The "What Should I Watch on Streaming?" Megathread (Netflix, Prime, etc)

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Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Hot Dog Day #82 posted:

Spacey is indeed terrible, but I think that they are in the middle of filming the last season now and Netflix isn�t about to throw out money already spent. Boy, that set must be an awaken workplace these days...

I dunno, it sounds like they halted production of the season:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/entertainment/house-of-cards-production-suspended/index.html

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 00:16

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 07:09

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

I agree it went on a little too long and it's still my favorite Bond movie. It felt more consequential than any of the other ones.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 04:10

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Ugly In The Morning posted:

CR did the realism pretty well by interspersing it with some really solid character work. I'm going to guess QoS didn't, because I remember my friends and I saw it opening night and I couldn't tell you the plot to that movie if you were hitting my balls with a rope.

Somebody saw Chinatown and thought a rich guy monopolizing water would be a good plot for a spy thriller

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 07:17

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LadyPictureShow posted:

I hope I'm not churning up bad blood/more Tarantino chat, but I finally gave Hateful Eight a go.

Verdict: Tarantino is incredibly up his own rear end. It's like he was trying to do The Thing but was too obvious with who was trustworthy and who was suspect (and all of the 'suspect' guys turned out to be the bad guys).

But I will say, Walton Goggins is always a treat.

I never really thought the murder mystery was the point of the movie though. My main takeaway from the movie was that the "good guys" aren't good and that people will use any flimsy excuse (including the law) to justify their enjoyment of violence. The Hangman says that if an executioner derives any pleasure from killing, it no longer resembles justice and becomes mob justice. By the end of the film, Jackson and Goggins are laughing to themselves as they hang Leigh.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 16:30

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Yeah the marketing definitely sold it that way, but that's par for the course with Tarantino movies. There's always something deep going on but they're always sold as gritty action flicks

# ¿ Nov 4, 2017 17:15

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Sarchasm posted:

Is that on desktop? This is what I'm getting on mobile:

# ¿ Nov 5, 2017 23:29

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Netflix does swap out title cards on shows, and very often its with random people who aren't main characters. But I have to assume an exec came down to marketing and made sure of it in this case.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2017 00:56

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Master of None is good up until the ending of the second season.

Everyone basically sounds like an Aziz Ansari sock puppet speaking stilted lines but I was willing to overlook that just because the overall story is interesting. It becomes painfully apparent when a real actress shows up though (Angela Bassett)

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Nov 6, 2017

# ¿ Nov 6, 2017 01:16

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As a rule of thumb Bond actors have a cycle where their first films are good and then it's mostly downhill from there. Dalton just compressed that cycle into two movies.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2017 00:54

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

I enjoyed Hypercube just for being so wacky.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2017 08:42

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

I dunno man, Hero comes across as statist propaganda in hindsight.

The best martial arts philosophy movies are the two Drunken Master films.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2017 05:48

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Fargin Icehole posted:

UK Kitchen Nightmares is so drat good.

It may or may not have been phony as well but it felt genuine, whereas USKN completely felt like a phony show.

"I'VE NEVER HAD A MORE OVERCOOKED CHICKEN IN MY LIFE"

(Hans Zimmer battle music)

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Nov 19, 2017

# ¿ Nov 19, 2017 05:03

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ONE YEAR LATER posted:

To be a pedantic nerd for a moment:

Eleven isn't a Mary Sue, that is a term for self-insert character who are good at everything which is not the case with her. Is Luke Skywalker a Mary Sue because he learns to use the Force, is a great pilot, and blows up the Death Star?

Yes he is.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2017 21:34

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Luke Skywalker is a good use of a Mary Sue character because the first film tells him he's special and he does things better than almost everyone else, etc. And then after you've lured in the audience with this candy-coated bait you pull the rug out from under the audience and throw cold water on them.

Same goes for Harry Potter.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2017 22:35

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

It's almost all psychological thriller, not a whole lot of blood, relatively speaking

# ¿ Dec 1, 2017 19:50

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A MIRACLE posted:

Bautista also killed it in the new Blade Runner.

Bautista, despite looking like he is able to fold people in half, really sold vulnerable and scared in that.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 00:17

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veni veni veni posted:

I know nocturnal animals is supposed to be good, but like 30 minutes in I'm finding this borderline unwatchable.

Nocturnal Animals came across as a badly executed attempt to be smart. It's so goddamn hamfisted and clumsy and the compulsion behind it is so petty.

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Dec 9, 2017

# ¿ Dec 9, 2017 22:46

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I watched the whole thing. It makes a coherent statement by the end, just not a very good one.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2017 23:44

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Nroo posted:

Lawrence of Arabia
Paths of Glory

While I agree I don't see them on any streaming services

# ¿ Dec 15, 2017 07:27

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Allyn posted:

Memories of Murder has a little more dramatic license than Zodiac but is otherwise in a similar vein, and is based on a true story

Gonna second this and it's available on YouTube for free thanks to Flixster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3tw66BBdDw

Maybe tied for my favorite serial killer movie against SoTL

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Dec 27, 2017

# ¿ Dec 27, 2017 21:15

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Starting season 4 of Black Mirror. First episode started fun and then it cut to black and the elevator doors opened and I immediately went "ouch"

Edit: and there's the 90 degree turn

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Dec 30, 2017

# ¿ Dec 30, 2017 09:09

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# ¿ Dec 30, 2017 10:51

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Okay finished first episode.

