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I watched Holes in my Shoes over the last two nights. It's a documentary about a 94 year old New Yorker and his completely remarkable life. From being a 17 year old super strong man able to lift 1100 pounds, to playing a pivotal role in ending WW2, to building most of the New York skyline, and a million other cool things. At 94 he could kick your and my rear end at the same time. A man that loved and lived every minute of his life. Go watch it.
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Well crap. Lo is expiring tomorrow and I don't think I'll have time to watch it tonight. I mean it's only been in my instant queue for a year or something.  Am I missing out?
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Mar 8, 2013 16:02
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It's an OK movie. Worth watching, but nothing revelatory.
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Mar 8, 2013 16:50
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It is worth squeezing in tonight before it expires if you can make the time though.
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Mar 8, 2013 16:53
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Franchescanado posted:That and Keanu got a haircut halfway through the filming process and goes from long hair and a beard to short hair and a cleaner beard, which can be distracting when they shift back and forth. I loved this about the movie. Keanu would have really long hair and a ton of facial hair and basically look like a hobo, and then in the next scene his hair would be cut short and his beard would be groomed. You get a good range of Keanu's in the movie. Overall, I was hoping the format of the movie would be longer interviews with the directors on the cover. Lynch felt like he only had a couple of minutes, while I was really hoping to hear him talk for 15 minutes or so about how digital film has affected his film making. Danny Boyle is great. He's so enthusiastic when he talks about making movies that it's impossible not to get caught up in it.
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Mar 8, 2013 16:59
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precision posted:That particular documentary is full of poo poo - the police/government they interview love the White family, because they're the only reason anyone ever visits that area. There's a reason they rarely get arrested despite being incredibly blatant about their illegal behaviors. I knew there was something "off" about those police segments. They just felt really stage-y and scripted, and they'd cut in with a one-liner that perfectly synced up with whatever was going on in the movie at the time. The movie itself felt more like that Mr. Show "Ronnie Dobbs" segment than a real documentary. Oh well, it was still entertaining and had some great Hank Williams III tunes in it.
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Mar 8, 2013 17:00
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The most real and most terrifying thing about that Wacky World of White People documentary is the one girl's son who keeps talking about how he wants to kill his absent father. She's all nervous about looking good in front of the camera and he just prattles on like children from broken homes tend to do. While it may be sort of fakey, the people really do have a ton of problems. You'd find a million of the same kinds of people at your local low-cost mental health clinic, but nobody's making a documentary about their hosed-up lives.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:37
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Golli posted:I tried to watch this, right after I bailed on Meek's Crossing. My wife banned me from picking out movies for a while after bringing home Hatchi and Never Let Me Go. I think it may have been for different reasons. Also, am I the only one who is really excited for Cartoon Network stuff to hit streaming this month?
