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Zwabu posted:Whoa, just watched the pilot based on your rec and it's damned good. How come I have never heard of or watched this show, what network was it on? It was on CW, which was the main reason I originally blew it off as some angsty teen supernatural soap opera. Based on the recommendations of this thread I'm about 8 episodes in and it's pretty good so far.
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Watch TiMER
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Absolutely watch Adventures of Power.
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penismightier posted:Bunch of people forgetting about Darkplace in here. "I looked him in the eye and said: 'This will be the most significant televisual event since Quantum Leap. And I don't say that lightly.'" "I'm one of the few people I know, who've written more books than they've read." also: "My books are all about what ifs. Like in my novel Black Fang, I asked 'What if a bunch of london city sewer rats grew to human size and took over a city bus?'" God I wish Darkplaces was on Netflix. I got my friends to believe it was entirely serious up to the part where Dag smashes the guy's still alive head with the shovel.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:God I wish Darkplaces was on Netflix. I got my friends to believe it was entirely serious up to the part where Dag smashes the guy's still alive head with the shovel. I could've sworn it was. Did it used to be and they took it off, or am I just totally hosed here?
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penismightier posted:I could've sworn it was. Did it used to be and they took it off, or am I just totally hosed here? I just searched for it and didn't see it, I don't remember it ever being on there.
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Jan 31, 2012 20:24
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. My Man Godfrey The Lady Eve The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Monkey Business (1952) Charade Edward Scissorhands Tangled Toy Story 3 And there's always Arrested Development.
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Jan 31, 2012 20:24
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Roxanne, or The Graduate, might fit the bill depending on her sense of humor. Some indication of what kind of films she likes would be helpful. Lots of good ones are off streaming right now like The Princess Bride.
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Jan 31, 2012 20:32
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Just wanted to point out: Kill the Irishman is out on Instant. It was a film from last year starring Ray Stevenson, it's a based-on-real-life story of a 1970s Cleveland mobster. I dug it quite a bit and Stevenson is great it in it. Linda Cardellini from Freaks and Geeks is in it, Val Kilmer is in it too but he doesn't really do much.
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Jan 31, 2012 20:32
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Outsourced (movie, not tv show) Bread and Tulips Monsoon Wedding edit: fenix down posted:The Gold Rush These aren't really what I'd call romantic comedies.
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Jan 31, 2012 20:34
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. If she's anything like my ex, that friends with benefits one with Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman is out on instant now I believe. I cringed typing that out
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Definitely Mao's last dancer I posted about it before and no one else has mentioned it. It's a great foreign flick. I suggest everyone see it. I'm 95% sure it got me laid that night, too. Saw it on a whim at a theater that shows independent/foreign films. Not sure why it's not more popular in America. Probably because it's an Australian made movie (i think?) -yep quote:Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian biographical film, directed by Bruce Beresford, based on ballet dancer Li Cunxin's autobiography Mao's Last Dancer. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao (simplified Chinese: 曹驰; traditional Chinese: 曹馳; pinyin: Cáo Chí), Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo (Chinese: 郭承武; pinyin: Guō Chéngwǔ) and Huang Wen Bin. The film also stars Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Wang Shuangbao and Amanda Schull.[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZjaxrnlPc It's not as dramatic as the beginning of the trailer makes it out to be. In conclusion if you're looking for a weekday date movie hit this one up. Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jan 31, 2012 |
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Give Strictly Ballroom a go.
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Maybe Romancing the Stone?
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It'd be hard to go wrong with Charade, unless she hates old movies or something.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It'd be hard to go wrong with Charade, unless she hates old movies or something. Does she like Hitchcock? It's not an actual Hitchcock film but it's been called "the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made." If she likes those kinds of movies it's the perfect choice.
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Lately I've been feeling weirdly depressed and need cheering up, can y'all recommend me something clever and light-hearted as gently caress? I've been into Truffaut comedies (Stolen Kisses, The Man Who Loved Women) and Woody Allen (just finished re-watching Annie Hall), so I'm especially interested in stuff along similar lines as these - sweet, hilarious, 60s/70s - but I am open to anything that is witty and not too tragic.
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afgrunden posted:Lately I've been feeling weirdly depressed and need cheering up, can y'all recommend me something clever and light-hearted as gently caress? I've been into Truffaut comedies (Stolen Kisses, The Man Who Loved Women) and Woody Allen (just finished re-watching Annie Hall), so I'm especially interested in stuff along similar lines as these - sweet, hilarious, 60s/70s - but I am open to anything that is witty and not too tragic. How about Harold and Maude. It might be what you are looking for, if it hits you in the right way. The light-heartedness is there, definitely.
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afgrunden posted:Lately I've been feeling weirdly depressed and need cheering up, can y'all recommend me something clever and light-hearted as gently caress? I've been into Truffaut comedies (Stolen Kisses, The Man Who Loved Women) and Woody Allen (just finished re-watching Annie Hall), so I'm especially interested in stuff along similar lines as these - sweet, hilarious, 60s/70s - but I am open to anything that is witty and not too tragic. Parks and Recreations. Seriously. It's god drat hilarious, and will put a warm smile on your face and will melt your heart when it wants to.
