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Nihonniboku posted:I ended up deciding to watch the new Hellraiser last night without going back and watching the originals. While it was visually impressive, it was not a movie for me. I didn't find it particularly scary, but I watched the whole thing with my face all scrunched up. They almost went the route of the kill your gays trope, but only halfway in the end. Haven’t watched the new one, but I was feeling spoopy on Sunday and watched the original Hellraiser on HBOmax. Aside from some neat practical effects it’s a horrible movie, no idea why it got all the sequels. I also hated the lead actors, especially the dad.
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The Modern Leper posted:I think the point being raised is that, absolutely, you can connect with those themes in the new Hellraiser, but a) it's not a return to form (unless we specifically mean "low budget horror movie that surprisingly punches above its weight"), and b) even recognizing those themes does not mean that you necessarily think they were handled effectively, or that the world of Hellraiser is the place to do it. I recently watched the first hellraiser and 90% of it is closeups of sweaty unattractive people. (My screen was on don’t worry) Maybe the sequels expanded on the Desire thing, but in the original the innocent daughter opens the box and is almost kidnapped by the cenobites, despite the fact that she just accidentally ‘solved’ it.
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Oct 25, 2022 00:30
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veni veni veni posted:Weird. Seemed like people liking Henry Cavill as Geralt was a big sticking point for fans of the show. I got bored of it personally but he was a good Geralt. It’s my fault. I stopped watching after half of S2e1.
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Oct 29, 2022 20:38
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I finished The Menu, Netflix’s new film. I started the trailer and 10 seconds in knew what I was getting and enjoyed it! Also watched it in one sitting, which is more than I can say about Glass Onion.
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Jan 11, 2023 03:21
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mystes posted:Are you quite sure about that? Whoopsy my bad. The menu is HBOmax. And it is good.
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Jan 23, 2023 01:33
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STAC Goat posted:and Feys other questionable humor 
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Jan 27, 2023 00:55
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live with fruit posted:Krakowski plays a Lakota character on Kimmy Schmidt. The crime being a white woman has a Native American backstory? Sorry Tina, it’s jail time.
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Jan 27, 2023 03:15
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Jolo posted:Toni Collette is a powerhouse. It's unfortunate that horror is often not seen as worthy of accolades as drama. Mia Goth puts in an excellent performance in Pearl but it's in the wrong genre of movie to get recognized. RCarr posted:Hereditary is phenomenal
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Jan 29, 2023 08:15
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I just watched a recent movie called Spiderhead which is streaming on Netflix and it suuuuuucked hemsworth as a cocky tech guy who somehow is also a chemical/neuroscience engineer doing things completely on his own lol.
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Feb 5, 2023 04:40
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ymgve posted:I really disliked Patriot because the concept felt so dumb. Going deep undercover at a real company because...they wanted to bring some money to Luxembourg. I thought maybe it was to give him a valid reason to go to Iran or something, but no, they do an exchange in loving Luxembourg. The CIA has a billion fake companies and even fake airlines set up expressly for the purpose of transporting poo poo covertly around the world, just use one of those! That part is a bit silly, but the dad explains this at one point as him doing something his boss officially said ‘no’ to, which he believed to mean an ‘off the books yes’ which means do it without any official help with operations.
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Feb 10, 2023 20:06
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A MIRACLE posted:Cunk on Earth is so loving stupid lmao I’d never heard of cunk until the latest show dropped. Is this like white female Ali G?
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Feb 10, 2023 23:13
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lol this was great. Should I start with the older stuff before hitting the new show?
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Bayham Badger posted:He was good in that Community table read in 2020, stepping in for Walton Goggins Wait what, goggins was on community!?
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Feb 14, 2023 22:38
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wizardofloneliness posted:The Knick. It's two seasons, Clive Owen and Andre Holland are great in it and so is basically everyone else. Steven Soderbergh directed everything and the score is loving killer. It's just extremely high quality all around. I think it was actually a Cinemax original but it's on HBO Max now. 
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Feb 20, 2023 19:43
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Steve Yun posted:Loving the action in Top Gun 2 JOn Hamm: "We could just shoot it from space, but then i wouldn't be here *wink*"
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I saw Dreamcatcher in the theater because a matrix cgi short played before it lol
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Feb 24, 2023 23:13
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A MIRACLE posted:you can watch Tár on Peacock too. its almost three hours long so its a good amount of content / $ i'd say. its Whiplash but from the perspective of the mean teacher I just watched whiplash for the first time today, wish I saw it in the theater. Tomorrow is Tár time! Guess I’ll throw some shekels at peacock.
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So Tár was…not what I was expecting. Way too long, slow, and not really that interesting. Her abuse is almost quaint in comparison to Whiplash, but much more realistic. Overall a much weaker film I think. I loving laughed at that end reveal though.
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It’s very possible I was a bit too high to understand everything Tár was doing.
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Feb 28, 2023 05:39
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Flying Zamboni posted:It's cool to do crimes on tv and that's all there is to it.
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Mar 13, 2023 19:10
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Martman posted:lol wow. I definitely didn't love Tar as much as a lot of people, but I have no clue where people would get the idea that the movie wants us to doubt her accusers The writers colleague is the person interviewing Lydia in the beginning of the film. I think the author is too close to the poop to accurately describe it’s nuanced smells.
