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Drunk Tomato posted:Meanwhile watching people jump off the WTC, even set to Benny Hill music, is not funny past age 13 because you know that each one of those people had a life, family, dreams, aspirations, etc. I don't know man. Tribute.wmv still holds up.
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Anything good coming to the Flix in August? I spent a full hour browsing last night and couldn't find anything I felt compelled to watch.  e: those fuckers took 30 for 30: June 17 1994 off streaming 
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http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/873233-netflix-august-2017-movie-and-tv-titles-announced Giving it a quick glance: Addams Family Matrix trilogy Jackie Brown Inner Space Wet Hot American Summer Ten Years Later Marvel's The Defenders
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precision posted:Anything good coming to the Flix in August? What do you like
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Is there anywhere I can watch Night of the Comet online, legally? I'm willing to pay a one-time fee but I would prefer not to sign up for a subscription service; I already have Netflix.
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Matrix Trilogy is already on Prime, I rewatched those last week.A MIRACLE posted:What do you like Today I am in the mood for something like Crows Zero, but I think I've watched all the good Japanese crime movies on there 
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Is there anywhere I can watch Night of the Comet online, legally? I'm willing to pay a one-time fee but I would prefer not to sign up for a subscription service; I already have Netflix. It's available for $6 on Amazon streaming.
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Basebf555 posted:It's available for $6 on Amazon streaming. Awesome, thanks.
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Lucha underground is really good and you should watch it if you've ever wanted to get into watching wrestling or just finished up with GLOW and want more wrestling content.
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tweet my meat posted:Lucha underground is really good and you should watch it if you've ever wanted to get into watching wrestling or just finished up with GLOW and want more wrestling content. Oh poo poo I keep forgetting to watch that, thank you!
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Drunk Tomato posted:Fake movie violence can be funny, since you know no one was actually hurt or killed. You can kind of smile in that shocked way, or go ewwwww, but it's just a movie. And you can appreciate the work that effects people did, especially if it elicited an honest reaction out of you. When I was in HS in the early 2000s, we had those edgelord types. One trip was to a different HS whose drama club was putting on a production of the Anne Frank play. Other students snickering about the poor acting and such was one thing, but after the play there was a talk from a Holocaust survivor that had survived over two years in Treblinka and lost his entire family there. Students were making fun of him (not to his face/loud enough that he could hear it), for things like the fact he started crying during his story at points, like discussing how he was separated from his mother and siblings upon arrival and that being the last time he ever saw them. Similar thing happened when I took an elective on Vietnam. Making fun of things from We Were Soldiers and Hamburger Hill, sure whatever. There's startlingly abrupt/almost too absurd, but it's a dramatization. Mocking actual Vietnam vets after they gave a talk in our class, that's hosed. And on the 'edgelord' front, I watched that Red Pill doc on Prime. It was interesting but also 'ehhhh'. It felt like there could have been more research into claims/independent verification of the stats being tossed out. It also felt like there was a huge whiff on the topic, since the doc maker brings up at the end that there are MRAs, MGTOWs, and Red Pillers, but doesn't really go in depth beyond 'they have different views'. And good lord, the one interviewee with the missing teeth, stained shirts, vape pen (and what seems like a severe anxiety issue). It also felt like a missed opportunity that even though they constantly spouted stats about homelessness/suicide/etc. I don't think 'well guys are viewed as weak/pussies for seeking mental health help' was really mentioned as a possible contributing factor.
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Jose Oquendo posted:http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/873233-netflix-august-2017-movie-and-tv-titles-announced My favorite film to show people while watching them watch it I remember watching that in theaters with an old white demo that was clearly more expecting Garden State/Chocolat type faire & the remote control scene was just gold to witness
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Sir Kodiak posted:Yeah, I saw Apocalypto for the first time this past weekend and it's incredible. The first time I saw Apocalypto, I was on mushrooms. No idea if it holds up but man that was a memorable experience.
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Basebf555 posted:It's absurd, it's guys running headlong into wave after wave of machine guns, it's patently ridiculous(and heroic, and one of the most important moments in world history, etc.). Those "jokes" are there to demonstrate the absurdity and complete randomness of war. It's not funny, but they're structured like jokes because there is a joke going on, and the joke is on humanity. Ya exactly, there's that gag in Journey to The End of The Night but which I only rly got on a real level when I saw it repeated in The Americanization of Emily where it's just like, they're shooting at me and u want me to go towards them?
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The first time I saw Apocalypto, I was on mushrooms. No idea if it holds up but man that was a memorable experience. The sequence in the city must have been wild. It's borderline hallucinogenic watched straight.
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Sir Kodiak posted:The sequence in the city must have been wild. It's borderline hallucinogenic watched straight. Yeah that's the high point of the movie definitely, pretty unlike anything I've ever seen on film.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The first time I saw Apocalypto, I was on mushrooms. No idea if it holds up but man that was a memorable experience. Absolutely perfect username/avatar/post combo
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Sir Kodiak posted:The sequence in the city must have been wild. It's borderline hallucinogenic watched straight. From what I can remember, the scene where Jaguar Paw's tribe is enslaved was intense. And while Apocalypto has beats that you've seen a dozen times whether it's "The Most Dangerous Game" or Deliverance, it's really damned satisfying.
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I watched Apocalypto with a friend who's an anthropology major; he spent the whole movie complaining about Mel Gibson getting the historical details of mesoamerican culture wrong, and I still enjoyed the movie. So it's good enough to overcome that handicap, at minimum. 
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I thought the whole problem was that he had just recently been recorded and reported on another racist rant. So him making a movie about brown people who mostly dont speak, was seen as tres gauche.
