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Peep Show is great. I've decided that I'm definitely a Mark. Re-watched the tactical party episode, the part where he was telling off the party crashers had me cringing hard.
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drunken officeparty posted:I started watching Peep Show because I love David Mitchell on all those british game shows, but dear god is it hard to watch. I end up pausing it every couple minutes because I can't handle how awkward it is. It's one of the greatest comedy shows ever made you should stick with it
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stickyfngrdboy posted:It's one of the greatest comedy shows ever made you should stick with it 
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Peep Show is great. I've decided that I'm definitely a Mark. I think most goons are Mark. There are more than few Jeremys though.
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Jun 25, 2015 17:36
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The Vosgian Beast posted:There are more than few Jeremys though. You rang?
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Jun 26, 2015 05:15
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It looks like everybody here locked in on the Metastasis part of the Univision/Netflix deal but left the big news on the table. Chapulin Colorado with English subs. Now you can figure out what you've been laughing at all these years. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jun 26, 2015 |
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Jun 26, 2015 05:35
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EasyEW posted:Chapulin Colorado with English subs. Now you can figure out what you've been laughing at all these years. I love the weird defensiveness you sometimes pick up in Wiki article edits: quote:However, there is no real similarity between the character of Bumbleblee Man and El Chapulín Colorado. Yeah, okay.
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EasyEW posted:It looks like everybody here locked in on the Metastasis part of the Univision/Netflix deal but left the big news on the table. I never expected his cunning!
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Jun 26, 2015 15:20
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The liberal use of "bro" in the translation of 1973-era material is how I figured out they haven't really done this show in English before now.
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Jun 26, 2015 17:55
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EasyEW posted:The liberal use of "bro" in the translation of 1973-era material is how I figured out they haven't really done this show in English before now. Or a Californian translated it way back in the 70s, brooooooo.
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Jun 26, 2015 19:30
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The Walking Deceased and Avengers Grimm are both up now. I'm mildly curious about the latter. Also a documentary on Nina Simone, haven't watched it yet.
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Jun 26, 2015 21:45
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precision posted:The Walking Deceased and Avengers Grimm are both up now. I'm mildly curious about the latter. My girlfriend and I watched the Walking Deceased and it's pretty much exactly what you'd think it is. There are a few chuckles if you watch a lot of zombie stuff but probably not near enough of them. Lots of groans, appropriately enough. We also watched Housebound, which I really didn't know anything about but we both enjoyed it a lot. It did a great job of mixing legit tension with a lot of genuinely funny moments.
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Anyone know if the Armour of God movies are worth watching? Edit: wow, five minutes in and Jackie Chan is doing an Indiana Jones masquerade and beating up some spear-toting, mask-wearing African tribesman morestuff fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jun 26, 2015 |
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Jun 26, 2015 23:39
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The scene where he jumps off the crumbling stone wall is where he punched a hole through his skull.
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Jun 27, 2015 01:02
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I watched Blue in the Face a couple of nights ago and really enjoyed it. It's got a pretty awesome cast and if you like directors like Jarmusch or Woody Allen, then it's worth checking out.
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Jun 27, 2015 03:33
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If you want a sendup of all those cooking shows done by Stephen Chow of Shaolin Soccer fame, check out God of Cookery up on Netflix as of Thursday.. It's kind of similar to SS but it has the most  goofy / unlikely climax I've ever seen in a comedy.
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NESguerilla posted:Hector and the Search for Happiness is pretty loving bad. I thought it was kinda cute. But then again, I like simon pegg so.
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Jun 27, 2015 14:05
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I also like Simon Pegg but I really hated that movie.
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We got almost to the end of Dark Valley before we realized that we had been watching the English dub the whole time. I saw Sam Riley and just assumed the movie was obviously going to be in English. Doesn't help that there is very little dialogue anyway. Then again, since there's so little dialogue, we probably didn't miss a lot by not watching it in German. Still a great movie.
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Jun 27, 2015 20:26
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The cobbler is a good watch if you are fascinated by how bad Adam sander movies are.
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Jun 27, 2015 22:09
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NESguerilla posted:The cobbler is a good watch if you are fascinated by how bad Adam sander movies are. I stopped watching his movies out of morbid curiosity years ago. I swear he is just the biggest troll at this point, seeing what he can get away with
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Jun 27, 2015 22:53
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The Cobbler had like a real director n poo poo though. Usually when he does one of those it comes out more watchable but from what I've read that was not the case this time.
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Jun 27, 2015 23:02
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Pain and Gain was a million times better than what I was expecting. Why did I wait so long to check it out? It just keeps getting more and more absurd and amazing.
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Jun 27, 2015 23:42
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Thanks everyone for talking up Peep Show. For whatever reason I hadn't watched it before and it's like Curb only instead of everyone being successful/hollywood people they're all just kinda failures. All-around great show so far.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Pain and Gain was a million times better than what I was expecting. Why did I wait so long to check it out? It just keeps getting more and more absurd and amazing. Pain and Gain is a great movie to prime yourself for appreciating the conscious absurdity latent in all Michael Bay films. I'm so glad that I only saw Armageddon after Pain and Gain and not before.
