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Maxwell Lord posted:So I've just discovered a near-fatal flaw in Netflix's streaming catalog. They have no Ed Wood movies. By "near-fatal flaw" I'm sure you mean "huge benefit" because Ed Wood movies are all horrible pieces of poo poo that, beyond Plan 9, are unwatchable. VVVV: we all enjoy our fair share of horrible movies. 
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Oct 23, 2012 21:12
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Kro-Bar posted:By "near-fatal flaw" I'm sure you mean "huge benefit" because Ed Wood movies are all horrible pieces of poo poo that, beyond Plan 9, are unwatchable. I really like Glen or Glenda.
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Oct 23, 2012 21:14
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I really like Glen or Glenda. Not everyone is perfect.
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Oct 23, 2012 22:28
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Kro-Bar posted:By "near-fatal flaw" I'm sure you mean "huge benefit" because Ed Wood movies are all horrible pieces of poo poo that, beyond Plan 9, are unwatchable. Bride of the Monster does have a great final (speaking) performance by Bela Lugosi and some fun quirky characters, and Night of the Ghouls is where Ed turns his clumsy goofiness into surreal creepiness.
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Oct 23, 2012 23:03
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Is there a way to remove shows from the available watch list? My girlfriend keeps making me watch the dumbest loving poo poo and I'm getting tired of it.
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Oct 23, 2012 23:16
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Rhyno posted:Is there a way to remove shows from the available watch list? My girlfriend keeps making me watch the dumbest loving poo poo and I'm getting tired of it. Have a talk with your girlfriend?
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Oct 23, 2012 23:18
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Kro-Bar posted:Not everyone is perfect. Don't sign your posts! ahauhahaha But really, what's the matter with Glen or Glenda? It's lo-fi outsider art. It's poorer than Poverty Row. It's an independent movie from the 50's, what's not to love?
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Oct 24, 2012 00:28
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Rhyno posted:Is there a way to remove shows from the available watch list? My girlfriend keeps making me watch the dumbest loving poo poo and I'm getting tired of it. I want this feature too to get rid of both retarded poo poo like Toddlers and Tiaras and Teen pregnancy shows, and also certain inappropriate things so my kids do t accidentally click on them
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Oct 24, 2012 00:47
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I always feel like Ed Wood's material was over-rated, if that's the way to say it. His movies are bad, but they never struck me as particularily worse than a lot of similar shlock coming out at the same time.
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Oct 24, 2012 00:48
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kuddles posted:I always feel like Ed Wood's material was over-rated, if that's the way to say it. His movies are bad, but they never struck me as particularily worse than a lot of similar shlock coming out at the same time. I've only seen Glen or Glenda, but I didn't find it to be particularly bad. It's entertaining, but no so much for its badness. It's watchable in the same way The Price is Right or PBS programming is watchable, as low-budget, easily-to-digest "filler" for days when you're really bored or stuck in bed sick.
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Oct 24, 2012 01:05
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kuddles posted:I always feel like Ed Wood's material was over-rated, if that's the way to say it. His movies are bad, but they never struck me as particularily worse than a lot of similar shlock coming out at the same time. They're so enthusiastic, like he's just having the time of his life making a movie. I'd call them relatively inept movies made by a guy who's so excited to be making them that they're full of slap-dash sets and continuity errors--not lazy ones, but ones where he didn't fix them because it would slow down his good time.
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Oct 24, 2012 01:17
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Don't sign your posts! ahauhahaha It's a trifle repetitive, especially the version that was released with several minutes of light bondage to get it to seven reels. It's his most personal but flows the least as a narrative. Mostly, though, Wood's films are pretty well paced, which is why I think they work better than most bad movies of the period which just limp along because they can't afford to show anything exciting. Wood would just show it whether he could do so convincingly or not. I think he had the creativity a filmmaker needs, but never had the opportunity to learn the craft, the nuts and bolts. I've got this theory that if Ed had moved to say, New York instead and became a comic book writer, he would've flourished- his stories were the right level of goofy for what was being published in the 50s and 60s, his dialogue was pretty much up to the standard of the time, and actors and budgets would be a non-issue.
