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RestingB1tchFace posted:There were several people with different conclusions. Everyone had someone else to blame for what happened. But everybody wants a boogeyman. I think it was pretty simple. A couple hundred thousand hormonal early 20s people....in lovely conditions....listening to aggressive music all day. Thats the thing though. None of the woodstocks were ever planned great at all. A good thing this doc does is address how bad things were in the original (while somewhat ignoring 94). Woodstock was a nightmare each time. Its a miracle they cancelled the latest one honestly.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Thats the thing though. None of the woodstocks were ever planned great at all. A good thing this doc does is address how bad things were in the original (while somewhat ignoring 94). Woodstock was a nightmare each time. Its a miracle they cancelled the latest one honestly. Right. Which is why my first paragraph contained the following: "I think it was pretty simple. A couple hundred thousand hormonal early 20s people....in lovely conditions....listening to aggressive music all day."
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You're too young to understand if you didn't live through the Bum Song TRL controversy. The defining moment of my micro generation.
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Jul 26, 2021 03:15
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:You're to young to understand if you didn't live through the Bum Song TRL controversy. The defining moment of my micro generation. I remember it vaguely. Tom Green. Was it that it was on the top 10 for too long and MTV eventually pulled it?
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Jul 26, 2021 03:20
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Nihonniboku posted:I remember it vaguely. Tom Green. Was it that it was on the top 10 for too long and MTV eventually pulled it? Didn’t MTV have Green “retire” it because they had pre-taped a bunch of episodes and that song wasn’t a part of it? They wanted to pretend that Total Request Live was actually a live show
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Deadite posted:Didn’t MTV have Green “retire” it because they had pre-taped a bunch of episodes and that song wasn’t a part of it? They wanted to pretend that Total Request Live was actually a live show Never heard that theory! The whole history of TRL is fascinating. MTV's most popular VJ was Simon Rex who they were promoting big going into their MTV Summer House or whatever. Then suddenly despite all the promotion, he was suddenly gone. Turned out they fired him because when he was 18 he did some porn, which was just videos of him jacking off (and later spoofed by Broad City). So, MTV needing a hot new young guy, they brought Carson Daly, a radio DJ, to do their summer stuff. He did well, so they hired him full time. He started hosting a show called Total Request which was a top 10 countdown show at like 9PM. He also started hosting MTV Live which was a standard talk show that aired at I think 5PM. Eventually they merged the two into Total Request Live. And now Carson Daly is a cohost of The Today Show.
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Nihonniboku posted:Never heard that theory! The whole history of TRL is fascinating. MTV's most popular VJ was Simon Rex who they were promoting big going into their MTV Summer House or whatever. Then suddenly despite all the promotion, he was suddenly gone. Turned out they fired him because when he was 18 he did some porn, which was just videos of him jacking off (and later spoofed by Broad City).
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How are u posted:Equilibrium was phenomenally cool to 15 year old me and my buddies. Hell yeah. Also Jet Li's The One. I'd kind of like to see the version of The One that was intended to be for the Rock, but I'm pretty sure we got the superior one.
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ram dass in hell posted:combining a few different topics, the best and most embarrassing example of this I can think of is Tay Diggs getting his face/off moment in Equilibrium, just getting slashed and then slowly turning around as my face slides off, it's called acting! The only thing more embarrassing than the effects of the face sliding off is the immediately following serial shot where the severed face is just a 2d bitmap rendered in the floor.
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Jul 26, 2021 04:37
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Blood Red Sky is loving badass. It's a plane hijacking thriller with one massive loving twist on the formula that really makes things interesting.
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tweet my meat posted:Blood Red Sky is loving badass. It's a plane hijacking thriller with one massive loving twist on the formula that really makes things interesting. Seconding this, really good horror film.
