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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Gotta put Neko Case in there somewhere. She's younger and not growly, but any fan of theirs would love her, especially her third album "Blacklisted." Hell yeah, I'd pay to see that. Neko Case's song "Star Witness" is one of those songs that--no matter the situation--if it comes on, I'm depressed and might cry. She's also very funny when she's not singing heartbreaking songs. I'd love to see her act in something.
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Unzip and Attack posted:I did not care for Buster Scruggs at all. There's dark and then there's misery porn and I found it to be completely the latter, except lacking the visual beauty that usually accompanies the Coen Brothers' work. Misery Porn: Salo, I Spit On Your Grave, Cannibal Holocaust, Martyrs, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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loudog999 posted:I'm off today and am planning on binging through some of the new MST3K while playing Diablo. Is the first season worth it or should I skip to the second? I'm excited about the Mac and Me episode. The "2nd" season is by far stronger, tighter, and funnier, but the "1st" season still has some of the best episodes of the show, especially Cry Wilderness, Avalanche, Carnival Magic and the Christmas episode. There isn't a bad episode in the bunch, it just gets better as it goes. That said, they are both self-contained, besides the first sketch of "season 2" being a punchline to the joke set up in the final episode of "season 1". Lycus posted:I'm always conflicted about open-ended endings. The shot hung on Weisz so long, I was so sure we were going to see Farrell walking away in the window. I think it works especially well with The Lobster. Since a lot of the world itself is open to interpretation and the audience filling in the negative space, the ending tonally fits in well. What I think makes it one of the best endings in the past few years is how it works as a Rorschach test for the audience members with their views of love and relationships. From discussions I've had with friends that have seen it, those that have happier/successful/healthy relationships tend to view it more optimistic and assume he gouges his eyes out for his love, whereas the friends who have had unhealthy relationships in the past (or currently) tend to have a more pessimistic view and assume that he doesn't love her enough to gouge away his vision and he leaves her. I found it powerful and clever.
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Basebf555 posted:I haven't seen The Lobster OR Killing of A Sacred Deer. Would I be driven insane if I were to do a double feature? Would that be too much? Do it. I also haven't seen Killing of a Sacred Deer yet. Or ALPS for that matter. But I love The Lobster and Dogtooth. Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:I love the ending and that nothing is ever explained in the movie. I am definitely not one of those people who think it has an "optimistic" ending. To me that seems entirely at odds with basically the entire movie. I thought the most loving relationship shown was between Colin Farrell and his dog/brother. In the world they've presented, genuine love between two humans seems to be deliberately impossible due to all the regulations and it'll be severely punished if it somehow happens anyway. But then there's just as much rules regarding being single too. The two "successful" relationships we see are based on a lie where the guy has to continually bash his face in and where the husband is totally willing to kill his wife. I dunno about that. The couple (David and Shortsighted Woman?) is shown to engage in physical and emotional affection towards each other beyond what is socially acceptable or seen anywhere else in the story. They could easily be in trouble for making out during the guitar performance, for example, and yet they do so with very little regard for their surroundings. 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. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Frog Act posted:hmm Yes it does! Good work.
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Also, as a heads up, this thread is now 500+ pages at 3 years old. We'll start up a new Streaming Thread in January 2019 with an up-to-date OP and stuff.
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bred posted:New Terrace House on Netflix :3 Hell yeah.
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feedmyleg posted:Just realized those people in my office weren't talking about a show called Terrorist House. I can't tell if this is a Threedom reference or not.
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I just watched Hoop Dreams on Amazon Prime. Just one of the greatest documentaries ever, Sport-centric or otherwise.
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Yeah, I enjoyed The Little Hours. Plaza steals the show, but I’m a big Micucci fan and loved her character. Brie is great too, and Fred Armison got some big laughs. Very pleasant comedy.
