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Squirtle Squadee posted:Anybody have some old sitcoms or something of the kind from the 90s or early 00s that they know of? I'm almost done with Malcolm in the Middle, and I'm looking for a new series to watch. If I can't find anything, I might just start Breaking Bad. King of the Hill is on Instant. Most of it, anyway. I think a couple episodes are disc only due to weird licensing stuff. Frasier is a pretty great 90s sitcom too.
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Squirtle Squadee posted:Anybody have some old sitcoms or something of the kind from the 90s or early 00s that they know of? I'm almost done with Malcolm in the Middle, and I'm looking for a new series to watch. If I can't find anything, I might just start Breaking Bad. You should just watch Breaking Bad.
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snoot posted:
My wife and I started watching this the other night. About half way through and we both like it quite a bit. Now we just need to find time to finish it.
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Jul 3, 2012 01:57
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mds2 posted:You should just watch Breaking Bad. I heard this wasn't going to be on instant for too much longer. Wasn't there some new agreement where Netflix won't carry AMC shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad?
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Jul 3, 2012 03:13
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A great spaghetti western was just added today, Once Upon A Time In The West. This is one of Sergio Leone's most epic westerns and well worth a watch. The music, the characters, and the cinemtography are just spot on amazing. Here's one of my favorite scenes--when the light swings onto Harmonica ~4:50 in it's one of the coolest shots ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMSfO9vkpKY
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Jul 3, 2012 03:21
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Hitch posted:I heard this wasn't going to be on instant for too much longer. Wasn't there some new agreement where Netflix won't carry AMC shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad? Sounds like a rumor. AMC and Netflix signed a multi year deal last October. https://www.amcnetworks.com/release_release_press.jsp?nodeid=6420
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Jul 3, 2012 03:25
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mod sassinator posted:A great spaghetti western was just added today, Once Upon A Time In The West. This is one of Sergio Leone's most epic westerns and well worth a watch. The music, the characters, and the cinemtography are just spot on amazing. Holy poo poo, I loving love you for mentioning this. I own it on DVD but gently caress, I'm watching it on the Roku since I've been wanting to watch it again anyway but the DVD is buried in my closet. Encryptic fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Jul 3, 2012 |
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Holy Dread! posted:This movie is making me angry. I just watched the girl have a baby, then crush pills and snort them in the room with the newborn. Then she's all distraught when the hospital keeps the baby to observe it. WTF. Are there really people like this??? I live in a very very white trash area, and yes. People like this exist. I've pushed this dvd on a lot of customers, and they all thought it was kind of funny, really really sad, and for all the wrong reasons. In fact, one of the reason The Whites is so great is because it hits so close to home.
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Jul 3, 2012 06:42
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Human Tornada posted:Cold Weather is a (pretty good) mumblecore detective movie. What this person said. Cold Weather is one of my favorite Netflix discoveries.
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Jul 3, 2012 06:56
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just fyi, The Inbetweeners gets worse every season, and turns from "humorous insulting back-and-forth between 4 friends" into a whole bunch of raunchy/shock value poo poo. And I didn't realise Cold Weather was on Instant! Gonna have to watch that soon.
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Jul 3, 2012 08:45
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mod sassinator posted:A great spaghetti western was just added today, Once Upon A Time In The West. This is one of Sergio Leone's most epic westerns and well worth a watch. The music, the characters, and the cinemtography are just spot on amazing. Hitch posted:I heard this wasn't going to be on instant for too much longer. Wasn't there some new agreement where Netflix won't carry AMC shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad?
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Jul 3, 2012 12:57
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I love those Classic Albums shows, I just wish there was an easier way to find them, especially on the Apple TV. A bunch have the "Classic Albums" in the title, but a bunch don't, plus there are missing ones entirely. They could have just made it a TV series, but I guess it is better as separate movies since they get "related to" stuff on that particular band that way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums#Episodes I think these are the randomly missing ones: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968) Judas Priest - British Steel (1980) Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976) smackfu fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jul 3, 2012 |
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Jul 3, 2012 14:20
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Encryptic posted:Holy poo poo, I loving love you for mentioning [Once Upon A Time In The West]. I own it on DVD but gently caress, I'm watching it on the Roku since I've been wanting to watch it again anyway but the DVD is buried in my closet. Movies like this and Criterion collection stuff is where I usually just get and watch the DVD version and listen to the commentary back and forth.
