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Jan 30, 2023 18:51
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that is a vastly better selection than vol. 1 but still a bit of a piss take on the pricing
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Jan 30, 2023 19:09
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I'd be all over this if I still did physical media, my friend still loves BD maybe he'll grab Never heard of Winners n Sinners and Twinkle, they good?
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Jan 30, 2023 19:48
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I've bought more discs in the last 2 years than at any point in the last decade, tired of stupid mergers and licensing arguments making things disappear, plus at this point I just buy everything that pops up on criterion that's a movie I love, their 2 sales a year are great
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Jan 30, 2023 20:07
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qirex posted:I've bought more discs in the last 2 years than at any point in the last decade, tired of stupid mergers and licensing arguments making things disappear, plus at this point I just buy everything that pops up on criterion that's a movie I love, their 2 sales a year are great  My ps4 is now a fancy blu ray player.
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Jan 30, 2023 20:11
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i will never subscribe to that lovely paramount+ service
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Jan 30, 2023 20:11
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AnimeIsTrash posted:i will never subscribe to that lovely paramount+ service i had it for a time because i absolutely needed to watch every iteration of rupaul's drag race (for my wife, you see)
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Jan 30, 2023 20:15
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paramount is on the "sign up for sixty days twice a year" list, once I'm done with ds9 and dexter it's on to the next one
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Jan 30, 2023 20:21
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they had a deal that was like $5 for 6 months or something so i went ahead and did it. i wouldn't pay monthly obviously but its nice to be able to throw on some star trek or something to go to sleep loving garbage rear end app though
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Jan 30, 2023 20:25
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also there is a way to sidestep the paramount app by using apple tv channels but i haven't figured out how to link them if the signup is through paramount (if it's even possible) i've found that there's a way to sign in to the paramount app if you subscribed through apple, but not the other way around. poo poo sucks
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Jan 30, 2023 20:27
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qirex posted:I've bought more discs in the last 2 years than at any point in the last decade, tired of stupid mergers and licensing arguments making things disappear, plus at this point I just buy everything that pops up on criterion that's a movie I love, their 2 sales a year are great same. i need to figure out a storage solution for the tv area or get off my rear end and set up a nas with plex so i can toss em all in plastic bins.
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Jan 30, 2023 20:29
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paramount runs free month deals all the time, check slickdeals for codes. just cancel before fee hits. I’m watching it for free right now
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Jan 30, 2023 20:30
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Beeftweeter posted:they had a deal that was like $5 for 6 months or something so i went ahead and did it. i wouldn't pay monthly obviously but its nice to be able to throw on some star trek or something to go to sleep they have a ton of garbage cowboy movies and sci-fi on there from paramount devouring bankrupt studios through the decades i constantly have to add more poo poo to my pihole whitelist for them though which is annoying as hell.
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Jan 30, 2023 20:31
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pmchem posted:paramount runs free month deals all the time, check slickdeals for codes. just cancel before fee hits. I’m watching it for free right now yeah this is true too. just make sure you cancel it though, luckily they make it pretty easy Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:they have a ton of garbage cowboy movies and sci-fi on there from paramount devouring bankrupt studios through the decades lol  loving preroll ads? seriously
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Jan 30, 2023 20:33
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i just buy and/or download everything i want to see that's on paramount+. ms jones has a discovery+ sub, and we have disney and netflix and amazon prime and apple tv. that's enough imo. i am not interested in janitoring deals, i already pay $3 a month for unlimited usenet or whatever and this server's gonna be running no matter what so  lmao paramount plays ads? loving hell no chance am i paying money to get advertised at
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Jan 30, 2023 20:34
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right now it's just ads for other paramount stuff, and they're pretty infrequent (i leave trek on a lot as a sort of comfort food thing i guess). but they're also completely unrelated to whatever you're watching so you randomly get a teaser for top gun 2: top this or jeremy renner's mayor simulator i do not really pay attention to the ads though so those descriptions may be slightly inaccurate lol
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Jan 30, 2023 20:41
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Beeftweeter posted:jeremy renner's mayor simulator 
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Jan 30, 2023 20:43
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qirex posted:I've bought more discs in the last 2 years than at any point in the last decade, tired of stupid mergers and licensing arguments making things disappear, plus at this point I just buy everything that pops up on criterion that's a movie I love, their 2 sales a year are great this is how i feel. im still saving for my plex server but in the meantime im copping blurays of poo poo i like because i too am sick of licensing and also how some rips are 120 fuckin gb now
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Jan 30, 2023 20:48
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Beeftweeter posted:jeremy renner's mayor simulator   not the mayor!
