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Crows Turn Off posted:Is he bad in anything? I doubt I've seen some of his earliest stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjltG0T1430
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I don't think it's streaming on any of the major services right now, but this Ben Mendelsohn talk reminded me of a lesser-known movie starring him and Ryan Reynolds called MIssissippi Grind, it's nothing too amazing but they have great chemistry together and it really nails the (to me at least) depressing feel of non-Vegas casinos and the gambling addicts they attract. Just a fun buddy/road trip film, any scene of them getting wasted together is great.
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Well poo poo I guess I'm gonna have the Somebody Feed Phil theme song stuck in my head for the next couple weeks again. No regrets.
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nate fisher posted:As a big fan of the book (Haunting of Hill House) and of the Robert Wise adaptation, 1999 remake is of one my biggest movie disappointments. They ruined what truly made Hill House so good by explaining too much. At least with the Netflix series they were smart enough to just use the book as an inspiration. The series is a remix of the 1963 movie + some book, if anything. Many shots are remakes of 1963.   some scenes even have the same wardrobe 
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Boco_T posted:Streaming Action November 2020 Thank you for posting these monthly updates, I had been wanting to watch this somewhere but wasn't really interested enough to pay to rent it.
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Just finished the rest of The Queen's Gambit and I stand by my initial verdict. This series is solid all the way through.
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drat. His House on Netflix is really good.
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Inspector Hound posted:It's all wonderful It's not all wonderful. It's all wonderful if you don't google or think about why his mom stops showing up in the skype calls at the end of the episodes.
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Who does the Queen's Gambit actress remind me of? It's bugging me. Maybe Bjork x Masie Williams? Christina Ricci?
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regulargonzalez posted:Who does the Queen's Gambit actress remind me of? It's bugging me. Maybe Bjork x Masie Williams? Christina Ricci? I'm not sure, but I watched her in the 2020 adaptation of Emma, and I couldn't stop comparing her and all the other characters to Clueless. This new adaptation of Emma, the lead character is so much harsher than Cher in Clueless.
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regulargonzalez posted:Who does the Queen's Gambit actress remind me of? It's bugging me. Maybe Bjork x Masie Williams? Christina Ricci? She does kind of look like Christina Ricci now that you mention it. Her and maybe some kind of exotic cat? The show's great by the way. Pretty much everyone is talking about how great Anya Taylor-Joy is, and rightfully so, but Marielle Heller really killed it in her role. She might actually be my favorite now that I've had more time to think on it. At first I thought she'd just be yet another suburban housewife with a drinking problem, but Heller's performance really gives her a lot of depth. I definitely wasn't expecting to like her character as much as I did.
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regulargonzalez posted:Wait, I think it is Audrey Tautou I thought this too! I remember thinking ‘chess Amelie’ at some point.
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regulargonzalez posted:Wait, I think it is Audrey Tautou It's the hair style at first prolly that punches up the comparison. Totes Amelie. And will toss in another +1 for the show. The Queen's Gambit is amazing. Anya Taylor-Joy is amazing 
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Oh she's from The Witch
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It's not all wonderful. It's all wonderful if you don't google or think about why his mom stops showing up in the skype calls at the end of the episodes. I bet the food at the funeral was incredible.
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regulargonzalez posted:Who does the Queen's Gambit actress remind me of? It's bugging me. Maybe Bjork x Masie Williams? Christina Ricci? I had difficulties placing her as well until I found out she was the main character of Split and voiced one of the main characters in The Dark Crystal series. Hopefully (almost definitely) she will turn up in more quality-stuff from here. Slashrat fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Nov 3, 2020 |
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Slashrat posted:I had difficulties placing her as well until I found out she was the main character of Split and voiced one of the main characters in The Dark Crystal series. Hopefully (almost definitely) she will turn up in more quality-stuff from here. She was also in Thoroughbreds
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And New Mutants, which everyone loved and is surely the start of the next big franchise
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Deadite posted:And New Mutants, which everyone loved and is surely the start of the next big franchise I liked it 
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She’s also Emma in Emma. (It’s on HBO)
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Yeah, Anya Taylor-Joy is great in Emma. She's also going to be Furiosa in George Miller's upcoming Fury Road prequel. I haven't seen New Mutants, but looks like its digital release is in a couple weeks. Movie is prolly trash, but she looks great as Magik.
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teagone posted:Yeah, Anya Taylor-Joy is great in Emma. She's also going to be Furiosa in George Miller's upcoming Fury Road prequel. I haven't seen New Mutants, but looks like its digital release is in a couple weeks. Movie is prolly trash, but she looks great as Magik. New Mutants is actually really good trashy fun and surprisingly faithful to the darker tone the comic had in its first 30 or so issues
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Simone Magus posted:New Mutants is actually really good trashy fun and surprisingly faithful to the darker tone the comic had in its first 30 or so issues I'm legit looking forward to it. I just didn't want to brave the COVID deathboxes to go out and see it. Disney should've just thrown it on Hulu same day it came out in theaters. I'm sure way more people would have watched it then. Or poo poo, maybe they could have pushed it on Hulu during this past Halloween weekend. Stupid rear end Disney.
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Along with the main actress, the orphanage director reminds me of someone too. Maybe Don Draper's blonde psychiatrist gf?
