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Anybody watch the Sizzling Bacon thing? Billed as some deep, Memento like mystery. Somebody filmed themselves cooking bacon. Netflix is playing the video backwards. That's it. So dumb.
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Well then you're not going to like its thematic sister, Rotisserie Chicken.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:04
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RickVoid posted:Anybody watch the Sizzling Bacon thing? Billed as some deep, Memento like mystery. I thought that was nextflix's April fools joke.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:08
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Shwqa posted:I thought that was nextflix's April fools joke. It was indeed. Looks like it caught at least one person.
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Apr 4, 2014 21:06
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What's the deal with Rubber? It popped up because I gave Sharknado four stars (don't start) and the synopsis just sounds hilariously odd.
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Apr 4, 2014 23:33
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Captain Trips posted:What's the deal with Rubber? It popped up because I gave Sharknado four stars (don't start) and the synopsis just sounds hilariously odd. It's really weird and artsy
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Apr 4, 2014 23:36
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Captain Trips posted:What's the deal with Rubber? It popped up because I gave Sharknado four stars (don't start) and the synopsis just sounds hilariously odd. It's a really bad film with a funny premise that has basically no high points. It tries doing the whole meta thing too.
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Apr 4, 2014 23:56
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I found Rubber to be highly entertaining, personally. Basically, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjtR1DpNFo If that amused you, watch Rubber. If not, don't.
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Apr 5, 2014 00:40
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Captain Trips posted:What's the deal with Rubber? It popped up because I gave Sharknado four stars (don't start) and the synopsis just sounds hilariously odd. It's a movie designed from the ground up to piss off people who like the idea of a killer tire as a horror villain.
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Apr 5, 2014 03:01
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Narco Cultura is good, in a very  kind of way. It's about the cartel wars in Juarez and other areas of Mexico and the celebrity culture surrounding them. Real bodies and nudity and poo poo though, so be warned.
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Apr 6, 2014 04:17
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If anyone remembers the movie Angus, it's on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K17-Mnx7Co
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Apr 6, 2014 06:29
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Bob's Burgers: Season 3. Hell's to the yeah.
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Apr 6, 2014 07:04
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Yeesh, avoid The Last Days on Mars. Totally derivative movie, you can guess the plot from square one. Decent effects, solid budget, Liev Schreiber can't save it though. On the opposite end of the scale is Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Fairly intelligent movie about a wise-cracking professional astronaut stranded on Mars. Production values and effects on par with a Disney movie from the same era, more or less. Very well shot with gorgeous colors and vistas. One of the coolest things about the movie is that he manages to survive with the help of a pet monkey and a knapsack-sized, analog version of an iPhone- it plays videos, records audio and video and lets him make just one important call; it's solar powered to boot. The shocker is- it's from 1964! Bonus guest star: Adam West! Binary Badger has a new favorite as of 08:41 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Apr 6, 2014 08:38
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Last night I watched The Punk Singer a biography of Kathleen Hanna. I've been a big fan of her since way back in the day when Bikini Kill was just a rad band on my friend's brother's record label and my admiration for her and her music has only grown over the years. If you like punk, feminism, independent music, and/or riot grrl or are even curious about those things, I highly recommend it. Hell, even if you just played the game Gone Home and are curious about the music featured in it (even if Bikini Kill wasn't actually in the game for whatever reason, their sensibilities are all through it) you should give it a watch.
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Apr 6, 2014 17:35
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Watched Mud yesterday, it was a really good movie in my opinion, sort of along the lines of Stand By Me. It's essentially Huck Finn rewritten with McConaghey as Jim but the entire film is done in an almost surreal, understated fashion as the two boys stumble through puberty and right and wrong in this impoverished town where almost all the adults are sad failures of people who're just barely scraping by.
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coyo7e posted:Watched Mud yesterday, it was a really good movie in my opinion, sort of along the lines of Stand By Me. It's essentially Huck Finn rewritten with McConaghey as Jim but the entire film is done in an almost surreal, understated fashion as the two boys stumble through puberty and right and wrong in this impoverished town where almost all the adults are sad failures of people who're just barely scraping by. I'll second this, I really enjoyed it as well. About half of the characters are just a little bit too weird to be real, but the other half are totally recognizable to someone who grew up in a similar region.
