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Did anyone find it strange there were like three random scenes in The Night Comes for Us where the actors spoke in English? Maybe I missed the context for that.
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Oct 22, 2018 04:26
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Tainen posted:Did anyone find it strange there were like three random scenes in The Night Comes for Us where the actors spoke in English? Maybe I missed the context for that. It seemed like it was the shared language between two characters who spoke Indonesian and Mandarin respectively.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:11
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:S. Craig Zahler is a neo-Nazi and you probably shouldn't be admitting that you like his stuff anymore. Dude has some questionable themes going on in his movies, but I can't find anything that supports this at all.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:25
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veni veni veni posted:Dude has some questionable themes going on in his movies, but I can't find anything that supports this at all. dude directed a movie about how slaughtering Native Americans could have been justified if they were weirdo cannibals, a movie about how latinx people are evil monsters who need to be stomped into the dirt by a Celtic Cross-tatted huge skinhead white guy, and most recently a movie about how police brutality is actually no big deal starring Mel Gibson. dude also wrote a Puppet Master spinoff that reconfigures the puppets from being quite literally antifa puppets to being turbo-racist Nazi puppets who actively hunt racial minorities. in addition to this, he recently signed up with a production company that plans on making movies with "un-PC" "conservative values." like, there's no fire, in the sense that he's never come out and pledged his fealty to Identity Evropa or something, but... his leanings are pretty loving obvious from what he's made. e: also, the Korean abortionist thing in Brawl is a slightly telephone-gamed version of an old racist-fundie bugbear, forced abortions in China.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:30
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Nroo posted:It seemed like it was the shared language between two characters who spoke Indonesian and Mandarin respectively. Yeah, it's not unusual for multilingual foreign shows/movies to use English as a common language. Like this political drama I saw where the Norwegian characters spoke Norwegian, the Russian characters spoke Russian, but they spoke English to each other.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:41
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:dude directed a movie about how slaughtering Native Americans could have been justified if they were weirdo cannibals, a movie about how latinx people are evil monsters who need to be stomped into the dirt by a Celtic Cross-tatted huge skinhead white guy, and most recently a movie about how police brutality is actually no big deal starring Mel Gibson. dude also wrote a Puppet Master spinoff that reconfigures the puppets from being quite literally antifa puppets to being turbo-racist Nazi puppets who actively hunt racial minorities. in addition to this, he recently signed up with a production company that plans on making movies with "un-PC" "conservative values." I won't deny that there was stuff about Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (the two things I've seen from him) that felt weirdly regressive, but I feel like you are attaching broad, overarching themes to dumb action movies that probably weren't intended. Like, I'm not gonna defend the guy. I definitely felt that both of those movies had some red flags in them and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he had some lovely political views, but I definitely didn't see either one as trying to push an agenda about stomping out minorities or something. If anything I felt they were both pretty tone deaf at times, but I didn't feel like they had a level of propaganda that you've stated. I can't speak to anything else he's done.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:53
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I think it's very unfair to judge someone if they like a movie a bad person made.
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Oct 22, 2018 06:28
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And that’s why you continue to watch Woody Allen movies to this day.
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Oct 22, 2018 06:35
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I have never watched one and probably won't because they look super boring. I may, however, rewatch Bone Tomahawk one day because Patrick Wilson forever.
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Oct 22, 2018 06:36
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:S. Craig Zahler is a neo-Nazi and you probably shouldn't be admitting that you like his stuff anymore. This is the most insufferable post I've seen in CineD in a long time, and I regularly read the Star Wars thread.
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Oct 22, 2018 06:37
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Dammit I have to unlike Chinatown or I am a pedo 
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Oct 22, 2018 09:16
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Making a Murderer S2 is 10 episodes? What can they possibly be about?
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Oct 22, 2018 09:24
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:S. Craig Zahler is a neo-Nazi and you probably shouldn't be admitting that you like his stuff anymore. I am still going to watch Dragged Across Concrete when it comes out, and I hope it is great. Even after all the poo poo Mel Gibson's did, I still think his best movie is Apocalypto. I get what you are saying, but since I don't feel like I am being forced fed his agenda I ignore it. Honestly I find it is easy to ignore since his movies are exploitation movies to me. That said I did have to stop reading one of my favorite writers, Dan Simmons, after being forced fed his anti-Obama and anti-Muslim agenda in one of this books. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Oct 22, 2018 |
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Oct 22, 2018 14:15
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Lycus posted:Making a Murderer S2 is 10 episodes? What can they possibly be about? I've watched the first two and it's basically about a lawyer who has gotten like 19 convictions overturned taking his case. There's some pretty shocking more evidence about stuff the defense clearly overlooked as well as the prosecution that this really good lawyer keeps digging up. Obviously this is largely why the first one was so successful but it still has the problem that the season builds as if there will be some sort of meaningful conclusion and both these guys are still in prison. That being said, it's well shot and more of the first.
