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The movie Hannibal is mostly just a mess, but has some entertaining elements. The stuff in Italy is good.
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precision posted:Brain Games is pretty fun and has some pretty Whenever I see that title on the cable guide I think it's some kind of remake of that old HBO kiddie show.
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So next month Netflix is adding all of two movies that were made before 2000? It may be an incomplete list, but to me it's always frustrating that they don't go more into catalog stuff.
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Feb 27, 2015 19:21
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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. What's weird is that they never really acknowledge the elephant in the room- that they're primarily competing to voice trailers, but trailers these days rarely use voiceovers. It's not a huge deal because the plot still works with that knowledge, and it's mostly about sexism in society as demonstrated by this particular industry (and by "voices" in general, with a nice sidebar on the vocal fry / "sexy baby" trend), but I also think they could have fit it in the plot, which makes it curious that they didn't. It helps that Bell is always a likable and engaging presence on screen. The supporting cast is really strong too, with turns by Ken Marino, Rob Corddry, Demetri Martin, and Fred Melamed as the protagonist's dominating father.
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Mar 1, 2015 20:28
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Of course a major problem with some of these newer streaming sites is that there's no easy way to get them playing on my TV, even through a console or Roku or whatever. EDIT: Okay they've got a Roku thing but no console option yet. Uggh.
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Mar 6, 2015 20:02
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At the time The X-Files was neat because it was like a weekly horror/monster movie. It was one of the first genre shows to really take on a cinematic feel (the various Star Treks all had more of a stagey vibe).
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Mar 8, 2015 17:35
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So it's literally the Detachable Penis music video extended to feature length?
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Mar 17, 2015 02:28
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Boywhiz88 posted:Garfunkel and Oates rocks and I'm sad it's not getting renewed. Only saw the first episode so far but it is entertaining. Micucci being so dang cute definitely does not hurt.
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Mar 30, 2015 07:11
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I really disliked Whedon's Much Ado. It's a bland movie that doesn't try anything with its source material. It was shot in only a couple weeks, and it definitely shows, because very little thought went into camera placement, editing, framing, etc. It's just kind of a void of a film that has no reason to exist. Acker and Denisof are reason enough for me. They're great (and this is from someone who thinks Emma Thompson in Branagh's Much Ado is one of the great film performances.)
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Apr 16, 2015 07:59
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Event Horizon may be Anderson's strongest movie but it does have a few hacky touches- the climax basically being a fist fight is a bit off, and the visions of hellish insanity aren't up to what, say, Clive Barker might conjure up. Also while it's great that the funny black guy survives counter to all cliches, those scenes feel like they don't quite match the rest of the movie, like they were cut in from Dark Star or something. Good film overall though.
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Apr 23, 2015 17:55
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I had no idea that MS was getting so desperate for people to use Bing.
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May 1, 2015 22:40
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Asnorban posted:He's a Doctor Who maniac though! He's seen every episode at least once. Geek chic as HELL. To be fair, if he really means every episode, that would actually be an accomplishment.
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May 2, 2015 04:32
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Titanic swept the boards because it was the kind of big old times Hollywood epic that old Oscar voters want there to be more of, it got good reviews and was a commercial hit. It was like Braveheart and Ben Hur had a baby.
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May 5, 2015 04:12
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I remember someone being upset that Forrest Gump won a special effects Oscar the same year Jurassic Park was up for it ( because in Jurassic Park you couldn't even tell which dinosaurs were real and which were fake). Which is funny because JP won the year before, the two coming out in different years.
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May 5, 2015 20:08
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Amazon Prime has a lot of obscure sci-fi B-movies, but I wish they weren't all poor quality 4:3 pan-and-scan transfers for TV/video.
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Jun 13, 2015 14:41
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All the major sources are reporting Fury Road as a success or "sleeper hit" and I have officially given up trying to do the math so I guess it is considered as having done okay. Miller is plowing ahead with sequel development.
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Jun 22, 2015 01:14
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Man, this is a good crop. The Secret of Roan Inish is pretty wonderful, John Sayles directing an Irish fairy tale (well, selkie tale to be specific.)
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Jul 2, 2015 16:53
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MacLachlan really does make it all worthwhile no matter what you think of the rest, though. It's an amazing broad dramatic performance and his character arc is really quite surprising.
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Jul 16, 2015 17:52
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K. Waste posted:"I know, that's why I wrote it," he typed with mock condescension. Hell, if you pick the right ones you might even recognize some of the same actors.
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Aug 13, 2015 07:03
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD9bvAH1JgU For some reason "just make everything kinda green" is a common shortcut for low-budget digital filmmaking now.
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Aug 16, 2015 18:33
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Okay so I'm three episodes into Sword Art Online and does this show ever become about anything other than its protagonist's vaguely defined sense of guilt? Like so far there's been no real development of the story, no development of other characters (they keep disappearing between episodes), not much about the setting, the plot seems to jump over various things without explanation... it's like they have a good enough premise but no idea what the Hell to do with it. Maybe they're just going for a very episodic approach but it seems like a waste to go through half an hour's worth of setup for a unique premise for yet another "wandering swordsman" show. Edit: And Episode 4 is where they start having scenes of a little girl in her underwear and she reminds the hero of his sister. Yeah this ain't going anywhere good. Maxwell Lord fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Pet Rock Band posted:Avengers Age of Ultron is not going on Netflix at all, that's from a list that includes things going up on Amazon Instant Video only. (also, Pitch Perfect 2). I was a little confused as to why they would put something like that up before the physical media/download release.