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I'm finally watching class action park, and I have to say that I wasn't expecting how everyone they interviewed sounds like action park was the absolute highlight of their life even as they're describing how stupidly unsafe it was.
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mystes posted:I'm finally watching class action park, and I have to say that I wasn't expecting how everyone they interviewed sounds like action park was the absolute highlight of their life even as they're describing how stupidly unsafe it was. They were all 16-19 years old, smoking weed, drinking, loving, and sending their peers to their doom. That would absolutely be the highlight of my life were I one those employees.
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Watched the first ep of Utopia (US) and found it ridiculously entertaining, but also pretty corny. How do the US and UK versions stack up against each other? I'm kind of wondering if I should watch the original first or just stick with the new one.
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mystes posted:I'm finally watching class action park, and I have to say that I wasn't expecting how everyone they interviewed sounds like action park was the absolute highlight of their life even as they're describing how stupidly unsafe it was. Something awesome at 16 has a high chance of being horrifying at 40. I remember my friends would race each other, using each other each other as snow sleds, and it's amazing no one got injured doing so. Still funny as hell looking back.
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I just finished The Queens Gambit. loving bravo Netflix. Then I found out the guy who made Logan made this series and holy poo poo I think I have a new favorite writer/director. It easily shoots to the top of my favorites list.
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Pulled the ultimate rube move and subbed to AMC and Peacock premium for a free week on the same day, watched one thing on peacock, nothing on AMC and forgot to cancel. Might as well have flushed a $20 bill down the toilet. I guess I have 30 days to try and get my $$$ worth out of this crap now.
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veni veni veni posted:Pulled the ultimate rube move and subbed to AMC and Peacock premium for a free week on the same day, watched one thing on peacock, nothing on AMC and forgot to cancel. Might as well have flushed a $20 bill down the toilet. I guess I have 30 days to try and get my $$$ worth out of this crap now. I keep meaning to check out Gangs of London on AMC. It's by the guy that did The Raid if that's your thing.
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veni veni veni posted:Pulled the ultimate rube move and subbed to AMC and Peacock premium for a free week on the same day, watched one thing on peacock, nothing on AMC and forgot to cancel. Might as well have flushed a $20 bill down the toilet. I guess I have 30 days to try and get my $$$ worth out of this crap now. It's never a bad time to watch Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
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I picked up a month of HBO Max, so I've been binging a lot of movies recently. (I like dumb action movies, so don't judge some of my choices here!) Some mini-reviews: Kiki's Delivery Service: I've seen this one before, and it's still great. It's a little bit wistful/melancholy, but taps into an interesting sensation of growing up. When Kiki stops being able to talk to her cat, I think it was a pretty powerful detail related to her not being a child anymore and growing into her own person. Of course, other people may have a different interpretation of that. Like I said, the movie is a little wistful, but great. Jonah Hex: Pretty forgettable. To be fair, I wasn't paying much attention. It reminded me of a less-fun version of Wild Wild West (which is a slightly better movie than its reputation). Steel: I've heard about this movie for a long time, so I was interested in finally taking a look. Shaq isn't a great actor, but I wasn't expecting him to be. He basically does as well as I expected. Many other aspects of the movie are also pretty amateurish, though, which actually surprised me a little. For comparison, Michael Jordan is also not a great actor, but his movie (Space Jam) clearly has a lot of quality aspects to it, such as the integration between the live actors and animation. The Witches (2020): Octavia Spencer is really good here, but overall the movie is a bit of a disappointment. Its main problem is that there's no subtlety or complexity whatsoever about the witches. All of the witches are immediately obvious as witches, which diminishes any sense of dread and/or discovery. Most of the actors do a fine job and the movie looks nice, but the lack of subtly or complexity kind of undermines the whole thing. I didn't think it was as bad as other people seem to, and the early scenes between Octavia Spencer and her grandson are some of the best parts of the movie. The movie doesn't have any really standout elements, but it's an okay background movie if you're not paying specifically for it. I'm not sure if kids would like it or not. DorianGravy fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Nov 8, 2020 |
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You should watch Raised by Wolves.
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Mother, the new Japanese Netflix film, not related to Mother, the Korean horror film, or mother!, the Aronofsky film, is really great. I don't know what to compare it to other than maybe The Florida Project.
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DorianGravy posted:I picked up a month of HBO Max, so I've been binging a lot of movies recently. (I like dumb action movies, so don't judge some of my choices here!) HBO max is my most used streaming service lately, they recently added Cradle 2 The Grave and the Lethal Weapon series... the action section has a lot of good stuff and I recently watched Jackie Chan's Police Story as well
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doctorfrog posted:Finished Cobra Kai S2. Personal value: the show is so disconnected with the world outside of Karate Drama In The Valley, watching it is almost like being an upper middle class white LA teenager for 23 minutes at a time. I think I finally understand the appeal of soap operas. Bring on season 3! Cobra Kai has an amazing sense of balance to it The caustic hateful stupidity of the sensei being tempered by his students and reality How he lived for 30 or 40 years just being a construction worker and never intersecting with the modern world is a puzzle for the viewer And yet so charming How he deflects with his face All the homo tears
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Ive been really, really enjoying Halt and Catch Fire on netflix. I totally missed it when it was airing live. For whatever reason in this time of stress and catastrophe a period piece about the computer business in the 80s is really interesting to me
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