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MrXmas posted:Yeah, I was interpreting the list as just "good Korean films". If all those are available on Canadian Netflix I'm jealous Nah, Canadian Netflix is generally trash imo and you're right in that it's just a general list. No idea where/if each of them is streaming.
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Got in the mood for a Korean movie after the recent discussions. Watched 26 Years. It's a revenge movie focused on a ragtag group of people who were deeply traumatized by the military suppression of the Gwangju uprising of 1980 and plot 26 years later to assassinate the man (who was then president) responsible who was tried, but still retained much a large amount of power and lives a life of luxury in his heavily guarded estate after being prosecuted. It's a very politically charged movie. I can't speak much to the politics of the movie since I'm not very familiar with the incident and surrounding circumstances but it doesn't seem problematic taking the pro democracy stance very firmly and completely condemning the man behind the incident. I recommend reading up on it a bit. The movie itself was pretty good. I liked all the characters, especially the young woman who was a sports shooter on the national team whose mother was killed in the uprising leaving her father a completely broken man. It combines a solid heist style setup with a character focused story that explores the shared trauma of the cast. I liked the action and the final setpiece was very unique and cool. There's an incredibly graphic animated segment at the beginning that shows the uprising, specifically the events that traumatized the main characters and it doesn't shy away from the bloodshed or gore in the slightest, so if you're not in the mood to see a bunch of warcrimes, maybe give this one a pass.
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Never seen a streaming platform get eaten alive before and yet not shut down. Do they want people to have DC Unlimited?
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Dolemite was fun, nice to see Eddie Murphy doing a role he seemed to actually care about.
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Junkie Disease posted:Never seen a streaming platform get eaten alive before and yet not shut down. DC Universe does actual comic books, and the streaming movies and TV are a bonus.
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Shadow of the Moon:FreelanceSocialist posted:Watched this over the weekend. Not the best movie but not "really bad", either. Definitely had some potential and some interesting concepts, but it felt like they took the easy way out. I still enjoyed it. Also, the notion that she can't change the past and therefore can't undo her death is entirely contradicted by the basic notion of her mission, which is to change the past to prevent a civil war, a mission which we see succeeding.
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Dolemite was fun, nice to see Eddie Murphy doing a role he seemed to actually care about. It was really good. Everyone in the movie crushed it, especially Murphy.
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the best korean show on netflix is, of course, bad guys: vile city
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The King and The Irishman both just dropped on Netflix this weekend. Firing up the former tonight and the latter at some point this week. Pretty good week for NF I'm guessing.
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Midgetskydiver posted:The King and The Irishman both just dropped on Netflix this weekend. Firing up the former tonight and the latter at some point this week. Pretty good week for NF I'm guessing. Nov 27th already? poo poo time flies
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Dolemite was fun, nice to see Eddie Murphy doing a role he seemed to actually care about. Eddie was great, Wesley Snipes deserves a Oscar nom. Like, I've never seem him [I]act[\i] like that.
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The King was solid. About what I expected. Joel Edgerton and Timothee Chalamet were great. Pattison was hilarious, in a good way. Chewed poo poo up with that French accent lmao. I wasn't familiar with Henry the V or his Shakespeare roots, but I did find it hard to believe the way the film had presented Henry as this "of-the-salt" type character whose wiser than he looks would've been rused by the Chief Justice guy. He and Sir John like getting sloshed, sure, but I felt even both of them would've smelt all the bullshit coming a mile away.
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teagone posted:The King was solid. About what I expected. Joel Edgerton and Timothee Chalamet were great. Pattison was hilarious, in a good way. Chewed poo poo up with that French accent lmao. I wasn't familiar with Henry the V or his Shakespeare roots, but I did find it hard to believe the way the film had presented Henry as this "of-the-salt" type character whose wiser than he looks would've been rused by the Chief Justice guy. He and Sir John like getting sloshed, sure, but I felt even both of them would've smelt all the bullshit coming a mile away. We saw this last night and thought it was pretty good too. For the spoilered part, John Falstaff was a creation of Shakespeare who first appears in Henry IV Part I. He has no dialogue in Henry V and is only mentioned to acknowledge his "off screen" death in the establishment you see him spending his days in at the beginning of this flick. It felt weird to add that character, make him so central to Henry's state, and then keep him so distant from the Chief Justice situation.
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I really enjoyed The King from start to finish. One of the most gorgeous films I've seen in recent memory. The acting was outstanding (I'll watch Mendelson in anything, holy poo poo) and the score was brilliant. The violence was sparse but affecting. 9/10
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Nov 4, 2019 05:34
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Neo Rasa posted:For the spoilered part, John Falstaff was a creation of Shakespeare who first appears in Henry IV Part I. He has no dialogue in Henry V and is only mentioned to acknowledge his "off screen" death in the establishment you see him spending his days in at the beginning of this flick. It felt weird to add that character, make him so central to Henry's state, and then keep him so distant from the Chief Justice situation. Hmm, yeah that's interesting. That was my only gripe with film, and it kinda sours me on the character writing a fair bit because there's almost no way John or Henry wouldn't side-eye the poo poo outta the Chief Justice motherfucker. That one gripe aside, I watched it again last night and man, Chalamet's performance is real good. Dude is one of my favorite actors right now for sure. Can't wait to see him in Dune.
