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POD just came up on netflix. It's got maybe 7 characters if I stretch my guesstimate? Low budget horror/thriller which vacilates whildly between "that was embarassingly shoddy" and "actually that was kind of a well-done scene and/or novel take on the trope." I have no idea why at the end, Smith was wearing loving clown shoes as he walked down the slope.. Those looked like size 15+ shoes good god. The final closing scene was entirely unnecessary and dragged the almost-saved ending back down into solid 2- land. Allyn posted:Think you're conflating Kaya Scodelario and Willa Holland, for what it's worth morestuff posted:White God is hilarious, strongly recommended if you want to see a version of Spartacus where Kirk Douglas is replaced by a dog. It's up on Netflix.
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coyo7e posted:POD just came up on netflix. It's got maybe 7 characters if I stretch my guesstimate? Low budget horror/thriller which vacilates whildly between "that was embarassingly shoddy" and "actually that was kind of a well-done scene and/or novel take on the trope." I have no idea why at the end, Smith was wearing loving clown shoes as he walked down the slope.. Those looked like size 15+ shoes good god. The final closing scene was entirely unnecessary and dragged the almost-saved ending back down into solid 2- land. I watched it the other day and the ending was so forgettable that I actually don't remember what happened. It had some allright ideas, but I thought it was pretty bad in general. Entertaining enough for one watch though.
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Dec 11, 2015 03:51
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coyo7e posted:Hasn't it been up for at least 2-4 months? I remember seeing it up on there before my last roommate moved out. I am still not sure what it's about, I tried starting to watch it but I wasn't sure if it was some kind of "The Happening" thing where the little girl was about to get eaten or if it was a buddy movie about a girl who befriends ALL the animals (and then kills everybody else?) I turned it off, can't even say why, at this point. Yeah, it's been up a while. I read some negative reviews (someone here really hates it, I can't remember who) but figured I'd give it a shot.
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Dec 11, 2015 03:53
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Slandible posted:Broadchurch season 2 stuff I was also confused by most of the season. The trial was pretty unexpected and completely outrageous. I'm sure trials are a bit different than they are in the US, but just completely throwing out the confession and the defense building a case only on speculation the entire time is idiotic. The old case Hardy was on was uninteresting too, I never felt like I really cared about it. Uhhg, why didn't they just convict Joe and have a new case for season two? Or at least make his prior case better, not some half bit side story. I chalked a lot of what I didn't like about Broadchurch to not understanding the British legal system. However, the defense's argument against the cell phone & laptop would have been shredded by even a law school dropout. The argument was even though there's a burner cell phone purchased by Joe, only called by Joe's cell, and emails to the kid's email sent and signed by Joe, somehow there's reasonable doubt since they can't prove that Joe had the phone/laptop in hand when the calls/texts/emails are sent. As if he's being framed by the WORLD'S GREATEST PICKPOCKET/CAT BURGLAR.
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Dec 11, 2015 04:15
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Thanks to whoever recommended Electric Boogaloo earlier. It was great, and it blows my mind how many of their films I watched growing up. It also reminded me that Invaders from Mars is a movie that exists. Some of the scenes in that were pretty freaky to a 10 year old (teacher swallowing the frog). Also, Catherine Mary Stewart still looks amazing.
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Dec 11, 2015 05:04
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Netflix recently added a really good documentary called The Thread, which is about an Internet manhunt for the Boston bombers. It's a fascinating look not only at vigilante justice in the Internet era, but also how this affected real news sources like CNN and "real" news sources like Buzzfeed, and why the immediacy of Internet news is not the best thing in the world. It's only an hour long, so definitely check it out.
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Dec 11, 2015 13:37
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Patrick Wilson talk? The guy is one of my favorite actors, and I am not sure why. I know he is no Christian Bale or Daniel Day Lewis, but for some reason he just plays a pefect average guy. Also when talking about good movies with him in it, you forgot to mention the amazing Little Children. Lurdiak posted:I think a lot of people have a bad impression of her from the Spider-man films but it's clear to me now that that was mainly a directing/script issue. I thought she was ok in the Spiderman movies, and I always took her as a good actor (she was an amazing child actor in Interview With a Vampire and even ER). I think it was more her lack of good movie choices since the Spider-man movies. Also I know that Lady Gaga's Golden Globe nod was all the talk, but it would be crime if Kirsten Dunst doesn't win that category. She has been amazing this season. So yes go watch Fargo. Both seasons are amazing.
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Dec 11, 2015 14:01
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i find Little Children interminable.
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morestuff posted:Yeah, it's been up a while. I read some negative reviews (someone here really hates it, I can't remember who) but figured I'd give it a shot. I wanna say Axleblaze
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Patrick Wilson strikes me as a guy who is perfect at being one very specific kind of character. Like, he can really vanish into a role as long as it requires that he put on 20 pounds and wear those big 80s child-molester glasses.
