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Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe
I think that Midsommer being a bit predictable seemed more jarring than it would've been otherwise because Hereditary was just such the opposite of that. Very few movies have kept me on my toes like Hereditary did so it was surprising to see Midsommar and basically be able to predict the final scene within ten minutes.

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clean ayers act
Aug 13, 2007

How do I shot puck!?
Despite its annoying title, the mini-documentary on Bundy on prime is pretty good.

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

The MSJ posted:

Pretty stacked cast.



Isn't he-man the companion series to she-ra? Where is she-ra?

Speleothing
May 6, 2008

Spare batteries are pretty key.
Waiting until season 2 for the tie-in?

Tim Whatley
Mar 28, 2010

Any opinions yet on Hunters on AMZ Prime?

isaboo
Nov 11, 2002

Muay Buok
ขอให้โชคดี
Two episodes into Hunters and it is pretty wild. It looks great; it has a graphic novel feel to it.

It's got some brutal scenes - the first 5 minutes of episode 1 and the later scene of a human chess match in a concentration camp especially.

I'm really enjoying it andi it's great to see Lena Olin and Carol Kane work.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

Oh snap Hunters is out? Do I get a whole season or am I waiting for each episode like The Outsider?

vv yesssss vv

Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Feb 22, 2020

Enos Cabell
Nov 3, 2004


Inspector Hound posted:

Oh snap Hunters is out? Do I get a whole season or am I waiting for each episode like The Outsider?

Binge away friend

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Tim Whatley posted:

Any opinions yet on Hunters on AMZ Prime?

It's great. Dunno how much Peele personally worked on it but it definitely feels like his style

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!
One thing I'm not sure of, was America's deals with Nazis really much if a secret in the70s? I've seen lots of references about it in various stuff from the 50s and 60s over the years and there seems a general knowledge that it was a big reason skiing and ski slopes boomed so much in post war America.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Hunters is most definitely some graphic novel rear end television. Really liking it so far.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Horse Girl on Netflix was really good.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

tweet my meat posted:

Hunters is most definitely some graphic novel rear end television. Really liking it so far.

I'm halfway through and yeah it's fuckin great. I like the slow pace and how fully realized everything seems. Just a very well put together package overall. Pacino is very good and I didn't even recognize Josh Radnor.

K. Waste
Feb 27, 2014

MORAL:
To the vector belong the spoils.
Also very good on Netflix is Atlantics, a French/Senegalese film by Mati Diop. Go in blind.

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av

K. Waste posted:

Also very good on Netflix is Atlantics, a French/Senegalese film by Mati Diop. Go in blind.

Subtitles? I’m not averse to reading dialogue but I watch most of my Netflix stuff while exercising and just can’t manage a subtitled movie for that..

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Yeah, it's got subtitles, so won't work as a workout movie, but K. Waste is right, it's very good. One of my top movies of last year. Worth making time for to watch normally.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

Weird. I do a lot of anime watching when working out specifically because they're subtitled. Can't zone out, surf forums/twitter when running/elliptical. Helps pass the time too.

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av
If I’m on my spin bike I’ll watch whatever but if I’m lifting I end up changing positions at times on the bench and I’m not always facing the screen. Lately for lifting I’ll put on a Jon Oliver last week tonight episode because they’re great and don’t require you to be locked onto the screen to enjoy it.




VVVVVV 👍🏻👍🏻 I’ll check it out

beanieson fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Feb 23, 2020

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Subtitles aside, it would be a shame to watch Atlantics in a format where you're not looking at the screen. It's a lovely movie filled with good performances.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

I don't know if it's common knowledge that Muppet Treasure Island is on Disney Prime, but it is, and it's better than it was when I was 9.

e There has been at least one dick joke

Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Feb 24, 2020

Tim Whatley
Mar 28, 2010

Margaritas at the midnight buffet!

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

Inspector Hound posted:

I don't know if it's common knowledge that Muppet Treasure Island is on Disney Prime, but it is, and it's better than it was when I was 9.

e There has been at least one dick joke

It's also pretty scary for a kids movie, which is appropriate, given the source material.

Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.
mods rename me "Big Fat Ugly Baby-Eating O'Brien"

LifeLynx
Feb 27, 2001

Dang so this is like looking over his shoulder in real-time
Grimey Drawer
I finished Hunters. End/plot spoilers:

The beginning of the show was exploitative and tasteless at times. The Nazis are terrible, and it's good to show that, but it's not good to use the Holocaust as an excuse to write and film torture porn scenes akin to Saw. Thankfully, these all are mostly contained to the first two episodes and the rest of the series is 70s style Nazi hunting. The show doesn't even pretend it's not trying to be based on a graphic novel you'd swear had to exist, with constant comparisons to superheroes... while also pointing out those superheroes acted very differently in that age of comics. Batman hung a dude to death from a plane, for example. The "we're not monsters like them!" got tiring and only made sense with the final twist.

There weren't many surprises I didn't see coming, and that was one of them. I knew right away there was no chance Al Pacino was going to make acting in this show his full time job, so I looked for the first clue that he was going to make an exit and followed it to the natural conclusion. The show probably needed star power to get interest. I liked the old couple and hope Carol Kane comes back, but she probably won't.

I hated the Cleaner character, whatever his name was. Even for his type of character, that was some lazy writing, and I don't want to watch a second season if he's going to be a main villain. I'd have been happy with a self-contained series, but now I want to see them murder Hitler in season 2.

pospysyl
Nov 10, 2012



Watching Atlantics really benefits from having no expectations about it going in. I didn't love it, but it's well worth watching.

garycoleisgod
Sep 27, 2004
Boo

LifeLynx posted:

I finished Hunters. End/plot spoilers:

The beginning of the show was exploitative and tasteless at times. The Nazis are terrible, and it's good to show that, but it's not good to use the Holocaust as an excuse to write and film torture porn scenes akin to Saw. Thankfully, these all are mostly contained to the first two episodes and the rest of the series is 70s style Nazi hunting. The show doesn't even pretend it's not trying to be based on a graphic novel you'd swear had to exist, with constant comparisons to superheroes... while also pointing out those superheroes acted very differently in that age of comics. Batman hung a dude to death from a plane, for example. The "we're not monsters like them!" got tiring and only made sense with the final twist.

There weren't many surprises I didn't see coming, and that was one of them. I knew right away there was no chance Al Pacino was going to make acting in this show his full time job, so I looked for the first clue that he was going to make an exit and followed it to the natural conclusion. The show probably needed star power to get interest. I liked the old couple and hope Carol Kane comes back, but she probably won't.

I hated the Cleaner character, whatever his name was. Even for his type of character, that was some lazy writing, and I don't want to watch a second season if he's going to be a main villain. I'd have been happy with a self-contained series, but now I want to see them murder Hitler in season 2.


I had much of the same thoughts. I was really uncomfortable during the torture scenes, not because making Nazis out to be monsters is bad, but by putting them in this sometimes silly comic book style show made them seem more tasteless? The human chess scene was really hosed up even if you don't really see anything. It's so over the top it comes across as comical and it really shouldn't. I am aware that real nazis probably did poo poo like that and worse, but it's all in how you frame it you know?

The ending revelations both worked and fell flat for me That Al Pacino was a secret nazi I kinda saw coming, especially after he shot that lady who started saying poo poo that could have outed him. It was funny, in the first episode I was wondering if anybody online had complained about his performance because he seemed to be going really broad with his portrayal, it was nearly a racist parody of a stereotypical jew that exists in racists heads and it was when the reveal happened you realized that wasn't Pacino going broad, it was the Wolf. Because he's a loving nazi.

Hitler being alive is just comical


I also had trouble with how supervillainous the nazis were. Not because I thought in unfair on the fuckers, but because it gave them a grandeur and competence I really didn't think was warranted. Real Nazis are awful, they also lost badly because they had no hope of winning the fight they picked and got stomped in the end. Saying, "Ah, they are back and are super threatening with their secret plan for the fourth Reich!" was silly. I preferred hunting solitary nazis trying to hide, rather than uncovering a conspiracy, that wasn't really a conspiracy. I guess Operation: Paperclip wasn't common knowledge in the '70s?

LifeLynx
Feb 27, 2001

Dang so this is like looking over his shoulder in real-time
Grimey Drawer

garycoleisgod posted:

I also had trouble with how supervillainous the nazis were. Not because I thought in unfair on the fuckers, but because it gave them a grandeur and competence I really didn't think was warranted. Real Nazis are awful, they also lost badly because they had no hope of winning the fight they picked and got stomped in the end. Saying, "Ah, they are back and are super threatening with their secret plan for the fourth Reich!" was silly. I preferred hunting solitary nazis trying to hide, rather than uncovering a conspiracy, that wasn't really a conspiracy. I guess Operation: Paperclip wasn't common knowledge in the '70s?

