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I'm curious about something, there used to be a keyboard combination you could input to get control over the video streaming settings on netflix, I used to use it to stop netflix from streaming in anything but the highest bitrate available, but it looks like they disabled it a while back. Is there a way to do it now or is it just gone?
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Jul 13, 2015 12:47
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LogisticEarth posted:Yeah, the "twist" took all the interest out of the show. It was like trading off the whole premise for a cheap shock reveal. For those not looking to waste time with it: The plot twist at the very end was pretty neat but totally not worth the experience of sitting through the entire series to get there. Fortunately I found it an easy show to run in the background while I was editing / grading papers.
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Jul 13, 2015 12:57
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cat doter posted:I'm curious about something, there used to be a keyboard combination you could input to get control over the video streaming settings on netflix, I used to use it to stop netflix from streaming in anything but the highest bitrate available, but it looks like they disabled it a while back. Is there a way to do it now or is it just gone? ctrl+shift+alt+s still brings up stream options for me.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:38
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hope and vaseline posted:ctrl+shift+alt+s still brings up stream options for me. I had no idea about this.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:39
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Yeah, here's a list of more shortcuts also. https://markwarren.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/netflix-movie-player-keyboard-shortcuts/ Not all of them work anymore though, just saw the article's 5 years old, but stuff like logging and av stats still do.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:42
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hope and vaseline posted:ctrl+shift+alt+s still brings up stream options for me. Huh, neat. I think the old method I used was alt+shift then click in the player window. There's no reason why I shouldn't just set it to 3mbit/sec from the get go, I have much more bandwidth than that. Dunno why netflix always starts it at the lowest qualiy.
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Jul 13, 2015 18:07
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Netflix emailed me to tell me Petes dragon was now on. Thanks Netflix 
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Jul 13, 2015 20:17
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Employee of the Month was about as dull and unfunny as I remember it being. That clubhouse they had up in the shelves was pretty sweet though, so there was at least one cool thing about it.
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Jul 13, 2015 23:56
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Employee of the Month was about as dull and unfunny as I remember it being. That clubhouse they had up in the shelves was pretty sweet though, so there was at least one cool thing about it. This is literally the only thing I remember about that movie.
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Jul 14, 2015 02:49
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The Conversation is up. It was the first movie Francis Ford Coppola released in 1974, and it's a knockout. Gene Hackman plays a secretive, socially-awkward surveillance worker who becomes curious about a conversation he's paid to snoop on. It touches on a lot of themes, including religion and moral quandaries presented by such a job, and the stuff about surveillance still holds up to this day. The cinematography is great, in a subtle, unflashy way. Hackman's character is very well-drawn and, of course, well-acted. Plus, Harrison Ford before he was popular! Give it a go if you're in the mood for a great 70's thriller. It's a great movie that perfectly captures the paranoia people felt towards the government post-watergate, yet it has a timeless quality and none of it seems dated (except the actual technology.) Just for fun watch Enemy of the State first, and then pretend the Conversation is a prequel.
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Jul 14, 2015 04:13
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I managed to find the time to burn through some of my list this past weekend. I loved Michael Shannon in Take Shelter, and Nicholas Hoult in Fury Road, so I decided to check out The Young Ones. It's a gorgeously shot western with a dystopian sci-fi setting where all the water has dried up. Some of the barren landscapes reminded me of There Will Be Blood, and a really great deal-gone-wrong scene. I enjoyed it a lot, although the plot and characters felt a little thin for the length of the movie. It also has a cool structure of three acts, each one focusing on a different character. I also watched Detention and loved it. Just watch it blind. The Third Man is amazing, what a beautiful movie. Orson Welles is perfect in this, and the chase scene in the sewers was incredible. I know the zither soundtrack is sort of famous but I did find it wore on me a bit. recently I was in the mood for something weird, so I went through Daywatch and Nightwatch. The plot was pretty weak but the strangeness of everything kept me hooked. Not sure how soon I'd go back to these though.
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Jul 14, 2015 05:53
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Seconding that Young Ones is dope.
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Jul 14, 2015 06:53
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Netflix has The Net Gods perfect movie. 4:3 format, Bullock finds wolfenstien 3d has a virus if you hit escape for a blank check, Is there a older version called "The Mail" about a shut in who has their life ruined because they have their mail read?
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Jul 14, 2015 10:37
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Junkie Disease posted:Netflix has The Net Oh hell yeah, I've been meaning to watch The Net for awhile.
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Jul 14, 2015 14:18
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Blisster posted:The Third Man is amazing, what a beautiful movie. Orson Welles is perfect in this, and the chase scene in the sewers was incredible. I know the zither soundtrack is sort of famous but I did find it wore on me a bit. drat you for getting my hopes up that this was on Netflix. 
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Jul 14, 2015 15:25
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precision posted:drat you for getting my hopes up that this was on Netflix. Where do you live? The restoration is touring as we speak.
