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TrixRabbi posted:Are you talking about the hockey film? Because you just got me really excited only to find that the, how should I say, Nicolas Cage classic is not available. Its available to me in the UK, I'd enjoy it more if it was at a decent bitrate though, any settings on the ps3 to adjust (at work right now)
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idoliside posted:Just picked up the free trial in the UK, this is pretty nice, better than LoveFilm which I used for a bit. Going to try it on my PS3 later on tonight. Not on consoles, but you can on the site. Unless the UK layout is different, you should be able to go to a genre (or subgenre) and then click the barely noticeable "See all" button in the upper right. That gives you a gallery view of box covers that you can change to a sortable text list of titles.
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I just got the Netflix free UK trial, it seems to have a better selection than Lovefilm. It does annoy me that there doesn't seem to be an option to force HD streaming on the PS3, it sticks to whatever it deems the best rate for uninterrupted streaming. When viewing on the computer, you can force it higher by clicking on the video and then Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, tick manual selection and then pick whatever rate you like. Been watching Twin Peaks for the first time, Clear and Present Danger and my better half spent an evening watching Hey Arnold. The UK library wont mirror the US library right?
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I was bored and browsing, and found this film called Harvey. It stars Jimmy Stewart, and it's a comedy about a man whose family is trying to commit him because he has an invisible friend, a six-foot-tall-rabbit named Harvey. I mean, seriously. Why the hell wouldn't you want to see a movie like that. I was rolling on the floor when his sister was trying to commit him to the sanitarium. I think the one reason why it works really well is that they never make Jimmy Stewart act in a way that's overtly insane.
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Barrelfox posted:The UK library wont mirror the US library right? Some stuff might over lap but there's bound to be stuff available in the US and not the UK and vice versa.
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Barrelfox posted:The UK library wont mirror the US library right? I haven't tried it but apparently you can access the US library by using a US vpn even if your a UK subscriber.
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Cemetry Gator posted:I was bored and browsing, and found this film called Harvey. It stars Jimmy Stewart, and it's a comedy about a man whose family is trying to commit him because he has an invisible friend, a six-foot-tall-rabbit named Harvey. 
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Barrelfox posted:I just got the Netflix free UK trial, it seems to have a better selection than Lovefilm. The US library is much better than the UK one at this point. Here's a guide on how to get the US library from your PS3 (works for me on Xbox too). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmBTH3wjgDU
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idoliside posted:Is there anyway to increase the audio quality on Netflix ps3? Trying to watch Face Off but the awful compressed stereo is hurting me. I think only a few titles have 5.1 surround, if I'm not mistaken. Anytime I watch something animated  , the audio is choppy and doesn't match up.
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Cemetry Gator posted:I was bored and browsing, and found this film called Harvey. It stars Jimmy Stewart, and it's a comedy about a man whose family is trying to commit him because he has an invisible friend, a six-foot-tall-rabbit named Harvey. Harvey is the perfect hangover movie. It's just so charming.
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Watched 13 Assassins, The Crimson Rivers, A Clockwork Orange, Videodrome, and SLC Punk this weekend. All good. All of them were good. The Crimson Rivers is a french serial killer movie starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel, in which Jean Reno is scared of dogs and Vincent Cassel beats up a few dudes while the announcer from Tekken calls the fight. Its also dubbed into English. Irish Taxi Driver fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 23, 2012 |
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The Poor Decisions of Todd Margeret is shaping up to be a pretty good show, too bad its only a few episodes. It stars (an older) David Cross and Will Arnett. Basically its set up is that Cross's character is set up to take the fall for a big company that's selling a energy drink. Definitely check it out. Also, if you're looking for more Cross/Arnett shows, check out Running Wilde, this show also got cancelled before its time, but its worth a look.
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Jonny posted:The US library is much better than the UK one at this point. Here's a guide on how to get the US library from your PS3 (works for me on Xbox too). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmBTH3wjgDU Thank you very much for this, it worked on the PS3.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:All good. All of them were good. The Crimson Rivers is a french serial killer movie starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel, in which Jean Reno is scared of dogs and Vincent Cassel beats up a few dudes while the announcer from Tekken calls the fight. Its also dubbed into English. I used to have the DVD of this, and the original french audio is great. Regardless, I really enjoyed the movie and thought it was a pretty sweet mystery.
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Kingtheninja posted:I used to have the DVD of this, and the original french audio is great. Regardless, I really enjoyed the movie and thought it was a pretty sweet mystery. Yeah I didn't think it was too bad. Ending spoilers: I figured out the girl was the killer pretty early but I didn't expect twins, though now that I think about it, they did foreshadow it. Irish Taxi Driver fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Jan 23, 2012 18:06
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Has Hercules: The Legendary Journey series been taken off? I did the US DNS trick and its worked for shows like Xena and Southpark, but no Hercules oddly enough. I want a 90s nostalgia trip.
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idoliside posted:Has Hercules: The Legendary Journey series been taken off? I did the US DNS trick and its worked for shows like Xena and Southpark, but no Hercules oddly enough. I want a 90s nostalgia trip. Still there for me. Unfortunate that you can't see it, because in my eyes it really holds up today because it never took itself seriously to begin with. Still a very fun series. If you can get through Hulu I'd highly recommend Jack of All Trades, too. Made by the same people as Xena and Hercules and stars Bruce Campbell in a sort of quasi-Scarlet Pimpernel role. The whole thing has a sort of pirate-y feel, too, because of the interesting location. The great thing is, the tone of the show is the same as the tone of the Hercules/Xena episodes that star Campbell - that is to say, decidedly more fun. I'd also try the Chrome extension Stealthy if I were you. Works for me on everything BBC and super simple to use.
