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Greggy posted:There will be a new season this summer with 20 episodes, but that's it for the TV show for now. It got it's start as a very popular podcast with more than 200 episodes of backlog, so maybe give that a try? It obviously isn't exactly the same as the TV show but Scott Aukerman is a really funny guy, you will probably like it. Here's the SA thread. A lot of the characters comedians played on the show have been in the podcast as well. I recommend starting with any episode with Andy Daly, he's always hilarious.
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Greggy posted:There will be a new season this summer with 20 episodes, but that's it for the TV show for now. It got it's start as a very popular podcast with more than 200 episodes of backlog, so maybe give that a try? It obviously isn't exactly the same as the TV show but Scott Aukerman is a really funny guy, you will probably like it. Here's the SA thread. Awesome, thanks for the good news!
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For people with Hulu Plus, the entire run of The Shield is up. I just marathoned the entire series, it's great through all 7 seasons.
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Apr 14, 2013 11:36
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Anyone catch this? I didn't find any others. If you click it, it cuts to the episode and scene of Arrested Development where George Sr. is teaching his kids to always leave a note when the milk runs out. Also: I cannot believe Netflix is still sticking to their lovely assed, forced slow scrolling. It blows my mind - I just. don't. get it. vvv - Ha. Well, that's what I get for not clicking things. Captain Lavender has a new favorite as of 22:30 on Apr 14, 2013 |
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Apr 14, 2013 22:24
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Captain Lavender posted:Anyone catch this? The slow scrolling is still there so that people get fed up and click genre tags, which then put every movie in that genre on the page at once, GIS style.
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Apr 14, 2013 22:27
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Can someone explain to us yanks watching The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret what was so wrong with Todd's shirt in episode 3 (The Snooker Player, etc.)?
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Apr 18, 2013 19:04
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Can someone explain to us yanks watching The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret what was so wrong with Todd's shirt in episode 3 (The Snooker Player, etc.)? If I remember correctly, its the one with a flag on it? I'm pretty sure the flag is from a British neo-nazi political party. EDIT: Its a t-shirt with the slogan of the British National Party, here's a blip from Wikipedia: quote:The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982. It restricted membership to "indigenous British" people until a 2010 legal challenge to its constitution.[16] Business Gorillas has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Apr 18, 2013 19:13
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Yep just a racism joke. Btw I stopped watching it for ages then marathoned the last half of season two last night. It's absolutely worth finishing if you're into it.
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Apr 18, 2013 20:02
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Any feedback on the new horror show Netflix produced, Hemlock Grove?
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Apr 19, 2013 21:45
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I'm 2 episodes in. Hasn't blown me away, but I'm willing to give it a chance.
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Is the show about werewolves? If so spare me now so I don't waste the time.
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Apr 19, 2013 21:55
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It has one in it so far, but I wouldn't say it's about werewolves. There is a lot of weird poo poo. The werewolf transformation scene is probably the goriest brutal werewolf scenes I've ever seen. The show isn't shy about gore, so if that bothers you, I'd give it a pass.
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Apr 19, 2013 22:11
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I ran into a show I like by complete accident. I was frustrated because I felt like there was nothing left on Netflix; and so I angrily, randomly click Switched at Birth - an ABC Family drama. I'm 25 episodes into it now, and I'm hooked. I like the characters, I like the writing, and I like the story. One cool thing about it is the heavy focus on deaf culture. Several main characters are deaf, and so it's pretty educational to learn about difficulties they put up with, and with common deaf courtesy. In fact, there are whole scenes of dialogue that have no noise, except ambient background noise, whatsoever. So, I'm recommending it more because I was surprised about how serviceable it is (not necessarily that it's amazing)
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I've started watching Fringe since they put it up. The show's pretty good but I feel like they didn't really have a concrete idea of what they were going to do once the alternate universe and shape shifters were introduced. I find myself liking the mystery of the week episodes better than the story related ones. I'd recommend it though. It's heavily influenced by the X-Files; not that that's a bad thing.
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Gaunab posted:I've started watching Fringe since they put it up. The show's pretty good but I feel like they didn't really have a concrete idea of what they were going to do once the alternate universe and shape shifters were introduced. I find myself liking the mystery of the week episodes better than the story related ones. I'd recommend it though. It's heavily influenced by the X-Files; not that that's a bad thing. I think I found myself in the trap of feeling like it was TOO similar to X-Files at the beginning, and I liked it less - as an x-files clone. Maybe time to check it out again. Same reason I couldn't enjoy Parks & Rec at first; because it felt like such a blatant The Office clone. Hatfields & McCoys is up. 3 episodes, each is about 90 minutes. Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton. It's pretty sweet. Not too cerebral, but the escalation of violence is believable. I really liked it. IMO, Kevin Costner is best in roles where he's supposed to be stoic and emotionless; so this was pretty much ideal.
