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Sebadoh Gigante posted:Because orcas are actually mammals. Beaten like an animal in a poorly run zoo.  Chichevache posted:Blackfish wasn't even about fish so I turned it off a couple minutes in. Orcas are mammals and if the director couldn't even get that much of her research right I don't really care what else she has to say.
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sportsgenius86 posted:What's the tone of the film like? That tasteless attention whoring stunt during the Oscars really made me not want to watch it for fear of the whole thing being like that. What tasteless stunt was this? I didn't watch the Oscars so I'm picturing some kind of on stage genocide re-enactment.
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marktheando posted:What tasteless stunt was this? I didn't watch the Oscars so I'm picturing some kind of on stage genocide re-enactment. He's talking about 20 Feet From Stardom, where one of the stars of the doc went into an unfortunate showboaty musical acceptance speech.
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Mar 25, 2014 18:54
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Hewlett posted:He's talking about 20 Feet From Stardom, where one of the stars of the doc went into an unfortunate showboaty musical acceptance speech. Oh right, that doesn't sound nearly as tasteless as what I imagined.
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Mar 25, 2014 18:57
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marktheando posted:What tasteless stunt was this? I didn't watch the Oscars so I'm picturing some kind of on stage genocide re-enactment. If you want to see a war crime performed at the Oscars, try to find the rhyming acceptance speech for "Let It Go."
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Mar 25, 2014 18:59
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I just restarted by Netflix and bought a new Sony BD player to replace my dead streaming device. Biggest problem I'm seeing now is the player's Netflix interface is pretty confusing. My old one gave me an option of sorting by genre, then sub-genre. Example: I'm looking for TV Show, then I could pick TV Drama, and see titles available. I'm looking for Sci-fi, then choose Cult Sci-Fi, and it would show me several titles at one time. This go around, it's row after row genre, I can't sort it more on my own, and I only see about 5 at at time. Is this a universal Netflix change or limited to Sony devices?
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Mar 25, 2014 18:59
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That's everywhere on Netflix, unfortunately. You often can't even see all the cover genres. It's weird as hell.
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Mar 25, 2014 19:01
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Chichevache posted:Beaten like an animal in a poorly run zoo. Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the name "blackfish" is the literal translation of a Native American word for orca whales.
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Mar 25, 2014 19:21
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sportsgenius86 posted:What's the tone of the film like? That tasteless attention whoring stunt during the Oscars really made me not want to watch it for fear of the whole thing being like that. I mean, sure....some of the women in the film come off as divas, but the focus jumps to different singers so often that you never feel like its too much. It does have a bit of a racial undertone to it, but unfortunately that cannot be separated from the history of (mostly black) backup singers.
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Mar 25, 2014 20:34
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Devil Wears Wings posted:Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the name "blackfish" is the literal translation of a Native American word for orca whales. Brilliant deduction, Holmes! (This might be sarcasm)
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Mar 25, 2014 20:44
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Saw Kumare. Definitely a slight documentary and nothing too earth shattering, but knowing from the first scene that this guy will reveal himself to be an imposter my heart was beating like crazy at the end. There's a couple moments where it almost feels like a Borat skit, but there's a sincerity that Sasha bara Cohen doesn't have. Some of the people are very broken but it doesn't really make fun of them so much as show they need help.
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Mar 25, 2014 23:18
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Curiosity about the upcoming Godzilla finally compelled me to watch Gareth Edwards' previous film, Monsters, which oddly enough is also a movie about giant things that step on houses. There's a pretty cool setup about how a contaminated probe crashed in Mexico six years ago infecting the region with monstrous alien life, but the monsters are just a background player. It's more of a long, slow travelogue through this make-believe wasteland, thick with political allegory about Mexican/American relations. Think of it like District 9 as told by a coyote in a packed van as you jostle across the American border. It can be a bit hamfisted at times, but stops shy of being preachy. It's not great but it's pretty drat good, eerie and tense in the right ways and never indulgent in monster porn. Not the kind you're thinking of, anyway. A lot of people will genuinely hate the two central characters, but for all their faults they never descend into petty bickering or mindless hysteria. They're just awful people, convincingly written.
