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OK Octopus posted:"A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives." At least that sounds cooler than the terrible poo poo they actually attached to the Netflix instant: quote:A woman is abducted and hypnotized with material harvested from a flower. When she falls for a man, the two realize they have been subjected to the same process. Together, they search for safety as they struggle to reassemble their wrecked lives. Good luck convincing anyone to watch that.
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As a non cinema buff who enjoys a lot of poo poo, I'd be more inclined to watch the latter rather than the former.
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Jul 9, 2013 02:23
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I loved Upstream Color, I was thinking about it for days afterward. It's got a real emotional pulse to it and took me for a ride, anyway. It doesn't hold your hand but then it isn't as confusingly layered as Primer, his other film. Just one of those movies you sit back and let it wash over you.
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Jul 9, 2013 03:20
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Upstream is one of my favorite movies in years. It's a really idiosyncratic and spiritual sci-if verite way of looking at those hosed up human, emotional experiences that have no logical explanation or rational rules, like mental illness or just really intense love and attraction. Shane Carruth is second only to Vincent Gallo in actually making good on the shot/written/directed/acted/edited/scored/etc. auteur filmmaker concept. The cinematography is really interesting, impressionistic, and gorgeous, extra notable as it was shot on small-frame consumer DSLR's. Amy Seimetz is so goddamned lovely, fragile, intense, and affecting in her role that I think she might turn out to be a major talent over the next decade.
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Jul 9, 2013 03:45
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Upstream Color was definitely an interesting film, but come on man. Face it, you're not going to get many people to watch more than a few minutes of that movie. Donnie Darko is infinitely more accessible for most people.
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Jul 9, 2013 06:15
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Jarhead (2005) is up. It stars Jake Gyllenhall and Jamie Foxx and is one of my favorite war movies. It is about a group of marines during the first Gulf War and it is incredible. The film focuses not on the war, but on the day to day life of the Marines as they cope with their day to day poo poo. The acting, visuals, and music for this film are all top notch. If you like character based films this movie is probably for you. Keep an eye out for John Krasinski and the All State guy as they both make brief, and hilarious, appearances in this film. For added fun pretend Gyllehnall is playing the same character he played in End of Watch and this is the time prior to entering the police force.
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Jul 9, 2013 06:51
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Speaking of End of Watch, someone's going to have to explain to me why everyone loves that movie so much. I thought the writing was pretty rote and that it did a piss-poor job of sticking to its premises, besides. They can't be everyday cops if they save a trillion minority kids (in three separate instances!) before the third act, and the handheld camera nonsense that they establish in the first minutes of the movie are thrown away whenever it's convenient. I genuinely feel like I've missed something obvious, some huge ironic wink and nod either in the criticism or the movie itself. Is this movie a joke? Do people like it ironically?
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Sarchasm posted:Speaking of End of Watch, someone's going to have to explain to me why everyone loves that movie so much. I thought the writing was pretty rote and that it did a piss-poor job of sticking to its premises, besides. They can't be everyday cops if they save a trillion minority kids (in three separate instances!) before the third act, and the handheld camera nonsense that they establish in the first minutes of the movie are thrown away whenever it's convenient. Because despite any flaws you may have seen it is a film that built two incredibly well developed characters that we, the viewers, fell in love with and genuinely gave a poo poo about. Every time they faced danger I was on the edge of my seat, because the movie made me care about them. And to address their heroics, those instances took place over a span of months, if not years. It wasn't like you followed a day in their lives. The movie took pains to point out that they work the single most hectic section of Los Angeles and are exposed to more on a single shift than most officers will see in a lifetime of service. The only complaints I had about the film were how one dimensional the Latino bangers were and the ridiculous video game camera for the ending shoot out. I could see what the director intended, but man it took me out of the movie.
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Sarchasm posted:Speaking of End of Watch, someone's going to have to explain to me why everyone loves that movie so much. I thought the writing was pretty rote and that it did a piss-poor job of sticking to its premises, besides. They can't be everyday cops if they save a trillion minority kids (in three separate instances!) before the third act, and the handheld camera nonsense that they establish in the first minutes of the movie are thrown away whenever it's convenient. People liked it for the chemistry between the two leads, the quality of the found footage gimmick (and them knowing when to ditch it), and the flourish of shooting it like the police are an occupying army. If you were expecting tactical realism then I'm not surprised you were disappointed.
