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Waaaaaaaaait wait wait....the guy who made American Horror Story is the same guy who made Glee?!
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Waaaaaaaaait wait wait....the guy who made American Horror Story is the same guy who made Glee?! Yes, two campy over the top shows were made by the same guy.
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Dec 19, 2012 17:01
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Waaaaaaaaait wait wait....the guy who made American Horror Story is the same guy who made Glee?! Yeah, Glee actually helps contextualize AHS a bit.
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Dec 19, 2012 17:30
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Waaaaaaaaait wait wait....the guy who made American Horror Story is the same guy who made Glee?! I can't imagine watching those two shows and not immediately understanding that they are made by the same person. Maybe it's just because I've been witness to his recent career progression of Nip/Tuck > Glee > American Horror Story > The New Normal.
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Dec 19, 2012 17:42
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maxnmona posted:http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/11/26/121126crte_television_nussbaum Thanks for the link. It's actually a pretty level-headed analysis of his faults and strengths and how they're both wound together.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:32
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GonSmithe posted:I really don't like season 1 too much... It's a shame that that Christopher Morris was only in the weakest season, as much as I love Matt Berry (in everything). But yeah, it took me a long time to just soldier through the first season in one go, because the first time I tried to watch the first couple of episodes I could barely finish them. Then I gave up for several months before giving it another try.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:32
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Didn't see it mentioned in this thread but The Art of Flight is up. Amazing snowboarding flick. Cool look at not-so-charted places. And an awesome soundtrack. Watch it in HD! Oh and there's some 7 episode "the making of" that I haven't watched
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Dec 19, 2012 22:21
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Looks like I need to give The IT Crowd another try. Watched the first 2 or 3 episodes and just did not understand the appeal. Definitely going to check out The Work Outing.PriorMarcus posted:I can't imagine watching those two shows and not immediately understanding that they are made by the same person. Oh god, that explains so much. The New Normal is like somebody watched Modern Family and took away all of the wrong elements as the reason for it being successful. It's successful because it has a gay couple and an old out of touch person, right? Let's ramp all that poo poo up to 11 and completely get rid of any sort of nuance or humanity. I will defend his other shows as entertaining in spite of themselves, but The New Normal is terrible. He should stick to making original shows and not attempt to make his own version of already hugely popular shows.
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Dec 19, 2012 22:40
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PriorMarcus posted:I can't imagine watching those two shows and not immediately understanding that they are made by the same person. I meant because I haven't seen much of Glee but what I have has seemed like complete poo poo to me, while AHS is one of my favorite shows.
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Dec 19, 2012 23:48
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I meant because I haven't seen much of Glee but what I have has seemed like complete poo poo to me, while AHS is one of my favorite shows. to like glee, you must realize that almost every character is a complete poo poo head and totally unrealistic, and just delight in how stupid everybody is. the show is making fun of idiot high school kids, to an audience of mostly idiot high school kids. so meta 
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Dec 19, 2012 23:56
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My only awareness of Glee is that they apparently cover every song and if you listened to the song BEFORE Glee covered it you're going to get lots of "thumbs up" on Youtube.
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Dec 20, 2012 00:29
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I'm looking for some good Spanish or Portuguese language films on Netflix Watch Instantly. I am particularly interested in films from Latin America but I am open to European or African as well. Any suggestions? I'm not very genre-specific, but I would prefer movies that aren't too depressing. Thanks in advance  afgrunden fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Dec 20, 2012 |
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Dec 20, 2012 01:28
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afgrunden posted:I'm looking for some good Spanish or Portuguese language films on Netflix Watch Instantly. I am particularly interested in films from Latin America but I am open to European or African as well. Any suggestions? I'm not very genre-specific, but I would prefer movies that aren't too depressing. Thanks in advance I haven't seen it, but Will Ferrell's Casa de Mi Padre is on instant, I believe. It's entirely in spanish.
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Dec 20, 2012 01:39
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Timecrimes is a really interesting thriller involving time travel. Biutiful is also up, I keep meaning to watch that but I haven't yet. It looks like it may be on the depressing side though.
