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  1. 07-21-2012, 07:23 AM #2821
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    Yeah, I'm surprised too. That's kind of crazy for a series with an 11-year-old protagonist.
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  2. 07-21-2012, 06:58 PM #2822
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    I watched another last night and Indy meets Freud who explains his love for his mother stems from a yearning to have sex with her. Then they go to Italy where Puccini tries to seduce his mom. Its a deeply weird series. I think the weird kid stuff really needs to be balanced out by the teenage adventure stuff, but the reedited the whole thing into chronological order for home video. When it aired there use to be a framing device using a 90 year old Indy, and they usually paired an hour of the 11 year old stuff with an hour of him older.
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  3. 07-22-2012, 06:49 AM #2823
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    The Veteran if Taken had been directed Oliver Stone it would have looked like this. The ending just wow. The Devil's Double is on instance as well.
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  4. 07-22-2012, 06:35 PM #2824
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    regarding the young indy stuff, I preferred it in the chronological order of the dvd's.

    I enjoyed Goon, not going to win any awards but I didn't feel like I wasted my time watching it.
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  5. 07-24-2012, 09:05 PM #2825
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    Anyone watch Trailer Park Boys? Is it any good?
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  6. 07-25-2012, 05:29 AM #2826
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    A Very Short and Very Old Trailer Park Boys Thread

    Glad I found that thread again; forgot about there being an 8 year thread necro. Classic.

    Is it any good? Yeah, I'd say so. As some in the thread suggest it seems to get better in seasons 2 and 3 but you would want to start at the start and ride it out. It's probably an acquired taste but it never failed to make me laugh in the "this is so stupid it's brilliant" vein.
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  7. 07-27-2012, 01:38 PM #2827
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    Quote Originally Posted by ElGuapo View Post
    Recommend Goon, starring Sean William Scott. It's about what you'd expect with some great fights and some pretty decent hockey action. The part that made it watchable is that instead of a real goon, Scott plays a really nice guy who just happens to be dumb as a brick and absolutely tough. A nice film about what it means to be on a team and respect the team, as well.

    Not a spoiler per se, but I love the scene where another guy spits on the seal of the team on the locker room floor and he gets on his hands and knees, silently, to wipe it up.
    Seconded on Goon. It's not an amazing movie by any means, but it's enjoyable, and about as good as it could be for what it is.
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  8. 07-27-2012, 10:24 PM #2828
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    Thirded on Goon. And more. We did a Goon podcast a couple of months ago and I think all three of us loved it.

    I'd have to say MrPerson above damns it with faint praise when he says it's about as good a movie as it can be. It's much, much better than that. It's got great timing, real heart, and it's very, very well put together. And Seann William Scott, as ElGuapo suggests, is fucking fantastic. Playing simple with that much energy and life without resorting to dumb actor tricks is really difficult. It's one of those performances that makes me get pissed at the Academy, because they can't seem to figure out (or don't care) that this kind of performance is just as difficult as anything in fucking A Beautiful Mind, if not more so. And it's better, to boot.

    Also...Kim Coates!

    Anyway, see it. It's worth it.


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  9. 07-28-2012, 08:35 PM #2829
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    So I just got done watching Breaking Bad, Season 4. Wow. Just to tie it back to the movie thread: I just want to submit Breaking Bad as exhibit A in the case for TV's long form storytelling being far superior to Movies' short story-equivalent. You just can't get this kind of an emotional payoff in a movie/short story, like you can in a TV series/Novel.
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  10. 07-29-2012, 09:29 PM #2830
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    Samurai Champloo is up on Netflix again. Anyone who likes anime should definitely check this one out if they haven't already.
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  11. 07-29-2012, 09:38 PM #2831
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    watched a movie called warrior's way. in the qt3 thread about it, there was this quote from someone:

    I'm guessing that it will be terrible.
    i say, YOU ARE WRONG SIR.

    http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Th...5?locale=en-US

    assassins. cowboy bandits wearing steampunk goggles and gasmasks for some reason. circus freaks. sharpshooters. explosions. lois lane. stylized slo-mo killings(like 300 and immortals), only done well and with some fun added. even the baby actor was surprisingly good (she reached out, laughed, did all sorts of things on cue).

    funny, lots of nice, interesting looking camera shots, fun sword killings. i really liked it. will watch the director's next movie.
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  12. 07-30-2012, 11:41 AM #2832
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    I just watched a short series called I, Predator. I loved the way they went through the way the animals were engineered by evolution for their roles, and seeing how they (appear to) think.
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  13. 08-01-2012, 04:17 PM #2833
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    Except that evolution doesn't engineer anything. (Sorry for nitpicking biology talk).
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  14. 08-01-2012, 06:13 PM #2834
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    Russelmz, thanks for the recommend on Warrior's Way. Fun film.
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  15. 09-11-2012, 09:03 AM #2835
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    I was home sick with a kick-ass bug last week and watched a British show called "Apparitions." I thought the acting was good in it and it did a really good job of creating a dark and paranoid environment. Different people will take different things away from it because of the religious backdrop, but I found it pretty well done, if amazingly moody.