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What's up? Dead Heat is a movie in the "Lethal Weapon" genre with a pseudo-horror twist, wherein criminals are being brought back to life as near-invincible zombies. Joe Piscopo makes a lot of terrible wisecracks. Vincent Price is Vincent Pricing. Really though, this movie gave me everything I was hoping for, including gnarly face-melting gore, zombie cop rampage, and a shootout between two Frankenstein monstermen. They play with the conceit in pretty clever ways. It's not the greatest movie on earth, but they do everything they can think to with the idea, and I say it's a solid movie that pays out on its premise.
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Jul 9, 2013 09:09
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...of SCIENCE! posted:If you were expecting tactical realism then I'm not surprised you were disappointed. I wasn't expecting tactical realism, it's certainly not as though I'm arguing calibers and firing stances. I just think the film is overblown and melodramatic, with these two coming out looking less like cops than superheroes. The writer and director so desperately want us to like these two that for the first half of the film there are three situations that they resolve by rescuing children. It's just a little silly past a certain point, and none of it actually made me like them. And if there are times in the movie when the found footage gimmick has to be ditched, maybe don't use a found footage gimmick? There's no value to it at all if you can't make it work for the entire narrative. It's "found footage, but also some shots that aren't because we need Mexican gangsters giving clumsy exposition."
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Jul 9, 2013 09:12
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I finally caught Upstream Color tonight. What an experience of a movie. I'll definitely be rolling it around in my head over the next couple days. Just the emotional intensity of it was incredible. And Amy Seimetz loving nailed that role. Jesus.
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Jul 9, 2013 09:56
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/derail Are subtitles not working for anyone else? I don't know when they stopped working, but even shows that I used to watch with subtitles in the past don't show them to me anymore, even though I selected them in the menu.
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I just watched The Interrupters, the documentary about Chicago's Ceasefire group, apparently now called "Cure Violence." It's a tough, frustrating watch, especially when you realize just how profoundly hosed the people involved are - from age zero, they only know violence and thuggery to the point where it's essentially an intellectual disability. The people involved have balls of steel (the lady most of all), but it's depressing when you realize that their intervention is a drop in the bucket. Most follow-ups I've read mention that almost everyone you see in the movie (not the Interruptors themselves, but the people they're trying to help) has since been gunned down.
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Jack's Flow posted:/derail I watched Ip Man last night and subtitles worked fine for me.
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FLEXBONER posted:I watched Ip Man last night and subtitles worked fine for me.
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Anonymous Robot posted:What's up? Dead Heat is a movie in the "Lethal Weapon" genre with a pseudo-horror twist, wherein criminals are being brought back to life as near-invincible zombies. Joe Piscopo makes a lot of terrible wisecracks. Vincent Price is Vincent Pricing. Really though, this movie gave me everything I was hoping for, including gnarly face-melting gore, zombie cop rampage, and a shootout between two Frankenstein monstermen. They play with the conceit in pretty clever ways. It's not the greatest movie on earth, but they do everything they can think to with the idea, and I say it's a solid movie that pays out on its premise. It's a really entertaining action/horror movie with the impressive 80s film practical effects, amazing Commando-esque one liners and over the top gore. Besides not much choice for action movies which star a zombie cop seeking revenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jus4GsEkSIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQRl6eRL2c4 etalian fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Jul 9, 2013 23:54
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Jack's Flow posted:I called their live support today, but they couldn't help me. I tried all possible browsers. The subtitles simple don't appear when I choose them. Weird stuff. One the 360 app subtitles are now on whenever you load it and you have to manually turn them off. It's loving annoying.
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Jul 10, 2013 01:11
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Man, I gave my mother my netflix password and now my recommended section is nothing but mid 70s cop shows. MOTHER! 
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Jack's Flow posted:I called their live support today, but they couldn't help me. I tried all possible browsers. The subtitles simple don't appear when I choose them. Weird stuff. Try updating/uninstalling - reinstalling Silverlight. That's all I can think of
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Jul 10, 2013 01:45
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Killing Zoe just got added. If you haven't seen it, you really should. It was written/directed by Roger Avary, who co-wrote Pulp Fiction, and it shows. It's a lot more intense and less jokey than Tarantino, in a good way. A lot of critics didn't like it but gently caress those guys. t
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Man, they kinda spoil the movie's payoff in a pretty big way with that trailer.
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cat doter posted:Man, I gave my mother my netflix password and now my recommended section is nothing but mid 70s cop shows. MOTHER! This happened when I was sharing an account with a friend and his brother, and after a month I kept being recommended a bunch of anime with pseudo-pornographic covers. You got off light.
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Wolfsheim posted:This happened when I was sharing an account with a friend and his brother, and after a month I kept being recommended a bunch of anime with pseudo-pornographic covers. You got off light. At least you don't have kids. My recommendations are nothing but kid shows. And Power Rangers (which I don't mind as much).