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Paranorman is up, it's one of those movies that's great for kids and adults and yada yada yada it got a lot of press and you should all know it's awesome, go watch it if you haven't.
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me your dad posted:Any feedback on the new horror show Netflix produced, Hemlock Grove? I ended up marathoning through all the episodes today, when I had better things to do, so I wouldn't say it's awful. It ends real, real dumb though. Here's my suggestion: (Caution: Vague Spoiler) When the person responsible for all the murders is revealed and says, "You should kill me", turn the show off and pretend that the protagonists did so, because holy poo poo does the show get loving dumb and unsatisfying after that. Some things I would recommend: Start hitting the booze with a group of friends and watch The FP and FDR - American Badass. They're both super dumb comedies, but they worked. I thought they were going to be terrible like those horseshit parody movies from Friedberg and Seltzer, but they were both really funny, and we weren't drunk enough that we'd be laughing at just anything. FDR - American Badass (seriously, that's what the movie is called) will also deeply surprise you as actual, talented actors that you will recognize keep showing up and acting. Bedurndurn has a new favorite as of 08:22 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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Im sure this is only new news to me but I've been watching nothing but Star Trek:The Next Generation non-stop. I'm honestly not that big of a fan of the first series (it's a little bit too goofy 60s sci-fi for my tastes) but TNG really succeeds at combining both camp and lighthearted humor with some pretty well written serious episodes. Even without liking sci-fi I'd say it's enjoyable because it lacks the kind of niche-y, overdramatic bullshit in found a lot of other sci-fi series. If not anything else, the character Data is enough of a reason to watch the show. Not only does Brent Spiner do a spectacular job at creating a realistic, yet still sympathetic, depiction of an android, but he's also just a babe. 
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Patrick Stewart, who came from very thespian, Shakespearian theater, once likened some TNG scenes to Shakespeare. I believe he said a lot about how the monologues were devoted to controversial social issues that were really important, etc. In my opinion, TNG is one of the best written shows ever on television, as long as you're not watching the movies alongside.
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I watched Pontypool last night. Overall I enjoyed it but why did Ken describe that big teen kid as having arms for stumps that are turning back on themselves? That did not fit in with anything else that goes on in the film.
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I am going through my overblown instant queue, and recently watched a bunch of really good movies, some not so good. I'll spare the details on the ones I disliked. Finally watched Brick, which is a film noir set in a high school, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It works really well. Been on a Daniel Day-Lewis kick, so I watched My Left Foot, a biopic of the Irish writer and artist Christie Brown, who was paralyzed from birth by cerebral palsy and wrote and painted using only his titular left foot. Day-Lewis was great, as usual, and I really empathized with Brown, who is well portrayed as not simply a man with a disability, but as a broken man in a broken body. Blue in the Face is the companion piece to Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's Smoke, which a favorite film of mine (also available on Netflix Instant). Blue in the Face was produced largely from unused footage from Smoke, but it stands on its own pretty well. There are also tons of great cameos. Will Farrell impressed me in Everything Must Go, which follows an alcoholic who's trying to figure his life out after he loses his job, his wife leaves him and throws all of his stuff into the front yard, exiling him from his home. Despite all this, the tone of the movie is fairly upbeat. Also it made me want to drink several hundred beers. This Is England is both a coming of age story and a film about the co-opting of skinhead culture by nationalists in mid-1980s England. The boy who plays the main character is great, and the skinhead leader is massively insidious.
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We only watched one episode of Hemlock Grove. The scene in the rain was almost enough for me to call it quits. It seems like a horror drama marketed to teens, but the immediate tits in the first episode provided an odd (yet welcome) contradiction. And the rich boy character is pretty awful. I look forward to learning more about his sister. She's really the only interesting character so far. And like a few others, I've decided to start watching Star Trek TNG. I've never been a fan of the show but I've liked a few movies in the past. I'm only into the first episode of that as well, but at least I've got 100+ episodes to look forward to.
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Be warned, that for a lot of season 1, the show focuses on Wesley crusher and he is the worst.
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me your dad posted:And like a few others, I've decided to start watching Star Trek TNG. I've never been a fan of the show but I've liked a few movies in the past. I'm only into the first episode of that as well, but at least I've got 100+ episodes to look forward to. Just be aware that the show takes a season or two to really hit its stride (like a lot of great shows). I'm not an expert who has an encyclopedic knowledge of TNG, but I remember being really struck during the first season or so that the show seemed to rely a LOT on having episodes center around holodeck shenanigans and it really pissing me off. "You have a show, set on spaceships and distant galaxies in the future, with alien civilizations, and you are devoting entire episodes to the computer simulations aboard the ship." Once the show hit its stride it has some of the best episodes ever written for TV among any series in my opinion.
