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axleblaze posted:I'll third. Motion passes. ABCs of Death is garbage.
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Just saw Lair of the White Worm is leaving Netflix on 3/1 Do watch. It's by the director of Tommy, and he goes in some deliriously trippy directions with this movie.
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Feb 26, 2015 17:53
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david_a posted:Someone mentioned Frank Miller's involvement and I wanted to expand on that a bit. Miller wrote the original script for RoboCop 2 (he's actually in the movie too as a scientist). However, the studio wisely thought it was unfilmable and yanked a lot of stuff out of it. I've heard that when Irvin Kershner (the director of Empire Strikes Back) was brought on to save the film he edited it even more, sometimes even doing daily rewrites. I don't know if he was going to retire anyway, but RoboCop 2 ended up being the last movie he directed. Also: Irvin Kershner just strikes me as, like, the completely wrong person to direct a RoboCop sequel.
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Feb 26, 2015 18:14
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K. Waste posted:Also: Irvin Kershner just strikes me as, like, the completely wrong person to direct a RoboCop sequel. It was originally going to be Tim Hunter, who at that point was best known for directing River's Edge. Let that sink in. Also, one of the things that hampered Kershner's work on RoboCop 2 was that he was stricken with a terrible case of the flu right when production started; I believe he spent much of the shoot in a wheelchair.
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drunken officeparty posted:I'm a year late to the party but I've been slowly getting through Cosmos and the way Neil DeGrasse Tyson says the word "water" makes me cringe. I thought I was the only one.
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drunken officeparty posted:I'm a year late to the party but I've been slowly getting through Cosmos and the way Neil DeGrasse Tyson says the word "water" makes me cringe. I think it was like the third or fourth episode that he says it like 20 times and it drove me crazy. I don't know if I can trust a science man if he pronounces 'water' so wrong.
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Feb 26, 2015 21:13
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Just saw Lair of the White Worm is leaving Netflix on 3/1 It's pretty great. Take a drink every time there's gratuitous phallic imagery.
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Feb 26, 2015 21:29
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The Vosgian Beast posted:It's pretty great. Take a drink every time there's gratuitous phallic imagery. This post is going to show up on a coroner's report somewhere near the words "alcohol poisoning."
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Feb 26, 2015 21:52
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True crime fans might like the Death Row Stories TV show which I just found on Netflix. Ive only watched the first episode, of eight available. The first episode is about a black fella convicted of the murder of an old white lady and sentenced to death, except it's pretty obvious he had nothing to do with it and htf did this even get to a court to begin with, holy poo poo.
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Feb 27, 2015 01:38
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K. Waste posted:It's also co-written by Frank Miller, who, despite probably sharing Verhoeven's anti-corporate affinities, is bound to interpret these in ways that are implicitly pro-fascist. The ending of RoboCop is just a comic-reversal on the 'stormy' conclusion of John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln. RoboCop 2 treats it as 'a step in the right direction.' When I watched Robocop 2 I was confused by the (what felt like) 20-minute sequence crammed in early where Robocop is given a massive list of "politically-correct" directives and does dumb stuff like hug a criminal and draw a gun on a little kid for eating ice cream. It wasn't all that funny, and soon the directives are erased anyway so it doesn't go anywhere. At the end I saw the words "Screenplay by FRANK MILLER" and became enlightened.
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Feb 27, 2015 04:50
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Small tip, if you decide to watch The Spirit (currently on Hulu) thinking, "Well, how bad can it be?" it opens with Frank Miller going into full Frank Miller mode and then going on to take a long piss all over Will Eisner's corpse. The constant tone shifts, sometimes from shot to shot, is giving me whiplash...
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Feb 27, 2015 05:46
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I stopped watching the Spirit when the first scene took like twenty minutes to finish. The writing and direction was too poor to sustain such pacing.
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Feb 27, 2015 07:40
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Last House on Cemetary Lane might be the most boring movie on Netflix. It's like a high school play lit by a tanning salon. It's put me to sleep in under 5 minutes flat twice now. It says horror but as far as I can tell it's two actors ad libbing a house rental.
