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Yeah, American Hustle enjoys playing with themes but has little desire to actually engage with any of them.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's Amy Adams' turn, dammit! Her performance was technically proficient but I thought she was too mannered and acting too much, she never really became the character but you could always see Amy Adams shining through, playing a part. J-Law really disappeared into her role and actually became the character, like for instance Daniel Day-Lewis always does in his movies as well.
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I spent way too long trying to figure out what movie you people were talking about because I couldn't find anything that said Jude Law was in American Hustle.
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Jan 4, 2014 21:50
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You guys didn't laugh riotously at Amy Adams terrible British accent, Christian Bale's amazing combover, or Bradley Cooper's hundred tiny hair rollers every time they were on screen? The movie was hilarious. Did you also think The Wolf of Wall Street was a sobering look at the effects of quaaludes on businessmen?
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Jan 4, 2014 22:49
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It was funny but not riotously funny.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:53
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Jan 4, 2014 23:02
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Amazon Prime Video might have some TV shows that Netflix doesn't have but my god does it have a terrible loving interface on the PS3.
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Mu Zeta posted:It was funny but not riotously funny. Excuse me? Several audience members at my theatre tore their theatre chairs out and threw them at the screen because they couldn't stop laughing. Armored cops arrived and pepper sprayed them until they calmed down.
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Jan 4, 2014 23:18
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muscles like this? posted:Amazon Prime Video might have some TV shows that Netflix doesn't have but my god does it have a terrible loving interface on the PS3. None of the Netflix competitors seem to understand how to make an interface/experience/brand as nice as Netflix. Something about Amazon Instant, from its design to its interface, just screams rushed copy to me, and they haven't done anything to move away from that image.
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Jan 4, 2014 23:19
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Netflix isn't so good at having an interface as good as Netflix themselves. They have a bunch over different devices and some are awful.
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I rather like Google Play, at least on my tablet, but their selection isn't anywhere near as good as Amazon's, especially for older TV.
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Aphrodite posted:Netflix isn't so good at having an interface as good as Netflix themselves. LG's Netflix application is the most tedious I've encountered, though I cherish the TV. The best I've encountered on any interface is on Windows 8.x, which I don't think could be more fluid or succinct.
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Aphrodite posted:Netflix isn't so good at having an interface as good as Netflix themselves. PriorMarcus posted:None of the Netflix competitors seem to understand how to make an interface/experience/brand as nice as Netflix.
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Aphrodite posted:Netflix isn't so good at having an interface as good as Netflix themselves. Yeah, I don't get it. The web interface is great, why are almost all of the app-based ones such garbage?
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The Amazon web interface isn't as good as the iOS app. It's just as good as the Netflix app IMO.
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ufarn posted:Exactly. And their Windows 8 app is shite and never works. I believe the HBO Go console app is an exclusivity thing.
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soapgish posted:LG's Netflix application is the most tedious I've encountered, though I cherish the TV. What year LG? Mine's a 2013 and it's the old interface my PS3 used to have: Rows upon rows of categories with ~75 items each.
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ufarn posted:Exactly. And their Windows 8 app is shite and never works. I actually really like Netflix's Windows 8 app. My only complaints are that I haven't found a way to view a list of individual episodes of a show without starting an episode first and that even super HD is apparently only 720p (which I think is true for all their interfaces, but it's only really noticeable on my desktop because it's the only 1080p screen I have).
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muscles like this? posted:I believe the HBO Go console app is an exclusivity thing. Lot of good that will do them, when the people outside the U.S. want to watch HBO. lelandjs posted:I actually really like Netflix's Windows 8 app. My only complaints are that I haven't found a way to view a list of individual episodes of a show without starting an episode first and that even super HD is apparently only 720p (which I think is true for all their interfaces, but it's only really noticeable on my desktop because it's the only 1080p screen I have).
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Helix thread (Ron Moore's The Thing on Syfy) is up. I'll fill in more details (reviews, etc.) as they come in through the week.
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I just watched the first episode of Dante's Cove with TVIV favorite STEPHEN AMELL and that was pretty much the most horrifying thing I've ever seen.
