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Finished The Third Day. I can safely recommend the hell out of it
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’m watching The WNUF Halloween Special on Shudder and I just... don’t get it? I’ve heard it talked up for years now in horror movie circles, but so far it’s just boring as poo poo. And this isn’t a case of “oh you’re just too young to remember stuff like this”, I do remember poo poo like this on the local stations. But I went in thinking this would be something similar to VHYes, where it’s all an over-the-top parody of those kinds of local/public access specials, but so far this thing is played completely straight. Even the commercials are just totally normal (for the most part) and only seem to be in there to eat up time. And if the fault lies with me expecting parody when it’s supposed to be a straight-forward “found footage” style horror flick, then that circles back to the initial problem I mentioned in that it’s just so loving boring. Playing it totally straight is the entire point. It's presented as a thing that really happened. That TV station really existed. That news team really existed. The businesses and tv shows they promote really existed. Also, in my opinion at least, the horror elements are kinda the least important thing. The commercials are really what the movie is about and the Halloween special is the framing device holding it all together. They perfectly nailed the world of small market UHF tv stations. They also do a fair bit of world building. Things that are advertised get referenced throughout the broadcast. It's great. I love it. I can't wait for the sequel. I'm sorry that you found it boring, but that's totally fine. I'll also add it had a budget of $1500. It's impressive what they did in my opinion.
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Oct 29, 2020 05:32
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I was in it for the found footage horror so maybe that’s why I thought it was lame.
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Oct 29, 2020 06:28
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Big Mean Jerk posted:What exactly am I missing here? The promise of illicit ghost footage is WNUF‘s hook, but the actual point of the story is its loathsome dystopian vision of the 1980s. The commercials are included to be critiqued, because they tell you everything you need to know about this crappy small town in Reagan’s America. This is why the story culminates in a reveal that the ‘ghosts’ were actually Christian extremists plotting a terror attack on the WNUF station. The commercials are all clues to their motivation.
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Oct 29, 2020 06:54
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Re-watched Hereditary on Prime, and boy does it hold up. If the movie wasn't horror Toni Collette would have racked up during awards season. I am sad to see there is still no update to what Ari Aster is working on next (he has said he may pivot away from horror for his next project, which I am ok with). Hereditary and Midsommar are 2 of my favorite movies in the last few years.
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Oct 29, 2020 12:24
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The promise of illicit ghost footage is WNUF‘s hook, but the actual point of the story is its loathsome dystopian vision of the 1980s. Yeah but that's so obvious it's boring. I knew the ending as soon as they popped up. I get why people like it but I'm on the side of it's not an interesting movie.
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Oct 29, 2020 17:49
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I finished For All Mankind and I can definitely recommend it. (Apple+) It's very much "family drama but with space poo poo" but the acting and writing were good enough to keep me interested. They did throw a couple of really interesting curve balls near the tail end of the season and it features some of the most thought provoking "what if this happened to astronauts during a mission?" scenarios I've ever seen. One in particular made me mutter "oh my god" out loud which I haven't done since the Pontiac Aztek scene in Breaking Bad. Give it a whirl if the subject matter interests you.
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Oct 29, 2020 18:26
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david_a posted:I think Babylon Berlin is a real mixed bag too. Parts of the show are brilliant. The production design is lavish and I enjoy the background historical subplot. The main detective part though... Season 3 ended on a moronic exposition dump from the perpetrator himself because he’s crazy and jealous, see, and that’s his motivation. So disappointed in that. I was reading the last bunch of pages. so sorry for bringing this up from a while ago, but hard disagree. The point is that the guy feels he can talk with impunity because it's 1929 and how can it ever be proven he said it? Which makes the reveal that Rath has a kind of largish microphone in his shirt, attached by a literal wire to a big bulky suitcase at his feet, which then has a very long and bulky wire running from that out to van on the street that has a machine cutting a sound record is one of the highlights of the series. Anyway, I watched the Chicago 7 the other night. It's still Sorkin as all hell, with quippy dialogue, soaring speeches with soaring music, and the prosecution lawyer who's a good and honourable man who realises the injustice in the end (I don't really know anything about the history but I basically assume this is bullshit). But I thought in general it represented a surprising shift to the left for Sorkin. Tom Hayden is practically a West Wing character, the clean-cut, respectable and pragmatic face of the movement, but he's shown to be reflexively deferent to the system, less in control of his emotions, and ultimately less effective than the more radical and irreverent Abbie Hoffman, who the film clearly sides with.