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Mar 8, 2013 18:46
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Canned Panda posted:My wife banned me from picking out movies for a while after bringing home Hatchi and Never Let Me Go. I've had Never Let Me Go sitting on my DVD shelf unwatched for awhile now. The book was so incredibly depressing, I'm still not sure I want to put myself through the movie.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:53
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Jolo posted:
This was my major problem. I watched it mainly for the Lynch interview, and he's in it for all of five minutes. Richard Linklater was in it for, like, three minutes. They gave a lot of time to the Wachowskis, which wasn't very interesting. Danny Boyle did shine a lot, though. I also thought Fincher was really entertaining and energetic. Scorsese also had some really cool input. But yeah, I feel like there's hours of interesting interview footage that I'm missing out on and won't be included on DVD (which would be the only reason to buy it). I watched Hell House years ago, and remember it being pretty good, but it was after I watched Jesus Camp, which was much better and emotional. I was raised Southern Baptist as a child and even attended Awanas weekly (it's a form of boy scouts/girl scouts where you learn stories about the Bible, memorize verses, and played games) until I was 10, and Jesus Camp hits close to home. It's not on Netflix anymore, but I still recommend getting it if you have the DVD service. On the flip side of that, The American Scream is awesome. It's a great documentary about people who build walk-through scare houses. It's got really interesting characters, and made me enthusiastic to go out and do something artistic. It's a great movie to start the Halloween season on, so hopefully it'll be around that long. It's directed by the guy who directed the Troll 2 documentary, Best Worst Movie. I did find the ending to The American Scream kinda bittersweet. The main character decides to pursue his life dream to start a professional haunted house with all of his savings. While it's amazing that he's willing to take that chance just to be happy, it seems like a huge risk and worries me that he could lose everything for him and his family. I tried to find how his business ended up, but found nothing.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:56
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I just noticed that, even though it was just recently added, Manhunter is going to be removed from streaming on March 15. UHF is also getting removed on the 15th.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:00
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One of my facebook friends recommended Inserts. The premise definitely sounds interesting.quote:Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss stars as a washed-up silent-film director known as "The Boy Wonder" who, after striking out in talkies, moves on to pornography. But with a career in chaos and a dead leading lady (Veronica Cartwright), he'll have to pull off a miracle to make a profit. Bob Hoskins co-stars as the Boy Wonder's money man, Big Mac, in this art house film that originally received an X rating.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:13
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I just watched Inserts last week, it's very, very stagey.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:22
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Lefty Lugubrious posted:Well crap. Lo is expiring tomorrow and I don't think I'll have time to watch it tonight. I mean it's only been in my instant queue for a year or something. It's sort of low budget, but quite nice actually. I did like it 
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I just watched Inserts last week, it's very, very stagey. It is, but don't let that put anyone off. It plays out very much like a stage play, hence the stagey-ness. It's like if someone took one of those films from the 50's or 60's where everybody's Acting with a Capital "A", chewing every little bit of scenery, and made it in the 70's. Richard Dreyfuss is absolutely the best part, though.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:49
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Dreyfuss is definitely the best part of Inserts.
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Mar 8, 2013 20:02
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Canned Panda posted:Also, am I the only one who is really excited for Cartoon Network stuff to hit streaming this month?  and that a bunch of older shows will be added too. Seriously, watching a cartoon with breakfast before work makes every day a lot better.
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Mar 8, 2013 20:10
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Just finished V/H/S. I'm not a big fan of horror or found footage films, but I thought it was mostly good. The quality takes a significant drop in the middle, but the movie finishes strong. Here's hoping the sequel isn't awful!
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Mar 8, 2013 23:22
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Lefty Lugubrious posted:Well crap. Lo is expiring tomorrow and I don't think I'll have time to watch it tonight. I mean it's only been in my instant queue for a year or something. It's like watching pretty good regional theater. It even lifts the aesthetic somewhat.
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Mar 8, 2013 23:56
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Emden posted:Just finished V/H/S. I'm not a big fan of horror or found footage films, but I thought it was mostly good. The quality takes a significant drop in the middle, but the movie finishes strong. Here's hoping the sequel isn't awful! The sequel is awesome. Very different though.
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Mar 9, 2013 00:16
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You goons have terrible tastes in what is comedy.  Shaolin Grandma and Klown are unfunny and boring, end of story. And because I'm extra bored now, I'm watching Supernatural for the first time ever,kill me if I end writing lovely erotic fanfiction about the lead characters.
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Mar 9, 2013 01:25
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I thought Klown was hilarious. I tried to get a friend to watch it, but he refuses to give movies with subtitles a chance, got super stoned and texted the whole time, then complained he didn't understand what was going on.
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Mar 9, 2013 03:02
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So yeah, Bronson. Wow. That was certainly a hell of a way to be introduced to Nicolas Winding Refn. It you haven't seen it yet, this is a friendly reminder that its going off instant on Monday.