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Jul 14, 2015 15:26
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Where do you live? The restoration is touring as we speak. Goddamn, it was in LA just a week and a half ago. I never heard about it.  Maybe it'll come back though, I mean, it's LA.
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Jul 14, 2015 15:59
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screamname posted:Netflix emailed me to tell me Petes dragon was now on. Are you in the U.S. because I can't find it and I watched that poo poo everyday as a kid.
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Jul 14, 2015 16:45
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Blisster posted:I loved Michael Shannon in Take Shelter, and Nicholas Hoult in Fury Road, so I decided to check out The Young Ones. If you liked Nicholas Hoult you should really watch the first two seasons of the UK series Skins. It's like a bit of an edgier, slicker Degrassi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins_(UK_TV_series) Hannah Murray is also on those first couple seasons - she's on Game of Thrones as Gilly.
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Jul 14, 2015 17:00
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precision posted:drat you for getting my hopes up that this was on Netflix. I live in Canada, maybe Netflix only has it here? I usually stick with movies, but Nicholas Hoult is definitely becoming a favourite actor of mine, I'll have to look into Skins. Oh, totally forgot about Holy Motors. Really not sure how I felt about that one. Some of the sequences are really beautiful but something about the movie just didn't click with me.
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Jul 14, 2015 20:51
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Blisster posted:Oh, totally forgot about Holy Motors. Really not sure how I felt about that one. Some of the sequences are really beautiful but something about the movie just didn't click with me. The more I think about Holy Motors, the more I dislike it. Once you come up with a reading of the film, it suddenly becomes a lot less interesting because most of the mystery is gone. It also completely front-loads itself with the best stuff.
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Jul 14, 2015 21:03
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Blisster posted:I usually stick with movies, but Nicholas Hoult is definitely becoming a favourite actor of mine, I'll have to look into Skins. The first two series/seasons of Skins are great. Then there's a massive drop in quality but 3 and 4 are still alright. You can stop there.
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Jul 14, 2015 22:12
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The Vosgian Beast posted:This is literally the only thing I remember about that movie. You aren't the first person I've heard that from, it's about the only memorable part of it.
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Jul 14, 2015 22:23
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:You aren't the first person I've heard that from, it's about the only memorable part of it. I only remember Dax Shepherd asking a fat character "Do they call you Semi because you're the size of a Semi, or because you're semi-retarded?" I like Dax Shepherd. I know he doesn't have a wide acting range, but I wish the guy got more work.
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Jul 14, 2015 22:28
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The more I think about Holy Motors, the more I dislike it. Once you come up with a reading of the film, it suddenly becomes a lot less interesting because most of the mystery is gone. It also completely front-loads itself with the best stuff. I really like this movie but if I was being completely honest its goodwill rests a lot on the kick-rear end accordion train in the Intermission. The rest of the movie works for me except the very end when the cars are talking to each other in the garage. I just don't even know what that's going for.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Just watched it the other day. Great movie. I'd throw in Wag the Dog, but it is kind of the natural progression of those movies toward WtD. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 03:48
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I was certainly vaguely aware of Bulworth and even some vague details (Warren Beatty rapping or something) but when I watched it the other night, I was really unprepared for just how, uh... how far it goes with the concept. Sometimes it's uncomfortably embarrassing, and sometimes it's absolutely loving brilliant, often within the same scene. It's definitely worth watching.
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precision posted:I was certainly vaguely aware of Bulworth and even some vague details (Warren Beatty rapping or something) but when I watched it the other night, I was really unprepared for just how, uh... how far it goes with the concept. Sometimes it's uncomfortably embarrassing, and sometimes it's absolutely loving brilliant, often within the same scene. It's definitely worth watching. It certainly doesn't hit every mark, but it tries like a motherfucker and mainly succeeds, and regularly does knock it out of the park.
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Jul 15, 2015 04:26
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Faults is pretty solid, check it out. The ending was a little dumb but overall I liked it.
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Jul 15, 2015 04:37
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You know, if you're willing to suspend your disbelief and roll with it Burn Notice is pretty drat fun. The first three seasons or so have fantastic car stunts and explosions. It is a pretty good show for turning off your brain and having some basic fun. Really my only major complaint is that Fiona suffers from a rather extreme case of plot-convenient retardation. Also the show quality dips pretty strongly around season 4 or so when they switch to absolutely terrible CGI.
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I watched Mystic River yesterday (not sure if it's on US netflix, I'm Australian) since it's one of the many movies on my "will get around to it" list. I've liked a few of Clint Eastwood's films, Changeling and Gran Torino mostly. This one...not so much. I mean on the surface there's elements of a decent story, good actors, decent direction, but it ends up being less than the sum of its parts. I couldn't shake the sense of "this isn't really coming together" the whole time. Plus, there's major problems with the script. Some characters speak like other characters right down to the phrasing, there's some really on the nose "I'm summing up the story so far" lines of dialogue, subplots that just sorta happen and don't really go anywhere, and a scene that feels like something someone forgot to delete, it was so bad it felt like a bad joke. About the only thing I liked about it was the acting, but even then some of the performances were a little too...theatrical, if that makes sense. Mystic River isn't very good.
