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Stakeland is awesome for how low budget it was. I'd much rather see Stakeland again than World War Z.
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May 23, 2015 20:32
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Stakeland is servicable but it's not all that special. It's more interesting in the budget vs set/costume quality than as an actual movie.
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May 23, 2015 21:22
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Binary Badger posted:Stake Land is a predictable but entertaining survival flick up on Netflix, told from the viewpoint of one survivor who is rescued by an unknown badass named simply 'Mister.' He kind of looks like Remo Williams with a goatee.
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Okay I got around to watching Toad Road because I'm tired of seeing people post about it and getting it mixed up with Yellow brick road which I vaguely recalled watching and thinking was pretty good (but I fell asleep toward the end and don't remember the finish).. Okay so the first few feelings i got from Toad Road: -someone has really spent a lot of time living this life, because it's very realistic and intense. The drug stuff is spot-on for some of the interpersonal dynamics and inner-personal dynamics  and all of those interactions are very genuinely put together.. I'm not sure if it was the writing or the actors ad-libbing, but clearly someone has spent a lot of time taking whatever drug du jour their friends brought home for the night, and spent some time with some (as?) serious psychedelic transcendance chasers.-the allegories are super heavy-handed. It reminds me of that Johnny Depp film. -why is it "found footage"? Most of the time there's nobody to film but they still use the same camera tricks. Felt weird. -Valhalla Rising. -Severed Ways Unsatisfying ending. It started slow, came in strong, and then kind of farted itself to sleep.
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Watched Residue. I thought it was a British show so a season would tell more or less a complete story. It didn't tell any story at all. It's basically a two and a half hour pilot. The plot goes nowhere. It looks nice, but the acting is mediocre and the characters get no development whatsoever. Plus it's the same old "Evil Government agents are covering up a mystery, will our intrepid heroes discover the truth? NOPE" plot. What a waste of time.
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May 24, 2015 07:56
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Million Ghosts posted:Stakeland is servicable but it's not all that special. It's more interesting in the budget vs set/costume quality than as an actual movie. For being an unknown vampire/zombie movie on Netflix, it sure is something special, compared to the trash in the genre.
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Some Amazon Prime alerts: - the documentary Art and Craft is pretty incredible. - season 1 of Veep is now streaming
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Is Between the first Netflix original that's being dribbled out weekly instead of a full season binge release?
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pseudorandom name posted:Is Between the first Netflix original that's being dribbled out weekly instead of a full season binge release? It's because it's airing on normal TV in Canada.
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neonnoodle posted:Some Amazon Prime alerts: Yay Veep, my favorite anti West Wing. Also this is your monthly reminder everybody to watch The Thick of It if you haven't. Afterwards watch Veep.
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pseudorandom name posted:Is Between the first Netflix original that's being dribbled out weekly instead of a full season binge release? Better Call Saul was released weekly, at least in the UK.
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May 25, 2015 12:34
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Better Call Saul was released weekly, at least in the UK. Better Call Saul isn't a Netflix original though.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Better Call Saul isn't a Netflix original though. Oh I thought it was.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Oh I thought it was. I remember the scuttlebutt that suggested that it might be produced by Netflix.
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May 25, 2015 14:41
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They put the bloody Netflix Original thing on it, I forgot that that means Not Netflix Original, sorry.
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Better Call Saul aired on TV in the US. There's a pattern.
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Lycus posted:Better Call Saul aired on TV in the US. I didn't know that and if I had I would have realised sooner, sorry everyone.
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Has anyone said Daredevil in here? Because I am loving this poo poo. Do recommend heartily.
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elestupendojudio posted:Has anyone said Daredevil in here? Because I am loving this poo poo. Do recommend heartily. Yeah it was pretty rad.
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I decided to cancel HBO Now, at least for the time being. There are two main problems with it: - The apps are terrible. You cannot add a TV series to your watch list, only individual episodes. This is annoying but doable with a miniseries (make sure to start from the end because the watch list is a stack!) but going through a full show is offensive. Even worse, it does not remember which episodes you've already watched. It is extremely annoying to have to manually browse to the next episode you want to watch every time you turn it on. - The real killer is that the network capacity just isn't there. All the fancy content is useless if you can't actually watch it. I would say I'm happy with Netflix speed 90% of the time; HBO Now is more like 40%. I can't remember watching a single thing that didn't noticeably drop frames from time to time (we're talking less than 20 fps). It is tolerable on weeknights but weekends are a disaster. I was trying to finish S1 of The Wire this weekend and I got booted out of the stream at least 30 times. After midnight on Saturday, early Sunday afternoon, it doesn't matter. I'll probably try it again at some future point, but right now paying nearly twice as much as Netflix for a primitive service that barely works just isn't worth it. I'm afraid that this problem will continue in the future as more and more content becomes available to cord-cutters. It's unrealistic to think that every single channel/media group will be competent enough to create a useable streaming service.
