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Irish Taxi Driver posted:Portlandia is occupying this weird space to me. On one hand, they used someone other than Portland's crazy mayor to play the mayor, but on the other, they replaced him with Kyle MacLachlan. I don't know, I think it's pretty funny that the crazy mayor is Mayor Kyle's assistant on the show.
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Hahaha, sounds almost as terrible as that What the bleep do we know? "documentary".
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Jun 29, 2012 02:17
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Is there a way on the PS3 to make it remember your captioning/subtitle prefs? I like to keep them on and turning them on every single thing I watch is annoying. I'm pretty sure the Roku had an option to make them on by default or something like that.
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Aug 10, 2012 03:31
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I'm watching this one show called Fatso. I was kinda sleepy the other day but I tried watching. Subtitles are hosed and the movie just stops. Checked the run time and it was 58 minutes, so somehow they only put up part of the movie.
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Nov 4, 2012 05:58
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Do they look better now? I tried watching them when they were added last year and it was horrible. I tried a few different episodes and they were all incredibly low res and super choppy.
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Nov 15, 2012 22:33
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I know, I get pissed and quit netflix all the time because they don't carry every movie I want to see!
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Dec 16, 2012 04:44
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Monkeyseesaw posted:Antichrist had the full-monty penetration scene. And plenty of foreign films retain their explicit sex scenes. It's clearly not a Netflix policy, it just comes down to whatever cut the studio negotiated them to have. Pretty much. Netflix had 9 Songs on there for a loooong time and it's basically hardcore porn with music between each scene. Netflix just gets crappy versions of stuff sometimes. I couldn't watch more than a few minutes of Amazing Stories because it looked beyond horrible and was super choppy. I'm watching Miami Vice right now and there have been a couple of episodes with similar choppiness or weird audio tracks. I think it's ending soon, so if you haven't seen Still Bill, I'd suggest taking a look at it. Very interesting, simple documentary about Bill Withers (if you don't know the name, I'll bet you've heard at least 3 or 4 of his songs before). It's pretty short and leaves you feeling good at the end.
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Feb 1, 2013 05:29
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So bad it's bad and boring. I was dead asleep 30 minutes in and I tried re-watching it and just couldn't stand it.
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Feb 24, 2013 04:50
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Just gonna leave this amazing thing right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O48rLcHu2Yc
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Mar 2, 2013 13:04
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I like the Keep as well- we'll never see it, but I'd love for Mann's original cut of it (all 3+ hours) to come out. There are so many elements and shots that are just plain cool- I love the part where the two guards enter the crypt for the first time and it pans out to reveal this absolutely massive interior space and Molasar's smoke form blows me away every time I see it, I still don't know quite how they did it. For every thing that works in the movie, there are probably two that don't, It has probably the worst sound mix of any movie I have heard- most of the actors are barely audible. It's also choppy as hell, but it's speculating on what's missing in the released cut that makes it pretty interesting- Why did the priest kill (and from the half second we see it presumably eat) his dog? The fact that it's never been released on DVD is why you should at least give it a try if it's on Netflix again because that's about the only way you're going to see it other than even crappier versions on youtube. It has probably the worst sound mix of any movie I have heard- most of the actors are barely audible.
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Mar 5, 2013 22:56
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I didn't enjoy the movie at all but I will say the salon scene is the only time I can recall movie violence getting to me. My wife works at a salon and I just had to turn it off and take a break from the movie after that.
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Jun 1, 2013 01:04
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God Bless America was a terrible, lovely movie but it was trying to be a comedy and the violence was done with a wink and a nod. Rampage is framed around a rant but there is no humor. There's barely any emotion at all once the killing starts. I think Boll watched security cam footage of real spree shooters and patterned it after that.
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Jun 1, 2013 12:43
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I just wish the theatrical was in hd. 
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Jun 20, 2013 08:32
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I've been curious in it myself. I love Netflix, I'm thinking about Amazon but I hate hulu. The biggest thing holding me back from Redbox is device support- I don't think they support Roku yet and I don't know if they're even planning on supporting PS3. I do have a LG smart tv but I never use the smart features. The fact that you can upgrade it to 4 blu rays for $9/month is a killer deal- you get what looks like a pretty close to netflix selection of recent run movies for $3/month.
