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Nihonniboku posted:I realized recently that I never got around to watching Maniac on Netflix. Is that something that's worth going back and check out? I haven't heard anyone talk about it since it was first released with a ton of hype. It's freakin great, but be prepared for extreme levels of weird
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Thirding Maniac. It's well acted, well shot, and vividly original. Or well, as original as something based on a European show can be.
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For those who liked The Art of Self Defense, in case you didn't pay much attention to the end credits there's a weirdly awesome but goofy as hell song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rCIHtcEB8 Worth a listen if you skipped the credits or didn't pay attention.
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I saw a few people on twitter talk about Battle Los Angeles and how excited they were its on netflix. Is this movie actually any good? I remember it was panned hard when it released back in the day.
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May 8, 2020 02:47
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It’s one of the best alien invasion movies.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:I saw a few people on twitter talk about Battle Los Angeles and how excited they were its on netflix. It’s a fun dumb action movie. Lots of screaming and military jargon, nonstop explosions and shaky cam. What’s fun is how hard they leaned into the WW2 inspiration probably to mask the true inspiration. I mean it’s a movie about disheveled local troops defending their city from invaders that look like a fusion of flesh and guns who fight with drones to steal earth’s water.
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al-azad posted:I mean it’s a movie about disheveled local troops defending their city from invaders that look like a fusion of flesh and guns who fight with drones to steal earth’s water.
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May 8, 2020 03:46
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They're not wrong. Well, I don't recall if the resource the aliens are after is water, but it's very much US soldiers facing an exaggerated version of our own military.
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I hate when a streaming service is missing one movie in a series. Amazon Prime has the entire Phantasm series available except for Phantasm 2, which isn’t streaming anywhere. Or like how Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are always streaming together somewhere, but Dark Knight Rises never is
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Maniac was great and definitely impacted my overall life while I was watching it. Another vote for watching Maniac
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drat Battle Los Angeles was actually good.
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It has come to my attention that I need to find a place streaming Naked Lunch. Amazon cryptically lists HBO in the description, but the video is unavailable on Amazon as well as the flavor of HBO I have on Hulu. Any other leads? e twist, I'm getting "not available in your country," so it might be some kind of rights issue. C2C - 2.0 posted:You should keep going because it's actually the best season so far. Also holy bananas this e holy gently caress Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 09:08 on May 8, 2020 |
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May 8, 2020 07:30
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Man, Ace Ventura was bad.
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Edward Mass posted:I mean, Peacock is going to be similar to Hulu in terms of tiers, except Hulu no longer has a 'literally free' option. Oh BTW I watched that episode. I can see why they didn't air it at the time.
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May 8, 2020 11:32
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Thirding Maniac. It's well acted, well shot, and vividly original. Or well, as original as something based on a European show can be. Episode 4 ("Furs By Sebastian") is a truly David Lynch level mindfuck
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can i get a recommendation for a light comedy show on netflix like "the office"? i'm tired of the grim dark channel. "parks and recs" suuuuuucks, i've tried a half dozen episodes and got maybe half a laugh. "master of none" is good, "galavant" is one of my favorites. just something that isn't people arguing or hating each other for a half hour
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May 8, 2020 18:00
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InsertPotPun posted:can i get a recommendation for a light comedy show on netflix like "the office"? Russian Doll Love Feel Good Letterkenny
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InsertPotPun posted:can i get a recommendation for a light comedy show on netflix like "the office"? Was it Season 1 of Parks and Rec? Because the first season is awful. It gets way better after that.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:drat Battle Los Angeles was actually good. It's *extremely* trite, rehashing military tropes in the most boring, unoriginal ways, and I love every minute of it anyway. I wish it had a sequel. I just enjoy military vs alien milporn in whatever form, it's why I saw every transformers movie. I think it's because I was obsessed with war of the worlds as a kid. The Thunderchild chapter where the Ironclad fought the martian tripods still thrills me to no end. Raskolnikov2089 fucked around with this message at 18:13 on May 8, 2020 |
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InsertPotPun posted:can i get a recommendation for a light comedy show on netflix like "the office"? Comedy Bang Bang is about as light as it gets, but it is a fake talk show rather than a serialized comedy
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I think Parks & Rec only works if you really fall for the characters and are charmed by them. Without that the jokes really aren't going to hit. And over time it's become increasingly difficult to easily fall for the characters, whether that's due to the shift in the political climate or the actors' lives—from Leslie's political naïveté to Ron's lovely libertarianism to Chris Pratt's evangelical background and over-saturation to Aziz's reputation taking a hit to people remembering that Rob Lowe is a creep. If you watch the show for the first time with all that in mind, plus the added nature of the caveats of "Season 1 sucks but it gets better!" and "Don't worry, Mark Brendanawicz leaves the show eventually" and "They never find anything for Ann to do but she stops getting in the way eventually" means that it's probably really difficult to get into these days. I think, sadly, it was a product of its moment and won't be remembered nearly as well in time. Which is a shame, because I loved it for a few seasons at least.
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I know I'm in the minority on this but I think Parks and Rec was much better when Mark Brendanawicz was a character on the show. After he left the writers decided that everyone needed to be wacky and the whole show turned into a cartoon. Without Mark as a regular person, the show just spins up into a series of character quirks with nothing to measure it against.
