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Tewratomeh posted:Yeah, but Trainspotting pretty much is a comedy so... what's the deal? A comedy doesn't automatically mean Zucker Brothers, Farrellys, Judd Apatow or whatever. It doesn't have to be wacky slapstick or parody. Trainspotting is intentionally humorous. It might be dark humor, and it isn't funny all the way through, but I'd still call it a comedy. Yeah, Trainspotting has dark moments obviously, but if I had to give it a single label I would say comedy.
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Chunky Delight posted:Just watched both OSS 117 movies and loved them based on this thread. Are there any other great foreign comedies on Netflix that are worth watching? Preferable subtitled instead of dubbed. You should check out A Town Called Panic, it's a pretty hilarious Belgian stop-motion film.
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maxnmona posted:Yeah, Trainspotting has dark moments obviously, but if I had to give it a single label I would say comedy. Netflix usually comes up with categories like "Dark Comedy' or "Critically-acclaimed Sentimental Dramas". Just "Comedy" is strange.
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I haven't seen The Host in about a year and a half or so, but I remember being extremely confused by the scene where upon thinking their sister/daughter is dead, the family flails around on the ground crying hysterically at her funeral? I think? And it's played like it should be funny. What did I miss there? Why was it played like that?
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Just watched a great documentary Sherman's March. Part historical doc, part personal doc... it's an odd thing that's tough to describe but sucks you in as you watch.
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Riptor posted:I haven't seen The Host in about a year and a half or so, but I remember being extremely confused by the scene where upon thinking their sister/daughter is dead, the family flails around on the ground crying hysterically at her funeral? I think? And it's played like it should be funny. What did I miss there? Why was it played like that? I think it's funny because of the gaggle of reporters snapping photos of them, like this family's personal tragedy is really nothing more than a good photo op for tomorrow's newspapers. It trivializes the whole situation which I think is kind of funny and sad at the same time.
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I think also it's just a perfect little absurd moment where the whole family had been falling apart (one's an alcoholic, one fails at sports, and the other is a lovely father), and then when Gang-du's daughter gets eaten by a giant fish monster, it overshadows their own problems so much that there's nothing left to do but break down into hysterics.
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kuddles posted:Watched Best Worst Movie yesterday. Liked it, but I still have no interest in ever watching Troll 2. Kudos to the filmmaker who was one of the main actors in the film but clearly realized that the guy who played the father is the most interesting person in this documentary. If you liked Best Worst Movie there's another one that's  called Popatopolis. It's about a B movie director trying to film a movie in 3 days. There's also another documentary on B movies called Machete Maidens Unleashed that examines the popularity of shooting in the Phillipines during the 70s era of exploitation b-movies.
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Chunky Delight posted:Just watched both OSS 117 movies and loved them based on this thread. Are there any other great foreign comedies on Netflix that are worth watching? Preferable subtitled instead of dubbed. The OSS series movies are really awesome screwball comedies similar the Archer series or Danger 5. Especially the emphasis on black humor and absurd situations.
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Someone was talking about Avengers stuff earlier. I remember the first Ultimate Avengers movie being decent, and the second one sucking. I decided to see how the TV series is, and I'm actually really enjoying it. I'm at episode 8 and it's much better than I would have expected. The first few episodes are weak, but they get pretty good a bit later. A lot of it is setup for future plots. There's a lot of world building stuff, like a couple mentions of mutants (and one episode had Wolverine's WW2 persona briefly) and they mention Reed Richards, Doctor Doom etc. It's actually a lot of fun spotting the little character references and stuff. They also find a way to make each of the characters engaging. I never cared about Antman/Giantman before but he's pretty awesome in this show. Also, some of the fights are pretty cool so far. It's a bit of Justice League mixed with Dragon Ball Z. So yeah if you have the mildest interest in this, give it a shot.
