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A Proper Uppercut posted:I can't believe how bad Dexter got towards the end, I've never seen anything crash and burn so hard. The only time Dexter ever wasn't complete trash was the scene towards the end of season 1 (I think? maybe it was 2) where he's fantasizing that if everyone knew about him they'd celebrate his actions, which would have been a good (if very dark) gag in a series that didn't constantly apologize for its serial killer protagonist.
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volts5000 posted:I’m a complete sucker for the “ragtag team of underdogs going against the odds” trope like A-Team, Leverage, Burn Notice, etc. Anybody got any recommendations to anything similar to those? It's a bit darker than Leverage, but have you seen Person of Interest?
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volts5000 posted:Couldn’t quite get into that when it first came out. Maybe I should give it another try. It's a fairly straightforward (if endearing) procedural for three seasons and then becomes something much more unique. I don't blame you if waiting three seasons for it to "get good" is unpalatable, but on the other hand, I liked both parts.
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red19fire posted:I watched season 1, can I just skip to season 4? At minimum, there are going to be a couple of characters you either don't recognize at all or whose allegiances have shifted significantly, and you'll have no idea where the main antagonist / conceit came from. Watching it from season 3 might work better, now that I think of it. The main takeway from Season 2 is the CIA assassin and the sociopathic hacker girl more or less reform themselves and join the crew, and the Machine itself is intelligent Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jul 14, 2018 |
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Lycus posted:"And he keeps her captive and makes her do these puzzles to make the AI!" Honestly you're halfway to selling me on Tau. The entire reason to develop an AI is so you don't have to pay your employees!
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Stranger Things is okay but the evil isn't nearly personified enough for it to be an "all Stephen King stories at once" adaptation. Think about it, his monsters are assholes, with only a handful of exceptions. Randall Flagg, Pennywise, the Overlook Hotel, they all have big, nasty personalities. The Demogorgon's not really much more than a dangerous animal.
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tweet my meat posted:Counterpart is a wonderful entry into the genre of multidimensional spy thrillers. It's on the starz catalogue if you wanna get a free trial on prime, they have the pixar collection as well I think which is fun. A while ago I asked about supernatural / sci-fi spy thrillers and nobody could name any (aside from Person of Interest, sort of) so I will absolutely check this out.
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precision posted:Yeah seriously I don't even like the anime and I loved it. Death Note is good almost in inverse proportion to how much you liked the anime. Like, the TV anime is a story about a superhuman sociopath who, while evil and more or less condemned for it, really is smarter and better than everyone around him and is only brought down my the machinations of other superhumans. There's a certain amount of class-based criticism of Light as an "elite" but it largely buys into the mythology that "elites" actually exist and simply focuses on the Faustian / moral dimension. Wingard Death Note is about a teenage goober whose dad is a cop, and the whole film is about the petulant use of unearned power.
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Enos Cabell posted:It's a paid rental, but The Endless is so loving good. Indie sci-fi/horror/mystery about two brothers who escaped a UFO death cult 10 years ago and are drawn to go back. If you enjoyed that, watch Resolution (or for other viewers, maybe watch Resolution first).
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Nihonniboku posted:I honestly had major issues with the movie, especially with giving the racist and violent cop a redemption arc without even bothering having him change his core beliefs or values. Frances McDormand was incredible in it, but the movie was really overrated and I'm so glad that it didn't win Best Picture. I mean it's not really a redemption arc, the movie is about bad people becoming different, but even worse people.
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Hold the Dark looks like a film perfectly tailored to appeal to my personal phobias and I look forward to it simply for the novelty of being scared by a horror movie after years of desensitization. 
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Basebf555 posted:How could you tell? Around the time the fourth or fifth rapist gets his dick shot off on camera, I started thinking "wow, this is a little excessive even for Verhoeven."
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I wish Cosmatos had done more with the Rob Zombie stuff, i.e. when the cult catches sight of Mandy the first time and it does the 'last known photo' effect on her. I really need to get around to watching some of Rob Zombie's films.
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I liked Mandy, but there's a lot of wasted potential there. Like you've got all these hints about Mandy being the "author" of her own death, framing Red's revenge rampage as her fantasy, some hints towards the end of Red himself having a history of mystical experience / transgression, the nod towards Reagan heralding the death and corruption of the hippie era, and so on... but all of that mostly just ends up being characterization at best, and references for the sake of reference at worst. I'd love to hear someone prove me wrong and draw all of that into a cohesive reading -- and I think the Mandy-as-author stuff comes close -- but I wasn't entirely satisfied with what we got. e: tagged some of that stuff just in case Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Oct 10, 2018 |
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Medullah posted:You guys keep talking about Mandy, where is it streaming? I don't see it unless I'm blind. It's a rental on Amazon.
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The_Rob posted:I mean what would you get out of if they added explanations and exposition. It seems you were able to figure it out without it so I'm not sure what they could really add to the film you know? I'm not looking for explanations or exposition within the narrative, I'm looking for these things to mean something, to make a statement of some kind. They're cool, but I don't know why they're significant, or how they relate to each other.
