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wrinklepuff posted:Heroin and AIDS and poverty and statutory rape and poop and dead babies are funny now. About the only one of those that isn't played for laughs in Trainspotting is the dead baby. Also what other people said.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:About the only one of those that isn't played for laughs in Trainspotting is the dead baby. Also what other people said. Isn't the dead baby later played for uncomfortable laughs during a detox hallucination?
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moller posted:Isn't the dead baby later played for uncomfortable laughs during a detox hallucination? Eh, I'd say that's more of a gray area whether it's supposed to be funny or not. Most people I know found it really creepy.
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kuddles posted:While we're on the subject of The West Wing, is the last season worth it? Because of my negative experience watching the final season of shows where the creator left, I never bothered at the time. Season 7 picks up steam that's lost in 5 & 6. It's got a totally different focus, being entirely the story of the election of Bartlet's replacement, and Jimmy Smits and Alan Alda give great turns in their roles.
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Jan 13, 2013 05:31
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Remember that genres are just an imaginary construct for classifying movies to make them easier to sort into lists. The only thing that every movie on Netflix has in common is that they can be viewed on Netflix.
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Jan 13, 2013 05:58
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casa de mi padre posted:So apparently Netflix UK has the first part of Season Five of Breaking Bad available while us poor Americans don't... is there an easy way for non-UK people to get access to that? I really need to get caught up so I can discuss it with people. Amazon has it streaming for $14. It's not ideal, but them's the breaks when you miss the original broadcast.
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scary ghost dog posted:Remember that genres are just an imaginary construct for classifying movies to make them easier to sort into lists. The only thing that every movie on Netflix has in common is that they can be viewed on Netflix. True. However these have been sorted most likely by a living breathing person and someone thought that Joe Dirt was a comedy. And that mistake could cost lives.
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Junkie Disease posted:True. However these have been sorted most likely by a living breathing person and someone thought that Joe Dirt was a comedy. And that mistake could cost lives. "Joe dirt is one of the best comedies I've ever seen!" The 12 year old said.
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Jan 13, 2013 14:56
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So anyone else have access to the new Super HD features? I tried a movie I was halfway through that offered it and also sampled a 3D film and have to say I was pretty impressed with the video quality.
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Jan 13, 2013 18:18
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kuddles posted:So anyone else have access to the new Super HD features? I tried a movie I was halfway through that offered it and also sampled a 3D film and have to say I was pretty impressed with the video quality. What movies have it?
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Breaking Bad's first season is entertaining but definitely at a lower temperature than what would follow. We don't quite see Walt at his worst yet, he's still more stubborn than evil. But the finale is really good and is a nice hook for the rest of the show. And yet I'm still not caught up.
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A fair amount of them seem to. It will have a "Super HD" logo when you look it up on the interface. You have to be on an ISP that supports it though, since it is pretty high level in the amount of bandwidth it requires. The 3D titles seem pretty slim right now. It was Immortals that I tried it on. It also has a "3D" logo next to the other ones and will ask you if you want to watch it in 3D when you start playing it (assuming your TV can handle it.) I would honestly put the video quality on the same level as renting a film off Vudu or PSN so I'm pretty impressed.
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Of course Comcast, the largest ISP in the country doesn't support it, probably because of the fighting that Netflix and Comcast are involved in.
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Jan 13, 2013 18:35
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I got my mom a PS3 for Christmas so she could replace her $80 cable bill with the cost of Netflix and Hulu. It didn't occur to me until after I'd helped her rate, like, 500 movies how drastically different two Netflix experiences can be. Once you do poo poo like rating Amadeus three stars and Knight & Day five stars, Netflix gets really weird.
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Keanu Grieves posted:I got my mom a PS3 for Christmas so she could replace her $80 cable bill with the cost of Netflix and Hulu. It didn't occur to me until after I'd helped her rate, like, 500 movies how drastically different two Netflix experiences can be. Once you do poo poo like rating Amadeus three stars and Knight & Day five stars, Netflix gets really weird.
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Technically, my mom likes Maid in Manhattan more than Casablanca. Yeah.
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I spent minutes of my life (like maybe 45 and not even all at once) rating a poo poo-ton of movies and have gotten mostly excellent suggestions. Up to a point. Then they started recommending me poo poo that their algorithm suggests I'd only rate about a 2 or 3 at highest. No, Netflix, I don't want to watch some Z-grade, Asylum Lite horror movie about Half-Shark, Half-Werewolf Zombie Hookers. Or maybe I do, but stop suggesting dozens of them in categories that they shouldn't even be in. ...though I guess it's partly my fault since I tend to only subscribe to Netflix around the Halloween season and most of my views are 80's horror films and the odd documentary or TV series.
