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I looked up the band that did the very cool theme song to the Scott Pilgrim cartoon, Necry Talkie. They're a joyful pop punk outfit but goddamn the person they hired to interpret the lyrics is either bad at it or this lady's talking nonsense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-qw9yRFOA Ain't exactly a scholarly interpretation. Makes a fun band a li'l funner
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Reminds me of an interview I saw with Maos's Shakespeare translator, he was like "hamlets yorrick speech sounds dumb as poo poo "to be or not to be" doesnt translate. He just plainly asks a skull if he should kill himself and it doesn't work"
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I always feel bad for the people who have to translate Sondheim into other languages.
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I'm watching Abducted in Plain Sight, a documentary on netflix. It's tough to discuss without spoilers but it is infuriating. One of the most bizarre things I have watched for a while.
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It's cool to compare and contrast. She yells and punches power chords and the subtitles will be like "hello"
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Jippa posted:I'm watching Abducted in Plain Sight, a documentary on netflix. It's tough to discuss without spoilers but it is infuriating. One of the most bizarre things I have watched for a while. Infuriating in a "good" way because of the subject matter, or because the doc is badly put together?
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Pigma_Micron posted:Infuriating in a "good" way because of the subject matter, or because the doc is badly put together? It went semi-viral a few years back, it's one of those documentaries like DEAR ZACHARY that people watch in disbelief. All you really need to know is that everyone involved is Mormon.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It went semi-viral a few years back, it's one of those documentaries like DEAR ZACHARY that people watch in disbelief. All you really need to know is that everyone involved is Mormon. Ah, yes. One of those. Thank you for the clarification.
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Jippa posted:I'm watching Abducted in Plain Sight, a documentary on netflix. It's tough to discuss without spoilers but it is infuriating. One of the most bizarre things I have watched for a while. I've never wanted so badly to reach into a TV screen and strangle anyone as much as I did that girl's parents.
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Pigma_Micron posted:Ah, yes. One of those. I'm glad you know exactly what I mean, lol.
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What is "one of those" for the rest of us?
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Chaotic Flame posted:What is "one of those" for the rest of us? Any time you see "Mormons" and "true crime" together, you are guaranteed to get something that can be described as a "twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story" because their culture is like it was developed in isolation on the Moon.
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I liked the first episode of Masters of the Air but I also find Austin Butler very weird to watch in pretty much anything.
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Watched No Escape with Ray Liotta on Prime last night, movie still bangs. They don't make em like that anymore.HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Any time you see "Mormons" and "true crime" together, you are guaranteed to get something that can be described as a "twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story" because their culture is like it was developed in isolation on the Moon. Even the ones I had contact with in Northern California were always sorta weird in this 'just under the surface' way, I can't imagine what it's like in an echo chamber like SLC.
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It is definitely a unique experience in the US to describe everything in relation to a giant temple/subterranean generation ship assembly plant
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mcmagic posted:I liked the first episode of Masters of the Air but I also find Austin Butler very weird to watch in pretty much anything. Is he still talking like Elvis?
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Ammanas posted:Watched No Escape with Ray Liotta on Prime last night, movie still bangs. They don't make em like that anymore. theres a big fancy mormon church where im at here in norcal and they have a big used car dealership they also own right next door and all the mormons review spammed it with glowing reviews but its actually a really shitter car dealer lol ill put on no escape today
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Is he still talking like Elvis? Kinda? He always looks like he's mugging to the camera to me.
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Chaotic Flame posted:What is "one of those" for the rest of us? The kind of documentary that, as you watch it, you stand gobsmacked in disbelief that such a situation is even possible. Surely someone would try to intervene? Oh, they *did* intervene and other systemic forces put everything back? And the obvious, inevitable, horrible thing happened? Then the anger sets in. Dear Zachary is the apex predator of these but a lot of true crime docs can fit the bill. More broadly, documentaries about corporate malfeasance, like Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Downfall: The Case against Boeing, come pretty close to that special feeling.
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The one that does that for me is the OG Doctor Death podcast, which made me laugh out loud at the conclusion as to how he kept getting away with it: he was so personable, persistent and earnest that nobody seemed to mind that he was dangerously incompetent.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The one that does that for me is the OG Doctor Death podcast, which made me laugh out loud at the conclusion as to how he kept getting away with it: he was so personable, persistent and earnest that nobody seemed to mind that he was dangerously incompetent. Oh my god HOW WAS HE ABLE TO PRACTICE FOR SO LONG?!? I get how somebody can swipe oxy for a few years, but this? How much of a blind eye can possibly be turned? Turns out it's quite the blind eye indeed.
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The one guy who he turned into a paraplegic still considered him a friend. The kind of thing that makes you rethink your conception of what people are like.
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The Criterion Channel has a James Gray collection for the next couple days of January and I recommend getting in on it. Little Odessa, The Yards, The Immigrant...just get ready to get your heart broken into a billion pieces.
