Lulls suck ! How about this .....?

justashadowof

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TV

All in the Family
Seinfeld
Kids In The Hall
The Muppet Show
Carol Burnett

Movies

Stand By Me
Braveheart
Top Gun
Gangs of New York
The Holy Grail

I really loved that movie when I first saw it. I watched it recently and I didn't recall how much the fight sequences looked like choreographed dance. It kind of took me away from the movie a bit. Such an interesting story otherwise.
 
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nsleaf

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oh noes!!!!!!

that means you've seen Pepe Le Pew, I really hope it didn't turn you into an overly aggressive womanizing misogynist jks

below is an actual comment on FB in regard to this latest "outrage controversy"


and there were many more like it, I had no idea looney tunes were so harmful


Yea, I was a naive kid at the time, but times have changed, I guess.
Wonder if this one offends hillbillies :sarcasm:

 

Rants Mulliniks

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“Every time I come to this city some guy picks me up, takes me to a Leaf’s game, gets me pissed and then tries to blow me. Why can’t people like me for me?”

shows:
1) simpsons
2) twin peaks (all seasons)
3) Breaking Bad
4) Death in Paradise
5) 1990’s The Stand mini series

movies
1) Apocalypse Now
2) Shawshank
3) American Graffiti
4) The Devils
5) (big) Crimewave

Alien scene;

Why do we come millions of light years only to probe them? The only thing we ever learn is one in ten doesn't seem to mind!
 

Rants Mulliniks

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I really loved that movie when I first saw it. I watched it recently and I didn't recall how much the fight sequences looked like choreographed dance. It kind of took me away from the movie a bit. Such an interesting story otherwise.

Selected it mainly because Daniel Day Lewis is my favourite actor. There aren't many who do a better job of getting into a character.
 

justashadowof

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It's weird how seeing so much un-curated content recently mostly through Youtube and a new filter of calling out bigoted/destructive/subversive/marginalizing humour has soured a lot of past entertainment. Even stuff from the 90s I once loved.

All 4 characters in Seinfeld it turned out were sociopaths as admitted in the series finale. It pushed the Overton window and not for the better: it amplified the snark, the narcissism, the nihilism, etc. all while being an amalgam of the best sitcom techniques of the previous 40+ years.
Now we discover that every Disney sitcom child actor/actress is an emotional mess who may or may not have suffered abuse.
Every sitcom with a laugh track or audience laughter feels completely off now. Many faux documentary sitcoms now look completely dated too: its performers mugging for the camera has been completely played. Every product placement in Friends including pornography presented as a mainstream pastime. Every time Carla insults Cliff, Norm and Woody just seems mean. Every time disaffected Jeff insults Britta, Pierce and the Dean makes me sad. Then came the race-baiting (and gender-baiting) sitcom humour of the late 2010s when everything went completely off the rails.
 
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the squared circle

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TV
M*A*S*H
All in the Family
WKRP
Cheers
Twilight Zone

MOVIES
Wizard of Oz
Godfather (and yes, III is great! Not as good as the first two, but doesn't deserve the criticism it receives)
Reservoir Dogs
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver

GREAT call above, on Bizarre
 
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colchar

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TV
HNIC
NYPD Blue
The World at War
New Tricks
Spooks (MI5)
Scott & Bailey
Spooks (MI5)
MASH
West Wing
Lucifer
The Closer/Major Crimes
WKRP in Cincinnati




I don't watch movies so I went with ten TV shows.


I should also have mentioned the CFL broadcasts and Modern Family as well. Not sure what I'd take out of my list so that they could be included though.
 

colchar

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All 4 characters in Seinfeld it turned out were sociopaths as admitted in the series finale. It pushed the Overton window and not for the better: it amplified the snark, the narcissism, the nihilism, etc.



I absolutely hated that show.
 

Mickey Marner

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Some great lists so far.

This is very hard! So many great shows over the years.

I'll do movies after.

TV
1. Seinfeld (and it's not even close)

2. Freaks and Geeks
3. Three's Company
4. Cheers
5. Money Heist (Le Casa De Papal)

Good call on Freaks and Geeks. That show totally slipped my mind. Damn shame it was only one season.
 

93LEAFS

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I can't compare comedy to dramatic.

Top 5 sitcoms/cartons (or ones I re-watch the most)
King of the Hill
Simpsons (season 1-10)
South Park
Trailer Park Boys
Parks and Rec

Top 5 Drama
The Wire (Greatest TV show ever made)
The Sopranos
Narcos/Narcos:Mexico
Deadwood
Original Law and Order (great one hour wrapped up in an hour show unlike the others)

Top 5 Dramatic Movies
Goodfellas
Ikiru
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
Chinatown

HM: outside of Goodfellas this could change daily. The Deer Hunter, The Godfather 1/2, Pulp Fiction, Seven Samurai, No Country for Old Men, 12 Angry Men, Blade Runner, Star Wars og Trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, North By Northwest, Rear Window etc. I could go on forever.

