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Maniac is amazing watch it now I just got done mainlining the whole thing.
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enigmahfc posted:Odd Thomas has a charming appeal that made me want to see more from that series. It wasn't ground breaking, but it was better then I thought it would be. It was not a great movie but a great 90 minute pilot for a series. Too bad they picked the wrong format.
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Sep 22, 2018 07:24
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Maniac is one of the coolest shows that Netflix has put out. If you liked how weird and experimental Legion got then you'll probably be a fan of this one, because they really go nuts as it ramps up.
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Sep 22, 2018 10:05
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Fart City posted:Like I agree that Blue Ruin is absolutely legit. I appreciate any movie that is willing to escalate to crossbow use, the more grounded the setting, the bettter. The Legacy with Sam Elliot, has primo crossbowing.
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Sep 22, 2018 15:28
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I just finished Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri on HBO. Holy poo poo that was a fantastic movie and I was misting up something fierce three or four times.
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Sep 22, 2018 21:30
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I just finished Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri on HBO. Holy poo poo that was a fantastic movie and I was misting up something fierce three or four times. I honestly had major issues with the movie, especially with giving the racist and violent cop a redemption arc without even bothering having him change his core beliefs or values. Frances McDormand was incredible in it, but the movie was really overrated and I'm so glad that it didn't win Best Picture.
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Sep 22, 2018 22:01
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Nihonniboku posted:I honestly had major issues with the movie, especially with giving the racist and violent cop a redemption arc without even bothering having him change his core beliefs or values. Frances McDormand was incredible in it, but the movie was really overrated and I'm so glad that it didn't win Best Picture. I mean it's not really a redemption arc, the movie is about bad people becoming different, but even worse people.
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Sep 22, 2018 22:48
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Nihonniboku posted:I honestly had major issues with the movie, especially with giving the racist and violent cop a redemption arc without even bothering having him change his core beliefs or values. Frances McDormand was incredible in it, but the movie was really overrated and I'm so glad that it didn't win Best Picture. No one at the end of that movie is redeemed.
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Sep 23, 2018 02:54
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Up to episode 4 so far, Maniac is pretty good.
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Sep 23, 2018 02:56
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I just finished Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri on HBO. Holy poo poo that was a fantastic movie and I was misting up something fierce three or four times. Yeah, it was great. There was a streak of darkness that unified the comedy and tragedy in an unusual way. I liked that one of themes was how things don't wrap up the way we want or expect, and it's about our reaction to that that matters. I loved the filmmaking when the advertising guy gets thrown out the window in I believe a oner, and was truly surprised when Woody Harrelson leaves the movie at the 1/3 mark.
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Sep 23, 2018 03:26
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Seconding Maniac being real good. I also loved the easter egg with the pile of porno games/movies where one was called Beasts of Urination.
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Sep 23, 2018 05:45
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Just finished Maniac. Very, very good. Super funny, too, and the ending scene is loving delicious.
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Sep 23, 2018 07:49
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If anybody wants to see a good as hell 70's action thriller, Mr. Majestyk is streaming on Prime. It stars Charles Bronson as a bad rear end melon farmer (literally) who goes to war with escaped convict Al Lettieri and his henchmen (and the police department, and some small time local hoods). It's got a great car chase, a righteous soundtrack, and was clearly an influence on Tarantino.
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Human Tornada posted:If anybody wants to see a good as hell 70's action thriller, Mr. Majestyk is streaming on Prime. It stars Charles Bronson as a bad rear end melon farmer (literally) who goes to war with escaped convict Al Lettieri and his henchmen (and the police department, and some small time local hoods). It's got a great car chase, a righteous soundtrack, and was clearly an influence on Tarantino. Hell yes this is a good flick. For more Bronson awesomeness Prime also has The Mechanic which co-stars Jan-Michael Vincent
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I'm 4 episodes into Bojack Horseman and it really hasn't gone anywhere the previous seasons had. The Todd subplots are pretty great, though.Human Tornada posted:If anybody wants to see a good as hell 70's action thriller, Mr. Majestyk is streaming on Prime. It stars Charles Bronson as a bad rear end melon farmer (literally) who goes to war with escaped convict Al Lettieri and his henchmen (and the police department, and some small time local hoods). It's got a great car chase, a righteous soundtrack, and was clearly an influence on Tarantino. That's a good one. pahuyuth posted:Hell yes this is a good flick. For more Bronson awesomeness Prime also has The Mechanic which co-stars Jan-Michael Vincent The remake, with Jason Statham and Ben Foster, is actually pretty darn good.
