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Is The Act of Killing Director's Cut worth the extra 37 minutes?
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Feb 16, 2015 04:57
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30 for 30: Broke is a great one for understanding how all those big money athletes end up, well, broke. I also liked The Real Rocky and Muhammad and Larry for some boxing triumphs/tragedy. No Mas was merely OK; as a character study it was interesting, but Duran's continued delusions made the ending a bit unsatisfying.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:23
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Is the Netflix-Cartoon Network deal over? Looks like all their stuff is leaving at the end of March, including stuff they don't even have yet like Regular Show S3 & 4 (?).
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Feb 25, 2015 16:32
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Didn't they saw off the legs of the RoboCop suit to make it fit the new actor in the third one? Or was that for the somehow even worse TV movies? (My "favorite" part of Robo 3 is Nancy Allen's performance. If you want a textbook example of phoning it in I don't think you can do any better. I think she chews bubblegum during 100% of her scenes)
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Feb 26, 2015 03:55
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RoboCop 2 chat: This was a movie I loved in high school but when I watched it several years later it really, really doesn't hold up. It's sorta similar to Predator 2 in that they ramp up the gore and violence but miss the core of what made the first one a hit. I suppose there are worse things to watch once; there are some action scenes that are OK and the humor occasionally works. It is a fine example of that 80s action excess that isn't really around anymore. Someone mentioned Frank Miller's involvement and I wanted to expand on that a bit. Miller wrote the original script for RoboCop 2 (he's actually in the movie too as a scientist). However, the studio wisely thought it was unfilmable and yanked a lot of stuff out of it. I've heard that when Irvin Kershner (the director of Empire Strikes Back) was brought on to save the film he edited it even more, sometimes even doing daily rewrites. I don't know if he was going to retire anyway, but RoboCop 2 ended up being the last movie he directed. For years afterwards Miller claimed that they had ruined his original script and the movie would have been much better with his original vision. Well, someone inadvertently called his bluff and adapted the original script into a comic book which was even worse than the movie. In retrospect it actually improves the standing of the second movie, because if that dreck was the starting point it's amazing the end result wasn't totally unwatchable.
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Feb 26, 2015 16:22
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I liked The Adventures of Baron Munchausen more than I expected to. There aren't that many movies that are so unafraid of being outright fantasies. Parts of it get really drat weird, too. I definitely liked it better than Time Bandits. I think it gets taken off on Sunday so ya better hurry.
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Feb 28, 2015 03:41
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Daedra posted:I've seen Peaky Blinders, Arrested Development, Louie, Black Mirror, X-Files, Dexter, Freaks and Geeks, and Twin Peaks. I didn't like Dexter and hated Twin Peaks. The rest were all good. The Fall Top of the Lake Breaking Bad
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Mar 3, 2015 16:17
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I'm seriously considering trying HBO Now for a few months. How often do they alter their movie lineup? Netflix keeps your account around after you cancel so I wouldn't lose my queue, right? I'm never in danger of running out of stuff on Netflix but it rarely feels like stuff I absolutely want to watch. Maybe being away for a few update cycles will make it feel fresher.
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Mar 9, 2015 22:13
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Junkie Disease posted:Outside of HBO series (which is a ton), a lot less movies. You will run out of movies you want to watch if you use it like you might use Netflix. But if you like their shows you have a ton to see. But yeah, it's obviously mainly worth it for the TV shows.
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Mar 9, 2015 22:51
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Donnie Brasco - pretty good mob drama, but a big step below Godfather/Goodfellas tier. Pacino steals the show as a low ranking mob hitman. He looks like a downtrodden used car salesman most of the time and the movie does a good job of subtly showing (and not telling) why he's never moved up the ladder much. I'm pretty sure Michael Madsen is naturally the most sleazy, vaguely-dangerous-looking dude alive. There's a couple of moments that felt a bit hammy for what they were going for (Lefty telling his woes and the Sad Music cutting in was the most noticeable) but I thought the weakest part was actually Johnny Depp. His accent was pretty bad and I just never bought him in the role. Most of the time he felt a bit detached and he permanently played the character so stiff as if he was totally new to this undercover thing and was afraid to open his mouth at all without being spotted. The Bicycle Thief - this movie has haunted my queue since I first got Netflix but I finally vanquished it. Pretty brutal  . Equally brutal was the subtitles; it felt like they gave up when there was more than one character talking and just didn't print anything. I feel like I'm probably missing out a bit.
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Mar 14, 2015 04:32
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Is that Steven Soderbergh biopic on Che Guevara any good?
