My Netflix Queue is Empty
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Posted on: 2010-05-27 15:56 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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A funny story about that one, One of my film professors got a job at a campus in Wisconsin and watched this film prior to moving there, which almost made her not take the job because she thought Wisconsites were strange, strange people. And well...we are, but not nearly as bad as it seems in American Movie...
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
American Movie- about an amateur (very amateur) filmmaker trying to make a horror movie. Only something real can be this odd. A fun fun movie.
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To be fair, he's not really acting. His role really is that of a more passive Hamlet who's just observing everything around him going to hell. Most of the time, he's just required to stand there and vapidly stare at stuff happening.
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Originally Posted by Starflier
In Bruges (Amazing dark comedy, who knew Colin Farrel could act?)
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"If you're going through hell, keep going."
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I've actually seen a few episodes, and I can confirm that it's *HILLARIOUS*. Especially if you've ever worked Tech Support.
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Originally Posted by Foundsavant
Feeling British? The IT Crowd: Seasons 1-3. Very surprised that I don't read or see more about this show in my general web crawling. Maybe I need to expand my territory, but regardless, an excellent show.
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I agree somewhat with the acting, but only to a point. The cast is great (especially Gabriel), and Keanu isn't embarrasing. My main problem is that I STILL don't buy Keanu as Constatine, if only because Constantine was drawn to look like Sting.|
Originally Posted by Quasadu Re: Constantine: I saw maybe 15 minutes of this somewhere near the end I think and remember thinking it was visually interesting but poorly written and acted. |
I prefer the comic book ending over the one in the movie, but overall I really liked this...and if Keanu is in a movie I'm generally not interested unless he's playing Neo and (BillorTed).
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my recommendation isn't a movie sadly but its miniseries ,ya know one of those three night event things?|
Originally Posted by Quasadu
Help me fill it up.
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but i'm not sure on how many discs it is.
anyway the name of it is
The lost room (2006)
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After Detective Joe Miller finds a key that opens a mysterious motel room, he discovers it's a portal to an alternate universe when his young daughter Anna disappears inside.
Desperate to retrieve the key and save her, Miller comes up against a host of bizarre characters who also want access to the room. Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Dennis Christopher and Margaret Cho co-star in this eerie fantasy.
i saw it one time and rather enjoyed .
the lost room
i did not write for the above series ,but i recommend it.
but i would like to say thanks to the mentions of a couple of films i did write
Here is just a few
CULT: Dark City A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans. (Fun Art Deco Scifi)
DRAMA: The Last Picture Show Introducing Jeff Bridges, Cybil Shepard, Randy Quaid: A group of 50's high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally. (well done slice of life drama)
DOCUMENTARY: Visions of Light Great Cinematography of 20th century. (If you love movies, you'll love this doc.)
CLASSIC: Lawrence of Arabia (Amazing! Just amazing. If you haven't' seen it. Do so.)
Foreign: La jetée Source for 12 monkeys, a 1962 French time travel movie told mainly through still photography. (Just a gem of a movie)
Gone Baby Gone
Pan's Labyrinth
3:10 to Yuma
Hard Candy
Anything by Hayao Miyazaki, but Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are the two most recommended from me.
I don't like very much anime, but I really enjoyed My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso and Wings of Honneamise. The last one is quite different from a lot of anime in that it tells the story of an alternate Earth's first astronauts trying to get into space amidst a war. Very much an old school science fiction tale.
Same deal with cartoons, but I actually quite enjoyed Spectacular Spider-man, which has good writing, excellent story development and superb acting. Bonus is the very good direction. Plus the stories develop over a number of episodes. Some are better than others, of course, but overall it's a definite recommendation.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
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TV would be great too. I've been watching more of that than movies though, so finding something I haven't seen may not be as easy. |
Originally Posted by Rodoan
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@Quasadu
"We must prepare for DOOM and hope for FREEM." - SirFrederick
Let's see here.
1: Really bad acting B budget mockbuster Transmorphers. Don't watch if you are looking for decent cinema. I compare this to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
2: St. Trinians School for Bad Girls
3: Torchwood and Primeval are on netflix, and they are both on instant view as well.
4: The Maiden Heist. Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, and the actor that played the Shoveler are all security guards in a museum trying to steal their favorite piece of work before it's shipped off.
5: Hardwired. Cuba Gooding Jr. in a cyperpunk-ish world. The special effects reminded me of what a hacker should have been able to do.
6: Law Abiding Citizen. Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. A really intense thriller.
7: Gunsword is on instant view as well. A good anime, as is Exile.
Oh yeah. Grosse Pointe Blanke. For a realistic fight scene, it had one of the best fight scenes I have seen. And proof that the pen is mightier than the sword.
Wow, tons of good stuff waiting for me this morning. Here comes another long post of replies that are too short. Again I won't comment on everything since that would take forever, but thanks for all the suggestions and I am sure I will be checking out a lot of these!
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I started watching Gamers: Dorkness Rising, and thought it would suck horribly because of the film quality. It actually turned out to be a great little film. Must see for a DnD player.
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King of Kong is also excellent.
