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Lumbermouth posted:My new solution is these fabric bins put in the bottom of an IKEA entertainment center. They fit two rows of Blu Rays snugly. Thanks. I might just have to go with something like that.
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Lumbermouth posted:I'm pretty sure my setup is one of those Besta TV stands with no drawers or dividers, which can accommodate 6 flat bins or 12 stacked two high. Yeah, I actually think my current TV stand is an old Besta shelving unit that I converted into a TV stand. It's just 13 years old and has completely had it.
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Criterion is releasing a box set of 7 Wong Kar Wai films. I totally want it, but it's also a lot of money. https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah I loved that. Generally SNL's best moments are when everyone involved doesn't care who gets it and just does this poo poo they personally find amusing. There is always some oddly specific sketches in it. There was a while in the mid-oughts where they had a lot of sketches in Japanese. Like the recurring sketch of two Japanese majors at Michigan State University. Makes me wonder which writer was a Japanese major from MSU. Today they have a surprisingly large number of gay men on the writing staff, so we're getting a lot of sketches with a very gay aesthetic. Which is great.
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Vagabundo posted:I feel like I’m the only person in the world that hated that movie. It's a classic LGBTQ movie
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VoodooXT posted:Yeah, the commentary on "The Thing" is great. It's been years since I watched with the commentary, but The Rules of Attraction DVD has a random commentary with Carrot Top. He had absolutely nothing to do with the movie, and had never seen the movie before recording the commentary. I remember though, not even being a fan of his, being shocked at how funny his commentary was. That was also almost 20 years ago.
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Xenomrph posted:Actually I wish they would crank out one every week until the end of time. Bleed my wallet dry, run this poo poo into the ground, pump it directly into my veins. This is pretty much happening already. Between new episodes of the shows coming out this year (Loki, What If, Hawkeye, Ms Marvel), and movies (Black Widow, Shang Chi, Eternals), we have a lot of Marvel coming out in the next 6 months. And even more shows and movies next year. I love it. I've never read the comics, but the movies are generally fun, and I love watching them build this interconnected universe that has never been done before. I can't watch high brow stuff all the time. I'll follow up an episode of HBO's Chernobyl with an episode of The Real Housewives of Potomac.
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Vince MechMahon posted:I'm in Minneapolis and the best buy I go to is the one that's literally in the same block as their corporate HQ, so it's always stocked and up to date, and let me make something very clear for everyone: the movie section is going away. They have less than a full aisle at this location, and it's all Disney and marvel stuff, then just the most basic TV shows and new releases you can think of, in very small quantities. I don't think best buy physical locations are going to be a place to get anything within the next five years, if the company as a whole doesn't collapse. This is wild to me. 15 years ago I worked as seasonal help at Best Buy in the media section. It took up a good 1/3 of the store between music, movies, and video games. The movies alone were probably a good 10 aisles. DVDs were the main thing people came in for while Christmas shopping. We struggled to keep product on the shelves, and somehow I was the only person in the department there who could reliably put things in alphabetical order, so sometimes they'd have me spend my entire shift in the back organizing movies to put out on the shelves. When I was out on the floor, people would have so many questions about movies that I often would just take their list from them and grab everything for them. They all loved it since I just saved them so much time.
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When Shia began swinging with monkeys from vine to vine, I said out loud in the theater, "what the hell"
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caligulamprey posted:Overboard sketchy as gently caress. Have a mom. Can confirm, she loves Overboard.
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david_a posted:Does the PS5 have an IR sensor or is Bluetooth still required for controlling it? Although with Logitech killing the Harmony remotes, this is less of an issue Apparently there is no IR sensor, but Sony at least this time released an official remote. https://direct.playstation.com/en-u...onblock-buy-now I bought a couple of off brand bluetooth remotes for my PS4, but they always crapped out on me after a year of use or so.
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david_a posted:I think they always sold a remote. I have a PS3 that I used to use for BRs and I actually bought that overpriced Logitech adapter for it (it was an IR receiver that pretended to be a USB controller). That eventually broke too. Controlling that PS3 was just cursed. Maybe the issue was that I couldn't use it to turn on and off my TV or control the volume? Which is why I went with the 3rd party remote?
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Boywhiz88 posted:I blind bought Deep Cover and Grand Budapest Hotel cause I received a promotional certificate to Best Buy and could price match, so why not? Grand Budapest Hotel is an absolute delight. I remember not caring for Moonrise Kingdom when it first came out, but liked it better on repeat watchings. If you haven't seen anything since Royal Tenenbaums, the Life Aquatic is my favorite of his. The Fantastic Mr Fox is also really good. I don't really care for The Darjeeling Limited or Isle of Dogs though.
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My pumpkin from last year is still sitting on my front porch, it's looking scarier than ever.
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There's a fan edit of the 3 movies edited together to only include what was in the actual book The Hobbit. While I really liked all the stuff they new stuff filmed with Gandalf, Galadriel, and Elrond, the fan edit works very well.