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I thought those drat holodecks were more trouble than they were worth. Just read a goddamn book or something! Although Picard tommy gun action in one of the movies (first contact?) was pretty hilarious.
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I too would definitely recommend watching Brick . Especially if you are a fan of noir, or want to try the genre out.
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me your dad posted:We only watched one episode of Hemlock Grove. The scene in the rain was almost enough for me to call it quits. It seems like a horror drama marketed to teens, but the immediate tits in the first episode provided an odd (yet welcome) contradiction. And the rich boy character is pretty awful. I look forward to learning more about his sister. She's really the only interesting character so far. Pretty much agreed. It's not that the rich boy character is terrible, it's that he's so miscast. The guy playing him has no charm or charisma and so none of his exploits are believable. The werewolf transformation in the second or third episode is pretty cool, though. Otherwise literally nothing interesting has happened.
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I've started watching the Hemlock Grove and the rich guy looks a lot like Steve Buscemi. That's my only opinion of it so far.
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priznat posted:I thought those drat holodecks were more trouble than they were worth. Just read a goddamn book or something! Yea First Contact, it's also the only good TNG movie, but for some reason the movies don't seem to be on instant.
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Apr 21, 2013 22:46
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Pootie Tang is on streaming now so stop watching anything else and put that on.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Pretty much agreed. It's not that the rich boy character is terrible, it's that he's so miscast. The guy playing him has no charm or charisma and so none of his exploits are believable. I just like that the guy playing the rich boy is Bill Skarsgard, brother of Alexander Skarsgard of True Blood fame. I imagine someone talking to their dad (Stellan Skarsgard) and saying "Hey, I saw your son in that Vampire/Werewolf show" and he'll be "Well, you'll have to be more specific..."
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Medullah posted:I just like that the guy playing the rich boy is Bill Skarsgard, brother of Alexander Skarsgard of True Blood fame. I imagine someone talking to their dad (Stellan Skarsgard) and saying "Hey, I saw your son in that Vampire/Werewolf show" and he'll be "Well, you'll have to be more specific..." Bill doesn't quite have the American accent or even grasp on the English language that his brother does though, and honestly that takes me out of Hemlock Grove more than any of the shallow writing or forgettable characters. "Ha ha I love being rich American teenager with fast car and the rock and the roll music and the Mickey Mouse"
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Hemlock Grove is awful. Why was the girls first reaction upon her car being shunted to immediately scream, depart the vehicle and sprint into the woods?
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WastedJoker posted:Hemlock Grove is awful. While I haven't watched any of this yet, I take it you haven't ever seen horror/scary movies or shows? They are invariably populated by the dumbest mother fuckers on this planet.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Pretty much agreed. It's not that the rich boy character is terrible, it's that he's so miscast. The guy playing him has no charm or charisma and so none of his exploits are believable. I'm about 5 episodes in, and not entirely sure why I feel compelled to keep watching it. It feels/looks cheap and the acting is terrible. As far as the rich kid though, he isn't supposed to be charming and charismatic. Most of town hates him, and the cops hate more and it is mentioned many times that he has absolutely no friends. He isn't the charming rich kid that everyone wants to hang out with. Bill still somehow manages to be unlikable in the wrong way, and it makes me sad that he is so terrible, since I love his brother and father.
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If people were smart and sensible in horror movies 90% of the time there would be no movie! Cabin in the Woods is great for this, mood altering drugs pumped in/hair dye/weed laced. Although the guy who had the secret stash of in tampered weed still figured it out.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yea First Contact, it's also the only good TNG movie, but for some reason the movies don't seem to be on instant. I think like half the Star Trek movies are up on instant and they're none of the good ones. Although Nemesis has Tom Hardy in it so you just give him Bane quotes and it makes the movie far more enjoyable.
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I watched the entire first season of Top of the Lake yesterday. It's only seven episodes, and it felt like it dragged out the ending just a bit, but it was otherwise really good. If you like crime dramas that are pretty smartly plotted, I highly recommend it.
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Totally TWISTED posted:While I haven't watched any of this yet, I take it you haven't ever seen horror/scary movies or shows? They are invariably populated by the dumbest mother fuckers on this planet. This show is particularly bad and not in a fun way. The dialogue is clearly written by an amateur and the characters have inconsistent personality traits. I wonder if this is the fault of the screen writers, or if the source material is just poo poo? It's kind of like a cross between Twin Peaks and True Blood, but without any of the stuff that makes those two shows entertaining.
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