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Punkin Spunkin posted:I'm finally watching Apostle, already better than The Raid 2 (great trailer, eh sequel), but I gotta say getting to the Peking scene it was hard not to be split between OH GOD NO and poo poo YEAH GET THOSE WHITE GHOST DEVILS Just wondering, did you have any problem following the plot in The Raid 2? I only bring it up because the movie has a lot of characters to keep track of and the story is much more complicated than the original. So it took me a second viewing to really absorb the details of the plot, which allowed me to enjoy the movie so much more than I did the first time. The action itself is on the same level as The Raid if not improved in some instances.
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Basebf555 posted:Just wondering, did you have any problem following the plot in The Raid 2? I only bring it up because the movie has a lot of characters to keep track of and the story is much more complicated than the original. So it took me a second viewing to really absorb the details of the plot, which allowed me to enjoy the movie so much more than I did the first time. The action itself is on the same level as The Raid if not improved in some instances. tbf, I guess it's pretty much what you have to do with a sequel to The Raid. If it had just been a rehash of the elements I appreciated about The Raid then that would've been lame in its own ways. It's not so much that I didn't like The Raid 2, maybe I was being a bit too hot take up there. I just really liked The Raid and (so far) Apostle.
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Dec 12, 2018 21:50
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I just really like that as a follow-up Evans just went full on into a Sergio Leone-style operatic epic.
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I do agree that the hammer girl and baseball guy were the weakest part of the movie. They're just one step over the line, a bit too ridiculous.
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Dec 12, 2018 22:07
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Basebf555 posted:I do agree that the hammer girl and baseball guy were the weakest part of the movie. They're just one step over the line, a bit too ridiculous. I'm surprised they cut out the gang war segment and not that, frankly
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I definitely agree with the sentiment that The Raid worked so well because of its limited scope. Wasn't a fan of 2 at all but it might be worth a rewatch. Apostle was pretty badass though.
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Once you really have a handle on all the characters and factions in the Raid 2, it's just so much easier to sit back and enjoy it fully. Maybe that's a legit criticism, that it's difficult to absorb important plot details on first viewing. But I feel like there are other great movies that have the same thing going on, not the least of which is The Godfather.
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Anybody looking forward to Roma on Netflix this weekend? I'm gonna bite the bullet and go watch it at a local movie theater tomorrow
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I am a big fan of Christopher Meloni, so i figured i'd start watching "Happy!" That was one hell of a pilot episode. And this is a "Sy Fy" original?
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Fargin Icehole posted:I am a big fan of Christopher Meloni, so i figured i'd start watching "Happy!" It’s based on a Grant Morrison comic book.
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Ignis posted:Anybody looking forward to Roma on Netflix this weekend? I'm gonna bite the bullet and go watch it at a local movie theater tomorrow Experiencing Roma in the theater is well worth it. Shame that it has such a limited screening run.
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there's no story in the raid 2 its just white noise in between mook beatdowns/boss battles. the problem is there is way too much of it and it makes the movie too long
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Parachute posted:there's no story in the raid 2 its just white noise in between mook beatdowns/boss battles. the problem is there is way too much of it and it makes the movie too long There's a story, I mean if you don't like the story that's one thing, but there's most definitely a story.
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Dec 13, 2018 16:08
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I liked Raid 2, but honestly it is a movie I can never watch from start to finish again. Still there are certain parts I can watch over and over. That said the Apostle, for me the bad out weighed the good for me. Might be my biggest letdown of 2018.
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Yeah, now that I finished Apostle I'm not sure I rank it over The Raid 2. They're kinda equal to me now. With Apostle I really liked The first half or chunk of it before he's exposed, all the sneaking, slow burn tension about being exposed, like the lineup where they have to repeat the gospel...even if sometimes it didn't make sense like, wouldn't members of this flock kind of start getting he's an interloper with all the confusion and curiosity he seems to present vis a vis all their rituals and religion... it was still tense and good, and I liked the Peking backstory...but somewhere it lost me? somewhere towards the second half I stopped being sure of character's motivations and the reasons for their actions, and it just got more muddled and overlong... Ultimately I see it as like, something I already knew, which is that Gareth Evans is a creative and promising director even if he's made some flawed films. hints and dashes of The Wicker Man and even kinda like, Princess Mononoke if that makes any sense.
