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Raskolnikov2089 posted:That movie has some of the best casting I've ever seen. Every actor is phenomenal. Except, puzzlingly, the actor won an Oscar for it.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Except, puzzlingly, the actor won an Oscar for it. Kim Basinger? Is it just me or are her performances oddly...samey. Like, not typecasting as such, but she just seems to play everything similarly.
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If you have a Roku device you absolutely have to add the Shout Factory channel. It's free (but has commercials during movies) and is loaded with great cult and art films. They just added the entire John Cassavetes box set from Criterion, and as of last month at least had almost all of Werner Herzog's less mainstream films (all his Kinski collaborations, early documentaries, etc.). Lots of odd-ball Criterion flicks too, like I just watched Quadrophenia last night and it looked and sounded great. I can't believe it's all free. edit: I think you can browse and even watch the films here: http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/ Check out all the flicks in their art house section, it's amazing! http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/playlists/55429e6069702d070af90300 mod sassinator fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 3, 2015 |
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axleblaze posted:I just looked that up and those parts of the movie are very much uncomfortable on purpose. re: LA Confidental, LA Confidential is a perfect movie.
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mod sassinator posted:If you have a Roku device you absolutely have to add the Shout Factory channel. It's free (but has commercials during movies) and is loaded with great cult and art films. They just added the entire John Cassavetes box set from Criterion, and as of last month at least had almost all of Werner Herzog's less mainstream films (all his Kinski collaborations, early documentaries, etc.). Lots of odd-ball Criterion flicks too, like I just watched Quadrophenia last night and it looked and sounded great. I can't believe it's all free. Wow, thank you for this! A lot of Herzog's early stuff is available on YouTube, but you can't argue with the quality of what's available here. Also have wanted to check out some non-Faces (the movie, not the distribution company) Cassavetes for years.
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I really enjoy the Vice doc series on HBO and would like any recommendations along the same lines that are available on Netflix or Hulu. Just like, world news stuff/environmental/cultural. Maybe things you aren't likely to hear much about in detail through major news outlets. I know there's a lot of options out there but any recommendations would be appreciated.
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NESguerilla posted:I really enjoy the Vice doc series on HBO and would like any recommendations along the same lines that are available on Netflix or Hulu. Just like, world news stuff/environmental/cultural. Maybe things you aren't likely to hear much about in detail through major news outlets. I know there's a lot of options out there but any recommendations would be appreciated. I hate Anthony Bourdain, but his stuff on Netflix (there's two or three different shows) is pretty similar on tone to Vice. Also Departures, and some of the drug documentaries like Drugs Inc and Breaking the Taboo (The Union and it's successor/sequel Culture High also come to mind, but they both sort of fall apart toward the end). I haven't seen Bulletproof Salesman, about the international and dealer, but that also might be what you're looking for. The Animatrix is up too, relive the anime you forced yourself to watch because you thought it would give you deeper insight into Revolutions. edit: this is all Netflix Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 22:33 on May 3, 2015 |
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precision posted:Honestly the "Like a Virgin" part was more unnerving, but also hilarious. I dunno, the innuendos which come with the Mister President song and routine, are extremely blatant. Lots of 12 year old girls danced around singing Madonna songs too their parents' horror, but not very many of them performed strip routines back then.
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'No tears for the dead' isn't as good as 'The man from nowhere'. It's worse than 'Safe', so Statham fans beware. And no one ate Kimchi. verdigris murder fucked around with this message at 23:17 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 23:00
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Anything on Netflix similar to the classic Hammer Horror movies?
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I just watched a new found footage thing called The Mirror. It has terrible reviews on Netflix. There's no real plot (three friends by a 'haunted' mirror on eBay to enter a paranormal competition to win a million dollars, they film itt). Acting is decent, pretty well directed and the editing is top drawer. I loved it. Maybe helped that I watched it in a pitch black and silent room late at night, but it definitely creeped me out.
