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1 800 J JAMES posted:The Chris Morris compilation CD? It's alright but its hardly the best sketches and you lose the atmosphere without the uncannily perfect music selection. Best to listen to full episodes on youtube. My Wrongs and the Jam DVDs would be better buys. Really. Guess I know what I'm buying. I got On The Hour 1 + 2 on iTunes.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 21:56 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Really. Guess I know what I'm buying. I got On The Hour 1 + 2 on iTunes. Awesome. You'll want The Day Today and the Peter Cook interviews as well. Guess I'm listening to them for the next hour now.
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Friends Are Evil posted:Finally got around to watching The Visitor. It's genuinely kind of impressive. I have a poster for it hanging up in my bedroom.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 22:07 |
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The Vistor is hyped up as this zaaaany nonsense film, but it's really just an Italian movie from the 70s. It's still quite good, but I was kind-of let down.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 22:18 |
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Yeah it wasn't really that nonsensical at all. Entertaining though.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 22:29 |
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My friend came up with the best description of the Visitor. He called it "The Omen if it was based around scientology".
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 22:54 |
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Slice Of Life: I randomly discovered an old Lucasarts game The Dig on Steam. I have a very vivid memory from my youth of a Lucasarts-heavy demo disc (vivid, I think, because it had TIE Fighter on it), of which The Dig was mentioned heavily as an upcoming, exciting game. This was at a time in my life when I couldn't just ask my parents for a new computer game every five seconds, so I never bought it. Part of me wants to pay the five bucks for it, but part of me thinks that I'll get annoyed with the circa-1995 mechanics and designs. As silly as it is, the wonderment I had about the game as a kid is inexplicably precious to me.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 22:58 |
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MisterBibs posted:Slice Of Life: I randomly discovered an old Lucasarts game The Dig on Steam. I have a very vivid memory from my youth of a Lucasarts-heavy demo disc (vivid, I think, because it had TIE Fighter on it), of which The Dig was mentioned heavily as an upcoming, exciting game. This was at a time in my life when I couldn't just ask my parents for a new computer game every five seconds, so I never bought it. Part of me wants to pay the five bucks for it, but part of me thinks that I'll get annoyed with the circa-1995 mechanics and designs. As silly as it is, the wonderment I had about the game as a kid is inexplicably precious to me. It's pretty good. IIRC Robert Patrick is the main guy in it.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:00 |
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1 800 J JAMES posted:Awesome. You'll want The Day Today and the Peter Cook interviews as well. Guess I'm listening to them for the next hour now. I've had Day Today on DVD for a long time, but this Peter Cook poo poo is already making me laugh. I think Chris Morris was the last comedian I discovered that made me think he was one of the funniest people on Earth. CPL593H posted:My friend came up with the best description of the Visitor. He called it "The Omen if it was based around scientology". This sounds like Symposium Horror to me.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:49 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:This sounds like Symposium Horror to me. I have no idea what this means.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:52 |
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Horror that takes place in locales staffed and observed by upper middle class people in smart clothes. Clinical detachment, philosophical introspection externalized as New Age mad science.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:57 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Horror that takes place in locales staffed and observed by upper middle class people in smart clothes. Clinical detachment, philosophical introspection externalized as New Age mad science. So every Cronenberg movie, basically.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:59 |
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Yeah, specifically The Brood and Scanners. From Beyond's one of those movies, ditto Exorcist II, Altered States, The Stone Tape, etc.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:01 |
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I could listen to Chris Morris saying things like, "DISMANTLED POPE FOUND SLIDING ACROSS ROAD" all day, and now I do thanks to the On The Hour discs.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:03 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, specifically The Brood and Scanners. From Beyond's one of those movies, ditto Exorcist II, Altered States, The Stone Tape, etc. Sounds like a dope genre. God I love From Beyond.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:04 |
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I just got back from Monty Python live and it was jolly good fun.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:05 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I've had Day Today on DVD for a long time, but this Peter Cook poo poo is already making me laugh. I think Chris Morris was the last comedian I discovered that made me think he was one of the funniest people on Earth. He really is, and far too quick witted. If you listen to his old radio-DJ sets and the interviews where he gets up the noses of Brett Easton Ellis, Piers Morgan etc its hard to say what's scripted and what's off the cuff but its all gold. Given current news its probably time for a rewatch of *Paedogeddon* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcU7FaEEzNU
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:09 |
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I am very sad about soccer
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:22 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I am very sad about soccer Was an entertaining game though, and that's what matters. To a non-American.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:27 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I am very sad about soccer It's okay, everyone will stop pretending to care about it any day now.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:31 |
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Here is another trailer for a good movie you should all see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhULZJDXLaE
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 01:26 |
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axleblaze posted:Here is another trailer for a good movie you should all see: That looks pretty good.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 01:33 |
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DNS posted:That looks pretty good. It is. It's also a movie that deals with the topic of depression better than any of the movies we were talking about earlier today.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 01:36 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Horror that takes place in locales staffed and observed by upper middle class people in smart clothes. Clinical detachment, philosophical introspection externalized as New Age mad science. Bioshock?