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Filthy Hans posted:I'm 4 episodes into Bojack Horseman and it really hasn't gone anywhere the previous seasons had. The Todd subplots are pretty great, though. Just started the fifth season, finished episode 1. You're right. Todd is the best part so far.
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Sep 23, 2018 19:10
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Cocoa Ninja posted:and was truly surprised when Woody Harrelson leaves the movie at the 1/3 mark. Anytime someone got one of his suicide notes I basically lost it. Especially the first one to his wife, holy poo poo
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Queen Combat posted:Just started the fifth season, finished episode 1. Holy poo poo episode 6 is a kick in the nuts, keep watching
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Unzip and Attack posted:Miami Vice is a pretty superb film with amazing casting and some of the best gunplay in recent cinema. Colin Ferrell's mustache is pretty top notch as well. A long while back but I agree wholeheartedly. It is shot so well. The use of a handheld camera makes it feel more intense, intimate, and personal. And there's little or no shaky cam poo poo. Also the new season of American Vandal is just as good as the first season. It'll have you guessing til the end. At least, it kept ME guessing til the end.
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Sep 23, 2018 21:59
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So far season 8 of TWD is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen put to film. It’s sort of incredible how bad this show is at this point. I can’t look away
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Sep 24, 2018 03:10
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Maniac so far is an updated Brazil. I'm waiting for Robert Deniro to come fix some pipes.
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Sep 24, 2018 03:20
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veni veni veni posted:So far season 8 of TWD is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen put to film. It’s sort of incredible how bad this show is at this point. I can’t look away Is it even worth hate-watching at this point? I think I stopped right after Coral died and I haven’t missed watching it at all. I almost expect it to improve after Andrew Lincoln leaves since he’s been the weakest link in the last 3+ seasons.
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Sep 24, 2018 03:22
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I was sick as poo poo all weekend so I binge watched Maniac. I liked its inventiveness and the way it treated and explored its characters, but like a lot of shows and films about mental health, trauma, and attachment, it's pulling a lot of toys out the toybox but doesn't quite understand how any of them work.
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Sep 24, 2018 04:30
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Is it even worth hate-watching at this point? I think I stopped right after Coral died and I haven’t missed watching it at all. I almost expect it to improve after Andrew Lincoln leaves since he’s been the weakest link in the last 3+ seasons. You lasted longer than I did.
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Nihonniboku posted:You lasted longer than I did. That was actually the second time I stopped watching. I originally gave up during the first excruciatingly boring Alexandria season.
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Sep 24, 2018 05:29
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Is it even worth hate-watching at this point? I think I stopped right after Coral died and I haven’t missed watching it at all. I almost expect it to improve after Andrew Lincoln leaves since he’s been the weakest link in the last 3+ seasons. Hard to say. I honestly half assed watch it in the background when I'm working on other projects to gawk at how stupid it is. Might be painful to try and actually sit down and absorb. On the other hand it's so loving stupid I almost want to say yeah. If you quit when Coral totally didn't die at all you have no idea what your in for. it gets so, so much worse. Andrew Lincoln isn't even a weak link anymore. The entire original cast is as bad or worse than him at this point. I can't think of a single one that isn't completely phoning it in and sleeping their way through it. Lincoln at least sort of tries unlike Daryl, Carol or Maggie. Plus all of the new editions are noticeably bad actors. Without getting too deep into spoiler territory the last two seasons mostly revolve around a (good) man with a CGI pet tiger at war with a completely asinine villain who constantly makes dumb quips, swaggers around like his hips are dislocated and whacks someone to death with a barbed wire covered bat every 5 minutes. Also all of the action scenes look like they were directed/edited by Frieddie Wong on his macbook pro. If that sounds worth a hate watch I say go for it. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Sep 24, 2018 05:36
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I tapped out on TWD years ago, right after all of the Governor poo poo. It wasn't even like, one particular thing that drove me over the edge. I just found myself wondering why I was even watching it. I had zero investment in any of the characters, and the novelty of having a serialized zombie tv show had long worn off. Maybe a year or so ago I pulled up where I had left off on Netflix, and couldn't get through twenty minutes. There's just so much filler in every episode and every season.
