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Tennis Ball posted:Oh man. This is actually kind of good. Not in an ironic way... (Only 8 minutes in though...) I used this theory to predict that Piranha 3D would be a very good film.
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Holy poo poo - I'm finally watching The Hole. Only 30 minutes or less into it, and I've gotten 3 or 4 good scares, creep outs. It's fun and scary. Teen boy and his younger brother find a hole in the basement of their new house, with no bottom. Then creepy things start showing up in the house. Cute girl-next-door joins in on the thrills. magnificent7 fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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Joe Don Baker posted:A few pages back people recommended and discussed The West Wing. I started it and I'm definitely impressed. Not sure why I didn't watch it on NBC when it aired. I was completely blown away by the season 2 finale. The church scene where Bartlet walked down the aisle cursing God in Latin was amazing and executed perfectly. It's the ultimate Sorkin walk-and-talk scene. I'm watching it right now too. Two Cathedrals is probably my favorite episode so far. Noel was a great episode too. Overall I pretty much love almost everything about the show, but Martin Sheen is just so god damned good.
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My girlfriend's been watching West Wing on and off since it came out and it's strange, I could give less than half of a poo poo for long durations or whole seasons and then, for some reason I'm all in and dying to know what happens next. The big MS thing was one of those moments where I stayed up far too late even after she'd gone to bed, staring at the screen. Totally not a fan of the nerdy glasses guy from Sports Night, though. Slowly replacing Rob Lowe with him seemed like a mistake, but maybe Rob Lowe was done at that point? I dunno. Also can't get into the whole new latino candidate thing near the end, it just feels kind of forced since unlike other shows they couldn't just have Bartlett magically win a third term. Wolfsheim fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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I'm very addicted to the West Wing, but I live in the UK and have been using Media Hint to watch it - now suddenly when I try to access Hulu or Netflix, the connection times out if the addon is activated (its fine if not). Anyone else getting this problem?
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Stumiester posted:I'm very addicted to the West Wing, but I live in the UK and have been using Media Hint to watch it - now suddenly when I try to access Hulu or Netflix, the connection times out if the addon is activated (its fine if not). Anyone else getting this problem? Media Hint works fine for me.
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Earlier today I was delighted to see that Topsy-Turvy is on Netflix now. I'd seen the movie a few times on some movie channel years ago and really liked it. Decided to watch it again today, still love it. It's basically the story of how Gilbert and Sullivan made their musical The Mikado. At 2 hours and 40 minutes it might seem long, but it really doesn't feel like it. Wonderful performances, good music (as you'd expect from a Gilbert and Sullivan movie) and amazing Victorian ice burns keep the movie moving at a good clip. Seriously worth watching. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151568/
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So yeah it's smug and full of it self but Butter was still a funny movie.
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Jan 26, 2013 16:52
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magnificent7 posted:Holy poo poo - I'm finally watching The Hole. Only 30 minutes or less into it, and I've gotten 3 or 4 good scares, creep outs. It's fun and scary. Joe Dante still owns
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Wolfsheim posted:My girlfriend's been watching West Wing on and off since it came out and it's strange, I could give less than half of a poo poo for long durations or whole seasons and then, for some reason I'm all in and dying to know what happens next. The big MS thing was one of those moments where I stayed up far too late even after she'd gone to bed, staring at the screen. As I understand it, Rob Lowe was supposed to be the star of the show (and also the president was never supposed to be seen), and after it turned into the ensemble show it became Rob Lowe decided to leave.
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Well I watched The Last Excorcism. I have to say I enjoyed the found footage filming of it all.
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der juicen posted:Well I watched The Last Excorcism. I have to say I enjoyed the found footage filming of it all. Just gave it a chance too, only thing out of place is the music kicking in. Otherwise its an effective movie with very good performances from Nell and Cotton.
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After having it suggested to me by Netflix for months, I finally got around to watching Mary and Max last night. I absolutely loved it, and it will probably be in my top 5 animated films list now. It's the story of a pen pal relationship between a small, unpopular child in Australia and a man with aspergers in New York, progressing through about 20 years. Great stuff. Acrolos fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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Jan 26, 2013 22:33
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Dirty Work is coming to Netflix on 2/1.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Watched Solitary last night, and all I can says is holy poo poo. I'm not quite sure where to put this genre-wise. I want to say a little bit of horror with a little bit of thriller I guess? The movie was never scary, but it wouldn't stop giving me goosebumps. And that's really the best way I can describe it without giving anything away. Just an assload of goosebumps, it's great. I can't remember the last movie that brought me from a lying down while half-asleep to fully awake and eyes wide at the screen and basically saying "What the gently caress?" every few minutes. I fuckin loved this movie. Also the cover/poster on Netflix makes it look kinda like a Lifetime special, you have to ignore that.
