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Erebus posted:Is there room in this theory to explain why Mary Lynn Rajskub looks better now than she did 20 years ago She's deaf, so her beauty compensated for the lack of hearing.
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hemale in pain posted:Harbinger Down is really bad The worst part is that it's supposed to be a special effects showcase but most effects look really, really drat bad. The entire movie has sub-90s-tv-show lighting that makes everything look obscenely cheap. The creature designs are fairly uninspired. There was one that maybe was supposed to be a showcase, but it gets killed off in like 15 seconds so who cares. Some shots you can't even tell what the hell is going on; you're just left with a vague impression of tentacles and flashing blue lights.
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G-III posted:The Visitor is one of my favorite movies ever since I got to see the Drafthouse re-release. It's as if the film makers got together and said "Look, it's 1979 and the 70s are almost over. We've got all this italian mafia money to launder so let's make the most 70s movie we can possibly make and give this whole decade the proper send-off it deserves." What came out of that exercise was Franco Nero space jesus, John Huston walking down stairs to pimp music, teenage kids getting thrown out of an ice skating rink and through some windows for no reason, and Sam Peckinpah as a creepy abortionist. The Visitor & The Apple are two of my favorite sendoffs to the inane new religion\cult Christianity nonsense of 70s pop occultism. The Visitor (and the more contemporary Southland Tales) did what I consider the best possible job of aping the sweaty manic style and obsessions of Philip K. Dick, whether they meant to or not. A lot of actual adaptations try to accentuate the neat scifi ideas over the small human stories which occur in these maelstroms of chaos and doubt, or clean up his sometimes cloddish language and silly characters and story beats he uses to communicate his ideas, which is why the majority of them, like Lovecraft adaptations, are just... there. The Visitor feels very much like it was strained through the mind of a regular person of that era (who maybe needs to lay off the 7&7s and pills) attempting to cope with the sudden inbreaking of unreality. Odoyle posted:The Visitor's (Jerzey's) theme music stands out so much, is so wildly inappropriate, and yet it seems to be the best thing about the film. Or maybe the Sam Peckinpah cameo. Is that the theme that sort of sounds like it would be in a Shaw Brothers movie? The big, booming triumphant thing that plays- among other times- while Jersey Colsowicz, the elderly cosmic bounty hunter, walks around bald psychic children on the rooftop of a building in downtown Atlanta, laughing his rear end off for seemingly no reason? God, that was a good movie. I need to see it again, possibly own a copy.
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As far as Franco Micalizzi's music in the Visitor goes, the "Sadness" theme is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPu6wye_N5o
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Ex Machina went up on Amazon Prime. Tempted to double feature it with Under the Skin tonight.
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Watched Bound By Vengeance last night and was really bothered by the the plot. Everything that happened in the premise seemed really implausible Why isn't she going to the police?, and from there it was almost impossible to connect with the rest of the film. Throw in these messy flashback scenes that I guess are supposed to help build a sense of mystery but sort of go nowhere and it all adds up to a confusing, irritating mess. The final scene was actually sort of decent, but it was too little too late. Also, re: The Visitor, I remember the first time this came up I thought I must have somehow missed all the sci-fi subtext in the Richard Jenkins film. e: God, I love Richard Jenkins.
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fishtobaskets posted:Watched Bound By Vengeance last night and was really bothered by the the plot. Everything that happened in the premise seemed really implausible Why isn't she going to the police?, and from there it was almost impossible to connect with the rest of the film. Throw in these messy flashback scenes that I guess are supposed to help build a sense of mystery but sort of go nowhere and it all adds up to a confusing, irritating mess. The final scene was actually sort of decent, but it was too little too late. Yeah after the second girl she tries to rescue tries to kill her I turned it off. It had no idea whether it wanted to be camp or serious revenge thriller.
