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I've noticed Suspiria is available for me to stream of Prime. It's s beautifully shot horror movie with great atmosphere.and music. Check it out.
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Watching Comrade Detective on Amazon and it's ... so many things but mostly stupid. The propaganda is pretty interesting though. A cop dies and someone breaks into his apartment, the police reassure the landlady that's it's just a premature attempt to redistribute Nikita's wealth. The cops killer wears a Reagan mask. A cop lectures a drug dealer on how the CIA imports drugs to destroy inner city blacks. The tough guy cop does a pirouette through some street ruffians. When he hears where his new partner is from, he calls him a goat fucker. It's an 80s Communist, buddy cop TV series dubbed into English.
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Aug 29, 2017 01:37
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Rough Lobster posted:I've noticed Suspiria is available for me to stream of Prime. It's s beautifully shot horror movie with great atmosphere.and music. Check it out. Seconded! It was on my "to watch someday" list and i'm glad it showed up and i finally did.
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Aug 29, 2017 01:40
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wormil posted:Watching Comrade Detective on Amazon and it's ... so many things but mostly stupid. The propaganda is pretty interesting though.
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Aug 29, 2017 02:27
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wormil posted:I love The Good Place but didn't really care for the S1 ending and twist. And after watching the S2 preview it's going to be S1 all over again. That's def how season 2 will start, but S1 moved wayyyyy faster plot-wise than any other Schur show and I think the complication will be undone in three or so episodes based on how quickly problems were resolved already
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Aug 29, 2017 03:10
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coyo7e posted:So you gotta spoil it... Spoiler alert: the main cop dude is a rule breaker, loner, ultra violent, and considered out of control by his fellow cops. Also spoiler alert, cop gets a new partner = every buddy cop show ever. Also, everything I describe happens in like the first 20 minutes or so of the first episode.
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Aug 29, 2017 04:17
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Inzombiac posted:If you have Hulu: I never read the book(s) kind of got burnt out by the author but Elijah Wood keeps hitting it out of the park and the rest of the cast may be better than he was. Recovering from that loving hobbit movie is amazing. Wait I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is listed as 2017? Well anyway it's great too. Not sure if available through web sites.
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Aug 29, 2017 05:02
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Rough Lobster posted:I've noticed Suspiria is available for me to stream of Prime. It's s beautifully shot horror movie with great atmosphere.and music. Check it out. ...goddamn it. Earlier this year I waited for 6 weeks to get it imported from Italy.
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Aug 29, 2017 05:08
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A Very Secret Service is a French satirical spy comedy set in the 1960s. I'm enjoying it a lot. There's one season on Netflix at the moment, and apparently another is going to be made.
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Aug 29, 2017 13:58
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wormil posted:Spoiler alert: the main cop dude is a rule breaker, loner, ultra violent, and considered out of control by his fellow cops. Also spoiler alert, cop gets a new partner = every buddy cop show ever. Also, everything I describe happens in like the first 20 minutes or so of the first episode. He was asking you a question and you ignored the question part to take offense out of context. Neato. Edit: It’s also not real 80s propaganda, it’s produced recently and with the English overdub intended. However, it is real Romanians speaking Romanian on film. Edit2: Goat fucker is a detective from a small farming village called Rasinari. probably doesn't need to be spoiled but I really know nothing of the weight of that punchline. Grassy Knowles has a new favorite as of 14:58 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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Aug 29, 2017 13:59
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Grassy Knowles posted:He was asking you a question and you ignored the question
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Aug 29, 2017 17:41
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Palpek posted:Turned On on Netflix is pretty great - it's a series of documentaries focused on the subject of relationships/sex vs current technology. But the 5th episode is something else - an Australian guy falls in love with a camgirl from the US that he has had an online 'relationship' with for 4 years. He pays for her ticket so that she can meet him in Australia and it goes as well as you would expect. drat, that was hard to watch. Thanks for the suggestion, I watched this last night and it was a doozy! The cam girl seemed sincere when she said she cared for the guy, but jfc how naive of her to think she could fly out there and just hang out. And her husband had really sad eyes 
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Aug 29, 2017 19:19
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Yeah, the scenes where the husband browses his smartphone while his wife strips naked in the background and professes love to her client whom she's going to visit on the weekend were something else. A lot of memorable moments in that episode. There's something interesting in every episode though, the one with pornstars living together who seem all cool and cheerful before it's slowly revealed how the delusions they built around themselves break apart one by one was somewhat chilling as well.
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Aug 29, 2017 20:06
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best bale posted:Did you like the pilot episode? I love the tick and really want to love this show but for me the pilot was pretty meh. I'm hoping the humor ramped up. So is Norsemen a comedy version of Vikings? Also, has anyone watched Frontier? I started it last night but was kinda bored by the second episode.