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1. The Usual Suspects.
2. L.A. Confidential. Good cop, bad cop, ?? cop. 3. Reservoir Dogs. Bang, bang, bleed, bleed. |
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Originally Posted by Foundsavant
Seems that you like Zombie movies, try American Zombie. It's a mockumentary, so not as dry as some documentary's can be. Fictional and engaging with strong character development.
A weird listing if you haven't already seen it. Bubba Ho-Tep. Stars Bruce Campbell as an aging Elvis living his twilight years in a nursing home. Oh yeah, and a mummy wants to eat his soul. |
Bubba Ho-Tep is another one that I always meant to see but never got around to.
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Given this is a forum revolving around a game based on Superheros I feel I would be remiss not to mention Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog. |
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Feeling British? The IT Crowd: Seasons 1-3. Very surprised that I don't read or see more about this show in my general web crawling. Maybe I need to expand my territory, but regardless, an excellent show. |
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Originally Posted by LiquidX
I've actually seen a few episodes, and I can confirm that it's *HILLARIOUS*. Especially if you've ever worked Tech Support.
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Originally Posted by minago
my recommendation isn't a movie sadly but its miniseries ,ya know one of those three night event things?
but i'm not sure on how many discs it is. anyway the name of it is The lost room (2006) |
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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
Gone Baby Gone
Pan's Labyrinth 3:10 to Yuma Hard Candy Anything by Hayao Miyazaki, but Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are the two most recommended from me. |
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Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
4: The Maiden Heist. Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, and the actor that played the Shoveler are all security guards in a museum trying to steal their favorite piece of work before it's shipped off.
5: Hardwired. Cuba Gooding Jr. in a cyperpunk-ish world. The special effects reminded me of what a hacker should have been able to do. |
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Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
Oh yeah. Grosse Pointe Blanke.
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Thanks everybody!
@Quasadu
"We must prepare for DOOM and hope for FREEM." - SirFrederick
Apparently, I have added too much reputation in the last 24 hours because of this thread. You guys rock.
@Quasadu
"We must prepare for DOOM and hope for FREEM." - SirFrederick
A movie I have recommended to many people is The Emperor's Club. Keven Klien is a teacher in a boy's boarding school in 1977. As part of a competition, certain moral choices are made. Twenty years later, the group of grown men get together, and you see the results of that moral choice. It may not sound exciting, but just about everyone I have recommended it to has gotten back to me thanking me for the recommendation. The DVD even has an "extra" of a college ethics class discussing aspects of the movie.
You have probably seen them, but Galaxy Quest and Idiocracy. Idiocracy has become one of my favorite "quotable" movies, since we see so many situations every day that are spoofed in it.
LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
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Brick - Film noir conventions applied to a very modern mystery set around a high school. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is surprisingly effective as the hard-boiled loner looking to the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr. is a petty thief who stumbles into a movie audition and winds up being flown out to Hollywood to star in a movie. Val Kilmer is the private detective hired to give him detective lessons. Naturally they quickly find themselves involved in a murder case and hijinks ensue.
You Kill Me - Ben Kingsley is an alcoholic hitman who screws up a job and gets sent to San Francisco to get his act together by going to AA while working in a funeral home.
Black Snake Moan - I almost didn't link the trailer for this one because I think it's pretty misleading. This film was marketed as a 70's-style blaxsploitation/woman-in-trouble movie but it's actually got a bit more depth. Samuel L. Jackson plays a farmer in the Deep South who finds a beat up, drugged out, half naked Christina Ricci lying in the road in front of his farm. The two have serious issues that they're working through and ultimately they come to help each other.
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." -- Dinobot
Going with TV series, if you haven't seen them, check out:
The Critic: Focuses on film critic Jay Sherman (Voiced by John Lovitz). As well as making many awesome movie parodies (Many which still hold up today), there's various other subplots, and some *really* great characters, like Jay's super rich and powerfull boss Duke Phillips (Birds seem to really like the sound of his voice).
Exo-Squad: a great cartoon taking place in the future, focusing on an uprising of Neo-Sapiens, genetically created humanoids. Features some really bitchin Mech designs.
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles: A CGI series based on both the original novel and the film adaptation. (Which means both the Power Armor Suits and the "Skinnies" are featured)
The Lookout- (Another Joseph Gordon-Levitt project) a small town thriller about a former high school star athlete who's life took a turn for the worse. Isla Fischer takes a stab at drama as a steamy love interest.
500 Days of Summer- JGL as well. The indy romantic comedy. Watch this with the significant other if you're looking for mixed viewing.
Sunshine Cleaning- Watch Amy Adams and Emily Blunt clean up crime scenes to make extra cash.
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TV
Californication- watch a famous writer bent on complete and utter self destruction. Duchovony is incredibly convincing as a major league F*** up.
United States of Tara- what can be more fun than a show about multiple personalities? One starring John Corbett and Toni Collette written by Diablo Cody. It's quirky and smart.
Northern Exposure- Speaking of John Corbett This jewel from the early 90s about a NY doctor forced to practice in Alaska.
