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"We Have a Pope" is on Netflix. It's a pretty interesting comedy about a Pope who takes off after being elected at the conclave.
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OK Octopus posted:Oh my God, you guys. The post-apocalyptic DDR movie, "The FP," is on insant. Oh my god. Pretty much any movie released by the awesome Alamo Drafthouse seems to make it to instant. Klown is being added in 3 days. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
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I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but Jiro Dreams Of Sushi was pretty awesome.
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Big Centipede posted:I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but Jiro Dreams Of Sushi was pretty awesome. Straight up sushi porn.
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Sep 25, 2012 08:33
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Said it in the other Netflix thread, but Klown has just been added. It's currently pending an American remake starring Danny McBride, but there's no way it will be anywhere near as crass as the hilarious original. It's like an hour and a half episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that's rated NC-17.
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Sep 25, 2012 15:14
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If you want to laugh at the irony of a team of gays making someone look fashionable almost a decade ago so they look kinda passe and silly in frayed jeans, giant belt buckles and choker necklaces, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is up.
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Sep 25, 2012 16:03
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bonzaisushi posted:Straight up sushi porn. It's also a fascinating look in to a very specific mentality.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It's also a fascinating look in to a very specific mentality. Whose mentality? As food porn, top notch. Great lighting and sound track and slow motion shots. But in terms of looking at a subject from many contexts and perspectives, it felt... flat. Maybe if they interviewed more than his sons and that food writer? I don't know, it just didn't hold my attention as a character study.
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Sep 25, 2012 17:58
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Battle Royale is up if you don't mind the subtitles.
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I've been waiting on Downton Abbey season 2 forever. After a quick Google search, I can't seem to find any concrete release dates. Is it even coming to Netflix?
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TheBigAristotle posted:I've been waiting on Downton Abbey season 2 forever. It is on Amazon Instant Streaming, if you have access to that.
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North Face (Nordwand) is a great German film about a Pre-World War II attempt to climb the north wall of the Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps. It's a well-put-together historical fiction, and will have your nails dug into your chair. I recommend checking out some wikipedia pages about the incident afterwards to appreciate how accurately the movie portrays things. I've been reading about dangerous mountain-climbing expeditions non-stop lately; so exciting. Escanaba in da Moonlight is a odd thing. Stars Jeff Daniels. I haven't seen it recently enough to get into details, but it's kind of a weird, supernatural comedy about a family out on a hunting trip. Daniels' character is haunted by the shame of being a 43 year old who's never bagged a buck. Captain Lavender has a new favorite as of 01:54 on Sep 28, 2012 |
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Sep 28, 2012 01:52
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"Freaks and Geeks" is FINALLY on instant: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Freaks_and_Geeks/70253797 I don't think there's any need to convince anyone to see this - it should be self-evident.
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I already own the full Freaks and Geeks series on dvd, but I just know I'm going to rewatch it on instant. I did the same for Arrested Development. Watched Valhalla Rising the other day, really good film. Basically its about a prisoner who kills his captors and, for some reason, joins a bunch of christian crusaders who journey to the homeland. It's a real dark viking tale, very much worth it. If you're into dark medieval films, check out Black Death and Ironclad. Anyone have any more recommendations like that?
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I just saw that they added Kevin Pollak's standup show. He's seriously one of my favorite comedians/writers/funnymen I'm so goshdanged happy right now.
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casual poster posted:I already own the full Freaks and Geeks series on dvd, but I just know I'm going to rewatch it on instant. I did the same for Arrested Development. Season of the Witch. Its got Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman loving poo poo up medieval style. Its kind of ridiculous, but still good. Also has anyone noticed instantwatcher seems to be missing poo poo lately? Or is Netflix just deciding to suddenly throw poo poo out there without telling anybody?
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Sizzler Manager posted:"Freaks and Geeks" is FINALLY on instant: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Freaks_and_Geeks/70253797 I am definitely going to be tearing through this again, just to get depressed all over again when it ends.
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Late last night, my fiance and I decided to pop a random horror movie on Netflix. Now, I never expect too much from a random Netflix horror movie. Most of them that I've seen tend to be pretty formulaic and bland - the type of poo poo that The Cabin in the Woods was clearly written in parody of. However, last night, the one that we chose was Grave Encounters. And, despite being another low-budget "shaky-cam" horror movie, it was... actually really loving good. The first act of the movie is a rather blatant, and occasionally brilliant, parody of the TV show Ghost Adventures. After that, though, it takes a pretty sharp turn into SCP Foundation exploration log/House of Leaves territory. (Minor spoiler, helpful if you want to get a feel for what the movie's about, but spoilered just in case you want to go in fresh.) So if you're in the mood for not sleeping and/or being deathly afraid of indoor spaces for a while, and don't mind the whole shaky-cam thing, I highly recommend it.
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fosborb posted:Whose mentality? Jiro's. I think that perhaps the reason that it doesn't hold attention as a character study is because there is very little to Jiro's character, at this point, outside of his effort to perfect his craft.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Jiro's. Trying not to derail but I must say that by the end of JDoS I was much more interested in the eldest son than Jiro. It seems he's more Jiro than Jiro now.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Pretty much any movie released by the awesome Alamo Drafthouse seems to make it to instant.
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Echo Chamber posted:"We Have a Pope" is on Netflix. It's a pretty interesting comedy about a Pope who takes off after being elected at the conclave. Oh, I'd been waiting to see this! It was really good. Loved the volleyball.
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Has anyone else watched The Corridor? I found it browsing through the horror category and decided I'd give it a whirl. It just finished and I honestly can't decide if it's one of the worst horror flicks I've seen, or if I just completely failed to get it.
