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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
I watched it on Kanopy, which is a streaming service that's free to anyone with a library card. I highly recommend it. It focuses more on arthouse, foreign, and documentary cinema (awesome), but it has newish mainstream films as well.Sagrilarus wrote:
hotseatgames wrote: Is that the one with the retro space suits / ship interiors? I think I watched it on Netflix. Well worth it.
Not available on Netflix in any of the countries I tried. Is there a trick to it?
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I watched it on Kanopy, which is a streaming service that's free to anyone with a library card. I highly recommend it. It focuses more on arthouse, foreign, and documentary cinema (awesome), but it has newish mainstream films as well.Sagrilarus wrote:
hotseatgames wrote: Is that the one with the retro space suits / ship interiors? I think I watched it on Netflix. Well worth it.
Not available on Netflix in any of the countries I tried. Is there a trick to it?
I owe this man a beer. We all owe this man a beer.
Gregarius -- put your address and brand preference in the thread so we can all send you a beer.
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I hate what has happened so much as companies could have had it so good by keeping things centralized and sharing revenue.
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And they all think their content is compelling.
In a couple of years this will all consolidate into a duopoly, maybe three, no more than four. Everyone is consolidating.
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I think some of my tepid attitude towards streamer releases is seeing it on TV instead of the full blown theater experience. However I think that they put out a lot of rushed or half-baked content because their measure of success is anything that keeps you from cancelling, rather than what motivates you to get a sitter and go out on a date. So $15/mo versus $80+ at least for a single film.
But nothing of the caliber of Top Gun 2, No Time to Die, Avatar 2, or Mission Impossible is coming to streaming as far as I can tell and until it does, they will always be second tier in my book. I'll be curious to see how Black Widow fares versus F9 since BW is sorta straddling the line between streaming and pure theatrical.
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David Fincher is one of my favorite directors.
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She didn’t watch it with me, only in an ambient way around the end while blaring her phone occasionally or commenting on Bo’s underwear. My wife dropped in at the end when it took a shift for the meta.
This is kind of my reality now that I work from home and spend my entire day with the family. I have these intense personal experiences with media or audiobooks while the family just flows around it, driving by.
So I’m sitting here now, tapping on my phone, destroyed by this “comedy special” while Hunter chatters in the other room, some inscrutable language in his game of Tarkov, the only occasion for which he seems to fully wake up as the rest of the house prepares for sleep.
I think Inside hit me really hard because it slipped in with some initially innocuous, if somewhat dark, Weird Al stylings, wrapped in COVID self-isolation (I laughed pretty hard at Socko’s existential demise)… that gradually becomes more crushing as Bo realizes how much of a long haul it’s becoming. He’s really not well at the end, and I was stunned at how much I squirmed and suppressed some tears while half of the family was in the same room, mostly tuned out. He shifts into an Andy Kaufmanesque remove to close out the show, but the moments right before “All Eyes On Me” hemorrhage their way through it, not quite contained.
It made me realize how isolated I’ve been for the past 1.5 years, even in a family household, and how much I haven’t processed any of this, and how I’m pretty sure I’m… not ok either. I’ve been quiet here and most other platforms because I’ve been at a loss for what to say almost all of the time. I’m tired of building a hermit crab shell of words every place I go, and I’m trying to come to terms with what that means.
My family is starting to emerge from the tunnel. My wife finished her Masters in social work and is slowly shifting away from ballroom gigs. My daughter might finally acquiesce to some CBT if only so she can take the vaccine without having an attack. My son, after a year of depression, meds, therapy, and dropping all college plans, is getting back to cruising altitude.
But I still feel kind of blinded, fumbling, & obstinately self-isolated. It almost feels like agoraphobia but the threshold isn’t a door, and I feel myself waking up into it. Bo described that disturbingly well too.
So anyway, dropping the crab shell: I think I need to do some self-work and Inside was a moving watch for me. I wasn’t expecting it, but apparently needed to be unnerved by it.
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I've been a Bo Burnham fan for years but hadn't seen his latest special in 2016 or kept up with him. I did not expect Inside to be what it was.
Hope you get better Paul.
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The film does at least look nicer than the series. Not that the series looks bad; I just like it when you can tell there was extra effort for the film.
While the series has its moments, for the most part, this property is not aimed at my demographic. And that's fine, let the youngs enjoy it.
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