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First, I have to add one I forgot to list before, True Romance. It's written, but not directed by Tarantino. The Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken scene alone is worth renting it for.|
Originally Posted by MentalMaden
500 Days of Summer- JGL as well. The indy romantic comedy. Watch this with the significant other if you're looking for mixed viewing.
Sunshine Cleaning- Watch Amy Adams and Emily Blunt clean up crime scenes to make extra cash. |
Sunshine Cleaning was good, but not great. I have a soft spot for Amy Adams, so it helped. She was amazing in Junebug, but the rest of that movie didn't do enough for me.
Loved (500)Days of Summer expect for one thing, but that one thing is a huge spoiler....
No really, if you haven't seen the movie and have some desire to do so, avoid this part.
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I can't accept that during the 500 days she has this affair with this guy and then even before the 500 days are over she's engaged to another guy. Add is her personality and it's just too much of a cheap shot to prove a point for me. Yes, I know people who got engaged after knowing each other a rather short period of time. I know a couple who got engaged three months after meeting and are still married years later with kids. The twist still doesn't sit well with me.
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One of my favorite movies of all time. BUT probably more for how it was filmed/edited than the story itself. Also the DVD we have has an extra with the story told in chronological order and it honestly is horrible to me. So I don't recommend watching the extras first. lol|
Originally Posted by RedSwitchblade
Memento - Entire movie happens in segments, chronologically backwards. Meant to help you identify with the main character, who has no short term memory. People you liked at the beginning of the movie are revealed for their motives at the end, which of course would have been a very boring movie if played forward. This movie is one of my all-time favorites.
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Oh I recently watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - a WWII movie based around a Nazi Officer's family in charge of a concentration camp. The only thing is his family has no idea what exactly he does other than be a great patriot... They find out the hard way... I thought this was very well made and had a great story... bring tissue.
I also liked Snatch. Which if you like Layer Cake you will probably enjoy this.
A couple not mentioned so far:
On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan's classic about union corruption on the docks starring Marlon Brando. I can guarantee that even if you haven't seen the movie, you know quotes from it from watching Bugs Bunny. Brilliant film.
The Man from Earth- a very quirky science fiction movie with must have had the cheapest budget ever- yet it wasn't a bad thing. It consisted of people in a room talking. The movie is very thought provoking and entertaining.
I'll toss in a couple WW II classics:
The Longest Day - a classic telling of the D-Day invasion with a star studded cast of the era. John Wayne, Sean Connery, Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, and many other people you're recognize. Filmed in 1962, but still done in B&W because it was felt it would tell the story better. A very long film which covers snippets of all aspects of the operation on both sides.
A Bridge Too Far - another classic WW II film covering Operation Market Garden, the failed operation to push into the Netherlands using airborne operations to hold bridges for an armored spearhead. Again a star studded cast with Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, James Caan, Micheal Caine, Eliot Gould, Gene Hackman, Lawrence Olivier, ect. It's another really well done film. Again, a rather long one at that.
Too many alts to list.
Gah, keep forgetting to add stuff.
For TV...
Dexter. Season one of Dexter was maybe as good as I have seen.
The Wire. I haven't see The Wire yet, but it just feels like anybody who has seen it consider it the best show ever.
Freaks and Geeks. Only one season so it will be easy to get though all of it, but it's a crime the show only went one season. To think NBC had that much talent on the show and let it get away from them.
How could I have forgotten Dexter????
Best show on TV (now that Lost is done) and the best acting.
Freaks and Geeks was an awesome show.
@Mental Maden @Maden Mental
"....you are now tackle free for life."-ShoNuff
I'll add a couple of old oddball films.
Action:
Chocolate
Zeiramu
Comedy:
Mom and Dad Save the World
The Return of Captain Invincible
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
All some of my favorite movies (I wore out two VHS tapes of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" before I got around to buying a DVD of it).
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Probably one of my favorite movies and definitely one of my favorite scenes in movie history.
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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
True Romance. It's written, but not directed by Tarantino. The Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken scene alone is worth renting it for.
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@Quasadu
"We must prepare for DOOM and hope for FREEM." - SirFrederick
A few recommendations from my Watch Instantly Queue, so you don't have to 'waste' a DVD delivery on checking them out.
Seems that you like Zombie movies, try American Zombie. It's a mockumentary, so not as dry as some documentary's can be. Fictional and engaging with strong character development.
A weird listing if you haven't already seen it. Bubba Ho-Tep. Stars Bruce Campbell as an aging Elvis living his twilight years in a nursing home. Oh yeah, and a mummy wants to eat his soul.
Given this is a forum revolving around a game based on Superheros I feel I would be remiss not to mention Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog. About 40 mins starring Neil Patrick Harris as an evil scientist. *Warning* This is a musical, so don't be surprised over the amount of singing the cast participates in.
Feeling British? The IT Crowd: Seasons 1-3. Very surprised that I don't read or see more about this show in my general web crawling. Maybe I need to expand my territory, but regardless, an excellent show.
I think that's it for now, not much in the sci-fi department I'm afraid. And like I said, all on Instant, so if they're just not doing it for you, just delete and move on.