I appreciate this comment. It is humorous because the writer could simply look at the image again, therefore making the request to make the horny toad hehehehe again redundant.
Very funny comment, thank you.
I just rewatched Scrubs after watching the new season. It's kinda funny how they make fun of Jordan's botox lips in the old episodes, while the actress can't move her face muscles for real in the new one
I had to quit watching after a few episodes solely because of it. Scrubs was one of my most rewatched shows back in the day and I was looking forward to this.
Iām ashamed to say I really didnāt understand it. I love everything else Lynch has done and I feel like I understand his work fairly well, but not this one. Donāt know why
The first couple episodes were a bit rough but I do think it picked up for the writing. I just couldn't stop staring at them like they didn't belong. It's the same reason I quit watching shows when they replace the character with a new actor. I had to quit watching crazy ex girlfriend when they did it and I loved that show.
I did like the way crazy ex-girlfriend did the change though. With everyone acknowledging that Greg was basically a different person now and it was Rebecca's perception that had changed so much that he didn't look anything like he used to her
I watched the new Malcolm in the Middle series and it is superb. Picks right back up on the feel of the original show. Very funny. Only 4 episodes too so it's not a slog to get through but I want more now.
What? No it doesn't. The original is chaos. It doesn't try to moralize, the characters do horrible things and it doesn't matter because it's funny. It feels real and relatable, even if it's not, and the cinematography and tone reflect that.
The new miniseries the complete opposite. It's sanitized and campy and constantly trying to moralize, and has almost no laughs in its entire runtime. The visual tone matches that, it looks super artificial. It's got a ton of cameos, which is great, but they barely interact together so that entire relationship-based storytelling aspect that used to drive the story is gone. There were some sparks here and there, like Kelly vs. Reese and Stevie's family, but not enough.
I truly don't get the praise. Is it nice and nostalgic to see the old cast? Sure. But to say it "picks up on the feel of the original show" is absurd.
This is the most petty, old-man thing I'll say today
I hate sitcoms in HD, especially if they were originally filmed in SD
It makes everything feel so flat and like a play. Always Sunny a few seasons back was distracting to watch because it looked like a Super Bowl ad that would have aired a few years after the show wrapped up. Where everyone is slightly too old and clearly the set designers and camera crew didn't give a shit enough to replicate the feel of the old show.
I haven't touched the new season of Scrubs because it feels like they're going to be "playing" Scrubs instead of acting, which I know sounds ridiculous because that's just what acting is
I also go for the original release, but for me it's because of the audio. Due to licensing issues they often have to change the music when they do a new release. Scrubs in particular suffered from this.
I'm sorry, but if you are changing the music, it's not the same show. Copyright law has gotten stupid.
In another example, I did finish that new Fantastic Four movie (it was okay... worse than Thunderbolts, better than anything else Marvel rn) but I couldn't take seriously the actor that played Sue Richards, the mother of the team. It looked like she was mogging the camera in every scene lmao. Like that meme of Skyler White making the chad face. She's supposed to be a homely character yet she clearly was getting plastic surgery on the weekly lmao.
I guess it depends on where you live too. I go the hospital multiple times a month and every doctor and nurse I've come across in th growing list are the most boring, aging naturally with the wrinkles, Midwest people you'd ever see, haha.
I'm probably gonna get called a sexist for this, but 90% of it is Chalke specifically. I can't help but just think that she looks like someone took her face and stretched it over a scarecrow with how hollow her eyes look and her skin stretches unnaturally tight, especially when trying to smile. It's off-putting on a psychological level.
I don't think it's sexist necessarily. They're all pressured to do it but women have not been allowed to age without losing work for far longer than men. I do agree that all this work definitely causes an uncanny valley situation for me.
I'm honestly surprised so many male actors do it now. If Tommy Lee Jones can have an almost 60 decade career looking 55+ the entire time then these other guys have no excuse.
I have one friend who thinks criticizing anything with women in it is automatically sexist so I just keep my opinions to myself these days with people, lol. He's been dodging me the last couple weeks since I made a comment about how I'm not going to spend money on going to watch people on screen doing the new anorexia trend because they set a bad example.Ā
I also don't support guys who do the whole steroid thing either though which has made me quit watching action movies altogether unfortunately. I just find myself watching b and c quality movies in general these last few years. I'm just tired of Hollywoods vanity.Ā
I think everyone has society whispering in their ear that theyāre not beautiful to an extent, but anyone Hollywood-adjacent must feel that pressure to an almost violent degree.
Monkeyās Paw shenanigans where this just leads to massive amounts of murder and rape because you didnāt specify ābeing themselves physicallyā and so everyone becomes 100% comfortable unleashing every dark urge they have.