Top 5 Comedies
Big Lebowski (As clear a #1 as The Wire)
Dumb and Dumber
Rushmore
Billy Madison
The Royal Tenenbaums
 

The Beyonder

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TV
1. Breaking Bad
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. The Expanse
4. Black Mirror
5. The Wire
Better Call Saul
Trailer Park Boys
Always Sunny
Game of Thrones
Twilight Zone (original series)
Sherlock
Futurama
Star Trek Deep Space 9/Next Generation/Voyager
Doctor Who

Movies
1.The Matrix
2. Memento
3. The Third Man
4. The Dark Knight
5. Terminator 2
Inception
Fightclub
Godfather
Alien/Aliens
Citizen Kane
Psycho
Double Indemnity
Maltese Falcon
Interstellar
Blader Runner 1 + 2049
Avengers: Endgame
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Airplane!
The Fly
Beast of No Nation
Brazil
Pulp Fiction
Jurassic Park
12 Monkeys
 

moon111

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Haven't had a T.V. hooked up to satellite in probably two decades? But still managed to enjoy:
  • Vikings
  • The Walking Dead
  • Fear the Walking Dead
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Mayans
  • Westworld
  • Stranger Things
  • Orange is the New Black.
There's a lot of good movies could add that other's have already listed, but admit really enjoying the guilty-pleasure of an action movies without a huge plot.:
  • Star Wars
  • Transformers
  • Rambo
Maybe one that isn't an action movie that I really liked that I find some haven't seen is:
  • Come and See
 
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I'll only offer sports:

1. Ted Lasso, if only because I just finished it and damn it, being a decent human being has merit, and it's funny as.
2. The White Shadow.
3. Major League
4. Breaking Away.
5. Raging Bull.
6. Caddyshack.
7. Rudy.
8. Slapshot.
9. Bull Durham.
10. The Hustler.

Honorable mentions:

1. A League of Their Own.
2. Chariots of Fire.
3. The Longest Yard. (Burt Reynolds)
 

ITM

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If there was a feature to double the total amount of likes a member has, I'd do so for having included The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. LOL. Loved that show! And really, it was the only show of it's kind I could stomach. Sid and Marty Krofft gave me the heebie-jeebies as did most of that kind of show. I was a little kid and if I recall it was on...CHCH? Didn't watch it when it first came out but did in reruns in the 70s.

Now if you were able to find the intro to Black Belt Theatre (Kung Fu Theatre?) from Ch.29 Buffalo, I'll find a way to double those likes even if I have to do so for your next 5000 posts.

Memory Lane's worth it.
 
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ITM

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I'll only offer sports:

1. Ted Lasso, if only because I just finished it and damn it, being a decent human being has merit, and it's funny as.
2. The White Shadow.
3. Major League
4. Breaking Away.
5. Raging Bull.
6. Caddyshack.
7. Rudy.
8. Slapshot.
9. Bull Durham.
10. The Hustler.

Honorable mentions:

1. A League of Their Own.
2. Chariots of Fire.
3. The Longest Yard. (Burt Reynolds)

Maybe my all-time favorite film. It's perfection.

Perhaps an HM to The Natural? Remember feeling the chills during this scene:
 

nsleaf

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Canadian shows that persevered despite awful production ... Beachcombers and King of Kensington.

Fan of This Hour has 22 Minutes. Been to the live studio production several times, lot of fun.
 

the squared circle

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If there was a feature to double the total amount of likes a member has, I'd do so for having included The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. LOL. Loved that show! And really, it was the only show of it's kind I could stomach. Sid and Marty Krofft gave me the heebie-jeebies as did most of that kind of show. I was a little kid and if I recall it was on...CHCH? Didn't watch it when it first came out but did in reruns in the 70s.

Now if you were able to find the intro to Black Belt Theatre (Kung Fu Theatre?) from Ch.29 Buffalo, I'll find a way to double those likes even if I have to do so for your next 5000 posts.

Memory Lane's worth it.

CHCH Saturday mornings. Followed by Spider-Man and Harrigan (leprechaun)

CHCH is now retro between 9-5 weekdays. They have warning messages before shows like Brady bunch and Gilligans Island, hahahah crazy sad times (sorry Teeder I don’t mean to derail the convo into something else)
 
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