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Jan 30, 2023 20:49
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like jerry mcguire yeah ill take a 16gb 4k rip but lmao i watched a 4k john wick rip with awful compression that made it basically unwatchable at points and that also sucked
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Jan 30, 2023 20:50
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continuing to watch older films I've never seen, and Heat is easily the best so far. what a film, the cast, the absolutely phenomenal location and camera work. i know it's said a lot but they really don't make films like that anymore
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Jan 30, 2023 21:25
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I almost teared up when de niro drives into the tunnel and it's all white. then you see him fidgeting, drat. at first I thought it was a little cheesy how he and pacino were cast the "wrong" way around but it worked perfectly
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Jan 30, 2023 21:28
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yeah Heat is incredible. one of the rare movies that fully earns its nearly 3 hour runtime e: by which I mean, could you cut some scenes or even lines and tell essentially the same story? sure, but it wouldn't be as good. like you could lose the whole Natalie Portman or Dennis Hayesbert plot and it's the same movie about the same people, but it'd lose so much of its punch. one of my favorite parts is the scene where Al Pacino is gonna say "cause she's got a BIG rear end" but clearly stop himself mid-line and changes it to "great rear end" indigi fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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Jan 30, 2023 21:29
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distortion park posted:continuing to watch older films I've never seen, and Heat is easily the best so far. what a film, the cast, the absolutely phenomenal location and camera work. i know it's said a lot but they really don't make films like that anymore they really fuckin don't like i cant think of the last time i was hyped out in the way heat made me. im actually in the process of convincing partner to sit down for it.
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Jan 30, 2023 21:34
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distortion park posted:continuing to watch older films I've never seen, and Heat is easily the best so far. what a film, the cast, the absolutely phenomenal location and camera work. i know it's said a lot but they really don't make films like that anymore Sure they do, just like video games its not the big publishers doing it though. Setting up a NAS with Jellyfin was the best decision. The industry had the perfect solution with old netflix and now its all fragmented and worthless and lol if u think im paying to watch ads loving hulu and whoever else does it.
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Jan 30, 2023 21:36
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my dad is not by nature an obsessive person, but he does watch anything and everything star trek. my brother and i went down to spend a few days to him talking about terrible old age stuff, and all he wanted us to do was set up his tv so he could watch star trek anyway the experience of using the paramount+ app on his smart tv was so awful that he cancelled within a week like five seconds to respond to every button press, and everything took ten button presses. i’m sure some of that was the terrible smart tv box but oh my god, i would’ve cancelled too
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Jan 30, 2023 21:36
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part of the problem with making a movie "like" Heat is who would be this generation's Robert DeNiro or Al Pacino? and that's before you start filling out the second tier with heavyweights like Val Kilmer and Jon Voight. that style of actor - an amazing craftsperson who can open a blockbuster - just doesn't really exist anymore. you're usually one or the other
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Jan 30, 2023 21:36
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rjmccall posted:my dad is not by nature an obsessive person, but he does watch anything and everything star trek. my brother and i went down to spend a few days to him talking about terrible old age stuff, and all he wanted us to do was set up his tv so he could watch star trek if he has an apple tv a subscription through the "channels" feature is probably right for him, it uses apple's ui and the tv app (a decent approximation is at https://tv.apple.com). its pretty easy to use and not that bad even on my old rear end atv 4, i would probably set it up like that for a parent in contrast the actual paramount+ app sucks so bad i almost exclusively just airplay it
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Jan 30, 2023 21:40
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10-15 years ago you had liam neeson kinda for an action thesp but he’s not really the same as pacino/rdn
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Jan 30, 2023 21:40
