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Erebus posted:Manhunter is now streaming, if you're curious about the first film adaptation of Red Dragon or you just want any excuse to watch more Michael Mann. precision posted:And a Korean horror movie that blew me the gently caress away: Thirst. It's a very serious movie about a Catholic priest who becomes a vampire, and I guarantee it will defy every expectation you have based on that summary. It's so good. It's directed by Chan-Woo Park (Oldboy and the Mr. Vengeance trilogy, all of which are also on for streaming).
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Speaking of Tom Noonan, his film/play is still on Streaming: What Happened Was... I love that movie.
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Joe Don Baker posted:Last time I checked Miami Vice on there some of the episodes were disc only. That's good to know! On second thought I may be wrong as I don't see Mirror Image Part 1 on there.
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Mar 2, 2013 15:11
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Grave Encounters 1 is a pretty by the numbers "haunted house" movie with poor focus but was somewhat entertaining. Grave Encounters 2 is the worst movie I saw this year so far. Its about unloveable frat kids. This movie is offensive to film as a medium. It features vomiting in a toilet, tea bagging drunks, UV vision enabled for farting, a crazy person eats rats (so crazy!), constant reminders that the cameraman loves pot, and zooming in on breasts. It seems to forget its a found footage film by adding musical notes to its jump scares and what I assume was scenes that were story boarded with scene after scene labeled as "make cg guy put something spooky here". Other lowlights include casper the ghost cameraman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kdY_YXS_RQ I wish there was a way to take money from the makers of this film.
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Junkie Disease posted:Grave Encounters 1 is a pretty by the numbers "haunted house" movie with poor focus but was somewhat entertaining. I was trying to like Grave Encounters 2,because the first one was entertaining as you said, but Casper the Ghost Cameraman made me scream at the screen. I hated the Youtube celebrity kid, and the girl was the worst of all in acting,and ugh.
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Its such a drat mess. Again my standards were pretty low going in, but the tea bagging and frat party did little to raise it. I started heading into Hangover 3 levels of loathing cinema. Pretty much the next thing I'll see will be magnified into outter space by comparison.
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Am I the only one who liked Grave Encounters 2? I mean, yeah, it's not as good as the first but it's not THAT bad.
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echronorian posted:My girlfriend and I started it thinking we'd end up bored in about 20 minutes, but Shaolin Grandma is unironically hilarious, fascinating and original. We watched the whole thing which says a lot, since legitimately well received films and television bores the poo poo out of us regularly. Yeah, in the first few minutes I was ready to dismiss it as "okay they made a piece of poo poo movie on purpose, I get it" but it's so much more than that. It's also not really a parody of bad kung-fu movies the way that, say, Black Dynamite is a parody of bad blaxploitation movies -- it's more a parody of parodies, if that makes sense? In either case it's a loving smart movie, as its type of humor is really difficult to pull off. There's also some downright incredible jokes in there, like Volume 3 and 4. If I had to compare it to anything it would probably be Tim & Eric, though nowhere near as hostile to the audience. Mechafunkzilla fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Mar 2, 2013 |
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Daveski posted:I actually didn't care for it either. I'll admit that it looked like they were having fun, but I thought it was too much stupid gross out humor without enough actual jokes. FDR: American Badass was boring and ran out of good jokes after roughly 20 minutes. Shaolin Grandma is nothing like FDR: American Badass.
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Mar 2, 2013 21:08
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I just went to watch Safety Not Guaranteed on my PS3 and instead of going right into the movie it buffered up and played a House of Cards ad (skippable by hitting the X button). I hope this isn't a sign of things to come if Netflix keeps creating original content.
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GI_Clutch posted:I just went to watch Safety Not Guaranteed on my PS3 and instead of going right into the movie it buffered up and played a House of Cards ad (skippable by hitting the X button). I hope this isn't a sign of things to come if Netflix keeps creating original content. Wow, I haven't seen this yet. That sucks, if they start doing stuff like this.
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Mar 2, 2013 22:01
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I don't like it, but I get why they want to advertise. I can accept it if it's at the beginning of a movie for a minute...but there is a reason I like Netflix more than Hulu Plus...
