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K. Waste posted:That'd be a futile argument. I'm sure that's true of most arguments in CD, but it's certainly a way better show than 'depressingly bad' . Like, the movie is very clearly a series of unconnected sketches they tried to stitch together and suffers for it. The pacing also kinda drags in the middle to end section and the climax is kinda limp and predictable. I still love the movie, but I do mean it when I say the show is more tightly written and snappier than the movie. Also, a lot more words about the show being good if anyone cares: http://www.avclub.com/tv/wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp/
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precision posted:Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I'd say it's almost as good as Drive, but not as good as Valhalla Rising. Neon Demon has to be first movie in a long time to make me go 'oh gently caress they are not going there are they?'. Yep they did, and it was a lot worse than I thought it would be ( of course I'm talking about the necrophilia scene). I need to digest wtf I just watched, but it was beautifully shot and I did like it.
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What time do you think you'll be watching Wet Hot American Summer 10 Years Later?
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nate fisher posted:Neon Demon has to be first movie in a long time to make me go 'oh gently caress they are not going there are they?'. Yep they did, and it was a lot worse than I thought it would be ( of course I'm talking about the necrophilia scene). I need to digest wtf I just watched, but it was beautifully shot and I did like it.
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CaptCommy posted:The TV series? I'd argue it's tighter and funnier than the movie is by a good margin. I know some people like it, it just really didn't agree with me. "Avoid at all costs" is pushing my opinion a bit far, I guess.
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Oh man, What About Bob is on Netflix. I think as I kid I watched that more than any movie I have seen in my life but I haven't watched it in at least 20 years.
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veni veni veni posted:Oh man, What About Bob is on Netflix. I think as I kid I watched that more than any movie I have seen in my life but I haven't watched it in at least 20 years. It holds up.
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veni veni veni posted:Oh man, What About Bob is on Netflix. I think as I kid I watched that more than any movie I have seen in my life but I haven't watched it in at least 20 years. Watched it last week. It holds up fantastically.
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precision posted:What About Bob is a masterpiece. Seriously. My wife watched it as a kid and hated it but I convinced her to give it a try and she realized its genius.
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Green Room just went on Amazon Prime. I heard great things and missed it in theaters, so I'm excited to catch it on streaming!
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Hubbardologist posted:Green Room just went on Amazon Prime. I heard great things and missed it in theaters, so I'm excited to catch it on streaming! Movie is amazing, everyone watch it. Unless you're really squeamish.
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Hubbardologist posted:Green Room just went on Amazon Prime. I heard great things and missed it in theaters, so I'm excited to catch it on streaming! gently caress yes. Been waiting to see this.
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Into The Inferno is great. It goes into very strange places. Like the volcanos it is showing, it is beautiful and sometimes terrifying.
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Sicario left me feeling frustrated. The ending felt flat to me. Did anyone else feel the same way? It felt like a movie that didn't have anything new to say about the War on Drugs. Nothing that can't already be gleaned from NPR and whatnot. Green Room was a brutal film to watch. That hand 
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I just rewatched GoldenEye for the first time in almost 20 years. It's sure to give you fond memories, especially if you played the N64 game as much as I did as a kid. It holds up surprisingly well, much better than the later Brosnan Bond films. Also I'm sure Xenia Onotopp planted the seed of dominatrix fantasy deep in many a young man. Definitely recommended I was also weakly drunk rngd in the womb posted:Sicario left me feeling frustrated. The ending felt flat to me. Did anyone else feel the same way? It felt like a movie that didn't have anything new to say about the War on Drugs. Nothing that can't already be gleaned from NPR and whatnot. Green Room was a brutal film to watch. That hand The movie seems less about the War on Drugs and more about how an idealistic young cop is unable to keep up with the brutal new realities of the war, on both the side of law enforcement and the drug lords themselves My opinion anyway. The movie didn't go where I was expecting it to go, especially since I had Emily Blunt's character from All You Need is Live Die Repeat fresh in my memory.
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I just realized that Spectre is on Amazon Prime Video. Did that get added alongside the other Bond flicks? I heard mixed things about it. If I liked the other Craig bond films is it worth a watch?
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rngd in the womb posted:Sicario left me feeling frustrated. The ending felt flat to me. Did anyone else feel the same way? It felt like a movie that didn't have anything new to say about the War on Drugs. Nothing that can't already be gleaned from NPR and whatnot. Green Room was a brutal film to watch. That hand I hate to go all "it was intentional!" on you, but I do think a certain level of frustration is what Villeneuve was going for. I guess you're right that its not making some new mind-blowing statement, but the movie's coming from the perspective of an idealistic cop who learns that she has zero power to change anything and will only become a likelier and likelier victim the more she stays in that world. Nothing is really being accomplished and nobody knows who the good guys are anymore. The events of the movie depict a bunch of alpha male's trying to justify their own existences while the unstoppable machine's wheels never stop turning for a second and there's no sign that they ever will. Frustration is a big part of that I think.
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If it weren't for the bronco, What About Bob wouldn't feel out of place being released today. It really holds up.
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Sicario is less about the War on Drugs and more about fanaticism. The opening text about the etymology of cartel-jargon is extremely crucial.