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Casimir Radon posted:It’s a better FF movie than the last few have been. Took me a minute to figure out who Hobbes and Shaw was in any relation to Final Fantasy
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Iron Crowned posted:Another Laser Disc was uncovered Jesus, they made a movie venerating that monster?
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Casimir Radon posted:I’d never heard of it. But apparently it makes him out to be a monster, as was reality. CPL593H posted:The tag line ends with "The country's greatest nightmare." so I'm guessing it's not a celebration of Roy Cohn. I even read that, but just the irony of James Woods playing him was just too much for me to even accurately comprehend that, given that Woods is a huge POS in real life, I figured he had to be venerating him.
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My first DVD was Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and my first Blu Ray was The Fall starring Lee Pace
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Is there a reasonably priced sound bar that people would recommend? The sound on my TV sucks, I can hear it better in my bedroom on the other side of the wall than I can while sitting in front of it.
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tonedef131 posted:I use the Nakamichi 7.1.4 soundbar as my receiver and it was under $800. I run all my inputs into it and it passes through Dolby Vision. I’ve been very happy with the sound quality, it has Atmos/DTS:X but I think it’s through some sort of fancy processing to simulate it. Has a great remote and the satellites plug into the wireless subwoofer so you can have a super clean wall mount install, it’s been meeting my needs perfectly. Thanks, although that's like twice the cost of my TV. I guess when I was saying reasonably priced, I meant under $200. Maybe someday!
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CPL593H posted:There's something uniquely terrible about that late 90s-early 2000s period in comedy films. Obviously the decades before that were a minefield of problematic and outright awful "jokes". But comedy movies in the early 2000s were actually pretty mean spirited. There are plenty of much older films that have aged better than a lot of the stuff from that period. This trend in comedy started a little before Bush but I still think that enthusiasm for cruelty that was the zeitgeist in the Bush era dripped into pop culture. A lot of people lost sight of what a miserable time that was because of Donald Trump. Look at what horror movies in the Bush years were like. There was even a popular subgenre that would be dubbed "torture porn". When Tom Green did Freddy Got Fingered he really saw exactly where comedy films were going and was able to put them in a funhouse mirror. That extended to a lot of things. This was also the era of American Idol where people's favorite part was watching a mean Englishman humiliate aspiring singers.
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Spacebump posted:How much early-mid 00s popular American media was just redone British shows/game shows? Idol, the Weakest Link, the Office. I am sure there are more that I'm forgetting. You're just naming the ones that succeeded. There were ton of American remakes of British shows that flopped hard. A lot of them were remakes of shows with only like 6 episodes, but they would give them a full 22 episode per season order with a hope for multiple seasons, so they would take all the plot and character development in those 6 episodes and spread them out. Now we just actually get the British shows instead of half-assed remakes.
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Spacebump posted:Hey, sometimes the remakes/redone shows rule. VEEP was great and I'd highly recommend it. Love VEEP. Hadn't heard that it was a remake, and apparently it wasn't quite one. The creator, Iannucci, did try and do a remake of his British show The Thick of It and a pilot was filmed, but it was not successful. So he was later invited to create VEEP, "a programme with a very similar tone and political issues, with the involvement of some The Thick of It writers and production members."
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Allyn posted:Except you just got Call Me Kat, a remake of Miranda, a year or two back. I only saw the pilot, and it was (unsurprisingly) borderline unwatchable Haven't heard of it, but looked it up. It's a network comedy, about to premiere its 2nd season apparently. Network TV doesn't really produce anything good anymore. I can't think of a single show I watch on ABC, NBC, Fox, or CBS other than Survivor (about to start its 42nd season).
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Well, I followed the advice of someone in this thread and bought a Vizio soundbar. Love it! No more watching stuff on my $350 tv with lovely speakers.
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I used to have these really tall bookshelves from Ikea that I bought extra shelves for to store my once massive physical movie collection. Eventually I realized I was just buying any movie that I even kind of liked, even if I never watched it again, and decided that wasn't a good use of my money and space, plus streaming makes it easier to find things, and if I can't, since I didn't absolutely love those movies, I won't be upset if I can't see them again easily. Over the years I've slowly dwindled my collection down where I didn't need the large shelves anymore. Recently I got a new entertainment console from Ikea with drawers deep enough where I'm able to put my collection in spine up. It's great, I love it.
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I worked at Best Buy in the media department for the holiday season 2005, I remember that DVD very well. That was an odd experience. My direct supervisor hated me because I refused to sell Napster subscriptions, he would specifically ask me to target grandmas to suggest they buy them as stocking stuffers. At the time a lot of people would come in with lists of things to buy for presents, and they would start asking where everything was, and I'd just ask them for their list, and I'd go and grab everything for them. They absolutely loved it. Again, my supervisor, not so much. He would "punish" me by only scheduling me for 2 or 3 hours a week, but I didn't need the job so I didn't care. Only, I was the only person who knew how to alphabetize, so my department and store managers loved me. They would call me on my days off around 10am asking if I could come in, letting me pick my own hours. It absolutely infuriated my direct supervisor, especially that I usually got my 40 hours per week despite him scheduling me otherwise.
