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ManOfTheYear posted:I discovered Hola, so now everything on netflix is available to me. What should I be watching? Is there any notable stuff available on other countries I should immediatedly look for? Splinter is a spectacular little horror film in the vein of 'The Thing', and it's available on UK Netflix, as well as a few others. My go-to guide for finding if there are any movies available in other countries is generally Moreflicks.
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ManOfTheYear posted:I discovered Hola, so now everything on netflix is available to me. What should I be watching? Is there any notable stuff available on other countries I should immediatedly look for? The first season of Elementary is on some of the European ones (Germany, Austria and the Scandinavian countries, I think) and it was much better than I expected from the premise.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I loving love Black Mirror but it is unapologetically heavy-handed and moralizing. But unlike The Twilight Zone, which tackled broad concepts like racism and fascism, Black Mirror is mostly commenting on things like social networks and and camera phones so even if you agree with it it's a little Completely agree. The Entire History of You 
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Lamprey Cannon posted:Splinter is a spectacular little horror film in the vein of 'The Thing', and it's available on UK Netflix, as well as a few others. My go-to guide for finding if there are any movies available in other countries is generally Moreflicks. Splinter was awesome, I wish they'd re-add it to US Netflix.
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So I watched season 1 of Black Mirror last night. Pretty much loved all three episodes, especially episode three with the eye cameras. That was just great. I think my favorite thing about it is the fact that everyone just feels like a short movie. Perfect length of time for these episodes.
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:So I watched season 1 of Black Mirror last night. Pretty much loved all three episodes, especially episode three with the eye cameras. That was just great. I think my favorite thing about it is the fact that everyone just feels like a short movie. Perfect length of time for these episodes. Season 2 is sadly the weaker of the two, but I liked the White Bear episode.
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Fishstick posted:Season 2 is sadly the weaker of the two, but I liked the White Bear episode. That is really sad. I liked Season 1 alot, yet to watch 2.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:That is really sad. I liked Season 1 alot, yet to watch 2. The first episode is 'okay', not nearly as good as pretty much anything in the first season. White Bear is really good, but the 3rd episode in S2 is almost universally seen as the worst of all. If you've got access to Hola or other location spoofing, UK Netflix has Utopia, which is a pretty drat good watch as well.
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Watched Black Mirror season 1 last night, thought it was great. The fact that the creator wrote for a lot of Chris Morris projects makes a lot of sense; National Anthem especially felt like a humor-lite news item in The Day Today stretched out to feature length. Sad to hear the quality drops in season 2.
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Fishstick posted:If you've got access to Hola or other location spoofing, UK Netflix has Utopia, which is a pretty drat good watch as well. Yeah, I'm watching Utopia right now and it's quite entertaining so far - up to episode 3 of the first series. It's also gorgeous to look at, the photography on that show is fantastic. Black Mirror is uneven, but I also quite liked it. It never got better than The National Anthem, IMHO, but series 1 was great. Series 2, not so much - it's not bad, mind you, but it's weaker than S1. It's Outer Limits For The Internet Age, and I'm fine with that.
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Outrage is loving awesome. It's another one of those extremely viscerally violent foreign films that has a non-standard method of story telling. Is it just me or is the "new french extreme" movement just a giant world-wide movement by now? I mean Drive is an american movie right? Even then if it isn't american it's probably going to be way more twisty and downright violent. But either Fight Club or Momento started the whole thing in my opinion and they're both extremely american. Both had extremely twisty plots and a very non-standard way of telling the story. NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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NeoSeeker posted:Outrage is loving awesome. glad you came around on it. i need to watch the sequel.
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The one movie I haven't seen this year that seems crucial is Cavalry. I've cleaned my plate and then some otherwise.
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Fishstick posted:The first episode is 'okay', not nearly as good as pretty much anything in the first season. White Bear is really good, but the 3rd episode in S2 is almost universally seen as the worst of all.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I loving love Black Mirror but it is unapologetically heavy-handed and moralizing. But unlike The Twilight Zone, which tackled broad concepts like racism and fascism, Black Mirror is mostly commenting on things like social networks and and camera phones so even if you agree with it it's a little That's why The National Anthem was so great and hard hitting. It was more about human depravity than social media. I thought it said more about the state of modern politics and mainstream media than anything else. That a weak willed PM allowed himself to get pushed into that siuation for the greater good of his (and the party's) approval ratings is a great critique on the circus that Western democracy has become.
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laxbro posted:That's why The National Anthem was so great and hard hitting. It was more about human depravity than social media. I thought it said more about the state of modern politics and mainstream media than anything else. That a weak willed PM allowed himself to get pushed into that siuation for the greater good of his (and the party's) approval ratings is a great critique on the circus that Western democracy has become. It's also why the little coda at the end is great, too: he is estranged from his wife not because he hosed a pig, but because he is a spineless phony. The artist was not just right that the masses would be glued to the spectacle (which has such an incredible payoff), but that he would vacillate and dissemble right to the very end. Way more subtle than every other episode, except for The Waldo Moment, which is a nice reflection (ha ha) on the The National Anthem.
