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precision posted:Heinlein wrote a book where his self-insert hero character goes through a time machine to have sex with his mom. i didn't know Heinlein wrote back to the future, makes sense tho
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:It's possible there are other survivors. Deys asses got frozed up.
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Nov 4, 2014 01:23
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:are we to believe, this is some sort of magic xylophone? I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.
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priznat posted:I switched back over to Canadian Netflix to check out what's new and they got some cool stuff added like Jodowarsky's Dune and Under the Skin, both flicks I had been looking forward to checking out! Jodowarsky's Dune is excellent. I would have loved to see the craziest loving movie ever made (that didn't get made).
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priznat posted:I switched back over to Canadian Netflix to check out what's new and they got some cool stuff added like Jodowarsky's Dune and Under the Skin, both flicks I had been looking forward to checking out! Under the Skin is the only movie I saw in my entire pitiful Shocktober that didn't make me want to pull out my phone and start playing Threes after half an hour. Really eerie and beautiful.
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Nov 4, 2014 02:11
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sleepingbuddha posted:Jodowarsky's Dune is excellent. I would have loved to see the craziest loving movie ever made (that didn't get made). Unless it got pulled, Jodorowsky's Dune was on US Netflix several months ago.
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Nov 4, 2014 02:24
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precision posted:Unless it got pulled, Jodorowsky's Dune was on US Netflix several months ago. Well dang I totally missed that. I just noticed it on Canadian Netflix because it was on the featured list.
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Nov 4, 2014 02:27
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precision posted:Unless it got pulled, Jodorowsky's Dune was on US Netflix several months ago. I've been wanting to see this since I heard about it, and I think I would have noticed if it had popped up. Are you sure it was on US Netflix? I'd be pretty bummed if I had missed it.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:time travel doesn't work, therefore i hate the Terminator precision posted:Heinlein wrote a book where his self-insert hero character goes through a time machine to have sex with his mom. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Nov 4, 2014 03:49
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:I've been wanting to see this since I heard about it, and I think I would have noticed if it had popped up. Are you sure it was on US Netflix? I'd be pretty bummed if I had missed it. I don't really ever use Hola so I'm 99% sure it was up. Unless it was on Amazon but I never watch movies on that.
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Nov 4, 2014 04:12
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Just watched All is Lost, a movie about Robert Redford trying to survive a catastrophe on his ship. Pretty good, hardly any dialogue but still compelling enough that I sat through and enjoyed the whole thing. Probably the best comparison I can think of is Cast Away, if you liked that you'll like this.
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Nov 4, 2014 04:28
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I don't want to start another borderline autistic argument about how trains do/don't work but I also watched Snowpiercer last night and while I enjoyed it (and fully accepted it's ultra-realistic premise  ), some of the writing is really bad and the ending felt...I dunno, rushed? It felt like they had to get all the reveals out of the way and just ran through them quickly without really trying to give them time to settle or coalesce. I mean, the imagery of the security expert holding off a roving band of club kids dressed like literal demons while fifty feet away the protagonist is being asked to sell his soul was kind of amazing, but then after that bomb explodes, everyone interesting dies offscreen, shove in a polar bear for a quick 'life finds a way' moment, roll credits. It was really abrupt and jarring.
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regulargonzalez posted:Just watched All is Lost, a movie about Robert Redford trying to survive a catastrophe on his ship. Pretty good, hardly any dialogue but still compelling enough that I sat through and enjoyed the whole thing. Probably the best comparison I can think of is Cast Away, if you liked that you'll like this. I heard a radio show talking about that movie and how Redford insisted on doing all his own stunts. They tried to get him to use stunt doubles, probably trying to avoid their 75 year-old star suffering a broken hip, but he told them to stuff it and did it his way. What a badass.
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Nov 4, 2014 06:19
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Jeremiah Johnson was such a badass movie. Is that on streaming anywhere?
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Wolfsheim posted:I don't want to start another borderline autistic argument about how trains do/don't work but I also watched Snowpiercer last night and while I enjoyed it (and fully accepted it's ultra-realistic premise I think it feels more abrupt because to a certain extent it's meant to be that way. By the time Curtis reaches the front of the train, one fully expects that he's going to follow through on his plan: "Kill them all" and bring the train (somehow) to a safe halt. But then it's revealed that the entire 'rebellion' was staged for the benefit of the train. It basically leaves no other options open other than give up your flesh and destroy the train, and that's part of what makes the film emotionally effective. It's not giving us the satisfaction of a hitch-less revolution where the "silent majority" survive and overcome, and instead suggests that the solution lies beyond our desire to perpetuate ourselves. This is very similar to Children of Men.
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radthibodaux posted:I heard a radio show talking about that movie and how Redford insisted on doing all his own stunts. They tried to get him to use stunt doubles, probably trying to avoid their 75 year-old star suffering a broken hip, but he told them to stuff it and did it his way. What a badass. Wow, that's pretty impressive considering some of the shots. I wonder how much green screen it was, or whether they actually tried to shoot on the ocean (obviously in a harbor or something).