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magnificent7 posted:Holy poo poo - I'm finally watching The Hole. Only 30 minutes or less into it, and I've gotten 3 or 4 good scares, creep outs. It's fun and scary. The scene with the clown doll made the hair on my arms stand up, and that's never happened to me before. I didn't think it was a real thing before that. Sahara is up now, and it's a lot more fun than I remember. It's well-paced but not quite hyper-kinetic like a lot of adventure films lately.
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Jan 27, 2013 03:24
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maxnmona posted:As I understand it, Rob Lowe was supposed to be the star of the show (and also the president was never supposed to be seen), and after it turned into the ensemble show it became Rob Lowe decided to leave. Sort of. The President was supposed to be an occasionally recurring character but the logistics of writing a show about the West Wing without having a President around plus Martin Sheen being awesome changed that pretty quickly. Rob Lowe was originally supposed to be more central but if he had a problem with the ensemble nature of the show he waited 3 seasons to get pissed about it. However due to that original plan Rob Lowe signed on with a higher salary than his cast mates. Other than Sheen he was the most recognizable talent on the show at the time. But as everyone renegotiated their contracts the network didn't want to boost Lowe's salary correspondingly higher than everyone else so he walked. He was also being offered a sweeter deal elsewhere (that Lyon or Lion show or whatever).
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Egbert Souse posted:Dirty Work is coming to Netflix on 2/1. "Make your gun fight like the devil himself!" That is great news, one of my all time favourite comedies. Also watched The Hole and it was actually pretty neat, just as advertised.
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magnificent7 posted:Holy poo poo - I'm finally watching The Hole. Only 30 minutes or less into it, and I've gotten 3 or 4 good scares, creep outs. It's fun and scary. This move started of really scary, but at the end I found it to be more funny that anything else. The premise is great. A mysterious hole in the basement with no bottom? If handled correctly it could have been amazing, but sadly there was several things with this movie that didn't make sense. At the beginning Dane and the gang tries to lower a video camera down, even after seeing that last time they put something down there they lost it. Nevertheless the camera survives somehow, and they are watching the video. They don't see it, but they caught something really creepy on film. Sadly the move never explains what it is. A couple of other silly things I found: After Creepy Carl got killed, and Dane went after his notebook it should have been obvious that it was a puzzle. What else could it have been? And why did he draw Dane's fear? Why not his own, Lucas's or Julie's? Dane just left his little brother sitting on the lawn after he went running after Julie. That's not very brotherly of him, considering there is pure evil in the basement of their house! And the clown doll was scary to begin with as well, before we saw it walk around and jump like it was Yoda from the prequels. To bad the kid could easily kill it himself. I really enjoyed the scenery in "hell". It looked a lot like my favourite level in Psychonauts. 4/10
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Tigern posted:This move started of really scary, but at the end I found it to be more funny that anything else. It's a Joe Dante movie, isn't it? That sounds deliberate.
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Tigern posted:This move started of really scary, but at the end I found it to be more funny that anything else. This one still had all those flaws - PLUS the typical poo poo like all grownups are 2-dimensional idiots, girls are giggly dipshits, and little brothers are a burden. However, the movie still worked for me. I can't explain it. I went in expecting a crappy horror movie, and came away pleased.
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I watched Super 8 tonight, yet another semi-blockbuster that had passed me by until now for one reason or another. I liked most of it, and it had some scenes with suprising emotional heft to them (I felt). The home movies scene especially. Kind of was a bit of a letdown near the end with the fact that (and I'm sure this has been said a million times already) the alien creature who loving EATS PEOPLE FOR SNACKS just gets to fly away at the end. Is it my human bias showing in that I find it hard to root for the creature when he's devouring gas station attendants and housewives with rollers in their hair? I don't know what I would expect or find acceptable though, obviously it wasn't abducting people to take them down to its lair for hugs and sundaes. However, I really liked pretty much everything leading up to that point. Anyone have any films (on netflix instant) that touch on grieving and loss similar to that one? I recently watched Lake Mungo and it was along those lines as well.
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This has been said before but the first two acts of Super 8 was this amazing return to form of early 80s Spielberg. The last 1/3 unfortunately derails pretty badly.
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Yep, definitely. The kids were fantastic, the movie just sucked me in completely. Lately I judge a movie a lot by if I pick up a phone to check twitter or whatever during it and I didn't stray at all this movie, even when I was kind of groaning in the last act. JJ Abrams makes some goddamn watchable stuff that is for sure (the movie channel here has been putting the 2009 Star Trek on fairly frequently and I will watch snippets of it here or there and find myself enjoying it).
