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Saw Maidentrip, a brisk documentary about Laura Dekker, a Dutch girl who at 14 is the youngest person to ever attempt to sail around the globe completely alone -- estimated travel time 2 years! Most of the footage is Laura filming herself in the boat. It all quickly becomes a metaphor for growing up, becoming independent and finding what you want from life. Aside from some swearing it's an excellent family film.
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:I hate everything about this clip except the dude it's prom guy. Completely agree.
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Feb 20, 2015 20:12
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Jonny Angel posted:Watch The Overnighters, a documentary that just went up on Netflix about a North Dakota pastor who takes in the various men, some with shady backgrounds, who come to his town looking for work from the oil boom. Been really looking forward to this one. Thanks!!
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Feb 21, 2015 06:51
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Unisex Showers and Translucent Green Violins: Dispatches from the Fascist Future
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Feb 25, 2015 02:56
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You guys go a little overboard for Showgirls. It's well shot and campy but has no real dramatic tension, it's a goofy movie. I think Basic Instinct at least holds up as a heightened sex thriller, a satire of modern femme fatale tropes. I think it has sliiightly more aesthetic and cultural value.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:21
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K. Waste posted:Dude, Basic Instinct is indispensable Verhoeven. I don't know that you're wrong if you HAD to give a generous textual analysis, but I'm not convinced most of the intention wasn't titilation. I did not feel challenged by what's her names failure to advance in the "male dominated sex marketplace" because she uses no techniques of the western acting canon to convince me she's a real person with actual motivations. I think Elizabeth Berkley got screwed by Veherhoven, both in her career and real life.
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Feb 25, 2015 06:20
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Funny story, I worked on the Spartacus Blu-Rays when they first came out years ago, and the show indeed rocks. But it was very awkward to be sitting there in your cubicle essentially watching roman themed porn while people walked by. It's like no no you don't get it, this topless woman getting her head smashed on the marble floor is very important for the story...
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Mar 3, 2015 20:02
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PriorMarcus posted:What did you do? Clearly I got paid to look at boobs. The company did encoding, mastering and film restoration for a bunch of different networks. When the shows or movies were good it was really fun.
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Mar 3, 2015 20:08
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PriorMarcus posted:I've done some encoding and mastering work, but it's always been as a side to my main roles, it actually something I'd love to do more of. Are you in LA? I'll hook you up  Those companies are changing a lot -- Blu Ray is lucrative but more of a niche than DVD ever was. And with basically all shows now shot digitally with an all digital post process it's all very clean and it's gone from trying to desperately make a lovely DVD work on as many players as possible to hitting digital compression targets with no digital hits that goes straight to the distributor. But film restoration and preservation is still very sexy and nostalgic.
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Mar 3, 2015 20:22
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Don't know if anyone has been following the news from the apple event today, but HBO officially unveiled their standalone streaming service, HBO NOW. It looks like HBO Go but you can get it for 15 dollars a month, independent of any cable package. Apple TV exclusive, starts in April. First month is free, so you can get in on the Game of Thrones premiere. Also Apple TV is now only 69 bucks -- I love mine and would heartily recommend it to everyone in this thread. HBO, Showtime, Hulu, Netflix all have good apps. And air play (for YouTube and other apps like Cinemax) is the bees knees.
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Mar 9, 2015 21:36
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Erebus posted:To be clear, Apple TV is the only streaming box to have it at launch. You'll also be able to watch it from iOS devices or any web browser. Whoops! Very true. So everyone could watch it on launch, but having a dedicated app is exclusive to Apple TV for three months. Obviously a good marketing win for Apple, they also teased that they're going to change more with the Apple TV in the near future so this might be to sell more boxes short term. And as someone who has HBO Go, I'd say between that, Netflix and Hulu are my three go-to's. Hulu has current TV, Netflix for deeper catalogue, and HBO go is like game of thrones, whatever show is airing that's decent and probably 3-5 excellent movies available to watch at all times, 20 that are decent, 30 that are terrible.