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feedmyleg posted:I think Parks & Rec only works if you really fall for the characters and are charmed by them. Without that the jokes really aren't going to hit. And over time it's become increasingly difficult to easily fall for the characters, whether that's due to the shift in the political climate or the actors' lives—from Leslie's political naïveté to Ron's lovely libertarianism to Chris Pratt's evangelical background and over-saturation to Aziz's reputation taking a hit to people remembering that Rob Lowe is a creep. If you watch the show for the first time with all that in mind, plus the added nature of the caveats of "Season 1 sucks but it gets better!" and "Don't worry, Mark Brendanawicz leaves the show eventually" and "They never find anything for Ann to do but she stops getting in the way eventually" means that it's probably really difficult to get into these days. I rewatched it pretty recently and still enjoy seasons 2+. Season 1 is just awful. As far as recommendations, Community just hit Netflix. 
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:It's *extremely* trite, rehashing military tropes in the most boring, unoriginal ways, and I love every minute of it anyway. I wish it had a sequel. I just enjoy military vs alien milporn in whatever form, it's why I saw every transformers movie. Tastes change too. In the past couple weeks especially, I've watched a bunch of stuff I don't normally do because trite and predictable trash is more comforting that usual for me right now. I just finished watching all of Ozark, and while it's very good TV, I was really stressed out through the whole thing. I don't think I would be feeling the same way if I watched it in 2019. Then I watched the latest season of Bosch in two days and took it further: I'm on a second audiobook in the Bosch series. Plodding police procedurals, however complex my feelings about law enforcement and the justice system may be in this age, is like taking a warm bath at the end of the day. (Also I despise The Office and Parks and Rec)
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:It's *extremely* trite, rehashing military tropes in the most boring, unoriginal ways, and I love every minute of it anyway. I wish it had a sequel. I just enjoy military vs alien milporn in whatever form, it's why I saw every transformers movie. 100% agree. Weirdly, just making the aliens fight conventionally but slightly better than us was an interesting dynamic since usually in these types of movies the aliens are portrayed as being so far beyond our level of technology that the only way to fight them is to use One Weird Trick That Aliens Hate to collectively destroy them in one fell swoop.
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InsertPotPun posted:can i get a recommendation for a light comedy show on netflix like "the office"? Schitts Creek is what you need. Also Letterkenny
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Does Schitt's Creek have a rough opening, or if I found the first two episodes pretty lousy should I call it there? Comedy is subjective, not saying others can't love it, just wondering if it's like Parks and Rec where the standard thinking is that it gets better.
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May 8, 2020 20:52
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The first ep of Into the Dark was good but I’m struggling to see how this premise could hold up as a full season of television unless it massively switches gears within a couple of episodes.
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May 8, 2020 21:27
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InsertPotPun posted:can i get a recommendation for a light comedy show on netflix like "the office"? Someone mentioned Letterkenny and that's like th funniest thing I've seen in a while. I'll also recommend Peep Show.
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veni veni veni posted:Man, Ace Ventura was bad. Yeah...I put this on last night on a whim, having not seen it since I was a kid, and it’s loving awful. I turned it off about halfway through.
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May 8, 2020 21:36
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InsertPotPun posted:can i get a recommendation for a light comedy show on netflix like "the office"? New Girl, it's not perfect but it's pretty funny and positive and has a lot of episodes.
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May 8, 2020 21:44
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The only part of the entire movie that got a laugh from me was the old lady saying “I hope Dan Marino catches gonorrhea and dies” I remember the part where he is talking with his butt being really funny when I was kid but it’s just like, gross. It goes on forever, and he’s wearing these loose pants and you can really see him opening his buttcheeks for minutes on end and it made me feel mildly ill lol. And the ending has aged like ripe dogshit, which tbh is to be expected from something from the mid 90s, but they go so far with it that it’s just so loving uncomfortable to watch.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Does Schitt's Creek have a rough opening, or if I found the first two episodes pretty lousy should I call it there? Comedy is subjective, not saying others can't love it, just wondering if it's like Parks and Rec where the standard thinking is that it gets better. I'd give it another episode or two. After that if you're not into it move on. You're missing out on a lot of hilarious David facial expressions though
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Sir Kodiak posted:Does Schitt's Creek have a rough opening, or if I found the first two episodes pretty lousy should I call it there? Comedy is subjective, not saying others can't love it, just wondering if it's like Parks and Rec where the standard thinking is that it gets better. I wouldn't call the start rough, but they do take some time to find themselves, and the show eventually grows a lot of heart. I think that the show very easily could have become very cynical, but it went the opposite direction and became a better show because of it.
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Is The Good Place on Netflix? All my friends got really into it.veni veni veni posted:The only part of the entire movie that got a laugh from me was the old lady saying “I hope Dan Marino catches gonorrhea and dies” I can't think of a single movie in the 90s with scene as transphobic as Ace Ventura's ending. You really forget how misanthropic he is and every character becomes a punching bag around him or wants to jump his dick it's wild. It makes me wonder if it was originally going to be an R rated film and now I want to rewatch Me, Myself, and Irene because I vaguely remember that being like a hard R dark comedy.
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If you're looking for something like The Office on Netflix, I think Space Force is debuting this month and it is literally by the people who made US The Office and stars Steve Carrel.
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The MSJ posted:If you're looking for something like The Office on Netflix, I think Space Force is debuting this month and it is literally by the people who made US The Office and stars Steve Carrel. Is it a fake documentary type show?
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The Langoliers-style premise got me on board with Into the Night but after the first episode it seems like a lovely TV miniseries right out of 2004. Which I guess is on brand at least but it sure is boring and contrived
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