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May 19, 2013 22:21
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Anonymous Robot posted:Is Creepshow 2 any good? Nowhere near as good the first, but not completely terrible. The third one edges it out, but only barely.
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May 19, 2013 22:25
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...of SCIENCE! posted:There's one episode in season 2 where a goofy 70s Hanna-Barbera superhero is given a gritty, violent Frank Miller makeover but his sidekick is still a silly talking animal with a stupid voice even when he's using dental implements to interrogate a suspect. Also the entire cast of Johnny Quest co-stars in that very same episode. I've also heard that there's an episode where Harlan Ellison plays himself and saves the day for the kids. I hope he's a huge dick about it and that he sexually harasses somebody.
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May 19, 2013 22:56
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precision posted:Was The Great Happiness Space "not depressing" enough for you? Don't worry! Whores' Glory will give you at least ten times the soul crushing despair, especially the segment in Bangladesh. I wish I didn't watch this. I mean, thanks for the recommendation and everything... but gently caress, man 
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May 19, 2013 23:34
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Devil Wears Wings posted:The Dictator just popped up for streaming, and you should watch it. It's got far more genuinely hilarious moments than a post-Borat Sacha Baron Cohen movie has any right to have. I saw it in theaters and actually found it pretty disappointing, especially when Bruno was as funny as it was.
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May 19, 2013 23:35
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Watching ParaNorman, great flick. Pretty snappy writing and the quality of the stop motion is amazing. So much detail! The reversal when the zombies were overcome by the crazed townspeople mob was pretty funny.
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May 19, 2013 23:59
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Netflix has got to have the absolute worst customer support reps I've ever talked to. It just took me an hour to get a supervisor to understand that I would rather see the Average Rating, not the "Our Best Guess For YOU!" rating, when I hover over a title. Literally an hour to explain that.  Anyway, a very weird British movie called In The Dark Half just got added. It's "Lynchian". Another British film, The Chatroom, is up. It has some superb acting and a neat concept, though it kind of struggles to sustain it through 90 minutes (I don't know if it was an intentional rip off of the short film The Parlor or not.
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May 20, 2013 01:01
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priznat posted:Watching ParaNorman, great flick. Pretty snappy writing and the quality of the stop motion is amazing. So much detail! The climatic final battle scene is pretty easily the most amazing stop motion work I've ever seen, it's loving astounding.
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May 20, 2013 01:02
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I saw it in theaters and actually found it pretty disappointing, especially when Bruno was as funny as it was. I thought the beginning and very ending were pretty funny when he just got to go all-out with dictator jokes, but everything in New York City was stupendously predictable and stupid. It was like an R-rated version of The Smurfs only with an offensive middle-eastern stereotype instead of little blue cartoon people.
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May 20, 2013 01:17
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Devil Wears Wings posted:The Dictator just popped up for streaming, and you should watch it. It's got far more genuinely hilarious moments than a post-Borat Sacha Baron Cohen movie has any right to have. Don't listen to this guy.
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May 20, 2013 03:26
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-Atom- posted:Don't listen to this guy. Listen to this guy.
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May 20, 2013 03:46
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Not sure how to say this, but if you like to watch really awful "movies" in the vein of things like Birdemic, you should check out the 1313 series of movies. I have never laughed so hard at how ineptly a movie can be made. I specifically watched 1313: Cougar Cult and 1313: Hercules Unbound! So if you like movies that are poorly acted, contain large amounts of anachronisms, have PS1 level special effects, reuse the same footage over and over and over and over, and at times are like homoerotic porn with the porn removed, check these piles of poo poo out. My favorite scene from 1313: Cougar Cult 
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May 20, 2013 03:48
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OldTennisCourt posted:The climatic final battle scene is pretty easily the most amazing stop motion work I've ever seen, it's loving astounding. Yeah it looks so seamless and effortless so it just must have been a staggering amount of work involved. Earlier in the day I had watched a Wallace and Gromit, they're brilliantly done as well but the Coraline/ParaNorman stuff is light years beyond. I am curious how much CG is used to clean it up. But really I don't need to know because it is so unobtrusive. Really fun flick even without the technical aspects!