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Dr Monkeysee posted:I just started this but am ambivalent as I thought the first season was ludicrously melodramatic at times. The performances are strong but the story is sort of silly and overwrought. In addition to Southcliffe which has already been recommended, Happy Valley and The Fall are both really good British crime dramas, give them a try before you abandon the genre
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Dec 11, 2015 17:36
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NESguerilla posted:I watched it the other day and the ending was so forgettable that I actually don't remember what happened.
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Dec 11, 2015 17:52
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Hat Thoughts posted:I wanna say Axleblaze I wouldn't say I really hated is but I certainly didn't think it was good. It is the silliest movie I've ever seen and tonally it's all over the loving place.
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Dec 11, 2015 18:15
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axleblaze posted:I wouldn't say I really hated is but I certainly didn't think it was good. It is the silliest movie I've ever seen and tonally it's all over the loving place. Yeah, the silliness is really what I responded to. It kind of reminds me of some 50s sci-fi, where the straight-faced camp and melodrama pair well with some really interesting technical work (and a few muddled but obvious big messages)
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Dec 11, 2015 18:18
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Filthy Hans posted:In addition to Southcliffe which has already been recommended, Happy Valley and The Fall are both really good British crime dramas, give them a try before you abandon the genre The Fall has been on my list for a while. I'll check these out but I'm dumping Broadchurch. Blech.
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Dec 11, 2015 20:35
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I recommend Henning Mankell's Wallander on Netflix for your crime drama fix. I've never seen Branagh's Wallander, but I've seen good reviews for it. Netflix is missing the first season of Henning Mankell's Wallander. It didn't affect my enjoyment of the rest of the show. CV 64 Fan fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Dec 12, 2015 03:05
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The Fall and and Happy Valley are better than the good parts of Broadchurch. Happy Valley I remember going from happy police show to super grim dark quite quickly. I also started a few episodes of River and think it has potential to be good. Has a Skarsgard in it.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:11
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Both Broadchurch and Black Mirror have been described as dark but I felt they crossed over into misanthropy. Black Mirror in particular was well done technically but unpleasant to watch. British television needs to talk some stuff out 
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Dec 12, 2015 08:26
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The Fall was really, really good. I've been watching Longmire which is pretty entertaining, though I don't usually like "murder of the week" cop shows.
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Dec 12, 2015 17:14
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:The Fall was really, really good. the early stuff is just kinda novel since you don't really see procedurals like that, but it gets way better later on, probably one of the best shows around at the moment
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Dec 12, 2015 20:53
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:
The murder of the week type stuff becomes less and less prominent as the show goes on. It was barely noticeable in the third season and the fourth season Netflix did only had like three cases and a lot of it was heavily interrelated. That show gets fantastic when it finds its footing.
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Can't remember if anyone mentioned it but Tangerine on Netflix US was really excellent. It's a dramedy about two trans sex workers in LA on Christmas Eve, one of whom is tracking down her boyfriend/pimp who is cheating on her, and the other who is trying to get people to come see her sing at a local bar. It has some very funny moments, and some very dark moments. Sometimes, both at the same time. Really liked that two transwomen play the two lead roles, as opposed to recent critically acclaimed dramedies involving transsexuality. Overall, it felt like a film that was doing a superb job of portraying people in a number of different roles that are normally relegated to the realm of "comic relief," token minority, or cardboard cut-out plot point.
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Dr Monkeysee posted:Both Broadchurch and Black Mirror have been described as dark but I felt they crossed over into misanthropy. Black Mirror in particular was well done technically but unpleasant to watch. British television needs to talk some stuff out I'd agree with that. S02 especially just seemed to return to pile more stuff on the characters in Broadchurch which made the ending seem kinda hollow to me, like it purposely swung too much the other way to try to dodge being unreasonably misanthropic . I also think the show lost a bit of momentum in S02 from focusing on all the court stuff. That said I think it's a fair bit better than The Fall, which seemed like a parody of a dark crime drama that didn't realize it was a parody. I didn't think Happy Valley was well received around here, although I thought it was fine. The change in tone does seem a bit quick, as was mentioned by someone before.
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alansmithee posted:That said I think it's a fair bit better than The Fall, which seemed like a parody of a dark crime drama that didn't realize it was a parody. That doesn't bode well 'cuz that's how I would describe Luther.
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I liked Luther's first season but holy poo poo does it become dopey after.
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James Woods Fan posted:I liked Luther's first season but holy poo poo does it become dopey after. The D&D murder twins was the highlight of the whole thing.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:42
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This is unrelated to anything currently being discussed, but if anime is your thing, like, at all you should check out Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works on Netflix The plot is pretty dumb (it does take some neat turns and the setting is ridiculously cool, but it's so laden down with Dumb Anime Bullshit that it ends up canceling out) but the plot is basically an excuse for people to beat/shoot/sword the poo poo out of each other, and the show delivers on that in spades
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LORD OF BUTT posted:This is unrelated to anything currently being discussed, but if anime is your thing, like, at all you should check out Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works on Netflix I just finished Fate/Zero and it's basically the same, except I think it's a prequel to that one. Iskander. 
