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stimpy posted:yeah, a lot of the free stuff is already on Netflix. The main attraction for Amazon is that you can rent something and watch it for a few bucks if you really want to. Otherwise, we almost exclusively just watch Netflix. I think that's the direction I'm going to go with it after the trial runs out. I planned on keeping it, but I just don't see it being worth the money, especially since my shipping is usually free anyway because my purchases are over $50. I have an Apple TV in the living room, so I typically use itunes if I want to "rent" a new movie, but without that option on the Roku I purchased for my bedroom, I can use Amazon on that.
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stimpy posted:yeah, a lot of the free stuff is already on Netflix. The main attraction for Amazon is that you can rent something and watch it for a few bucks if you really want to. Otherwise, we almost exclusively just watch Netflix. Wait. So you pay for Amazon Prime and that gives you the right to pay to watch movies?
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Yeah well if you ever wanted to watch the 2nd DTV sequel to the Urban Legend horror franchise Amazon has it and Netflix doesn't. Edit: You don't have to pay for Prime to be able to rent movies from Amazon. Prime has some movies for free, but there is a much wider selection that anybody can rent. Human Tornada fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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iv46vi posted:Beyond the black rainbow a beautiful, stylish sci-fi-ish horror meditation. I'm thoroughly confused about what happens in 1966 and would appreciate it if anyone can clue me in. Barry goes Beyond The Black Rainbow.
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Feb 8, 2013 05:32
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Amazon always has a handful of movies Netflix doesn't, it's just never enough to justify the cost of Prime by itself. But free two day shipping is pretty useful. One thing I don't think I've ever seen mentioned in this thread is Crackle. I had completely ignored it because I thought it was some junk streaming service that shows DTV garbage. And it does have a lot of that, but I was surprised to see it also streaming stuff I haven't seen elsewhere like District 9, Gattaca and even a handful of Seinfeld episodes. There are commercial breaks and the stream is only 480p, but it's apparently all free and uncut. It's something to keep an eye on for stuff you've been curious about but aren't concerned with blu-ray quality. If nothing else, it seems like a good source of TV to turn on in the background. They've got half a dozen Godzilla movies, for God's sake.
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Volume posted:Wait. So you pay for Amazon Prime and that gives you the right to pay to watch movies? no no, you pay for Prime and you get a big swath of free movies. I was just saying that the free movies included with Prime have a lot of crossover with what's on Netflix. The difference being that with Amazon, if there's something you want to watch that isn't available on Netflix or free on Prime, you can pay a few bucks and see it on Amazon whereas on Netflix that's not an option.
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AP has a huge selection of reality tv if you're into that poo poo.
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Egbert Souse posted:The OSS 117 movies are basically what Austin Powers would be if they were funny and smart. The OSS 117 movies have so many amazing moments. "The truth of the matter was, they just cam 'russian' at me!" Plus Jean is just is kinda a brilliant comic actor. i'm gonna slap an 'H' on this real quick...
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Buy Amazon Prime for the free shipping, their selection of stuff to watch isn't that much different than Netflix... although the Amazon service that's built in to my TV has super easy searching and Netflix doesn't, so there's that. Amazon is great for watching new episodes of stuff, though. But having Prime doesn't affect that at all.
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Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but General Orders No. 9 is now on instant. Crossposting my reply from the Obscure and Unknown Movies thread in PYF. I already owe CineD my deconstruction of Dredd, but I'd love to write more about this piece and hope to do so in the near future.tehspiekguy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZRrhz1vMkY
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Short Penguin posted:The OSS 117 movies have so many amazing moments. Both of those movies are awesome and I wish they'd make a third. I just wish I got more of the jokes about France.
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Watched The Raven last night, and holy crap was John Cusack bad for this role.
