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Junkie Disease posted:I'm biased as hell. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is the greatest movie ever made and its my favorite movie ever. I know its flawed and has issues but to me its magic. Baron Munchausen owns. I feel like the movie gets overshadowed by Time Bandits and Brazil but it totally stands alongside them.
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Seems like some good movies were added yesterday. A sampling: Apocalypse Now (and Redux) Cold Mountain Major League Mission: Impossible III Rudy Wayne's World We Were Soldiers
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Has a movie ever been less in need of a redux than Apocalypse Now?
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Has a movie ever been less in need of a redux than Apocalypse Now? You only need to dux that movie once.
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Oh hey, just got an email that Sherlock Series 3 was added to Netflix.
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Medullah posted:Oh hey, just got an email that Sherlock Series 3 was added to Netflix. Nice! Blue Mountain State is seriously underrated. At first, I thought it was a dumb jock show on spike like 'Manswers'. Now that I've watched it over the weekend I realize its fairly clever, just self-aware enough and has some ridiculous movie references like Raising Arizona, Field of Dreams and Platoon.
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Night Of The Creeps is a good, campy, archetypal 80's horror movie about a world-weary ex-cop who must save a small town from slug-like creatures who transform people into zombies. Ending is cliched but satisfying. It's also the movie that spawned this classic quote:Tom Atkins as Ray Cameron posted:I got good news and bad news, girls.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Medullah posted:Oh hey, just got an email that Sherlock Series 3 was added to Netflix. sweet. Just got done doing a rewatch of Terriers. Wish it had been picked up for a second season as I love me some Donal Logue
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Apparently that From Dusk Till Dawn TV series created by Robert Rodriguez for his satellite channel is on Netflix outside of the US, where it's billed as a "Netflix Original". I'm not sure all the countries it's available in, but I switched my region to Sweden and found it that way. I just watched the pilot today, and it's actually pretty decent. The guy playing Seth does a good George Clooney impression, and Richie is suitably creepy. I'll withhold judgment until I've seen more, but I'm liking it so far.
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Junkie Disease posted:I'm biased as hell. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is the greatest movie ever made and its my favorite movie ever. I know its flawed and has issues but to me its magic. My absolute favorite movie too. It made me a life long Terry Gilliam fan. Did you first see it as a kid too?
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I ruined my vhs copy as a child I watched it so drat much.
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Binary Badger posted:Night Of The Creeps is a good, campy, archetypal 80's horror movie about a world-weary ex-cop who must save a small town from slug-like creatures who transform people into zombies. Ending is cliched but satisfying. It's also the movie that spawned this classic quote: I used to stay up late on weekends when I was young to watch Uncle Don's Terror Theater. They showed this one night, and it has been one of my favorite horror movies ever since. It's a great mix of comedy and horror. The movie Slither is so similar, I thought it was a remake. Edit: I guess James Gunn addresses this: When the trailer for Slither came out, Internet boards about the movie suddenly lit up with protests from a legion of fans of the 1986 film Night of the Creeps. "Alien slugs that turn people into zombies!" they cried. "What a rip-off!" I bring this up not because I think Slither--which is a tongue-in-cheek pastiche of at least a dozen '80s horror films--could really be considered a rip-off of any one of them. sleepingbuddha fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:My absolute favorite movie too. It made me a life long Terry Gilliam fan. Did you first see it as a kid too? Yep, same here....liked Baron Munchausen a lot, remember dragging people to go see it the first time back in 1988. oh and Uma  
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sleepingbuddha posted:I used to stay up late on weekends when I was young to watch Uncle Don's Terror Theater. They showed this one night, and it has been one of my favorite horror movies ever since. It's a great mix of comedy and horror. The movie Slither is so similar, I thought it was a remake. v I am, obviously. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Anne Whateley posted:Isn't it all a total ripoff of The Puppet Masters? Puppet Masters came out in 1994, Night of the Creeps predates it by eight years, don't know what you're talking about unless you're referring to Heinlein's original novel. Edit: Yeah, everyone loves to rip off Heinlein. Even Star Trek did it in Operation: Annihilate with the flying fried eggs instead of slugs and that one episode in TNG where Riker and Picard gorily blasted that cognoscenti slug with their phasers while it was still in its host. Back when I used to read Analog I used to see other ripoffs of the concept too. Getting back to the thread, When Aliens Attack is a slightly overlong but decent quasi-documentary about what would happen if aliens invaded. According to this show, the US and the UN all have plans and strategies for what might happen if aliens DID attack. They've run all the scenarios through computer simulations. They do interview people who should know about this stuff instead of made-up experts like that guy with the whacko hair who blames aliens for everything. Yeah, it seems like it's just aping Independence Day but it does bring up some valid points about how if you've licked interstellar travel you should theoretically be a badass in other disciplines but you'll still get tripped up by guerrilla warfare a la the Russians in Afghanistan. It also assumes aliens understand the concept of acceptable / non acceptable losses and are paranoid like us and only commit robots to handle first contact. I have a hard time swallowing the concept of rugged survivors of the invasion fighting back against the evil alien overlords using balloons to invade their ships, however. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:My absolute favorite movie too. It made me a life long Terry Gilliam fan. Did you first see it as a kid too? I only saw Baron Munchausen when I was around 17, and it's still one of my favorite movies. Definitely my favorite Gilliam film.