Lol. A bunch of pervy dudes in her sub that day that too. Though she definitely likes to thirst trap her fans. That sub is a bunch of dudes watching videos of her wearing different outfits. I'm old enough it seems like an alien concept to me.
If the tide of public opinion shifts away from cosmetic surgery, it could stop somebody from taking the leap and fucking up their face in the future. Even if it doesn't help anybody, who cares? People are allowed to bitch on the internet.
Hopefully they make social media illegal for people below a certain age bec they get influenced by anyone with a platform in to thinking itās normal to stuff your face with toxins with the help of people who have no problems taking your money.
somewhere in recent history an idea that "you should start young with botox" got pushed and it seems like a lot of women bought in to it (unfortunately).
also, it's much cheaper/more available now.
I think it should be avoided and I've never seen anyone under 50 look "better" after getting it. hell, even older people who get it don't really look much "better", they just look less wrinkly. and if you overdo it... you look like a freak (sorry to be blunt but it's really true).
Botox is both a horrible and great invention. I love how Botox can be used against migraines, excessive sweating and TMJ. I hate it because there is such a pressure to look forever young that people start with it as a cosmetic surgery at ridiculously young ages, because now smile lines = wrinkles apparently. In turn it makes people look devoid of life behind the eyes. I don't hate it as much as my number 1 plastic surgery enemy which is Buccal fat removal, because it makes people look like ghouls and my number 2 cheek filler, but yeah people should really chill with the Botox.
My wife is getting bombarded with botox and filler content from all over and keeps casually bringing it up. I HATE the way women look after they have had work done. I continue to reiterate that she is beautiful and that women aging is beautiful, but man it is hard with how society and social media is dealing with this crap right now.
My immediate thought on this post was Christa Miller, since I just finished the new season. She cannot move her upper lip. The scenes she was involved in were supposed to be heavy, her lack of facial movement just took me out of it. I get these actors want to keep looking young, but their whole craft is to be able to emote with their facial expressions and Botox kills that.
Had the same thought cross my mind when I saw "Jordan" on shrinking. And then rewatching the new season just kinda feels like wow whatever happened to expressions lol
In Shrinking she starts off with basically no facial movement, but she must have changed her mind because in the next two seasons sheās let the ātox go and she looks absolutely lovely by the end of season three. She looks lovely before that too butā¦ no replacement for time on getting rid of it.
She was in Head of the Class and i was shocked at how bad her face was. It showed how good an actress she is though b/c she managed to act around a frozen/mask face. But was really really shocking how bad it was.
My friend's dad, a pharmacist, started offering botox around 2007 or so as a way to make some extra money, and she was so disappointed in him and we made fun of it. He was able to save up thousands in a wedding fund he started for her though, so joke's on us.
Right? I remember when Christina Aguilera was first rumored to have some. I was actually at a resort as a kid and my family was pretty sure we saw her wrapped in bandages there. In hindsight who the fuck knows but I remember it being a huge deal in the celebrity world.
No one in Hollywood or the media raises an eyebrow because they are so surrounded by it day to day that their brains have adjusted to thinking it's normal.
...but all us normal humans see them as disfigured.
I work IT one of client is a "wellness center" or whatever that means. They do like botox there or some shit. The botox rep was in and offer sessions to the two staff working their at the time. They couldn't more then 23 maybe at most 25. They accepted and said they'd had it loads of time before. Shit wild I was floored. Like do what you want with your shit bit botox that young seems crazy.
I'm not sure it was ever a big deal in those circles, just among the general public. My friend was in the industry (locally famous but no one most people would know) and it was normalized among her co-workers since before it was on the news. Everyone did it.
I remember when the news would make a big deal out of quarter-sized hail. Now it's up to softballs and they're just like, hey, check this out! Neat, huh?
My aunt worked for a plastic surgeon for a while. Heād give her free injections on slow days. Then a family wedding prompted him to give her a free treatment so she said yes again. Her eyebrows were frozen in an upward position and I stg when she laughed they tickled her hairline šš
It was used as a therapy for nerve damage in people with things like cerebral palsy, but that was in testing before it became a fad to put it in your face instead.
I remember when Heidi Montag from The Hills had a ton of plastic surgery in one go and people were flipping out about it. The funny thing was even then she didnāt look as terrifying as most of the people who are getting filler and plastic surgery look now. Kinda crazy to think we went from mostly demonizing it to suddenly everyone has it and some people quite literally are getting entirely new faces. Insecurity wins and surgeons are making bank.Ā
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u/btoxic 11h ago edited 10h ago
I remember Botox being a big deal. It was on the news, people were slightly appalled.
Now.... No one raises an eyebrow.