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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Is there some reason we're now playing along with the idea that there are no good comedy films, or something? I don't know either. Just a dumb opinion.
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Nov 26, 2014 22:22
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:The humor in Airplane! works on so many different levels. This is me with Ghostbusters. I liked it as a kid, but appreciate a lot of the jokes more as an adult. The I want you inside me bit totally flew over young me. Also for old school comedies that stand the test of time, Arsenic and Old Lace is from 1944 and remains one of the funniest movies I've seen. I wish they'd stop taking it off streaming services.
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Nov 26, 2014 23:57
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I laugh my rear end off at Bringing Up Baby. Last I saw it was on Prime streaming.
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Anne Whateley posted:I laugh my rear end off at Bringing Up Baby. Last I saw it was on Prime streaming. Yeah, Bringing Up Baby is also a laugh riot.
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Nov 27, 2014 01:44
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In some ways, comedies can hold up better than other genres. I can watch Marx Brothers or the Three Stooges all day, but I have a hard time watching any serious movie from the 30s.
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Nov 27, 2014 05:57
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I watched knuckle today and it was great
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Nov 27, 2014 06:50
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Yeah, dramas from the early 30s are really rough. All the best movies from that time period are comedies, horror movies, and gangster movies.
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Nov 27, 2014 21:12
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I just finished watching Mudbloods last night and it was fantastic. It's a documentary about collegiate Quidditch players... Yes like from Harry Potter. Some of the players haven't even read the HP books, but it looks like a pretty fun sport. It kept me really interested, but it was shot like an episode of Teen Mom or something from MTV which can get annoying. I'd definitely watch it again.
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Holy Dread! posted:I just finished watching Mudbloods last night and it was fantastic. It's a documentary about collegiate Quidditch players... Yes like from Harry Potter. Some of the players haven't even read the HP books, but it looks like a pretty fun sport. It kept me really interested, but it was shot like an episode of Teen Mom or something from MTV which can get annoying. How do they reconcile the fact that flying brooms aren't loving real?
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Holy Dread! posted:I just finished watching Mudbloods last night and it was fantastic. It's a documentary about collegiate Quidditch players... Yes like from Harry Potter. Some of the players haven't even read the HP books, but it looks like a pretty fun sport. It kept me really interested, but it was shot like an episode of Teen Mom or something from MTV which can get annoying. I'm an incredibly dorky person and even I was embarrassed for those people running around on an empty field on toy brooms playing a "sport" made up for a series of children's books.
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Nov 27, 2014 22:43
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Yaws posted:I'm an incredibly dorky person and even I was embarrassed for those people running around on an empty field on toy brooms playing a "sport" made up for a series of children's books. The more embarrassing part was how the World Cup organizer dressed and acted, he was straight out of the A/U/G thread.
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Nov 27, 2014 23:09
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That Works posted:How do they reconcile the fact that flying brooms aren't loving real? I'm more curious how they reconcile the fact that the Seekers render all the other players, and therefor the entire game, completely pointless. And on a lesser note, how Bludgers work. And no, I'm not curious enough to actually watch the drat film.
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Nov 28, 2014 00:07
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dik-dik posted:Yeah I mean it can be fun to sit down and watch a comedy with friends. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some humorless prick who lacks the ability to laugh (well, not entirely). I just don't think they're particularly memorable and even the best comedy movies are usually poo poo compared to decent comedy television (Bob's Burgers, Parks & Rec, Archer, Arrested Development, Always Sunny, early Community, to name a few shows currently on Netflix). You can't really complain about pandering to the lowest common denominator at the same time as calling Archer decent television. (I liked Archer but it's not exactly high brow)
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Nov 28, 2014 00:09
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Much like how wizarding currency was a satire of the ridiculousness of British pounds and their many denominations, Quidditch was making fun of the impenetrable rules and customs of cricket. Complaining that it's unrealistic or doesn't "make sense" is as wrongheaded as trying to play it for real.
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I've attempted to watch cricket out of curiosity but I was not convinced they were speaking English.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Much like how wizarding currency was a satire of the ridiculousness of British pounds and their many denominations, Quidditch was making fun of the impenetrable rules and customs of cricket. Complaining that it's unrealistic or doesn't "make sense" is as wrongheaded as trying to play it for real. The problem with that statement is that the series never presents it as a satire, but frequently uses it as an event of major dramatic importance, or as the setting for events of major dramatic importance. Satire only works if everyone is in on the joke, and that fact that the series itself never seems to be in on it, placing conflicts with dire stakes within an absolutely absurd backdrop, while expecting the audience to take the drama seriously, is a valid criticism.
