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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? I was the same, I liked a bit of iron man and the nolan batmans but not much else. it's hardly groundbreaking TV but it's decent enough, I reckon.
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The closest thing to Daredevil I've seen was Season 1 of Arrow, so see one if you liked the other.
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Apr 23, 2015 17:03
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computer parts posted:The closest thing to Daredevil I've seen was Season 1 of Arrow, so see one if you liked the other. I thought arrow was terrible but enjoyed daredevil
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Apr 23, 2015 17:12
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Event Horizon may be Anderson's strongest movie but it does have a few hacky touches- the climax basically being a fist fight is a bit off, and the visions of hellish insanity aren't up to what, say, Clive Barker might conjure up. Also while it's great that the funny black guy survives counter to all cliches, those scenes feel like they don't quite match the rest of the movie, like they were cut in from Dark Star or something. Good film overall though.
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Apr 23, 2015 17:55
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Im sure this is a joke post. It's not. The premise is interesting, but the actors don't sell it at all. It honestly feels like someone filmed the final performance of an "Intro to Acting" class.
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Apr 23, 2015 19:20
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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. Considering the awkward, halting way he speaks English, I wouldn't expect him to be any more fluid in other languages.
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Apr 23, 2015 19:33
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JohnSherman posted:It's not. The premise is interesting, but the actors don't sell it at all. I thought the actors were decent enough, but I agree that it isn't the highest calibre acting you'll ever see. that the scripts are from transcripts of actual events makes the quality of the acting less noticeable to me, and I thought the whole thing was terrifying and sad.
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Apr 23, 2015 19:41
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Erebus posted:Considering the awkward, halting way he speaks English, I wouldn't expect him to be any more fluid in other languages. Yeah, I can't tell how bad the Mandarin actually is, but Mickey Rooney was a white dude playing a horrible Asian stereotype. Vincent D'onofrio is a white dude playing a white dude speaking a second language.
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Apr 23, 2015 22:39
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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? Fwiw I'm not into marvel or dc movies and daredevil did nothing to change that. Not that it's bad, but it's not grabbing me at all.
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Apr 23, 2015 22:56
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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. The main question I have is did Netflix fix the problem with the sound? The center channel and the left speaker were switched, creating a disorienting experience. It was unwatchable because it gave everything this weird soundstage.
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Apr 24, 2015 02:55
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My Xbox One (or my Netflix account?) has not been saving any progress on shows/movies that I watch. It will let me store things in the queue, but my progress on any tv show or movie is a freeze frame of a month or two ago. It is making me crazy. Any advice?
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Cemetry Gator posted:The main question I have is did Netflix fix the problem with the sound? The center channel and the left speaker were switched, creating a disorienting experience. It was unwatchable because it gave everything this weird soundstage. Speaking of sound, Is Phantoms sfx recorded through a wax drum?
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Apr 24, 2015 03:20
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:My Xbox One (or my Netflix account?) has not been saving any progress on shows/movies that I watch. It will let me store things in the queue, but my progress on any tv show or movie is a freeze frame of a month or two ago. It is making me crazy. Any advice? Have you checked on your computer to see if it's the netflix account or the Xbox? Have you tried reinstalling the application or even just logging out/in?
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NESguerilla posted:Have you checked on your computer to see if it's the netflix account or the Xbox? Have you tried reinstalling the application or even just logging out/in? Yes to all. I will try to reinstall it one more time and then I'll try to contact them maybe.
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Apr 24, 2015 04:32
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While we're on the topic of Netflix technical issues, I watched Undertow on there for the first time a few days ago and it was really, really weird quality. There were sections - the first and third quarter of the film - that suffered from strong motion blur (It wasn't just poor picture quality or buffering, it was specific to objects in motion and replicated exactly when you rewound) and others that had this strange lined quality. I'm pretty sure that Gordon Green must have just shot the thing on an early digital camera and that hasn't translated well to the compression, but I wonder why it got put up like that, or if it was just my machine and i'm being an idiot. (I am fully aware that the time-stops are intentional)
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Apr 24, 2015 05:48
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The only ones that bother me are Running Turtle is clearly a hardsubbed Video CD rip and Barton Fink has the worst format.
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Apr 24, 2015 07:05
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The third reinstall worked! But for how long? How long, Netflix?
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Apr 24, 2015 13:16
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X-Files has the first 13 episodes in HD now, and the subtitles are included again! ...on netflix only.
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Apr 24, 2015 13:37
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Jack Gladney posted:It was much better than that Hellraiser that was set in space. I do not see appeal of Event Horizon, I saw it in theaters when I was high school age, and I thought it was pretty dumb. Maybe because I had just read a few sci fi books or stories which were better, and used a similar premise. I really do not understand the hype for it. It had a ton of hellraiser-y poo poo that felt ripped off, and kind of petered out.
