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Party Boat posted:I really enjoyed the book, does the film measure up in any way? Weirdly I think Spring Breakers is fairly close to the feel of LTZ. No, just like Bright Lights Big City the movie is not really as impactful as the novel, but it's still a good movie.
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After watching Solomon Kane, I think I finally empathize with all those people who poo poo on superhero movies for their insistence on including origin stories. It is an okay movie, but holy poo poo does it feel meandering. It did make interested in looking up the source material though. Columbo is the most amazing show for decompressing after a long day. It is my absolute favorite detective show, and it's a blast if you like thinking about class warfare.
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Captain Magic posted:After watching Solomon Kane, I think I finally empathize with all those people who poo poo on superhero movies for their insistence on including origin stories. It is an okay movie, but holy poo poo does it feel meandering. It did make interested in looking up the source material though. Yes the source material helps. From Conan to Kane. I give them props at least trying to stick to him being reformed. From a director of some horrible poo poo which placed my expectations at Hotel for Dogs level.
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precision posted:I think it was recently added, but if you haven't ever watched Less Than Zero it's a good 80s drug movie with Robert Downey Jr., Andrew McCarthy and James Spader. It's about as good as Bright Lights Big City (which is unfortunately not on Netflix). You know, when you look at where McCarthy's career went over the last 20 years suddenly RDJ's decade long struggle with substance abuse doesn't seem like such a bad thing. Maybe Andy should've partied a little harder back in the day, he might have a career these days.
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Captain Magic posted:After watching Solomon Kane, I think I finally empathize with all those people who poo poo on superhero movies for their insistence on including origin stories. It is an okay movie, but holy poo poo does it feel meandering. It did make interested in looking up the source material though. The source material is a lot of fun. This collects all of the stories. One thing about them though is as they were written in the '30's, they are filled with some horrifyingly racist stuff that is completely out of place today, but wouldn't have bothered people back then.
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If you want to see two totally different cities portrayed in terms of culture and cuisine, by a streetwise New Yorker chef, watch the last two episodes of season 2 of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown where he explores Tokyo and Detroit. In Tokyo he talks to yaoi artists, struggling metal rock stars, and delves into the seamy underworld of BDSM as practiced there, and talks with a badass chef whose karate skills actually help him make better sushi. In Detroit he eats BBQ with regular folks, has dinner at a struggling fire company (they're ALL struggling in Detroit) and talks with a chef who could have practiced his art successfully anywhere in the world, yet came back to Detroit to run a pop-up restaurant that uses mostly locally grown produce. And he hangs out with a reporter who's also a native and has a rapport with everyone in every neighborhood they visit. Yeah, they also focus for a moment on the desolation and abandonment.
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Apr 23, 2014 17:10
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Interior. Leather Bar. is... interesting. It's James Franco wanting to "re-imagine" the 40 minutes of explicit gay footage that was cut from the Pacino film Cruising. Worth a watch, I'd say.
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precision posted:Interior. Leather Bar. is... interesting. It's James Franco wanting to "re-imagine" the 40 minutes of explicit gay footage that was cut from the Pacino film Cruising. Worth a watch, I'd say. Explicit James Franco gay porn is pretty low on my "want to watch" list.
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Is Cruising any good? I've been jonesing for some more good Al Pacino after watching Donnie Brasco.
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bartok posted:Is Cruising any good? I've been jonesing for some more good Al Pacino after watching Donnie Brasco. YES.
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I thought Interior: Leather Bar was enjoyable enough, but overall not very good because (no pun intended) it's just too far up it's own rear end. It's a movie that spends a the vast majority of it's short running time trying to explain why it's important and interesting to be filming gay sex rather than, y'know, filming gay sex. It's a movie that's just so god damned pleased with itself and I don't feel that satisfaction is all that justified. It's also this weird thing where it tries to be interesting by being a mockumentary that is self aware of it's own fakeness, but it doesn't do anything beyond being self aware of it's own fakeness.
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The idea of it is appealing to me, because to me it's like what if someone wrote a whole story about what's going on in The Garden Of Earthly Delights. But why do that when Bosch's painting already exists?
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bartok posted:Is Cruising any good? I've been jonesing for some more good Al Pacino after watching Donnie Brasco. It's worth a watch, especially if you like gritty 70's New York stuff.
