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Basebf555 posted:Not really, Dracula's the only film I've seen of his in that time. Dracula's gotta be the worst though right? The Card Player is unmitigated bullshit.
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aw, the Card Player is the one latter-day Argento i kinda like. it's basically him doing a Law & Order episode. i mean, it's lovely, but it's watchable i guess. i think i made it about a half hour into Mother of Tears.
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Aug 25, 2015 20:54
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I kinda like Giallo.
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The only good stuff Argento has done since...I guess The Stendhal Syndrome...are his two Masters of Horror episodes and even those people aren't thrilled about (Pelts is loving awesome though).
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Aug 25, 2015 22:33
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It cannot be stressed how lovely Mother of Tears is. Count me in on enjoying both his Master of Horror entries.
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I completely forgot about Masters of Horror. While it was a huge hit or miss show, I loved it. Argento's movies were great. So was "Cigarette Burns" and "The Black Cat".
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I kinda like Giallo. in theory i'm completely in love with the idea of a giallo movie starring Adrian Brody but you're the first person i've seen express even the most muted positivity about that movie. re: Masters of Horror, Sick Girl, Black Cat, and Deer Woman were the only ones i cared for. but Sick Girl is dooooooope as fuuuuuuuck
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It's been a while since I watched Undisputed again, and I'm curious - when did Wesley Snipes' yellow fever take over every role he takes on screen? I mean even in Blade he's using a katana..
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Thanks for the recommendations guy, there are a few I haven't seen. I'll have to check them out.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:now i wish Tombs of the Blind Dead was streaming somewhere because it's actually one of the best horror movies ever made But man I don't know how prudish you'd have to be to consider it softcore porn. I mean do not look further into Spanish horror films of the '70s if you think Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971) had sex shoehorned into it. Archetypal Spanish lesbian vampire films like Vicente Aranda's The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) or Spanish giallo films (with lesbians) like Jesús Franco's She Killed in Ecstasy (1971) will...well, they'll do whatever films with a bunch of sex shoehorned into them do to people who think Tombs of the Blind Dead has a bunch of sex shoehorned into it. Which I have to assume is not good. Anyway, all that aside, I was recommending Bava films that are actually available for streaming. And beyond whether or not you end up thinking the films are any good (I do, but I can see where they might not be everyone's cup of tea) but they absolutely are worth knowing just because of the huge reach of Bava and his films on later films and filmmakers. You see echos of Bava in Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982) and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Twin Peaks. To say nothing of his influence on Italian giallo and a huge swath of all horror film from the '80s onward. Bava's essential not just because he's good---although he is---but because he's part not just the canon of horror film, but of contemporary film in general.
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I dunno, a pair of Daisy-Duke-looking women get lost and then are exorbitantly and extraordinally-slowly unsuccessful at escaping from a bunch of blind zombies who move slower than my 95 year-old grandma, it seemed like it was literally just a movie about ogling some chicks with nice racks in plaid halter tops, because the undead were in no way threatening or interesting at all. I lived with a guy for a year or two who was really into all that stuff and I've seen a huge portion if not most of the genre (he owned everything on DVD) and out of all the weird niche horror stuff I've seen, Blind Dead was one of the best examples of the worst that I hate about the genre. I've seen some stylish and interesting camera and light work in boring lesbian vampire softcore horror movies however, blind dead was just boring and slow and over-acted, with bad setpieces and no budget. It felt like a Troma film that believed it was artsy, like Troll 2. edit: the planet of the apes marketing history is cool and funny and I was already aware of it in excruciatingly-explained detail from my old roommate but I do not see how it makes the film any more watchable. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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coyo7e posted:I dunno, a pair of Daisy-Duke-looking women get lost and then are exorbitantly and extraordinally-slowly unsuccessful at escaping from a bunch of blind zombies who move slower than my 95 year-old grandma, it seemed like it was literally just a movie about ogling some chicks with nice racks in plaid halter tops, because the undead were in no way threatening or interesting at all.   If you say so. I mean if you don't like the film you don't like the film. That's cool, whatever. But if you think it's put together like a softcore porn you really owe it to yourself to watch better softcore porn. Like the film opens up with some torture (by which the knights gain their immortality) and there's a sexual assault later in the film. Which is what I thought you were talking about. But if a couple of women dressed not particularly provocatively constitutes softcore porn...man, I don't even know.
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You're certainly allowed to not like Bava films but I'm going to be completely dismissive of your opinion if you do. Bava owns
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Aug 26, 2015 02:42
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Oops, it was fleur de lis print, not plaid. So sorry!
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Aug 26, 2015 03:03
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So basically it's anime.
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coyo7e posted:Oops, it was fleur de lis print, not plaid. So sorry! Weird opinions
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Noticed last night while getting over a sickness that the selection of Good Eats episodes changed. I can't tell if they've switched over to another collection officially but it looked like the same show listing until I really checked out the episode titles. Now I'm hungry for so many things...
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Aug 26, 2015 17:29
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I just want more Cutthroat Kitchen 
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precision posted:I just want more Cutthroat Kitchen I wish they'd put up the Chopped: Grilled edition or w/e. It's basically Chopped but you get really unique stuff too.
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Aug 26, 2015 18:54
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Thwomp posted:Noticed last night while getting over a sickness that the selection of Good Eats episodes changed. I can't tell if they've switched over to another collection officially but it looked like the same show listing until I really checked out the episode titles. Yeah, same show listing, but a different 25 episodes. If this is how all the "collection" offerings are handled, that's pretty neat. I was worried we'd only ever get the first episode list and that was it. Good Eats is a Sunday morning staple with my wife, ha. We cook a big breakfast then watch food science/comedy for half an hour. Helps stave off the inevitable cravings after watching it. Unless it's one of the cocktail episodes, at which point we end up drinking at 10AM.