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Re:Woodstock 99 Looking back I'm pretty surprised that I didn't end up there. I was like 16 and very much in that young white rear end in a top hat demographic and I was super into all that music. What is pretty striking is that Rage is right up there in the middle of all these horrible misogynistic acts with a great leftist message that didn't really seem to get through other than "we're also angry about poo poo" mcmagic fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jul 26, 2021 |
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How are u posted:Equilibrium was phenomenally cool to 15 year old me and my buddies. Hell yeah. Also Jet Li's The One. I specifically remember convincing my friends at a LAN party that we should watch Equilibrium, not The One, even though they hadn't heard of it. So we huddled around the biggest CRT and watched some lovely VCD rip of it and loved it. Yes it's dumb as hell but it takes itself seriously enough to suspend disbelief a bit.
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it is extremely funny how many ex-MTV VJs are now right wing pundits my mum had a bunch of tapes of 120 Minutes and I loved Dave Kendall growing up. Just the most goofy british dude ever. Some industrial band even made a song about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NMl3wgf4xU he was so much better than Matt Pinfield. ugh that guy looked like a creepy pedophile 
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tweet my meat posted:Blood Red Sky is loving badass. It's a plane hijacking thriller with one massive loving twist on the formula that really makes things interesting. ndnikola posted:Seconding this, really good horror film.
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Early into season 3 of Highlander, and while I just kind of accepted the video quality being complete poo poo as "well, it's an old show", I only just now realized that every episode has cropped. Didn't realize it until some text on screen was cut off halfway at the bottom. Did a bit of searching and the original aspect ratio of the show is 1.33:1 and they've blown it up and cut off the top and bottom to fit 16:9. Apparently every streaming service has this hot trash version of the show available, only way to watch it untouched is to buy the DVDs which are out of print, and a bluray version has been "coming soon" since 2009.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Hmm maybe ill actually blaze up and watch it then, i was pondering doing that ln but then i saw a bunch of people panning it on letterbox. I'm watching it now and it's 2 hours long, and it's very slow to start so far
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I decided to watch the 2005 Hitchhiker's Guide since it's on HBO, and I kind of like it more than when it was originally released. Maybe it's because it's been a while since I watched a movie that was willing to be silly for silliness sake. The John Malkovich role still feels a bit too menacing and nasty for the source material though.
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It’s a bad adaptation of the book, but they were never going to be able to replicate that voice and tone perfectly and with that in mind it’s a pretty solid silly sci-fi comedy. The actual Guide segments are the highlight, the cast is good, and all the sets and aliens look great. I’m a little surprised it hasn’t developed a cult following in the years since, but part of that is probably the lingering “it butchered the books!” sentiment from folks who’ve never rewatched it.
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The H2G2 movie deserves more love that it gets. Sure, it doesn't follow the book, but the book doesn't follow the radio show.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s a bad adaptation of the book, but they were never going to be able to replicate that voice and tone perfectly and with that in mind it’s a pretty solid silly sci-fi comedy. The actual Guide segments are the highlight, the cast is good, and all the sets and aliens look great. I know this is a streaming thread. But anyone who really enjoys Hitchhikers Guide and also likes podcasts....."Mission to Zyxx" is an comedy podcast that is a ton like Hitchhikers Guide. I'm actually guessing that it was the exact influence behind it. But it's fantastic all around. Unfortunately in it's last season though......
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Edward Mass posted:The H2G2 movie deserves more love that it gets. Sure, it doesn't follow the book, but the book doesn't follow the radio show.
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The HHG movie was absolutely dreadful. Had some solid casting and puppetry, though.
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The HHGttG movie has its merits- I do like how Trillian gets fleshed out and there’s a lot of visual inventiveness even if the wit of Adams’ writing doesn’t always translate. I would like to see some visualization of the shoe event horizon though.
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm watching it now and it's 2 hours long, and it's very slow to start so far
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Punkin Spunkin posted:You end up finishing it? Thoughts? It was alright once it finally got going. The plot does some neat things but I didn't think the action was anything special. I liked the ending and thought the kid actor was really good. Overall neat concept but didn't live up to what I hoped it would it be.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Underworld is on Netflix and it might be the most mid 00's movie ever made. kate beckinsale is literally too hot to believe in this movie. it is frankly out of this world and should be against the law. period.
