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I’ve seen almost all of Jojos bizarre adventure, except “Thus spoke Rohan Kishibe.” I heard it’s pretty good and I just got Netflix, so I decided to watch the first episode called “at a confessional.” It was really good!
 
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This thread is to post about whatever movies and TV shows you are currently watching or have recently watched.

For all of November, I tried to knock out all of Netflix's interactive films and shows, since November was their last month on the service. I got all of the ones that were recently removed watched once, although I wanted to watch them more than once to see all of the other options available. Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-Rama was, surprisingly, probably the best one - just knowingly ridiculous, absurdist cartoon comedy filled with laugh-out-loud moments. Johnny Test's Ultimate Meatloaf Quest was, unsurprisingly, the worst one, followed by Barbie: Epic Road Trip (needless to say, I wasn't exactly expecting cinematic masterpieces from either of those, but they were even worse than I expected). We Lost Our Human is probably the most intricate interactive movie ever made (despite receiving very little attention), but that certainly doesn't mean that it's very good. It's the ultimate in ADHD cinema, stringing together a bunch of completely random nonsense and changing the plot every minute or so (yet still managing to go on endlessly). Even so, the amount of time and effort put into it is nothing short of incredible, and it certainly shouldn't be lost forever, nor should any of Netflix's other interactive films and shows.

Before watching the interactive shows, I watched Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams. It's akin to an arthouse horror version of Black Mirror, and it's a must-see for fans of shows like The Twilight Zone and Tales From the Crypt along with fans of intelligent horror films filled with genuine pathos. The violence is toned down from Anwar's films, but the intense surreal horror and heavy, thought-provoking themes are not. All of the episodes are connected in ways that become apparent later on, and all of them tackle complex moral dilemmas with considerable skill and grace, propelled by powerful storytelling and masterful filmmaking (some of Anwar's films are crippled by messy, incoherent writing, but that is thankfully not the case with this series, which is consistently great). Other than some cheesy CGI, it's a rock-solid and highly promising show that will hopefully get renewed (and will hopefully switch to using practical special effects when it does). Don't miss this gem. However, make sure that you watch the original Indonesian version, not the badly English dubbed version.
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I recently watched the two Para Betina Pengikut Iblis films distributed by Netflix. I must say, of all of the Indonesian splatterfests to come out recently, these are easily the most over-the-top and ridiculous (which is no small feat). In fact, you will be hard-pressed to find any films where the performances are as hammy as this (the guy playing the Devil is especially a hoot, as are his female followers). Along with the extreme overacting, the films make absolutely no sense on any level, with the filmmakers sporadically throwing random gore at the viewers in an attempt to distract them from the fact that nothing makes any sense. There's Satan worship, vampirism, witchcraft, cannibalism, killer prostitutes, revenge, and numerous other randomly-assembled horror movie elements, yet it's all complete nonsense from start to finish, with zero coherent writing whatsoever. The first film ends on a cliffhanger with a "TO BE CONTINUED..." note, with the second film then finishing the story (so, if you watch them, you will definitely want to watch both of them), yet the second film somehow manages to be even more incoherent and laughably silly than the first. If you're a fan of so-bad-they're good B-movies, then make sure you don't miss these ones. Trust me: you will definitely have fun ripping these films apart.
 
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I could have seen Terrifier 3 in theaters, but I'm not paying money to see that garbage, so I pirated it. Even by the very low standards set by the director's previous films (and splatter films in general), it is complete and utter trash. It perfectly represents everything that's wrong with modern horror films. The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre's "The Deterioration of Extreme Cinema" essay was written precisely for films like this. This review from The Detroit News pretty accurately describes Damien Leone's latest cinematic bowel movement. It is truly mind-boggling that most of the film's reviews have been positive. This film is puerile cinematic sewage of the lowest order that exists only so that giggling adolescent edgelords can challenge each other to watch "da sickest movee evar!!11!1oneone". It is the gore equivalent of a porn film, with the tedious plot existing only to set up the ridiculously over-the-top splatter scenes, which are lingered on endlessly in close-up as if the audience is supposed to be masturbating to them. There is zero tension or suspense of any sort, with the script making trashy slasher films of decades ago look like cinematic masterpieces by comparison. Art the Clown isn't even the villain of the film; he's the hero, and the viewer is encouraged to cheer for him as he carries out one numbingly protracted torture-murder after another. As a side note, I find it rather amusing how director Damien Leone doesn't actually show kids getting killed, but does show their chopped-up, mutilated bodies after they've been killed. The film is a sadistic, mean-spirited celebration of violence and cruelty whose sole purpose is to shock and offend with outrageous gore, yet Leone doesn't even have the guts (no pun intended) to go all the way and actually show the parts where the kids get butchered? Jaded horror fans are not going to be the slightest bit shocked by anything in this film (it's simply eyeroll-inducing more than anything else), so it doesn't even succeed at the one thing that it sets out so desperately hard to do. Films like A Serbian Film and Trauma at least serve a purpose in that they force viewers to confront the unimaginable evil that actually exists in the world; moronic trash like this has absolutely no purpose other than to serve as a juvenile Halloween party item for immature middle schoolers. What a completely and utterly worthless waste of celluloid.
 
