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Nihonniboku posted:It seems that Peacock is quickly starting to make more interesting television than parent network NBC has made since Parks and Rec and The Good Place went off the air. I got it to watch Tar and was pleasantly surprised by how deep it is.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Criterion has a whole Michelle Yeoh collection rn and there's some real bangers. Hong Kong 80s action cinema is basically loving unparalleled but everyone already knows this. The outfits, the synth, the abrupt endings, ridiculous mood, insane stunts, merciless and brutal deaths of any and all characters no matter how significant and/or innocent, and the cartoonish efficient pace of nonstop action. Had a good run with Yes Madam!, Royal Warriors, and also Millionaires' Express on Arrow featuring Sammo Hung and a host of other people (of course Rothrock). it was so exciting when I watched most of the good 80s action from hollywood and suddenly realized hong kong had dozens more for me to watch. it's so good.
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put on Ides of March. it has philip seymour hoffman and paul giamatti. and george clooney and ryan gosling I guess
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Shin Ultraman is so good.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Criterion has a whole Michelle Yeoh collection rn and there's some real bangers. Hong Kong 80s action cinema is basically loving unparalleled but everyone already knows this. The outfits, the synth, the abrupt endings, ridiculous mood, insane stunts, merciless and brutal deaths of any and all characters no matter how significant and/or innocent, and the cartoonish efficient pace of nonstop action. Had a good run with Yes Madam!, Royal Warriors, and also Millionaires' Express on Arrow featuring Sammo Hung and a host of other people (of course Rothrock). Righting Wrongs is loving amazing. I’ve watched each of the cuts in the last few months and it gets better every time. Best cut is still the original Hong Kong cut that ends with the credits rolling over footage of Yuen Biao’s character presumably dead and bleeding into the ocean after jumping out of the plane. Just an insanely bleak ending to cap your movie as the extremely good theme song kicks off.
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Finally watched Tar last night and once I got past the slow intro I was really intrigued by it. I found myself thinking about it all day today, and I’ve read a few insightful analyses. Then out of interest, considering the New Yorker connection in the movie, I read Richard Brodie’s review in the New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/tar-reviewed-regressive-ideas-to-match-regressive-aesthetics). I usually like his reviews, and I always find them thought provoking even when I disagree with his judgment, but it’s like we watched completely different movies. Just mind boggling that any intelligent viewer can watch the entire movie and come away thinking that it genuinely admires Lydia, portrays her as a victim, or that there is serious reason to doubt the accusations of misconduct.
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So Peacock's going all in on detective TV. https://twitter.com/peacock/status/1636119306000842755 Also you can call in to WFMU right now to give creator Andy Breckman a hard time live on-air: https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/125707 Nightmare Cinema fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Nightmare Cinema posted:So Peacock's going all in on detective TV. Psych mentions Monk in their last episode so if we somehow get a crossover I am there. I mean I am also there if they don't since I did enjoy the show
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MeinPanzer posted:Finally watched Tar last night and once I got past the slow intro I was really intrigued by it. I found myself thinking about it all day today, and I’ve read a few insightful analyses.
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Hoping this somehow means that all the Burn Notice references in Poker Face lead to the return of Michael Weston and a true Burnaissance
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I'm enjoying Pokerface okay i guess....it's pretty silly, occasionally charming, I miss Adrien Brody and the second episode had some bizarre subway promotion as well as the odd choice to take correct stances about veterans/military and put them in the mouth of an incel psycho you're not supposed to take as credible or sane. Ummm Abu ghraib??? Who even is that?? Have some respect for the dead weirdo 🙄 Lol at the victim being a weird nonhuman automaton who wants to spread a passion for subway globally thru tiktok. Almost quoting his own words Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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Martman posted:lol wow. I definitely didn't love Tar as much as a lot of people, but I have no clue where people would get the idea that the movie wants us to doubt her accusers The writers colleague is the person interviewing Lydia in the beginning of the film. I think the author is too close to the poop to accurately describe it’s nuanced smells.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I'm enjoying Pokerface okay i guess....it's pretty silly, occasionally charming, I miss Adrien Brody and the second episode had some bizarre subway promotion as well as the odd choice to take correct stances about veterans/military and put them in the mouth of an incel psycho you're not supposed to take as credible or sane. I took the Subway guy as more someone who clearly had a pretty poo poo life and made the best of a bad situation versus the incel who was bitter about everything It's a pretty surface level show in that regard, but now I wonder how you're gonna react to the Lucky McKee episode with the aging government informant lol
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Poker Face is spotty but once it starts playing with the formula in the second half of the season it gets better and better. Episode 9 is loving fantastic.
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Anyone know of any decent movies about the french resistance?
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Nuts and Gum posted:The writers colleague is the person interviewing Lydia in the beginning of the film. I think the author is too close to the poop to accurately describe it’s nuanced smells. Ya but you’d think that connection would make him more generous in his interpretation of the movie, not less. Brodie completely pans the movie by taking a surface level interpretation and a bizarrely jaundiced view of every single aspect of it. I wonder if Brodie secretly hates Adam Gopnik (the interviewer at the beginning) or something.
