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Bored posted:Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal" is on instant. It is fantastic! I did not read the book, but there hasn't been any lull in action like the other disc world movies. I enjoyed it, especially the casting of Vetinari. I was disappointed in the golems, though, and there were a couple of scenes from the book (the postman's test) I wish had been included. That and "Hogfather" are both pretty good. I would skip "The Color of Magic" or any of the animated films, though (all of them are streaming somewhere, between Netflix and Amazon Prime).  , I guess
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So why the hell is Mission: Impossible 1 and 3 on instant but no 2? Maybe I'm just not seeing it.
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Just watched Resurrect Dead, mentioned earlier in the thread. That doc was FASCINATING. I've seen these tiles in Philly for years and never thought twice about them. The first time I saw one I actually stopped my friend so we could look at it. I assumed it was an interesting way to advertise some kind of movie marathon like the Exhumed Films Fest. Kubrick's 2001 made sense, then I figured Resurrect Dead and Toynbee Idea could be movies too. Then I just never thought about it even though I cross these tiles every day. Fascinating.
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Nov 11, 2012 18:28
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Stephen Fry's Greatest Gadgets is up. If you liked his show where he goes to America you'll probably like this too. Its 2 54 minute episodes about what he thinks are the 100 greatest gadgets.
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Nov 11, 2012 19:55
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Bucs! This is going to be a fun fourth quarter.
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Nov 11, 2012 20:56
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NienNunb posted:Just saw that Manhattan is now up. Hopefully this means more Woody Allen movies will be made available in the future, because the current selection is pretty barebones. I saw this earlier this week and almost fell out of my chair. I've been wanting to watch this for so long and now I can. I'm most likely going to watch it tonight, since there's nothing on.
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Merou posted:Stephen Fry's Greatest Gadgets is up. Sweet. I was just searching youtube for Stephen Fry documentaries. Anyone know any others on Netflix?
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Nov 17, 2012 05:02
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ZombieSnot posted:Caution: Battle Royale 2 is a steep decline from the first one. This is an extremely generous way to describe it. It's not just a bad movie compared to the first one, it's just a straight up poo poo movie by any objective standard.
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Nov 17, 2012 05:10
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Could anyone recommend some good westerns on Instant? Been playing Red Dead Redemption and it's gotten me in the mood to watch some. I'm more into the action westerns with really bad rear end characters and less into the ones where its more of a romantic story line. I'd prefer them to be in color as well, for whatever reason older movies never really hold my attention.
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Nov 17, 2012 06:34
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Gordong Dongbay posted:Could anyone recommend some good westerns on Instant? Been playing Red Dead Redemption and it's gotten me in the mood to watch some. I'm more into the action westerns with really bad rear end characters and less into the ones where its more of a romantic story line. I'd prefer them to be in color as well, for whatever reason older movies never really hold my attention. Once Upon a Time in the West, older movie with Charles Bronson, in color, awesome. Seraphim Falls is good too, much more recent with Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson. Not sure if its still up, it sort of comes and goes.
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Nov 17, 2012 07:05
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Gordong Dongbay posted:Could anyone recommend some good westerns on Instant? Been playing Red Dead Redemption and it's gotten me in the mood to watch some. I'm more into the action westerns with really bad rear end characters and less into the ones where its more of a romantic story line. I'd prefer them to be in color as well, for whatever reason older movies never really hold my attention. The original True Grit is there. Duke at his finest.
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Nov 17, 2012 07:30
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Gordong Dongbay posted:Could anyone recommend some good westerns on Instant? Been playing Red Dead Redemption and it's gotten me in the mood to watch some. I'm more into the action westerns with really bad rear end characters and less into the ones where its more of a romantic story line. I'd prefer them to be in color as well, for whatever reason older movies never really hold my attention. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is awesome. I'm also a big fan of The Mercenary with Franco Nero and Jack Palance. There's another movie with them called Companeros that isn't on Instant, but is worth a watch. Death Rides a Horse is a solid Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef. Sadly the Sabata trilogy isn't listed anymore.
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Nov 17, 2012 15:13
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If you're playing a bit more fast and loose with the definition of 'Western', The Good, the Bad, the Weird is on Instant.
