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Last of 2016 : Eyes Of My Mother. Pretty good. Lead actress is fantastic. First of 2017 : Rogue One. Pretty good. I honestly don't get the characterization criticisms any more than like, any comparable action movie. And it was a pretty movie on top of everything. CGI Tarkin is the most incredible feat of CGI ever while also being incredibly jarring and ill-conceived. Like, can't give enough credit to the artists behind it and enough criticism to the folks who told them to do it.
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Last was rewatching Zootopia because my mom wanted to see it. Haven't watched a movie in 2017 yet, though I finished off the first season of Daredevil and started on Jessica Jones
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YTOTD is this dope interview with Kevin Gates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOSzeNStvWc
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Samuel Clemens posted:Finally an opportunity to recommend Salò to someone without coming across as a creepy weirdo. *extremely innocent voice* this is a nice movie, right?
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Watching boyhood currently and so far my takeaway is that no matter what happens, no matter where you go or how things change, dragonball z will be there for u
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First thing i watched 2017 was the sense8 Christmas special. There were quite a few of the wordless montages set to music, only one of which was "everybody's loving each other". I can't decide if I want the series to just pick up the pace with the Whispers plot, or if I prefer them to draw out the period where most of the sensates' problems stem from their regular lives before everyone's hunted by government agents. Because slow as it feels, just having these characters deal with their lives and giving each other loving advice is really enjoyable to me!
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Tiger posted:First thing i watched 2017 was the sense8 Christmas special. There were quite a few of the wordless montages set to music, only one of which was "everybody's loving each other". I can't decide if I want the series to just pick up the pace with the Whispers plot, or if I prefer them to draw out the period where most of the sensates' problems stem from their regular lives before everyone's hunted by government agents. Because slow as it feels, just having these characters deal with their lives and giving each other loving advice is really enjoyable to me! I think that was what I enjoyed most about the show, that everyone was just kind of doing their thing and then also maybe falling in love with a person they've never met
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First movie I watched in 2017 was Jesus' Son, and Jesus It Sucked. It's the precocious indie answer to Trainspotting.
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I can't stop listening to the Alvin and the Chipmunks pop covers slowed down to their original recording speed.
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"Chumbawamba was a great anarcho-punk band!" is this year's "Mario 2 was called Doki Doki Panic in Japan!"
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First movie of the year was Upstream Color. Didn't understand it properly until the end, and at that point I had invested so much time into trying to make sense of what was going on that I had mostly ignored how pretty it was, and was slightly offended at the rather mundane resolution. Eh.
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I'm really mad Netflix lost the rights to Columbo.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I can't stop listening to the Alvin and the Chipmunks pop covers slowed down to their original recording speed. I like that version of Heaven Is A Place On Earth a lot.
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Jan 2, 2017 18:32
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morestuff posted:I like that version of Heaven Is A Place On Earth a lot. Sounds like it would be in a trailer for something that comes out this year.
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Anonymous Robot posted:First movie I watched in 2017 was Jesus' Son, and Jesus It Sucked. It's the precocious indie answer to Trainspotting.
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Coaaab posted:I liked that it consistently maintained its curiously buoyant tone as the body count kept rising. I'm now inclined to check out the original short story collection as its apparently different tonally to the movie (really dug the author cameo in it, though). To be honest I found it irritating enough that I turned it off with probably 40 minutes left (which I really rarely do), but maybe it got better as things progressed. In any case, let's keep 2017 gumby everybody 
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Last watch of 2016 was Neighbors 2, which is good. First watch of 2017 was The To-Do List, which is good for those who consider the American Pie spinoffs to be too highbrow. For all others, it's bad.
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I always forget how wonderful Kiefer Sutherland is in Fire Walk With Me, it's a great performance.
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I think the last thing I watched in 2016 was the new De Palma doc. All the clips from his stuff make it a fun watch regardless but it's basically just a long interview and the dude is a poo poo storyteller.
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:*molto bene He was probably right in some kinda southern dialect.
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Anonymous Robot posted:To be honest I found it irritating enough that I turned it off with probably 40 minutes left (which I really rarely do), but maybe it got better as things progressed.
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Coaaab posted:I think you would've been most annoyed with the third act, unless you think this sort of movie deserves to end on a grace note. It was partially a matter of the politics of style of the film, a kind of cuteness that came across as self-satisfied condescension, and partially that, as someone who struggles with mental illness and psychiatric medication, I bristle real easily at the romanticization of psychoactive drugs in cinema.
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Anonymous Robot posted:It was partially a matter of the politics of style of the film, a kind of cuteness that came across as self-satisfied condescension, and partially that, as someone who struggles with mental illness and psychiatric medication, I bristle real easily at the romanticization of psychoactive drugs in cinema.
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Coaaab posted:I'm not sure if its romanticization as much as Fuckhead's lack of emotional response to all the poo poo that happens to him: he just takes it and runs with it. The most emotional Crudup ever gets is with the bunnies, I think. When I say romanticization here, I don't mean that it makes drug use look appealing, but rather that it makes it look Important and like something that Deep People do.
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Anonymous Robot posted:When I say romanticization here, I don't mean that it makes drug use look appealing, but rather that it makes it look Important and like something that Deep People do.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I can't stop listening to the Alvin and the Chipmunks pop covers slowed down to their original recording speed.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I always forget how wonderful Kiefer Sutherland is in Fire Walk With Me, it's a great performance. He's excellent in it. I'm hoping Lynch finds a way to get him back into the revival, since he's somehow managed to cast literally everyone else in there. He had a weird career where he was turning in these great little performances before he hit it with 24.
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Neil Cicierega's mashups are pure gold: https://soundcloud.com/neilcic/dear-dinosaur https://soundcloud.com/neilcic/crocodile-chop https://soundcloud.com/neilcic/smooth https://soundcloud.com/neilcic/smooth-flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE
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So, the absolute best part of this is the little "Nick Jr." in the corner.
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Budgie Jumping posted:He was probably right in some kinda southern dialect. Sure. I like how the stereotypical Italian wild gesticulation is just sort of accurate for most Italians but definitely 100% accurate for almost all southern Italians.
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Last movie of 2016: Foreign Correspondent First movie of 2017: The Princess Bride. Dunno why Netflix didn't have a section of hangover movies ready for yesterday morning.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Is Tampopo worth a trip in town to see? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKdtX8MFmc
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Egbert Souse posted:Neil Cicierega's mashups are pure gold: There was one that's not there now that was great and it mashed the "I Sit On You" song from Tim & Eric with "I Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison and I'm devastated it's gone.
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TrixRabbi posted:There was one that's not there now that was great and it mashed the "I Sit On You" song from Tim & Eric with "I Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison and I'm devastated it's gone. https://soundcloud.com/neilcic/orgonon-gurls
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I gifted myself German Netflix for the new year, and the first movie I'm (re-) watching is Wrath of the Titans. It really is so much better than Clash, if only for how tired Sam Worthington is of all these Titans.
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Grendels Dad posted:I gifted myself German Netflix for the new year, and the first movie I'm (re-) watching is Wrath of the Titans. It really is so much better than Clash, if only for how tired Sam Worthington is of all these Titans. "I'm so tired of all these wrathful Titans!"
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Last film of 2016: La La Land First film of 2017: The Nice Guys The Goss is killing it
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Grendels Dad posted:I gifted myself German Netflix for the new year, and the first movie I'm (re-) watching is Wrath of the Titans. It really is so much better than Clash, if only for how tired Sam Worthington is of all these Titans. Not only better, it's a great film on its own. I like how it's basically a western, except with Greek mythology stuff.
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