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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Love Mark Strong so that's a big disappointment. I didn't know his name before this, but I always thought of him as a solid character actor who always stood out in a scene. His character in Low Winter Sun is so boring and forgettable its kinda shocking actually.
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morestuff posted:This month's new movies. You forgot the most important movie, Turner and Hooch. I wonder if it holds up from when I was a child unlike Jim Belushi's K-9. Give me some Dragnet, Joe vs. The Volcano, and The 'Burbs and we got ourselves a nice little Tom Hanks party.
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Yay! Now I get to add Nymphomaniac to my queue an keep thinking about watching it while not actually watching it.
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pahuyuth posted:The 3rd Season of Continuum has been added. If you're in the mood for smart time travel science-fiction definitely check this one out. Yeah, I'm on episode 3 of season 3 and liking it so far. It definitely seems to handle time travel better than most shows, like say Fringe where they just reboot with little to no explanation or say Dr. Who which just ignores the consequences of time travel almost completely.
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Face/Off is coming, gently caress yeah. that movie rules and is essentially one really long action sequence. Almost completely uninterrupted badassery. Red Dawn is really fun too
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axleblaze posted:Yay! Now I get to add Nymphomaniac to my queue an keep thinking about watching it while not actually watching it. Yeah, no way was I buying two tickets to Nymphomaniac.
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I liked Nymphomaniac, it's a good end to von Trier's depression 'trilogy'. Part I is reasonably tame, but part II turns into an Oldboy-style mind gently caress.
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The Rocky movies are being added back? They just took them off for July, didn't they? I wanted so badly to marathon them on the 4th.
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axleblaze posted:Yay! Now I get to add Nymphomaniac to my queue an keep thinking about watching it while not actually watching it. Yeah, I really can't work up the patience for that one.
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Every month I hope for the return of King of the Hill and every month I am disappointed. What gives, Netflix and/or Fox?
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Dunno if it's recently added or if it's been available for awhile, but Harakiri is available for streaming. Just watched it and it's really brilliant. Harakiri : Samurai honor / feudal system :: Unforgiven : the cowboy / western mythos. But that's a fairly obvious reading, and I think a deeper reading could be an indictment of the culture of Japan leading up to WWII that led Japan into war, and asking the question: What now? It's a film that says the old feudal system failed and perhaps never worked as well in reality as it did in the cultural imagination, and the need to move forward to a new way, but wondering what that way is. It's shot really interestingly too -- the first 3/4 is very down to earth and realistic, and then very stylized during the climax. Long, deliberate takes throughout, very old school editing, but really progressive and artistic shots w/r/t framing and lighting. Every shot, every frame leading up to and during the duel about 70% of the way through the film could be printed out and framed as a work of art. Very deliberate pacing -- if a brisk tempo is a requirement for you, this is one to avoid. That aside, I urge everyone to watch this film. It has an 8.6 rating on IMDB and a 5/5 from me. EDIT: Never mind! The version available for streaming is not the version I watched. I got it on disc and went to rate it on netflix and saw "Harakiri" was available for streaming, but it's a modern version when the one I'm talking about is the 1962 film and it's not available for streaming, only via disc. Sorry! regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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regulargonzalez posted:EDIT: Never mind! The version available for streaming is not the version I watched. You tease. Just a reminder that the 1962 version of Harakiri is available via Hulu if you're a sucker who has a Hulu Plus subscription.
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The 1962 version of Harakiri is the best samurai movie ever made, and that includes Rashomon and Seven Samurai.
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GonSmithe posted:It tries so hard to be Breaking Bad but with cops except it has NO IDEA what makes Breaking Bad a great show. It tries to go "SUPER DARK AND GRITTY" a-la Walking Dead (so very basic violence/action) and has no humor. Also every single person in the show is phoning it in so hard they might as well have made it an animated show. I love Mark Strong, and he just does not give a poo poo about this show or this character at all. It was developed by a producer from Criminal Minds and it really does feel like somebody trying to use that same rote, formulaic approach to creating television only applying it to stuff like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad instead of crime procedurals that grandmas watch so they can be thrilled/outraged. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Love Mark Strong so that's a big disappointment. There's also a few alumni of The Wire, just to further drive home the fact that everybody involved could do much better. GonSmithe posted:I literally can't remember a single character's name. The only thing I remember about the show is how shameless and obnoxious AMC was at using the final season of Breaking Bad to promote it (the only reason I even watched it after the first episode was because they buried the previews for the next episode of Breaking Bad 30 minutes into each episode) and how it made the public's complete unwillingness to watch it and show's prompt cancellation really, really funny.
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penismightier posted:The 1962 version of Harakiri is the best samurai movie ever made, and that includes Rashomon and Seven Samurai. If it counts, I'd take Throne of Blood over any of 'em but Harakiri is definitely a strong choice. It's always kinda felt to me like the Unforgiven of Samurai movies, except, y'know, 30 years earlier.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:If it counts, I'd take Throne of Blood over any of 'em but Harakiri is definitely a strong choice. It's always kinda felt to me like the Unforgiven of Samurai movies, except, y'know, 30 years earlier. You might not know this, but Unforgiven was adapted into a Meiji-era samurai film just last year. Sounds like they did a real good job of it, too. Edit: And hey, since we're all talking about our favorite samurai movies, everyone needs to watch Yojimbo.
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Sarchasm posted:You might not know this, but Unforgiven was adapted into a Meiji-era samurai film just last year. Sounds like they did a real good job of it, too. I had heard about that but yeah I haven't seen it.
