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Sourdough Sam posted:Maestro did actually remind me a bit of Bob Fosse's Lenny Bruce movie with how natural and real the dialogue felt. I haven't seen All That Jazz, but now I gotta! As well as STAR 80, but yes, that's Fosse's best film.
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Oxxidation posted:amazon is applying ads to everything on prime video and offering an ad-free tier for another $3 a month yeah i'm gonna just do other poo poo.
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Dec 27, 2023 04:15
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just cancel your entire prime account imo
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah what made it so horrific was just that there was no warning and the tourists especially had no way of knowing what the danger signs were. Yeah I remember seeing footage of all these tourists going out onto the beach to take photos presumably all "huh that's crazy the sea just rapidly receded, Indonesia's wild"
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Dec 27, 2023 16:06
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Oxxidation posted:amazon is applying ads to everything on prime video and offering an ad-free tier for another $3 a month They have been running a bunch of "free with ads" offers under Freevee for a while now, I guess as a testbed for this change. But also  , Prime's streaming selection has always been kinda dogshit and I'm pretty sure like 90% of viewers only use it because they bought prime for the free deliveries.
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Dec 27, 2023 16:31
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Prime's catalog video selection has always been incredible.
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Watched Maestro last night after learning from this thread that it was streaming on Netflix. My background going in was that I A) knew next to nothing about Bernstein, and B) rarely find biopics to be anything other than serviceable, but it looked intriguing and the reviews have been glowing. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Cooper and Mulligan are both excellent, and they somehow managed to make dialogue that very easily could have been hammy feel natural. I also really unexpectedly liked the gimmick of shifting the filming styles with the times; the later sections in color had a particular dreamy vibe that perfectly evoked 1970s cinema. It also wasn't too long, which some more indulgent biopics end up being. I do suspect, however, that Cooper is too fawning of his subject, and the estate of Bernstein was too involved in the production of this movie, for it to have been a fully honest portrayal. It does seem to soft-pedal the breakdown of their relationship and the impact his gay affairs had on Felicia, showing one fairly tame fight before transitioning into her cancer.
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Dec 27, 2023 17:38
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mystes posted:just cancel your entire prime account imo I use the 2 day shipping all the time.
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Dec 27, 2023 20:23
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Amazon has been pushing their ad-supported free content over Prime videos for a while now. I know somebody here made an effort post talking about why transitioning to ad supported free videos over subscriptions doesn’t make financial sense, but that’s what they’re doing.
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mcmagic posted:I use the 2 day shipping all the time. I think this year I need to track how often I *need* the 2 day shipping and compare the cost of just paying for it ad hoc to how much I'm paying for Prime. I suspect I'm not too far off from finally cancelling. A bigger hit would be going from 5% back to 3% back on the Prime Visa.
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Dec 27, 2023 20:37
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I think acknowledging that video ads don't really work would literally collapse entire industries so everyone involved in marketing has to believe that they do It's like how our entire economic system is based on infinite economic growth forever despite that being literally impossible
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Prime was the only ad-free service that had a decent back catalogue of pre-80s content.
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In case anyone is keeping track I am cancelling prime and adding it to the queue of streaming services for periodic binging as soon as I start to see ads.
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I paid for a ton of streaming services when they made their offerings competitive with piracy and physical media, offering decent catalogues at reasonable prices without ads. This no longer applies to any of the major streaming services, and I no longer subscribe to any of them.
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Medullah posted:I think this year I need to track how often I *need* the 2 day shipping and compare the cost of just paying for it ad hoc to how much I'm paying for Prime. I suspect I'm not too far off from finally cancelling. Same. Maybe do the $15 / month for December so they don’t deliver the presents in January.
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Medullah posted:A bigger hit would be going from 5% back to 3% back on the Prime Visa.
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Inspector Hound posted:My mom always ruined the end of law and order episodes because she could point out the more expensive tv actors they weren't going to waste on just one scene My partner and I do this all the time "Oh! I recognize that actor! They must have done it."
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feedmyleg posted:I paid for a ton of streaming services when they made their offerings competitive with piracy and physical media, offering decent catalogues at reasonable prices without ads. This no longer applies to any of the major streaming services, and I no longer subscribe to any of them. I'm about halfway here myself, but the sheer glut of content on Netflix makes it hard. Every so often I'll stumble across some South African primetime soap or some Korean romantic comedy that I would never even think to know to look for through piracy channels. I don't know if it's worth keeping the subscription from a rational cost/benefit perspective, but I think that both Netflix and Max/Discovery have done amazingly well at "this is not why you would ever subscribe, but dammit if this isn't an enjoyable 4-6 hours of content," which I imagine does more to keep people subscribed than any House of the Dragon content
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Dec 28, 2023 01:24
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The Creator is on Hulu now. The story is, I dunno, fine if you relax on the "why didn't they just X" part of your head, but goddamn is it pretty to look at. Some of the best effects I've seen in a while. Just a cool art design and quality CGI to boot.
