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Feb 27, 2018 07:32
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the mute was so unlikable, i struggled to like even one of the characters, and i was loving surprised that this was in the same universe as moon and by the same loving director too. then i saw the director's filmography after moon, and sure enough there were a bunch of mediocre to middling non sci-fi movies, and then this recent sudden netflix movie set in the moon universe, my guess is he just made a sci-fi version of the poo poo he used to make after moon. some rear end in a top hat recommended ritual in this thread, and gently caress them, because that movie was so loving retarded. the villain cult was so pointless, their "god" was loving pathetic, a strong deer. the lead characters are all unlikable dicks, and the ending where the lead pile of poo poo so-called "protagonist" gets to leave alive because he can shout loudly. what a pathetic, stupid god, and what and dumb protagonist. gently caress you rear end in a top hat for making me watch this expecting something at least a little good. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 27, 2018 11:13
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Tim Whatley posted:Has anybody watched Ugly Delicious past the first episode and if so, does it get better? I love every food show like Chef's Table etc but I found the first episode of this one incredibly up its own rear end and a complete jumbled mess. There's like randomly an infomercial joke in the middle of it for some reason. I really liked it. Except there is no way that loving tuna Tokyo pizza was any good, let alone the best pizza in the world. It looked nasty as gently caress.
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Feb 27, 2018 13:38
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Ugly Delicious is pretty entertaining but it seems like it struggles to find a coherent theme beyond food tourism. Which is fine, but it's kind of all over the place. One thing I find funny is that Netflix has these shows now like Ugly Delicious and Queer Eye now, that are generally pretty family friendly, but they just drop F bombs all over the place. Like, casual swearing seems like such a silly reason for an MA rating.
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Feb 27, 2018 16:00
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Junkie Disease posted:Altered Carbon's mutant power is cliches and announcing a power right before it's needed I loved it in broad strokes; I think they did some cool stuff with the idea that you could stick consciousness in any body, anywhere, in VR, etc. (although I wanted it to meditate longer on whether or not the stack really was the soul, or if every iteration of the person after the first was essentially just an AI program). The stuff that bored me was the rebellion backstory and the crazy sister rivalry bit, I was more interested in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo/unwilling detective plotline and the exploration of the universe.
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Feb 27, 2018 20:06
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Just finished up the new episodes of The Tick. Way too short but really fun show. Also, the theme song has a very Danny Elfman Men in Black vibe which I assume is Barry Sonnenfeld’s influence.
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Feb 28, 2018 08:00
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Speaking of food shows: Just watched the first episode of Somebody Feed Phil. It was very entertaining. Loved not only the food stuff, but also the way he interacts with other people.
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Feb 28, 2018 13:16
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Turambar posted:Speaking of food shows: I love Phil. More Phil please.
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Feb 28, 2018 15:32
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I felt like he was a way worse over the top wannabe Anthony Bourdain. And no I don’t want to watch him suck noodles in front of his Thai translator.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:39
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Can't be as gross as watching Andrew Zimmern do it
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Feb 28, 2018 18:47
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Blind Rasputin posted:I felt like he was a way worse over the top wannabe Anthony Bourdain. And no I don’t want to watch him suck noodles in front of his Thai translator. You just have no enthusiasm for life like Phil does. You wish you could be Phil.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:56
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Blind Rasputin posted:I felt like he was a way worse over the top wannabe Anthony Bourdain. And no I don’t want to watch him suck noodles in front of his Thai translator. To hell with you. Bourdain wants to be all like if Lou Reed did it to a cook book and the cook book made a baby, just because he did heroin and hosed up some sole mueniere for pay once. Phil just wants to dodder around the world like the universal Good Doofy Dad, asking if he can eat things, then doing a face when people say yes.
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Mar 1, 2018 00:08
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Braincloud posted:Just finished up the new episodes of The Tick. Way too short but really fun show. The scene with the argument about whether the Flag 5 had 5 members and a sidekick or 5 members and a mascot had me in stitches
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Mar 1, 2018 04:36
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Derron Brown's new special on Netflix was a fun hour.
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Mar 1, 2018 05:07
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Filthy Hans posted:The scene with the argument about whether the Flag 5 had 5 members and a sidekick or 5 members and a mascot had me in stitches For me, it was Lint escaping The Terror's capital T-shaped ship in an escaped pod shaped like a serif lowercase t.
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Mar 1, 2018 05:25
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Paper Kaiju posted:For me, it was Lint escaping The Terror's capital T-shaped ship in an escaped pod shaped like a serif lowercase t. That, and when they’re trying to get the Tick off the ship. “SHAKE IT LIKE A BABY!!!  ”
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Mar 1, 2018 05:30
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Seconding Dirty Money Episode two Why is she Cruella DeVille?
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Mar 1, 2018 06:21
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Blind Rasputin posted:I felt like he was a way worse over the top wannabe Anthony Bourdain. And no I don’t want to watch him suck noodles in front of his Thai translator. This is the incorrect take. I love Bourdain, but in no way is Phil trying to be like him and he never could even if he tried. Phil is way too uncynical in comparison. He is like a new born discovering the foods of world with a joy that Bourdain hasn’t felt since the last time he did hard drugs. In closing both are great food shows because of completely different things.
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Mar 1, 2018 12:16
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nate fisher posted:In closing both are great food shows because of completely different things. Food shows are a land of contrast, then.
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Mar 1, 2018 13:34
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mysterious frankie posted:Phil just wants to dodder around the world like the universal Good Doofy Dad, asking if he can eat things, then doing a face when people say yes. This should be the netflix summary for the show.
