MurielHorseflesh

MurielHorseflesh t1_jadacgk wrote

Reply to First Image of Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo & Shailene Woodley in 'TO CATCH A KILLER' - A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a mass murderer | A film by Damián Szifron ('Wild Tales') by mayukhdas1999

“To Catch a Killer” has been used a couple times now.

There’s been a made for tv movie starring Brian ‘I lied about being in Vietnam’ Dennehy about the serial killer John Wayne Gacy that was made in the 90’s and a tv show with the same name in 2018.

Is this movie about John Wayne Gacy or just lifting the title? This sounds like a Silence of the Lambs redo if it isn’t.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_j9wopr8 wrote

Reply to comment by Dear-Bid4102 in Watching Cocaine bear with friends or a large crowed? by Dear-Bid4102

Dude you are living my nightmare.

Being on superhero subs a lot or even just movie subs a lot you end having to use the word carry is various tenses. They carry. It was carried. I was carrying.

This fucking bullshit iPhone that totally gets when to say the word iPhone, suddenly decides to change any variation of the word Carry to Carrie’s.

Aquaman Carrie’s Superman’s body into the for fuck sake here we go again.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_j97xvfk wrote

Reply to Dickie Davies, World of Sport presenter, dies at 94 by ToffeeFever

Dickie Davies’ World of Sport was the home of professional wrestling on UK TV back in the 70’s and 80’s. The show would report on real sports like Football, Rugby, Cricket, Golf, Formula 1 etc and then would also have a section for professional wrestling but this was the 70’s and no one knew wrestling was fake so it was presented and reported on as a real sport right next to the others.

They would show UK wrestling with famous names like Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks until the appeal of UK wrestling started to wane and they began to show WWF matches.

The first time I ever saw Hulk Hogan was on a match aired on Dickie Davies’ World of Sport.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_j6orv8i wrote

Reply to What movies do you consider as part of any other mediums fictional universe? by Furyofthe1st

Soldier (1998) is in the same universe as Blade Runner and mentions the battle of Tannhauser Gate and the battle of Orion. Blade Runner is also set in the same universe as Alien, which was confirmed on the 20th anniversary DVD for Alien in 1999 which included an extra scene of Dallas confirming he took a paycheck from the Tyrell Corporation.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_j6iuyos wrote

Reply to I need one movie recommendation from 2022 to make 50 movies total. by red_riders

This was released in 2021 but was released on streaming and VOD in 2022 so I’d argue it counts.

De uskyldige (The Innocents) is a Norwegian supernatural thriller written and directed by Eskil Vogt. It’s about a group of young children who live on a Norwegian housing estate and hang out together in the woods when all the other kids leave for vacation in the summer. The children start to develop strange powers and the film takes a very dark turn.

It’s filmed in a very naturalistic way and the child actors are amazing making it even creepier.

One of the main characters is severely autistic and the child actress playing her does an incredible job of portraying it.

It’s in Norwegian obviously so expect subtitles but if you can handle that, this is one of the best movies I have seen in years.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/hm45yGSwArY

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MurielHorseflesh t1_j6cufi3 wrote

Reply to Actors who were fired from the 1st or 2nd season of a hit show, even though they were good in it. by Lili_Danube

Melinda Culea played Amy on the 80’s hit show The A-Team for the first season and half of the second. She was unceremoniously kicked off the show due to the fact that the main star George Peppard didn’t want a woman on the team and that with their being four guy’s on the team already, they found they had very little for her to do.

She tried to claw at keeping her job by suggesting that she become to comic relief in the show but they already had Murdock for that.

She had no way to keep her place so they got rid of her.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_iyb8hbo wrote

Reply to AMC Networks To Cut 20% Of U.S. Workforce As Cord Cutting, Streaming Costs, Economic Jitters Roil Media by MarvelsGrantMan136

I think we’re going to start seeing this across the board as tv channels become streaming platforms. Showtime just announced they’re entering a period of “tightening the belt” and are looking to fund low budget projects.

You can point to spending on tv being higher than ever, but that doesn’t change the fact that dilution is happening.