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Jun 28, 2015 00:01
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K. Waste posted:Pain and Gain is a great movie to prime yourself for appreciating the conscious absurdity latent in all Michael Bay films. I'm so glad that I only saw Armageddon after Pain and Gain and not before. The only Bay films I had seen prior were Armageddon and the first Transformers film. I think I'm going to watch The Rock next.
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Just watched to music documentaries back to back: The Bob Weir one, "The Other One", was good. I never really liked the Grateful Dead, and never had any interest to want to like them, so I expected that I'd not enjoy the movie. But I did, so, that was decent. Still didn't win me over on their music, but I love a music documentary. The Nina Simone doc, "What Happened Miss Simone?" on the other hand was great. Again - never really went nuts over her music either, but thought meh, it's significant, couldn't hurt. Now HER story was fascinating. I thought she'd died from a drug overdose in the eighties, (Jazz musicians, am I right?) but nope, she lived much longer. And she was one freaky rear end bean. So, both are good. If you like the Dead, I can't imagine that you haven't already seen The Other One. If you like music documentaries about tortured souls who go batshit insane, you will love What Happened, Miss Simone? Seriously. Go watch that poo poo. Seriously, she held a concert and encouraged the audience to go kill whitey. I poo poo you not.
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Jun 28, 2015 05:12
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NESguerilla posted:The cobbler is a good watch if you are fascinated by how bad Adam sander movies are. Everything I've heard is that Adam Sandler had like no control over that
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Hat Thoughts posted:Everything I've heard is that Adam Sandler had like no control over that Exactly. How much control could a multi-millionaire whose own production company finances his movies have over his movies? It's out of his hands, is what I'm trying to say here.
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K. Waste posted:Pain and Gain is a great movie to prime yourself for appreciating the conscious absurdity latent in all Michael Bay films. I'm so glad that I only saw Armageddon after Pain and Gain and not before. The one time I've really appreciated the willful density of film reviewers at large is when all their reviews of Pain & Gain had this lurching undercurrent of "It's like he's... he's satirizing all this Michael Bay poo poo, but... but that can't be"
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Jenny Angel posted:The one time I've really appreciated the willful density of film reviewers at large is when all their reviews of Pain & Gain had this lurching undercurrent of "It's like he's... he's satirizing all this Michael Bay poo poo, but... but that can't be" Mark Kermode for one wasn't fooled. He straight up said he thought it was as smug, vulgar, and downright reprehensible as any other film he's made. My only disagreement with him is that I think this is what makes Bay's films good. Like, it's uncanny how the exact same sense of humor is mirrored in Armageddon. A loving piece of space rock kills a big fat Samoan guy, but luckily spares the outlandishly exaggerated urban Black civilian and his dog who is in the loving crater hanging by his leash. Yeah, it's morbid, it's disconcerting, it's often patently racist, but it's also so bizarrely humanizing. Bay pushes the visceral, bloodthirsty, gladiatorial nerve latent in Western consciousness to warp spasm levels. This is partially why I'll still go to bat for Age of Extinction. But Pain & Gain is like his Wolf of Wall Street. (But, then many people didn't really care for Wolf of Wall Street either.)
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regulargonzalez posted:Exactly. How much control could a multi-millionaire whose own production company finances his movies have over his movies? It's out of his hands, is what I'm trying to say here. The Cobbler wasn't a Happy Madison film, it's as much an Adam Sandler movie as like Punch Drunk Love or Reign Over Me or Spanglish E: Apparently he helped produce Reign Over Me so less than that
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blood_dot_biz posted:I watched Blue in the Face a couple of nights ago and really enjoyed it. It's got a pretty awesome cast and if you like directors like Jarmusch or Woody Allen, then it's worth checking out. Blue in the Face came together off cutting room floor material and some random days of shooting that happened around Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's Smoke, which was also on Netflix last time I looked. It's different, but also excellent.
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Hat Thoughts posted:The Cobbler wasn't a Happy Madison film, it's as much an Adam Sandler movie as like Punch Drunk Love or Reign Over Me or Spanglish According to IMDb, Happy Madison coproduced.
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regulargonzalez posted:According to IMDb, Happy Madison coproduced. Ah, shows me for using Wikipedia, I dunno I'd just heard an interview with Thomas Mccarthy and he was very insistent that it was 100% his vision.
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Hubbardologist posted:Blue in the Face came together off cutting room floor material and some random days of shooting that happened around Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's Smoke, which was also on Netflix last time I looked. It's different, but also excellent. Oh yeah, Smoke is great and I probably should've mentioned it in the same breath. It looks like it's still streaming so people should definitely go check that out too.
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Just watched "Antarctica: A Year on Ice" and its a really fun documentary about spending a year in Antarctica and the people who live and work there. It's really good. Lots of beautiful shots and a lot of fun people commentary.
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Hat Thoughts posted:Ah, shows me for using Wikipedia, I dunno I'd just heard an interview with Thomas Mccarthy and he was very insistent that it was 100% his vision. I'm sure it would have been great if he had more control over it.
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I didn't hate The Cobbler but there's such a low bar with Sandler movies and this isn't even close to his worst (which is Zohan).
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The weird thing about Adam Sandler movies is that they have the sappiest moments mixed in with the terrible comedy.
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