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Mar 1, 2018 15:09
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Phil's personality is the type that is incredibly grating and annoying if it comes off as not genuine. But Phil is genuine, you feel that right away within 5 minutes of the first episode. So it's great.
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Mar 1, 2018 15:19
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Aside from that there’s also I’ll have what Phil’s having, again it’s just Phil country-hopping and eating things. I find him so genuine and charming.
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Mar 1, 2018 19:16
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LadyPictureShow posted:Aside from that there’s also I’ll have what Phil’s having, again it’s just Phil country-hopping and eating things. I didn't know this existed. Thanks.
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Mar 1, 2018 19:24
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Phil introducing a Japanese family to egg creams as a show of thanks for inviting him into their home was extremely cute.
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Mar 1, 2018 21:04
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300 came to Netflix and it's as dope as ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDpI6Zzy-vo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgRv2V_7P4
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Mar 1, 2018 23:07
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Anyone watches The Frankenstein Chronicles? If so, thoughts?
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Mar 2, 2018 00:17
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How is Colony (Netflix)? I recall watching the first 3 episodes when it aired but it didn't grab me.
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Mar 2, 2018 00:30
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pahuyuth posted:How is Colony (Netflix)? I recall watching the first 3 episodes when it aired but it didn't grab me. I watched the first season on Netflix recently, and quite enjoyed it. I then watched the second season, and realize that the show goes absolutely nowhere, and I was completely bored to tears by the end. It just sits there spinning its wheels endlessly, the same story week to week. And the child characters are so loving irritating. I suspect that they really don't have the storyline mapped out like most serialized shows these days. And if they do, the story they've come up with is quite boring. The only good thing to come out of the show is that Sarah Wayne Callies is not the reason why Lori on The Walking Dead was so irritating. It's just that Lori was so irritating.
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Mar 2, 2018 00:52
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I like Colony, just don't go into it thinking it's ever going to be about the aliens.
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Mar 2, 2018 01:21
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10 Beers posted:Anyone watches The Frankenstein Chronicles? If so, thoughts? I want to know this too.
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Mar 2, 2018 01:34
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Just finished watching Seven Seconds, a crime drama focused on the hit-and-run killing of a black teenager by a cop. It wasn't very good. Some folks that were involved with 'The Killing' (Veena Sud, some producers) are behind this, but it is almost entirely made up of the bad parts of 'The Killing' with none of the good. There were some compelling story ideas, but they all were ultimately disappointing for a variety of reasons. The acting, for instance, was all over the place. It was fun to see Regina King ham it up a bit, the lead detective was the stand-out, and we get a small appearance from Malik Yoba of New York Undercover fame. The cops were all just awful actors. There wasn't much charisma between the investigative pair, either. The story was also hampered by bad dialogue and really stupid decisions by a lot of the characters.
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Mar 2, 2018 01:52
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Cithen posted:Just finished watching Seven Seconds, a crime drama focused on the hit-and-run killing of a black teenager by a cop. It wasn't very good. Some folks that were involved with 'The Killing' (Veena Sud, some producers) are behind this, but it is almost entirely made up of the bad parts of 'The Killing' with none of the good. There were some compelling story ideas, but they all were ultimately disappointing for a variety of reasons. The acting, for instance, was all over the place. It was fun to see Regina King ham it up a bit, the lead detective was the stand-out, and we get a small appearance from Malik Yoba of New York Undercover fame. The cops were all just awful actors. There wasn't much charisma between the investigative pair, either. The story was also hampered by bad dialogue and really stupid decisions by a lot of the characters. Ahh, that's disappointing to hear. I was curious about it solely based on the poster:  edit: admittedly a bad tagline. Would've been better with no tagline at all Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Mar 2, 2018 |
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Mar 2, 2018 02:02
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Steve Yun posted:Ahh, that's disappointing to hear. I was curious about it solely based on the poster: I really wanted some more Regina King Detective poo poo. Southland was cancelled too soon.
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Mar 2, 2018 02:04
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I'm 8 or so episodes in and I kind of agree. It still works for me as something to have on in the background but it is unbelievable how stupid the main characters are. This series would've been like 2 episodes long if they actually did their jobs.
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Mar 2, 2018 02:06
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Oh hey Wind River is on Netflix already. It's pretty good.
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Mar 2, 2018 02:44
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I’m about 20 minutes into “Darren Whatever’s: The Push” and 1. This is trash television at its worst and 2. I think there is going to be a twist at the end in that the experiment was actually on the actors and if that’s not what it is, it should have been. Let’s stay tuned and see if I win a cookie.
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Mar 2, 2018 04:17
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I did not win a cookie. That was the stupidest thing I’ve ever watched and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves. It was a social experiment bro!
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Mar 2, 2018 04:59
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I just finished watching Infinity Chamber on Netflix and I liked it way more than expected. I guess I'm kind of a sucker for a Groundhog-Day-style sci-fi premise, but it's also very reminiscent of The Prisoner in a fun way. There's definitely the potential for fatigue when a movie uses repetition like this one, but I thought it managed to keep me from completely giving up on it and managed a surprisingly satisfying ending. Assuming I'm understanding it right, the ending is debateably an even more depressing version of the ending of Brazil because the bad guys even get the info they needed from him, but it manages to come off as not totally bleak and cynical at least.
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Mar 2, 2018 05:09
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Whoa thread, whoa. Infinity Chamber was really good.
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I love a good groundhog day knockoff, and I'll definitely check it out but goddamn that poo poo is really the flavor of the moment isn't it?
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