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Dec 20, 2012 01:41
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afgrunden posted:I'm looking for some good Spanish or Portuguese language films on Netflix Watch Instantly. I am particularly interested in films from Latin America but I am open to European or African as well. Any suggestions? I'm not very genre-specific, but I would prefer movies that aren't too depressing. Thanks in advance I think the two Elite Squads are up on Netflix and they are pretty good police movies, as in "showing how it sucks to be police in Brazil". I have some objections about how some issues are treated, but the movies are good action-fare.
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Dec 20, 2012 02:02
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The first one is dvd only. Both great flicks. The 2nd one is a lot more politically charged. You don't really have to watch them in order but I'd recommend it.
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Dec 20, 2012 02:12
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afgrunden posted:I'm looking for some good Spanish or Portuguese language films on Netflix Watch Instantly. I am particularly interested in films from Latin America but I am open to European or African as well. Any suggestions? I'm not very genre-specific, but I would prefer movies that aren't too depressing. Thanks in advance Here are a few that I think are good, if you haven't seen them yet (all available on streaming, these are all in Spanish): http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/60034802?strkid=11039577_0_0&trkid=222336&movieid=60034802 http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Y-Tu-Mama-Tambien/60023237?trkid=1660&fdvd=true http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/60000729?strkid=198983927_0_0&trkid=222336&movieid=60000729
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Dec 20, 2012 02:18
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afgrunden posted:I'm looking for some good Spanish or Portuguese language films on Netflix Watch Instantly. I am particularly interested in films from Latin America but I am open to European or African as well. Any suggestions? I'm not very genre-specific, but I would prefer movies that aren't too depressing. Thanks in advance
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Dec 20, 2012 02:58
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I was in the mood for a Christmas movie, and while browsing around, came across Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, starring Beat Takeshi (aka the Japanese host of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) and David Bowie (aka the British pansexual bandleader of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars). It was not a Christmas movie. Not at all. Unless your idea of prison is a Japanese prison camp, in which case, it's a very merry film indeed! It's intriguing, since it was made by the Japanese, and yet it deals with them in World War II. It does not present them in an overwhelmingly positive or negative light. It pulls very few punches. It is a really good film, and David Bowie is amazing. And this was around the time of Let's Dance.
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Dec 20, 2012 04:00
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Soul Glo posted:I haven't seen it, but Will Ferrell's Casa de Mi Padre is on instant, I believe. It's entirely in spanish. It is intentionally in grammatically terrible and basic Spanish and also I saw it shitfaced drunk in theaters and I think I laughed once, and I will laugh at pretty much anything when I'm drunk.
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Dec 20, 2012 04:41
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afgrunden posted:I'm looking for some good Spanish or Portuguese language films on Netflix Watch Instantly. I am particularly interested in films from Latin America but I am open to European or African as well. Any suggestions? I'm not very genre-specific, but I would prefer movies that aren't too depressing. Thanks in advance Man of the Year rocks despite the somewhat weak denouement.
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Dec 20, 2012 05:01
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mr. mephistopheles posted:It is intentionally in grammatically terrible and basic Spanish and also I saw it shitfaced drunk in theaters and I think I laughed once, and I will laugh at pretty much anything when I'm drunk. I literally just finished watching it, and when the funniest part of your comedy movie is the (deliberate) continuity errors, you need to go back and write some drat jokes.
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Dec 20, 2012 05:10
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mr. mephistopheles posted:It is intentionally in grammatically terrible and basic Spanish and also I saw it shitfaced drunk in theaters and I think I laughed once, and I will laugh at pretty much anything when I'm drunk. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of his anymore, but it's the only thing that came to mind, plus it has the appeal of being fairly new/not seen. I totally believe you about it sucking though.
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Dec 20, 2012 05:11
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casa de mi padre posted:Y Tu Mama Tambien is a good road trip movie about teenagers. Y Tu Mama Tambien is the better movie if you have to pick just one. Also one of the sexiest films of all time. I have friends who use it as guaranteed sex whenever they have someone over to watch something.
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Dec 20, 2012 05:26
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Bad Boys II is on Netflix USA if you want to watch one of the most gloriously trashy movies ever made
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Dec 20, 2012 07:03
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How long does it usually take for new releases to go up on Netflix? Like, does anyone have any idea when Season Three of Louie will be up there, or? Also are there any good blogs about Netflix about? New releases, news, etc. Thanks in advance.