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I just noticed tonight that Marathon Man is available for streaming. I had been meaning to watch it for a while and found it to be reasonably entertaining. For anyone not familiar, Dustin Hoffman plays a graduate student living in New York who unwittingly gets caught up in a conspiracy involving a Nazi dentist. A solid 70's thriller.
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If you like good docs, Lemmy is amazing, it was on the Canadian but not sure of the US. It seemed really real and Lemmy doesn't give two shits. He's just a lowpaid legend living in some poo poo apartment who loves collecting nazi stuff and playing great music.
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I just watched The Vicious Kind. Thank you so much for suggesting it, netflix thread.
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9th Company Follows a Russian company from recruitment into Afghanistan in 1988. Familiar and similar themes to any America movie about Iraq combined slightly with Full Metal Jacket. Also fuckloads of vodka.
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Vintersorg posted:If you like good docs, Lemmy is amazing, it was on the Canadian but not sure of the US. It seemed really real and Lemmy doesn't give two shits. He's just a lowpaid legend living in some poo poo apartment who loves collecting nazi stuff and playing great music. It wasn't on instant when I tried watch it a couple weeks ago. I eventually saw it and yeah, it was very interesting. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him. He'd go on and on about how he's doing what he was meant to do and he loves it and wouldn't change a thing, but then they show him alone in his apartment or backstage and he looks sad and weary.
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I think it's been recommended before in this thread, but Street Thief is really good. It's a documentary that follows around a thief as he goes about his business. Just don't read the netflix movie description before you watch it. It's not a real documentary, but it plays as one and I think it's worth watching it with that ambiguity of whether or not it's real.
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I finally got around to watching Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. I'm not a huge musical comedy fan, but I loved the hell out of this. Neil Patrick Harris was awesome as Dr. Horrible to the point where I can't think of anyone else who would've played that part better, especially since there aren't that many singer/actors around anymore as far as I know. Plus, the whole thing was ~42 minutes long, which makes it great if you don't want to watch something very long. I do have a question about the ending, though... When it showed Dr.Horrible at the very end in his regular clothes finishing the final song with "...a thing" sung in a somber fashion, is that meant to show that he knows that world domination came at the cost of Penny's life? I feel like I'm probably reading a bit too much into it, so shut me up if that's the case. I still enjoyed it, and I think anyone who hasn't seen it yet should definitely watch it. 
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Obeast posted:I do have a question about the ending, though... When it showed Dr.Horrible at the very end in his regular clothes finishing the final song with "...a thing" sung in a somber fashion, is that meant to show that he knows that world domination came at the cost of Penny's life? I feel like I'm probably reading a bit too much into it, so shut me up if that's the case. I still enjoyed it, and I think anyone who hasn't seen it yet should definitely watch it. You're pretty much on the money there.
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Discount Viscount posted:You're pretty much on the money there. yeah, along the same lines "the world I wanted at my feet" in the same song has more than one meaning
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Cemetry Gator posted:I was bored and browsing, and found this film called Harvey. It stars Jimmy Stewart, and it's a comedy about a man whose family is trying to commit him because he has an invisible friend, a six-foot-tall-rabbit named Harvey. It's either adapted from or was adapted into a pretty famous play, too. It's a movie older generations are very familiar with and that I've heard people of my parents' generation or older reference many times but not something that younger generations seem to know very well. Once you've seen it you'll notice a lot of older tv shows, particularly sitcoms, slide in references to it. It's been weird to watch Twin Peaks as someone who wasn't old enough to watch it when it was on TV but I was very aware of it and remember the cultural phenomenon it was when it first came out.
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Looks like lots of foreign films have just been added, unless I just haven't been paying attention to this area recently.
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I noticed that Time Crimes (Los Cronocrímenes) and In the Loop just popped up for me, and both are excellent foreign films. Time Crimes is a Spanish sci-fi about a man who discovers a time machine in the woods behind his house while being chased by a bizarre bandaged stranger, while In the Loop is a dark British comedy based around how the British foreign ministry was dragged into supporting the Iraq War.
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Time Crimes is fantastic, and I've been wanting to watch it again. Thanks for the heads up!
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Hercules randomly popped up for me today (using the DNS trick for a while now), watched the first episode and stopped half way through. This used to be awesome when I was about 7 but I can't help but cringe every now and then throughout. Andromeda, give me that everyday...
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Terrifying Effigies posted:In the Loop If you like In the Loop, please please please watch The Thick of It, the BBC series on which Loop is based. Many of the same actors, but in different roles. Capaldi, thankfully, is the same character, which is really all that matters.
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The Thick Of It isn't available in the US yet, unfortunately.
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I think supernatural is going to be up on tuesday. If it's not, I give up. I will stop looking for a release date and just forget about it.
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Anyone have a recommendation for a good whodunnit?
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HaroldofTheRock posted:Anyone have a recommendation for a good whodunnit? There's a lot of Agatha Christie stuff up there. I just looked for Death on the Nile, which isn't, but it brought up Evil Under the Sun which has Peter Ustinov as Poirot, plus Maggie Smith (who's also in Nile and the spoof Murder by Death), Roddy McDowall, Diana Rigg, and James Mason. In fact, I just added it to the queue myself. Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jan 30, 2012 |
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Kingtheninja posted:I think supernatural is going to be up on tuesday. If it's not, I give up. I will stop looking for a release date and just forget about it. Tomorrow actually. I'm really excited!
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HaroldofTheRock posted:Anyone have a recommendation for a good whodunnit? I like the Inspector Lynley Mysteries - there are three of them up on instant. They're great in a BBC sort of way.
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HaroldofTheRock posted:Anyone have a recommendation for a good whodunnit? It's been mentioned here many times, but as far as mysteries on Netflix you can't go wrong with Sherlock. The best adaptation I've ever seen hands-down.
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