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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Agreed, I really enjoyed the episode where Ted's wacky friends put him in an awkward position, and he ends up doing kind of a douchey thing for his own benefit. He attempts to convince himself that it's not a big deal, but his conscience gets the better of him and he confesses his wrongdoing to his attractive romantic-interest friend. She gets mad at Ted (and rightfully so), but only for about five minutes, at which point it is revealed that the "problem" the wacky friends created at the beginning of the episode is really a blessing in disguise. Truly a classic ep, IMHO. Note: This is a defense of Better Off Ted.
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Beast Wars just got added. If you want to watch some really hokey and dated CGI in a show about transforming robots who turn into dinosaurs and gorillas that eventually gets fairly dark and mature, the first season's up.
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May 30, 2012 02:27
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Agreed, I really enjoyed the episode where Ted's wacky friends put him in an awkward position, and he ends up doing kind of a douchey thing for his own benefit. He attempts to convince himself that it's not a big deal, but his conscience gets the better of him and he confesses his wrongdoing to his attractive romantic-interest friend. She gets mad at Ted (and rightfully so), but only for about five minutes, at which point it is revealed that the "problem" the wacky friends created at the beginning of the episode is really a blessing in disguise. Truly a classic ep, IMHO. I can't actually think of any How I Met Your Mother episodes to which this applies
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May 30, 2012 02:41
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I think the crummy CGI actually holds up better than other cartoons from the era because its so primitive that it becomes fascinating. It's a bonus to a smartly written show and I'm surprised it holds up as well as it does.
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May 30, 2012 02:41
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May 30, 2012 02:48
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Network42 posted:The framing device of How I Met Your Mother amuses me to no end. As a season long show I think it works fine, but I would get pretty pissed at my dad after he told me about the 30th chick he banged that wasn't even my mom. "And then me and your Aunt Robin, who you've known since birth and is definitely not your mother totally made out, and then we did it like crazy. Just wild sex. Tons of it. And then more making out. Did I mention that me and your Aunt Robin had sex?" EDIT: "Oh, and before I forget, how about the time I totally banged two chicks at the same time? Or maybe I didn't. I'll never tell, kids." Crappy Jack fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 30, 2012 |
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May 30, 2012 03:22
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Seriously, Ted's kids must think he's such a loving douche.
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May 30, 2012 05:03
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And you know his wife is eavesdropping on all this. The last episode ( ) ends with her walking in and demanding a divorce.
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May 30, 2012 05:06
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SRM posted:Beast Wars just got added. If you want to watch some really hokey and dated CGI in a show about transforming robots who turn into dinosaurs and gorillas that eventually gets fairly dark and mature, the first season's up. On this note, do not watch Transformers or GI Joe if you think it will be fun to see what you liked as a kid. They are loving unwatchable, incomprehensible trash produced to sell toys. My parents have a lot to answer for for not savagely beating me every time I tried to watch either as a small child. I was just a loving kid, Now I'll never know what shows did to my plastic brain and I drank in the explosions and bright colors.
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May 30, 2012 05:08
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Jack Gladney posted:On this note, do not watch Transformers or GI Joe if you think it will be fun to see what you liked as a kid. They are loving unwatchable, incomprehensible trash produced to sell toys. My parents have a lot to answer for for not savagely beating me every time I tried to watch either as a small child. I was just a loving kid, Now I'll never know what shows did to my plastic brain and I drank in the explosions and bright colors. On that note, I enjoy watching transformers with my kids and I buy them lots of the toys.
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May 30, 2012 16:03
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Jack Gladney posted:On this note, do not watch Transformers or GI Joe if you think it will be fun to see what you liked as a kid. They are loving unwatchable, incomprehensible trash produced to sell toys. My parents have a lot to answer for for not savagely beating me every time I tried to watch either as a small child. I was just a loving kid, Now I'll never know what shows did to my plastic brain and I drank in the explosions and bright colors. I've been enjoying both, but I'm well aware of every one of their faults. They've both got heaps and heaps of animation errors that are a lot of fun to point out. I like them even though I know they're both terrible.
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May 30, 2012 16:26
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Jack Gladney posted:On this note, do not watch Transformers or GI Joe if you think it will be fun to see what you liked as a kid. They are loving unwatchable, incomprehensible trash produced to sell toys. My parents have a lot to answer for for not savagely beating me every time I tried to watch either as a small child. I was just a loving kid, Now I'll never know what shows did to my plastic brain and I drank in the explosions and bright colors. This is exactly why I think everyone with fond memories should watch them. Way too many people think that entertainment is regressing when it's just them getting older.
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I actually think some of the 80s cartoons end up interesting if you consider what the writers had to put up with. They not only had to sell toys, but appease the various parents' groups that got involved. Mark Evanier worked on the D&D cartoon and wrote about how they had to have a whiny jerk character so that every episode would have the theme "If the group wants to do one thing and one person wants to do something else, the group is always right." poo poo was crazy back then.