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Jul 15, 2015 15:49
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Chichevache posted:You know, if you're willing to suspend your disbelief and roll with it Burn Notice is pretty drat fun. The first three seasons or so have fantastic car stunts and explosions. It is a pretty good show for turning off your brain and having some basic fun. Really my only major complaint is that Fiona suffers from a rather extreme case of plot-convenient retardation. Also the show quality dips pretty strongly around season 4 or so when they switch to absolutely terrible CGI. Yeah, but in season 5 they bring in Jere Burns (Anson) who is almost as awesome a villain as Tim Matheson (Larry)!
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cat doter posted:Plus, there's major problems with the script. Some characters speak like other characters right down to the phrasing, there's some really on the nose "I'm summing up the story so far" lines of dialogue, subplots that just sorta happen and don't really go anywhere, and a scene that feels like something someone forgot to delete, it was so bad it felt like a bad joke. I've never seen the movie but when I tried reading the book I bailed like a third of the way through for these very reasons, the writing was awful.
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Jul 15, 2015 16:09
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precision posted:The first two series/seasons of Skins are great. Then there's a massive drop in quality but 3 and 4 are still alright. You can stop there. For sure, I meant to append my post with this. 3 and 4 are still pretty good but 5 and 6 are forgettable at best. Season 7 is the TV version of leprosy and especially the stuff with Effy and Cass are laughably horrible and just ruins the characters. Avoid Skins season 7 at all costs. Same with the American remake of Season 1, just the worst.
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Jul 15, 2015 16:16
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cat doter posted:About the only thing I liked about it was the acting, but even then some of the performances were a little too...theatrical, if that makes sense. I've never understood Sean Penn winning the Oscar for that performance, especially over Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. Hell, I'd have given it to Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean over Sean Penn.
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Jul 15, 2015 16:57
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Parachute posted:Yeah, but in season 5 they bring in Jere Burns (Anson) who is almost as awesome a villain as Tim Matheson (Larry)! Yeah, Larry and Anson absolutely make up for a lot of the poor quality. Plus the addition of Jesse Porter (actor Coby Bell) really gives the show a nice new dynamic. He has fantastic chemistry with everyone on the show, except for the absolutely terrible Fiona ("actress" Gabrielle Anwar). If you manage to make it all the way to season 6 they add John C. McGinley as well! 
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Jul 15, 2015 17:03
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flashy_mcflash posted:For sure, I meant to append my post with this. 3 and 4 are still pretty good but 5 and 6 are forgettable at best. Season 7 is the TV version of leprosy and especially the stuff with Effy and Cass are laughably horrible and just ruins the characters. Avoid Skins season 7 at all costs. Same with the American remake of Season 1, just the worst. Season 7 is so bad, they bring back one of the best characters, for a plot that literally invalidates everything that happened to her (and thus, every reason the audience liked her) from seasons 1 and 2. Just dogshite.
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Jul 15, 2015 17:06
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Sand Monster posted:I've never understood Sean Penn winning the Oscar for that performance, especially over Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. Hell, I'd have given it to Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean over Sean Penn. It feels like a movie that's trying to be grounded, realistic, with naturalistic performances, then there's these weird bursts of over the top emoting and really obvious "hey this dude's caraaaaaazy~~~" acting and in general the whole movie is a huge mess.
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Jul 15, 2015 17:17
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When's The Guest gonna pop up on Netlix? Next week?
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Chichevache posted:Yeah, Larry and Anson absolutely make up for a lot of the poor quality. Plus the addition of Jesse Porter (actor Coby Bell) really gives the show a nice new dynamic. He has fantastic chemistry with everyone on the show, except for the absolutely terrible Fiona ("actress" Gabrielle Anwar). Burn Notice is a really fun show to watch, just don't watch a bunch at once, since it's pretty formulaic. However it does have Bruce Campbell just being awesome the entire time. The last season is a decent uptick in quality, I think it suffered from constantly being almost canceled so they keep wrapping things up and then it gets renewed and each season begins with "HERE WE GO AGAIN! There's another secret spy organization behind the secret spy organization we killed last week". I also like how there's no real bones about not killing the bad guys. They aren't Punisher levels of killing, but they kill the bad guys when necessary. It has Garret Dillahunt as a mentally unstable parallel to Michael, and he's incredible. Another thing I like about it (as you can tell I really like Burn Notice) is the cameos by minor TV character actors. I'm a huge fan of those guys, and it's nice to see them pop up and get killed. I know it's pretty common for cable shows to have these guest stars, but I love it when like the girl from Veronica Mars shows up and it's like "Oh, its her!"
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