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A MIRACLE posted:trying to figure out if Dark City is a 90s movie or a 2000s movie Peak 90's.
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May 1, 2024 13:39
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Is there any way to force YouTube to play an actually high quality video stream? I'm visiting my parents and apparently 70mbps isn't enough to stop it picking an incredibly blocky 1080p. I don't mind buffering etc at the start.
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May 1, 2024 14:15
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On what platform? There are some Chrome extensions that force that automatically, and you can manually select it in browser. Otherwise I think you're out of luck.
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May 1, 2024 15:20
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feedmyleg posted:On what platform? There are some Chrome extensions that force that automatically, and you can manually select it in browser. Otherwise I think you're out of luck. Any browser - it won't play HD for purchased media on my chrome for whatever reason so I have to use safari, but picking 1080p isn't enough. It'll still prioritise not buffering over maintaining image quality and doesn't buffer very far when paused. Increasingly considering taking out a nordvpn subscription.
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May 1, 2024 15:50
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Plug whatever your using in with a Lan cord? What modern household doesn't have like four dusty rear end lan cords
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May 1, 2024 16:10
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I'd argue 90s peak was Army of Darkness
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May 1, 2024 16:20
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everything bruce campbell is in feels distinctly 80s to me
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May 1, 2024 16:54
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Bruce Campbell is timeless
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May 1, 2024 17:52
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I'm not sure how no one mentioned The Rock when it comes to the most 90s action movie ever but I am angry and disappointed and now gonna go watch The Rock
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May 1, 2024 18:59
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B-Rock452 posted:I'm not sure how no one mentioned The Rock when it comes to the most 90s action movie ever but I am angry and disappointed and now gonna go watch The Rock more movies should have glowing green orbs
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May 1, 2024 19:41
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The Peccadillo posted:I think claiming yourself a cancer survivor from having a schwannoma is like saying you survived the plague because you saw a rat in a dream once the internet says schwannoma's rarely, but sometimes, form in the penis. i hope yours is not in the penis
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May 1, 2024 20:06
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I'm really happy that general consensus on xXx:SotU has turned around and people finally are recognizing that it's the good kind of stupid.
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May 1, 2024 21:10
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distortion park posted:Any browser - it won't play HD for purchased media on my chrome for whatever reason so I have to use safari, but picking 1080p isn't enough. It'll still prioritise not buffering over maintaining image quality and doesn't buffer very far when paused. Hm. I think I read something a while back about YouTube loving with quality for non-Premium members, so it could be related to that. Upsidads posted:I'd argue 90s peak was Army of Darkness Very far off from where my mind goes. Something like Six String Samurai feels like it embodies 90s sensibilities far more, in that it most reflects the attitudes and peculiarities of Gen X most fully.
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May 1, 2024 21:21
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Dark City's a great example of my idea of 90s vibes because it ends on the corny CGI psychic battles that don't really hold up at all. Stuff like The Frighteners, Virtuosity and The Thirteenth Floor; for me the most 90s thing is a premature belief that we were in the golden age of special effects and could capture wild sci fi concepts with this newfangled CGI thing, when maybe it wasn't ready
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May 1, 2024 21:41
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm really happy that general consensus on xXx:SotU has turned around and people finally are recognizing that it's the good kind of stupid. It's a fun time at the movies and I've been saying that since it came out. Torque too
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May 1, 2024 21:44
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Martman posted:Dark City's a great example of my idea of 90s vibes because it ends on the corny CGI psychic battles that don't really hold up at all. Stuff like The Frighteners, Virtuosity and The Thirteenth Floor; for me the most 90s thing is a premature belief that we were in the golden age of special effects and could capture wild sci fi concepts with this newfangled CGI thing, when maybe it wasn't ready I actually like the final psychic battle in Dark City. It's ridiculous and the effects are iffy but it's true to two guys trying to kill each other with their minds.
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May 1, 2024 22:07
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The Peccadillo posted:I think claiming yourself a cancer survivor from having a schwannoma is like saying you survived the plague because you saw a rat in a dream once I hope your cancer clears up, fam.
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May 2, 2024 00:44
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I feel like in the 2000s people thought they could throw all the computer graphics, wires, material arts and stunt choreography into a movie and make literally anyone into an action star like it didn't matter. So something like xXx makes complete sense because Ice Cube. The 90s I felt was a time when people thought they could swing for the fences, pitch insane nonsense, and someone would make it so we got stuff like Armageddon and Demolition Man.
