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As an American, I have to say that Shaun Ryder on UFOs is the most insane thing to me. It's just some fat bald guy who yells everything and slurs his speech talking to people about spacemen for no reason that I can determine. I guess it's a vanity project for some British guy who used to make EDM?
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precision posted:The Happy Mondays weren't remotely EDM, they were original rave music/britpop and they were very good He does come across as very charming, and just really excited to see hills and lakes in other countries. He also gets bored really quickly with kooks who don't share his ideas about UFOs.
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Feb 16, 2015 07:01
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Pander posted:Tried watching It's Such a Beautiful Day last night. Got about 5 minutes in before the fiancee had me turn it off because it was too weird and depressing. I love Hertzfeldt's past work (especially Rejected), but even I kinda didn't get it much early on. Does it get better or different? Yeah, declawing is inhumane and completely unnecessary. Everyone thinking about getting a cat should know that. I had a declawed cat as a kid, and after meeting cats with claws as an adult, I can see now how much destructive anxiety it caused. Luckily, vets around me seem eager to educate people against it.
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Feb 18, 2015 17:51
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Season 2 of Bates Motel just went up, and I am loving friendzoned Nice Guy Norman Bates. I just started the season, but it's really one of the funniest shows on tv, which I was not expecting. The core cast are all amazing, and they found a way to make Norman a sweet, naive kid despite being a lunatic killer. It's got a real Twin Peaks vibe more than anything. I hope it stays good and doesn't fall off a cliff like Twin Peaks. Joe Bob says check it out.
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Feb 19, 2015 04:12
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NESguerilla posted:Can you try to sell me on this? I keep hearing it's good but the concept sounds really bad and I can't bring myself to watch it. It's mostly a character study of some really flawed people who try their best to get by. It is also screamingly funny and kind of a descendant of Twin Peaks filtered through some more normal crime drama. The connections with Psycho are extremely tentative. The best praise I can give it is that Norma is a textbook example of either somebody with a serious personality disorder and she's one of the most likeable characters on the show. She's manic and selfish and clingy, but played so well that it's really hard to dislike her. The seasons are short and it's from Carleton Cuse (IE the good half of Lost). I started watching because I wanted to watch something while working out, and now it's something I give my full attention.
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Feb 22, 2015 07:07
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What's the one with Jet Jaguar? Is like to see that one again.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:24
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He jock it made of steel, Eat sushi from a pail. Jet Jaguar? Jet Jaguar! He mother never really loved him.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:15
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Maxwell Lord posted:In A World..., written, directed by and starring Lake Bell, is a fun little movie about voiceover artists- it's never quite great, has sort of a laid back pace and tone, but there's a certain charm to it. There are so many particular touches in the film about voices, voiceovers, and vocal coaching in general and sexism among the old guard in voice work specifically that I figured it must have been at least partially informed by personal experience, so I was a little surprised to discover that Bell has no credits doing voiceover work. I guess she has a good eye for strange, insular communities or professions and is serious about research. Fred Melamed looks and speaks and acts pretty much exactly like I would expect Don Lafontaine or Gary Owens to be off the clock. It's a fun, thoughtful film definitely worth checking out. And also a really impressive first-time (I think) stab at the writer/director/producer/star combo from somebody I only knew previously from Children's Hospital.
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Mar 1, 2015 21:37
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The X-Files conspiracy episodes are junk because the plot goes nowhere, but watching again I'm enjoying some character touches with the smoking man and conspiracy people I never picked up when the show was first on. Once they introduce that social club of people in suits, it's clear that they treat the smoking man like he's the janitor, almost like he's their minion rather than a legit part of the conspiracy. I thought that was fun because to Mulder and Scully, the smoking man is like their arch-nemesis and the guy on top of all the poo poo they deal with, but then they cut to the conspiracy group and we see him looking awkward and getting called onto the carpet for being a gently caress-up and getting treated like garbage because his job is just to kill people and hide things and not to make any decisions. It's like being in the conspiracy has the same social dynamics as any other workplace. Also, a possible mistake made in production, but sublime in all the weird hidden history it implies about the world of the show: the smoking man says he's watched presidents die. Like, did Nixon secretly spend his retirement years adventuring in search of aliens and have to get taken care of? Did Gerald Ford have to be replaced by a robot?
