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Chas McGill posted:I've watched some: Itaewon Class, Extracurricular, Squid Game, My Name, and maybe others I'm forgetting. There's definitely similar over acting in all these, but Vincenzo is rubbing me the wrong way for some reason. Happy to hear recommendations though, since I liked all the series listed above. Hellbound is decent, although it’s super short and the first half is pretty different from the second half.
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Season 3 of Boardwalk is a banger. Rosetti is hysterical and magnetizing. If the rest of the series was as wild and pulpy it would've been great. Unfortunately it tries to be prestige and just kind of fails at it. They recognize they have great actors but have no idea how to utilize them. Shannon's character is all over the place and ends up in ridiculous circumstances at times. Buscemi is woefully miscast and I have no clue how they went from Alec Baldwin to him. It also doesn't help that the entire trajectory of the series had to be rewritten due to certain factors in the first two seasons.
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Nihonniboku posted:It's a show that I watched that I remember nothing about I was going to post this, aside from Michael Shannon being in it I couldn't tell you anything about the plot or other characters. (except for the super annoying Irish guy who I only remember for being annoying)
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This is a bit of an odd question for here, but does anybody know of any good shows or movies from Sub Sahara Africa? I hear Nollywood produces more movies than anywhere else in the world. Yet I don't here anything from the region. Does anyone know of anything good from that region that I can watch?
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Dec 13, 2021 20:47
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I have the same question but for Bollywood bro comedies. Like three idiots and Delhi belly
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punk rebel ecks posted:This is a bit of an odd question for here, but does anybody know of any good shows or movies from Sub Sahara Africa? I hear Nollywood produces more movies than anywhere else in the world. Yet I don't here anything from the region. Does anyone know of anything good from that region that I can watch? Viva Riva! and Nigerian Prince were pretty good Edit: I know you asked for Sub Saharan but I’ll give a shout-out to Theeb as well david_a fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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Dec 13, 2021 20:58
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Disposable Scud posted:Season 3 of Boardwalk is a banger. Rosetti is hysterical and magnetizing. If the rest of the series was as wild and pulpy it would've been great. Unfortunately it tries to be prestige and just kind of fails at it. They recognize they have great actors but have no idea how to utilize them. Shannon's character is all over the place and ends up in ridiculous circumstances at times. Buscemi is woefully miscast and I have no clue how they went from Alec Baldwin to him. It also doesn't help that the entire trajectory of the series had to be rewritten due to certain factors in the first two seasons. I had no idea Baldwin was in the running for Nucky, that really represents way too wide and vague of a casting net haha.
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In my opinion the fatal flaw of Boardwalk Empire was that Buscemi as Nucky just wasn't all that compelling. He was already the big fish in the small pond when the show started, and I never really got a sense of what was driving him other than his constant peevishness. I guess Baldwin would have been better?
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Yeah I only watched a couple seasons but Boardwalk Empire has slipped completely from my brain Things I remember: It being the first time I found Steve Buscemi boring Huge crush on the Scottish woman Getting to see Michael K Williams outside of The Wire. I think he tortures a KKK guy?
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'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'....one of my favorite movies of all time....is streaming on Peacock. A fact that I never knew until now.....the director and co-writer of the movie, Michel Gondry, directed a lot of music videos prior to this (still did after). He directed the music video for 'Everlong' by the Foo Fighters....which is probably my favorite song of all time.
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Gondry is a better music video director than feature director, and I love several of his movies. He's just done too many legendary videos to get out of his own shadow, not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Enos Cabell posted:Gondry is a better music video director than feature director, and I love several of his movies. He's just done too many legendary videos to get out of his own shadow, not that there's anything wrong with that. Yeah, at some point I had a DVD with all of his music videos on it. I wonder what happened to that.
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david_a posted:Viva Riva! and Nigerian Prince were pretty good I found Queen Sono (Netflix) entertaining, though a little incomprehensible in its attempts to outdo Shonda Rhimes with the layers of twists and intrigues. It had its second season cancelled because of the pandemic, which is all to say that the first season was at least good/successful enough to get temporarily renewed.
