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What are you watching?; What on your T.V. or what have you
Topic Started: Mar 6 2007, 06:24 AM (40,556 Views)
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Also, just finished Last Year at Marienbad. There are some novels that I read real slow because I don't want them to end. Last Year at Marienbad was pretty much the first movie I've had that experience with. Every 10 minutes I watched were just exhausting. I'm still putting it together in my mind, but a lot of the movie is fucking brilliant.
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The film made me a fan of Robbe Grillet. I think it's somewhere in my top ten.
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The Smallville series finale

What else can I say, the final 4 or 5 episodes did a poor job of building up to the finale.

Darkseid was show only once during the entire episode, and the CGI team did a damn good job as well.

I marked the fuck out for Lex Luthor's return and when the LuthorCorp building was attacked by Apokilips (yes, the Darkness was not Darkseid itself, but Darkseid's planet), destroying the uthor part and debris forming and E and an X between L & Corp.

At first, it seemed as though the entire Smallville series was a story told by Chloe Sullivan to her son (which would've been a better ending, as it would appear as though the Chloe Sullivan character was a creation of the storyteller and not canon, if you know what I mean). But it is the year 2016, Chloe has a son (presumably with Oliver Queen), Lex Luthor is president, Lois and Clark are finally getting married and James Olsen's little brother Jimmy is Lois' assistant at the Daily Planet.

Watching Lionel sacrificing his soul to Darkseid to save his son and Lex killing his sister Tess to save her so she doesn't turn into him are two of the most human moments of the show.

Lex explaining how they were the same people on different sides to Clark and how he will defeat the darkness so the two can begin their story was a fantastically terrifically awesome moment. That one moment made the episode. In the end though, Tess uses a chemical to make Lex forget his whole life before she died.

All in all, I give it a 7.7/10.

Good for cheap pops and inside references, but storywise....meh
Edited by #LJB, May 14 2011, 04:41 AM.
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May 14 2011, 04:36 AM
Watching Lionel sacrificing his soul to Darkseid to save his son and Lex killing his sister Tess to save her so she doesn't turn into him are two of the most human moments of the show.
I'm guessing this show doesn't do "human moments," then?
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May 14 2011, 03:58 PM
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May 14 2011, 04:36 AM
Watching Lionel sacrificing his soul to Darkseid to save his son and Lex killing his sister Tess to save her so she doesn't turn into him are two of the most human moments of the show.
I'm guessing this show doesn't do "human moments," then?
Not so much that moment, but everything that built to that actually.

He had refused a deal from Darkseid once, but knew that he had no choice when Tess escaped and shot Lionel, so he said that he didn't care about his life, just his son's. Bear in mind that this Lionel came from a alternate universe wherein he was the one who found Kal-El, instead of Jonathan Kent. Alternate universe Clark (who is the shows answer to Ultraman) kills that Lionel's son, which Lionel allows and praises Clark Luthor for. Eventually, Lionel grows to hate and fear Ultraman and regrets allowing him to kill his son, so when Earth-1 Clark escapes the alternate earth, Lionel follows him and attempts to bring back his son, whom had himself cloned. Well that fails and the clone Lex (who named himself Connor from the files on himself that he finds) chooses Tess and Clark and becomes the shows answer to Superboy (Kon-El) and we never see or hear about him again. A despondent Lionel gives a plea at the original Lex's grave that he would give anything to have his son back.


As for Lex killing his sister, it wasn't so much the act of killing his sister, but doing so because he knew what he would become and his sister was not far off that path. He showed a great deal of sadness after the act, before his memories were erased.

Also, I gotta give it up to Smallville for making Doomsday a sympathetic character rather than a purposeless killing machine by making his backstory similar to Clark's, only abandoned by adoptive families at every turn (one family was the Luthors, where he befriended Lex at one point before he knew about his powers . Or should I shake my fist angrily at Smallville?

Also, there were a lot of plotlines that were not resolved or addressed in the finale, such as:

+the Society of Supervillians forming in the second to last episode, didn't get so much as a mention in the finale.

+Why Lionel refused Darkseid's deal the first time.