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Apr 7, 2014 19:12
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Has anyone watched some of the series Supernatural? Apparently it gets good a few seasons in but i'm struggling with the first. A friend of mine desperately wants me in on it, however.
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Apr 7, 2014 19:27
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Vagon posted:Has anyone watched some of the series Supernatural? Apparently it gets good a few seasons in but i'm struggling with the first. A friend of mine desperately wants me in on it, however. Their car is really cool though, I read an interview with someone who laid out the process of choosing their big black Impala rather than some hot poo poo sports car that they could have used as advertising revenue or something.
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Apr 7, 2014 20:36
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Vagon posted:Has anyone watched some of the series Supernatural? Apparently it gets good a few seasons in but i'm struggling with the first. A friend of mine desperately wants me in on it, however. It's the most tumblriffic show due to all the attractive male leads, so take that as you may. It's dumb though self aware.
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Apr 7, 2014 21:29
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Vagon posted:Has anyone watched some of the series Supernatural? Apparently it gets good a few seasons in but i'm struggling with the first. A friend of mine desperately wants me in on it, however. Conversely, I loved seasons 3-5 because it balanced Monster of the Week shows with actual serialized storytelling. The first season is kind of rough but once it hits its groove it's roughly on par with X-Files only with fantasy instead of sci-fi. It does have a truly terrible fanbase, though the fact that later seasons actively mocks them makes up for it.
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Apr 7, 2014 21:37
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Vagon posted:Has anyone watched some of the series Supernatural? Apparently it gets good a few seasons in but i'm struggling with the first. A friend of mine desperately wants me in on it, however. I quite like it. The acting is pretty crap, but increasingly self aware as it goes on. Some of the recurring villains are pretty excellent as well. It has the worst fans of anything ever though, truly.
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I really enjoyed the first couple seasons of Supernatural since they were still very much grounded in the premise. It starts getting kind of weird after awhile, but if you make it past the first bit and still like it (which you may! it's very good), you might get into it.
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I watched Supernatural until I realized I was mostly enjoying the music, the car, and the road trip. Do they still play classic rock in later seasons or did that get too expensive?
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coyo7e posted:Watched Mud yesterday, it was a really good movie in my opinion, sort of along the lines of Stand By Me. It's essentially Huck Finn rewritten with McConaghey as Jim but the entire film is done in an almost surreal, understated fashion as the two boys stumble through puberty and right and wrong in this impoverished town where almost all the adults are sad failures of people who're just barely scraping by. Yeah, this was really enjoyable. I am surprised I'd never heard of it until it popped up. Light Gun Man posted:I found Rubber to be highly entertaining, personally. Basically, watch this: This is an excellent test to see if you're about to have your time wasted. It's a shame I watched the whole film before figuring that out 
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Anyone recommend any great French movies with English subtitles? I've been slowly trying to learn the language.
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Rolo posted:Anyone recommend any great French movies with English subtitles? I've been slowly trying to learn the language. Amèlie, of course.
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Apr 9, 2014 16:53
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Rolo posted:Anyone recommend any great French movies with English subtitles? I've been slowly trying to learn the language. It isn't a movie, but I've heard good things about Spiral, http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Spiral/70242540?trkid=13641790 . Also, Count de Monte Cristo is a classic, http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/70273253?trkid=13641790 .
