X-Ray Pecs posted:

I’m not a big fan of Rage (and frankly whenever I have the opportunity I mention Gang of Four was so much better), but that soundtrack choice is perfect.

Voodoofly posted:

Depending on the day I would probably order them in all different sorts of priorities.

Rage < IO < 108 < IO < Rage < 108 < IO < 108 < IO < Rage . . . .

X-Ray Pecs posted:

J of IDEOTV (aka Satellite High) said Downset was the true "better than RATM" band, I haven’t listened to them yet though, but I’ll definitely give 108 a shot too.

Flying Zamboni posted:

He's the co-host on Nameless Cults, a podcast about horror movies. It's good!

X-Ray Pecs posted:

He was a regular contributor to Pod Save America until he was let go because of some Facebook drama

axelblaze posted:

I don't go to as many concerts as I like anymore. It's partially just getting old, both in that I don't have the energy and bands I like don't tour anymore. Still, I go to concerts by myself all the time. I prefer going with others but most of my friends don't like that sort of thing and those that do are either picky or hard to get together with.

TrixRabbi posted:

I get way too loving tired for concerts nowadays. Every time I buy tickets the day of the show I just get that remorse and don't want to leave my house and end up forcing myself to stand around. I've seen some good poo poo though over the years.

Friends Are Evil posted:

I think I've actually been going to more shows as I get older, though that may be because I live in DC now. A lot easier for me to get to shows than it was in Florida.

Voodoofly posted:

What did you think of the Jawbreaker show? They were one of those bands where I loved 24 Hour Revenge Therapy because an older friend gave it to me when I was like 14 and listened to it on repeat, but they broke up before I could see them live and I never really got into anything else by them.

I saw them last fall in SF at the Fillmore and, well, that show was super underwhelming for me and the couple people I saw it with. It was the middle of a three show stint and they definitely went out of their way to not play hits (and a new song where Blake spent a couple minutes trying to make us realize how clever the lyrics were), and possibly the first or last show was better, but drat it was a disappointing show. My single biggest takeaway was "yep, Blake is insufferable and I completely see why they couldn't stay together."

Adam was cool as ever though, although he finally sold his old video store to the local Alamo Drafthouse (he had been operating out of their lobby for the last couple of years after he lost the lease on his old shop). Gonna miss him, he used to just randomly give me old Jawbreaker stickers and stuff whenever I would go in there and browse the shop. Even at the show he stayed onstage for longer than I stuck around just handing out stuff to people in the crowd and signing all the band posters (the Fillmore gives out a free poster to everyone at the show so there were a ton of posters).

Edit: they also had a standup as the first opener which was . . . odd. She was fine but you can't really get energized to a solo standup with a 15 minute set. Felt really bad for the second opener who had to come on after because the crowd was arguably even more sedate after standing around listening to a comedian for a while.

Voodoofly posted:

Godspeed - I know my friend who saw them in LA on the same tour that I saw thought they were great. I'm really thinking/hoping I just had a bad night with them. For what its worth they sounded great and were super tight when I saw them, just lacking some energy and a few too many lectures from Blake about the songs he just played for us.

porfiria posted:

Is True Detective 3 good? Wasn't 2 really bad?

LesterGroans posted:

I dunno, season 2 of True Detective is a big old mess, but at least it's an interesting mess. Season 3 seemed to be too worried about getting dunked on to try anything outside of its comfort zone. Also, losing Jeremy Saulnier after the first two episodes is pretty noticeable. I would have loved to see how he'd handle that shootout.

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Baron von Eevl posted:

The Void if such an odd movie, the effects are decent and everything else is just so cheap looking. I understand that it's a product of how they funded the movie, but it's still weird to see.

Honest Thief posted:

The moment I knew I was sold on Sorry to Bother You was about 10 mins with the new team lead scene.
"Does that mean we get paid more?"
"hmmmmm no" while doing a quirky

banned from Starbucks posted:

She can barely talk and walks with a cane.

Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:

would anyone be willing to write my little brother in jail? he's bored and looking for penpals

CelticPredator posted:

She was my favorite part. Cage is an obvious love but I really dug what Blair was doing. She nailed the confusion and utter disgust perfectly.

