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Basebf555 posted:I posted about Small Town Crime a while back when it was first on Netflix. Okay. I just watched the movie, it was fun enough. Nothing too memorable but fun. The scene you're talking about - I'd probably be screaming the same thing if I didn't know it was coming... so when I saw it, I was all, "yeah well that's just to show you that crime doesn't pay and it's bad mmkay." But no - I'll agree with you - wasn't necessary to sell the movie or the scene... kind of like gratuitous boobies. Thanks for the rec. It was a good afternoon to waste on a bard boiled crime thriller.
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magnificent7 posted:Okay. I just watched the movie, it was fun enough. Nothing too memorable but fun. The scene you're talking about - I'd probably be screaming the same thing if I didn't know it was coming... so when I saw it, I was all, "yeah well that's just to show you that crime doesn't pay and it's bad mmkay." But no - I'll agree with you - wasn't necessary to sell the movie or the scene... kind of like gratuitous boobies. Agreed that it was fun but not really memorable. I'll watch anything with Clifton Collins Jr or John Hawkes ; those dudes are just so good.
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Jose Oquendo posted:It's a great movie with an all-star cast having fun. What's not to love. The sequence where the blind dude recreates where he went while kidnapped using what he heard was awesome. I’m a complete sucker for the “ragtag team of underdogs going against the odds” trope like A-Team, Leverage, Burn Notice, etc. Anybody got any recommendations to anything similar to those?
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volts5000 posted:I’m a complete sucker for the “ragtag team of underdogs going against the odds” trope like A-Team, Leverage, Burn Notice, etc. Anybody got any recommendations to anything similar to those? It's a bit darker than Leverage, but have you seen Person of Interest?
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:It's a bit darker than Leverage, but have you seen Person of Interest? Couldn’t quite get into that when it first came out. Maybe I should give it another try.
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volts5000 posted:Couldn’t quite get into that when it first came out. Maybe I should give it another try. It's a fairly straightforward (if endearing) procedural for three seasons and then becomes something much more unique. I don't blame you if waiting three seasons for it to "get good" is unpalatable, but on the other hand, I liked both parts.
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Joe Bob Briggs marathon on Shudder tonight. Monstervision and USA Up All Night basically defined my taste in movies.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:It's a fairly straightforward (if endearing) procedural for three seasons and then becomes something much more unique. I don't blame you if waiting three seasons for it to "get good" is unpalatable, but on the other hand, I liked both parts. I watched season 1, can I just skip to season 4?
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red19fire posted:I watched season 1, can I just skip to season 4? At minimum, there are going to be a couple of characters you either don't recognize at all or whose allegiances have shifted significantly, and you'll have no idea where the main antagonist / conceit came from. Watching it from season 3 might work better, now that I think of it. The main takeway from Season 2 is the CIA assassin and the sociopathic hacker girl more or less reform themselves and join the crew, and the Machine itself is intelligent Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jul 14, 2018 |
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Lycus posted:How's the Forest Whittaker post-apoc movie? People are calling it "boring" but I really, really liked it. The Netflix Original you want to avoid for being boring and lame is Pandorum. I should have known when it said "starring Dennis Quaid" but I like scary spaceship movies and hooooooooo boy is it a stinker.
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Lycus posted:How's the Forest Whittaker post-apoc movie? I just finished watching it. It's boring. The ending is really bad. The acting feels phoned in. Nothing is explained or resolved satisfactorily.
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precision posted:People are calling it "boring" but I really, really liked it. Pandorum isn't a Netflix Original, the hell? I remember when it was in theaters (because I kinda wanted to see it and didn't get a chance).
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Yeah, Pandorum is a theatrical movie from like a decade ago.
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Speaking of Dennis Quaid, has anyone else watched Fortitude on Prime? When I finished Tin Star, it popped up to play next and I just thought it was going to be a procedural in a remote town. It was a bit slow to start, but once it got going, season one was good. Then, there was a time jump between seasons which seemed odd when they had to go back and explain missing characters, etc. I thought the second season was a little weaker (maybe Dennis Quaid's fault?) , but still good overall and can't wait to see where they take season 3. I hope Sheriff Anderssen doesn't hurt Petra after the last episode.
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Mammal Sauce posted:Speaking of Dennis Quaid, has anyone else watched Fortitude on Prime? When I finished Tin Star, it popped up to play next and I just thought it was going to be a procedural in a remote town. It was a bit slow to start, but once it got going, season one was good. Then, there was a time jump between seasons which seemed odd when they had to go back and explain missing characters, etc. I thought the second season was a little weaker (maybe Dennis Quaid's fault?) , but still good overall and can't wait to see where they take season 3. I hope Sheriff Anderssen doesn't hurt Petra after the last episode. One of the few shows that got dumber every episode starting with a real great episode.
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precision posted:People are calling it "boring" but I really, really liked it Yeah I dug it too. I thought the last 20 minutes had some real issues but overall I still thought it was good.
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precision posted:People are calling it "boring" but I really, really liked it. This post somehow made across from opposite world.