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nate fisher posted:Finally started watching Sabrina, and I kind of like it. Some of the subplots with the friends are just bad (I’m only 4 episodes in), and the video quality might be the worst I have seen on Netflix. Shame because the imagery of the show is A+. I have to give them credit for embracing so much evil, while balancing Sabrina as a good person too. To be honest I am not sure if I would be watching it wasn’t evil. Also I might be giving it bonus points due to how much I respected Kiernan Shipka’s performance as Sally Draper. That said I am not the target audience for this (I think Riverdale went from just ok to garbage in season 2), but I’m enjoying it. I think it's still a little bit too self-conscious. That said at the end of season 1 they tease familiars talking so the audience can understand them and that's a big (if symbolic) step in the right direction if they follow through, so I'm still on board for more.
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Queen Combat posted:Wasn't it also shown that some people that watch a lot of gunplay movies get thumbnails with guns, those that watch stand ups get smiling people, etc? Which sucks, because it deliberately sabotages your ability to get any information about what you're watching from the thumbnail.
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Lycus posted:Flowers is a weird show. Silly dark comedy, silly dark comedy, oh here's a serious scene about chronic depression. Quoting this so I can remember to look it up later, because that sounds extremely my jam.
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Annihilation isn't complete trash. It's one extremely effective horror sequence and one interesting portrayal of a completely alien entity, which make up about 10-15 minutes of the film between them, sandwiched between terrible ham-fisted exposition, flat characters, and a travelogue through an environment that isn't nearly weird enough to live up to its premise. It's not a very good movie and it's an even worse adaptation of the novel.
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married but discreet posted:If I was an obnoxious movie person I'd call Annihilation baby's first "weird" movie, or alternatively I'd say Annihilation is to Stalker as Interstellar is to 2001. harsh, but accurate
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isn't Monte Cristo 2002 the one where Edmond Dantes lives happily ever after with Mercedes at the end and Albert is really his son like could you possibly miss the point of the story any harder gently caress that movie
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Erebus posted:
i mean it's kind of corny but if the alternative is that Interpol are the good guys, i'll take it
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Skyline owns. I haven't seen the sequel, though -- was it by a different director or am I thinking of some other movie?
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Legion is fantastic all the way through, although the middle of season 2 has some pacing issues.
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Hulu is really, aggressively anti-adblock and much harder to circumvent than most sites.
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Junkie Disease posted:I haven't seen a good movie from South Korea since You might have already seen it, since it came out in 2016, but The Wailing is one of the best horror movies ever made. I've heard it called "The Korean Exorcist", which is deeply unfair, because it sets unrealistic expectations that The Exorcist can't possibly live up to.
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If you read The Wailing as exclusively endorsing the Christian take on what's going on, then yeah, you're not going to enjoy the movie, because there are three mutually exclusive cultural explanations for what's going on, each accusing the others of being liars and devils, and the impossibility of telling which one is true is literally the whole point. The movie is about the incredibly uncomfortable history between Christianity, native Korean religion, and Buddhism -- with the latter portrayed by a deliberately exaggerated racial stereotype of an evil/perverted Japanese man.
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i'm looking for a horror movie on netflix - with a supernatural monster - that isn't a zombie or a ghost or some other bullshit that could be accomplished by putting an extra in make-up - recent-ish - not complete trash - leaning more towards serious than horror-comedy Something like The Ritual, Borderlands / Final Prayer, Spring, or even the rubber-suit antics of something like The Monster would qualify, but I've seen all of those.
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That Works posted:Stranger Things seems to tick those boxes I guess? 1st thing that came to mind at least. I've seen it, and it's probably safe to assume I've seen anything comparably high-profile. I'm looking for weird indie poo poo, not even particularly out of preference but just because it's all that's left.
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Basebf555 posted:You've seen most of the go-to suggestions, like when I read the description of what you wanted The Ritual was my first thought. What about The Void? I saw both of those, and really enjoyed both. It's on the right track, at least?
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I probably ought to spring for Shudder one of these days.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Does it need to be on Netflix? There's Monsters from 2010, though I guess it's extraterrestrial, not supernatural. It's on Hulu. I've got Student Prime on Amazon as well, if it's free via that service.
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Franchescanado posted:Would werewolves scratch your itch? Prime has The Company of Wolves. Folk horror, dreamy atmosphere, great sfx, and it’s kind of an anthology film. I saw The Company of Wolves at age six; it traumatized me for years. I love it to death and it's probably a big part of the reason I'm a horror fan.
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Sarchasm posted:Under the Shadow? Iranian film about djinns invading the apartment of a woman and her daughter during the bombing of Tehran. It's quite good and is only a few years old. Someone recommended this to me ages ago and I somehow never got around to it; I'll guess I'll check it out, plus The Windmill (if for no other reason then because a Dutch horror movie about an evil miller sounds hilariously on the nose.)
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regulargonzalez posted:Jacob's Ladder ticks every box except recent-ish and Netflix (it's on Prime). It's a fantastic movie but you've probably seen it. Raskolnikov2089 posted:The Endless By the guys who made Spring. I've seen these, but I've got enough good leads for now; thanks, everyone.
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Under the Shadow is fantastic, I can't believe I slept on this or how the movie managed to make a piece of cloth fluttering in the wind loving terrifying
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Human Tornada posted:Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a monster in Apostle? I think that one fits all your criteria. Seen it.
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