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TV fucking sucks
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JimmyRustler
Gold Member
Movie and TV business has been business only for quite a while now. Sure, occasionally someone still drops something amazing (Blade Runner 2049) but aside from that it's by the book crap only. I mean, yesterday I read about there being a sequel to Gladiator in the work. lol
Cunth
Fingerlickin' Good!
There’s a bunch of digital channels these days. Thought at least one of them would be playing Die Hard
Papa
Banned
You thought wrong, cunth. You will take your Harry Potter rerun and you will like it.
Bullet Club
Member
Juno and X-Men 2 are on.
Bullet Club
Member
Tomorrow night's line up is better: Back To The Future, The Terminator, Blue Velvet, Suicide Squad, Space Cowboys
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
This is why you enjoy Netflix series (or any other digital media for that matter) and make a list of movies you would want to see.
TV is only used here for casual shows, like Rob Dyrdek. Yeah, he is a casual.
TV is only used here for casual shows, like Rob Dyrdek. Yeah, he is a casual.
Cunth
Fingerlickin' Good!
Not bad
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pel1300
Member
We just don't have visionaries like in the 70s and 80s: Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Camerson, Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Lucas, Carpenter, Verhoenen, etc.
The 90s gave us Tarantino and Fincher..the latter is a bit inconsistent though.
Part of this has to do with the economy probably. Those above lived during the golden age of America....when people were not afraid to chase their dream career. Nowadays most people see going into the arts as a huge, huge risk and just aren't willing to take it.
The best we have right now is Ryan Coogler. So far he has made a soft reboot of Rocky in Creed, which was really good, but not groundbreaking. He did Black Panther, which again was really good, but not groundbreaking. And Fruitvale Station, I have yet to see.
The Russo Brothers seem to be really good at TV comedy and summer action blockbusters.
But for the most part...the current filmmakers are just copycats.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
I just download shows, anime and other trash put it on a HDD or watch Netflix. I bought an antenna to get 4 to 5 local channels just for the cringe as well. Regular TV channels are a dead medium.
Cunth
Fingerlickin' Good!
S. Craig Zahler is a modern filmmaker who has done some good stuff. Looking forward to his new one with Mel Gibson
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Musky_Cheese
Banned
It started going downhill as soon as Sarah Connor Chronicles was canceled.
DunDunDunpachi
Patient MembeR
TV is candy. Doesn't matter if it's an overpriced, free-trade, 85% cacao chocolate bar, it's still candy.
Hudo
Member
I always compared TV to dumpster diving. Sometimes you'll find something quite interesting (Someone threw away a functional (!!!) NEC PC-6001. Only needed a bit of cleaning) but most of the times, it's just garbage.
But your desciption has a nicer feel to it. It's how Kirby would describe TV, haha.
DunDunDunpachi
Patient MembeR
hunterjess08
Member
Agreed. And the news about season 8 are starting to come out (have you seen about the first tease for season 8's opening scene published in EW?) There may be a lot of horrible shows now especially on network TV but HBO is still good, and so are streaming services. There are a few on Netflix, for example, that I still look forward to like Stranger Things, The Haunting of Hill House, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Black Mirror, Altered Carbon and a whole lot more. Plus, the shows also have more original plots than whatever network TV are showing these days. Black Mirror and Altered Carbon, for example, are two excellent SciFi series focusing on advanced, futuristic technology. I always look forward to it.
strange headache
Banned
Television is an endless stream of advertisement for crappy websites interrupted by short bursts of fake reality shows.
michaelius
Banned
You are lucky there are movies at all - most of prime time in tv stations is occupied by stupid soap operas and reality shows so I just gave up on trying to find something. If I didn't have Crunchyroll and Netflix I'd only ever use my tv as PS4 display 
cryptoadam
Banned
I don't know how anyone can pay 50-200$ a month for cable TV. Haven't had Cable in over a decade. With the internet there are so many ways to watch shows that you want to watch that would still put you ahead of paying for monthly cable.
#Phonepunk#
Banned
you got to get Over The Air TV. there is some good stuff. MeTV and Comet are my favorite two channels that air where i live, in the US south. a few years ago my dad cut the chord and installed an antennae. whenever i visit we usually spend a few hours (or the whole day) lazily watching TV.
Comet is my favorite channel, it's non-stop sci fi movies. they play lots of 80s b-movies like Solar Babies and Ice Pirates. they play lots of 60s classic horror, all those rad technicolor goth films with Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. they show Stargate SG-1. it's the best stuff.
i also like MeTV. they focus a lot more on classic sitcoms and stuff, lots of black and white western shows from the 50s. but there is lots of sci fi as well, like og Battlestar Galactica and Lost in Space. they recently started airing ALF. best of all is on Saturdays they have a rad lineup of classic shows that for the longest time included TOS Star Trek, Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter is the all-time babe), and 60's Batman, plus oldschool style horror movie host Svengoolie with a MST3K-lite style presentation of some classic b-movie.
it's all pretty dope stuff just from those two channels. sure, you have to put up with commercials, but there are commercials on streaming nowadays, and the TV ones are sort of funny and almost charming in a weird way. i love to watch a random 60s remake of an Edgar Allen Poe story, or some badly dubbed Japanese kaiju also-ran. you can look them up on youtube but it's more fun to just discover them by accident.
