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shahadien posted:American Mary: http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70261774&trkid=7852267&t=American+Mary I agree with this. It was one of my favorites last Halloween season. ExCruceLeo posted:It has Justified. What else would you need? I watch Justified on tv. The trouble is it has many of the shows I watch on Dish but almost none of the shows I want to watch but don't get the channels. Oldstench posted:When does that show get good? We watched the first 2 episodes and weren't really hooked at all. As said, about halfway through season 1 but when it gets good it gets really good. I was about to delete my DVR timer than suddenly it got about 100x better. Baron von Eevl posted:The one thing that is nice about Amazon's service is that Comcast doesn't seem to throttle it the way they do with Netflix. Watching the same program, Netflix will sit and take several minutes to load at 2 bars, Amazon will load it in HD in about 5 seconds. I have the opposite experience with Time Warner. Netflix starts immediately (occasionally in SD for a few seconds until HD catches up) but Amazon takes about 30 seconds for HD. The only thing my family watches on Prime is Gilligan's Island and movie rentals are higher than other services.
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I'm finally getting around to watching Twin Peaks. Just a few episodes in but I'm digging it, the only part I would say hasn't aged very well is the music. I like most of the music that plays during 'detective' scenes but man oh man the 'teen romance' stuff. The show's a lot funnier than I expected, more so because I played Deadly Premonition years ago and never quite got just how much of a Twin Peaks knock off it is.
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neonnoodle posted:Some good Travel Channel stuff on Amazon Prime, too. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, old episodes of Samantha Brown. Plenty of old-school Nickelodeon shows. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for when the world becomes too much. The Beirut episode of No Reservations is amazing, watch that one even if you don't normally like Bourdain. If you haven't seen it, he has the amazingly terrible luck to show up with his film crew a day or two before Israel starts bombing the gently caress out of everything, and the rest of the episode is them hiding and trying to evacuate.
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shahadien posted:American Mary: http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70261774&trkid=7852267&t=American+Mary Netflix recommended this to me after I watched Maniac. But, considering that movie was cringe-worthy in so many ways, I'm hesitant. I like horror movies and don't mind gore, but it just wasn't fun to watch (unless all you want to do is yell at
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Saturday evening we wanted to watch some Parks/Rec on netflix and we sat through 2 episodes that at best hit 480p and spent the rest of the time hitting 240/384. I'm really, really pissed off and I don't know who is to blame. Comcast obviously wants people people like me who just purchase internet access to have to subscribe to their TV services but like the Baron said, they don't throttle amazon and other streamers I've tried but no one has close to the selection netflix does. I've heard that netflix wanted comcast to subsidize some of their bandwidth costs or something. I don't even care at this point, I'm pretty sure I'm canning netflix.
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Lincoln`s Wax posted:Saturday evening we wanted to watch some Parks/Rec on netflix and we sat through 2 episodes that at best hit 480p and spent the rest of the time hitting 240/384. I'm really, really pissed off and I don't know who is to blame. Comcast obviously wants people people like me who just purchase internet access to have to subscribe to their TV services but like the Baron said, they don't throttle amazon and other streamers I've tried but no one has close to the selection netflix does. I've heard that netflix wanted comcast to subsidize some of their bandwidth costs or something. I don't even care at this point, I'm pretty sure I'm canning netflix. Hang on, Comcast is throttling Netflix? And not Hulu? Which NBC (re:Comcast) has a controlling interest in? Seems shady.
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Not sure how long ago it happened but there's a new(ish?) season of Top Gear up. Also The Sweeny is an absolutely badass british cop movie and go watch it immediately
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Splaa posted:Not sure how long ago it happened but there's a new(ish?) season of Top Gear up. Top Gear was two or three weeks ago I think. Season 19 and the Source of the Nile special.
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thrawn527 posted:Hang on, Comcast is throttling Netflix? And not Hulu? Which NBC (re:Comcast) has a controlling interest in? Yeah, you can always just switch to one of the many other high speed internet providers. (there's like 2 in any given region if you're lucky)
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pentyne posted:Yeah, you can always just switch to one of the many other high speed internet providers. (there's like 2 in any given region if you're lucky) Usually your choices are the local cable provider or AT&T. Threatening to switch to DSL got me a free month of cable, I still switched anyway.
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Any recommendations for a good movie set in pre-Colonial America? Or just about Native Americans maybe. I'm in a mood.
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A vote for The Secret of Kells, an animated movie about the Book of Kells, which I had previously not known about. It's a beautiful illuminated manuscript from Ireland that has been around for many centuries, and is still on display at Trinity College in Dublin. The movie follows a boy who lives in the abbey where the book is being written, and it also follows his adventures in the nearby forest. I thought the animation and story telling was awesome. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2009.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Any recommendations for a good movie set in pre-Colonial America? Or just about Native Americans maybe. I'm in a mood. Shouldn't need to be stated, but Last of the Mohicans.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Any recommendations for a good movie set in pre-Colonial America? Or just about Native Americans maybe. I'm in a mood. Apocalypto.
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Crow Jane posted:I want to say that The New World was added a while back. It's not up now, although I am almost positive I had it in my queue a while ago.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Any recommendations for a good movie set in pre-Colonial America? Or just about Native Americans maybe. I'm in a mood. Valhalla Rising. You get Native Americans and Vikings.
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I was about to recommend Severed Ways but they took it off Netflix. But forget netflix, find that movie and watch it anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEyxTSDImc (trailer is not indicative of the  Death Metal Soundtrack )
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pentyne posted:Yeah, you can always just switch to one of the many other high speed internet providers. (there's like 2 in any given region if you're lucky) Oh, I don't have Comcast, I just thought that sounded crazy and should be making bigger waves.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Any recommendations for a good movie set in pre-Colonial America? Or just about Native Americans maybe. I'm in a mood. It's not on instant but Avatar. 
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I know this is a movies thread, but does anyone have any idea how long it took Sherlock Season 2 to show up after it aired? I cannot wait to get started on Season 3, and you can't stream from BBC unless you are in the UK.
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Ragequit posted:I know this is a movies thread, but does anyone have any idea how long it took Sherlock Season 2 to show up after it aired? I cannot wait to get started on Season 3, and you can't stream from BBC unless you are in the UK. Instant Watcher says series 2 became available on September 23, 2012: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/182495 and the original air date for the premiere was January 1, 2012: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sherlock_episodes#Series_2_.282012.29 So like 9 to 10 months if the lag time for series 2 is any indication. The lag time for series 1 was like 16 months though so who knows really.
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owl_pellet posted:Instant Watcher says series 2 became available on September 23, 2012: Well that's a handy site, and that's a terrible delay. Thanks!
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Sherlock is premiering on PBS next week though, and will probably be available through their site around the same time.
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Deadite posted:Sherlock is premiering on PBS next week though, and will probably be available through their site around the same time. You just made my night. Thread delivers!
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Holy poo poo, I didn't know S3 already starting up! I will probably just end up buying it through Amazon if it's available.
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Deadite posted:Sherlock is premiering on PBS next week though, and will probably be available through their site around the same time. Do you have more details? I searched my guide for both Sherlock and Masterpiece and only found where they are replaying S1 but only on their secondary SD chanel.
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January 19th at 10 PM. According to PBS.org
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Deadite posted:January 19th at 10 PM. According to PBS.org Thanks, guess I should have checked there. Couple of shows I've been watching ... Murdoch Mysteries: I mentioned this a few pages back but had just started watching and wasn't sure about it. I'm well into season two now and wholeheartedly recommend it. MM is about an 1880's Toronto police detective who uses logic and "modern" science to solve murder cases. Nearly every episode has a celebrity cameo like A.C. Doyle, N. Tesla, Buffalo Bill Cody, Houdini, etc.; who often lend their expertise to help solve the mystery. The show is family friendly although a few episodes show gunshot wounds or autopsies. The mysteries themselves are rarely straightforward or obvious and the viewer is generally given enough clues to make an educated guess. The main character, Murdoch, is something of a Sherlock who adapts science of the late 1800's to "invent" modern forensics. I can't comment on the realism because I'm not familiar with the time period but I will say the show makes his inventions seem plausible. Basically it boils down to the show being a lot of fun, with funny characters, and honest effort mysteries. (Note, if you are a stickler for period realism then you'll be disappointed as they use sometimes use obvious modern props Waking the Dead is a British police procedural about a cold case unit. The characters are a mixed bag, often unlikable, sometimes stupid, and there is nothing new or interesting about the cases ... so why do I like it? I have no idea except otherwise the show is well done, very well acted, and manages to stay focused on solving the crimes without bogging down in personal drama. Inspector Morse: I think this was a thread recommendation. First episode was bad but the show improves considerably with episode two and though I've only watched a few I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. Your basic British whodunnit murder mystery.
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The most interesting thing about Morse is that for a fat, grumpy old man, he nails a lot of tail.
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Don't know if I'm late, but Spaceballs, American Psycho and Jack Reacher are now on instant.
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I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Death Race 2000 is pretty entertaining. A lot of fast cars, 70's style "future" imagery, slapstick violence. Sylvester Stallone is about the best actor in it, if that paints a picture for you. It tickles me that that came out only the year before Rocky.
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Is The Last Stand as terrible as I imagine? I could do with a dumb action movie with a bottle of whiskey nearby.
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Ragequit posted:Is The Last Stand as terrible as I imagine? I could do with a dumb action movie with a bottle of whiskey nearby. I saw this in theaters awhile back, so my memory might be a bit off. The first like 2/3 of the movies are pretty slow and fairly boring from what I remember, but the last 1/3 is just crazy over the top and shooting off one liners non stop.
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I really liked everything that wasn't the Forrest Whitacre parts.
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Ragequit posted:Is The Last Stand as terrible as I imagine? I could do with a dumb action movie with a bottle of whiskey nearby. It's an Arnie movie, I liked it.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:So I meant to go to bed relatively early, but I thought I'd put on another episode of Flashpoint, and, well, that's that. Y'all should watch this show, it's crazy goddamn tense because things can, and will, go wrong and those things have consequences. It's great. We can't stop laughing at how altruistic and just plain Canadian this is. "We're just here to protect people and get everybody home safe. Now run across the street to Tim Hortons for us will ya pal?"
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Saint Sputnik posted:We can't stop laughing at how altruistic and just plain Canadian this is. I wish that Southland was on Netflix, it's a great show that's pretty much the opposite of that Canadian-ness. It's messy, mostly routine poo poo that can go wrong with no warning at all. Plus, if it got the exposure from Netflix, then maybe there would have been a sixth season. 
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neonnoodle posted:Some good Travel Channel stuff on Amazon Prime, too. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, old episodes of Samantha Brown. Plenty of old-school Nickelodeon shows. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for when the world becomes too much. Most important of the Travel Channel shows on Amazon is Ghost Adventures, where they lock three guidos in creepy locations and they wander around with pseudo-scientific equipment. It loving rules. I believe How It's Made's new home is on Amazon as well.
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