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Aye Doc posted:I think this ended up being my favorite Netflix original show. it has an incredible payoff and gets better and better as the season goes on Yeah I'm about halfway through right now and it's already gotten way better. Started out somewhat mediocre, now it's great.
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Man, watched Gods Pocket last night, purely based on the fact that it starred John Turturro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. What a piece of garbage, seriously, one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. It was tonally scattershot, and didn't know what type of film it wanted to be. One minute it's a crime thriller, then a blue-collar parable, then a slapstick comedy, all set in the grossest irish suburb of Philadelphia where everyone is a close-minded drunk deciding whether to fight someone or kill themselves. It's so bad it's almost worth watching just to see how bad it gets.
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Dec 10, 2014 23:22
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I really don't get the love for Killer Joe. Emile Hirsch and Thomas Haden Church give some lackluster performances, and McConaghey tries to come off all scary and intimidating but it just comes off so forced it hurts. And that ending, my God was that movie just a shitshow. edit: I will admit that the scene at the life insurance office with the loose thread got a nice chuckle out of me, but other than that it was a pretty weak movie. Mom with a blog fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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Dec 11, 2014 01:44
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Killer Joe is not actually a badass bounty hunter/hitman.
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Dec 11, 2014 01:45
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Killer Joe is not actually a badass bounty hunter/hitman. Instead, he's a creepy weirdo who forces a woman to suck his chicken leg for an uncomfortably long amount of time. edit: Don't get me wrong, I tried to like this movie, but even if Joe actually was a badass bounty hunter / hitman, it still wouldn't changed how crappy that movie really was. Mom with a blog fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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Dec 11, 2014 01:50
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Whoever recommended The One I Love, thank you. That movie hosed with my head but I really enjoyed it.
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Dec 11, 2014 02:57
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The One I Love is definitely worth watching, but I thought it mostly wasted an interesting concept.
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Dec 11, 2014 04:08
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Mash posted:I really don't get the love for Killer Joe. Emile Hirsch and Thomas Haden Church give some lackluster performances, and McConaghey tries to come off all scary and intimidating but it just comes off so forced it hurts. Emile Hirsch's performance was amazing, all of the performances were good to great.
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Dec 11, 2014 04:16
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Chichevache posted:Emile Hirsch's performance was amazing, all of the performances were good to great. On second thought, I take back what I said about Thomas Haden Church's performance, but I suppose Hirsch just doesn't do it for me. I honestly can't recall a role of his that ever stood out to me. I personally think that the guy in the red pickup truck who Hirsch owed money to did the best job out of the entire cast in the small scene he was in.
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Dec 11, 2014 04:29
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The ending is amazing- specifically the cut and the song that starts playing.
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Dec 11, 2014 05:05
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Mash posted:On second thought, I take back what I said about Thomas Haden Church's performance, but I suppose Hirsch just doesn't do it for me. I honestly can't recall a role of his that ever stood out to me. My mistake, I meant Thomas Haden Church. Emile's performance was acceptable, but probably the weakest in the film. Church's performance was brilliantly docile and dim witted while still being humorous and sympathetic, for the most part. He really gave that role a life it wouldn't have had otherwise.
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Dec 11, 2014 05:18
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Maxwell Lord posted:The ending is amazing- specifically the cut and the song that starts playing. Everytying before the cut felt like a hot mess but yeah, the song over the credits was good. Chichevache posted:My mistake, I meant Thomas Haden Church. Emile's performance was acceptable, but probably the weakest in the film. Church's performance was brilliantly docile and dim witted while still being humorous and sympathetic, for the most part. He really gave that role a life it wouldn't have had otherwise. Y'know, I can agree with that. He did seem like a tired old drunk who just wanted to make a quick buck at the expense of his family. Edit: Bold is not spoiler 
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Dec 11, 2014 05:32
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Mash posted:
Nah, that was all Hersch coercing him. The best part about Church was that he was too dumb to think for himself, everyone ran his life. He just wanted to get drunk and watch tv, a simple life. Kinda like a lovely Lenny.
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Dec 11, 2014 05:47
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Chichevache posted:Nah, that was all Hersch coercing him. The best part about Church was that he was too dumb to think for himself, everyone ran his life. He just wanted to get drunk and watch tv, a simple life. Kinda like a lovely Lenny. Yeah, I suppose you're right. Now I kind of want to see another Of Mouse and Men movie with Church as Lenny.
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Dec 11, 2014 06:09
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A MIRACLE posted:Whoever recommended The One I Love, thank you. That movie hosed with my head but I really enjoyed it. Holy poo poo this movie. Really genius and I'm sad that it took me this long to even know that it exists, much less watch it. Go watch this movie now. (Don't read up on it though as this is definitely the type of movie that benefits from going in to it cold)
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Dec 11, 2014 08:32
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"A Baby?!? A Baby!!!" is my favorite closing line to any movie in the last 10 years, maybe of all time.
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Dec 11, 2014 15:15
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dik-dik posted:Holy poo poo this movie. Really genius and I'm sad that it took me this long to even know that it exists, much less watch it. Go watch this movie now. (Don't read up on it though as this is definitely the type of movie that benefits from going in to it cold) Same! One of the main complaints I see about the movie is that it hardly goes far enough into the scifi/magic elements but I look at it in the opposite way, actually ironically similarly to the Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You in that it is not ABOUT the technology/magic/whatever, it's a relationship story at its absolute core.
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Dec 11, 2014 15:24
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The Wolf of Wall Street just went up.
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Dec 11, 2014 17:43
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Erebus posted:The Wolf of Wall Street just went up. I missed this in theaters so this will be my Friday night treat.
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Dec 11, 2014 17:47
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Does Marco Polo come out tomorrow?