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Jul 13, 2013 09:35
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Yeah, my roku 3 is pretty much my netflix box but there are a couple of music and cooking channels I really like too. The headphones from the remote thing is pretty awesome too.
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Jul 13, 2013 14:50
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Rhyno posted:Do you have yours wired or do you rely on Wifi? If unwired, what kind of ranger are you getting? I'm trying to decide what to do for our bedroom. We've got a 50 inch back there but no ethernet jack (apartment) and just an old 360 Elite as the Netflix box. Much better than the roku 2. It's about ~20 feet away from the router but there are a couple of old, thick walls in the way. Our old roku 2 had to have the bedroom door open to work and got three bars at best, this one keeps a solid connection no matter what. It also supports Super HD on netflix, if you're interested in that. My bedroom TV is a 32in 720p but I'm curious to try it out on the big one in the living room to see how it looks.
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Jul 14, 2013 01:52
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Pretty much, except it's the two dudes plus the angel and sometimes the redneck. I think I'm the polar opposite of everyone. I liked the monster-of-the-week format. Once they got into the big seasonal arcs, it kinda killed it for me. That and every person on that show talks like Bale's Batman. My wife really likes it and I caught a few episodes with her and the lighter ones are genuinely funny, and they're totally aware of the creepy fans. I think an episode in one of the later seasons is actually called "Slash Fiction".
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Jul 20, 2013 00:47
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I still haven't seen any profile options on the pc, ps3, or roku.
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Aug 4, 2013 16:24
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I Before E posted:Movies.Netflix.com/EditProfiles Thanks! From reading all the releases, I thought it was just going to be an option from the app itself.
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Aug 4, 2013 22:50
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I've reported Amazing Stories multiple times over the past several months about its jerky frame rate, and never get any response. I tend to watch it when I'm doing other things so I don't notice it as much. "The Doll," with John Lithgow is fantastic television. I've reported it numerous times as well. Between the framerate and resolution, I'm pretty sure it's the worst looking thing on Netflix. I hate it, because it's such a good show and deserves better. Not that I'm really blaming Netflix- they're probably just playing the garbage version that got tossed at them. Amazing Stories is one of those shows that could really use a TNG-style remastering.
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Aug 17, 2013 00:38
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Movies say "SUPERHD" when I pass over them. Watching Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 3D right now- very neat.
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Sep 28, 2013 01:20
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I just didn't like it because it felt like it was screaming that it wasn't my grandfather's James Bond over and over. We get it, no gadgets, no new cars, almost no guns. Take that away and it turns into a dour, boring yawnfest. Anyone else on Comcast having trouble with netflix? None of my equipment has changed, but starting around when they added the new season of walking dead, I almost never get to HD anymore and most stuff doesn't make it past the sub-SD level most of the time. I've pretty much stopped watching it and I'm thinking about cancelling because it's honestly not watchable. I get 50+mb/sec on various servers from speedtest, so there's no good reason I should be getting stuff that looks like a 240p vid on youtube.
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Nov 12, 2013 12:53
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Room 237 convinced me that The Shining fans are pretty much movie versions of Sonic the Hedgehog fans.
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Nov 17, 2013 18:50
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I don't think they care. I tried both Hola and a different DNS on my ps3 and while they work, I couldn't get anything in HD and a few things were actually window-boxed. I thought it might have to do with different TV formats but it happened on the Canadian feed as well.
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Dec 9, 2013 12:58
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mysterious frankie posted:I use Comcast. It was really high quality for me until the Steam Winter Sale, then quality was garbage for a while and now it's fine again. I'm thinking the fact that I did a ton of downloading that month was the culprit. We're upgrading out package later this week, so we'll see if maybe the restrictions on the 50 meg tier is a bit more forgiving, since it the marketing outright states it's for streaming and large downloads. I'm on the 50 meg tier and I've mentioned a couple of times about how I rarely get anything above 480p and most of the time during normal hours, it'll float back and fourth between 240 and 384. It sucks so much. I figure they're actively throttling now- if you read around, people are calling comcast and complaining about netflix speed issues and their scripted response is something along the lines of "Comcast doesn't support netflix".