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Okay, Pandorum being a decade old explains a lot and kinda makes me retroactively like it more
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I mostly know Ben Foster from 3:10 to Yuma, but I can't recall of him lately.
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Lycus posted:I mostly know Ben Foster from 3:10 to Yuma, but I can't recall of him lately. He's outstanding in Alpha Dog and Hell or High Water (both worth a watch).
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I'm rewatching Dark just for the hell of it and find wishing they told us more about Michael. Like what was his and Jonas's relationship like, and did he try to be close with the Nielsen family or deliberately avoid them?
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Lycus posted:I mostly know Ben Foster from 3:10 to Yuma, but I can't recall of him lately. He will always be Russel, Claire’s artsy boyfriend in Six Feet Under. That said Hell or High Water is great.
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nate fisher posted:He will always be Russel, Claire’s artsy boyfriend in Six Feet Under. That said Hell or High Water is great. He'll always be Tucker from Flash Forward to me, best friend to Jewel Staites Becca.
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The subtitles on Netflix for Interview with a Vampire are out of sync
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Lycus posted:I mostly know Ben Foster from 3:10 to Yuma, but I can't recall of him lately. He's a fantastic actor, like Philip Seymour Hoffman, who knows when he's in a garbage movie and transcends the bad movie by chewing up the scenery around everyone else. He has bit parts in the Tom Jane Punisher and 30 Days of Night that are just fantastically stupid and fun.
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Ben Foster's been memorable since Freaks and Geeks. I also watched Patriot on recommendation of this thread and ended up liking it. I didn't think I was going to after the first episode, switching between different times is lazy storytelling and nationalism is annoying and shallow, but I still liked it. Sometimes it's a little ... I dunno the right word - zany? but all in all, pretty enjoyable and charming. I really liked his co-worker friend/ally who turned into an amazing, well developed character.
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One of the things I didn't notice about Dark the first time is even though Middle-aged Jonas is the main red herring for the kidnappings, he and Middle-aged Helge actually have obviously different jackets.
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Miss Lonelyhearts posted:I also watched Patriot on recommendation of this thread and ended up liking it. I didn't think I was going to after the first episode, switching between different times is lazy storytelling and nationalism is annoying and shallow, but I still liked it. Sometimes it's a little ... I dunno the right word - zany? but all in all, pretty enjoyable and charming. I really liked his co-worker friend/ally who turned into an amazing, well developed character. Patriot is a comedy in the sense where almost everything that amounted to support completely and utterly failed him. The same way I enjoyed Venture Brothers because it was all about the johnny quest aesthetic, but it revolved around someone pretending to be a doctor, and is generally a failure. The rock paper scissors scene later on was one of the best scenes I've seen in a while, it was extremely tense.
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red19fire posted:He's a fantastic actor, like Philip Seymour Hoffman, who knows when he's in a garbage movie and transcends the bad movie by chewing up the scenery around everyone else. He has bit parts in the Tom Jane Punisher and 30 Days of Night that are just fantastically stupid and fun. He was this way in the remake of The Mechanic, too, it's a remake of a lovely Charles Bronson flick but Foster brings his A game
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Justice League: Dark was awesome. If you like badass wizard battles, it has one of the coolest ones I've seen, to the point where it was more fun than the actual climax, which was also pretty good.
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drunken officeparty posted:I’m able to be slowly getting through Vietnam, 15-20 minutes at a time before bed because there are actual people still alive to interview and there’s real footage of the war even in color! The Civil War one on the other hand should be outlawed by the geneva convention as a weapon of intentional cruelty. You have to admit though that the one shot where a camera slowly pans over of a bunch of letters and photos as a narrator reads a letter is pretty legit.
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Hulu added The First 48. It's a terrible show that frequently leads to innocent people's lives being ruined but I can't stop watching.
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17 seasons, hatchi matchi!
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veni veni veni posted:17 seasons, hatchi matchi! Shows like that are why people think the US is getting more dangerous while crime actually goes down.
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So, I watched Jurassic Park again for the first time in a decade or so, after the discussion earlier and I really do agree it's a nearly perfect movie. It really kind of made me think about why I can't stand drat near every modern blockbuster. The whole thing has zero fat on it. Every scene pushes the story forward and usually builds up to something epic. Jurassic world was so boring and aimless by comparison. I also watched The Lost World and it's not the best movie but I still think it blows JW out of the water. Imho it's pretty good up until the end which was fun, but really poorly executed. It's not great compared to the original though which is drat near flawless.
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veni veni veni posted:So, I watched Jurassic Park again for the first time in a decade or so, after the discussion earlier and I really do agree it's a nearly perfect movie. It really kind of made me think about why I can't stand drat near every modern blockbuster. The whole thing has zero fat on it. Every scene pushes the story forward and usually builds up to something epic. Jurassic world was so boring and aimless by comparison. I just watched Fallen Kingdom yesterday and it was awful, but the next film in the series could be amazing with that setup. It will still probably be dog poo poo, but the small chance is there...
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:but the small chance is there... Not with Trevorrow writing and directing.
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