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Someone earlier in the thread mentioned The Conformist is up, and I have to second the recommendation. I saw it for the first time a few years ago in a Culture of Facist Italy class and it ended up being one of my all-time favorites.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Culture of Facist Italy class How very specific
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I ended up having mixed feelings about The One I Love, but I liked this gag:
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laxbro posted:That's why The National Anthem was so great and hard hitting. It was more about human depravity than social media. I thought it said more about the state of modern politics and mainstream media than anything else. That a weak willed PM allowed himself to get pushed into that siuation for the greater good of his (and the party's) approval ratings is a great critique on the circus that Western democracy has become. Well uhh he also did it to save someone's life even though she was released before he started loving the pig
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Way more subtle than every other episode, except for The Waldo Moment, which is a nice reflection (ha ha) on the The National Anthem. Can you explain what you found so subtle about The Waldo Moment? It was definitely my least favorite of the series, but maybe there's some aspect to it I missed.
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Well uhh he also did it to save someone's life even though she was released before he started loving the pig
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Someone earlier in the thread recommended Walker, and whoever that was should die. It was dreadful, with the only saving grace being Marlee Matlin's ( ) small role.
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Well uhh he also did it to save someone's life even though she was released before he started loving the pig They also tried literally everything else and nothing worked.
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NeoSeeker posted:Outrage is loving awesome. It's another one of those extremely viscerally violent foreign films that has a non-standard method of story telling. The thing to keep in mind with Outrage and Beyond Outrage  is that Beat Takeshi just wrote down a bunch of ultra violent scenes that he thought he could get away with, then wrote a script that vaguely connected them.
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JohnSherman posted:Someone earlier in the thread recommended Walker, and whoever that was should die. It was dreadful, with the only saving grace being Marlee Matlin's ( You didn't find it the least bit amusing?
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Well uhh he also did it to save someone's life even though she was released before he started loving the pig I thought they made it very clear that he did it because he was cornered by the party/media/public opinion. He was a spineless politician that allowed himself to be manipulated by modern politics and media despite his own values.
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laxbro posted:I thought they made it very clear that he did it because he was cornered by the party/media/public opinion. He was a spineless politician that allowed himself to be manipulated by modern politics and media despite his own values. Did you miss the part where the government people pulled him aside and basically said "gently caress the pig or we're going to let rioters murder your family when they kill the princess"?
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Did you miss the part where the government people pulled him aside and basically said "gently caress the pig or we're going to let rioters murder your family when they kill the princess"? Basically this. "We cannot guarantee your family's safety" or something to that effect.
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mysterious frankie posted:Watched Black Mirror season 1 last night, thought it was great. The fact that the creator wrote for a lot of Chris Morris projects makes a lot of sense; National Anthem especially felt like a humor-lite news item in The Day Today stretched out to feature length. Sad to hear the quality drops in season 2. This was the issue I had with the episode. If it wasn't for Rory Kinnear absolutely killing it I would have turned it off after 10 minutes which is unfortunate as I usually enjoy Charlie Brooker's stuff.
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ghetto wormhole posted:How very specific poo poo was seriously interesting and we ended up watching a lot of great Italian cinema. Sadly there's no Fellini on Netflix. 
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Continuing Black Mirror: National Anthem chat, another aspect that I like is speculating on the motivation behind the kidnapping: the perpetrator, Carlton Bloom, is mentioned early on in one of the stories UKN is covering instead of the Princess' kidnapping. The reporter mentions that Bloom's gallery show at the Tate Modern prematurely closed - why? Lack of success? Too controversial? Regardless, I love the little touches that you catch the second or third time round. Furthermore, I am always intrigued by the choice of the shuttered school as the location where the video was initially uploaded to YouTube. I imagine that it was PM Michael Callow's administration that caused the school to be closed - it is mentioned that it had only been closed for a year or so. It seems to me that Bloom must have had a connection to the school in order to choose it as his decoy location - perhaps he taught there? It certainly has a symbolic value that is easy to overlook. So, was the selection of Callow as the pigfucker-to-be more personal in nature? Or at least, less random than picking a government figurehead. Was the whole thing set in motion by the governments anti-arts, anti-education policies? Also, someone made a Black Mirror thread in TVIV. I'm getting tired of blocking out my entire posts in spoiler tags, so I might move future discussion there. And I certainly don't want to keep inconveniencing those in this thread who think Charlie Brooker is too cynical. Or don't care.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The one movie I haven't seen this year that seems crucial is Cavalry. I've cleaned my plate and then some otherwise. Idk if you mean Calvary with Brendan Gleeson but that is a very good film to watch either way.
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Watched The Retrieval last night. Really liked it. It's a civil war-era movie about a band of slave hunters who send a black man and a young black boy to "retrieve" a runaway slave (who apparently is hiding a stash of gold or something?) It's quiet and a bit understated and bleakly beautiful in points.James Woods Fan posted:You didn't find it the least bit amusing? FYI the musical scores was done by Joe Strummer of The Clash. And directed by Alex Cox who also did Repo Man and Sid and Nancy before being blacklisted by hollywood studios (according to Cox). coyo7e fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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Utopia is the best conspiracy thriller I have ever seen on TV. I hope NF picks it up.
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Goddamm, Black Mirror is good but depressing as hell. My bf and I just watched the one with the eye cameras before he left for work and I feel like it set a lovely tone for the day. That one was just relentlessly sad and pathetic.
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