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Flippycunt posted:Why? To have a place on the Internet for ladies to casually mention their videogame-playing boyfriend at every opportunity? For anyone looking for a really smart and low-key horror flick in the week before Halloween, I really recommend Lake Mungo. Low on scares, but a drat good movie in its own right. Ignore the horrible cover with the screaming girl, this is a classy production all the way through.
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Oct 26, 2012 02:48
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They just added The Artist, it's cute as a button and has one of the best movie dogs ever. Also, if you hate yourself they have Dreams From My Real Father, the "documentary" about how Obama's dad was actually a communist radical who indoctrinated him as a child and his mom was in bondage porn or something. I live in Florida so I got one of these in the mail thanks to some anonymous corporation sponsoring its distribution, it's so lovely that the actual Republican Party distanced themselves from it and any plans involving distributing it. Farbtoner fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Oct 26, 2012 |
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Oct 26, 2012 02:58
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Farbtoner posted:They just added The Artist, it's cute as a button and has one of the best movie dogs ever. I was just about to post this. What a wonderful, wonderful movie! I only wish Man of the Century was still on instant. Now THAT would make for an amazing double-feature!
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Oct 26, 2012 03:00
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MrGreenShirt posted:I was just about to post this. What a wonderful, wonderful movie! I only wish Man of the century was still on instant. Now THAT would make for an amazing double-feature! They still have the OSS movies, they're more outright satirical but they're pretty much to Connery/Moore Bond films what The Artist is to silent pictures, and they share the same lead actor 
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Oct 26, 2012 03:02
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Farbtoner posted:They still have the OSS movies, they're more outright satirical but they're pretty much to Connery/Moore Bond films what The Artist is to silent pictures, and they share the same lead actor    
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Oct 26, 2012 03:11
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Is this briefly a Dujardin appreciation thread? Can I join?  The OSS 117 movies are great. Every time someone mentions them I have to watch them again.
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Oct 26, 2012 03:24
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Jean Dujardin is seriously the most charming man in the entire world.
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Oct 26, 2012 03:26
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Wow, the comments for The Artist have people complaining that the aspect ratio is "cropped". Well, at least people care.
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Oct 26, 2012 03:44
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I just rejoined Netflix after a year or two without it. Due to desktop trouble I'm just using an ipad now and finding browsing less helpful than it used to be. Do I have this on child settings or is there no way to sort when browsing? I'd like to sort by avg. review or "recommended for me", but the default order seems very random. And didn't they used to include more info than just the poster image when browsing, like maybe the stars underneath? Also, did they remove the "not interested" button or do I have to 1 star everything I'm not interested in? Signed, Confused
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Oct 26, 2012 05:12
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BAMBINO, BAMBINO! I am so glad The Artist is finally on Netflix. Well, there's one movie is also on Netflix but no one cares about, it's Mirror Mirror, the not-so-good Snow White movie. You should watch it if you have a lot of free time.
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Oct 26, 2012 05:25
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Oct 26, 2012 05:34
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Harminoff posted:True story, I had an english teacher in High School that was going through a divorce so every day we watched an episode of X-Files. For an entire year. Our only graded work was a weekly assignment of writing about our thoughts on the episodes we watched that week. I had a French teacher that was so lazy we'd occasionally watch films in Spanish if she forgot to grab a tape. On a related not, I can't speak any French.
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Oct 26, 2012 05:40
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Harminoff posted:True story, I had an english teacher in High School that was going through a divorce so every day we watched an episode of X-Files. For an entire year. Our only graded work was a weekly assignment of writing about our thoughts on the episodes we watched that week. And what did you learn from that class? ... trust no 1. 
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Oct 26, 2012 05:42
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Farbtoner posted:They just added The Artist, it's cute as a button and has one of the best movie dogs ever. Definitely a cute movie, but I do not think it deserved the Best Picture win.
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Oct 26, 2012 12:38
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Snowy posted:I just rejoined Netflix after a year or two without it. Due to desktop trouble I'm just using an ipad now and finding browsing less helpful than it used to be. Do I have this on child settings or is there no way to sort when browsing? I'd like to sort by avg. review or "recommended for me", but the default order seems very random. And didn't they used to include more info than just the poster image when browsing, like maybe the stars underneath? I've noticed that when I add something to my queue I no longer get suggestions of similar films. Does anybody know whether that's an issue with settings or whether they dropped that feature?
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Oct 26, 2012 13:40
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MeaningOfLife posted:Well, there's one movie is also on Netflix but no one cares about, it's Mirror Mirror, the not-so-good Snow White movie. You should watch it if you have a lot of free time. To be fair, Snow White & The Huntsman is the 'not so good' Snow White movie. Mirror Mirror is the 'middling but surprisingly decent' Snow White movie.