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Mar 2, 2013 22:40
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It is them advertizing a show they do offer for free. It almost more silly that way. Hey guys you already own this but did you know you also already own this?
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Mar 2, 2013 22:47
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I'm glad they are doing it because everyone should see House of Cards. 
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:I'll admit, I didn't find Jim and Randy very funny, and some of the later seasons felt very Jim and Randy-heavy. Although there is a great moment towards the end where you suddenly realize almost all of the main characters are homeless. It happened so gradually and organically you almost don't notice. They did a skit/variety kind of show called The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Hour Fun Time. It sucked rear end and they all got really fat.
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Junkie Disease posted:It is them advertizing a show they do offer for free. It almost more silly that way.
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Wilhelm Scream posted:Am I the only one who liked Grave Encounters 2? I mean, yeah, it's not as good as the first but it's not THAT bad. The movie was going okay for me but it was the comically floating camera pulled by a string that finally killed it for me. I guess I'm weird about movies. By the way,I tried to watch Klown, but got bored really fast...perhaps it's the cultural differences but I couldn't find the funny in it,should I give it another chance? Then I decided to watch Doomsday Book and it was nice Korean movie with a funny ending. Pulse was awesome and I'm currently watching Thirst.
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kuddles posted:To be fair, I'm sure that is actually necessary. The average person doesn't seem to know any television show exists unless they are seeing promos for it constantly. I can only imagine how many people pass by the listing for that show because they think that if it was any good they would have heard about it when it originally aired, not realizing it is original content. Yeah. My roommate and I watch Netflix/Hulu exclusively and he didn't know it was there until a week ago.
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Mar 3, 2013 01:37
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Just watched the doc After Porn Ends and it's an interesting look at adult movie stars who've left the industry. It's pretty interesting to see where some of them are today, and why they originally got in the industry. There's some nudity in the film but nothing X rated.
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Desperado Bones posted:
The first 20 minutes are really boring and it probably is a cultural difference thingy. I didn't like the beginning either. I almost turned it off however once they start out on their Tour de Pussy, it gets laugh out loud funny.
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Mar 3, 2013 04:30
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Hey awesome you guys are talking about Thirst. I love that movie. My wife hated it. I guess it's that kind of movie. Also on a previous page I saw mention of Fish Story which is also a great movie.
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Thirst is weird. It began okay but then as it went on I started hating it more and more until the girl gets turned into a vampire at which point it starts getting better and better until it gets amazing. I've never really had a movie make that dramatic of a recovery before.
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Yeah, though I wouldn't say I ever hated it, I would say Thirst was absolutely bizarre with its tone from start to finish. Really emotionally challenging. But oh so good.
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Mar 3, 2013 04:56
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It take does dramatically change is tone several times throughout the movie. I completely love the ending.
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echronorian posted:I'm glad they are doing it because everyone should see House of Cards. Agreed. I hope this encourages more original programming for Netflix.
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I decided to watch Rubber with some friends. It is a movie about a tire that kills people with psychokinesis. This was either the greatest movie I've ever seen, or a complete and utter waste of an hour and a half, and I can't tell which one yet.
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When the movie started talking to the "audience" I was pretty convinced of what camp I'm in.
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mr. stefan posted:I decided to watch Rubber with some friends. It is a movie about a tire that kills people with psychokinesis. Personally, I greatly enjoyed it, as have many of my friends. Although there were certainly some people that did not like it. I imagine due to it being slightly art-house and/or meta. Give it a shot!
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mod sassinator posted:Just watched the doc After Porn Ends and it's an interesting look at adult movie stars who've left the industry. It's pretty interesting to see where some of them are today, and why they originally got in the industry. There's some nudity in the film but nothing X rated. Uh wasn't there explicit porn footage like 5 minutes in? I didn't watch past that. And yes, Rubber is a must-watch.
