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Post by lynn on Oct 18, 2011 19:15:14 GMT -5
I watched this last night, and more than anything I was kinda annoyed at it. I am so sick of watching men masturbate on tv, what's that about?
Also I think they must have just looked up a 'horror movie cliche' book and gone with chucking every single one into the first episode. The only reason I'd watch the second episode is for the possibility that they got it out of their system and now want to write an actual story.
Spoiler also, and my biggest question from the show; why do the ghosts want to have sex with the people?
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Post by wilson on Oct 19, 2011 8:33:55 GMT -5
I thought the same thing about the first episode. I didn't dislike it as much as you, but I was on the fence after watching it. They snuck every cliche in that they could. The 2nd episode was much better and honestly, I look forward to the next, but I'm still wondering how far this can go before the run out of steam.
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Post by wilson on Oct 19, 2011 8:35:37 GMT -5
Also, dudes tugging is getting to be a regular thing on TV, ain't it?
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Post by lynn on Oct 19, 2011 18:11:52 GMT -5
Tuggsploitation?
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Post by wilson on Oct 20, 2011 15:34:44 GMT -5
I smell a special episode of TV Ate My Dinner!
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Post by lynn on Oct 20, 2011 18:22:33 GMT -5
Oh no, I don't want to know what that episode smells like. I voiced my concern on this front in an episode just recorded and Gilbert had nothing to say about it, so we'll need time for him to work out a reason why tuggsploitation is ruining modern horror first.
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Post by Glip on Oct 21, 2011 1:57:12 GMT -5
I asked a scottish friend why he gave up on watching new series and movies. He said: "These days there's just too many wankers on the telly."
Guess he was more right than he knew.
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Post by Gilberto on Oct 22, 2011 14:55:13 GMT -5
Jaxploitation. Lynn and I discuss this in an upcoming minisode, but I was also disturbed by the fact that they are suggesting that kids with Downs syndrome are creepy. The second episode is only better because it doesn't have as many horror cliches, but when they run out of those they fall back on standard melodrama cliches like "I got my mistress pregnant so she had to get an abortion". Jesus, this guy wouldn't be a worse human being even if he did try to ax murder his family. At least that way he wouldn't be pretending to be nice.
Have you never seen "The Strangers", Wilson? Instead of falling back on a horror cliche this episode just stole a story from a lesser known film and hoped nobody would notice. One more episode of this travesty and you won't have to feed me the special cupcakes to make me vomit.
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Post by lynn on Oct 22, 2011 19:23:34 GMT -5
You haven't seen the third episode yet? I have. It is slowly getting better, but that character isn't. I hope he dies in the end. In fact I hope he's dead already and doesn't know it, I hope in one of his many many nude shots he turns around and we see he's got a massive gaping dong-wound that he never noticed from the first episode where his wife found him cheating.
The only good thing is that they're bringing in more ghosts and backcharacters so every episode is just like a chapter in the life of the house, and less about the annoying people currently inhabiting it. Maybe they should have just made that show instead.
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Post by Gilberto on Oct 23, 2011 6:35:18 GMT -5
Maybe the people who do the ads should just do the show. This makes me want to watch even though I know it's crap.  |
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Post by lynn on Oct 23, 2011 17:37:36 GMT -5
Rubber man looks like a girl that they've inserted a bulge into after people complained that it looked like a girl.
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Post by Gilberto on Oct 24, 2011 16:32:22 GMT -5
Good thinking. Now it just looks like a girl with a dong.
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Post by lynn on Oct 24, 2011 17:33:07 GMT -5
Maybe that's the twist, not that it's a ghost but it's just a girl with a dong. "Gross! Boobs!" The dad finds it strangely attractive
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Post by Gilberto on Oct 25, 2011 15:42:27 GMT -5
Doesn't take much to blow that guy's hair back.
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Post by drivebyluna on Nov 4, 2011 23:30:02 GMT -5
We just caught up with this yesterday. Our take on it? It's terrible, but we can't look away. If I can suffer through Walking Dead for Jon he can suffer through this for me.
Some points: none of the characters are likeable. Jon claims to hate all of them. I don't mind the mother or Tate but I don't actually like them. I do like the story with the school shooting though. How apropros, considering I was watching Beautiful Boy on Wednesday. Anyways, the other characters are just plain awful, including the daughter.
Also the dialogue is shit. It sounds like dialogue that's been written for a novel in an overly dramatic way but it just doesn't translate well to visual media.
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