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Gilok posted:Storywise, Noah is just kind of Ok. The things that make it good are the visuals, and Russell Crowe and really the entire cast constantly devouring the scenery. Really what got me is how bleak and beautiful the landscapes are. If this movie were a painting, I would hang it on my wall.  with all this. Gorgeous loving film.
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Noah is Aronofsky's Transformers.
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Mar 25, 2015 02:35
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Leper Residue posted:So is netflix now doing a thing where if you binge watch a show it starts reminding you to do normal human poo poo? When I started watching earlier it would just have the next episode preview at the end of an episode, and then it started posting things next to the preview with things like Walk your Dog, Go to the Bathroom, Eat something, and now that I've been binge watching through my insomnia, Go To Sleep. This is like the first April Fool's Day joke in forever that I have thought was even mildly clever. On topic, season 4 of Louie is up and is probably the weirdest season of a "comedy" show you're likely to see. There are almost no jokes in it, for one. It's more like one long surreal art movie, but in a good way.
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Apr 1, 2015 17:36
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The Hungarian Art House Adventure is the best part of season 4
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:When does Bates Motel start kickin'? I'd say the middle-end of season 1 and most of season 2. The end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3 (which just started) are very much kicking. 
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Apr 3, 2015 03:18
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Tank Girl completely unironically owns
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Apr 3, 2015 05:29
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wa27 posted:Looks like they added Atari: Game Over recently. Is this worth watching? I feel like it could be an interesting documentary about the video game collapse, or a dumb circle-jerk about digging up that garbage dump. Well let's put it this way: It's an "XBox Originals" movie. There is a really good documentary about how the early-80s were all about a bunch of nerds doing mountains of cocaine and LSD and making video games but damned if I can remember its name. It was mostly about Atari/Activision and had Nolan Bushnell talking a lot is all I remember.
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Apr 3, 2015 18:04
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Parallel Monsters and The Magician were pretty good honestly, the only thing that sucks about VHS Viral is the wraparound segment (which sucks a LOT). Overall it's the worst of the three but I think it's alright. It's certainly better than ABCs of Death 1 and 2 put together (not a high bar, I know).
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Apr 3, 2015 18:48
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Man Bites Dog is amazing but I don't think it belongs in a discussion about "found footage movies" because it's not really like any of the other ones of those.
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Apr 3, 2015 21:07
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:ah. I feel like there are a few of those? it's been a long minute since I've seen the movie too. There are a couple sit down interviews like in the cafe and stuff but the whole film is "unedited" so it doesn't have any of the polish one usually associates with mockumentaries. It's all presented as rough footage which is why I guess it gets caught up in the "found footage" genre occasionally.
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Apr 3, 2015 21:33
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The best part is how it's not enough that Kevin Sorbo is an awful atheist, he is also literally evil and makes menacing supervillain speeches about how he's going to destroy the kid's entire life. And the premise is just him saying "FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLASS let's agree that God is Dead so we can talk about other philosophy" and somehow this is an outrage that WILL NOT STAND. Like he seriously tells the kid "dude I don't care if you pray tonight or whatever I'm just saying FOR THIS CLASS let's skip the argument entirely". I think that's pretty reasonable
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Apr 4, 2015 01:36
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Leper Residue posted:A season of Iron Chef America is up. Why would you watch this unless you've already watched the hundreds of Japanese episodes on YouTube though? Maybe it got better eventually but I recall Iron Chef America being really weak when I tried it out. The original still owns though. e: Three Kings got added recently if you want to see a really good funny and cool movie about the war in the Middle East pre-9/11 and also Marky Mark and Ice Cube and George Clooney being funny
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Apr 4, 2015 17:42
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Is it bad in a trainwreck way? I can't remember if I've done a free trial for Amazon Prime yet. Pretty sure I already did. :\
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Apr 4, 2015 19:53
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's bad in a "Kevin Smith has been making films for over twenty years and hasn't learned a single thing" kind of way. I just read the summary on Wikipedia and, uh, what the gently caress Kevin Smith. 
