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For a trip down nostalgia lane take a look at Brother. Russian movie set during transition period of the 90s about a young man trying to find a place in a new life style and help his older assassin brother with work related problems. Similar in spirit to Man from nowhere except more bleak and devoid of positive characters.
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Aug 5, 2013 14:23
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Spike Lee is known to be sort of a dick. That's well established.precision posted:Yeah I mean if the "rich white kids" (how do you know they're rich? I know plenty of poor college kids in New England?) were asking good questions and he was just eyerolling at literally all of them, that's just... inane. Generally speaking, poor kids don't get to go to the most expensive colleges in the country. It's sad, but that's the world we live in.
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forever whatever posted:Generally speaking, poor kids don't get to go to the most expensive colleges in the country. It's sad, but that's the world we live in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_financial_aid A lot of times, really expensive private colleges have some of the best financial aid programs.
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Aug 6, 2013 01:11
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Sigh. If you honestly don't believe there's any correlation between kids' socioeconomic status and the relative quality of the college or university they attend, well, I'm not gonna argue with you. At least not in the Netflix thread. Recently forced myself to watch Atlas Shrugged Part One after being told how unintentionally funny it was. I honestly got the impression that halfway through filming it, the cast and director actually realized that this was gonna be a lovely film, like, there's no way to make that story compelling but everyone just gritted their teeth and plowed through it. And then none of the cast agreed to have anything to do with Part Two. I'll get to Part Two eventually but I need a break.
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For those who watched Orange is the New Black, I watched the first two episodes and I'm still not sure if I'm into it or not; does it get better as it goes along, or should I just stop now? I find the main character pretty tiring and I'm a lot more interested in the other inmates. I feel like I'm being a bit unfair or irrational in not liking her, but there's just a lot of "i'm a pretty privileged white girl in a sea of minorities!!! and i said something stupid and *scared face*". I keep hearing that the series is really great and the cast is amazing, but I guess I'm just not seeing it yet.
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Pipers character does develope more, but I personally didn't like her much at all. Good news if you like the other girls though : the featured ones pretty much all get a flashback and most are pretty heartbreaking in a hosed up way. Some decent plot develops in the prison too. I'd say watch 2 more episodes. If you still don't feel it, drop it.
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It sucks that you apparently can't fork a new user profile off your netflix account--that makes the feature useless for shared accounts unless you want to start all over and lose the data you've generated. To me, at least, I'm not going to bother.
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Aug 6, 2013 05:05
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:For those who watched Orange is the New Black, I watched the first two episodes and I'm still not sure if I'm into it or not; does it get better as it goes along, or should I just stop now? I find the main character pretty tiring and I'm a lot more interested in the other inmates. I feel like I'm being a bit unfair or irrational in not liking her, but there's just a lot of "i'm a pretty privileged white girl in a sea of minorities!!! and i said something stupid and *scared face*". I keep hearing that the series is really great and the cast is amazing, but I guess I'm just not seeing it yet. Personally, I think that Taylor Schilling (Piper) over-acts with her face in this sort of annoying way where she always looks like she swallowed a shitload of opiates before the camera started rolling. Her character becomes gradually more likeable but 2 episodes in, I didn't like her at all. Or much else about the show for that matter. It does get better as the other characters become more interesting and 3-dimensional but there's a lot of aspects of the show that I find really flawed...I think it would be a superior program if it was a straight up drama instead of a dramedy (because the writing really isn't that funny). Some of the secondary characters are simply terrible (Crazy Eyes is a rather unlikeable portrayal of a mentally ill person and I have no idea if the viewer is actually supposed to feel sympathy for her). I think that my primary concern with the show going into it was Jason Biggs though. Seriously, gently caress Jason Biggs. I did find it compelling enough to watch through its entirety, and the cliffhanger ending demands I watch next season, so there's that. Overall, it's better than the last three years of Weeds.
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Aug 6, 2013 06:15
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Got around to watching Zodiac. Christ, what a great movie. Almost three hours, but that just flew by.
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Aug 6, 2013 07:17
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DeathChicken posted:Got around to watching Zodiac. Christ, what a great movie. Almost three hours, but that just flew by. I just now finished watching this myself - I don't really know why I had put it off for so long. I hadn't known it was even a Fincher film until recently, somehow I missed that when it came out, but being such a big fan of Robert Downey Jr. I don't know why I skipped it. Since I only vaguely knew about the real case and didn't know anything about how it ended or played out, I was glued to the screen. I did feel the movie's length but in a good way - it felt like a truly epic story, moreso than any Lord of the Rings film has, that's for sure. It was strangely restrained for a Fincher movie though, even more restrained than his House of Cards pilot. I would say it demands a bit of patience.
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forever whatever posted:Personally, I think that Taylor Schilling (Piper) over-acts with her face in this sort of annoying way where she always looks like she swallowed a shitload of opiates before the camera started rolling. Her character becomes gradually more likeable but 2 episodes in, I didn't like her at all. Or much else about the show for that matter. I remember watching that show on NBC where Taylor Schilling played a nurse with PTSD, and I thought the weird glazed-over look was part of the character, but I guess it's not.