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Rough Lobster posted:Someone was talking about Avengers stuff earlier. I remember the first Ultimate Avengers movie being decent, and the second one sucking. I decided to see how the TV series is, and I'm actually really enjoying it. I'm at episode 8 and it's much better than I would have expected. The first few episodes are weak, but they get pretty good a bit later. A lot of it is setup for future plots.
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Jay Dub posted:I think also it's just a perfect little absurd moment where the whole family had been falling apart (one's an alcoholic, one fails at sports, and the other is a lovely father), and then when Gang-du's daughter gets eaten by a giant fish monster, it overshadows their own problems so much that there's nothing left to do but break down into hysterics. There's something in there about grief just looking weird from the outside, too. They're going to look ridiculous because they have no reason not to, and the filmmaker, instead of trying to maintain our solemnity, lets there be a slight bit of comic value to it.
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SRM posted:I'm enjoying it a lot too; I'm probably about 17 episodes in. The animation is very good and most of the stories are decent if very comic booky. The theme song is atrocious though. I just finished all the episodes they had the other day, and I eventually learned to just skip the theme song.
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Apr 30, 2012 21:46
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I don't know if it had been mentioned recently but Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look are both hilarious. I had never heard of them before I watched it and now I think they are the funniest Brits in the game. I am generally not up on British television or movies though. Both are of course streaming.
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I watched a pretty fun documentary called Just For Kicks, all about sneaker culture. I'm far from a sneakerhead (because I'm both too broke to be one, and I think most of the shoes they fawn over look goofy as poo poo) but I am a man who appreciates a fine pair of shoes. It gets pretty light toward the end, but the first half or so delves (pretty shallowly) into some socioeconomic and racial components of the culture I hadn't really thought about. It is really entertaining, has some hilarious and insightful interviews interviews, and a killer soundtrack. Most of all it made me miss my old pair of yellow on blue Air Force 2s I had in high school. They were uncomfortable as poo poo (my feet are way too wide for Nikes in general) but goddamn they were fly. I sprained my ankle really badly at school from wearing those shoes, and as the nurse was checking me out she commented," "Nice shoes." I would've been like, "Awwwww yeeeaaaaahhhh," except that I was trying to not vomit from basically going into shock.
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dreadnought posted:but the first half or so delves (pretty shallowly) into some socioeconomic and racial components of the culture I hadn't really thought about. I heard an interview on NPR with some guy who used to be in gangs and doing that whole thing, and he went into how rap/thug culture kind of bred this need to appear as if you have status. Since they can't actually achieve the status they want, they achieve the status symbols, shoes, rims etc. Did this documentary go into that aspect? I'm kind of interested in it, mainly because I have to drive through the hood all the time and I see the most ridiculous poo poo and wonder why anyone is living in squalor and wasting their money on this poo poo. I also hear the little kids say poo poo like "dat car nasty!" when its really a 1992 buick painted hot pink with jacked up rims and while it is nasty, it's not the good kind of nasty, and it seems to be a perpetuating cycle that I can't figure out.