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Jan 28, 2014 06:37
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I don't think it's been mentioned yet but it looks like things are about to get a whole lot better for those of us that use comcast. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619353-93/netflix-reaches-streaming-traffic-agreement-with-comcast/ About goddamned time, months of 240-480p made me pretty cranky.
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Feb 23, 2014 23:07
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Sarchasm posted:The Criterion stuff is ad-free, I think he was talking about how the ad breaks on other programming are much shorter than the ad breaks on broadcast television. I don't think I could ever stomach for paying for hulu. I don't know if it's still as bad but my entire experience with them was trying to watch an episode of Rick Steves' Europe. There was a 20 second ad before it started, then you got the themesong and him telling you where he was followed by 30 seconds of commercials and finally it came back for the brief overview of the things you'd see on the (30 minute) episode followed by 45 seconds of ads. By that point there had seriously been twice as much time devoted to ads than the actual show. I really don't know how they're still in business- I guess the access to current network shows or something but I'll sometimes watch stuff on crackle and it's completely free and has less intrusive ads.
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Mar 14, 2014 02:08
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WHD is silly fun. OHF is too serious and angry.
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Apr 2, 2014 23:59
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Plus it has this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncySiTOMAHc HAPPYBIRTHDAYPAULIE
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Apr 4, 2014 23:30
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I use a vpn that I can select various countries for and get really good speeds (40Mb+) but when I use different regions' netflix, nothing comes up as HD- do they just not offer HD in other regions?
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Jun 2, 2014 16:13
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Canada and UK, I'll retry UK on a different server when I have a chance.
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Jun 2, 2014 16:34
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Has Hulu gotten better about commercials? I can understand currently airing TV stuff- but when I last tried them everything had an unacceptable level of commercials- even the movies. If I want to watch commercials every several minutes, I can do it with crackle for free.
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Aug 9, 2014 02:53
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Erebus posted:Or you could just scroll past things that don't interest you, the same as when there's a two-page tangent about some movie you don't give a poo poo about. The thread isn't your Netflix RSS. One of the last things I tried watching on there was some Rick Steves' travel show. Commercial before show begins, generic show intro (less than 20 seconds), commericals, ~45 second overview of the shows contents given by Rick, commercials. The last commercial break was listed at over a minute. I turned it off, cancelled my free trial and that's about it. Tried another free trial last year, wanted to watch a movie- boom- commericials. Middle of an actor's line? Don't care. Commercials! It's garbage and I don't really see how they're even around anymore. I know they have criterion stuff but that's not enough for me to want to see the same three commercials over and over again.
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Aug 9, 2014 03:47
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Watching it right now.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:38
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I was holding out for King of the Hill to return to Netflix after it disappeared but I caved and just bought the whole series on Amazon prime instead. I did not know this was a thing! Gonna blow all some money on this.
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Oct 3, 2014 20:34
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Conal Cochran posted:Does anyone know if the Dhoom trilogy is worth checking out? I haven't seem Dhoom 3 yet but I loooooove 2. It's like Derek Zoolander decided to make an action movie. The first one isn't bad but the lower budget shows. The first and the third (from what I know) are a little darker in tone and 2 is pretty light-hearted.
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Dec 20, 2014 14:44
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Pander posted:You said it: it's McTiernan and Schwarzenegger still at the height of their career. People expected an all-time great action thriller, and instead got an uneven movie that tried to mix satire and camp that immediately dated itself. It tried too hard to duplicate the humor and spectacle of True Lies, and fails on both counts by quite a lot. Didn't True Lies come out after Last Action Hero?
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marktheando posted:What is Netflix's censorship policy anyway? What will they show and not show? No erections allowed I'm assuming based on Time Dissolver's post. Like Erebus said, they will show as much or as little as they are provided. They used to have 9 Songs completely unedited, as well as a couple of really explicit french titles. I'm still waiting for an improved copy of Amazing Stories- the one they have on there is sub-VHS resolution and movies at 10fps. I'm not asking for it in HD but it's pretty much the worst looking series in their library right now.
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