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Nihonniboku posted:Yeah, at some point I had a DVD with all of his music videos on it. I wonder what happened to that. Those were awesome DVDs. I've got the Michel Gondry and also a Spike Jonze one somewhere
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That DVD of Gondry's short films/music videos was very important to my teenage self. Not sure where you could find it now but I imagine you could simulate the experience by looking up his filmography via YouTube. Some of my favorites from him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9auBn6Jys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJv-Ebi67I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH71AAxXmM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HSD_i2DvA As far as his feature length stuff goes I remember Be Kind Rewind being pretty good (ending made me tear up at least) but it's been years since I've seen it. Eternal Sunshine definitely hit me the hardest though
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punk rebel ecks posted:This is a bit of an odd question for here, but does anybody know of any good shows or movies from Sub Sahara Africa? I hear Nollywood produces more movies than anywhere else in the world. Yet I don't here anything from the region. Does anyone know of anything good from that region that I can watch? Camp de Thiaroye (1987), La Petite vendeuse de soleil (1999), Moolaadé (2004), Black Girl (1966), Hyènes (1992), Emitai (1971), Ceddo (1977), Guelwaar (1992), Xala (1975), Mandabi (1968), Faat Kiné (2000).
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Blood Nightmaster posted:That DVD of Gondry's short films/music videos was very important to my teenage self. Not sure where you could find it now but I imagine you could simulate the experience by looking up his filmography via YouTube. Some of my favorites from him: If you were a good little boy or girl this year you should definitely treat yourself: https://www.amazon.com/Directors-Vol-Director-Michel-Gondry/dp/B0000DBJ9J
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Boardwalk suffered some after season 2 due to the direction change, but it peaked again when Richard Harrow went all terminator later on.
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Finch is awful. Just an absolute rote, cliche, paint by numbers, lifeless, empty, piece of trash. I don't know how it got good reviews. Only the first 30 minutes were watched for this review.
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The Shrink Next Door is really good but it makes me feel bad inside.
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How is King Richard? I loves me some Williams sisters. I think it's on HBOmax
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isaboo posted:How is King Richard? I loves me some Williams sisters. It's fine. It is exactly, 100%, what you would expect from a competent Hollywood biopic starring Will Smith.
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Johnnie To's Drug War(2012) is on amazon prime and you all need to watch that if you havent
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isaboo posted:How is King Richard? I loves me some Williams sisters. So good. I saw it in the theater. Will Smith absolutely disappears into his role. It's dramatic, affecting, and funny.
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Stairmaster posted:Johnnie To's Drug War(2012) is on amazon prime and you all need to watch that if you havent Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I might try to give this another shot...I loved Throw Down, but the loving INSANE brutal draconian drug law poo poo in Drug War and all the stupid copaganda just made me feel bad for all the criminals. Smuggle that poo poo, yall!!! loving death for meth? Go gently caress yourself. That poo poo is savage. i felt the exact same way.
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Disposable Scud posted:Season 3 of Boardwalk is a banger. Rosetti is hysterical and magnetizing. If the rest of the series was as wild and pulpy it would've been great. Unfortunately it tries to be prestige and just kind of fails at it. They recognize they have great actors but have no idea how to utilize them. Shannon's character is all over the place and ends up in ridiculous circumstances at times. Buscemi is woefully miscast and I have no clue how they went from Alec Baldwin to him. It also doesn't help that the entire trajectory of the series had to be rewritten due to certain factors in the first two seasons. I thought season three was the worst and Buscemi was amazing on that show. Rossetti was a cartoon character. I agree they didn’t really know how to use Michael Shannon once season one was over. Saturday morning all-star hits on Netflix is amazing. A few short episodes, totally 80s and 90s, with great twists, very jokes, and some amazing performances. Also, the most 80s facrt: every black female character is voiced by Cree Summers.
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A MIRACLE posted:Season two of his dark mayerieals is better than season one so far that I’ve watched It’s drastically better. Glad 3rd season was green light as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4HMLdkjAUc *sigh* I GUESS I'll watch something Eric Wareheim is in.