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Jul 3, 2012 15:06
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Well, maybe it was because all the "it's garbage/it's brilliant" discussion in here tempered my expectations, but I felt that Rubber was a clever and fun film worth watching although it never came close to reaching the craziness it was aspiring to.
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Jul 3, 2012 20:52
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kuddles posted:Well, maybe it was because all the "it's garbage/it's brilliant" discussion in here tempered my expectations, but I felt that Rubber was a clever and fun film worth watching although it never came close to reaching the craziness it was aspiring to. I've seen many "strange" movies that tried too hard. Rubber is a good satire of movies that try to be strange for... no reason.
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Jul 3, 2012 20:54
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Yonic Symbolism posted:I've seen many "strange" movies that tried too hard. We just covered Rubber for Alcohollywood, so there's a drink and drinking game there, but our discussion was sort of along those lines. I figured it was a much more direct look at the interaction between films and their audiences; I just thought the troubling thing was that the director seemed to hate me and hate audiences in general. The audience is depicted as a mass of overly pretentious or ditzy douchebags who ravenously rip at a poisoned turkey like animals (I got the implication, and rolled my eyes a bit when Wings Hauser actually looked at them and said "animals"). The one remaining audience member only survives because they're doggedly dedicated to more story, to the point where the movie just gets tired of catering to him and kills him.
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Jul 3, 2012 21:04
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Ok ok ok, you guys were right. Boy Wonder does get pretty good as it goes on.
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Jul 4, 2012 02:31
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In the Mood for Love is on but it looks pretty terrible. SD and a weird aspect that keeps changing.
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Volume posted:Ok ok ok, you guys were right. Boy Wonder does get pretty good as it goes on. I've turned a dozen people onto it now, really great flick.
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Jul 4, 2012 06:33
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I saw Donnie Brasco (great film based on a really interesting fellow) was up on instantwatcher, searched it and was hit with random Donnie Darko. It's as good as I remember it. I was pretty  when I watched it as a kid and I remember thinking it was some weird independent film. I am not quite sure how I forgot Barrymore/Swayze/Wyle. Also seeing the Gyllenhaal siblings at that age makes me feel ancient. If you haven't seen it you should give it a shot.I also hadn't seen 12 Monkeys since I was a kid. I loved it back then but it's some much better to re-watch it and notice Gilliams fingerprints and the references it makes to Hitchcock and such. It still kills me thatthe motive of the guy who releases the virus is never explainedbut I guess that really isn't relevant to the story.
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Jul 4, 2012 18:30
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Does anyone have Amazon prime, who can tell me whether Netflix or Amazon has more/better content for instant streaming?
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Jul 4, 2012 23:49
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truth masseuse posted:Does anyone have Amazon prime, who can tell me whether Netflix or Amazon has more/better content for instant streaming? Netflix is great for a nice handful of classics and a whole lot of hidden gems. Hulu Plus is basically your personal Criterion streaming network, not too sure about Amazon though.
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Jul 5, 2012 00:11
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Amazon has Fire Walk With Me, and I'm tempted to start a free trial soon just for that, having just finished Twin Peaks on Netflix. If money isn't a concern get them ALL!
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Jul 5, 2012 00:18
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truth masseuse posted:Does anyone have Amazon prime, who can tell me whether Netflix or Amazon has more/better content for instant streaming? There's certain things that Amazon excels at. Specifically reality shows. There's also a few films I haven't seen on Netflix. I'm currently using my mother's Prime account for access as I didn't see the need to sign up for another streaming service.
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Discount Viscount posted:Amazon has Fire Walk With Me, and I'm tempted to start a free trial soon just for that, having just finished Twin Peaks on Netflix. I don't recommend it. It adds nothing to the mythos of the series and all the quirkiness and fun has been replaced with violent rape and sadness.
