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So with Netflix starting to abandon its DVD business and home video rental stores more or less extinct in my area, I'm occassionally running into situations where a movie I'm looking for is neither available by streaming or (as far as I can tell) rentable. Without getting into  , is there a service or option I'm overlooking? As an example, a friend of mine was surprised that I hadn't seen Willow so we looked it up. It's going for nearly $40 bucks on Amazon and is otherwise unavailable.
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May 4, 2015 03:56
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Fifteen of Many posted:So with Netflix starting to abandon its DVD business and home video rental stores more or less extinct in my area, I'm occassionally running into situations where a movie I'm looking for is neither available by streaming or (as far as I can tell) rentable. Without getting into It's a problem in general, but you can get a blu-ray/DVD combo of Willow for $15
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May 4, 2015 03:59
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Hedrigall posted:I'm interested in catching up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I've only seen Iron Man 1, Avengers 1 and Guardians of the Galaxy, and I enjoyed them all, even though Avengers had me confused sometimes with references back to earlier movies and characters I have no idea about. I thought both Thor movies were horrible and the first Cap movie was meh. Otherwise, I've enjoyed the rest. Guardians was a lot better than I expected.
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May 4, 2015 04:01
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The Thor movies are a weird case. What I like about them, is of the three solo MCU lines, they try the most to be constructed like regular movies. Captain America and Iron Man films are really caught up in having a bunch of specific comic book elements incorporated into them, which kind of clutters up the pacing and story beats. Thor follows more of an action/adventure movie formula with a lot less other stuff thrown in. At least that's how it feels to me. Thor is a traditional action hero, Vin Diesel type character. His conflicts, both inner and physical are straightforward and familiar. If all the crazy disjointed elements of the Iron Man movies are a turnoff, you might actually like Thor better. Captain america 1 was pretty bad. Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier had it's flaws, but was a much more engaging movie throughout, and had absolutely fantastic actions scenes. Also, if Black Widow is the best in the Winter Soldier, so if the really thin writing of her character in both Avengers movies is something you don't like about her, she gets a lot more time to develop in Cap 2. Edit: Guardians is really, really great, and can be totally stand alone. edit: I may have only read the first sentence of your post before writing all that crap... You can totally skip Incredible Hulk. It's not great and doesn't really have the MCU feel... You can also probably skip Iron Man 2, if you want to. Snak fucked around with this message at 04:17 on May 4, 2015 |
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May 4, 2015 04:12
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Hedrigall posted:I'm interested in catching up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I've only seen Iron Man 1, Avengers 1 and Guardians of the Galaxy, and I enjoyed them all, even though Avengers had me confused sometimes with references back to earlier movies and characters I have no idea about. The Incredible Hulk is completely skippable. If anything, it could make you MORE confused, just because its major plot points are pretty much completely ignored in the movies that came after (save for Ruffalo's one line in The Avengers about tearing up Harlem). You can also skip Thor, which is honestly borderline incompetent. Branagh's directing is horrendous (there are more dutch angles than in Terry Gilliam's entire oeuvre), Hemsworth looks like he had his beard and eyebrows dyed with dijon mustard, and the whole thing is boring as hell. If you made it through Avengers, you know as much about Thor and Loki as you need to know to just skip it. People rag on the second Thor movie for being kind of brainless and inconsequential, but I thought it was a lot of fun. (Along with GotG, it's one of the funniest MCU movies.) Both Cap movies are awesome. (The Winter Soldier is one of the best movies in the MCU, if not THE best.) Skip Iron Man 2. Watch Iron Man 3. If you don't care to watch AoS, you can skip it, too. It's basically the B-story to the MCU -- lots of fun for diehards (Season 1 got off to a rocky start, but Season 2 has been fantastic), but 100% nonessential to understanding the movies.
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May 4, 2015 04:23
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Nothing really depends on each other besides the direct sequels and even there you could watch Winter Soldier having only seen Avengers and getting the basic gist of the first Captain America film (he fights super Nazis and gets frozen for 70 years).
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May 4, 2015 04:26
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computer parts posted:Nothing really depends on each other besides the direct sequels and even there you could watch Winter Soldier having only seen Avengers and getting the basic gist of the first Captain America film (he fights super Nazis and gets frozen for 70 years). Okay I love any kind of supernatural Nazi villains (see Hellboy) so that actually sounds right up my alley.
