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Maxwell Lord posted:Just recently discovered that Strangers With Candy is on Hulu. God that's a good show. I always forget Stephen Colbert was famous from SWC.
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Shageletic posted:Legitimately my fav sci show other than the Twilight Show. Ends really well too.  (of course only after the second season kicks off and they get the new station commander.) I tried to watch all the seasons and episodes in a row as well as the movie(s?) a year or so back but got completely overwhelmed around season 5 or 6. It was a good run, and I mean to try again, but it was simply SO MUCH in rapid succession.. And I was in college for the last seasons so I ever saw most of them and never found out what happened.  I really liked Farscape when I was in high school and it first came out, it's still pretty good. The puppetry is absolutely great in it so having someone criticize that as a serious problem, means that person is either moronic or lunatic, possibly both. If you wanna get into Farscape I seem to recall there being quite a few throw-away episodes so you might find one of those watch guides for it. 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.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Just recently discovered that Strangers With Candy is on Hulu. God that's a good show. Poor southerners are hi-larious.
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Sleep Tight is on Hulu and it's creepy as gently caress.
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precision posted:edit: I guess Mortdecai is streaming on Hulu now. I guess I might as well watch it if for no other reason than I still have no idea what it even is. My vague expectation is that it's Johnny Depp's Master of Disguise That movie was like someone remade The Thomas Crown Affair by way of The Pink Panther, except they never saw either movie, or read the scripts, and just had someone who saw the remakes once like ten years ago give them vague plot summaries.
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Speaking of Hulu, The Grinder is hilarious and a much better show than it has any right to be.
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kuddles posted:Speaking of Hulu, The Grinder is hilarious and a much better show than it has any right to be. Yes everyone please watch this show, I love it so much.
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I finally got on this Smartflix bus and it's pretty great, saw a bunch of great movies in the last few days. Selma. Amazing. Must-watch, you may get choked up a few times. Oprah really did a great job, as did everyone else. Giovanni Ribisi's makeup and hair were especially great. 12 Years a Slave. It's really well done and has some great performances all around. Not more more to be said, you know what you're getting into and it delivers in loads. Lone Survivor. I swear I watched this before but I didn't realize until it was 3/4 through, mostly forgettable hoo-ah movie about how even the local hate taliban so yay America (plus they saved the guy, which is kind of rare from what I understand). Some people still take hospitality as a set in stone law, and that's pretty rad. What We Do In the Shadows. Absolutely hilarious. I didn't really recall it was an NZ flick but I loved it. As soon as they mentioned "The Beast" I saw the picture of it and assumed It was Vlad ex-girlfriend, due to the sketchily-drawn vagina on the monster's picture. Was not disappointed, I'm tempted to put this one up beside Best in Show or A Mighty Wind, for fake documentaries. Great fun. Captain Phillips. I expected a larger cast but this was an edge-of-the-seat movie mainly through, despite my knowing what happened in the end. Tom Hanks still kicks much rear end.
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coyo7e posted:I finally got on this Smartflix bus and it's pretty great, saw a bunch of great movies in the last few days. I liked Oprah a lot more in Lee Daniels' The Butler, so check out that movie if you haven't seen it.
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coyo7e posted:I finally got on this Smartflix bus and it's pretty great, saw a bunch of great movies in the last few days. All What We Do in the Shadows is missing is the tight buildup of the plots and subplots the explode in Best in Show or Mighty Wind. Second Times the charm?
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Any direction WWDITS is lacking is made up for by how hilarious it is.
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I really do not feel that if you tightened up WWDIDS, that it would end up better. It's got a slightly meandering, slightly lovable and hilarious edge that would be dulled by reducing the chraracters, cutting down the script, etc. Almost everything seemed necessary and right, even when it was monumentally silly and/or dumb. I recall a few NZ movies of different genres and they do seem to meander a bit ain my memory (what was that "Hunter" movie with like iirc lance henrikson where he was hunting the last liger or w/e? That was really good as well although it took an hour to build up.) I suspect that if I'd watched Dark Shadows etc, I'd really, really dig it.. But I never watched DS so it was just fun with a slightly off-angle ending. I guess if you can't deal with a character in a vampire movie getting ripped and bragging about "I'm the guy from Twilight!" over and over but with a payoff then you're an entirely lovely human being and I'd never watch a film with you. That movie was way, way funner than I expected it to be. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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I think I know this guy it's count fagula Hey man. We're werewolves not swearwolves
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I like WWDIDS a whole bunch. Just saying its not replacing my family's go to thanksgiving and Xmas get together films. Halloween though, its a contender. Those two Guest films slay me.