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forever whatever posted:Zodiac slays hard. Yep, and one of the creepiest scenes is the one where Graysmith is in that weird guy's basement and senses that someone else is in the house. This is expanded on in the book and I believe not directly addressed in the movie, but Graysmith was at the time working on a theory that the Zodiac was actually two men working together, and that they had a basement (this latter point which is, as the movie character points out, uncommon in California).
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Aug 6, 2013 15:34
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Yeah, I wasn't really familiar with Graysmith at all, so I was halfway expecting that to be the last anyone heard from him. Just utterly messed up (and yet not quite as messed up as Leigh pretty much dancing around going "I'm the Zodiac" and everything being dismissed as circumstantial).
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Aug 6, 2013 15:52
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I Before E posted:Movies.Netflix.com/EditProfiles This url doesn't seem to be working for me
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Mahoning posted:This url doesn't seem to be working for me Works for me, in the US.
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Aug 6, 2013 19:49
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The URL works for me, but when I try to add a profile it just says "Sorry, something went wrong!" Maybe another time.
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iv46vi posted:For a trip down nostalgia lane take a look at Brother. Russian movie set during transition period of the 90s about a young man trying to find a place in a new life style and help his older assassin brother with work related problems. Similar in spirit to Man from nowhere except more bleak and devoid of positive characters. Wow...never expected that to come to Netflix, excellent flick.
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While of course it's nowhere near as good as Dahmer (could anything be, really?), there's a new documentary called The Jeffrey Dahmer Files that I found interesting enough, since it has interviews from his neighbor and the arresting officer. Also, hilarious/pointless re-enactments starring the gooniest fuckin' version of Dahmer ever seen, holy poo poo.
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forever whatever posted:Personally, I think that Taylor Schilling (Piper) over-acts with her face in this sort of annoying way where she always looks like she swallowed a shitload of opiates before the camera started rolling. Her character becomes gradually more likeable but 2 episodes in, I didn't like her at all. Or much else about the show for that matter. Glad to hear that it gets better; I think you're completely right that the supposedly comedic moments don't really work; I feel like they're trying to play the creepy mustache guard guy's creepiness as a joke and it's just...gross. What is it about Jason Biggs? I don't even have anything against him, but every time Larry's in a scene I just...don't care. It probably doesn't help that most of the Piper/Larry flashbacks are (intentionally) annoying in general, but seriously, I haven't even seen Biggs in anything else and I already feel like I don't like him for some reason.
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I feel that Bigg's character is the most unnecessary and one-dimensional thing on the show. It's totally a matter of personal taste, but I don't like the sort of comedies that he is known for and this does color my opinion of his role in Orange. The casting is actually pretty good other than him for the most part. I don't like Crazy Eyes, but the actress playing her is talented. Laura Prepon is cool. I actually sort of like Taylor Schilling despite her weird facial mannerisms. Pornstache's character is AWFUL and not funny, just terrible, but Pablo Schreiber is a respectable actor, he was incredible on The Wire. Basically the whole thing is very well made and I think that season two has a lot of potential but it took me MOST of the season to say that I like it. Which means I'll probably rewatch it. So overall I'd say it's a positive. Loved House of Cards immensely and I haven't seen Hemlock Grove but so far I'm not displeased with Netflix's adventure into original content.
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:Glad to hear that it gets better; I think you're completely right that the supposedly comedic moments don't really work; I feel like they're trying to play the creepy mustache guard guy's creepiness as a joke and it's just...gross. Well, Larry is kind of a douchebag by design. It's understandable how he might feel betrayed by Piper's absence and try to turn that to his financial advantage; it's just a lovely thing to do. Everybody on the show is kind of horrible in some way or another, but in realistic ways that make them relatable to the audience. That's the point the show is trying to make: these are all real people involved in this, and the prison system is killing everyone it touches. And the show usually gets this right. Pornstache is, I think, meant to be a type of prison guard you'd see in real life in a women's prison, equal parts corrupt and sleazy and pathetic. However, his role in the narrative is more of a generic villain, so there's a real strain between the "sleazy guard" half of his character and the "driving the plot by doing evil poo poo" half. Same with Pennsatucky.
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I literally skipped every scene with Jason Biggs and felt like I missed absolutely nothing at all. I cannot stand his face or acting.
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Aug 7, 2013 02:35
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I love Crazy Eyes. Her part in the Scared Straight program was gold. Just noticed Netflix just added Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Saved. Both were pretty entertaining, (and taught me about Dutch Rudders).
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Aug 7, 2013 02:59
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Just watched Zodiac again, and couldn't agree more how brilliant it is. The mis-en-scene of 70's California was just about perfect. And a nice litte touch, I loved the old-school Warner Brothers and Paramount logos they used at the front of the film.
