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Not to get all gay or whatever you guys think. But "Mao's last dancer' is on Netlflix. I saw this on a whim on a date and was pleasantly surprised. "Mao's Last Dancer" is the inspiring true story of Li Cunxin and his extraordinary journey from a poor upbringing in rural China to international stardom as a world-class ballet dancer. Based on the best selling autobiography, the film weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life. It compellingly captures the struggles, sacrifices and triumphs, as well as the intoxicating effects of first love and celebrity amid the pain of exile It sounds lame but trust me it's good. Especially if you want to get laid. Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Jan 9, 2012 |
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My god, that sounds like the kind of film only a homosexual would enjoy! Out with you!
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Jan 9, 2012 12:03
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:My god, that sounds like the kind of film only a homosexual would enjoy! Out with you! I hate to be all "gay gay gay" but I know most of you reading it where thinking it! Anyways, go watch it. Great flick. - post edited
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Jan 9, 2012 12:10
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what in the world if you like a movie just watch it. No one's judging you. I recently watched Enemy Mine and while it wasn't particularly good, that movie is just begging for a remake
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Jan 9, 2012 17:17
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Runaway Five posted:I was surprised to see that all 200+ episodes of Law & Order Special Victims Unit is available for streaming... I grew up watching Married with Children but I started going through the series a couple years ago and it really didn't age well and seemed to start getting lovely after just a couple seasons. The last few seasons are even more unbearable than before.
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Jan 9, 2012 17:52
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What kind of market was Married With Children made for? It's such an ugly, unpleasant show. Whenever I think about it my mind always goes to the sitcom scene in Natural Born Killers. On a more upbeat note they've finally added the rest of Frasier. Christoff posted:Not to get all gay or whatever you guys think. But "Mao's last dancer' is on Netlflix. I saw this on a whim on a date and was pleasantly surprised. god what a human being
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Magic Hate Ball posted:What kind of market was Married With Children made for? Sunday night FOX. I remember it eventually found it's way to Thursday night, or possibly Tuesday but I stopped watching it by then.
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Yeah I remember it was on at like 6 or 7pm, around the time The Simpsons would show too.
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I watched a lot of Married with Children last year because my roommate had whatever channel runs it at like 3AM. I really enjoyed pretty much all of the episodes I watched. I have no idea what seasons they're from, though.
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Jan 10, 2012 03:16
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Riptor posted:what in the world I hope it doesn't get remade. I saw that movie when I had a really high fever once, also I was 5 or something. The scene where the alien gets pregnant just totally confused and weirded me out. I thought about that movie for months after.
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TrixRabbi posted:So much good stuff is expiring, hopefully it all gets some worthwhile replacements. I think that is precisely why people were turned off by Broken Flowers. After Lost in Translation and Life Aquatic (two films which seriously divided audiences), some may have seen Bill Murray as a one-trick, dead-pan pony. Naturally, if you hated his serene moments in the previous films, you're going to fume over Broken Flowers. I, personally, loved his performance in the movie as he hit all the right moments for awkward situations. He doesn't exactly go looking for comedy like he did in Lost in Translation nor does he have a mad mind like he did in Life Aquatic. His tone felt much more natural and real than his previous roles. Both versions of <b>True Grit</b> are now on instant. Despite the nearly unintelligible dialogue of Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, it's one of the better Coen films of late. And grandpa hates and complains that John Wayne was better, you have that version as well. I'm also going to recommend <b>Jingle All The Way</b>. It's a bad Christmas movie, but the writing reaches a certain point of pure, unapologetic insanity that it becomes funny in an almost non-ironic sense. It doesn't make the movie good just for those moments of ridiculousness, but it does make it an odd cinematic abnormality.
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FrostedButts posted:I think that is precisely why people were turned off by Broken Flowers. After Lost in Translation and Life Aquatic (two films which seriously divided audiences), some may have seen Bill Murray as a one-trick, dead-pan pony. Naturally, if you hated his serene moments in the previous films, you're going to fume over Broken Flowers. I, personally, loved his performance in the movie as he hit all the right moments for awkward situations. He doesn't exactly go looking for comedy like he did in Lost in Translation nor does he have a mad mind like he did in Life Aquatic. His tone felt much more natural and real than his previous roles. You have to use [ and ] for your tags here, not < >.