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Michael Corleone posted:On the topic of censorship I have been watching a show called "Shrink" on Hulu. It has the NBC logo on it and only has 8 episodes that are all about 30 minutes in run time. Anyway, this show uses every swear word I can think of but the N word. Pretty weird, the show came out in 2017 it looks like. I assume this was running at like 11:30 PM over the summer when SNL was on break. This was actually an original show from the online comedy streaming service Seeso, which had no enforced censorship at all. It was a short-lived service, and all of it's original properties are either lost in limbo or have been picked up by other networks. Shrink, Bajillion Dollar Properties and The UCB Show were the most popular shows from that service.
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Chaotic Flame posted:I got some good laughs out of Bajillion Dollar Properties I'm not a huge fan of reality show parodies, but I did love that show, and I consider it one of the best of that genre. Every episode has fun guest stars.
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Iron Crowned posted:Do I need to see Ant-Man before I watch this one? Not really. They recap enough for it to stand alone. All you need to know is Scott is a thief who gets arrested a lot and Hank Pym let him use his Ant-Man suit to save the day once but that turned out to be bad for everyone.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s barely touched on, but when Morf researches the man who created all the paintings he finds out Dease was institutionalized after killing his father, and at the institution he was subjected to experimental electroshock treatments at the behest of the government. I don't think that's an explanation for the supernatural events. That was a common practice for institutionalized people of that time period, and I think it's intention was more to show that his entire life involved suffering, and his art was simultaneously an escape from that and also a way for him to articulate that. I think what's more telling is that every painting contained Dease's actual tissue, like blood or flesh which still leaves a lot of negative space for the viewer to have fun with. Anyway, I also really enjoyed Velvet Buzzsaw. It's fun and funny and delightfully weird. It manages to show a cast of characters completely up their own rear end without the film doing the same thing. Still, the best satire of the Art world, critics and museum, is still The Square, which is on Hulu and Hoopla. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lucky is up on Hulu. It’s a pretty solid flick and a nice farewell for Harry Dean Stanton. It's a very zen movie.
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Basebf555 posted:Hulu actually does have a pretty impressive selection of movies, best thing to do is just look up a list every month or so and then manually add what you want to a watchlist. My biggest frustration with Hulu was not being able to easily add things to a watch list or access a watch list, especially on the website. Like my dream Hulu experience, which they get close to in a way, would be to have my list of TV shows and allow me to watch episodes sequentially, or a shuffle function that plays the episodes of a show sequentially, but will switch between shows for me.
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Basebf555 posted:There's no need for it to be running on some fancy algorithm, just give me a option to have it randomly choose something from my existing watchlist. Sometimes I just don't feel like running circles in my own head for 15 minutes deciding what to watch. Exactly. I would absolutely love it if I could do this. Hell, if Letterboxd did this, I'd be happy. As (some of) you know, during the October challenge, I'll just make a complete list of what I'm willing to watch and then use a randomizer to pick what I watch. Sometimes just getting a random suggestion will immediately give me an idea what I am in the mood for.
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Basebf555 posted:I've actually been in the habit recently of perusing my various watchlists at work before I leave for the day, so that I have something in mind when I get home. It's pretty sad. I have a calendar in my office where I write down all of my local indie theater's release schedule and special events, and I peruse Letterboxd and the forums during my last hour of work while things are winding down to figure out what I'm going to watch.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I mean in a way it is a testament to how good Netflix's original content is. Plus two new seasons of MST3k
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Iron Crowned posted:I already said there were at least 5 garbage shows for every good show. Some of the best episodes of MST3k have been in the new seasons. Unless you just don't like MST3k, which is fine.
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Zwabu posted:It basically feels like if Wes Anderson directed an X Men movie. This sounds pretty awesome, to be honest. Based on the comics, that seems tonally appropriate, if not as goofy.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I probably ought to spring for Shudder one of these days. If you’ve never signed up before, you get a free month.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I've got Student Prime on Amazon as well, if it's free via that service. 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.
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