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Mar 21, 2015 03:52
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forever whatever posted:Any recommendations on films that have protaganists/antiheroes that are complete misanthropes a la DD Lewis's character in There Will Be Blood? I always seem to identify with characters like that in film and in fiction. Thanks. As for non-terrible stuff that's streaming, Groundhog Day comes to mind (other than the ending). I would say the latter parts of Breaking Bad also has a few characters like that.
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Mar 24, 2015 19:44
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Leper Residue posted:Danger 5 is some of the worse try hard comedy I've seen since Tim and Eric. It felt like a bad sketch that just kept going and going. Now netflix is going to keep recommending stuff cause I watched it but I at least know to avoid those things so I guess some good came out of it. I think they have a way to remove things from your watched list now.
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Mar 26, 2015 13:15
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Dr Monkeysee posted:The campfire scene where they ask Shreck what his favorite part of Dracula was is straight-up genius. The rest of the movie is weird and interesting but ultimately just kinda ok.
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Mar 26, 2015 21:46
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Apollo 18 is a stupid, lazy waste of 86 minutes. The scenario is so idiotic they should have embraced how stupid it was and ran with it but instead chickened out and gave us that unsatisfying mess. If the ending third had turned into Evil-Dead-2-on-the-moon I would have forgiven it. Mining axes as weapons! Space zombies! Strap a rocket to the moon buggy! Zero-g combat with a giant rock monster! Just do something more interesting than a limp collection of insipid jump scares.
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Mar 30, 2015 14:31
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So Trailer Park Boys S9 was released last week. Overall I would say it wasn't as good as S8 (which was better than it had any right to be), but it picked up at the end. It was mainly the new character that I just didn't find very funny. The Saskatche-quach bit was probably my favorite part, although it was pretty obvious to me early on that it was gonna be Sam Losco. Still, I'm a total sucker for that character because he's the greasiest motherfucker I've ever seen. George Green was also just kind of... there, and didn't really do anything. Wikipedia claims seasons 10/11 will be made at some point too. I hope they keep Willy Goat if they make them!
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Mar 31, 2015 01:45
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whatshesaid posted:Re: Rectify. Christ. I'm on episode 2 of season 2, and there's seriously something in my eye.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:26
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I thought you said Dreamscape and was hoping to see how well it held up.
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Apr 4, 2015 20:04
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GORDON posted:I quit in the middle of the second episode. Couldn't stand any of them. The first season is a bit of an outlier and I almost gave up on it too. It's too grounded in reality so it comes off as making fun of poor uneducated people for being poor and uneducated. The second season is vastly superior and further seasons quickly lose any similarity to reality.
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Apr 5, 2015 20:20
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ManOfTheYear posted:Is there no more UFC on Netflix? where could I find some?
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Apr 11, 2015 12:57
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Is The Winds of War worth watching? I'm intimidated by the first "episode" being 148 minutes. I have vague memories of seeing parts of the sequel mini-series War and Remembrance (which is not on Netflix) but it's been too long for me to remember if it would have held up.
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Apr 15, 2015 03:56
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So The Babadook wasn't entirely what I was expecting, but more importantly, how did I know exactly what the "pterodactyl" stock sound effect was?! Is it actually the same sound effect reused in 800 billion movies or is there some simple audio technique that happens to create it?
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Apr 18, 2015 03:17
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That sound effect is in Doom for gently caress's sake. It's probably on every royalty free sound effects CD.  I've been playing that game for literally decades and it is definitely not in there (it may be in Duke Nukem 3D). I'm sure it's in every sound effects library by now, but it had to have come from somewhere. I thought maybe it was Rodan, but that's not quite it from the clips I've found.
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Apr 18, 2015 04:20
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One of the imp wakeup sounds is similar (15 seconds in if the url doesn't work), but not the same. The one I'm thinking of is higher pitched and more... dinosaury.
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Apr 18, 2015 04:50
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I don't think it hurt the film much, but it seemed a bit incongruous. I probably should have brought up the origins of the sound in a different thread.
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Apr 18, 2015 15:48
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Has anybody else signed up for HBO Now? I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel but the stream was a bit weird; oftentimes it looked like the frame rate was below 20. The odd thing was that the picture quality never degraded. I wonder if it was just badly encoded, but that seems somewhat unlikely. I have to say that the Apple TV app for it is fairly lackluster compared to Netflix. You can't add TV series to your watchlist and it doesn't even seem to track which episodes you've seen. I also realized that I miss the Netflix ratings. They seem to do a good job of predicting how I would rate a movie (and yet the actual recommendations are garbage  ). Browsing though movies I've never heard of without that clue feels a bit limited.
