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I just wound up buying the season on Prime.
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This felt like an episode of Community they never got around to, which maybe would have been funny with that setting/cast but fell flat for me as a R&M premise.
What's all of your respective beefs with heist movies?
Too many of them rely on a mixture of impossibly accurate foresight and straight up luck to succeed.
A heist movie where people are dealing with the different challenges and setbacks of the heist as the arise can be good. The more common version where they knew X all along, Y all along, and Z all along, despite having no real reason to gets annoying quick.
This felt like an episode of Community they never got around to, which maybe would have been funny with that setting/cast but fell flat for me as a R&M premise.
Now that you say this it makes perfect sense. As a Community episode a heist would have been great, with Jeff complaining the whole time that heists are dumb and the whole genera is trite and boring. But he was the mastermind all along.
As it was, there were some funny jokes, and the credits stinger was pretty great. Plus I always love more of a certain professor, but it felt like the gag went long in the tooth.
I thought this episode was fine. Just kinda filler but some decent gags, and a super dark turn at the end. I still like heist movies, though.
But now I want a heist film where the plan works but there's no double-cross and the unbearable anxiety of genre expectations actually makes the protagonist have some kind of psychological episode.
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AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
Lol i never use this dvr since i stream everything; forget all about it.
No no. I said VCR. That was deliberate.
God I used to record things on VHS Tapes. I’m thousands of years old.
In retrospect, I've wasted a lot of my life debating whether I should record in LP or SLP. What a fool I was!
And the agony of getting home to discover that your sibling had pulled your tape out to watch Beauty and the Beast again and not put your tape back in meaning you missed recording the finale of Battlebots...
Dark times, my fellow olds, we grew up in some dark times.
This ep just felt like they used all their jokes by the end of the convention segment
then they just repeated it all over again
I was hoping they would move on to something else after the heist-off. But they just continued grinding the same jokes into a fine powder.
That was literally the point. I started out not liking this episode, but by the last 30 seconds it became one of my favorites. But I'm here for the meta commentary and exploration of a fucked up Rick, so I get why some folks didn't like this one.
People should declare how they feel about heist movies when stating their opinion of the episode because I can't imagine there isn't at least some correlation there.
Also Rick's line about boos not effecting him because he's seen what makes these people cheer is gold
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AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
People should declare how they feel about heist movies when stating their opinion of the episode because I can't imagine there isn't at least some correlation there.
Also Rick's line about boos not effecting him because he's seen what makes these people cheer is gold
I’m ambivalent. The episode just sucks.
EDIT-Mad Max episode is probably in my top 5 actually.
I don't get all the hate. This was by the far best episode of season 4 so far.
I like heist movies when they focus on the actual heist part. I hate heist movies when they focus on double-crosses, fake double-crosses, revelations that the plan failing was really part of the plan all along, etc. And all the stuff I hate about heist movies was pretty much what they focused on ridiculing in this episode. There's barely any time at all in this episode showing anything resembling the actual heist part. Just the one quick montage with Key Catcher and Snakearms and Double Microwave stealing the crystal skull.
I also just want to add, "Key Catcher" is such a great concept for a stupid character in a heist team.
If I was the one with the multi million dollar television deal making this episode, and I also wanted to do a "take that" at the heist genre, I don't think I'd dedicate an entire 23 minute episode to the whole "joke". I'd probably have ended it at the first "What's the job/That was it" crack.
Otherwise, I didn't hate it. But as far as riffing/making fun of a genre goes, this does not come close to the brilliance of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" episode.
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From what I know of Harmon, holding out for an ironclad multi year contract just so he could do something like this exact episode is precisely in his wheelhouse.
I'm kinda surprised how negative the reaction was to this episode. I personally loved how absurd the escalation became, with colossal spy cameras and Rick arguing with Heistotron for two straight hours over who had reprogrammed whom.
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As someone who has Ocean's 12 down as one of the worst movies ever made and has grown to dislike and outright hate 80% of Netflix's original programming, this episode was very zen for me.
I'm kinda surprised how negative the reaction was to this episode. I personally loved how absurd the escalation became, with colossal spy cameras and Rick arguing with Heistbot for two straight hours over who had reprogrammed whom.
I like the episode as a whole but that bit was pretty terrible.