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Palooka posted:Helix thread (Ron Moore's The Thing on Syfy) is up. I'll fill in more details (reviews, etc.) as they come in through the week. Misreading this post made me really sad that SciFi didn't at least attempt the (probably terrible) Thing sequel miniseries that was written in the 90s.
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muscles like this? posted:Amazon Prime Video might have some TV shows that Netflix doesn't have but my god does it have a terrible loving interface on the PS3. All of the console interfaces are terrible for Amazon Prime. It doesn't help that they mix prime stuff and their regular streaming stuff together willy-nilly. Of course no one is as bad as the Youtube console interfaces. I'm pretty sure what they came up with is some kind of war crime.
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So how many Adult Swim threads did we manage to have last night? 
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Rarity posted:So how many Adult Swim threads did we manage to have last night? There was, for a brief period, four different threads because Gitmo Moneyson started a new thread and didn't close the other one immediately.
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Jan 5, 2014 16:32
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It was like their only wish after they die is to be remembered as the creator of an Adult Swim thread on the Something Awful forums
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Random Stranger posted:All of the console interfaces are terrible for Amazon Prime. It doesn't help that they mix prime stuff and their regular streaming stuff together willy-nilly. Well to be fair, Amazon Prime is trash even on Amazon's web site. "Hey, you get to stream all this stuff for free with Amazon Prime!!*" * "free" only applies to randomly selected episodes in randomly selected seasons of certain shows.
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Yeah, I recently got Prime and I was a little surprised by how little there actually was. Still, I there seems to be a healthy amount and I feel like my year's cost gets paid pretty quickly if I watch a couple of dozen movies or 1 or 2 shows that I didn't have to rent or buy on DVD. But I don't know if I'll feel there's enough to renew in a year.
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As far as TV goes Prime is nearly identical to Netflix. But Prime also has Downton Abbey, Sarah Connor Chronicles and all the Stargates and The Good Wife, and Awkward.
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Jan 5, 2014 21:46
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Prime has the entirety of Cheers and Frasier, and is therefore worth it.
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Don't forget Justified!
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Palooka posted:Helix thread (Ron Moore's The Thing on Syfy) is up. I'll fill in more details (reviews, etc.) as they come in through the week. I wonder how many episodes he'll make it before every episode is an exploration of what God eats on a Tuesday, and the most popular female character is killed. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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I can't wait for the series to draw me in with compelling mysteries and an exciting plot only to be told that both don't matter because the its actually about 'the characters.'
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Yeah I've got some trepidation about any new sci-fi show as well. I wish it didn't have to be this way but I'm a product of my past experiences.
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Mid season network schedule thread is up! It is as accurate as I could make it, though with some miniseries coming up and then Spring replacements after that I did the best I could. Edit: for instance three weeks ago Crossbones was on the schedule and now I can't find it anywhere 
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Irish Joe posted:I can't wait for the series to draw me in with compelling mysteries and an exciting plot only to be told that both don't matter because the its actually about 'the characters.' What's a compelling mystery? "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?" Who, me? Yes, you. Couldn't be! Then who????
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:I wonder how many episodes he'll make it before every episode is an exploration of what God eats on a Tuesday, and the most popular female character is killed. The
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DivisionPost posted:Don't forget Justified! I didn't.  Currently almost done rewatching the first season!Justified's dialogue is so loving fun even when it's serious. I love this show.
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I finished watching Rectify yesterday. and yes, precision oversold it. But barely. It was loving fantastic. At first I was slightly disappointed because I thought the whole show was gonna be super ethereal and weird - basically, like the scenes with the goatman in episode 5 the whole way through - but it won me over pretty easily by being incredibly real and incredibly beautiful - I especially liked Tawney, who could have been a very cliched character in less talented hands. The last episode brought out feelings of grief and rage in me that TV is only usually capable of bringing out once every couple years. Not sure if it would have made it into my top 10 of 2013 but if not it would have been literally just outside of it, and I'm so glad we're getting more this year.
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