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Just watched the We Are Twisted F***ing Sister documentary and it's really great if you like 70's/80's metal or music documentaries at all. Like most people I fondly remember them from junior high as a one or two hit wonder but they were one of the biggest New York area bands for 10 years before blowing up. I have lots of respect for bands that really work hard and they fit that description perfectly. Streaming on Netflix.
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S2 Happy Valley seems to suffer from the same problem as S2 of Broadchurch. Instead of a new story, they just keep dragging along the same story that was finished in the previous season. Goons hate The Killing, obviously, but I still found the first two seasons watchable. It does drag on far too long though.
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Jun 9, 2016 12:53
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I'm a few eps into Luther and not sure if I can hold on...does it get significantly better at any point?
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Jun 9, 2016 15:25
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Knightmare posted:I'm a few eps into Luther and not sure if I can hold on...does it get significantly better at any point? The quality of the show declines so if you aren't hooked already then you should bail out
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Jun 9, 2016 16:24
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a great music documentary up right now is Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, a tragedy about a man who wants to work in music more than anything in the world, but is cursed with a voice that sounds exactly like Elvis
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Jun 9, 2016 17:17
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LloydDobler posted:I have lots of respect for bands that really work hard and they fit that description perfectly. Branching off from that, I've gotten to know Miles Nielsen (Rick Nielsen's son) pretty well over the last several years, and maybe a year or two ago when I met up with him he was looking pretty exhausted, so I asked him what was up. He said he was just following his dad's advice: "If you want to succeed, never take a day off."
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Jun 9, 2016 17:38
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Knightmare posted:I'm a few eps into Luther and not sure if I can hold on...does it get significantly better at any point? Man I'd heard so much great stuff about this show and then I watched and it's goofy as gently caress. If you're not into it just stop.
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Jun 9, 2016 17:43
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At least get to the serial killer that rolls a d20 before attacking people.
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Jun 9, 2016 20:38
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precision posted:So In The Flesh is on Hulu now. Seasons 1 and 2. In tone, presentation and subject matter it's essentially "28 Months Later" and is very very good.
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Jun 9, 2016 20:42
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computer parts posted:At least get to the serial killer that rolls a d20 before attacking people. Well...I mean yeah I guess I'll do this. I just want to like Luther because Obama does. I really like Idris Elba too but British Idris in this weird show isn't doing it for me. (and yes I know he's actually British)
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Jun 9, 2016 20:59
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Me and my friends, inspired by Documentary Now!, have started a Documentary Club. So far, my favorite has been My Beautiful Broken Brain. I love the execution and the sentiment behind it. Reminded me of Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan. The ending was nice, even though David Lynch completely blows off the question to spout out some TM adverts. I love the guy, he's one of my favorite filmmakers, but he can annoying when he's obtuse about simple non-art questions. If you haven't watched it, give it a try. (Unless you're a hypochondriac, because strokes are terrifying.)
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Jun 9, 2016 22:40
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Wow, Bosch is like a who's who of The Wire alumni. Titus Welliver is amazing, show is great.
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Jun 9, 2016 23:04
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Not sure if this goes here or somewhere in the tech forums, but I'm about to move and our plan is to cut the cord and go straight streaming (welcome to 2012!) when we get settled. My concern is providers having slower speeds in St. Paul compared to St. Louis. Down here I get 60mb/s and no chop or drops. The best ive seen speed/cost wise up there is 25mb/s. In your opinions/experience, does 25mb/s give a decent streaming experience? Interruptions and drops?
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Jun 10, 2016 14:06
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:Not sure if this goes here or somewhere in the tech forums, but I'm about to move and our plan is to cut the cord and go straight streaming (welcome to 2012!) when we get settled. You'll be fine if it's actually 25mbs.
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Jun 10, 2016 14:17
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The Birth of Sake is really good
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red19fire posted:Wow, Bosch is like a who's who of The Wire alumni. Yeah, I really enjoyed it as well.
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Usually I hate everything Australian, but I watched the first three episodes of The Strange Calls last night and got more laughs out of it than pretty much anything else I've watched this year. Not sure when it got put on Netflix since it's from 2012, but I just noticed it. The old guy's dumb faces get me in almost every scene.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:43
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:Not sure if this goes here or somewhere in the tech forums, but I'm about to move and our plan is to cut the cord and go straight streaming (welcome to 2012!) when we get settled. I've used Netflix with 6Mb/s and it didn't chop up. It gets more complicated if you have several people using the Internet at once, but at 25 you should be fine. Their own recommendations say you should only need 5 for HD and 25 for ultra HD.
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Jun 10, 2016 21:17
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Stevie Lee posted:Usually I hate everything Australian, but I watched the first three episodes of The Strange Calls last night and got more laughs out of it than pretty much anything else I've watched this year. Not sure when it got put on Netflix since it's from 2012, but I just noticed it. The old guy's dumb faces get me in almost every scene. SECOND, and he just gets weirder weirder.
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Jun 10, 2016 21:45
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:Not sure if this goes here or somewhere in the tech forums, but I'm about to move and our plan is to cut the cord and go straight streaming (welcome to 2012!) when we get settled. I had a 1mbps connection when Netflix Streaming came out and had no problems with it. They probably were less uh, HD back then though. Maybe? That was like 7 years ago now. Anyways 25 is more than enough and then some.
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Jun 11, 2016 00:57
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Tried to watch Casual on Hulu but it was infuriating. Put some god drat loving emotion into your voice, anyone on the show, especially the main male character. If you want something to fall asleep to, listen to one of the main guy's scenes. I know it doesn't get any better because ads for it keep popping up while I'm watching other things and the characters still sound flat in scenes from future episodes.