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I watched I Like Killing Flies on recommendation from a coworker and it was a pretty cool glimpse into the life of a cranky cook/owner of a hole in the wall restaurant in Greenwich Village. He serves over 900 dishes and creates new ones every day. He also throws people out constantly for a variety of reasons. Want coffee? GET OUT. More than 4 people? GET OUT. The rant about parties of five was incredible. "100 years from now, 100 blocks from here, YOU'D STILL BE A PARTY OF FIVE." Irish Taxi Driver fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Apr 30, 2012 |
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RizieN posted:I heard an interview on NPR with some guy who used to be in gangs and doing that whole thing, and he went into how rap/thug culture kind of bred this need to appear as if you have status. Since they can't actually achieve the status they want, they achieve the status symbols, shoes, rims etc. Did this documentary go into that aspect? I'm kind of interested in it, mainly because I have to drive through the hood all the time and I see the most ridiculous poo poo and wonder why anyone is living in squalor and wasting their money on this poo poo. I also hear the little kids say poo poo like "dat car nasty!" when its really a 1992 buick painted hot pink with jacked up rims and while it is nasty, it's not the good kind of nasty, and it seems to be a perpetuating cycle that I can't figure out. This sort of thing is no different from upper-middle class people going into debt buying luxury cars, boats, designer clothes and accessories, etc. It's about creating the illusion that you have more money than you do. Honestly, it's identical across all racial and economic divides (even in the richest of the rich). I'm not trying to call you out, honestly, but that's a pretty common thing for covert racists to bring up in discussions. You know, the whole, "I'm not racist, I just hate black culture" thing. But I know you mean well, and I can kind of see where you're coming from, so I'm trying to be respectful and earnestly answer your question. Here are a few related things the doc does go into though: -Nowadays, companies do a lot of work creating an illusion of exclusivity. That's what the sneaker game is all about : having the newest, rarest shoes before anyone else does. This has driven up the price of shoes exponentially. Honestly, I think the Air Jordan I was the first shoe to hit the $100 mark, and at the time it was THE symbol in certain circles to prove you had money to spend. The sneakerhead community is almost entirely responsible for these sneakers costing as much as they do. There's a bit on a Nike shoe that was limited to 150 pairs; Nike's MSRP on it was $69, whereas the one store that had them sold them for $300. They interview the guy who ran the store at the time, and he said they still sold out in 20 minutes. He then said they probably could've charged $500 and still sold out in less than an hour. -Most sneakerheads are not kids. They never have been kids. Sneaker culture first popped up in some of the poorer areas of NYC - Harlem, Bed-Stuy, and the like - but this is a lot different from the culture now. These kids obviously didn't have money to buy new shoes every time they got scuffed or dirty, so you HAD to clean them constantly. Guys would carry toothbrushes to clean them on the go, and a lot of people even repainted faded stripes and stuff like that. Really, it's kind of the opposite of the sneakerhead culture of today, which is driven mostly by the nostalgia of middle-class and above 30 year old dudes and borders on hoarding pretty frequently. There's one dude - not even a famous person, just a regular dude - who buys 3 pairs of every shoe he gets - one to wear, one to "just lose around the house and find a few years later," and one to put away to keep. It's really no different from fanboys who collect Star Wars toys or whatever. -They honestly don't talk as much about it as I would like, but there is a decent amount on the violence as a result of sneaker exclusivity. In the part about those super-rare Nikes I mentioned earlier, the guy who worked at the store said there were thugs on literally every street corner waiting to mug people as they left the store. Everyone had to be escorted out of the back by the police after buying the shoes. What I did really like about the doc is that it never places the blame on the kids, who just want a nice pair of shoes, and rightfully suggest that the blood should be on the hands of the shoe companies for intentionally creating a shortage.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:I watched I Like Killing Flies on recommendation from a coworker and it was a pretty cool glimpse into the life of a cranky cook/owner of a hole in the wall restaurant in Greenwich Village. He serves over 900 dishes and creates new ones every day. He also throws people out constantly for a variety of reasons. Yeah Kenny Shopsin is awesome. His book is great too--it's part biography and part cookbook: http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Me-Philosophy-Kenny-Shopsin/dp/0307264939/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335824753&sr=8-1
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dreadnought posted:This sort of thing is no different from upper-middle class people going into debt buying luxury cars, boats, designer clothes and accessories, etc. It's about creating the illusion that you have more money than you do. Honestly, it's identical across all racial and economic divides (even in the richest of the rich). I'm not trying to call you out, honestly, but that's a pretty common thing for covert racists to bring up in discussions. You know, the whole, "I'm not racist, I just hate black culture" thing. But I know you mean well, and I can kind of see where you're coming from, so I'm trying to be respectful and earnestly answer your question. Yea- no, I re-read what I wrote and I can see that, but not really how I meant to come across. That first interview I heard kind of sparked an interest I'd never had before, it was specifically about being in a gang and this kid ended up getting out and went into his whole mentality as a kid and what drove him to do and get the things he did, and that was pretty interesting to me. And it is the same across the board, just different objects. It's just not as interesting when 35 year old white people go into debt behind closed doors. My big interest was really in how he kind of enlightened himself a bit and stopped mugging kids for shoes and spending money on frivolous things, and ended up supporting his family and doing "good" things. And I'm pretty interested in that and the difference in mentality between the people like him, and the ones who don't stop spending on stupid things and don't stop criminal behavior. It's pretty off topic so I'll leave my clarification at that, but since I find that stuff interesting I thought I'd see if that documentary went into it, and even if it doesn't it seems like it goes into some other pretty interesting things so i'll probably check it out.