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Nckdictator posted:Anything on Netflix similar to the classic Hammer Horror movies? There's The Quiet Ones, which is made by Hammer Films, and was released last year to very bad reviews.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I just watched a new found footage thing called The Mirror. It has terrible reviews on Netflix. There's no real plot (three friends by a 'haunted' mirror on eBay to enter a paranormal competition to win a million dollars, they film itt). Acting is decent, pretty well directed and the editing is top drawer. Nice. I was just thinking about checking that out. That sounds like the type of medocre horror film I enjoy (or maybe just have a high tolerance for) That Dock Ellis documentary sounds fun on paper but I don't know how anyone could stretch that (albeit amazing) story out into a 1:40:00 film.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I just watched a new found footage thing called The Mirror. It has terrible reviews on Netflix. There's no real plot (three friends by a 'haunted' mirror on eBay to enter a paranormal competition to win a million dollars, they film itt). Acting is decent, pretty well directed and the editing is top drawer. Counterpoint, I thought it was a tedious and terrible waste of my time, and I usually am a sucker for terrible found footage movies. This one was just really bad.
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I have no idea why I've never been able to get into LA Confidential but that movie doesn't do a thing for me. I'm not saying it's bad but I've watched it twice and both times I haven't been able to remember a single thing about it.
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axleblaze posted:I have no idea why I've never been able to get into LA Confidential but that movie doesn't do a thing for me. I'm not saying it's bad but I've watched it twice and both times I haven't been able to remember a single thing about it. there's a lot i love about it (the cinematography, the editing, the writing, the music), but really what it comes down to for me is the acting. it's got an absolutely insane cast and it's near career best work for a lot of them.
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That's definitely true for Russel Crowe, I find his performances to be a bit flat most of the time but he's super intense and believable in LA Confidential.
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To the people who recommended Runaway Train, thanks - that was a good movie. If I hallucinated everyone recommending it and nobody actually recommended it, then I can go ahead and recommend it. It's got a loving train, that's for sure.
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I'm about 5 minutes into The Last Waltz (just after the opening credits sequence) and the scene is Martin Scorsese talking to a band member and there's no audible sound. Is this intentional?
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I finally got around to watching Noah and it was pretty good as a whole but the third act (after the creation story while they're still on the Ark) just kind of drags. Overall it's a very religious film and captures that theme I know about Man trying to interpret and do God's work.
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Been on an ocean documentary kick lately and found out that Netflix has like almost as many ocean docs as it does Hitler/Nazi poo poo. Last night I watched the Ocean Giants episode about whales, which was pretty interesting, even though I don't really care about whales. I also watched a bit of the Life documentary and really enjoyed that. There's a Disney doc on bears - I think it's literally called Bears lol - and that's also enjoyable esp if you are stoned off your rear end. I love me that deep sea poo poo though. Show me the sea aliens. hemale in pain posted:The Canal was a very good horror movie but it really let it self down with the dumb ending. One day a horror movie might figure out that TWIST! endings where all the characters die aren't scary. It also killed the idea that the dude was just going crazy, and instead I'm left wondering if evil spirits convinced the kid to kill himself with like 10 seconds of whispering or if they possessed him like the father was I wasn't really impressed by this either. Netflix kept recommending it to me and I finally watched it, and when the big twist hit, I was like "oh". Not very exciting. A Spider Covets fucked around with this message at 17:31 on May 4, 2015 |
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morestuff posted:Planet Earth just got added, there's an Ocean episode in there somewhere. Planet Earth owns. That Works posted:Show me the sea aliens. uhhhm,, what's so funny about this, i want to see them, bring them to me
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osietra posted:'No tears for the dead' isn't as good as 'The man from nowhere'. This is a very accurate ranking of these three similar films. The Man From Nowhere is by far the best of the bunch. It has the slowest buildup but the best payoff. Safe is very entertaining, especially if you like Statham, and the action is pretty consistent throughout(you could argue that leads to an exhausting pace that doesn't really work in the movie's favor). No Tears For the Dead doesn't have action on the same level as the other two, and the characters aren't really memorable at all. It is mildly entertaining though, and it sticks to the pattern established by the others that came before it, so if you like the "retired special-ops genius is forced back into the game to save an innocent" sub-genre than its worth a shot.
