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Len posted:I haven't watched it but is there random awkward sex scenes like the book? Gay djinni sex and the stripper that ate a guy with her vagina stand out. Both
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I actually didn't like the first few episodes, but did enjoy the second half of the season.
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Retro Futurist posted:Amazon Outside the US, yeah. Inside the US it needs the Starz add-on.
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Len posted:I haven't watched it but is there random awkward sex scenes like the book? Gay djinni sex and the stripper that ate a guy with her vagina stand out. The stripper one is in the first episode. In the book it was surreal and weird. In the show it was like really funny low budget vore porn.
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Finished on Amazon Prime watching the French mystery series "Black Spot" which was overall really worth watching. I was looking for another crime drama, and found a sorta out-there option: "Comrade Detective". It's slightly convoluted to explain, but the conceit of the show is that it's a "resdiscovered" Communist-era Romanian cop show, kind of like a commie version of Miami Vice, set in Bucharest. In actuality it was just filmed recently, but as a retro joke, but they play it straight and filmed the whole thing in Romania with Romanian actors, and then dubbed it with English-speaking celebrities like Daniel Craig and Chloë Sevigny. It's supposed to be a commentary/corollary on American self-image (both past and present) so it's over-the-top with Romanian self-love. Like everyone is shown as a devoted Communist except for the villains who are smuggling blue jeans and bibles and listening to '80s post-punk. When one character is in the hospital, the doctor explains "of course he's going to make it, we have the best medical care in the world!" And the evil American embassy worker is shown as being just amazed at the quality of food, culture, lifestyle in Romania, having some nostalgia for America but admitting it's full of rape and racial bias, "plus everyone has AIDS these days." It's kinda goofy, but I'm finding it pretty enjoyable in a hammy way, and dubbing pretty prominent American/British voices over Romanian actors somehow keeps being amusing.
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Arrested Development just released a remake of the 4th season. It's much, much better.
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Just finished Ainoiri Love Wagon and Rea(l)ove on Netflix because foreign dating reality shows are my jam and man, the male host for Rea(l)ove is just an utter dick and I know that things are staged but hearing how certain things were planned kinda made me sad for some reason.
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Inzombiac posted:Arrested Development just released a remake of the 4th season. What? Is this a joke? I gotta check this out.
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May 16, 2018 18:08
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Rolo posted:The stripper one is in the first episode. In the book it was surreal and weird. In the show it was like really funny low budget vore porn. Surreal and weird is probably how anyone who isn't extremely online would describe vore related things. Either that or "intensely gross".
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I see that there is a sequel to the dog movie Max that is coming to Amazon Prime next month, and it might be the biggest tone-shift in a sequel I have ever seen Max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPPMCwD5bw Max 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZnMQXdOhmQ
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Deadite posted:I see that there is a sequel to the dog movie Max that is coming to Amazon Prime next month, and it might be the biggest tone-shift in a sequel I have ever seen Lol holy poo poo. But hey at least from a 'low effort, low hanging fruit budget movie' its still in the same wheelhouse.
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Agent355 posted:What? Is this a joke? I gotta check this out. Not a joke. They are about to release season 5 and wanted to make the whole series more consistent. I appreciate that they want to try something new in 4 but it just didn't work out. The re-edit has shorter episodes and is a much better experience.
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I liked season 4 anyway but more as a force-of-will 'I will like this' attitude as so much of the show was still really good and it was only the formatting that was terrible. It's super cool that they took the time to do a re-edit and we're still getting a season 5. High hopes.
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Season 4 sucked so loving much.
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withak posted:Actually Season 4 was fine. Nah
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The remake of season 4 is a really mixed bag. The original is super uneven with a few good spots (the Maebe & George Michael episodes imo). The remake starts out feeling a lot better, but gets very repetitive with the new editing. It also kind of ruins the Maebe & George Michael episodes. It mushes the peaks and valleys of the original season into kind of a "meh." I just hope season 5 has all the characters interacting with each other. Also, American Gods is good.
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I stumbled onto the fact that Amazon Prime has Dark Shadows... 26 loving season of it, at around 40 episodes per season. Dark Shadows was a daytime soap opera on ABC in the US starting in the 1960s, distinguished by being a kind of darker American Gothic theme than the other shows. It wasn't doing well, so about a year in apparently the writers said "fuckit" and just made one of the characters a centuries-old vampire. This completely rejuvenated the show, and it went on to have 1,000+ more episodes that were basically darker-than-usual soap opera but they'd randomly chuck in werewolves and whatnot. Prime starts with "Season 1" by their own listing, but the episode is labeled "211" so I went googling to figure out the deal. Apparently Amazon just *starts* with the episode where the writers went nuts and added a vampire, cutting out the 210 preceding episodes of people glowering in a dark manor. I'm fine with that, and since it was a daytime soap opera it's one long running narrative but also made accessible enough for casual viewers to jump in whenever. There's no way I'm watching 1,000 episodes of this, it took me long enough to get through Buffy, but I think I'll do some googling and skip ahead to all the trippiest episodes just to see how weird it gets. EDIT: I'm skipping ahead to episode 651 where the werewolf subplot starts. Thanks Dark Shadows Wikia for your spergy level of detail! TapTheForwardAssist has a new favorite as of 00:39 on May 21, 2018 |
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Prime starts with "Season 1" by their own listing, but the episode is labeled "211" so I went googling to figure out the deal. Apparently Amazon just *starts* with the episode where the writers went nuts and added a vampire, cutting out the 210 preceding episodes of people glowering in a dark manor. I'm fine with that, and since it was a daytime soap opera it's one long running narrative but also made accessible enough for casual viewers to jump in whenever.
