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Looking back over 2020 like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XByiHpUvrj0 edit: If you are looking for some scifi reading for the xmas holidays (if you can still concentrate and read a book after nine months of covidworld) the full seven-book run of Marko Kloos 'Frontlines' series are only a quid apiece https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B085YF7JRW/ref=series_rw_dp_sw I've only read the first four but they were absolutely acceptable as lightweight mil-sci, and not overly pro-fash like I was worried they might be. edit edit: also Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Cage of Souls', which I have suggested before as a good 'Dying Earth by way of Heart of Darkness' sci-fantasy book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cage-Souls-Adrian-Tchaikovsky-ebook/dp/B07DPRW17S NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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Jingle All The Way is the best christmas movie. just rewatched it and it owns
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Xaris posted:Jingle All The Way is the best christmas movie. just rewatched it and it owns
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indigi posted:how the gently caress did the Baby Yoda puppet cost five million dollars
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rotor posted:the best movie satan was tim curry in legend
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jesus WEP posted:drat that’s awesome i saw a showing of it in college for free and it was the first time i saw it with a crowd which was loving great. a friend next to me had an uncle that took him to see it originally and i was like, poo poo, that a cool uncle their films are great but with an audience adds some extra reaction flavor rotor posted:the best movie satan was tim curry in legend yeah i was gonna say. its one of his roles i go to when i see him mentioned somewhere
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yeah the first time i saw it was in a friend's bedroom with like 10 other people, and then one other time the university cinema here was showing it and you got a white russian as part of the deal too. both excellent ways to watch
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Looking back over 2020 like ngl Netflix produced documentaries have a "style" that I kinda hate. I watched The Social Dilemma a few months back and though I loved the message I hated just about everything else about it.
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i really like flavourful origins, which appears to be netflix produced but is a bit of an odd duck otherwise.
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shoeberto posted:ngl Netflix produced documentaries have a "style" that I kinda hate. I watched The Social Dilemma a few months back and though I loved the message I hated just about everything else about it. like for example usually in a documentary the talking head segments would all have a different feel from the rest of the documentary and from each other because i guess they were just shot wherever suited the person talking. in the clip above they're all in the middle of the frame with a beautifully stage-managed background surrounding them, and so every scene looks the same as all the others.
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jesus WEP posted:a documentary should feel like a scrapbook, and these netflix ones are too carefully produced. agh yes that's what it is. They even do the whole like "candid shot of the mic getting pinned on the interview subject" shot in a way-too-produced manner. It feels about as authentic as a "reality" show on the History channel.
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rotor posted:the best movie satan was tim curry in legend my 2nd fave Satan after Samael in Darksiders, who was really Curry-Satan but bumped up to eleven.
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the best netflix documentary is still american vandal
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shoeberto posted:ngl Netflix produced documentaries have a "style" that I kinda hate. I watched The Social Dilemma a few months back and though I loved the message I hated just about everything else about it. watching two petes from mad men bully an angsty pete from mad men was unexpected and funny but otherwise i agree i suppose it felt like it should have been tighter with less drama or a miniseries where the narrative has more annotation. maybe i knew more going in than its general audience so maybe thats the reason it felt that way to me shoeberto posted:agh yes that's what it is. They even do the whole like "candid shot of the mic getting pinned on the interview subject" shot in a way-too-produced manner. It feels about as authentic as a "reality" show on the History channel. ahhhhh yeah thats the vibe it gave me. the staging and small budget posturing is completely at odds with those moments and the fully crafted story
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Agile Vector posted:watching two petes from mad men bully an angsty pete from mad men was unexpected and funny but otherwise i agree
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i feel like netflix docs are ripe for parody. start with 10 minutes of people putting lapel mics on and saying they feel nervous. then the rest of the movie alternates between intercutting multiple people making the same point using almost-identical wording, and one single person making a point with the background music gone so you know it's Very Serious
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i finished reading because of Winn Dixie to my son. I think we might do the hobbit next
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the instagram infinite scroll is responsible for making our children develop eating disorders and get involved in such extremist political activities as standing next to a tree at a small protest. now here's the inventor of the instagram infinite scroll to explain why that's a problem. isn't he charming? you can tell by the jaunty music
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isnt die hard without terrorists and with firefighters just the towering inferno?
