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"A guy from Britain" seems like a funny and weird way to refer to Warren Ellis.
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It's how you know they're not talking about Nick Cave's violinist.
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Jul 10, 2017 17:27
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:"A guy from Britain" seems like a funny and weird way to refer to Warren Ellis.
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Jul 10, 2017 17:44
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Two episodes in and Castlevania is pretty cool
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Jul 10, 2017 17:56
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business hammocks posted:It's how you know they're not talking about Nick Cave's violinist. When I discovered the Dirty Three, for like 30 minutes I thought Warren Ellis the writer was actually in the band.
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Jul 10, 2017 18:03
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nate fisher posted:When I discovered the Dirty Three, for like 30 minutes I thought Warren Ellis the writer was actually in the band. Conversely, I discovered the Bad Seeds and the Dirty Three in, oh, 1996 or 1997 or so, so a few years later when I heard about Warren Ellis the writer I was like, "Wait a minute, the violin psycho does comics?"
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Jul 10, 2017 18:15
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It would honestly explain a lot and that guy is cooler than the real Warren Ellis anyhow.
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Timby posted:Conversely, I discovered the Bad Seeds and the Dirty Three in, oh, 1996 or 1997 or so, so a few years later when I heard about Warren Ellis the writer I was like, "Wait a minute, the violin psycho does comics?" Hahaha same, especially since that was pre-Internet so I had no way of checking. I knew a lot of people who thought they were the same guy. e: related, for anyone who hasn't let the Dirty Three grace their ear holes yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2xprLZAVbk e2: also voted "band least likely to be Australian" in my brain precision fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Jul 10, 2017 |
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Jul 10, 2017 20:08
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The Void was interesting. Overall I really dug the tension and never-fully-explained mythos, it was like a Lovecraftian fort movie. The lower budget forced them into a higher suspense to brutal violence ratio than they might have gone with, and I'm personally kind of a sucker for wide eyed characters solemnly describing some horrifying thing the audience never actually gets to see clearly or at all. The third act did slow way down compared to the pacing of the rest of the movie though, and some of the setup at the beginning was a little uneven (they sure were mad at that meth head for no real reason, apparently even chucking the nurse's dead body into his room instead of just leaving her in a room that already had a dead guy in it, unless I was supposed to have gotten that she had walked in there after her becoming or whatever). Also, I am now scared of triangles.
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Jul 11, 2017 00:00
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The Void was partly interesting to me because the situation pretty quickly got so insanely dire that I abandoned any sense of hope for any of the characters. I felt very little tension when it came to chase sequences, narrow escapes, etc., and I'm not even sure that was a bad thing. By the end I was kind of impressed by the villain's dedication to his cause, and he even seems to have helped the main couple overcome their grief and reunite (albeit maybe only in some kind of freaky afterlife). I think I maybe got so desensitized by the gore (like the ridiculous amount of axe hits they dole out to the Bev-monster) that it stopped being shocking about halfway through.
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Visually I thought it was cool if not a bit hokey at times, but I never found myself that invested in the story, possibly for the reasons you mentioned. It wasn't boring but I certainly didn't feel much tension or the need to find out what happens next.
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I liked The Void overall but yeah the story felt flat. A smaller complaint is that the green screen work (or whatever they used) in the final shot was bad and sort of unnecessary but hey it was low budget.
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Jul 11, 2017 05:30
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Can anyone recommend some fun B-movies on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu? 80s or 90s scifi or action movies would be best, but other genres/decades would work too.
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Jul 11, 2017 07:42
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I can recommend you get a better taste in movies
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DorianGravy posted:Can anyone recommend some fun B-movies on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu? 80s or 90s scifi or action movies would be best, but other genres/decades would work too. Going to rerecommend The Wraith on Netflix. It's nuts in the best way.
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Jul 11, 2017 07:56
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is surprisingly good. On Hulu.
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The GLOW documentary is so good. You can really see how faithful the show was to these wrestlers and their collective story.
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precision posted:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is surprisingly good. On Hulu. I need to give that another shot, because last time I stopped halfway through. I love 30 Rock but sometimes Tina Fey just rubs me the wrong way.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wasn't nearly as funny as I'd hoped or as politically brave as I hoped. If you're in it for a character study of a journalist it's all right, I guess.