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No, you got it, it's just horrible.
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Merou posted:Season of the Witch. Its got Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman loving poo poo up medieval style. Its kind of ridiculous, but still good.
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bonestructure posted:Has anyone else watched The Corridor? I found it browsing through the horror category and decided I'd give it a whirl. It just finished and I honestly can't decide if it's one of the worst horror flicks I've seen, or if I just completely failed to get it. I watched this over the weekend and it started out interesting but by the end I just had no idea what was going on. I'm sure that's supposed to happen but I felt pretty unsatisfied with the ending. As far as I could tell the "corridor" caused everyone's "wires to get crossed" so they all started experiencing the main character's insanity but I think that was the fairly obvious part. I have no idea what his mom had to do with anything.
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bonestructure posted:Has anyone else watched The Corridor? I found it browsing through the horror category and decided I'd give it a whirl. It just finished and I honestly can't decide if it's one of the worst horror flicks I've seen, or if I just completely failed to get it. Liku posted:No, you got it, it's just horrible. Really? I rather enjoyed the movie. I thought it did a great job of building tension and paranoia. When every one else started going crazy I was genuinely scared and in awe. It doesn't explain anything which is a downside to it but I think everything else was just great. bleedbackwards posted:I watched this over the weekend and it started out interesting but by the end I just had no idea what was going on. I'm sure that's supposed to happen but I felt pretty unsatisfied with the ending. As far as I could tell the "corridor" caused everyone's "wires to get crossed" so they all started experiencing the main character's insanity but I think that was the fairly obvious part. I have no idea what his mom had to do with anything. I think that the mom he killed in the beginning was just a doppelganger and the version he sees through the rest of the movie is the real one trying to warn them.
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Daedra posted:This man is a terrible liar. Season of the Witch is one of the worst movies I've seen. It's by no means a good movie but I thought a lot of the cinematography was strangely above average. It's not a terrible movie, but it does take a serious nosedive in the last 30 or so minutes. I'll watch anything with Nic Cage in it, though...
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hypersleep posted:It's by no means a good movie but I thought a lot of the cinematography was strangely above average. It's not a terrible movie, but it does take a serious nosedive in the last 30 or so minutes. The movie is mediocre at best, but Cage makes it fun. In a few scenes his helmet is too large and wobbles around.
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Newest seasons of The Office and 30 Rock are up, I will probably be done with these by the end of the week.
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Kind Milkman posted:The movie is mediocre at best, but Cage makes it fun. In a few scenes his helmet is too large and wobbles around. I thought I made it clear when I said Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman people would know it wasn't exactly plot magic or anything. They're crusading knights out to stop some witches. Who wouldn't want to see that?
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Volume posted:Really? I rather enjoyed the movie. I thought it did a great job of building tension and paranoia. When every one else started going crazy I was genuinely scared and in awe. It doesn't explain anything which is a downside to it but I think everything else was just great. It starts off pretty good and the photography is nice, but I stopped really caring when the Corridor literally turns out to be some "box of energy" from someone's first rendering project and the plot just kinda goes to poo poo after that. I just completely lost interest a little bit in.
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Yeah, the budget limitations certainly didn't help... the bald cap makeup on Aging Jock Friend was so ridiculous that the first time he showed up in it, I thought it was supposed to be a joke. It wasn't even community-theater bad, it was high-school class play bad, the bald cap looked like the kind you could buy from the back pages of a comic book for 99 cents. And the corridor effect looked like something out of an old Doctor Who episode. The photography was good and the acting was mostly good, though, which is why I kept watching it; the guy playing Tyler (the crazy one) really sold his performance, most of the actors were fine individually, but they just didn't seem to work as an ensemble. I never got any sense for why these guys were ever friends, or why their friendship was important enough for them to want to try to rekindle it. And the second-act switch into Grand Guignol bloodshed was too sudden to be believable for me, it didn't even work by its own internal logic. Okay, the corridor made them all "catch" Ty's craziness, but I'm pretty sure paranoid schizophrenia doesn't give you superhero powers, like being able to sit quietly and let your friend loving scalp you without so much as flinching from pain. I wrote it off as a good cast that was wasted on an incoherent and muddled story and bad practical and CGI effects.
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Hey So far, aside from Jessica Biel, "the Smoking Man", Ellen from Supernatural, and "The Red-Haired Man" from x-files are in this. Oh yeah, that girl that always plays creepy kids is in it, too. The one that played Alyssa in the original Silent Hill movie. Edit: Aaaand, this movie Bored has a new favorite as of 02:45 on Oct 8, 2012 |
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I randomly pulled up What Dreams May Come because it had Robin Williams and I was tired of watching Toys. I was not prepared for that  .
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The Midnight Pulp channel on Roku just got a new movie in called "Return to Blood Fart Lake'. Looking forward to this one. From what the channel tells me, it's a 'blood & corn filled sequel' to the original Blood Fart Lake. Moderator please rename me to blood fart lake. me your dad has a new favorite as of 23:37 on Oct 7, 2012 |
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Bored posted:Hey I actually just popped this one on last night. I wouldn't say that it sucks; it just suffers from two major problems: a highly implausible narrative, and the fact that it turns out to be something completely different than what it sets itself up to be. If you can put up with those issues while watching it, you'll find a pretty scathing critique of America's class division headed by a surprisingly competent performance from Jessica Biel.
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Devil Wears Wings posted:... you'll find a pretty scathing critique of America's class division headed by a surprisingly competent performance from Jessica Biel. I agree with that, but it took soooo long to get there. Jessica Biel is generally a pretty competent actress. She just unfortunately got her start on 7th heaven. I'll always respect her for how she got out of her contract with that show, though. It was pretty clever.
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