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VaultAggie posted:Robocop I never actually saw this movie growing up. I'm sure my parents kept me away for how violent it is. That said, after watching this and the original Total Recall a few months ago, I think I'm probably done with 80s action movies. Don't get me wrong, they're both products of their time (along with Commando, Rambo, and most other 80s action movies) but maybe I'm just not attuned for the raw violence anymore. I can see the appeal and the still-current messages being communicated in Robocop. I actually think those are quite excellent. But it's still a super-violent action film. I will say that there are still plenty of 80s action movies that still hold up today (Terminator and to a lesser extend, Predator). But most are just raw violence vehicles.
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I watched OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies last night and enjoyed it immensely. It's from the same team behind The Artist, and it's a similar sort of loving genre recreation, only this is much goofier in its spoofing of old spy films. Jean Dujardin really seems to be channeling Frank Drebin in his performance, and he displays that same kind of serious buffoonery that Leslie Nielsen commanded so wonderfully in the Naked Gun films. How does the sequel, Lost in Rio, compare?
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Jul 10, 2012 14:21
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Netflix on PS3 has been working really lovely for me lately. The UI is really laggy, and when playing it never really seems to get up to full HD anymore. Anyone else, or is it just something with me?
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Jul 10, 2012 15:29
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Welcome to what Wii users have been dealing with for months now. Change the UI back you pricks!
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Jul 10, 2012 15:42
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Jay Dub posted:I watched OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies last night and enjoyed it immensely. It's from the same team behind The Artist, and it's a similar sort of loving genre recreation, only this is much goofier in its spoofing of old spy films. Jean Dujardin really seems to be channeling Frank Drebin in his performance, and he displays that same kind of serious buffoonery that Leslie Nielsen commanded so wonderfully in the Naked Gun films. Very well. Some things are different but its mostly the same vibe.
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Jul 10, 2012 15:54
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Jay Dub posted:I watched OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies last night and enjoyed it immensely. It's from the same team behind The Artist, and it's a similar sort of loving genre recreation, only this is much goofier in its spoofing of old spy films. Jean Dujardin really seems to be channeling Frank Drebin in his performance, and he displays that same kind of serious buffoonery that Leslie Nielsen commanded so wonderfully in the Naked Gun films. Equally as awesome. Also if you're enjoying those, you might enjoy Our Man Flint which is an actual spy movie made in 66, basically what those movies are based on (aside from the obvious Bond movies), complete with misogynistic protagonist, busty vixon villians, and
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Jul 10, 2012 16:01
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MrGreenShirt posted:Welcome to what Wii users have been dealing with for months now. I actually like a couple things they have done. The new (for me) "play next episode in 3....2...1 after something is finished thing is cool. It makes being lazy even easier.
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Jul 10, 2012 16:07
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Jay Dub posted:I watched OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies last night and enjoyed it immensely. It's from the same team behind The Artist, and it's a similar sort of loving genre recreation, only this is much goofier in its spoofing of old spy films. Jean Dujardin really seems to be channeling Frank Drebin in his performance, and he displays that same kind of serious buffoonery that Leslie Nielsen commanded so wonderfully in the Naked Gun films. I thought Lost In Rio was better. Cairo, Nest of Spies ended up being too long and slightly too legitimate of a spy story. They're both good though and I hope they make more. I love Dujardin's "spy pose" when running.
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Jul 10, 2012 16:13
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MrGreenShirt posted:Welcome to what Wii users have been dealing with for months now. The same thing happened on the 360. Apparently the point of Netflix's strategy to get itself embedded in every tv-box device was to pull the trigger at saturation and rain horrible UI down on everyone.
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Jul 10, 2012 17:25
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TheHistoryChannel posted:Watch this show and tell me that Always Sunny in Philadelphia is not a complete ripoff of it. From the titles of each episode to the music, to the characters, to the attitude, to the pacing its all the loving same. The best evidence for this is the characters Charlie and Bubbles. Charlie dresses up as green man, Bubbles dresses up as the Green Bastard. Both are dumb but lovable and get dragged into the gang's scheme's against their will. Both love animals and make their living by working with their hands. Both have lovely families and rely on their friends for support. I think you're kinda stretching here. Both have similar styles of humor, and it wouldn't surprise me if Rob and Glenn were fans of Trailer Park Boys, but I'd hardly call It's Always Sunny a "ripoff" of Trailer Park Boys.
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Jul 10, 2012 17:34
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-Atom- posted:I think everyone should give Trailer Park Boys a shot if you haven't. I've been on the fence about this for awhile now, but can never get myself to ever sit down and actually watch it for longer than five minutes without getting distracted and turning it off. Oh no...I might have the ADD!
