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X-Ray Pecs posted:Everybody loving watch Face/Off. It's incredible watching John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in a scenery-chewing arms race. You know it's going to be a good movie after the intro scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_WPZWfp_iM
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:Thanks for reminding me!!! Going back to Bruce Lee's first HK movies, they're blatantly nationalist, the people of the future whooping on the medieval racist Japanese. Ip Man is part of that grand myth. This is before you even get into the "historical accuracy" of biopics in general.
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A movie about reanimated Bruce Lee leading an army of futuristic Chinese people in a time-traveling crusade against Medieval Japan would be pretty dope.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Watch Barbarella right now. Jane Fonda boobs, weirrrrrrrrrrrd 70s aesthetic and so many classic lines. The password is ... Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
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Sep 2, 2012 18:09
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It looks like The Conversation is also streaming now. This has been a good way to start the month.
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I don't suppose there's any site mashup or browser plugin that coordinates between netflix instant and imdb? I'd like to know what the highest overall rated films available on instant are, instead of just my predicted rating. Be a good way to catch some classic films that the prediction system might miss out on.
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regulargonzalez posted:I don't suppose there's any site mashup or browser plugin that coordinates between netflix instant and imdb? I'd like to know what the highest overall rated films available on instant are, instead of just my predicted rating. Be a good way to catch some classic films that the prediction system might miss out on. Instant Watcher does this with Rotten Tomatoes: http://instantwatcher.com/genres/505
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Sep 2, 2012 20:39
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Whole lotta movies just got added: Amores Perros Analyze This Barberella Basic Instint Braveheart Chaplin (Fantastic biopic starring Robert Downey Jr as Charlie Chaplin) Charlie Bartlett Clue Clueless Coming to America (which I watched again. Still hilarious, so if you haven't seen it, do so) Deep Impact The Doors Face/Off Ghost Letters from Iwo Jima Mean Girls (such a shame seeing Lohan look so bad these days, she's quite charming here) Mission Impossible 1 & 3 Network Payback (the bad-rear end Mel Gibson revenge flick) Pootie Tang (written and directed by Louis CK!) Private Parts Serpico Shooter (the sniper one, with Mark Whalberg) Team America: World Police The Thing (the Kurt Russel/John Carpenter version; it's off and on Instant a lot) Tommy Boy Vanilla Sky Varsity Blues We Were Soldiers A bunch of other ones were added as well, but those are the ones that popped out to me.
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Sep 2, 2012 23:55
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Those all look like Paramount films. Awesome.
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I just saw that the entire series of Cracker is on instant. I used to make time every night when PBS aired it but I never saw them all so this is thrilled me to see them up.
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Sep 3, 2012 00:22
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Tumble posted:Whole lotta movies just got added: South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (or at least it's on my Just Added list) And yeah, I guess they got a new deal done with Paramount for their older stuff. Crossing fingers that the Indiana Jones movies will pop up, though with the Blu-Ray set coming out in 3 weeks it's probably too much to ask.
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Sep 3, 2012 01:44
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As someone with Amazon Prime, this new selection also seems a bit like Netflix catching up with them - those are all movies that are either on my Amazon watchlist or I have watched on Prime because I couldn't on Netflix.
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Is Payback the Director's Cut or Theatrical? They are completely different (I've seen both). The Director's Cut is much closer to the bleak 70's style the original director wanted. There's a documentary floating around that shows how much of a clusterfuck that movie became, I wonder if they'd put that on netflix as well. We Were Soldiers is also incredible. It also has Jon Hamm in one of his earliest roles.
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I've never seen Brazil before, and I just realized the disk I rented from the school library is the third Criterion one and not the first. The menu proudly advertises "This cut includes all the changes Terry Gilliam refused to make!" Basically what's something I can find on Netflix streaming with a Brazil-esque tone to tide me over until I can go back and get the director's cut version 
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Power of Pecota posted:I've never seen Brazil before, and I just realized the disk I rented from the school library is the third Criterion one and not the first. The menu proudly advertises "This cut includes all the changes Terry Gilliam refused to make!" Time Bandits. It's the first in the trilogy.
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Sep 3, 2012 04:27
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I watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi a couple of days ago and I highly recommend it. Whether you like sushi or not it is fascinating to watch someone so dedicated to excelling at one thing do that thing. What I also think is interesting about the film is that it takes the time to look at Jiro's oldest son and his relationship with his father.
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Sep 3, 2012 04:39
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It'd be cool if whenever you watched Clue, it would randomly queue up one of the three endings.
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Sep 3, 2012 06:34
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After being gone for a while, Lake Mungo is back on streaming. I'm actually going to watch it this time.
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Sep 3, 2012 06:40
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Just watched The Arbor and would recommend it, especially if you enjoyed* Dear Zachary or are interested in British underclass communities or dysfunctional family documentaries. I went into it not knowing anything about the subject of the documentary and recommend doing the same. Be forewarned that the form is a little strange: the director recorded audio interviews with the subject's real family members, and then actors lipsynch to those interviews instead of showing the interviewees. I'm usually very bothered when mouths and audio aren't perfectly lined up, but it's fairly seamless here. This movie expires 9/6, and InstantWatcher does not show it being added again presently. *Enjoyed is obviously not the correct word.
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Sep 3, 2012 06:53
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I rewatched Mean Girls last night and although it's a really fun and entertaining movie, it's disheartening at seeing how much potential Lindsay Lohan had and then squandered. 
