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Sand Monster posted:The Last Jedi is on Netflix although seemingly not showing up unless you search for it. I told myself I'd only watch it if it's free, but now that it's here I don't know if I should.
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BisterdDave posted:I told myself I'd only watch it if it's free, but now that it's here I don't know if I should. Meh. If you liked the Phantom Menace, even if just for the fun visuals, it's worth it. If you're looking for a story, plot, rational decisions, etc, best to go watch The Godfather or something.
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BisterdDave posted:I told myself I'd only watch it if it's free, but now that it's here I don't know if I should. Who cares just watch it
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BisterdDave posted:I told myself I'd only watch it if it's free, but now that it's here I don't know if I should. It’s really good and I don’t understand anyone’s issue with it at all. It’s like everything they hated is what I liked about it. It’s so weird.
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K. Waste posted:Nah, I'm there with ya, too. Thirded. Alien^3 is far better than Aliens.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s really good and I don’t understand anyone’s issue with it at all. It’s like everything they hated is what I liked about it. Same. As someone who got tired of Star Wars over a decade ago, The Last Jedi actually got me excited to see how this story unfolds. Yes, the film has its flaws; the second act in particular should have gone through one more rewrite to tighten loose ends. But it was a solid film with some great moments, and it took risks in a way blockbuster films never do these days, which I feel deserves credit or a least a one watch if you're curious.
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Along with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, some other Werner Herzog films were added to Amazon Prime: Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde and Rescue Dawn. Also, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is now on Amazon Prime. It's an interesting, funny, weird film that's incredibly polarizing (as is the novel that it's based on), but I like it. Prime also recently added The Company of Wolves, which has been (relatively) hard to find the last few years. It's a 1985 werewolf folk horror film. Other cool stuff added to Prime I haven't seen mentioned: the documentary Samsara, the neo-noir The Last Seduction, David Lynch's The Elephant Man, Roger Corman's confusing sci-fi horror Galaxy of Terror (warning, giant worm rape), and the essential B-movie Miami Connection
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Jun 27, 2018 21:35
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Franchescanado posted:and the essential B-movie Miami Connection Finally! So many people I've been trying to get to watch this, not having it streaming anywhere really sucked.
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Jun 27, 2018 21:59
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I watched it a long time ago on Netflix. Did it drop off and reappear? Vietnam is such a good doc so far.
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Jun 27, 2018 22:00
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I watched it a long time ago on Netflix. Did it drop off and reappear? Yeah, I first saw it when it was on Netflix years ago and since then I've only ever seen it as a paid rental. Hard enough convincing some people to watch something when it's free. I remember when we were talking about the Civil War doc by Ken Burns a while back, several people were put off by the static photos and felt it wasn't engaging enough. Vietnam definitely doesn't have that problem.
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Enos Cabell posted:Finally! So many people I've been trying to get to watch this, not having it streaming anywhere really sucked. Metal Geir Skogul posted:I watched it a long time ago on Netflix. Did it drop off and reappear? It came and went on Netflix for a couple of years and hasn't been back in about a year, I think. It's been on Prime for a month, and I think it was on Prime last. Honestly, it's worth a purchase. And I don't buy movies very often.
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Chopping Mall is on prime as well.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Chopping Mall is on prime as well. And Death Spa, if you want the trifecta of B-Movie Goodness.
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Franchescanado posted:Prime also recently added The Company of Wolves, which has been (relatively) hard to find the last few years. It's a 1985 werewolf folk horror film. Hell yes, finally! It's really good quality too, compared to the youtube versions I'd seen floating around. I'm glad I waited.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s really good and I don’t understand anyone’s issue with it at all. It’s like everything they hated is what I liked about it. It’s because the internet as a whole has decided they’re going to eviscerate any Star Wars movie or media project that isn’t the original theatrical OT releases or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, regardless of actual quality. Doubly so for all Disney-era films because  .
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s because the internet as a whole has decided they’re going to eviscerate any Star Wars movie or media project that isn’t the original theatrical OT releases or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, regardless of actual quality. If nerds hated Disney that much they'd also hate the Marvel movies. It's not a conspiracy, people just don't like the Disney era Star Wars movies because they're bad.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s because the internet as a whole has decided they’re going to eviscerate any Star Wars movie or media project that isn’t the original theatrical OT releases or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, regardless of actual quality. No, I'm with you. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and I've been loving what Disney has been doing. I think the only mishap so far has been Solo, and not because it's a bad movie, but because it just wasn't necessary. It was a lot of fun, but did we really need to know how he got his name? (it's about as dumb as you could think) Or did we need to know what C-3PO was talking about in Empire Strikes Back when he mentioned that the Millennium Falcon spoke with a peculiar dialect? No. It suffers from the problem that all prequels suffer from, is that we already know what ends up happening to these characters. There is no sense of danger for the main characters, and any side characters are ultimately unimportant because they're never mentioned in the sequels. The nerd rage about The Last Jedi come down to 3 things really: 1) Nerd culture has become dominant, and in order to try and hold onto something that's just theirs, they are implementing nerd purity tests, and if something doesn't pass their incredibly specific purity test with flying colors, then it is actual garbage to them. 2) Sexism and racism. There is no question that there is a lot of sexism and racism out there on the internet, and it's no stranger to the nerd community. So when the Skywalker saga, which has always featured a white male as the lead, suddenly features a woman as the lead, and the majority of the second leads being people of color, racism and sexism reared its ugly head. So we now have very loud voices in the fan community denouncing Disney for using Star Wars to push a liberal agenda. 3) Specifically with The Last Jedi, they just didn't get the movie. Most of the criticisms I've seen about the movie revolved around the fact that the different storylines seemed to lead nowhere. But the whole point of the movie was to subvert expectations of what it means to be a Star Wars movie, and to flip the heroic saga on its head. It spells that out from the very first five minutes of the movie. The Last Jedi is one of the better Star Wars movies, probably in the top 5. If you like Star Wars, go watch it.
