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morestuff posted:Rourke was working a weird vein for a while Well, heroin is a hell of a drug.
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The Dirties. A movie I swore I'd hate so I didn't watch it, but I finally watched it and holy crap I loved it. I mean not in a "MAN I wish I shot up my school!" but in a "drat that shows how a couple of kids can end up straight up crazy enough to shoot up a school." Or something. Way better than I thought.
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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. It was a ridiculous movie and borders on being super stylish at times. The climax was kind of a low point but they played it right, and I think it holds w=up well from start to end. I truly believe that casting Mickey Rourke in the spot in the movie he was given - forgives a lot of other transgressions because hey it was all about working up to fightin mickey rourke in a feather boa while he smooches on a parrot. You can't fake that. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Feb 15, 2016 |
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I'm pretty sure that parrot is in his contract.
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Watched Experimenter on Netflix the other night. It's very good and I'm surprised I had never heard of the study before. The second half kinda meanders but it's still highly recommended for sure.
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precision posted:Watched Experimenter on Netflix the other night. It's very good and I'm surprised I had never heard of the study before. The second half kinda meanders but it's still highly recommended for sure. Really? I've never met anyone who doesn't know about the milligram studies and the long term affects it had on the test subjects. It's a fascinating thing to me. If you're interested in more about it, read the book "the learner" by chip kiddo.
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precision posted:Watched Experimenter on Netflix the other night. It's very good and I'm surprised I had never heard of the study before. The second half kinda meanders but it's still highly recommended for sure.
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I watched The Iran Job and it was really great. Can't recommend it enough. Remains fun even when it gets heavy, and has moments that are way too funny.
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I'd had it on my list forever and I finally got around to checking out Like Someone in Love last night on netflix. I really recommend it. Very slow paced, melancholy little movie but it had me entranced the entire time. That said, I'm not sure how sold I am on the ending. I was really digging how low-key everything was. The last 20 minutes ramped things up and then the final sequence seemed sorta needlessly dark? I dunno, curious to hear opinions from someone else who watched it.
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blood_dot_biz posted:I'd had it on my list forever and I finally got around to checking out Like Someone in Love last night on netflix. I really recommend it. Very slow paced, melancholy little movie but it had me entranced the entire time. That said, I'm not sure how sold I am on the ending. I was really digging how low-key everything was. The last 20 minutes ramped things up and then the final sequence seemed sorta needlessly dark? I dunno, curious to hear opinions from someone else who watched it.
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I just watched Bone Tomahawk on Prime, it's brutal and unforgiving in all the right ways. I hope Kurt Russell never stops.
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Coaaab posted:Here are a couple paragraph-long reviews pulled from the 'Rate the Latest' thread. Good stuff, thanks. Interesting perspective on the ending. I definitely feel like I want to watch the whole thing again. I got interrupted while watching the first time and to split my viewing into 2 parts that coincided almost perfectly with where things start getting more tense. I think a lot of my initial reaction to the ending stemmed from me sitting back down to watch the movie expecting the more subdued atmosphere from the first bit.
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Has anyone watched Mad Dogs all the way through? I'm going into episode 6 tonight but not sure I want to continue. The pilot hit the ground running, but it's been steadily downhill since then.
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:Has anyone watched Mad Dogs all the way through? I'm going into episode 6 tonight but not sure I want to continue. The pilot hit the ground running, but it's been steadily downhill since then. I'll largely restate my older post, but its like if someone wanted "the hangover" but more serious and a series. Its a remake of another show, toss in a romantic subplot and some more "wackiness" but its tonally all over the loving place and often its tangents are miss-able. It ends with a big thud of a cliffhanger, and don't be surprised that they get a second season. I enjoyed the first few episodes but the protagonists go down predictable routes and man do they start to just being unlikeable.
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Yeah I finished Mad Dogs today - it was slightly more interesting than average and I'm not sure where it would go from the ending without it just being "Mad Dogs II." Ben Chaplin takes over Billy Zane's role/house, becomes some sort of CIA operative and the others go home. It's worth watching occasionally on a spare computer while working or something, that's what I did.
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I've been binging a lot of the Prime originals. Man in the High Castle is awesome. Mozart in the Jungle is hilarious. Mad Dogs is alright. If they can keep it up I could see them being a serious contender against Netflix in the original content department.
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Anyone made it through James Franco goes back in time to kill JFK via Stephen King and JJ Abrams yet? I watched about half of the first episode last night and it seemed pretty dumb, but it is also getting pretty good reviews so I don't know if I should give it another whirl.
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NESguerilla posted:Anyone made it through James Franco goes back in time to kill JFK via Stephen King and JJ Abrams yet? I watched about half of the first episode last night and it seemed pretty dumb, but it is also getting pretty good reviews so I don't know if I should give it another whirl. They're not releasing them all at once so only the reviewers have gotten through all the episodes.
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That's a really cumbersome title, but James Franco really loves taking on really, really silly projects. I mean if you check out his IMDB he's got a movie calle d"Sausage Party" slated for release this year. I think he just really likes getting high and making stoner flicks with his hollwood bros.
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I like when he just randomly played a corpse on CSI. Like, not before he was famous it was a just a few years ago.
