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Devil Wears Wings posted:Getting this thread back on track: Mud just popped up for streaming and you, yes you, should watch it. Loved this one, sad it got no award love. Just streamed Room 237 last night. I love that there's no outside narration at all. These guys don't need any help to seem crazy.
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JediTalentAgent posted:One story that goes around was that Eddie Murphy wanted to be in Star Trek 4 but lost interest when they wanted him to be a sort of street hustler/comedian character when he wanted to have a character with a more science-based background. Put him in True Detective Season 2!
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Mar 22, 2014 21:00
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Just started some movie called Upstream Color. No idea what the gently caress this is. Its really loving weird. I am 20 minutes in. I think I am enjoying it. I have no idea. What the christ is going on.
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Mar 22, 2014 21:49
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Bung Harmer posted:Ghostbusters is the greatest comedy of all time in nerdy circles like SA. In the real world it's a pretty good comedy. Murphy was one million percent correct to do Beverly Hills Cop instead. Yeah calling it one of the greatest comedies of all time is overstating the case a bit IMHO.
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Mar 22, 2014 21:52
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I would certainly not call Ghostbusters one of the greatest comedies of all time. I would, unreservedly, call Ghostbusters one of the greatest films of all time, though. This is because Ghostbusters isn't fully a comedy. Also because that film defined my childhood the way Star Wars did for many others. (Edit: That, and Back to the Future)
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Mar 22, 2014 21:56
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Zwabu posted:Yeah calling it one of the greatest comedies of all time is overstating the case a bit IMHO. Ghostbusters is one of the greatest comedies of all time. The reason Murphy was smart to take Beverly Hills Cop over Ghostbusters isn't because Beverly Hills Cop is the better movie, but because it was a starring role and established him as a leading man. After BHC he went on to star in lots of fantastic movies. The role of Winston Zedimore, on the other hand, is not a starring role. Ernie Hudson was not established as a leading man. He went on to play in Congo. Not the leading role in Congo, he was just in Congo. He was in Congo, had less screentime than the gorilla puppet, and he was thankful.
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Mar 22, 2014 22:19
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Tennis Ball posted:Just started some movie called Upstream Color. No idea what the gently caress this is. Its really loving weird. I am 20 minutes in. I think I am enjoying it. I have no idea. What the christ is going on.
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Mar 22, 2014 22:27
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Anyone have any recommendations for good found footage films on Netflix? I love the crap outta those but they don't have a found footage search option. I've seen Blair With Project, Grave Encounters, the Paranormal Activity films and the V/H/S series. Anything else I'm missing?
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Mar 22, 2014 23:10
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Is Cloverfield up any of the netflix areas? I just got done watching Battle: Los Angeles and am in the hankering for some more disaster movie stuff.
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Mar 22, 2014 23:10
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Yaws posted:Anyone have any recommendations for good found footage films on Netflix? I love the crap outta those but they don't have a found footage search option. I've seen Blair With Project, Grave Encounters, the Paranormal Activity films and the V/H/S series. Anything else I'm missing? Europa Report might stretch the definition of found footage, but it's a similar idea.
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Mar 22, 2014 23:22
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Yaws posted:Anyone have any recommendations for good found footage films on Netflix? I love the crap outta those but they don't have a found footage search option. I've seen Blair With Project, Grave Encounters, the Paranormal Activity films and the V/H/S series. Anything else I'm missing? The Bay, Apollo 18, Troll Hunter, Quarantine or REC.
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Mar 22, 2014 23:50
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Yaws posted:Anyone have any recommendations for good found footage films on Netflix? I love the crap outta those but they don't have a found footage search option. I've seen Blair With Project, Grave Encounters, the Paranormal Activity films and the V/H/S series. Anything else I'm missing? Atrocious is a Spanish found footage that was a little slow at times, but has a killer ending.
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Mar 22, 2014 23:54
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Tennis Ball posted:Just started some movie called Upstream Color. No idea what the gently caress this is. Its really loving weird. I am 20 minutes in. I think I am enjoying it. I have no idea. What the christ is going on. The best use of this film is to play it at a party on mute. People can glance at it every few minutes, see some great cinematography, then go back to mingling.
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Mar 23, 2014 01:38
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:The best use of this film is to play it at a party on mute. People can glance at it every few minutes, see some great cinematography, then go back to mingling. That's how I first saw Eraserhead. Since I'm a nerd, I sat there in the kitchen with a couple other people and watched the whole thing.
