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The wife and I watched The Overnight (US Netflix) last night. It's basically "Eyes Wide Shut as directed by Wes Anderson" and I mean that in the best possible way. It takes awkward comedy to a brilliant level.
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Hat Thoughts posted:Well, I haven't seen the documentary but like, A. this seems like very much a different people react differently type of situation and I don't think it's necessarily fair to judge other people's sense of stability based on a single experience. Especially since from whst I've read the documentary primarily focuses on seeing these people's subjective experiences. Although, again, I haven't seen it so maybe I'm wrong Sorry, didn't mean to overgeneralize. It certainly was an unpleasant experience and the feeling of panic I experienced was quite overwhelming, I guess what I was trying to say was that at least for me, the knowledge of what it was and that it wasn't forever was enough to calm me down enough to try to break out of it. I suggest you try out the documentary, it really does address the fact that it is a very subjective experience that differs from one case to the next, although it does seem to only address worst-case-scenarios. Just a warning though, if you're someone who does experience sleep paralysis often it might provide some nightmare-fuel.
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Jan 19, 2016 16:08
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Blind Rasputin posted:I've watched three episodes of the shield now. It's pure goon LA cops fuckery. Them holding that basketball player against his will just to try to win some betting money was hilarious. The Shield proved that Kurt Sutter can actually loving write as long as some one can keep him under control. Also the Vic/Shane dynamic is incredible.
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Jan 19, 2016 23:23
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Netflix US just recently added Friday Night Tykes, which is a documentary show about a full-contact football league for 8/9-year-olds in San Antonio. When the first season was airing, Esquire Network (which is apparently a thing?) streamed the episodes for free with a cable login, but took them down right when it ended, and weren't available anywhere, so I've been trying to show this to people for a while now to no avail. My best friend and I watched the whole first season together and it's truly amazing television. Some of those coaches are absolutely unbelievable characters. It's got an eye for class conflict not dissimilar to Hoop Dreams or the 30 for 30 doc The U, combined with that same uncomfortable gut reaction you get from watching beauty pageant parents, except instead of moms desperately clinging onto their dreams of stardom and idolatry through their terrified daughters, it's ex-military, totally impotent, borderline-abusive suburbanite dads using football to teach Important Lessons to their terrified sons. I can't vouch for the second season, but I'm absolutely going to watch it when I get the chance.
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Jan 20, 2016 00:24
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I love some good cringe documentary, which reminds me that I recently watched Kidnapped For Christ on Amazon Prime. More recent and in many ways even more scary than Jesus Camp (which is on US Netflix). And the kicker is that Kidnapped For Christ was actually made by a woman who is a very devout Christian and so you know it's good when even she is going "these people are absolutely loving mental".
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Jan 20, 2016 03:05
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Blind Rasputin posted:Oh my god that white Christmas episode of Black Mirror. Just oh my god. It's one of the cruelest things I've seen in any movie or TV show. My brain's still coming to terms like it did the first week after reading the synopsis for Human Centipede. Not really a spoiler but if you haven't seen it go in blind.
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Jan 20, 2016 03:32
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:It's one of the cruelest things I've seen in any movie or TV show. My brain's still coming to terms like it did the first week after reading the synopsis for Human Centipede. Finally remembered to watch this. So good. And you're not kidding.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:06
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I think white bear comes pretty close to the christmas episode, man that whole thing is hosed up black mirror is so incredibly good
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dreadnought posted:Netflix US just recently added Friday Night Tykes, which is a documentary show about a full-contact football league for 8/9-year-olds in San Antonio. When the first season was airing, Esquire Network (which is apparently a thing?) streamed the episodes for free with a cable login, but took them down right when it ended, and weren't available anywhere, so I've been trying to show this to people for a while now to no avail. My best friend and I watched the whole first season together and it's truly amazing television. Some of those coaches are absolutely unbelievable characters. It's got an eye for class conflict not dissimilar to Hoop Dreams or the 30 for 30 doc The U, combined with that same uncomfortable gut reaction you get from watching beauty pageant parents, except instead of moms desperately clinging onto their dreams of stardom and idolatry through their terrified daughters, it's ex-military, totally impotent, borderline-abusive suburbanite dads using football to teach Important Lessons to their terrified sons. I can't vouch for the second season, but I'm absolutely going to watch it when I get the chance. Season three just started airing yesterday too. Here in Canada we get it on Netflix the same night it airs on Esquire. That means since Saturday I have watched around 25 episodes of this weirdly entertaining show. In case you are wondering, subsequent seasons follow the coaches more than the players. Apparently the coaches will move up with the players as they age, so you get some of the same kids sticking around. Into just the first episode of the third season there is only one kid from the first year that I remember. That is sorta spoilery but at the same time I'm comfortable with not tagging it since it is no secret that kids come and go from youth sport.
