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marktheando posted:Yes the Raid has some really cool fights but I definitely prefer Dredd. The characters in the Raid are a bit one note, whereas Dredd, Anderson, Ma-Ma and Kay are great. Though I did used to read 2000AD as a teenager and I saw Dredd first so this is probably unsurprising. From what I remember, it's basically Star Trek: TOS cut down to 30 minutes and animated. I'd say it's worth watching a few episodes to see if it clicks with you.
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Jonny Retro posted:From what I remember, it's basically Star Trek: TOS cut down to 30 minutes and animated. I'd say it's worth watching a few episodes to see if it clicks with you. This is fairly accurate but it's ways stupider and there are talking cat people in it.
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I've started marathoning Breaking Bad to catch up in time for the finale. I just started season 3, and holy poo poo everyone on this show is a horrible shithead that I hate, but I like the show anyway. I also really like its cinematography. I should have watched this sooner.
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Emron posted:I've started marathoning Breaking Bad to catch up in time for the finale. I just started season 3, and holy poo poo everyone on this show is a horrible shithead that I hate, but I like the show anyway. I also really like its cinematography. I should have watched this sooner. Oh man you haven't seen anything yet.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Any goodwill I might have had toward this movie was blasted away by the dumb ending. Action was decent, though. edit: nope Wikipedia says I got that backwards. So I guess the international cut was better. BUT the international cut was the one the director wanted. So that's the true cut, Netflix doesn't show it, turn the movie off right after the penultimate scene.
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marktheando posted:Yes the Raid has some really cool fights but I definitely prefer Dredd. The characters in the Raid are a bit one note, whereas Dredd, Anderson, Ma-Ma and Kay are great. Though I did used to read 2000AD as a teenager and I saw Dredd first so this is probably unsurprising. If you like Trek, but occasionally go "Okay yeah I get it now, let's skip ahead here" then animated Star Trek is definitely for you. It's like the Snack Size Trek.
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All this talk about Boondock Saints makes me wish someone (less lazy than I) would create a companion thread to Was It Really That Bad, that instead asked people to discuss well received or critical darlings which you dislike or think have aged poorly. Just off the top of my head, I know my own list includes Boondock Saints, Good Will Hunting, Donnie Darko and American Beauty.
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Marketing New Brain posted:All this talk about Boondock Saints makes me wish someone (less lazy than I) would create a companion thread to Was It Really That Bad, that instead asked people to discuss well received or critical darlings which you dislike or think have aged poorly. Just off the top of my head, I know my own list includes Boondock Saints, Good Will Hunting, Donnie Darko and American Beauty. I don't know, a thread based on the premise of 'you know that movie most people like? It actually sucks' might turn hostile pretty quick. However, if you feel strongly about the idea, make the thread yourself.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:If we're going kinda limp, morally suspect '90s Quentin Tarantino ripoffs, I'd pick Thursday, myself. Ah yes, Thursday, the only movie I thought I would ever have to see a rape by envelopment scene in until James Gunn decided it was a good idea as well. That loving movie.
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Aug 29, 2013 18:28
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I watched Our Idiot Brother. It was pretty good and I recommend it wholeheartedly. Paul Rudd plays a well-meaning super nice manchild whose shocking habit of being honest about things, all the time, totally disrupts the lives of everyone around him.
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Marketing New Brain posted:All this talk about Boondock Saints makes me wish someone (less lazy than I) would create a companion thread to Was It Really That Bad, that instead asked people to discuss well received or critical darlings which you dislike or think have aged poorly. Just off the top of my head, I know my own list includes Boondock Saints, Good Will Hunting, Donnie Darko and American Beauty. We may have different definitions of 'critical darlings' Boondock Saints - 44% Good Will Hunting - 70% Donnie Darko - 71% (decent but hardly a 'critical darling') IMO a critical darling is something that got rave reviews but wasn't a hit per se -- basically Wong Kar Wai's oeuvre (sans My Blueberry Nights) or Before Sunrise / Sunset / Midnight
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Nice one I will give animated Star Trek a go. I was thinking I had almost watched all the good Star Trek, since I have watched most of TNG, TOS and DS9 and all the movies. I hadn't watched much tv Star Trek before Netflix but I've been (mostly) enjoying it a lot.Slate Action posted:I don't know, a thread based on the premise of 'you know that movie most people like? It actually sucks' might turn hostile pretty quick. Yeah I'm sure I read a 'most overrated movie' thread before that just degenerated into tedious arguments when some poster's favourite movie was inevitably brought up.