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May 2, 2024 02:09
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distortion park posted:Any browser - it won't play HD for purchased media on my chrome for whatever reason so I have to use safari, but picking 1080p isn't enough. It'll still prioritise not buffering over maintaining image quality and doesn't buffer very far when paused. There's a whole IT subforum they could probably flick your bean
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May 2, 2024 03:57
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Pro tip: watch Hard Target and then Surviving the Game Don't talk to me about the moral arc of the universe when we can't make movies as real and righteous about homeless people in 2024.
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May 2, 2024 06:52
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Oh yeah, Hard Target is loving goated
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May 2, 2024 12:46
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Any John Woo until he just forgot how to make movies good aka mi2
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May 2, 2024 13:10
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Looking at movies I think of as being very 90's vibes, 3 of them were directed by David Fincher: Seven, The Game and Fight Club. I haven't seen The Game in 20 years, does it hold up?
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May 2, 2024 15:12
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Rewarched the Replacement Killers last night. That's a 90s movie and good lord the soundtrack is not great
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May 2, 2024 16:05
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For me the quintessential 90s action movies are the wave of neonoir that came out after True Romance. A lot of the Stallone/Swarzenegger/Segal movies just feel like 80 is movies released in the 90s.
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May 2, 2024 16:21
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Quintessential '80s movie why that's Tango and Cash
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May 2, 2024 17:28
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I caught Tank Girl on pluto tv last night and that right there is a 90s movie, with a soundtrack featuring lots of Bjork and Courtney Love. Great creature costumes too for the Rippers. They had hideous kangaroo men a couple years before Warriors of Virtue.
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May 2, 2024 18:03
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Bjork and Portishead, used to listen to that soundtrack a lot.
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May 2, 2024 18:18
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For 90s action I recently rewatched True Lies (on Hulu) and it held up really well. Bill Paxton is so loving funny in it, RIP to a got dang legend
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May 2, 2024 19:32
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doctorthefonz posted:For 90s action I recently rewatched True Lies (on Hulu) and it held up really well. Bill Paxton is so loving funny in it, RIP to a got dang legend Yeah I rewatched it a month or so ago and it is still a banger start to finish. Tom Arnold checking himself for bullet holes after standing behind a pole always makes me laugh, also "Why do they call him the Sand Spider?" "Uhh....because it sounds scary?"
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May 2, 2024 19:38
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On the other hand, I was on an Arnold movie kick and never saw True Lies until a couple months ago. I liked the beginning, but once it became a creepy paranoid husband story in the middle I noped out hard. Just felt super gross.
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May 2, 2024 20:18
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True Lies is absolutely super gross but that's sort of part of the fun imo. Just a pure gaze into James Cameron's demented id.
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May 2, 2024 20:25
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Spawn is pretty quintessential 90’s to me. It’s got action, violence, love, flashbacks, John Leguizamo, fart jokes, and extremely questionable cgi.
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May 2, 2024 20:35
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I can't believe I forgot True Lies, that fits exactly with T2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance.
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May 2, 2024 20:47
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Tia Carrere was such a bombshell, had such a big crush on her
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May 2, 2024 21:06
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yoohoo posted:Spawn is pretty quintessential 90’s to me. It’s got action, violence, love, flashbacks, John Leguizamo, fart jokes, and extremely questionable cgi. Plus it was obviously meant to be an origin story to a movie franchise that never happened Oh, and you can’t forget the gimmick soundtrack where every song is a forced collab between a rock/metal band and an electronic group
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May 2, 2024 23:03
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:True Lies is absolutely super gross but that's sort of part of the fun imo. Just a pure gaze into James Cameron's demented id. yeah, Arnold's character is supposed to be completely insane for doing what he does. It's hilarious.
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May 2, 2024 23:56
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True Lies has too many goofy antics for me when it comes to ranking Arnie films (the whole weird spy comedy stalking subplot, and while I love Bill Paxton they really shouldve cut that whole whole storyline) but I liked it ok mostly because it's Full McBain
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May 3, 2024 00:47
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true lies was one of my absolute favorite movies when I was 12 I recently tried to rewatch it and my new opinion is that james cameron should not do comedy also I have to admit that seeing him say they cancelled true lies 2 after 9/11 because "terrorism just isn't funny anymore" left a bad taste in my mouth you made true lies because you thought terrorism was funny?
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Speaking of Paxton if yall haven't seen the film he directed and starred in called Frailty, I'd check it out. Solid horror. I remember liking it as a kid and having rewatched it not too long ago it holds up. It's on Tubi (because of course it is).
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May 3, 2024 00:58
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