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About black mirror: what's the worst is when he was blocked to everyone. He literally cannot buy, call, interact with any human ever again. He's basically in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. I honestly couldn't decide which person got the worse punishment (I guess being locked in the room where you murdered somebody and left for mental rot is pretty harsh too).
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Jan 20, 2016 15:01
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The Shield proved that Kurt Sutter can actually loving write as long as some one can keep him under control. Also the Vic/Shane dynamic is incredible. I was about to say that everyone keeps talking about how great Vic is (and rightfully so), but The Shield brought us Walton Goggins, and he is just loving awesome.
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Jan 20, 2016 16:04
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Parachute posted:I was about to say that everyone keeps talking about how great Vic is (and rightfully so), but The Shield brought us Walton Goggins, and he is just loving awesome.  I'm very happy that he didn't die in the first episode of Justified.
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Jan 20, 2016 16:20
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Parachute posted:I was about to say that everyone keeps talking about how great Vic is (and rightfully so), but The Shield brought us Walton Goggins, and he is just loving awesome.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:35
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coyo7e posted:I'm pretty sure the only reason he got into Hateful 8 was that Tarantino watched him in the shield. Goggins was in Django, too, his star's been on the rise for a while.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:36
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I'm sure Tarantino REALLY got into Goggins from his Sons of Anarchy role.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:41
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precision posted:The wife and I watched The Overnight (US Netflix) last night. Thanks for the recommendation. My fiance and I really enjoyed it. It's a fascinating movie. And quite funny. Produced by the Duplass Brothers too, who are really on a role.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:58
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I just watched When Animals Dream, which the most somber quiet werewolf movie I've ever seen. It was perfect for the dreary winter hellscape outside. But it is so quiet and slow that I'd make sure you have a cup of coffee handy.
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Jan 20, 2016 18:40
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I just remembered that We Need To Talk About Kevin was released on Netflix on the first of the year. It was probably already mentioned earlier, but I finally got around to watching it today. drat...if you haven't seen it and want to watch a movie about as dark as a cup of french roast, go watch it.
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Jan 21, 2016 00:25
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InterrupterJones posted:I just remembered that We Need To Talk About Kevin was released on Netflix on the first of the year. It was probably already mentioned earlier, but I finally got around to watching it today. drat...if you haven't seen it and want to watch a movie about as dark as a cup of french roast, go watch it. Nice! Thanks for this.
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Jan 21, 2016 00:54
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Wentworth season 3 snuck up at some point. Discovered that a few days ago and couldn't help myself. It's been one of my favorite shows ever on Netflix. If you want some super dark woman prison drama and not that OitNB crap, check it.
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Jan 21, 2016 01:03
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Wentworth is super goofy and silly and hard to take seriously but I love it.
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Jan 21, 2016 01:06
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InterrupterJones posted:I just remembered that We Need To Talk About Kevin was released on Netflix on the first of the year. It was probably already mentioned earlier, but I finally got around to watching it today. drat...if you haven't seen it and want to watch a movie about as dark as a cup of french roast, go watch it. Is.... is French Roast dark? Not sure how coffee-darkness works.
