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Crappy Jack posted:You know what, yeah, I got thrown off because I was thinking of, you know, that boat thing that happens in the first episode. Now I like the idea that this is all taking place in Michigan or something in the present day and everyone is just insane
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Has the Labyrinth always been up? Great 80s flick if you haven't seen it. I suppose it's a kids movie but it's pretty dark. And David Bowie's dick and ball silhouette
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Feb 22, 2012 22:53
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Upstairs, Downstairs is also on Instant and it's like an earlier, rougher, and, depending on your taste, better Downton Abbey. edit: It's like New Dr. Who and old Dr. Who. New Dr. Who is pretty but sometimes kind of dumb and old Dr. Who is ugly but often really innovative.
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Feb 23, 2012 07:09
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I cannot believe I'm saying this... but remember Insidious? That movie with all the "The house isn't haunted! IT'S YOUR SON!!!" ads?  Yeah, this awful looking thing. Give it a chance. It's pretty loving spooky at times. It feels like a drat Poltergeist remake and has a weird final part, but god drat it has some great moments. I'm as shocked as you are.
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Feb 23, 2012 11:37
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Tewratomeh posted:Several good movies: Orson Welles on Netflix Catch-22's adaptation was bad imo. That might just be me being biased against 70's movies that seem to frequently give you extended sequences of little to no sound. Mother Night, on the other hand was pretty good and true to the book. Currently not streaming 
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Feb 23, 2012 12:25
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Zero Karizma posted:I cannot believe I'm saying this... but remember Insidious? That movie with all the "The house isn't haunted! IT'S YOUR SON!!!" ads? As a counterpoint, I thought it was pretty bad :\
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Feb 23, 2012 14:21
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QPZIL posted:As a counterpoint, I thought it was pretty bad :\ Let's call it a mixed reception, then - I liked it! For serious though, it's doing some creative things with the genre, and the Poltergeist comparison is really apt. Actually, I guess cribbing from poltergeist makes it anything but original, but think along the lines of what Super 8 did with E.T. and the like. It sort of revisits the concept in a "modern" horror narrative and ends up feeling really fresh for it. It's a pretty sincere horror movie that doesn't treat its protagonists like gratuitous deaths waiting to happen. e: vvv And it's a tie! vvv
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Feb 23, 2012 14:59
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QPZIL posted:As a counterpoint, I thought it was pretty bad :\ Agreed. Insidious straight up sucked.
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Feb 23, 2012 14:59
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The first two acts of Insidious are extremely solid. The third act kinda falls apart. Insidious is above average and certainly not terrible.
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Feb 23, 2012 15:06
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I really enjoyed Insidious which surprised me. It did, however, show to me the weakness of James Wan's writing because it has the exact same pacing and scare beats as his other film "Dead Silence."
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Feb 23, 2012 15:11
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Insidious is in my top ten for 2011. There's nothing about it I don't like.
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Feb 23, 2012 15:42
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I don't know if it's a great movie, but it did genuinely scare me a few times, which a lot of horror movies don't. So I guess you could say it worked as intended.
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Feb 23, 2012 15:44
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foodfight posted:The first two acts of Insidious are extremely solid. The third act kinda falls apart. Insidious is above average and certainly not terrible. I agree with this analysis. VOTE LOCKED IN.
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Feb 23, 2012 16:28
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I still remember the great laugh I had in Insidious when Darth Maul was standing behind one of the characters.
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Feb 23, 2012 16:32
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AgentHaiTo posted:I still remember the great laugh I had in Insidious when Darth Maul was standing behind one of the characters. This is why I still haven't watched it, though it is in my instant queue. I even knew what your spoiler was going to be before I moused over to make sure.
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foodfight posted:The first two acts of Insidious are extremely solid. The third act kinda falls apart. Insidious is above average and certainly not terrible. Bingo. Watched it again the other night and this rings true.
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Feb 23, 2012 18:28
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All I remember from Insidious was that it started out pretty strong and spooky and then fell apart when there was a dream ghost in the attic wearing a leather jacket for literally no reason.
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Feb 23, 2012 18:59
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AgentHaiTo posted:I still remember the great laugh I had in Insidious when Darth Maul was standing behind one of the characters. I watched it at home and all four of us jumped and then immediately rewound it and cracked up.
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Feb 23, 2012 19:10
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Insidious did have moments, but most of them were laugh out loud ridiculous ones. I thought it tried way too hard. Plus it has little kids named Foster and Dalton, so it was hard for me to take it seriously. Even though it's apparently been on there since 2006, I didn't notice Greg The Bunny until last night, which was the first time I'd seen it. I dig it. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Feb 23, 2012 |
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foodfight posted:Since we're having Downtonchat, I'll put in my two cents. Its a fun show, but it seems like more of a novelty than anything else. I have a friend on facebook that absolutely HATES the second season (which I haven't seen) and posted a hilarious alternate history of the twentieth century based off of what happens in season 2. I'll try and post the whole rant later as I think it really sums up some of the show's most glaring problems. Here it is. I'll spoiler the thing that is revealing about the show. from Facebook posted:So when was the last time a show crashed and burned as far and fantastically as "Downton Abbey" has? I'd say "Twin Peaks," but there has gotta be others between them that I don't remember/know about...