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Jul 10, 2012 19:19
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Knightmare posted:I'm on a 24 binge myself. I stopped watching around seasons 4 or 5 during original airings I believe and haven't seen the first few seasons in forever so it's been a fun ride, up to season 3 now. Jack Bauer is such a badass, and I distinctly remember keeping a running bodycount in the TVIV threads. Season 6 is pretty fuckin bad—amazingly bad, even. I have no idea what drugs the writers were passing around to each other that year, but thankfully seasons 7 and 8 were both awesome. 24 is just so ridiculous. It's the only tv show I ever got into (although I liked the first 3 seasons of Dexter too, I just never watched the rest).
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Jul 10, 2012 22:01
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hypersleep posted:Season 6 is pretty fuckin bad—amazingly bad, even. I have no idea what drugs the writers were passing around to each other that year, but thankfully seasons 7 and 8 were both awesome. Watch Season 4 of Dexter, it's as good/better than Season 1. If you made it through Season 3 you'll for sure like Season 4. Don't bother after that, though.
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Jul 10, 2012 22:09
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24 is interesting, because they somehow went from one of the best seasons of the show (5) to probably one of the worst seasons of any show to ever air in television history (6). Yeah, Season 6 of 24 is that bad.
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Jul 10, 2012 22:26
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Season 6 just blew its load wayyy too early. They started off really loving intense, detonating a nuke in the suburbs of LA within the first few episodes. Then it just kind of fizzled out after that. I think there was a DVD released of just the first 4 episodes of that season as kind of a teaser, so if you watch that, you'd think "Holy poo poo, this is incredible! Where the hell are they going to go from here?!", and the answer turns out to be "nowhere".
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Jul 10, 2012 22:56
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Drink every time Tony shows up out of the blue
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Jul 10, 2012 23:09
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Another problem is that there don't seem to be any real repercussions to the fact that a loving NUKE JUST WENT OFF ON US SOIL. Sure, it sets up the whole "going to war" plot, but it's like everyone just forgot that, "Oh yeah, a nuke went off in the suburbs today". I mean, the entire plot of season 2 is centered around stopping a nuke, and season 6 just treats it like it's no big deal. Season 7 and 8 kind of started picking up the pieces, but by that point it just felt like it was trying to walk again after breaking every bone in its body. It also took it's "pro-torture" politics to a whole new level, and pretty much made the entire series about that. By the end of the series every character you cared about is dead except for Chloe and Jack. And in a fairly depressing manner, but surprisingly realistic representation of how he should behave after everything that has happened, Jack is left a shambling shell of a human being that's just completely beat. He is destroyed by the end of the series, everybody he has ever cared about has been murdered and his country has betrayed him and he just doesn't care about anything anymore. It's like some existential destruction of the soul, or at the very least like a Lars Von Trier film. It's really kind of heartbreaking to watch after having stuck with the series for that long.
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Knightmare posted:I'm on a 24 binge myself. I stopped watching around seasons 4 or 5 during original airings I believe and haven't seen the first few seasons in forever so it's been a fun ride, up to season 3 now. Jack Bauer is such a badass, and I distinctly remember keeping a running bodycount in the TVIV threads. The TVIV threads for 24 were awesome haha. Added a lot of fun watching the seasons as they were happening. HD is hit or miss for me on Netflix PC now despite having a consistent 2MB/s connection. They made it less functional but more 'friendly.'
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Jul 11, 2012 01:53
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Drewsky posted:Netflix on PS3 has been working really lovely for me lately. The UI is really laggy, and when playing it never really seems to get up to full HD anymore. Anyone else, or is it just something with me? I've used the app on both PS3 and Xbox. The PS3's UI has been inferior since forever as far as I'm concerned. They really need some consistency cross-platform because Xbox Netflix is great to navigate.