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I gave up on Harbinger Down about halfway through, and watched Stung instead. Wasn't great either, but was wayyyyyyyyyyyy better than Harbinger Down. It starred Lance Henriksen as well.
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mysterious frankie posted:The Visitor & The Apple are two of my favorite sendoffs to the inane new religion\cult Christianity nonsense of 70s pop occultism. Over the years I really have come to love The Apple. I think the songs are catchy!
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Nov 16, 2015 18:24
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Over the years I really have come to love The Apple. I think the songs are catchy! The version I watched had really bad sound. I couldn't hear what anyone was saying in any given song, which seems inimical to the purpose of the whole... being a musical thing. Still a buttload of fun regardless and I recommend it a lot. First time I watched it it was with Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains and Purple Rain and its daft charm really helped it hold its own. I actually think you clued me to The Apple in this thread and I never thanked you, so thanks!
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The only one I haven't come around on is Xanadu, which just loving sucks. But that whole era is really fascinating: Hair, Little Shop of Horrors, JC Superstar, Can't Stop The Music, Rocky Horror...
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I watched Soaked In Bleach (netflix) last night and I still don't know if Kurt Cobain was murdered but I do know that the Courtney Love actress does things to me that would be impolite to speak about
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Nov 16, 2015 19:13
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I own two copies of the soundtrack to The Apple on vinyl and I wish to be buried with them after I kill myself. The fact that it's off Netflix is pure tragedy.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Hulu has a lot of great content netflix doesn't have. Aside from current episodes of running tv shows, it has a lot more in the classic TV showcase. For example, I discovered Newhart on Hulu, and it's not there on Netflix at all. Yeah Amazon Prime to me is by far the worst. I'm seriously thinking of dropping it, especially since they made it such a pain to play HD streaming through a PC due to some anti-piracy crap. Also, since they actually sell movies and digital rentals, the search and lookup interface is really junk and half the time doesn't seem to show you the movies you actually get with your subscription.
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alansmithee posted:Yeah Amazon Prime to me is by far the worst. I'm seriously thinking of dropping it, especially since they made it such a pain to play HD streaming through a PC due to some anti-piracy crap. Also, since they actually sell movies and digital rentals, the search and lookup interface is really junk and half the time doesn't seem to show you the movies you actually get with your subscription. I already have prime through shipping but I have this problem as well where just simply hooking a pc up to your t.v. via hdmi despite being dhcp compliant still won't give you access to HD content. gently caress that. Fix your broken poo poo, Bezos.
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I say this with a heavy heart, whatever Netflix paid for Bob and David was too much. Such a great cast.
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Junkie Disease posted:I say this with a heavy heart, whatever Netflix paid for Bob and David was too much. I'm halfway through the new season and I'm loving it. It does a great job of recapturing the tone of the original. Why don't you like it?
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Sarchasm posted:I'm halfway through the new season and I'm loving it. It does a great job of recapturing the tone of the original. Why don't you like it? Its not the dynamite I expected from that cast. Episode 3 was strongest for me but felt more like more Birthday Boys. I don't hate it I'm just disappointed in it.
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Bob really seemed to be sleepwalking through some of the sketches as well, which was a bummer because he was far and away the strongest member of the cast on Mr. Show.
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Nov 17, 2015 03:32
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Hey now, the strongest Mr Show cast member always was and still is Tom Kenny 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Bob really seemed to be sleepwalking through some of the sketches as well, which was a bummer because he was far and away the strongest member of the cast on Mr. Show. Bob was against doing the Camp Monk Academy sketch, he's disqualified from being the strongest member of the cast.
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What high expectations you have! I've only watched the first two episodes and they were great. They were telling jokes and I was laughing, it was very funny. I didn't notice anyone not trying their best.