+What became of the alliance between Chloe and the Suicide Squad, which was dumped as soon as the VRA (Vigilante Registration Act / superheroes v. the government) angle ended.
Edited by #LJB, May 14 2011, 05:53 PM.
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I don't understand the concept of this programme. It used to be "Superman before he was Superman," right? Now it's "Superman except he never calls himself Superman but everything else is basically the same."?
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May 14 2011, 06:23 PM
I don't understand the concept of this programme. It used to be "Superman before he was Superman," right? Now it's "Superman except he never calls himself Superman but everything else is basically the same."?
Exactly, except that Clark and Lex were best friends for the first 4-5 seasons and became enemies because they both loved Lana Lang.
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I actually think Lex and Clark knowing each other before Metropolis is comics canon now, but I might be misremembering Birthright.

But yeah, that seems pretty pointless. Why don't they just let him call himself Superman?
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The Supernatural season finale.
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Macho King vs Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania 7, obviously.
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May 21 2011, 01:39 PM
Macho King vs Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania 7, obviously.
Fucking brilliant. I just watched a match between Macho and Bret Hart from Japan in 1994, captured on handicam. Hearing the Japanese crowd scream "OHHHHHHH YEAH!" every chance they get ruled.
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The Tingler. Fearnet finally has some decent stuff On Demand. They should just do a whole month dedicated to Vincent Price, though.
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I might put The Haunting of Hill House on. Although I get confused between that, The Haunting and The House on Haunted Hill. And to make it worse, I think two of them have been remade. Fuck.

Stole Hellraiser from a friend's house and watched that for the first time in ages. I'll have to make a space for it in my top ten.
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May 21 2011, 10:51 PM
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May 21 2011, 01:39 PM
Macho King vs Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania 7, obviously.
Fucking brilliant. I just watched a match between Macho and Bret Hart from Japan in 1994, captured on handicam. Hearing the Japanese crowd scream "OHHHHHHH YEAH!" every chance they get ruled.
That sounds amazing, put it in your media thread.

I am thinking of getting some wrasslin' on this laptop, because I don't have internet half the time, and I might as well be watching The Destroyer tie people in knots if I can't porn it up a notch.
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May 22 2011, 06:07 AM
The Tingler. Fearnet finally has some decent stuff On Demand. They should just do a whole month dedicated to Vincent Price, though.
THE TINGLER!

William Castle fucking rules.
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May 22 2011, 09:53 AM
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May 21 2011, 10:51 PM
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May 21 2011, 01:39 PM
Macho King vs Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania 7, obviously.
Fucking brilliant. I just watched a match between Macho and Bret Hart from Japan in 1994, captured on handicam. Hearing the Japanese crowd scream "OHHHHHHH YEAH!" every chance they get ruled.
That sounds amazing, put it in your media thread.

I am thinking of getting some wrasslin' on this laptop, because I don't have internet half the time, and I might as well be watching The Destroyer tie people in knots if I can't porn it up a notch.
Is .flv fine, or do I need to figure out a way to convert video formats?
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May 22 2011, 06:29 PM
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May 22 2011, 06:07 AM
The Tingler. Fearnet finally has some decent stuff On Demand. They should just do a whole month dedicated to Vincent Price, though.
THE TINGLER!

William Castle fucking rules.
I'm genuinely jealous I never got to see any of his films when they were first released, stupid lack of time-traveling devices.

Independent theaters should really consider doing a month dedicated to him and his promotion tactics. If they can air Strange Brew and have a beer tasting, I see no reason why they can't do The Tingler with little buzzers in the back of the seats.
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May 23 2011, 03:16 AM
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May 22 2011, 06:29 PM
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May 22 2011, 06:07 AM
The Tingler. Fearnet finally has some decent stuff On Demand. They should just do a whole month dedicated to Vincent Price, though.
THE TINGLER!

William Castle fucking rules.
I'm genuinely jealous I never got to see any of his films when they were first released, stupid lack of time-traveling devices.

Independent theaters should really consider doing a month dedicated to him and his promotion tactics. If they can air Strange Brew and have a beer tasting, I see no reason why they can't do The Tingler with little buzzers in the back of the seats.
They shouldn't advertise the buzzers though.
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It would be great. They would probably get sued though, because people suck and hate things that are fun.
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May 23 2011, 05:40 AM
It would be great. They would probably get sued though, because people suck and hate things that are fun.
Castle gives a warning right away.

I seriously wish they'd remake Homicidal, fright break included.
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