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Sep 24, 2018 05:42
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veni veni veni posted:Hard to say. I honestly half assed watch it in the background when I'm working on other projects to gawk at how stupid it is. Might be painful to try and actually sit down and absorb. On the other hand it's so loving stupid I almost want to say yeah. If you quit when Coral totally didn't die at all you have no idea what your in for. it gets so, so much worse. When I gave up he had just been bitten by a zombie and was basically confirmed to die. Did he seriously come back from that?
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Sep 24, 2018 06:00
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Big Mean Jerk posted:When I gave up he had just been bitten by a zombie and was basically confirmed to die. Did he seriously come back from that? He got shot in the eyeball and just put on an eyepatch in the next episode and beyond edit: wait. unless you are further along than I am. I'm watching season 8 that just went up on netflix and only like 3 eps in so maybe that happens after?
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Sep 24, 2018 06:11
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veni veni veni posted:He got shot in the eyeball and just put on an eyepatch in the next episode and beyond poo poo, I honestly thought what I was talking about had happened earlier than season 8. Sorry about that.
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Sep 24, 2018 06:20
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It's ok I don't really care what happens on the show at all. I'm more disappointed that you've already seen all of the Tiger/negan hijinks that I lovingly described than anything else.
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Sep 24, 2018 06:22
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I thought the pilot of TWD was pretty good. Stopped watching after that.
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Sep 24, 2018 06:27
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That was probably the best stopping point tbh.
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The Walking dead should’ve been an anthology show. Every season is a new group of survivors working in the aftermath of this outbreak. You could have one season be like The Last of Us, another like 28 days later, maybe one takes place in frozen Canada. But once they said “there’s no cure AND the cast doesn’t change,” there was no real reason to watch. It did really give the illusion of movement, and I liked Jon Bernthal and Rooker, but it never improves past the pilot.
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Sep 24, 2018 06:35
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Jon Bernthal is cool but his TWD character sucked rear end. To be fair pretty much every character on that show sucks rear end. But yeah the show pretty much doomed itself to an endless cycle of repetition from day 1. Fear the Walking Dead, which started out as one of the worst shows on television is actually about 10 times better than TWD currently because of a miracle or something.
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Sep 24, 2018 06:42
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I threw my hands up with TWD when it turned out his wife was being boned in the woods by, of course, his besty, and didn't know he was still alive because, of course, his besty told her he was totally dead and "Hey let's shag to celebrate". I assumed it would just get worse.
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Sep 24, 2018 08:15
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I just thought it was ridiculously slow paced for an actiony show.
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Sep 24, 2018 08:17
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The Walking Dead would at least be watchable if they cut the number of episodes in half. They originally WERE thinking about making it an anthology show but that went out the window when Frank Darabont left the show. He's more talented than anyone else that's ever been involved with the show so they majorly shot themselves in the foot there. As for FTWD being better, not for long. They put the guy that oversaw the main show in charge of FWTD too.
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veni veni veni posted:It's ok I don't really care what happens on the show at all. I'm more disappointed that you've already seen all of the Tiger/negan hijinks that I lovingly described than anything else. I read the comics for an embarrassing length of time before giving up on those as well, so all of the Ezekiel insanity was expected.
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I thought S1 was pretty good. S2 was a slog but I got through it working from home. I thought the whole plot with them looking for a kid that’s obviously super-dead was obnoxious, but then again apparently the whole season took place over 1-2 weeks instead of the 3-4 months I thought it did. S3 just lost me entirely.
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