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mystes posted:Oh, that explains that. I previously watched what I guess was the actual beginning of the show and was confused because it didn't seem to have any of the weird stuff I had heard it had. Ah, apparently Amazon Prime *does* have #1-210, just they're as a separate "The Early Years" entry on the search hits. DS was 1,225 episodes total. For contrast, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was 144 episodes, but each episode was twice as long as DS's 22-minute episodes. So in essence in terms of hours, DS takes five times longer to watch than all of Buffy. I watched all of Buffy straight like five years ago, took me four months. It's a weird thought that there are presumably a non-zero number of people who will settle in and watch all 430 hours of Dark Shadows. Now that is some serious binge-watching.
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I was wondering why Dark Shadows sounded so familiar until I remembered an ooold This American Life piece about a DS convention I found entertaining: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/conventions/act-one
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Ah, apparently Amazon Prime *does* have #1-210, just they're as a separate "The Early Years" entry on the search hits. I wish they had the mini series that was a remake of DS that aired in 1990. That poo poo was good.
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For anyone who cares there's going to be a fourth Bad Ben movie. It's held up on Amazon so he's live streaming it right now. So far it's a remake of the first one only instead of there being ghosts and all the house cameras keeping tabs on it there's an evil doll and the filming is done by an iPhone and a little camera attached to the doll. It's pretty good and cool so far. Edit: looks like it's an anthology telling different stories of how he gets wrecked by this haunted house Len has a new favorite as of 02:55 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Thor: Ragnarok is now on Netflix!
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Inzombiac posted:Thor: Ragnarok is now on Netflix! This was a good comic book movie.
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I don’t normally swoon for Hollywood people but Cate Blanchett with straight black hair should be in every movie.
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1redflag posted:This was a good comic book movie. I'll second that. The lady will not generally brook a superhero movie, but she enjoyed it from start to finish.
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Rolo posted:I don’t normally swoon for Hollywood people but Cate Blanchett with straight black hair should be in every movie. She's already my #1 Hollywood crush so seeing her as a maniacal goth elf 
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Len posted:For anyone who cares there's going to be a fourth Bad Ben movie. It's held up on Amazon so he's live streaming it right now. So far it's a remake of the first one only instead of there being ghosts and all the house cameras keeping tabs on it there's an evil doll and the filming is done by an iPhone and a little camera attached to the doll. It's pretty good and cool so far. I had never heard of this series before, but thanks for posting about it. I like these sorts of low-budget amateur Youtube horror movies in theory, but it's refreshing to see something that is concise and doesn't involve a couple young idiots filming their feet walking through a forest in search of some slenderman derivative for 12 episodes. I've seen the original and "The Mandela Effect" (which seems to be the one you mentioned) and enjoyed both. It may be predictable, or maybe I'm unimaginative (or both) but the very last bit of "The Mandela Effect" was pretty much exactly what I wanted to see happen. I haven't watched "Steelmanville Road" yet, because it seems to have an overwhelmingly negative response. Is it at all worth watching?
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Section 9 posted:I had never heard of this series before, but thanks for posting about it. I like these sorts of low-budget amateur Youtube horror movies in theory, but it's refreshing to see something that is concise and doesn't involve a couple young idiots filming their feet walking through a forest in search of some slenderman derivative for 12 episodes. I've seen the original and "The Mandela Effect" (which seems to be the one you mentioned) and enjoyed both. Steelmanville Road isn't exactly bad but imo none of the characters are as enjoyable to watch as Nigel. I still watched it because it was free and all but of the four it's the easiest to say skip. Badder Ben was much more comedic in tone. A documentary crew decides to find Nigel and bring him back to the house and there's far more humor but it's fun and has heart. The animated short is uh...bad just terribly awful. It's animation isn't great which I could forgive if it was funnier but it's just not. He did a q&a after the stream of Mandela Effect and I asked if there would be more and he said probably not for a long time. Apparently not enough people watched it to justify the time it took to do everything. I get the feeling he was learning flash or whatever it is people use for animation these days. Nigel seems like a pretty chill guy from what I've seen of his streams. He's just this old fat guy who decided one day that he wanted to make a movie. When his actors bailed he said gently caress it and made the thing anyway. When people laughed at his horror movie instead of getting his knickers in a twist he just rolled with it and made more in the same sense.
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What should I watch on HBO? Basically now that Westworld is done we're planning to cancel HBO until the next worthwhile show is on (probably GOT). My girlfriend is going to start up the account so we get another free month. I'm not in any rush to cancel, I just don't want to have an extra $15/month coming out of the bank for something I barely use. What movies are on that I should watch (blade runner 2049 is on my list)? What shows are worth it? Ive watched a lot of the series (GoT, true blood, some of Veep, vice principals, east bound and down, gunpowder, plus others that aren't coming to mind atm). So what are your favorite/the best HBO shows and movies?
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om nom nom posted:What should I watch on HBO? Deadwood is great, if you haven't seen it. And obligatory recommendation of The Wire
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For something more recent, Barry was awesome this past Spring. Rome is also great and pretty short.
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The first season of True Detective is still great
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Deadite posted:The first season of True Detective is still great Yeah I rewatched it and it really got the taste of s2 out.
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It looks like HBO makes Mr. Show available to stream, but not Tales from the Crypt?????
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East Bound and Down for a comedy option
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Yes 2nding Barry. Waiting for more of that
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I've seen East Bound and Down and most of Mr. Show. I've been meaning to check out The Wire, I've heard about that one for a long time, my girlfriend wasn't into it so I just need to remember when I'm watching solo. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out. Edit: Started Barry, it's really good so far. om nom nom has a new favorite as of 07:56 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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