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« Reply #6120 on: October 31, 2009, 08:22:37 AM » |
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« Reply #6121 on: October 31, 2009, 08:34:31 PM » |
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A Serious Man
Best film of 2009 so far.
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« Reply #6122 on: October 31, 2009, 09:38:51 PM » |
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"Ghostbusters"
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« Reply #6123 on: October 31, 2009, 11:14:14 PM » |
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Where the Wild Things Are. I feel like this movie was insistent about not making anything look animated, even though the action was very cartoonish (for obvious reasons, given the source). I enjoyed that aesthetic. Spike Jonze is a mad genius. The movie was pretty good overall. A bit disappointed with the ending, but we can discuss in the thread for that film (if there is one).
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« Reply #6124 on: October 31, 2009, 11:58:40 PM » |
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"Ghostbusters"
saw clips in Zombieland (yes, again). "This is so exciting, you're about to find out who to call. The Ghostbusters." |
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« Reply #6125 on: November 01, 2009, 12:39:13 AM » |
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Drag Me to Hell
An OK Halloween movie...depended a bit too much on being startling as much as scary, but the way the plot threads wove together was pretty good. There's one part (I won't spoil it, but if you know me and you've seen the movie then you know the one) that I just couldn't stand, though.
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« Reply #6126 on: November 01, 2009, 01:40:16 PM » |
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Corpse Bride
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« Reply #6127 on: November 01, 2009, 09:37:33 PM » |
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Robots, first viewing.
Better than expected.
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« Reply #6128 on: November 01, 2009, 10:13:25 PM » |
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Major League
WILD THING
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« Reply #6129 on: November 04, 2009, 03:16:29 PM » |
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« Reply #6130 on: November 05, 2009, 09:08:32 AM » |
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Halloween viewing of Carrie. Great campy fun.
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« Reply #6131 on: November 05, 2009, 09:50:38 PM » |
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a few episodes of In Treatment season 2 and the pilot episode of V.
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« Reply #6132 on: November 06, 2009, 12:28:36 AM » |
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the pilot episode of V.
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« Reply #6133 on: November 06, 2009, 01:29:06 AM » |
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I dunno, it was kind of interesting but also annoying. I'll probably watch a couple more episodes at least, because Elizabeth Mitchell is cool and Morena Baccarin is creepy-cool. (Alan Tudyk is just creepy, I have decided.)
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« Reply #6134 on: November 06, 2009, 04:41:52 AM » |
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The Seventh Seal
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
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« Reply #6135 on: November 06, 2009, 05:36:04 PM » |
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The latest Parks & Recreation. It still weirds me out to see Pasadena City Hall (which is literally a block from where I work) used as the exterior shot for Pawnee City Hall. Even weirder is the fact that our police station adjacent to City Hall is apparently Pawnee's library, even though you could literally turn right and see our library from there.
Oh, and I love the Sufjan-esque theme song to this show. That is all.
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« Reply #6136 on: November 07, 2009, 12:14:31 AM » |
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A Serious Man.
The standard Coen Brothers' dark comedy. Kicks you in the gut, helps you up, and then sucker punches you when you've turned to get your hat.
Perhaps surprisingly given the above, I liked it.
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« Reply #6137 on: November 07, 2009, 07:17:19 PM » |
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Season premier of V.
Lots of do-rama, but I'm not entirely sure that it's my thing. If I were to pick up another show, there are others that I have found more interesting with more compelling characters or better plots or funnier/more engaging dialog. Unless I hear great things about succeeding episodes, I don't think I'll continue to watch it.
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« Reply #6138 on: November 07, 2009, 10:04:46 PM » |
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Season premier of V.
Lots of do-rama, but I'm not entirely sure that it's my thing. If I were to pick up another show, there are others that I have found more interesting with more compelling characters or better plots or funnier/more engaging dialog. Unless I hear great things about succeeding episodes, I don't think I'll continue to watch it.
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« Reply #6139 on: November 08, 2009, 02:27:24 AM » |
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« Reply #6140 on: November 08, 2009, 07:55:37 AM » |
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Still watching "Freaks & Geeks". Great show!
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« Reply #6141 on: November 08, 2009, 03:39:56 PM » |
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If I were to pick up another show wait, another show? is there a show that you're currently watching?  |
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« Reply #6142 on: November 08, 2009, 04:21:17 PM » |
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wait, another show? is there a show that you're currently watching? Mythbusters!   |
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« Reply #6143 on: November 08, 2009, 06:31:29 PM » |
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oh! I (kind of) knew that!
a little while back I watched one episode, the one where they tried to knock socks off.
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« Reply #6144 on: November 08, 2009, 09:52:24 PM » |
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Haha, that was actually one of the recent ones. It's a lot of fun. I've actually seen every episode, and you'd be surprised how many times I sound surprisingly knowledgeable on a subject because I saw it on Mythbusters. It's not for everybody, though, and (though I'm somewhat loath to be gender-normative here) it seems like it's targeted more at the guy audience because it's definitely low-attention-span hey-shiny-object friendly and has a lot of guns and explosions.
(A lot of the Discovery Channel programming does a good job of hitting that mix of entertaining and informative, but I've never really tried to get into any of the other shows in the same vein).