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Gumby posted:Well, Larry is kind of a douchebag by design. It's understandable how he might feel betrayed by Piper's absence and try to turn that to his financial advantage; it's just a lovely thing to do. Everybody on the show is kind of horrible in some way or another, but in realistic ways that make them relatable to the audience. That's the point the show is trying to make: these are all real people involved in this, and the prison system is killing everyone it touches. And the show usually gets this right. I don't think I'm up to Larry being a financial douchebag yet; I still haven't finished the third episode. I'm kind of glad to hear he does something besides trigger omg perfect sweet relationship before evil jail happened! scenes though. I guess I just need to watch more. forever whatever posted:
Oh god do not watch Hemlock Grove. I followed it for seven episodes before quitting and just reading spoilers, and I'm glad I didn't stick around for the entire thing. It seems like it might be fun in a campy way, but it overstays its welcome quickly and wanders away from the original mystery to just dick around and show titties and dead girls and Bill Skarsgaard's lips. It starts trashy as gently caress in a maybe entertaining way, but when I stopped it was trashy in a borderline offensive way. Oh, and once a dead girl's titties.
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:For those who watched Orange is the New Black, I watched the first two episodes and I'm still not sure if I'm into it or not; does it get better as it goes along, or should I just stop now? I made it to episode 5 before I gave up. There is nothing horrible about the show and that's the problem. Everything is fine. The characters, the acting and the production values... So you keep forcing yourself to watch, hoping it will eventually "click". The bottom line is I got to a point where I just didn't give a gently caress what happened next. And if you're anything like me then there's no amount of praise or critical acclaim that can make you re-invested in a tv show once you've passed this threshold.
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:Oh god do not watch Hemlock Grove. I followed it for seven episodes before quitting and just reading spoilers, and I'm glad I didn't stick around for the entire thing. It seems like it might be fun in a campy way, but it overstays its welcome quickly and wanders away from the original mystery to just dick around and show titties and dead girls and Bill Skarsgaard's lips. It starts trashy as gently caress in a maybe entertaining way, but when I stopped it was trashy in a borderline offensive way. No, watch it, WATCH EVERY SECOND OF IT.
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Ooooh, Antiviral is up. Anyone know if it is decent?
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foodfight posted:Ooooh, Antiviral is up. Anyone know if it is decent? Mad decent.
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:Oh, and once a dead girl's titties. Hahahaha "once".
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A friend of mine loves mystery stuff, but never saw the X-Files. So we jumped right in and watched "Die Hand die verletzt" yesterday. First of all, it worked and he's hooked. Second of all, that poo poo is still scary as gently caress.
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Jack's Flow posted:A friend of mine loves mystery stuff, but never saw the X-Files. So we jumped right in and watched "Die Hand die verletzt" yesterday. First of all, it worked and he's hooked. Second of all, that poo poo is still scary as gently caress. The way the teacher's meeting wraps up in the pre-opening credits scene just completely sells the episode. They're talking about inane typical bullshit like the football stadium and the inappropriate content of the planned school musical production (ironic), everybody talks about how they have to go wash their car or whatever, someone says we better finish with the prayer, we've been letting things slip lately, then someone lights a red candle and... whaaaaaa?!!!
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Never watch Hemlock Grove for any reason. Instead, sit and stare at a wall for an equivalent length of time.
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So what people are saying is, I should watch it. Gotcha. Anybody here watch Hell On Wheels? Is that a good show? I recently watched Hatfields & McCoys and I loved it. If it's anywhere near the quality of that, I think I'll check it out.
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forever whatever posted:So what people are saying is, I should watch it. Gotcha. My Dad loves westerns and was a huge fan of both shows.
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Zwabu posted:The way the teacher's meeting wraps up in the pre-opening credits scene just completely sells the episode. They're talking about inane typical bullshit like the football stadium and the inappropriate content of the planned school musical production (ironic), everybody talks about how they have to go wash their car or whatever, someone says we better finish with the prayer, we've been letting things slip lately, then someone lights a red candle and... whaaaaaa?!!! When the principal's daughter sits down with Mulder and Scully, and just goes on and on about these horrible things the cult did to her and her sister... that's such a "what the gently caress" moment. The episode went from a very dark to a pitch black place with that confession. Even Mulder and Scully didn't know where to look, they just wanted to get out of there.
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I'll be finishing up the second season of The Killing in the next few days and I really cant comprehend why people thought it was slow or dragging on. The acting, cinematography, mood, character development, and atmosphere are so different and so well done compared to any other crime drama I've seen. Someone said they felt it was slow when they watched it while airing week to week, and maybe it might feel that way if viewed in that manner, but marathoning through it has made it very addictive. AMC must have made some kind of deal with the devil, they only broadcast the best shows.
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forever whatever posted:So what people are saying is, I should watch it. Gotcha. It's not bad. Season 2 is a pretty noticeable improvement on 1. It's about the same quality as Copper or Ripper Street in terms of pseudo-historical stuff.
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