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 02:49 |
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effectual posted:Bioshock? If videogames were art, sure.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 02:53 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I am very sad about soccer All you have to realize is that it's, you know, soccer, and such feelings pass quickly. You've got a damned interesting NBA offseason to focus on.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 02:55 |
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MisterBibs posted:All you have to realize is that it's, you know, soccer, and such feelings pass quickly. You've got a damned interesting NBA offseason to focus on. Also *faaaaaaaaaaart*
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 02:58 |
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effectual posted:Bioshock? Nah, it needs like, contemporary mundanity. The setting is just too fanciful anyway and the 50's drag is distracting.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 02:59 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Nah, it needs like, contemporary mundanity. The setting is just too fanciful anyway and the 50's drag is distracting. I've become intrigued by this idea and I'm trying to think of the last good movie we've had like it. I kinda feel like Splice tried for it but went too contemporary-quirky instead of contemporary-mundane and also it wasn't a very good movie.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:04 |
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On a different topic, I think Locke, Mr. Death and the entirety of Breaking Bad would make a pretty good (if not actually possible to sit through) triplle feature.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:07 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I've become intrigued by this idea and I'm trying to think of the last good movie we've had like it. I kinda feel like Splice tried for it but went too contemporary-quirky instead of contemporary-mundane and also it wasn't a very good movie. Beyond The Black Rainbow, of course. Any second it seems like someone is going to start talking about stimulating the pineal gland.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:10 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Beyond The Black Rainbow, of course. Any second it seems like someone is going to start talking about stimulating the pineal gland. *sigh* fine, I'll watch that drat movie. Antiviral might also skate into that subgenre by default.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:11 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Beyond The Black Rainbow, of course. Any second it seems like someone is going to start talking about stimulating the pineal gland. I always thought Cronenberg's Stereo and Crimes of the Future were akin to that film, as well.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:12 |
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axleblaze posted:Here is another trailer for a good movie you should all see: I don't know why, but Kristen Wig lip syncing to Nothings Gonna Stop us Now is the funniest drat thing. She looks so unenthused about it haha
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:12 |
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axleblaze posted:On a different topic, I think Locke, Mr. Death and the entirety of Breaking Bad would make a pretty good (if not actually possible to sit through) triplle feature. Paul Mazursky dying reminded me that Borgman & Down and Out in Beverly Hills would make for a pee deece double feach.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:13 |
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Getting back to Battle of Algiers just because I can't get it out of my head: would it be fair to call it the best political film of all time? Let's say "excluding documentaries" just to keep it fair.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:15 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Getting back to Battle of Algiers just because I can't get it out of my head: would it be fair to call it the best political film of all time? Let's say "excluding documentaries" just to keep it fair. The first response to pop into mind is "Z" by Costa Gavras. The second is: what's a political film? I don't ask to be difficult but because I'm not really sure myself.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:22 |
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DNS posted:The first response to pop into mind is "Z" by Costa Gavras. The second is: what's a political film? I don't ask to be difficult but because I'm not really sure myself. Z's a good choice. Use whatever definition of political film you feel like.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:26 |
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DNS posted:pee deece double feach. I was about to probate you for talking like a goddamn moron yet again but then I said this out loud and now I can't stop saying it out loud, so you win this round.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:27 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Getting back to Battle of Algiers just because I can't get it out of my head: would it be fair to call it the best political film of all time? Let's say "excluding documentaries" just to keep it fair. La Commune.
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