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They've added some of the original Universal horror Films - Dracula The Wolf Man The Mummy Son of Frankenstein The Mummy's Curse And if you haven't seen it - Nosferatu
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Internet Gentleman posted:They've added some of the original Universal horror Films - The Mummy's Curse is an odd pick, it's the last and by far the worst of that series.
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Sep 25, 2012 19:53
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penismightier posted:The Mummy's Curse is an odd pick, it's the last and by far the worst of that series. Agreed. Other than that it's a great selection if you like those types of movies- Nosferatu and The Wolf Man being the best in my opinion. Also The Invisible Man is another great movie if your into that genre.
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Sep 25, 2012 20:29
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They added the fantastic Sherlock season Two. The first episode is loving great AND tense.
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Sep 25, 2012 22:48
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Internet Gentleman posted:They've added some of the original Universal horror Films - At least some of these have been up for a while. I still need to see Bride, dammit. Seconding The Invisible Man, pre-code film at its finest. Fun fact: The love interest is played by Gloria Stuart, who came seemingly out of nowhere for many people in 1997 to play present-day Rose in Titanic. Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Sep 25, 2012 |
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Sep 25, 2012 22:56
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meanolmrcloud posted:Holy cow The Yellow Sea is freaking incredible. It's very refreshing to see an action movie that is well done yet retain a lot of the disbelief required for action superheroics. After the second 15 min insanity-run-for-your-life scene and the 3rd 2 dozen person knife melee, you understand the movie is just nuts and really godammn cool. Brutal as hell too.
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Sep 26, 2012 03:29
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Discount Viscount posted:Seconding The Invisible Man, pre-code film at its finest. Fun fact: The love interest is played by Gloria Stuart, who came seemingly out of nowhere for many people in 1997 to play present-day Rose in Titanic.  I happened to watch that the other day... From what I remember of the book, they expanded the story quite a bit. Thirded.
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Sep 26, 2012 03:37
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Cross posting from the Horror Megathread: so The Corridor was an amazingly thrilling movie. First half is more of a drama really. Friends get together after one of them has a psychotic break and try to rebuild their friendship and each other. It slowly breaks down into a tense and suspenseful movie of paranoia and insanity. Not much gore in it which actually made the few blood scenes all that much worse. Because you're not being bombarded everywhere with blood spatter and gruesome murders, it becomes so much more shocking when the blood flows. If you like your movies to explain what the hell just happened you're gonna be disappointed. There's no answers anywhere about anything. To be honest, I don't even think the makers of the movie have an idea of anything. They just wanted to tell a suspenseful story and they did it. Highly recommend it.
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Sep 26, 2012 06:52
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der juicen posted:They added the fantastic Sherlock season Two. The first episode is loving great AND tense. Yes it is. S2/Ep2 is a bit of a letdown though, not bad, just doesn't match the quality of previous episodes.
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Sep 26, 2012 07:38
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wormil posted:Yes it is. S2/Ep2 is a bit of a letdown though, not bad, just doesn't match the quality of previous episodes. Apparently the formula for Sherlock seasons is Good Lead-in -> Weak Middle -> Holy poo poo YES
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Sep 26, 2012 07:41
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Leaving streaming soon: The Cable Guy Play Misty for Me Breakfast at Tiffany's The Secret of Kells Platoon Don't Look Now Brick Ronin The Rules of Attraction Buffalo '66 A Shot in the Dark
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Sep 26, 2012 10:33
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If you haven't yet, see The Secret of Kells. Bit light on plot, but it's still enjoyable, and holy gently caress is it gorgeous.
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Sep 26, 2012 10:44
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The Cable Guy is also great, and a brilliant satire of entertainment culture. Probably Ben Stiller's best movie, but it's not as funny as Zoolander or Tropic Thunder. Definitely give it a watch, if only for the Medieval Times sequence.
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Sep 26, 2012 13:50
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Man, Netflix is teaching me that 90s thrillers are instantly antiquated, because in about half of them all the suspense comes from the difficulty of either getting to a working phone or the ability to copy/upload a text file in a reasonable amount of time.
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Sep 26, 2012 14:20
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kuddles posted:Man, Netflix is teaching me that 90s thrillers are instantly antiquated, because in about half of them all the suspense comes from the difficulty of either getting to a working phone or the ability to copy/upload a text file in a reasonable amount of time. Loading "SENDHELP.TXT" - Progress: =====___________ @14.4 kb/s
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Sep 26, 2012 14:43
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Brick is a stupendous neo-noir with a great performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the guy behind it, Rian Johnson, has a new movie (Looper) coming out so it's nice to get caught up on his ouvre.