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Oct 26, 2012 14:50
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Jay Dub posted:To be fair, Snow White & The Huntsman is the 'not so good' Snow White movie. Mirror Mirror is the 'middling but surprisingly decent' Snow White movie. You forgot "with truly outstanding costuming".
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Oct 26, 2012 15:53
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Pick posted:You forgot "with truly outstanding costuming". Oh yeah. It's basically Snow White Costumes: The Movie. If nothing else, Tarsem Singh's visual design is the saving grace of that film.
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Oct 26, 2012 16:20
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Mirror Mirror is lame for the first ten minutes, then turns into Monty Python meets Sergei Parajadnov for the rest. Mostly awesome.
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Oct 27, 2012 02:16
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Snowy posted:I just rejoined Netflix after a year or two without it. Due to desktop trouble I'm just using an ipad now and finding browsing less helpful than it used to be. Do I have this on child settings or is there no way to sort when browsing? I'd like to sort by avg. review or "recommended for me", but the default order seems very random. And didn't they used to include more info than just the poster image when browsing, like maybe the stars underneath? The interface is platform dependant so it'll be different between ipad, android, roku, xbox, pc, etc. My wife has an ipad but I never use it but some of of those features are available on other devices.
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Oct 27, 2012 02:28
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Farbtoner posted:They still have the OSS movies, they're more outright satirical but they're pretty much to Connery/Moore Bond films what The Artist is to silent pictures, and they share the same lead actor The OSS movies are amazing sort of like a live action version of the brilliant absurdity and satire in the Archer TV series.
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Oct 27, 2012 04:39
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So I just discovered The Killing, and in the span of three days it went from "incredible and full of promise" to "the most infuriating thing I have seen on Netflix." I thought it was a meditative and atmospheric look at how tragic death impacts both personal lives and entire communities, but it turns out that it's just an episode of Law and Order stretched out to--I'm guessing--24 episodes (I gave up at episode 13).
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Oct 27, 2012 04:43
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Jack Gladney posted:So I just discovered The Killing, and in the span of three days it went from "incredible and full of promise" to "the most infuriating thing I have seen on Netflix." The Killing is loving awful. I feel bad for you for discovering it so late and still get tricked into investing time into it, but then I remember following it week in and week out during the first season run.
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Oct 27, 2012 07:14
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I legitimately feel lovely for not being able to somehow warn you not to watch that festering puddle of poo poo. It's 24 episodes of fake outs and in the end you find out the aunt put the car in neutral and let it roll into the lake to end some dumb argument about how to dispose of the body, not knowing it was Rosie in the trunk. It loving sucked. Truther Vandross fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Oct 27, 2012 |
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Oct 27, 2012 07:30
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It was honestly kinda stunning that Veena Sud somehow did not loving realize that you cannot stretch one single, core mystery (that isn't even particularly interesting in the first place) and stretch it out over 2 seasons. And then have the idiocy not to realize that if you don't build that initial mystery off of a greater mystery (and solve the initial mystery quickly and in good faith to your audience) then your show will fail miserably. This is something that Twin Peaks should have amply proven to everyone. And most genre mystery shows figured this out, at the VERY least. So in this case, if your initial mystery-premise is "who killed Rosie Larsen?" then it needs to be only the jumping off point, not the basis for all the loving mystery in the entire expected run of the show. You should be solving that initial mystery in maybe 2-6 episodes, depending on how you want to do things, and then rolling it up into greater mysteries. For instance, you can go the supernatural route, and we find out that the definitive answer to 'who killed Rosie Larsen' makes no sense within the accepted physical laws of the universe, somehow - that's an even greater mystery. Lost went a route sort of like that in its first season, with a ton of early success. Or you could quickly answer that question in a way that makes sense, but have it be part of some greater conspiracy that has much farther-reaching ramifications than the death of one girl. And what really galls me about The Killing is that they could have done this - they even had this whole subplot about the campaign, and I felt sure they even had that subplot in the first place because they were ultimately going to gave the show a wider focus and maybe make it about some greater, more interesting issue than the death of a single girl. But nope! Sud hosed all of this up, and then hilariously claimed it was all on purpose and that everyone who didn't like the show were idiots who had no appreciation for slow-paced, intelligent, thoughtful television. Yikes.
