the mst3k bad guys being on bluescreen with like an animated background still bothers me. it’s mst3k you can do the cheapest public access thing in the world and it will be fine. literally have them zoom in from their house it’ll look better
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he’s just jealous of the folks who were much better writers and producers than him
the strip club in the first episode of millennium is based on the place chris carter used to take the xfiles crew in vancouver so they could harass women and bring them back to the set while nine inch nails plays to let you know that its Adult and meanwhile there’s like 8 episodes of millennium written by morgan and wong where characters are incidentally gay and no women are in peril. really fills you with a lot of contempt
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oh yeah thats one half of what i meant when i said the pair that wrote THE ONE
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Normies love Chris Carter’s x files episode, the postmodern prometheus, and are somehow unable to recognize that it completely normalizes creepy incel politics and sexual assault
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In the revival seasons of the x-files he retcons that season 7 episode where the cigarette smoking man kidnaps scully and forces her to go on a road trip with him to have actually been a ploy to “impregnate her with science” (chris carter’s actual explanation) which is one of the many factors giving my theory, that The X-Files actually ended the episode before the season 6 finale where Mulder & Scully have an elaborate shared hallucination while being trapped in a mushroom cave that digests people because they never made it out and were killed, a lot of credibility
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I remember picking up the dvd sets for Millenium… decades ago now and intended to watch it, but only ended up watching the show with all the satans chilling at a diner as that was the one I always remembered from when it was on tv.
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me and lauren are only 3 episodes into season 3 and theyve already resorted to spite casting guest stars from season 2 as totally different characters to remind us that Chris Carter hated it. the whole thing is SOOO safe now, and the new writers are visibly struggling. frank is always correct again like season 1 of course but everyone around him says he’s being blind to his grief and are criticizing the very emotions that make him so good at his work…wowwww go figure. They are also doing this thing where he’s like a gun guy (reluctant) and it’s ridiculously out of character. Frank does not carry a gun, he literally does not believe in this shit. Now he’s shooting perfect groups and saddling up with a fucking 1911 because “I’m only doing this because I have to” lol. Lance didn’t like having to dye his hair in season 2 so they wrote in such a way he wouldnt have to, so naturally in season 3 his hair is dyed again. Give me a break
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the Netflix “Blockbuster” sitcom is defunct-corporate branded generic workplace sitcom/romcom featuring two actors known only from other generic sitcoms aka real sicko shit that I cannot in good conscience recommend to anyone. I feel like revealing that I am watching it here is going to burn the last shred of dignity or taste credibility I have. But what can I say, I can’t change the way god made me or the particular brand of trash that I tolerate
Anyway I am revealing this dark secret to talk about the only interesting thing about it that anyone here would care about, which is that, because it takes place in a blockbuster video store, every single scene has dozens of DVD cases in the background. Because the show is generally boring and predictable (in a soothing way) it is really easy to just start scrutinizing the set dressings, and the weird thing about it is all of the movies they use are (I think?) real movie titles. Some of them (presumably the ones made by whichever of the 3 media megacorps is responsible for this) have the actual dvd box art, but others have real movie titles with, like, made up DVD box art on it? I’m guessing this is because the titles themselves can be “parodied” but the likenesses of the actors can’t appear on screen or something?
Some of these are actually funnier than the jokes in the actual script, like there was one that was for “12 Angry Men” but instead of the normal poster art or a picture of the cast, it was like a stock photo of a stereotypically “angry” looking man, with (presumably) 11 more images of the same guy copy/pasted behind him trailing back into infinity.
I wish netflix wasn’t such a little pissbaby about letting me take screenshots otherwise I’d try to document some of these. It’s very funny to me.
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they made a sitcom about blockbuster and they made it take place in the DVD era?
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it’s loosely inspired by the real-life last blockbuster store in the world in bend oregon. except i think the show takes place in michigan? i don’t know. it’s stupid.
also the peak of blockbuster was like the early 2000s. blockbuster thrived in the dvd era. i don’t think i ever rented a vhs tape from a blockbuster
do they have blu rays?
that’s a great question
You can use Windows Key + Shift + S to basically screencap anything easily, might be easiest.
Definitely want to see these fucked-up movie covers.
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when i do this on mac it just blacks out the entire window, even if you’re doing the full screen screenshot
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this seems ahistorical to me, I would put it in more like 1996, fully in the VHS era
they had 9000 stores in 2004, and started declining after that
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2000-2004 dvd era was blockbuster, 90s was the local aardvark video or whatever
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