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Sep 26, 2012 15:19
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:The wife and I were doing Halloween activities with the kids all day, coloring skeletons, making potion bottles, etc. We were in the mood for a horror movie so we watched Creepshow 2. Good, clean, halloween fun. I tell her she get next pick. She puts on The Audition. Watched that movie late at night with my wife sleeping in the bedroom. When I went to bed I lay there unable to sleep, sure that she would kill me in my sleep. Had to wake her up and make her promise not to kill me. To this day, it's the only horror movie that has left me scared after the movie was over.
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Sep 26, 2012 22:38
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And she keeps looking at me saying
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Wolfsheim posted:Apparently the formula for Sherlock seasons is Good Lead-in -> Weak Middle -> Holy poo poo YES Moriarty is loving scary.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Brick is a stupendous neo-noir with a great performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the guy behind it, Rian Johnson, has a new movie (Looper) coming out so it's nice to get caught up on his ouvre. Brick is awesome, and not only because the director is one of the only other people I've ever seen who spells their name like I do.
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Sep 27, 2012 01:20
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Yay the day is here. Bumping this back up because Klown is hands down the funniest movie I've seen this year. Check this one out, but be warned its really raunchy (and hilarious).
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mod sassinator posted:Bumping this back up because Klown is hands down the funniest movie I've seen this year. Check this one out, but be warned its really raunchy (and hilarious). Because of it, I know how to say "Tour de Pussy" in Danish
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Sep 27, 2012 06:13
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Slums of Beverly Hills is on Netflix. Really good late 90s dramady. Plus, Natasha Lyonne and Marisa Tomei are both in it and uhh...yeah. That should be enough reason to watch. Lots of boobs goin' on 'round hyea. EDIT: It reminds me of Little Miss Sunshine in tone. Donovan Trip fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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Sep 27, 2012 08:10
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echronorian posted:Slums of Beverly Hills is on Netflix. Really good late 90s dramady. Plus, Natasha Lyonne and Marisa Tomei are both in it and uhh...yeah. That should be enough reason to watch. Lots of boobs goin' on 'round hyea. Yep, I mentioned it earlier. Lots of late '90s nostalgia for me, odd for a movie set in the late '70s. Heh, Also, I happened to watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi last night and it was just utterly fantastic. One of the best documentaries I've see on any subject in a while. Really gorgeous, perfect little film. It was one of those rare films that I had no particular desire to see, no expectation of actually watching the whole thing, and I didn't expect it to be all that great. And yet from the moment I turned it on until it ended an hour and a half later, I was raptly absorbed in the film and didn't even turn it off once. I almost found it spiritual. It also reminded me very strongly of my own family in many unexpected ways, and I think other people would have similar experiences. I couldn't recommend Jiro highly enough.
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Sep 27, 2012 10:41
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Don't know how long it's been up, but Headhunters is on instant. It's a really solid 2011 Norwegian thriller starring Jamie Lannister. It's about a corporate recruiter who steals fine art from his clients' houses but one day steals from the wrong dude.
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Sep 27, 2012 12:31
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kaworu posted:Also, I happened to watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi last night and it was just utterly fantastic. One of the best documentaries I've see on any subject in a while. Really gorgeous, perfect little film. It was one of those rare films that I had no particular desire to see, no expectation of actually watching the whole thing, and I didn't expect it to be all that great. And yet from the moment I turned it on until it ended an hour and a half later, I was raptly absorbed in the film and didn't even turn it off once. I almost found it spiritual. It also reminded me very strongly of my own family in many unexpected ways, and I think other people would have similar experiences. I couldn't recommend Jiro highly enough. Agreed. I have zero interest in sushi, but it was still fascinating. It's less about the food and more about people devoting their entire lives to endless hard work on a single thing, from the people making sushi, to the guy who is an expert in buying tuna. It's a movie that will make you feel lazy no matter how hard you work.
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Sep 27, 2012 14:58
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Everyone should also watch the rest of the Drafthouse Films that were added to Netflix like Four Lions, Bullhead (Oscar Nominee!), and of course everyone's favorite Rocky/DDR movie, The FP.
