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I haven't seen it yet, but The Cable Guy was just added. It's directed by Ben Stiller, the same director as Zoolander and Tropic Thunder, and stars Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. Zoolander is one of my favorite comedies, so I'm definitely watching this as soon as possible.
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Cable guy is one of those dark comedies that didn't do so well when it first came out, but later gained a (cult?)following. It's hilarious and I need to watch this again, so thanks for the heads up.
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Jun 1, 2012 12:39
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Kingtheninja posted:Cable guy is one of those dark comedies that didn't do so well when it first came out, but later gained a (cult?)following. It's hilarious and I need to watch this again, so thanks for the heads up. People were seriously jarred by Jim Carrey not talking with his rear end or yelling "SSMMMOOKIN." It's a really good flick though.
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Jun 1, 2012 13:21
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It's been quite a while since I've seen it, but I just saw Princess show up on streaming. It's a Danish animated film about a man who begins taking care of his 5 year old niece and goes in search of revenge for those responsible for his sister's death. His sister was a famous porn star, so this takes him through the seedy underworld while he realizes how living around these people has affected his niece. The animation is punctuated with live action home movies of the characters. The "Feel Good" tag on Netflix is wildly inaccurate - I felt like I had been punched in the gut after watching it. Do not do what it seems a number of people on Netflix did and assume "Princess? Animated? Obviously for a 9 year old!"
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Jun 1, 2012 13:22
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I haven't seen it yet, but The Cable Guy was just added. It's directed by Ben Stiller, the same director as Zoolander and Tropic Thunder, and stars Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. Zoolander is one of my favorite comedies, so I'm definitely watching this as soon as possible. The Cable Guy is a great dark comedy that was...I don't want to say ahead of its time, but very much of it's time. It's more a scathing satire of mid-90s entertainment culture than anything else, but the way it dates itself doesn't detract from the film at all. And, yeah, people definitely weren't on-board yet with Jim Carrey playing a creepy character that wasn't also a lovable Batman villain.
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Jun 1, 2012 14:07
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The Leck posted:It's been quite a while since I've seen it, but I just saw Princess show up on streaming. It's a Danish animated film about a man who begins taking care of his 5 year old niece and goes in search of revenge for those responsible for his sister's death. His sister was a famous porn star, so this takes him through the seedy underworld while he realizes how living around these people has affected his niece. The animation is punctuated with live action home movies of the characters. The "Feel Good" tag on Netflix is wildly inaccurate - I felt like I had been punched in the gut after watching it. Do not do what it seems a number of people on Netflix did and assume "Princess? Animated? Obviously for a 9 year old!" Princess is a really, really interesting and cool film.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I haven't seen it yet, but The Cable Guy was just added. It's directed by Ben Stiller, the same director as Zoolander and Tropic Thunder, and stars Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. Zoolander is one of my favorite comedies, so I'm definitely watching this as soon as possible. It was also basically written by Judd Apatow.
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Jun 1, 2012 15:17
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Rango surprised the hell out of me. Watch it.
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Jun 1, 2012 15:50
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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? If you haven't seen it, Them is a good French horror movie. Nothing groundbreaking, it's a simple movie done very effectively and is very tense. It's in French though so I can't be certain how good the acting is but it seemed fine to me.
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Jun 1, 2012 23:14
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Princess is a really, really interesting and cool film.
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Jun 1, 2012 23:35
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Jay Dub posted:The Cable Guy is a great dark comedy that was...I don't want to say ahead of its time, but very much of it's time. It's more a scathing satire of mid-90s entertainment culture than anything else, but the way it dates itself doesn't detract from the film at all. And, yeah, people definitely weren't on-board yet with Jim Carrey playing a creepy character that wasn't also a lovable Batman villain. I remember at the time Cable Guy came out, it was pretty common to joke about it being one of the worst movies ever. I remember the same thing happening when Gigli came out.
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Jun 2, 2012 00:28
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I remember at the time Cable Guy came out, it was pretty common to joke about it being one of the worst movies ever. I remember the same thing happening when Gigli came out. So are you saying that Cable Guy is bad, or that Gigli is good? Because I know that the former isn't true.
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The Leck posted:It's been quite a while since I've seen it, but I just saw Princess show up on streaming. It's a Danish animated film about a man who begins taking care of his 5 year old niece and goes in search of revenge for those responsible for his sister's death. His sister was a famous porn star, so this takes him through the seedy underworld while he realizes how living around these people has affected his niece. The animation is punctuated with live action home movies of the characters. The "Feel Good" tag on Netflix is wildly inaccurate - I felt like I had been punched in the gut after watching it. Do not do what it seems a number of people on Netflix did and assume "Princess? Animated? Obviously for a 9 year old!" Jesus this is a hosed up movie. The first bath scene was horrifying. Really enjoyed it though. Surprised it didn't show up in the Revenge category Netflix has for me. Question about the ending though who is that visiting the graves? Just some guy?