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Aug 31, 2015 16:25
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What I like about The Visitor- well there are a few things (that opening monologue is wonderful in its craziness), but I like that on paper, it's just "The Omen with Chariots of the Gods instead of Revelations", but in practice it ends up being this entirely weird original thing. Like I'm not even sure how it manages that.
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Sep 20, 2015 18:44
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The Brainiac just went up a couple days ago. It's a Mexican horror film where a sorcerer executed by the Inquisition comes back 300 years later as a brain-sucking monster with a goat-like head, skull-piercing tongue, and weird tentacle hands. It is hilariously cheap in some places (lots of scenes of people talking in front of giant photographs of backgrounds) but fairly entertaining.
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Sep 27, 2015 05:47
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Huh. On the one hand Jean Reno was far and away the best part of Godzilla 98, on the other Petillo was far and away the worst...
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Sep 29, 2015 01:31
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They've been slowly shifting towards a focus on original programming. Some of which is quite good, mind you, but it's really disappointing that they keep changing their mission- first they let the DVD department go to seed (the number of things the physical service doesn't have often surprises me), now they're like "Eh, who watches MOVIES anymore?"
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Oct 2, 2015 05:40
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I have never encountered that.
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Oct 3, 2015 02:37
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Paper Kaiju posted:This is definitely awesome for people like me, but everyone else should at least try and check out when they start playing the 90's Gamera trilogy, which are legit good films, and one of the few examples of a trilogy that gets better with each successive entry. Personally I think Attack of Legion suffers compared to the two around it, but that just means it's really good instead of great. Love the classics too, but skip Super Monster Gamera as it's literally a clip show put together in a desperate pandering attempt to revive a dead studio.
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Oct 15, 2015 15:39
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Hot Fuzz is one of the best plotted films ever. It's so well put together.
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Oct 18, 2015 04:05
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drunken officeparty posted:Honestly it's news to me that "gay" is even a genre of movies at all A local video rental place in Westport seems to have survived partly by having a huge LGBT section. (Also, lots of porn and I think they sell vape stuff.)
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Nov 7, 2015 22:57
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The Visitor is great because on paper it's just "The Omen meets Chariots of the Gods" but in practice is something wholly original. Also the music and that opening monologue.
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The_Rob posted:I've said it before but phantom of the paradise is so much better than rocky horror. Phantom of the Paradise is legitimately one of the greatest musicals ever made in any musical subgenre. Like I would put it up with Singin' In The Rain easy.
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Nov 21, 2015 22:07
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Looks like mostly newer movies coming in and a lot of vintage ones leaving. Granted sometimes the vintage ones sneak in after not being mentioned in articles like this, but still Netflix is starting to remind me of Blockbuster. (Also when is AMC gonna give them the last half season of Mad Men? I missed it by switching to Google Fiber.)
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Basebf555 posted:He likes the movie as a whole, and it sounded like he had a fine time making it, but he had a huge problem with the ending. He thinks it sends the message that happiness is all about material things because the Mcfly's life hasn't really changed except they now drive nice cars and wear nicer clothes etc. I tend to agree with his point, it never consciously occurred to me as a kid watching it, but it really is a bad message to be sending. OTOH Marty's life isn't terrible before, apart from Biff still bullying his dad and things just being really messy and chaotic because being poor kinda sucks like that. Money doesn't solve all your problems but it solves some.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i said it before but the big obvious problem with Jessica Jones as a show is that it rushes straight into the Purple Man stuff and drags it out over the whole season instead of giving us at least one or two episodes of her doing P.I. poo poo and letting us learn a bit about her as a character apart from the Purple Man first. If they did that people would complain about them wasting time on episodic plots that don't connect to anything. And honestly I'm not that pumped for a straightforward "superhero PI" show anyway, I like the personal angle. It's a pretty character driven show though there are some parts I don't like (that loving crazy twin sister.)
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Dec 5, 2015 20:19
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Are we defining jump scares as any "Sudden outburst of scary thing"? Because if so The Fly shouldn't be on the list (the inside-out baboon first slamming against the telepod door) and it does become hard to find any horror movie which never tries that.
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Dec 22, 2015 20:34
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The "here's what's coming to ____ next month" pieces tend not to catch all of it either (though I suppose some deals are fairly last minute.)
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Dec 25, 2015 00:37
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Hulu now has Happy Endings, at last.
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Just recently discovered that Strangers With Candy is on Hulu. God that's a good show.
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Notable Paramount-on-Youtube highlight: The Colossus of New York. It's a 50s robot movie where the robot looks like a Greco-Roman statue, has the brain of a dead scientist, and the personality of Shelley's Frankenstein, eloquent and extremely bitter. He has a creepy speaker voice and the score is all sinister piano music by Van Cleave.
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