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COOL CORN posted:It looks like they're moving in the direction of culling their contracts with film distributors, so that they can focus more on original content than existing film/tv. Welp, that's the end of Netflix then.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Welp, that's the end of Netflix then. I remember when people said this when Netflix first started making original content. And when they seperated their streaming and disc service. And when they increased the subscription price. But it's only doing better than ever before with no sign of stopping.
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As long as I feel like I'm using both, I see no reason not to have Hulu and Netflix. The combined cost is negligible if you have at least a full-time job, even you get paid poo poo like I do.
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mysterious frankie posted:Naw, you're thinking of Soviet Voodoo Powder. In this instance, my bideo game training informs me she would be really good at taking down Sniper Wolf. Somehow it doesn't seem too far fetched that someone would find a sniper rifle while all joosed up.
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Sleeveless posted:I remember when people said this when Netflix first started making original content. And when they seperated their streaming and disc service. And when they increased the subscription price. But it's only doing better than ever before with no sign of stopping. Yeah, because none of those changed the core business of watching movies. But if there plans are to stop renewing deals with studios, then that completely interferes with watching movies.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Welp, that's the end of Netflix then. What that article doesn't mention is that their deal with Disney kicks in in 2016, which gives them all their movies eight months after release. That covers Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, other live action stuff, etc. etc. More here. morestuff fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Yeah, because none of those changed the core business of watching movies. They signed a deal with Disney to get their new releases up only weeks after the movies come out in theaters. They're not dumping studios entirely.
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Basebf555 posted:The urge to say something here is so strong, but I worry anything I'd say could spoil one of the most perfect t.v. show endings ever. Like, even if I said I would be curious to know if you still feel that way after the finale, that would probably be saying too much. They make up, find a way to resurrect Lem, unburn the Armenian mob money, and fund their own private police force, right?
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Here's my Exploitation.tv trip report. It's rough around the edges. When you change genres on the Roku app, it takes 7-10 seconds to load all the information. It maxes at 720p and takes a couple of minutes to get up to that point. Vinegar Syndrome is only like 6 guys and one of them is manning the support email. Very nice guy but there isn't there in advanced support. I ran into a weird issue where (I guess) certain titles they released on Blu-Ray display in letterboxed 4:3, his (very quick) response was to try setting your roku to 720p instead of 1080p. I have a Roku TV so that isn't an option. It's kind of a bummer since I was hoping to watch Punk Vacation and Runaway Nightmare but whatever. I haven't tried using a web browser yet to see if I can watch them that way. I watched Vixens Of Kung Fu last night and that was one weird rear end movie. I thought it was an Italian porno that was dubbed over but it seems to have been shot in America which makes it even stranger. A self-loathing prostitute goes into the woods to get away from it all when three men accost her. The guy pulls out an anesthesia gun (literally a revolver they show the guy loading bullets into), shoots her and - after they put down a nice quilt - rape her to the most upbeat, inappropriate, banjo music. I thought it was a dubbed foreign movie because the main rapist has this wacky gangster voice and he's improv'ing over everything. Sadly, we never see that group again after they dump her on the beach. From there, some Kung Fu master finds her and brings her into the lesbian fold. Sex scenes flashbacks to other unseen sex scenes. Nude breathing exercises cause smoke to come billowing out of their vaginas. Fight scenes are supercuts of one person jumping around and doing kung fu gestures. Some unknown guys try to attack them for some reason. Which they respond to by loving them. Main bad guy finds his own Kung Fu master to train him in a Chinese restaurant kitchen. Training is doing Kung Fu gestures and jacking off by a waterfall. And the movie ends with the main character loving that guy to death causing a stream of blood to shoot out his dick So yeah, if you dig really loving weird movies, it's a pretty cool service. They have some kinks to work out but it looks promising. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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Chichevache posted:Vampyros Lesbos(1971) Jesús Franco is totally legit and his films deserve more attention than they've gotten. Call Me Charlie posted:I watched Vixens Of Kung Fu last night and that was one weird rear end movie.  A Chinese Torture Chamber Story (1994) ?
