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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Ran was really good. It's basically a feudal Japanese version of a Shakespeare play and it looks absolutely gorgeous. To be specific, it's Kurosawa's adaptation of King Lear. And the praise in this thread is no exaggeration, it's a fantastic film. I'll also double up on the recommendations for High and Low and The Bad Sleep Well, both of which are awesome crime dramas.
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Don't Look Now(1973) is streaming on Amazon. I really enjoyed the film and its' editing, the music and the dreamy Venice locale The ending shocked me, I'm going to watch it again.
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SaavikSpocksDaddy posted:Don't Look Now(1973) is streaming on Amazon. Its maybe an even better movie the second time once you know how everything ties together.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:My favorite Kurosawa is Stray Dog actually. Stray Dog is awesome. So is High and Low, which has a really weird structure but is still very watchable and interesting. I think my favorite is Hidden Fortress, which is one of his most lightweight, but also most entertaining. Just a great breezy adventure movie with Toshiro Mifune in full movie star mode. You can really see how much George Lucas and Steven Spielberg followed Kurosawa and Hidden Fortress in particular when they made their own action adventure movies. These are all up on Hulu, I think.
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Dodeskaden Is on Hulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiUgFT8DAR8 First color film. It flopped so hard and drove him to suicide. I love it so.
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wafflesnsegways posted:Stray Dog is awesome. So is High and Low, which has a really weird structure but is still very watchable and interesting. I think my favorite is Hidden Fortress, which is one of his most lightweight, but also most entertaining. Just a great breezy adventure movie with Toshiro Mifune in full movie star mode. You can really see how much George Lucas and Steven Spielberg followed Kurosawa and Hidden Fortress in particular when they made their own action adventure movies. Hidden Fortress may be lightweight as far as the story goes, but visually its up there with anything Kurosawa ever did. Seeing what he was able to do with widescreen in stuff like Hidden Fortress and Sanjuro, I find it difficult to go back to some of his earlier masterpieces even though they are undeniably great(Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood).
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NESguerilla posted:Is wayward pines worth watching at all? I've only seen season 1, but kinda yeah. It gets better as it goes along and goes some neat places. Solid B.
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The Returned: A cancelled single-season remake. I absolutely should've known better.
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It's worse than that, its a remake of a show that was a remake of a movie called They Came Back.
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Gaz2k21 posted:It's worse than that, its a remake of a show that was a remake of a movie called They Came Back. The French show and movie are quite good.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The French show and movie are quite good. Very much agreed, though I haven't yet gotten around to watching season 2 of Les Revenants.
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NESguerilla posted:Is wayward pines worth watching at all? I liked season 1 and kind of wished they'd just left it at that. I bailed on season 2 after a couple episodes because it revolves around Ben Burke and he's probably my least favorite character (it might be his incredibly punchable face). I'm really looking forward to Stranger Things. Hopefully it doesn't disappoint.
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NESguerilla posted:Is wayward pines worth watching at all? Season 1 was not that great, and neither was the book despite a strong start. Still I didn't regret watching it. That said season 2 is a steaming pile of poo poo.
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I just finished watching Ashby on Netflix, and the blurb really doesn't do it justice at all. Sadly it's hard to make it any more fitting without spoiling it. First 20 minutes spoilers: Mickey Rourke's character is an assassin dying from a brain tumor I thought it was a nice sweet movie without being terribly saccerine.
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Marco Polo season 2 is up. The first one was really fun with a fantastic cast of characters. They kinda pull the Netflix thing where they market a typical white protagonist and then have them take a backseat to an actually diverse and interesting cast of characters. If you're looking for exciting political intrigue in the Mongol Empire then look no further.
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Marco Polo season 2 is up. If you have an DolbyVision TV watch this, I think it's the best HDR TV content out there.