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GonSmithe posted:I watched a lot of Married with Children last year because my roommate had whatever channel runs it at like 3AM. That's really the only way to watch Married With Children, late night flipping through channels when you can't sleep, or when you're stuck in bed with the flu. If Netflix had a "play random episodes" option I could sit around all day and watch Married With Children in a bathrobe. I've never tried to "get into" Married With Children by watching episodes in sequential order, but I imagine it'd probably be unbearable. Watching random episodes from all seasons mixed together is the only way to go. Also, and they're by no means "essential", Matinee and Parents are both good, quirky little 80's/90's popcorn movies if you've already exhausted your supply of foreign language movies and documentaries. Matinee is John Goodman being John Goodman, playing a William Castle-esque film director who comes up with the ultimate film gimmick. It's a tribute to 50's era theatre culture and a semi-satire of the cold war era. Parents is a "horror comedy" (not hilarious and not that scary... although Randy Quaid's pretty loving creepy in it) where two Stepford Wives-ish parents maintain appearances while insisting their son fall in line with their gruesome eating habits. Also, is The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret any good? I've heard absolutely nothing about the show, but it's written by and starring David Cross so I assume it's watchable and funny at the very least.
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The Host is back on streaming after being off for a while. Good Korean monster movie.
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Tewratomeh posted:Also, is The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret any good? I've heard absolutely nothing about the show, but it's written by and starring David Cross so I assume it's watchable and funny at the very least. It's not great but it is pretty decent and I think there are enough laughs in the 6 episodes there are to make it worth your watch. 
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FrostedButts posted:I'm also going to recommend <b>Jingle All The Way</b>. It's a bad Christmas movie, but the writing reaches a certain point of pure, unapologetic insanity that it becomes funny in an almost non-ironic sense. It doesn't make the movie good just for those moments of ridiculousness, but it does make it an odd cinematic abnormality. If this is the Arnold Schwartzyatesnager movie then I agree, I unironically enjoy this every time I see it. Also sorry for the terrible butchering of Arnie's name. fake edit: it is indeed the movie and I'm leaving the misspelling in
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I checked out Double Dare which is a documentary about two female stunt doubles. One is Jeannie Epper, best known for being Wonder Woman's stunt-double in the old tv show. Jeannie is considered one of the pioneers who paved the way for women stunt doubles, but still finds herself dealing with a boys club. The other is Zoe Bell, a kiwi who got her start playing Xena's double, and has come to Hollywood to find work. The movie deals with a lot of typical things that a lot of Hollywood-base documentaries have. People can't find work, people don't get the parts, etc etc, but both women have such a love and passion for what they do, that the entire movie leaves you with a  on your face. It also shows a ton of clips of Zoe flying through the air on wires, and Jeannie in her Wonder Woman days crashing through windows. Stunt Women are bad-rear end you guys. 
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So Netflix came out in the UK yesterday and there seems to be a pretty drat decent amount of streaming stuff - not amazing, and nowhere near as good as the US selection, but enough to keep me happy for a while. Anyone got any film recommendations they know are on the UK service?
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casual poster posted:I hope it doesn't get remade. I saw that movie when I had a really high fever once, also I was 5 or something. The scene where the alien gets pregnant just totally confused and weirded me out. I thought about that movie for months after. I watched Enemy Mine a couple years ago and I was so confused by the whole thing that I wrote a small, lovely review for it just so I wouldn't have to keep explaining how random it was to the friends who saw it on my recently watched list. This pretty much sums up the whole thing: Dennis Quaid strikes early, trying to burn his enemy alive while he’s taking a swim, but the Draconion avoids the fire and captures Quaid. The alien then ties Quaid up and feeds him alien food (something that looks like a giant maggot). After a meteor shower forces the enemies to find shelter, the alien takes Quaid as a POW and they start bonding, then they build a house together and become roommates. I never even finished it. When the pregnancy happened I just shut it off because my head hurt.
