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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.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What was wrong with the other actors? 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.
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Feb 17, 2015 06:02
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted: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. Yeah, it's probably unfair to hold everyone else's performance against Fassbender; and if that more realistic, sporadic vibe is what they were trying to achieve with the other characters, they admittedly did it quite well. Dr Monkeysee posted:I really liked that the movie (spoilers for the ending) didn't really downplay Frank's mental illness. He was *never* an untouchable genius, just a weirdo who surrounded himself with other weirdos, and the movie could have very easily fallen into the trap of being too twee but doesn't because it stays grounded to the fact that he's a weirdo and his music is strange and inaccessible. It makes the meeting of the parents scene less of a revelation and more of a gut-punch to the main character. Hey dummy, Frank's ill. It's not a gift. A few criticisms of the movie I saw did mention that the ending was a bit of a bummer. I do kind of agree, but at the same time it fits the movie perfectly. Having a major crash as a band that is so avant garde in nature is something that I've actually witnessed for some of my friends playing in bands. The reunion at the end was also one of the most heartwarming things I've seen in a while. At the end they realize - like most musicians do - that they don't really need anyone but each other. For many it's not the fame and fortune that draws them to music, but the familial relationship that is developed. That's what made Don's death so tragic: he wasn't just some guy, but a brother to everyone in the band.
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Feb 18, 2015 00:08
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Pander posted:Tried watching It's Such a Beautiful Day last night. Got about 5 minutes in before the fiancee had me turn it off because it was too weird and depressing. I love Hertzfeldt's past work (especially Rejected), but even I kinda didn't get it much early on. Does it get better or different? Personally, I found it starting off with a sense of humor, then a more and more sad/depressing as it went on. It may not be the kind of thing that is for everyone, but it does get a bit more meaningful later on if that's what you were anticipating. Admittedly the first time I watched it I had to sorta force myself to keep watching, but I was so grateful that I did in hindsight.
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Feb 18, 2015 18:22
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Yeah, it got me. I don't think they could could have written a better ending for the film than that. The thing about Fassbender that I found so enthralling was his ability to emote so strongly, even from inside the head. The delivery of his lines was so perfectly fitting and really got across all of his emotions. This all may be due to the writing of the movie, because his nearly unfailing optimism throughout most of the movie was just so pleasant to watch. Also, the scenes near the end without the head really helped nail his performance. In all honesty though, the ending on the whole was just perfect.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:07
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That Works posted:The Directors cut of Amadeus is still up on Netflix and you should all loving watch it because it is beautiful, hilarious and well acted all around. Really still a treasure of a film after all these years. Ooh, now THAT is one of those movies I haven't seen in years, but would love to give a re-watch. Are there any huge changes in the director's cut? Ideally, I'd like a change where Tom Hulce wins the Oscar instead of F. Murray Abraham.
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Mar 27, 2015 03:22
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I just remembered that We Need To Talk About Kevin was released on Netflix on the first of the year. It was probably already mentioned earlier, but I finally got around to watching it today. drat...if you haven't seen it and want to watch a movie about as dark as a cup of french roast, go watch it.
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A MIRACLE posted:Snowpiercer was bad Thank Christ, for a while I thought I was the only one.
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Mar 26, 2017 02:27
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I am glad Moana is on Netflix now. I've been needing to watch it again to see what I missed the first time. I think I saw a different movie completely the first time; while everyone I've talked to about it has said it was a masterpiece, all I saw was a decent movie with catchy music and the usual amount of Disney film-making cliches minus the obvious one.
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Jul 1, 2017 15:56
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Time to try and digress from bathroom discussions: I don't remember if it was posted in one of these threads before or not, but there is a YouTube channel called Russian Animation that uploads a bunch of old animated short films. Sometimes they upload feature length animated films, and sometimes they upload old Russian non-animated films. They recently uploaded the film version of Sadko, for those of you who are opera fans. The channel didn't seem to upload anything for a while, but then they've recently been uploading a few every day.
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Jul 2, 2017 21:36
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To all of those who recommended Okja, thank you. It was the first Bong Joon-ho movie I thoroughly enjoyed.
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Jul 8, 2017 17:54
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:John Zorn rules. Agree'd.
