Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:Patriot is great overall, but the first few episodes are pretty boring. I stopped watching for a while after episode 2 or 3 because I just didn’t care. But I went back to it eventually and then it really started getting good. Good to know. I bailed halfway through Ep 3 but keep seeing everyone in here real into it. I'll give it another go. Just finishing up "The Highwaymen" on Netflix right now, it's been a real treat. Good flick on Bonnie and Clyde, been enjoying the cars, set and costume work in addition to the rest of the quality.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2019 16:38 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 14:13 |
Raskolnikov2089 posted:Really weird seeing Marlo Stanfield as a cop in Bosch I like him in the role though. He's done well from season to season.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2019 14:10 |
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Tim Roth is a much better actor than Russel Crowe. Rob Roy is on streaming and honestly he's the only good part. The rest of it was just so sappy.
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# ¿ May 16, 2019 18:24 |
Got around to watching Bodyguard on Netflix. Pretty solid series. The last episode or two were good enough to recommend watching the whole season. Good crime / terrorist drama.
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# ¿ May 19, 2019 17:40 |
Sarchasm posted:Jason X is available on Netflix right now if you'd just like to skip to the best one. Hell yeah
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# ¿ May 23, 2019 10:39 |
BisterdDave posted:Just finished ep.2 of Chernobyl, this show is really drat good. The pacing is great and it manages to maintain it's suspense the whole time. Watching ep2 right now. That first scene is outstanding / something right out of a good horror film.
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# ¿ May 23, 2019 23:50 |
Yep
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# ¿ May 25, 2019 01:37 |
Frog Act posted:So I’m watching Better Call Saul and it’s like three shows at once: a good interpersonal drama show about a lawyer struggling with going legit, a good crime show about an ex-cop working as a fixer, and a poorly paced drama about a woman who is having problems with her boss Watched through S4 and I felt like I liked her character more and more? That Works fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 28, 2019 |
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# ¿ May 28, 2019 17:47 |
Inspector 34 posted:Isn't Ozark an Amazon Prime show, not Netflix? Netflix
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2019 18:34 |
Frog Act posted:so I have a slightly weird movie recommendation request: my favorite movie ever is Repo Man. I love stuff like Assault on Precinct 13, They Live, Death Wish, The Warriors, Escape from NY, etc and to a slightly lesser extent, Soylent Green and Omega Man. basically things from the 70's/80's that have synthesizer heavy soundtracks and an aesthetic focus on urban decay in the late 20th century, particularly in big urban areas. like, I watched Death Wish II last night (objectively a horrible movie that Ebert correctly gave 0 stars for lacking both stylistic merit and being "morally repulsive") and remembered why I liked it despite that stuff - the street scenes of urban decay in LA, where Kersey wanders around hunting the inexplicably multiracial rape gang of 80s syle punks. That Romero scene gets me too, glad to see am not alone. The rest of that movie I could care less about really but the opening act is interesting. Not sure if it really quite fits the bill but Strange Days might be like that a bit? Long time since I saw it. Miracle Mile also has some elements of that in there. Also Robocop, I don't care if you've seen it, it's always the right time to recommend Robocop.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 22:14 |
I haven't seen Streets of Fire either.... Thanks all
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2019 16:31 |
Skratchez posted:
Glad to see this. I really enjoyed RfaD the only time I saw it not long after it came out. I still remember a lot of details / specifics, it made an impact. But, I feel like it would be less interesting going back to see it at this point. I had thought a few times about doing so but never did. I think I'm content to just let it be what it was. Speaking of other things that didn't hold up well, I was in the unfortunate position to watch some of the Jay and Silent Bob movies recently and oof, they were already mediocre but that humor did not hold up at all. 'There's Something About Mary' might still be one of the fastest / worst movies that completely is tone deaf and bad now.
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2019 22:33 |
Skratchez posted:I used to love it when I was younger, saw it in theaters, owned the soundtrack (Thanks Mr. Reznor for introducing me to Leonard Cohen) but watching the opening "comedy" scene with Rodney Dangerfield and Juliette Lewis is now a lot harder than it was. I still think that Woody Harrelson was cast in "The Highwaymen" to make an interesting bookend to his role in NBK.