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Pigma_Micron posted:More broadly, documentaries about corporate malfeasance, like Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Downfall: The Case against Boeing, come pretty close to that special feeling. Thanks for these! My partner and I are really into this kind of documentary, we can't really stomach murder docs anymore I started Love Has Won and noped out almost immediately at the dead baby. I don't need to see that poo poo. No one does
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Katsuhiro Otomo's (Akira) Memories is available on Prime and I finally watched it and it was fuckin rad. The First segment is incredible. Would be a nice double feature with Scavengers Reign or something.
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veni veni veni posted:Katsuhiro Otomo's (Akira) Memories is available on Prime and I finally watched it and it was fuckin rad. The First segment is incredible. Would be a nice double feature with Scavengers Reign or something.
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Empire Queen is now streaming on Prime Video. It just got made. Watch this first. It was made in 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDyDz8WeiM4 Empire Queen is this music video, expanded upon into a full 2.5 hour feature length 'comedic' fantasy film, released in 2024. The lead singer you see there, Chris Dane Owens, is the director, producer, lead actor, one of the casting directors, and the lead costumer. It is exactly as good-bad as you think it is. It truly has all the makings of a cult classic, for the same reasons as The Room. It's impossible to truly dislike the movie, considering how much of it is this guy's singular vision and 'lore' that he earnestly put his all into making. I am begging you all to see this movie. Especially in as big a group as you can manage. Probably with some drinks.
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bewilderment posted:Empire Queen is now streaming on Prime Video. It just got made. This dude's dad was fuckin Powdered Toast Man
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I'm watching as many Nicolas Cage movies as I can on Hulu. I say as many as I can because new ones seem to pop up every time I look, this guy could have his own streaming service. There are some good ones, like Willy's Wonderland, and ones like Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by Werner Herzog. That twist made me wonder if it had been bad or brilliant. I'm on Mandy right now, and I'm just pleased as punch that there's another Panos Cosmatos movie. I thought that all he'd done was There are also some Cage movies I can't get through. Hulu says I've watched two minutes of 211, and I have no memory of those two minutes but I trust whatever my reasons for turning it off were. Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Panos did Beyond the Black Rainbow, not The Void. The psycho goreman guy (and a another guy) did the void Port call new Orleans is amazing MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Inspector Hound posted:I'm on Mandy right now, and I'm just pleased as punch that there's another Panos Cosmatos movie. I thought that all he'd done was The Void (available on prime via freevee, with commercials) and that episode of Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix, watch all episodes immediately). He really Panos Cosmatoses it up too, complete with bizarre lighting, bizarre strobe lighting, weird drugs, mysterious cults, and inexplicable set pieces, props, dialogue and characters. e:b I'm slow at phone posting
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bewilderment posted:Empire Queen is now streaming on Prime Video. It just got made. Holy poo poo. I'm so stoked to get people around to watch this.
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You're wondering if Herzog's Bad Lieutenant was bad or brilliant? Are you an iguana? I didn't think so
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MacheteZombie posted:Panos did Beyond the Black Rainbow, not The Void. The psycho goreman guy (and a another guy) did the void God that reminds me how much I loving hated Psycho Goreman.
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I thought every one of the movies in question were terrible tbh. It's all just every synthwave cliche put to film.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:God that reminds me how much I loving hated Psycho Goreman. I thought The Void was sloppy, lazy, and amateurish trash. I later heard a lot of people giving it love and felt like I was probably too harsh on someone trying to make something cool without much time or budget. Really should have trusted my instincts before putting on PG. I loved the effects, but woof I could not make it more than halfway through, just so completely not for me. Felt in the same camp as Turno Kid or Samurai Cop 2, obnoxiously trying to chase the "so bad it's good" vibe without having any idea why people enjoy ambitious and earnest low-budget misses. An overly-ironic bad comedy sketch stretched out for way, way too long.
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MacheteZombie posted:Panos did Beyond the Black Rainbow, not The Void. The psycho goreman guy (and a another guy) did the void Martman posted:He didn't do The Void, his other movie is Beyond the Black Rainbow, which is pretty awesome imo Yep, you're right. That's what I get for not double checking. This means I have no memory of one of those movies and will need to rewatch both
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veni veni veni posted:I thought every one of the movies in question were terrible tbh. It's all just every synthwave cliche put to film. Even Mandy? It's a metal album cover come to life.
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veni veni veni posted:Katsuhiro Otomo's (Akira) Memories is available on Prime and I finally watched it and it was fuckin rad. The First segment is incredible. Would be a nice double feature with Scavengers Reign or something. If you look close you can see Akira and Tetsuo walking around in one of the crowd shots.
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feedmyleg posted:(PG) obnoxiously trying to chase the "so bad it's good" vibe without having any idea why people enjoy ambitious and earnest low-budget misses. I think this is like saying Cheech and Chong had no idea why people like to smoke pot. I think Psycho Goreman is clearly the product of people with a developed taste for trash, with their own ideas of what makes bad stuff good. Overall I liked PG (and the Void and Mandy and MAD GOD) because I like to be shown cool/weird/funny poo poo.
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