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bartok posted:Is Cruising any good? I've been jonesing for some more good Al Pacino after watching Donnie Brasco. Serpico is currently on Netflix Streaming. Godfather II is about to make a run through one of the cable channels I believe. Dog Day Afternoon and Heat are on and off streaming depending on what time you check.
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Cruising is extremely good.
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Cruising rules, it's dank as hell.
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Cruising was awesome.
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Cruising is probably my favorite Pacino movie, for real.
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I liked it. James Remar owns.
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Can't believe nobody has posted yet that a ton of non-current HBO shows are coming to Amazon Prime on May 21. You will find me at home rewatching Rome.
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Anne Whateley posted:Can't believe nobody has posted yet that a ton of non-current HBO shows are coming to Amazon Prime on May 21. You will find me at home rewatching Rome. Wow that's huge. No wonder Amazon is bumping the price of Prime.
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Apr 24, 2014 04:25
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Holy poo poo, I can finally watch The Wire and The Sopranos!
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Dango Bango posted:Holy poo poo, I can finally watch The Wire and The Sopranos! Well it is a good place to legitimately see them without buying the DVDs.
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Rewatching Amazing Stories: The Series. Great nostalgia for those who watched them back in the mid 80's with some rather impressive cameos that I didn't catch at the time.
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Anne Whateley posted:Can't believe nobody has posted yet that a ton of non-current HBO shows are coming to Amazon Prime on May 21. You will find me at home rewatching Rome. Oh poo poo yeah, I've been wanting to rewatch Rome, and actually being able to watch Boardwalk Empire will be nice. I've been looking for a reason to get prime, and I think I might actually take the plunge. How does Prime handle access from multiple devices at the same time? I'll want to share with my roommates.
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The Running Man must be remembered more fondly for its concept than its execution.
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Anonymous Robot posted:The Running Man must be remembered more fondly for its concept than its execution. Those one-liners tho
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Those one-liners tho "He had to split"???
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Anonymous Robot posted:"He had to split"??? "Here is Sub-Zero. Now, PLAIN ZERO"
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Just watched Absentia and thought it was a very decent low budget horror movie. It might turn some people off because it really switches gears half way through but I thought the concept was pretty original and it actually managed to scare me a few times, which is good because I keep watching horror movies that forget to do that part.
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ghetto wormhole posted:Just watched Absentia and thought it was a very decent low budget horror movie. It might turn some people off because it really switches gears half way through but I thought the concept was pretty original and it actually managed to scare me a few times, which is good because I keep watching horror movies that forget to do that part. I like atmospheric horror, so I loved Absentia. Go in with low expectations and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Best thread title idea yet. Netflix Streaming: Go In With Low Expectations And You'll Be Pleasantly Surprised. I've been re-watching Pokemon, and realized that Ash is pretty much a oval office for a lot of the early episodes. So is Misty. Brock's a pretty cool guy, though.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:"Here is Sub-Zero. Now, PLAIN ZERO" "Jesus Christ!" "Guess again"
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Anonymous Robot posted:The Running Man must be remembered more fondly for its concept than its execution. The Captain Freedom Workout promo says you're wrong. Dead wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LazUZz3K6IY
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The Running Man definitely isn't as good as it could be, but it has some really good parts to it- and Dawson is superb. Harlan Ellison reviewed it and panned the film, but said that Dawson deserved an Oscar.
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I'm old enough to remember when Angel Heart came out and was such a big deal cuz of the humpy time with Lisa Bonet and the mind scramble ending (which is super obvious now). I agree it didn't really hold up - but it's still worth a watch.....and then you might as well track down the rest of Mickey's 1980's movies.
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Apr 25, 2014 02:53
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Don't know what to watch? Check this out http://netflixroulette.net/
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Measured by any detached and objective metric The Running Man isn't a sterling example of the craft of filmmaking. It's fun as hell though, and because it never asks to be taken seriously its flaws come off as endearing. I honestly think it's one of most enjoyable action movies of the eighties.
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Harminoff posted:Don't know what to watch? Check this out Ahhhhh drat. I knew someone would think of it eventually 
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Harminoff posted:Don't know what to watch? Check this out Nice, now I don't even have to open netflix to browse endlessly for hours
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