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alansmithee posted:Yeah Amazon Prime to me is by far the worst. I'm seriously thinking of dropping it, especially since they made it such a pain to play HD streaming through a PC due to some anti-piracy crap. Also, since they actually sell movies and digital rentals, the search and lookup interface is really junk and half the time doesn't seem to show you the movies you actually get with your subscription. Seriously, buy a Fire TV Stick (or I guess a Roku Stick if you hate yourself) for $25 during Black Friday. gently caress trying to watch stuff through a PC.
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Borrowed Ladder posted:What high expectations you have! No offense to you, but criticism of comedy related things always seems to be countered by people who use this weird tone like they're in the biz or something. Since when did we start giving a poo poo if they were trying their best? Does everybody expect to make it big with their own screenplay and have to own up to their comments one day?
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Tbh I watched the first episode and thought it was pretty rough. I want to like it because I really like Odenkirk and I loved Mr. Show back when I was in high school, but the comedy felt pretty awkward and dated. I'll probably give it another shot though.Past Tense Ragu posted:No offense to you, but criticism of comedy related things always seems to be countered by people who use this weird tone like they're in the biz or something. Since when did we start giving a poo poo if they were trying their best? Does everybody expect to make it big with their own screenplay and have to own up to their comments one day? I think that was in response to someone saying earlier that it seemed like Bob Odenkirk was sleeping through it. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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Isn't that part of Odenkirk's persona, though? In contrast to Cross who's always very confrontational. I thought there were about 2 really, really good sketches in every w/ Bob and David episode, which is about what there were in Mr. Show.
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I thought there were about 2-3 really good sketches total  It's kind of odd that Cross has the persona of the more confrontational one because apparently in the production of the original series but was FAR more likely to be the guy yelling at you behind the scenes.
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Call Me Charlie posted:Seriously, buy a Fire TV Stick (or I guess a Roku Stick if you hate yourself) for $25 during Black Friday. gently caress trying to watch stuff through a PC. After using Chromecast 1 & 2, and a fire stick its a close call for all. Thanks to the buttholes that decided chromecast cant do prime anymore that makes the decision easier for prime people. But after Chromecast 2 came out I would give the edge to that. Its faster but the interface is a bit easier to use. But the remote for the stick is nice in the dark. Also Google seems to actively improve the chromecast while firesticks mira casting is utter bullshit after 1 year.
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This is an edited posted because it was posted by accident.
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Nov 19, 2015 03:47
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Anyone watch any Jessica Jones yet?
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GonSmithe posted:Anyone watch any Jessica Jones yet? i'm home sick today so i'm about to slug back some dayquil and binge, will report back
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I'm planning on checking it out at some point this weekend.
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I'm watching the first episode of Jessica Jones right now, and I don't know if it's just first episode hiccups or something but man it feels like it's trying way too hard. It's like a 13 year old wrote a script about what they think noir is. "She walks into a room with drink in hand she smashes the bottle and makes a really cool quip about how she hates her life. She is tortured but may also be good. She drinks 4 more bottles of an awesome alcoholic drink and she just doesn't get drunk!!!"
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Sounds like True Detective Season 2.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Sounds like True Detective Season 2. it's not even close to that bad, but the voiceover narration is a little much and personally i don't like how it seems like they're sidelining the private eye stuff in favor of going straight into the Purple Man story arc,
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:it's not even close to that bad, but the voiceover narration is a little much and personally i don't like how it seems like they're sidelining the private eye stuff in favor of going straight into the Purple Man story arc, At least True Detective season 2 has that hilarious line of Colin feral not liking to smoke e cigs because it makes him think he is sucking robot dicks. Jessica Jones is seriously every script my friends wrote in high school after watching the Maltese Falcon.
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The_Rob posted:At least True Detective season 2 has that hilarious line of Colin feral not liking to smoke e cigs because it makes him think he is sucking robot dicks if that works for you i guess
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:if that works for you i guess I didn't say it was a good line
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The_Rob posted:I didn't say it was a good line yeah i mean i poo poo on True Detective season 2 a lot but i did find it pretty wholly entertaining in its own way
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