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Oct 29, 2020 18:51
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Midgetskydiver posted:I finished For All Mankind and I can definitely recommend it. (Apple+) Was it when Baldwin opened the airlock with the Cosmonaut still inside?
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Oct 29, 2020 19:09
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Edward Mass posted:Was it when Baldwin opened the airlock with the Cosmonaut still inside? Very good guess but it was when Commander Wilson jumped off her craft and was scrambling to get a handhold on the fuel capsule before tumbling off into space. There's just something so viscerally terrifying about zero G stuff like that. The director even head faked the audience a little by having her bump away from it so I thought she was done for.
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Oct 29, 2020 19:22
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Aight, gently caress Netflix. Netflix is raising the price of its most popular plan to $14 today, premium tier increasing to $18 https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/29/21540346/netflix-price-increase-united-states-standard-premium-content-product-features And you'd think this would come with a streaming quality bump, right? Survey says... LOL Netflix is about to up the compression on videos that are less action-oriented https://www.imore.com/netflix-increasing-compression-so-why-isnt-apple?fbclid=IwAR3l7bi9AMX8hpsl-RNM-xCEpEtfemqdO3Rt7vKn4I1zWopvFRYyjEuCJJM
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Oct 29, 2020 21:15
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Well i hope the three Americans who actually pay for netflix can afford that  Are Black 47 or Queen's Gambit worth a shot? Seriously tho thank you for your service Yall the real troops   VvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvV Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Oct 29, 2020 21:19
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I'd cancel my Netflix in a heartbeat if my entire family didn't use my account...
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Oct 29, 2020 21:31
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MasqueradeOverture posted:Aight, gently caress Netflix. A bold move from a service that is consistently swirling down the toilet, while other cheaper services offer better content. This honestly makes me want to just shitcan Netflix. I barely even watch it anymore, Hulu Prime and HBO Max all have much more interesting content. But I'm the one paying for Netflix in my ring of password sharing so I dunno. Maybe everyone will want peacock premium or AMC or something . Netflix feels like nothing but lovely true crime docs, reality shows and bad dramas at this point.
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Oct 29, 2020 21:35
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Here's the thing: everything is going to get more expensive over time. Eventually, we will reach the point where people just want to see the last 15 minutes of the ninth episode of something, and they will find a way to sell it.
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Oct 29, 2020 21:36
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Edward Mass posted:Here's the thing: everything is going to get more expensive over time. Eventually, we will reach the point where people just want to see the last 15 minutes of the ninth episode of something, and they will find a way to sell it. Quibi 2
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Oct 29, 2020 22:07
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feedmyleg posted:I'd cancel my Netflix in a heartbeat if my entire family didn't use my account...  I even pirate Netflix content nowadays since sometimes that's more convenient, but still can't really cancel (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 29, 2020 22:16
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Edward Mass posted:Here's the thing: everything is going to get more expensive over time. Eventually, we will reach the point where people just want to see the last 15 minutes of the ninth episode of something, and they will find a way to sell it. Okay, cool. You don't have to simultaneously do everything in your power to make the experience worse though. Like if I'm paying $18, can the image of whatever 2nd-hand movies and cancelled poo poo they offer be pristine and, like... not very recently reverted to some 2007-size bandwidth because gently caress YOU.
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Oct 29, 2020 22:51
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reminds me of why I was building a plex home media server.
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Oct 29, 2020 23:34
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Don’t blame me, I still buy physical media.