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Jan 21, 2016 01:11
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InterrupterJones posted:I just remembered that We Need To Talk About Kevin was released on Netflix on the first of the year. It was probably already mentioned earlier, but I finally got around to watching it today. drat...if you haven't seen it and want to watch a movie about as dark as a cup of french roast, go watch it. The movie is excellent: soundtrack and casting are both perfect. The book almost put me in crisis -- it's devastating. (Go read it.)
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Jan 21, 2016 01:19
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Is.... is French Roast dark? Not sure how coffee-darkness works. I personally feel that the drying methods are more important than the roast - african blends tend to have the flavor of the dirt they were left to dry on, for example.
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Jan 21, 2016 02:23
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coyo7e posted:Darker roast has less caffeine due to the heat breaking down the caffeine oils or whatnot. It also has a more bitter flavor. What he means to say is, "Yes, French Roast is dark."
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Jan 21, 2016 02:30
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coyo7e posted:I'm pretty sure the only reason he got into Hateful 8 was that Tarantino watched him in the shield. Justified, actually, there's an interview where Tarantino talks about it.
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Jan 21, 2016 02:34
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Cutthroat Kitchen is the most batshit insane competition show outside of Japan. The people are these ridiculous characters and the challenges are just loving cruel sometimes, it's amazing.
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I think that Food Network has a cooking competition for every type of cook now. If you're a world class chef: Iron Chef. If you're talented but have a tragic story and are full of yourself: chopped. If you're just full of yourself: cutthroat kitchen. If your kind of average but sort of nice: guy's grocery games. If you can't cook at all: worst cooks in America. Man food shows are sort of in a dire place right now...
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Jan 21, 2016 07:00
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A guy who unironically calls himself a "Cheftender." God bless this show.
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Jan 21, 2016 07:20
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The best one was DJ Chef.
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Jan 21, 2016 08:03
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Cutthroat Kitchen is the best because, unlike say Chopped, no one save perhaps the contestants have any pretension that this is an accurate view of culinary talent. Instead you just engage in the schadenfreude of man's contest based inhumanity to man.
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Jan 21, 2016 14:26
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Mr. Maltose posted:Cutthroat Kitchen is the best because, unlike say Chopped, no one save perhaps the contestants have any pretension that this is an accurate view of culinary talent. Instead you just engage in the schadenfreude of man's contest based inhumanity to man. Yes, the formula being part cooking show, part game show and part "trickiest rear end in a top hat" competition really creates something magically twisted. It's essentially to normal cooking shows what Death Race is to normal lap racing.
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Jan 21, 2016 16:00
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McSpanky posted:Yes, the formula being part cooking show, part game show and part "trickiest rear end in a top hat" competition really creates something magically twisted. It's essentially to normal cooking shows what Death Race is to normal lap racing. I wish there was a Death Race show.
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Jan 21, 2016 16:06
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Edge of Tomorrow actually was really, really drat good.
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Jan 21, 2016 19:21
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NESguerilla posted:The best one was DJ Chef. He creates the eats while he spins the beats. And he won, what, 2k? Nice job, doofus. Cutthroat Kitchen is unironically one of the best game shows ever made since it successfully combines a talent + psychological + social component into one horrific contest.
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Jan 21, 2016 20:02
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precision posted:Edge of Tomorrow actually was really, really drat good. yeah i was kinda surprised too.
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Jan 21, 2016 20:03
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precision posted:Edge of Tomorrow actually was really, really drat good. Is this on Netflix? I've been meaning to catch this for a couple years now and never got around to it.
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Jan 21, 2016 20:06
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Is this on Netflix? I've been meaning to catch this for a couple years now and never got around to it. It was on HBO GO last I looked. Edit: looks like its cycled out. Not even available for rental on the major sites.
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Jan 21, 2016 20:07
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morestuff posted:It was on HBO GO last I looked. My  GF has this so I'll make her watch it with me.Edit ah hell Hackers film 1995 fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:My See above, sorry to get your hopes up.
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