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mr. stefan posted:I decided to watch Rubber with some friends. It is a movie about a tire that kills people with psychokinesis. Going off of his newest movie Wrong I'm steering towards the latter. Much like how Richard Kelly's future work and director's cut of Donnie Darko showed that any cleverness in that movie was completely accidental, watching Quentin Dupieux poorly mimic Kaufman and Lynch without understanding how or why their stuff works really made me question any cleverness that could be mined from Rubber.
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I really hated Rubber. I found it to be unbearable. The opening was pretty amusing but it then proceeds to tell the same, not nearly as clever as it thinks it is joke for an hour and a half. It's not even so much a joke as a smug winking nudge to the audience. It's like an hour and a half of Quentin Dupieux grinning at you and saying "Get it? Do you see what I'm going for? I don't think you get it. Do you get it now?"
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I enjoyed Manhunter but not as much as Silence of the Lambs. Manhunter was more about the Will Graham character than Lecter or the Tooth Fairy which is fine but I can only watch so many quiet conversations between husband and wife before I get bored. Still Tom Noonan rocks and Chris Elliot showed up briefly. The soundtrack kinda rules.
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axleblaze posted:I really hated Rubber. I found it to be unbearable. The opening was pretty amusing but it then proceeds to tell the same, not nearly as clever as it thinks it is joke for an hour and a half. It's not even so much a joke as a smug winking nudge to the audience. It's like an hour and a half of Quentin Dupieux grinning at you and saying "Get it? Do you see what I'm going for? I don't think you get it. Do you get it now?" Yeah, I agree. I thought the shots of the tire rolling through the desert were great and it started off well enough but by the end my head hurt from being beaten over it with subtext.
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foodfight posted:I enjoyed Manhunter but not as much as Silence of the Lambs. Manhunter was more about the Will Graham character than Lecter or the Tooth Fairy which is fine but I can only watch so many quiet conversations between husband and wife before I get bored. Still Tom Noonan rocks and Chris Elliot showed up briefly. The soundtrack kinda rules. Manhunter (1986)—"Zeller" CE: That was more difficult for me, in a way, just because I felt totally out of place there. I was cast through a casting agent who'd seen some article on me, and had told Michael Mann, "Oh yeah, it would be cool to have him in this movie," I guess. So I knew right from the start, "Oh, I really shouldn't be in this." The Abyss, I could put a little bit of my attitude from Letterman into the character. In Manhunter, I was supposed to be an FBI forensic investigator. And I don't know, I was 23 or 24 at the time, with a giant beard and long, stringy blonde hair—I just didn't look the part. I remember when the movie premièred, I appear in the scene where everybody's putting together the final information that leads to this killer, and the camera panned the table and cut to me, and there was this big blast of laughter from the audience that broke the whole tension of that scene. I can only imagine that Michael Mann was not happy about that.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Manhunter (1986)—"Zeller" I had this reaction, and again to a lesser extent when Frankie Faison shows up.
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Beyond sane knolls posted:I had this reaction, and again to a lesser extent when Frankie Faison shows up. Is that because he also plays the orderly in Silence of the Lambs?
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Desperado Bones posted:The movie was going okay for me but it was the comically floating camera pulled by a string that finally killed it for me. I guess I'm weird about movies. The movie (and TV show its based off of) have been frequently compared to HBO's Curb your Enthusiasm. If you're not into that type of humor, you likely won't enjoy Klown. Even the premise of the TV show is almost exactly like Curb with an idiotic retired comedian getting in trouble all the time because of lack of social skills and equally idiotic friends.
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axleblaze posted:I really hated Rubber. I found it to be unbearable. The opening was pretty amusing but it then proceeds to tell the same, not nearly as clever as it thinks it is joke for an hour and a half. It's not even so much a joke as a smug winking nudge to the audience. It's like an hour and a half of Quentin Dupieux grinning at you and saying "Get it? Do you see what I'm going for? I don't think you get it. Do you get it now?" I completely agree with this. Rubber was so drat in love with its own "cleverness" that it killed all the humor for me. If you haven't seen it, watch the first scene. If the "no reason" speech makes you roll your eyes, you can probably tap out right there.
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