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maxnmona posted:Agreed. I have zero interest in sushi, but it was still fascinating. It's less about the food and more about people devoting their entire lives to endless hard work on a single thing, from the people making sushi, to the guy who is an expert in buying tuna. Yeah, for sure. As I perceived it, it's largely about how certain people have this... innate desire to not just succeed at their craft, but to constantly surpass others at until they are the best. And if that's achieved, then they strive to constantly surpass themselves as much as possible. There really are people like that in pretty much every field/hobby/profession - not just Jiro. But it takes a very certain, very particular kind of person to want to live that way. And they usually tend to be very difficult, almost dysfunctional individuals when it comes to how they handle relationships and family. Anyway, the documentary's not just because of the way it raises and explores these sorts of questions, but because it's also very beautifully shot and presented and paced and put together. It has a very lovely and appropriate Philip Glass score - it's almost a cliche to me that great documentaries inevitably are set to Philip Glass music. Probably that's just mostly because of his connection with Errol Morris, heh. Oh, and I actually do like sushi quite a bit and this films could definitely be described as, like, sushi pornography. In a good way. And also fascinating to watch as an American because you get to see things like how the Japanese fish markets in Tokyo look and how they operate, which is really freaking cool. So uh, yeah. If you have any interest in sushi you NEED to see this. If you don't much care about sushi but like watching great documentaries, then you should see it too, like maxnmona said. Although it will make you feel like a lazy gently caress for not working 7 days a week 18 hours a day for 60 straight years with no time off whatsoever except for individual national holidays. Incidentally, that's sort of the meaning of the title, "Jiro Dreams of Sushi". Despite living his life like that working exclusively on making sushi the entire time, he says he would still think about new and better ways to make sushi in his dreams. That's devotion.
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The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth expire soon in case anyone wants to relive their childhood memories of getting scarred for life by a legitimately awesome movie and a camp awesome movie, respectively. And a lot of stuff expires Oct 1, including: 12 Monkeys, one of the greatest sci-fi films ever Ronin, in which Robert De Niro does things. Red Dawn: WOLVERINES A Shot in the Dark, a comedy with Peter Sellers Sleeper, one of Woody Allen's finest comedies Syriana, also a hilarious movie The Terminator, a little known action film that didn't get a lot of traction in popular culture but that is definitely worth watching for its insightful comments on important themes like fate and whether Austrians are actually human or just evil robots Wild African Cats - Wild Cats , a documentary which I know nothing about but that's a title for the loving ages, isn't it? No beating around the bush there.
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The Terminator has been on instant for a billion years, it's probably gonna pop right back up when it gets taken off.
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Knightmare posted:I just got an email that Weeds season 7 is up, which seemed pretty quick. I thought S6 was a slight improvement and I'll burn through S7 soon enough, is it decent or does it take a nosedive? S6 is BY FAR the worst one.
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WickedIcon posted:The Terminator has been on instant for a billion years, it's probably gonna pop right back up when it gets taken off.
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Sep 28, 2012 12:51
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They added both Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared today so if you want to see one one of the best shows ever and a pretty good and underrated Comedy, watch them.
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Sep 28, 2012 18:15
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Wilhelm Scream posted:They added both Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared today so if you want to see one one of the best shows ever and a pretty good and underrated Comedy, watch them. HOLY poo poo. HOLY poo poo HOLY poo poo. F&G is my favorite dramedy ever.
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Wilhelm Scream posted:They added both Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared today so if you want to see one one of the best shows ever and a pretty good and underrated Comedy, watch them. "Guess what was sitting at the end of my Instant Queue this morning?" "A turd?" Freaks and Geeks is loving great.
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PonchAxis posted:Everyone should also watch the rest of the Drafthouse Films that were added to Netflix like Four Lions, Bullhead (Oscar Nominee!), and of course everyone's favorite Rocky/DDR movie, The FP. Bullhead is a really good film, reminded me of Shame in many ways in terms of the tormented protagonist.
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PonchAxis posted:Everyone should also watch the rest of the Drafthouse Films that were added to Netflix like Four Lions... I've had this in my queue for awhile and finally got around to watching it today. I knew the negotiator looked familiar, but didn't realize until the credits that it was Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Ratatozsk posted:I've had this in my queue for awhile and finally got around to watching it today. I knew the negotiator looked familiar, but didn't realize until the credits that it was Benedict Cumberbatch. And the moral of the story is a great tragedy could be prevented by watching more Star Wars.
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I watched Strike last night and loved it. It's about a Polish factory worker (Katharina Thalbach) who ends up leading a strike. It also has Dominique Horwitz in it (he played Fritz in Stalingrad, which is sadly not available on instant).
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