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Oct 29, 2020 23:55
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This Cursed Films show on Shudder is great until the second half of the episodes when they talk to a bunch of boring-rear end dorky-rear end magicians and poo poo that have nothing to do with the movie
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Oct 30, 2020 01:38
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Unmature posted:This Cursed Films show on Shudder is great until the second half of the episodes when they talk to a bunch of boring-rear end dorky-rear end magicians and poo poo that have nothing to do with the movie Jay cheel said this will likely go away in season 2 iirc which will be good. A shameless plug for the Film Junk podcast
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Oct 30, 2020 01:54
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How is Film Junk related? When I use to listen to podcasts, they were a weekly listen for me. Edit: ok so Jay from Film Junk is the creator. I will have to watch this now. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Oct 30, 2020 02:01
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Edward Mass posted:Don’t blame me, I still buy physical media. And I still get DVDs from the library! First season of Fargo I saw this month was a real nailbiter. I can't see myself getting too upset if my mom cancels Netflix. "Oh no, I didn't finish Enola Holmes." Even my kid is like, "Let's just pick something on Disney." doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Oct 30, 2020 02:04
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feedmyleg posted:I'd cancel my Netflix in a heartbeat if my entire family didn't use my account... They already raised the prices here in my country, last year. So I dunno if they're gonna do it again. 
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Oct 30, 2020 02:21
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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is free on Apple TV for the next few days.
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Oct 30, 2020 02:23
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What the every loving monkey gently caress is the WA 7009 error, and why the gently caress won't the prime pause screen go the gently caress away?
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Oct 30, 2020 03:05
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nate fisher posted:How is Film Junk related? When I use to listen to podcasts, they were a weekly listen for me. Yep sorry
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Oct 30, 2020 03:08
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(Babylon Berlin chat)Comrade Fakename posted:I was reading the last bunch of pages. so sorry for bringing this up from a while ago, but hard disagree. I was referring to the episode before that one that wrapped up the actual detective show who-dunnit plot. What you’re talking about is more what I consider the overall background story which I do like.
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Oct 30, 2020 03:48
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Having binged two episodes a night and finishing "the Third Day" yesterday, I topped it off with "House(1977). I think im building a fever via cinema
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Oct 30, 2020 05:30
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I watched the first two episodes of Lovecraft Country. While I can tell the show is quality, I just feel that it is far too confusing. Like I barely understood what was going on in Episode 2. To add to it, while I understand the show constantly depicts racism and the message of how whites are as dangerous to blacks as the mythical monsters, it all just doesn't mesh as well as it should. Am I alone in this? Does this show get better?
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Oct 30, 2020 06:05
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The United States posted:So is "The Witches" basically HBO Max's counterpart to Disney's Artemis Fowl? A movie so incompetently adapted and horrendously conceived that it's for the best it got dropped onto streaming rather than saved for theaters some years down the line? I watched it, and I assure you, The Witches 2020 is a loving godawful film.
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Oct 30, 2020 07:11
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Pick posted:I watched it, and I assure you, The Witches 2020 is a loving godawful film. Is it at least comically bad? I got some enjoyment out of Artemis Fowl having Josh Gad try to sound like a badass while narrating the whole movie.
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Oct 30, 2020 08:03
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Dammit it's two in the morning is there seriously another season of The Mandalorian out
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Oct 30, 2020 09:04
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Well i hope the three Americans who actually pay for netflix can afford that Queen's Gambit owns, definitely worth a shot. I'd say it's one of the best shows of the year tbh.
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Oct 30, 2020 09:29
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Inspector Hound posted:Dammit it's two in the morning is there seriously another season of The Mandalorian out Yeah first episode is out today, new ones each Friday.
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Oct 30, 2020 09:40
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Junkie Disease posted:Having binged two episodes a night and finishing "the Third Day" yesterday, I topped it off with "House(1977). I think im building a fever via cinema I watched "House" based on the strength of the thumbnail image alone, and it did not disappoint. 
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Oct 30, 2020 13:35
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The Third Day is pretty good. It's strange though, I wouldn't have known this series existed if it weren't for this thread. There is no advertising for it and it doesn't even get represented in the HBOMax app very well.
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Oct 30, 2020 13:57
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Cithen posted:The Third Day is pretty good. It's strange though, I wouldn't have known this series existed if it weren't for this thread. There is no advertising for it and it doesn't even get represented in the HBOMax app very well. HBO advertised it heavily a few months ago, but yeah it's been oddly low key. I didn't even know Jude Law was is in it until I watched it
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Roth posted:Is it at least comically bad? No. It’s boring and joyless, and the ending is parody levels of bad.
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