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Apr 19, 2015 05:02
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I've seen mainly the big prestige series (Wire, Sopranos, Carnivale, Rome, Generation Kill, Newsroom). I'll probably take a look at Deadwood since I know that is well-loved. Treme I haven't seen but I've heard more mixed things about that. I'd be especially interested to hear if any of the HBO Latino series are actually any good If you're into WWII stuff, Band of Brothers and The Pacific are only ten episodes each.
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Apr 22, 2015 23:29
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Viginti posted:While we're on the topic of Netflix technical issues, I watched Undertow on there for the first time a few days ago and it was really, really weird quality. There were sections - the first and third quarter of the film - that suffered from strong motion blur (It wasn't just poor picture quality or buffering, it was specific to objects in motion and replicated exactly when you rewound) and others that had this strange lined quality. I'm pretty sure that Gordon Green must have just shot the thing on an early digital camera and that hasn't translated well to the compression, but I wonder why it got put up like that, or if it was just my machine and i'm being an idiot.
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Apr 24, 2015 14:39
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precision posted:When I Googled "watch Seinfeld online", the link for watching it legally on Crackle (where it's been for years) was just above the news story saying "Now that Hulu had bought Seinfeld you can finally watch it online". Nice research team guys, nice
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Apr 29, 2015 21:52
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precision posted:Every now and then Crackle has a movie that's really good and not available elsewhere though. The PS4 app is totally fine so I check it every now and then and get surprised, like recently they had The Devil and Daniel Johnston which is a really amazing documentary. If it's still on Crackle everyone should watch it
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Apr 29, 2015 22:34
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Yeah, they announced a while back that all the CN stuff is now on Hulu, which is probably why the Netflix content was a bit neglected before they finally pulled it.
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May 1, 2015 14:57
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drunken officeparty posted:Donnie Brasco is a pretty good movie.
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May 2, 2015 04:41
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Jenny Angel posted:Could anyone please recommend any really good TV shows where someone plays Sonic the Hedgehog to the sounds of mournful strings? Hoping there's something like this on Netflix.
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May 7, 2015 04:49
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wa27 posted:I find Netflix's predicted ratings to be scarily accurate.
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May 20, 2015 17:36
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I decided to cancel HBO Now, at least for the time being. There are two main problems with it: - The apps are terrible. You cannot add a TV series to your watch list, only individual episodes. This is annoying but doable with a miniseries (make sure to start from the end because the watch list is a stack!) but going through a full show is offensive. Even worse, it does not remember which episodes you've already watched. It is extremely annoying to have to manually browse to the next episode you want to watch every time you turn it on. - The real killer is that the network capacity just isn't there. All the fancy content is useless if you can't actually watch it. I would say I'm happy with Netflix speed 90% of the time; HBO Now is more like 40%. I can't remember watching a single thing that didn't noticeably drop frames from time to time (we're talking less than 20 fps). It is tolerable on weeknights but weekends are a disaster. I was trying to finish S1 of The Wire this weekend and I got booted out of the stream at least 30 times. After midnight on Saturday, early Sunday afternoon, it doesn't matter. I'll probably try it again at some future point, but right now paying nearly twice as much as Netflix for a primitive service that barely works just isn't worth it. I'm afraid that this problem will continue in the future as more and more content becomes available to cord-cutters. It's unrealistic to think that every single channel/media group will be competent enough to create a useable streaming service.
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May 25, 2015 16:00
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Cocoa Ninja posted:I'm wondering now if the stutter frames I see on HBO NOW are a server side network thing instead of compression issue.
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May 25, 2015 23:07
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NESguerilla posted:Is HBO now on different servers from Go or something? Been using it for years and it seems fine. I mean, the interface sucks but it streams fine.
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May 26, 2015 01:41
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LloydDobler posted:Makes you wonder why they wouldn't just outsource the whole goddamn thing through Netflix or Amazon. Zero infrastructure to build, solid network already in place, solid interface already in place. Just pass the data files over. Hell I'd pay an additional $10 or whatever to Netflix for the "HBO access pack" or whatever they wanted to call it.
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May 26, 2015 19:09
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So after HBO Now was unusable last weekend and I decided not to renew, it's been flawless this week  I've mostly been watching boxing since I don't want to get sucked into a series I can't finish before my subscription runs out but (amazingly) I didn't have any hiccups watching Citizenfour tonight. Really good documentary on Snowden, by the way. I had no idea his girlfriend moved to Russia to be with him. It leaves you feeling a little optimistic by the end, but that John Oliver bit about Snowden a few weeks ago where nobody even remembers who he was kinda measured my reaction.
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May 30, 2015 03:47
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pahuyuth posted:Ohhhhh poo poo I had no idea it was coming back soon. Hell yes, watch Rectify.
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Jun 4, 2015 00:55
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