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I was honestly fine with a slow story as long as I thought that it was just a bunch of character pieces, that the teacher obviously didn't do it but the show was exploring the consequences of him being thought a suspect, maybe with an option where more unrelated crimes get exposed. I thought racism was going to be a big thematic element and the show would just be about the community and how developments in one place have unexpected consequences for another. Then it became obvious that the show was really all about who did it and all that poo poo was just an endless stream of fakeouts, and even the detective's relationship with her fiancee and the dude's AA meetings were just a bunch of fakeouts and not about developing character at all. That series finale sounds like the dumbest loving thing, and the fact that I can half-follow it having only seen the first half of the series tells me how unsatisfying everything about the show is. Still, I am so grateful to have watched it in two evenings and had my enthusiasm killed so quickly instead of over the course of an entire season (with a huge BSG-style break, I'm guessing).
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Oct 27, 2012 18:39
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kaworu posted:It was honestly kinda stunning that Veena Sud somehow did not loving realize that you cannot stretch one single, core mystery (that isn't even particularly interesting in the first place) and stretch it out over 2 seasons. And then have the idiocy not to realize that if you don't build that initial mystery off of a greater mystery (and solve the initial mystery quickly and in good faith to your audience) then your show will fail miserably. This is something that Twin Peaks should have amply proven to everyone. And most genre mystery shows figured this out, at the VERY least.
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Oct 27, 2012 18:53
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I could have watched unlimited amounts of Twin Peaks without ever knowing who the killer was. Just watching all the weird characters do their things was enough for me.
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Oct 27, 2012 18:59
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Honestly, I really would have been furious if Twin Peaks had ended without ever revealing the killer (and the reveal was absolutely perfect). But it definitely revealed it too soon without properly preparing for a follow up plot. I haven't watched The Killing and now never plan to. So thanks for the warning, I guess.
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Oct 27, 2012 20:50
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How big is the selection? Been considering signing up because of the price but when I pressed "Browse selection" there were only a few movies. Maybe 'cos England.
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Oct 28, 2012 13:34
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Sarchasm posted:For anyone looking for a really smart and low-key horror flick in the week before Halloween, I really recommend Lake Mungo. Low on scares, but a drat good movie in its own right. Ignore the horrible cover with the screaming girl, this is a classy production all the way through.  Was the family name 'Palmer' a homage to Twin Peaks?
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Oct 28, 2012 15:53
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I'll go ahead and recommend Velvet Goldmine is on there it's a older classic cultish movie. I didn't even realize they had it on there ( have PS3 have to search). It's really really good if you want to see a nonlinear rock opera.
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Oct 28, 2012 17:33
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Sons of Anarchy season 4 is now up hell yeah!
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Oct 28, 2012 19:56
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Hollis posted:I'll go ahead and recommend Velvet Goldmine is on there it's a older classic cultish movie. I didn't even realize they had it on there ( have PS3 have to search). It's really really good if you want to see a nonlinear rock opera. I should also add that if you're a slightly repressed LGBT teenage boy/young man and are looking for a really well done and properly made pseudo-fictionalized cult docu-drama about a hypothetical love affair between David Bowie (played by a stunningly beautiful young Johnathan Rhys Meyers) and an amalgamation of Iggy Pop and Lou Reed (played a stunningly handsome young Ewan MacGregor). Oh, and Christian Bale's in there too playing gay and looking very serious as he provides a mostly unnecessary framing device for the story. It's one of Todd Haynes earlier efforts and it definitely carries all the flaws and excesses of his work, so it's not as if it's a flawlessly made film, or even a very good film, by many standards. But if you're interested in the subject matter of '70s glam rock, or enjoy watching the rare mainstream-ish movie where the characters are gay by default instead of straight by default... or if you just want to watch a movie with lots of absurdly attractive guys in sexy clothes singing and cavorting and making out and such.... then go for it! Oh, and it's got incredibly awesome music. If I'm being honest then I have to say that I spent more time listening to the soundtrack than watching the film.
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Oct 28, 2012 21:18
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Cormack posted:Sons of Anarchy season 4 is now up hell yeah! Sweet. Real guilty pleasure.
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Oct 28, 2012 21:43
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I gotta ask: does it pick up after Season 3? I quite liked Seasons 1 and 2, they're some good trashy TV but Season 3 is some of the crappiest melodrama I've seen in a while.
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Oct 28, 2012 21:49
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I gotta ask: does it pick up after Season 3? I quite liked Seasons 1 and 2, they're some good trashy TV but Season 3 is some of the crappiest melodrama I've seen in a while. Ahahah. No. Season 4 and the current are so awful. It's easily one of the worst shows on TV at this point.
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Oct 28, 2012 21:55
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That bums me out, Season 1 and 2 are goofy as hell but they're not outright bad like Season 3.
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Season 4 and 5 are definitely bad, but they're at least better than season 3. I hate Jax, Tara, Gemma, and Clay so much. If it wasn't for Chibs, Tig, Juice, Opie, and Bobby Elvis I'd just give up on it completely.
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