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Apr 4, 2015 20:06
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Human Centipede is a pretty good film that didn't need imitators (or the godawful sequel).
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Apr 4, 2015 21:56
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I was under the impression that Tusk's ridiculous premise was played straight and it actually was supposed to be a serious body horror film. Maybe we should all watch it? Nah.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:06
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Yaws posted:Tusk was made for $5 million and still didn't make money. This is the part I can't wrap my head around. The guy seems to be loving everywhere, or at least more present than he was when he was actually successful.
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Apr 4, 2015 23:12
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Jose Oquendo posted:I don't really get hate watching. I mean I love watching movies that are so bad they're funny (Cannon, Golan-Globus, old b-movies, etc). It's 90 minutes of laughs. But why watch something that is just baaaaaaad and you don't even really want to watch it anyway. Well I doubt anyone is "hate watching" things that are merely boring and banal, like nobody is all "oh man I am hatewatching The Young and The Restless guys it's hilarious". There's some element of "I'm amused at how bad this is on some level". And sometimes it's just schadenfreude.
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Apr 5, 2015 01:19
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A bad film fan is not one who only watches bad movies; a bad film fan is one who only watches good movies.
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Apr 5, 2015 02:04
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weekly font posted:I just finished up Garfunkel and Oates and enjoyed the hell out of it. It's like Broad City meets an actually good Flight of the Conchords. Yeah I really liked it a lot. I was stupid and listened to TVIV saying how bad it was which is why I waited to watch it until now. Depressed it won't get any more episodes. Maybe they can Kickstart and put it on YouTube or something. Broad City also owns, holy poo poo (it's on Hulu people, watch it, I think you might need Hulu Plus?)
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Apr 5, 2015 17:27
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Flight of the Conchords first 2 or 3 seasons were great, but I seem to remember it went downhill hard at some point. First season is amazing though. e: apparently it only had 2 seasons, weird. Could have sworn it had more.
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Apr 5, 2015 18:14
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Sarchasm posted:I just watched Atari: Game Over. If you can get past the awful title and the ten minutes of screentime they devote to Ernest Cline driving around his loving De Lorean it's actually pretty good. Nice historical document for retrogame nerds that turns into a brief but earnest examination of "worst ever" labels and why those statements are pointless, self-serving Internet hyperbole. It's not bad but there is at least one documentary about that era of gaming that is leaps and bounds better and more informative. I believe it's Once Upon Atari but that might be something else.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:51
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whatshesaid posted:Never heard of this till now. I think I'll watch it. I already know that I'm going to want to punch the tv. I get sadistic pleasure out of watching poo poo like that God Warrior crazy bitch on that trading spouses show from several years ago. And Jesus Camp too. God's Not Dead didn't induce any anger in me at all, it's just way too silly and caricatured to get mad at. Well, aside from the normal background anger I have that nobody makes movies about SANE Christians. Radio Free Albemuth doesn't count because Philip K. Dick was most definitely insane and also it's kind of terrible, like it's as close to the source material as A Scanner Darkly was and yet is on the complete opposite end of the "quality" spectrum, I know PKD's daughter and a lot of reviewers said it's a good movie but I think they're just saying that to be nice. It's on Netflix, or it was very recently.
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Apr 7, 2015 16:47
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JediTalentAgent posted:Along the lines of interesting retro game documentaries, Hulu has Chasing Ghosts. I think it was a pretty interesting companion piece to King of Kong as it shares some of the same people, games and era. It's probably not as well put together, though, but I think it feels like a far different and a MUCH more depressing documentary. Oh absolutely, I love Chasing Ghosts, maybe even more than King of Kong. I've watched it like four times, there's something fascinating about how weird some of those people are. The scene where Robert Mrzciak(sp) gets the drawing in the mail and shows off his collection of "art" is so loving 
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Apr 8, 2015 17:32
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Erebus posted:You find messy and incomplete FAQs and, increasingly, obnoxious Youtube videos that take 10 minutes to explain a 20 second answer. Some games don't get walkthroughs at all anymore (looking at GameFAQs, Final Fantasy Type-0 has yet to get a complete guide, even the old PSP version). It's not hard to imagine why some people with more money than time would rather just buy a guide. Not to get too far off topic but this is true, these days it's actually HARDER to find walkthroughs than it used to be, because now all the spergy kids who used to do ASCII art filled GameFAQs walkthroughs have transitioned to YouTube. My gf got stuck on something in Persona Q at least a month after the game's release and neither of us could find a walkthrough for the part at all except for a goddamn YouTube one.