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afgrunden posted:Lately I've been feeling weirdly depressed and need cheering up, can y'all recommend me something clever and light-hearted as gently caress? I've been into Truffaut comedies (Stolen Kisses, The Man Who Loved Women) and Woody Allen (just finished re-watching Annie Hall), so I'm especially interested in stuff along similar lines as these - sweet, hilarious, 60s/70s - but I am open to anything that is witty and not too tragic. For more French new wave Godard's A Woman is a Woman is pretty light hearted and funny.
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maxnmona posted:These aren't really what I'd call romantic comedies.
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I just watched Ip Man last night, and it was awesome. I haven't watched many of this type of movie, can anyone recommend anything in the same vein?
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Zubumafoo posted:I just watched Ip Man last night, and it was awesome. I haven't watched many of this type of movie, can anyone recommend anything in the same vein? If you mean embellished biographical Kung-Fu epics, then Jet Li's Fearless should fit the bill.
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Eggplant Ronin posted:If you mean embellished biographical Kung-Fu epics, then Jet Li's Fearless should fit the bill. I don't think it necessarily has to be embellished or biographical. Hell, I didn't know Ip Man was a real person until the end of the movie.
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Addendum to the "aint much good british teevee?" discussion from a couple pages ago: the how-the-hell-did-this-ever-air Snuff Box is now up on streaming. Matt Berry from Boosh/Darkplace/IT Crowd and Boosh's Rich Fulcher do 1/2 sketch show, 1/2 sitcom, 100% madness. Berry + keytar + Old Grey Whistle Test parody + Richard Ayoade = genius.
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Zubumafoo posted:I just watched Ip Man last night, and it was awesome. I haven't watched many of this type of movie, can anyone recommend anything in the same vein? I haven't seen too much of these types of movies either, but I gave The Man From Nowhere a shot based on this thread and really enjoyed it. Also, thank you thread for recommending The Vicious Kind and Party Down. I just started Party Down, but I'm loving it so far.
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird is a Korean Western and one of the most purely entertaining popcorn movies I've seen in years. You don't need to be a Western buff (I'm not) to like it, it works pretty well as a straight up action/adventure. Oddly, it comes from Kim Ji-woon, director of the (nightmarish) A Tale of Two Sisters and (brutal, disturbing) I Saw the Devil.
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If you like stylish 70's horror movies, and you like kick-rear end, bombastic soundtracks, give Deep Red a try. If you've seen any of director Dario Argento's recent work...think the opposite of that. In other words, great.
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Zubumafoo posted:I just watched Ip Man last night, and it was awesome. I haven't watched many of this type of movie, can anyone recommend anything in the same vein? Might be slightly obvious, and I haven't actually seen it yet, but there's Ip Man 2 on streaming as well. And I second Fearless.
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Shadley Puffin posted:Addendum to the "aint much good british teevee?" discussion from a couple pages ago: the how-the-hell-did-this-ever-air Snuff Box is now up on streaming. Matt Berry from Boosh/Darkplace/IT Crowd and Boosh's Rich Fulcher do 1/2 sketch show, 1/2 sitcom, 100% madness.
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Just saw BRONSON and was entertained as hell.
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The Man From Nowhere owns really loving hard and everyone should watch it.
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Just Another XY posted:I need long-distance video movie date kinda material. Try Return to Me with David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. Sappy but funny rom-com about a guy who loses his wife only to meet the woman who received her heart in a transplant. You might find it depressing, I didn't. They do pull the whole bittersweet string pretty hard though.
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"The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane" is up now. If you like Jodie Foster at all (in an early role here as a mysterious adolescent girl with a secret, she's easily the best thing in the film and amazing talent evident even early on here) and Martin Sheen as a creepy pedophile, see this movie which I think is excellent. Not a good movie for the guy looking for rom/com date fluff though!
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Both Triangle and Timecrimes are on instant now. They make a really decent time travel slasher double-feature.
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Zwabu posted:"The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane" is up now. If you like Jodie Foster at all (in an early role here as a mysterious adolescent girl with a secret, she's easily the best thing in the film and amazing talent evident even early on here) and Martin Sheen as a creepy pedophile, see this movie which I think is excellent. That one used to air on that weird over-the-air digital channel that only plays MGM movies pre-1999, THIS!TV, I think it's called. It's pretty good.
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foodfight posted:Both Triangle and Timecrimes are on instant now. They make a really decent time travel slasher double-feature. Thanks for sharing this, I've been meaning to catch both of these!
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Wow, this was a really lovely month for new Instant Watch additions.
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I will recommend The Baby's Room as a pretty decent Spanish horror flick. It uses the "the house is cursed" formula that has been done a thousand times, but pulls it off pretty well with some clever ideas. It is really short at 74 minutes, I think, but I found the pacing to be so well done that I didn't even notice. I got pretty involved in the story and it seemed much more fleshed-out and meaty than a film that short often ends up.
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foodfight posted:Both Triangle and Timecrimes are on instant now. They make a really decent time travel slasher double-feature. If you haven't seen these, and you like time travel, watch them both ASAP. They're both extremely clever, but I think I prefer Triangle. I just re-watched Timecrimes the other day and had a craving for Triangle, so I'm glad to know that one is back up. It's utterly brilliant, in my opinion.
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