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cat doter posted:That's definitely true for Russel Crowe, I find his performances to be a bit flat most of the time but he's super intense and believable in LA Confidential. Absolutely. This and Noah are the only things I've ever liked him in. Well, and Proof (1991). The interrogation scene is absolutely epic for him. That slow realization and buildup of uncontrollable rage... still gives me goosebumps. The most amazing thing about LA Confidential is that it lost best picture to loving Titanic. I remember spring of 1998 visiting a movie buff friend of mine, who was like "So did you see LA confidential?" And I was like "No I never heard of it". And he laughed and said "Yeah we're going to see that." And we went and saw it. And as the credits rolled I realized for the first time that the Academy Awards have their head up their rear end. And I don't even hate Titanic, it's just that LA confidential is a better film in any metric you choose except budget overruns.
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What are some good horror movies on Netflix? I watched the Taking of Deborah Logan and loved it, and I'd love to see more like it. I'd prefer not a lot of gore or jumpscares.
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Titanic swept the boards because it was the kind of big old times Hollywood epic that old Oscar voters want there to be more of, it got good reviews and was a commercial hit. It was like Braveheart and Ben Hur had a baby.
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Sociopastry posted:What are some good horror movies on Netflix? I watched the Taking of Deborah Logan and loved it, and I'd love to see more like it. I'd prefer not a lot of gore or jumpscares. The Babadook is very good for that kind of stuff.
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Sociopastry posted:What are some good horror movies on Netflix? I watched the Taking of Deborah Logan and loved it, and I'd love to see more like it. I'd prefer not a lot of gore or jumpscares. Housebound is slightly comedic but still a legitimate horror film. I recommend it. The Babadook is also supposed to be amazing, but I haven't watched it.
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NESguerilla posted:I really enjoy the Vice doc series on HBO and would like any recommendations along the same lines that are available on Netflix or Hulu. Just like, world news stuff/environmental/cultural. Maybe things you aren't likely to hear much about in detail through major news outlets. I know there's a lot of options out there but any recommendations would be appreciated. HBO's America Undercover stuff is a lot alike. There are only a few of them available on youtube though. Looks like Vice will have it's own channel soon. http://qz.com/397499/h2-historys-abomination-of-a-spinoff-channel-will-be-replaced-by-vice/ cstang fucked around with this message at 04:59 on May 5, 2015 |
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Sociopastry posted:What are some good horror movies on Netflix? I watched the Taking of Deborah Logan and loved it, and I'd love to see more like it. I'd prefer not a lot of gore or jumpscares. The Babadook, like others said, is a solid modern choice. There are also some stone-cold classics like The Omen and The Exorcist that are available. If you can stand the idea of watching a Polanski film, Rosemary's Baby is phenomenal.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The Babadook, like others said, is a solid modern choice. There are also some stone-cold classics like The Omen and The Exorcist that are available. If you can stand the idea of watching a Polanski film, Rosemary's Baby is phenomenal. Wait, The Omen and The Exorcist are on Netflix and I didn't know about it? Neat.
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The Babadook is great, I quite like how it leans heavily on metaphor and symbolism, not a lot of horror does these days. Also try to remember that the kid is SUPPOSED to be an intolerable shithead. LloydDobler posted:Absolutely. This and Noah are the only things I've ever liked him in. Well, and Proof (1991). The interrogation scene is absolutely epic for him. That slow realization and buildup of uncontrollable rage... still gives me goosebumps. I can't quite remember the first time I thought the academy were full of poo poo, I remember being pretty pissed Crash won and I was probably about 17 when that came out I think.
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cat doter posted:The Babadook is great, I quite like how it leans heavily on metaphor and symbolism, not a lot of horror does these days. Also try to remember that the kid is SUPPOSED to be an intolerable shithead. Someone once told me a theory about the oscars, that the people who vote are sent DVDs and they sometimes watch them while they're doing other stuff, so films that lose nothing by being on a small screen do better than they should. Obviously doesn't apply 100% of the time but still. English Patient, anyone?
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I finally watched Harold and Maude for the first time thanks to Netflix suggesting it. It's just a delight of a movie. Morbid, hilarious, sweet, slightly sad, yet oddly light and uplifting given the subject matter. I'm kind of shocked that it didn't turn Bud Court into a bigger star. He's the best kind of peculiar. Ruth Gordon is amazing too. e: oh and Cat Stevens soundtrack was a big bonus for me
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