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Jun 13, 2016 13:47
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Netflix just got the Secrets of the Masked Magician Revealed, and it is the soul-sucking endgame of 90's cynicism. It's so joyless and empty. It's the TV equivalent of someone correcting your grammar.
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Jun 13, 2016 18:06
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Netflix just got the Secrets of the Masked Magician Revealed, and it is the soul-sucking endgame of 90's cynicism. It's so joyless and empty. It's the TV equivalent of someone correcting your grammar. I used to LOVE this show when I was a kid and it was first on, but man I don't remember the announcer saying so much weird creepy stuff about the assistants.
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Jun 13, 2016 18:40
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Netflix just got the Secrets of the Masked Magician Revealed, and it is the soul-sucking endgame of 90's cynicism. It's so joyless and empty. It's the TV equivalent of someone correcting your grammar. It doesn't help that they don't even reveal how to do any tricks that are actually hard to figure out in the first place. It's a bunch of "well, duh".
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Jun 13, 2016 18:44
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precision posted:It doesn't help that they don't even reveal how to do any tricks that are actually hard to figure out in the first place. It's a bunch of "well, duh". I remember all the build-up to the fifth or sixth special, when he finally revealed his identity as some nobody I'd never heard of
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Jun 13, 2016 18:49
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Dr. Platypus posted:I used to LOVE this show when I was a kid and it was first on, but man I don't remember the announcer saying so much weird creepy stuff about the assistants. Huh, looks like the narrator was Mitch Pileggi. (And the magician turns sixty tomorrow. Thank you, Wikipedia, for enriching my life.)
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Jun 13, 2016 19:08
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morestuff posted:I remember all the build-up to the fifth or sixth special, when he finally revealed his identity as some nobody I'd never heard of Hahaha yes, this so much. I was young and naive so I was expecting it to be Teller, or even Copperfield!
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Jun 13, 2016 19:42
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Though the levitating girl's forklift operator was pretty great.
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Jun 13, 2016 22:37
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Huh, looks like the narrator was Mitch Pileggi. (And the magician turns sixty tomorrow. Thank you, Wikipedia, for enriching my life.) They also put up an old FOX special about the moon landings being a hoax, also hosted by Mitch Pileggi. I also remember a special about America's most gruesome plane crashes hosted by Gillian Anderson. They must have had some weird clause in their X-Files contracts that made them do it.
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Just watched Hector and the Search for Happines on netflix and it was really good. Simon Pegg is the lead and nails it, it's not heavy handed or preachy. Really well done flick.
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Ok Fella posted:Just watched Hector and the Search for Happines on netflix and it was really good. Simon Pegg is the lead and nails it, it's not heavy handed or preachy. Really well done flick. I was about to say you were a moron, but I realized I was thinking of A Fantastic Fear of Everything. But yeah, Hector was cool.
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Hector and the Search for Happiness was awful and I couldn't finish it Fantastic Fear of Everything was pretty funny these are opinions
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Yeah I thought Fear of Everything was better, but I really wouldn't say either of them are terrible. But neither of them is all that great either. Simon Pegg is awesome though.
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The title sequence was my favorite part of Fantastic Fear of Everything. I remember liking the rest but I barely remember it.
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Fantastic Fear of Everything thought itself very clever, when in fact it was boring. Anytime it had an interesting gag, like the skull bookshelf, it had to SHOVE IT IN YOUR FACE BECAUSE YOU MAY NOT NOTICE THIS GAG, LET'S CENTER ON IT FOR FORTY SECONDS. I liked the premise.
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Just the other day I received an error, ai-703, when trying to watch the new season of The League. Apparently the message said that Netflix has detected a VPN/Proxy and I must disable it before continuing... Looks like Netflix is really starting to crackdown on VPNs...I'd really hate to lose Netflix having used it for 8+ years, but I'm already using Hulu/Prime/HBO Go, and I'm feeling like just flipping the bird to Netflix over them being petty like this. I don't even use Unblock-US to switch regions, I use it for MLB.tv to avoid the stupid blackout restrictions. Before I axe Netflix, has anyone used a successful bypass for this? Thoughts?
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Maggot Soup posted:Just the other day I received an error, ai-703, when trying to watch the new season of The League. Apparently the message said that Netflix has detected a VPN/Proxy and I must disable it before continuing... I'm probably going to drop all of my streaming services when the TCM/Criterion streaming service goes live and works out it's bugs. Netflix has been doing cool poo poo with documentaries, stand-up specials and some of their original shows (Bojack, Kimmie Schmidt, Master of None), but I can stay more up-to-date by renting things for free from the library than wait for streaming. I only stayed for the 2016 Disney deal, but I haven't actually seen anything from that. I also can't justify supporting a company that continues to waste money on Adam Sandler movies when there are actual great filmmakers out there struggling with distribution or funding projects.
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Yea once this TCM thing starts up(assuming I can get it on PS4) I'm done with Netflix. Hulu stays because it gets me current t.v. show episodes, and the movie selection once they lose Criterion will still be about the same as Netflix. Netflix doesn't even have any original content that I'm into anymore. There was a time when I wouldn't have wanted to miss a season of House of Cards or Daredevil, but I'm kinda done with those shows. Also like Franchescanado it bothers me that all this money is going towards multiple Sandler movies when it could be used for any number of better purposes.
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Is Black Sails on any streaming platform? It doesn't seem to be on Netflix, Prime or Hulu.
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I don't have any interest in the Sandler stuff but Netflix in general is pretty great about adding interesting mid-tier indies. Demanding a platform like that only caters to your interests seems kind of weird
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