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indigi posted:are there any Kung fu movies (old or current) that primarily star women wing chun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXVREeuX-I
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I just finished listening to DUST - Chrysalis and it was very good
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Truman Peyote posted:the instagram infinite scroll is responsible for making our children develop eating disorders and get involved in such extremist political activities as standing next to a tree at a small protest. now here's the inventor of the instagram infinite scroll to explain why that's a problem. isn't he charming? you can tell by the jaunty music ah the radiolab maneuver. classic.
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indigi posted:are there any Kung fu movies (old or current) that primarily star women any excuse to post this guy. here is a 2 part doc on women in kung fu by accented cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5tuNdzOZx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7p9PBOErMw
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netflix's the midnight sky is so aggressively terrible that i stopped watching after ten minutes
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finally watched "sword of destiny" last night with my mom. we'd both seen crouching tiger when it came out, and it was one of the only things on Netflix I could find quickly that I figure we'd both like.
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omg the lung-ears-again scene in a better tomorrow 2. amazing
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:ah the radiolab maneuver. classic. But did they They keep cutting Cutting and cutting in Cutting in between Between two speakers saying Saying the same things but Things but overlapping until you shoot your loving ears off in annoyance *music stops abruptly to emphasize point*
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shoeberto posted:lmao I actually really liked him in it, it was a super cheesy way to explain "The Algorithm" but he's a good actor and I think it got the point across. Just a shame about Everything Else yeah, it put a good wrapper on something so abstract even if a bit silly and i honestly did get a kick out of seeing him as the aspects. i think the one kid being the guy from righteous gemstones sort of broke the family scenes for me but thats not on anyone
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i read the wikipedia page about the movie the midnight sky and oh lord there is a famous list of sf literary cliches that has been around for a few decades (pretty much every sf writers workshop hands out a copy of this list and says "dont do any of these things") and this movie ends with arguably the most hackneyed of those cliches: the last two humans alive become adam and eve on a new planet
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indigi posted:are there any Kung fu movies (old or current) that primarily star women a buddy of mine was a real sonny chiba head about 20 years ago and he said the ssfs are deece but haven’t seen them myself
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fun fax i just realized madeline stowe (kathryn railly in 12 monkeys the film) has a role in 12 monkeys (tv show) as lillian have a merry cxsarhistmas
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i’ve been pretty irritated that a vast majority of kung fu and hong kong blood operas i grew up watching have just not been on streaming services. like barely any chow yun fat, none of john woo’s old stuff (face/off is on netflix tho so if you haven’t seen it in a while check it out). i want to rewatch all the classic 70s/80s sonny chiba, jackie chan, sammo hung, etc poo poo that i can’t imagine is super expensive rights wise.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTQv5vJMJjo city hunter is on hbomax i think tho and is worth a watch. as a grown up it’s so clearly a 90s superhero movie and it’s rad af.
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there's a bunch of classic Shaw Brothers stuff on Netflix atm, but yeah there needs to be more 80s stuff from the other studios
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shudder but for martial arts flicks, in 2021
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I’m 15 minutes into WW84 and wow this movie is utter poo poo so far e: thank Christ Pedro Pascal showed up to bring any amount of personality to this garbage e2: god drat how did they manage to suck all the charisma out of Kristen Wiig indigi fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Dec 25, 2020 |
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wow some guy on antiques roadshow had a bunch of John Hicklenton original Judge Dredd art 
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there’s a scene in WW84 where a woman beating (potentially killing? it’s unclear) her attempted rapist is portrayed as something a bad guy would do
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