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Knightmare posted:Not sure how long it's been out there but just saw The Wave, a German film about a high school teacher who does a social experiment about how a dictatorship becomes powerful. Netflix thought I wouldn't like it but it was interesting throughout. A little predictable up until the ending but it kept me interested and was quite thought-provoking.  .I'm not going to get to comparing fascist movement or analyzing The Wave in terms of Eco's Ur-facism: the film ends with one overzealous student screaming that The Wave is his life after experiencing it for 5 whole days. So important that he kills himself rather than live another minute without it. The ultimate loss and condemnation of the behavior seen in the film rests on one mentally deranged student and his outlandish violent outburst. Bonus points for the teacher being led away in handcuffs because a teenager who illegally purchased a firearm shot himself with it. The filmmakers weren't good enough writers to justify the emotional tone they wanted the film to end on, so it becomes a Lifetime movie-of-the-week in the last 15 minutes, no different than the one where the teenager's life is ruined because of his addiction to porn (which leads him to get beaten up by the boyfriend of a psycho girl he saw naked online, don't you see how one leads to the other?!). Knight fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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Did anyone get around to watching Bunraku? I'm looking for a beer movie to watch.
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Xandu posted:The Host is back on streaming after being off for a while. Good Korean monster movie. Oh heck yes, I've been wanting to see this for a while and couldn't understand how Netflix had every *other* Korean film up on streaming but not that. For recommendations I caught The Fighter a few weeks back with Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg. Excellent movie, but for some reason I was thinking it was (the much worse) Warrior that came out around the same time.
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I don't get all the hate for Enemy Mine, I actually own a copy of it. The whole point of the movie is that no matter how different someone is, we're still all the same. I mean they start out as mortal enemies, and are forced to work together to survive, growing to understand each other along the way. As for the pregnancy it's alien biology, why should that be weird at all?
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Just saw Cherry and if you're looking for something to kill time with, I'd recommend it. Sappy film, complete with derivative lines. But it has a decent coming of age story and a certain charm to it, enough to fill the 5 o'clock in the morning with nothing to watch requirement.
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Tewratomeh posted:Also, is The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret any good? I've heard absolutely nothing about the show, but it's written by and starring David Cross so I assume it's watchable and funny at the very least. It's decent. Has a bunch of awkward moments but just as many actual laughs alleviyates that. I didn't like how when the season ended it left a bunch of things open, but I saw season 2 is premiering soon.
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't get all the hate for Enemy Mine, I actually own a copy of it. The whole point of the movie is that no matter how different someone is, we're still all the same. Also, isn't this plot borrowed at least once by just about every scifi series? I swear it seems like just about every series has an "enemy mine" episode, it's almost like a game to spot it. Is it lifted from an older story I'm unaware of? Or is it just such a basic idea it seems that way?
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't get all the hate for Enemy Mine, I actually own a copy of it. The whole point of the movie is that no matter how different someone is, we're still all the same. That's why I brought up the remake idea; it's got a really solid, if not entirely original story at its core, but the execution is a goddamned mess what with jello balls and dennis quaids and furry turtle bugs. meatsaw posted:Is it lifted from an older story I'm unaware of? Or is it just such a basic idea it seems that way? It's based off a story where a Japanese soldier and an American soldier are stranded on an island together during WWII, which itself sounds great to watch. Also the director originally wanted Mr. Takagi from Die Hard as the alien, reflecting the source material
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meatsaw posted:Also, isn't this plot borrowed at least once by just about every scifi series? I swear it seems like just about every series has an "enemy mine" episode, it's almost like a game to spot it. I think it's just a basic idea of understanding that your enemy is not much different from you. You did raise an interesting question which led me to Wikipedia. Enemy Mine is based on a 1979 Novella of the same name. Which was a reworked version of a WWII film called Hell in the Pacific, which is apparently a two man adaption of another WWII film called None But the Brave. Neither of those are available on demand
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Hell in the Pacific is pretty interesting, especially the ending which I bet would incite a lot of discussion/frustration here. Plus It's Toshiro Mifune you nerds!!