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I thought Chalamet was just ok personally, but I really enjoyed The King overall. The long take during the Battle of Agincourt following Henry through that fight in the mud really sold the chaos and brutality in a way that I think movies rarely do, they pulled that off admirably. And Pattinson's death scene at the end of it was awful and hilarious. I started watching the Das Boot series that Hulu released earlier this year, and I'm liking it a lot! It's very good at showing the slow deterioration of morale on the U-boat, and how rumors can spread and fester among the crew. Not sure how I feel about the part of the story set in France, it's interesting so far but I keep finding myself wishing they just would have stuck with the U-boat. Vincent Kartheiser (who played Pete Campbell on Mad Men) is in it and man that guy is just so good at playing scummy rich New Yorkers.
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teagone posted:Hmm, yeah that's interesting. That was my only gripe with film, and it kinda sours me on the character writing a fair bit because there's almost no way John or Henry wouldn't side-eye the poo poo outta the Chief Justice motherfucker. I wasn't too impressed with Chalamet at first but really warmed up to his performance as it went on and it definitely got me more hype for Dune. Good stuff. I'm glad we finally have an adaptation where Henry V has a scar on his face too. It goes into haha so unrealistic territory but that was a pretty crazy surgery imo. He took a descending arrow to the face that was lodged several inches into his head, and to get the arrowhead out a surgeon created a custom combination corkscrew/suture/tongs sort of apparatus to carefully open the wound to an exact width and then unscrew/pull it from his head. John Bradmore posted:First, I made small probes from the pith of an elder, well dried and well stitched in purified linen [made to] the length of the wound. These probes were infused with rose honey. And after that, I made larger and longer probes, and so I continued to always enlarge these probes until I had the width and depth of the wound as I wished it. And after the wound was as enlarged and deep enough so that, by my reckoning, the probes reached the bottom of the wound, I prepared anew some little tongs, small and hollow, and with the width of an arrow. A screw ran through the middle of the tongs, whose ends were well rounded both on the inside and outside, and even the end of the screw, which was entered into the middle, was well rounded overall in the way of a screw, so that it should grip better and more strongly. In general I was pretty happy with how they handled the violence in this too, the sound effects are EXCELLENT and added a lot to the battle itself. But even stuff like when they first start the siege, like special effects wise that looked great too. I really do love how they found a perfect balance of making the battle very detailed and brutal without ever feeling flashy or too "cool." I respect that they didn't chicken out like some versions do and omit his execution of the routed French troops/would-be prisoners. The number of folks they massacred instead of ransoming or taking back to England gets exaggerated in chronicles but it was still an unexpected and unprecedented move from him at that time that had people understandably shaken.
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I liked many parts of the King but as the film went on I was more and more confused by it. Why did this film exist? In the early going I thought they were going with a light hearted excuse to tread over some Shakespearean ground. But if you're going for that why make Falstaff die? Why give such a relatively limp Agincourt speech? Is it because you want to create a plausible backdrop for a lionization if Henry V? But then why go for historical accuracy in the slaughter of the French? And if you're going for historical accuracy, well... No. Just no. Pattinson was super fun and there were some great shots, but you could do that with a film short. I just really didn't get it. twerking on the railroad fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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The End of the loving World season two just came out on Netflix. I really loved the first season but I was also kind of disappointed they decided to make another season because I thought it ended perfectly. I didn't really have any idea of where they would go with more episodes. I've watched the first three so far and... I like it, the new character in particular. It's less funny and more depressing than the first season, although still pretty funny. I guess I'll watch the rest before making up my mind, but I'm still not convinced a second season was even necessary.
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wizardofloneliness posted:The End of the loving World season two just came out on Netflix. I really loved the first season but I was also kind of disappointed they decided to make another season because I thought it ended perfectly. I didn't really have any idea of where they would go with more episodes. I've watched the first three so far and... I like it, the new character in particular. It's less funny and more depressing than the first season, although still pretty funny. I guess I'll watch the rest before making up my mind, but I'm still not convinced a second season was even necessary. I finished season two today and really enjoyed it. I find it strangely sweet even though the characters are all enormously hosed up.
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Tainen posted:I finished season two today and really enjoyed it. I find it strangely sweet even though the characters are all enormously hosed up. I finished watching it and while I did enjoy it for the most part it also reaffirmed my belief that they should've stopped with one season. Like, it was good and all but I think the new stuff just ends up diluting it overall. It felt like an extended epilogue that mostly retreads the same ground but in a more somber way. The three main actors were all fantastic though, Alex Lawther in particular. Alyssa's mom was also really great. Pretty much everyone was actually, even the minor characters with one scene.
