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I am weird and can't get into stranger things at all. Also, Bloodline season 1 is a decent drama I found. EDIT: Also both seasons of Grace and Frankie, but that might be because it seriously reminds me of my mother, her best friend, the circumstances and that like.
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Bicyclops posted:Black Mirror's third season is as good as its first two and, of course, if you're into Arrested Development, Netflix is where season 4 lives. I think it was okay, and I liked it better on a second viewing. Oh, that reminds me -- and this is kind of a bold statement, but drat the consequences. I think Black Mirror's "San Junipero," while not at all representative of the series as a whole, is one of the best sci-fi stories ever, and you can only watch it on Netflix.
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Lady Dynamite is pretty good if you like Maria Bamford's comedy.
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DivisionPost posted:Oh, that reminds me -- and this is kind of a bold statement, but drat the consequences. Don't think it's that bold a statement, I think it's almost universally agreed that it's the best or at least top 3 of the season. 
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Medullah posted:Don't think it's that bold a statement, I think it's almost universally agreed that it's the best or at least top 3 of the season. Yeah, but see, it's one thing to say "best of that season," it's another thing to say "Time Enough at Last, City on the Edge of Forever, San Junipero." And those are limited to episodes of TV, I'm talking the whole loving shebang -- which, I rationalize, is insane for what boils down to a relatively straightforward love story. But every time I watch it I think, "Yeah, wow, this is tight, elegant, and EXTREMELY well-acted," and rationale goes right out the window. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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Ah, I'm with you though. I cried like a wee baby. Then went on a crusade to get other people to watch the show. "Watch San Junipero first, and then Shut Up and Dance after. You'll go to bed feeling so warm and happy!"
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I'm so going to have episodes running in the background in the lead-up. Let's bump up the numbers!
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Breadallelogram posted:Lady Dynamite is pretty good if you like Maria Bamford's comedy. Oh yeah, I liked that. I tried to watch the Will Arnett one that was just depressing. Flaked, I think? I couldn't get past the second episode.
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For a Netflix recommendation, if you just want something slow moving and calm, I'd suggest Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories. It's a slice of life series set around a Japanese eatery that opens at midnight with the focus on the customers that come in to eat Japanese comfort food (it's got English subtitles too). It's based on an award-winning manga and it had a three season drama and a movie in Japan and there's even a Korean version of Midnight Diner. Compendium fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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I've seen Zombie Nightmare before, but I had forgotten it had John Mikl Thor, star of Rifftrax favorite Rock n Roll Nightmare. It even has music by his dumb loving band.
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rydiafan posted:Theme Song Lyrics I think it'll be more based on the Mike version: In the not-too-distant future Way up on Moon 13 Ms Forrester and Son of Frank restarted an evil scheme They lured a guy by the name of Jo(nah) Just a regular schmoe they didn't know(nah) Their experiment needed a good test case So they stole his ship and shot him into space
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I've gone on about this in at least one other thread, but Manos would be way less clunky if they hadn't made their dubbing job as hard as possible for themselves by almost ALWAYS pointing the camera at who's talking. There are plenty of shoestring movies from that era with no location sound and something they have in common is that their most cinematically engaging scenes happen when they're trying to minimize the need for lip sync and so they put the camera anywhere but in the face of an actor delivering a line.
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A lot of amateur filmmakers recognise shot-reverse shot as a technique, but not the nuances of it, and where it's not appropriate. (And some, like James Nguyen, have no idea how to mix sound from location shooting to allow ADR.)
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The Time Dissolver posted:I've gone on about this in at least one other thread, but Manos would be way less clunky if they hadn't made their dubbing job as hard as possible for themselves by almost ALWAYS pointing the camera at who's talking. There are plenty of shoestring movies from that era with no location sound and something they have in common is that their most cinematically engaging scenes happen when they're trying to minimize the need for lip sync and so they put the camera anywhere but in the face of an actor delivering a line. Like the great The Beast of Yucca Flats.
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Medullah posted:Ah, I'm with you though. I cried like a wee baby. Then went on a crusade to get other people to watch the show. "Watch San Junipero first, and then Shut Up and Dance after. You'll go to bed feeling so warm and happy!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0i0yTPJBY&t=79s
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I have the strangest feeling, like I just watched Laserblast for a second time. I don't recall ever seeing it before, and nothing stood out to me while watching it, but afterward everything seems like it was vaguely familiar, like I saw it 10 years ago while ill and half conscious or something.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:I have the strangest feeling, like I just watched Laserblast for a second time. I don't recall ever seeing it before, and nothing stood out to me while watching it, but afterward everything seems like it was vaguely familiar, like I saw it 10 years ago while ill and half conscious or something. The question isn't if you've seen Laser Blast before my friend The question is as simple as it is timeless ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?!
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The actress who plays Debbie in Manos is the daughter, not grand daughter, of the actor who plays the Master. She got the best wages out of any of the cast, being given a bicycle for her contributions. The actress wrote a book about the entire experience which is a fun read!
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After the latest update from Joel I have a question for the people that saw the first episode that I don't think would violate the NDA. How do they deal with 20,000 names in the credits? Do they fly by and are they before or after the stinger?
