"Nitpicking" movies/tv shows

[TkoK83Spy]

Well this sure ventured off topic!

[Naperville]

Well this sure ventured off topic!

"Nitpicking" movies/tv shows, has evolved to Nitpicking "Nitpicking" movies/tv show thread comments.

[James Y]

Back to movies,

As I said, I really do not require movies to be 100% realistic for me to enjoy them. Movies are an escape for me. As long as it has a good enough story, the performances are good, etc., I can enjoy it.

I recently revisited watching the 1995 Brady Bunch movie and it's 1996 sequel. I liked them when I saw them in the theater back then, and I like them even more now. I think they were cast perfectly, and were FAR more entertaining than the original TV series.

But I saw a reviewer on YouTube who just called the first movie 'weird.' He was a younger guy, so obviously Gen Z. The whole idea of the movie, a corny '70s sitcom family that lives in their own little bubble amidst the streets of Los Angeles in the cynical 1990s seemed utterly incomprehensible to this reviewer. As if he needed everything to be explained in detail for him to get it.

Sometimes movies can just be fun for fun's sake, without any need for nitpicking.

Then again, for the most part, the movies nowadays suck. At least the Hollyweird movies do.

Jim

[Ankerson]

Back to movies,

As I said, I really do not require movies to be 100% realistic for me to enjoy them. Movies are an escape for me. As long as it has a good enough story, the performances are good, etc., I can enjoy it.

I recently revisited watching the 1995 Brady Bunch movie and it's 1996 sequel. I liked them when I saw them in the theater back then, and I like them even more now. I think they were cast perfectly, and were FAR more entertaining than the original TV series.

But I saw a reviewer on YouTube who just called the first movie 'weird.' He was a younger guy, so obviously Gen Z. The whole idea of the movie, a corny '70s sitcom family that lives in their own little bubble amidst the streets of Los Angeles in the cynical 1990s seemed utterly incomprehensible to this reviewer. As if he needed everything to be explained in detail for him to get it.

Sometimes movies can just be fun for fun's sake, without any need for nitpicking.

Then again, for the most part, the movies nowadays suck. At least the Hollyweird movies do.

Jim

Jim,

Well you really can't expect a gen z to get it for sure, the whole concept of the 70's as a whole would be so far over their heads there is just no chance they could get it.

They have zero understanding of things like satire and for entertainment.

To them everything has to have some pollical undertones and appease everyone so nobody could possibly complain or be offended.

Which is why almost everything sucks these days.

Jim

[Ankerson]

Well this sure ventured off topic!

"Nitpicking" movies/tv shows, has evolved to Nitpicking "Nitpicking" movies/tv show thread comments.

How can one nitpick a shows technology when nobody has any clue what that technology is in the 1st place?

That is my point.

[Naperville]

Well this sure ventured off topic!

"Nitpicking" movies/tv shows, has evolved to Nitpicking "Nitpicking" movies/tv show thread comments.

How can one nitpick a shows technology when nobody has any clue what that technology is in the 1st place?

That is my point.

NO, it isn't you, it is the folks in the peanut gallery that always have to control communications and nitpick on anyone breaking one of THEIR rules. Just two guys come to mind, it is the same two guys, and you are not on that list.

[Naperville]

Back to movies,
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Jim

I agree with James. Let's get back to movies.

[Ankerson]

Yes, I am aware fictional and even based on true story dramas are mostly meant to entertain. But there is a whole level of people who love to "nit pick" these performances.

Here are some examples:

Star Trek.
If the Federation has matter teleporters that can.break a person to the subatomic and atomic level and rebuild them, why do people age and get sick? Why not walk into a Transporter and reset your age? Why not walk into the Transporter and have it remove any disease?

Trekkies say it is because Federation culture opposes such things and because transporter errors would endanger the person.

Star Wars. According to George LucasFilm canon, the Star Wars Galaxy basic society has been around with Droids, Blasters, Hyper Drive, etc for 20,000 to 100,000 years. How come they do not advance to much higher technology levels?

Star Trek Earth went from Pre Warp and firearms to Warp drive, phasers, replicators, and transporters in 300 years, from 2060s to 2360s.

Soap Operas:

"Soap opera nitpicks often focus on common tropes like rapidly aging kids, unrealistic scenarios (amnesia, sudden wealth/poverty, evil twins), continuity errors (same actor plays different roles, old photos changing), plot holes, and repetitive storylines, alongside critiques of acting, pacing, and the "soap opera effect" (high frame rate look). "

A Team.
In the 1980s A Team tv series the main characters and their opponents are shooting thousands of rounds of high velocity and even fully automatic firearms at each other, yet, you hardly see the main characters get serious injury. Did they borrow some Force Field Belts from Star Trek? :)

Star Trek again.

Why are StarFleet uniforms so flimsy? Both The Original Series with James Kirk and crew and The Next Generation with Picard and crew seemed to wear uniform shirts and pants that tore easily.
If they have 23rd and 24th century nano fibers why not make rip tear proof uniforms?
I like the Feature Film uniforms and Deep Space Nine ones more.

MOST TV shows these days and for awhile now are soap operas.

Episodes in the old shows could stand on their own and weren't just a continuation of the last week etc.

Exceptions would be shows like Dallas, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest and the other evening Soaps.

TV has gone down the drain really due to this.

Lazy writing and with the Episode count cut down to nothing.

