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Witness: That cycle seems super-easy to break.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Pretty much. I've watched 3 episodes so far (which to be fair is really early). Two of the three tried WAY too hard to be "mature", it felt like they were made by a fourteen year old trying to be edgy. Ironically the other one (Three Robots) was far better as it relied on mostly tongue and cheap humor which its MA rating more or less coming solely from occasional strong language. They get far weirder and more esoteric as they get on. More traditional animation and experimentalist storytelling. They kind of frontload the series with the "easier" edgy stuff, but then you get a short about yogurt taking over the world a couple of episodes later.
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Mar 18, 2019 02:10
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LifeLynx posted:Love, Death & Robots is mixed, but the highs are really high. I haven't watched them all yet, but SUITS is my favorite. Country farmers + mechs is a genre mashup I didn't know I needed. THREE ROBOTS was great also. I think anyone who likes a good sci-fi short story should watch the whole run. Some of it is cringy, some of it is gratuitous, but I think the great ones have more impact if you watched the bad ones, too. Some have unsatisfying or confusing plot but look absolutely fantastic. Zima Blue was probably my favorite but 3-4 episodes were very memorable for me. Piell posted:Runaways is garbage It really is. I'm an unabashed Marvel fanboy and it's just so loving BORING. Cloak and Dagger was similarly low-budget seeming but 1000x better. tweet my meat posted:Triple Frontier was pretty good. I liked that movie didn't spend too long pretending that they were the good guys just because they were robbing a drug lord, I love a good heist movie with a bunch of scumbags. It didn't blow my mind, but I still really enjoyed it, which seems to be where a lot of the Netflix films fall. I agree. I think if you watch the trailer clip and think "I might enjoy this" then you'll probably not feel that your time was wasted, but it's not going to blow minds. For a while I was hoping there'd be a sequence as fantastic as the Sicario border scene but then I realized that was completely unrealistic, so yeah, don't expect that. I wouldn't have paid to see it in theaters, but the visuals are great and the plot carried along in a satisfying way.
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Mar 18, 2019 05:10
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Holy poo poo! Sucker of Souls is awesome! Netflix greenlight this show now!
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Mar 18, 2019 05:21
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The Widow is pure uncut Ambien, I couldn't get past the first episode and I've made it through some truly dire series' in the past couple years
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Mar 18, 2019 05:40
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Mainline all of Love, Death & Robots right now! You're guaranteed to be impacted by at least 4 or 5 of the stories, minimum.
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Mar 18, 2019 06:30
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punk rebel ecks posted:Holy poo poo! Sucker of Souls is awesome! Netflix greenlight this show now! It honestly felt like a The Adventure Zone animatic. It might have been that the professor looked like Clint and the Korean Grad student looked like Griffin though.
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Mar 18, 2019 19:03
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The Dawn Wall on Netflix is an interesting rock climbing documentary on Netflix with a few fairly insane twists that I found really engaging. That said, I'm glad that I watched it before Free Solo on Hulu, because HOLY gently caress. Free Solo is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. I had to watch it in chunks, not sure how I would have fared in the theater. poo poo is intense. e: the main subject of Dawn Wall is one of the support climbers in Free Solo
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Enos Cabell posted:The Dawn Wall on Netflix is an interesting rock climbing documentary on Netflix with a few fairly insane twists that I found really engaging. That said, I'm glad that I watched it before Free Solo on Hulu, because HOLY gently caress. Free Solo is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. I had to watch it in chunks, not sure how I would have fared in the theater. poo poo is intense. Every time I really think about Free soloing my brain tells me it can’t be real. It’s so drat insane.
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Mar 19, 2019 01:22
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So uh... I started watching Counterpart on starz over the weekend and it seems like a really cool slow burn spy triller with some sci-fi elements. I’m 4 episodes in and it looks like starz has completely removed the series from their site. I knew it was cancelled, and the series is being shopped around, but didn’t expect it to just disappear 🙄
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Mar 19, 2019 02:13
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beanieson posted:So uh... I started watching Counterpart on starz over the weekend and it seems like a really cool slow burn spy triller with some sci-fi elements.
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Mar 19, 2019 02:33
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Wtf there's a second season of The OA coming out on Friday? This time maybe they can piss off even the people who didn't hate the ending before.
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Mar 19, 2019 02:40
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mystes posted:Wtf there's a second season of The OA coming out on Friday? This time maybe they can piss off even the people who didn't hate the ending before. *does emphatic hand gestures*
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Mar 19, 2019 02:48
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There are 8 new episodes of Arrested Development on Netflix that I have heard absolutely nothing about. Are they burying it because of Jeffrey Tambor and the god awful interview with the cast or is this one of those things where it will be the banner on the weekend?
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Mar 19, 2019 04:50
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It might be those things, but it also might be that more Arrested Development just isn't very high on their list of poo poo to promote. Like, they already did the "Arrested Development is back." Now all there is is "Arrested Development is still here." I seem to recall the "is back" part not even going over very well with critics or fans anyway.
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Mar 19, 2019 04:53
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Maybe they’re just not advertising it because it sucks a lot. I don’t think I’ve seen a single good review for it. I loved Arrested Development so much back in the day, it hurts to see it like this.
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Mar 19, 2019 05:15
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Yeah this whole last season of Arrested Development feels like something no one cares about. Fans cast anyone.
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Mar 19, 2019 05:29
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You is absolutely goddamn brilliant don't sleep on it because of the generic title or premise, it is loving nuts.