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distortion park posted:i know it's said a lot but they really don't make films like that anymore
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Jan 30, 2023 21:41
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indigi posted:one of my favorite parts is the scene where Al Pacino is gonna say "cause she's got a BIG rear end" but clearly stop himself mid-line and changes it to "great rear end" lmao one of my favorite all time cinema moments even. you can just tell he really, really wants to say it i wonder how many takes they had to do
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Jan 30, 2023 21:42
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Mr. Crow posted:Sure they do, just like video games its not the big publishers doing it though. part of Heat is that not only is it well written and well made, you've got this specific character of the spectacle of two generationally great actors going head to head in a two-hander that just can't be replicated, even by equally-talented actors and an equally-talented director. it's like Godzilla vs King Kong - you can make an amazing small studio kaiju fight movie but that isn't Godzilla, and that isn't King Kong. it's different in quality in a way that can't really be replicated in an indie movie e: like I had an uncle who would say the best basketball game he ever saw was Villanova vs Temple at the Liacouras center in like 1999. ok fine, maybe it was an amazingly competitive game but it didn’t have LeBron running a full court chase down of Iguodala followed Kyrie draining a dagger 3 over Steph Curry indigi fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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Jan 30, 2023 21:42
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indigi posted:yeah Heat is incredible. one of the rare movies that fully earns its nearly 3 hour runtime The big climax scene in that movie is so good. I watched it a few months ago.
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Jan 30, 2023 21:46
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heat loving owns
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Beeftweeter posted:if he has an apple tv a subscription through the "channels" feature is probably right for him, it uses apple's ui and the tv app (a decent approximation is at https://tv.apple.com). its pretty easy to use and not that bad even on my old rear end atv 4, i would probably set it up like that for a parent thanks. he’s about to move, maybe i’ll just show up with an appletv for his new place
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indigi posted:one of my favorite parts is the scene where Al Pacino is gonna say "cause she's got a BIG rear end" but clearly stop himself mid-line and changes it to "great rear end"  also lol I saw an insta of someone wearing this tee but all the copies online were poo poo quality, so I recreated it from scratch: 
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Jan 30, 2023 21:53
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FMguru posted:check out the work of jean-pierre melville. french director, 1950s-1970s, made a series of crime/heist/noir films that still come across as razor-sharp and contemporary. le samourai, le circle rouge, bob le flambeur, le doulos +1 to this, i went on a melville kick some time in the past couple years and it was a great decision
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The big climax scene in that movie is so good. I watched it a few months ago. yeah the last ~45 minutes are just like a freight drain going downhill. it's so good that ripping it of even made the ending of Heat For Dummies (Den of Thieves) good
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a kind of lovely realization i had a few months ago is with my latest lap into older films that i can now say that i've pretty much seen every notable movie from like 1973-2005. like sure there are like hellraiser sequels and whatever i havent gotten to but for the most part i can confidently say that ive seen almost every mildly notable movie from those eras. and its kind of wild to me that many of those movies will never have any kind of modern equivalent made. like heat for example, or like the hunt for red october. hell even a theater comedy like superbad that just absolutely swept pop culture is never really gonna happen in that way again. movies like die hard or terminator 2 were lightning in a bottle that just doesn't happen like that anymore. like as a grown up i am appreciating the gently caress out of miramax's role in 80s and 90s cinema in terms of getting out movies that weren't AAA megablockbuster affairs. marvel movies and franchising have absolutely fuckin wrecked the curve on cool mid range movies. and yeah i guess netflix and hulu et all are publishing those midmarket films but none of them have been GOOD. like 5 years of hulu featured films and ive yet to watch one that sat in my brain the way dogma or fast and the furious or elephant. like i honestly have a hard time thinking of films released in the past decade because of just how generic everything has felt and seemed.
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