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The only thing that keeps me from getting up and immediately making and consuming everything I see on Good Eats is that, most of the time, it takes some extra step that's a step too far for me. Like with the Wing show on Netflix now. I watched it last night. His wings look amazing but gently caress it, I'm not building a makeshift wing steamer contraption just so I can have wings. I've heard similar things about his scratch pizza recipe. It's delicious pizza but it takes like 2 days to make. Edit: That said, his waffle, apple sauce, and stove-top mac and cheese recipes are staples in our house. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 19:24
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I've become addicted to watching all of Anthony Bourdain's shows since they all are on Netflix. As someone who hasn't travelled nearly as much as he should have at this point in his life, I'm both enthralled and jealous. No, seriously, I'm jealous. His career for the last 13 or so years has been going all over the world, stuffing his face with amazing food, and bragging about it on camera. gently caress that dude.
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kuddles posted:I've become addicted to watching all of Anthony Bourdain's shows since they all are on Netflix. As someone who hasn't travelled nearly as much as he should have at this point in his life, I'm both enthralled and jealous. Not to worry, in his latest show he ascended so far up his own rear end in a top hat it's doubtful we'll ever see him doing normal things again.
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iv46vi posted:Not to worry, in his latest show he ascended so far up his own rear end in a top hat it's doubtful we'll ever see him doing normal things again. Yeah, Bourdain bought way too much into his own hype as the "bad boy" of Food Network. And Alton Brown got skinny and born-again Christian. At least Gordon Ramsay is still pretty cool when he's not playing up his American TV persona.
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Aug 27, 2015 02:23
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Just watched The Guest on Netflix. Pretty good. Need another thriller that came out in the past few years
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iv46vi posted:Not to worry, in his latest show he ascended so far up his own rear end in a top hat it's doubtful we'll ever see him doing normal things again. Aw man, I like The Layover, assuming that's what you're talking about. I love how he just doesn't give a gently caress anymore and seems to be just having a good time instead of making Serious Statements about world cultures. It's really entertaining watching him go to a strip club with Alton Brown or getting wasted in Toronto and grabbing poutine with the members of hosed Up. I mean, he does that kind of stuff in NoRes and PU, but I like that he made an entire show out of those moments. When it first began, I remember a critic billing The Colbert Report as "the beer chaser to the whiskey shot that is The Daily Show," which I think really accurately describes The Layover's relation to Bourdain's more serious shows.
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No, he means parts unknown, Anthony's cnn show where he makes serious journalism and poo poo
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I liked the first season but I find him pretty pretentious now, to be honest.
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He's always been a little rich rear end enfant terrible, the bad boy of trust funds and all that.
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Star trek renegades is on YouTube. This is a warning rather than a recommendation.
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I watch Bourdain because I like seeing him talk to locals and go to places other travel shows probably wouldn't (the DRC! Lebanon during the Israeli invasion! Gaza strip!) He's mellowed quite a bit in his age and is willing to enjoy almost any food if it's served at the right time. I think the episode where he tries to induce heart attack by eating with the two French Canadian chefs was quite amusing, or how he goes to Tokyo and hangs with a world-class sushi chef and goes to weird shows. Between Parts Unknown and David Cheng's mind of a chef I think they're nice brain-off watches, and way less annoying than, say, VICE's MUNCHIES hipster crap.
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SubG posted:If you say so. I mean if you don't like the film you don't like the film. That's cool, whatever. But if you think it's put together like a softcore porn you really owe it to yourself to watch better softcore porn. Like the film opens up with some torture (by which the knights gain their immortality) and there's a sexual assault later in the film. Which is what I thought you were talking about. But if a couple of women dressed not particularly provocatively constitutes softcore porn...man, I don't even know.
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coyo7e posted:ahh yes i see. because societal trends and opinions about what is decent versus what is indecent have not changed at all in the last 40 or 50 years you uh don't have much of a clue do you
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:you uh don't have much of a clue do you edit: IMDB reviews include "wasn't there a scene where a zombie grabbed a woman's err umm uhh-boob?" and "every woman in this movie was beautiful... except" no sexualization going on at all in this otherwise boring-as-gently caress film yup coyo7e fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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I watched Hardware last night. It was I think the third time I've seen it. I didn't really care for it the first time I watched it, but it's really grown on me for some reason. I guess just because it's so different. The only I things I can think of that are even close are Death Machine or possibly Virus. It's got some nice gore, a neat setting, a drunk cameo from Lemmy, and I liked that the big tough hero guy is actually kind of an incompetent schmuck. I also watched Lost Souls as well, and wow. I knew Dr. Moreau had a troubled production but that was sheer insanity. I love that you can pick the exact moment things go off the rails when Richard Stanley says "Marlin Brando". On a base level though it seems similar to what happened with the new Fantastic Four movie. The studio hired an upcoming high concept young director to make a popcorn flick and then lost their poo poo when the director started to do his thing. Like what the heck did you expect? Why hire them in the first place? They're weren't exactly shy about saying exactly what it is they want do with the movie.
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There is simply nothing quite like Hardware.
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The first time I watched Hardware and the loving opera kicked in as a character died while experiencing the equivalent of an acid trip was certainly amazing and confounding.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:There is simply nothing quite like Hardware. Tetsuo: The Iron Man 
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precision posted:Tetsuo: The Iron Man Tetsuo rules but it and Hardware aren't anything alike really. Tetsuo made me incredibly uncomfortable and I appreciate that.
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