I don't know if it was common knowledge, but it probably wasn't what we think of as "common knowledge" in the Internet age. I liked the conspiracy because Nazi of the Week would have gotten boring, but the again so was every Nazi being killed before they could talk in the first half.

I think it would have been much smarter to have the young American cleaner guy be proto-alt-right instead of just another Nazi. Show that even though the Hunters can get revenge on WWII Nazis, it's just that: revenge. The war against Nazi ideology will live longer than any of them. They sort of did that with the prison scene, but tacking it onto the end doesn't earn them points.

wizardofloneliness
Dec 30, 2008

Honey Boy is pretty great. I've always liked Shia for whatever reason and I remember first hearing about this movie and everyone being all "lol what" and being kind of dismissive, but he pulled it off in the end. Lucas Hedges was fine I guess, but I was a lot more impressed with Noah Jupe. And Shia too obviously, specifically the scene in his AA meeting where he's talking about his past. That dude can be real good. Anyway, this was good poo poo and it's only an hour and half.

Acht
Aug 13, 2012

WORLD'S BEST
E-DAD
Watched the first episode of Hunters and it grabbed me, so looking forward to more.
We're also (binge)watching the Shield. Start of season 3 I found it to dip a bit and we even got a bit bored, but it picked up very well. Into season 4 now, still good, curious where it goes.

Sometimes I can't shake the feeling that the story is very well done and then suddenly ultra dark / shocking in small side bits and that those come from Sutter's hand. Some just feel comically shocking, making otherwise fantastic episodes uneven.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Acht posted:

Watched the first episode of Hunters and it grabbed me, so looking forward to more.
We're also (binge)watching the Shield. Start of season 3 I found it to dip a bit and we even got a bit bored, but it picked up very well. Into season 4 now, still good, curious where it goes.

Sometimes I can't shake the feeling that the story is very well done and then suddenly ultra dark / shocking in small side bits and that those come from Sutter's hand. Some just feel comically shocking, making otherwise fantastic episodes uneven.

I started watching it for the 1st time a few months ago. I'm just about to start the last season. It holds up real well overall, but there's definitely a couple episodes that I just kinda absentmindedly let run while reading / posting etc because they get either boring or a little too silly. Overall it's good though, looking forward to the much praised ending.

BisterdDave
Apr 21, 2004

Slitzweitz!
Anyone watch Girl on the Third Floor? Sounds interesting.

OpenSourceBurger
Sep 25, 2019
If you want to not completely and utterly ruin your day please don't watch The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. It's an important and powerful show but holy gently caress you will hate humanity by the end.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


BisterdDave posted:

Anyone watch Girl on the Third Floor? Sounds interesting.

I have not but I like this guys other movies and the soundtrack is by Steve Albini. Totally gonna watch this when I get home from work tonight.

Where is it streaming?

OpenSourceBurger
Sep 25, 2019

veni veni veni posted:

I have not but I like this guys other movies and the soundtrack is by Steve Albini. Totally gonna watch this when I get home from work tonight.

Where is it streaming?

It's a Netflix original movie.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Well that was creepy. I googled to see where it was streaming, no free results but Netflix wasn’t on the list, so I open the Netflix app to check, and the page for the movie is already open...can’t figure out if they are promoting it cause it just went up, and that was a coincidence, or if Netflix is tapping into my google searches.

rich thick and creamy
May 23, 2005

To whip it, Whip it good
Pillbug
I see that Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires is up on Prime. PotV is one of two movies rumored to have been cribbed by Ridley Scott when he was coming up with Alien[1]. It's worth a watch if you are a fan of xenomorphs. You might see some familiar plot elements and maybe even a set piece or two.

[1] The other move being Queen of Blood.

feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004
Got hard Alien vibes when watching Them! the other day. That sequence in the tunnels with the eggs is so goddamn creepy.

"Now destroy everything in here. Burn it."
"What?"
"I said 'Burn it!" Burn EVERYTHING!"

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av
In a World... is on HBOgo right now and it’s very enjoyable

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS
Castlevania season 3 hits next week!

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Starks
Sep 24, 2006

Nvm

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