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OT: Movies/TV Shows

I just watched the last episode of the Frasier reboot. How the hell is it possible to F up that show so badly? All the jokes were so telegraphed, it was like watching the Leafs hold a 3rd-period lead. 🤷‍♂️
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
My exact sentiments, not sure what they are doing with that 500 years flashback stuff.
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By the way, the whole this is a true story thing is just some joke apparently. I guess people who’ve been watching the series for years know this already because they do this each season.
 
Montana said:
it originates from the movie….its a 27 year old joke.
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Yeah, but I saw the movie 27 years ago and (1) can't remember that detail, and (2) would have thought it was true when I saw it.

That's a pretty dumb joke by the way. Why say it's true when it's not?
 
The Coen brothers' used some true crime events in the movie...also likely to generate buzz...and to play head games with the audience. My guess.
 
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Regarding this apparent discrepancy, the Coen brothers said that they based their script on an actual criminal event, but wrote a fictional story around it. "We weren't interested in that kind of fidelity", said Joel Coen. "The basic events are the same as in the real case, but the characterizations are fully imagined ... If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they might otherwise not accept."[24]
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The brothers have modified their explanation more than once. In 1996, Joel Coen told a reporter that—contrary to the opening graphic—the actual murders were not committed in Minnesota.[25][26] Many Minnesotans speculated that the story was inspired by T. Eugene Thompson, a St. Paul attorney who was convicted of hiring a man to murder his wife in 1963, near the Coens' hometown of St. Louis Park; but the Coens said that they had never heard of Thompson.
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After Thompson's death in 2015, Joel Coen changed the explanation again: "[The story was] completely made up. Or, as we like to say, the only thing true about it is that it's a story."[27]
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The film's special edition DVD contains yet another account, that the film was inspired by the 1986 murder of Helle Crafts, a Danish–American flight attendant from Connecticut at the hands of her husband, Richard, who disposed of her body through a wood chipper.[28]
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Montana said:
Yeah I think it was a brilliant gimmick….augmented the viewing experience.
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I dunno, it feels like it defrauds the audience.

After I saw the first two episodes of S5, I was like, wow, that's fucking crazy that this happened for real.

And then I read that it's bullshit and not real, and it's a letdown. Telling me it's real if it is actually real augments the viewing experience. Lying to me that a work of fiction is real, and then the lie is revealed midseason, kinda makes it suck.
 
For efficiency sake, I will just leave one fuck you here in response to you both. Allocate it amongst yourselves however you see fit.
 
I cant believe im doing this.

I too thought all these stories were at least loosely real, and i too at least a little feel a little bit worse about the show.

sigh

i see where LOF is coming from

this has been a trying day
 
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