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Oct 22, 2018 14:35
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CelticPredator posted:I think it's very unfair to judge someone if they like a movie a bad person made. but what if they like a bad movie?
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Oct 22, 2018 14:52
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I highly recommend the first 20 minutes of Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story if you want to see literally the most laughably fake "evidence" of aliens you've ever seen. I literally googled after 20 minutes because I thought it was actually a parody and not a real documentary. We turned it off once the personal interviews started, because my googling had revealed the shocking twist ending: He was convicted of posession of a ridiculous amount of child pornography, which he claims was planted by aliens/the government. He also has admitted he faked "some" of his videos and photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Snck4fMP_A
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Oct 22, 2018 15:51
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nate fisher posted:I am still going to watch Dragged Across Concrete when it comes out, and I hope it is great. Even after all the poo poo Mel Gibson's did, I still think his best movie is Apocalypto. Eh. A film-maker who's written/directed several questionable films with regressive content hiring an abusive and vocal anti-semite and a vocal conservative gun nut to play police officers who feel justified in torturing minorities as vigilantes because they were "pushed into racism" is enough for me to say No Thank You. There's nothing wrong with someone pointing out that a film might be problematic, as there are plenty of people who won't want to spend their time and money on hateful stuff, especially right now.
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Oct 22, 2018 16:34
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Holy poo poo was the finale of Hill House bad. Thematically I guess it made sense but imo it was boring, undeserved and not even remotely scary I mean wtf.
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Oct 23, 2018 03:53
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Anyone having trouble with the Prime Video client? I’ve noticed on Roku and iOS that it’s removed the majority of the categories and won’t let me access my channels.
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Oct 24, 2018 00:14
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Anyone having trouble with the Prime Video client? I’ve noticed on Roku and iOS that it’s removed the majority of the categories and won’t let me access my channels. It's like they're in an arms race with Hulu to see who can develop the shittiest client.
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Oct 24, 2018 00:17
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Me not being helpful: I still must render my continuing, utter bafflement that literally anybody finds Bone Tomahawk appealing.
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Oct 24, 2018 02:35
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Dammit, they're objectively bad, but i can't not love Blade and Blade II.
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Oct 24, 2018 04:54
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There's nothing bad about Blade.
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Oct 24, 2018 05:07
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The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is so entertaining. She's obviously not an actress, which is especially noticable in the second episode where she sounds like she has a bad cold. I keep wanting to watch it with my kid, but then a character will drop a line where I think I really don't want to have her asking me or her mom what that meant. Going to be a fun Halloween marathon when she's a little older though!
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Oct 24, 2018 05:30
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K. Waste posted:Me not being helpful: I still must render my continuing, utter bafflement that literally anybody finds Bone Tomahawk appealing. It has Patrick Wilson in it
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Oct 24, 2018 07:52
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LifeLynx posted:The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is so entertaining. She's obviously not an actress, which is especially noticable in the second episode where she sounds like she has a bad cold. I keep wanting to watch it with my kid, but then a character will drop a line where I think I really don't want to have her asking me or her mom what that meant. Going to be a fun Halloween marathon when she's a little older though! I don't really care much for it and normally that sort of thing would be my thing. It seems like it doesn't know who its audience is. The language is too spicy for little kids, but I swear at least half the show (or more than half) is the poorly acted puppet part. The actual cooking parts remind me of this: 
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Oct 24, 2018 10:50
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Almost Blue posted:There's nothing bad about Blade. The need to add Blade: Trinity, so we can have the holy vampire hunter movie... group of three things
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Oct 24, 2018 12:23
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Alterian posted:I don't really care much for it and normally that sort of thing would be my thing. It seems like it doesn't know who its audience is. The language is too spicy for little kids, but I swear at least half the show (or more than half) is the poorly acted puppet part. The actual cooking parts remind me of this: It's spicy for kids under 12, but that's about it. While it's structure is basically Bear In The Big Blue House, the macabre and spicy sense of humor fits well with classic Jim Henson films (maybe not the first Muppet movie, but some of the later sequels) and sitcoms. It's less raunchy than things I grew up with, like Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy and Cow & Chicken. As someone else mentioned (maybe in another thread), the show isn't trying to bog you down with the Baking 101 aspect. It expects you to come to it with knowing how to at least bake a cake, make icing, etc. While watching it with my friends, one said with indignation, "Well this is unreasonable, this would take hours" and then Christine immediately says "Don't misunderstand, this takes hours of work. My piping looks perfect here, but I like to spend twenty minutes practicing my designs on some cardboard or paper, so I can get the feel." She's not really withholding the information for the designs she's teaching. She's giving you enough information to go out and do it yourself. Your owl analogy isn't wrong, but it's true for The Great British Bake Off, and every other Cupcake/Cake/Baking War I've seen. Even Nailed It, which is designed for people who don't know baking, blaze through details instead of elaborating. I don't know why people are expecting this one to be any different. Do you watch Bob Ross to learn how to stretch canvas and explore color theory, or do you watch him to get an idea of how to paint a mountain so you can try it yourself? Her acting is a little stilted, but it feels intentional? It's like Julia Child living in that weird suburban neighborhood in Edward Scissorhands.