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tweet my meat posted:Blood Red Sky is loving badass. It's a plane hijacking thriller with one massive loving twist on the formula that really makes things interesting. lol, my netflix preview image spoils the twist.
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Finally got around to watching Giri/Haji on Netflix, and I really really liked it. I was pretty shocked at how tonally inconsistent it felt at times, but mulling it over that seems pretty obviously intentional. The whole thing is about clashes, between obligations (like in the title whoooa), cultures, siblings, gangs, etc., and I'm really pretty impressed at how hard they committed to the entire style of the show zig-zagging around wildly to match that. It can still be hard for me to accept melodramatic gunfight stuff when it starts to completely abandon any sense of realism, but it still somehow walked that fine line and worked for me.
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Tagichatn posted:lol, my netflix preview image spoils the twist. I mean, it features prominently in the trailer. I think it's more the premise than the twist.
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i hate the HHGG movie because it's so close to being Actually Great. Arthur, Trillian, Ford and Zaphod were perfectly cast and had good chemistry. Especially Ford - he's the kind of character it's really hard to get right without just being LOLRANDOM, and both Mos Def and the guy who played him in the old BBC one did great jobs but yeah it's a bit funny that the big hollywood one with all the money in the world couldn't even manage to be as good as the BBC one which literally spent its entire budget on Zaphod's second head, which promptly broke after like 2 scenes
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Smythe posted:kate beckinsale is literally too hot to believe in this movie. it is frankly out of this world and should be against the law. period. facts
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I'm on the 4th episode of Domina, the new historical Rome series. I'm convinced this is the true successor to I, Claudius. No fight scenes, no cool visuals, just endless bickering and scheming and family drama.
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It's funny yall say that cuz I was watching Kate Beckinsale's new prime original action movie Jolt (big stupid energy, i just heard some comparisons to Crank and Atomic Blonde so im sticking thru it in expectation of some action spectacle...I'll prolly be disappointed but hey only 90 minutes) and i just about guffawed when her character was like "Not really used to being called cute."
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Underworld movies, they took a topic that should be good fun and managed to make a 5 movie series that are joyless, confusing, and boring. I was watching The Lawnmower Man (directors cut), it was a very poorly received movie but I enjoyed it. Long though, but I liked Brosnan playing against type.
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Do not watch Jolt incidentally, cheap as gently caress looking, garbage everything, script, acting, sets, everything...but its greatest sin is that for a revenge action film it doesn't even have 10 seconds of compelling action. No exaggeration. Not even a single scene or moment of fun or entertaining action. There are so many bad action movies and third tier John Wicks that at least have an entertaining sequence. Nope. Not even five seconds. All of the action looks stupid, fake, slow, cheap, badly shot, etc. Its concept of "smart" is like, saying some trivia or a vocab word or whatever and then tediously defining it. Its concept of "witty" is even worse. I also don't think it knows what the word "masochist" means. It seriously makes Ultraviolet look fantastic and intelligent by comparison. Ultraviolet has an aesthetic and choreography, and a less obnoxious script! The only credit i give it is, I guess, that the ultimate big bad is the CIA There's also inexplicably a very loud background extra talking about David Mamet for some reason lol Watch anything else. I can say with certainty that any Resident Evil film chosen at random would be more entertaining.
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Brutal. Also Hitchhiker's Guide is a good movie. Superfans were always salty but it's great.
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I remember taking my father to see Hitchhikers Guide in theatres when I was in high school & he said he was more blown away seeing that than he was seeing the first Star Wars in the theaters in the 70s
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Cafe Barbarian posted:I was watching The Lawnmower Man (directors cut), it was a very poorly received movie but I enjoyed it. Long though, but I liked Brosnan playing against type. This was another recent first watch for me and I was completely riveted from beginning to end. What an excellent movie. Knew about it when it first came out but word of mouth was so bad I never watched it.
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