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Dec 11, 2014 19:02
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December 12th so yes I shouldn't have watched Peaky Blinders first because I'm now making my way through some other Netflix series that I'm behind on and they just don't compare.
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Dec 11, 2014 19:05
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Mash posted:Everytying before the cut felt like a hot mess but yeah, the song over the credits was good. With a hack like William Friedkin collaborating with a terrible screenwriter like Tracy Letts, it was a recipe for disaster! They could have at least cast some competent actors!
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Dec 11, 2014 19:11
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Don Hertzfeldt's movie is on NF! Its Such A Beautiful Day.
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Dec 11, 2014 19:18
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dik-dik posted:Just started watching Bojack Horseman. It's pretty good. More or less your standard cartoon aimed at adults, but the voice actors really make it. I thought the same thing and then you get to the episode with Princess Caroline and her job and it all kind of crashes into you. Brilliant unexpected show that Bojack.
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Junkie Disease posted:Don Hertzfeldt's movie is on NF! Its Such A Beautiful Day. I've only seen the first few minutes of this but I really enjoyed it. Happy to see it's up as I had completely forgotten about it.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:With a hack like William Friedkin collaborating with a terrible screenwriter like Tracy Letts, it was a recipe for disaster! They could have at least cast some competent actors! I don't see the need for sarcasm here. I was simply stating my honest opinion that happens to conflict with most others. While the only other movie I've seen of Friedkin's has been The Exorcist (which is still just as scary 10 years after I first saw it), I don't think he's a hack at all. Hell, if it wasn't for him the horror genre would be totally different. Before this I had never heard of Tracy Letts, so I wouldn't go so far as to call him "terrible", but the script was easily one of the biggest issues of the movie for me. Seeing as Killer Joe was written for the stage it might work better there than it would on screen but I still don't think it'd be for me. Also, everyone in the movie was "competent" except Emile Hirsch who just straight up stinks. TLDR; Quit gettin' mad at folks who dislike movies you enjoy. It doesn't matter.  edit: Unrelated but Parks and Recreation is the best comedy in years. I've spent the last couple of weeks watching it to prepare for Season 7 in January. I'm gonna get some ice cream and watch some more. ♪Treat yo'self two-thousand fourteen!♪ Mom with a blog fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 01:33
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The last season or two of P&R is really bad sitcom poo poo and I'm glad it's being taken out back and shot before it has a chance to hit The Office levels of bad.
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Dec 12, 2014 03:29
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Jose Oquendo posted:The last season or two of P&R is really bad sitcom poo poo and I'm glad it's being taken out back and shot before it has a chance to hit The Office levels of bad. I disagree 100% with this post and love the last two seasons of P&R.
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Jose Oquendo posted:The last season or two of P&R is really bad sitcom poo poo and I'm glad it's being taken out back and shot before it has a chance to hit The Office levels of bad. I wouldn't say that it got that bad but it is like The Office in that once the main characters got married it's just been treading water and getting shittier with everybody regressing into louder and angrier cartoons of themselves. P&R used to be one of my favorite shows because of how warm and fuzzy it was but once Leslie got married and elected to city council they just started making GBS threads on her non-stop in the name of creating drama and it loving sucks.
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Jose Oquendo posted:The last season or two of P&R is really bad sitcom poo poo and I'm glad it's being taken out back and shot before it has a chance to hit The Office levels of bad. Are you kidding me? P&R at it's worst is 1000x better than The Office at it's best. I'll say that 2 - 4 were definitely the shows peak, but I trust the writers to give it a proper send-off.
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Dec 12, 2014 03:51
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What's a good Car Violence movie on netflix aside from Mad Max 1 and Death Race 2000? I'm trying to fit in a third one for my background movie streak.
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speshl guy posted:December 12th so yes Peaky Blinders is the best crime show on Netflix and if you haven't watched it you should.
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It's downright odd to see Cillian Murphy playing a laconic tough guy. He's good at it but it's a shift.
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Dec 12, 2014 04:49
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Every time I see Cillian Murphy my mind paints in the top half of his face with a visor/helmet and I get really upset he wasn't cast as the new robocop it has made watching Peaky Blinders problematic for me
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's downright odd to see Cillian Murphy playing a laconic tough guy. He's good at it but it's a shift. I find it hilarious seeing him play a British veteran who is ambiguous, if not antagonistic, to the IRA. He is just so Irish.
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Slandible posted:I just about finished season one of Wentworth and I am pretty impressed with it so far. It's about life in a womens prison, however nothing like Orange is the New Black. No comedy, all drama and drat does it get pretty depressing at times. You should see the original show it's based on. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077064/ ). Wentworth is soft compared to that.
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Nutsak posted:You should see the original show it's based on. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077064/ ). Wentworth is soft compared to that. Prisoner is pretty drat soft man, it was a prime time soap opera in the 70s and all.
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mr. stefan posted:What's a good Car Violence movie on netflix aside from Mad Max 1 and Death Race 2000? I'm trying to fit in a third one for my background movie streak. Is Maximum Overdrive still up?
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P&R has gotten pretty cheesy. Angry yelling guy is actually more annoying than Aubrey Plaza (who doesn't have the acting chops to pull off her one note joke of a character). That said, it's still really funny if you get past all rehashed melodrama. On that note, I'm really sick of the sitcom formula where everyone has to learn a lesson at the end of each episode. Someone is hurt or upset, and another character has to have a heart to heart with them. It's so overwrought. That's why I love Peep Show. No one learns anything, it's just two narcissists living their lives.
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Broadchurch is up on Swedish netflix, and it's pretty great so far. Also, I just saw The Dark Crystal on the US list. It's a great old Jim Henson fantasy film.
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