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Aug 29, 2017 20:19
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10 Beers posted:So is Norsemen a comedy version of Vikings? Yeah it's great, totally unexpected
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Aug 29, 2017 20:23
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Turned on is so intense, there's so many layers of stuff going on in every episode. It's like emotionally draining but still a great watch at the same time. Good show though, I hope it gets another season.
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Aug 29, 2017 23:31
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10 Beers posted:So is Norsemen a comedy version of Vikings? Yeah, but with the gore and Vikings viking'ing still intact. I would say it's closer to The Office or 30 Rock than pure parody. Edit Bussamove posted:filmed each scene twice, once in Norwegian and once in English to avoid the need for subtitles.  best bale has a new favorite as of 14:13 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Aug 30, 2017 01:24
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Nthing Norsemen, it's fantastic. To make it more impressive I did a bit of digging and found out they filmed each scene twice, once in Norwegian and once in English to avoid the need for subtitles. Now that's goddamn dedication, both by the actors and the writers to make sure the script flowed well and kept its humor in both languages.
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Aug 30, 2017 10:31
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Aug 30, 2017 18:26
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Any opinions on The Defenders yet? I know people mostly disliked Iron Fist and Luke Cage was lukewarm (:heh:), but I'm curious how the new one is shaping up. I'm only just starting it and 5 minutes in there has been a pretty good martial arts fight but they're doing more 'The Hand' stuff which is hopefully not going to be as boring as it's been previously.
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Aug 30, 2017 23:27
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I just assumed by now that people who already liked them will watch the Defenders and anyone else will just not. I did not like Iron Fist as mich as I thought I would but Defenders won me back.1 I do think that it's funny that everyone in the show thinks Iron Fist sucks but I'm really happy with the dynamic between him and Luke Cage. The first ~2 episodes moved at a strange pace because it was all the characters slowly coming together but after that I was pretty happy with it. The Hand is still boring, though.
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Aug 30, 2017 23:48
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Agent355 posted:Any opinions on The Defenders yet? I know people mostly disliked Iron Fist and Luke Cage was lukewarm (:heh:), but I'm curious how the new one is shaping up. I'm only just starting it and 5 minutes in there has been a pretty good martial arts fight but they're doing more 'The Hand' stuff which is hopefully not going to be as boring as it's been previously. It starts well but ends kinda stupid. There are a whole bunch of head-slappingly dumb decisions that have to happen to get to the finale and the conclusion is telegraphed from a mile away. By the end, all the Kung Fu gets p dumb, especially when they explicitly say (several times) that the baddies are 'armed' but they all proceed to have a hand-to-hand fight instead.
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Aug 31, 2017 00:03
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Agent355 posted:Any opinions on The Defenders yet? I know people mostly disliked Iron Fist and Luke Cage was lukewarm (:heh:), but I'm curious how the new one is shaping up. I'm only just starting it and 5 minutes in there has been a pretty good martial arts fight but they're doing more 'The Hand' stuff which is hopefully not going to be as boring as it's been previously. I haven't gotten far into it but heard good things. Heard a lot of bad things about Iron Fist, skipped it entirely. Then they led with Iron Fist. That white boy has a yellow heck of a fist. But Cage and Jones and DD showed up in the first two or three eps and it was a relief. I think the show creators didn't get the message that a lot of people hated Iron Fist the same way you hate Kung Fu and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu:_The_Legend_Continues Show seems dece, but could they not have white-washed IF in the first place? And then ran with it as a series opener? okay rant over
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Aug 31, 2017 00:59
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I hated the iron fist but enjoyed the defenders. Iron fist was actually funny in the defenders so I gave him a pass. I don't like the direction they are going at the end but I'll wait and see what happens. Really enjoying Ozarks. Everyone who said it's got a breaking bad vibe is spot on. Any unabomber documentary on any streaming service? I have access to all of them but I'm coming up empty and now after watching the unabomber series on discovery I'm itching for a real documentary about him.
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Aug 31, 2017 01:39
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I might be dense but they made noted white man since the 70s Danny Rand a white man in the Iron Fist show and that's white washing because?
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Aug 31, 2017 02:50
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Len posted:I might be dense but they made noted white man since the 70s Danny Rand a white man in the Iron Fist show and that's white washing because? Dipping into this pool is a fool's errand but here we go: White man learning ancient Asian mystic arts and then becoming the best at it is a lovely trope. Yes the character has been a white dude forever but there was a golden opportunity that they missed: Iron Fist is a title and the carrier of the power is not immortal. They could (should?) have made it a person of Asian decent. In fact, in the comics the new Iron Fist is a young Asian girl. Edit: The problem maybe wouldn't have been such a big deal if: 1) Iron Fist wasn't such a godawful show 2) They didn't gently caress up casting The Ancient One in Dr. Strange.
