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NESguerilla posted:I keep trying to start Turbo Kid because friends who generally have good opinions have told me to watch it, but I can't get more than 5 minutes in because it just comes off as some ironic YouTube video. That was the impression I got in the first 5 minutes as well, and it didn't get much better as I sat through the rest of it. I generally enjoyed the performances and the prop design, but the special effects were really chintzy (but not in the way 80s genre movies were--it's just cheap CGI), the whole thing looked like it was filmed in the same abandoned quarry, the fights were poorly staged, and the plot itself was just really boring and unnecessarily drawn out. I didn't dislike it as much as Kung Fury though--I can imagine a version of Turbo Kid that turned out a lot better than it did, but KF is beyond helping.
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Chichevache posted:It's basically an American 80's-themed version of any of your favorite gory Japanese films. Think Ichi the Killer levels of bloodlust. It's kind of fun, but I'd recommend lubricating yourself with alcohol or pot before jumping in to it. Hobo with a Shotgun Part II is a better description, I think. It's seriously uncanny how hard Turbo Kid bites off HwaS.
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NESguerilla posted:I keep trying to start Turbo Kid because friends who generally have good opinions have told me to watch it, but I can't get more than 5 minutes in because it just comes off as some ironic YouTube video. Just shed your 90s cynicism and accept that it's actually sincere. LORD OF BUTT posted:Hobo with a Shotgun Part II is a better description, I think. It's seriously uncanny how hard Turbo Kid bites off HwaS. Canada is producing all the best action movies.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Hobo with a Shotgun Part II is a better description, I think. It's seriously uncanny how hard Turbo Kid bites off HwaS. I still haven't seen Hobo.
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Rutger Hauer really puts everything into his performance in Hobo with a Shotgun. I think it's the only Hey-Wasn't-Renting-Troma-Tapes-at-Your-Local-Video-Store-With-the-Porno-Section-Behind-Salloon-Doors jerkfest that's actually worth watching because of it. EDIT: the fact that it skews more to the nasty side of things also helps.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Hobo with a Shotgun Part II is a better description, I think. It's seriously uncanny how hard Turbo Kid bites off HwaS. It's almost the exact same plot, isn't it? Unlikely Hero finds The Weapon of Justice, fights back against Oppressive Overlord & His Minions to a Retro-Synth soundtrack. Like a TV tropes mad-lib. It just made me think the producers saw the success of HWAS on kickstarter, and made their own me-too script to hit the same notes, just with lasers.
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Lincoln`s Wax posted:It's like Kung Fury and The FP. Movies for terrible people. I mean, it's not like Kung Fury is even good in the first place.
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Lincoln`s Wax posted:It's like Kung Fury and The FP. Movies for terrible people. The FP is great, Kung Fury is awful and Turbo Kid is poorly done.
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red19fire posted:It's almost the exact same plot, isn't it? Unlikely Hero finds The Weapon of Justice, fights back against Oppressive Overlord & His Minions to a Retro-Synth soundtrack. Like a TV tropes mad-lib. I mean, it's not like that's a bad thing, though. HwaS is a pretty loving great movie, I'm okay with it spawning imitators.
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red19fire posted:It's almost the exact same plot, isn't it? Unlikely Hero finds The Weapon of Justice, fights back against Oppressive Overlord & His Minions to a Retro-Synth soundtrack. Like a TV tropes mad-lib. That is a really cynical way to view how one film may have influenced the other. Lincoln`s Wax posted:It's like Kung Fury and The FP. Movies for terrible people. Don't put Kung Fury in the same category as Turbo Kid. That's like saying Transformers and Aliens are the same.
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Movies like Turbo Kid and Hobo with a Shotgun are trying so hard to be cult films it comes off as insincere and lame.
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Yall are trying to be way too cool for the room over a really fun low budget action flick.