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Yeah, Wes Anderson knows how to properly make a joke about cricket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXKmffeMkU Quidditch by contrast just comes off as more  world building
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Paper Kaiju posted:I'm more curious how they reconcile the fact that the Seekers render all the other players, and therefor the entire game, completely pointless. And on a lesser note, how Bludgers work. The seeker is only worth 30 pts and seems to be a kid that will hide/dress in costume and run to the other side of campus. Bludgers have four square balls and try to hit other players with the ball, if they get hit they have to drop the ball and go back and touch their goalpost, so it's kind of like dodgeball. The weird thing is that it's also full contact so you see some pretty hard rugbyesque hits in some plays. I am now regretting the fact that I watch this because I know all of this useless poo poo. DAMMIT.
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Holy Dread! posted:The seeker is only worth 30 pts and seems to be a kid that will hide/dress in costume and run to the other side of campus. Ugh... just... christ 
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My friends and I used to play "Mechs" when I was 12 by climbing into cardboard wardrobe boxes and running at each other and colliding at full speed. At no time did I convince myself it was a serious sport, or complain that no one took my sport seriously as nearly everyone in that Quidditch documentary does. It's good cringe, so I'll give it that.
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Nov 28, 2014 05:04
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Nov 28, 2014 05:17
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Good Eats is a Good Show and wish there was more than 25 random episodes on streaming.
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wafflesnsegways posted:Yeah, dramas from the early 30s are really rough. All the best movies from that time period are comedies, horror movies, and gangster movies. I recently watched The Good Earth and when you say 30s dramas don't hold up, the Yellowface in that movie is loving absurd. Take a look at the Best Picture lists from the 30s and pick out the dramas, its like 50/50 poo poo/good.
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Nov 28, 2014 06:57
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Caught Sabotage and End of Watch. After seeing these and Fury in the theaters and also realizing he directed Training Day, David Ayer is one of my new favorite directors. Sabotage was a loving ride man. Not really a good movie, but holy gently caress is it fun to watch.
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Nov 28, 2014 07:16
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The best running joke in Airplane! and the one that most people don't even notice is the fact that through the entire loving movie the engine sounds of a jet are replaced with prop sounds and its loving hilarious, and if you don't think so you're just wrong.
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Nov 28, 2014 07:24
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drunken officeparty posted:Good Eats is a Good Show and wish there was more than 25 random episodes on streaming. It's ingenious on Food Networks part and yet infuriating as all hell. Since there's no plot they can just choose random episodes from each season and let you watch it without having to worry about missing plot or story arcs. But if you want more you've actually got to pony up for the series. They did the same thing with Chopped and Cutthroat kitchen which I also enjoyed. And which I will also never buy streams or dvds of.
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cary grant movies are usually solid. and jimmy stewart. what i'm really trying to say is watch every hitchcock movie with those dudes
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I saw Stretch while working on other things this eve. It's pretty dumb and very style-over-substance but I still enjoyed it. Patrick Wilson really carried it, and I liked his whole schtick with Ed Helms. Also, is Chris Pine just a huge fan of being in lighthearted crime movies with cartoonish action scenes or something? I also watched Killing Them Softly and didn't dislike it, I guess. It seemed like someone told the screenwriter that a movie being slow, meandering and prone to tangents is what makes it great so he just did that as much as possible, but then every time I started thinking it might be clever the absolutely ham-fisted bits with Obama's economic crisis speeches would come back up and poo poo all over the scene. Wolfsheim fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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drunken officeparty posted:Good Eats is a Good Show and wish there was more than 25 random episodes on streaming. Pretty sure almost all of 'Good Eats' is on youtube.
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:
In this order, try a different browser, reinstall Silverlight (if you're not using the HTML5 player), live with it
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Nov 28, 2014 14:47
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That Works posted:Pretty sure almost all of 'Good Eats' is on youtube. With Alton Brown's unofficial blessing, similar to how Joel Robinson encouraged MST3K tape trading.
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Caught Sabotage and End of Watch. After seeing these and Fury in the theaters and also realizing he directed Training Day, David Ayer is one of my new favorite directors. Antoine Fuqua directed Training Day. Ayer wrote it.
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Nov 28, 2014 15:38
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In a move seemingly designed to make Netflix worthless forever, it looks like they're pulling Monkey Shines and Night of the Creeps on Monday. Plus a lot of other stuff, I guess: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/are-movies-coming-netflix-december-752465 quote:Leaving Netflix on 12/1 It seems like they just put Robocop 2 up there a few months ago. They're also adding some stuff over the course of the month. The Wolf of Wallstreet being probably the biggest deal.
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Watch Walker before it's taken off.
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That's Netflix's fault for denying people access to the API and also not announcing a drat thing when they put it up except for 3-4 things they want to call attention to.
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Nov 28, 2014 16:47
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Which makes it more fun to go looking around for new stuff added every month.
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This argument about 80s comedies is making me really look forward to reading the internet in 2050 and seeing the passionate arguments about what timeless classics We're The Millers and Click are.Jack Gladney posted:It seems like they just put Robocop 2 up there a few months ago. Jacob's Ladder had it really bad, I think it went up and got taken down over the course of a month.
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