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morestuff posted:What that article doesn't mention is that their deal with Disney kicks in in 2016, which gives them all their movies eight months after release. That covers Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, other live action stuff, etc. etc. Which seals the sub of anyone with young children.
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Just in case anyone sees Oren Peli's Area 51 while browsing Netflix don't bother. It's bad in the dullest, most boring way.
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8one6 posted:Just in case anyone sees Oren Peli's Area 51 while browsing Netflix don't bother. It's bad in the dullest, most boring way. Thank you. I was on the fence on whether to put that in my queue because I'm a dumb loving idiot but now I can avoid it.
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Thank you. I was on the fence on whether to put that in my queue because I'm a dumb loving idiot but now I can avoid it. Seriously, it's so bad. I really dig his other stuff, but Area 51 was abysmal. The Paranormal Activity movies are no great shakes when it comes to story or cinematography, but Area 51 was student-film level bad.
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K. Waste posted:Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional is phenomenal, definitely going to have to re-watch it when July 4th rolls around. Am I being trolled because I can't recall Colin Quinn ever being funny, even when other people were writing his material.
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precision posted:Am I being trolled because I can't recall Colin Quinn ever being funny, even when other people were writing his material. I didn't know anything about him aside from a few appearances on O&A, but, yeah, his one-man show is funny and good.
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K. Waste posted:I didn't know anything about him aside from a few appearances on O&A, but, yeah, his one-man show is funny and good. He was awkwardly bad on SNL, and had an extremely cringeworthy Comedy Central show that stayed on the air solely because he had a ton of funny friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2DdS52pve0
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precision posted:He was awkwardly bad on SNL, and had an extremely cringeworthy Comedy Central show that stayed on the air solely because he had a ton of funny friends: The only episode of that show I've seen is the one where that guy who eventually killed himself tore that firefighter show guy a new one for stepping on his jokes. It was pretty good. I think watching schmucks having a roundtable about politics is pretty entertaining on its own. Not everything needs to be a laugh a minute. If Quinn's biggest entertainment crime is that he struggled to find a foothold before making something as good as Unconstitutional, then that's way better than, like, most people who really are just famous for no reason.
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GonSmithe posted:Crosspostin': I'll watch anything Stringer Bell is in.
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precision posted:Am I being trolled because I can't recall Colin Quinn ever being funny, even when other people were writing his material. Otherwise funny people like Nick Offerman and Dave Foley make utterly abysmal one-man shows, so it stands to reason that if a horrible unfunny rear end in a top hat like Colin Quinn makes one then it winds up being great.
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Quinn's awkward assholishness is the point. It's useless to watch Unconstitutional as strictly stand-up comedy. It's more like 1776 with a method actor playing a Glenn Beck-type, lonely ranter isolated from the demagoguery to which he clearly aspires, narrating the history of the country. It's like God Bless America, but actually good. And funny. edit: DEAR WHITE PEOPLE IN STREAMING ON NETFLIX SO WATCH DEAR WHITE PEOPLE edit 2: Also, The Sacrament is like Cannibal Holocaust meets The Wicker Man, it's awesome. K. Waste fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Sep 5, 2015 |
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Colin Quinn is hilarious if you're a white guy who really cares deeply about his roots and still barely graduated high school. Also anybody who thinks being crass and having a northeastern accent means they're "brutally honest" rather than "nasal and obnoxious".
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K. Waste posted:edit: DEAR WHITE PEOPLE IN STREAMING ON NETFLIX SO WATCH DEAR WHITE PEOPLE  on both.Sleeveless posted:Otherwise funny people like Nick Offerman and Dave Foley make utterly abysmal one-man shows, so it stands to reason that if a horrible unfunny rear end in a top hat like Colin Quinn makes one then it winds up being great. Dave Foley's is terrible but I found Offerman's to be kind of okay. I may just be cutting him slack for Parks and Rec but the only part I remember really hating is the whole "facebook is stupid! get off your computer and carve wood!" spiel. I don't even disagree with that, but the way he said it was really "okay grandpa".
