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So Bloodline is really god damned good so far. Just 2 episodes to go.
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mr. why posted:So Bloodline is really god damned good so far. Just 2 episodes to go. I've only seen the first two episodes, but yes it's pretty good. Anyone going into should know, however, that it's more of a slow burn mystery that focuses on the family drama more, though I think they are doing a good job of using the family drama to make the thriller aspects of the show hit a lot harder than they would. The show is easily the best looking Netflix original, too, but the Swedish Breaking Bad director whose name I forget tackled some of the episodes so they should.
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Heaven is a weird little legal thriller by Tom Tykwer that is probably best viewed knowing as little about it as possible. It's quite good.
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K. Waste posted:Heaven is a weird little legal thriller by Tom Tykwer that is probably best viewed knowing as little about it as possible. It's quite good. Agreed. This is one of my favorite films, and not just because I'm in love with Cate Blanchett.
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Namirsolo posted:Life Itself, the Roger Ebert documentary, is on Netflix now. It's great and has some hilarious clips of him and Siskel. It's a celebration of his life, but parts of it are pretty painful and made me cry. I really miss that man. And it's directed by the guy who did Hoop Dreams - loving perfect!
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Namirsolo posted:Life Itself, the Roger Ebert documentary, is on Netflix now. It's great and has some hilarious clips of him and Siskel. It's a celebration of his life, but parts of it are pretty painful and made me cry. I really miss that man. They don't even feature some of their best arguments such as Roger favoring Cop and a Half for the cute kid and Gene favoring Carnosaur for being so strange. I was really hoping Ebert's most famous rant against the film North would be included. "While I was writing my written review, a certain force came over me that made me type 'I hated this movie! Hated, hated, hated, hated this movie!'" I am glad that the movie gives just enough of a taste to make you want to go online and seek out some more clips from their show.
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It's still a god damned tragedy that the second At the Movies went off the air Disney took down the site they had which contained pretty much everything Ebert did while they owned the show. You can still find alot of clips online of stuff but nothing that comes close to the content that site had.
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FrostedButts posted:"While I was writing my written review, a certain force came over me that made me type 'I hated this movie! Hated, hated, hated, hated this movie!'" There are a lot of great stories floating around about the fallout from this review, but my favorite came from the original author of North shortly after Roger Ebert died. I'll butcher it if I try to type it out from memory, so here it is copied and pasted directly from The New Yorker. quote:I was on tour promoting a book I’d written when someone I was having lunch with in a Chicago restaurant pointed him out.
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There's a film on Netflix currently called Charlie Victor Romeo. It takes transcripts of black box audio and has a cast act out those transcripts almost verbatim while sat in a mock cockpit. It's from an apparently successful play of the same name, and I couldn't stop watching it. I don't know whether to recommend it or not because the source material is real and it's so well done it might be upsetting for some people. after each segment, a title card appears, with the information about the accident we just witnessed. This includes the reason the plane crashed (BIRD STRIKE, for example), and the number of survivors. Some of the segments are very short, because disaster strikes quickly, but a couple of them seem to take ages to go from normal to OH gently caress and the parts in between are incredibly hard to watch but even more difficult to look away from.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:There's a film on Netflix currently called Charlie Victor Romeo. It takes transcripts of black box audio and has a cast act out those transcripts almost verbatim while sat in a mock cockpit. It's from an apparently successful play of the same name, and I couldn't stop watching it. I don't know whether to recommend it or not because the source material is real and it's so well done it might be upsetting for some people. Oh poo poo! That movies up? That movie rules. I got to see it in the original 3D (yes it was made in 3D for some reason). It was also a bad movie to watch the night before flying back from Sundance. Still, that's a movie I never expected others to be able to see. For what is just a few actors on a minimal set with all just real dialogue, it can be intense as gently caress. There's one lengthy segment in there which might be one of the more harrowing sequences I've seen.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:There's a film on Netflix currently called Charlie Victor Romeo. It takes transcripts of black box audio and has a cast act out those transcripts almost verbatim while sat in a mock cockpit. It's from an apparently successful play of the same name, and I couldn't stop watching it. I don't know whether to recommend it or not because the source material is real and it's so well done it might be upsetting for some people. That sounds pretty uncomfortable / intense. Interesting premise.
