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Pretty sure it used to be on Netflix, no? I know I watched it (legally) somewhere this year.
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Dec 25, 2016 19:14
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It was definitely on Netflix, but I think they removed it.
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Dec 25, 2016 19:16
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coyo7e posted:For instance, I recently saw the newest Magnificent Seven and while it was okay, it had some really obnoxious poo poo that seemed like ti was trying to go all mainstream libueral bias - I don't recall half the people surviving in Seven Samurai or Magnificent Seven (although it's been a while since I saw the original mag7) - and were all the survivors literally just minority raced people in the party the only ones who survived? That seemed a bit clumsy, at best Three of the town's defenders survive in Seven Samurai. Three of the town's defenders survive in The Magnificent Seven (1960). Three of the town's defenders survive in The Magnificent Seven (2016).
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Dec 25, 2016 19:39
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Sabotage really sucked, but it was a fun kind of suck.
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Dec 25, 2016 19:46
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Tainen posted:If you are into single takes check out Victoria. It's a 2 hour movie shot in a single take with an amazing scope. Story issues aside I thought it was amazing. thanks
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Dec 25, 2016 20:02
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GonSmithe posted:It was definitely on Netflix, but I think they removed it. The "What Should I Watch on Streaming?" Megathread: It was on Netflix, but they removed it
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Dec 25, 2016 20:04
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tweet my meat posted:Sabotage really sucked, but it was a fun kind of suck. What are you saying? Graham Greene and Tony Todd were awesome! Oh...thattt Sabotage not the good one.
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Dec 26, 2016 02:51
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The moaning of life seems to be literally the same show as idiot abroad but it's still funny as hell.
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Dec 26, 2016 03:35
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The OA was so bad you guys
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Dec 26, 2016 18:59
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Which is a shame, I thought Brit Marling's other works The East and Another Earth with her frequent collaborators were pretty decent. What makes The OA bad aside from this dancing away a school shooting everyone keeps going on about?
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Dec 26, 2016 20:32
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God Hole posted:Which is a shame, I thought Brit Marling's other works The East and Another Earth with her frequent collaborators were pretty decent. What makes The OA bad aside from this dancing away a school shooting everyone keeps going on about? The episodes leading up to that have moments, many moments, that are good or at least OK. The ending is just so bad it retroactively taints the whole mess. I started Travelers last night but the first episode didn't really grab me, does it keep getting better?
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Dec 26, 2016 20:34
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precision posted:The episodes leading up to that have moments, many moments, that are good or at least OK. The ending is just so bad it retroactively taints the whole mess. Travelers gets ok. Some parts are fun and it is certainly easy to watch. The blonde is pretty good. The FBI agent guy is a good actor too.
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Dec 26, 2016 23:02
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Mr. F! posted:Tusk is good cause of the walrus costume. Plus I like Justin long LogisticEarth posted:This is slightly off topic, but does anyone know how to stop the "preview/autoplay" that Netflix seems to have recently rolled out in the Roku? It used to be just the highlighted feature at the top of the menu. But now it starts to play every goddamn video in the main menu if you pause on it for more than four seconds. Who the gently caress thought that was a good idea? Roadie posted:Three of the town's defenders survive in Seven Samurai. Inspector Hound posted:I don't like to think that i get offended, but even after having slept on it i can't really describe the end as anything but offensive or at least ridiculously tone deaf and in unthinkably poor taste. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Dec 27, 2016 01:48
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coyo7e posted:
Hahah i don't give a poo poo about political correctness, how can you watch that scene and not have your testicles crawl up into your body out of sheer embarrassment for the writers who came up with it and the actors who had to do it on film and in front of a crew
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Dec 27, 2016 10:36
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A MIRACLE posted:The OA was so bad you guys I was enjoying it, thinking there would be a nice payoff in the end. I finished it last night and have no idea what I watched.
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Dec 27, 2016 13:51
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Sarchasm posted:I suppose some people in the thread might want to make use of this. Rent any movie through Amazon for just $0.99. Sweeeet! Thanks Dude!