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Remulak posted:If you have an DolbyVision TV watch this, I think it's the best HDR TV content out there. The production design is absolutely gorgeous. I saw it on a 4k TV once and was gobsmacked. Also Joan Chen  . I love how the theme song incorporates Chinese, Mongolian, and Venetian elements.Also if, like me, you assumed that Shameless was just another Always Sunny, think again. It's a really great, raunchy comedy and drama in equal parts. William H Macy crushes it.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The French show and movie are quite good. The movie is one of my favorites, based off a book called Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvis (who wrote Let The Right one in).
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Short Penguin posted:The movie is one of my favorites, based off a book called Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvis (who wrote Let The Right one in). Whoa, I had no clue. I guess I should read it...
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Iron Crowned posted:I just finished watching Ashby on Netflix, and the blurb really doesn't do it justice at all. Sadly it's hard to make it any more fitting without spoiling it. Thanks for the movie recommendation it was super good.
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ten episodes in and Limitless is basically "What if Chris Pratt's character from Parks and Rec actually was recruited by the FBI" i mean there's a bit more nuance but the main character basically is Andy Dwyer.
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So it looks like they just added all (or most?) of the JASH content onto Prime. I remember hearing this plugged on the Earwolf podcasts a few years ago, but never really sought it out. It seems to have a ton of really odd, short films/episodes. So far I've really liked Catherine, a 12 part 2 min per episode show starring Jenny Slate. I love Slate so I love this one. I also watched a ten minute film starring Gillian Jacobs called It's Not You, It's Me. Everything's really weird and some of it doesn't hit for me, but there are a lot of Earwolf adjacent people who are really funny involved.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend just got added to US Netflix a week or two ago and so far I'm finding it hilarious. It's got characters so likeable you overlook how pathetic they are and how bad their decision making is, wrapped up in over the top ridiculous yet still incredibly high quality musical numbers.
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Edminster posted:ten episodes in and Limitless is basically "What if Chris Pratt's character from Parks and Rec actually was recruited by the FBI" It is such a shame that this show didn't get renewed. My favorite new show of last year.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Whoa, I had no clue. I guess I should read it... Not to clog up the post with book recommendations, i'll just say every one of his books is amazing.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Are they all available in English? yup!!!  I got most of my copies from barnes and nobles
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I'm half way through the 2nd part (of 3) of NSU German History X on Netflix and I gotta say this is probably the best drama I've watched this year. Really well done & acted. Based on a true story, it tells the tale of some folks who got involved in the national socialist underground, from their indoctrination in the early 90s up to them plotting terrorism and committing hate crimes. Then it shifts to showing you the before & after lives of the victims. And finally the official investigation that is plagued by racist officials & government scandal. I guess this was a big story in Germany and there's still an ongoing trial there, but here in the US I had never heard any of this. Highly recommend
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I just watched Deathgasm, and now I want to stay up all night listening to all the metal.
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Good to see recommendations for the last 2 things I just added to my queue earlier today.
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DOMDOM posted:I'm half way through the 2nd part (of 3) of NSU German History X please watch this
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LloydDobler posted:Crazy Ex-Girlfriend just got added to US Netflix a week or two ago and so far I'm finding it hilarious. It's got characters so likeable you overlook how pathetic they are and how bad their decision making is, wrapped up in over the top ridiculous yet still incredibly high quality musical numbers. Yeah, The Cw just signed an exclusivity deal with Netflix. From now on all CW shows will be on Netflix seven days after the last episode of the season airs.
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Terminator Gyniesus is unsafe at any speed.
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The Big Short is good.
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K, church, what am I streaming tonight? Netflix options - Life (2015) - A War (2015) - Cemetery of Splendour (2015) - The Big Short (2015) - Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) - The Sting (1973) HBO Options - Black Mass (2015) - Jem and the Holograms (2015) - Suffragette (2015) - Lost River (2014)
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What do ya'll think of Black Sails? I have the Starz subscription added on to Amazon Prime and am curious if it's worth checking out.
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K. Waste posted:K, church, what am I streaming tonight? The Big Short. Do not watch Black Mass, it's really bad.
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Can confirm that you should watch The Big Short and definitely not watch Black Mass because it's boring as gently caress. I also really loved Lost River but it's definitely not for everyone.
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