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Honestly Green Room is probably the best movie I watched all year.
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I've never seen Top Gear before but The Grand Tour is literally like 'hey what if we did Forza Horizon 3 IRL' It's also very weird how they sweetened up the crowd response. It sounds more like an infomercial.
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Nov 19, 2016 03:25
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It felt like the old Top Gear but with 100x the budget. The opening sequence is rumored to have cost over 2 million bucks.
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Nov 19, 2016 03:30
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precision posted:Honestly Green Room is probably the best movie I watched all year. Someone hasn't seen Belgica
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Nov 19, 2016 03:43
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Blaxpoitation Streaming Service @ $4 a month http://www.brownsugar.com/ http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/blaxploitation-movies-streaming-brown-sugar-1201920554/ posted:African-American network Bounce TV is jumping into the subscription VOD biz with Brown Sugar, a $3.99-per-month service with mostly ’70s-era blaxploitation films including “Shaft,” “Foxy Brown,” “Super Fly,” “Cleopatra Jones,” “Blacula” and “The Mack.”
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Nov 19, 2016 06:44
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Any word on the video quality of this before I give them my credit card number? As a white millennial dipshit I do love Blaxploitation but the vast majority of what's out there seems to be VHS quality and even at $4 a month that ain't worth paying for.
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Nov 19, 2016 07:37
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Human Tornada posted:Any word on the video quality of this before I give them my credit card number? As a white millennial dipshit I do love Blaxploitation but the vast majority of what's out there seems to be VHS quality and even at $4 a month that ain't worth paying for. There's a free month trial as every streaming service is apparently obligated to engage in
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Nov 19, 2016 09:09
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Call Me Charlie posted:I've never seen Top Gear before but The Grand Tour is literally like 'hey what if we did Forza Horizon 3 IRL' The worst parts about the episode were Mike Skinner (the American test driver), the lack of celebrity track runs, the faked audience fight, and the irritating digital lap board. The Eboladrome is a bit boring as well. Skinner was the worst, though. Both their stupid characterization of him as well as his idiotic dialogue while driving. I don't want to watch someone drive around a track and act bored or dismissive about it; get someone who looks like they're having fun, or just go back to a mute, faceless tamed race driver.
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Nov 19, 2016 12:37
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coyo7e posted:oh come on now, that's a pretty extreme stance It's a bit nutty.
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Is there a streaming device where amazon prime doesn't have a terrible interface? I watch it through my blu player now, and it's so clunky and hard to navigate that it's making me not want to watch it. If I get a set-top box like a roku or a fire, will it be easier to navigate p, or is that just what prime looks like?
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Nov 19, 2016 20:25
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Does Amazon cycle its content more than Netflix? This is completely anecdotal, but it seems as though movies on Amazon move between Prime and not-Prime on fairly short intervals. I'll add a movie to my watchlist, have it leave prime, and then see it available again a few months later.
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Nov 19, 2016 21:17
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Jack Gladney posted:Is there a streaming device where amazon prime doesn't have a terrible interface? I watch it through my blu player now, and it's so clunky and hard to navigate that it's making me not want to watch it. If I get a set-top box like a roku or a fire, will it be easier to navigate p, or is that just what prime looks like? It's terrible on 360/ps3/ps4 and PC too.
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Nov 19, 2016 21:17
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Is there a streaming service that doesn't have a horrible interface?
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veni veni veni posted:Is there a streaming service that doesn't have a horrible interface? Amazon is laggy and keeps jumping back to the front of the queue when I'm browsing. Netflix was pretty good on the last gen apple tv--the new one is rear end.
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Nov 19, 2016 22:19
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Jack Gladney posted:Amazon is laggy and keeps jumping back to the front of the queue when I'm browsing. Netflix was pretty good on the last gen apple tv--the new one is rear end. But Green Room was awesome, although I was expecting more of a Patrick Stewart chewing scenery than revenge slasher. I didn't realize the tie with Blue Ruin's protagonist's actor  True Memoirs of an International Assassin is also better than it had a right to be, so props to it
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Nov 19, 2016 22:23
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veni veni veni posted:Is there a streaming service that doesn't have a horrible interface? I think they take it for granted that people will use their services regardless of how lovely their interfaces are. I think Amazon is worse than Netflix on PS4. The video quality differences are pretty noticeable on PS4 however, at least for me. The Netflix picture is degraded far more often than Amazon, and it doesn't cache nearly as much as Amazon does either. I'm on FiOS and get a bit over 25 MB/s consistently on my notebook, I assume the PS4 is similar so the lower bandwidth isn't on my end. I assume Netflix has to compress their output more because they have more users and a larger library, but the end result is Netflix often looks like crap.
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Nov 19, 2016 23:06
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The Lion in Your Living Room on Netflix is a documentary about cats. It is good and I like watching cats.
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Nov 19, 2016 23:59
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veni veni veni posted:Is there a streaming service that doesn't have a horrible interface? HBO Now is fine except when you have to manually scroll to the end of a season of a show to see the latest episode.