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A MIRACLE posted:Jeremiah Johnson was such a badass movie. Is that on streaming anywhere? It is indeed badass, and I believe it is on Amazon.
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Nov 4, 2014 15:29
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precision posted:Heinlein wrote a book where his self-insert hero character goes through a time machine to have sex with his mom. He wrote a book where the main character is simultaneously a guy, his mother, his father, and his daughter.
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Nov 4, 2014 16:06
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computer parts posted:He wrote a book where the main character is simultaneously a guy, his mother, his father, and his daughter. But was the science realistic enough? If my science fiction isn't hard-based on existing or possible technology, I refuse to enjoy it.
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Nov 4, 2014 17:13
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I refuse to enjoy science-fiction that isn't science-fiction. Like, seriously, how incompetent do you need to be to make a science-fiction movie that isn't a science-fiction movie?
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Nov 4, 2014 17:32
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K. Waste posted:I refuse to enjoy science-fiction that isn't science-fiction. Like, seriously, how incompetent do you need to be to make a science-fiction movie that isn't a science-fiction movie? Only as brain dead as the people who decide it's good.
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Nov 4, 2014 19:40
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I just started Bates Motel and it's pretty great. It's a great conceit to drop a developing serial killer into a setting with tons of weird crime already going on. Vera Farmiga does a great job playing a narcissist/borderline personality type in a very believable and pretty true-to-life way, for whatever that's worth. I remember really getting burned with The Killing, though. Should I stick with this one?
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Nov 4, 2014 19:53
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Movies are only good if they adhere to my weirdly rigid ideas of genre.
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Jack Gladney posted:I just started Bates Motel and it's pretty great. It's a great conceit to drop a developing serial killer into a setting with tons of weird crime already going on. Vera Farmiga does a great job playing a narcissist/borderline personality type in a very believable and pretty true-to-life way, for whatever that's worth. I loving love the gag where all the girls just absolutely love him.
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Nov 4, 2014 20:38
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Need something in the vein of Face Off, The Rock, Point Break, 12 Monkeys. Mostly the first 3 but I just saw 12 Monkeys and loved it
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Nov 4, 2014 21:01
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Need something in the vein of Face Off, The Rock, Point Break, 12 Monkeys. Mostly the first 3 but I just saw 12 Monkeys and loved it
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User-Friendly posted:Movies are only good if they adhere to my weirdly rigid ideas of genre. How about not being full of plot holes? Can we try that?
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Nov 4, 2014 21:26
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MadMattH posted:Only as brain dead as the people who decide it's good. everyone is stupid but you
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Nov 4, 2014 21:27
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MadMattH posted:How about not being full of plot holes? Can we try that? "Plot hole" is an imaginary complaint invented by people who are incapable of abstract interpretation.
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Nov 4, 2014 21:28
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MadMattH posted:How about not being full of plot holes? Can we try that? who gives a gently caress about plot holes
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Nov 4, 2014 21:28
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TychoCelchuuu posted:I'm sure you've seen some of these, but In Bruges, The Usual Suspects, Pain and Gain, Killing Them Softly, The Fifth Element, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, 48 Hrs., and Beverly Hills Cop would be good choices. Thanks for the suggestions. I've seen them all except Fifth Element, Killing Them Softly and 48 Hours. Think I'm going to start with Fifth Element. Open to more suggestions too
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Nov 4, 2014 21:31
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If anyone else hasn't seen The Fifth Element go watch it right goddamn now.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:who gives a gently caress about plot holes Especially when a "plot hole" is actually a "fictional setting." ghetto wormhole posted:If anyone else hasn't seen The Fifth Element go watch it right goddamn now. Well duh. But what's up that ending? So unrealistic, right?
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Nov 4, 2014 21:39
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weekly font posted:Well duh. But what's up that ending? So unrealistic, right?
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breaking news: guy with terrible opinions doesn't like The Fifth Element
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Nov 4, 2014 21:47
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:breaking news: guy with terrible opinions doesn't like The Fifth Element I didn't say I didn't like it, I said that it had problems. I can like a movie without saying it's perfect.
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Nov 4, 2014 21:48
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MadMattH posted:There are more problems with that movie than the ending, but at least it's special effects are pretty decent. what the gently caress is wrong with you man
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Nov 4, 2014 21:48
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ghetto wormhole posted:what the gently caress is wrong with you man What? That I said that the Fifth Element has some problems?
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MadMattH posted:What? That I said that the Fifth Element has some problems? It's literally perfect. It's the greatest movie ever made.
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ghetto wormhole posted:It's literally perfect. It's the greatest movie ever made. You can go ahead and say that if you want, but you'd still be wrong.
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