I really enjoyed Continuum. Maybe started off a bit slow but midway through the 2nd season and through the 3rd was top notch time travel sci-fi.
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I really enjoyed Continuum. Maybe started off a bit slow but midway through the 2nd season and through the 3rd was top notch time travel sci-fi.
Some of the last of Leonard Nimoy. [/sheds tear]Quote:
Originally Posted by powpig
edit: in my previous post here I was totally off the rails in my response.
Just started season 3. Good mini series. Man, Rachel Nichols is fucking hot!Quote:
Originally Posted by powpig
Yeah, that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
I want more and looks like I'll get my wish. They've announced a final 6 episodes starting in September.
Netflix is pretty slim for July (they seem to be skewing much more towards series than movies).
http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/whats...july-2015.html
However, The Guest is popping up on July 25th.
This flick is a sweet homage to '80s low-budget action/sci-fi films (think Dolph Lundgren/Jean Claude Van Damme/Steven Segal classics). It's from Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the director/writer duo responsible for You're Next. I'm really vibing on their grasp of '80s action thrillers and horror films, from the storylines, to the characters, and music. This one is teeming with all kinds of classic genre spins from secret government projects to lottsa Halloween (amongst others) references.
Oh yeah, it stars the chick from It Follows.
Come out to plaaayeyea!!! Just posted to NF.
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"Legit" with Jim Jefferies is absolutely hilarious. 20 or so episodes. Brilliant.
"The Life of Riley" BB King bio.
Primer back on.
Best homemade time machine movie. evah.
'Point and Shoot' documentary is fascinating, I thought it was going to be about a manly man going to Libya to fight in the Arab spring. I was very wrong.
Elite squad movies are fantastic. Gritty movies and social commentary about Brazilian justice system. First one was probably a little better, but second still packed a punch
I haven't seen the first one, but found the second one to be just okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat
that said, I got trumped last night by making the ill-fated decision to watch The Expendables 3. What a travesty that film is. Everybody, with the exception of Jasan Statham, seems to just be walking through the film on autopilot, collecting a paycheck. Mel G. comes off as desperate with his overacting, super villain ham schtick, and the whole shebang is rife with really bad CG effects. Snipes looks really weird, like he's had some sort of plastic surgery (or just favors wearing eyeliner and lip liner), meanwhile Stallone is stone faced and delivers flat one-liners with no sense of timing whatsover, and Dolph L., who was the only saving grace in E2, thanks to his deft, deadpan comedic timing, is relegated to just chewing gum and blowing things up in this film.
Honestly, it shouldn't be that hard to recapture the glory days of '80s action films (Adam Wingrad and Simon Barrett managed to do so in The Guest, so it's not impossible)...
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Originally Posted by dookey67
Did you find the constant narrative over done, and distracting? That was my only gripe. I say Let the movie roll and we'll figure it out..... I don't remember the first one having so much narration
I'll second that. Watched it front to back many times, great movie, awesome re-watch value.Quote:
Originally Posted by otto parts
I am so close to just cancelling my Netflix subscription.
Hey, you know that good movie that came out a while ago? Yeah, it's not added yet. It came out a year ago!!!
I'm enjoying using my Dad's HBO Go password. 7 Days in Hell was awesome. Fuck slut.
Amazon prime isn't much better.
I liked two BBC detective shows that are on Netflix - Luther and Broadchurch. Luther, in particular, was very well written.
I liked Broadchurch. Season 2 should be on Netflix in 2020.
The entertainment industry as a whole still seems obsessed with shiny disks. At least the music industry is learning.
I watched this last night. Hipster concept but I got to hear The Staves for the first time. They are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_6GaUYm9N4
I thought it was quite hit and miss. Mostly miss. Such a good idea but really badly executed.Quote:
Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn
got sucked into the British soap opera Being Human. I dunno what it is, but the Brits really know how to do soap operas (and dramas) with a twist (as do the New Zealanders: see The Almighty Johnsons).
A large part of it for me is the language, particularly the slang and pop culture references.
I dig Agents of Shield, really good fluff.
Byzantium is popping up on August 27th...
it's a moody and beautifully shot vampire yarn directed by Neil Jordan (The Company of Wolves; Mona Lisa; The Crying Game; Interview with the Vam,pire). It's a bit in the vein of Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive.
try bottle shockQuote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
I'd you are in need of some good ole fashioned comedic laughs..
Step 1: watch the original wet hot American summer
Step2: watch the recently released prequel to wet hot American summer
Fucking hilarious
I was surprised that Hurt Locker sucked ass. I've seen well done camera-shake to heighten the tension, but this was different, I couldn't get past the first half hour due to the over-the-top camera work. Netflix needs a 'stabilize footage' button for movie likes this and for Michael Bay movies.