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I discovered Breaker Morant on Netflix today. I saw the DVD on my dad's shelf for years and I've been meaning to watch it for a long time. The movie is about three Australian soldiers fighting for the British during the Second Boer War in South Africa. They are being court martialed for executing prisoners of war. Directed by Bruce Beresford, the guy behind Driving Miss Daisy. I have to say, this was one of the best movies I have seen in recent years. The film has a strong anti-war message, but it delivers it well and doesn't beat you over the head with gratuitous violence. It's beautiful to look at and the acting is top notch. The editing is a little 1980, but it doesn't take anything away from he film. Give this one a watch if you are in the mood for a serious courtroom drama.
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Jul 10, 2013 08:39
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Speaking of subtitles mine changed sometime between 12 and 24 hours ago and now they're in an ugly-rear end font and dart around all over the screen. Plus they're white instead of yellow but that's not a problem.
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Bown posted:Speaking of subtitles mine changed sometime between 12 and 24 hours ago and now they're in an ugly-rear end font and dart around all over the screen. Plus they're white instead of yellow but that's not a problem. Mine changed to white a couple weeks ago but then went back to yellow. I kind of liked how the white ones would move to get out of the way of credits and stuff.
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Jul 10, 2013 14:39
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The Bay is up.
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wa27 posted:Mine changed to white a couple weeks ago but then went back to yellow. I kind of liked how the white ones would move to get out of the way of credits and stuff. Christ the other day the subtitles in a movie were getting overlaid with netflixs: [speaks Spanish] Thanks Netflix!!
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Christ the other day the subtitles in a movie were getting overlaid with netflixs: [speaks Spanish] When I had the yellow subtitles it would do that, but now the white ones avoid it.
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Jul 10, 2013 18:12
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foodfight posted:The Bay is up. gently caress yes, I've been wanting to watch this for a while.
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Yellow subtitles are despicable. What goober's idea was that? Is there a reason ever to have anything but outlined white subtitles?
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I will never get Netflix's idea of randomizing what people get what features in their player. I can get wanting to test things out but there's no options to stop doing it and there's no easy way to even give feedback so they actually know whether people like the changes or not. Isn't the whole point of just doing small test runs so you can tell if people actually like it? In general the Netflix app is really lacking in options. I don't get why they don't just have dozens upon dozens of options that let me navigate and view movies the way I want.
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I read this thing about how Netflix hires and how they shoot for excellence and blah blah etc and was like "Really?" Their stuff works, usually, but it's not like it is anything fantastic. I guess it's just a hype story.
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axleblaze posted:I will never get Netflix's idea of randomizing what people get what features in their player. I can get wanting to test things out but there's no options to stop doing it and there's no easy way to even give feedback so they actually know whether people like the changes or not. Isn't the whole point of just doing small test runs so you can tell if people actually like it? I have no idea how netflix became like the most popular video service on the web considering everything about them is poo poo. Website, apps, etc. its all loving garbage. Also yellow subs supremacy.
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:I have no idea how netflix became like the most popular video service on the web considering everything about them is poo poo. Website, apps, etc. its all loving garbage. When Netflix were just DVDs, there was no problem with it at all. I can't think of any complaint I had about it back then (other than the occasional DVD in lovely condition). They had a huge selection, and easy to use website and you got your movies ultra fast. Then they added Instant, not thinking it would be a big thing, and at almost no point have they handled it well. But you have to realize that Netflix became huge and killed all the rental places when it was DVDs. The instant thing took them to the next level but one of the reasons it took off because everyone already had Netflix anyways.
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:I have no idea how netflix became like the most popular video service on the web considering everything about them is poo poo. Website, apps, etc. its all loving garbage. What the gently caress.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What the gently caress. Yeah gonna have to echo this sentiment. Having ungodly amounts of TV/Movies for $7 that stream on pretty much every platform is worth the less-than-stellar options alone.
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My biggest complaint is that they don't have feature parity across systems. My girlfriends smart TV will roll into the next episode of a TV show automatically, as did the PS3 when I used it, but most other apps in the house don't do this. It's annoying, you'd figure they could have at least some standard across versions of the app but guess not. e: Aside from that really minor thing Netflix really is the best way anyone could spend $8 for sheer volume of content alone.
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Complaining about Netflix is really the worst first world problem, "Uh noez why netflixz puts up movies from 2 years ago and not stuff that justs came out, Theres thousands of stuff here but nothing" It's so horrible that for less then a movie ticket a month you get thousands of movies. What a lovely deal!
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