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Mar 26, 2014 03:41
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Chichevache posted:Beaten like an animal in a poorly run zoo. You may have posted that three months ago, but I had made a similar post on the first page of the film's launch thread a full 11 months before your post. Here's proof: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3617502 (may require archives)
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Mar 26, 2014 06:42
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a foolish pianist posted:That's everywhere on Netflix, unfortunately. You often can't even see all the cover genres. It's weird as hell. That sort of strange. Of course, I always get so much oddity when dealing with streaming services from one device to another that I never really know who is to blame for the interfaces. I seem to recall my previous device had a menu off to the left of the screen that let me pick thing from my Queue, Search, Genres, etc. which is lacking on the Sony. In fact, on the Sony, I seem to have to do a pretty long cycle just to get back to a place to search. I guess if I really WANT better genre sorting to find something to watch, I could just skip over to the player's browser, log into Netflix from there, and use that to sort things by particular desire and just add anything that strikes my fancy to my Instant Queue, then back out back to Netflix app? It's a long way around, but I guess it could work. I hate to admit this, but I seem to think my previous experience with the Xbox Live Netflix player a while back was 'maybe' the best I've used, even better than using PC. I don't know, though, how much of that is Netflix or MS's hand in how the app operates.
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Mar 26, 2014 07:19
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My Vizio interface is awesome. Jokes on you people who spend too much on TVs 
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Mar 26, 2014 07:29
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Not sure if anybody's mentioned The Golden Child but its like Big Trouble in Little China's retarded cousin. Still a fun movie. While I'm at it, if you haven't seen Big Trouble in Little China do so immediately.
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Mar 26, 2014 11:41
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Jobs just got added, if your curiosity about Ashton Kutcher's performance can exceed your awareness that it's apparently not a very good movie. edit: Well, InstantWatcher said it did, anyway. It's not showing up as streaming for me right now, though usually that just means it'll show up in a few days.
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Mar 26, 2014 14:45
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Erebus posted:Jobs just got added, if your curiosity about Ashton Kutcher's performance can exceed your awareness that it's apparently not a very good movie. Macrumors posted yesterday that it was up and available to stream but then updated the article to say it wasn't available. No idea what is up.
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Mar 26, 2014 15:03
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Sarchasm posted:Curiosity about the upcoming Godzilla finally compelled me to watch Gareth Edwards' previous film, Monsters, which oddly enough is also a movie about giant things that step on houses. Yeah Monsters is great, it's even better when you have in mind it was made for like half a million dollars with 2 actors, most of the film just made up on the spot, and Edwards doing all the effects at his house. Giving him a big budget movie is Hollywood doing something right for once.
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Mar 26, 2014 15:27
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Weinstein cut of The Grandmaster was just added. booo
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"Mud" is on Netflix. It was far and away my favorite movie of 2013 and should be at the top of your list. The child actors are some of the best I've ever seen, and, besides Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Mawhatsit, and Michael Shannon, you'll also recognize half a dozen actors from Boardwalk Empire and Deadwood. e: Oh poo poo, a bunch of good movies appeared on my front page all of a sudden. Dr. Strangelove, Taxi Driver, Das Boot... Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Seconding Mud. I really enjoyed the movie and I had no idea what to expect. Matthew McConaughey and the kids were great actors.
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Just wanna say for those of you like me with never ending Netflix lists -- I've finally figured out a guaranteed solution to watching something. Scan your list, and see if there's anything you like on first glance. If not, go to the top of your list and just hit play. DO IT. Doesn't matter if it's a documentary or a four hour period epic, you'll feel better for seeing something instead of browsing and vaguely settling. On my Apple TV whenever Netflix adds things back online that I once had in my queue my entire list is reordered. So this method is almost like iTunes shuffle for me, since every week the movies are re-ordered. Note: this only works if you add stuff that you truly want to watch, even if just to check it off the bucket list.
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Mar 27, 2014 03:15
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Contracted is so boring and bad its almost watchable. Almost. A lesbian sleeps with a man at a party who is secretly a necrophliac who just had sex with a corpse a few hours earlier. Over a few days she slowly turns into a zombie and a jerk. Everyone is too stupid to understand that worms in her woo hoo and blood in the toilet as well as teeth falling out isn't the flu. The entire movie is her being stupid and making people around her upset. The acting, THE ACTING, oh dear lord the acting. I would say this is only watchable with friends. But then again... Edit added spoiler because someone is worried that this is a movie that can be ruined. Upsidads fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Cocoa Ninja posted:Just wanna say for those of you like me with never ending Netflix lists -- I've finally figured out a guaranteed solution to watching something. Yeah, this happens to me all the time and is probably what makes me end up just watching some crap I've seen before. It's so easy to just browse and come up with nothing.