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I don't know if it's any good but the AMC show Hell on Wheels is also on Instant. It's not on streaming but whenever I watch the movie Ravenous it reminds me of 'American Appetites' side mission in RDR. It's a really great underrated movie.
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Sean_Miller posted:I don't know if it's any good but the AMC show Hell on Wheels is also on Instant. Hell on Wheels is a bunch of interesting characters in an often listless plot. I still like it though.
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Piranha was a fun movie with a surprising cast. It's an over-the-top gore fest, with a lot of sex and drugs. The opening scene with Richard Dreyfuss gives it instant cred. Ving Rhames, Elizabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd (basically the Doc Brown of fish know-how), and any number of porn stars. It's ridiculous, but I didn't hate watching it.
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Captain Lavender posted:Piranha was a fun movie with a surprising cast. It's an over-the-top gore fest, with a lot of sex and drugs. The opening scene with Richard Dreyfuss gives it instant cred. Piranha was a fun movie, but it really should have focused on Shue and Rhames's characters instead of the annoying boring teenage characters it did focus on.
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Sizzler Manager posted:I enjoyed it, especially the casting of Vetinari. I was disappointed in the golems, though, and there were a couple of scenes from the book (the postman's test) I wish had been included. That and "Hogfather" are both pretty good. I would skip "The Color of Magic" or any of the animated films, though (all of them are streaming somewhere, between Netflix and Amazon Prime). Vetinari was fantastic. My husband and I laughed for a good minute at Vetinari's reaction to the joke. And the golems could definitely been done better. You and I are on the same page for the all of the Pratchett movies on Netflix, I think. "Hogfather" had some drag. Still pretty awesome, though. I would love to see one of "Mort". Unfortunately, I think a big production company would have to be involved in "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents." On subject, Lockout was pretty amusing. The script was terrible and the characters were cliches, but the acting somehow made the movie pretty fun. I was watching it thinking, "These lines would usually make me cringe. Why aren't they?" And this guy is in it. As well as this guy. Bored has a new favorite as of 18:22 on Nov 18, 2012 |
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Nov 18, 2012 18:15
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Sizzler Manager posted:I enjoyed it, especially the casting of Vetinari. I was disappointed in the golems, though, and there were a couple of scenes from the book (the postman's test) I wish had been included. It was bizarre to use the same cast for all the golems (including damage!) when it would have been pretty trivial to paint them slightly differently or simply not include--for example--those two support bars on the backs of a few of them. However Vetinari was a total dreamboat  .
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Nov 18, 2012 18:39
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Sean_Miller posted:I don't know if it's any good but the AMC show Hell on Wheels is also on Instant. It's fantastic, at least the first four episodes so far are. cornface posted:The original True Grit is there. Duke at his finest.
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Nov 19, 2012 20:55
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Gordong Dongbay posted:Could anyone recommend some good westerns on Instant? Been playing Red Dead Redemption and it's gotten me in the mood to watch some. I'm more into the action westerns with really bad rear end characters and less into the ones where its more of a romantic story line. I'd prefer them to be in color as well, for whatever reason older movies never really hold my attention. I watched the 2010 version of True Grit last night; loved it.
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Daffodil Lament posted:I watched the 2010 version of True Grit last night; loved it. It wasn't that it was a bad movie, it was that there was no reason to make it. Prior to the release there was a lot of talk about how this wasn't a remake of the Duke classic, no no no, it is based off of the book! But in reality, it is a remake of a John Wayne movie without John Wayne, and the original is better in basically every possible way.
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cornface posted:It wasn't that it was a bad movie, it was that there was no reason to make it. Prior to the release there was a lot of talk about how this wasn't a remake of the Duke classic, no no no, it is based off of the book! I'll have to watch it. I've actually never seen a John Wayne movie...I'm a bad American  quote:edit: there is a movie out there where John Wayne for some reason plays Ghengis Khan. Never watch it. Ever. Oh God this sounds so good. I'm excited. But for real, I'll probably start at the top of your list, thank you! 