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MailboxFullOfBombs posted: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? He's actually quite religious himself.
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Jun 2, 2012 08:02
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Crunk Abortion posted:He's actually quite religious himself. Not quite? He grew up a Catholic but he's been pretty forward with how ridiculous he thinks much of it is. He's never come out as being athiest or anything but if Dogma, Red State, and his podcast are any indication he certainly questions much of it.
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Jun 2, 2012 09:18
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Skywalker OG posted:Not quite? He grew up a Catholic but he's been pretty forward with how ridiculous he thinks much of it is. He's never come out as being athiest or anything but if Dogma, Red State, and his podcast are any indication he certainly questions much of it. He's said straight up that he's a Christian, just not necessarily along with the whole Catholic thing.
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Skywalker OG posted:Not quite? He grew up a Catholic but he's been pretty forward with how ridiculous he thinks much of it is. He's never come out as being athiest or anything but if Dogma, Red State, and his podcast are any indication he certainly questions much of it. Dogma's pretty enthusiastically pro-faith and pro-Christianity. If anything, he has some Martin Luther-like contempt for Catholicism obscuring what he sees as the truth of Christianity. Except Martin Luther could walk up the front steps of a church and have enough energy left to post something on the door.
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He's definitely said he believes in God, Red State is more a parody of fundamentalism. The Westboro Baptist Church is an obvious influence, and the church in the movie is like those guys mixed with David Koresh's Branch Davidians and ratcheted up to another level of extremism. I mostly liked the movie, as a Kevin Smith movie I thought it was definitely different than anything he's done before and a step up for him as a writer/director. As a horror movie it's interesting, it's one of those movies without any sympathetic characters, which makes it tough to find anyone to identify with and care about what happens. At the end I didn't feel it really had much to say. Michael Parks' performance is really good, the long scene near the beginning with him addressing his congregation is a standout.
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Crunk Abortion posted:He's actually quite religious himself. That was just the impression that I got from the movie. I remembered a while after I posted that he also made Dogma, so he's probably not the neckbearded reddit stereotype I imagined him as. Still think that Red State sucked. Just seemed like a torture porn/needless violence movie with religious overtones and barely any plot.
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I'm not that interested in Kevin Smith, so I haven't watched Red State, but I saw that this just got added and it seems relevant to the above discussion. It's a Q&A with Kevin Smith about the aftermath he experienced from Red State. He might address his personal religious beliefs in there? Sorry I can't confirm, I'm at work currently and cannot watch anything. I did, however, watch Rango last night and would like to thank all who recommended that. It was really good and has reminded me that there are a lot of Westerns I still need to see (like the entire Man With no Name series  ). Watched it with my buddies and we had a lot of good laughs.
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Balancing Monsters posted:I'm not that interested in Kevin Smith, so I haven't watched Red State, but I saw that this just got added and it seems relevant to the above discussion. It's a Q&A with Kevin Smith about the aftermath he experienced from Red State. He might address his personal religious beliefs in there? Sorry I can't confirm, I'm at work currently and cannot watch anything. He talks about it briefly from what I remember, he still prays and then talks about how it pisses off his wife because she is completely not religious at all.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:He's definitely said he believes in God, Red State is more a parody of fundamentalism. Yeah, you're right. He's been extremely open about questioning a lot of the more extreme Catholic beliefs and he's pretty open to discussion with the more athiest of his cohorts - Mosier and his wife chief amongst them. I just mistakenly took that willingness to facilitate discussion as cynicism in overall religious beliefs. Jigoku fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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Speaking of Kevin Smith, I watched his Burn in Hell Q&A session and his friend Malcolm Ingram's documentary Small Town Gay Bar in the past 24 hours, and they were pretty entertaining. While I may not necessarily think his opinions on art apply to him, I found the Q&A entertaining as always, and Malcolm's documentary was also fairly interesting and unassuming. I'd be willing to recommend them wholeheartedly.
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Well I just finished Season 1 of Battletsar Galactica.  This show is loving awesome and each episode contributes a little to the continuinty and builds upon them. Not to mention I still have no idea what the hell the Cylons are up to and I'm really enjoying that sense of mystery.
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Hewlett posted:Small Town Gay Bar I enjoyed this thoroughly. I recently started working for a political action committee that's trying to get gay marriage legalized in Maine so I've been trying to brush up on my gay history and culture and there's a few ok docs about this on Netflix but this one stood out. That being said there's a documentary from the same people called Bear Nation that I will be watching as soon as I get back from the grocery store.
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VaultAggie posted:Well I just finished Season 1 of Battletsar Galactica. Try to remember that feeling and hold on to it for the future.
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The mythbusters episodes only go up to 2009 this is bullshit.