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computer parts posted:They're not releasing them all at once so only the reviewers have gotten through all the episodes. Yeah I'm waiting until they're all out to give them a watch. gently caress arbitrarily stringing out episodes. coyo7e posted:That's a really cumbersome title, but James Franco really loves taking on really, really silly projects. I mean if you check out his IMDB he's got a movie called "Sausage Party" slated for release this year. I think he just really likes getting high and making stoner flicks with his hollwood bros. I believe it's an animated film about anthropomorphic hot dogs with Seth Rogen.
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I watched Bone Tomahawk last night and I was disappointed with it. I liked the premise and I loved the actors, but it all felt half baked. The performances were great, especially Kurt Russel, but they weren't given much to do. The premise was cool, and so was the mix of western and horror, but it didn't find anywhere interesting to take either. The bad guys first seemed like an interesting mystery, but turned out to be generic evil blank slates. The only time the movie came to life was during the violence, and that was like 2 minutes of an over 2 hour movie. It seemed like a missed opportunity overall, good ideas that turned out to be one-note. After an hour and a half I was just waiting for it to end.
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Bone Tomahawk needed a bigger budget. I was expecting a bigger payoff than a small dark cave and a few cages. I wanted something closer to the human sacrifice scenes in Apocalypto. It was still drat good though and there are very few western horror movies so beggars can't be choosers.
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It wasn't damned good, it was tedious and boring with no payoff to the 'slow bur n'. Awful movie and a waste of talented people
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I don't really need a western to have a "payoff" usually, but the premise of Bone Tomahawk had me hoping for one. For the most part though I'm happy to just see some cool costumes and beautiful scenery, and it delivers there. Plus Kurt Russell.
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Basebf555 posted:Bone Tomahawk needed a bigger budget. I was expecting a bigger payoff than a small dark cave and a few cages. I wanted something closer to the human sacrifice scenes in Apocalypto. Not to get all "tactical realism" but I really liked the idea of the small, dying troglodyte tribe. Kind of like the last cloister of a lost culture that went mad as it collapsed on itself. It fits in with the late 1800's aesthetic of the closing frontier and squeezing the last bits of mysticism/myth out of the West. A giant cave complex filled with Anasazi-orcs or something nuts would have been way out of place.
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LogisticEarth posted:Not to get all "tactical realism" but I really liked the idea of the small, dying troglodyte tribe. Kind of like the last cloister of a lost culture that went mad as it collapsed on itself. It fits in with the late 1800's aesthetic of the closing frontier and squeezing the last bits of mysticism/myth out of the West. A giant cave complex filled with Anasazi-orcs or something nuts would have been way out of place. True, but it also would've been more interesting to watch.
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man, I just loved Bone Tomahawk. I'm more and more convinced it was the best western of the year.
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What are some streaming horror films that aren't great but are different and interesting enough to justify watching? I'm jonesing for some weird horror after watching The Manitou and The Keep on Prime.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:What are some streaming horror films that aren't great but are different and interesting enough to justify watching? I'm jonesing for some weird horror after watching The Manitou and The Keep on Prime. Dead Silence is on Netflix. The Midnight Swim is light on horror but you'd probably like it.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:What are some streaming horror films that aren't great but are different and interesting enough to justify watching? I'm jonesing for some weird horror after watching The Manitou and The Keep on Prime. some on Netflix: American Mary, Black Death, The Fury, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Hardware, The Legend of Hell House (this last one actually is great so may not qualify)
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X-Ray Pecs posted:What are some streaming horror films that aren't great but are different and interesting enough to justify watching? I'm jonesing for some weird horror after watching The Manitou and The Keep on Prime. Two that I've watched recently that I thought had enough merit to post about in this thread were Starry Eyes and Last Shift. Per your request, I would deem them as not great, but interesting enough to justify watching.
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fishtobaskets posted:Two that I've watched recently that I thought had enough merit to post about in this thread were Starry Eyes and Last Shift. Per your request, I would deem them as not great, but interesting enough to justify watching. I think those are two good recommendations. They are both flawed movies but there's enough there that I'd say their worth the time.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:some on Netflix: American Mary, Black Death, The Fury, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Hardware, The Legend of Hell House (this last one actually is great so may not qualify) Oh poo poo, The Fury is up on Netflix? I know what I'm doing later.
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Some more: Oculus, Phantoms, THE PROPHECY, The Relic, Thinner
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fishtobaskets posted:Two that I've watched recently that I thought had enough merit to post about in this thread were Starry Eyes and Last Shift. Per your request, I would deem them as not great, but interesting enough to justify watching. X-Ray Pecs posted:What are some streaming horror films that aren't great but are different and interesting enough to justify watching? I'm jonesing for some weird horror after watching The Manitou and The Keep on Prime. We talking crazy Manitou or is there a newer one? The Visits the closest you will get to that and "the keep".
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You got prime? Hellions is directed by the pontypool guy and it's a slice of goofy. Don't expect pontypool. Edit: so far my Korean expedition on Netflix is a bust, Assassination is boring.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Some more: All dead on recs. I still love the hogwash dogshit phantoms is.
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