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Apr 8, 2015 21:31
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Yeah at the time it came out and for a while afterwards, Three Kings was all anyone was talking about. And it holds up very well.
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I just don't see how you could dislike Dredd unless you hate the entire genre it's operating in or something.
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Apr 9, 2015 22:59
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I also wish Daredevil would have stayed with the "homeless Zatoichi" thing instead of getting a ~superhero costume~ in season 1, but it's a pretty minor complaint for a drat good show. Turns out the key to making a superhero show not suck is to make the non-superhero parts really good too. Like the courtroom stuff isn't Boston Legal or anything but it's still good. Vincent D'Onofrio is also walking a great line between "goofy" and "menacing". I bust out laughing the first time they showed him onscreen.
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Apr 11, 2015 13:57
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I just wish Hulu would stop trying to convince me to watch Backstrom
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Apr 13, 2015 01:13
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:If you've never seen this, or even if you have, watch it. It's for THE GREATER GOOD. Yarp.
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Apr 17, 2015 15:08
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Chichevache posted:Driver is not emotionless. It absolutely is in moments. The opening scene is Gosling exhibiting no emotion, only stoic and precise execution of skill. It's just that later on he slowly and subtly begins showing emotion. Which is why it's a great performance. Gosling has a great grasp of restraint in most of his roles.
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Apr 18, 2015 18:04
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Chichevache posted:Stoicism and emotionless are two different things. Being stoic is suppressing and hiding emotions (or the philosophical poo poo too). Being emotionless is to not have those emotions. You might as well assume he doesn't have a penis either, since Driver didn't actually pull it out and dangle it in front of the camera. I said the film had an emotionless scene, not that The Driver didn't have emotions. I explicitly said the opposite of that.  e: oh, your original post said "Driver is not emotionless", not "Drive is not emotionless". 
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Apr 18, 2015 19:33
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Tapeheads is goofy as gently caress. I have no idea how I never heard of it before.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:11
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Be on the lookout for a Jello Biafra cameo at the end of Tapeheads. He even says his own name. Only someone who was way into punk/alternative music in 1988 will even get the joke he makes, too. "I'll do to you what we did to Jello Biafra!" as far as I know could only refer to the PMRC and the lawsuit over the artwork for Frankenchrist.
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Apr 20, 2015 15:29
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Yeah we watched Bound last night and just tried to watch Bound (2015) and the latter isn't funny like it should be, it was just super boring. It's not like "the Sharknado of softcore porn". "The Sharknado of softcore porn" is Kink, which is also on Netflix.
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Apr 21, 2015 04:29
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Viginti posted:So, is Bound actually a good movie? It's the only Wach movie I'm yet to see, partly because it seems like it came from an alternate universe where they chose to ape De Palma instead of Ridley Scott. It's pretty great, it has Jennifer Tilly at her absolute peak of Jennifer Tillyness and Gina Gershon is awesome. It's also a pretty sexy movie if you want to watch it with a boy/girl/whatever you're into.
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Apr 21, 2015 05:56
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Noah is finally up, for those who were wanting to see it. Is good.
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Apr 21, 2015 19:56
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That Works posted:Romancing the Stone is pretty fun and held up fairly well for being an earlier 80's movie. Yup, it's genuinely a fun and solid flick, lots of out loud laughs. Also hell yes The Last Waltz is coming.
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The Time Dissolver posted:F for Fake is a cool documentary-art-film hybrid kind of a thing. Hulu Plus should have it. I just rewatched this recently and it holds up very well. Just fantastic.
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