Comet is my favorite channel, it's non-stop sci fi movies. they play lots of 80s b-movies like Solar Babies and Ice Pirates. they play lots of 60s classic horror, all those rad technicolor goth films with Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. they show Stargate SG-1. it's the best stuff.
i also like MeTV. they focus a lot more on classic sitcoms and stuff, lots of black and white western shows from the 50s. but there is lots of sci fi as well, like og Battlestar Galactica and Lost in Space. they recently started airing ALF. best of all is on Saturdays they have a rad lineup of classic shows that for the longest time included TOS Star Trek, Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter is the all-time babe), and 60's Batman, plus oldschool style horror movie host Svengoolie with a MST3K-lite style presentation of some classic b-movie.
it's all pretty dope stuff just from those two channels. sure, you have to put up with commercials, but there are commercials on streaming nowadays, and the TV ones are sort of funny and almost charming in a weird way. i love to watch a random 60s remake of an Edgar Allen Poe story, or some badly dubbed Japanese kaiju also-ran. you can look them up on youtube but it's more fun to just discover them by accident.
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brap
Banned
Is that legal sweetie?
michaelius
Banned
How much ?
I only own cable TV because it was 5 euro more for TV+net package then net only.
Papa
Banned
If he paid for it, yes.
cryptoadam
Banned
I just went on Bell's website. 24.95 for basic basic. Probably not 4K and no DVR. 41.95 to 91.95 to add in 4k, DVR, and actual channels people might want to watch. And that probably doesn't include if you want to start adding various movie channels and stuff.
https://www.bell.ca/Fibe-TV/Fibe-Programming-Packages
Sure if cable was 5 $ more a month I could see it, but most people I know are paying 80$ or more a month for cable TV.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
I remember as a teenager in the 2000s the movie channels late at night would play so many great 80s B-movies and sex comedies, movies like Private School, My Tutor, Private Resort, Enter The Ninja, Allan Quatermain and The Lost City of Gold, Space Rage and Chopping Mall.
It was great and a huge influence on my tastes and anticipated stuff like Red Letter Media's Best of The Worst web series.
I'm sure they don't play any movies like that nowadays though.
Can't decide
Member
I don't even have my TV aerial connected and I didn't bother when I moved into my last property either, so that's since 2011. Same applies to listening to the radio and logging into social media, I guess that's the year I decided everything and everyone was full of shit and I had enough of it.
I just bought fast internet instead and pipe everything I want through that. I've discovered and learnt way more not only about things, but about myself, since I have to go out and seek it myself, and general changed entirely as a person once I stopped watching/listening to all the crap we are fed.
I just bought fast internet instead and pipe everything I want through that. I've discovered and learnt way more not only about things, but about myself, since I have to go out and seek it myself, and general changed entirely as a person once I stopped watching/listening to all the crap we are fed.
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ipukespiders
Member
Throws TV out the window
Pro tip - your TV can be used as a game display.
The more you know
Star Trek TOS blurays in my case
Pro tip - your TV can be used as a game display.
The more you know
Star Trek TOS blurays in my case
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Cunth
Fingerlickin' Good!
I only play mobile games
ipukespiders
Member
#Phonepunk#
Banned
recently i watched the entire series of The Larry Sanders Show, which i'd never seen before. it's incredible! highly recommend it to anyone who likes Seinfeld or Curb.
Pumpkin Seeds
Member
If you chop those in half and combine all three you would have Steel Foot Ascending. Now that sounds like a good movie.
cryptoadam
Banned
You have my attention. Always heard Sanders show was good and ahead of its time.
camelCase
Member
You shouldn't be complaining
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
It's weird to think how something once as ubiquitous channel surfing was is now a thing of the past for me and probably a lot of people.
The internet sure has changed a lot of things about life.
The internet sure has changed a lot of things about life.
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Death Dealer
Member
I haven't subscribed to cable TV in about 10 years either. Cable TV seems like its dying. StReaming is the future.
Broadcast TV is already dead to me. Can't remember the last time I cared about any prime time network show. Maybe during the last century ? Half the air time is filled with infomercials. It's like they know nobody is watching. On the weekends, NBC broadcasts weird obscure European sports, but nobody shows baseball on regular TV anymore. Most of the political shows I used to watch have become unwatchable in the era of Trump. PBS Newshour, Meet the Press etc. have all jumped the shark. Occasionally, I will still watch Fox News Sunday via youtube.
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Fattony12000
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Bullet Club
Member
It was the 2011 version.