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Up to Vietnam ep 4. I learned none of this in school. Parts hitting me right in the feels, which is rare for a documentary like this. Our country is terrible.
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Daisy Ridley is the least of the movie's problems and it's actually bad because it's not nearly subversive or different enough from Star Wars. also charitably there are like two and a half good star wars movies so 5th place is nothing to write home about
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The Last Jedi was great (as was The Force Awakens and Rogue One). The fact that TLJ makes Star Wars nerds flip their poo poo is the icing on the cake.
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Franchescanado posted:Also, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is now on Amazon Prime. It's an interesting, funny, weird film that's incredibly polarizing (as is the novel that it's based on), but I like it. Also has a great soundtrack
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Nihonniboku posted:No, I'm with you. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and I've been loving what Disney has been doing. I think the only mishap so far has been Solo, and not because it's a bad movie, but because it just wasn't necessary. Don’t forget that also Star Wars is for kids and shouldn’t be taken so seriously.
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The one weird thing about the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary is that it’s scored by Trent Reznor, recycling a lot of instrumentals from the Ghosts albums. It took me out of it a little bit.
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I didn't like TLJ because I felt the pacing was off and it kept dragging on forever (a problem I didn't have with TFA). Then again I liked rogue one and apparently everyone hates that one so maybe I'm weird 
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Ignis posted:I didn't like TLJ because I felt the pacing was off and it kept dragging on forever (a problem I didn't have with TFA). Then again I liked rogue one and apparently everyone hates that one so maybe I'm weird
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Ignis posted:I didn't like TLJ because I felt the pacing was off and it kept dragging on forever (a problem I didn't have with TFA). Then again I liked rogue one and apparently everyone hates that one so maybe I'm weird I didn't like TLJ because I'm old and it's not Return Of the Jedi.
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I didn't like Rogue One that much. To be fair to it, though, I was expecting it to be The Raid: Star Wars Edition. I would have never gotten on board with the escalation in any way possible. TLJ, especially Luke's arc, was pretty fuckin' cathartic.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Who hates Rogue One? It's the best new Star Wars movie, in my opinion. The two leads in Rogue One are the mopiest, least interesting people in the entire Star Wars universe. They might as well be wearing matching sandwich boards that say, "Ask me about my tragic past."
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any good cheese for a bad movie night I like 80s cheese in particular but if there's something so bad it's good I'm all ears
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Alan Smithee posted:any good cheese for a bad movie night The aforementioned miami connection is excellent, but barring that my friend have you ever heard of kung fu?
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Aside from the comic-relief robot, Rogue One is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite Star Wars movie.
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Iron Crowned posted:I liked Rogue One say word son
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How racy does Tom Seguras Netflix stuff get? I’ve been hearing a few clips of him on pandora and he’s super funny. I don’t care about swearing but I want to watch it with my mom and don’t want to hear about sex.
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drunken officeparty posted:How racy does Tom Seguras Netflix stuff get? I’ve been hearing a few clips of him on pandora and he’s super funny. I don’t care about swearing but I want to watch it with my mom and don’t want to hear about sex. I don't want to burst your bubble or anything, but I bet your mom already knows about sex.
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rogue one was loving awesome are you kidding me? i love that everyone died and there were no loose story ends, + seguing directly in to ANH
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Jummy posted:I don't want to burst your bubble or anything, but I bet your mom already knows about sex. First of all how dare you,
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Ignis posted:I didn't like TLJ because I felt the pacing was off and it kept dragging on forever (a problem I didn't have with TFA). Then again I liked rogue one and apparently everyone hates that one so maybe I'm weird My main criticism for The Last Jedi is that the primary plot point makes no sense (spoiled as there's at least one person here who was debating watching it for the first time): the slow speed chase that takes up 80% of the movie is absurd -- how does The First Order not use its seemingly infinite resources to warp a few ships ahead of the Resistance convoy, as well as a flanking maneuver from the sides? Instead they're just content to follow along and lob shots at them hoping the shields fail or their fuel runs out? There's certainly a longer list of nitpicks that can be hand waved away but this one seems like very lazy writing.
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Sand Monster posted:My main criticism for The Last Jedi is that the primary plot point makes no sense (spoiled as there's at least one person here who was debating watching it for the first time): the slow speed chase that takes up 80% of the movie is absurd -- how does The First Order not use its seemingly infinite resources to warp a few ships ahead of the Resistance convoy, as well as a flanking maneuver from the sides? Instead they're just content to follow along and lob shots at them hoping the shields fail or their fuel runs out? There's certainly a longer list of nitpicks that can be hand waved away but this one seems like very lazy writing. also THEY TRACKED US THROUGH HYPERSPACE!!! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!! (literally 30 seconds later) OH NO HOW IS REY EVER GOING TO FIND US NOW THAT WE HAVE JUMPED THROUGH HYPERSPACE? Relax... I gave her a... TRACKING DEVICE!!!
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the worst part of the last jedi was how boring and uninspired the casino looked imo
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