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The Warriors Way is a strangely terrible yet enjoyable film about a Japanese swordsman who's the best in the world (ever) who just can't bring himself to kill the last living member of his nemesis clan - a baby girl. He then takes the baby and travels to the wild west, meets Kate Bosworth who proceeds to overact as he teaches her the way of the sword and then lots of bad guys attack and die at the hands of a bunch of carnies to the tune of a classic spaghetti western. What? Yeah.
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I also enjoyed The Warrior's Way... at least a lot more than I thought I would. I would recommend it. Also man I liked The Perfect Host, mostly because I watched it without knowing a single thing about it. Everyone who hasn't seen it should do the same.
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The Warriors Way put me in the mood for more stylistic kung-fu-ery so I checked out Bunraku and had to turn it off after about 30 min or so. I just started Goemon and I love the hell out of this movie. The dubbing is hilarious and awesome. Cinematography reminds me of Casshern. Goemon appears to be a Robin Hood character.
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mod sassinator posted:Just watched a great documentary Sherman's March. Part historical doc, part personal doc... it's an odd thing that's tough to describe but sucks you in as you watch. If you liked this, you should check out Ross McElwee's other documentaries, too. They all have the same basic tone and style (though Sherman's March is the strongest of them, I think). Time Indefinite would be the next one worth watching, and it is also streaming, as are two others. I don't particularly love his films as I'm watching them, but I find that they stay with me a lot more than most other documentaries. He's a completely unreliable narrator, but there's a great deal of intimacy and privacy in them that, while perhaps not as unique in the YouTube era, is still pretty strange and powerful feeling.
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BobKnob posted:I don't know if it had been mentioned recently but Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look are both hilarious. I had never heard of them before I watched it and now I think they are the funniest Brits in the game. I am generally not up on British television or movies though. Both are of course streaming. You should check out Snuffbox. Another British sketch show, it stars Matthew Berry from the IT Crowd. Also streaming on netflix.
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Riptor posted:I haven't seen The Host in about a year and a half or so, but I remember being extremely confused by the scene where upon thinking their sister/daughter is dead, the family flails around on the ground crying hysterically at her funeral? I think? And it's played like it should be funny. What did I miss there? Why was it played like that? Chiming in a little late here, but I took the entire movie as a kind of dark comedy and melodrama totally plays into that. The scenes with the fat office worker friend? Especially the black power fist when he avoids the trap. The cellphone in the mouth scene? The entirety of the sequence with the crazy American doctor with the lazy eye FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN IT LOOKS loving SILLY? The movie is a brilliant comedy monster movie and it plays the melodrama of that scene for laughs. Edit: Boy do I love The Host.
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Rolo posted:Also man I liked The Perfect Host, mostly because I watched it without knowing a single thing about it. Everyone who hasn't seen it should do the same. I just did this tonight, good call. Lot of twists, kept it very interesting. Wasn't sure who to root for throughout most of it.
