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Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 23 Aug 2017, 5:13pm
by Dr. Medulla
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It's horribly cheap videotape in terms of quality, but it's nevertheless a compelling summary of Kaufman's wrestling schtick (with some background of other examples of his performance). His entire career still seems beyond belief, the endless scams in contempt for the entertainment industry, yet he was so damned good at making it compelling and entertaining.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 23 Aug 2017, 5:54pm
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
23 Aug 2017, 5:13pm
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It's horribly cheap videotape in terms of quality, but it's nevertheless a compelling summary of Kaufman's wrestling schtick (with some background of other examples of his performance). His entire career still seems beyond belief, the endless scams in contempt for the entertainment industry, yet he was so damned good at making it compelling and entertaining.
Yeah he was great. I should look up some stuff on YouTube. Id kind of forgotten about him

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 23 Aug 2017, 6:21pm
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
23 Aug 2017, 5:54pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
23 Aug 2017, 5:13pm
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It's horribly cheap videotape in terms of quality, but it's nevertheless a compelling summary of Kaufman's wrestling schtick (with some background of other examples of his performance). His entire career still seems beyond belief, the endless scams in contempt for the entertainment industry, yet he was so damned good at making it compelling and entertaining.
Yeah he was great. I should look up some stuff on YouTube. Id kind of forgotten about him
That documentary can be downloaded via archive.org, if you're interested. His wrestling career went on much longer than I believed, but he was great at being the villain.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 31 Aug 2017, 8:12pm
by Silent Majority
Looked at the new Kathy Bates series, expecting watchable, if very middle class, quirk and found out quickly that it was a Chuck Lorre sitcom. Fucking hell, that man is behind the least funny television ever made. A humour wasteland.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 31 Aug 2017, 8:58pm
by Dr. Medulla
Silent Majority wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 8:12pm
Looked at the new Kathy Bates series, expecting watchable, if very middle class, quirk and found out quickly that it was a Chuck Lorre sitcom. Fucking hell, that man is behind the least funny television ever made. A humour wasteland.
He produces faux populist television. Hey, audience, tired of feeling dumber than those smartypants writers with their clever scripts? Here's something that you know completely and fully from the first second. You could write this because you know the jokes ahead of time. Watch this and say fuck you to the elites!

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 31 Aug 2017, 9:10pm
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 8:58pm
Silent Majority wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 8:12pm
Looked at the new Kathy Bates series, expecting watchable, if very middle class, quirk and found out quickly that it was a Chuck Lorre sitcom. Fucking hell, that man is behind the least funny television ever made. A humour wasteland.
He produces faux populist television. Hey, audience, tired of feeling dumber than those smartypants writers with their clever scripts? Here's something that you know completely and fully from the first second. You could write this because you know the jokes ahead of time. Watch this and say fuck you to the elites!
My kid asked me about some show he'd never seen and this is basically how i described it. Generic sitcom where you know exactly how it will play out and iften know the characters lines beforee they say them.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 31 Aug 2017, 9:19pm
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 9:10pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 8:58pm
Silent Majority wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 8:12pm
Looked at the new Kathy Bates series, expecting watchable, if very middle class, quirk and found out quickly that it was a Chuck Lorre sitcom. Fucking hell, that man is behind the least funny television ever made. A humour wasteland.
He produces faux populist television. Hey, audience, tired of feeling dumber than those smartypants writers with their clever scripts? Here's something that you know completely and fully from the first second. You could write this because you know the jokes ahead of time. Watch this and say fuck you to the elites!
My kid asked me about some show he'd never seen and this is basically how i described it. Generic sitcom where you know exactly how it will play out and iften know the characters lines beforee they say them.
Some people want to be reassured of what they know, some people want to be challenged or surprised. If it's snobby to say the latter is, in most cases, better, so be it.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 10:51am
by JennyB
Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 8:58pm
Silent Majority wrote:
31 Aug 2017, 8:12pm
Looked at the new Kathy Bates series, expecting watchable, if very middle class, quirk and found out quickly that it was a Chuck Lorre sitcom. Fucking hell, that man is behind the least funny television ever made. A humour wasteland.
He produces faux populist television. Hey, audience, tired of feeling dumber than those smartypants writers with their clever scripts? Here's something that you know completely and fully from the first second. You could write this because you know the jokes ahead of time. Watch this and say fuck you to the elites!
How he manages to get talent like Kathy Bates is beyond me. OK, money, but still.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 12:54pm
by Kory
I call it "my parents' kind of humor."

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 12:58pm
by Dr. Medulla
Kory wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 12:54pm
I call it "my parents' kind of humor."
I'm imagining your childhood as one where canned laughter played when nothing even funny is happening.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 1:29pm
by Kory
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 12:58pm
Kory wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 12:54pm
I call it "my parents' kind of humor."
I'm imagining your childhood as one where canned laughter played when nothing even funny is happening.
Story of my life...

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 1:47pm
by Dr. Medulla
Kory wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 1:29pm
Story of my life...

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 6:20pm
by Silent Majority
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 12:58pm
Kory wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 12:54pm
I call it "my parents' kind of humor."
I'm imagining your childhood as one where canned laughter played when nothing even funny is happening.
Like that very disturbing Rodney Dangerfield scene in Natural Born Killers. Or the very disturbing film, Back to School.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 6:25pm
by Dr. Medulla
Silent Majority wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 6:20pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 12:58pm
Kory wrote:
01 Sep 2017, 12:54pm
I call it "my parents' kind of humor."
I'm imagining your childhood as one where canned laughter played when nothing even funny is happening.
Like that very disturbing Rodney Dangerfield scene in Natural Born Killers. Or the very disturbing film, Back to School.
Very fucking right. What a superbly conceived and executed scene.

Re: Currently watching.

Posted: 03 Sep 2017, 9:04pm
by Kory
Do we have any Rick and Morty fans here? I can't recall it being discussed.