Charlie Don't Surf
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I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke, I'll give those to you and agree with you, I think mostly because they are the archetype of the format and wrote the "rules" for that type of show.
It may be a difference in age here (not using it as "I'm older, you're younger and stupid") and how shows of that point in our lives affect us. Seinfeld, I was never into, I liked Kramer, but the others, blah. Friends, basically the same thing, except that I didn't like any of the characters. Maybe it has something to do with how New York/East Coast-centric that they come across with, but they just didn't appeal to me. Really there weren't any 1/2 hour shows that did appeal to me in the 90's, and part of that may be that I was in a time that I was learning to take care of a family and new baby (heck, I'm still learning, just not with a baby anymore).
Maybe it's because I grew up with MASH and always preferred the hour long format over the 1/2 hour. Blame PBS and Dr. Who re-runs for that.
Cajungal
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I had an on-again, off-again relationship with Friends. Some episodes were just so hilarious and unforgettable... Then came the later seasons, which seemed like a bunch of unlikeable caricatures in a joke-shouting contest. Quick, bring in even more cameos to draw attention away from the crappyness!
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Agreed.
The Wire would have importance to any human society in 500 years, and would have been important to Ancient Greece as well.
Seinfeld is funny because it makes up its own universe that happens to resemble New York foibles. You don't need to be from there to get the jokes...
...but it does make you awesome.
...but it does make you awesome.
I actually had the opposite experience with Friends, where it seemed like the first 5 seasons were only there to provide context.
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Seinfeld is about a bunch of whiney dicks who hang out with each other to bitch about everything el-
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Did you see the series finale? That's basically the conclusion the show came to. They were such whiny dicks that they were put in jail for it.Seinfeld is about a bunch of whiney dicks who hang out with each other to bitch about everything el-
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Oh I know. I try not to blindly pass my own judgement on something without checking into it. I just didn't like the show. I don't care that they were dicks, it was the whining. The constant, unending whining.
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Spoilers...
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Why is there anything in that video but a blank screen?
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Sounds about right.
He is good at getting dates, but is not good with women... I am pretty much the same way.
North_Ranger
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I honestly don't get what people see in Scott Pilgrim vs the World. I've seen it once, and thought it boring, poorly written and generally yawn-inducing.
For me, it's an example of doing bad things differently and preaching that the different way you are doing bad things makes them good.
Necronic
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I'm basically the opposite. Hard for me to get a date, but when I do I'm like an infection that you just can't get rid of.
Antibiotics = restraining order
North_Ranger
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I dunno, really... I've noticed that a lot of these 90s sitcoms just haven't aged that well. I remember laughing at Friends and Will & Greg... nowadays their reruns just seem, I dunno, dated. There's still a chuckle or two to be had, but the loud guffaws are gone.
Then again, I hate some modern sitcoms - particularly those aimed at teens - with the fire of a thousand suns.
Then again, I hate some modern sitcoms - particularly those aimed at teens - with the fire of a thousand suns.
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