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Viginti posted:While we're on the topic of Netflix technical issues, I watched Undertow on there for the first time a few days ago and it was really, really weird quality. There were sections - the first and third quarter of the film - that suffered from strong motion blur (It wasn't just poor picture quality or buffering, it was specific to objects in motion and replicated exactly when you rewound) and others that had this strange lined quality. I'm pretty sure that Gordon Green must have just shot the thing on an early digital camera and that hasn't translated well to the compression, but I wonder why it got put up like that, or if it was just my machine and i'm being an idiot.
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Apr 24, 2015 14:39
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Junkie Disease posted:The only ones that bother me are Running Turtle is clearly a hardsubbed Video CD rip and Barton Fink has the worst format. What's wrong with Barton Fink? It looked fine when I watched it
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Cemetry Gator posted:What's wrong with Barton Fink? It looked fine when I watched it Is it still 4:3?
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Apr 24, 2015 18:20
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Yeah both Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing have consistently been 4:3 on Netflix for some reason.
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Apr 24, 2015 18:34
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last i watched Miller's Crossing on there it was proper widescreen
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Apr 24, 2015 18:43
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Also Miller's Crossing is loving fantastic. One of my favorite films of all time.
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K. Waste posted:Also Miller's Crossing is loving fantastic. One of my favorite films of all time. I like it even more now that I've read the Glass Key. jockeys for first with Fargo and Barton Fink as #1 Coen
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I thought the actors were decent enough, but I agree that it isn't the highest calibre acting you'll ever see. As someone that's never been afraid of flying that movie terrified me. Really glad I decided to check it out.
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K. Waste posted:Also Miller's Crossing is loving fantastic. One of my favorite films of all time. Same, it's easily in my top 5 / top 3 across all genres.
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I think millers crossing is the only coen bros movie I haven't seen. I really need to get on that. I even had it on blu ray for years and never got around to it. I don't know wtf is wrong with me. Now I know what I'm watching this weekend at least.
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Apr 24, 2015 22:34
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They Came Together is peak David Wain. The poster is misleading, but if anyone liked Wet Hot American Summer or Stella, I can't imagine they wouldn't like this.
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Cocoa Ninja posted:Is it still 4:3? It was 1.66 to 1 when I watched it.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:last i watched Miller's Crossing on there it was proper widescreen they must have fixed it then, I watched it like a year ago and it was 4:3
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david_a posted:Occasionally the video itself is just bad. Dredd had weird problems with stuff being doubled, like they didn't do the 24 -> 30 FPS conversion correctly. Sounds similar to what you're describing. Dredd was shot in 3d, I think it like randomly adds a right or left frame to the normal track, or poorly blends them, something like that. It came up in the thread last year. They Came Together is like the smarter version of whatever Romantic Movie was trying to be. It uses every romcom cliche, but isn't nearly as heavy-handed. Can't decide if I like it or not. vv: that's it, it's Wet Hot American Rom Com. red19fire fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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I haven't finished it, but They Came together was a pleasant surprise. I put in on even though it looked bad, because I like Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd and realized about 10 seconds in that it was basically a spiritual successor to Wet Hot American Summer. I gotta finish that this weekend. From what I watched it's pretty hilarious if you dig their ridiculous breed of comedy.
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Paul Rudd is perfect especially for that kind of role because he always seems like someone's idea of a leading man if you were casting an SNL sketch parody of a movie.
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I can't tell if They Came Together is a spoof or a spoof of spoofs.
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Apr 25, 2015 00:54
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I found it pretty insufferable and not really that funny, I was pretty excited going in though because I love Stella and American Summer. When Michael Shannon is the funniest castmember in your movie something has going terribly wrong.
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I dunno if 22 Jump Street is on American Netflix, but I just watched on Australian Netflix on a whim. I've heard that people that like 21 were down on it, but I quite liked it. Lots of dumb sequel jokes, one REALLY clever one (I thought we had Cate Blanchett?) and a bunch of goofy action sequences and perhaps one of the funniest fight scenes I've seen in a while. Maybe the fact that 21 was surprisingly good lessens the impact of 22 but I still think it's quite funny. Well worth a watch. I might check out They Came Together, I skipped over it once I heard "spoof", they're almost universally bad but if you guys liked it there must be something there.
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cat doter posted:I dunno if 22 Jump Street is on American Netflix, but I just watched on Australian Netflix on a whim. I've heard that people that like 21 were down on it, but I quite liked it. Lots of dumb sequel jokes, one REALLY clever one (I thought we had Cate Blanchett?) and a bunch of goofy action sequences and perhaps one of the funniest fight scenes I've seen in a while. Maybe the fact that 21 was surprisingly good lessens the impact of 22 but I still think it's quite funny. Well worth a watch. The elephant in the room bit had me in tears, not every joke hits, but when they do I get a pretty good laugh out of it. I honestly can't think of many other movies recent that I found as funny as 22 jump street.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:they must have fixed it then, I watched it like a year ago and it was 4:3 Something weird is up with it, it's not as simple it being fixed or not. I remember at one point someone in this thread posted that they had literally just tried to watch Barton Fink the aspect ratio was hosed up, but then when I loaded it a few seconds later it was fine. I don't know if it's a region thing or what.
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