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May 20, 2013 03:48
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Face/Off. Holy poo poo is that movie chock full of '90s goodness. Makes you wish John Woo was still getting blockbusters thrown his way. That movie is based off of a true story.
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May 20, 2013 03:52
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Not sure how to say this, but if you like to watch really awful "movies" in the vein of things like Birdemic, you should check out the 1313 series of movies. I have never laughed so hard at how ineptly a movie can be made. I specifically watched 1313: Cougar Cult and 1313: Hercules Unbound! So if you like movies that are poorly acted, contain large amounts of anachronisms, have PS1 level special effects, reuse the same footage over and over and over and over, and at times are like homoerotic porn with the porn removed, check these piles of poo poo out. Holy poo poo, I have to see this.
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May 20, 2013 04:58
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Personperson14 posted:Holy poo poo, I have to see this. What the hell...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNisRfIUoQw
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May 20, 2013 05:10
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Not sure how long it's been up but the 1994 live action Street Fighter movie is up. 
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May 20, 2013 05:26
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There are currently 13 films in the 1313 series: I have no idea if there's any numerological significance behind that. They're all basically PG-13 gay porn, and the guy who makes them got his start working with Roger Corman and Charles Band of Full Moon Pictures fame--he has quite the low-budget lineage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeCoteau
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May 20, 2013 06:07
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He proved that you can spend decades of giving no shits about film as an art form. He is "a talking cat".
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May 20, 2013 06:36
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Volume posted:Not sure how long it's been up but the 1994 live action Street Fighter movie is up. I need to revisit this one. It has a reputation of being one of the worst movies ever made, but it really doesn't deserve it. It's worth watching just for Raul Julia hamming it up as Bison, and JCVD's awesome rally-the-troops speech.
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May 20, 2013 07:09
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Yeah, Street Fighter is bad, but in the entertainingly cheesy b-movie sort of way. Turn it on during a Sunday afternoon when you have nothing better to do, and you'll probably end up being at least somewhat entertained, if only from Julia's performance. Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li on the other hand, is pure dogshit.
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May 20, 2013 07:30
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Can anyone recommend some films on Netflix where stealth is prominently featured? Something that has a Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid type of vibe to it.
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May 20, 2013 07:48
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WITNESS THE POWER! posted:Can anyone recommend some films on Netflix where stealth is prominently featured? Something that has a Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid type of vibe to it. All four Mission: Impossible films are up, to get the obvious out of the way. As is the TV series.
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May 20, 2013 07:55
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Junkie Disease posted:He proved that you can spend decades of giving no shits about film as an art form. He is "a talking cat". Excuse me but that is "A Talking Cat!?!", it does not convey the same range of emotions without the specific style. Also it's a massive bummer if Netflix are really losing all Viacom stuff. That's potentially a LOT of shows.
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May 20, 2013 07:58
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I'm watching the pilot episode of Longmire and I really do not like the cinematography. I don't know how to describe it, but it just looks like some horrible SyFy movie. I guess I'll at least keep at it since it's rated pretty well, but right now I kind of want to chuck something at my TV. e: Oh yea, this guy is so rugged and old school. He doesn't need no dang ole cellular phone to do rugged manly law enforcement type duties.  e2: Why is the cop melting a small glacier with a hair dryer connected to a gas generator and not using a propane heater gently caress I quit. Mental Hospitality fucked around with this message at 08:33 on May 20, 2013 |
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May 20, 2013 08:18
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Finally got around to watching Beyond the Black Rainbow. It wasn't what I was expecting at all, it was way, way better. I really liked the visual style and the music/audio. Pretty neat to see it was filmed in Vancouver too, I spotted a couple locations that I recognized so checked on imdb, yep. Also cool he financed it from residuals from Tombstone DVDs that his father directed, one of my all time favs. I have a copy of the DVD around here somewhere. So in my small part.. heh Definitely not going to be a movie for everyone, though. Hell I hardly understand what the crap was going on. But drat it looked amazing.