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Jul 26, 2017 20:12
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rngd in the womb posted:Everything coming to Netflix/Hulu/HBO Go/Amazon in August Some fun stuff on Netflix; otherwise, it looks like a ho-hum kinda month for additions. Also I don't get this huge debate about Funny Games. Either version is fine, it's an interesting concept overall, and they're both pretty far down the ladder as far as Haneke's repertoire goes.
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Jul 28, 2017 04:10
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tweet my meat posted:I love how refreshing Ozark feels. They don't gently caress around with the whole "I have to keep my criminal life secret from my family" juggling that a lot of similar shows go for to get some cheap drama and tension. The wife and kids are all on board early. While it really tears at the family, they all legitimately try their hardest to make it work and the wife realizes that she needs to help out with the business if she wants to save her family. They're past a lot of the really basic morality questions that you get in something like BrBA since Marty is already deep in the game when the show starts and they're more or less just trying to make a terrible situation work. For as much as I loved Breaking Bad when I first watched it, that is legitimately one of the things that keeps me from rewatching it. I wish they had just abandoned all pretense that Walt was trying to remain a good person by doing it for his family and poo poo, because it made a lot of unnecessary things happen in the show. Glad to hear that Ozark gets away from that. Definitely going to add it to my list now.
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Aug 17, 2017 15:29
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rngd in the womb posted:Everything coming to Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/HBO in September Completely agreed, although it looks like Netflix has a nice selection of movies coming in as well.
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Aug 30, 2017 14:53
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fishtobaskets posted:As a brand new dad, the premise of We need to talk about Kevin scares the poo poo out of me. The first 30 minutes of that movie are so unnerving. My wife and I have an almost 7-month old boy and she still won't watch it. I keep telling her not to worry though, since he's not colicky and doesn't seem to only cry and scream around her. But yes, it's an excellent film, and Lynne Ramsay really needs more feature films. I've heard You Were Never Really Here is good, and I certainly hope it gets a wide release soon.
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Sep 7, 2017 16:54
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To chime in some opinions on BoJack Horseman Season 4, I'd say there are two particular episodes that hit me quite strongly. The rest are still good and characteristically funny, but in terms of character development I really hated what happened to certain people. I'll try not to spoil, but it upsets me that certain characters had a "return-to-status-quo" arch in this season. If you haven't been a fan of the rest of the seasons, I wouldn't be the first to say this season will give you a fresh new perspective since there's an equal amount of peak and trough. It was enjoyable though, and I caught myself planning to watch two episodes and accidentally watching the whole thing in one setting, naturally.
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Sep 11, 2017 16:21
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My wife and I and a few friends watched 1922 last night, and it was...interesting? It's a Stephen King adaptation, so I wouldn't call it scary, but it did have an effectively creepy atmosphere. It started off pretty dang slow; but when it got going, it wobbled a bit between being intriguing and being a bit difficult to follow. Still, a solid worth-checking-out for fans of semi-psychological crime dramas.
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Nov 2, 2017 15:21
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Is Brawl in Cell Block 99 in any way related to Riot in Cell Block 11?
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Jan 5, 2018 15:19
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My wife and I just finished The Tick last week. I was fully prepared to call it my favorite show that I've ever seen right up until the last two-ish episodes. Apart from the ending feeling like it fizzled out a bit, the show is loving amazing and hilarious, and I can't recommend it enough.
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Mar 19, 2018 15:49
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My wife binged the entirety of Santa Clarita Diet season 2 yesterday. She'd seen season 1 but I haven't, so I was a bit lost while watching it. It didn't seem too terribly complicated, though, and some of the things they brought about in this season probably answered some Q's I would've had about season 1. I don't know how everyone else feels about that show, but I found it oddly hilarious for what it was. The humor fell flat at times and some of the gorier effects were pretty fake looking - at least to me - but on the whole I'm pretty glad we watched it. Decent setup for another season too, which is gratifying. For anyone who has seen it, is it worth me going back and watching season 1, or does season 2 do it enough justice?
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Mar 26, 2018 16:55
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My wife randomly started playing Tale of Tales last night on Netflix, and, uh...it sure is a movie. I recommend it if you're looking for something that seems like a normal fantasy flick but is actually incredibly bizarre.
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Apr 16, 2018 15:49
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Enos Cabell posted:Legion is legit great. Junkie Disease posted:Luke Cage is great y'all back off Apart from these two, I haven't had any interest at all in watching other marvel superhero shows. Between all of the shows and movies, over saturated is even a fit description anymore.
