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- AgesOfTheIce
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Re: Most Recent Movie You've Seen
Chase deliberately made the series darker as it went on as he was annoyed that people were sympathizing with Tony and the other mobsters too much.
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The rot was already well advanced by the end of the Sopranos run.
The thing I hated about the Sopranos there towards the end is how you find out Carmine was right. It's not a family...it's a glorified crew. Tony doesn't nearly as much power as you assume he does in the previous seasons.
Dallas did this same thing. JR is a shell of himself those last few seasons. The guy who could bring the entire state of Texas to its knees can't even get himself out of an insane asylum. Its pathetic.
- jimmythegent
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The rot was already well advanced by the end of the Sopranos run.
The thing I hated about the Sopranos there towards the end is how you find out Carmine was right. It's not a family...it's a glorified crew. Tony doesn't nearly as much power as you assume he does in the previous seasons.
Dallas did this same thing. JR is a shell of himself those last few seasons. The guy who could bring the entire state of Texas to its knees can't even get himself out of an insane asylum. Its pathetic.
Yeah but that was kind of one of the points. It showed the decline which was mirroring (and still does) society. It was stark by the end for sure.
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I saw these somewhere else. And since Lofton posted a couple of these pages ago, I found these cool since you don't see them anymore
https://i.ibb.co/xCWNxqX/352653525-1680 … 7417-n.jpg
Love these. Instant and potent nostalgia fuel.
I also miss the old cable guides we used to get every month from the cable company in the 70s and 80s.... essentially TV Guides but only for HBO and Showtime. They'd also have pics and sometimes interviews in them.
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Capturing the Friedmans - Saw it many years ago. An amazing documentary. Such a dysfunctional family.
Did they do it or not has always been the big question.
IMO the answer is yes.
I think a LOT of the stories from the students was false memories and part of the sex abuse hysteria from those times...but it's obvious it wasn't just pulled out of thin air. A couple students were probably molested, the dad gets in trouble for those magazines, and then everything spirals from there.
Watched that on YouTube and I got recommended this...
Abducted In Plain Sight - This has to be the biggest mind fuck of a kidnapping story in history. I was shocked I had never heard about it before. I think the fact no one died is why this case has flown under the radar.
If you like crime documentaries, check it out. I won't mention any spoilers so you can go into it blind.
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slashsfro wrote:I saw these somewhere else. And since Lofton posted a couple of these pages ago, I found these cool since you don't see them anymore
https://i.ibb.co/xCWNxqX/352653525-1680 … 7417-n.jpg
Love these. Instant and potent nostalgia fuel.
I also miss the old cable guides we used to get every month from the cable company in the 70s and 80s.... essentially TV Guides but only for HBO and Showtime. They'd also have pics and sometimes interviews in them.
https://i0.wp.com/retroramblings.com/wp … =700&ssl=1
https://storage.googleapis.com/hipcomic … 60-800.jpg
https://drunktv.net/wp-content/uploads/ … .jpg?w=948
https://drunktv.net/wp-content/uploads/ … .jpg?w=948
https://drunktv.net/wp-content/uploads/ … .jpg?w=948
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I remember these! They were all glossy unlike TV guides at the time which still had those newsprint pages. There was as section in those old cable guides where they'd have a grid schedule. Also they had previews of almost everything, I remember reading WWF PPV previews.
As a kid, I liked reading the summaries and they had pictures and it was free and a good time waster. Think there may have been a monthly crossword thing in these guides, not sure as it's been decades since I thought about these things. Thanks for the memory lane flashback!
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Barry - Amazon documentary about Barry Sanders.
It's really fucked up how his career played out and how it had to be on such a shitty team.
I had forgotten about how the Lions had first crack at signing Joe Montana in 92-93. Montana called them wanting to sign with the Lions because he knew he could do something on a team with Sanders, head coach starts doing cartwheels down the street in excitement, and then the GM/owner immediately shit cans the idea because Montana is old/over the hill. Just unbelievable stupidity.
Sanders wasn't even told about the offer at the time. Montana should've called him instead of the coach.
I used to be shocked by his early retirement. I'm not anymore. That organization killed his love for the game.
Space Cadet - Ugh. Emma Roberts has hit a brick wall. She's too old for these types of roles now but she'll keep riding the gravy train til the wheels finally come off because she literally can't do anything else.
Her name is the only reason she continues to get work. If her name is Emma Jones, it's already over.
This is the second new movie of hers I've watched the past couple years. It's probably the last. It's too awkward. It takes me out of the story.
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Sometimes I wonder why you watch these movies Lofton. I checked out the trailer and I ask myself what you expected from a movie like that. 
If it's just watching Emma Roberts I will say that she is still plenty hot compared to for example Emma Watson. But of course the movie is shit, why wouldn't it be? All her movies have been shit.
I just did another round of Star Trek TNG. I really like it. Will definitely be watching it again.
Now I'm on Stargate SG1. A worse show in some ways, but I really like the characters. And as a show it actually develops from season to season. Star Trek is the same from beginning to end.
What is common to both shows though is how low quality they are compared to the Sopranos. That other stuff is just TV, the Sopranos is high art.