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Mar 23, 2014 01:41
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I just watched Computer Chess and I'm not sure what the gently caress I just watched. It reminded me of Primer and Upstream Color in the sense that it made absolutely no loving sense. It was however pretty entertaining and had some really bizarre things. Ultimately it left a ton of questions and plot threads on the table, which is probably to be expected from a movie starring Wiley Wiggins, but it's still worth a look. 82% on RT for what it's worth, which is honestly a lot higher than I would expect.
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Mar 23, 2014 02:33
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's how I first saw Eraserhead. Since I'm a nerd, I sat there in the kitchen with a couple other people and watched the whole thing. I had a similar experience with Fantastic Planet. Eraserhead at a party just sounds like a downer.
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Mar 23, 2014 03:23
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Do you great folks have anything similar to Point Break, Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off that isn't with Stallone, Seagal or Arnold as the lead? Just looking for good 90's action movies. Nothing too serious or dramatic. You know the sweet spot I'm talking about. 7 RING SHRIMP fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 04:59
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Do you great folks have anything similar to Point Break, Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off that isn't with Stallone, Seagal or Arnold as the lead? THE BIG HIT, though not up for streaming in the US, is worth a watch.
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Mar 23, 2014 05:12
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Do you great folks have anything similar to Point Break, Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off that isn't with Stallone, Seagal or Arnold as the lead? Edit: I keep forgetting this is the Netflix thread. Sudden Death is a good one. Double edit: and they must have taken it down recently. Bad Boys is still up, though.
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Mar 23, 2014 05:22
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Do you great folks have anything similar to Point Break, Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off that isn't with Stallone, Seagal or Arnold as the lead?
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Mar 23, 2014 05:36
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Lockout, with Guy Pierce, is more 90s-ish than 90% of actual 1990s movies.
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Seconding Lockout, its like guy Pearce went 100% Method and absorbed every one-liner spewing action hero from the 80's and 90's, its awesome. Also I just noticed Star Trek: Into Darkness and Pain & Gain are on Netflix Canada. P&G is the most insane meatheaded movie ever that's based on real life.
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edit: never mind, neither film is on streaming right now.
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Do you great folks have anything similar to Point Break, Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off that isn't with Stallone, Seagal or Arnold as the lead? You have to poke around with some different regions at the moment, but find Hard Target with Van Damme and watch the gently caress out of it every day. It ends up on US Netflix pretty often, so you might just have to wait a few months. Hard Target is John Woo's first American movie. It stars JCVD as a hard-up Cajun ex-commando named Chance Boudreaux (because his momma took one) who helps an out of towner try to find her missing homeless father on the mean streets of New Orleans. Notable for it's use of NOLA as a strange and rotting setting, Lance Henrikson and Arnold Vosloo as villains, a wonderful cameo from Ted "My brother Sam makes some good movies" Raimi and Wilford Brimley riding a horse with an explosion in the background. edit: Also, my favorite bit of movie trivia quote:During this editing period, Van Damme went with his own editor to make his own edit of the film. Van Damme's version excises whole characters to insert more scenes and close-ups of his character Chance. When asked about this edit, Van Damme replied that "People pay their money to see me, not to see Lance Henriksen".
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Mar 23, 2014 15:09
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That may be the most wrongest statement to ever wrong. Lance Henriksen rules. 
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Tennis Ball posted:Just started some movie called Upstream Color. No idea what the gently caress this is. Its really loving weird. I am 20 minutes in. I think I am enjoying it. I have no idea. What the christ is going on. I watched that a while back as well. I'm a big Shane Carruth fan after Primer and wanted to see his follow up. I think it was entertaining, but I don't think it lived up to its potential. What were your thoughts after seeing it Tennis Ball?
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Baron von Eevl posted:You have to poke around with some different regions at the moment, but find Hard Target with Van Damme and watch the gently caress out of it every day. It ends up on US Netflix pretty often, so you might just have to wait a few months. Hard Target is one of the craziest things I have ever seen. Very, very entertaining.
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Don't forget that the final shootout in Hard Target takes place in a darkened warehouse full of giant papier mache heads and Mardi Gras floats. I also had Broken Arrow on this list (yay John Woo) but, yeah... not on streaming right now.