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Netflix's suggestions have gotten progressively more awful over time. Since finding Criticker I don't even pay attention to what Netflix thinks.
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This may have been mentioned, but I don't remember it being in the last 50+ pages. Miller's Crossing is on streaming! It's a complex story of a 1920s mafia war by the Coen brothers, and it is fantastic. Legend has it the Coen brothers needed to take a break from writing this script because it was so complicated, so they took three weeks off to write Barton Fink.
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Netflix is like a buddy with a big movie collection but bad taste, so he has a lot of good movies but a shitload of terrible ones and he only ever recommends you the terrible ones and it's up to you to say "nah let's watch Jaws instead" and he's like "I don't have Jaws but I do have Sharktopus"
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Netflix's suggestions have gotten progressively more awful over time. Since finding Criticker I don't even pay attention to what Netflix thinks. Just now trying this site out, but the one thing I'm not liking is how they describe ratings. 86 is not "decent". 70-80 is "decent", 80-92ish should be "really good" or something similar. I was putting movies like No Country For Old Men at 86 on a gut feeling and it said I only thought it was "alright"... not sure what I think about this site yet.
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Tewratomeh posted:Just now trying this site out, but the one thing I'm not liking is how they describe ratings. 86 is not "decent". 70-80 is "decent", 80-92ish should be "really good" or something similar. You can change the rating to mean whatever you want them to mean. axelblaze fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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axleblaze posted:You can change the rating to mean whatever you want them to mean.
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I know this has probably been asked many times but is there a netflix search engine where you can specifically filter by UK availability? https://www.instancewatchdb.com and instantwatcher.com don't seem to allow it. It's pretty annoying clicking through to movies only for them not to be available.
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I just noticed Glengarry Glen Ross is up there. I can't say you'll enjoy it, but if you work with salesmen, this is their Office Space. Also, I'm pretty sure Ol' Gill from the Simpsons is based on Jack Lemmon's character in this film.
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calandryll posted:I don't care about auto racing. I watch Top Gear for the stupid poo poo that they do and not for the cars. But drat if Senna wasn't one of the best documentaries I've seen. Absolutely heart-wrenching doc, everyone needs to watch it.
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This has probably been mentioned before in here but I'm going to bring it up again (if this is something that's well-known by everyone I apologize for my naivete.) There's a shitload of presentations and lectures from TEDtalks on Netflix streaming that should be interesting to just about anyone. From teh Wikipedia: TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading." TED was founded in 1984 as a one-off event.[1] The annual conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California.[4] TED's early emphasis was technology and design, consistent with its origins in the Silicon Valley. The events are now held in Long Beach and Palm Springs in the U.S. and in Europe and Asia, offering live streaming of the talks. They address a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling.[5] The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners.[6] TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson. I just kindof stumbled into watching these yesterday and they've sparked a lot of fun conversations between my girlfriend and I. We started with the Sex, Love, Relationships category and then watched the Head Games series. If I were you I'd start with whatever category you have the most interest in and work your way from there. You're bound to hear something that's interesting in these presentations.
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:I just noticed Glengarry Glen Ross is up there. I can't say you'll enjoy it, but if you work with salesmen, this is their Office Space. Also, I'm pretty sure Ol' Gill from the Simpsons is based on Jack Lemmon's character in this film. Glengarry Glen Ross is pretty great if not just for the brief appearance of Jack Donaghy. He would not appear on TV again until 2006.
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wrinklepuff posted:Heroin and AIDS and poverty and statutory rape and poop and dead babies are funny now. Have you ever seen an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia? You basically just described the material for every joke that show makes. This is what a lot of people find funny now, I guess. For the record I hate It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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Doctor Tupac posted:Have you ever seen an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia? You basically just described the material for every joke that show makes. This is what a lot of people find funny now, I guess. To be fair, the show's more laughing at the kind of people who do find that funny, but to each their own.