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May 31, 2012 00:21
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The only good thing about it is that it the continued interest in crappy serial cartoons led to actually well written and interesting stuff in the 90's like Exo Squad, Beast Wars and Gargoyles.
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May 31, 2012 00:23
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For a good example of older cartoons that actually do live up to your rose-tinted expectations, see anything that Steven Spielberg was involved in (Animaniacs, Freakazoid, etc). None of these are on streaming unfortunately. I recently watched Into the Pride because I was looking for two criteria: 1) Something cool about african cats or something 2) HD I really enjoyed it! Basically this guy lives in Africa for 6 months on a reserve in a tent trying to connect with the lions that live there. A lot of people were knocking it because of the 'ego' of the host, but if you were capable of shouting at a lion until it backed off you'd probably feel pretty confident about yourself too. It's only five episodes so you can knock it out pretty quick. Totally worth it if you think lions are cool
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The only good thing about it is that it the continued interest in crappy serial cartoons led to actually well written and interesting stuff in the 90's like Exo Squad, Beast Wars and Gargoyles. That still continues now; Transformers Prime and GI Joe Renegades are both very good, and the first seasons are both streaming. E: Hell, Transformers Animated was very good too, but it's not streaming. SRM fucked around with this message at 02:02 on May 31, 2012 |
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May 31, 2012 01:55
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Might be that I live alone and it's dark out but Grave Encounters is scaring me like a little baby right now.
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Rolo posted:Might be that I live alone and it's dark out but Grave Encounters is scaring me like a little baby right now.
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Rolo posted:Might be that I live alone and it's dark out but Grave Encounters is scaring me like a little baby right now. Don't fret in about 20 minutes you'll be laughing out loud.
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May 31, 2012 03:52
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According to Roger Ebert, Rango is on Instant now. I'll set aside some time this weekend to watch.
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Y-Hat posted:According to Roger Ebert, Rango is on Instant now. I'll set aside some time this weekend to watch. It's been on Instant for a while now. It's become one of my go-to "I'm bored, Netflix" titles.
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That being said, go buy Rango on Blu-ray once you stream it, because it's gorgeous and I actually ended up really enjoying the extended cut.
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Thank you to the guy that recommended Ma Mere. Hidden behind the sexual tension between mother and son is a beautiful story about loss and maturity. I've never seen anything quite like it. I totally recommend you guys check Ma Mere out. It starts off a little slow, and then gets weird, but, by the end, you'll be feeling a whole slew of emotions. The last scene will be indelibly etched into your memory.
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I just watched Kevin Smiths Red State and it was absolutely amazing. It's nothing at all like any of his other movies. It's very dark, and the ending is completely unexpected. Edit: They also added The Whitest Kids U Know recently and god it's hilarious. Arrgytehpirate fucked around with this message at 08:57 on May 31, 2012 |
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May 31, 2012 08:52
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Pasolini's Arabian Nights is up, and it owns.
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JonasSalk posted:Thank you to the guy that recommended Ma Mere. Hidden behind the sexual tension between mother and son is a beautiful story about loss and maturity. I've never seen anything quite like it. That was me! I love that movie. It's really hard to recommend or describe it to people without it sounding like a bad porno, but I agree with you fully that there is such a beautiful story beneath it all and that some scenes, especially the end, are haunting. Can we un-recommend movies here? I tried to watch Visions of Suffering and it was pretty...insufferable. Was recommended to me based on interest in Jan Švankmajer, Nosferatu, and the Brothers Quay. Trust me when I say that it does not live up to this recommendation. It is mostly webcam-quality footage of goth girls and Hot Topic-style vampyres in awkwardly artificial raves. I did end up watching Vernon, Florida, as I promised to do upthread. I liked it more than the other Morris documentaries I had seen and can see more of why he would be grouped near Herzog. There isn't much to say about this other than what the Netflix synopsis says; it is a series of short interviews with quirky residents of a backwater Florida town. This is likely the sort of thing that inspired Christopher Guest. Less than an hour, might as well watch it if you're up for a classist laugh at backward folk (which I always am).
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Watched Solitary last night, and all I can says is holy poo poo. I'm not quite sure where to put this genre-wise. I want to say a little bit of horror with a little bit of thriller I guess? The movie was never scary, but it wouldn't stop giving me goosebumps. And that's really the best way I can describe it without giving anything away. Just an assload of goosebumps, it's great. I can't remember the last movie that brought me from a lying down while half-asleep to fully awake and eyes wide at the screen and basically saying "What the gently caress?" every few minutes. I fuckin loved this movie.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Watched Solitary last night, and all I can says is holy poo poo. I'm not quite sure where to put this genre-wise. I want to say a little bit of horror with a little bit of thriller I guess? The movie was never scary, but it wouldn't stop giving me goosebumps. And that's really the best way I can describe it without giving anything away. Just an assload of goosebumps, it's great. I can't remember the last movie that brought me from a lying down while half-asleep to fully awake and eyes wide at the screen and basically saying "What the gently caress?" every few minutes. I fuckin loved this movie. that's weird, because according to imdb like 3 critics in the entire world seemed to have watched it and all 3 of them wrote some variation of "mediocre TV movie".