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Jul 11, 2012 06:01
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 Vampire Boys I found this movie about a year ago becuase of netflix streaming. Since everyone here can watch it and a lot of you are looking for something off the beaten path, I'd like to point out this hidden gem. This is not a gag poster, the movies probably extremely close to whatever you're imagining. This is essential a gay vampire romance film. That's not actually the funny part though. Whats funny is the terrible acting, the weird "deep" dialogues, and the amount of screen time devoted to vampire abs. The story is clearly meant to go along with the Twilight trend, only with gay college students, but for the life of me I can't tell if its meant to be at all ironic in that aspect. At least there's a more sexual tension between the leads in this than in the Twilight Saga, so much so in fact that it feels like this whole movie desperately wants to be a soft core porn- and gets so close, so many times, but each time it retreats back into "generic romance" territory (Though, for fair warning, there is a dick shot). Personally, I think would actually function a whole lot better if it was made into a porn. It can be hard to cope with the almost Birdemic levels of bad audio going on through the movie, and it doesn't look great, but it if I had to guess these are probably student filmmakers here, and I want to at least give them some credit for effort- I've seen worse. Like I said though, its hard for me to give a final judgement on a films quality when I can't tell how seriously it's taking itself. this can be a hilarious film to watch with friends, as long as everyone's comfortable watching something that borders on gay porn.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Season 6 just blew its load wayyy too early. They started off really loving intense, detonating a nuke in the suburbs of LA within the first few episodes. Then it just kind of fizzled out after that. Yeah the first 4 episodes lead you to believe it's going to be the most epic season of 24, and then it just fumbles around, trying to pick up the pieces of its brain. TrixRabbi posted:By the end of the series every character you cared about is dead except for Chloe and Jack. And in a fairly depressing manner, but surprisingly realistic representation of how he should behave after everything that has happened, Jack is left a shambling shell of a human being that's just completely beat. He is destroyed by the end of the series, everybody he has ever cared about has been murdered and his country has betrayed him and he just doesn't care about anything anymore. It's like some existential destruction of the soul, or at the very least like a Lars Von Trier film. It's really kind of heartbreaking to watch after having stuck with the series for that long. Well, Tony's still alive, but rotting in federal prison. So many people were pissed that they turned him into a villain in season 7, but it was a pretty natural progression of his personality. I hope they get a move on with the 24 movie, cuz Kiefer isn't getting any younger.
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Jul 11, 2012 08:01
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I watched an impressive indie thriller/drama called The Escapist last night. I only checked it out because Brian Cox was in it but maybe I was out of the loop because apparently it was the debut feature from the guy who did Rise of the Planet of the Apes last summer. You can kind of figure out where the story is going but the journey is done well enough that I enjoyed it alot.
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Jul 11, 2012 13:53
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Being a big sci-fi fan, I had watched a couple of episodes of battlestar galactica, and was liking it. Followed that up by a couple episodes of Louie, which didn't really grab me. Then I figured I would try watching an episode of breaking bad. I quickly forgot about battlestar galactica, and have been doing nothing but watching breaking bad for the past couple of days. Holy hell, it is good. Filthy Monkey fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jul 11, 2012 |
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Filthy Monkey posted:Being a big sci-fi fan, I had watched a couple of episodes of battlestar galactica, and was liking it. I loved the hell out of BSG, and I hope you go back to it at some point - it's fantastic television. I like Louie, but I can only watch it so often because it can get really depressing despite being a comedy show.
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Jul 11, 2012 15:18
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SRM posted:I loved the hell out of BSG, and I hope you go back to it at some point - it's fantastic television. I had the same feeling until they landed on New Caprica and settled in after Balter won the first election. Does it pick up? I loved every moment until the premiere of that season and almost completely lost interest.
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SRM posted:I loved the hell out of BSG, and I hope you go back to it at some point - it's fantastic television. I like Louie, but I can only watch it so often because it can get really depressing despite being a comedy show. I was one of those guys who avoided BSG for the longest time mostly because of its rabid fanbase. When I started watching about two months ago, I was honestly amazed to see that the first episode was some of the best, most convincing sci-fi that I had seen. From both a production and story standpoint, it was amazingly refined. And the show just keeps getting better until it plateaus around the end of season 3. So if you're on the fence about it and think sci-fi can at times be interesting, definitely give it a shot. But yeah, finish the Breaking Bad binge because that's about equivalent (maaaybe a bit higher) in quality, and season 5 starts Sunday sucka. EDIT: -Atom- posted:I had the same feeling until they landed on New Caprica and settled in after Balter won the first election. Well, the climax of the New Caprica plotline, "Exodus," is widely hailed as one of the best BSG episodes. And although season 4 gets a bit rocky in terms of how deep the mythology goes, the series finale is definitely worth it. f#a# fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jul 11, 2012 |
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f#a# posted:But yeah, finish the Breaking Bad binge because that's about equivalent (maaaybe a bit higher) in quality, and season 5 starts Sunday sucka. And for us suckers who rely entirely on the Internet for our TV, season 4 of Breaking Bad is coming to Instant the same day season 5 starts.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Drink every time Tony shows up out of the blue There are so many drinking games in this. Anytime they say "widen the parameters!!!". Or when Jack says "drat it!" (about 3 times per episodej). Also anytime someone slips through a perimeter. I like how in Season 1 Jack can't even escape a perimeter and by season 3 already, a wet paper towel is tougher to get through than one of their perimeters. Also if I drank everytime someone spouted some nonsensical technobabble, I'd be dead. That said, I'm still binging through this so hard. Only 100+ more hours/episodes to go. 