[TkoK83Spy]

It really is tough to find a tv show on regular cable that can hold up for more than a few seasons. Seems like anything that's new that comes out, is done after a couple years.

[Doc Dan]

The human heart is deeply and deceptively wicked through and through. There is no way humanity will ever achieve a society close to Star Trek, and even in that utopia they had problem people. It is a fun show, but not really accurate when it comes to the way people really are. If it was, it wouldn't be worth watching.

And while I am soap boxing, the newer shows completely illustrate the point. They hold out wickedness and perversion as virtues and aren't worth watching. Star Trek lost its vision decades ago.

[Ankerson]

The human heart is deeply and deceptively wicked through and through. There is no way humanity will ever achieve a society close to Star Trek, and even in that utopia they had problem people. It is a fun show, but not really accurate when it comes to the way people really are. If it was, it wouldn't be worth watching.

And while I am soap boxing, the newer shows completely illustrate the point. They hold out wickedness and perversion as virtues and aren't worth watching. Star Trek lost its vision decades ago.

Yeah humans are still basically one step out of the cave intellectually and I seriously doubt that will ever change.

Humans will never be as advanced as the people on Star Trek.

It will just never happen, human nature will always get in the way.

[Naperville]

The human heart is deeply and deceptively wicked through and through. There is no way humanity will ever achieve a society close to Star Trek, and even in that utopia they had problem people. It is a fun show, but not really accurate when it comes to the way people really are. If it was, it wouldn't be worth watching.

And while I am soap boxing, the newer shows completely illustrate the point. They hold out wickedness and perversion as virtues and aren't worth watching. Star Trek lost its vision decades ago.

Yeah humans are still basically one step out of the cave intellectually and I seriously doubt that will ever change.

Humans will never be as advanced as the people on Star Trek.

It will just never happen, human nature will always get in the way.

Maybe; Maybe not too.

When I lived in Silicon Valley I had all manner of friends but were they really friends? I did not know them for decades so hard to tell. Silicon Valley is more friendly than anywhere else that I have lived.

[James Y]

One of my favorite TV shows of all time was The X-Files. I had a few gripes, though.

Firstly, my favorite episodes were the one-off, “monster of the week” episodes. Which may or may not have been monsters; the point being they were one and done. In at least one case, a “monster of the week,” eater of human livers Eugene Tooms, returned in a follow-up episode, but I still consider that mostly a one-off character.

I did not care for the continuing “government elite/alien agenda” episodes, which seemed to be the main thrust of the series. Those were boring, especially in the later seasons. IMO, the first 5 or so seasons were the best of the series. To top it off, the whole “big government alien secret” thing turned out to be a big letdown. The show also sucked when other actors subbed for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The chemistry wasn’t there with the other actors.

Some of those one-off episodes, like “Die Hand Die Verletzt,” “Sanguinarium,” “Home,” “Shapes,” “Tunguska,” “Terma,” “Squeeze,” “Tooms,” “Leonard Betts,” and some others were some of my own personal favorites.


Jim

[Doc Dan]

One of my favorite TV shows of all time was The X-Files. I had a few gripes, though.

Firstly, my favorite episodes were the one-off, “monster of the week” episodes. Which may or may not have been monsters; the point being they were one and done. In at least one case, a “monster of the week,” eater of human livers Eugene Tooms, returned in a follow-up episode, but I still consider that mostly a one-off character.

I did not care for the continuing “government elite/alien agenda” episodes, which seemed to be the main thrust of the series. Those were boring, especially in the later seasons. IMO, the first 5 or so seasons were the best of the series. To top it off, the whole “big government alien secret” thing turned out to be a big letdown. The show also sucked when other actors subbed for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The chemistry wasn’t there with the other actors.

Some of those one-off episodes, like “Die Hand Die Verletzt,” “Sanguinarium,” “Home,” “Shapes,” “Tunguska,” “Terma,” “Squeeze,” “Tooms,” “Leonard Betts,” and some others were some of my own personal favorites.


Jim

I too thought the monster of the week episodes were best. Maybe my favorite was Darkness Falls.

[Ankerson]

I also agree with Doc and Jim, the monster of the week and the 1st 5 seasons of the X-Files are the best.

I miss the old one-of episodes in the older shows overall.

The writing was IMHO much better and this was back when we had like 35+ episodes per season on ave.

It is more of a joke anymore with some shows running what? 10 to maybe 15 episodes per season.

And those episodes are like one big episode so it's like one episode per season really with the soap opera garbage.

If I want to watch a soap opera I would watch Another World, As the World Turns, General Hospital or the Guiding Light.

[SpyderEdgeForever]

Ankerson, did you know Yoda was the most powerful Jedi?

[James Y]

Hard Boiled (Hong Kong, 1992; opening scene)

This is my favorite movie by director John Woo. HOWEVER ... this opening scene alone shows exactly what I mentioned earlier in the thread: Pistols that fire endless rounds without any need to reload. I didn't count how many rounds the 2 pistols that Chow Yun-Fat alone fired in this scene without any reloading. It's as if the filmmakers didn't really understand how guns work, or they think that guns are magic wands that'll fire rounds as long as you keep pulling the trigger.

Warning: This scene contains copious (some might say excessive) amounts of movie violence, though it's often cartoonish, as action movie violence often is. John Woo's gangster films were called "bullet ballets" for a reason.



Jim