    The premise is that a Vatican miracle-hunting priest is also an exorcist, since an alarming number of "miracles" turn out to be very non-divine in origin. The demons, it turns out, are on the move, planning some big temporal event, and our priest gets stuck right in the middle of things.

    The series runs six episodes and is only the one season.
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  16. 09-12-2012, 12:00 PM #2836
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    Netflix UK has put up a crapton of David Attenborough documentaries in the last couple of weeks. And a bunch of Louis Theroux programmes as well. Great additions.
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  17. 09-12-2012, 02:47 PM #2837
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    They added The Gray today. Looks fun. Wolf punching.
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  18. 09-12-2012, 02:59 PM #2838
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    Quote Originally Posted by baren View Post
    They added The Gray today. Looks fun. Wolf punching.

    It is not fun.
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  19. 09-12-2012, 03:21 PM #2839
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    Agreed. It is, however, awesome if you're into downbeat existential meditations on mortality.

    -Tom, who is
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  20. 09-12-2012, 03:55 PM #2840
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    Under no conditions should anyone watch the british miniseries "The Last Enemy." My wife likes Benedict Cumberbatch, so we ended up wasting 5 hours on tired themes and pointless buildup.

    To the Ends of the Earth (also with Cumberbatch) is pretty good though, and got me reading the William Golding novels.
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  21. 09-12-2012, 07:48 PM #2841
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    The Roseanne roast is up as well. Pretty bad as such things go, but the first minute or two of Gilbert Gottfried is sublime.
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  22. 09-13-2012, 06:53 AM #2842
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    Quote Originally Posted by chet View Post
    It is not fun.
    The commercials tried to convince me I'd be seeing something along the lines of The Ghost and the Darkness. What I got was more akin to The Old Man and the Sea. I didn't hate it. I just went into it with much different expectations.
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  23. 09-16-2012, 09:21 PM #2843
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    Quote Originally Posted by hepcat View Post
    The commercials tried to convince me I'd be seeing something along the lines of The Ghost and the Darkness. What I got was more akin to The Old Man and the Sea. I didn't hate it. I just went into it with much different expectations.
    I just saw it. I thought the trailer I saw for it did it justice. The movie was pretty much exactly what I expected after watching that trailer.

    Good movie. And yes, there is a bonus scene at the end of the credits btw. I was kind of thinking there had to be, but I really wasn't sure. So it was the first time I remember ever anticipating the end of the credits so eagerly as they rolled by.
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  24. 09-24-2012, 07:42 PM #2844
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    Whoop! Season 4 of Damages just showed up!
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  25. 09-25-2012, 04:28 AM #2845
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    Series 2 of Sherlock is up.
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  26. 09-25-2012, 07:59 AM #2846
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    I've been watching Eureka on streaming. It was kind of a fun popcorn show until season four, then i got confused. We left off on season 3 with Carter's girlfriend headed for Australia but them wanting to work on the relationship. Then season four starts a year later, saying that previously we had seen them break up and a few other things I never saw. A search of Netflix didn't show me any other related Eurerkas. Did I miss something?
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  27. 09-26-2012, 12:33 PM #2847
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe O'Malley View Post
    I've been watching Eureka on streaming. It was kind of a fun popcorn show until season four, then i got confused. We left off on season 3 with Carter's girlfriend headed for Australia but them wanting to work on the relationship. Then season four starts a year later, saying that previously we had seen them break up and a few other things I never saw. A search of Netflix didn't show me any other related Eurerkas. Did I miss something?
    You did not. Season 4 starts a serious left turn for the show from which it never returns.
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  28. 09-28-2012, 07:51 AM #2848
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    Saw the season 4 Christmas show. It kind of took me by surprise, and was really cute.
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  29. 09-28-2012, 08:20 AM #2849
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    I liked season 4 a lot. Still need to watch the final season. That said, I LOVED the season 4 Christmas show. Made me tear up, it did.
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  30. 09-30-2012, 09:12 PM #2850
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    When is season 3 of The League going to be up? Damn!
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