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Tried watching the 1942 “talkie” version. The narration is superfluous and irritating; I couldn’t get even a half-hour into it.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Also 99% of hip hop is just bad.

This is unpopular?

Seriously, though — mainstream hip hop’s been hot garbage since at least the mid '90s.

This is musical rather than film/TV oriented. And it may not even be that unpopular. Regardless…

The instrumentation of Collins-era Genesis is better than the instrumentation of Gabriel-era Genesis. Not the quality of the singing, nor the songwriting, just the instrumentation. Gabriel-era Genesis just doesn’t have that haunting synth sound I love.

LethalGoonie78

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DominicCobb said:

Darth Vader" was always bogus

SUNNY DORIA VARGAS

There’s a reason why I’m partial to Sith swords.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Jar Jar just rubs me

Dunno who this woman is.

But I love miscegenation.

CourtlyHades296 said:

an amazing ant

Also, since Doctor Who reminded me. . . .

Most TV series shouldn’t run past five seasons. Five seasons should be sufficient to tell any stories worth telling, and that goes triple for shows with 20+ episodes per season. Series with 6-10 seasons are bloated; series with 11+ seasons are zombified.

I’m turned off by TV shows shot on video in general. It’s just an ugly, ugly aesthetic. My imperative to watch Doctor Who would be greater if they had made greater use of film.

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This pretty much says everything which needs to be said on the difference between Classic & Zombie Simpsons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk

Just a heads-up, it’s a half-hour long video.

Anakin Starkiller said:

As a kid I would sometimes catch the Simpsons on TV. I didn’t love it, but it was perfectly serviceable. Then I kept hearing online when I got older that people thought it was bad now and was better in the earlier scenes. One day I watched the very first episode in order to test that. The one where they find the dog on Christmas or something. The quality was exactly the same. Only the animation had changed. If it were written today, I wouldn’t have noticed the difference.

Conclusion: The Simpsons hasn’t gotten any worse since it started.

I’m trying really hard to honour the rules of this thread, but this is pushing my buttons something fierce. . . .

Guess it would depend on the length of the show, my investment in the show, and the type of show it is (episodic vs. serialized).

Since this is a suspiciouscoffee thread, I’d just like to comment on his current avatar. It’s the most abhorrent abomination I’ve had the displeasure to lay eyes upon, and I’m tickled pink he signed back into his account only to bless us with it.

Chase Adams said:

The entire prequels pretty much summed up in one gif:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxt6JX6vlEE

The original Planet of the Apes would’ve made a decent Twilight Zone episode, being co-written by Rod Serling and all. Hardly a great movie, though, and certainly nothing worthy of four sequels, a TV series, two reboots, etc.

I’m completely and utterly indifferent to the Planet of the Apes franchise.

Why did that show run for ten seasons again?