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On a similar note, Rhys Darby was so good in last week's episode of X-Files ("Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster").
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Parachute posted:On a similar note, Rhys Darby was so good in last week's episode of X-Files ("Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"). I seriously dislike him on @Midnight and podcasts or whatever where he's doing his Rhys Darby "character" but god drat did I love him on that episode of XFiles and WWDITS
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NESguerilla posted:I think I know this guy it's count fagula WHAT ARE WE? -mumbles- werewolves not swearwolves
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coyo7e posted:I finally got on this Smartflix bus and it's pretty great, saw a bunch of great movies in the last few days. Can you chromecast with smartflix? Through screen mirroring or anything like that?
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Foxcatcher was a really great movie. It's a full-on tragedy though, and it vacillates between uncomfortable, and "whoa this is what mental illness looks like when nobody acknowledges it," and the ending was one of the saddest things I've seen in a while. Mark Ruffalo's my acting hero though. The entire movie reminded me of Yeats, or Chinua Achebe: Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.. The ceremony of innocence is drowned. Accident Underwater posted:Can you chromecast with smartflix? Through screen mirroring or anything like that? You don't even need a credit card number to use smartflix though while it's still in alpha/beta, which is a good way to loop in users and get them hooked. The only negative is you can't get subtitles on some stuff because they'll only have them toggled on for the region they're supposed to be played in. Also you can't rate movies in the application. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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The first half of Dope on Netflix is a lot of fun. It's one of those average-kids-get-in-over-their-heads-in-a-crime-mix-up stories like Shallow Grave or Adventures in Baby Sitting. But then half way through they reveal their big plan: use the internet. I don't know why you'd make a fish-out-of-water film and let the heroes fall right back into their comfort zone at the exact moment you should be raising the stakes. It really sucked the life out of the film.
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I ran out of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, what's a good similar show to watch?
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flatluigi posted:I ran out of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, what's a good similar show to watch? Murder She Wrote is the closest thing I can think of, or Poirot
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Kundo:Age of the Rampant Don't bother. This was the tiebreaker of watching a bunch of fun korean movies in a row. Has about 10 minutes of exposition spouted out by the narrator about how rich people are bad, and poor people made a "avengers' style clan of super martial artists that beat em up. Only competent martial artists are the heros and its only villain . And by competent I mean CG action and quick cuts. Its a mess.
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Murder She Wrote/Poirot/Columbo are the easy answers, I was more looking for shows I might not've heard of -- Miss Fisher was a really pleasant surprise in that way, as I didn't know a single thing about it before I started watching.
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I noticed a ton of Asian shows adding season 1 to Netflix. Are any of these good, and does anyone know where they came from (like a new deal or something).
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Borrowed Ladder posted:I noticed a ton of Asian shows adding season 1 to Netflix. Are any of these good, and does anyone know where they came from (like a new deal or something). No idea but I'm running through them this week to see if any stand out. Hide and Seek feels like a Japanese Horror story done by koreans. Lots o red herrings but fun mystery slasher. again. Don't watch Kundo. Its soundtrack is a ripoff of Ennio Morricone note for note with no attribution. Upsidads fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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flatluigi posted:Murder She Wrote/Poirot/Columbo are the easy answers, I was more looking for shows I might not've heard of -- Miss Fisher was a really pleasant surprise in that way, as I didn't know a single thing about it before I started watching. Foyle's War, maybe? One with female leads is The Bletchley Circle.
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flatluigi posted:I ran out of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, what's a good similar show to watch? Perhaps you'd like The Midsomer Murders, which unsurprisingly is about investigating murders in the small british town of Midsomer. There were enough seasons that I'm surprised anyone was left alive in that little town.
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How's F Is For Family? Bill Burr is one of my favorite standups and I occasionally listen to his podcast.
