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Nihonniboku posted:I thought season 1 of The Boys was a chore to get through because it didn't do any of what it was trying to do spectacularly well, but everyone keeps on raving about season 2. I merely liked season 1 for its novelty, season 2 is a revelation tho imo and retroactively makes season 1 better
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I watched Terminator: Dark Fate on Hulu and it was really bad (It didn't help that the movie seemed to be in 720p for some reason). Those first couple of minutes set high expectations though.
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Oct 10, 2020 03:54
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3 episodes in and my wife and I are enjoying Haunting of Bly Manor.
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Oct 10, 2020 04:32
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TOOT BOOT posted:I watched Terminator: Dark Fate on Hulu and it was really bad (It didn't help that the movie seemed to be in 720p for some reason). Those first couple of minutes set high expectations though. I liked the parts where the cops and the ice agents got their poo poo hosed up by ol’ termsy.
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Oct 10, 2020 04:58
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10 Beers posted:3 episodes in and my wife and I are enjoying Haunting of Bly Manor. I just finished the first episode and I’m totally on board. I loved the original season so I’m excited to continue!
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Oct 10, 2020 05:29
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So far Bly Manor is definitely not “scary” for the first few episodes. Spooky, maybe, but you don’t have to worry about jump scares or horrifying imagery. In case that was holding anyone back.
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Oct 10, 2020 05:34
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I like scary movies, but I don't like jump scares or gore. I really liked the last Hill House and so far I'm liking Bly Manor, though I'm only on the second ep.
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Oct 10, 2020 05:44
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I mean Hill house was only like 5% spooky stuff if that, it was mostly emotional drama Edit: in a good way
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Oct 10, 2020 06:05
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yes, but the spooky stuff was spookier. So far Bly Manor is more like a long shot for several seconds then maybe something moves slightly in the shadows. Hill House had poo poo IN YOUR FACE plus lots of background stuff that just wasn’t acknowledged.
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Oct 10, 2020 06:30
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There's plenty of unacknowledged creepiness happening in the background of Bly, too  Lots of hidden ghosts.
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Oct 10, 2020 10:04
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snoot posted:The Boys is great but the violence in it is so juvenile and unnecessary, it's like they asked a bunch of 14 year old boys what they'd want to see a supervillain do. Also Butcher and the C word - he said 'oval office' in every sentence during one long scene black noir at his relative's house, it wasn't offensive he just sounded like a dumbass trying to be edgy. It is considered differently where he is from.
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Oct 10, 2020 14:19
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I mean, Butcher is British, the author is Northern Irish and they are both from a generation where that word got a lot of use. Butcher is supposed to be a politically incorrect rear end in a top hat and murderer. The show and source material are also supposed to be edgy as gently caress though and I don’t blame anybody for finding it obnoxious.
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Oct 10, 2020 17:03
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I live in Ireland and I'm female and it's pretty weird to me how the word is considered in America tbh. Everyone says it
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Oct 10, 2020 17:59
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Simone Magus posted:I live in Ireland and I'm female and it's pretty weird to me how the word is considered in America tbh. Everyone says it Here in Scotland it's practically a term of endearment.
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Oct 10, 2020 18:44
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Edge of Tomorrow (Live Die Repeat) has appeared back on UK Amazon Prime. Been meaning to watch it for a while and was pretty good. You forget Tom Cruise can be likeable, and having him railroaded into a grunt squad where he's completely out of his depth is very entertaining.
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Oct 11, 2020 09:55
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Simone Magus posted:I live in Ireland and I'm female and it's pretty weird to me how the word is considered in America tbh. Everyone says it I'm English and female, if someone called me that I'd be really loving upset. Its a horrible word.
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Oct 11, 2020 16:26
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Sloth Life posted:I'm English and female, if someone called me that I'd be really loving upset. Its a horrible word. For sure but I thought we were talking about how boys often call each other that word, not how boys call women that word? Of course it's bad to call a woman that
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Oct 11, 2020 16:32
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I'm way behind on this but I just watched the first season of PEN15. It's amazing but it also dredged up all my traumatic memories of being a middle school girl in the early 2000s. Anna Ishii-Peters was definitely the best episode, and the AIM and Spice Girls/racism ones were also great. The adult characters and actors are all wonderful, but I have to give a shout out to Becca's actress. She perfectly embodies all the middle school popular girls I've known. I have no idea how much this appeals to people who weren't in middle school around that time or men in general, but I'm so glad it exists. It feels like one of those shows that was made specifically for me.
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Oct 11, 2020 17:43
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I'm a slightly older (I was in 9th grade in 1999-2000) guy and I love PEN15. I find a lot of what the characters are going through relatable to my own adolescence experiences, does the uncomfortable awkwardness of being a tween ever really go away?
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Oct 11, 2020 17:55
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The Boys has the best head explosions In a long time. Primo head trauma.
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Oct 11, 2020 19:19
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CelticPredator posted:The Boys has the best head explosions In a long time. It's that or Ready or Not.
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Oct 12, 2020 02:34
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“Evil”starts out sort promising but turns into boomer evening drama by the second episode. it’s the first time in like 20 years I have watched a hokey network TV drama and it’s honestly pretty loving entertaining. Its kind of so bad it’s good.