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Started watching Dreams of a Life last night but got bored by the repetitive nature of the interviews, and the pretty bad re-enactments. A very sad story that could have been told much better in the hands of a more talented documentarian. Also no CC which is important because I have the TV volume low at night, and the accents are harder to decipher when it's too quiet.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:Watched The Raven last night, and holy crap was John Cusack bad for this role. I have no idea what they were trying with this movie. Sherlock Holmes? New franchise? He keeps switching gears from overacting rear end to detective dum dum. And that Ending yeesh.
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Junkie Disease posted:I have no idea what they were trying with this movie. Sherlock Holmes? New franchise? He keeps switching gears from overacting rear end to detective dum dum. And that Ending yeesh. Yeah I didn't know either. I was just wildly distracted by Cusack in every scene. For the ending I figured they were going to make the killer or his fiance the original poe toaster, but what the gently caress was that Jules Verne thing and how did the detective figure out where he was going based on his last name? Is that what the ships records scene was building towards? How did the killer get into his hideout under the printer? How did she not hear anything while down there? How did the killer jump off a 2 story building, knife that officer on the way down, then just leisurely stroll away on his horse?
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I'm hoping Jules Vern Terminator reveal in R2!
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Can someone with a film degree explain the mall cop genre of the late 00's?
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Can someone with a film degree explain the mall cop genre of the late 00's? Big Guy, Big Dreams, Big Heart, Tiny Head
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Can someone with a film degree explain the mall cop genre of the late 00's? I don't have a film degree per se, but I'd just say that Kevin James/the Happy Madison people just decided one day that fat mall cops were funny - especially now that the Segway is standard issue and make them look even funnier - and the rest have just fallen in line. They're the new low-blow target of people who might easily abuse their power or overinflate their importance, as they wear a uniform but aren't real cops.
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Can someone with a film degree explain the mall cop genre of the late 00's? Post-modern synthesis of cop comedy and the 90s mall movie, riffing on the previously-held anti-establishment notions of a near-dead capitalist cultural movement, exploiting the ridicule and revilement towards the main character's pseudo-authoritarian status as a source of comedy and pathos. Paul Blart is to the cop movie as Yojimbo is to the samurai. What don't you get? Ugh. Anything else you need spoon-fed to you?
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mod sassinator posted:Trollhunter is a good fantasy-ish flick: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/171149 A boy and his dog is really really bizarre. But good too, in some weird way. especially when they try and harvest his sperm
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MrGreenShirt posted:Nice, Lo and The Crying Game are back on instant. If you haven't seen either of these you're doing yourself a disservice! I think everyone knows the ending to the crying game though.
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Doctor Butts posted:Both of those movies are awesome and I wish they'd make a third. I just wish I got more of the jokes about France. They helped me out when I was waiting for next season of Archer to start since has similar absurdist and satirical elements. And chickens being used a projectile weapons for a absurd boss fight.
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Short Penguin posted:I think everyone knows the ending to the crying game though. I've never heard of the movie nor do I know what the twist is. I think I'll go spoil the twist for myself then watch the movie in a couple years.
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Twist aside, The Crying Game is a phenomenal movie.
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Short Penguin posted:I think everyone knows the ending to the crying game though. The biggest surprise for me was finding that the "ending twist" actually happens like half-way through the movie.
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Short Penguin posted:I think everyone knows the ending to the crying game though. Everyone knew the twist in, say, 1994, when the movie had been talked about enough they could turn it into a reference in a Naked Gun movie. In the subsequent 19 years it hasn't exactly remained in the public consciousness.
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Short Penguin posted:I think everyone knows the ending to the crying game though. Not Hank Kingsley.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Twist aside, The Crying Game is a phenomenal movie. Yeah, don't deprive yourself seeing this if you "know the twist". I did, had little interest in seeing it as a result, was made to see it by my fiancee and wound up loving it, it's a really great movie whose quality doesn't rest on a big surprise. Being surprised by a twist is not in any way essential to enjoyment of The Crying Game.
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CPFortest posted:Not Hank Kingsley. Hey now!