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Mar 6, 2015 02:22
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I'm watching Terra Nova now, and while it's not really good at all, Stephen Lang is in it as the most wonderful, perfect ham. I could watch his bug-eyed nutso face for hours as he screams and waves his knife at CG dinosaurs. That dude should really be in way more stuff.
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Mar 7, 2015 09:10
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Leper Residue posted:Terra Nova isn't necessarily a good show but I thought it was a lot of fun, which is more than I can say about a lot of other shows. It knows it's a stupid show so it just sort of runs with it. Yeah, it's kind of rare and nice to see a science fiction show that's also a lighter family drama. It reminds me of the family-hour cornball sci-fi of my early adolescence like Seaquest and Earth 2, which were nice because they were a bridge for me into heavier science fiction but also conventional enough that my mom and dad would watch it with me.
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Mar 7, 2015 10:23
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She's even ashamed of it in exactly the way that people are ashamed of having been in actual pornography: http://www.avclub.com/article/ellie-kemper-40258 quote:AVC: You’re in a bunch of web videos for a bunch of comedy groups. What does it usually take to get you involved?
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Mar 7, 2015 13:23
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I don't think you need to know the premise or the characters at all to get Jose Chung's From Outer Space. It does have some things to say about the show, but they're really secondary to a smart story with big ideas at stake that's very well told and not even really about Scully or Mulder. They're just more eccentric characters in an ensemble cast headed up by Charles Nelson Reilly. Do Quagmire for sure, too. It really gets at what the characters are about and what's at the core of their dynamic.
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Mar 8, 2015 03:33
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LogisticEarth posted:Yeah, there really hadn't been any sci-fi cinematic shows at the time. It hit a key part of the zietgiest of the 90's, government conspiracy* and a resurgence of an interest in extraterrestrials following the cold war period. Unfortunately, as others have said the main conspiracy plotline never had any payoff, and just kept getting dragged out. This is partially because it was a big moneymaker for Fox. In it's prime it and The Simpsons were the anchor of Sunday night TV. Like the Simpsons I always felt it suffered from a case of "adventures between now and the time that the show becomes unprofitable" syndrome. If they wrapped it up before it was tired and done they'd be losing out on potential profit. It was very much a product of it's times, but if you're interested in 90's TV you can't ignore it. It bears mentioning that for the first five or so seasons, the conspiracy plotline episodes contain a lot of good character moments for Scully and Mulder, and sometimes people like Skinner. Don't watch for the plot because there isn't one, but for how the characters navigate the situations that they're in. I feel like those episodes always get short shrift compared to the stand-alone character-heavy ones, but you learn a lot about the characters when they're doing conspiracy-related things.
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Mar 8, 2015 21:48
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Educational shows where they interview experts, like Nova or The Universe. Also those true-crime shows like Dateline or from A&E.
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Mar 14, 2015 01:24
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There was a sequel to 300? Did anyone else not know that?
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Mar 14, 2015 05:09
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Teen Witch just went up on Netflix. Everybody needs to see it right away. It is like a matroshka doll of weird scenes.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:53
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I still can't figure out what the hell they're wearing in gym class. They look like some kind of bathing suit, but then they wear pants over them? But not shirts? Also cool guys in 1988 wore sweatshirts with the pirelli tire company logo on them?
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Mar 15, 2015 01:58
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Watch the Battlestar Galactica one and see if it does anything for you.
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Mar 20, 2015 02:32
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Everybody got AIDS and poo poo. How are we supposed to feel about that rape? Kind of a tone-ruiner, IMO.