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Shiroc posted:e: I saw the first Pirates of the Carribean 1 and 3/4 times in theaters. The first time ended up being the day of the huge Northeast blackout in 2003 that came right as the climax was starting up. We used the voucher to go back and actually get to see all of it. Yeah, I think this is the movie I saw in the theater the most too. It's been 19 years, but I'm pretty sure I saw it 3 times here in the states, and then once shortly after when I went to study abroad. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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Happy Hippo posted:Not challenging you here, but have you seen the RLM Plinkett reviews, and if so, why did they not sway your opinion? I found them to be the most convincing critiques of the prequels and I can't watch them anymore without noticing all of the plotholes and sloppy filmmaking. Again, not challenging you, just curious how a prequel fan squares the criticisms in them. I loved those reviews and shed a lot of light on what was wrong with the movies. But for everything wrong with them, I still like them. Star Wars has always been cheesy. It was just less noticeably so than when I first saw the original trilogy when I was 12. And in comparison to the sequel trilogy which had stellar visuals, but had virtually no plot that wasn't a rehash of Episode 4, a rehash of episode 5, and an undoing of episode 8 and a rehash of episode 6. The prequels are great in comparison.
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dorium posted:I like pre-Fast and Furious, The Rock. He would play a bad guy, a dude who failed and got beat up a lot and didn’t look like an action figure from the 90’s. Now he sucks and is probably going to be president one day. I hear my liberal friends say they would like him to be president, then I point out that he's a republican and that they clearly know nothing of his politics, and they all look a little dejected when I say that.
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Did they ever release Drawing Restraint 9 on home video?
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Sniep posted:My Best Buy hasn't been replenishing their blu shelves the past few months except for just the chart-top new releases. All the back stock of blu rays seems to have dwindled down into box sets, anime and tv series. I remember doing seasonal work at Best Buy way back in 2005, and I was assigned to media, which included music, movies, and video games. It was massive, and took up more than half the center of the store (basically not the aisles along the sides). The CDs were maybe 5 rows, the video games were maybe 3 rows, but the DVDs were like 15 rows. DVDs were pretty much THE item that everybody was coming in to buy. I had customers come in with a list of like 30 movies they were looking to buy, and after asking about one or two, I'd just offer to take their list and grab everything for them. The customers loved me for this kind of stuff, My supervisor hated me for not pushing Napster subscriptions as stocking stuffers to grandmas who had no idea what Napster was. So it's crazy to me that that it's now gotten to a point where they're just doing away with physical media altogether. You'd think that maybe with the resurgence of vinyl records they'd try and put that in. I was shocked to see at what a large section of vinyls that Target has these days.
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wyoming posted:I've watched Voyage of the Rock Aliens, like, six times so far. I only heard about the movie from How Did This Get Made. It sounds wild
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CPL593H posted:Mystery Man also has a Doug Jones cameo. Is it a cameo or was he just briefly in it
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https://www.amazon.com/Memento-Widescreen-Two-Disc-Limited-Pearce/dp/B0000640SA There's this DVD of Memento that the menu was like a puzzle you had to solve. If you did it right, you could watch the movie in sequential order. Edit: Did not see the post above talking about the same DVD as me.
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GrandpaPants posted:A Station Eleven 4K just popped up on Amazon (that I found out through blu-ray.com). Is this legit or a bootleg? I can't seem to find any info on it online anywhere, but it's also a physical release of a TV show that I didn't really hear much about discourse wise. It's a good show that is getting dropped from HBO Max I believe
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abelwingnut posted:what are the best versions of planet earth/bbc nature documentaries in general? Maybe not what you're asking, but there are distinct releases, with Richard Attenborough narrating the British releases, and Sigourney Weaver and Oprah narrating the American ones. I made a point of getting the Richard Attenborough version of Planet Earth.
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zer0spunk posted:Censoring something for me like I'm not an adult with a brain, is annoying as hell yeah. It's not even consistent to boot. There was the problem for many years where they simply didn't have any black women in the cast with the exception of Danitra Vance and Yvonne Hudson, each for 1 year in the 80s, and Ellen Cleghorne for 4 years in the early 90s. So, whenever they needed a black woman in the sketch, they were often played by black men, particularly for Oprah or Star Jones. Maya Rudolph, being biracial, often played characters of many races, even Asian despite not being Asian, something they also later did with Fred Armisen who is also biracial, but not black and played Obama for years. It wasn't until the 2010s when they had more than one black woman in the cast at once, first with Sasheer Zamata and Leslie Jones, and now Ego Nwodim and Punkie Johnson.
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zer0spunk posted:If you want to really get mad, ellen has openly mentioned what her pay was during that four-year period. It's real hosed up Yeah, they've come a long way with gay representation. Kate McKinnon was the strongest person in the cast for years. And for the first time ever, there are currently at least 3 openly queer cast members, between Bowen, Punkie, and Molly. They've also had multiple gay writers, which has resulted in a large number of really funny overtly queer sketches written by people like Julio Torres and Chris Kelly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BONhk-hbiXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVH_I04ZrM (featuring an actual gay porn star)
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