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A movie can still have a low score on RT and have a lot of people (even professional critics) just absolutely gush over how great it is. Personally, I'd sort of prefer a 'bad review' thread where instead of reviewing movies, we'd go and review (Semi-)professional reviews that made us scratch our heads at how off the mark we felt they were.
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JediTalentAgent posted:A movie can still have a low score on RT and have a lot of people (even professional critics) just absolutely gush over how great it is. Who watches the Watchmen watchers?
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Is this the thread you're looking for? Was it really that bad? Let's watch badly reviewed movies Edit: fixed thread title
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Bolek posted:Ah yes, Thursday, the only movie I thought I would ever have to see a rape by envelopment scene in until James Gunn decided it was a good idea as well. That loving movie. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty grotesquely mean-spirited, unpleasantly nihilistic movie, but at least it comes by it more honestly than Boondock Saints.
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regulargonzalez posted:We may have different definitions of 'critical darlings' People have certainly soured on some of the titles I named, but I can assure you ten years ago Boondock Saints had a large following and popularity for a movie I'm not even sure got a wide release. Good Will Hunting was nominated for nine Oscars. Let's not pretend metacritic scores actually reveal anything about a movies reception, much less movies released over a decade ago. I'm not sure what tomatometer score would satisfy you as "a critical darling" but I think you are missing the overall point. I used the criteria "well received" first because I was trying to spark discussion on movies that were more within the cultural consciousness. I suppose you could classify Boondock Saints and Donnie Darko as cult hits more than critical darlings, but the point wasn't to get in a semantics debate. e: I also debated just making the thread but assumed it would result in low effort "edgy" trolling or pointless bickering. Marketing New Brain fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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Miao Miao is a surprisingly touching Chinese "young love" film with gay/lesbian themes and really beautiful cinematography. Its main category is "comedy" but I have no idea why. I cried more than I laughed.
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Marketing New Brain posted:People have certainly soured on some of the titles I named, but I can assure you ten years ago Boondock Saints had a large following and popularity for a movie I'm not even sure got a wide release. It barely got a theatrical release and was then a BLOCKBUSTER EXCLUSIVE on VHS...
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FishBulb posted:It barely got a theatrical release and was then a BLOCKBUSTER EXCLUSIVE on VHS... The blurb on Wikipedia indicates it had poor critical reception, but did 50 million in domestic video sales. There is no reliable metric for whether or not a movie was popular or well liked, it was just one of a few movies I mentioned I remembered hearing people gush about a decade ago. I'm not sure what part of the text you quoted you disagree with, but I have to imagine 50 million in video sales for an essentially straight to DVD movie in 1999 makes it an extreme outlier.
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Despite the poor box office of Boondock Saints, it was highly hyped on the internet prior to release and spent probably the next 5-10 years constantly getting thrown on 'best cult movies you've never seen' lists all over the place. Also, it's essentially a comic book movie sans having comic book origins. With every Batman and Daredevil that came out, I'm sure there were folks saying, "Oh, but if you want to see a vigilante movie, check Saints!" Then you get Saints Row series of games that likely helps people see it as a spiritual precursor in some ways to that gaming franchise.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:If we're going kinda limp, morally suspect '90s Quentin Tarantino ripoffs, I'd pick Thursday, myself. Or Killing Zoe, which is on Netflix. Marketing New Brain posted:All this talk about Boondock Saints makes me wish someone (less lazy than I) would create a companion thread to Was It Really That Bad, that instead asked people to discuss well received or critical darlings which you dislike or think have aged poorly. Just off the top of my head, I know my own list includes Boondock Saints, Good Will Hunting, Donnie Darko and American Beauty. The last time I remember Beauty coming up in CD, it was 90% people saying "Yeah, that movie wasn't any good" so I don't think you're alone there.
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Marketing New Brain posted:All this talk about Boondock Saints makes me wish someone (less lazy than I) would create a companion thread to Was It Really That Bad, that instead asked people to discuss well received or critical darlings which you dislike or think have aged poorly. Just off the top of my head, I know my own list includes Boondock Saints, Good Will Hunting, Donnie Darko and American Beauty. It could be interesting but it's been done and inevitably turns into a "Star Wars sucks" "gently caress you" shitfest. Maybe the third time's the charm?
