#412

Sometimes I forget the true texture of the 90s, it’s been overwritten by the official canonised version, listening to the due south theme tune brings it all back

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#413

The dial essential cranks up the vacuum

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#414

This is my favourite theory in a lot of films so I’m here for it

#415

This, more than anything, tells me that the world has improved a great deal. I mean I feel like it’s so much harder to end up going to the cinema to see a truly shit film because there are illegal streams or streaming platforms that you’ll see it on so quickly after release you can safely ignore 99% of films that bait you into checking them out in the cinema.

(Probably reads like I’m taking the piss but I’m actually serious. Same goes for albums too - no one has to buy a CD of 9 mediocre fillers just to own three good singles any more.)

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#416

Probably harder becaus3 of social media and rotten tonatoes. People that dont pay attention to rt and metacritic still see their fair share of stinkers. I wish i was like like that to be hinest, im worried how much my taste is seemingly dictated by a comitee

#417

Given the sheer amount of entertainment content out there these days, I frankly don’t have the time to invest in watching shit movies, playing mediocre computer games, etc. Music is slightly different as it can be more passive whilst commuting or something, but for active-engagement media, RT and Metacritic are invaluable.

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#418

Yeah I’ll happily listen to pretty much anything at least once due to the low monetary investment and the fact I can enjoy passively. I just don’t watch movies anymore as my taste is wildly inconsistent and I can’t trust it or any aggregation site or specific critic as a result. Video Games take days, weeks, months to get through and cost a lot of money. BUT THAT being said ever since gamepass has become a thing I’m dipping in games I wouldn’t have otherwise tried for an hour or so and if I like the first hour I’ll go with it.

Movies are too expensive still to do that with IMHO. When I had Now.TV I was more inclined to try a bit of everything but the amount of atrocious movies vs music & video games that end up on a service like that coupled with the sheer commitment of watching them means I just gave up with cinema all together pretty much. Would much rather watch a series

#419

Interested about this as I’m the totally opposite. Is there any particular reason why you feel able to dip in and watch a bit of a show (that might turn out to be crap) rather than do the same with a film? I definitely prefer the idea of getting a full complete, finished story in 2 hours, whereas with a series it can take 5 hours before it evens “gets good”, and that’s nevermind the threat of something being cancelled so you never get to see the conclusion!

#420

Don’t mean people won’t watch them, just won’t watch them in the cinema

#421

No, I mean people will watch them in the cinema

You just probably know people who are deeper into movies than your average joe and will do some research. I know people who will drop into something simply because it looked cool or had actor x in it. And if you tell them the movie reviewed poorly they don’t care, I kind of wish I was like that, they always seem like the happiest people I know!

#422

Because of the serial format. My attention span is roughly 45 -60mins when it comes to watching things. Its easier for me to watch an episode of something than a movie. Also the best tv shows are readily available on affordable services on launch. I know I can break up a movie into 3 parts if I wanted to but it doesn’t work for me, I like a definitive cut/resume point which means the theory of being able to cut a movie in half is lost on me.

Its my brain, it doesn’t like movies much, I can only really watch movies if I’m at a cinema but cinemas are too expensive and I don’t like movies enough to buy a monthly pass.

#423

TV shows are also way slower these days I reckon, because they are trying to have long story arcs. These way more wheel spinning and or character or atmosphere moments

#424

That might be why I like it more. I think its because I can kind feel more relaxed? I dunno.

Why has this thread become about my likes and dislikes about media, sorry everyone!

#425

Ha ha, I mean I think you’re right that a lot of us find TV stuff easier to concentrate on for length reasons anyway. But if you watch an episode of the West Wing or The Wire there is just so much more going on I think.

Films are longer now too. 2 hours is standard but 90 mins used to be really common.

#426

I can’t do it :frowning: I can just about do it with video games (though rarely longer than 2 hours in one sitting) but thats because I 'm like doing shit.

I am a prototypical millennial. GIVE ALL THE THINGS NOW!

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#427

Don’t think those are super comparable.

West Wing is still very much part of the older style long-running network shows where the aim was to make a load to into syndication. It’s obvs not an obvious procedural show like ER or a NYPD Blue, but it still has an issue of the week that is resolved in a single episode, so each episode can be watched essentially independently, with the longer arcs being less important.

The Wire is more from the post Sopranos / HBO time, the auteur / golden age of TV period where the focus is on telling a whole story over the length of a season or more, where there’s far more focus on subplots and characterisation, and the whole thing is slower and more impenetrable if you don’t watch the whole thing in order.

#428

Yeah I picked them for that reason really. The Wire is what all TV has become but the plotting was so dense and I think that put people off a bit.

West Wing is obviously like Gilmore Girls, an extreme in terms of dialogue, but that’s also highlighting how a single episode plot structure tends to have more stuff happen.

I think UK TV still tends to have a lot more plot per episode TBH

#430

Old Blue Last, 9pm

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#431

If he did die, I would ascribe higher probability to fridge suffocation than nuclear blast as the cause.

#432

I find it extremely hard to think of a film that has more obvious contempt for you, the audience, than Jurassic World. I don’t get why anyone would defend it on any level. It hates you!

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