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Feb 27, 2015 08:39
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Quick reminder that Season 3 of House of Cards is on Netflix now
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Feb 27, 2015 14:34
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Kloaked00 posted:Quick reminder that Season 3 of House of Cards is on Netflix now As if C-- wasn't reminding me enough. Last night: "You want to set our alarm clocks so we get up at 3am and watch an episode or two?"
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Feb 27, 2015 16:03
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stickyfngrdboy posted:True crime fans might like the Death Row Stories TV show which I just found on Netflix. Ive only watched the first episode, of eight available. The first episode is about a black fella convicted of the murder of an old white lady and sentenced to death, except it's pretty obvious he had nothing to do with it and htf did this even get to a court to begin with, holy poo poo. Death Row Stories is insane.
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Feb 27, 2015 16:07
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My wife binge-watched House of Cards then spent a year trying to convince me to watch it. It got to the point where I was just not watching it to be contrarian, so I finally gave it a shot. She was right, it is brilliant. I love that woman. I love her like a shark loves blood.
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outy posted:My wife binge-watched House of Cards then spent a year trying to convince me to watch it. It got to the point where I was just not watching it to be contrarian, so I finally gave it a shot. She was right, it is brilliant. You sound like my fiancee as I tried to convince her to watch Firefly, BSG, the Wire, Arrested Development...current targets are Breaking Bad and Archer. On the other hand, she's trying to make me catch up to her in Orange is the new Black and House of Cards, so...
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Feb 27, 2015 17:00
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So I probably only have time to watch one movie before March 1 and there a few still in my queue that are going to disappear. Should I watch The Elephant Man, Lair of the White Worm, or Leaving Las Vegas? I like weird stuff, so I'd be leaning towards either of the first two, but then I know Leaving Las Vegas is maybe Cage's best performance and I really need to see that already.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:02
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The Elephant Man is the best of those three films and you should watch that one.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:03
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Basebf555 posted:I like weird stuff, so I'd be leaning towards either of the first two, but then I know Leaving Las Vegas is maybe Cage's best performance and I really need to see that already. The Elephant Man is definitely the best but Leaving Las Vegas is incredible, too. Very soul-crushing, though.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:18
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Pander posted:You sound like my fiancee as I tried to convince her to watch Firefly, BSG, the Wire, Arrested Development...current targets are Breaking Bad and Archer. On the other hand, she's trying to make me catch up to her in Orange is the new Black and House of Cards, so... My fiance and I have been enjoying Community on UK netflix. It is absolutely fantastic and I really wish I'd started it earlier. Also Boondocks season 4 is finally up. If you haven't been watching that show, you hosed up.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:30
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Basebf555 posted:So I probably only have time to watch one movie before March 1 and there a few still in my queue that are going to disappear. Should I watch The Elephant Man, Lair of the White Worm, or Leaving Las Vegas? In this order: 1) The Elephant Man 2) Lair of the White Worm 3) Leaving Las Vegas Chichevache posted:Also Boondocks season 4 is finally up. If you haven't been watching that show, you hosed up. If you haven't been watching Season 4, you made the right choice.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:38
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The first 3 seasons of The Boondocks are great though. So watch those.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:49
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K. Waste posted:In this order: I've never seen season 4, but I'm watching the first episode and it ain't too bad. 
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Feb 27, 2015 17:52
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Elephant Man it is.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:56
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Chichevache posted:Also Boondocks season 4 is finally up. If you haven't been watching that show, you hosed up. In the other hand Boondocks mostly hasn't been worth watching since season 1.