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weekly font posted:Rango surprised the hell out of me. Watch it. I was surprised by this too. I wanted to see it when it first came out, but never got around to it, so I basically brushed it off as a movie that I would see it eventually. When it won an Oscar, I brushed it off again because of the fact that it wasn't a Pixar film so I kind of though that it wasn't going to be good. I finally decided to watch it was really surprised by it. It was really good. Go watch it if you're a western fan.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:The mythbusters episodes only go up to 2009 this is bullshit. I think Mythbusters post-2009 is bullshit, but what do I know?  Although I do admit it's kind of stupid that they don't even have the full seasons, just "collections" of specially-selected episodes, and then a "Big Blasts Collection" with a dozen episodes they separated from the rest for some reason.
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Skywalker OG posted:Not quite? He grew up a Catholic but he's been pretty forward with how ridiculous he thinks much of it is. He's never come out as being athiest or anything but if Dogma, Red State, and his podcast are any indication he certainly questions much of it. He's said in one of this Q&As that he's loosely Christian.
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VaultAggie posted:Well I just finished Season 1 of Battletsar Galactica. Have you watched Dr. Who? I'm a season and a half in to it and BSG is on my to watch list as well, not sure which I want to jump in completely on just yet. Dr. Who is fantastic though, just a lot more cheese than I was expecting. I was thinking it was more of a British X-Files for whatever reason, but the humor works.
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It's not a film but I'm watching BSG on Netflix and even though it clearly says it's in HD this is obviously an SD copy of 3x17 I'm watching. It's grainy and has artifacting issues. Does this happen a lot with Netflix?
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Rhyno posted:It's not a film but I'm watching BSG on Netflix and even though it clearly says it's in HD this is obviously an SD copy of 3x17 I'm watching. It's grainy and has artifacting issues. Does this happen a lot with Netflix?
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Are you sure it's not your connection temporarily crapping out/being slow? Definitely not. I've been watching BSG for a few hours and the quality drop on this episode is very noticeable. I skipped ahead to the next ep and it's back to HD. This did make me remember that they stream VHS rips of several original Transformers episodes so I guess I'm not shocked.
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Bottom Liner posted:Have you watched Dr. Who? I'm a season and a half in to it and BSG is on my to watch list as well, not sure which I want to jump in completely on just yet. Dr. Who is fantastic though, just a lot more cheese than I was expecting. I was thinking it was more of a British X-Files for whatever reason, but the humor works. Dr. Who is fun for seasons 1-4, although pretty hit and miss (oh my god Fear Her). It takes a major leap forward in quality in season 5 when Steven Moffat takes over. edit: Oh, and also be aware that after Season 4 there was a sort of Season 4.5 of specials that are all listed separately on Netflix for some reason (except The Next Doctor, which again for no reason is included as part of Season 4). Anyway, after watching Season 4, be sure to watch The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, or you'll find yourself very confused at the start of Season 5. There's also The Planet of Dead which even more strangely isn't available on Streaming, but it isn't very good anyway so don't worry about it. maxnmona fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jun 4, 2012 |
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Bottom Liner posted:Have you watched Dr. Who? I'm a season and a half in to it and BSG is on my to watch list as well, not sure which I want to jump in completely on just yet. Dr. Who is fantastic though, just a lot more cheese than I was expecting. I was thinking it was more of a British X-Files for whatever reason, but the humor works. It can jump around in tone quite a bit. For the most part it's tons of cheese, but then every once in a while an episode will come out that is genuinely unsettling and creepy.
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Blink from season 3 of Doctor Who is an amazing piece of television, everyone should watch that.
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RandolphCarter posted:Blink from season 3 of Doctor Who is an amazing piece of television, everyone should watch that. Blink is just so drat good, and has the added bonus of starring Carey Mulligan before she blew up and became Global Superstar Carey Mulligan. It's incredibly well written and is also SCARY AS BALLS. But if you start off on that, you'll never be able to make it through the "first" season with Eccleston when the show's still finding its footing and doesn't have anywhere near the budget, but you can't skip it because the show has continuity like crazy, and Rose Tyler owns. So really, long story short everybody should just watch Doctor Who, it really is as good as you keep hearing.
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Crappy Jack posted:Blink is just so drat good, and has the added bonus of starring Carey Mulligan before she blew up and became Global Superstar Carey Mulligan. I still think of her as Sally Sparrow. (Note: the episode is fairly atypical in that the actual stars of the show aren't on it very much- they do this about once a season to give the actors a break- so you might want to watch one of the more "normal" episodes as well.) Oh, and One From The Heart is up. It's not really a good movie but it's very interesting, the look of it is wonderful and it has a great song score by Tom Waits.
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Crappy Jack posted:Rose Tyler owns. God drat right. I haven't had a TV crush this hard since Topanga when I was 12.
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