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priznat posted:Hey now! Even though I know that Hank Kingsley and George Bluth are played by the same actor, it's still hard to recognize that fact. Tambor just disappears into both rolls, and they're such different characters that look so vastly different, it's seems like they almost couldn't be played by the same actor.
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Agree, it's a testament to Tambor. On AD he made both Oscar and George totally unique too. "Oh Oscar when are you going to learn, there is no such thing as FREE SHRIMP!!"
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Can someone with a film degree explain the mall cop genre of the late 00's? To be fair, Observe and Report was awesome and super dark.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:To be fair, Observe and Report was awesome and super dark. I remember catching O&R shortly after its release; went in expecting another Rogan comedy vehicle and came out pretty wide-eyed and miffed about the whole thing. It was quite the movie and it grew on me the more I thought about it. Repeated viewings only confirm that. Another reminder that Dead Man's Shoes is still up on instant. I've probably pimped this movie earlier in the thread, but it doesn't come off of my instant queue while Netflix still offers it. A very, very good British "revenge" film with a neat twist. Great acting by Paddy Considine and Toby Kebbell. Speaking of Kebbell, I got hooked on him after his turn in RocknRolla; leading me to search out his other stuff. In addition to the movie above, I watched The Veteran, which is also up on Instant. Hard to say how I felt about the movie; I love Kebbell, but there were some serious issues with the plot. Suspension of disbelief is necessary for the final sequence, which ends rather astonishingly, leaving the viewer hanging & wondering just what in the hell happened and what the director was implying. Whatever the case, I hope to see Kebbell in more serious works. The guy just touches my buttons for whatever reasons.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:
I've been meaning to check this out, thanks for the reminder. I got obsessed with This is England (another fantastic film that's available on Netflix) and the follow-up television series a few months back, but I forgot to watch Dead Man's Shoes after not enjoying the other two SHane Meadows movies that I watched (A Room For Romeo Brass and Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee).
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Coriolanus is up! Ralph Fiennes stars and directs, accompanied by Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, and Vanessa Redgrave. It is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, keeping the original language. Fiennes gives a solid performance as the megalomaniacal Caius Marcius, the famed Roman general who is spurned by the country he gave so much to protect. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and you should give it a whirl.
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I just noticed that Netflix has Wild In the Streets up for streaming. It's the 1968 movie about how baby boomers would destroy the US. A diabolical hippie band plots to give the vote to teenagers and they manipulate things so that there's no age restrictions on office holders. That leads to the youth taking over the country. It's a terrible, ridiculous film but it's also pretty infamous for being so insane.
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The seventh season of Futurama went up recently. I wasn't a big fan of season 6, but the first episode of season 7 wasn't bad. I guess overall, this can serve as a reminder that Futurama is on Instant Watch, and you should definitely check out at least the first four seasons.
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Shaolin Soccer is up on Instant. It's just a fun if predictable sports comedy about a team of underdogs. What's makes this movie standout is that it nails the Jackie Chan style of blending martial arts and physical humor but also seems to takes inspiration from Space Jam and Dragon Ball Z with its use of CGI. Unfortunately Netflix only has the dubbed version up but it features Stephen Chow dubbing over his own character.
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bartok posted:Shaolin Soccer is up on Instant. It's just a fun if predictable sports comedy about a team of underdogs. What's makes this movie standout is that it nails the Jackie Chan style of blending martial arts and physical humor but also seems to takes inspiration from Space Jam and Dragon Ball Z with its use of CGI. Unfortunately Netflix only has the dubbed version up but it features Stephen Chow dubbing over his own character. Awesome!! I love his Kung Fu Hustle but never saw Shaolin Soccer. Also about Futurama S7, the last episode has one of my favourite Futurama lines. nobody ever goes walrus! *sob* And finally I just blasted through all the House of Cards episodes and I want moooooore. sad about Peter, though
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