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Dec 27, 2016 16:17
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Is it worth keeping my HBO addition after the 30 day free trial? It looks like it has some great movies, but 15 a month is a lot.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is it worth keeping my HBO addition after the 30 day free trial? It looks like it has some great movies, but 15 a month is a lot. Its the kind of thing that's better if you pick it up for like 2 months, focus on watching everything you want to in that time, and then drop it for the like 6-8 months and let some more movies build up.
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Dec 27, 2016 20:16
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pahuyuth posted:Barely made it through the first episode of Travelers. Bad pacing, horrible dialogue. Not watching any more of this as I feel it's probably gonna be worse than The OA I have not watched one moment of OA since I've heard it feels like a rip-off of Stranger Things' Special Girl, but there are a few things that definitely bothered me about Travelers. I'm only a couple of episodes in, so I don't know how much of this changes. I'm comparing this a lot to Continuum, so I apologize. The biggest thing that bothered me was that the Travelers don't have a character tether between themselves and the present (so far). I was really disheartened when the FBI guy got his conscience taken away. He seemed like the best kind of person to deal with this group of people and whatever they need to do. For the time travel stuff, I think Continuum did a good job of tying the main character to someone in our present, with a kind of go-between (for lack of a better term) like Carlos. Carlos wasn't in on everything, but he was also a good vehicle for exposition between the present and future. The other thing that Continuum had that Travelers doesn't yet seem to have are bad guys. Since there's been no real bad guys shown, I'm imagining it will be either The Director, or people from the future who just love the present too much. I'm sure we'll find out more about the deal with the Travelers and why they're trying to change things in the past, but it kind of bugs me that I can't make sense of why they're doing this. Sure, they say their future sucks. In that I imagine a terrible post-apocalyptic wasteland where mankind is almost gone. However, they state (and show) that there are thousands of Travelers in the present and they mostly seem very keen on fulfilling their mission objectives instead of merely just escaping their terrible future.
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K. Waste posted:Most of them are actually watchable because they do enter into this spectrum of trashy where the latitude for absurdity and pitch black humor goes way up; but they inevitably devolve, like most mainstream comedies, towards the same melodramatic/romantic-comic conclusion, with commodities literally being a foundation of happiness and reward. They also tend to look much blander than, say, Super Troopers, even. I think You Don't Mess With the Zohan justifies Sandler for another couple of years at least.
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Dec 27, 2016 22:15
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:On that note, what's something to watch that's cynical as hell but also fun. Something that's downright gleeful about the unrepentant horribleness going on. The Ice Harvest. Mr. Right. Go. Margin Call. Pretty much any Shane Black movie. Hateful 8? EDIT: Roadie posted:Three of the town's defenders survive in Seven Samurai. Uh, but those people were white/asian as all hell though. loving libertards! EDIT 2: A post above me reminded me, Korean movies have what you're looking for in spades. Try something like The Host, for example. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Dec 27, 2016 22:19
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Shageletic posted:I think You Don't Mess With the Zohan justifies Sandler for another couple of years at least. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like his most certifiably Stephen Chow-derived star-vehicle. Sandler's films have never been particularly awful, they've just always been disappointingly mediocre for how absurdist they ostensibly are. The Ridiculous 6 is even at least as good as The Hateful 8.
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K. Waste posted:I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like his most certifiably Stephen Chow-derived star-vehicle. Sandler's films have never been particularly awful, they've just always been disappointingly mediocre for how absurdist they ostensibly are. The Ridiculous 6 is even at least as good as The Hateful 8. Considering I had to bail from the 6 after one minute and seven lovely indian and blind jokes, I somehow doubt that. But Zohan is not like a Stephen Chow movie really (don't know why that's the guy you're comparing to his movies, Chow is Bergman compared to most of Sandler's pap). It's clever social commentary coupled with some, yes, racial jokes, but done in a very sardonic and even heartfelt manner. It's great and ridiculous.
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Started watching the Netflix show Crazyhead. It's about two 20-something English girls who can see demons, and become self made demon hunters. Only two episodes in but I'm digging it so far. It's very British and makes me miss Spaced, Coupling, and Peep Show.
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Dec 28, 2016 01:47
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Bleak fun movie addition: the iceman.
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I tried to watch the Night Manager last night and couldn't do it. Not sure what I was expecting, but I thought it was boring as hell and couldn't bring myself to watch the second episode.