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Power of Pecota posted:I've never seen Brazil before, and I just realized the disk I rented from the school library is the third Criterion one and not the first. The menu proudly advertises "This cut includes all the changes Terry Gilliam refused to make!" Try to hold on to it until you see Gilliam's final cut, then watch the butchered version immediately afterward with the commentary on. It's horrifying to see how much heavy-handed editing can destroy a film.
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I guess Battle Royale was on streaming before and was taken off, but it's back up now if you haven't seen it.
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Heh, looks like The Slums of Beverley Hills got added, which was one of those weird, offbeat '90s indie comedies that I used to like back then. I haven't seen this movie in ages but it's in my queue and I'm looking forward to watching again, hoping it holds up. I'm hesitant to recommend any film I haven't in a decade+, and I remember this one as being a little immature at times, but I seem to recall that it was a surprisingly solid black comedy with a decent amount of depth. Alan Arkin is in it and I'm pretty sure he's fantastic like he is in most everything, same with Marisa Tomei who's also in it. And I have a serious guilty pleasure for the 1997 Mission: Impossibl that De Palma did. Good god, that movie's fun. I'm pretty sure it's no masterpiece but I can't help but just enjoy the hell out of it, no matter how many times I watch it.
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Ichi was excellent. Warning though: it's dubbed. Its been sitting in my que forever and I finally gave it a shot. Has nice contrasts between the beautiful cinematography, samurai flick cliche's, and some slight comedy peppered throughout (possibly due to the fact that it's dubbed). It follows in vein of the Zatoichi stories, so if you're a fan then you might like it.
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Network's abrupt return surprised me. I noticed it magically reappeared at the top of my queue. When I started watching, Netflix even went straight back to where I had left off in the film.
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LaptopGun posted:Network's abrupt return surprised me. I noticed it magically reappeared at the top of my queue. When I started watching, Netflix even went straight back to where I had left off in the film. Yeah, Netflix seems to save movies you've selected for your queue indefinitely even as they move on and off the streaming title list, and always seems to save your place marker within the movie when the movie comes back.
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Zwabu posted:Yeah, Netflix seems to save movies you've selected for your queue indefinitely even as they move on and off the streaming title list, and always seems to save your place marker within the movie when the movie comes back. I've always found this to pretty funny. "Oh yeah, that's the exact point mid-episode when I get bored with 24 and stopped watching it two and a half years ago, thanks for saving it Netflix!"
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Tumble posted:Pootie Tang (written and directed by Louis CK!) Louis CK is literally embarrassed by this movie. He was fired from the directing job mid-production and he admits that he deserved to be fired. On top of that, it's just not a good movie.
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Sep 3, 2012 18:32
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kaworu posted:And I have a serious guilty pleasure for the 1997 Mission: Impossibl that De Palma did. Good god, that movie's fun. I'm pretty sure it's no masterpiece but I can't help but just enjoy the hell out of it, no matter how many times I watch it. I don't know that you need to apologize for this. It's a great movie.
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Coming to America is a really odd movie. It is a pretty straight forward duck out of water comedy but there is a bunch of commentary on wealth and class and I'm not sure if I am troubled by it or not.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Time Bandits. and then The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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foodfight posted:Coming to America is a really odd movie. It is a pretty straight forward duck out of water comedy but there is a bunch of commentary on wealth and class and I'm not sure if I am troubled by it or not. Coming to America is Eddie Murphy's single funniest movie so long as you don't count concert films.
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New movies, hell yes. Going to straight up watch some mother loving Clue tonight! Also, I really enjoyed Haywire too. Watching Gina Carano beat up on actors was really enjoyable. red19fire posted:Is Payback the Director's Cut or Theatrical? They are completely different (I've seen both). The Director's Cut is much closer to the bleak 70's style the original director wanted. There's a documentary floating around that shows how much of a clusterfuck that movie became, I wonder if they'd put that on netflix as well. I haven't watched this on Netflix yet, I have the theatrical version on DVD from a long time ago. It looks like it might be the directors cut judging from all the 1-star comments though. Here's the short film about the changes between the two. It might be a bit spoilery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV5t7HIXsis Mental Hospitality fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Sep 3, 2012 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Coming to America is Eddie Murphy's single funniest movie so long as you don't count concert films. Yeah, I don't disagree. When the "queen" is introduced at the beginning and the butler guy starts singing is really funny.
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Rhyno posted:I just saw that the entire series of Cracker is on instant. I used to make time every night when PBS aired it but I never saw them all so this is thrilled me to see them up. Cracker is absolutely fantastic.
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Jesus. I haven't had the time to watch Prime Suspect yet and now Cracker is available. Too much good content.Vinestalk posted:Louis CK is literally embarrassed by this movie. He was fired from the directing job mid-production and he admits that he deserved to be fired.
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The way Prime Suspect is numbered is kind of confusing, but it stills seems to be missing Season/Series 3.
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Zwabu posted:Yeah, Netflix seems to save movies you've selected for your queue indefinitely even as they move on and off the streaming title list, and always seems to save your place marker within the movie when the movie comes back. Oddly helpful but a little strange where it picked up right in the middle of one of the (many) executives ranting about Howard Beale.
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Orunitier posted:The way Prime Suspect is numbered is kind of confusing, but it stills seems to be missing Season/Series 3. No, I believe the third series is the one about the rentboys and it's on there, I watched it. Besides being strong overall, notable for an appearance by a young Johnny Lee Miller in a very good cameo.
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