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In the US you'd often get stern letters if you weren't sufficiently obfuscating your torrents

This happened to me once. Out of dozens and dozens of torrents over the years. I said sorry and nothing more happened. Because of that I signed up for a (paid) VPN (TunnelBear) and everything's been fine since. I've forgotten to switch on the VPN a few times but nobody's come after me.

(I am in the UK btw)

a person I otherwise trust urged me to watch this John Early standup special on Max insisting it was great and I had to turn that shit off after about 12 minutes because someone being fucking annoying on stage with no jokes is not comedy to me

do i need to watch that 24 hour concert on MAX featuring i person i don't know doing the 500 year history of pop music?

ooh stuffed meat challenge on barbecue showdown. i love this show.

i grilled all day on the 4th! t.v. is definitely an influence on me.

Chopped has definitely influenced me because tonight i raided the fridge and stir-fried in my cast iron some swiss chard (leaves and stems), a can of Le Seur carrots, chopped garlic, chopped cherries, some tropical spices (Badia Sazon Tropical), some olive oil, some seasoned rice vinegar, cayenne pepper, and salt & pepper. SO YUMMY. thanks for the free improv tips, Chopped.

(i am currently on season 5 of 54 of Chopped...then on to Chopped Junior and Chopped Canada!)

had to google ... the Taylor Mac thing? I have heard great things about his performances, I don't know about this particular documentary though, is it really 24 hours long?

its not actually 24 hours long. they made a doc out of the 24 hour concert and its probably, you know, 2 hours or whatever. and i will google taylor mac because i don't know him.

why the hell haven't i been stir-frying with cherries my whole life? i'm so dumb.

"Taylor Mac is a theatre artist..."

okay now i know why i don't know them.

the only theatre artists i know are...burgess meredith, isadora duncan, clifford odets, houdini, and eugene ionesco.

I wouldn't hold my breath for a Max limited series of Ionesco plays starring Isadora Duncan and Burgess Meredith but with AI, anything is possible

I love John Early but we gave up on that special pretty fast. Once I saw Tim and Eric's names in the producers credits that should've given us a clue.

I don't dislike Tim and Eric per se, but it just kind of spoke to where Early was maybe going with this and it wasn't something we were enjoying very much.

watched Brimstone & Glory last night with Cyrus. what an amazing movie. sheesh. it's on OVID. felt a little manipulated by the modern classical movie music Friday Night! Lights You Black Emperor soundtrack during the epic nighttime scenes but its okay because holy shit the people who made that movie are nuts and if they want to romanticize batshit crazy behavior who am i to say?

just an unreal movie. and its a documentary.

we watched America As Seen By A Frenchman too even though I have already seen it.

we watched some of the Elsewhere doc by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. i like Geyrhalter's movies a lot. Abendland. Homo Sapiens. Our Daily Bread. they are all on OVID. they are so sexy. climate/future porn really. long static shots of beautiful natural landscapes covered in garbage. sad dad heaven!
to be fair there is trash all over the ground in that Frenchman doc and that's from 1960.

Anyone have thoughts on Physical 100? A review I read suggests it's an engrossing competition.

It’s great! I don’t watch anything else like it so don’t know if it’s the best or worst of its kind or what, but that alone tells you how catchy it is.

While I was making dinner I put on the first episode of Transatlantic, really not expecting much of it but it did have a charm and energy to it that never bored. Ended up watching the whole episode. Reviews aren’t great and my gut tells me subsequent episodes will just be the same but with a different famous person trying to escape WWII Europe. Any takes?

Re Physical 100: i liked it for the most part but the casual misogyny of the male contestants and to some extent, the show itself was a real bummer. it kinda felt towards the end like they were deliberately setting up the women contestants to fail.

I also thought some of the episodes ran way too long for a reality competition show. they do that thing on S. Korean shows where they repeat the same part a billion times from multiple angles/reactions - can get really tedious.

But I did like that they didn’t try to fill the show with manufactured drama - even though the competitors were a bunch of jocks, they were generally all so cheerful and supportive of each other. there was very little rivalry or anyone randomly picking fights with other competitors, or “I’m not here to make friends, I’m here to win.” surprisingly wholesome stuff.

also good that they had a really diverse set of bodies - it wasn’t just athletes and professional bodybuilders, they also had models, mountain climbers, firefighters, dancers, car salesmen… the games themselves weren’t always focused on pure physical strength, some required agility, strategy, stamina etc so it wasn’t usually obvious who the winners would be (which, again, was why the general attitude of the male contestants towards the women was so infuriating. You’re not always going to win just because you’re the biggest dude there!)

i watched The Out-Laws on Netflix which was bad but it did make me laugh a few times. there is one chase in a cemetery and i don't think i've ever actually seen a scene like that before! i mostly watched it because Richard Kind and Julie Hagerty play the dumb guy's parents and i love those two.

i also watched Nimona on Netflix which only got good in the last half. maybe even the last half hour. but before that you have to go through an hour of cliche disney plot. but the main guy is gay. which they kinda threw in there. doesn't exactly make it scream QUEER ANIMATED MOVIE. but we are all for movies about gay people who are enemies of the people and who have to hide with monsters because everyone wants to kill them, right? wait, are we for that? eh, sure. sure? its kinda hard to root for progress when everyone still looks so stupid a la emperor's new groove or something. i think i'm just going to blame the look of emperor's new groove for every new american animated movie. anyway, just watch the last 45 minutes. it will save you time. and i swear you haven't missed anything.