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precision posted:HBO Now is fine except when you have to manually scroll to the end of a season of a show to see the latest episode. That alone makes it the worst one though. Yes lets skip through 50 episodes of john Oliver to watch the new one.
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Nov 20, 2016 04:14
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veni veni veni posted:That alone makes it the worst one though. Yes lets skip through 50 episodes of john Oliver to watch the new one. Haha, that was the exact show I had in mind too. I get the best streaming quality out of HBO Now, but I mean, poo poo, I better, poo poo's $16 a month.
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Nov 20, 2016 04:25
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It's also horrible about saving where you left off if you wait more than a day to resume something and when I chromecast it the app seems to completely lose track of what it's playing. At least it's finally on PS4
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Nov 20, 2016 04:37
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There's enough streaming services that jumping between free trials gives u a years experience at least
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Speaking of HBO now, I just watched I am Legend for the first time since it came out and it's better than I remember even if it's pretty cliche. Man, does the CGI drag that movie down though. It's one of those movies that uses cgi even when it doesn't need to and it's really distracting.
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veni veni veni posted:Speaking of HBO now, I just watched I am Legend for the first time since it came out and it's better than I remember even if it's pretty cliche. Man, does the CGI drag that movie down though. It's one of those movies that uses cgi even when it doesn't need to and it's really distracting. I much prefer the practical effects from Omega Man, cheesy though they may be. I also like everything else about the movie more than I Am Legend, but I will say that Will Smith did a better job than his own average.
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That's the thing, the movie has a REALLY good performance from Will Smith, it's just there's stuff dragging it down too (notably that STUPID ending that test audiences forced on it.)
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What was the original ending? Yeah definitely a good performance by Will Smith though. Overall it was really entertaining and well paced with a surprisingly restrained length at only an hour and a half (although it actually might have benefited from being longer). The monsters were the only huge drawback to me. The ending wasn't great but I didn't think it was terrible. Just way too much blatant cgi and it showed them way too often and they aren't particularly scary. Their behavior is kind of nonsensical too. There is the one that is clearly the leader or at least is supposed to be significant in some way but they don't do anything with it. They are animalistic but they keep attack dogs? They set traps? If they didn't set that snare trap who did? Was the main vampire guy pissed about the girl Will Smith kidnapped? Who was she? None of that poo poo was addressed.
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 I just googled the original ending and I guess that addresses half my questions. Actually never mind the theatrical ending is terrible now that I think about it.
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veni veni veni posted:
The book is even better, the vampires point out that he's been murdering them in their sleep, and he's the monster, then they execute him
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The original ending is great and the title makes a lot more sense in that context.
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I remember back when it came out there was an argument here that sharply divided the community over whether the mannequin in the middle of the street actually moved when Smith drove by. Not since the great "Do Star Trek transporters actually transport you, or just kill you and rebuild a copy of you on the other end" argument have people so vociferously argued their point.
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Inspector Hound posted:The book is even better, the vampires point out that he's been murdering them in their sleep, and he's the monster, then they execute him Yep. Removing that kind of ruins the I Am Legend title. I still think there hasn't been a true adaptation of the book. I just watched Omega Man again the other day, and it is awful as I remember it. Also The Last Man on Earth was decent but lacking. I guess in the end Night of the Living Dead is really the best adaptation of I Am Legend. You can honestly blame this book for The Walking Dead.
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How is Byzantium?
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nate fisher posted:Yep. Removing that kind of ruins the I Am Legend title. I still think there hasn't been a true adaptation of the book. I just watched Omega Man again the other day, and it is awful as I remember it. Also The Last Man on Earth was decent but lacking. What's lacking about it?
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Franchescanado posted:How is Byzantium? It's okay. It's well enough made, but there's not much to it. Might be worth it if you really like the premise of a mother/daughter vampire duo, or are a Gemma Arterton fan or something.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I remember back when it came out there was an argument here that sharply divided the community over whether the mannequin in the middle of the street actually moved when Smith drove by. Apparently you missed the "Androids or Aliens in the end?" argument from A.I.:Artificial Intelligence Got yelled at by the only goon I know IRL because he was so committed to his position that they were Aliens
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You guys were right about what about bob holding up. The dynamic between Richard Dreyfus and Bill Murray is loving hilarious.
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On that note, are there any other movies like WAB, or with Dreyfus or Murray in their prime, that hold up like it does?
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:On that note, are there any other movies like WAB, or with Dreyfus or Murray in their prime, that hold up like it does? Groundhog Day is timeless, and I know it's incredibly sentimental and cheesy, but I have a soft spot for Mr. Holland's Opus.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:On that note, are there any other movies like WAB, or with Dreyfus or Murray in their prime, that hold up like it does? possibly Scrooged, but I haven't seen it in quite some time as for Dreyfus, Jaws is obviously a timeless classic but in a very different vein
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