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The Wire is okay, but I couldn't finish it. Stopped after season four. It's too repetitive.

 

I cannot stand The Office.

I don't doubt it's a great show and it sounds like it has great character development and writing. But I personally cannot stand to watch it for more than a couple minutes. Why, you may ask?

Because the entire source of its comedy gives me a physically painful amount of secondhand embarrassment.

 

That's why it's so great

 

The US Office definitely overstayed its welcome. Andy Bernard killed the show.

 

The season 3 finale would have been the perfect ending to the series. I think I stopped watching mid season 5. I have yet to see the rest of the show.

 

I still think it was great through season 7, but 8 is bad and 9 was pretty good with a fantastic last 3 or so episodes.

 

I'd say that by season 5 the characters started becoming shells of their former selves. That's when I had to say bye bye

 

I've never been able to finish Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

That's what makes shows like The Office and Curb great!

 

The Office isn't good.

Curb is great.

 

Finally someone who agrees. Season 8 was a dud and I am convinced that it is because of more Andy Benares. The only time I could stand Andy was the storyline where he was with Angela. Elsewhere, he is bottom rung with Gabe. Season 9 was a great return to form, and minus Andy.

The Office is my favorite show and is better than Parks and Rec, another great show.

 

jaw on the floor.

 

Oh man, that last sentence. I would choose to rewatch Tree of Life or No Country for Old Men a thousand times before I watched a superhero movie and Christopher Nolan is still about my favorite director.

What makes Christopher Nolan one of the best directors of our time is that he's somehow found that sweet spot between thoughtful/artful and fun/accessible. He can somehow draw in the Bay crowd and the Kubrick crowd and wow them both. I don't know of another director who has been able to have such a universal impact.

It genuinely warms my heart when my Expendables loving buddy gets excited about a Nolan film because I feel like he's finally getting exposed to excellent filmmaking. It's like that age old debate about what to watch on a Friday night and Christopher Nolan is the only one who can give us something to agree on.

 

Django Unchained is not very good.

The Hateful Eight is very good.

 

Of course someone who likes the Expendables would like a Nolan film, since they are essentially the same thing.

 

Neither are very good

 

Boo!

But I get it. While I personally love The Wire, I know people that can't get into it, so no big.

 

In terms of movies from this year, Dunkirk is one of my least favorite that I have seen. Very few come below it in my current Top 20.

 

I feel like Hateful Eight is pretty underrated tbh. It doesn't break new ground, but it just feels very classic, like an old school whodunnit and I love that. Though, it certainly didn't need to be filmed in 70mm as it basically works like a play.

same, easily.

 

Not like I hate Christopher Nolan either, loved several of his films but it missed the mark in several key areas and just didn't have a unique enough feel and look to it for it to be different enough from far superior war movies.

 

I don't really have strong feelings towards him either way. Most of his movies just make me go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Though, I thought Interstellar was laughably bad at points. I think I dislike parts of his fanbase more than I dislike him.

But yeah, as far as Dunkirk goes, I feel it will be forgotten in ten years time. When we look back on classic war films I think it'll go unmentioned. I can't remember the last time I was so consciously bored throughout a movie.

 

Looked like the bits that were cut out of Saving Private Ryan to me but I enjoyed it to a certain extent and I didn't hate it but I felt utterly underwhelmed after watching it and was disappointed that all the talent that was evidently there didn't produce something far better. What is even more annoying is living in the UK and the absolute hard on that people have for it (as evidenced by the strong box office numbers) means that my view on it is hardly welcome.

 

I liked the first ten minutes or so when they were getting shot at and running away. As soon as the dude hopped that fence it went downhill for me. Like, I don't care that people like enjoy movie, whatever, but it's the level of praise that people are giving it that is seriously shocking to me. I cannot seem to grasp it.

 

I loved it

 

I need to see Dunkirk and mother! before I do my worst films of the year list. So far the worst film I saw this year was Okja, which was not even that bad.