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computer parts posted:Iskander. Iskander is legit one of the greatest characters to come out of anime. For those who haven't seen it, Iskander is Alexander the Great brought into modern times, and he is portrayed as the most awesome bro in history.
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I just came here to say that everyone should watch Blacula. Did anyone already mention this? Well it doesn't matter because you can't be told to watch Blacula too many times. If you are reading this and not watching Blacula you're doing it wrong. Blacula is on Hulu.
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Dr Monkeysee posted:That doesn't bode well 'cuz that's how I would describe Luther. Luther ABSOLUTELY knows it is actively ridiculous, and revels in it.
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Filthy Hans posted:In addition to Southcliffe which has already been recommended, Happy Valley and The Fall are both really good British crime dramas, give them a try before you abandon the genre Top Of The Lake is the best version of all of these, it's amazing.
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I noticed that Stir of Echoes 2 was up on netflix so I started it and it was creepy enough that I stopped and went back and rewatched Stir of Echoes. I was expecting the sequel to be really low budget and lovely from the opening credits (and the fact that there was a sequel to such a one-off movie) but it seemed pretty good, and the original still creeps me the gently caress out, which is hard to do.
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coyo7e posted:I noticed that Stir of Echoes 2 was up on netflix so I started it and it was creepy enough that I stopped and went back and rewatched Stir of Echoes. Stir of Echoes is probably my single favorite ghost story. They manage to make seeing ghosts actually scary.
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a foolish pianist posted:Stir of Echoes is probably my single favorite ghost story. They manage to make seeing ghosts actually scary.  Also the "dehydration" theme is really effective for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on. Every time Kevin Bacon (and Rob Lowe) gulp down something after a vision/etc, it hits really hard. Also, the loving jackhammer at the hardware store coyo7e fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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Did you finish 2? I just skimmed past it because I assumed it would be terrible but I could go for a decent horror flick today.
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NESguerilla posted:Did you finish 2? I just skimmed past it because I assumed it would be terrible but I could go for a decent horror flick today. What a good movie. edit: fwiw: the first 20 minutes (which I've watched twice now) of the sequel are pretty low budget and extremely well done. I have high hopes for the rest of the movie. The filters they use in the opening scene really bleed out everything except for reds and flesh tones and it's super effective, and despite the bit when the van opens up being hard to look at, I'd recommend you take note of the wounds and clothing on the bodies. And the homecoming scene feels like a bit of an homage to the climax of the previous movie. 
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computer parts posted:I just finished Fate/Zero and it's basically the same, except I think it's a prequel to that one. Oh poo poo, Fate/zero is on Netflix too? I watched that when it was new but I didn't realize they put it up. That one's better than UBW by a decent margin in the story department, but not quite as good in the fights; it's worth watching for how much of an absolute stone cold loving baller the main protagonist (and Iskandar, but in a vastly different way) are, if nothing else.
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Stir of Echoes 2 up right now on Netflix. Robe Lowe is one of my actors, I don't know why he sees to constantly remain a B-lister however, he's really great and self-aware enough to remain enjoyable in almost anything he works in. I really started this show with low hopes, with the "Kick'n Films" or whatever thing hitting me in the face before it opens up with a :snore: shot of soldiers in Generic Middle-Eastern Area. The opening scene involves a very low-budget-looking van that screams innuendo at you, a dorky tank, and a surprising amount of tension. Then I realized that it's all basically a screenplay - we're talking Death of a Salesman budget. The movie is set entirely in the same universe as the first movie, there are a lot of neat little homages to the first movie, and even an actual character from the first movie. And this movie has more politics than I expected, so apologies for that. It's good. It's creepy, hits most of the same notes right from the first movie (I LOVED the dick in the yellow polo being identical to the dick in the red shirt from the first movie, who saved Kevin Bacon and his family). It hits some entirely different notes from the first and hits them hard, but everything follows through in the end, just like the first Stir of Echoes. I think my least favorite bit was the reveal of ...the son from the first movie..., it was an almost Candyman or Hellraiser level of kitsch, although doing a double feature of the two movies kind of shocked me at how dated the costumes in the first one were - was the first movie set in the 80s? I mean holy poo poo mom jeans. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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I was in the mood to watch Noah after watching the clip someone posted awhile ago but it's no longer on Netflix and neither is anything else by Aronofsky, except for Pi. I watched that in high school, and I just watched trailer for The Fountain which has me even more interested in his work. Can anyone recommend something similar to Noah/The Fountain that's currently on Netflix, and is there another digital service that has his movies available?
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