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He was great in Master of None. Dude can act for real
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He was in The Comedy and I dont know if I liked that movie or not but I still think about it a lot for some reason
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The Comedy is an incredible movie that I never want to see again.
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I'd prolly watch The Comedy again but I couldn't even get through Rick Alverson's followup to that, Entertainment. I am a Turkington fan but I was watching it with my gf and that insane misogynist rant his character gives just dropped like a bomb outta nowhere
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The latest episode of Hawkeye is up on Disney Plus. Some official casting news: Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin from the Netflix Daredevil series is officially in the MCU. We saw at shot of what was maybe his hand and maybe heard him laugh in an earlier episode, but we actually saw his face this week.. That's pretty neat.
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Authentic question... what is the draw for Hawkeye? I truly don't understand what is entertaining or enjoyable about Hawkeye the character or Jeremy Renner's portrayal of Hawkeye. I know next to nothing about Kate Bishop, but Clint Barton is just so drat boring. I don't get it.
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Cithen posted:Authentic question... what is the draw for Hawkeye? I truly don't understand what is entertaining or enjoyable about Hawkeye the character or Jeremy Renner's portrayal of Hawkeye. I know next to nothing about Kate Bishop, but Clint Barton is just so drat boring. I don't get it.
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Cithen posted:Authentic question... what is the draw for Hawkeye? I truly don't understand what is entertaining or enjoyable about Hawkeye the character or Jeremy Renner's portrayal of Hawkeye. I know next to nothing about Kate Bishop, but Clint Barton is just so drat boring. I don't get it. In this very specific case its loosely based off one of the best Hawkeye comic runs by Matt Fraction. It doesnt work quite as well as the comic, because in the comic Hawkeye is a single himbo loser and in the show he is a family man. Still its very down to earth, im just a guy who happens to be an avenger, and now i gotta deal with a bunch of stuff story. He gets a fun sidekick, he gets to be very "put upon" (which is fun to see a super hero have to deal with this mundane poo poo), and the bad guys are fun in a memey way (guys called the tracksuit mafia who say bro a lot). The comic run is golden and the show doesnt quite reach its heights, but they do bring some of what I loved to life in a way that makes it worth watching. Its much better than watching Vision shoot eye lasers for example.
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Cithen posted:Authentic question... what is the draw for Hawkeye? I truly don't understand what is entertaining or enjoyable about Hawkeye the character or Jeremy Renner's portrayal of Hawkeye. I know next to nothing about Kate Bishop, but Clint Barton is just so drat boring. I don't get it. I get it, Hawkeye is my least favorite character in the MCU, and I've never been a fan of Jeremy Renner as an actor. That said, maybe this show is what we needed a long time ago, as Clint was always more of a side character who got very little development in the films. The show has some fun action, some good laughs, Hailee Steinfeld is great as Kate Bishop, and its interesting seeing Clint deal with his increasing hearing loss. I'm not a comics fan, and I know little about Marvel outside the films and shows, but in general I'm just fascinated at how they're all tying these films and shows together.
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Martman posted:What the... why did no one tell me a MacGruber sequel series is coming out on Peacock in 5 days? Martman posted:Peacock
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Cithen posted:Authentic question... what is the draw for Hawkeye? I truly don't understand what is entertaining or enjoyable about Hawkeye the character or Jeremy Renner's portrayal of Hawkeye. I know next to nothing about Kate Bishop, but Clint Barton is just so drat boring. I don't get it. I'm completely over comic book movies so take this with a grain of salt, but the interesting thing about Hawkeye is that he's in this group with a literal god; a guy with 23rd century technology armor who can fly; the strongest being in the universe; and an all-timer tactician who is stronger and with better reflexes than any normal human in history. And, Hawkeye is just this guy, you know? Like, we all know who LeBron James is, we all are amazed by his feats, but then you look at a guy like Ben Wallace -- an undersized, undrafted center who worked his rear end off and became one of the top defenders of his time and became the first undrafted player to make it into the hall of fame, though he never had the natural physical gifts or talent of a LeBron. That's a compelling story, no? But I kind of doubt the show goes into that aspect much.
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