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Dec 28, 2016 02:41
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It picks up as it goes along, but there are better John le Carre adaptations out there.
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K. Waste posted:The Ridiculous 6 is even at least as good as The Hateful 8. I agree with plenty of the weird poo poo you say man but this is a step too far.
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Ridiculous 6 is borderline unwatchable, and moreso than most Sandler stuff.Inspector Hound posted:Hahah i don't give a poo poo about political correctness, how can you watch that scene and not have your testicles crawl up into your body out of sheer embarrassment for the writers who came up with it and the actors who had to do it on film and in front of a crew Stranger Things was a kids' movie - a la Stand By Me, Goonies, E.T.. OA is more like a string of 80s teen movies mixed in with maybe a john carpenter or stephen king shtick.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:On that note, what's something to watch that's cynical as hell but also fun. Something that's downright gleeful about the unrepentant horribleness going on. re WoWS, The Big Short probably fits. Also Margin Call, as mentioned already. Been ages since I've seen Fallen, but after that and the Guest, I'd suggest either version of Funny Games (I think Hulu had the original Austrian version for a while, though I like the American version for Tim Roth, Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet's performances). It's largely gleeful in that it revels in punishing its audience for even wanting to watch torture porn, although it's presented in such a way so as to show almost no gore, and to go to lengths to make the audience extremely bored during brutally violent scenes. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but the entire thing is effectively one large engine of sadistic glee. For more conventional fare, Sexy Beast and Gangster No. 1 also fit broadly, though I have no idea if they are available to stream.
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Funny Games put me through the wringer. Just a warning. I love how it basically leaks all the fun out of the slasher genre, shoving the audience's collective face into its own pee, saying IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT THEN HERE
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K. Waste posted:The Ridiculous 6 is even at least as good as The Hateful 8.
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The Hateful 8 was good, just maybe not quite as good as Tarantino's previous two films. Not shockingly bad at all, just good.
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Basebf555 posted:The Hateful 8 was good, just maybe not quite as good as Tarantino's previous two films. Not shockingly bad at all, just good. It worked really well during the roadshow screening I attended at The Music Box. I'm curious how well it would play in a home setup.
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Dec 28, 2016 17:58
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Hateful Eight is not without positive qualities but it's definitely the weakest thing he's made since Kill Bill (or, if you're one of the many people who likes Kill Bill, his worst since Death Proof).
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Hateful Eight is not without positive qualities but it's definitely the weakest thing he's made since Kill Bill (or, if you're one of the many people who likes Kill Bill, his worst since Death Proof). That's pretty strong coming from you.
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Dec 28, 2016 19:02
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's pretty strong coming from you. to clarify, I actually like Death Proof, but it's hard to argue that it isn't minor Tarantino. and I realize not caring for Kill Bill much at all makes me an outlier. Hateful Eight was okay.
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Dec 28, 2016 19:03
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Basebf555 posted:The Hateful 8 was good, just maybe not quite as good as Tarantino's previous two films. Not shockingly bad at all, just good. I think a big flaw was making two westerns in a row. A big draw to Tarantino is that your link, your anchor, is his name. You just know what to expect from "a Tarantino movie". The fun surprise is that each movie offers a new genre. We've had Heist, (Neo-)Noir, Slapstick Comedy Anthology, Vampire, Sting, Martial Arts, Grindhouse, War, Western, and then...Another Western? There was no way he was going to out-do Django. I get that it's a completely different story and story-telling, but it just doesn't work as a follow-up, which was inevitably what it would be compared to. It also doesn't work with his filmography's rhythm, other than he managed to get "8" in the title of his 8th movie, for which no one gives a poo poo except for him.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:to clarify, I actually like Death Proof, but it's hard to argue that it isn't minor Tarantino. and I realize not caring for Kill Bill much at all makes me an outlier. Watching it while bearing in mind that it's Tarantino's stab at The Thing makes the movie great. The Western angle is just the vehicle to frame the tale. If I hadn't heard/read somewhere that it was some kind of riff/homage/tribute to The Thing, I probably would've skipped it. e: and if, by some chance, I got that completely wrong, well, getting it wrong made me love the movie. magnificent7 fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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