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  1. Apep
    It looks like yet another WW film where the DCAU did it better.
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    Cumbie is a great QB recruiter. It's every other aspect of his coaching that is questioned by our fan base.
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    He was good in the first Jumanji remake, (I haven't seen the second), and he has a lot of decent voice roles.
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    I hoarded boxes for around four or five years. After every Amazon (or other) purchase, I'd collapse the box and toss it up in the attic. Then I got rid of them over a couple of years while recycling new, incoming boxes. Now I only keep boxes until the next recycling day. Since Amazon has gone to Kohl's drop-off for returns, no box needed, the lack of diverse boxes on hand hasn't bit me in the ass once.
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    I watched the third Lower Decks episode last night. There are some funny bits. I like the voice cast and the animation. The problem is that it lacks subtlety and feels more like a ham-handed deconstruction of the ST:TNG universe than a comedy set in that universe. "The Problem with Edward" is an excellent example of how to make comedy work while staying true to the feel of Star Trek.
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    I'm going to admit something: I have never seen Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. I didn't even know it was a John Hughes film until this thread. It came out when I was 8, an age at which I had no interest in adult buddy movies, especially comedies. More importantly, I've never been a big Steve Martin fan, though I liked John Candy's work. I was shocked to discover that it grossed more than all but two of the films he directed (Ferris Bueller and Uncle Buck both made more).
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    Lots of reasons it can be remade. It's been 33 years. A sufficiently large mass of people have never seen the original, often because they had not yet been born. John Hughes isn't getting any deader. It's not like we're talking about the Godfather, Star Wars, or Citizen Kane. But what it really comes down to is that John Hughes had a huge string of good movies. With a little updating, they could all be made to work well in the present.
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    That was really great.
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    Dexter

    Apep replied to RPM's topic in Movies and TV

    The first two seasons of Dexter were great. The big bad for season 3 sucked, but the personal life part of the show was still good. Season 4 brought in a good villain, but killed off one of the best parts of the show. At least the show didn't go to shit as fast as the books.
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    I don't care about the fact of the remake. Hollywood will always shit the bed with remakes and occasionally hit a home run. Will Smith and Kevin Hart are funny, but I don't care about them enough to pay for this movie. Even if we buy into the premise that there need to be more movies with minority leads, we need way more movies with Hispanic and Asian leads than AA. Why not cast John Cho and Fluffy?
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    The most recent Below Decks was more tame, focused, and generally better. Unlike the Orville, it doesn’t feel like TNG. It has some very funny bits, like the first Holodeck scene. The gag could work in the TNG universe, but it needs a subtle, straight man set up.
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    I watched it. The Orville exists and is way better. Hopefully the first episode was egregiously over-the-top because the writers haven't found their groove. Don't have much hope of that.
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    A Family Ties reboot with a MAGA son could be good.
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    The Kids Are Alright was brilliant. It was very Catholic and the kids were a good mix of late boomers and early Gen X. Not exactly a big market for Catholic sitcoms on network tv. The cancellation was a shame because the cast was so good. The Goldbergs is good, but it is a sitcom. The Wonder Years was a drama. Think more of an updated Wonder Years (or Freaks and Geeks) starting in the era of My So-Called Life. Pre-Columbine. Pre-Amber alert. Pre-helicopter parents.
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    Moonlighting had such a great cast that it would be hard to recapture the magic.
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    Malcolm in the Middle was contemporary, not retrospective. It was fairly well done and holds up reasonably well, but it isn't an homage to that time period. Jonah Hill did a movie that was a 1990s retrospective. Think of something more like that, but in serialized form focusing on the era of irrational exuberance, the dotcom boom and bust, and the seeming boundless optimism of the pre-2008 era.
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    That actually sorta sounds interesting. Going back to the seminal boomer time period, however, kinda kills the buzz for me. The "Wonder Years" were only a couple of decades in the rear view mirror when the original show premiered. Would love to see a producer nut up and cover, let's say, the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.
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    Arm Penises

    Apep posted a topic in Daily Texan

    Truly WTF. This dude has a penis growing on his arm.
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    Jungle and Space were better than the gangster season. None were great, but each episode in the later seasons had its moments instead of the whole season having its moments.
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    They strung together enough clips to have a trailer that doesn't suck, but are those the only funny moments in season 11? Only time will tell.
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    It's been around for years. Guess it's the popular one this year.
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    You mean that follows them more so than Rebels?
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    Yes, I'm serious. The Bad Batch seemed like the most crassly toy-driven characters of the modern era. The sisters were merely mediocre.
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    Didn't like them as much as the sisters, but I'll give it a try.
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    Which gets hotter during the summer? Figure that might have a big impact on the concrete v. sports court decision.

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