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Holy poo poo you guys. Dinosaurs is on Netflix. The Jim Henson Dinosaur sitcom. Holy poo poo.
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echronorian posted:Holy poo poo you guys. Dinosaurs is on Netflix. The Jim Henson Dinosaur sitcom. Holy poo poo. Holy poo poo.
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Sep 4, 2012 04:32
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echronorian posted:Holy poo poo you guys. Dinosaurs is on Netflix. The Jim Henson Dinosaur sitcom. Holy poo poo. It had such a great plot twist ending to the series.
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Sep 4, 2012 04:44
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mr. why posted:Instant Watcher does this with Rotten Tomatoes: That helps, thanks.
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Sep 4, 2012 05:15
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traveling midget posted:Holy poo poo. Oh good, I can flash back to my school days where every rear end in a top hat sat in class yelling "I'M THE BABY GOTTA LOVE ME!"
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Sep 4, 2012 05:47
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The 80s kids scifi flick Explorers was just added yesterday: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/182038 I haven't seen this since I was like 5 years old, but I remember loving it as a kid!
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Sep 4, 2012 06:55
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Thanks to everyone who mentioned Lake Mungo. Saw it last night and loved it! Well made and very unsettling.
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Sep 4, 2012 13:13
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Oh my god The Thing is back, life is so good right now.
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Sep 4, 2012 15:38
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Rhyno posted:Oh good, I can flash back to my school days where every rear end in a top hat sat in class yelling "I'M THE BABY GOTTA LOVE ME!" The baby was voiced by Kevin Clash, who also is the voice of Elmo.
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Sep 4, 2012 18:02
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AFewBricksShy posted:The baby was voiced by Kevin Clash, who also is the voice of Elmo. I forgot about this until watching Being Elmo the other night, and a little Baby Sinclair doll is in the background in his parents' house during their interviews. Also, holy poo poo Dinosaurs is on Netflix. I don't think I quite grasped the impact that show had on my formative years, and how weird of a thing it was, until the last few years. And I only just realized (that is, the voices sounded familiar and the names escaped me until I saw the credits) that Sally Struthers and Sherman Helmsley voice Charlene and Mr. Richfield, respectively, explicitly driving home the similarities to All in the Family and the subversive sitcom legacy.
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Sep 4, 2012 18:41
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mr. why posted:Instant Watcher does this with Rotten Tomatoes: This is really useful, thanks.
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Sep 4, 2012 19:09
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echronorian posted:Holy poo poo you guys. Dinosaurs is on Netflix. The Jim Henson Dinosaur sitcom. Holy poo poo. Holy poo poo is right. Now I have something awesome to watch.
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Sep 4, 2012 19:32
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screenwritersblues posted:Holy poo poo is right. Now I have something awesome to watch. Remember the ending of that show, where Earl convinced his boss at WESAYSO to give him a promotion and a raise, and Earl was able to pull his family up a couple of rungs on the social ladder, which validated all the hard work he put into his somewhat miserable job? No you don't remember that ending because everybody loving died at the end of the series.
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Sep 4, 2012 21:41
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A Horrible Way to Die is not worth watching. The camerawork is among the most obnoxious I have ever seen. I can get behind leaving most of the violence off screen, but this is just unforgivable. The camera is constantly wavering, wandering into space, randomly zooming and going out of focus. Plot kind of sucks too.
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Sep 5, 2012 03:24
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Outside of TED talks and Nova and Cosmos, what are some of the better science/technology/history shows on Netflix? There's just so much garbage on there it frustrates me trying to find new ones. e: I specifically don't like ones that just oversensationalize things or try to seem "exciting" rather than just be interesting or capture the imagination and inform. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Sep 5, 2012 |
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Sep 5, 2012 04:32
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feedmyleg posted:Outside of TED talks and Nova and Cosmos, what are some of the better science/technology/history shows on Netflix? There's just so much garbage on there it frustrates me trying to find new ones. You might like these: The Universe: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/166049 Guns, Germs, and Steel: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/173904 National Geographic documentaries in general are pretty good (they're a little more hit and miss than NOVA, but on the whole good): http://instantwatcher.com/titles?q=national+geographic&search_episodes=0
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Sep 5, 2012 04:39
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All of Everybody Loves Raymond has been added, too. Didn't see this mentioned before so apologies if I'm just illiterate.
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Sep 5, 2012 09:54
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feedmyleg posted:Outside of TED talks and Nova and Cosmos, what are some of the better science/technology/history shows on Netflix? There's just so much garbage on there it frustrates me trying to find new ones. To be honest, I learn a lot from one of the 3 or 4 segments on How it's Made most of the time. It's not maybe exactly what you're looking for, but it's good stuff.
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Sep 5, 2012 15:29
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How It's Made gets downright hypnotic at times, like a poor man's Koyaanisqaatsi.
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Sep 5, 2012 15:35
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I've recently discovered TEDTalks but am a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of episodes (even if they are all fairly short). I've seen a few great ones and a few not-so-great ones so I thought I ask the thread what to watch. I'm not really interested in some of the 'general philosophy' that some of the speakers start going on about, more interested in actual facts. The first episode of Space Trek (Carolyn Porco Flies Us to Saturn) was pretty fantastic.