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Jul 5, 2012 01:28
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My friend has Amazon and the movie selection is pretty dire. Decent for TV shows but we couldn't find a single interesting movie to watch the other night.
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Yonic Symbolism posted:I've seen many "strange" movies that tried too hard. What movies do you have in mind, specifically?
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pr0p posted:I also hadn't seen 12 Monkeys since I was a kid. I loved it back then but it's some much better to re-watch it and notice Gilliams fingerprints and the references it makes to Hitchcock and such. It still kills me thatthe motive of the guy who releases the virus is never explainedbut I guess that really isn't relevant to the story. He shows up earlier talking about how our society is doomed and we're killing the planet and so on.
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Jul 5, 2012 02:31
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Is there ever any indication in 12 Monkeys that it's actually possible to change the past?
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TOOT BOOT posted:Is there ever any indication in 12 Monkeys that it's actually possible to change the past? I don't know about "possible", but it's made pretty clear that Bruce Willis was never meant to change the past or stop the outbreak, so it's heavily implied that it's not possible to change major events.
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It's probably been said, but The Rock-A-Fire Explosion is a fantastic watch that will leave you depressed, creeped out, and confused.
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truth masseuse posted:Does anyone have Amazon prime, who can tell me whether Netflix or Amazon has more/better content for instant streaming? I used to ignore Amazon entirely because it seemed like they mostly overlapped with Netflix with a handful of oddball exceptions (Amazon has classic Doctor Who by season while Netflix only has a handful of collections that were released on video). I think they're doing a bit better more recently, though, because just browsing through I see a number of things Netflix doesn't have, ranging anywhere from Mean Girls to Antichrist. But if you had to pick one, Netflix is probably still the better choice. Amazon's selection largely reads like the back racks at a video store (among the current most popular titles are stuff like Deep Impact and Forest Gump), and there's still a lot of overlap with Netflix. Plus it seems like it's taken them a while to get around to taking this video thing seriously, given that they only added the ability to queue movies last month. Of course, you can also do what I do and get Prime for the shipping and consider the video a nice bonus.
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Oxidizer posted:It's probably been said, but The Rock-A-Fire Explosion is a fantastic watch that will leave you depressed, creeped out, and confused. I watched this probably six months or so ago and thought the thing. Interesting movie, but man, some weird people. Didn't one guy said he NEVER drank water and only drinks mountain dew?
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Mustached5thGrader posted:I don't recommend it. It adds nothing to the mythos of the series and all the quirkiness and fun has been replaced with violent rape and sadness. You are right that FWWM has a different tone than Twin Peaks but it is still great. I recommend it. Immortals has shown up on instant.
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foodfight posted:You are right that FWWM has a different tone than Twin Peaks but it is still great. I recommend it. Man, it seems every movie I get through the mail turns up streaming a week later.  Immortals owns though. And I'll second that Fire Walk With Me is amazing, it certainly makes up for how abysmal the second half of the show was.
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Jul 5, 2012 15:58
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wyoming posted:Man, it seems every movie I get through the mail turns up streaming a week later. Same thing happens to me. Martha Marcy May Marlene will probably stream next week because it is sitting on my coffee table. Sound of Noise is streaming later this month and I'm legit excited for that.
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Jul 5, 2012 16:15
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I had heard that new Spartacus show was on Netflix, but it looks like it's not anymore. Only thing on there now is the animated poo poo of it.
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Bash Ironfist posted:I had heard that new Spartacus show was on Netflix, but it looks like it's not anymore. Only thing on there now is the animated poo poo of it. I think that was because it was part of the Starz deal which expired not too long ago.
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Jul 5, 2012 19:53
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Goon is somehow an incredibly charming movie about a guy who punches people in the face during hockey games. Stay for the clips of the guy who the story is based on that show up midway through the credits and you'll see that Seann William Scott really did nail him perfectly. It's kind of a spiritual successor to Slap Shot.
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The video quality of Firewalk With Me on Prime is loving terrible. Is that just me?
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