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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-wolverine
to re-watch
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Entertainment > Movies >
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2854692/
The schizophrenic perspective of a man regarding his girlfriend.
This is one of those movies whose accurate description would spoil it. Overall I liked this movie, but I can easily see how others would not like this style of story telling. I strongly disliked the overall pacing and resolution. They seemed mistimed and more and more rushed toward the end.
While I liked it well enough, this isn’t a movie I’d re-watch and isn’t something I’d generally recommend. Lovers of a certain topic or flavour of movie would probably like this one, but it would be impossible to know how to match those people with this movie.
If I ever get around to finding this, I’ll check it out.
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(on the French Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4063800/
https://www.canalplus.com/series/le-bureau-des-legendes/h/4954400_50001
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1797404/
https://www.sho.com/house-of-lies
Following a womanising business consultant.
Supposedly comedy. It’s not.
I find this really strongly uncomfortable. It has a whole lot of immoral or awkward assholishness. Maybe this would develop later, but there’s no way I’m going to get through this show’s growing pains if it’s full of more of what I’ve already seen.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460627/
was https://www.fox.com/bones/
It’s been a long while since I’ve watched this, and I don’t think I made it all the way to the end of the series. I’m noting it here to re-watch it one of these days.
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Music >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.lacunacoil.com/
A gothic/”alternative” metal band, who I know from their days of opening for The Gathering.
They were really great, but like their peers they slid downhill. Andrea Ferro ruins pretty much every song he’s in, and I’ve always wished him completely removed from the band.
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Music >
(on Wikipedia)
https://gathering.nl/
They could alternately be called metal or “alternative rock”, whatever the fuck that means.
My favourite songs are more ambient/atmospheric or focus strongly on Anneke van Giersbergen‘s strong vocals.
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2007 – I lost interest in this band when Anneke van Giersbergen left.
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For me, the concept of “selling out” most strongly applies to bands, though I would apply it to anything with a significant long-term audience.
In terms of music, it is when a band begins gritty and in later albums becomes smoother, more polished, more saleable,
I’ve always imagined little suppliers being strong-armed by corporate interest and the greed brought by success. People in suits dictating what they can and cannot do, “for their better interest” and who end up siphoning off of their success. This sort of thing.
Again for music, it is when a huge industry has bright eyed innocents pitch to bands, locking them into a contract, manipulating their art into a product packaged for an audience like so much cologne. Occasionally nice, but fashionable garbage.
You’ll see it in music, movies, games and probably other places.