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Dec 20, 2012 07:06
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PriorMarcus posted:How long does it usually take for new releases to go up on Netflix? Like, does anyone have any idea when Season Three of Louie will be up there, or? Usually current shows get the last season put up around the time the next season begins. http://instantwatcher.com/ is the best, http://www.hackingnetflix.com/ is also great.
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Dec 20, 2012 07:09
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PriorMarcus posted:How long does it usually take for new releases to go up on Netflix? Like, does anyone have any idea when Season Three of Louie will be up there, or? Season 4 of Louie is not airing on TV until 2014, so you've probably got a bit of a wait ahead of you for season 3 on Netflix.
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Dec 20, 2012 07:45
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afgrunden posted:I'm looking for some good Spanish or Portuguese language films on Netflix Watch Instantly. I am particularly interested in films from Latin America but I am open to European or African as well. Any suggestions? I'm not very genre-specific, but I would prefer movies that aren't too depressing. Thanks in advance Sidewalls was pretty great.
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Dec 20, 2012 10:10
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Unmature posted:Mike Birbiglia's film Sleepwalk With Me is finally available on Netflix. Watch the hell out of it. Birbigs is my favorite standup/storyteller working in the last decade and I've wanted to see this movie based on his one man show so bad. I've heard his one man show and now have seen the movie, but I honestly wonder what someone who hadn't seen his stand up would make of the film? I thought it was cute, but not fantastic: 3.5/5 stars. (Though his stand up is easily 5/5 for me).
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Dec 20, 2012 15:42
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Indolent Bastard posted:I've heard his one man show and now have seen the movie, but I honestly wonder what someone who hadn't seen his stand up would make of the film? I thought it was cute, but not fantastic: 3.5/5 stars. (Though his stand up is easily 5/5 for me). I think it's probably better if you haven't heard his stand-up. I've heard it and I've heard him on This American Life, so every single joke in the movie was one I'd heard at least 2-3 times. If it were new to me it'd probably be more interesting.
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Dec 20, 2012 16:05
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I found Sleepwalk With Me Pretty much inferior to the spoken word version of the same story in every way. The whole thing just felt so limp and underwhelming in movie form. Like half the joy of Mike Birbiglia is in the way he tells his story. The movie almost completely got rid of that and we're left with dry re-enactments of moments that are described with such life in the spoken word. In fact the only time the movie really comes to life at all is when it begins to resemble spoken word. Making a film of this story just didn't improve on any aspect on it and in a way the story feels a bit unsubstantial in film form.
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Dec 20, 2012 16:10
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I noticed something odd on Instant Watcher today: See the Hot New 2012 releases? They're made up shows/movies from Arrested Development
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Dec 20, 2012 18:03
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SouthLAnd posted:I noticed something odd on Instant Watcher today: I don't remember Seven Up from that show. Probably an episode I missed.
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Dec 20, 2012 18:14
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mr. unhsib posted:Bad Boys II is on Netflix USA if you want to watch one of the most gloriously trashy movies ever made Bad Boys II is the Michael Bay-est of Michael Bay movies. I can't recommend it enough for that reason alone.
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Dec 20, 2012 18:15
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Holy poo poo! They added the Up series? If you haven't watched those movies, do so now. Edit: For those that don't know the Up series is a British documentary that started by focusing on a group of seven year olds and checking up on them every seven years. The original idea was to show how accurate the says "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" was. The series is still going (56 Up came out this year) and has basically become a look at people in general and how their lives play out. axelblaze fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Dec 20, 2012 |
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Dec 20, 2012 18:20
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morestuff posted:I don't remember Seven Up from that show. Probably an episode I missed. It looks to be an actual show from the 60's. E: I might have to check that out actually.
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Dec 20, 2012 18:27
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SouthLAnd posted:I noticed something odd on Instant Watcher today: Haha this rules. If you play them, they take you to the corresponding clips from the show
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Dec 20, 2012 19:11
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Just watched Unicorn City and found it to be a pretty funny comedy about gamers/LARP nerds.
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SouthLAnd posted:It looks to be an actual show from the 60's. Sorry, that was a bad joke. Like Axleblaze said, they're interesting documentaries.
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