I'm kinda surprised how negative the reaction was to this episode. I personally loved how absurd the escalation became, with colossal spy cameras and Rick arguing with Heistbot for two straight hours over who had reprogrammed whom.
I like the episode as a whole but that bit was pretty terrible.
Agree to disagree. I just rewatched a clip of that on YouTube and cracked up.
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People should declare how they feel about heist movies when stating their opinion of the episode because I can't imagine there isn't at least some correlation there.
Also Rick's line about boos not effecting him because he's seen what makes these people cheer is gold
I love heist movies.
I hated the episode.
The line a bout the boos/cheers was the one good part of the episode to me.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I loved that Dawn of the Dead homage when the Heist Convention dude gone torn apart.
I am indifferent to heist movies and thought this episode was fine.
I have found this season fun. They've been dipping into the "this is a silly cartoon about absurd people" well instead of the serious feels, but that's fine.
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I like heist movies and liked the episode. That meta commentary towards the end pushed it upwards a whole bunch for me. I'd probably be annoyed if every episode was like this but as an occasional thing it's good.
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Adult Swim's website has it, though you need a cable provider to stream it.
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No no. I said VCR. That was deliberate.
God I used to record things on VHS Tapes. I’m thousands of years old.
In retrospect, I've wasted a lot of my life debating whether I should record in LP or SLP. What a fool I was!
But I do have to agree: Oceans 12 is definitely the worst of the trio of films.
the adult swim website!
I just wound up buying the season on Prime.
then they just repeated it all over again
Too many of them rely on a mixture of impossibly accurate foresight and straight up luck to succeed.
A heist movie where people are dealing with the different challenges and setbacks of the heist as the arise can be good. The more common version where they knew X all along, Y all along, and Z all along, despite having no real reason to gets annoying quick.
Well yes. The point of the episode is to make you sick of the heist genre.
Now that you say this it makes perfect sense. As a Community episode a heist would have been great, with Jeff complaining the whole time that heists are dumb and the whole genera is trite and boring. But he was the mastermind all along.
As it was, there were some funny jokes, and the credits stinger was pretty great. Plus I always love more of a certain professor, but it felt like the gag went long in the tooth.
But now I want a heist film where the plan works but there's no double-cross and the unbearable anxiety of genre expectations actually makes the protagonist have some kind of psychological episode.
I was hoping they would move on to something else after the heist-off. But they just continued grinding the same jokes into a fine powder.
And the agony of getting home to discover that your sibling had pulled your tape out to watch Beauty and the Beast again and not put your tape back in meaning you missed recording the finale of Battlebots...
Dark times, my fellow olds, we grew up in some dark times.
That was literally the point. I started out not liking this episode, but by the last 30 seconds it became one of my favorites. But I'm here for the meta commentary and exploration of a fucked up Rick, so I get why some folks didn't like this one.
Also Rick's line about boos not effecting him because he's seen what makes these people cheer is gold
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Totes. It dethroned the Mad Max one for me as the worst.
I’m ambivalent. The episode just sucks.
EDIT-Mad Max episode is probably in my top 5 actually.
I like heist movies when they focus on the actual heist part. I hate heist movies when they focus on double-crosses, fake double-crosses, revelations that the plan failing was really part of the plan all along, etc. And all the stuff I hate about heist movies was pretty much what they focused on ridiculing in this episode. There's barely any time at all in this episode showing anything resembling the actual heist part. Just the one quick montage with Key Catcher and Snakearms and Double Microwave stealing the crystal skull.
I also just want to add, "Key Catcher" is such a great concept for a stupid character in a heist team.
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I really hate the Get Swifty parts of that episode, but I absolutely love the B plot with Beth and Jerry dealing with Summer and the Head Cult.
Otherwise, I didn't hate it. But as far as riffing/making fun of a genre goes, this does not come close to the brilliance of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" episode.
I like the episode as a whole but that bit was pretty terrible.
Agree to disagree. I just rewatched a clip of that on YouTube and cracked up.
I love heist movies.
I hated the episode.
The line a bout the boos/cheers was the one good part of the episode to me.
I am indifferent to heist movies and thought this episode was fine.
I liked this episode
The real heist was the dreams that were stolen along the way
I know what Rick likes, his hate means nothing to me.
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Everything they’ve used Keith David for in this show has been great.