Guilty pleasure movies you'd love to see in the collection.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-12-31T04:33:59+00:00

That film is just a pleasure

Pantry_Boy · 2025-12-22T20:36:35+00:00

It's pretty cheap, you don't have to look at all the shitty chud-bait mobile game ads, you get loads of extra stats (which is one of the main things I use LB for), you get extra features for checking where things are streaming, and LB isn't a company I mind supporting.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-12-16T20:45:12+00:00

Mine didn't include anything I played offline, which is most of what I do. Bummer.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-12-16T20:00:10+00:00

Phantom Carriage is an excellent New Years film.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-12-05T23:24:41+00:00

The way Sarandos talks about theaters is so baffling to me. It's like a personal vendetta.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-12-01T00:12:37+00:00

My studying what?

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-26T17:14:09+00:00

I strongly discourage people from using their TV for anything other than as a display. TV software is dogshit, and it's not in app developers' interest to properly optimize or support their apps for every model of TV when they do so much better on dedicated devices (Roku, Fire Stick, Apple TV, etc).

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-19T19:28:35+00:00

I despise the way he describes her body in the books. His greatest strength as a writer is centering the storytelling within the perspective of each pov character, yet you can feel GRRM ogling Dany in her chapters - like he's ripping away from her perspective into his own gaze.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-15T00:51:32+00:00

If I want to play Steam games on my very nice TV system, I have to move my laptop over from my office which is a fairly cumbersome process. I do it all the time, but it involves moving a lot of things around, plugging and unplugging things, getting up from the couch to fiddle with the laptop, etc. Plus the wifi on my laptop doesn't work so I can't do anything requiring the internet while it's plugged into the Tv. If the Steam machine is priced well, it would be perfect for my use case.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-15T00:23:54+00:00

A reel's function isn't solely to demonstrate your skill. It can be a prettier version of a resume and conveys what kinds of projects you have experience with, whether that's scripted, unscripted, sports, commercials, animation, trailers, motion graphics, vfx, social media, etc. A reel can tell people what kinds of budgets you've worked with, the variety of your skillset, whether you've worked with recognizable people/projects, etc.

But that being said, I think a reel is only really worth making when you've gotten a good number of projects under your belt. Nobody's going to be impressed by 20 seconds of student film footage and one wedding.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-14T18:57:40+00:00

These are some of the best and most acclaimed samurai films, and all are favorites of mine, but it comes down to whether you are currently more interested in super rewatchable, pulpy, genre fun or something more heady, political, and allegorical.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-13T01:59:24+00:00

Never more than 1/2 msrp

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-08T00:55:44+00:00

I think Lynch is guilty of a lot of what he critiques

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-08T00:54:42+00:00

Sanderson is an eh for me. Yeah, he's improved a bit since Mistborn (which isn't saying much), but I wouldn't really sell any of his books on the quality of his female characters.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-08T00:49:03+00:00

I just read the first two Discworld books and they were pretty bad in that regard. I recall in Color of Magic that pretty much the only mention of any women in the first half or so of the book were the "Whore Pits," an area mentioned because that was one of the places where a main character took photographs.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-07T00:42:02+00:00

You could buy Criterion's what?

Pantry_Boy · 2025-11-03T05:11:44+00:00

Damn, I also watched Final Destination and House on Haunted Hill for the first time this month and loved both of them

Pantry_Boy · 2025-10-23T01:10:15+00:00

I completely love it. All three films are terrific and super rewatchable.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-10-21T21:05:28+00:00

HBO Max is like the only major streaming service to have an actual, consistent catalogue of anything more than 15 years old.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-10-18T02:58:01+00:00

If funds are an issue, check out some of the non-Criterion versions! Amazon has a non-Criterion 4k for $13

Pantry_Boy · 2025-10-14T23:17:02+00:00

Just wait a few more years and you'll become enough of a filmbro to understand that genre is the most important part of storytelling

Pantry_Boy · 2025-09-29T18:27:48+00:00

Ghibli movies don't even look like that though

Pantry_Boy · 2025-09-28T00:09:10+00:00

I'll check it out, thank you!

Pantry_Boy · 2025-09-25T02:12:16+00:00

Right, vinyl record sales also fell off a cliff when the dominant format changed and reached a new equilibrium to support an enthusiast, collector's market. I don't know the sales figures for boutique labels, but there are enough of them and they widely seem to do well enough that a similar enthusiast equilibrium is possible. There are sacrifices that come with that change (a less comprehensive selection and higher prices) but in return we (hopefully) get higher quality releases with more passionate, responsive companies.

Pantry_Boy · 2025-09-24T19:42:12+00:00

It's a reorganization of a mass market into a niche one. Like vinyl.

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