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Lurdiak posted:That is a really cynical way to view how one film may have influenced the other. You're right, I realized like halfway through Turbo Kid that it was almost exactly the same as HWAS and started groaning through the rest of it. harley posted:Movies like Turbo Kid and Hobo with a Shotgun are trying so hard to be cult films it comes off as insincere and lame. This is more what I meant. HWAS was more of a homage by someone who gets what makes a good exploitation film, whereas TK was more "me too, but with lasers!" Also Netflix seems to have uploaded a whole lot of mid-90s straight to video movies, so I'm going to be spending this week like I'm in 8th grade watching the USA channel after school.
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I liked Turbo kid but I think it would of been better if it was 30 minutes shorter. The arena bit should of been the climatic fight.
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caligulamprey posted:Rutger Hauer really puts everything into his performance in Hobo with a Shotgun. I think it's the only Hey-Wasn't-Renting-Troma-Tapes-at-Your-Local-Video-Store-With-the-Porno-Section-Behind-Salloon-Doors jerkfest that's actually worth watching because of it. I thought the first Machete also fell into this category, for the most part. Now Machete 2 is exactly where everything got flipped upside down and it became its own obnoxious tryhard parody.
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Phetz posted:That was the impression I got in the first 5 minutes as well, and it didn't get much better as I sat through the rest of it. I generally enjoyed the performances and the prop design, but the special effects were really chintzy (but not in the way 80s genre movies were--it's just cheap CGI), the whole thing looked like it was filmed in the same abandoned quarry, the fights were poorly staged, and the plot itself was just really boring and unnecessarily drawn out. I didn't dislike it as much as Kung Fury though--I can imagine a version of Turbo Kid that turned out a lot better than it did, but KF is beyond helping. It's really off about what was so great about 80s genre B movies. They successfully created worlds out of card-board by playing it completely straight, strange, and unique. Didn't get anything close to that in the first ten minutes of Turbo Kid I could watch before shutting it off. If you're looking for something that is actually some great underrated 80s cheese, you can't go wrong with Robot Jox! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/ EDIT: quote="Antifreeze Head" post="455713644"] I take it that you are unfamiliar with the way Degrassi works then? Every episode is a hot-button social issue that hits some poor kid square in the mouth. A small cast of characters means there's a double-down on the hardship at some point: Not only is this guy bullying you, he may have given you AIDS! or I know it's hard to be a teen mom, now imagine how much worse it will be when the baby daddy has brain damage! The originals (Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High but not Kids of Degrassi Street) are available for streaming on Amazon Prime and the newer stuff is still available on the MTV Canada site: http://www.mtv.ca/degrassi/ That might be region locked, might not. [/quote] The Kroll Show does a nigh perfect job of encapsulating what is amazing about Degrassi, without you know, having to watch it. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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I just watched June 17, 1994 and it's a really interesting look at the popular perception of OJ and other events during that time. The darkest part is of course the audio of OJ in the car, while the most inappropriate is the baseball announcer making the joke of "OJ's at the US Open. He's already got 2 under".
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Junkie Disease posted:I know its a remake of another show but man Mad Dogs feels like someone tried to make a more serious Hangover movie into a series. Some good performances, but the plot has tonal issues and a giant telegraphed ending that coincides with a "who cares?" at the end. I was able to get through a few episodes and then I just skipped to the end to see how they decided to wrap it up. I agree totally with the tonal issues, just all over the place. Also checked out The Red Road which seemed to be trying to do a lot of the same things Banshee does better.
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precision posted:I'll even go so far as to say that Machete itself was better as a trailer than an actual full length movie. I'm not sure why this is a surprise to anyone.
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computer parts posted:I just watched June 17, 1994 and it's a really interesting look at the popular perception of OJ and other events during that time. Yeah, it's really good. I was in college at time and yet I didn't know all that poo poo happened on the same day. It's absolutely bonkers. And the audio of OJ talking about killing himself, Jesus, it's so completely obvious he killed them.
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precision posted:Machete 2 was insanely disappointing. Machete fails in every way that Hobo with a Shotgun succeeds.