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david_a posted:I decided to cancel HBO Now, at least for the time being. There are two main problems with it: Seconded. The content is absolutely worth the asking price, but not the implementation.
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May 25, 2015 20:12
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The Jen Kirkman special starts off kinda slow but it's pretty good. Not as insufferable and disappointing as Chris D'Elia's Incorrigible.
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I'm wondering now if the stutter frames I see on HBO NOW are a server side network thing instead of compression issue. I definitely notice it in their series stuff and my internet is very fast.
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May 25, 2015 22:23
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So why did they make a new website instead of you getting a GO log-in?
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Cocoa Ninja posted:I'm wondering now if the stutter frames I see on HBO NOW are a server side network thing instead of compression issue.
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K. Waste posted:The Jen Kirkman special starts off kinda slow but it's pretty good. Not as insufferable and disappointing as Chris D'Elia's Incorrigible. Been meaning to watch this as i like her on podcasts, but the stuff I've seen of hers has some really awkward delivery. Her jokes are decently funny but she sounds like she just memorized a flash card 5 minutes earlier. Hopefully that's improved.
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Watched Zombeavers. Enjoyable. It skirts the line when it comes to "trying to hard to be a campy bad movie" but knows what it's trying to do and doesn't disappoint. Stick around for the credit music.
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david_a posted:I decided to cancel HBO Now, at least for the time being. There are two main problems with it: I didn't renew for the same reasons. I caught up on GoT, which is cool. The stream quality kept fluctuating though, getting real soft and cheap looking. I have zero problems with Netflix and Hulu on my Apple TV, so I assume it was the service itself.
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Is HBO now on different servers from Go or something? Been using it for years and it seems fine. I mean, the interface sucks but it streams fine.
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elestupendojudio posted:Has anyone said Daredevil in here? Because I am loving this poo poo. Do recommend heartily. I binged that poo poo in a day and now i'm crying over the fact the second season won't be until spring 2016
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NESguerilla posted:Is HBO now on different servers from Go or something? Been using it for years and it seems fine. I mean, the interface sucks but it streams fine.
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If you want some slightly different horror, try Horror Express up on Amazon Prime. It stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in one of the few movies they are both protagonists; it was made on a low budget and was a joint Spanish/British production and strangely enough is loosely based on Who Goes There, the same short story that provided the basis for The Thing, but from a slightly different perspective. Also has a special guest appearance by Telly Savalas minus his trademark lollipop and 'Who loves ya baby' shtick. It's got a very 70's Gothic feel to it which might not be your cup of tea but it's a great vehicle for Cushing and Lee..
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I'm on episode 2 of UK show Residue and while I have no idea if I like it, it is loving mental and stars Iwan Rheon (Simon from Misfits) so by the end of it I may just be declaring it "the new Misfits", though the tone is WAY darker. Bonus for having the most surreal use of the song "Have You Ever Spent the Night in Jail" I've ever seen. e: it's on Netflix, by the way
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I started watching Veep on Amazon Prime and it's pretty good. Worth a watch.
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david_a posted:Yes, I believe they are 100% separate services. HBO Now was built using the MLB.tv streaming platform whereas Go is a homegrown solution as far as I know. I can only assume they realized that Go wouldn't scale up properly so they decided an entirely different system was needed. I'm sure both systems are fine for people lucky enough to live close to a content server but I was under the impression that Go was even jankier than Now. Makes you wonder why they wouldn't just outsource the whole goddamn thing through Netflix or Amazon. Zero infrastructure to build, solid network already in place, solid interface already in place. Just pass the data files over. Hell I'd pay an additional $10 or whatever to Netflix for the "HBO access pack" or whatever they wanted to call it.
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LloydDobler posted:Makes you wonder why they wouldn't just outsource the whole goddamn thing through Netflix or Amazon. Zero infrastructure to build, solid network already in place, solid interface already in place. Just pass the data files over. Hell I'd pay an additional $10 or whatever to Netflix for the "HBO access pack" or whatever they wanted to call it. Because why would Netflix want to do that?
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May 26, 2015 19:00
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They did, MLB.tv is considered one of the best streaming platforms.
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Binary Badger posted:If you want some slightly different horror, try Horror Express up on Amazon Prime. This is a good movie.
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LloydDobler posted:Makes you wonder why they wouldn't just outsource the whole goddamn thing through Netflix or Amazon. Zero infrastructure to build, solid network already in place, solid interface already in place. Just pass the data files over. Hell I'd pay an additional $10 or whatever to Netflix for the "HBO access pack" or whatever they wanted to call it.
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