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Mar 21, 2015 23:00
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neonnoodle posted:Netflix has devolved badly in the last 3-5 years. I know it's not their fault but the catalog is now like 85% B-class documentaries/documercials, horror sequels, and occasionally a good movie or TV show. It seems like they hardly add anything older than 30 years ago to the streaming catalog anymore. There's a fair amount of old sci-fi on there that I have really enjoyed. Amazon Prime has some deep cuts from the 60s that are kind of in the exploitation realm, but all stuff I had never heard of before.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:33
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Enjoying something for being bad seldom involves hating it. It's educational in a few ways, and I get really into the earnestness and effort of the filmmakers. I'm glad they found a way to make a movie, even if they're not very good at it.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:44
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The Asylum ripoff of 50 Shades of Grey, Bound, just went up. It's not good at all but stars Cordelia from Buffy. Her boobs are in the first ten seconds of the movie. Daniel Baldwin's boobs are also in the movie.
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Apr 21, 2015 02:25
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Bound update: Terrell Owens plays himself, and there is vibrator product placement.
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Apr 21, 2015 03:09
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That Bound is better in literally every way. In fact, just watch it twice instead of bothering with the other one.
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Apr 21, 2015 04:10
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Kink is the documentary with the lady who makes automated dildos for internet porn, right? I feel like that one could get a little crazier. Like, I'm sure those people make weirder poo poo than what they talked about in the film.
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Apr 21, 2015 05:26
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It was much better than that Hellraiser that was set in space.
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Apr 23, 2015 12:52
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X-Files has the first 13 episodes in HD now, and the subtitles are included again! ...on netflix only.
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Apr 24, 2015 13:37
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It's also about the ugly feelings you're not supposed to have about your children.
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Apr 28, 2015 16:11
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Cinematic Titanic was better than rifftrax, too.
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May 12, 2015 00:32
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The Imposter is about at least one--and actually features about three other--eccentric weirdos.
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May 13, 2015 04:59
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Hell House is also amazing for being pretty sympathetic to a town full of people completely out of step with the rest of the world.
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May 13, 2015 05:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1m34KlB1E
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May 20, 2015 22:31
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magnificent7 posted:SUCH a great documentary... capturing the exact moment that the girl in glasses decided "oh poo poo, no, I do not want to be doing this" (during the shoot with the old dude in the blue shirt), and then later the other girl's boyfriend (at a frat party or something?) suddenly thinking, "Ouch, I hadn't anticipated this side of dating a porn star" when his friends wanted to compare her to her films, while they're playing beer pong. The other porn documentary up on netflix is Kink, which takes the opposite attitude and shows the drudgery of making very specialized fetish porn. It's surprisingly feel-good, and seems to elide the question of what kind of life you'll have waiting for you if you spend your 20 operating remote-controlled dildos instead of working your way up some kind of corporate ladder, even though the company is basically a huge bland bureaucracy itself. The people they feature are awesome, though. The lady directing the gang-bang video seems like she could be the/an inspiration for Linda Belcher on Bob's Burgers.
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Jun 1, 2015 18:07
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Yeah, a ton of Viacom poo poo seems missing from Prime for me, not just Comedy Central.
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Jun 9, 2015 01:38
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forever whatever posted:Been mentioned before but if you don't watch Troll 2 now that it's out on Netflix, you are seriously cheating yourself. So many quotable lines. The plot doesn't even matter, it's terrible and so good it's bananas at the same time. It was only when I watched it again a few nights ago that I realized all of the emphasis on eating and being forced to eat and being deprived of food was probably somebody's fetish that made it into the script. Also, I really have to find the movie that's playing on the tv in the mobile home.
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Jun 14, 2015 06:23
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Erebus posted:The Blacklist is aggressively stupid and the fact that Netflix paid $2 million an episode for its streaming rights should in no way be taken as a sign of quality. Didn't they also get Gotham for some ridiculous amount before the pilot aired?
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Jun 15, 2015 19:42
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A Spider Covets posted:are there any cute/interesting/badass animal docs that arent immediately obvious (like blue planet and stuff)? There's a relatively cute British show called Freaks and Creeps that's about weird-looking animals (I guess the host makes the call on what counts as weird).
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Jun 16, 2015 01:33
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Bill Nye the Science Guy is way more hyperbolic than I remember. Way too many super-excited kids and quick cuts to Bill dressed up as something.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I was kind of sad the actress who played the Witch didn't show up. She got a root canal from George halfway through, but was supposed to be doing her own movie at the same time.
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