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May 4, 2015 07:00
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Hedrigall posted:Okay I love any kind of supernatural Nazi villains (see Hellboy) so that actually sounds right up my alley. Cap 1 is the one you want. Winter Soldier is good, but lacking in Supernatural Nazis for the most part.
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May 4, 2015 07:38
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Hedrigall posted:Okay I love any kind of supernatural Nazi villains (see Hellboy) so that actually sounds right up my alley. Cap 1 kicks rear end. On cable last night there was some dtv Bloodrayne sequel where she fights nazi vampires but the first 20 minutes were so lame and were mostly exposition by Clint Howard so I changed the channel.
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May 4, 2015 09:05
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effectual posted:Cap 1 kicks rear end. On cable last night there was some dtv Bloodrayne sequel where she fights nazi vampires but the first 20 minutes were so lame and were mostly exposition by Clint Howard so I changed the channel. The finniest bit of trivia for the firt BloodRayne moie is that filming it totally ruined a wedding that was supposed to take place at at one of their filming locations the day after they were done. It was an outdoor location and filming ran way late and they left the area littered with fake blood and stuff. Uwe Boll said he didn't care "because the bride was fat".
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May 4, 2015 13:47
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Snak posted:The finniest bit of trivia for the firt BloodRayne moie is that filming it totally ruined a wedding that was supposed to take place at at one of their filming locations the day after they were done. It was an outdoor location and filming ran way late and they left the area littered with fake blood and stuff. Uwe Boll said he didn't care "because the bride was fat". Was that the one that hired real prostitutes since they are cheaper than actors?
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May 4, 2015 15:51
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Skwirl posted:Cap 1 is the one you want. Winter Soldier is good, but lacking in Supernatural Nazis for the most part. Hydra not being technically nazis is my biggest gripe with the movie.
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May 4, 2015 15:53
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bobkatt013 posted:Was that the one that hired real prostitutes since they are cheaper than actors? I think so, yeah.
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May 4, 2015 16:02
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I read an interview where he said they were delivered like turnips in the back of a cart. God only knows what sort of criminals he was dealing with.
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May 4, 2015 16:07
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Fifteen of Many posted:So with Netflix starting to abandon its DVD business and home video rental stores more or less extinct in my area, I'm occassionally running into situations where a movie I'm looking for is neither available by streaming or (as far as I can tell) rentable. Without getting into Depending where you live, public libraries are a great option.
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May 4, 2015 16:45
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Harmony Korine and Uwe Boll are basically the same person
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May 4, 2015 22:15
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how was big trouble in little china received by the general public after its release? i know critics were kind of cold on it but i wanna know if people thought it was a tacky nightmare or actually amazing and good (which it is)
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May 4, 2015 22:22
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dataisplural posted:how was big trouble in little china received by the general public after its release? i know critics were kind of cold on it but i wanna know if people thought it was a tacky nightmare or actually amazing and good (which it is) I wonder this myself. The two white characters in it are extremely marginal but it's clearly an American film.
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May 4, 2015 22:29
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Hat Thoughts posted:Harmony Korine and Uwe Boll are basically the same person As in they look similar, or they both make terrible movies, or they are both terrible people? Cause I don't know anything about Harmony Korine.
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May 4, 2015 22:30
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Korine seems like Boll if Boll made good films, or at least, celebrated films, they both really wanna fight people for no reason anyways.
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May 4, 2015 22:33
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dataisplural posted:how was big trouble in little china received by the general public after its release? i know critics were kind of cold on it but i wanna know if people thought it was a tacky nightmare or actually amazing and good (which it is) HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I wonder this myself. The two white characters in it are extremely marginal but it's clearly an American film. It didn't gross a lot at the theaters but I know it was pretty popular and had mainstream appeal right away because I remember it getting a lot of airplay on basic TV back ~1987. I was really young but remember older relatives/classmates liking it. One of the earliest films that stuck with me (along with The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and Flash Gordon).
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May 4, 2015 23:22
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I've heard that Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan for it and man that goes on my list of films I wish we got like Cronenberg's Total Recall and poo poo
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May 4, 2015 23:39
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For the most part people didn't get- and the marketing didn't convey- that it was an homage to crazy HK martial arts and fantasy movies. That was still outside a lot of people's frame of reference (as late as the 90s the only way to see some of those films in America was to rent crappy bootlegs from Chinese grocery stores).