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« Reply #6145 on: November 08, 2009, 10:58:26 PM » |
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yeah, the tone of the show didn't seem like it was for me. I chalked it up to them being too high-energy and trying to make things exciting! and fun! I found it a bit exhausting to watch and would have preferred that they explain more, exclaim less, and stick with one topic at a time rather than cut back and forth to another interesting thing. my attention: you haz it. no need to make things go kablooey.
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« Reply #6146 on: November 08, 2009, 11:42:05 PM » |
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my attention: you haz it. no need to make things go kablooey. I think it's kind of funny that they go, "Oh, so that didn't explode? Hmmm. Guess we busted the myth. Now, let's figure out how to make it explode!" Just watched Kate & Leopold. Silly time travel chick flick from 2001. It had plot holes you could drive a truck through, but the wife and I hadn't watched anything lighthearted and funny in a while, so that did the trick. |
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« Reply #6147 on: November 09, 2009, 08:33:00 AM » |
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my attention: you haz it. no need to make things go kablooey.
Ah, but there's where you're wrong. There is always a need to make things go kablooey.  For an example of a recent episode that I loved, watch the dirty car/clean car one (Season 7 Episode 14 if you're getting it from a torrent site). I'll freely admit that they're not all winners from the science angle, but they're almost always entertaining, and that particular one was a good deal of both. |
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« Reply #6148 on: November 09, 2009, 08:08:09 PM » |
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I will check it out. I also queued MythBusters: Mega Movie Myths from netflix.
I watched the Mad Men season finale twice. ("...again?") awesome stuff.
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« Reply #6149 on: November 09, 2009, 09:47:05 PM » |
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I enjoy Mythbusters, when I get a chance to watch it, which is not often, because we don't have cable. But when I'm in a hotel and flipping around the TV, I'll generally stop to watch it.
Gender bias myth: BUSTED!
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« Reply #6150 on: November 09, 2009, 11:08:56 PM » |
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I enjoy Mythbusters, when I get a chance to watch it, which is not often, because we don't have cable. But when I'm in a hotel and flipping around the TV, I'll generally stop to watch it.
Similar thing here; traveling is generally the only time I flip channels and land on cable shows like this, or pretty much anything on the Travel Channel or Food Network. |
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« Reply #6151 on: November 09, 2009, 11:24:36 PM » |
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I don't get cable but I download the shows (they air Wednesday evening, and they're generally available that same evening) and then once the DVD for that season comes out I buy it.
Honestly, if Time Warner let me pay like fifteen bucks to add Discovery, ESPN, and ESPN2 then I'd do it...but they'd rather I pay forty bucks for those channels plus about eighteen million more that I don't want, so I say 'no'.
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« Reply #6152 on: November 10, 2009, 09:53:03 AM » |
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Honestly, if Time Warner let me pay like fifteen bucks to add Discovery, ESPN, and ESPN2 then I'd do it...but they'd rather I pay forty bucks for those channels plus about eighteen million more that I don't want, so I say 'no'.
Amen. I'm pretty sure they lose money by not offering something like that. On topic: The Office, last disc of season 5. |
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« Reply #6153 on: November 11, 2009, 12:53:35 AM » |
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Primer - an extremely low budget film about two inventors who accidentally stumble across time travel and keep using it to go back and manipulate the recent past, creating further and further iterations of the last few days/hours and potential paradoxes. It's confusing as hell, but I enjoy that sort of thing. Very talky, though, without a lot going on visually, so you have to pay close attention, and even then, it's tough to grasp.
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« Reply #6154 on: November 11, 2009, 11:31:26 PM » |
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This Is Spinal Tap. Took me a little while to get the rhythm of it and why certain things were funny, but it became pretty hilarious toward the end. The scary thing is, you could have taken away the band name and any overt indications that it was a mockumentary, and I'd have thought this was a real 80's metal band for a good third of the movie, because the real thing was already pretty ridiculous in those days.
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« Reply #6155 on: November 13, 2009, 07:42:47 PM » |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
and the aforementioned clean car/dirty car episode of Mythbusters.
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« Reply #6156 on: November 13, 2009, 11:39:30 PM » |
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Pirate Radio
A wonderful, beautiful, amazing film. I might have to re-evaluate when I come down from the high of seeing it, but right now I'm declaring it my film of the year (and unlike many years, I've actually seen a lot of films this year).
The trailer has a spoiler for a really great scene, so if you can avoid watching the trailer than please do so. This movie is unquestionably worth ten of your dollars and two of your hours.
Steve Zissou, eat your heart out. Rock Radio is the freaking life aquatic.
Yes, them's fightin' words. I dare you to see it and prove me wrong.
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« Reply #6157 on: November 14, 2009, 09:27:03 AM » |
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That's encouraging news re: Pirate Radio, Vlad! I requested to review it based simply on its historical context, which I find to be interesting, but wasn't sure what to expect in terms of the quality of the storytelling. I had to miss the junket so I'm seeing a matinee this afternoon, with review to come at CT Movies on Monday morning.
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« Reply #6158 on: November 14, 2009, 08:01:59 PM » |
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I watched the second episode of V and think that is all the attention I'm going to give this show.
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« Reply #6159 on: November 14, 2009, 08:10:07 PM » |
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I watched the second episode of V and think that is all the attention I'm going to give this show.
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