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precision posted:Or Killing Zoe, which is on Netflix. To be fair, Tarantino was an executive producer on that film, and it was written/directed by Roger Avary. So calling it a straight-up Tarantino rip-off is maybe being a little harsh. However, I'm sure his name was used all over the marketing to confuse people into thinking he wrote/directed it, which is maybe worse.
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precision posted:Or Killing Zoe, which is on Netflix. Well Avery did co write Pulp Fiction and True Romance with Tarantino, so I wouldn't say that it's as much of a rip off as say maybe Reservoir Dogs is of City On Fire.
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Sarchasm posted:Because it's the kind of big budget action spectacular that died out twenty years ago to be replaced with increasingly sterile disaster movies. It's rare when a movie like this comes around Hahahahah yeah the only movies that come out nowadays are "sterile disaster movies". We need to start seeing more big budget action movies based on comic book heroes!! When was the last time one of those came out anyway
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No Such Thing is expiring soon, everyone should watch it because it's great.
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HP Hovercraft posted:No Such Thing is expiring soon, everyone should watch it because it's great. Yes, not the best Hartley but one of his top 3 for sure. Robert John Burke is fantastic, and Sarah Polley is good but I do wonder how Parker Posey would have been since that was his original intent and she had been so good in his Henry Fool (and after No Such Thing, Fay Grim, and she's coming back for Ned Rifle which I am ridiculously excited about).
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cheerfullydrab posted:I watched Our Idiot Brother. It was pretty good and I recommend it wholeheartedly. Paul Rudd plays a well-meaning super nice manchild whose shocking habit of being honest about things, all the time, totally disrupts the lives of everyone around him. I liked it too. There were times where I felt like it was getting stale but it won me over by the end because of how awesomely sweet and endearing Paul's character was.
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marktheando posted:I've been watching Star Trek (the original series) and I'm nearing the end of season three. I notice Netflix has the animated series as well. Is it worth watching?  Yes.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Despite the poor box office of Boondock Saints, it was highly hyped on the internet prior to release and spent probably the next 5-10 years constantly getting thrown on 'best cult movies you've never seen' lists all over the place. What? How is Boondock Saints in any way similar to the Saints Row games? They have almost absolutely nothing in common other than the word Saints in the title. MailboxFullOfBombs fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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What episode is this from? I've seen this gif before and it's amazing.
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:What episode is this from? I've seen this gif before and it's amazing.
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grahf987 posted:Kind of late, but Saxondale really is awesome. Its like watching your old pathetic/compelling neighbor/dad dick around with people. My favorite character is a squatter (played by Coogan) who changed his name to Keanu Reeves. Its the first thing Max recommended to me and im in its debt for it, even though it has been pretty hit and miss after that. Also watch The Trip, not just funny but has an air of melancholy to it also. Thanks for this, I'm on ep 5 already and love it.
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PonchAxis posted:Oh man you haven't seen anything yet. I'm re-marathoning Breaking Bad in preparation for the finale, and it's even better the second time around. There are a lot of little details to catch.
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Watched Ronin again. Probably seen this movie 5-6 times at this point. Still thoroughly enjoyable. That goddamn tire smoke...
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Love Ronin. Some of the best car chase scenes ever filmed. The reactions of the cast during the chases was great too, as they were required to actually drive the cars during the chases. When Deniro looks like he's freaked out, it's because he's making GBS threads his pants at 100 miles per hour.
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Word of warning with Ronin: the French subtitles are missing in the Netflix transfer. You don't miss much other than meta-narrative but it's a little odd when two characters have a 5-minute dialog scene without letting you in on what's going on.
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Impossible to say for me since I've seen it with the subs but it's kind of better if you infer what they say rather than having it spelled out. I don't know, they could get rid of half the dialogue in the thing and just exchange pensive glances and I would love it all the same.
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Can anyone recommend a good TV show on Netflix to watch while trying to fall asleep? Something focused more on dialog than visuals, that doesn't have an ongoing storyline (so I won't miss anything important if I doze off halfway through an episode) and ideally has at least a couple seasons available. I'm starting my second run through all 13 seasons of King of the Hill, but it might be time for something new.
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