bonkers, Force Majeure is totally amazing. I remember a bunch of ilxors digging it.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 02:18 (eight years ago) link
Maybe he means haterade on his part for ILX snobs. I loved it!
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
Love was more interesting than I assumed it'd be, though it def suffers from a few stale Apatow-isms here and there (esp the groaningly lampshaded "wise black friend" character, ooof)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
Force Majeure placed in last year's ILX Film Poll.
Speaking of...
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
Ok, 5 episodes into Love, the awkward roommate date one, and this is great, I identify with both these characters. It seems much more genuine than yr standard Apatow schtick.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 07:18 (eight years ago) link
Yeah finished this now and I thought it was great. Apatow should stop casting his children though.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 09:29 (eight years ago) link
okay, maybe i'll give Love another chance. that first episode really turned me off.
Force Majeure still on Netflix by the way for anyone who hasn't seen it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
You could watch Gaspar Noe's Love instead hah.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
Kinda amusing that both those popped up (literally in Noe's films case) on Netflix at the same time.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:07 (eight years ago) link
Watched the first episode last night. Those four frisbee people are all standing together in every scene/shot, after-school special style. Terrible. I think I have whiplash from first ten minutes when female lead said "okay whatever but you can't spend the night" to OTT sobbing when he dumps her.
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
Also that guy, oof.
consensus seems to be that the 1st ep is not good, gets much better after that
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Okay Scott you go ahead in. I'll wait here! /runs
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
yup, pilot bad, hits its stride at ep4 and soars from there. am up to episode 8. it is surprisingly... sad? in places. gillian jacobs is great, it has more depth than i expected.
― pantsuit aficionado (stevie), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 10:38 (eight years ago) link
Scott, you're the worst is great. i don't think i can handle anything more than the first ep of love
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Only recently binged first season of You're the Worst. It's fantastic.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:02 (eight years ago) link
second season improves exponentially
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
I can only hope! Only first season is on Hulu and I am tempted to grab season 2 elsewhere if it doesn't show up soon.
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
season two explores depression and what it's really like and it comes closer to an accurate representation of that particular beast than i've seen anywhere else on teevee
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link
The bit in season one where they visit Aya Cash's character's apartment and it's a mess made me relate
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
okay i'll watch you're the worst. sometimes it's hard to know which bad people acting badly shows to watch.
i'm also SOOOOO gonna watch this when it hits hulu. jesse pinkman back on the attack! looks cool to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CJGX50Pt4s
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
yeah scott, c'mon The Shop Around The Corner is klassik, incl delivery boy's last scene w/ Frank Morgan. It's set in Budapest Hollywood (but the signage is in Hungarian!)
China Seas is essential for Jean Harlow as much as Gable.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 February 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
sometimes it's hard to know which bad people acting badly shows to watch.
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 February 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
I watched Exhibition. Some pretty cinematography, but overall I thought it was kind of boring. It slowly comes to life, but I think getting there just takes too long.
― o. nate, Monday, 29 February 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
I know I'm super late to the party and this will mostly be preaching to the converted, but I'm really loving the 30 For 30 series. But I should note that I'm someone who, historically speaking, basically knows next to nothing about sports, doesn't follow sports at all, doesn't particularly enjoy watching or participating in sports, and feels more than a little put-out by the oppressive omnipresence of sports culture in the US. These films are just that good, and they're actually really effective as ethnographies inasmuch as I'm starting to understand how people become so passionate about sports. I get wrapped up! And I've been brought to tears more than a few times (Bo Kimble's left-handed free throw in the Hank Gathers story was too much). Highly recommended, whether you give a shit about sports or not.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 February 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
i can definitely see someone not loving Exhibition. i don't really know why i loved it so much but i really did.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 February 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
the 30 for 30 things are really good. and, yeah, even if you don't like sports.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 February 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
I binged all of Love this weekend, I really liked it. Gillian Jacobs is so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
She is great in it, isn't she?
― pantsuit aficionado (stevie), Monday, 29 February 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 February 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
Really enjoying it- unexpectedly.