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Tewratomeh posted:Also, is The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret any good? I've heard absolutely nothing about the show, but it's written by and starring David Cross so I assume it's watchable and funny at the very least. It's definitely worth a watch. It's not amazing all the way through, but it's got some really amazing moments of humiliating, uncomfortable humor. Both David Cross and British Comedies are great at those, so it really comes together. His tour of Parliament might be the hardest I've cringed while doubled over in laughter.
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I watched the first season and I thought it was decent. My girlfriend liked it too, for what that's worth. Then again, I think for the first couple episodes at least, we pretended that they were Tobias and Gob in the UK. Maybe that helped make it more entertaining. Who knows. I'll legitimately watch anything with David Cross in it though.
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The missus and I watched Cracks the other night, and it was pretty decent. I especially liked the setting (a British boarding school located on some kind of island in the 30's). Eva Green is pretty hot in it. Has a kind of Lord of the Flies feel to it.
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big business sloth posted:Hell in the Pacific is pretty interesting, especially the ending which I bet would incite a lot of discussion/frustration here. Plus It's Toshiro Mifune you nerds!! Also Lee Marvin. Could not pick a better cast.
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Finally had enough time for The Next 3 Days, the Russell Crowe thriller where his wife (Elizabeth Banks) gets sent to jail for murder. He's convinced she's innocent, the evidence is stacked against her, and he plans to break her out of jail. It kept me interested throughout the movie, the pacing seemed a little weird at times but was one of the gimmmicks of the movie I guess. I don't think Banks did a very good job aside from a select few scenes and was a weird choice here. Crowe did a pretty good job I thought. I don't think this did very well in theaters but I liked it and had put it on my mental 'to-see' list when I first saw trailers a yearish ago. It creyates a lot of tension, sometimes a little forced, but is a fun watch. A little long I thought but it'd be tough to cut anything.
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I haven't seen Luther mentioned here; it's been on Netflix for a while now and I just blew through all six episodes that were up there. It's a pretty amazing psychological cop show and almost has a Yellowjacket Greenapple layer of the surreal (the main character is quite nihilistic and befriends a sociopath). The acting is fantastic, starring Idris Elba (Stringer Bell of The Wire fame) as the titular character, and the only fault I see in this entire show is that there isn't enough of it.
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forever whatever posted:I haven't seen Luther mentioned here; it's been on Netflix for a while now and I just blew through all six episodes that were up there. It's a pretty amazing psychological cop show and almost has a Yellowjacket Greenapple layer of the surreal (the main character is quite nihilistic and befriends a sociopath). The acting is fantastic, starring Idris Elba (Stringer Bell of The Wire fame) as the titular character, and the only fault I see in this entire show is that there isn't enough of it. There is also a season two, which is four more episodes. Apparently season three is in the works as well.
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What were some of the streaming info sites? I can't use search on Feedfliks anymore and was looking for another site. EDIT: Nevermind, looked back a couple pages. http://instantwatcher.com/upcoming_titles EDIT EDIT: Holy poo poo The Colony season 2 at the end of the month. Kingtheninja fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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Well, guys, I don't know why, but apparently Netflix thinks I'm an elderly gay black man who also happens to be a Neo-nazi, since it just recommended that I watch Triumph of Will. Now, obviously, as a student of film, this movie is incredibly important and shouldn't be ignored just because it's a Nazi propaghanda film. But it just sits kind of weird in-between Frasier and 30 Rock.
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I watched Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil and that was a good movie, so thanks to the people that recommended that one. I also watched Troll Hunter and that one was cool too. I never knew Norway was such a beautiful place.
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Dear god...I have almost 200 movies in my instant queue. Every time I start to make progress I find 10 more things to add. It's like the Hydra, cut off one head two more grow in it's place. Anyway, just found out Carl Sagan's Cosmos series from the 80s is on instant  .
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