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Sep 5, 2012 15:57
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Heads up: The excellent No Wave documentary "Blank City" is on Streaming.
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Sep 5, 2012 17:44
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:How It's Made gets downright hypnotic at times, like a poor man's Koyaanisqaatsi. 
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Sep 5, 2012 19:49
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Thanks to whoever recommended The Hunter with Willem Dafoe earlier in the thread. It may not be perfect, but I thought it was fantastic. Dafoe is such an awesome actor, and the cinematography is amazing at times. And I was not expecting the ending to get me that choked up. The part where he pours the ashes of the Tiger out on the cliff with Jarrah's bottle is beautiful. 
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Sep 5, 2012 20:30
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Awesome Welles posted:Thanks to whoever recommended The Hunter with Willem Dafoe earlier in the thread. And the on location shooting in Tasmania had some really amazing shots. I sort of liked how the movie avoided the classic bar brawl were the hero decimates the local redneck population.
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Sep 6, 2012 03:31
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Why don't more gifs of How It's Made exist? It's such an amazing show, between the chill electronic soundtrack and the footage of poo poo getting made, it's engaging in its own wonderful way. HUNDU's absolutely right, it's like Koyaanisqatsi in 20-minute chunks.
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Sep 6, 2012 05:21
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Douchy article but Netflix is still bleeding money and the margins on streaming are super thin. http://seekingalpha.com/article/847041-netflix-game-over douchy short seller posted:The company has nearly $5 billion in total streaming content obligations coming due over the next 5 years. Worse, at least $2 billion of these obligations are due in the next twelve months, and given Netflix's cash balance ($402 million as of June 30) and its expected earnings it isn't at all clear how it is going to pay.
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Sep 6, 2012 17:10
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I hate to be Captain Obvious here, but what kind of investor thinks cash balance is the only metric of revenue?
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Sep 6, 2012 17:20
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No doubt. The only thing to really take away from it is the massive amount they have to pay out to content providers and the fact that the DVD division is still the most profitable.
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Sep 6, 2012 17:24
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Yeah. Not that I don't doubt that their margin on Streaming is slim.
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Sep 6, 2012 17:26
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I hate to be Captain Obvious here, but what kind of investor thinks cash balance is the only metric of revenue? Sorry for being thick-headed, but can you explain what else is keeping the company afloat? Ads?
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Sep 6, 2012 17:48
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"We don't need no... education..."
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Sep 6, 2012 17:58
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Cash on hand is just cash reserves. Revenue, I would imagine in Netflix's case, would come almost entirely from subscriptions. Obviously that revenue is used to pay obligations. What that author is talking about is the health of Netflix, mainly, debts vs. savings. The issue is that Netflix is just "profitable" instead of "highly profitable", which is alarming to a stockholder, but it's not like they're going out of business. What's honestly more threatening is whenever Reed Hastings makes a boneheaded statement in public.
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Sep 6, 2012 17:58
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Drunk Tomato posted:Sorry for being thick-headed, but can you explain what else is keeping the company afloat? Ads? edit: well gently caress me I'm too slow
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Sep 6, 2012 17:59
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That's probably a more succinct explanation anyhow.
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Sep 6, 2012 18:00
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Drunk Tomato posted:Sorry for being thick-headed, but can you explain what else is keeping the company afloat? Ads? Let's say you have a bank account with a balance of $5 and you have a bill coming up that's $15. The article is saying, "How will you pay the bill since you only have $5"? What's not being mentioned is that you also get a paycheck/other transactions going on. What if you make more deals with the company that's sending you the bill, which changes what you need to pay? There's more to things than just what's in your bank account and having a $5 balance doesn't mean you can't pay $15 when the time comes. edit: Beaten, like Blockbuster
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Sep 6, 2012 18:00
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Has there ever been another example in history where a new something comes along that's so obviously better it almost immediately muscles out the competition, but that happens before it's clear whether the new thing is sustainable or not? Digital distribution is cramping out physical and broadcast media more and more and yet it's not clear *at all* whether anyone will be able to make money on it in the long run.
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Sep 6, 2012 19:25
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Monkeyseesaw posted:Has there ever been another example in history where a new something comes along that's so obviously better it almost immediately muscles out the competition, but that happens before it's clear whether the new thing is sustainable or not? I think the idea is that you just charge more for streaming if it's not profitable enough. Then you either have people turning to the profitable physical side or paying higher prices. Most cable bills these days are what, 100 bucks or more? No wonder people want to stream nearly everything they have the time to watch (whether or not these are things they'd watch otherwise is an interesting debate) with no commercials for 8 dollars, ya know?
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Monkeyseesaw posted:Has there ever been another example in history where a new something comes along that's so obviously better it almost immediately muscles out the competition, but that happens before it's clear whether the new thing is sustainable or not? I also think it was partially Netflix also not being confident in the future and so a lot of the deals are not in their favour. Apple had the chutzpah to believe that their way was going to be the next huge thing so they basically told the music publishers to go gently caress themselves if they didn't like the margins and pricing on itunes right from the start.
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Sep 6, 2012 20:17
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Are there any quick fixes for this?  I'm on a 64 bit copy of the Windows 8 Release Preview build 8400, for reference.
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Have you tried calling them?
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