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Monday, 29 February 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
a pal asked me what I've seen on netflix that's good recently and I put together a list. here is the list in case anyone's looking for something that someone thinks was good recently: Love (the twee one not the jizz one), A Picture of You, The Overnight, Fish Tank, Puppylove, Doomsdays, Starlet, Results, Detectorists, Shenandoah, Oka!, In a World, Zero Motivation.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
Netflix needs a larry bird documentary
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 07:17 (eight years ago) link
LOlz i'm watching Love again cuz you guys talked me into it and thru the whole first episode i keep thinking wow that actress looks SO much like Britta! i'm kinda slow. really not used to seeing her in anything else.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
no one should ever make a Lou Barlow biopic, but if they do they oughta cast Gus
― del griffith, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
okay that penthouse forum sister thing was really dumb but i will keep watching cuz i do love britta to death. even if i don't immediately recognize her.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Finding Vivian Maier was really great
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
i enjoyed the vivian doc too. made me want to see the thousands of pictures she took on her worldwide vacation.
also couldn't help but think that she was hiding from someone who had hurt her! which would explain all the fake names she gave people. like she was afraid someone was going to get her. they didn't really delve into that other than the speculate that she had suffered trauma in the past.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
also would explain why she didn't want to become known through her photography and it was definitely established that SHE knew she was good and doing good work.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Started "you're the worst" and while its laugh out loud funnier than "love" I don't think it's actually as good
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 00:42 (eight years ago) link
second season of you're the worst really takes it to the next level
but then I have no interest in watching love
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
oh I see that same opinion was voiced by forks upthread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
still need second season, thanks for the cosign
anyone else watch Casual on netflix?
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 7:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Shouldn't this make you rethink your position
Srsly I get the resistance but it's pretty much about inverting the dynamic of what you think it's about
Re: casual, I liked it at first but gave up at a certain pt bc despite good performances certain parts v much felt like "dudes writing women" in this very rings a false note sense
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
Agree w ppl above who say you need to make it to episode 4 to really enjoy "love"
Also think certain scenes could have used editing but whayyagonnado
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 04:08 (eight years ago) link
Lol you are such a punk deej
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
To be fair, deej is ilxs grand master of inane beef so
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link
Forks and I disagree about everything, knowing that how can this even be perceived as a diss
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
i have never noticed when i've disagreed with forks. anyway you're the worst is great regardless, "lcd soundsystem" was the best episode of tv i saw last year, maybe one of the best i've ever seen. i'll check out love as i generally enjoy things that "invert the dynamic of what i think it's about"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:48 (eight years ago) link
I totally agree here - like, it's audacious and funny that the two main characters don't even meet until the very end of an overlong pilot episode, but it's also one of the things that made me not want to continue with this show, which doesn't really find its feet, its premise or its rhythm until the fourth episode. From then on, its really, really great, but it takes such a long wind-up to get there, and I think that's indicative of a kind of self-indulgence baked into the Netflix/Amazon original series format - that it doesn't have to compete in a rigid time-slot like a network show would have, that it is freer to be whatever it is or will become. But I feel only Transparent has really made a virtue of that so far, and much of the other series of that kind could have done with more discipline in the editing room, in the writing room, at the drawing board stage, whether its The Man In The High Castle spunking its budget on set design but not getting any decent actors, or Mr Robot's creator never being challenged on his slavish devotion to Fight Club, or Master Of None, which is not funny enough, certainly not dramatic enough, packed with shallow and uninteresting 'types' rather than characters ("Hello I am the streetwise lesbian here to give you advice from the streetwise lesbian perspective") and included that heinous and insulting 'feminism' episode, which should really have been drowned at birth.
Love is an immeasurably better series than Master Of None - it doesn't have that show's juvenile need to be cute and belief that that cuteness can help it escape any of the interesting corners the plots occasionally paint themselves into - but you wouldn't necessarily know that from the first three episodes. And I think its interesting that, at the end of the series, you realise the show is about something completely different than it seemed at first (it's much less rom-com than observation of addictive and unhealthy behavioural patterns), but I worry that many viewers wouldn't get that far.
― pantsuit aficionado (stevie), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link