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Mar 9, 2015 23:01
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Party Boat posted:They're both really good films. While I liked both I have a hard time remembering much about the specifics of the Raid. Whereas Dredd was a lot of fun screwed up stuff. The gun ID bit, the opening chase, mind reading...slomo 
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Mar 13, 2015 09:49
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Eva Green is the only reason to watch 300 2 Also the best part of Penny Dreadful!  Timothy Dalton is super-close second best.
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Mar 14, 2015 03:32
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Aziz ansari's Netflix branded MSG show was fun. One of the funniest bits is actually a brief bit of crowd work. Comedy is of course in the eye of the beholder but I think he's fine.
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Mar 18, 2015 03:44
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NESguerilla posted:Yeah I thought it was pretty hit or miss. That bit was great though. Some of the stuff about cell phones was pretty good even if it was really safe. Some of his stories were really rambley and lead up to the lamest punchlines though. The poo poo about Ja Rule was pure I feel like I've heard his cell phone bit about "just missed you!" before in another special on Netflix.
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Mar 18, 2015 15:50
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Namirsolo posted:Life Itself, the Roger Ebert documentary, is on Netflix now. It's great and has some hilarious clips of him and Siskel. It's a celebration of his life, but parts of it are pretty painful and made me cry. I really miss that man. I found the recollections of his carousing life as an upstart Chicago journalist especially fun.
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Mar 22, 2015 18:12
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So stoked to watch Louie season 4! Thanks for the heads up.
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Apr 1, 2015 21:23
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morestuff posted:For future reference. -Point Break or Bad Boys II? -Which one do you think I'll prefer? -No, I mean which one do you want to watch first?
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Apr 3, 2015 02:19
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red19fire posted:IMDB estimates a $2.8MM budget, with a Gross of $1.8MM, which is even funnier. Ah, so he's a youtuber now!
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Apr 5, 2015 23:17
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computer parts posted:If only so they could mention that adventure games were so hard specifically so the companies could run tiplines that charged you per minute. That's devilishly brilliant. "Remember when you ate the pie in the desert? Yeah you actually need that to hit the yeti and knock him off the mountain. Obviously."
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Apr 7, 2015 01:15
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That Works posted:I didn't either till it was just mentioned. Heh. And the gay ambassador from the downtown Abby pilot. His star is ascendant.
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Apr 12, 2015 17:43
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Cemetry Gator posted:What's wrong with Barton Fink? It looked fine when I watched it Is it still 4:3?
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Apr 24, 2015 18:20
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wa27 posted:no, but the HD widescreen versions on TBS do have a little more data on the sides so it's not terrible. You still get scenes where people's heads a chopped off, though. It would be cool if Hulu did HD fullscreen, but I really doubt that will happen. This is so stupid. That's a perfect example of how the show is composed along the Y axis in a visually interesting way that tells you something about the characters. You gain nothing from showing the film edges. Not that Seinfeld is the most visually inventive show. But still.
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Apr 29, 2015 19:38
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alansmithee posted:True Detective was formulaic. It just threw in a bunch of nonsense through the middle to pretend like there was something different and/or interesting going on. Also Rust Cohle was maybe the least realistic character I've ever seen in any show claiming to be a drama-he was essentially a parody of every tv anti-hero of the last 10 years or so. Idk the whole thing seemed like something written by a high school kid and what he thought would be cool. I will say I enjoyed the setting and thought it was wonderfully filmed, and Woody Harrelson seemed to do his best with a character that seemed designed to be little more than a sounding board for Mcconaughey's goofy monologues. Honestly I thought it would've worked better as a comedy. much like the chaos of charcosa, which threatens to rend apart the thin veil of self-deception and expose our true spiritual corrosion so too has your post shown that words, time and opinions themselves hold no meaning (It's cool if you didn't like it though. I will allow it.)
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May 19, 2015 22:28
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:This was the one part of the show I didn't get. Obviously a biker gang is not going to have the smartest guys in it, but their plan was to dress up like cops.... but keep their giant ZZ-Top beards? And then go in with a guy still dressed like a biker? I think it was only supposed to buy them quick cover in a walk up or drive up situation, once they started raiding the place all bets were off. Also they were high as hell, maybe their rational economist minds that also had them be part of a biker gang and raid a drug den didn't follow through on costumes. Even Rust is like ugggh on the continuum of biker deals this one is on the low end.
