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Watched the HIllary documentary on Hulu. It's depressing.

"the romanoffs is a dud" about half of them were good, but there are a few that are fucking dire, particularly the Tina Fey/John Slattery one.

my attempt to engage my family in the Expanse did not go over well, I was informed it was 'so much science fiction' by my wife who watches tv in 30 second spurts while looking at her phone.

:(

but it is a lot of scifi it is true

I think we watched maybe two episodes of The Expanse, based on a recommendation from a friend that it was quality sci-fi. And indeed, it was quality sci-fi, but my wife never asked about it again and indeed probably already forgot she saw those two episodes.

The Whitmer Thomas special "the golden one" on HBO is funny and genuinely affecting. Cant remember the last time I thought a comedy special was good

I've never heard of him, but I love comedy recommendations, thanks. Watched the trailer and have no idea what to make of it, but worth a shot!

(Not) speaking of which, I'm sure The Plot Against America is great, but I'm not sure I need another reason to be bummed out.

on Amazon, started this a couple days ago, it's really well done

soundtracked by Mogwai

https://youtu.be/4UYGmqsIFIM

ZeroZeroZero^

my brilliant friend series 2 is on hbo now

We’ve just started watching Mythic Quest on ATV+ and it’s pretty hilarious. Lots of great actors, and F Murray Abraham just slaying it as a washed-up fantasy writer.

my brilliant friend series 2 is on hbo now

Quick shoutout to the Chrome extension "Netflix Party," which lets you share a Netflix viewing with any friends who have Netflix, Chrome, and the extension. The extension generates a link, you share it with friends, they click that, it opens the movie on Netflix, and then they click the browser extension button at top right to join the party. There's a chat window too. We did it with a general group of friends last night and it was a nice little shared time in the midst of these strange days. Feel like it'd be an epecial blast with my bad-movie-night buddies specifically, in terms of riffing over the movie making it feel even more talkative/communal. Lord knows there's enough schlock under the surface in Netflix.

F Murray Abraham just slaying it as a washed-up fantasy writer.

He has looked 80 years old for decades, hasn't he?

my brilliant friend series 2 is on hbo now

― akm, Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:06 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh shit.. Hurray!

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21182425/movies-anywhere-screen-pass-feature-share-loan-digital-movies-friends

Apologies if some has posted about this on another thread, but I just signed up for this free service that aggregates all of your movies from different services into one app (which I guess will start showing up on all of your devices), which is sorta cool. Much cooler is that it will allow you to lend movies which you've purchased to friends!

"With Screen Pass, Movies Anywhere users will be able to share up to three films per month, giving temporary access to the recipient. Users will have seven days to accept the offer, which will give them access to the film for 14 days. Once started, recipients will have 72 hours to finish the film. The three-share limit resets on the first of every month, letting you share more films. (Unused passes won’t roll over.)"

Pretty Hollywood-friendly terms, but still better than the current deal.

The Plot Against America is fine but doesn't really add anything if you've read it before

This looks like it could be good (from Greg Daniels of The Office and Parks and Rec):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfZj2bn_xg

Promising based on pedigree alone. Sidenote: I really hope "Once in a Lifetime" does not become the new "Let My Love Open the Door."

That sounds great DC, especially right now xps

thanks for the heads up

" The Plot Against America is fine but doesn't really add anything if you've read it before"

I found the book incredibly dull when it was published so maybe this will be more engrossing.

Brockmire is still incredibly funny.

And painfully prescient

Devs is pretty cool, Offerman is the worst thing about it.

Still on the fence about this whole $20 On-demand Rentals for New Releases thing - good option for us consumers, but will it drive theatrical into the ground even more? - but I'm glad Disney made the choice easier for me with Onward. Really wanted to catch it, and got released for rent yesterday, but it'll be on Disney+ on April 3.

https://www.popsugar.com/family/onward-disney-plus-47327624

$20 is approximately twice what I'd be willing to pay to watch The Invisible Man on my laptop.

I would pay $4.99 for The Hunt but that's it.

I think it was on HBO, but my wife was really excited about watching the McMillions doc, but I think it's pretty run of the mill and padded out for what could have been a more thrilling story. Or at least as thrilling as a fast food contest rigging scheme can get.

yeah I gave up after one ep, so horribly padded. just read the article it's based on.

Glad it wasn't just me. Why did they think this story needed 6 (iirc) hour-long episodes?

i mean you need space to painstakingly re-enact the events, every time someone says something like "...but to get approval for an inquiry preparatory to opening an investigation, you need to walk down the hall and get signatures from both the section supervisor *and* the district agent in charge," followed by "well, we hit a real snag when it turned out the district agent in charge wouldn't be back from vacation for another two days," etc.

"I would pay $4.99 for The Hunt but that's it."

all of these just became a piratebay splurge for me. FWIW: Invisible Man is quite good. Didn't watch the Hunt, Onward, or Emma yet. Actually I started emma but it annoyed me a lot so I'll give it another shot.

Seeing the various personalities involved made McMillions very entertaining, and most of the recreations were very well done, but it totally could have been three episodes.

This thread now appears to be about broadcast television and theatrical movies. Somebody should start one for streaming video services!

Guess I'll finally watch the only Lynch I haven't seen when The Straight Story goes up on Disney+ on April 3.

caught it on the big screen last month - it's fantastic.

Watched Onward last night (which is maybe up for streaming or rent? dunno because I obtained it some other way) and it's fine but it's really B grade Pixar. Wonder how well it would have done if this current situation hadn't happened. Like the Dinosaur movie, it feels fairly unnecessary and minor. Some great animation though.

i thought it was pretty bad and painfully predictable. the first pixar i ever turned off.

It seemed like they couldn't decide between doubling down on the insane photorealism of Toy Story 4, or doing something more cartoonish. They ended up in this odd place that didn't work for me.

yeah I didn't like the actual character designs much. the backgrounds and lighting were excellent as usual.

This show has one of the craziest backstories (based on the paintings of Simon Stålenhag), but it actually looks pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htuNZp82Ck

if anyone's been looking for a good time to try out Shudder, they just added Friday the 13th pts 1 thru 8.

Oof, rare family agreement that "Onward" was really subpar. Pretty precitable, not exciting, not funny (one or two gags aside), looked good but given the scenario still pretty uninspired, and really didn't earn its wannabe heartwarming conclusion. Bummer.

so, Future Man on hulu is ridiculous and cliched, but somehow their pivot for season three is a point in time: December 31, 1999 at Iowa State University with a guy using a lot of internet bandwidth

I have it on good authority the person in real life using the most dorm bandwidth was in fact my roommate. Or at least he was the only person cited in a meeting about that with a group of network administrators I was in

lol

this has probably been covered before,
but what’s happening with all the movies that were supposed to come out now? are they all on hold indefinitely? are some of them going straight to Netflix?

Some delayed, some already available to rent for around 20 bucks on streaming services (eg The Invisible Man)

lol 20 bucks?? that’s somewhat more than a ticket at the movies

Yeah, I think their thinking is there'll be more than one person watching.

Of course, once they're up for streaming they're almost instantly available on all the torrent sites too

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/here-are-all-the-movies-and-tv-shows-affected-by-coronavirus.html

You can get The Invisible Man for free on the torrents and it was not up to much. Lol 20 bucks for that. No way!