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Old 01-26-2021, 11:07 AM   #2541
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Did you know that there are Aliens drilling for Oil on the Moon??

Yeah, that was news to me too until I watched the Documentary all about it. Aliens be stealing all of our Moon Oil!

Okay, so this was unapologetic garbage and I may have broken a rib laughing like a lunatic. How do films like these even get funding? Dont you think financiers would have seen some dailies and thought to themselves:

"Oh no....I'm not paying for this! Oh hell no!"

And then....I guess who would distribute it? I mean, I get that Netflix probably took money from these clowns to host this show as opposed to paying for rights.
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Old 01-26-2021, 09:45 PM   #2542
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ok. I need to watch this, there are some serious gems in terms of insane documentaries on netflix. what's the name of this one.
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Old 01-26-2021, 10:10 PM   #2543
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Finally got around to watching Pulp Fiction for the first time.


Definitely Tarantino's best, but even in this one his annoying personality shone through from time to time. He just makes these little choices that irritate me, interrupt the flow of the movie, and remind me of how irritating I find the guy.


Still, it was an okay flick. I guess.
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Finally got around to watching Pulp Fiction for the first time.


Definitely Tarantino's best, but even in this one his annoying personality shone through from time to time. He just makes these little choices that irritate me, interrupt the flow of the movie, and remind me of how irritating I find the guy.


Still, it was an okay flick. I guess.

I like how you went from “Definitely Tarantino’s best” to contemplating the Tarantino-isms to landing on “Still, it was an okay flick. I guess”.

I sometimes wonder if his celebrity foot fetish is what drove him to become a film maker.
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Old 01-26-2021, 11:56 PM   #2545
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Finally got around to watching Pulp Fiction for the first time.


Definitely Tarantino's best, but even in this one his annoying personality shone through from time to time. He just makes these little choices that irritate me, interrupt the flow of the movie, and remind me of how irritating I find the guy.


Still, it was an okay flick. I guess.
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Finally got around to watching Pulp Fiction for the first time.


Definitely Tarantino's best, but even in this one his annoying personality shone through from time to time. He just makes these little choices that irritate me, interrupt the flow of the movie, and remind me of how irritating I find the guy.


Still, it was an okay flick. I guess.
wow. first time?

I haven't watched the show in at least 15 years. what sticks out for me in the segment in which Tarantino is in. It's total crap and doesn't add much, if anything to the movie.
I'm in the group that thinks he threw it in to stroke his own ego and to give himself a chance to drop the N bomb.
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Old 01-28-2021, 10:15 AM   #2547
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I watched Southland Tales (The Canned Cut) and oh boy there is a lot to unpack. Messy, disjointed, confusing, non sensical and overly long are some of the words that I would use to describe the experience. I would also say it was ambitious, bold, daring and unflinching which I admire and appreciate. Overall I can't say this is for everyone and don't recommend it, and it's certainly a decline in quality from Richard Kelly's first film Donnie Darko. If you read up on the history of the movie it's super interesting and there is a documentary on the Arrow Video release about it that I'm dying to see.
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Old 01-29-2021, 05:25 PM   #2548
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I watched the documentary Grizzly Man, about Tim Treadwell, who lived in Alaska every summer and kept the company of grizzly bears. It was pretty intense. Would definitely recommend.
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I watched the documentary Grizzly Man, about Tim Treadwell, who lived in Alaska every summer and kept the company of grizzly bears. It was pretty intense. Would definitely recommend.
anything by Herzog is recommended
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He did do that one about distracted driving that seems mailed in.
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I can forgive him anything for Aguirre the Wrath of God

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I watched the documentary Grizzly Man, about Tim Treadwell, who lived in Alaska every summer and kept the company of grizzly bears. It was pretty intense. Would definitely recommend.
Watched that years ago...guy is insane. Definitely intense and a good watch. He got some great footage.
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Old 01-30-2021, 12:25 PM   #2553
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I wanted to like The Little Things far more than I did. Maybe if a competent editor had worked on it I would have. Very much felt like a Netflix movie.
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Hmm. That seems to be on Tubi. Should I watch this?
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Anyone remember Mio in the Land of Faraway?

Childhood classic with Christian Bale and Christopher Lee.

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Hmm. That seems to be on Tubi. Should I watch this?

This movie is quite strange. We started off the first half heckling it like MST3K. Why wear armour in the jungle? Or trudge cannons through the mud? People getting caught by snares and not yelling or screaming.

It is kind of a mash up of Monty Python and the Holy Grail cinematography with Apocalypse Now and Lord of the Flies.

It is entertaining though.
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Old 02-07-2021, 08:03 AM   #2557
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Watched The Dissident last night. Documentary about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Made by the guy who made Icarus. Pretty interesting to say the least, so I'd recommend.
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I've never seen What's Eating Gilbert Grape? I've always heard about it, but ignored it and didn't really have any interest.

Seemed like another small-town mopey story about some whiny grown up emo-kid that I didn't need to watch. Tale as old as <yawn>.

Saw it available on Amazon Prime and decided it was probably a better and healthier choice than watching Bloodshot again.

I've watched it twice in the last few days... it might be one of the best films over the past 30 years. I am very late to this party.
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First time I saw 'Grape I didn't know who Leonardo DiCaprio was couldn't figure out if he was acting or not.
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Old 02-07-2021, 05:12 PM   #2560
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Leonardo Dicaprio's best acting by far. The only reason that he didn't get the accolades that he deserved for that performance, was that he was considered 'too young, too new'. In retrospect, it's extremely immersive. I seem to remember people at the Academy Awards being stunned that he was just a normal guy, and wasn't dealing with a handicap in real life.
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