The Official Movie Thread
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TechnicalBarbarity
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... i was like "two shitty movies because of lil tommy's list". Was getting ready to fly out to the UK and beat up Wainds and his sled dogs.
RadicalThrasher
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CiG
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Somethingface
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Where do you get most of your movies from, CiG? I've noticed that most of the streaming services available in Australia are pretty underwhelming compared to USA and other parts of the world.
TechnicalBarbarity
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CiG
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I use a bunch of different ones, Netflix, Stan, SBS On Demand, if I'm desperate or they have a good sale on I'll use Google Play, plus I also buy physical copies obviously. Australia definitely has shitty access to streaming services though for sure.
Somethingface
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no country for old wainds
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@no country for old wainds one of your network channels screwed me over. It had the poster for Depraved but showed some cheap ghost in the woods movie from 2011.
i only figured this out after seeing the picture you used in your 2019 list and was like "who the fuck is that dude? I dont remember him from the movie"
lmao the exact same thing happened to me with this movie except mine was a download. the one i started watching was this haunted house mockumentary thing, thankfully i figured it out after 15 mins instead of the full movie. i have got burned a couple times like this over the years though.
i only use those streaming channels as a last resort myself tbf. it’s rare that they straight up lie about what movie they’re presenting, but they are often laggy for me or shitty quality, plus anything that needs subs is a pain in the ass. i d/l torrents when available.
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challenge_everything
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Yeah but I thought that was a case of unreliable narrator, it seemed like an irrational or incomplete explanation and I was waiting on some further revelations. That wasn't the only unexplained thread either
ie why does the prison operator offer degrees in exchange for doing time? how did the child get there? how did she survive all the way down at the bottom? what was the supposed message created by sending the child up to the top level on the platform - surely countless inmates would have tried that before?
challenge_everything
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I have tried VPN'ing to subscribe and their technology is evidently too sophisticated to be fooled by such gutter level hacking.
rms
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Struggling to recall details but I thought the child's message was that there was still some humanity left among the occupants, she was the only person in there that hadn't been corrupted by the structure.
Not sure why the prison offers degrees, except that it could be a metaphor for the debt people go into for higher education in order to compete in a capitalist system? "Going in the hole" etc.
How the child got there in the first place was the only thing I didn't really get. I assume at some point a woman inmate gave birth to her but I dunno. Why no other inmates tried 'the message' before seems kind of redundant as a query though, since the prison and inmates are symbolic of a greedy selfish brutal system. So assuming logic on their behalf might be missing the point.
Definitely not the most coherent script I've come across though.
Not sure why the prison offers degrees, except that it could be a metaphor for the debt people go into for higher education in order to compete in a capitalist system? "Going in the hole" etc.
How the child got there in the first place was the only thing I didn't really get. I assume at some point a woman inmate gave birth to her but I dunno. Why no other inmates tried 'the message' before seems kind of redundant as a query though, since the prison and inmates are symbolic of a greedy selfish brutal system. So assuming logic on their behalf might be missing the point.
Definitely not the most coherent script I've come across though.
TechnicalBarbarity
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Only thing i remembered was that it was a horror film from your list so like a dumbass i just rolled with it
yea man the shitty quality really gets to me. I'm used to watching everything strictly on blu ray. Using it for my 2019 is the first time ive ever resorted to watching movies on the internet.
rms
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I'm about to citizens arrest your ass for stealing smh can't live with these savages
TechnicalBarbarity
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Bloopy
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I just tested it out and it worked for me. I thought it might complain that my credit card is from a land far away, but it didn't. Try this:
- Use Google Chrome or Firefox
- Get the Hotspot Shield browser addon
- Connect Hotspot Shield, select Canada as your server, then scroll down and switch on the 'WebRTC blocker' setting just in case. There's also more info on WebRTC and ways to block it listed here.
Then you should be good to go. Maybe also don't use a regional email address (eg. ending in .co.uk) on Criterion just in case.
I've used Hotspot Shield to access sports streams for hours on end with very little trouble.
challenge_everything
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CiG
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I watched Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In yesterday, gotta be one of the most demented films I've seen in awhile, especially considering who made it. Probably my favourite by him so far, though I've still got a boatload to see.
Watching now:
