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So I subscribed to this HBONOW thing for Game of Thrones and I'm going to cancel as soon as the season's over. Help me maximize the value of this thing: what else should I watch while I have the chance, TV/movie-wise? I already have the latest few seasons of Veep lined up.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:38
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:So I subscribed to this HBONOW thing for Game of Thrones and I'm going to cancel as soon as the season's over. Help me maximize the value of this thing: what else should I watch while I have the chance, TV/movie-wise? I already have the latest few seasons of Veep lined up. What have you already seen? There is a daunting amount of good stuff on there.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:40
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I've seen mainly the big prestige series (Wire, Sopranos, Carnivale, Rome, Generation Kill, Newsroom). I'll probably take a look at Deadwood since I know that is well-loved. Treme I haven't seen but I've heard more mixed things about that. I'd be especially interested to hear if any of the HBO Latino series are actually any good
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Apr 22, 2015 22:51
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I'd give Enlightened a shot, it's great and has half-hour episodes so it's easy to burn through. Silicon Valley is broad but decent. Lucky Louie is an interesting failure. Behind the Candelabra is definitely worth a watch, too.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:58
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I've seen mainly the big prestige series (Wire, Sopranos, Carnivale, Rome, Generation Kill, Newsroom). I'll probably take a look at Deadwood since I know that is well-loved. Treme I haven't seen but I've heard more mixed things about that. I'd be especially interested to hear if any of the HBO Latino series are actually any good If you're into WWII stuff, Band of Brothers and The Pacific are only ten episodes each.
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Apr 22, 2015 23:29
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Treme is really good if you liked the Wire. It's a little less collar-grabbing in its skewering of institutions, but the slow burn is fantastic. After the first season I was down to watch another ten seasons of these people, just living their lives and doing their thing. Cemetry Gator posted:Runaway Train This really was a hidden gem. A dozen times I felt like I was about to roll my eyes big time, but it doesn't ever really give in. Like Ebert mentioned, the final shot is really striking.
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Apr 23, 2015 00:30
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Yeah, Runaway Train is definitely worth a watch. I watched it Monday, and as soon as it finished I dug out my Sorcerer dvd and made it a double feature. It was a good day.
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Apr 23, 2015 00:59
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Holy poo poo, Charlie Victor Romeo is bad. Like "babby's first acting class"-level bad.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:08
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I've seen mainly the big prestige series (Wire, Sopranos, Carnivale, Rome, Generation Kill, Newsroom). I'll probably take a look at Deadwood since I know that is well-loved. Treme I haven't seen but I've heard more mixed things about that. I'd be especially interested to hear if any of the HBO Latino series are actually any good You should watch Deadwood, and there are no mixed things to say about Treme. It is just great TV if you like the way David Simon writes. Also Flight of Concords, East Bound and Down, Boardwalk Empire, Silicon Valley, Bored to Death, and pretty much 90% of all HBO shows are well worth watching.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:38
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Oz is a good show.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:09
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The Canal really was pretty decent. I wonder why they didn't talk more about the actual ghost story though. I think it is because none of it is actually real. Or at least most of it isn't. But then how do you explain the ending?
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Apr 23, 2015 03:23
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JohnSherman posted:Holy poo poo, Charlie Victor Romeo is bad. Like "babby's first acting class"-level bad. The acting is pretty spotty, but I honestly still found the whole thing enthralling.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:28
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That Works posted:Romancing the Stone is pretty fun and held up fairly well for being an earlier 80's movie. Jewel of the Nile is the sequel, if anyone is interested. I know these things because my mom made me watch them with her at the movies.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:37
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JohnSherman posted:Holy poo poo, Charlie Victor Romeo is bad. Like "babby's first acting class"-level bad. CVR loving owns.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:41
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If you liked the movie Seven, you will adore True Detective.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:56
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blood_dot_biz posted:The acting is pretty spotty, but I honestly still found the whole thing enthralling. Yeah I really liked it but mainly because I'm really interested in aviation safety, crisis management and all that.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:55
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I really liked it because flying is loving horrifying so I didn't exactly notice the acting.
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Apr 23, 2015 05:04
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nate fisher posted:You should watch Deadwood, and there are no mixed things to say about Treme. It is just great TV if you like the way David Simon writes. Also Flight of Concords, East Bound and Down, Boardwalk Empire, Silicon Valley, Bored to Death, and pretty much 90% of all HBO shows are well worth watching. yes, loving watch Deadwood, you cocksucker. On the subject of HBO is Carnivale worth watching? It sounds up my alley but I hear it ends on a cliffhanger and I don't want to invest my time in a show that doesn't end with any kind of resolution (yes, I know it was cancelled, but still)
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Apr 23, 2015 05:15
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I'm going to make some popcorn and I'm only about 30 minutes in but Election is fan loving tastic so far. Thanks to whoever recommended it earlier
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Apr 23, 2015 05:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Q7YRDL90E Sums up everything wonderful about Deadwood and why everyones loves Al Swearengen.
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Apr 23, 2015 05:32
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How did Paul Anderson make Event Horizon it starts off with his name in the credits making a whoosh sound. it ends with a question mark. It's enjoyable, atmospheric and entertaining and I want to give as much credit as possible to the cinematography but PA still has his hand in a not bad movie. How?
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Apr 23, 2015 07:06
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Junkie Disease posted:How did Paul Anderson make Event Horizon it starts off with his name in the credits making a whoosh sound. it ends with a question mark. I love a good Paul Initial Anderson joke, its a juxtaposition that never gets tired. I watched Event Horizon for the first time last night and even though I know which Paul Initial Anderson directed it I still think it stands out in his career. The ideas behind the film are so good and simply seeing someone try to execute them with that kind of budget is great, even if the result is a sloppy failure. I don't think i've seen that sort of imagination at play in his efforts for a while, though I also havn't seen his last few. I really hope someone remakes this one day, maybe as a Bloodborne sequel.
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Apr 23, 2015 07:18
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Junkie Disease posted:How did Paul Anderson make Event Horizon it starts off with his name in the credits making a whoosh sound. it ends with a question mark. Paul W.S. Anderson is actually low-key a pretty awesome director. Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, and Soldier are all really goddamn good movies, his Resident Evils are all incredibly fun (it's seriously night and day looking at Apocalypse, which wasn't him, vs. Afterlife, which was), Death Race kicks rear end, and I've come around on AVP since it came out. I still need to see Shopping, I've heard nothing but good about it. e: "Sick and tired of having to explain the significance of the raining frogs in Magnolia (1999), he added the initials W.S. to his name to avoid confusion with indie filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. Unfortunately, the modified name is too similar to another celebrated auteur, Wes Anderson, and Paul is constantly fielding questions about what it's like to work with Bill Murray." 
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Apr 23, 2015 08:25
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Q7YRDL90E He didn't say cocksucker once during this video, so I think you posted the wrong one.
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Apr 23, 2015 09:24
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Pope Guilty posted:If you liked the movie Seven, you will adore True Detective. I'm from around the area True Detective was filmed and it was probably the 1st Louisiana themed show on cable in years that didn't make me cringe constantly and have to explain to people how bullshit it was. Fictional plot elements aside, the accents, scenery and all the extras were very well cast and the entire show was a big wave of nostalgia for someone who grew up there during the 80's and 90's. Anyway, very solid and strange mystery series. One of the more interesting things I've watched in a few years.
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Apr 23, 2015 12:08
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Viginti posted:I love a good Paul Initial Anderson joke, its a juxtaposition that never gets tired. I watched Event Horizon for the first time last night and even though I know which Paul Initial Anderson directed it I still think it stands out in his career. The ideas behind the film are so good and simply seeing someone try to execute them with that kind of budget is great, even if the result is a sloppy failure. I don't think i've seen that sort of imagination at play in his efforts for a while, though I also havn't seen his last few. I really hope someone remakes this one day, maybe as a Bloodborne sequel. Event Horizon was okay, but I couldn't get over the fact that it was pretty much Hellraiser In Space. It didn't do much to distance itself from its influences. Fun fact: Event Horizon was the favorite movie of Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters.
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Apr 23, 2015 12:35
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It was much better than that Hellraiser that was set in space.
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Apr 23, 2015 12:52
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Speaking of horrors in space, Jason X was pretty rad.
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Apr 23, 2015 12:53
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Slackerish posted:yes, loving watch Deadwood, you cocksucker. I really liked Carnivale, and it has what might be the creepiest episode, Babylon, I've ever watched on TV. My biggest issue with the show was pacing (season 1 too slow, season 2 too fast), but I watched it when it originally aired on HBO. Not only might my memory might be hazy, but binge watching a show now a days can change pacing issues. Yes it did end on sort of a cliffhanger, but there was some small form of resolution in season 2. If I remember correctly it was suppose to be 6 seasons, and with 3 main arcs (each covering 2 seasons). Also there is a 60+ page pitch document written by Knauf that really goes into the mythology (my suggestion is read it after you watch the show, not before). Knauf was planning to do a comic or book series to finish the show, but according to him HBO has prevented this from happening. The only worse HBO cancellation I can think of is Deadwood. Link to this amazing pitch document (but only read if you watched the show or you don't plan to). http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.harvardwood.org/resource/resmgr/hwp-pdfs/carnivale_pitch_document.pdf
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Apr 23, 2015 13:03
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Well, if Event Horizon is your favourite movie then you should probably be checked in somewhere. I think the fact that it doesn't - final few minutes aside - have a villain is really quite remarkable and what impressed me most. The fact that they built this cool space hulk set and then rather than have people run down the corridors to/away from an alien/zombie/demon they let them simply stroll around going insane is great. Of course the execution is still terrible and they do pull a Sunshine at the very end, but the idea of Lovecraft in space is cool enough to smooth over some pretty big bumps for me. Not sure if H.P. would have had a jive talkin' token black guy jetting around and breaking the mood, but I guess we'll never know.
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Apr 23, 2015 13:04
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Kitten Party is 40 minutes of kittens with chipper narration over it. Either you don't care or you're not reading this because you already clicked the link to watch it.
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Apr 23, 2015 13:50
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JohnSherman posted:Holy poo poo, Charlie Victor Romeo is bad. Like "babby's first acting class"-level bad. Im sure this is a joke post. Ive just finished daredevil, is Wilson Fisk the main baddie in the whole thing (like lex luthor in star wars) or will there be loads of other villains like in batman
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Apr 23, 2015 14:49
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Ive just finished daredevil, is Wilson Fisk the main baddie in the whole thing (like lex luthor in star wars) or will there be loads of other villains like in batman Yes.
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Apr 23, 2015 14:50
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to the first part or the second? I just realised i typed star wards for lex luthor lol I meant superman obviously
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Apr 23, 2015 14:54
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stickyfngrdboy posted:to the first part or the second? Yes. (Wilson Fisk is pretty much always the arch-baddie but there's a bunch more colorful bad guys who'll probably show up)
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Apr 23, 2015 14:56
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Yes. cool that's what i hoped for, i enjoyed the first season. I liked how(im going to spoiler this even though i dont think it necessary, better safe than sorry) they made Fisk an actual person and less of a caricature than most villains in comic/cartoon things (although at times his dialogue and acting were embarrassingly bad - trash TV so np really), and I like that the good guy doesn't have proper super powers. I hated the Christian Bale impression while in costume, though, and found it unnecessary. You dont have to disguise your voice dude we can see almost your whole face. It is definitely the blind lawyer guy, everyone would spot it immediately. "Hey it the blind lawyer guy who is for some reason covering only the upper section of his head! Wait no the blind lawyer guy doesn't speak like gravel, must be another blind guy in Hell's Kitchen with that exact face and build."
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Apr 23, 2015 15:04
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stickyfngrdboy posted:cool that's what i hoped for, i enjoyed the first season. I liked how(im going to spoiler this even though i dont think it necessary, better safe than sorry) they made Fisk an actual person and less of a caricature than most villains in comic/cartoon things (although at times his dialogue and acting were embarrassingly bad - trash TV so np really), and I like that the good guy doesn't have proper super powers. I hated the Christian Bale impression while in costume, though, and found it unnecessary. You dont have to disguise your voice dude we can see almost your whole face. It is definitely the blind lawyer guy, everyone would spot it immediately. I also liked the way they made Fisk more of a real character, but holy poo poo his Mandarian is so incredibly painful to listen to. Like, skip the scene painful. The actor is trying to imitate the inflection and cadence of the Chinese crime boss, but it comes out sounding like a Mickey Rooney caricature.
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Apr 23, 2015 15:30
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ChineseConnection posted:I also liked the way they made Fisk more of a real character, but holy poo poo his Mandarian is so incredibly painful to listen to. Like, skip the scene painful. The actor is trying to imitate the inflection and cadence of the Chinese crime boss, but it comes out sounding like a Mickey Rooney caricature. His Japanese isn't any better, but I certainly didn't read any racist overtones to it. The only people who pick up that his Mandarin isn't up to snuff are people that speak Mandarin. The Mandarin aside, if you want to talk about racist overtones in Marvel productions we could always talk about The Mandarin.
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Apr 23, 2015 15:47
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So if I'm not huge on the Marvel movies in general, will Daredevil do much for me?
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Apr 23, 2015 16:11
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The Vosgian Beast posted:So if I'm not huge on the Marvel movies in general, will Daredevil do much for me? it might. it's a lot closer in tone to the Nolan Batman movies than any of the Marvel movies.
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