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May 20, 2015 21:53
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I'm wondering now if the stutter frames I see on HBO NOW are a server side network thing instead of compression issue. I definitely notice it in their series stuff and my internet is very fast.
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May 25, 2015 22:23
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Soy el único quien llama a la puerta. Es la hora de cocinar, Jesse. No son piedras, Marie, sino minerales.
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The transparent episode where they go to transvestite camp and most of the episode plays in flashback is one of my favorite episodes of recent TV.
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Jun 3, 2015 21:11
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Triple Helix posted:One of my favorite movies, Primer, is back on Netflix. While enjoying the movie on a first watch is almost unrelated to understanding what's going on at any given moment, for anyone who's already seen Primer I found this breakdown of the timeline very cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntxa9x45gs0
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Jun 14, 2015 00:52
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While in broad strokes Upstream Color isn't complicated, and tracks as a parable for recovering from trauma and finding a way to love again, I kind of feel like the "Theif" and the "Gatherer" should've been the same person. At the end, when the Thief has a look because the plants aren't making any more hypnosis powder, it's been so long since we've seen him — and we've been so focused on the Gatherer sound man — I remember going, "Oh yeah. That guy." I think that change would clarify things a lot and keep it more focused.
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Jun 14, 2015 11:25
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mysterious frankie posted:Bill Nye can go to hell and teach science there. I had the Beakmania as a child, still have the Beakmania as an adult. Beakman's outfit always made me think he grew up to become Dr. Clayton Forrester from MST3K.
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Jun 16, 2015 18:13
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Look at this scrub who doesn't open netflix, browse through menus for hours, put things in my list, and then turn off netflix because he is too tired to continue. I definitely fall asleep while browsing Netflix and adding stuff that I probably won't be able to watch for months.
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Jun 19, 2015 01:01
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I'm serious, this video guide is the best way to understand the Primer timeline. Also very entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntxa9x45gs0
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Jun 19, 2015 21:41
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I remember reading Enders Game when I was actually in the YA market and found its depiction of bullying terrifying, the space games an exciting narrative device, and the twist genuinely unexpected. But I dunno if the book would hold up as an adult. The movie certainly seemed like a pale imitation of my memory of it.
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Jun 22, 2015 20:35
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Zesty Mordant posted:Hell yes, this movie is great if you want to spend three hours in mud and poo poo and blood and spit and rain and sweat (I do, it owns) Oh I am stoked for this. Looks fantastic!
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Jul 2, 2015 20:12
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:The Great Escape is really good. Probably the best prison break movie I've ever seen. It holds up remarkably well. While I think the mechanics of the escape were pretty accurate to real life, what I think works especially well about this movie is that its light-hearted approach to camp life actually matched the unique situation of these pilots — unlike the grinding despair and death of concentration camps or the interment of non-Germanic locals, there was something of a feeling of guards and captors being equal. Gentlemen watching gentlemen. It's a rare moment where Hollywood's desire to whitewash the more difficult aspects of war give the movie an appropriate tone.
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Jul 2, 2015 22:20
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Oh, I know the show owns (I'm caught up with it), it's just basically impossible to sell IRL people on the show without some kind of free option because it's on Cinemax. The pilot is on YouTube for free if you ever want to try to hook someone.
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Jul 4, 2015 03:22
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I loved the Rescuers Down Under. George C. Scott is the villain!
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Jul 9, 2015 18:26
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I swapped out our baby Beethoven tapes for the audio of Alien to play to our baby in-utero. Start them early, am I right? Although should I be concerned I'm encouraging a c-section? Actual relevant anecdote: saw Jaws at 6 at the friend's house whose parents had given up. That jump scare of the dude's floating eye gave me nightmares.
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That Works posted:
 You may say it sarcastically, HUNDU, but I can't wait to force my childhood down my kid's throat!
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