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Mar 9, 2013 06:16
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Desperado Bones posted:You goons have terrible tastes in what is comedy. I watched most of Shaolin Grandma today. I didn't really get into it as much as I thought I would from reading the comments and I finally gave up and turned it off. I doubt I will ever finish it. On the other hand, I'm about a third into Fish Story, and I'm pretty sucked in.
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Mar 9, 2013 06:22
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mr. stefan posted:So yeah, Bronson. Wow. That was certainly a hell of a way to be introduced to Nicolas Winding Refn. Watch Drive next.
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Mar 9, 2013 06:30
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Funnily enough I just watched Bronson too, although this was the third Refn film I had seen. Pretty great.
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Mar 9, 2013 08:07
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Funnily enough I just watched Bronson too, although this was the third Refn film I had seen. Pretty great. What's the best way to see the pusher trilogy? I saw #3 was on streaming but that's it.
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Mar 9, 2013 10:02
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Archer Season 3 is now on Instant. Enjoy.
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Mar 9, 2013 18:20
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CaptCommy posted:Archer Season 3 is now on Instant. Enjoy. Took long enough.
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Mar 9, 2013 18:29
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I watched Birdemic last night because of "How did this get made" and holy poo poo that was a terrible movie. I think my favorite part of it was either the TERRIBLE CGI or the fact that the white actor that played the main character was given lines that sounded like they had been written by someone who had english as their second language (which I think is probably actually the case). Acting is terrible, effects are terrible, plot is horribly explained the whole thing is terrible. Just listen to the "How did this get made" podcast and skip the movie and if you don't like that podcast don't watch the movie. The only part that is even vaguely worth watching is like the twenty minutes following when the birds start attacking which is 45 minutes into the hour and a half movie. In all I wouldn't recommend it, and I love horrible movies.
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Mar 9, 2013 21:49
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I dunno, it's a really bad movie but with some drinks and friends alot of it is really, really funny.
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Mar 9, 2013 21:50
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weekly font posted:I dunno, it's a really bad movie but with some drinks and friends alot of it is really, really funny. Have you seen the movie The Stuff it's terribly also and infinitely better than Birdemic.
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Mar 9, 2013 21:52
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Magnus Gallant posted:Have you seen the movie The Stuff it's terribly also and infinitely better than Birdemic. Of course. Trash cinema is my favorite cinema. I think Birdemic gets elevated a lot because of Rifftrax being on fire with it but it's not a complete waste of time.
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Mar 9, 2013 21:56
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There's nothing trash about The Stuff.
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Mar 9, 2013 22:48
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I actually thought Birdemic was hilarious even without the Rifftrax. To be fair, I wasn't sober.
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Birdemic is really funny with a group, but I don't get that much out of it because it's so aggressively bad (and obviously just made by some friends and family). My friends and I could probably do better. Something like Troll 2 is a lot funnier to me because the production values are so much higher, they use real actors, it was produced by a real movie studio etc. and yet it's just so goddamned bad.
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precision posted:I actually thought Birdemic was hilarious even without the Rifftrax. I didn't watch it with Rifftrax. I didn't realize it had rifftrax. Guess I wasn't inebriated enough.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Funnily enough I just watched Bronson too, although this was the third Refn film I had seen. Pretty great. Watched Bronson and Valhalla Rising last night, having only seen Drive. I loved Bronson, and thought Valhalla Rising was a beautiful film, but I was pretty tired and it's a hard movie to make the second in a back-to-back. Will need to watch it again sometime when I'm a bit more alert.
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The only way to experience Birdemic is with a powerful sound system, or headphones turned up all the way. When I saw it in the theater, everyone in the audience was wincing in pain at the bird screeches. Plus the complete lack of sound mixing is even more pronounced.
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I watched Timecrimes, which was pretty good. Don't make the mistake I made and watch the trailer ahead of time, though! Spoilertastic and makes the movie out to be super cheesy, which its not. It seemed like the US distributors had no faith that people would watch a subtitled movie so they spoiled the meat of it in hopes of pulling people in.
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