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priznat posted:Yep, definitely. The kids were fantastic, the movie just sucked me in completely. Lately I judge a movie a lot by if I pick up a phone to check twitter or whatever during it and I didn't stray at all this movie, even when I was kind of groaning in the last act. Yeah, his magical ability to spin poo poo scripts into platinum movies is why I think he's perfect for Star Wars.
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I recently canceled my netflix sub, for the 3rd or 4th time. I'll go months without it and re sub just to see what is all new because during the time that i have a subscription i tend to watch everything that's good 2x over. Then i can't ever find anything that's worth watching.
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Super 8 would've been the best movie of the year if it was just about those kids making a monster movie.
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penismightier posted:Super 8 would've been the best movie of the year if it was just about those kids making a monster movie.
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Super 8 is a film about learning to let go. The monster's story parallels that of the boy losing his mother- horrible unjust stuff happens (the alien is locked up and basically tortured for years, hence why it becomes a violent man-eater) but a desire for revenge or inflicting some kind of "justice" sometimes just doesn't help. Trying to kill the alien would be like the boy's father holding on to his vendetta against the guy who was supposed to be at work when his wife got killed. There's no point to it, it wouldn't do anything. You have to move on.
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Yeah I think we all got the metaphor but it didn't make me think or entertain me. So it was bad.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Seconding Sword of Gideon, late 80's/early 90's HBO was a really unique thing. I've been meaning to comment how right you are about similar time period HBO. My parents had HBO back then and my dad sometimes will mention fond memories of random awesome movies/tv on there. He holds the political conspiracy thriller Flashpoint (staring Treat WIlliams, Kris Kristofferson, and Kurtwood Smith) in high esteem, apparently. To hear him tell it, as a toddler I loved Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas tv special (possibly with all of the music and Kermit the Frog cameos intact). Warm und Fuzzy posted:Sahara is up now, and it's a lot more fun than I remember. It's well-paced but not quite hyper-kinetic like a lot of adventure films lately. It has it's moments, but I think it deserves its reputation as one of the largest flops of all time. Sahara is pure action movie by numbers. I will say it's funny and the inside jokes about Dirk Pitt's previous adventures were pretty clever. For example one of the early Dirk Pitt novels was Raise the Titanic, where Dirk Pitt found and raised the Titanic. In the opening montage of newspaper clippings, you can see a headline of the Titanic being towed into New York Harbor. Incidentally, Raise the Titanic was adapted into a movie that also flopped in the early 80's so Dirk Pitt has a couple bad runs at the box office
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Watched The Hole based on the recommendations here and really liked it, especially since it didn't use cheap jump-scares or gore-scares. I'm not usually a fan of horror movies because of those reasons. Anything else on Netflix that is sort of the same?
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priznat posted:Anyone have any films (on netflix instant) that touch on grieving and loss similar to that one? I recently watched Lake Mungo and it was along those lines as well. The first part of Absentia has some elements of this. Don't want to say too much about it, but as it opens a woman is about to declare her husband, who has been missing for seven years, legally dead. It was a pretty enjoyable little movie, I thought, definitely worth a watch.
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I really enjoyed Gridlock'd. It is a fun little dark comedy about Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur going through the bureaucracy of being broke and trying to get into a rehab program to quit heroin. I had forgotten that Tupac was a surprisingly decent actor. I went to see what other movies character actor Vondie Curtis-Hall had directed then realized why he now sticks mainly to TV. His directorial follow-up to Gridlock'd? The Mariah Carey vehicle Glitter.
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LaptopGun posted:To hear him tell it, as a toddler I loved Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas tv special (possibly with all of the music and Kermit the Frog cameos intact). Oh god. So much Treat Williams.
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Just streamed a Korean film called My Way. It's very loosely based on a true story, but probably one of the most epic war films I've seen in a very long time. The basic plot of the film involves two runners (one Korean and one Japanese) who have been rivals since childhood and find themselves in first the Imperial Japanese Army, then the Soviet Red Army, and finally in the German Wermacht stationed in Normandy. It's a great movie and I can't recommend it enough.
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I don't get why people liked The Hole. It was just like a Goosebumps episode but with good production values.
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Volume posted:I don't get why people liked The Hole. It was just like a Goosebumps episode but with good production values. Considering the typical age of forums posters here you may have just answered your own question. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
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Volume posted:It was just like a Goosebumps episode but with good production values. *Adds to must watch list* SimonNotGarfunkel fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jan 28, 2013 |
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