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May 20, 2013 08:26
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WITNESS THE POWER! posted:Can anyone recommend some films on Netflix where stealth is prominently featured? Something that has a Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid type of vibe to it. If you haven't seen Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (the best of the franchise) you are seriously missing an excellent movie.
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May 20, 2013 10:14
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The Paperboy is a movie where Nicole Kidman urinates on Zac Efron and John Cusack plays a deranged hillbilly. The tone of the movie is definitely jokey which is seriously at odds with some of the content. Matthew McConaughey turns into Snake Plissken.
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May 20, 2013 15:50
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foodfight posted:The Paperboy is a movie where Nicole Kidman urinates on Zac Efron and John Cusack plays a deranged hillbilly. The tone of the movie is definitely jokey which is seriously at odds with some of the content. Matthew McConaughey turns into Snake Plissken. So... yep. That just went in my queue. 
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May 20, 2013 16:17
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Finally got around to seeing John Dies at the End , which was fun and I'm glad I watched it, but it could have been a lot better. The movie was really inconsistent making obvious flaws more noticeable. It seems they went all out on the secondary characters with Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Doug Jones, and Glynn Turman owning the gently caress out of their roles, while the two leads really struggled, and the tertiary characters were "plucked off the streets" bad. CGI seemed really impressive at times for how small the budget must have been, and other times felt all too appropriate. The interesting story, humor, and loving little touches really help get past all that stuff (my favorite moment by far is a half-second gesture a character makes with one hand pointing to their other hand, holding a can labelled gasoline). The biggest detriment was the cinematography utilizing close-ups for 90% of the shots. It's claustrophobic as gently caress, and while that plays to it's advantage in some scenes (like an interrogation), most of the time it's just frustrating and using space badly. There's probably only two very-wide-shots in the movie (back to back) and when they showed up I wanted to first pump just cause it was a change of pace. At first I thought this was Coscarelli's doing, but re-watching a chunk of Phantasm II, the shots are composed way better so I guess this falls mostly on the cinematographer. Still, I'm glad stuff like it gets made. It wasn't ever boring either, which is something you can't say of a lot of movies embracing similar absurdity (the dull first two acts of Mars Attacks are fresh on my mind). It does feel like there could have been more there though. Hearing how much everyone who read the actual stories disliked the adaptation makes me really eager to read the book. WITNESS THE POWER! posted:Can anyone recommend some films on Netflix where stealth is prominently featured? Something that has a Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid type of vibe to it. A lot of the Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan movies are on Netflix. Not exactly stealth, but they might hit the spot a little better than the average action movie. Hunt for Red October, Sum of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger. Obviously they all vary in quality, but even the weakest have some interesting stuff. scary ghost dog posted:If you haven't seen Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (the best of the franchise) you are seriously missing an excellent movie. I actually watched GP recently and walked away thinking it was the best in the series too. The next day I went back and watched Mission Impossible for the first time in about a decade, and it's so much better than I remembered. Ghost Protocol is really great and excels in different areas, but I liked DePalma's Mission Impossible more. If someone is looking for a more straight up stealth, cloak and dagger movie with few action hero moments, then the first MI is the perfect fit. Tried watching the MI:2 and MI:3, but they were just as unimpressionable as I remembered. Especially 2, which really had me excited at first with this typical Woo score and his trademarks but my interest died off before the first act ended. The third one just felt a little standard, but I'll probably go back and try again soon.
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May 20, 2013 16:50
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Finally got around to seeing John Dies at the End Huh, that's odd. I thought the book was OK at best and the film was much more enjoyable. I also disagree that the two leads were weak, I thought the guy who played Dave turned in a fantastically low-key performance.