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No Nick Offerman was mostly groan-worthy with a few "hi5 to all the middle class white folks who do drugs and have mildly-kinky sex!" quips thrown in. It's worth 20 minutes, but dragged out to 3 or 4 times that length.
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Dear White People was kind of boring, and didn't really have anything new or interesting to say. Dwayne Wayne had deeper insights on A Different World than in that movie.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Has anyone watched through 'Hand of God' on prime? The first episode a few months back wasn't bad, does the rest of the show hold up? I'm about to. I really enjoyed the pilot and want to see where the story goes. Critical reviews have been pretty poor actually but user reviews have been much higher, so it's likely a love it or hate it type endeavor.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Dear White People was kind of boring, and didn't really have anything new or interesting to say. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:A Different World was a great show from a strange time. Nah, Dear White People is really good. It's interesting that Hedgehog brings up a Cosby show, because the extent to which media functions as an imperfect extension of racial and cultural politics is all over Simian's movie. Despite being contemporaneous with a revival of working- and middle-class Black American sitcoms, the only time that this 'outside world' is addressed is in a cynical, one-off line about Tyler Perry. The potentially 'too obvious' point is that all of these characters - regardless of race or social status or ideology - probably hate Tyler Perry movies/shows, or, the ones who do like them clam up so as not to 'out' themselves. Meanwhile, the predominate form of media in which these characters engage - mutually fermenting the ideological solidarity of their respective communities - is either some of 'satire' or 'talking head' commentary. Projecting their personae outward to the private world of their private college, each sees themselves as respectively 'keeping it real' while mounting increasingly reductive and problematic fabrications that, nonetheless, within each is contained some essence of truth. Ultimately, in the film's conclusion, the most grandiose fabrications become emblematic of, rather than discursive or subversive of, 'reality.'
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precision posted:My recommendation of Dear White People is based primarily in the fact that it's just really entertaining. This, too. Like Scream, buried beneath its well-timed satire is the fact that Dear White People is also just a really good college drama/comedy.
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morestuff posted:I've always read that First Blood is a lot more grounded than the sequels but Rambo is popping a wheelie on a dirt bike within the first 20 minutes Dirt bikes do that in the real world though.
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morestuff posted:I've always read that First Blood is a lot more grounded than the sequels but Rambo is popping a wheelie on a dirt bike within the first 20 minutes Anyway, I can't argue with or explain arguments I haven't read, but the first of the Rambo films is `about' traumatised Vietnam war veterans trying to re-assimilate into American society and American society freaking out over it. Subsequent Rambo films are about explosions as a lighting effect. So there's that. I also think that there's an honesty about the first one that's absent in a lot of the films made in the post-Platoon (1986) Serious Vietnam War Movie boom. Like (as a counterexample) I think The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989) is a totally honest film the way, I dunno, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) is a totally honest film---engaged with the material while being up front with the problems inherent in it. Which strikes me as making a better film than the sort of After School Special seriousness with which the typical Big Message film approaches its material. Anyway, I think First Blood (1982) is a sort of transitional fossil between films that were `about' Vietnam but did so obliquely and in terms of the tools of genre filmmaking---films like Russ Meyer's Motorpsycho! (1965) (the earliest film I can think of featuring the burned-out Vietnam vet as a character), Bob Clark's Dead of Night/Deathdream (1974), and Kelly's Heroes (1970)---and the post-Platoon Vietnam Message Films.
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SubG posted:That's a very peculiar tactical realism argument right there. I wasn't being earnest, the movie's obviously a lot more tonally similar to the 70s thrillers it descended from than the 80s action of most of the series. On the other hand, it does make some of the elements (Dennehy's Bullitt stunts, the rat attack in the cave, the explosion-heavy climax) feel out of place. It's a transitional piece in more ways than one.
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