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Feb 27, 2015 18:06
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Didn't they get the episodes out of order on the broadcast? I hope they fix that for the netflix release. Had to stop watching about 3 episodes in when it was on the air
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Feb 27, 2015 18:07
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Chichevache posted:I've never seen season 4, but I'm watching the first episode and it ain't too bad. axleblaze posted:In the other hand Boondocks mostly hasn't been worth watching since season 1. The worst thing about season 4 is that there's literally an episode where Huey - as a loving slave - has an inner monologue expounding upon how we shouldn't be surprised because of the systemic erosion of the middle-class. There are a lot of really inspired episodes from the second and third seasons, but axle is right in that in general it really hasn't been a very consistently on point program. But when McGruder left for the far superior Black Jesus, the precipitous decline in not only quality but also just basic competency with handling the show's sociopolitical content is kind of astounding. It's basically ended as a glorified minstrel show.
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To go into more detail, the first season of Boondocks was mostly good with a only like two dismal episodes (one of which, the MLK one, people seem to really like for some reason). After that though it went downhill pretty dramatically. There was still an occasional good episode but the plot mainly became the same few unfunny things over and over again. Most episodes can be broken down to "My Mary Sue looks down on those crazy black people", "Tom is not black enough and should be mocked", "Women? Amirite???", "Ruckus is a horrible person" and "extended, not really all that funny kung fu movie parody". It says alot that out of all of those the Ruckus ones were the most watchable. I gave up after McGruder left. The show seemed as obnoxious as ever but without that little bit of soul it still had left. I just couldn't bring myself to watch anymore.
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Feb 27, 2015 18:52
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Feb 27, 2015 18:54
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Watched Money for Nothing which was about The Federal Reserve's hand in the housing bubble and subprime mortgage crisis. Faint whiffs of gold buggery aside, it did a good job of explaining the Fed's basic charter, how they gradually became more influential in the economy, and mostly of showing Allen Greenspan's long-term aversion to regulation and to raising the federal funds rate. Like most documentaries about the crisis, you leave it with the sense that we're setting ourselves up for another one due to lax regulation, the obscene amount of money and political power financial institutions have, and the realities of too big to fail.
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Feb 27, 2015 19:06
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So next month Netflix is adding all of two movies that were made before 2000? It may be an incomplete list, but to me it's always frustrating that they don't go more into catalog stuff.
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Feb 27, 2015 19:21
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Maxwell Lord posted:So next month Netflix is adding all of two movies that were made before 2000? It may be an incomplete list, but to me it's always frustrating that they don't go more into catalog stuff. People used to complain they didn't add enough new stuff. They can't win. At any rate, those early preview posts are never complete. There will be much more stuff than what was on that list.
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I just got an email from Netflix letting me know a new Ralphie May special has been added. I want to know what Netflix recommendation algorithm I screwed up on to allow this to happen. 
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Feb 27, 2015 22:08
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Dango Bango posted:I just got an email from Netflix letting me know a new Ralphie May special has been added. So did I and I do not watch much stand-up and definitely have never watched anything by Ralphie May.
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Feb 27, 2015 22:34
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Dango Bango posted:I want to know what Netflix recommendation algorithm I screwed up on to allow this to happen.
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Feb 27, 2015 22:39
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I watched half of the first half of the first episode of HOC probably 5 times over the last few years. I don't know why I never get around to watching it. I'm sure I'll like it, but the premise doesn't interest me that much. One of these days though...
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NESguerilla posted:I watched half of the first half of the first episode of HOC probably 5 times over the last few years. I don't know why I never get around to watching it. I'm sure I'll like it, but the premise doesn't interest me that much. One of these days though... The show is the very definition of slow burn because it has the advantage of not being beholden to ratings or week-to-week cliffhanger pressure because all the episodes of each season get released at once. I don't really even like it that much, but it's consistently solid if difficult to follow. Basebf555 posted:Elephant Man it is. Bradley Cooper was on 60 minutes last week after the Oscars and he said that this is the movie that made him want to become an actor. He also does a Broadway play version which is supposed to be excellent.
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red19fire posted:Bradley Cooper was on 60 minutes last week after the Oscars and he said that this is the movie that made him want to become an actor. He also does a Broadway play version which is supposed to be excellent. I just finished watching it and I'm wrecked emotionally.
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