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May 20, 2013 17:27
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precision posted:Huh, that's odd. I thought the book was OK at best and the film was much more enjoyable. I also disagree that the two leads were weak, I thought the guy who played Dave turned in a fantastically low-key performance. That seems to be the (closest thing to a) consensus I picked up from the horror thread anyway. I could be mistaken. I don't outright dislike Dave's performance, but by struggling I do mean I felt a real difference between scenes (I'm speculating) that were shot earlier compared where he's more comfortable in the role. That and/or his scenes with the other veteran actors came a lot more easily for him, while scenes with the tertiary ones dragged him down. The only iffy part I can think of with them was his scene with Doug Jones in the car (especially his delivery on that one line about an expression...everything's just too straight, aggressive, and confident for the moment of his arc); the rest of his weak stuff were things like the party, the Jamaican conversation, dealing with Justin. Not all that surprising since those last two actors might be the the weakest in the whole film, which was all the more jarring sandwiched between Glynn Turman and Clancy Brown chewing the scenery. EvilTobaccoExec fucked around with this message at 18:17 on May 20, 2013 |
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May 20, 2013 18:05
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foodfight posted:The Paperboy is a movie where Nicole Kidman urinates on Zac Efron and John Cusack plays a deranged hillbilly. The tone of the movie is definitely jokey which is seriously at odds with some of the content. Matthew McConaughey turns into Snake Plissken. At first I thought this was a quote from that un-made Seinfeld episodes Twitter.
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May 20, 2013 18:06
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I just noticed there's a movie called Magicians starred the guys from Peep Show and written by the creators of Peep Show. Is it any good? I feel like it has to be terrible or it'd have been suggested a million times by now.
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May 20, 2013 18:09
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maxnmona posted:I just noticed there's a movie called Magicians starred the guys from Peep Show and written by the creators of Peep Show. Is it any good? I feel like it has to be terrible or it'd have been suggested a million times by now. It's pretty bad.
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May 20, 2013 18:22
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precision posted:Netflix has got to have the absolute worst customer support reps I've ever talked to. It just took me an hour to get a supervisor to understand that I would rather see the Average Rating, not the "Our Best Guess For YOU!" rating, when I hover over a title. Why were you spending any time at all trying to explain this to them? I'm not saying you shouldn't prefer that, I just don't understand how this conversation happens.
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May 20, 2013 19:37
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Sir Kodiak posted:Why were you spending any time at all trying to explain this to them? I'm not saying you shouldn't prefer that, I just don't understand how this conversation happens. I was calling for a technical support issue, and I brought it up casually because I was hoping there might be some obvious thing I was missing where I could disable the "recommended rating" or whatever. The guy I was talking to was so hostile and stupid that it just kept escalating, with him taking 5 minutes at a time to tell me "YOU SEE THOSE RED STARS THOSE ARE THE AVERAGE RATING, WE'RE NOT TELLING YOU HOW MUCH YOU'LL LIKE A MOVIE IT'S BASED ON MATH" and me getting a word in edgewise finally and saying "No, I'm talking about the average rating among people who have rated it" and him cutting me off and giving the same rant until I finally interrupted him and said "SUPERVISOR!" It then took the supervisor another 10 minutes to understand it. Since all that happened before my technical issue came up, I felt like I had to finish it off instead of just calling back. I guess I'm stubborn.
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May 20, 2013 22:03
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Somehow I'm not at all surprised that the people who work for Netflix don't even know how their own star-rating system works. But if you really want to see the average ratings for shows and movies, you could go to InstantWatcher.com or delete all of your rankings (not sure if that's even possible, but that'd probably do the trick). Regardless, it should at least be an option and the "tech support" people should understand what customers mean when they talk about the star system, since it's a pretty integral part of the Netflix interface.
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May 20, 2013 23:09
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Does anyone know how many new episodes of Arrested Development are being released this month and does this new season put a kabosh on the rumored movie?
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May 20, 2013 23:30
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EDDIE__DINGLE posted:Does anyone know how many new episodes of Arrested Development are being released this month and does this new season put a kabosh on the rumored movie? 24 Netflix is fully funding a two part movie.
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