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DorianGravy posted:Can anyone recommend some fun B-movies on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu? 80s or 90s scifi or action movies would be best, but other genres/decades would work too. Netflix seems kinda bare at the moment. There's Mortal Kombat, the '95 Judge Dredd, and Spawn. All of those are probably a bit too high-budget for what you're looking for but they might work.
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Jul 11, 2017 13:15
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P sure Prime has Chopping Mall.
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drunken officeparty posted:I can recommend you get a better taste in movies Good, more B-movies for the rest of us. Definitely watch Chopping Mall, it is amazing.
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Jul 11, 2017 19:10
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drunken officeparty posted:I can recommend you get a better taste in movies B movies own
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pfft, B movies, please. if you're not digging into the absolute worst VHS bargain box finds imaginable, you're elitist trash
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Yea, those of us who post in the horror thread ran out of B-movies, we moved on to C-movies years ago.
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david_a posted:I don't know if it's currently on any service (I saw it on Hulu a while back), but Nemesis is highly recommended. It's like 4 different movies wrapped into one utterly insane experience. the 95 Dredd is balls but Mortal Kombat unironically owns and Spawn is hilarious garbage that Michael Jai White and John Leguizamo manage to salvage some legit enjoyment out of
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Jul 11, 2017 19:36
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DorianGravy posted:Can anyone recommend some fun B-movies on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu? 80s or 90s scifi or action movies would be best, but other genres/decades would work too. In the same vein as Chopping Mall, which is excellent, it is mandatory to also recommend Death Spa on Amazon Prime. Also, all of Troma's movies are free on their YouTube, which gives you greats like Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke'Em High, Tromeo & Juliet, Terror Firmer, etc.
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Is Miami Connection still on Netflix? That's one of the greatest b-movies I've seen.
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Enos Cabell posted:Is Miami Connection still on Netflix? That's one of the greatest b-movies I've seen. Sadly it isn't. It became too popular and Netflix didn't renew their rights or whatever.
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Jul 11, 2017 19:48
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Whenever Mortal Kombat is mentioned I feel obligated to watch it again.
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tweet my meat posted:Whenever Mortal Kombat is mentioned I feel obligated to watch it again. I did that just recently. Still owns.
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Franchescanado posted:it is mandatory to also recommend Death Spa on Amazon Prime. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS? Seriously, bring on the lovely 80's horror.
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enigmahfc posted:HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS? I think you should watch Nightmare Weekend, also on Prime.
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:I think you should watch Nightmare Weekend, also on Prime. FINE. I WILL. Thank you. It also recommended me "Demented Death Farm Massacre" and "Croaked: Frog Monster From Hell"
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Franchescanado posted:FINE. I WILL. You have my permission to turn it off at the hand puppet.
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hemale in pain posted:five elements ninjas is potentially the best movie I've ever seen.  It's been a year and a half since this was posted but I'd like to alert everyone that Five Element Ninjas (aka Chinese Super Ninjas) has moved to Amazon Streaming, for the few of you who haven't already seen it. I hesitate to say it's one of the best kung fu movies of all time, but it's safe to say that it's the Shaw Brothersiest kung fu movie of all time. There are golden ninjas who use their golden shields to blind their enemies. There are tree ninjas who hide inside trees and wait for somebody to come close so that they can hug them to death. There are water ninjas who, I kid you not, enter paddling down the creek with the aid of loving floaties. I swear, it looks like they're giggling to themselves inside their costumes. The leader of the ninjas shows up, and in front of his face he opens up a fan that literally says "ninja" on it in Chinese. Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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I particularly like the bit where the ronin flicks the letter disdainfully at the Chinese.
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david_a posted:I don't know if it's currently on any service (I saw it on Hulu a while back), but Nemesis is highly recommended. It's like 4 different movies wrapped into one utterly insane experience. Albert Pyun is a mad god, and Nemesis is the proof.
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Basebf555 posted:Good, more B-movies for the rest of us. "It’s not you....I guess I’m just not used to being chased around a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots."
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Thanks for all the recommendations! I watched Five Elements Ninjas again, which is a fun movie. The only thing I don't like is the weird bits of ultraviolence. One guy loses a fight because he accidentally steps on his own intestine. Come on movie, that's gross. Next up is Death Spa!
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