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Watched Charlie's Country, a quiet, beautiful, and sad look at the life of an aboriginal man in his community. The teaser wasn't very honest because when he goes out to live in the bush in frustration, he immediately gets gravely ill and it nearly kills him, which breaks his spirit, so most of the movie wasn't set out in the bush with Charlie surviving off the land, like I expected. A bittersweet ending, otherwise it would be an absolute soul crusher. The actor who plays the protagonist is so thin it hurts to look at, and he is so generous it also hurts when someone wanders up to his campfire and he asks them if they have anything to eat - right after he gave away every cent of his government check to others in his tribe who were worse off than himself - and they offer him a cigarette (he bums a LOT of smokes, which is a great scene when you finally figure out what's going on). And the buffalo scene was hilarious. Also saw Blunt Force Trauma which I expected was going to be another cagematch fight movie, but which actually turned out to be much more novel and interesting, as a revenge/romance flick about underground gunfighters. I had no idea Mickey Rourke was in it, although I swear to god I felt that he was going to be in the movie at a certain point - and I was 100% right about who he'd be! An interesting and surprisingly bloodless movie about people shooting each other at close range with colt pythons and desert eagles. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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coyo7e posted:Also saw Blunt Force Trauma which I expected was going to be another cagematch fight movie, but which actually turned out to be much more novel and interesting, as a revenge/romance flick about underground gunfighters. I had no idea Mickey Rourke was in it, although I swear to god I felt that he was going to be in the movie at a certain point - and I was 100% right about who he'd be! An interesting and surprisingly bloodless movie about people shooting each other at close range with colt pythons and desert eagles.
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I really like the Mickey Rourke genre, but yeah, it all easily slips into this kind of mock tough-guy crap. That always seems like a misunderstanding of what makes him so interesting, which is a guy who's so masculine he's completely unselfconscious about appearing androgynous.
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Filthy Hans posted:Perhaps you'd like The Midsomer Murders, which unsurprisingly is about investigating murders in the small british town of Midsomer. There were enough seasons that I'm surprised anyone was left alive in that little town. This and Foyle's War. Both created by the same guy (Anthony Horowitz) who also wrote the Alex Rider novels.
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Foyle's War is chill.
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drunken officeparty posted:How's F Is For Family? Bill Burr is one of my favorite standups and I occasionally listen to his podcast. If you like his standup you will like it. It's not quite as laugh out load funny, but it's pretty well done.
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drunken officeparty posted:How's F Is For Family? Bill Burr is one of my favorite standups and I occasionally listen to his podcast. It's fun to watch. It's not great but it's good, and also low buy in because it's pretty short. Although it has my favorite show opener in a TV show ever, it's perfect.
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Veskit posted:It's fun to watch. It's not great but it's good, and also low buy in because it's pretty short. Ahaha yeah the opener is great
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I really like the Mickey Rourke genre, but yeah, it all easily slips into this kind of mock tough-guy crap. That always seems like a misunderstanding of what makes him so interesting, which is a guy who's so masculine he's completely unselfconscious about appearing androgynous. This is not related to streaming content, but Alec Baldwin recently interviewed Mickey Rourke on his show. I really enjoyed hearing about Rourke's background, how he picks roles, and just his general views on acting and on directors. I haven't seen much of his stuff -- aside from Sin City and his post-Wrestler work -- but this interview made me want to go and watch some of his older stuff.
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Hubbardologist posted:This is not related to streaming content, but Alec Baldwin recently interviewed Mickey Rourke on his show. I really enjoyed hearing about Rourke's background, how he picks roles, and just his general views on acting and on directors. I haven't seen much of his stuff -- aside from Sin City and his post-Wrestler work -- but this interview made me want to go and watch some of his older stuff. At the very least seek out Barfly, Bullet (co-starring with another misunderstood artsy tough guy), insane Zalman "Red Shoe Diaries" King blown curtains erotic thriller Wild Orchid, Johnny Handsome, and Body Heat. And his back and forth with Chris Jericho on Larry King Live. You want to talk about protecting your brand, here's a guy who seems to curate roles rather than accepting them.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village is a good young Mickey Rourke film, plus it has a fantastically energetic performance by Eric Roberts. It's an interesting cultural artifact as well because it was one of the last movies made in Lower Manhattan before yuppie money really started gentrifying the place. The streets it was filmed on are unrecognizable today. It used to be on Netflix and might pop up again in the future, so keep an eye out.
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