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2019 22:56 |
tetrapyloctomy posted:Season 1 had too many instances of people doing dumb stuff so the villain could escape again. It should have been a tight ten episodes. I feel similarly about season 3 so far, I'm maybe nine episodes in. S3 is basically 75% yelling at one character to just stop loving up and they keep loving up. "I told you about powers bro, I told you". It's good otherwise for some character development aspects but I feel like it let 1-2 of the sideplotlines just drop without good resolution or hints that it would go forward from where they were. Malcom and Hogarth both kinda ended on down notes but not really in a way that they learned or changed, nor in a way that hinted at anything changing for them after, seemed like the writers just decided to end their stories without a conclusion.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2019 00:07 |
Macdeo Lurjtux posted:To be fair, word is that both the showrunners and Netflix wanted to reduce the episode orders for all of the Marvel shows after The Defenders but Disney wouldn’t budge since they were getting paid a flat amount per episode. Which is funny because if they were shorter and of better quality I'd be tempted to stream them on Disney's eventual service but lmao hell no at buying yet another streaming platform subscription in 2019.
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2019 20:35 |
Basebf555 posted:Excalibur is on Starz, does that qualify for this thread? It's ridiculously good, I can't believe I waited this long to see it. It owns
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 02:59 |
Ever since I saw him in S1E1 of Justified Walton Goggins has owned. He's always typecast and a bit of a one note on that at times but man does he kill it whenever he gets a chance in a scene.
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2019 21:12 |
tweet my meat posted:I rewatched the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary and it still remains my favorite documentary of all time. It gets all the facts and events across effectively with a pretty clinical tone typical of a Ken Burns joint, but it doesn't fall into the same trap that the civil war one does of being too dry to binge through since it was recent enough to have footage and commentary from the people who were actually there which gives it the emotional aspect and visual flair that it needs to stay incredibly compelling. There are some truly chilling moments in there that really stick with you. It also has a relatively balanced perspective with commentary from the American, North Vietnamese, and South Vietnamese side, from military, civilian, and political points of view. I loved it but I think that Baseball still wins out for one of my favorite documentaries. I wish he'd come back and do another episode or two now that it's been another 20 yrs or so.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2019 14:43 |
Gringo Heisenberg posted:I have Canadian Netflix so I'm not too sure what would be available to you, but here's a super informal list I made years ago to recommend Korean movies to friends. They're mostly all really enjoyable unless it says otherwise. Hopefully this is ok to post: Quoting this so I can keep it for later, already bookmarked a few of these. Also just want to chime in that 'New World' was fantastic and everyone should watch it.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2019 12:55 |
Blast Fantasto posted:Movies should return to battle scenes in the style of John Boorman’s Excalibur: use a shitload of fog to cover for the lack of extras gently caress yes a lot more movies being like Excalibur would be awesome in a lot of ways.
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 22:49 |
Inspector Hound posted:It took multiple posts before I stopped thinking "I thought that movie was about that guy learning to drop his lisp or whatever" and being confused
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# ¿ Nov 12, 2019 13:28 |
I've enjoyed the newest trilogy stuff so far. That said, Rogue One was the best SW film since the originals imo.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2019 13:37 |
I'm also just watching The Shield for the 1st time. S1 was kinda... meh. The individual episode stories were mostly boring or not very compelling but the S1 overall story arc was good enough to stay in. By the time it gets halfway through S2 though it's really up and humming. I just finished up S3 yesterday. Also watching it mostly because I like Walton Goggins a lot and had also heard just how good the ending is, definitely did not click on the spoiler above.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 02:29 |
lurker2006 posted:At a certain point I just started skipping all the episodic procedural stuff with Dutch and Claudette. In S2/S3 I'm really enjoying the Dutch and Claudette banter / mutual respect except for when out of nowhere Dutch kills the stray cat... wtf... wtf... Later on he adopts a kitten, please tell me Dutch doesn't become a psychopath .