CelticPredator posted:

it was Brian Taylor. They split up for now, but are still good friends. I wish Neveldine would direct some episodes of Happy! which is probably my favorite show right now. I've been craving more Crank level stuff but nothing really nailed that level of insane creativity until Happy! (which is done by Brian Taylor)

Escobarbarian posted:

Is I Stand Alone no good? Always meant to get round to it eventually.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

I went to NETA and they're pretty cool, despite there being a line around the block. Tax wasn't too bad either. But yeah, I don't know where they get off, given that Lowell, Mass is one of the shittiest places in the country because of heroin.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Recreational and the selection is good.

Coaaab posted:

I loved this exchange:

"I have to know who is in my house."
"You invited me."

which is all a part of the movie's vague supernatural horror vibe that nevertheless is almost never explicit within the film's diegetic elements. Oh, and the underlying war between blues and gospel.

CPL593H posted:

Everything is tainted with carcinogens anyway. Popcorn lung is the least of our worries. Large sections of the town I live in were built on toxic waste dumps including a high school and a middle school surrounded by a residential neighborhood (no points for guess a lot of it is where poor and non-white people live!).

precision posted:

Is sort of interesting how even if someone is over 70 and had a great life, it's still "what the gently caress cancer, leave him alone"

Like I'm sad about Alex too but this culture of death worship is getting weird

Honest Thief posted:

Check out Occult, that's a good Noroi follow-up, too bad the director ended up doing stuff like Sadako vs. Kayako

Honest Thief posted:

Really? Most I read portrayed it as overlong with a 10 mins fight at the end.

K. Waste posted:

What you read is bullshit, SvK owns hard. It's easily one of the best Ring films and much more handily probably even the best Grudge movie.

Coffee And Pie posted:

What’s some good French New Wave stuff? I’ve got Breathless and Shoot the Piano Player on my list but there’s kind of a lot to look at

Death By The Blues posted:

Also, has anyone here seen Prime Cut? It is a bizarre mashup of Peckinpah, 70s Independent Cinema, and Hitchcock with Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Sissy Spacek. Half an hour in and it rules.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

What makes them similar is that that they have different directors, effects studios, CGI people, production crews, stunt coordinators, composers, writers, etc, yet every single one is the next episode of the same Saturday morning cartoon. They even say they do this on purpose and haven't really been shy about that.

Fart City posted:

God drat is The Friends Of Eddie Coyle good.

Fart City posted:

I love the on-location shooting. You can practically smell the stale beer at that Bruins game.

Guy A. Person posted:

Very good that the 17 year old was arrested and the important senator who struck a child on camera after making Islamophobic comments got gently pushed back by his security

Gripweed posted:

I watched Harold & Maude. It's a good movie, but it did not do it for me at all. Which is odd because I'm a massive Wes Anderson fan. I think it's because of the specific brands of quirky the titular characters were. When Harold said he liked going to funerals I just thought, "Whoa, look at Tyler Durden Jr. over here!" And elderly people losing the ability to drive isn't a joke, people fuckin die because of that. Maude's carefree car stealing ways directly endanger everyone else on the road. What really killed it for me was how poorly the movie and Harold treat his three dates. They're presented as being boring or inconsequential people, and it's good fun when Harold fucks with them. They are there to date Harold, a guy who has absolutely nothing to recommend himself. He's just a sadboy failson, one of those women had a really important job, another one had an actual ambition and goal. They were all way too good for him. Hey Harold, maybe your time with the therapist would go better if you actually ever said anything to him. If living with your mom is so stifling, maybe get a job and move out of the house. I get that she doesn't show you the love you need, maybe if you actually talked to her or did literally anything other than spend the past several years staging faked suicides you could spark change in your relationship with you. Thank loving god an elderly lady dropped out of the sky to drag you kicking and screaming out of your sadboy mansion life, and then die at just the right point for your character development.

Man, gently caress Harold.

Baron von Eevl posted:

What's the vibe in this room, is it a hot take to say that New Order is better than Joy Division?