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It's been dire not being able to endlessly rewatch King of the Hill.
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foodfight posted:It's been dire not being able to endlessly rewatch King of the Hill. Or my beloved How It's Made. Thank god for the endless shows ID vomits up.
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Cocoa Ninja posted:Just wanna say for those of you like me with never ending Netflix lists -- I've finally figured out a guaranteed solution to watching something. Doesn't work for me because I front-load TV shows. I'm at the point where I'm considering dropping some if those, otherwise I just end up paying off some X-Files "debt" (or whatever 45 show is at the top) instead watching any movies. At the rate I watch, something like the X-Files will take 2+ years to get through.
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Junkie Disease posted:Contracted is so boring and bad its almost watchable. Almost. A lesbian sleeps with a man at a party who is secretly a necrophliac who just had sex with a corpse a few hours earlier. Over a few days she slowly turns into a zombie and a jerk. Everyone is too stupid to understand that worms in her woo hoo and blood in the toilet as well as teeth falling out isn't the flu. The entire movie is her being stupid and making people around her upset. The acting, THE ACTING, oh dear lord the acting. I would say this is only watchable with friends. But then again... Thanks for the spoilers.
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After browsing for a bit I ended up watching half an hour of it, and Solomon Kane isn't a bad movie and the description Netflix has for it isn't wrong but what I watched of it wasn't what I was expecting at all. I was expecting more of a one on one "guy fights devil for his soul" instead of a swordfighting film of him versus a satanic cult. Maybe I'll watch the rest of it later when I'm in the mood for that sort of thing. Also it is infuriating how nearly everything I want to watch is on dvds, which I keep resubscribing and canceling to because I keep forgetting what it is I wanted to watch because I can't see the dvd list without paying for them. Also the recommendation lists have gotten real generic all of a sudden. It's just "Action Movie", "Thriller" etc instead of weird stuff like "B-Movie Cult Horror from the 80s" or whatever.
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david_a posted:Doesn't work for me because I front-load TV shows. I do too, but it still works if you just pick a random number and say, instead of your top movie, you watch the bottom movie. Or the movie in position number 25. Or the movie that's the highest underneath all your TV shows. Or the number on the queue that matches today's date. My point being that you can make it work.
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Darthemed posted:Thanks for the spoilers. Added a spoiler tag but its such a bad movie its entire plot is set up right out of the gate and in its netflix summery. It doesn't go anywhere new after the start.
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Mar 27, 2014 20:13
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Just noticed my childhood favorite The Rescuers Down Under is on. Is it worth revisiting as an adult?
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The Rescuers definitely holds up but I haven't seen Down Under since it was in cinemas. I guess at worst you get Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor? Thanks to the wonders of Canadian Netflix (best Netflix) I've been watching Twin Peaks and wow. I'd heard all the accolades from its cult following but one thing I didn't expect was its sense of humour. I guess playful is probably the best word? Like Agent Cooper's relationship with the town, it knows the trappings of the soap opera and police procedural are corny and don't stand up to scrutiny, but it embraces them anyway.
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Party Boat posted:The Rescuers definitely holds up but I haven't seen Down Under since it was in cinemas. I guess at worst you get Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor? Twin Peaks is on American Netflix, too.
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Mar 27, 2014 23:20
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Canadian Netflix is still best Netflix.  (One Eyed Jack's is there)
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:You may have posted that three months ago, but I had made a similar post on the first page of the film's launch thread a full 11 months before your post. Here's proof: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3617502 (may require archives) I care
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Party Boat posted:The Rescuers definitely holds up but I haven't seen Down Under since it was in cinemas. I guess at worst you get Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor? Agent Cooper's Tibetan method is what sold me on the show.
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Nolanar posted:Just noticed my childhood favorite The Rescuers Down Under is on. Is it worth revisiting as an adult?
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The episode I just watched had Cooper wax lyrical about Tibet to his sourpuss colleague in the twee-as-gently caress hotel restaurant, while a barbershop quartet harmonised directly behind him. I love it.
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