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Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Detention has been a hotly divisive film in the stream thread, I'm on the side that says it's surprisingly good.

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Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Chichevache posted:

I'm looking for an Irish crime or action film. Dark and violent is preferable. I'm hoping for something in the vein of The Wind That Shakes the Barley or The Departed. American Irish, anything Boston, is acceptable as well.
Not streaming, but if '71 is playing in a theater near you, that's what I'd recommend.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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LORD OF BUTT posted:

It's so loving great that we're still talking about Drive in-depth like almost 4 years after it came out. I'm not being ironic, I feel vindicated for it being one of my favorite movies if anything.
I'm just still like, they got THAT cast all together in ONE movie.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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TychoCelchuuu posted:

I thought about that, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to whittle it down, and this is certainly fewer than "all the movies" so at least it helps a bit, right?
Maybe someone with movie autism can add the year and language to the titles to give people some idea of what they're in for.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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SaintFu posted:

Hulu has added a bunch of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim shows this morning.

http://www.hulu.com/tv/new/shows
Oooh, Moral Orel is up, here's my guide on what to watch:

Season 1:
"The Lord's Greatest Gift"
"The Blessed Union"
"Loyalty"
"Maturity"
"The Best Christmas Ever" - this was actually the season finale, not the first episode, so don't watch it first
I'd also want to recommend "God's Chef", but I think too many people would find it offensive.

Season 2:
Everything

Season 3:
Especially everything, S3 was Bojack Horseman before Bojack Horseman

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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K. Waste posted:

Girlhood is stupendous and my new favorite movie from 2014.
It's final shot is perfect.

Also, that impromptu music video was absolutely the best scene in the film, but there were a multitude other great scenes to go along with it.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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NESguerilla posted:

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World was pretty meh. If anyone is on the fence I'd say it's pretty skippable.

Sleeveless posted:

The 10 minutes of actual humor based around the impending apocalypse were pretty good, shame the other 90 minutes are dedicated to a generic MPDG romance.
I have a soft spot for romcoms, and I thought the romance was overall sweet, plus the apocalypse elements gave the movie enough edge for me.

So I guess my general recommendation would be, "If you're a fan of the genre..."

Coaaab fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Aug 29, 2015

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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wafflesnsegways posted:

He's probably at his best in Adaptation or Raising Arizona. But Wild at Heart is my favorite. He's just so... Cage-ey.
All movies should begin like Raising Arizona or Wild at Heart.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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The Duke of Burgundy is up on Netflix (same director as Berberian Sound Studio).

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Raskolnikov2089 posted:

It's a good movie, and I say that as someone who largely hates gay cinema. Definitely worth a watch.
As someone who isn't at all familiar with the subject, what criticisms do you have of gay cinema?

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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precision posted:

Watched Experimenter on Netflix the other night. It's very good and I'm surprised I had never heard of the study before. The second half kinda meanders but it's still highly recommended for sure.
That movie has some fantastic cheap costuming, with Dennis Haysbert as Ossie Davis and Milgram's 70s outfit as particular standouts.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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blood_dot_biz posted:

I'd had it on my list forever and I finally got around to checking out Like Someone in Love last night on netflix. I really recommend it. Very slow paced, melancholy little movie but it had me entranced the entire time. That said, I'm not sure how sold I am on the ending. I was really digging how low-key everything was. The last 20 minutes ramped things up and then the final sequence seemed sorta needlessly dark? I dunno, curious to hear opinions from someone else who watched it.
Here are a couple paragraph-long reviews pulled from the 'Rate the Latest' thread.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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K. Waste posted:

K, church, what am I streaming tonight?

Netflix options
- Life (2015)
- A War (2015)
- Cemetery of Splendour (2015)
- The Big Short (2015)
- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
- The Sting (1973)

HBO Options
- Black Mass (2015)
- Jem and the Holograms (2015)
- Suffragette (2015)
- Lost River (2014)
I would definitely encourage you to watch Cemetery of Splendour in the near future.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Roth posted:

Anyway, I'm making the choice right now between watching Patton and Once Upon a Time in the West before I spend the rest of my day studying for finals, and I don't suppose anyone would care to sway me on way or the other? I haven't seen either movie before.
That's a coinflip choice, but fwiw I like West more.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Basebf555 posted:

Its maybe Leone's best looking film overall, of course its hard to overlook the lack of Eastwood and Van Cleef.
It's easier when you get to replace them with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.

Though I actually am happy that Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Wallach being cast as the opening scene gangsters got scrapped.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Now I want to see what David Cronenberg's Monster Trucks could've looked like

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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drunken officeparty posted:

I'm on a "classics I should have seen by now but they were probably made before I was born" kick right now. A lot of Scorcesee. Heat, Casino, Goodfellas, Godfather, Departed, Schindlers List, Gangs of New York, things like that. Any suggestions? Doesn't have to be on Netflix or even streaming at all but obviously that's preferable.
You don't have to feel obligated to post in it but browsing through any 10 to 20 pages of the Shameful thread should give you some suggestions.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Really appreciated the dresser scene in that, early on in the movie.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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precision posted:

It sounds similar to Blue Valentine but is it anywhere near that good?
As far as depictions of quotidian contemporary American life go, Kenneth Lonergan is clearly superior to Derek Cianfrance.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Martman posted:

Someone should do a remake of Funny Games where they rewind all the way to before the movie was made and kill the director, and then it ends.
Sounds like a job for Peter Tscherkassky!

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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nate fisher posted:

Just curious thoughts on Listen Up Phillip?
Moss is fantastic in it and has a wonderful segment in the film all to herself. The rest of the movie has Jason Schwartzman playing an immense dipshit, which may or may not grate on you.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Anisocoria Feldman posted:

Primer is one of the few movies that I can come back to every year for a rewatch and enjoy it just as much as I did the first time. The wife loving hates it.

Also, I'm dying for Carruth to write/direct another film, after I also thoroughly enjoyed Upstream Color, for far different reasons. I'm hoping that he's working towards a trilogy in which Primer is the left brain film, UC is the right brain film, and the threequel will be the corpus callosum or something.
Between Primer and Upstream Color, Carruth tried and failed to raise millions of dollars to fund A Topiary. Now, he's in the midst of raising money for The Modern Ocean with a bunch of name actors attached, but for the moment, that project seems to be in limbo as well.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Jolo posted:

I'd be curious to hear someone list something that was terrible when it came out but is good now. I can think of lots of examples that are the reverse of that but can't think of any that were bad and are now good just by virtue of time.
I think the idiosyncrasies that made both The Night of the Hunter and Joe Versus the Volcano critical & commercial failures in their initial release are now what distinguishes them and have partially elevated their reputations.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Monglo posted:

I go through most posts here at 2X speed.
Same but porn

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Child actors are nearly never given enough credit. See: Hailee Steinfeld's Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for True Grit.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Then a sequel focusing on his giant pants.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

The twist was a rip-off of one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes but ripping off old Twilight Zone eps is a time honored cultural tradition.
That one got milk? ad is probably the most succinct version of it (unless there's a vine I haven't seen before)

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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mysterious frankie posted:

Computer Chess is so good and needs to be back on streaming. I just thought about it during dinner and realized it’s not on Netflix anymore and it made me drop my taco.
Anyone else catch Bujalski's next movies after CC? I haven't gotten around to Results, but I thought Support the Girls was fantastic as well, albeit in a very different, much more normal fashion.

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Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

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Roma thread, if you want to read/post more

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