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Taking a break from Doctor Who to start watching Breaking Bad. I've never actually finished it, i think I made it to season 4 last time?
Only on episode 2 so far, but I do remember it as one of my favorite shows back when I first watched it. I've seen some of Better Call Saul, as well, which I also really liked, but never got too far in.
Breaking Bad is one of the few shows I can't really binge watch; I feel like a bitch for saying it, but I get too worked up by the suspense after a while.
 
I saw some ad for "Green Acres" and thought it looked neat. It's a sitcom from the mid-60s about a couple who move away from New York City to a farm in the countryside. Seems light-hearted so I decided to torrent it this morning. Probably gonna watch it on my Xbox after I transfer all the episodes to a USB drive.
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Just finished El Camino last night. Really REALLY good, albeit it felt more like an episode of Breaking Bad than a movie on it's own, which would have been nice.
Still, I'm glad i got to see what Jesse was up to all that time.
I'm starting Better Call Saul now, I'm hoping to get through the first season before I leave for my trip, that way I can download season two and watch it on the plane
 
I recently watched HBO's 2020 series Lovecraft Country, which only lasted for one season, despite critical acclaim. Easily the goriest show HBO has ever made, this fantasy horror series set in the 1950s Jim Crow south is filled with over-the-top splatter (which is sometimes sexualized in grotesque ways), but it isn't exploitative trash by any means. The first episode introduces the two main protagonists, a black Korean War veteran and his girlfriend, who become entangled in a frightening world of the supernatural that they soon learn is linked to their own families. The series starts off promising and the final two episodes are the strongest, but, unfortunately, it becomes increasingly muddled and incoherent during the episodes in between the first one and the final two. Its depiction of the extreme racism of the Jim Crow-era deep south is largely accurate (I was born and raised in the deep south, so I had to learn extensively about this stuff), but the show's portrayal still often feels cartoonish and like it was tailor-made for self-flagellating white soy boys (things like one character banishing all white people from using magic in the last episode are particularly cringe-inducing, like something out of a blaxploitation parody), with every white racist on the show being simply an over-the-top caricature with zero depth or nuance. That's a shame, because the show demonstrates huge potential, and the filmmakers do a very effective job of building up dread and suspense in a world where the real monsters are the human ones. In fact, it's honestly hard to think of too many other shows that completely squander so much potential. If the show had been produced by, say, Spike Jonze and Guillermo del Toro instead of J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele, then it could have easily been a masterpiece. As it stands, however, it's largely a jumbled mess.
 
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I had never actually seen Fight Club until very recently, but, considering that it remains a major cultural touchstone (especially on sites like this), it was a must-watch. I can definitely see why the film is a favorite among upper-middle-class dime-store nihilists and angsty adolescent edgelords who consider themselves, like, super deep and nonconformist. It is pretentious, ludicrous nonsense that is never more cringe-inducing than when it thinks that it's actually saying anything meaningful. We are introduced to our hero Tyler Durden in an admiring monologue where we learn that he splices pornographic film clips into family films and taints restaurant food with his bodily fluids. Wow, so brave. Really sticking it to the man. And that's pretty much the level of social commentary that the film maintains until its absolutely ridiculous conclusion (which is somehow still not as ridiculous as everything that preceded it). It's like something written by an 11-year-old anarchist wannabe who thinks that he's boldly fighting the system when he throws eggs at his teacher's house and scribbles dicks onto the school's bathroom stalls. Fight Club honestly reminds me of the scene in John Waters's excruciating trash epic Pink Flamingos where drag queen Divine is asked what his politics are and he enthusiastically answers with "kill everyone now! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit!" The main difference, of course, is that John Waters was the cinematic equivalent of a puerile internet troll spamming pictures of gaping assholes, whereas David Fincher's Fight Club actually seems to think that "kill everyone now" is some kind of profound, revolutionary political statement. There is absolutely no message in this film other than "to hell with everything!", and it doesn't even convey that message effectively. No wonder the alt-right loves it so much.
 
I'm sick and it's freezing out, so I'm gonna lie in bed and start South Park from the beginning.
I haven't watched it since that time I mentioned where I was a drug addict and started thinking that I was in a coma and that the show was just distorted memories of my childhood, so it might be fun.
 

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