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First Reformed was really good. I thought it was an interesting detail that he says "I'm so sorry, Joseph!" reflexively when he spills soup on the guy in the wheelchair. The guy in the wheelchair is billed in the credits as "war vet in wheelchair" and the reverend's dead son was named Joseph. One of the first things I've watched in a while that my thoughts have returned to afterwards. Definitely will be rewatching sooner than later
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Dec 13, 2018 22:06
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Cam was a lot better than I thought it was gonna be. Pretty clever.
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Dec 14, 2018 10:05
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Made it like 30 minutes into American Meme and I’m pretty sure I’d be ok with a giant meteor hitting this planet now.
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veni veni veni posted:Made it like 30 minutes into American Meme and I’m pretty sure I’d be ok with a giant meteor hitting this planet now. I was stoned and incredulous enough to make it about an hour, it's so bad
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Dec 15, 2018 22:36
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I prefer my dystopian future poo poo to be fiction.
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veni veni veni posted:Made it like 30 minutes into American Meme and I’m pretty sure I’d be ok with a giant meteor hitting this planet now. Black Mirror did it better 
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Oh it’s actually a really well made doc. The people it follows are just loving appalling though. Especially irl Slurms McKenzie but they all just seem like god awful people. I finished it against my better judgement lol.
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veni veni veni posted:Oh it’s actually a really well made doc. The people it follows are just loving appalling though. Especially irl Slurms McKenzie but they all just seem like god awful people. The only person I liked in that doc was the guy that was in the Britney Spears music video that was like 'lol nah' about a social media presence.
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Dec 16, 2018 06:03
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That guy seemed way too proud of himself for it. If there was anyone I even felt remotely sympathetic to, and I can't believe I'm saying this, it was Paris Hilton.
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Netflix UK are so cruel, putting up season 1 of Ash vs Evil Dead, but not the next two seasons...
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I haven't watched this yet, but it's in the new releases on instant watcher for prime and it looks pretty amazing lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f1Be9qV3WM]
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veni veni veni posted:I haven't watched this yet, but it's in the new releases on instant watcher for prime and it looks pretty amazing lol. I'm not familiar with this movie, but just be aware that most of Amazon's "-ploitation" movies are heavily edited and sometimes make even less sense than the original cut.
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The Innocent Man is on Netflix and is a good watch.
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ozmunkeh posted:The Innocent Man is on Netflix and is a good watch. Yep. Binged this last night. More criminal justice frustration a la Making A Murderer.
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Springsteen on Broadway is on Netflix now. It's a fantastic show (I saw it live in March) and if you have any interest at all in Bruce I strongly suggest you watch it. It's a mix of talking and singing, with a real kickass acoustic version of Born in the USA as a highlight.
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I'd just like to say that Schitt's Creek is sooo good. David Rose has to be one of my most favorite characters ever.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:I'd just like to say that Schitt's Creek is sooo good. David Rose has to be one of my most favorite characters ever. Agreed on both counts. Dan Levy is a treasure.
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Apostle had a lot of potential but just ended up feeling sloppy. Really would have benefited from being about 30 minutes shorter and a tighter narrative.
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Travelers s3 is definitely worth watching if you liked the first 2 seasons, and Grace is still the best character on the show
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Flowers is a weird show. Silly dark comedy, silly dark comedy, oh here's a serious scene about chronic depression.
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It was pretty uneven overall, but I enjoyed the first season of Future Man on Hulu quite a bit. Derek Wilson as Wolf in particular is amazing, I really wish we could get an 80s spinoff show featuring him.
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Enos Cabell posted:It was pretty uneven overall, but I enjoyed the first season of Future Man on Hulu quite a bit. Derek Wilson as Wolf in particular is amazing, I really wish we could get an 80s spinoff show featuring him. If one grew up in the era of Top Gun, the volleyball scene made my cheeks hurt. That and the James Cameron house episode.
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veni veni veni posted:Apostle had a lot of potential but just ended up feeling sloppy. Really would have benefited from being about 30 minutes shorter and a tighter narrative. My thoughts exactly, and overall it's a comment I've seen a lot about the movie. It has a really strong first act, then it drags in the middle and the last act just doesn't deliver enough to justify the runtime. It was badly in need of another edit. I've heard people say that maybe this is a symptom of the whole Netflix production model, that when they snag a big name director they give them too much freedom and it leads to bloated films/shows that should've been edited better.
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