The Lounge at the End of the Universe

[flickchick85]

I want to check out Maisel. How is the first season? What's the skinny, flick?

Well, it's from the creator of Gilmore Girls, so I feel like that's a good metric to determine whether you'll hate it, lol. It's got the same style of rapid-fire humor/dialogue. I enjoyed it, but I like GG as well. Although I will say Maisel is much better than the later seasons of GG, so there's that, and I love the atmosphere and Rachel Brosnahan is fantastic, so if you can roll with the style, it's very entertaining.

EDIT: Sorry Reek.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

North Shore Drive, Surf City, NC. Three years ago on top. Today on the bottom.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

What's the skinny?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Well, it's from the creator of Gilmore Girls, so I feel like that's a good metric to determine whether you'll hate it, lol. It's got the same style of rapid-fire humor/dialogue. I enjoyed it, but I like GG as well. Although I will say Maisel is much better than the later seasons of GG, so there's that, and I love the atmosphere and Rachel Brosnahan is fantastic, so if you can roll with the style, it's very entertaining.

EDIT: Sorry Reek.

I guess I just had little affinity for the general subject matter of GG as well as the general tone but the dialog and the rat-tat-tat was never an issue. If anything that's something I usually like.

@Reek

Brother man, hep cats always wanna know what's the skinny on these streets, ya dig?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

From The Joker Vs. Daffy Duck no doubt.

 

[flickchick85]

I guess I just had little affinity for the general subject matter of GG as well as the general tone but the dialog and the rat-tat-tat was never an issue. If anything that's something I usually like.

Then I'd say it's worth giving a shot. Probably my biggest complaint about it is that the actual stand-up routines weren't really funny (I have this problem with most shows about comedy - remember Studio 60?), BUT I think they kind of work within context of the time period, so it doesn't bother me too much.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Then I'd say it's worth giving a shot. Probably my biggest complaint about it is that the actual stand-up routines weren't really funny (I have this problem with most shows about comedy - remember Studio 60?), BUT I think they kind of work within context of the time period, so it doesn't bother me too much.

Is is based on a true story? I should know way more because Amazon flogs the hell out of it and there's a commercial for it almost every time I watch anything on Amazon but I guess I tuned them out long ago.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

From The Joker Vs. Daffy Duck no doubt.

From something far far worse...

 

[flickchick85]

Is is based on a true story? I should know way more because Amazon flogs the hell out of it and there's a commercial for it almost every time I watch anything on Amazon but I guess I tuned them out long ago.

Nope, not a true story. But Palladino's father was a stand-up comedian in this era so I think a lot of it comes from childhood stories + her admiration for early female comics.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

This new Spidey game has such heartfelt gameplay.

 

[flickchick85]

This new Spidey game has such heartfelt gameplay.

I cried.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I cried.

flick... That kid probably savagely ripped open Spidey just a few moments later and feasted on the sugar rich innards that emerged without nary a thought about his actions two minutes prior.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

This new Spidey game has such heartfelt gameplay.

Crack the skull of that pinata, feel pride in doing so.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Crack the skull of that pinata, feel pride in doing so.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

BTW, I post the intro of the wrong Defenders cartoon earlier.

 

[flickchick85]

flick... That kid probably savagely ripped open Spidey just a few moments later and feasted on the sugar rich innards that emerged without nary a thought about his actions two minutes prior.

That just makes it sadder!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

That just makes it sadder!

 

[Reek]

no one should like spiderman anyway.

and pinatas are haunted. stay away from them.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Spider-Aziz]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

A very weird movie night, involving Conan the Barbarian, AvP and now Solo. Conan is one of the most bizarre movies that just works to me, AvP was utterly atrocious, and Solo has been even more fun this time around.

 

[Iceman]

North Shore Drive, Surf City, NC. Three years ago on top. Today on the bottom.

I’m never buying somewhere right on the coast.

 

[Iceman]

A very weird movie night, involving Conan the Barbarian, AvP and now Solo. Conan is one of the most bizarre movies that just works to me, AvP was utterly atrocious, and Solo has been even more fun this time around.

Conan definitely works for me.

AvP was disappointing as as a kid that kind of thing always worked flawlessly in my head lol.

And you didn’t like Solo first time?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Conan definitely works for me.

AvP was disappointing as as a kid that kind of thing always worked flawlessly in my head lol.

And you didn’t like Solo first time?

No, I really liked Solo the first time. I just liked it even more this time around. I kind of loved it this time. For me the SW movies break down into 3 categories. My all time favorites (Empire, TFA and SW), the mixed bag (Solo, RotJ, TLJ and Rogue One) and the prequels. Solo pushed up a bit after this watch in my mind.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

A very weird movie night, involving Conan the Barbarian, AvP and now Solo. Conan is one of the most bizarre movies that just works to me, AvP was utterly atrocious, and Solo has been even more fun this time around.

What's particularly bizarre about Conan? I mean... It's no more out there in terms of content than a lot of other fantasy films. What sets it apart is that unlike so many other films of it's type that came before that weren't say, biblical dramas or stories set in the Roman or classical Greek eras, it's actually got a very textured feel over all, great production design, costuming and locations so it has a lived in, real world feel. Adding to it is Milius' going for the jugular in terms of the presentation of this "ahistorical" time, making it again, visceral and tactile, even when, hell perhaps, especially it gets ugly and vicious, as such a world would be. It's also pretty thematically consistent all around and it climaxes well. Again... Is this about content for you? Cuz, yeah, it's a crazy barbarian world of wizards turning into snakes and ceremonies where animated shadows come to claim a half dead Austrian accented form gladiator/slave/thief. It's supposed to be out there. A fantasy tale of high adventure, to paraphrase Mako.