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Mar 19, 2019 05:34
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Arrested Development has been rear end since it returned. At least with say Futurama the show was still quality just maybe a notch or two down from its classic run. But Season 4 of Arrested Development was just painful and part 1 of Season 5 was so bad that I don't even want to watch the second half.precision posted:You is absolutely goddamn brilliant don't sleep on it because of the generic title or premise, it is loving nuts. It really is great. Can't believe it was picked up from LIFETIME of all places.
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Mar 19, 2019 06:20
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beanieson posted:So uh... I started watching Counterpart on starz over the weekend and it seems like a really cool slow burn spy triller with some sci-fi elements. Well gently caress. I was considering resubscribing to Starz just to binge all of Counterpart for the first time. I would have been pissed if I paid for a month and it was unavailable. Thanks for the warning!
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:Maybe they’re just not advertising it because it sucks a lot. I don’t think I’ve seen a single good review for it. I loved Arrested Development so much back in the day, it hurts to see it like this. This is the reason. There's less laughs in this entire season (or half season) than one episode from the original run.
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Mar 19, 2019 14:13
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Okay THREE ROBOTS is really really good.
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Mar 19, 2019 22:25
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The Idris Elba show seems like a vehicle for Elba's dj side career
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Mar 19, 2019 22:52
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I don't really understand why Idris Elba only gets weird dumb roles despite being popular.
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Mar 19, 2019 23:06
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I like Idris Elba, but that show is extremely boring.
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Mar 19, 2019 23:20
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Mar 19, 2019 23:55
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lmao at that tinfoil maniac, but also lmao that Netflix is so desparate to squeeze every goddamn penny from their algorithms that they're doing A/B tests on the order of episodes within a season.
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Mar 20, 2019 00:41
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Watched all of LD&R today. The only ones I really thought were worth the time were Three Robots, Suits, Sucker of Souls, When The Yogurt Took Over, Good Hunting, Helping Hand ( ), Lucky 13, and Zima Blue. 8/18 isn't a great ratio, but I hope they commission another batch of these shorts. I also wish there was a more focused robotics theme since so many of the forgettable shorts were just completely generic genre poo poo. I think I'd watch full movies/series of Suits, Sucker of Souls, and Good Hunting. Suits for obvious reasons, Sucker of Souls just because it was so much fun and almost scratched an animated BPRD itch. Good Hunting had some issues, but I would definitely watch a full show of huli jing transformer lady and her loyal mechanic hunting down colonial brits in steampunk Hong Kong, and I say that as someone who usually can't stand steampunk. The worst shorts were Shape-Shifters, The Dump, Ice Age, and The Secret War. Ice Age in particular felt like an extended Super Bowl commercial for some appliance company.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I think I'd watch full movies/series of Suits, Sucker of Souls, and Good Hunting. Suits for obvious reasons, Sucker of Souls just because it was so much fun and almost scratched an animated BPRD itch. Good Hunting had some issues, but I would definitely watch a full show of huli jing transformer lady and her loyal mechanic hunting down colonial brits in steampunk Hong Kong, and I say that as someone who usually can't stand steampunk. Yeah these three were BY FAR the best. Though I would say Sucker of Souls and Suits are a bit higher than Good Hunting, solely due to Good Hunting being a bit too ambitious for a fifteen minute short as it was really crammed in. EDIT - I don't get the love for Zimba Blue. Yes, yes I understand the twist ending and its "meaning" but it's just...there.
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If you have a disdain for ridiculous social media culture, Ingrid goes west is both pretty good and kind of hard to watch lol.
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Mar 20, 2019 02:01
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Watched Free Solo on Hulu and holy hell the back end of that movie is intense.
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veni veni veni posted:If you have a disdain for ridiculous social media culture, Ingrid goes west is both pretty good and kind of hard to watch lol. Yeah I really liked that one
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Mar 20, 2019 02:36
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Suits is really fantastic. I want to see more of that world.
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SirSamVimes posted:I want a full movie version of BEYOND THE ACQUILA RIFT I know it's not getting the attention other shorts are, but that one has stuck with me, just because of how emaciated dude looks when he "wakes" up. Like, he's been there for god knows how long. That one actually felt the most true-blue old school pulp sci-fi to me out of the bunch.
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King of Bleh posted:lmao at that tinfoil maniac, but also lmao that Netflix is so desparate to squeeze every goddamn penny from their algorithms that they're doing A/B tests on the order of episodes within a season. It is kind of silly, but on the other hand considering reactions like this Tuxedo Catfish posted:I hadn't realized at first it was an anthology series, but if that's what they lead with I don't think I'm interested. maybe it makes sense to figure out which episodes are bad starters.
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Mar 20, 2019 04:45
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i had an itch for longwinded crime dramas, so i'm finally getting around to watching Once Upon A Time In America on netflix. watching it in chunks every night because its a behemoth of a film and i am loving it.
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Fart City posted:I know it's not getting the attention other shorts are, but that one has stuck with me, just because of how emaciated dude looks when he "wakes" up. Like, he's been there for god knows how long. That one actually felt the most true-blue old school pulp sci-fi to me out of the bunch. It's an extremely mediocre entry saved by a god tier ending.
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Fart City posted:I know it's not getting the attention other shorts are, but that one has stuck with me, just because of how emaciated dude looks when he "wakes" up. Like, he's been there for god knows how long. That one actually felt the most true-blue old school pulp sci-fi to me out of the bunch. I interpreted it as it took him a very long time to get there.
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pseudorandom name posted:I interpreted it as it took him a very long time to get there. that is a super interesting read I hadn't considered at all.
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