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feedmyleg posted:Did you not see the trailer or read the premise? Gravity?
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Erebus posted:Technically the Strangers with Candy crew did Exit 57 first, but no one watched that. Exit 57 has got to be in the running for most obscure sketch show of the 90s.
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Thanks to everyone who recommended Suspiria. It was great.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Exit 57 has got to be in the running for most obscure sketch show of the 90s. Either them or The Vacant Lot.
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Tainen posted:Thanks to everyone who recommended Suspiria. It was great. What's amusing to me is that all the ambitious arty genre-esque films of the past decade have very low or split user reviews on Prime. This, Hereditary, Under the Skin, Neon Demon, etc. all have like 2-3 stars on average.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Either them or The Vacant Lot. What about Haywire? Or is Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan better remembered than I realized
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Maxwell Lord posted:What's amusing to me is that all the ambitious arty genre-esque films of the past decade have very low or split user reviews on Prime. This, Hereditary, Under the Skin, Neon Demon, etc. all have like 2-3 stars on average. Most people seeing movies have bad taste
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Thom and the Heads posted:Most people seeing movies have bad taste Yea, if you went to see Hereditary in a theater chances are you were already predisposed to like it. You got out of the house and made a specific effort to see it. Once it's on Prime any random person can just press play on a whim and ooooh boy I can only imagine what my 90 year old grandparents would have to say about a film like Hereditary or Neon Demon.
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While the taste of the general public isn't the bellwether that I personally use there's nothing inherently incorrect about divisive opinions of an ambitious movie. Heck, polarized reviews of an artsy film are more tantalizing to me than critical acclaim most of the time.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Gravity? A hard sci fi fraud. The Martian is a better example of an attempt at a hard sci fi blockbuster and was at least fun to watch though I'm still kind of annoyed at the very end when he uses a hole in his suit to propel him to his buddies instead of proposing that plan and being called a dumbass for even considering it like in the book.
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Basebf555 posted:Yea, if you went to see Hereditary in a theater chances are you were already predisposed to like it. You got out of the house and made a specific effort to see it. Once it's on Prime any random person can just press play on a whim and ooooh boy I can only imagine what my 90 year old grandparents would have to say about a film like Hereditary or Neon Demon. I don't think the first part is totally true. Horror is loved by teenagers and doofuses, and they end up seeing arthouse horror stuff in theaters a lot due to misleading advertising, and they always loving hate it. Every time I see something like Hereditary or The VVitch in theaters it's full of angry moviegoers that thought they were going to see Annabelle Creation or something. Arty horror stuff will always have mixed reviews, because at least half of horror's audience is really dumb. And that goes for critics as well. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 23:47 on May 7, 2019 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:Either them or The Vacant Lot. There was also The Unnaturals, starring a young Paul Feig and the guy who played Beakman on Beakman's World.
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veni veni veni posted:I want an Alex Garland
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Gravity? That one's got the problem of them having an easier time if Sandra Bullock just gives a slight tug on the tether attached to Clooney. Although this might count as the old "Mistake made by character, not by the movie" thing from IMDB.
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Inspector 34 posted:A hard sci fi fraud. Well they did call it stupid in the movie too. He just did it anyway and had it somehow work out okay for him.
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Netflix apparently got hold of Edge of Democracy, a doc about Brazil's political troubles in the recent decade. I saw it yesterday on a movie festival, it featured Netflix's logo right at the start, and it is maddening; really well done but it will leave you rattled.
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Honest Thief posted:Netflix apparently got hold of Edge of Democracy, a doc about Brazil's political troubles in the recent decade. I saw it yesterday on a movie festival, it featured Netflix's logo right at the start, and it is maddening; really well done but it will leave you rattled. Is that Edge of Democracy aka All You Need Is Bill? Please, hold your applause
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Billboard Boys on Prime is a super interesting documentary. Check it.
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Mid 90's is really good and it's on Prime.
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Does Tuca and Bertie get good? First impression is that it’s trying too hard to be an Adult Swim show
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Steve Yun posted:Does Tuca and Bertie get good? First impression is that it’s trying too hard to be an Adult Swim show Have you never seen BoJack Horseman? It's a spinoff of that.
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Nihonniboku posted:Have you never seen BoJack Horseman? It's a spinoff of that. ...no it isn't? It's got the same art director, Raphael Bob-Waksberg is an EP and helped write the pilot, and it's got animal people, but it's not in the same setting as BoJack and that's pretty clear from the very beginning
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Bertie and Tuca is good and has characters that actually address their issues and talk to each other instead of keeping quiet and letting bad emotions fester.
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There's way more toon titties than I was expecting and so far it's a fun show
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is there a genre term for these cartoons that are funny half the time and about despair and depression the rest of the time?
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Tuca and Bertie is very much a Lisa Hanawalt comic come to life. It's good.
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Can anyone recommend any lesser known 'sci-fi epics' that are on streaming? We watched John Carter the other day (honestly, I don't see why it had such bad press and was a huge flop. It was fine.); and we're looking for more space adventure stuff.
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There's Jupiter Ascending, which I thought was OK in the same way as John Carter. Also in that same tier of OKness is Valerian.
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Yeah, Valerian was bad but more like "missed opportunity" bad rather than "I want my time back" bad.
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Valerian maybe? I haven't watched it and it had a mediocre reception, but so did John Carter and it sounds like what you are looking for. It's on prime. E: beaten, drat this thread doesn't usually move that fast
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Valerian easily.
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Man, Prime is just killing it with bringing smaller theatrical releases to streaming quickly. I almost feel bad because a bunch of the stuff I've watched lately I probably should have seen in theaters but hey. Still cool.
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The worst part of John Carter is the utterly forgettable generic white guy lead. Every single line delivery of his is actively bad. It’s a shame because the film looks decent otherwise. The editing is a bit nuts in the first 30 minutes and it just dumps you straight in like Dune, but it’s far from the worst action-fantasy flick out there.
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Inspector 34 posted:There's Jupiter Ascending, which I thought was OK in the same way as John Carter. Also in that same tier of OKness is Valerian. imo Jupiter Ascending is better by virtue of being much, much more insane
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I wasn't expecting Jupiter to be so blatant with its anti-capitalism, but it kinda sucks that it feels like two movies crammed into one.
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I legitimately liked Valerian
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Honest Thief posted:I wasn't expecting Jupiter to be so blatant with its anti-capitalism, but it kinda sucks that it feels like two movies crammed into one. The anti capitalist angle is probably the only angle I can imagine enjoying that film from, and you'd really have to bite down hard on that to ignore the bizarre acting and dialogue ("I CREATE LIFE...and I destroy it"). I'm kind of amazed multiple people in here have recommended it, it really dragged for me.
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SirSamVimes posted:I legitimately liked Valerian Yea I did too, I mean I must not have hated it because I watched it twice. There's a lot of good stuff in there, although you could argue that the best scene in the whole movie is the opening credits.
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mystes posted:Yeah, Valerian was bad but more like "missed opportunity" bad rather than "I want my time back" bad. Valerian was great to look at but I felt like the two leads were just black holes of charisma.
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I liked Valerian but I can't decide if I would have liked it more or less if they had picked a different lead actor. Dehaan really couldn't pull off the kind of swaggering machismo of the main character, but that was sort of charming in a way?
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