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This is funny to me because Baron Munchausen badly tanked, was critically panned, and for a long time all I heard were people saying how dumb it is. I think it's better than Brazil.  "And that was one of the many occasions on which I died, an experience I do not recommend." loving love it every time.
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I never saw Baron Munchausen or Time Bandits as a kid and after seeing them later in life, I feel like a part of my childhood was withheld from me. Awesome, awesome flicks.
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mod sassinator posted:I never saw Baron Munchausen or Time Bandits as a kid and after seeing them later in life, I feel like a part of my childhood was withheld from me. Awesome, awesome flicks. I saw Time Bandits as a kid and I remember it freaking the hell out of me, especially the ending. I almost feel that, unless you were jaded/desensitized early on, you really need to be an adult to appreciate what that film was doing. But then again, I was an overly sensitive child, so my perspective may be skewed the wrong way.
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mod sassinator posted:I never saw Baron Munchausen or Time Bandits as a kid and after seeing them later in life, I feel like a part of my childhood was withheld from me. Awesome, awesome flicks. Baron Munchausen was a film I thought I had dreamed as a kid, because no one ever knew what I was talking about when trying to describe it.
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My parents took me to all the good films when I was a kid, 2001 (prob not until 1973 or so when I was 5), Jaws, Star Wars, Alien, Time Bandits, etc. My pops also made me find him a new VHS copy of Brazil at some point in the early 1990's. 1988 http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&sort=num_votes&title_type=feature&year=1988,1988 Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Jun 3, 2014 17:41
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Its also a fantasy filled with smiling and little combat. Good luck in theaters!
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So uh... I'm watching this I Was Bitten series that has a bunch of animal attack victims telling about their survival. This has to be the gnarliest stuff I've seen on TV. Holy loving gently caress.
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Munchausen got overlooked because it was greenlit by a previous regime. They struck less than a hundred prints of it for the American release.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Munchausen got overlooked because it was greenlit by a previous regime. They struck less than a hundred prints of it for the American release. I'm pretty sure there was almost zero advertising for it, certainly nothing about "featuring Robin Williams as some moon man thing!" which probably would have gotten a few butts in seats. If my grandfather hadn't been a huge Monty Python and Time Bandits fan I probably would have never seen it as young as I did.
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Watching Baron Munchausen became a Christmas Eve tradition in my house when I was a kid. Not even sure why, but I don't regret it.  If you can forgive the brief nudity and mild adult themes, those of you with kids should give this movie a shot. Definitely not a lot of movies like it.
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Keyser S0ze posted:Yep, same here....liked Baron Munchausen a lot, remember dragging people to go see it the first time back in 1988. Yeahhhhhhhh. That scene had me convinced that I wasn't really gay. Turns out I'm just straight for Uma Thurman in that movie.
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Thanks netflix for ruining the loving plot to Cabin in the Woods.
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Bastards. loving plot is so easy to ruin for that movie
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NeoSeeker posted:Thanks netflix for ruining the loving plot to Cabin in the Woods. When I look it up on the site, the description is: "In this surprising spin on a classic horror setup, five friends arrive at a secluded cabin with clear instructions for their anticipated mountain getaway. But when the rigid rules are broken, punishment is swift -- and everyone will pay." Doesn't seem very spoilerish.
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Dr. Clockwork posted:When I look it up on the site, the description is: Well if you've already seen it the part where "everyone will pay" seems to give away the ending, but going in fresh you really have no idea what that could refer too 
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Maybe it's the picture displayed from a streaming device on a television... shows the stoner dude holding a pipe with chains covered in battle makeup I had never seen the movie before and it kills their death scene. Unless it was super obvious to everyone else.
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Heads up, it looks like all the Ken Burns documentaries on streaming are expiring 7/1, so you've got a little under a month to see: The Dust Bowl Jazz Baseball The War (world war 2) The West Prohibition The National Parks
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NeoSeeker posted:Maybe it's the picture displayed from a streaming device on a television... Uh, that's really not so much of a spoiler. Watch the movie, and you'll see.
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NeoSeeker posted:Maybe it's the picture displayed from a streaming device on a television... Knowing what you know, Cabin in the Woods is still the single smartest horror movie of all time. Just edging out Tucker & Dale Vs Evil.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Yeahhhhhhhh. That scene had me convinced that I wasn't really gay. Turns out I'm just straight for Uma Thurman in that movie. I'm convinced that some people are just worth a point on the Kinsey scale.
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NeoSeeker posted:Thanks netflix for ruining the loving plot to Cabin in the Woods. Watch Resolution instead.
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mr. why posted:Watch Resolution instead. Or, watch both. Both are good.
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Malloreon posted:Cabin in the Woods is still the single smartest horror movie of all time. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!
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mr. why posted:Watch Resolution instead. Yesssssssssssssssssssss.
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