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24 used to be fun to watch until I found out that there are tons of people, including the makers of the show, who believe it is an accurate portrayal of the way the world works and what US policy should be. It's pretty much impossible for me to watch without feeling a little sick now, so I don't bother.
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Jul 11, 2012 16:52
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Breaking Bad and BSG both are really good. BSG is a fantastic sci-fi series that actually develops characters and presents a coherent story, with some bumps. Breaking Bad is just plain amazing on every level and its definitely worth a marathon before the next series of episodes shows up.
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Jul 11, 2012 17:04
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Filthy Monkey posted:Being a big sci-fi fan, I had watched a couple of episodes of battlestar galactica, and was liking it.  You must watch BSG.-Atom- posted:I had the same feeling until they landed on New Caprica and settled in after Balter won the first election. Season 2 was the worst and that's where I lost interest as well, but I picked it back up and loved it to the end.
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BSG is a must watch for the Adama Maneuver, Fatlee  , and of course the "amazing" finale.
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maxnmona posted:24 used to be fun to watch until I found out that there are tons of people, including the makers of the show, who believe it is an accurate portrayal of the way the world works and what US policy should be. It's pretty much impossible for me to watch without feeling a little sick now, so I don't bother. Really, it IS pretty accurate: politicians and law enforcement in 24 are often corrupt and inept, Presidents end up disgraced and all kinds of shady poo poo happens on American soil while the public is completely ignorant. Sure, the absurdity is turned up to 11, but it's still a reflection of American politics.
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Dragnet is on netflix, both the 1950's series and the 1960's series. Old though it might be, the dialogue and acting are awesome. It can be pretty dark but even when it goes into full on camp territory it is highly entertaining...As a child I grew up watching this on Nick at Nite so there's a nostalgia factor to my enjoyment but I highly recommend it to anyone who likes cop shows. From one of the more infamous (and ridiculous)episodes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0zgIzqgxFU Jack Webb on being a cop (I love this monologue for some reason): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0RAiVuBL8
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hypersleep posted:Really, it IS pretty accurate: politicians and law enforcement in 24 are often corrupt and inept, Presidents end up disgraced and all kinds of shady poo poo happens on American soil while the public is completely ignorant. Sure, the absurdity is turned up to 11, but it's still a reflection of American politics. I meant the part about how there are terrorists hiding throughout our communities and the only way to save America is to torture people and "do whatever it takes". Scalia literally cited 24 in an opinion defending torture.
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maxnmona posted:I meant the part about how there are terrorists hiding throughout our communities and the only way to save America is to torture people and "do whatever it takes". Scalia literally cited 24 in an opinion defending torture. Can't watch any legal shows for similar reasons, they're just blown way out of proportion. And now juries expect trials to be full of intrigue and drama when they're usually boring as poo poo. Also, The Weird and Wonderful Whites was great. Thanks for whoever recommended that, I remember seeing the youtube trailer a year ago and thinking that I had to eventually track that down.
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Abugadu posted:
I did all the way back on the first page along with japanese host boy documentary The Great Happiness Space which is equally fascinating.
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forever whatever posted:Dragnet is on netflix, both the 1950's series and the 1960's series. Old though it might be, the dialogue and acting are awesome. It can be pretty dark but even when it goes into full on camp territory it is highly entertaining...As a child I grew up watching this on Nick at Nite so there's a nostalgia factor to my enjoyment but I highly recommend it to anyone who likes cop shows. Awesome! I too watched Dragnet on Nick at Nite and loved it. Now where's Mr. Ed, I Dream of Jeanie, The Monkees, and My Three Sons?
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mod sassinator posted:Awesome! I too watched Dragnet on Nick at Nite and loved it. Now where's Mr. Ed, I Dream of Jeanie, The Monkees, and My Three Sons? I would love nothing more than for the entirety of the early 90's Nick at Night line up to appear on Netflix. Get Smart above all, really. Green Acres and F-Troop would be very welcome, too. I remember watching that Dragnet episode when my age was still 1 digit. It really was beyond me. Years later when I was at a local Dead cover band show and ran into the real thing, I was sort of ... mind-blown, I suppose.
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This isn't netflix but the Criterion channel on hulu has been putting up free movies sporadically. The Vanishing and Eraserhead are currently free to watch. I recommend both (and apparently Kevin Smith also recommends the Vanishing).
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