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Post by mylungswereaching on May 15, 2022 21:45:49 GMT -5
^^^^ I found it boring. But all Star Trek iterations are boring to me now. Farscape ruined me for all the others. I get that. I don't expect people to like everything I like. Same thing happens here. How many people's favorite MST3k eps are at the bottom of other peoples lists. I watched Farscape years ago and frankly, I don't remember much of it. I remember I liked it but it was like one of those movies I watch, enjoy and then two years later start watching again and didn't realize I'd seen it before until 10 minutes into it. If you didn't like SNW don't bother with Picard or Discovery. I like Discovery but its one of those shows where the parts are greater than the whole. It has a lot of good moments for a Star Trek fan that just don't stick together well. And I came to the conclusion after the second year of Picard that it was a vanity project for Patrick Stewart. I don't have any proof but it felt like the script was rewritten over and over again into a total mess to keep Stewart happy. Maybe I'm weird but I like Paramount+ a lot more than Netflix. I go months without using Netflix. I watch Paramount+ when I'm eating most days. I just can't seem to find much I like on Netflix and whenever I do find a show I really like it gets canceled. I'm really only keeping it because my kids watch it sometimes. When they start charging for extra viewers I'm just going to cancel it. |
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Post by crowschmo on May 16, 2022 10:49:50 GMT -5
I'm watching HBO's "Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers", or whatever the whole title is. About, of course, the Los Angeles Lakers during their rise to prominence from '79 through the eighties.
Quincy Isaiah stars as Magic Johnson and John C. Reilly stars as Dr. Buss, the owner. I like it. Of course, it's a highly fictionalized account of the goings-on behind the scenes (as Jerry West's lawsuit against HBO can attest, heh, and Magic Johnson's assertion that it's "not even close" to what really happened).
I like hearing familiar names, like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dr. J, Michael Cooper, Jerry West, Paul Westhead, Pat Riley, etc. I'm like - hey, yeah, I've heard of them.
John C. Reilly is good in stuff, so I like him in everything I've seen him in.
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Post by crowschmo on May 21, 2022 21:06:12 GMT -5
I just watched HBO's two part special documentary on George Carlin. He could get a bit manic late in his career, but I liked him overall.
Liked when he noticed certain plays on words, like the bit he did of a woman saying over a loudspeaker at the airport for everyone to get "on the plane" and he said, "F*ck you, lady! I'm getting IN the plane!" I still remember that bit from his first HBO special (or one of them). And his bit about how everything is just about where to put our "stuff".
As for his more serious bits, so much of what he pointed out is still so relevant today.
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