Broadcast TV Channels like AMC had to mostly worry about filling 3 to 4 hours of one stream per day: Primetime television.

During that golden 3 to 4 hour period per night advertising revenue was at its highest often with companies bidding higher and higher to get the sweet spot when everyone was watching the same thing. Obviously not everyone, but enough that you can say everyone and mean someone you know.

Change the name tv channel to stream. Imagine all of us tuning into one stream at 9pm every night to watch a broadcast of a tv show. We see ads but there’s so many of us watching at once the primary cash dollar money that goes to budgets is from advertisers keen to get that one slot where we’re all looking at the same time.

But now we’re in the age of streaming and people expect to see a “platform” of content which means as much choice as can be thrust upon someone at any one time. It’s not about seeing great entertainment, it’s about having more of a choice of entertainment than the other company charging roughly the same.

Instead of funding prestige content with most of the huge income coming from advertising money on primetime, now there is no primetime, people watch whatever they want whenever they want and they expect something different every time or at least a massive catalog of content to ignore but feel like they own and that justifies the monthly payments.

So instead of one stream aka tv channel of which there’s only maybe 100 of total and they’re showing fun reruns all day with ads, and then they show brand new content at primetime with advertisers who bear the brunt of the huge budgetary costs, we have plateaued subscriber growth meaning there’s a budgetary ceiling on almost all content.

We have entered the Lowest Common Denominator era of TV because instead of being chosen gourmet chefs who present us a curated dinner course, they showed us the supermarket and told us could have whatever we wanted and that we can eat it any time we want.

They used to call television “programming” back when it was used to inform, educate and entertain, in that order. I’m in my 40’s and I remember that phrase.

Garbage in, garbage out. We’re entering a time of constant information that does not inform or educate but solely exists to entertain. Combine that with a free market monetary interest in funding content produced by businesses with investment capital instead of public tax funded models like the UK’s BBC and you can see how the educate, inform, entertain model has now become entertain, entertain, entertain because you as the customer could open the app at any time of the day and expect something absolutely brand new. I am the king of run on sentences. I’m sorry.

Where we are is not better than where we were.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_iy38bki wrote

Reply to What movie universes are connected that would surprise most people by pm_meyourlegs

James Gunn’s Super and Brightburn are set in the same universe. At the end of Brightburn there is a conspiracy theory guy ranting about superheroes and villains out there and Crimson Bolt from Super is mentioned. James Gunn said he’d like to make a third movie where Crimson Bolt tries to take down Brightburn but that wouldn’t be much of a movie.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_iy31pya wrote

Reply to comment by DickieGreenleaf84 in Ronin(1998) by LoneWolfInCyberia

What makes me chuckle about that line is that De Niro says the town name completely wrong and Sean Bean’s character has such low knowledge of the place he doesn’t notice. The place is pronounced herrerfud, De Niro calls it Hear-a-fud.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_ixm9lp8 wrote

Reply to What is the exact moment that a show jumped the shark for you? by [deleted]

Weeds when they changed it from being a fun show about a single mom supplementing her income by selling weed to turning her into a drug kingpin dealing with cartels and having affairs with FBI agents. The scene that killed it was having the FBI agent this woman was now having an affair with murdered. It was seemingly only done as to have some kind of dialing up of the drama. Breaking Bad was getting very popular just as this show was starting out so I think maybe the show runners were forced or just decided to emulate the ‘constant expansion’ angle to a drug operation tv show.

The end of season 2 I think was the moment

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MurielHorseflesh t1_ixcz3nv wrote

Reply to What are some popular movies from well known directors you can't get into? by mranimal2

Aside from Sicario, I haven’t seen a Denis Villeneuve movie that I liked.

Arrival was ok but I didn’t get the hype. Just felt like a Close Encounters redo to me. Haven’t seen Prisoners. Enemy is quite possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Blade Runner 2049 was boring and I love the first one. Dune did nothing for me either.

I get that he’s clearly a talented and popular film maker but not much of his work has done anything for me. I’ll still watch everything he does in hopes something grabs me.

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