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Apr 18, 2018 13:33
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I have I Love You, Man to thank for everyone reenacting the Slappin’ Da Bass scene when they find out I play bass guitar.
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Jun 9, 2018 14:26
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The Handmaid's Tale is a show where I found it hard to sustain investment in its 2nd season, right alongside The Crown and 13 Reasons Why. I wish they'd stop continuing stories that are popular for the sake of continuing them. I was told the book stops at the end of the 1st season, so I was perplexed that the 2nd season even exists at all.
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Jun 18, 2018 16:58
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precision posted:Do not watch FTFY, and will do.
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Aug 3, 2018 19:50
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My father-in-law recommended Future Man which I felt indifferent about upon seeing the preview for it. I have to admit...it's not perfect, but it's surprisingly funny.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:19
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Well, the Mrs wanted to watch The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and it just wasn't for me. I know I wasn't supposed to associate it so much with Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, but I couldn't help it. I kept wanting it to be a horror show that had a comedic self-awareness to it, but it just wasn't. (Full disclosure, I have no familiarity with the source comics.) The fact that it lent so heavily into the horror and violence made it's more comedic lines/scenes that much more bizarre. I did find it kinda entertaining in the third episode how they managed to work in Daniel Webster as a character. Otherwise, I thought the plot was so back and forth and what kept happening to Sabrina was just confusing.
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Nov 5, 2018 16:33
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I'm sure it's been mentioned in this thread already, but last night I watched The Night Comes For Us and it was loving crazy. I've never really been interested in movies like this, I pretty much watched it on a whim because I'd heard positive things, and I was completely absorbed. I have no idea why I didn't watch films like this before, but after that I want to watch every film Iko Uwais has ever been in.
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Nov 12, 2018 16:25
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It’s not a competition show, but if you like food shows/food porn then Salt Fat Acid Heat is a drat good couple of episodes for that.
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Nov 16, 2018 23:46
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Franchescanado posted:edit: Holy poo poo, Netflix has The Lobster under "Comedy" and describes it as "Romantic". I mean, it is a comedy, but that's gonna gently caress a lot of people up. My wife and I saw The Lobster because it was classified as a comedy and the trailer sold it as almost being somewhat whimsical. Imagine our shock once it was all over. I loved it, but it completely lost my wife after the insane lady killed Colin Farrell's dog brother. It's not that she didn't like the movie on the whole, it was just so jarring for her personally, especially when they showed the dead dog. I've only seen this and The Favourite recently, so I don't know if violence towards animals is a common theme across all of Lanthimos's movies or not, but it was certainly off-putting for someone who didn't expect it. So yes, it may be a comedy, but it leans far closer to dark comedy which is why I always counsel caution before people see his movies. Also I know this isn't the Last Movie You've Seen thread, but we saw The Favourite over the weekend and it was excellent. Lanthimos really knows how to prove himself as a great director in any genre.
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LifeLynx posted:If you've got kids, The Christmas Chronicles on Netflix is truly bizarre. Kurt Russell as smug Santa, incomprehensible "Santa rules" that change from scene to scene, and some of the most horrifying elves I've ever seen. Actual Minions would be less terrifying. My wife insisted we watch this the other night, and I found it better than I thought it would be. The elves were indeed creepy and the plot was a bit cliched (I suggest people play a drinking game where they take a shot every time the phrase "Dad would've wanted etc." is spoken) but Kurt Russell weird Santa was kinda fun. It's interesting and whimsical enough to watch with or without kids. Our son watched it with us, but since he's only nearly 2 he didn't make it that long before falling asleep. Also, last night we watched Albion: The Enchanted Stallion because it was allegedly billed as a Christmas movie. However, it only is in the sense that Christmas is briefly mentioned at the beginning before the plot abandons that idea completely for a generic fantasy setting with all the things that come with it. It was an ok watch I guess, but it was just so weird trying to think of it as a Christmas movie the whole time. Most of the performances are stiff and dull, but John Cleese is in it and he's reliably over the top and silly.
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Medullah posted:I'm 10 minutes into the last episode of Future Man s2 and this is going to end up being a game show, isn't it I just finished s2 last night and I don't know how obvious it was to everyone else, but it took me pretty hard by surprise. Overall, though, it was a good second season, and I bet Haley Joel Osment is a bit sad he won't be in the next season (I know it's still possible he could show back up), but I'm sure he had fun being relevant again.
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