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Chi-Raq is up for Prime members. Go laugh at all the reviews from confused people who had no idea what they were getting into.AndyP posted:Drake was in Degrassi: The Next Generation for a few seasons (I'm not sure exactly which ones though), which is the one that ran on TeenNick in the US. Degrassi: The Next Class is a Netflix original they picked up after the series got cancelled. Season 1 is up on their Youtube (legit - and even weirder, widescreen) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4V9GrlFUVDFgl6fWCiL_3CRqtuv6GoYa They're planning to upload season 2-10 eventually. For the full experience, go watch Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High on Amazon. It's 80s as gently caress. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Call Me Charlie posted:Chi-Raq is up for Prime members. Go laugh at all the reviews from confused people who had no idea what they were getting into. All I'm seeing are people saying "I did not like this movie it was dumb and bad" which is not exactly comedy gold.
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Lurdiak posted:All I'm seeing are people saying "I did not like this movie it was dumb and bad" which is not exactly comedy gold. Give it some time now that it's free and on the front page but expect alot more like quote:This was one of the worst movies I have watched. Simply ridiculous. It really doesn't matter what the point was, the movie was so hard to watch, the point of it was lost with me. I knew it was going to be a dud when I realized they were rhyming the script. Who does that? I understood all of the messages, and the political opinions, and for the most part I agree, but the movie was just awful. I can't believe all of the great AA movie stars who were in this movie. I am sure they are regretting it. quote:If zero stars were available, that's what I would have selected. This was a really bad movie. The acting was terrible. The storyline was hard to follow. Most of the conversation throughout the movie between the actors rhymed, which became quite irritating as the movie progressed. There were weird interludes by Samuel Jackson through the movie which made no sense and were hard to understand. Spike Lee should really reconsider why he's making movies nowadays. quote:I cannot believe that people are claiming this to be a great film. The intend is there, but the focus is completely off. I really wanted to enjoy this movie, unfortunately it is by far one of the worst I have ever seen. I gave Chi-raq one star only for the outrageous terminology used throughout which did make me laugh. Sorry Spike, I usually expect more from your movies.
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I bought the DVD of this rhyming movie because Sticky Fingaz is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMBaYlKSdk
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I can only imagine how utterly baffling Chi-Raq would be if you're not familiar with Greek drama tropes (the chorus, rhyming verse, etc). I'll give these folks that much.
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I'm in the market for shows to help calm me down when I'm having a panic attack.
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Nolanar posted:I'm in the market for shows to help calm me down when I'm having a panic attack. How It's Made New Yankee Workshop
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Parachute posted:How It's Made The Joy of Painting is on Hulu, if Bob Ross doesn't calm you down, I don't know what to tell you. I also like watching Forensic Files when I'm painting, I find it oddly relaxing for some reason
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Iron Crowned posted:The Joy of Painting is on Hulu, if Bob Ross doesn't calm you down, I don't know what to tell you.
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Parachute posted:How It's Made The Woodright's Shop. There's a ton on youtube, and the pbs website
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Thanks for the suggestions! Quiet acts of creation seem like exactly the right thing for me when I'm in that state.
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Nolanar posted:I'm in the market for shows to help calm me down when I'm having a panic attack. Peaky Blinders. When I have a panic attack I always feel better when I remind myself that life is short and death is coming. If I'm dead, my suffering no longer matters and the shortness of breath and pit in my stomach will disappear. The Shelby boys live like they're already dead, and I find that comforting. No consequences, no remorse, no fear. I hope this helps.
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david_a posted:There's a lot of his episodes on YouTube as well. The Hulu episodes seems like they were edited because there is a fade-out for a commercial break in them. I haven't watched them yet, they just crop up in the interface a lot. Nolanar posted:Thanks for the suggestions! Quiet acts of creation seem like exactly the right thing for me when I'm in that state. Speaking of acts of creation and, they have America's Test Kitchen on Netflix, not sure if cooking counts as quiet though.
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Chichevache posted:Peaky Blinders. When I have a panic attack I always feel better when I remind myself that life is short and death is coming. If I'm dead, my suffering no longer matters and the shortness of breath and pit in my stomach will disappear. The Shelby boys live like they're already dead, and I find that comforting. No consequences, no remorse, no fear. In a broader sense, how is this show? I like Cillian Murphy, and crime, but dislike most modern dramatic tv.
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