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Feb 24, 2012 00:58
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If you're a fan of musical theater, or more specifically Sondheim, you can see two Sondheim shows on Netflix: Company (the 2006 Broadway revival), and Into the Woods (the original Broadway cast). Also you can see Sondheim: The Birthday Concert on Netflix which has a pretty decent collection of Sondheim's songs sung by a lot of the original performers.
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Feb 24, 2012 02:57
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Insidious is in my top ten for 2011. There's nothing about it I don't like. Same here. The old woman slowly getting closer and closer in the photographs creeped me out for days.
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Feb 24, 2012 03:06
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Someone pointed out that Being Elmo is on Instant now, so I watched that tonight. I really liked it and found parallels to my own passions and my career path. It was heartwarming to see him give a kid a chance just like he got.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:Someone pointed out that Being Elmo is on Instant now, so I watched that tonight. I really liked it and found parallels to my own passions and my career path. It was heartwarming to see him give a kid a chance just like he got. Just watched this tonight too, and I'll agree with the part you mentioned. Mostly because I'm always scared that kids these days don't care about cool stuff like puppetry and the like anymore, so seeing this awesome young girl with a passion and watching her gawk at the Muppet stuff was delightful. Especially the scene where she's naming all the puppeteers.
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Wasn't that a boy? EDIT: Oh and I forgot about the part that bugged me, how it just glossed over his marriage falling apart and his daughter having to email him to ask to see him before she goes to college, and he shows up with sesame street stuff and put elmo on the cake and all that. That part made me feel weird because it felt like they were saying "but its okay! He's Elmo!" Irish Taxi Driver fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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Feb 24, 2012 05:47
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Currently watching repeaters, and the poo poo is badass. Its like groundhog's day only instead of Bill Murray its 3 recovering drug addicts.
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Feb 25, 2012 08:16
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So I tried watching City of Life and Death before the great Starz Purge...and don't get me wrong, it's an excellent movie...but I think it was the first movie I've ever had to just say "enough" and turn off in the middle. I sat through Schindler's List no problem, but once they began tossing kids out of windows and raping women to death I starting wondering whether bombing the poo poo out of Japan, while terrible in and of itself, might not have been ultimately deserved.
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Feb 27, 2012 04:26
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Season 2 of Archer has finally arrived on streaming.
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Feb 27, 2012 05:55
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doctor iono posted:Season 2 of Archer has finally arrived on streaming. Sweet! Speaking of spy comedy, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies came back in the last couple days. Want to watch The Artist but hate leaving the house?
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Feb 27, 2012 06:05
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I've been looking forward to Season 2 of Archer for months now, and marathoned it in one sitting. Totally worth it. I watched Sonatine on a lark today, and holy poo poo is it bleak. Takeshi "Beat" Kitano was essentially depressed for most of his career, and it shows in this film, one of his early works that established his signature visual style and nihilistic plots.
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Netflix's highly-publicized contract with Starz expires on February 29, so if there are any Starz titles you want to watch, do so now. Here's a list of the films that will be unavailable come March. Notable titles include, among others, Disney films (including Tangled and Toy Story 3), Scarface, Big, Patton, Beetlejuice, The English Patient, McLintock!, Vertigo, JFK, Mallrats, and many, many others.
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Feb 27, 2012 17:30
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Can anyone recommend me anything that is in the same vein as In The Loop and Boss in that it involves people in politics yelling at each other and is good entertainment?
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red19fire posted:I've been looking forward to Season 2 of Archer for months now, and marathoned it in one sitting. Totally worth it. I watched the cancer episode yesterday. Really funny.
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Feb 27, 2012 18:50
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I watched Best Worst Movie the other night, and goddamn if all the scenes involving the lady that played the mother in Troll 2 weren't awkward as hell/sad and hard to watch. But on a lighter note, I watched World's Greatest Dad last night due to it being mentioned in here and very much enjoyed it. So thanks to the people who mentioned it!
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Feb 27, 2012 22:46
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Philo posted:Can anyone recommend me anything that is in the same vein as In The Loop and Boss in that it involves people in politics yelling at each other and is good entertainment? Sadly nothing I can think of is on Netflix, but in case anyone didn't know, In the Loop was based on/spun off from a TV show called The Thick of it, which is very excellent. The same people are making the new HBO show Veep, which seems likely to also involve people in politics yelling at each other while being good entertainment.
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Feb 27, 2012 22:50
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There aren't any good documentaries on Ireland are there? Or any not on instant I should be watching out for?
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Feb 27, 2012 23:24
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Manky posted:There aren't any good documentaries on Ireland are there? Or any not on instant I should be watching out for? The Story of Ireland is great, bbc though so I doubt it's on instant. This isn't related really but is iplayer coming to the states at all? I would love it if only for the docs. I looked on the bbc page but it doesn't say anything except that its only available in the UK.
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Feb 28, 2012 00:57
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iPlayer going to the states would probably never happen. Too much bullshit involved with license fees and the BBC wouldn't want to shoot BBC America or their DVD sales in the foot.
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Manky posted:There aren't any good documentaries on Ireland are there? Or any not on instant I should be watching out for? I watched one called Historical Pubs of Ireland. Interesting, But I was kind of drunk at the time. Also, Out of Ireland. The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a great film based on real events starring Cillian Murphy.
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kri kri posted:The Story of Ireland is great, bbc though so I doubt it's on instant. I haven't tried it on the video player, but the Chrome extension Stealthy works great for listening to the restricted BBC radio content.
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