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What annoys me is that the actor who played the drunken fighter in the best fight scene in Iron Fist actually auditioned to play Danny. His name is Lewis Tan, and he's a half-British, half-Chinese actor, stuntman, and trained martial artist. He's a handsome dude and could have been much more interesting in the role than Finn Jones, especially if the show went with a biracial Danny Rand who didn't fully fit in or feel truly at home in New York or K'un Lun. http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/lewis-tan-marvel-iron-fist-interview.html
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Aug 31, 2017 04:37
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Inzombiac posted:Dipping into this pool is a fool's errand but here we go: I thought white washing was when they make not white characters white? Don't get me wrong I'd be super down for them just making up all new characters and back stories because what I know of the pre-Danny Iron Fists there's some good stories to tell but instead we got Matt Murdock, Danny Rand, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Although really what we need is an anthology ghost rider series because there was a WW1 biplane rider. Or the shark rider. The cowboy with his penance fist.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:41
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Len posted:I thought white washing was when they make not white characters white? Don't get me wrong I'd be super down for them just making up all new characters and back stories because what I know of the pre-Danny Iron Fists there's some good stories to tell but instead we got Matt Murdock, Danny Rand, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Yes, they didn't actually whitewash the character but they squandered a good opportunity to not have yet another boring white dude as a super hero. My take is that, unless the character's race or gender is essential to their story, do whatever you want. It worked for Ms. Marvel, Captain America, Spider-Man and Thor. Plus, diversity and inclusion has been proven to be profitable in the long run.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:30
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Nationality didn't have anything to do with him being boring. Personally I don't care about the race of the character if it's a well written entertaining story. But, if you change the race, age, or sex of the character then you need to rewrite the character and give them an appropriate personality so it makes sense. But at the end of the day, boring is boring.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:05
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The character is boring because he's yet ANOTHER angsty millionaire/billionaire with a secret crime fighting identity (Iron Man, Batman, Green Arrow, Black Panther). There's just a gently caress ton of them. It's not because he's white. And it's weird that people are saying he needs to be asian to be the best Kung Fu guy lol.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:34
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Rough Lobster posted:The character is boring because he's yet ANOTHER angsty millionaire/billionaire with a secret crime fighting identity (Iron Man, Batman, Green Arrow, Black Panther). There's just a gently caress ton of them. It's not because he's white. And it's weird that people are saying he needs to be asian to be the best Kung Fu guy lol. The argument I've seen is that it is comparable to an Asian person going to Texas and becoming the best gunslinger in America. Sounds radical, right? gently caress yeah. It's something that hasn't been done a million billion times before and an underrepresented nationality is shown being skilled, not as some prop. Having a white dude (who has the most privilege) start near the top (billionaire) and ALSO be the most skilled at another nation's tradition SUUUUUUUUCKS. Edit: There is a reason we celebrate when the downtrodden succeed and hate billionaires that brag about their status. Inzombiac has a new favorite as of 06:47 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Aug 31, 2017 06:44
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Inzombiac posted:2) They didn't gently caress up casting The Ancient One in Dr. Strange. Tell me you didn't just say they should have gone with anyone besides Tilsa Swinton. She's just so perfectly weird.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:49
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Tell me you didn't just say they should have gone with anyone besides Tilsa Swinton. She's just so perfectly weird. She is perfectly weird but she's also an already rich and famous white person taking over the role designed for an Asian person. The dude from Deadpool just dropped out of Hellboy because in the comics his character is Asian. He didn't know at the time. Once he found out, he quit and has garnered a ton of respect.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:52
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Inzombiac posted:She is perfectly weird but she's also an already rich and famous white person taking over the role designed for an Asian person. Her not being Asian worked in the character arc of Dr Strange, though, in that she was another white person butting into the monastery and abusing the powers within, and not abusing that power was a big part of Stranges character development. It's not like the movie opted to not cast minorities, look at Mordo and Wong. E: Mordo even started as a white guy in the comics, actually, and they also took him from straight villain to someone with their own motivations.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:58
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Inzombiac posted:She is perfectly weird but she's also an already rich and famous white person taking over the role designed for an Asian person. She's a white woman playing the role of an Asian man you'd think that would balance out to be okay.
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Aug 31, 2017 08:03
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Inzombiac posted:we ... hate billionaires that brag about their status. ahem 
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Aug 31, 2017 08:44
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wormil posted:ahem That's a nice picture of a man who took his father's wealth and lost a casino.
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Aug 31, 2017 08:49
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Inzombiac posted:The argument I've seen is that it is comparable to an Asian person going to Texas and becoming the best gunslinger in America. That does sound pretty cool and you better not be talking poo poo about Rawhide Kobayashi.
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best bale posted:Yeah, but with the gore and Vikings viking'ing still intact. I would say it's closer to The Office or 30 Rock than pure parody. I'm only on your second episode, but Norsemen is great so far!
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