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maxnmona posted:that's weird, because according to imdb like 3 critics in the entire world seemed to have watched it and all 3 of them wrote some variation of "mediocre TV movie". For the record, I tend to avoid movies that are associated with film festivals and stuff because I am an uncultured swine. However I cannot praise Solitary enough.
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Edit: They also added The Whitest Kids U Know recently and god it's hilarious. I don't know what's going on with IFC's licensing because The Whitest Kids U Know pops on and off my queue like a carnival duck. I added the entire series two years ago and still haven't finished it because it keeps vanishing as soon as I notice it's back.
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I too watched Fish Story and it was excellent! the Go Getter was good, kind of felt somewhere between Broken Flowers and Wristcutters. Poetry wasn't what I was expecting, it was all so... sordid. One of the things thats entertained me the most recently is the 'classic albums' featuring Duran Duran. I'm no fan, but nearly everything Nick Rhodes says is unintentionally hilarious, he has this way of talking that sounds earnest yet insincere, like he's been overdubbed by Steve Coogan taking the piss. He's mostly at the start of the doc, but returns at the end to tell of his trip to Sri Lanka where he got off the plane dressed head to toe in leather, expecting an air-conditioned limo and instead got a 5 hour trip in the back of a van in sweltering heat. The Band one's good too, (the keyboard player is the interesting one in that)
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Maxwell Lord posted:I actually think some of the 80s cartoons end up interesting if you consider what the writers had to put up with. They not only had to sell toys, but appease the various parents' groups that got involved. Mark Evanier worked on the D&D cartoon and wrote about how they had to have a whiny jerk character so that every episode would have the theme "If the group wants to do one thing and one person wants to do something else, the group is always right." Actually, those "parents' groups" were organized and populated by the toy companies too: conformity is better than going it alone because it's better when you bow to group pressure! Your friends are right to love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and you should too! You don't want to be the loser loner who gets proven wrong, do you? At least, Mark Evanier claims as much elsewhere in his blog. I don't doubt at all that it's true.
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Anyone recommend Dead Snow yet? If not, here's my thumbs up. If you like Evil Dead/Dusk til Dawn sort of stuff this movie is completely worth giving a chance. I had it on as simply background noise while I dicked around on the internet and eventually put my laptop away so I could give all my attention to this entertaining movie.
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I never know how to rate some movies on Netflix. Against the Dark is one such movie. I'm a big fan of Steven Seagal, in the sense that he's completely absurd and I'm quite convinced there's some sort of bet going around to see how far he's willing to go to be in a movie. Seagal plays his usual triple-chinned mysticist, but he's fighting vampires? And it's an incredibly low-budget horror film made by complete amateurs? And if you're lucky enough to own the DVD you get to hear the director's commentary on how Seagal has gotten so bloated and sluggish that they literally had to move everything around him while he stood still to give him the appearance of life? I mean, it gets five stars in my heart, but certainly not in my head.
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My wife started watching Nobody Knows and was crying her eyes out. I came in towards the end and its probably one of the saddest, most depressing movies I've ever seen. Wow.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Watched Solitary last night, and all I can says is holy poo poo. I'm not quite sure where to put this genre-wise. I want to say a little bit of horror with a little bit of thriller I guess? The movie was never scary, but it wouldn't stop giving me goosebumps. And that's really the best way I can describe it without giving anything away. Just an assload of goosebumps, it's great. I can't remember the last movie that brought me from a lying down while half-asleep to fully awake and eyes wide at the screen and basically saying "What the gently caress?" every few minutes. I fuckin loved this movie. Just watched this movie with my girlfriend and we both thought it was a joke. We started to watch Grave Encounters after that piece of poo poo and shut it off after 10 minutes. Can we get some actual good horror recommendations? Preferably with decent, believable acting?
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Shampy posted:Just watched this movie with my girlfriend and we both thought it was a joke. We started to watch Grave Encounters after that piece of poo poo and shut it off after 10 minutes. Can we get some actual good horror recommendations? Preferably with decent, believable acting? I am genuinely surprised by this post. I can see why people wouldn't like Grave Encounters but I thought CineD would eat Solitary up. Especially after seeing so much praise for Battleship, which is one of the worst movies I've ever seen ever. Also, to be fair, pretty much every horror movie has a lovely first 10-20 minutes.
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Arrgytehpirate posted:I just watched Kevin Smiths Red State and it was absolutely amazing. It's nothing at all like any of his other movies. It's very dark, and the ending is completely unexpected. I thought Red State was horrible. The entire thing felt like Kevin Smith giving the viewer a wink wink nudge nudge "Man, aren't religious people just so crazy?  Heh, invisible sky wizard."Whitest Kids U Know is pretty funny, though.
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I'd like to recommend a French crime drama set in near-future Paris called Chrysalis. It's only available dubbed in English on Netflix, but the dubbing is surprisingly not that bad. I wouldn't say it's a great movie, but it's got a handful of interesting elements that make it a worthwhile watch.
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