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Skywalker OG posted:Like I said that's an acceptable reason to not enjoy the film, but thematically it's one of the most important aspects of why it works. it's like flight of the concords in the sense that it's a sitcom with music comedy and music-video-y bits but I'd say it's tonally a bit different and focuses more on what being a female comic (and being a woman in general) is like which i think is enough to distinguish it I quite liked it, personally I think there was a throwaway line about how one of them pictures their agent as a puppet, if I remember correctly
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A second season of Cutthroat Kitchen was just added. I normally don't watch any cooking shows, but I like this one. Synopsis: "Four competing chefs are handed $25,000 and can use the money to either help themselves or sabotage their rivals." Stuff like: How much of your money are you willing to give up to replace all the meat from one of your opponents with spam?
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Apr 6, 2015 15:28
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Leper Residue posted:What ruined The Babadook for me was that I wanted it to eat that stupid kid. Holy poo poo that kid was a little poo poo. That's how I felt through most of it, but near the end I def started sympathizing with him more and was like whoaaaa that it pulled off that trick so naturally.
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Turambar posted:A second season of Cutthroat Kitchen was just added. I normally don't watch any cooking shows, but I like this one. This show is great whether you like cooking shows or game shows, and Alton Brown is just so incredibly entertaining in everything he does.
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Apr 6, 2015 17:10
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The babadook is one of the most original, inventive horror flicks thats been released in recent times, and if you like horror (or just films) and dislike that film you're a moron.
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Apr 6, 2015 17:34
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cat doter posted:it's like flight of the concords in the sense that it's a sitcom with music comedy and music-video-y bits but I'd say it's tonally a bit different and focuses more on what being a female comic (and being a woman in general) is like which i think is enough to distinguish it Now that I think about it more, you are right. I'll give it a couple more episodes.
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Apr 6, 2015 17:52
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The first two episodes of Garfunkel & Oates were pretty great, but the second one was absolutely amazing, especially with the twist, totally straight-faced pro-gay activist anthem at the end.
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A MIRACLE posted:Whoa didn't mean to say I hated Babadook. It was just too scary and I had to turn it off. Maybe I'm just a giant pussy. I'll try to finish it today I don't think it makes you a pussy to be scared by it. I am a hardened horror fan and it really freaked me out.
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Apr 6, 2015 18:25
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God's Not Dead was great. At some point a Christian man literally stands triumphantly over the corpse of a recalcitrant atheist while texting the God Revolution into existence. It's terrible. I love it. I want more of this flavor of Stupefying Bimbo Christ in my life.
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Apr 6, 2015 19:32
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mysterious frankie posted:God's Not Dead was great. At some point a Christian man literally stands triumphantly over the corpse of a recalcitrant atheist while texting the God Revolution into existence. It's terrible. I love it. I want more of this flavor of Stupefying Bimbo Christ in my life. I had a co-worker who unironically loved this movie with enthusiasm. I refuse to watch it because of her, and with the way goons describe it, now I'm terrified for her children. Should I just bite the bullet and watch it?
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Apr 6, 2015 19:41
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Turambar posted:A second season of Cutthroat Kitchen was just added. I normally don't watch any cooking shows, but I like this one. The only cooking show I've ever liked.
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Apr 6, 2015 19:45
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The only cooking show I've ever liked. "For $5300 Humbug Schoolbus has lost his ability to like things."
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Franchescanado posted:I had a co-worker who unironically loved this movie with enthusiasm. I refuse to watch it because of her, and with the way goons describe it, now I'm terrified for her children. I held off on watching it because I had people in my facebook feed pushing it really hard. Curiosity got the better of me after a couple beers after it went on streaming and I am pretty happy with the decision. If you have joy in your heart, it will make you laugh.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:10
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I just watched Atari: Game Over. If you can get past the awful title and the ten minutes of screentime they devote to Ernest Cline driving around his loving De Lorean it's actually pretty good. Nice historical document for retrogame nerds that turns into a brief but earnest examination of "worst ever" labels and why those statements are pointless, self-serving Internet hyperbole. It's only an hour. If you like or ever did like video games, you should watch it.
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Sarchasm posted:I just watched Atari: Game Over. If you can get past the awful title and the ten minutes of screentime they devote to Ernest Cline driving around his loving De Lorean it's actually pretty good. Nice historical document for retrogame nerds that turns into a brief but earnest examination of "worst ever" labels and why those statements are pointless, self-serving Internet hyperbole. It's not bad but there is at least one documentary about that era of gaming that is leaps and bounds better and more informative. I believe it's Once Upon Atari but that might be something else.
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I saw that Atari documentary last night and yeah it's kind of good. The Atari stuff was really interesting. I am liking how between this and Incident at Loch Ness Zak Penn is making himself out to be this whiny "What is this...thing? What does it do? Can you say that in English so normal people can understand? We can't use it in the shot?" Guy.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:55
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Accident Underwater posted:This show is great whether you like cooking shows or game shows, and Alton Brown is just so incredibly entertaining in everything he does. Word. Cutthroat Kitchen is fantastic. It might be the only thing I really miss about cable.
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Apr 6, 2015 22:17
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precision posted:It's not bad but there is at least one documentary about that era of gaming that is leaps and bounds better and more informative. I believe it's Once Upon Atari but that might be something else.
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Apr 6, 2015 22:35
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ravenkult posted:Can I get some TV show recs? Sitcoms okay. I've been sick for a couple of months and I ran out of dumb stuff to watch while I work. Still catching up, but I'm sure someone else must have already recommended this, but why not. Here's a list of sitcoms: Better Off Ted Arrested Development Scrubs Childrens Hospital Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law Gareth Marengi's Dark Place Peep Show Danger 5 Cougartown 30 Rock Indestructible Kimmy Schmidt Louie Orange is the New Black (prob not a comedy? Whatever) And I know this is defintiely not a sitcom, but whatevs: Angel. And gently caress it, Farscape.
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mysterious frankie posted:God's Not Dead was great. At some point a Christian man literally stands triumphantly over the corpse of a recalcitrant atheist while texting the God Revolution into existence. It's terrible. I love it. I want more of this flavor of Stupefying Bimbo Christ in my life. Never heard of this till now. I think I'll watch it. I already know that I'm going to want to punch the tv. I get sadistic pleasure out of watching poo poo like that God Warrior crazy bitch on that trading spouses show from several years ago. And Jesus Camp too. I finished Rectify and loved it. Started Bloodline. I'm not crazy about it, but there's only the one season up, so I'll stick it out. Eh.
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crondaily posted:"For $5300 Humbug Schoolbus has lost his ability to like things." drat you! I thought losing tasting privileges was bad!
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They recently added 3rd Rock From the Sun and it's funny as poo poo. Watching the first episode gives so much more context to the show, I only caught it once in a while when it was on, and I knew they were aliens, but the gags based on who they are as humans versus their real gender/age/rank as aliens were things I didn't get in the past. Lots of not-so-subtle but still biting social commentary too - "Why do I have to be the woman?" "You lost."
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I really wish some documentary about the history of games would at least mention PC/Mac games of the era.
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Alterian posted:I really wish some documentary about the history of games would at least mention PC/Mac games of the era. If only so they could mention that adventure games were so hard specifically so the companies could run tiplines that charged you per minute.
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computer parts posted:If only so they could mention that adventure games were so hard specifically so the companies could run tiplines that charged you per minute. That's devilishly brilliant. "Remember when you ate the pie in the desert? Yeah you actually need that to hit the yeti and knock him off the mountain. Obviously."
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Apr 7, 2015 01:15
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My dad use to go and look in (I want to say) the memory dump to see if he could find keywords if we were stuck on a puzzle since sometimes they wanted very specific words.
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Turambar posted:A second season of Cutthroat Kitchen was just added. I normally don't watch any cooking shows, but I like this one. nthing this. I was a fan of Top Chef while I still had cable, and this is Top Chef trimmed down. It still has the typical reality TV show editing, but overall it's great fun, fast paced, and some of the auctions produce some amazing schadenfreude.
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I watched the three episode series Residue last night and really enjoyed it. Looking for more info on it I stumbled on an Indiewire piece about the making of and plans for more, and I like it even more now. I'm really hoping they do a ten episode run and more seasons because it is good tv.
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I'm giving my official recommendation to Something, Anything, that rare good Christian independent film that you didn't even know you needed to see to assuage your incessant narcissistic cynicism.
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whatshesaid posted:Never heard of this till now. I think I'll watch it. I already know that I'm going to want to punch the tv. I get sadistic pleasure out of watching poo poo like that God Warrior crazy bitch on that trading spouses show from several years ago. And Jesus Camp too. God's Not Dead didn't induce any anger in me at all, it's just way too silly and caricatured to get mad at. Well, aside from the normal background anger I have that nobody makes movies about SANE Christians. Radio Free Albemuth doesn't count because Philip K. Dick was most definitely insane and also it's kind of terrible, like it's as close to the source material as A Scanner Darkly was and yet is on the complete opposite end of the "quality" spectrum, I know PKD's daughter and a lot of reviewers said it's a good movie but I think they're just saying that to be nice. It's on Netflix, or it was very recently.
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precision posted:It's not bad but there is at least one documentary about that era of gaming that is leaps and bounds better and more informative. I believe it's Once Upon Atari but that might be something else. Along the lines of interesting retro game documentaries, Hulu has Chasing Ghosts. I think it was a pretty interesting companion piece to King of Kong as it shares some of the same people, games and era. It's probably not as well put together, though, but I think it feels like a far different and a MUCH more depressing documentary.
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God, it's so embarrassing. I found myself watching 50 First Dates last night. And liked it A LOT. I actually was in tears by the time they got the semi-surprise ending. And I hate rom-coms, and REALLY hate Adam Sandler movies in general and have for at least a decade and a half. I think I watched it because the Groundhog Day premise seemed a bit intriguing, but I got totally wrapped up in just... what a charming little film it was. And how loving awesome Drew Barrymore is, and how her and Adam Sandler have this great unexpected chemistry (they were really sweet together in The Wedding Singer too! I don't know. I think if I had seen this 10 years ago when I was still really cynical and a teenager I would have despised it utterly, but now that I'm all old and sentimental the idea of making the person you love fall in love again with you every day is just undeniably romantic and sappy as hell and I just fall for that stuff. And Drew Barrymore is just so irrepressibly adorable it's fantastic  I mean christ the movie even has adorable sea mammals what more do you want
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Accident Underwater posted:This show is great whether you like cooking shows or game shows, and Alton Brown is just so incredibly entertaining in everything he does. I really like alton brown (god I wish netflix still had all of good eats on it. and how it's made.) but after a while I got a bit frustrated at cutthroat kitchen and how people got legit hosed over in unrecoverable ways a large chunk of the time Reality shows where the assholes win instead of getting a comeuppance aren't my thing + cooking shows where they can't actually cook things as well as they could also bug me! Chopped's fun, though.
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flatluigi posted:I really like alton brown (god I wish netflix still had all of good eats on it. and how it's made.) but after a while I got a bit frustrated at cutthroat kitchen and how people got legit hosed over in unrecoverable ways a large chunk of the time Good Eats is up on YouTube
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Housebound was really disappointing, mostly because we were in the mood for a scary ghost movie and got a goofy thing with a couple scenes of tension and then a third act that just goes off the rails after the "twist"
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Dr. Clockwork posted:Housebound was really disappointing, mostly because we were in the mood for a scary ghost movie and got a goofy thing with a couple scenes of tension and then a third act that just goes off the rails after the "twist" I liked it, but I think y'all hyped it too much for me. I will say that if I had no expectations going in, I would have liked it a lot more, so really it's all on me.
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flatluigi posted:I really like alton brown (god I wish netflix still had all of good eats on it. and how it's made.) but after a while I got a bit frustrated at cutthroat kitchen and how people got legit hosed over in unrecoverable ways a large chunk of the time Its all worth it for the rare moments when you think someone has gotten so incredibly hosed over like that and has been hit with all the hindrances, but yet still comes out on top.
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kaworu posted:God, it's so embarrassing. I found myself watching 50 First Dates last night. And liked it A LOT. I actually was in tears by the time they got the semi-surprise ending. And I hate rom-coms, and REALLY hate Adam Sandler movies in general and have for at least a decade and a half. I think I watched it because the Groundhog Day premise seemed a bit intriguing, but I got totally wrapped up in just... what a charming little film it was. And how loving awesome Drew Barrymore is, and how her and Adam Sandler have this great unexpected chemistry (they were really sweet together in The Wedding Singer too! Eh, 50 First Dates is one of the very few Sandler movies that does in fact have some effective pathos to it and the two lead performances are actually pretty decent. Maybe it is a Drew Barrymore thing because Wedding Singer is one of the others.
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computer parts posted:If only so they could mention that adventure games were so hard specifically so the companies could run tiplines that charged you per minute. Roberta Williams was pure evil. The fact that strategy guides/hintbooks are still published in physical print and somehow sold boggles my mind, given that you can find insanely detailed walkthroughs for every game ever with a 2 second google search. I guess frustrated 8 year olds' parents keep them in business? I thought the new generation of children were born tech-savvy so it still doesn't make sense to me.
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Artificial Idiocy posted:Roberta Williams was pure evil. A healthy cross-section of dorks are completists
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