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Cheers on the shiny new thread AB.
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InterrupterJones posted:Recently I watched Frank and I'm not sure if it's been recommended or not. I do highly recommend it if you like more experimental music and movie-making that matches its oddities. Most of the actors are average, but it's clearly Michael Fassbender's movie, and he owns the part of the title character. It may have you welling up at the end if you have any sort of musical experience. If you don't, it's still an enjoyable ride that's a bit wacky throughout, but has a very heartfelt and slightly bittersweet ending. What was wrong with the other actors?
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Feb 17, 2015 04:11
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InterrupterJones posted:There wasn't anything really wrong with the performances, just pretty one-note. The two best performances were definitely Michael Fassbender and Scoot McNairy, but Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson were a bit static the whole time. The other two band members were pretty underplayed, and as such didn't really develop as the story went on either. This is definitely the kind of movie that supports those character types, though, so that was likely their intent from the start. Whaaa? I thought Maggie and Domnhall were fantastic. True, the characters are less rangy than Scoot and Fassbender but that's kind of what the movie's about, these people under the sway of this magnetic, unstable person. At times it does read like a Portlandia sketch though.
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Feb 17, 2015 18:41
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I may be in the minority, but I think Stray Dog is his best movie. Maybe not best for me, but top whatever. I love that movie.
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Feb 18, 2015 01:37
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AFewBricksShy posted:I didn't much care for the movie, but he's phenomenal in Charlie Wilson's War. I didn't like Hanks all that much in it, and I really don't care for Julia Roberts at all for no particular reason, but I'll still watch it if I see that it's on because Hoffman completely steals the movie. Much like Erin Brockovich, the woman that Julia Roberts' character is based on is just way cooler than Julia Roberts.
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Feb 19, 2015 21:13
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I loooove the USFL one.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:24
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computer parts posted:Playing for the Mob is pretty great too, it feels exactly like it could be a deleted scene from Goodfellas (with good reason too). Yeah, it's a really good procedural.
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Feb 20, 2015 18:37
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Did the ending mess you up?
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Feb 21, 2015 22:45
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I like it a great deal but would not bother if you just want ultraviolence.
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Feb 21, 2015 22:53
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Fury is a movie that's going to be remembered very fondly. Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I thought the action was the weakest part of the movie. Same, but the ideas are solid.
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Feb 22, 2015 00:30
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Nice, ABC's of Death 2. No way was I spending money on that thing.
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Feb 24, 2015 18:26
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I would not recommend ABC's of Death 1 under any circumstances.
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Feb 24, 2015 20:38
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Or in Crippled Avengers, where the guy with iron skin's weak spot is getting a hole kicked in his chest by a guy with a prosthetic iron leg. Really, his weak spot is thinking that he was invincible. Took that dude out before he could even strut his stuff.
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Feb 24, 2015 21:32
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K. Waste posted:So Showgirls actually loving rules. gently caress the haters, Paul Verhoeven is the man. It really does. As someone pointed out here recently, it looks awesome, too.
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Feb 25, 2015 00:39
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I also like Showgirls the best out of his American stuff.
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Feb 25, 2015 02:29
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morestuff posted:His cooking schools are better. Pretty much. He should stick to what he's good at.
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Feb 25, 2015 17:26
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That is NOT a tasteless Mexican joke.
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Feb 25, 2015 17:26
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stickyfngrdboy posted:True crime fans might like the Death Row Stories TV show which I just found on Netflix. Ive only watched the first episode, of eight available. The first episode is about a black fella convicted of the murder of an old white lady and sentenced to death, except it's pretty obvious he had nothing to do with it and htf did this even get to a court to begin with, holy poo poo. Death Row Stories is insane.
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Feb 27, 2015 16:07
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Last time I looked I had the top rated comment on Netflix for this, and I only wrote it because every single review before mine was negative, and I didn't like that. Is a very good thing to watch. Unbelievable. It remains easily the best of the Netflix Originals.
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Mar 1, 2015 02:01
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NESguerilla posted:Is the iceman worth a watch? Emphatic no, but the various individual performances are fun and funny.