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Finished the second season of Jack Ryan and it was a really good one of those. I did find the climax laughably ridiculous though. ”Jack you can’t take out Reyes (the President) we don’t have the authority” As they massacre everyone in the presidential palace which they also surely don’t have the authority to do Also I don’t really understand how time works in the Clancyverse was that guy laying in the grass outside the prison camp for like two weeks??? Dude found the camp, then Ryan did his whole England trip and returned before he was rescued Tainen fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Nov 10, 2019 |
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Dammit. Sing has been a staple of my home for the past year or so, I thought I hated it, I tried to hate it, but there's just too many good, maybe great, performances in it. Jennifer Hudson singing Golden Slumbers makes me cry every single time. The singing pig movie makes me cry. The musical performances are stuck into a pretty standard plot, kind of The Producers, except the koala huckster wants the show to succeed. There's some hokey moments, but they're worth plowing through. Watch Sing. E I'm also watching the office and I think a triangular cell phone would be awesome. Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Nov 10, 2019 |
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is Queer Eye huge in Japan or something? I can't for the life of me figure out why they decided to set the newest season there. I don't like it cause I can't watch it in the background while I'm doing other poo poo.
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Finally got around to watching Hereditary, and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Top 3 all time horror movie for me I think, really need to watch it a few more times to solidify my opinions. I really enjoyed Midsommar as well, but it didn't have any performances as great as Toni Collettes.
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Hell yeah man Hereditary rules. Toni Collette is phenomenal in it.
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I love Hereditary, like you I waited way too long to watch it. I haven't seen Midsomar yet but it's on the list.
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I watched The King today, and I really wonder when films like this rip off big recent hits so blatantly, is it intentional or do they just not realise it? The film reprises GoT's Battle of the Bastards at times shot-for-shot, and even has a dodgy advisor with a dodgier Littlefinger-style wavering accent. Is this a preview of things to come - will a scene of valiant soldiers flailing in the mud be in every medieval battle for the next few years? Not that it was a bad movie (though I assumed it was a series when I loaded it up).
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Marmaduke! posted:I watched The King today, and I really wonder when films like this rip off big recent hits so blatantly, is it intentional or do they just not realise it? The film reprises GoT's Battle of the Bastards at times shot-for-shot, and even has a dodgy advisor with a dodgier Littlefinger-style wavering accent. Is this a preview of things to come - will a scene of valiant soldiers flailing in the mud be in every medieval battle for the next few years? Not that it was a bad movie (though I assumed it was a series when I loaded it up). I have not seen the king so you may be completely right but the accusation that an adaptation of Henry V is a ripoff of game of thrones is just incredibly 2019
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Starks posted:I have not seen the king so you may be completely right but the accusation that an adaptation of Henry V is a ripoff of game of thrones is just incredibly 2019 12 year old me *loved* the battles in Branagh's Henry V
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veni veni veni posted:is Queer Eye huge in Japan or something? I can't for the life of me figure out why they decided to set the newest season there. I don't like it cause I can't watch it in the background while I'm doing other poo poo. It might be. Japan is a horribly misogynistic country / culture, but it's relatively progressive compared to other Asian nations when it comes to LGBT rights.
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Inspector Hound posted:Dammit. Sing has been a staple of my home for the past year or so, I thought I hated it, I tried to hate it, but there's just too many good, maybe great, performances in it. Jennifer Hudson singing Golden Slumbers makes me cry every single time. The singing pig movie makes me cry. The musical performances are stuck into a pretty standard plot, kind of The Producers, except the koala huckster wants the show to succeed. There's some hokey moments, but they're worth plowing through. Watch Sing. I'm pretty sure that Taron Egerton's incredible version of I'm Still Standing is 100% the reason why he was cast as Elton John. Sing doesn't do anything particularly unique plot-wise, but it executes what it does with amazing performances (both voice acting and singing) and a ridiculous amount of charm.
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SirSamVimes posted:I'm pretty sure that Taron Egerton's incredible version of I'm Still Standing is 100% the reason why he was cast as Elton John. That and Kingsmen 2.
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veni veni veni posted:is Queer Eye huge in Japan or something? I can't for the life of me figure out why they decided to set the newest season there. I don't like it cause I can't watch it in the background while I'm doing other poo poo. I just assumed they all wanted a vacation in Japan and convinced Netflix to pay for it.
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Starks posted:I have not seen the king so you may be completely right but the accusation that an adaptation of Henry V is a ripoff of game of thrones is just incredibly 2019 The Littlefinger analog's accent didn't quite carry through in the originals of Henry IV part 1, 2 or V. Hollywood totally stole the "split a story in 2 to drag it out and sell more tickets" thing from Willy S though.
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pizza valentine posted:I just assumed they all wanted a vacation in Japan and convinced Netflix to pay for it. https://youtu.be/LSzHi39Yktw
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veni veni veni posted:is Queer Eye huge in Japan or something? I can't for the life of me figure out why they decided to set the newest season there. I don't like it cause I can't watch it in the background while I'm doing other poo poo. I'd still check it out. It's only 4 episodes, at times super cute, and at times super heartbreaking.
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Tainen posted:Finished the second season of Jack Ryan and it was a really good one of those. I did find the climax laughably ridiculous though. In general it was a lot more ridiculous. I still enjoyed it but it was definitely a step down from s1. The climax was especially dumb and felt like something out of a cheesy jingoistic action flick rather than a slightly more grounded series.
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