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Doctor Tupac posted:Have you ever seen an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia? You basically just described the material for every joke that show makes. This is what a lot of people find funny now, I guess. The show has really gotten dumber as it has progressed, and I really can't stand it past the first three seasons save for a couple of exceptions, but this is a horrible mischaracterization of it.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:The show has really gotten dumber as it has progressed, and I really can't stand it past the first three seasons save for a couple of exceptions, but this is a horrible mischaracterization of it. I don't really understand the appeal of this show, I don't see the satire. All I see is cheap shock gags about easy topics. But I often feel like the only person on Earth who doesn't get this show. Maybe I really am missing something. Doctor Tupac fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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The scenario in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is what happens when Seinfeld goes too far.
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axleblaze posted:The scenario in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is what happens when Seinfeld goes too far. I don't really understand how that necessarily equals funny or good. I get that the characters in Sunny are supposed to be seen as deserving of ridicule, but often the 'voice of reason' characters that oppose what the main characters do are portrayed as being uptight or boring or snobby or overly authoritarian. So really, who do the creators want us to side with? No one maybe. Not my cup of tea, I guess. Doctor Tupac fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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Dracula 3000 is on Instant and it's somehow worse than Dracula 2000 and Van Helsing combined. Every character who isn't a white male is ridiculed mercilessly, and Coolio is only in it for space weed. Literally every line of dialogue he has is about space weed, attaining space weed, what he likes about space weed, or cumming on the aging Playmate-turned-actress.
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Doctor Tupac posted:I don't really understand the appeal of this show, I don't see the satire. All I see is cheap shock gags about easy topics. If you feel like the only person on Earth who doesn't get something, it's almost certain that you are really missing something.
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Doctor Tupac posted:I get that the characters in Sunny are supposed to be seen as deserving of ridicule, but often the 'voice of reason' characters that oppose what the main characters do are portrayed as being uptight or boring or snobby or overly authoritarian. So really, who do the creators want us to side with? No one maybe. That's exactly it. There are no voice of reason characters. Dee was supposed to be this, and you can sort of see it in the first few episodes, but it clearly got scrapped. They're all supposed to be awful, even the supporting characters.
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Doctor Tupac posted:I get that the characters in Sunny are supposed to be seen as deserving of ridicule, but often the 'voice of reason' characters that oppose what the main characters do are portrayed as being uptight or boring or snobby or overly authoritarian. So really, who do the creators want us to side with? No one maybe. I rarely sympathize with any of the characters on It's Always Sunny, but I think it's a funny show. If you need to find at least one character likable in your comedies than it will be far from an appealing choice. Like someone else said, the show is really like Seinfeld taken to an extreme. Specifically, it's Seinfeld played out until its finale in nearly every episode. The show consistently shits on its characters to a point where they should learn to be better people, but they never do. To me, the show attempts to deconstruct the concept of the "American Dream" through characters too stupid and ignorant to understand the nuances of luck and privilege that account for it. These are characters who take tips for wealth and success to their logical extremes with no thought or study whatsoever. I think it's a rather unsophisticated satire of American life and government, but I may be stretching.
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Doughbaron posted:Like someone else said, the show is really like Seinfeld taken to an extreme. Not everyone on Seinfeld was a total narcissistic jerk. Kramer usually seemed like he had good intentions, to me at least. I guess the relateableness of the cast of Seinfeld's foibles made it easier to take their self-centeredness. Yes, George Costanza is an utterly pathetic, and occasionally odious, human being. However, many, although not all, of the mistakes he makes on the show are believable, or at least rooted in common mistakes that many of us make. But still, many situations in Seinfeld were unrealistic. I just feel like Seinfeld didn't (often) go for easy targets, they didn't make a lot of AIDs, homeless, pedophile or drug addict jokes. You could argue that these things are prevalent in Philadelphia (maybe not the pedophilia thing), but NYC wasn't exactly a paradise in the 90's. Everything with Sunny has to be ridiculous, over the top, and it has to be about some 'edgy' topic. And no one is likeable. No one. Not even Charlie, who I can only ever recall screaming his lines like an ADD addled adolescent. Again, this might be a matter of taste, maybe some people just find that funny and some people don't. I don't find him charming, just annoying. All this extremity makes it hard for me to relate to. That would be fine if the show was at least good satire, bringing some novel insight to these topics, but I don't think it does. Most of the characters on South Park aren't very likeable, especially lately. Stan and Kyle are pretty boring mouthpieces for Matt and Trey's beliefs and Cartman is a racist rear end in a top hat. But I enjoy that show because of the way it uniquely discusses various topics, both extreme and mundane. Doctor Tupac fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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Doctor Tupac posted:words. It's okay to just not like a thing. You don't have to convince us that your position is logically sound, or whatever it is you're doing.
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