Fun premise, but worse than the scientific inaccuracy of memories being stored in DNA, which is something I can overlook, was the fact that this episode had a happy ending

# ¿ Dec 30, 2017 19:24

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End of the 4th special is kind of a wet fart. Tell jokes man I don't care about your drama with Comedy Central stop dwelling on the past in such an unfunny way

# ¿ Jan 1, 2018 02:31

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Any Obama is a painful memory of great times long gone

# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 07:15

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Letterman is at his best when he's being intentionally awkward, and he's not gonna do that with Obama

# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 10:48

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

You should watch Chef's Table. It's the porniest food porn I've ever seen other than maybe NBC's Hannibal

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jan 21, 2018

# ¿ Jan 21, 2018 03:39

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIW79ULErTg

Tangential to food porn: a new genre I'm going to call farm porn

# ¿ Jan 21, 2018 06:30

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https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-peeping-tom-1960

Peeping Tom was reportedly reviled when it first came out and now I'd hold it up against almost any of Hitchcock's films.

My hat is off to Scorcese for discovering it and rehabilitating Powell's reputation while he was still alive.

I think it's on iTunes or YouTube for $3

Edit: also a couple more re-evaluated films I'd been meaning to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDS7GceW6dg

Edit: also there were supposedly many reviews writing off 2001 as incomprehensible garbage when it first came out, but I have no idea whether this view was the majority

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jan 21, 2018

# ¿ Jan 21, 2018 08:29

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LORD OF BOOTY posted:

If you like anime, Hidive is absolutely worth subscribing to. They have a metric fuckload of both subbed and dubbed stuff, to the point where I frankly haven't even scratched the surface of the volume of crap they have on there, and off the top of my head I can say they have the entire Patlabor franchise and Ninja Scroll on there and those two things are worth $3.99 on their own.

Of
Hidive has Legend of Galactic Heroes, in case you want an anime that is all about space politics and space battles based on real life historical politics and historical battles. Also if you want to see two Terminator 2 liquid-metal Death Stars battle each other to death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM4tPmy-cJo

Also get familiar with the jokes some older goons post every now and then:

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jan 28, 2018

# ¿ Jan 28, 2018 18:22

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

A) never happens, it's always a translator/localizer who's writing the script who changes it to something that makes more sense/sounds better in the local language. The subtitles were probably just pasted verbatim from the English

# ¿ Feb 13, 2018 19:09

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Chris Rock's new special is out, and... it's kinda uncomfortably personal.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2018 08:44

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Tim Whatley posted:

Has anybody watched Ugly Delicious past the first episode and if so, does it get better? I love every food show like Chef's Table etc but I found the first episode of this one incredibly up its own rear end and a complete jumbled mess. There's like randomly an infomercial joke in the middle of it for some reason.

I'm only up to 5 right now, but yeah that poo poo is annoying and they tone it down slightly in the subsequent episodes. Don't let it ruin the show for you though, because the rest of the show is great

The show is at its best when it focuses on sociopolitical issues around food. Dave's frustration with a Vietnam war refugee who thinks we're letting in too many Muslims now is one of the high points, along with the illegal immigrant who lets herself be identified in the show, or the guy who is banned from America forever because he snuck in to visit his dying father. I like to think of it as a show about people masquerading as a show about food.

Overall it feels WAY more substantial than Mind of a Chef

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Feb 27, 2018

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 02:04

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Cithen posted:

Just finished watching Seven Seconds, a crime drama focused on the hit-and-run killing of a black teenager by a cop. It wasn't very good. Some folks that were involved with 'The Killing' (Veena Sud, some producers) are behind this, but it is almost entirely made up of the bad parts of 'The Killing' with none of the good. There were some compelling story ideas, but they all were ultimately disappointing for a variety of reasons. The acting, for instance, was all over the place. It was fun to see Regina King ham it up a bit, the lead detective was the stand-out, and we get a small appearance from Malik Yoba of New York Undercover fame. The cops were all just awful actors. There wasn't much charisma between the investigative pair, either. The story was also hampered by bad dialogue and really stupid decisions by a lot of the characters.

Ahh, that's disappointing to hear. I was curious about it solely based on the poster:

edit: admittedly a bad tagline. Would've been better with no tagline at all

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Mar 2, 2018

# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 02:02

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TheGreasyStrangler posted:

Love to see the Starship Troopers approach work so well

I'd argue Verhoeven had a better grasp of the book than even its author did

# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 07:45

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Anyone here happen to be in Russia, Spain or Indonesia? A friend wants to know if B The Beginning has Russian, Spanish and Indonesian subs in their respective countries.

Edit: with screenshots if possible

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Mar 15, 2018

# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 06:45

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Nah, it needs Macchio. It needs a villain.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 18:01

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Sir Kodiak posted:

I'm super late on it, but I just finished and really enjoyed American Vandal on Netflix. While it's, of course, most significantly a comedy, it puts together a way more compelling story and set of characters than I would have expected. Surprisingly naturalistic for something that is, at its core, an opportunity to tell a bunch of dick jokes. Definitely check it out if, like me, you were hesitant that the gag could hold up for a full eight-episode season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54QJq2oDaBU&t=32s

# ¿ Mar 26, 2018 23:05

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Unmature posted:

I've seen a few of these, but somehow have never seen Exit Through the Giftshop.

Another vote for this if you didn�t get around to it last night already.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 18:31

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 07:09

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Chef's Table Season 4 is out on Netflix now, it's all pastry and it starts with Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9J7BBLpncI

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80198...4c16e1a0a%2C%2C

# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 21:08

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