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May 5, 2015 01:06
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FishBulb posted:I've heard that Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan for it and man that goes on my list of films I wish we got like Cronenberg's Total Recall and poo poo did they ever say as who? wang chi? i like dennis dun too much to imagine that.
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May 6, 2015 18:27
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dataisplural posted:did they ever say as who? wang chi? i like dennis dun too much to imagine that. I assumed that was the plan
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May 6, 2015 18:30
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This is more of a question about the forum itself, but I'm not sure where it would go: Why do people use spoiler tags to basically hide their entire posts when discussing a movie even a week or more after it's released? Personally if I don't want to get spoiled on a movie I haven't seen yet, I avoid areas where people would discuss it. Is there a certain time when spoiler tags aren't needed anymore? I don't post here often, I just came in to discuss Ex Machina and the thread is like a CIA file or something.
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May 6, 2015 20:16
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triplexpac posted:This is more of a question about the forum itself, but I'm not sure where it would go: I don't know either, I don't read threads for movies I haven't seen so I can avoid spoilers too.
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May 6, 2015 20:21
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In the movie's thread, spoilers shouldn't in my opinion be necessary after its release. It's more of a common courtesy to tag your posts in places where people can reasonably expect not having the movie spoiled. Like when you're reading some thread about caterpillars and someone wants to reference a scene in the latest horse movie.
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May 6, 2015 20:43
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A lot of people start reading those threads prior to a film's release and enjoy talking about the marketing, pre-production stuff, other movies in the franchise (if applicable), etc. If the thread has enough momentum the conversations sometimes go into other movies and how they relate to the one the thread is about or some other tangents. Then when the movie comes out some people still want to talk about some of those previously mentioned aspects, but not so much the actual movie's contents due to not having time to see it. I think spoilers for the first week or two is a fair expectation for those readers, but I don't really mind it one way or the other. I enjoy reading spoilers for some movies prior to seeing them, it helps get me out of the mind set of guessing what's coming next and into the mind set of observing what's actually happening.
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May 6, 2015 20:49
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Spoiler tags are a basic courtesy, but blacking out half of every sentence across two to three paragraphs is moronic and what really creates that CIA document feel. There's no good reason to make people click to reveal more than once per post, it's just more work for both the writer and the reader, while also being uglier.
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May 6, 2015 20:52
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I really don't like it in movie threads that aren't based on hype but get why it's there.
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May 6, 2015 20:53
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Sir Kodiak posted:Spoiler tags are a basic courtesy, but blacking out half of every sentence across two to three paragraphs is moronic and what really creates that CIA document feel. There's no good reason to make people click to reveal more than once per post, it's just more work for both the writer and the reader. I agree with this sentiment on spoilers. I've seen posts where a word or two per sentence are spoiler tagged, just spoiler tag the whole paragraph.
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May 6, 2015 20:54
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In Ghost World, the first time they go to the diner two songs play on the jukebox, what's the second one? Is it original? This is, to me, a great mystery
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May 6, 2015 21:46
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Additionally, lot of people will pop into a thread to see what the general consensus on the quality of a film is before they go and see it. Yes people should not use spoiler tags in idiotic ways, but this is the internet we are talking about...
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May 6, 2015 21:51
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I would say that's what that Film Dump thing is for but I've only looked at it once or twice.
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May 6, 2015 21:54
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The Film Dump is weird to me because then it's like, why post on a forum at all.
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May 6, 2015 21:56
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Yeah, it's a real odd concept...
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May 6, 2015 21:59
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FishBulb posted:I've heard that Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan for it and man that goes on my list of films I wish we got like Cronenberg's Total Recall and poo poo I wonder if Cronenberg's Total Recall would've been all that different from Verhoeven's, really.
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May 6, 2015 22:49
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Hat Thoughts posted:The Film Dump is weird to me because then it's like, why post on a forum at all. It was a movie blog before a ton of people set out and made their own ones. I like it for seeing what films were popular among SA awhile back but the rating system is not the easiest to maneuver.
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May 6, 2015 22:51
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I wonder if Cronenberg's Total Recall would've been all that different from Verhoeven's, really. I don't really know but I'm curious. Also at one point Richard Dreyfus was attached to star I believe. That would be different.
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