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Sarchasm posted:You might not know this, but Unforgiven was adapted into a Meiji-era samurai film just last year. Sounds like they did a real good job of it, too. Yeah Yojimbo/Sanjuro are probably my favourite samurai flicks. I can't recall seeing harakiri though. That final scene in Sanjuro  gat drat
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morestuff posted:This month's new movies. 
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pahuyuth posted:The 3rd Season of Continuum has been added. If you're in the mood for smart time travel science-fiction definitely check this one out. I watched the first season and found it pretty boring, but interesting enough to watch the whole season. Should I just jump into the third one?
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Pander posted:Besides slow pacing I can't think of a single similarity shared by Thor and Steve Zissou. Father/son drama?
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morestuff posted:This month's new movies. Oh God, Down to You. Legit one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
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sleepingbuddha posted:I watched the first season and found it pretty boring, but interesting enough to watch the whole season. Should I just jump into the third one? I would say yes. The first season is good but the second season ramps it up to awesome. The third season ramps that up even more.
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sleepingbuddha posted:I watched the first season and found it pretty boring, but interesting enough to watch the whole season. Should I just jump into the third one? You should watch the second season, a lot of important stuff happens in it.
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Going along with the Continuum chat, it always blows me away that Agt. Gardner, aka Agt. Alex Krycek looks like he hasn't aged since the mid-90s.
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axleblaze posted:Yay! Now I get to add Nymphomaniac to my queue an keep thinking about watching it while not actually watching it. This is what Lars von Trier movies are for.
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I've had The Birth of a Nation in my queue for probably a year now and still haven't gotten around to watching it. It's tough to get the motivation to watch a 3 hour silent flick with huge racist undertones. However I hear so much about how it defined critical parts of film theory and history that it has to be worth a watch at least once.
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morestuff posted:This month's new movies. Ah, The Birdcage. Perhaps I am an exception but I found it pretty hilarious at the time. I wonder how well it holds up.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:This is what Lars von Trier movies are for. Antichrist has been up for a while in that case. Unsimulated sex! Ball smashing! Chaos reigns.
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Buffalo Soldiers, which is one of the new additions this month, is a fun comedy starring Joaquin Phoenix as a shamelessly corrupt Army Specialist stationed in West Germany around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I remember enjoying it a lot when I caught it on IFC a number of years back. Will have to watch it again.
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is The Killing worth watching? I watched the pilot, which everyone raved about, I thought it was ok. Then the next few episodes were just kind of boring. I hear seasons 2 and 3 are better? Also you all should absolutely watch Nymphomaniac, it's not as good as Melancholia but I liked it more than Antichrist.
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Inspector Hound posted:Unsimulated sex! Wait, is this true? Did he really give her the Willem?
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Dr. Clockwork posted:Wait, is this true? Did he really give her the Willem? The actual sex was performed by body doubles.
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Sand Monster posted:Ah, The Birdcage. Perhaps I am an exception but I found it pretty hilarious at the time. I wonder how well it holds up. "A buxom bad girl and her radical guerilla boyfriend devise a plan to liberate inmates at a local women's prison to satisfy the mercenary's friends." That sounds a lot more heteronormative than I remembered.
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Anyone get kinda pissed after watching the LHC documentary? At least after noticing that everyone working on it seems to have less of a human-progressive mindset and more of a "LOOK AT THIS COOL GIANT TOY WE HAVE THAT NOONE GIVES A gently caress ABOUT BUT US". I get the impression they're only acting like it's a big deal so they can justify what I can only know as a little science project being taken way to seriously and at face value is a giant shot in the loving dark for all they know (and yet they act with certainty..). I know it's fairly ignorant to think but the entire time the largest thought on my mind was "a moon base would be way loving cooler". Not only that but it gives another impression that large scientific endeavors are done more just because we can, than being based upon actual merit. A nice example of this would be the collective space programs on earth. We did everything we wanted now we don't give a gently caress about it anymore. Like if we continued on the path to space exploration we'd actually be going somewhere by this point. The LHC's construction could have totally been held off for a decade or two and they'd have exponentially better tools in every way. "what is the gain in this experiment" *shrugs*-"no fuckin idea, bitch" NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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"There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't have movies up for streaming."
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NeoSeeker posted:Anyone get kinda pissed after watching the LHC documentary? At least after noticing that everyone working on it seems to have less of a human-progressive mindset and more of a "LOOK AT THIS COOL GIANT TOY WE HAVE THAT NOONE GIVES A gently caress ABOUT BUT US". I get the impression they're only acting like it's a big deal so they can justify what I can only know as a little science project being taken way to seriously and at face value is a giant shot in the loving dark for all they know (and yet they act with certainty..). The LHC is a very big deal because it found proof of the Higgs boson particle and helped validate the standard model of particle physics that says how the universe was created and everything in it exists. Science is all about coming up with theories, proving them either right or wrong with experiments, and using those findings to come up with more theories, etc. You might want to check out this great series of lectures on Netflix from Neil deGrasse Tyson: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70305069?trkid=202653 It's a good history of particle physics that can bring you up to speed on more recent discoveries and theories that the LHC was built to prove or disprove.
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It's more the fact that practically... Doesn't seem like it was worth it. The whole cost-gain thing. Could have waited for more progress instead of ONCE AGAIN, the scientific community putting the horse before the cart. They just don't seem to know what the gently caress they're doing. They have a little theory and then put a grossly disproportionate effort into it just to give a theory more traction. \/ who the gently caress doesn't want a moon base. What the gently caress am I going to do with a 17 mile long rail gun. NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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