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Blue is the Warmest Color is in French and has English subtitles. It's good, if not fairly  at times
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Rolo posted:Anyone recommend any great French movies with English subtitles? I've been slowly trying to learn the language. Last I looked, all of the French series "Spiral" was on Netflix. That's a pretty good one. District 13 is fun - an action movie featuring parkour. "With a Friend Like Harry" (Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien) is great - I hadn't realized until now that it was on Netflix. A guy is traveling to his run-down vacation house with his family, stops at a gas station, and runs into someone who apparently knew him in high school, who remembers his poems from the school literary journal well enough to quote them from memory. And then it goes from there. Also, "The Visitors", starring Jean Reno, is hilarious. "The Count of Monte Cristo," with Gerard Depardieu, is a miniseries and it's supposed to be pretty true to the novel, although I haven't seen it. If you watch Amelie and like it, try "The City of Lost Children" (starring Ron Perlman) and "Delicatessen," which Jean-Pierre Jeunet directed with Marc Caro. They have some similarities to Amelie, but they're both darker. I don't think either is on Netflix, but you could always find it on Amazon or one of the other services.
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Vagon posted:Has anyone watched some of the series Supernatural? Apparently it gets good a few seasons in but i'm struggling with the first. A friend of mine desperately wants me in on it, however. It's pretty much like most genre shows, "The first season is OK at best, but then it gets better." Any given episode could be something straight out of a horror film, or a silly episode that not only leans on the fourth wall, but knocks it over and dances on top of it. A lot of the writers used to write for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, so if you like those shows, then you would probably enjoy Supernatural. thrakkorzog has a new favorite as of 18:50 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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thrakkorzog posted:It's pretty much like most genre shows, "The first season is OK at best, but then it gets better." Any given episode could be something straight out of a horror film, or a silly episode that not only leans on the fourth wall, but knocks it over and dances on top of it. A lot of the writers used to write for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, so if you like those shows, then you would probably enjoy Supernatural I really haven't watched more than an episode or two past season 6, but the Trickster episodes are the best episodes.
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I've been plugging away at Supernatural for a bit and I really like it. I've only begun the third season but there are enough moment of self-awareness that it makes the samey arguments between the brothers more tolerable. Iliza Shlesinger: War Paint is pretty good but I'm a huge sucker for standup. She leans a little too heavy on the goat voice and the funny woman starts to become Jim Breuer.
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MacGowans Teeth posted:District 13 is fun - an action movie featuring parkour. I'll wait for the shot-for-shot remake featuring Paul Walker as the cop and the same French dude playing the good criminal again.
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Rolo posted:Anyone recommend any great French movies with English subtitles? I've been slowly trying to learn the language. Micmacs was a lot of fun to watch but after looking it up for you I see that it is no longer available to stream. I'd recommend it if you happen to have other avenues for movies beyond Netflix that could have it available. Aside from that and what's been mentioned, I've heard good things about Mesrine but haven't watched it myself yet. It is being removed in 3 days so I'll probably watch that tonight and edit this post later!
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Awesome, I have a list now. Thanks guys!
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Rolo posted:Anyone recommend any great French movies with English subtitles? I've been slowly trying to learn the language. Amelie and Intouchables are both good.
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Rolo posted:Awesome, I have a list now. Thanks guys! If Starbuck is still on netflix, watch that. A french film so rad that hollywood remade it with vince vaughn to make them rue the day they ever tried to make a really good movie.
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Inzombiac posted:I've been plugging away at Supernatural for a bit and I really like it. I've only begun the third season but there are enough moment of self-awareness that it makes the samey arguments between the brothers more tolerable. If the brothers arguing about the same crap brothers you (current spoiler) THEY NEVER STOP FIGHTING ABOUT THE SAME STUPID CRAP but it's still enjoyable
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Boondocks season 2 is up on Netflix. Also Tom Segura's comedy special is pretty funny.
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Inzombiac posted:I've been plugging away at Supernatural for a bit and I really like it. I've only begun the third season but there are enough moment of self-awareness that it makes the samey arguments between the brothers more tolerable. Like Spoeank said, they never stop. But they become more and more self aware, and have no problems with just going all out with making fun of themselves or just coming up with more and more ridiculous poo poo. It's not a 'good' show, it isn't 'well written'. But by jove, it's a silly and fun show and I can't help but love it. Edit: The first season is kind of terrible though. Leper Residue has a new favorite as of 06:48 on Apr 16, 2014 |
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