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I have a special place in my heart for pinball, so I watched Special When Lit as soon as I saw it, and 5 minutes in, I spot the Abra Ca Dabra Gottlieb machine I grew up with. My dads a minor pinball freak so hes got a few Gottlieb machines from the 60s-70s, like Abra, Bank A Ball, Close Encounters, Countdown and Sinbad. Abra Ca Dabra was in our living room, I've never played the other machines. They're in pieces in the basement and he doesn't think they work anymore. I'd love to restore them for him but the machines are 1000 miles away. EDIT: Also watched Winnebago Man. I totally missed the viral video but his redemption was very heartwarming.
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Balancing Monsters posted:If you liked this, you should check out Ross McElwee's other documentaries, too. They all have the same basic tone and style (though Sherman's March is the strongest of them, I think). Time Indefinite would be the next one worth watching, and it is also streaming, as are two others. Wow Time Indefinite is great too--poor guy goes through a hell of a few years.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The entirety of the sequence with the crazy American doctor with the lazy eye FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN IT LOOKS loving SILLY? That guy just looks like that, though. He looked like that in Silence of the Lambs.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I just finished all the episodes they had the other day, and I eventually learned to just skip the theme song. 
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Bob's Burgers is actually really funny. It can drag sometimes, but the episodes are only 20 minutes each, and I've laughed out loud at least once during each of them.
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Philo posted:Bob's Burgers is actually really funny. It can drag sometimes, but the episodes are only 20 minutes each, and I've laughed out loud at least once during each of them. I find Bob's family varying degrees of annoying and unfunny, but generally the more Home Movies and Dr. Katz voice actors show up, the better the show gets. Jon Benjamin is great as always.
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Joe Der Maus posted:You should check out Snuffbox. Another British sketch show, it stars Matthew Berry from the IT Crowd. Also streaming on netflix.
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Speaking of British comedies, does anyone have an opinion on Black Books? I added it to my queue last week because I spotted Bill Bailey crammed into the corner of the boxart, but I don't know anything about it.
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Sarchasm posted:Speaking of British comedies, does anyone have an opinion on Black Books? I added it to my queue last week because I spotted Bill Bailey crammed into the corner of the boxart, but I don't know anything about it. Black Books is great, and you should watch it. Dylan Moran is funny as hell, and the first series was co-written by Graham Linehan, of The IT Crowd fame. I'm going to go watch some right now.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Black Books is great, and you should watch it. Dylan Moran is funny as hell, and the first series was co-written by Graham Linehan, of The IT Crowd fame. I'm going to go watch some right now. I tried getting into Black Books about a year or so ago, and just couldn't get through the first episode. They rely on the laugh track really really hard, and it was pretty much unwatchable. A few months ago I did the same thing, and still found it unbearable. Then after a week I decided to watch the second episode and proceeded to marathon through all of it. Such a great series. All three of the main characters are fantastic in it and they ease up on the laugh track a lot, though it is still there. Now if I can just bring myself to do the same thing with Father Ted.
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Lawnmower Man was just added today! I'm feeling pretty nostalgic for these early 90s flicks like Lawnmower Man that I haven't seen since they came out.
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mod sassinator posted:Lawnmower Man was just added today! I'm feeling pretty nostalgic for these early 90s flicks like Lawnmower Man that I haven't seen since they came out. Well I know what I'm watching today!
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Balancing Monsters posted:If you liked this, you should check out Ross McElwee's other documentaries, too. They all have the same basic tone and style (though Sherman's March is the strongest of them, I think). Time Indefinite would be the next one worth watching, and it is also streaming, as are two others. Bright Leaves is another good one, though I don't know how it'll play to people who aren't familiar with North Carolina. It starts with Ross discovering a film in which Gary Cooper plays his grandfather, and then goes into his family's history in the NC tobacco industry (and his latent resentment of the Duke family, who wound up buying out the McElwee's and becoming one of the wealthiest families in the state). I enjoy it, mostly because it deals with people and places I'm quite familiar with, but even among Ross McElwee's films, it's very niche.
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