You know when you go to the bar, and you see the hottest woman there, and you actually screw up the courage to go and talk to her, and she's sexy and amazing and smart, and oyu somehow manage to get her to go home with you. And everything goes well, and then you wake up in the morning and look at her and she's perfect looking and not snoring.
Obiter 9 was actually an interesting movie i thought... worthwhile to check out if you are a fan of the genre...
with Netflix expanding into other territories, i am also fascinated on what these other regions develop as original content. Orbiter 9 looked to be a Brazillian production so it was interesting to watch a slightly different take on things.
New Matt Groening series Disenchantment premieres Aug 17.
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The first 10 episodes will debut on Aug. 17. The series takes place in the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland. It follows the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci. Along the way, the oddball trio will encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools. Netflix previously gave the series a 20-episode order.
The series will feature the voice talents of Abbi Jacobson as Bean, Nat Faxon as Elfo, and Eric Andre as Luci. Other voice talent includes John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, David Herman–all of whom have worked with Groening in the past–as well as Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding, and Lucy Montgomery. Animation is being done by Rough Draft Studios, the same studio did the animation for Groening’s “Futurama.”
Geniuses? Not in the slightest. If the bank heist had actually gone off without a hitch, they'd have come out with $8k split between them all. On top of that, from what the documentary portrayed, the only reason they came to the attention of the police is because one of the geniuses calls the cops to report a crime committed by another member of the gang.
Can someone explain the scavenger hunt aspect of this? Why go to all that trouble with the instructions when ideally you'd just want the pizza guy to bring the money to you and not have him blown up somewhere along the way? The doc touched on the fact that Wells liked doing scavenger hunts but presumably this was just a coincidence as these guys wouldn't have known that. Also why even go to all this trouble with building a bomb, finding a patsy and coming up with these convoluted instructions when it seems like it would've been a hell of a lot easier to have one of the conspirators commit the crime with a ski mask?
A lot of unexplained things here and I'm not sure the documentary came to a satisfying conclusion.
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If Wells was assaulted and forced to do this, why was he so calm throughout the heist? Why not drive straight to a police station and get some help?
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I don't think money was the objective. I think they just thought they were smarter then the enforcement agencies and tried to get away with murder. That is my thoughts based on them mentioning that there was no possible way to complete the scavenger hunt before the bomb detonated. Plus if money was the objective they were 15 minutes from the state line, where robbers tend to make a run for to complicate any pursuit.
Its kind of funny, I watched the Simpsons as a kid, but the more you watch it the more you really understand that it was never really a TV show for kids, but older kids/young adults.
Then as our generation grew up we kind of outgrew the Simpsons in terms of maturity and thats why you tend to see a lot of longtime Simpsons viewers no longer watching.
But then Futurama was introduced and it was as though it was a sequel for the Simpsons. An edgier show evolving for a maturing audience.
Its a shame it was canceled.
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Watched the first three episodes of Wild Wild Country about the Rajneesh cult's move to rural Oregon and conflict with the locals. Pretty gripping stuff. I had some knowledge of how these sorts of cults work from another documentary, the Source. But the Rajneesh were/are on another level. They built a town from scratch in a couple months, employing only their own architects, planners, and labour. So weird to see so many intelligent professionals embrace this kind of bonkers community. Never occurs to them to wonder why their guru wears diamond-studded jewellery and owns 50 rolls royces.
On a personal note, as I watched the documentary I realized this was the same movement/cult that a close friend from college had talked about in the early 90s. Her dad was a senior member of Rajneesh, and her sister and brother joined too. They went to India for several months a year to live in the original ashram in Pune. My friend wasn't a member, but she did wear a watch with Osho's face on it. So bizarre.
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The wife and I watched 4 episodes yesterday and finished the final two today. I knew nothing about this before but it was pretty freaking fascinating.
Ugh. Why do we need to force companies for CanCon? Let people work on it and have it stand on its own. I shouldn't have to subsidize terrible content with subscription fees to things like Netflix for this stuff.
The country's rules around broadcasting and telecommunications are set to undergo a sweeping review as the Liberals look to cut the price of mobile phone plans and force streaming services to lend more help to Canadian content.
An expert panel will have the next year and a half to help modernize the country's broadcasting regulations to respond to growing concerns about an uneven playing field between domestic providers and online streaming giants like Netflix and Spotify.
The panel will craft recommendations on a new mandate for CBC/Radio-Canada with a view to keeping future governments from slashing its public funding. It will also revamp the role and powers of the national broadcast regulator and focus on net neutrality, say the panel's terms of reference posted to a government website.
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"There is an opportunity to consider whether there are new ways that Canadian content creation, distribution and discovery in both official languages can be supported in this new digital communications environment," the document said.
"However, the government is not interested in an approach that increases the cost of services to Canadians."
Yes. Because I am sure doing one won't force the other.
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