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Mar 24, 2017 05:27
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They're split up between the 14 episodes, and appear pre-stinger.
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I figured they'd do something like that, thanks. I hope I get a good episode!
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I've seen Zombie Nightmare before, but I had forgotten it had John Mikl Thor, star of Rifftrax favorite Rock n Roll Nightmare. It even has music by his dumb loving band. At least Zombie Nightmare's twist was properly foreshadowed. Goddamn, the last ten minutes of Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare will haunt me until I die.
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Breadallelogram posted:Lady Dynamite is pretty good if you like Maria Bamford's comedy. Also Mary Jo is in it for like 5 seconds.
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Burkion posted:The question isn't if you've seen Laser Blast before my friend I should've seen that coming.
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Thank you all for the Netflix recommendations! I didn't realize they carry so much good stuff.
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John Murdoch posted:Arrested Development Season 4? Hey, it has Joel and Trace cameoing!
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Hey, it has Joel and Trace cameoing! I'd forgotten about that. I thought at first they had repurposed some old riffs onto the fake movie, but nope, it's really Joel and Trace, stopping in for a quick cameo.
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DivisionPost posted:Oh, that reminds me -- and this is kind of a bold statement, but drat the consequences. Honestly I had that same thought but about Shut Up and Dance instead.
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The Girl in Gold Boots, the Girl in Lover's Lane, Hercules Unchained, and Hercules and the Captive Women have been added to the VHX collection for Kickstarter backers.
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all-Rush mixtape posted:The Girl in Gold Boots, the Girl in Lover's Lane, Hercules Unchained, and Hercules and the Captive Women have been added to the VHX collection for Kickstarter backers. Awesome, thanks for posting that here! I found them at this link: https://mst3k.vhx.tv/products/bonus-episodes-level-2
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OldTennisCourt posted:Honestly I had that same thought but about Shut Up and Dance instead. My wife and I decided to have an MST3k premiere party for release weekend. I don't know how many of our friends actually know/like the show, so it might just be us eating pizza rolls and drinking cheap wine and laughing our asses off. Oh well!
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WhiteHowler posted:This, but the episode "White Bear". (Also one of the most hosed up episodes of anything I've ever seen.) Supreme or Deluxe, and which wine goes best with each?
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I sort of wish they'd let Pearl riff a few more times. e: also, David Warner is such a good actor and he has so much screentime that Delta Knights has a pretty watchable intro. Bicyclops fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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remusclaw posted:Supreme or Deluxe, and which wine goes best with each? Red wine for Joel, blue wine for Mike.
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Bicyclops posted:I sort of wish they'd let Pearl riff a few more times. Mary Jo has actually teamed up with Bridget Nelson and they've been putting out stuff for Rifftrax.
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Just a heads up, there's a new Kickstarter update that corrects the date for the first episode backer stream. It's on April 9th (Sunday) rather than the originally-announced date of the 8th. The other dates (for the full-season streaming and download access) are still correct.
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I'm actually really excited for this. When I was a kid, my mom was in a bowling league and went out on Thursday night with her girlfriends. My dad would pick my brother and I up after school, take us to McDonald's for dinner, and then we would go home and eat McDs while watching MST3K. For years, that was our ritual. He backed the Kickstarter, and you could just see the joy in his face when he talked about the show. Unfortunately, he died a year ago today due to complications from lymphoma. It's been a hard week, but getting to see the screenshot on Felicia's Twitter and then the little preview trailer have been amazing. I'm super pumped for this, and if for no other reason, I'm gonna watch the hell out of this for my dad. (Sorry for getting a little E/N)
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Holy smokes, I'd forgotten how MST3K-level awkward the Joel reunion segments were. It's like he's completely forgotten how to be on camera and does everything he can to look away from it. I don't know if he just felt kind of emotional and distracted about coming back or what, but it's definitely weird. I like him tinkering with things and helping them, but something about the whole "Well, I could take you back with me, but I don't want to, this place made a man out of me" feels really un-Joel. Like, 90 percent of the time, when MST3K takes a long trip just for a cheap joke and a way out of explaining something, it's fine, but for something like this, you really want a sweet little re-visit to the character. I remembered loving it back in 1999 when I first saw it, but on a rewatch, TV's Frank is a way better cameo. None of that's to say anything negative about Joel, who has done an absolutely incredible job at the herculean task of resurrecting the puppet comedy show in front of old films while making it updated and fun and without severely upsetting (most) of the very opinionated fans. The dude wrote with Seinfeld, was almost in Cheers, and gave up a film role to do an extremely experimental cable TV show. He created something pretty unique that was way ahead of its time in layering content on top of content, and on a rewatch, he's my favorite host and I'm glad he's the one running the Kickstarter, but, uh... his cameo... 
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DivisionPost posted:He still had some pretty bad blood with Mallon at the time, didn't he? Wired did a really good oral history of MST3K a few years ago, where Kevin (I think it was him) said he never thought Joel and Jim liked each other, and Joel went on to say Jim's insistence on directing the movie was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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