I am a broken record...mind of a chef season three is fanfucking tastic. Thought provoking and philosophical tact this go around. It will also make you hungee.
I stumbled upon The Good Guys, a buddy cop actioncom starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks.
Whitford, who is perhaps best known for playing slimey weasels and complete douchebags in a fair amount of the stuff he acts in (Eric Gordon in Billy Madison, amongst other characters over the years) as well as playing cocksure suits (The West Wing, amongst others), owns this series, playing an over-the-top, stuck in the '70s/'80s cop; his schtick--thick mustache, gum-chewing, out-dated sexist comments, dimwitted bravado--for some reason has me in stiches each episode.
The show, as a whole, is pretty cliche, but Whitford is so mezmerizing it keeps me watching; he's part Smokey and the Bandit-era Burt Reynolds and part Sledge Hammer/Frank Drebin.
Sadly, it was cancelled after just one season, but if nothing else it showcased Whitford's deft comedic timing and brazen satiric side.
who is the chef in season 3? I am in the middle of season 2, but don't like April Bloomfield as much as I liked Sean Brock and didn't like Brock as much as I liked David Chang.Quote:
Originally Posted by stompinlines
Magnus Nilsson and Ed Lee.
David Chang shoes are big to fill.
Yeah, I really dig him, think he'd be fun to just get drunk with (and eat, of course). he just seems like a dude I could know who also happens to be brilliant with food. My wife, however, finds him very boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by stompinlines
The House I Live In.
An amazingly powerful documentary on the war on drugs. Must watch.
I am recommending The Taking of Tiger Mountain not because it's an awesome movie, but because it has some really funky and hella cool (as in visually striking) skiing segments in it. The segments are like a cross between The Spy Who Loved Me opening sequence and the schuss scenes in The Grand Budapest Hotel. Also, the skis they are using (at least when the skiers are standing around prepping to ski) look fat and are rockered, which causes me to wonder how historically accurate they are (the film is based on a 1957 novel, which was subsequently turned into a popular Peking Opera, but also some points of the book and film are based on actual events, from what I can gather via the Webz).
The film, for those concerned with such things, is directed by Tsui Hark, who is like the Hong Kong equivalent of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese (he is responsible for such seminal HK films as Peking Opera Blues; Once Upon A Time In China; plus he produced John Woo's early classics The Killer and A Better Tomorrow, amongst many others). As for the plot and whatnot, it's kind of like a Chinese version of The Guns of Navarone and/or Force 10 From Navarone.
Wyrmwood. Low budget zombie flick. Pretty good, not great but not horrible.
Totally concur.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
Wyrmwood ain't half-bad; i'd give it a strong 3*'s.
Owes a debt to the likes of Night of the Comet, Undead, Dead Alive, and Road Warrior (the latter for costume/production design). Pretty solid modern day Ozploitation zombie flick with a coupla nice twisted twists/ideas, just enough to keep it fresh and entertaining.
In case this hasn't been mentioned yet, it's streaming now.Quote:
Originally Posted by SugarGnarGnar
Narcos has started off pretty solid so far. I'd recommend.
The other day I was listening to DJ Z-Trip and DJ P's Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 mix CD and track 4 was a mash of the music from The Warriors, which recently popped up on my Netflix queue as a recommendation.
I've seen the flick a few times, but hearing the soundtrack snippets prompted me to re-watch it the other night.
While a bit hokey by today's standards, it still holds up in quite a few spots.
The score is classic, aggressive electronic '80s, which has been making a comeback in films like Drive.
The opening sequence is pretty solid as it jump cuts from The Warriors discussing whether or not to go to The Bronx and shots of all the other gangs heading to the conclave.
The great chase between the Furies and The Warriors through the park is especially intense, culminating with a massive baseball bat melee.
And the radio station voiceover narration is still seminal, thanks to the smoky voice of Lynne "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" Thigpen (I mean this part of the film is so seminal/cool, it was jacked by Spike Lee in Do The Right Thing).
If you haven't seen it, it's worth the watch.
I learned that it was actually based on a novel by Sol Yurick.
I have also heard rumor that they are remaking it, but basing it in Los Angeles (a travesty, if you ask me...Hollywood needs to leave the bonafide cult classics alone).
The remastered Lawrence of Arabia
just premiered. Stunning film, perhaps the best ever made. If some of you groms haven't seen it, make some popcorn and settle in for 3:42.
Going Clear. Nice look into Scientology.
Holy Fuckballs.
Travolta and Cruise are top shelf lunatics.