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Oct 24, 2012 01:20
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Yoshifan823 posted:Have a talk with your girlfriend? Yeah that works so well. I swear if I have to watch one more episode of "Say Yes to the Dress" i'm going to throw the coffee table at the tv.
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Oct 24, 2012 01:25
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Rhyno posted:Yeah that works so well. I swear if I have to watch one more episode of "Say Yes to the Dress" i'm going to throw the coffee table at the tv. On GirlSA she's posting "If he doesn't get the hint soon I'm going to throw the coffee table at the tv."
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Oct 24, 2012 01:32
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Volume posted:So X-Files. . . yeah. It's odd that you posted this because I just started watching it today. I watched it a lot when I was younger but hell if I can remember a drat thing about it. I'm like 3 episodes in....
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Oct 24, 2012 01:33
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Mahoning posted:It's odd that you posted this because I just started watching it today. I watched it a lot when I was younger but hell if I can remember a drat thing about it. First season is kind of lackluster but it ramps up in seasons 2 and 3.
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Volume posted:First season is kind of lackluster but it ramps up in seasons 2 and 3. Is that banned episode from season 4 Home on there?
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Oct 24, 2012 02:10
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Is that banned episode from season 4 Home on there? Yep, I just watched that the other day after skipping ahead to The AV Club's "recommended episodes".
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Oct 24, 2012 02:19
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Is that banned episode from season 4 Home on there? Someday I may finish watching the X-Files. I'll watch a ton of episodes in a row then get kind of burnt out. I could just skip the non-storyline ones, but I have an obsessive need to watch them all in order. I'm about midway through Season 6 now, the story arcs in season 5 and 6 have been really intense but I always run out of steam on the filler episodes. It's really cool seeing a lot of the character actors pop up though. The second episode of Season 6, "Drive", has Bryan Cranston. Also in this episode Mulder is talking on the phone at one point and mentions the name "Armentrout/Ehrmantraut", who is a major character in Breaking Bad. I looked up the episode and guess who wrote it, Vince Gilligan. It all comes full circle.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:It is indeed, I didn't remember the name but knew exactly which one it was once I looked it up. Seth Greene popped up in the 2nd episode of the entire series.
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Oct 24, 2012 02:34
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Is that banned episode from season 4 Home on there? Finishing it right now actually. Very disturbing episode. It's like if X-Files investigated the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'm getting a little bored of the monster of the week episodes but the over all mythology ones are prime. Mahoning posted:Seth Greene popped up in the 2nd episode of the entire series. Jack Black's in an episode as well. Jose Chung's Outer Space from Season 3 has both Alex Trabek and Jessie Ventura. Jessie Ventura actually does a back breaker on some one. All the little guest spots are pretty fun to watch. Ride The Gravitron fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Oct 24, 2012 |
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Edit: Double post. My bad.
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Oct 24, 2012 02:40
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Volume posted:Finishing it right now actually. Very disturbing episode. It's like if X-Files investigated the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'm getting a little bored of the monster of the week episodes but the over all mythology ones are prime. It's probably one of my favorites, mainly because I remember when it was banned and it was a big deal. It really is pretty disturbing.
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Oct 24, 2012 02:42
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I can't really find the answer but maybe someone here could answer whether Netflix for PS3 has less movies offered? Cause it really seems it does unless I am just not understanding the interface. Also, Waxwork is fantastically cheesy horrible B movie fun and I recommend it. It does have some great cheesy 80s special effects.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:I could just skip the non-storyline ones, but I have an obsessive need to watch them all in order. If you have to skip anything, make it the storyline ones. Those turn into an awful convoluted mess and are almost never good or memorable outside of the plot. The last cool one is the one that starts with the American Indian guy talking about a white calf being born. The episodic ones are usually much better written, and it seems like much more care went into them, strangely enough.
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Oct 24, 2012 03:18
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The real trick, as with most long-running television series, is to do something else while you watch them.
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Flippycunt posted:The real trick, as with most long-running television series, is to do something else while you watch them. I can't watch anything this way. Things either get 100% of my attention or 0% of my attention.