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Neo Helbeast posted:Is Cloverfield up any of the netflix areas? I just got done watching Battle: Los Angeles and am in the hankering for some more disaster movie stuff. It's up on the Brazillian Netflix.
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Skywalker OG posted:Hard Target is one of the craziest things I have ever seen. Very, very entertaining. Punching a rattlesnake in the head? Check. The motorcycle scene which defies description? Check. Pissed of Lance Henricksen plus doves? Check.
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I like how Lance insists on using a break open single shot pistol. Just to make it more fair I guess? He uses it to blow away a traffic cone iirc. He hates these cones!
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priznat posted:I like how Lance insists on using a break open single shot pistol. Just to make it more fair I guess? The big bad guy having a special cannon type pistol is a John Woo thing that I believe you can see back in older movies like Hard Boiled (Hong Kong gangster flick starring Chow Yun Fat).
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Zwabu posted:The big bad guy having a special cannon type pistol is a John Woo thing that I believe you can see back in older movies like Hard Boiled (Hong Kong gangster flick starring Chow Yun Fat). Oh, yes the eyepatch dude? Hard Boiled is probably my favourite Woo. Face/Off has Cage with the ridiculous gold .45s too. For something completely different I just watched Capote, something I had been meaning to for ages (even before Hoffman's death) and it's fantastic. Just a fascinating character and Hoffman plays him so well. Great flick.
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Mar 23, 2014 21:31
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I just saw Into the Abyss, a Herzog documentary about an inmate on death row, which was great. There's a moment of near self-parody when Herzog asks a criminal "during a shootout, did your accomplice shout the phrase, 'put the balls at the walls'?" Imagine that in a Herzog accent and try not to laugh. Also saw Upstream Color. It's grown on me hugely the more I think about it.
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Cocoa Ninja posted:Also saw Upstream Color. It's grown on me hugely the more I think about it. One of if not my top favorite of 2013. I sort of regret reading the director's explanation for it though, I liked my own interpretation better. A friend thought that same things I did after seeing it too which is that the sound guy is God but I guess not.
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Paper Kaiju posted:I would certainly not call Ghostbusters one of the greatest comedies of all time. I would, unreservedly, call Ghostbusters one of the greatest films of all time, though. I never really understood why so many people like Ghostbusters that much. I mean it's a good movie, don't get me wrong, I just don't see the lasting appeal of it. I guess nostalgia plays a factor, and it was unique for its time, but there's not much substance to it besides Bill Murray cracking wise and some nice special effects, and personally, I think Men in Black did the whole big budget scifi-action-comedy formula better. Anyway, it looks like Alois Nebel will only be available until 3/26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pXE7BnYOc It's really visually striking, all black and white and rotoscoped. In motion it's similar to A Scanner Darkly, and while it has a dream like feel it's still pretty firmly grounded in the reality of it's geopolitical setting.
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Cocoa Ninja posted:I just saw Into the Abyss, a Herzog documentary about an inmate on death row, which was great. There's a moment of near self-parody when Herzog asks a criminal "during a shootout, did your accomplice shout the phrase, 'put the balls at the walls'?" Imagine that in a Herzog accent and try not to laugh.
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ACADEMY-AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY 20 Feet From Stardom is now streaming. It's good. Also, One Lucky Elephant is surprisingly thought-provoking. It can be a tough watch if you're  about elephants, though.
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I watched Jesus Camp lastnight which is a documentary on Families on Fire Summer Camp. The movie is unnerving, depressing and left me angry. I decided to look up and see where these people are now in hopes that they left this extremism but not one of the stars has left it. There are so many scenes that just left me speechless. The mom homeschooling her kid and saying that "science is not a fact" Or when one of the little girls said she would be at peace if she was killed for her beliefs.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I watched Jesus Camp lastnight which is a documentary on Families on Fire Summer Camp. The movie is unnerving, depressing and left me angry. I decided to look up and see where these people are now in hopes that they left this extremism but not one of the stars has left it. My wife, a Catholic, summed up Jesus Camp pretty well after we watched it this past week: "They never actually say anything about what Jesus or the Bible teach. It's more like just a bunch of Jesus pep rallies." For those who haven't yet watched it: The documentary was filmed during the mid-2000s during the Bush Administration, so some of the politics may strike you as a bit outdated now that the then-vaunted "moral values voters" have turned out to be nothing more than a loud, fetid fart in the wind. But as a window into the "Evangelical Bubble," it's still terribly frightening.
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