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coyo7e posted:I thought the whole problem was that he had just recently been recorded and reported on another racist rant. So him making a movie about brown people who mostly dont speak, was seen as tres gauche. I don't remember the specific timing of his various rants, but once Passion of the Christ came out, with all the marketing around it, the general public basically knew that Gibson was a racist or at least just antisemitic. The drunken rants more exposed him as a hypocrite than anything else, the racism was not really a surprise to anyone who paid close attention to the release of Passion of the Christ.
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Death Spa on Amazon Prime is a fun, unusually really good-looking 80s horror flick. It's got the kind of aesthetic that you now think of when you think 80s, lots of neon and bright colors and poo poo, and somehow it manages to make that work and be suitably lurid for a goofy horror-comedy. Merritt Buttrick, who played Kirk's son in the Star Trek movies, is a creepy gay computer programmer, there's the requisite nudity and gore, Ken Foree also has a fun role. Sometimes the pacing is a little off and the gore sequences are really wedged in (and sometimes awkwardly shot), but overall it's good.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Funny Games US!! Given that the audience is effectively the main antagonist of the film, it's amusing to see the reactions of viewers as they realize what's happening (or don't, which is also funny) and the "well, I get the point, but I'm not one of those people who likes torture porn, so Haneke can gently caress off" kinds of reviews by critics.
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Hubbardologist posted:Given that the audience is effectively the main antagonist of the film, it's amusing to see the reactions of viewers as they realize what's happening (or don't, which is also funny) and the "well, I get the point, but I'm not one of those people who likes torture porn, so Haneke can gently caress off" kinds of reviews by critics. I'm glad I read some reviews first. It sounds like a complete waste of time. "You (the lab rat) are placed in a Skinner box (the movie theater) and subjected to random negative stimuli (filmed violence, as a substitute for painful electrical jolts). Haneke, whose academic background is in psychology, philosophy and theater, assumes the role of empirical taskmaster. He hypothesizes that his box will shock you into a knee-jerk ethical dilemma. To pass the test, you must reject the false premise of the experiment itself (if only on the grounds of insufferable smugness) and walk out. An even better response, theoretically, would be to storm the booth and rip the film out of the projector, thus symbolically declaring your refusal to swallow the force-fed medicinal doses of synthesized abuse the film is administering. And if you really wanted to ace the challenge, you would just not see the movie."
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Yeah, I mean, in retrospect his approach is a bit Psych 101, and the film is definitely more of an interesting meta-analysis of the culture of violence than it is a film for people to enjoy viewing, but come on, it's a shot-for-shot remake of his own 1997 Austrian film, specifically aimed to be more easily watched by an American audience, at a time when torture porn was massively in vogue. That alone should clue the viewer in that there's something fucky about this. It's been a spell since I've watched it, and the flurry of over-the-top violence for violence's sake in films has kind of subsided, but if you go in knowing the point and the types of films it's mocking, there is a lot to appreciate. And the cast does a good job. So I wouldn't quite relegate it to the dustbin for its faults.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I'm glad I read some reviews first. It sounds like a complete waste of time. Hubbardologist posted:Given that the audience is effectively the main antagonist of the film, it's amusing to see the reactions of viewers as they realize what's happening (or don't, which is also funny) and the "well, I get the point, but I'm not one of those people who likes torture porn, so Haneke can gently caress off" kinds of reviews by critics.  Only, in film form
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The thing that's always so funny about Haneke is that people act like he hasn't made anything other than Funny Games and FUNNY GAMES U.S. Watch literally any other Haneke film, Benny's Video, The Seventh Continent, White Ribbon, whatever, and you will get the exact same critique expressed in different ways. Nothing wrong with a motif.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The thing that's always so funny about Haneke is that people act like he hasn't made anything other than Funny Games and FUNNY GAMES U.S. Watch literally any other Haneke film, Benny's Video, The Seventh Continent, White Ribbon, whatever, and you will get the exact same critique expressed in different ways. Nothing wrong with a motif. Oh, I get it now, it's not all horrible unentertaining dreck. It's "art" with a "message". Thanks for clarifying.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Oh, I get it now, it's not all horrible unentertaining dreck. It's "art" with a "message". Glad to be of help!
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Glad to be of help! You were. It's just not my cup of tea. I know a friend that will love them all to bits, but I really don't care for this type of cinema. Fun fact, different people can and do like different things. <--(That isn't intended as a snotty aside, though in re-reading it, it kind of sounds like one).
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Yeah, I wasn't trying to convince you that it was worth your time necessarily. Watch the things that you want to watch! To get back to recommendations, I've been listening to the 30 for 30 Podcast series that just came out (which was very very good and should be checked out - "Yankees Suck" is probably my favorite), and I've watched most of the available 30 for 30 stuff on Netflix. Any recommendations for offbeat sports documentaries?
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Hubbardologist posted:Yeah, I wasn't trying to convince you that it was worth your time necessarily. Watch the things that you want to watch! The Battered Bastards of Baseball on Netflix was pretty good.
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Hubbardologist posted:Yeah, I wasn't trying to convince you that it was worth your time necessarily. Watch the things that you want to watch! Battered Bastards of Baseball is a pretty fun look at a crazy minor league team and it's manager, Kurt Russell's dad
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Indolent Bastard posted:Oh, I get it now, it's not all horrible unentertaining dreck. It's "art" with a "message". No, it's a gimmick film. It's literally no different from The Tingler, or Scream, or any other horror film that deals meta-textually with the spectatorship of horror (which is actually most horror films, when you really get down to it). What Hundu is saying is that when people are talking about Funny Games being this giant, vacuous, condescending endurance experiment, they are not actually talking about the film, or even any films.
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my Funny Games review: it was okay, John Zorn rules.
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