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Oct 24, 2018 12:56
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Inspector Hound posted:Dammit, they're objectively bad, but i can't not love Blade and Blade II. Blade 2 is a no-budget cash-in on the first and somehow manages to be at least as good, all the actors seemed to be having a great time making it Also emo Donnie Yen is hilarious
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Oct 24, 2018 14:20
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Filthy Hans posted:Blade 2 is a no-budget cash-in on the first and somehow manages to be at least as good, all the actors seemed to be having a great time making it it wasnt no budget. it cost more to make than blade. i like blade 2 so much more than blade 1. it helps that it was directed by guillermo del toro.
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Oct 24, 2018 15:27
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:it wasnt no budget. it cost more to make than blade. i like blade 2 so much more than blade 1. it helps that it was directed by guillermo del toro. huh It looked cheaper to me
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Oct 24, 2018 17:09
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Franchescanado posted:It's spicy for kids under 12, but that's about it. While it's structure is basically Bear In The Big Blue House, the macabre and spicy sense of humor fits well with classic Jim Henson films (maybe not the first Muppet movie, but some of the later sequels) and sitcoms. It's less raunchy than things I grew up with, like Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy and Cow & Chicken. The thing is its a cooking show, not a cooking competition (I am a sucker for those shows too) so it would be better to compare it to something like Good Eats rather than Nailed it. If the puppet stuff was shorter, I think it would be a lot better. I don't think they're interesting enough. I wish they spent more time on the cooking part to show a talented person doing their craft!
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Oct 24, 2018 18:44
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Filthy Hans posted:huh I remember it more prominently featuring cgi than the original. Def gonna rewatch them this week. "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill" is an all-time great one-liner.
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Oct 24, 2018 20:01
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eighty-four merc posted:I remember it more prominently featuring cgi than the original. yeah the cgi looks terrible in blade 2 but whatever. its a fun watch. but i think we can all agree that the best cgi in any of the films was: 
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Oct 24, 2018 20:23
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definitely that followed closely by
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Oct 24, 2018 20:32
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LifeLynx posted:The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is so entertaining. She's obviously not an actress, which is especially noticable in the second episode where she sounds like she has a bad cold. I keep wanting to watch it with my kid, but then a character will drop a line where I think I really don't want to have her asking me or her mom what that meant. Going to be a fun Halloween marathon when she's a little older though! Yeah, I was thinking that too, but then I realized that it will probably just go over their heads. It's really fun show, and I recommend it.
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Oct 25, 2018 01:01
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Camping on HBO is pretty rough. Yeesh
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Oct 25, 2018 01:04
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Filthy Hans posted:huh It was extremely ambitious with the cgi at the time, and so it looks extra dated today. The movie was made around the same time as The Matrix Reloaded and so the idea of doing fight scenes with fully cgi characters was still very new.
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Oct 25, 2018 01:14
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Blade 2 was sorta mid-budget too, about $54 million in 2003, so less than what was being spent on the big blockbusters.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Blade 2 was sorta mid-budget too, about $54 million in 2003, so less than what was being spent on the big blockbusters. Primarily because New Line was spending out of its gourd on the Lord of the Rings movies above all else, so budgets were being held pretty tight elsewhere.
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