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Rad Valtar posted:I just realized that Spectre is on Amazon Prime Video. Did that get added alongside the other Bond flicks? I heard mixed things about it. If I liked the other Craig bond films is it worth a watch? IMO any Craig Bond movie is worth at least one watch, but I think in general it's regarded as kind of a whiff. It has it's defenders though so give it a shot.
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Rad Valtar posted:I just realized that Spectre is on Amazon Prime Video. Did that get added alongside the other Bond flicks? I heard mixed things about it. If I liked the other Craig bond films is it worth a watch? I remember liking it, but I also don't remember anything about it other than the opening and the ending.
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pizza valentine posted:I remember liking it, but I also don't remember anything about it other than the opening and the ending. Other than the earliest Daniel Craig Bond film, most have been bad. Another waste of an OK actor in terrible Bond films. girth brooks part 2 posted:A Team Man that show has not aged well at all.
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Doctor Butts posted:Other than the earliest Daniel Craig Bond film, most have been bad. Another waste of an OK actor in terrible Bond films. Craig has had four movies, two of which I think are among the best Bond films ever, which doesn't seem like a waste unless you just really dislike Bond movies. The other two are misses with some good pieces that at least make them worth a viewing. Spectre is indeed sort of mediocre, but is worth a watch. The opening is good, and there's an insanely gigantic and pricey explosion in the middle that's pretty cool.
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I think Craig made two upper class Jason Borne movies and some very dull throwback Bonds that were made for the sake of Nostalgia.
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A lot of the distaste for the new films is that people actually have no idea what the source material is actually like, so they think that bimbos and sly one-liners and cars that turn into planes are de rigeur when it's actually more about Bond being a sociopath who gets his balls decimated in the first novel and never really recovers but always strives to regain his lost manhood
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coyo7e posted:A lot of the distaste for the new films is that people actually have no idea what the source material is actually like, so they think that bimbos and sly one-liners and cars that turn into planes are de rigeur when it's actually more about Bond being a sociopath who gets his balls decimated in the first novel and never really recovers but always strives to regain his lost manhood Nah, a lot of the distaste for the new films is that they more or less completely fail to live up to the promise of Casino Royale. Also, they cannot decide what kind of story they want to tell, because in the space of the first three movies they go from "Here's Bond's very first mission" to "Bond, you're way too old to do your job anymore". They clearly had a very different direction they wanted to go after Quantum and it didn't really jive. Also, showing us Bond's childhood home was a mistake. That should have been left 100% in mystery.
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Casino Royal was fantastic and every Craig bond movie after was bad to terrible.
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All that said, Spectre is completely worth watching for free, it does have some good points. Put it on while you play 3DS or something.
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Yeah the new bonds are boring and bleak because I don't want to read the books
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Thanks for all of the posts on Sicario. I took the movie a bit too literal (causing me to be unprepared for the deflation that was the ending), but I'm thinking about it in a new way and I like it more now.
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coyo7e posted:A lot of the distaste for the new films is that people actually have no idea what the source material is actually like, so they think that bimbos and sly one-liners and cars that turn into planes are de rigeur when it's actually more about Bond being a sociopath who gets his balls decimated in the first novel and never really recovers but always strives to regain his lost manhood I've read those novels and I'd rather watch Sean Connery.
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precision posted:All that said, Spectre is completely worth watching for free, it does have some good points. Put it on while you play 3DS or something. I still quite like the way they stage and frame Blofeld throughout the film.
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Are the Bond books actually good? My impression is that they're pretty pulpy. The Bond movies really seemed like Big Serious Movies when I was little but every time I've rewatched one in modern times I've regretted it. Casino Royale / Skyfall are easily among the top tier if I compare them to the reality of older Bond films instead of my hazy nostalgia for them.
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david_a posted:Are the Bond books actually good? My impression is that they're pretty pulpy. The first eight or so are very good, in my opinion, excepting The Spy Who Loved Me which is just vile.
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david_a posted:Are the Bond books actually good? My impression is that they're pretty pulpy. They are pulpy and have dated views, but the prose is okay. I've heard they only got popular in American because JFK said he was a big fan in an interview, which sky-rocketed sales and got Broccoli and Saltzman interested in making a movie.
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The_Rob posted:Casino Royal was fantastic and every Craig bond movie after was bad to terrible. What? Skyfall was the best Home Alone sequel ever.
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:What? Skyfall was the best
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At their best the Bond films are a great travelogue series. They're usually shot pretty well and make great use of exotic locations, the Connery Bonds look great on blu ray.
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Basebf555 posted:At their best the Bond films are a great travelogue series. They're usually shot pretty well and make great use of exotic locations, the Connery Bonds look great on blu ray. They really do look great on Blu Ray. I got that Blu Ray boxset 2 years ago I think. There's something very comforting about the movies if you grew up watching them at all. My favorite rainy day/nap movies ever. I love them. For whatever reason I've noticed they've been becoming more and more available to watch On Demand and on streaming devices, which is surprising to me for whatever reason - I just feel like they'd be one of those series' where you have to buy the boxset to ever be able to watch them, I'm glad though.
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