(i realize there is a netflix thread and a mubi thread and a criterion thread, etc, but i think i'll just post streaming stuff here.)

(i guess what bugs me about movies like nimona is it only really looks cool at the end and you think hey if you know how to make things look cool why don't you do it for an entire movie? but maybe its a budget thing.)

Anyone watch I'm a Virgo on amazon prime? 7 episode Boots Riley series. It's really cute and charming and just bonkers, but there is a darkness underneath that I expect will come more to the surface. I got through the first two eipsodes tonight.

This looks good. Coming to Netflix next Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3M1xFVdVg

Platonic is surprising my good so far.

Platonic was very much not for me.

I’m kinda enjoying Hijack with Idris Elba though - it’s silly in the way most plane hijacking shows are silly but also just ridiculous enough to be watchable.

There's a movie called The Beanie Bubble coming in Apple TV soon, about the beanie babies craze in the 90s. Seems very much in line with the recent ones about tetris, blackberry, Cheetos etc. Likable cast but this is kind of the lamest cinematic ("cinematic") trend lately: the irreverent rise and sometimes fall of (insert baconable company here.)

yeah i’m v whatever abt this trend
there’s even a movie about flaming hot cheetos on hulu rn i think

All these movies just seem centered around plaid and bad mustaches idk. It feels very much like Wolf of Wall Street-lite, or maybe it's a trickle-down effect of the Tiger King dateline nbc-ing of the documentary genre. I feel like that about a lot of the frenzied pursuit of making true crime/scandal stories within a few months of the stories breaking.

That shit can only be redeemed if they announce theyre adapting that movie air into a 10 part limited series and the whole thing ends up being set in a sweatshop and filmed in the style of a wiseman documentary

How much of the viewer base watches these for grindset reasons I wonder

These films are all the children of that movie where Greg Kinnear invents the intermittent windshield wiper

I watched a fairly good doc on the Beanie Babies rise & fall a few years back; it's worth searching out.

i watched a doc on netflix about a guy who went to a pez factory and bought pez dispensers really cheap and then sold them for a hefty profit. i was told that this person was a GENIUS.

If you can stand the most Australian of Australians, Deadloch on Prime is a great watch.

That shit can only be redeemed if they announce theyre adapting that movie air into a 10 part limited series and the whole thing ends up being set in a sweatshop and filmed in the style of a wiseman documentary

― Grandall Flange (wins)

Haha I kept seeing ads for this and people I respect seemed to like it but there's no way I'd see it bc it just isn't an angle on this I'm interested in. Same thing w any story about Steve Jobs. And I honestly just kinda felt a bit like that about the social network too and I know everyone loved that one.

After what affleck did with argo though I'm not sure I'm down with his angle on anything

I avoided social network when it came out but when I finally caught up with it I was pleasantly surprised that it does paint Zuck as a monster and the whole enterprise as gross and bad

Yeah I mean I think the social network was very well done and fincher/sorkin had the correct take on Zuckerberg. But I almost feel like it wasn't quite gross enough, a bit too glamorized over the reality, which I guess is a Hollywood necessity but I think it misses a certain uncanny valleyness about the dude that is even more excruciatingly off putting.

xxpost one of the creators of Deadloch, kate mclennan, was a friend of my sister’s when they were kids!

I am going to be a dissenting voice on "The Social Network."

Which is NOT to say I'm captain save-a-Zuck. I give exactly zero shits about him as a person.

But the film's narrative is that he (Zuck) devised the site to further his own romantic pursuits. Patently untrue, because he (Zuck) actually had a girlfriend and subsequently a wife.

The alleged romantic disappointment that was supposed to have triggered the development of the social media juggernaut (filmicly) COULD have happened, but apparently didn't, so it's a slim foundation on which to build a cinematic biographical opus.

Nota bene: it's not that I actually care about him (I don't), but we could at least introduce a modicum of honesty in the storytelling. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk thxbe

Zodiac is probably more egregious in the libel dept but works a lot better as a movie. Tonally, they really should have gone full screwball comedy instead of that weird halfway tone that the Dick Cheney movie also flubbed. Sorkin's Steve Jobs movie was also pretty corny.

I came away from the social network liking zuck esp in comparison with any other character in the movie .

like it was only when I read takes like daniel's which turned out to be v much the consensus that I even considered that the audience wasn't supposed to like him.

Also took me a long time to watch The Social Network because of vague fears it would lead to exactly what you all are describing: the flamin'-hot-cheetofication of docudrama

ok TOM CLANCY’S JACK RYAN on Prime is still a hot mess but they seem to have acquired one or two writers who aren’t doing weird “Ryan is a Patriot who is doing good work against Real Enemies” crap

it only peeks in every other episode, but they have Michael Peña who is always fun, and this week’s episode features Ryan and Peña’s character entering a country using passports with aliases of characters from THE CONVERSATION. Michael Kelly does a good job playing a seasoned CIA clean-up guy

watched the first episode of Mrs. Davis on this thread's recommendation, what a wild ride

yeah same, i was like….. wtf is going on (in a good way)

did you guys like The Big Short? i thought that was a pretty novel way to tell a complicated recent history story but i have no idea how accurate it was. i feel like its probably a pretty tough job just to get anyone to watch a movie like that. unless they are bale fanatics. baleaddicts. xian soldiers.

I love the big short. Sure it’s smarmy and on the nose and didactic and whatever but I’m a sucker.

yeah ditto