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mr. why posted:So Bloodline is really god damned good so far. Just 2 episodes to go. So, it's not just worth it for Kyle Chandler? stickyfngrdboy posted:There's a film on Netflix currently called Charlie Victor Romeo. It takes transcripts of black box audio and has a cast act out those transcripts almost verbatim while sat in a mock cockpit. It's from an apparently successful play of the same name, and I couldn't stop watching it. I don't know whether to recommend it or not because the source material is real and it's so well done it might be upsetting for some people. It's a great, great, great film. CVR is one of those films that makes me feel like they made it just for me to watch it. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 18:16
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Blood Ties is pretty good so far. This cast is out of control, everyone is in this movie. Herc is a criminal, Marlo Stanfield plays a cop, dogs & cats living together, the world's all topsy-turvy.
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Mar 24, 2015 00:22
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The Asylum's Hansel Vs. Gretel is up and it's actually a fairly endearing B-movie. It's definitely so exceptionally bad that it becomes somewhat good, and even if you don't finish it, the first half-hour to hour or so of it are great for a good yuck or two. It's got that classic, self-effacing quality of a B-movie where the basic conceit of the setting and characters constantly implies this greater speculative universe that is never effectively addressed, explained, or expressed through misc-en-scene. This is my first Asylum movie, and I certainly don't regret seeing it as much as some of the merely mediocre stuff you could be watching.
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K. Waste posted:Heaven is a weird little legal thriller by Tom Tykwer that is probably best viewed knowing as little about it as possible. It's quite good. Just quoting this so I don't forget about it.
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Force Majeure is up on Netflix Instant.quote:A sudden avalanche at an Alpine ski resort shatters the serenity of a vacationing Swedish family when the father flees without his wife and children. It's about the family, not the avalanche. It's really good. At times it's like watching a car accident happen in slow motion right before you. Make sure to watch it with someone of the opposite sex! 
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wa27 posted:I didn't realize they added Danger 5 season 2 until tonight, and I was totally surprised by the change in theme/setting. I'm not sure I like it more than season one, but I'm glad they didn't just do more of the same. I haven't seen it recommended a lot in here but people should check it out. Seriously though guys this show was pretty much made with goons in mind   
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Real Name Grover posted:Seriously though guys this show was pretty much made with goons in mind And as always, Kill Hitler!
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:And as always, Kill Hitler! His gulpgulpgulp on that martini cracked me up more than it should have.
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Hitler's always got that escape chute / rescue rocket / back window thing to leap into at the end of the episode.
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How is Danger 5 for kids?
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Sir Nose posted:How is Danger 5 for kids?
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Just watched CVR and holy gently caress  Don't let the cheap looking aesthetic fool you, it's loving intense. Some of the middle segments are sorta weak but the last one makes up for that and then some. It's not a lie to say it made me feel more for tension and worry than most horror movies do anymore.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:As long as you're okay with your kids seeing lots of violence, sexual innuendo, swearing, alcohol use, smoking, and jokes they won't understand, it's totally fine. Hah! OK, thanks.
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V/H/S 3: We're Goin' Viral?! is up. It's really loving stupid. The skateboarders fighting the Mexican skeletons was weirdly compelling, but everything else was pretty bad, especially the framing device or whatever you call it. We're still doing the spooky ice cream truck thing, huh? Admittedly, the goon with the magical cape was pretty funny.
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DangerDummy! posted:V/H/S 3: We're Goin' Viral?! is up. It's really loving stupid. The skateboarders fighting the Mexican skeletons was weirdly compelling, but everything else was pretty bad, especially the framing device or whatever you call it. We're still doing the spooky ice cream truck thing, huh? Such a bad movie. The cape dude was kind of cool but just went downhill rather quickly. I also hated hated hated the skateboard kid piece. Probably cause I hate skateboarders. The only one I really enjoyed was Parallel Monsters and even that was more 'not as bad as the others' than anything else.
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Leper Residue posted:Such a bad movie. The cape dude was kind of cool but just went downhill rather quickly. I also hated hated hated the skateboard kid piece. Probably cause I hate skateboarders. I loved that I got to watch a SWAT vs Wizard battle. The skateboarders were supposed to be huge asshiles I think. Doesn't mean you should like it but at least it is intentional. I was still rooting for them by the end. I insist that skeletons are the absolute least scary horror villain, they're just too goofy. As to the parallel monsters thing, I loved that both of them were really fish out of water instead of just the obvious one.
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I watched Short Term 12. Get on it. Its incredible.
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Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time and drat, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are forces of nature. It was fascinating watching Daniel's character managed to have entire towns bend to his will in moving towards his capitalist vision. The other actors did well too but it really is Lewis's movie. I can't believe it took me this many years to watch it. Any recommendations on films that have protaganists/antiheroes that are complete misanthropes a la DD Lewis's character in There Will Be Blood? I always seem to identify with characters like that in film and in fiction. Thanks.
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forever whatever posted:Any recommendations on films that have protaganists/antiheroes that are complete misanthropes a la DD Lewis's character in There Will Be Blood? I always seem to identify with characters like that in film and in fiction. Thanks. As for non-terrible stuff that's streaming, Groundhog Day comes to mind (other than the ending). I would say the latter parts of Breaking Bad also has a few characters like that.
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forever whatever posted:Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time and drat, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are forces of nature. It was fascinating watching Daniel's character managed to have entire towns bend to his will in moving towards his capitalist vision. The other actors did well too but it really is Lewis's movie. I can't believe it took me this many years to watch it. Let me just say that There Will be Blood is one of my favorite movies ever and I love Daniel Day Lewis. That being said, there are a couple scenes that I feel second hand embarrassment for his overacting. The one in particular is the scene everyone knows and loves and that is the milkshake dialogue at the finale. The more I watch it, the more I dislike how over the top it is (though I like the ending overall). His outbursts in the film are a great idea as they contrast the long scenes with sparse and/or quiet dialogue. But in some scenes he does it in a way that comes across as just too goofy the more I watch the film.
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forever whatever posted:Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time and drat, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are forces of nature. It was fascinating watching Daniel's character managed to have entire towns bend to his will in moving towards his capitalist vision. The other actors did well too but it really is Lewis's movie. I can't believe it took me this many years to watch it. I think you'd like Nightcrawler Edit: poo poo, not the "recommend me" thread. Either way, it's worth the $1.50 at Redbox, for sure. Parachute fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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forever whatever posted:Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time and drat, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are forces of nature. It was fascinating watching Daniel's character managed to have entire towns bend to his will in moving towards his capitalist vision. The other actors did well too but it really is Lewis's movie. I can't believe it took me this many years to watch it. Taxi Driver comes to mind.
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forever whatever posted:Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time and drat, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are forces of nature. It was fascinating watching Daniel's character managed to have entire towns bend to his will in moving towards his capitalist vision. The other actors did well too but it really is Lewis's movie. I can't believe it took me this many years to watch it. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer(on netflix last i checked), The Proposition also seconding Nightcrawler, which has one of the best monologues about misanthropy ever ("What if my problem's not that I don't understand people, I just don't like them?")
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forever whatever posted:Any recommendations on films that have protaganists/antiheroes that are complete misanthropes a la DD Lewis's character in There Will Be Blood? I always seem to identify with characters like that in film and in fiction. Thanks. No idea if it's on a streaming service, but The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford would fit the bill. It's easily one of the best films of the last decade, and Brad Pitt's Jesse James is very misanthropic and intimidating.
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Oh poo poo, I just realized that Bloodline is that show that had the crazy good and vague trailer last year, now I'm gonna end up staying up watching it all night e: also God's Not Dead is hilarious precision fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Mar 25, 2015 02:35
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Why on earth doesn't Netflix have any kind of watch offline option for mobile? I mean I guess I understand the business reasons but my work has me doing a ton of traveling over the next few days and it would be nice to load up on and binge through the kind of stuff my wife's not so bothered about.
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Mar 25, 2015 08:29
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I wouldn't be surprised if their content licensing terms prohibit such a feature.
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Watched the first episode of Bloodline last night, impressive start. I read an interview with the writers a few months ago, and they said that writing for Netflix is a very different and liberating experience. Normal TV show writing requires weekly reminders and updates about characters and plots so that you can pick up viewers as the series progresses. Word of mouth leads to people trying out an episode mid-season, so if they feel hopelessly lost they'll not watch again. However Netflix allows everyone to start at the beginning, and because there's a tendency to binge-watch, they don't have to make allowances for the viewer forgetting what's happening. The future of TV, folks!
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forever whatever posted:Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time and drat, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are forces of nature. It was fascinating watching Daniel's character managed to have entire towns bend to his will in moving towards his capitalist vision. The other actors did well too but it really is Lewis's movie. I can't believe it took me this many years to watch it. Almost every Scorsesse movie.
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