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Nov 19, 2012 21:10
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Daffodil Lament posted:I'll have to watch it. I've actually never seen a John Wayne movie...I'm a bad American Best Duke movies: El Dorado - this is like the proto-Duke movie. It has a little of everything. Drunken sheriff who lost his nerve, young go-getter side kick, evil gang, shootout at an old church, etc. True Grit - you've already seen it essentially but with 90% less grizzledness. Fill your hands, you son of a bitch, etc. The Searchers - slower movie, but probably the most critically acclaimed. The Quiet Man - really a pretty awful movie but the best fight scene ever filmed. The Shootist - John Wayne plays a washed up gunslinger dying of cancer a couple of years before he actually died of cancer. Watch it last. You can generally tell a good John Wayne movie by whether or not he paddles a lady or threatens to paddle a lady in the town square at any point during the film. edit: there is a movie out there where John Wayne for some reason plays Ghengis Khan. Never watch it. Ever.
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The Conqueror. It gave him cancer, most likely, along with a whole shitload of actors and crew since it was filmed near an atom bomb test site. I've seen a picture of John Wayne using a Geiger counter on set, thinking it was just a hoot. It's kinda neat to see just for the horrible old school racism of it. Here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)#Cancer_controversy
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The Conquerer: Starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan.
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DangerDummy! posted:The Conqueror. It gave him cancer, most likely, along with a whole shitload of actors and crew since it was filmed near an atom bomb test site. I've seen a picture of John Wayne using a Geiger counter on set, thinking it was just a hoot. I can't remember what it was, but I saw some Discovery Channel thing about this and they did tests of the soil really deep down (supposedly any radioactive material wouldn't have decayed that quickly) and found there wasn't any more radiation than any environment we're all exposed to every day and it was likely poor diet and whatnot that led to him developing cancer. I would guess that the higher than average rate of finding cancer was due to them all being paranoid about developing cancer and getting diagnostic tests that they otherwise would not have gotten and discovering cancerous growths that may have otherwise never proved to be any significant health threat or they would have died of something else before it became enough of an issue to notice under normal circumstances. The whole idea of that movie is loving ridiculous, though.
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Edminster posted:If you're playing a bit more fast and loose with the definition of 'Western', The Good, the Bad, the Weird is on Instant. The Good, the Bad, the Weird is simply put the best crazy/serious Korean western set in the 1940s I have ever seen.  You'll love it too, all of you! Edit: Trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNnCK5cd8Q Crowley has a new favorite as of 11:32 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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Season 1 of American Horror Story just became available on instant. edit: Also, Vanishing on 7th Street was pretty good. Some pretty freaky scenes in it and might make you scared of the dark again. Reign Of Pain has a new favorite as of 01:16 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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I'm gonna recommend you people go watch The Experiment with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker. It's a pretty good thriller and Forest Whitaker literally gets a murder boner.
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Santa Sangre is up there, I'm not sure how long it's been there, but you should go watch it immediately.
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Dodecalypse posted:I'm gonna recommend you people go watch The Experiment with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker. Wow that movie was so unrealistic it hurt.
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MAJOR STRYkER posted:Wow that movie was so unrealistic it hurt. Based on a true story! The Experiment is a great movie. Forrest just has an amazing ability to play crazy.
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I haven't seen them yet, but both Hugo and The King's Speech were added recently, pretty popular movies.
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I just noticed Iron Man Extremis (motion comic) is up which is what Iron Man 3 will be based on.
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Logan 5 posted:I haven't seen them yet, but both Hugo and The King's Speech were added recently, pretty popular movies. Both very good movies.
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For anyone that hasn't seen it, The Ambassador is on Netflix. It's probably the most insane documentary I've ever seen and I still wonder how the crew managed to capture all this with their heads still attached. Here's a trailer for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4MVbAmin5c I highly recommend this movie. Just holy poo poo the stuff this guy gets up to 
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Bro Dad posted:For anyone that hasn't seen it, The Ambassador is on Netflix. It's probably the most insane documentary I've ever seen and I still wonder how the crew managed to capture all this with their heads still attached. I'm in the middle of watching this now, it's ten kinds of hosed up.
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That looks intense! Unfortunately it joins my ever growing list of great stuff not available on Netflix UK
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AB posted:I'm in the middle of watching this now, it's ten kinds of hosed up. Unsurprisingly there are warrants out for his arrest in both Liberia and in The Central African Republic. Liberia even tried to get him extradited from Denmark. The request was politely ignored.
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