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Oct 12, 2020 03:30
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Really enjoying Bly Manor. It's not particularly scary at all but spotting the ghosts in the background is so fun. They do a great job of hiding them.
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Oct 12, 2020 04:08
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Tim Whatley posted:Really enjoying Bly Manor. It's not particularly scary at all but spotting the ghosts in the background is so fun. They do a great job of hiding them. Man I keep scanning the background and I can’t spot any of them fuckers
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Oct 12, 2020 04:14
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Oh they're there. Most of them are full bodies in hallways or against walls. The trickiest one I've caught so far is I think Episode 2. It cuts to the dining room and there's a pair of hands on one of the chairs of the dining room table.
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Oct 12, 2020 04:49
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The Haunting of Bly Manor is an incredible follow up to Hill House. It's a different story, but hits a lot of the familiar beats that made Hill House so good. A strong cast of characters, each with their own traumas and grief that usually have their own episode dedicated to exploring, the creepy and melancholy atmosphere, the winding mystery that twists and turns throughout the story, and a big scary mansion that's filled with a bunch of spooky ghosts in the background.
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Oct 12, 2020 08:08
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I feel that Hill was more uneven, but the peaks were way higher than Bly's — and personally I related more to the broken family in the former than the caricatures in the latter. Still enjoyed both seasons. Edit: and I firmly believe that Oliver Jackson-Cohen must be an illegitimate child of Mark Strong. anatomi fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Oct 12, 2020 15:48
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The best part about Bly is they cast Mark from The Room as the fiance/groom
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Oct 12, 2020 19:24
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I thought most of the individual stories of Bly Manor were good but they were all structured and tied together pretty poorly. Hill Houses marriage of complex ensemble drama tied together by a haunted house felt much more balanced and natural and connected where this was pretty disjointed. The episode about Henry and the exhausting monologue by Jamie were definite low points and it was hard for me to get back into it after that. Like the idea of Henrys "inner demon" manifesting is interesting but felt super out of place and had no establishment or relation to the supernatual element of the show. It really feels like Flannigan didnt want to really do this follow up because he only did the first episode and it really shows. Overall, episodes 1-5 are great until its revealed the Lady of the Lake killed Peter. 6 and 8 are terrible, 7 is ok and the finale is good for the most part. AccountSupervisor fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 01:30
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I actually would have liked Bly more if the black and white episode that explained everything had happened earlier in the season.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:22
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Shudder is an underrated service. Nightingale, Tigers Are Not Afraid, The Beach House, and La Llorona are all better than any movies Netflix has put out the past two years. Is there a shudder thread somewhere on here?
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Oct 13, 2020 03:39
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I actually would have liked Bly more if the black and white episode that explained everything had happened earlier in the season. Yeah and I think I might have enjoyed it if it wasnt done in the storybook narration style but I guess that was the entire show too. I like the story and it was neccessary exposition but just felt really mishandled and way too late in the season. Too many of the scenes that negated dialogue for voice over felt like watching a cheap historical reenactment show. The over exaggerated facial expressions and gesturing were laughable at times. Whenever it actually had the characters speaking and interacting like actual people it was fine.
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Oct 13, 2020 04:08
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I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel and got around to watching Extraction last night on Netflix Wtf that was the most watched Netflix original ever? Was it huge in Bangladesh or something?
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Oct 13, 2020 04:09
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Bly is better than Hill House imo. They’re both family dramas/mysteries with ghost story framing but Bly actually has the acting to pull it off. Even the returning actors are better: The ET guy was a low point of hill house for me but he kills it in Bly (and Doctor Sleep, as an aside).
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Oct 13, 2020 04:16
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The Guest is back on Netflix (US) and it still rules.
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eighty-four merc posted:I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel and got around to watching Extraction last night on Netflix it has Thor in it
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Oct 13, 2020 06:09
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Tim Whatley posted:Oh they're there. Most of them are full bodies in hallways or against walls. The trickiest one I've caught so far is I think Episode 2. It cuts to the dining room and there's a pair of hands on one of the chairs of the dining room table. My favourite ones in hill house was a scene in a bedroom I think where if you're paying attention you can see half a hand resting on the ground under a table. That gave me big chills. EDIT for clarity: it wasn't half of a hand with the other part being cut off or something, it's just that the other part was obscured by the table
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Oct 13, 2020 10:40
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FishBowlRobot posted:The Guest is back on Netflix (US) and it still rules. Thanks for the heads up. Saw this in theatres and watched it again last night It's like if john carpenter made one of those sinbad movies where a surprise house guest solves a family's problems his way, except the house guest is ultraviolent bizarro captain america The sound design I remember being primo in the theatre was wasted on my laptop speakers but the soundtrack still slaps
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Oct 13, 2020 14:24
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Yep The Guest is awesome. Might be my favorite genre movies of the last 10 years. Shame Adam Wingard hasn’t made a good movie since this and You’re Next (which is also awesome).
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Death Note is fantastic, and for very similar reasons as The Guest, even.
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