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Mar 1, 2015 02:13
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I'm just glad that Ken Marino finally has a real career.
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Mar 1, 2015 21:01
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Guy Young was not a bit character!
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Mar 1, 2015 21:26
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TTBF posted:He's not a bit character in Burning Love, where he plays the bachelor in a satire of The Bachelor. He is still a douche bag though. Yeah, Burning Love was loving great. NESguerilla posted:True. He still kind of fit in the sense that ken Marino tends to pop in for a season or a few episodes of a show and get cast as a D bag. He kind of just had the same kind of deal on Togetherness. I miss his lovable self on Party Down. I feel the same way about Heidecker, though Heidecker should never play anything but a total rear end in a top hat.
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Mar 2, 2015 00:37
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Parachute posted:Have you watched Hotwives of Orlando (on Hulu)? It's fantastic as well. Yeah, as well as Real Husbands of Hollywood.
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Mar 2, 2015 18:03
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TipsyMc posted:If you like Orange is the New Black, Wentworth is a similar, although less comedic, series from Australia. It's arguably less comedic.
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Mar 4, 2015 15:48
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Oh gently caress..that means my cousin will be watching ARLI$$ non-stop. I thought that loving thing would never end, and now it's back.
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Mar 5, 2015 03:17
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Apparently The X Files is getting removed from Netflix on April 1st, and I'm not done with the fourth season yet C'mon man you had like 3 years.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:26
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I honestly don't understand how it became so popular. Two gorgeous leads and it taps into the exact cultural/conspiratorial mood of the time. Could not be more 90's.
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Mar 6, 2015 02:27
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wa27 posted:They should also put up Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, so everyone can experience that show. It would be great to watch all 300 episodes or whatever it was again.
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Mar 6, 2015 20:15
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LogisticEarth posted:Apparently she was was on The Office but I will forever remember her pre-fame career in pornography: Yeah, when I first saw her, I was like man she's really, really familiar. Turns out she's the "dry blowjob" girl.
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Mar 7, 2015 13:15
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Kenneth Branagh is so blonde in that movie it's unbelievable.
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Mar 12, 2015 00:36
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mysterious frankie posted:Just don't want anything, ever. The youth don't need to be encouraged to ennui.
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Mar 13, 2015 16:21
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precision posted:Why is Houdini so early 2000s bad at times. Like the soundtrack which is LOUD FOR NO REASON and I think I heard a Marilyn Manson song. Cause it was made for the History Channel.
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Mar 14, 2015 19:13
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Jonny Angel posted:If it makes you feel better there was a period of a few months where I'd think to myself "Wait, they're making another Sin City?", and then "Wait no, they're not, they're just making another 300. I got confused because of Frank Miller." The saddest part of either film is that Robert Rodriguez directed the one that was much worse.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:07
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GORDON posted:I realized I hadn't seen a new Nicholas Cage movie since Wicker Man, so I watched Joe on 'flix. I think this is supposed to be Cage's Slingblade. It's so country-assed. I loved Joe. I could watch another 2 hours of him antagonizing cops.
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Mar 15, 2015 00:43
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forever whatever posted:Looks like season 2 of Rectify just went up on Netflix and it's one of the most well written, haunting dramas I've ever watched. It's very Southern Gothic so if that's your thing check it out. Rectify is excellent.
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Mar 15, 2015 20:35
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Most people like the lyrical dialogue, from what I've seen.
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Mar 15, 2015 22:49
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LogisticEarth posted:Well, that's the thing. I agree with you that that was an amazing scene, and there are lots of them. But for some reason the show as a whole falls doesn't build up momentum. You know exactly who the antagonists are, people with the exception of Daniel himself act a bit predictably, etc. Maybe it's a lack of tension? Hard to put my finger on it. I'm OK with it not being the exact same cops and robbers thing as every other show on TV.
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Mar 16, 2015 00:54
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NESguerilla posted:Heh, I was just watching groundhog day and didn't realize a teenage Michael Shannon was in it. He was like, heroin thin when he was young.
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Mar 16, 2015 03:08
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Kenneth Waste, have you ever watched Nigel Kneale's BEASTS?
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Mar 16, 2015 19:57
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