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 12:42 |
The Vosgian Beast posted:There was a nixed storyline where Dutch becomes/turns out to be a serial killer. Ok good, because watching Dutch become a pretty douchey (but self aware about it) character that does legit good work and learns from / stands up for Claudette has been fun to watch. He didn't need to be perfect but him being a villain would just be... unnecessary? There's already a bunch of bad cops.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 18:40 |
wizardofloneliness posted:Dutch the serial killer is an extremely stupid and hilarious idea. Dutch works as a character because he’s kind of an elitist dick who looks down on certain people, but he’s also a legitimately good detective and a relatively moral person (for a cop) who cares about doing things the right way. Dutch and Claudette are the counterparts to the Strike Team, making him a serial killer is nothing but pure shock value. Yeah that's exactly how I feel about it too so far. Dutch is an interesting character whose a dick but learns and respects Claudette while still kinda being self aware about being a jackass and puffs himself up because of his insecurity. The whole time he's actually good at his job and gets stuff done. Having him be a closet serial killer would just be a dumb waste of a pretty interesting character. Too many villains already.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 21:57 |
Jose Oquendo posted:Out of all the things in The Shield my favorite moment is when the strike team gets video of Dutch singing a Duran Duran song in the car and then they bust his balls about it. Just starting S4 and of course Vic is an antivaxxer, of course he is. This is not a story arc I expected.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2019 00:12 |
Nihonniboku posted:I think some of you aren't going to be happy until we get a Star Wars show done by David Simon about the underground sex trade of Coruscant, trafficking twi'lek sex slaves, funded by death sticks money, from the gritty streets of Level 1313, all the way to the upper echelons of power in the Galactic Senate.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2019 02:57 |
I'm resigned to just going to at this point because shits only going to get dumber and its more expensive and more annoying to track down stuff between upwards of 5+ different streaming services just to watch a show or movie.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2019 03:08 |
I think less of Netflix. https://www.axios.com/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-saudi-arabia-cebc8a3c-f7c5-4a5e-8009-871fe65c541b.html
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2019 11:00 |
Punkin Spunkin posted:Not sure why having a bunch of more expensive shittier Netflixes is "less of a hassle" than piracy. This
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 12:22 |
veni veni veni posted:Honestly I wonder if streaming services will eventually drive a bunch of people back to piracy as everything gets split up. I think the reason they have been so successful has been that they are good. But if it's a 30 different services that add up to more than cable and all have their own apps...who knows? I mean, I've said I'm going back to piracy because of it. I'm not spending the same amount this coming year on streaming stuff to get less than I did previously which is what has already occurred.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2019 01:17 |
Als self deprecating one liners hold up somewhat well.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 01:25 |
Medullah posted:I mean, guys my age didn't care about any of that. It was all about Kelly Bundy. *howls and cat-calls from studio audience*
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 14:25 |
old.flv posted:The second season of You is some of the worst tv I have ever watched Turn on your TV lol E: alternatively yes, you are the worst thing I've watched (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 16:34 |
A good part of S4 of The Expanse was they took out one of the more annoying plot lines of the book. The 4th book was the weakest of the series so far and S4 isn't as good as S3 (still quite good imo) but it's a nice upgrade from the plotlines of the book which is pretty cool. I'm glad they gave them the creative control to make those changes.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 16:25 |
MacheteZombie posted:What was that plotline? The Elvi character being super in love with Holden. e: it was a big fangirl / crush thing that they kept alluding to in her private monologues etc. It was just a kinda lovely part of the book that made it more mediocre compared to the rest.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 17:08 |
Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm going to put this in spoiler tags: Huh usually Keaton plays a villain.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 03:15 |
Fantasy is mainstream now I guess. The Witcher has been fun at least.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 14:02 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 14:13 |
ChickenMedium posted:He's like a budget Michael Shannon, which is still pretty good! Christopher Lee imo
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 14:45 |