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Flippycunt posted:The real trick, as with most long-running television series, is to do something else while you watch them. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that does this. I have a very bad habit of playing video games - mainly RPGs - while marathoning a TV show. It's almost entirely the reason for my very long-running fetish for hand-held video-game systems almost completely in lieu of console systems. And the funny thing is that I almost never do either thing by itself unless I'm, like, traveling or the power is out or a game/film/TV show is particularly requiring of my attention. But mostly I play my handheld console with the volume off (3DS XL and Vita now and I'm ashamed to admit that I own both) while I listen to the show and keep an eye on it in my peripheral vision. I literally cannot just sit and watch a TV show by myself, it's as if something is wrong with me - if I'm not playing a handheld then I *need* to have some silly low-attention game open like solitaire or bejeweled or something open in a window parallel to netflix/VLC in order to keep the restless portion of my brain (and my hands) occupied which then allows me to properly enjoy whatever I'm watching.
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The X-Files story arc is unsatisfying at best and gets increasingly worse as time goes on (the show blows it load on all this pretty early but then pretends like there's more to be seen). The show's strengths are generally in its better monsters-of-the-week and when it de-constructs itself. The first season also has some shamefully terrible episodes, and I think there's a couple stuck into season 2 as well. The episode where Mulder has a British flame is probably the worst of the entire series, which is saying something.
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Just started watching The X-Files myself for the first time since I watched it on TV like 17 years ago. It's aged fairly well and I was surprised how violent it is. I mean, there's hardened convicts saying "butt" instead of "rear end" but here, have a decapitated head instead!  I'm watching them on DVD however since they're not available on Netflix where I am. That is a fuckload of discs by the way.OneThousandMonkeys posted:The first season also has some shamefully terrible episodes, and I think there's a couple stuck into season 2 as well. The episode where Mulder has a British flame is probably the worst of the entire series, which is saying something.
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Stare-Out posted:I can forgive most of the first season episodes for their 1990-isms but "Ghost in the Machine" is a really terrible episode, even if you ignore all the dumb technobabble. At least "Fire" has some neat pyrotechnics going for it. It's quite an interesting time capsule in its way. I love the way that computers slowly change from quite exotic magic machines to regular tool used to get work done. In the first seasons, Mulder gives slide shows in his office because nobody has a desktop at work yet.
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Hollis posted:I can't really find the answer but maybe someone here could answer whether Netflix for PS3 has less movies offered? Cause it really seems it does unless I am just not understanding the interface. It's just the way things are laid out. It gives the top x amount of films for each category. If you take a look at Instantwatcher it'll give you the full list of films that you just need to search for on the PS3.
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ten dollar bitcoin posted:I can't watch anything this way. Things either get 100% of my attention or 0% of my attention. Same here. Even the most straightforward movie/show has so much going on visually that if you glance away or pay half attention you'll miss a lot. It seems like you'd just be getting the major beats, at which point it doesn't even seem worthwhile.
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Same here. Even the most straightforward movie/show has so much going on visually that if you glance away or pay half attention you'll miss a lot. It seems like you'd just be getting the major beats, at which point it doesn't even seem worthwhile. It really depends on the quality of the show, and/or how it's presented. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen for Battlestar Galactica, but if I'm watching something like the old Transformers cartoons I can paint or do something else while it's on. I can also do stuff while most dialogue-heavy comedies are on, since what's going on visually isn't usually as important as the jokes going out.
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ten dollar bitcoin posted:I can't watch anything this way. Things either get 100% of my attention or 0% of my attention. I have two monitors so I generally stream on one while I work or do something else on the other. Its perfect for shows like the X-Files or Star Trek where 75% of the time nothing particularly important is happening. edit: Also good for watching stand-up because like the guy above said, don't really need to see it to keep track of what they're saying.
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So there's a 1st season episode of X-Files that predicted a space shuttle burning up on re-entry due to damaged tiles. Another Chris Carter tv show, The Lone Gunmen, predicted terrorists high jacking a 747 and flying it into the World Trade Center (or more accurately, the government doing it, to start a foreign war and up the defense budget) Is Chris Carter Nastrodamus?!
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regulargonzalez posted:On GirlSA she's posting "If he doesn't get the hint soon I'm going to throw the coffee table at the tv." I wish GirlSA was a real website
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:I wish GirlSA was a real website There used to be one.
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