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Glottis posted:The Creator is on Hulu now. The story is, I dunno, fine if you relax on the "why didn't they just X" part of your head, but goddamn is it pretty to look at. Some of the best effects I've seen in a while. Just a cool art design and quality CGI to boot. I watched it about 3 weeks ago and I honestly couldn't tell you a single thing about it. It was just dull as hell.
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Yeah the plot of The Creator was really nonsensical and all the "twists" were very obvious immediately. The visuals were fine, maybe it was just the TV I watched it on but they didn't ever wow me. But it was perfectly fine as a dumb low effort watch.
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I enjoyed the visuals and one of the overarching themes (the US military industrial complex is bad) but it was pretty tedious overall. Dreadful writing and plot beats.
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I like Gareth Edwards generally but the creator was bland. Also just sort of lazy with the lore. Looked nice and the cast was decent but everything else kind of sucked.
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Sometimes the takes in Cined baffle me. What was wrong with The Creator's plot beats?
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I mean that everything in the story was paint-by-numbers and very boring/unoriginal hth
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Bayham Badger posted:I mean that everything in the story was paint-by-numbers and very boring/unoriginal hth What's an original plot beat, versus an unoriginal plot beat?
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Ok movie quality aside I think Maestro has the best old age makeup I've ever seen? We've come a long way from Guy Pierce in Prometheus lol
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Wolfsheim posted:Ok movie quality aside I think Maestro has the best old age makeup I've ever seen? We've come a long way from Guy Pierce in Prometheus lol Yes! It's probably the only old age makeup I've seen that's actually convincing. Midnight Mass had some good stuff too, but it was more subtle. Maestro completely went for it and succeeded.
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I liked No One Will Save You, on Hulu. Sort of a less violent Evil Dead with aliens instead of demons. The dialogue was some of the best I've ever heard.
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Inspector Hound posted:I liked No One Will Save You, on Hulu. Sort of a less violent Evil Dead with aliens instead of demons. The dialogue was some of the best I've ever heard. I liked this too. It was a pleasant surprise. Also, lol at the bolded part
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Inspector Hound posted:Yes! It's probably the only old age makeup I've seen that's actually convincing. Midnight Mass had some good stuff too, but it was more subtle. Maestro completely went for it and succeeded. Wow, I thought the old age makeup in Midnight Mass was so comically bad I almost stopped watching after the first episode. I'm glad I didn't, and it's now one of my favorite shows, but the aging was so terribly obvious that it kind of ruined a bit of the surprise.
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Enos Cabell posted:Wow, I thought the old age makeup in Midnight Mass was so comically bad I almost stopped watching after the first episode. I'm glad I didn't, and it's now one of my favorite shows, but the aging was so terribly obvious that it kind of ruined a bit of the surprise. It's so bad in everything that even a small bump up from that sketch on I Think You Should Leave is high quality for me
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Inspector Hound posted:It's so bad in everything that even a small bump up from that sketch on I Think You Should Leave is high quality for me Hah, you're really not wrong there.
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"c'mon, now let's watch the fourth one!" "I really just think if you enjoyed the first three you should skip it" "How bad could it possibly b--" 
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Enos Cabell posted:Wow, I thought the old age makeup in Midnight Mass was so comically bad I almost stopped watching after the first episode. I'm glad I didn't, and it's now one of my favorite shows, but the aging was so terribly obvious that it kind of ruined a bit of the surprise. It was just uneven. Annabeth Gish's mom was pretty bad and noticeable but Henry Thomas and Kristin Lehman's was subtle enough that I thought he'd just hit a rough patch since filming Hill House.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It was just uneven. Annabeth Gish's mom was pretty bad and noticeable but Henry Thomas and Kristin Lehman's was subtle enough that I thought he'd just hit a rough patch since filming Hill House. That's fair, and that's the character that really took me out of things. Something about a very old face with vibrant young eyes is extremely off-putting. I'd agree on Henry Thomas and Kristin Lehman, I actually didn't recognize him until one of the later episodes where I had a "holy poo poo that's Elliot from E.T." moment. The only other Mike Flanagan project I've seen is Doctor Sleep, which I dug, so it's cool to see that he reuses a lot of the same actors in his stuff.
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I thought The Creator was pretty fun and solid tho I saw it in theaters in IMAX and I was fairly sure that if I'd seen it on a normal rear end TV it would've been kinda eh.
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Enos Cabell posted:it's cool to see that he reuses a lot of the same actors in his stuff. This is a bit of an understatement. It's practically a theatre troupe at this point.
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