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Mar 16, 2023 01:31
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According to my guy* on the inside there’s gonna be two new episodes of Barry on HBO tonight. Kimmel, he doesn’t know we’re good buds yet
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veni veni veni posted:I haven't kept up with the discourse, since I always watch it a year later when it drops on Netflix, but after 8 episodes of Better Call Saul, I kind of feel like it's the worst season, or at least I have the most mixed feelings on it. Idk if that's an unpopular opinion or not.Just hit the climax of all the crime poo poo and noticed there is a whopping 5 more eps that appear to be Black and white, so I'm guessing we do a time jump from here on out. I'm curious to see what happens and don't really have a full formed opinion on the season yet. Just got here and I agree with all of this. To compare to another recent show, in Perry Mason there are schemes and strategies unfolding but they are to discover some truth, in BCS it's because Howard dresses like a yuppy? I get that he deserves to have his poo poo wrecked, he said some very awful things to Jimmy. That being said, Howard was never wrong. Jimmy was/is a slimy joke of a lawyer who would rather scheme than do his job. He's a walking joke, even if he does sometimes help the underrepresented. In any case Jimmy's constant harassment is indeed completely psychotic and there's no way Kim would have gone along with that poo poo. Howards death should have been due to suicide because Jimmy went too loving far and he now has to live with that fact. Instead he's just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Weak. I think Lalo jumped the shark when he was willing to merc the German widower. I was also wondering how a very wanted man gets to Germany with money and a hand gun w/ suppressor. I get he's a millionaire but that doesn't make your poo poo as good as MI6. I'm just being pedantic here but maybe just make him improvise a weapon? lol The final act with Mike missing the completely obvious fact that Lalo was not hanging out at Jimmy's apartment would be enough to justifiably kill his rear end, but the boss just makes an off-hand comment. There's absolutely no way Kim would have stayed with him this long. Yeah yeah her mom was shady who cares, Jimmy is insane and dresses, acts, and loves being a gas-station lawyer. Still a good sho tho!
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I take it from those who have read Silo that the payoff is worth it? Or is it less mystery box and just a good ride? I’ll need to read some cliff notes for the show because I already forgot why ‘cleaning’ was a big deal when someone went outside.
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May 9, 2023 20:40
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Haven’t seen anyone mention it but Royal Crackers on HBO is hilarious. I have no idea how to describe it, maybe semi analogous to Kuala man?
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A MIRACLE posted:I slept on a bunch of hbo max shows I guess but I'm watching Fired on Mars with luke wilson and its pretty funny. reminds me of inside job if you liked that It’s surprisingly good! It had surprisingly serious topics at times but it handles everything really well.
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May 23, 2023 17:59
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Jerkface posted:That dumbfuck CEO guy (Zaslav?) literally came out and said they wanted to remove the HBO branding because it implied a certain level of quality and they worried it would turn off their idiot reality TV consumers from the WB\discovery side who don't want to watch high quality prestige TV Lmfao No no, don’t sell the diamonds as diamonds, call them crystals. Then charge more.
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May 23, 2023 20:42
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Tiny Timbs posted:How much coke do you have to do to conclude that a reputation for quality is a bad thing? I'm sure they have data that suggests 1/3 of North America thinks HBO is for liberal coast cucks or something. But then you should work on changing that notion instead of taking all your good stuff and slathering ketchup on it. But people loving love ketchup so..
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May 23, 2023 21:34
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SCheeseman posted:More of a happy accident. “Acting stuff” lmao verhoeven is awesome.
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May 27, 2023 19:39
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Glottis posted:oh my god there's a new season of I Think You Should Leave on Netflix Edward Mass posted:The first three seasons of Angie Tribeca just showed up on Max, so there’s another thing for me to watch. Truly a blessed weekend!
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1glitch0 posted:Thought this was a pretty popular show. Wtf!!? Bushleague.
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Papercut posted:I'm almost done with Smartless: On the Road. The first impression, going in blind, was wow these guys are so far up their own rear end. But as you watch more it becomes clear that that's part of the bit, and there's at least a couple *really* funny moments in every episode. It's become a big recommend for me, it was fun. Glad you could get to the other side and see the goodness! Bateman in particular plays the rear end in a top hat a bit too well sometimes so if you aren’t familiar with their dynamic it’d be very easy to think ‘what an dick’ when he’s just tap dancing for the camera the only way he knows how. I only finished ep2 I think when they had AOC on and it was fun watching them realize what a dumb mistake that was in real time.
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A MIRACLE posted:Well poo poo if they don’t tell me where everyone went I’m gonna stop watching The show actually reveals that part! It’s the most boring thing you can possibly think of but makes sense in a weird rear end way.
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RCarr posted:The Leftovers ending was perfect Kevin’s last minute gaslighting of Nora pissed me off cause i started theorycrafting a bunch of bs that wasn’t necessary 
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Jun 15, 2023 01:22
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LifeLynx posted:It does? She's lying. Sir Kodiak posted:This is my understanding as well, that she backed out of using the machine. Any concrete answer to the great mysteries of life is just a comforting lie.  I didn’t get this at all, but then I did remember it being odd all of that happened off camera. What’s the consensus on the dude playing God? I loved his answer to the ultimate question.
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So as long as the writers add one line hand waving away a mystery it’s beyond criticism?
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feedmyleg posted:No it wasn't What was it then? I fell off near the last season but that’s what it seemed it was in the last episode.
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Jun 18, 2023 21:09
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Bupkis is good.
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veni veni veni posted:I think it’s like the 5th semi autobiographical thing he’s done. I didn’t realize it was autobiographical at first. I’m fine with it, but yeah the movie was enough. His mom in this show even references that movie! I mostly stuck around for Joe Pesci but it’s pretty funny all around. In the beginning Pete is reading online comments about himself and someone calls him “butthole eyes” lmao He’s very self aware which is his saving grace.
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