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I seriously can't remember the last time I actually liked anything on Netflix but I get gun shy every time I go to cancel just because I've always had it lol. Was just thinking I could sub to Hulu, disney+ (with ads though) and apple TV for the same monthly price. What am I even going to miss out on? bad reality shows, bad true crime and bad straight to Netflix movies? I guess I like some of their movie length docs and standup but surely that's not worth a continuous sub.
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toggle posted:Anyone know of any decent movies about the french resistance? Army of Shadows is extremely good.
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Vanilla Bison posted:Army of Shadows is extremely good. Oh nice, I’ll check it. Cheers!
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toggle posted:Anyone know of any decent movies about the french resistance? Tangential to this but if you're looking for WW2 resistance stories, Black Book is an excellent one about the Dutch resistance.
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toggle posted:Anyone know of any decent movies about the french resistance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LonKGuS9uuQ
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veni veni veni posted:I seriously can't remember the last time I actually liked anything on Netflix but I get gun shy every time I go to cancel just because I've always had it lol. Was just thinking I could sub to Hulu, disney+ (with ads though) and apple TV for the same monthly price. What am I even going to miss out on? bad reality shows, bad true crime and bad straight to Netflix movies? I guess I like some of their movie length docs and standup but surely that's not worth a continuous sub. This is basically how I feel but I'm in a weird symbiotic relationship with it where I pay for Netflix and Peacock, my old roommate pays for HBO Max and Disney Plus and Prime switches randomly but we all share logins. If Netflix had gone through with stopping password sharing I would have canceled it that day lol
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veni veni veni posted:I seriously can't remember the last time I actually liked anything on Netflix but I get gun shy every time I go to cancel just because I've always had it lol. Was just thinking I could sub to Hulu, disney+ (with ads though) and apple TV for the same monthly price. What am I even going to miss out on? bad reality shows, bad true crime and bad straight to Netflix movies? I guess I like some of their movie length docs and standup but surely that's not worth a continuous sub. Do it! Cancel! You’re not losing anything. They’ll keep your watchlist and history. The next time you resubscribe it will be just like you never left.
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david_a posted:Do it! Cancel! You’re not losing anything. They’ll keep your watchlist and history. The next time you resubscribe it will be just like you never left. Granted your watchlist/history is kept for only 10 months(?) or something like that, so it's not kept forever. But yeah, if you're that close to wanting to cancel, might as well. I dropped every paid subscription service last month and haven't felt the need to go back for anything.
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The only Netflix content I'm really looking forward to this year is the new Fincher movie, which doesn't drop until November. The rest is just the usual slop.
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I watched part 2 of season 4 of You on Netflix. I actually liked how it raised the stakes from part 1 and I always like any time they break out the glass cages but the writers should be fuckin ashamed of themselves for doing a completely straight take on a Tyler Durden split personality, complete with Joe symbolically killing his split personality via suicide attempt. This poo poo was played out when they did it in House MD
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Aglet56 posted:I watched part 2 of season 4 of You on Netflix. I actually liked how it raised the stakes from part 1 and I always like any time they break out the glass cages but the writers should be fuckin ashamed of themselves for doing a completely straight take on a Tyler Durden split personality, complete with Joe symbolically killing his split personality via suicide attempt. This poo poo was played out when they did it in House MD I liked it, but I had thought that this was supposed to be the last season Penn Badgley has been so vocal about not liking playing the character, so I was surprised that it set up another season.
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The best stuff on Netflix is the stuff they just sneak on, like The Alpinist and Gladbeck.
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live with fruit posted:The best stuff on Netflix is the stuff they just sneak on, like The Alpinist and Gladbeck. Or the unexpected success, like American Vandal
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Rental Sting posted:The only Netflix content I'm really looking forward to this year is the new Fincher movie, which doesn't drop until November. The rest is just the usual slop. Mank 2: Mank the Stank
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a lovely king posted:Tangential to this but if you're looking for WW2 resistance stories, Black Book is an excellent one about the Dutch resistance. Awesome, I'll add it to my list. Thanks!
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Flame & Citron is a good movie about the Danish resistance, and it is also one of the rare performances by Mads Mikkelsen where he isn't playing a monster
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CelticPredator posted:Mank 2: Mank the Stank Mank 2, but it's about his grandson's addiction to incest porn.
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Mank 2: Mankin My Way Downtown
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The Glory got a bit of chatter but I'm 3 episodes in and a bit ambivalent. Part because the early episodes verge on child torture porn and are unpleasant to watch, part because the revenge is a long time coming, and part because of the inherent distractions of the genre: character spends years plotting her revenge and you wonder where she finds the time to graduate, work, stalk her victims, find blackmail material, become an expert at Go ...
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Nihonniboku posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIOnrEujKl8 That trailer had so many double-takes and quips that I already hate the series with a passion.
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mcmagic posted:Shin Ultraman is so good. Is it streaming anywhere in the states?
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Kingtheninja posted:Is it streaming anywhere in the states? It looks like just like last time when they brought it up, no, it's still not streaming anywhere in the States. I think I read that it was briefly on Amazon Prime in Japan, and that's it
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watched Nope. kinda cool. glad I waited for it to come on streaming tho putting on Lou with Allison Janney
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