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Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
August 19 2010 15:49 GMT
#21
On August 19 2010 23:50 Catch]22 wrote:
Srsly, Gaga and Katy Perry are good, but you cant love whats mainstream, right ? (Edit: the rest is shit tho', altho I can't say I have ever actually LISTENED to Bieber)

What the hell is wrong with you?
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
nekuodah
Profile Joined August 2010
England2409 Posts
August 19 2010 16:04 GMT
#22
The guy who suggested sherlock is correct, very well written and very enjoyable in my opinion.
Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
August 19 2010 16:26 GMT
#23
Watch the British! They know how to make proper television. Shows like Coupling (probably the best comedy show ever made), Peep Show, Jonathan Creek, Poirot and Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. I can not begin to explain how great that series is, Jeremy Brett puts on one of the best performances ever in any context. What's even sicker about the performance is that he is dying towards the end of the series and still puts on a flawless performance.
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
August 19 2010 16:29 GMT
#24
That's why we have How to Survive a Japanese Game Show.
:]
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary26003 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 16:31:15
August 19 2010 16:31 GMT
#25
What, have you watched Jersey Shore?!!
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NrG.Bamboo
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2756 Posts
August 19 2010 16:32 GMT
#26
On August 20 2010 00:49 Djzapz wrote:
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On August 19 2010 23:50 Catch]22 wrote:
Srsly, Gaga and Katy Perry are good, but you cant love whats mainstream, right ? (Edit: the rest is shit tho', altho I can't say I have ever actually LISTENED to Bieber)

What the hell is wrong with you?

Yeah how can you have not listened to Bieber?

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Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
August 19 2010 17:09 GMT
#27
On August 20 2010 01:31 Chill wrote:
What, have you watched Jersey Shore?!!
Sometimes you realise that there isn't enough vomit in the world.
JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
August 19 2010 17:12 GMT
#28
Everyone should watch Jersey Shore. I'm always fistpumped for new episodes
If you have to ask, you don't know.
phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
August 19 2010 17:22 GMT
#29
The problem with American entertainment is not that they are stale but they have grown progressively wimpy, PC, and watered-down.
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Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
August 19 2010 17:36 GMT
#30
On August 20 2010 01:26 Hynda wrote:
Watch the British! They know how to make proper television. Shows like Coupling (probably the best comedy show ever made), Peep Show, Jonathan Creek, Poirot and Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. I can not begin to explain how great that series is, Jeremy Brett puts on one of the best performances ever in any context. What's even sicker about the performance is that he is dying towards the end of the series and still puts on a flawless performance.


you're literally on smack if you think uk tv is any good outside of a few shows

sure, we might have a bunch of good comedies but there have been about 4 watchable dramas produced in the past decade in the uk.
FieryBalrog
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1381 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 17:46:01
August 19 2010 17:43 GMT
#31
Uh, there is a lot of good stuff buried out there in "American Entertainment"

Movies:
Inception
There Will Be Blood

TV:
The Wire (everyone watch this, seriously)
Mad Men
Six Feet Under

Music:
too many bands to name

Its not all Jerry Bruckheimer and Everybody Loves Raymond, just do some research, I mean this isn't even indie obscure shit, its pretty mainstream

American TV in particular is pretty good, I have watched plenty of foreign (Indian, Korean, Chinese) TV and my god most of it is absolute balls awful
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IndecisivePenguin
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States771 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 17:45:29
August 19 2010 17:44 GMT
#32
On August 19 2010 21:33 riptide wrote:
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Try some British entertainment. Some of the best writing I've seen on TV in a while.


I'm seconding this. One of my recent favorite shows. Although the first season is 3 episodes, each episode is about an hour and a half long. Well put-together show.
FieryBalrog
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1381 Posts
August 19 2010 17:49 GMT
#33
Of course, you have to seek it out. If you just watch reality TV and bad drama you won't get a good impression
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tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 18:04:28
August 19 2010 18:03 GMT
#34
On August 19 2010 20:38 konadora wrote:
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Mongolian sci fi movie featuring the wild beauty of the Great Steppe juxtaposed with massive Space Yurts as a backdrop, and the characters all own mechanical transforming eagles and shit.

holy fuck

Please let this be the new TL banner. Space Yurts. My god.
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Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
August 19 2010 18:04 GMT
#35
On August 20 2010 02:43 FieryBalrog wrote:
Uh, there is a lot of good stuff buried out there in "American Entertainment"

Movies:
Inception
There Will Be Blood

TV:
The Wire (everyone watch this, seriously)
Mad Men
Six Feet Under

Music:
too many bands to name

Its not all Jerry Bruckheimer and Everybody Loves Raymond, just do some research, I mean this isn't even indie obscure shit, its pretty mainstream

American TV in particular is pretty good, I have watched plenty of foreign (Indian, Korean, Chinese) TV and my god most of it is absolute balls awful

Inception was great if you cut out the last minute of the movie i.e the horrible ending.

One thing I never got was why Mad Men never really took off, now I don't know how big it is in the US but outside of it, it's placed on obscure places on obscure times. It's a shame because it's actually one of the few decent series out of America at the moment.
Mortality
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States4790 Posts
August 19 2010 18:05 GMT
#36
The problem with American entertainment is that there seems to be a clear lack of talented script writers and an overabundance of directors who don't realize how much they suck, combined with a tendency of producers to engage in heavy executive meddling.

And how many times do I have to see a book "brought to life" as a screenplay only for it to turn out that the director never read the book? :/
Even though this Proleague bullshit has been completely bogus, I really, really, really do not see how Khan can lose this. I swear I will kill myself if they do. - nesix before KHAN lost to eNature
Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
August 19 2010 18:08 GMT
#37
On August 20 2010 03:05 Mortality wrote:
The problem with American entertainment is that there seems to be a clear lack of talented script writers and an overabundance of directors who don't realize how much they suck, combined with a tendency of producers to engage in heavy executive meddling.

And how many times do I have to see a book "brought to life" as a screenplay only for it to turn out that the director never read the book? :/

Sometimes it's the other way around, they read it way to much and everything they do is a tribute making it a mess. Read: Watchmen.
HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 18:21:44
August 19 2010 18:20 GMT
#38
That´s why I only watch Kurosawa, Chow and kinds these days.
Hollywood hasn´t produced anything worth watching since the Governator retired from action films IMO.

Also some british comedy is okay.
Watch Black Books, it´s the best comedy series ever
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
August 19 2010 18:21 GMT
#39
Ye I agree with you, American movies, TV shows, and music all suck. Instead of trying to make real works of art, they're just trying to make a quick buck off crap. Japan is still good though.
mainerd
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States347 Posts
August 19 2010 18:35 GMT
#40
a good fallback when i get tired of US films are kurosawa flicks, or even anything with toshiro mifune in it... not all his movies are great but he was an incredible actor. admittedly all my favorite foreign films are pretty old - city of lost children, delicatessen, solaris (russian version), alphaville... but i guess the same goes for my favorite US films. also BBC stuff is surprisingly good, i loved the original series of the office and i'll probably check out Sherlock after i finish watching deadwood

i wonder - if you gave a non-US studio/director hundreds of millions of dollars to make a film, where would all that money be spent anyway? isn't there really only one place to dump it, into special effects and/or famous actors, and at that point how different would it really be from american cinema? it would definitely be interesting to see different cultures takes on the big budget movie though. the only thing i can think of that is somewhat analogous is bollywood, which i don't really dig :D
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